[AND Magazine] ChooseFreedom.io put out a video that discusses how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is funding Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests through the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA). The video also puts together a number of clips from BLM protests where many BLM leaders state outright that their goal is the overthrow of our republic. They want it replaced with the Socialist Republic of North America. The leaders also make clear that well, yes, socialism is the road to communism and that is what they seek.
[American Digest] A remarkable speech given in fluent Mandarin that most will not have the patience to hear, but those who are under the bootheels of Communist China will hear all too clearly. As a note to this video I have appended the transcript. Pottinger himself is a remarkable man whose career path is stunning.
Pottinger’s career switch was motivated by his experience in China and the Iraq War. By 2004, Pottinger had "sort of a sense of unease that China was not really going to converge with the more liberal order." He believed that when it was powerful enough, China would "influence the world on its own terms, on the terms of the ruling party." As he watched all the first phase of Iraq War unfold from a distant location in China, he was a bit troubled that "as a nation, the administration, the Congress and to a great extent the press as well had misjudged the nature of conflict." China’s rise and the Iraq War had made him realize that democracy is "not inevitable and it shouldn’t be taken for granted but it is a form of government very much worth fighting for."
In September 2005, Pottinger joined the Marine Corps and served as a military intelligence officer. He was over-aged and out of shape when he joined. To meet the physical qualifications, he worked out with a Marine officer who was living in Beijing.
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Brilliant that he made it in Mandarin so it is readyfor consumption without needing translation for the target audiences. And a worthy read for every college campus and the occupants of Foggy Bottom.
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Regular COVID sure is good for a fright — and (without preexisting conditions) ONLY that . . . But, hey, it’s almost Halloween.
The real problem at this time? ORF8 viral strains, and that lockdowns and social distancing are wrecking the economy and killing people. We are social creatures, and die without contact.
None of the COVID-19 viral strains can ever be be eliminated with quarantine-type practices & orders. You can’t stop such a small virus with such titers, recalcitrant environmental persistence, and transmissibility factors . IMO, inevitably ALL of the USA population will contract COVID-19 at some point.
You can only slow the curve of the pandemic to stand up resources, and to buy time to look for curatives (of which there are more and more all the time, including repurposing things like Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, and Nitazoxanide) and distribute them.
What needs to be watched out for, while guarding those with preexisting conditions, is whether a persons has contracted an ORF8 strain of the COVID-19 virus. Initially, with the ORF8 variety, that person might not even feel that bad, because very few symptoms will be presented, since (with the ORF8 strain of the COVID-19 virus) your immune system will not be mounting an effective defense. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.25.267328. Regular COVID-19 with quick, bad symptoms is the best to get, and these are by far most common strains (and may even immunize against the ORF8 strains).
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An analogy based on transmissibility & lethality factors (i.e., presence of ORF8 code in a COVID-19 viral strain contracted):
🐜 Ants in pit you fall in:
1) one ant & it bites;
2) millions of biting ants, but you can hop out;
3) #2, but you have major health issues;
4) #2, but you are passed out drunk (ORF8)
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I haven't had anybody refuse to shake hands during all of this. Granted, most all have been older (normal) people, but still. No male Karens scared to do the manly and social thing.
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LOL I went to shake a guy's hand back in March. City boy. You'd think I was attacking him with a knife they way he jumped.
Others, again city folk, would take a step back and do The Chicken Wing which was flu chic at the time. Kinda awkward watching them stand there waiting for me to do something. Seen birds come off the bumper with better form.
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In our county the number of cases of CV-19 has increased (probably due to increased testing). However, the number of deaths has not changed in the latest stats. The death rate based on the 2019 county population is something like 0.02% ( The case death rate is likely a little higher because of a smaller denominator).
Puppy Blender himself, himself in USA today
As the presidential campaign enters its final phase, one of the messages of the Biden campaign is that putting him, a 47-year veteran of national politics, into the White House will return us to something approaching normal. With Biden in charge, all the Trump craziness will expire, and things will be safe, sane and familiar.
In fact, there’s no chance of this happening. If Biden wins, things won’t go back to "normal." You probably won’t even hear less from Donald Trump. And in a lot of areas, like foreign policy, it turns out the establishment’s version of normal wasn’t all that normal anyway.
Many of my lefty friends want Biden to win not so much over policy as because they have a visceral reaction to President Donald Trump. They hate the sight of his face, the sound of his voice, even the mention of his name. Electing Biden, they expect, will sweep Trump off the national stage.
But will it?
Trump was big on the national stage long before he was president. Why would he go away after the election is over? He’ll still have tens of millions of (probably angry) followers, deep pockets and a huge megaphone.
There has already been some talk of Trump starting his own television network to rival Fox News, and/or his own social media platform — the latter made more plausible by the heavy censorious hands of those running Twitter and Facebook — and I suspect that Trump would regard a 2020 loss as a setback, not a defeat. Grover Cleveland came back to win a second term after losing the White House, Trump might reason. Why not me? He’ll probably hold campaign-style rallies around the country starting right after the election.
And the deep toxicity of national politics, which grew worse after the 2016 election but which has been brewing at least since the turn of the millennium, is not going to go away. In fact, a lot of what we’re hearing from Biden supporters suggests that it will get worse under a Biden administration.
Democrats are already calling for a Biden administration to pack the Supreme Court by adding new justices until Democrats have a majority, to pack the Senate by admitting Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., as states, and even to establish a "truth and reconciliation commission" in which Republicans will be dragged in front of the public and forced to confess the error of their ways. And, of course, abolishing the Electoral College. None of that is normal.
Neither is a ban on oil and gas fracking, when hydraulic fracturing has brought us energy independence, a goal that presidents of both parties sought for 50 years but that was only achieved in the past few years. Why would we throw that away now, reempowering oil exporters like Iran, Saudi Arabia and Vladimir Putin’s Russia? That’s not normal. But Democrats want it and Biden seems likely to go along, though he has more recently backed away from that position.
COVID-19 won't simply disappear
Of course, maybe a "return to normal" really just means an end to worries about the coronavirus, which has in fact turned the world upside down. Biden is running commercials suggesting that tens of thousands of deaths from coronavirus are Trump’s fault.
That’s a pretty weak argument, given that Europe is doing no better than the United States, and arguably is doing worse.
Politicize things as much as you want — and Biden, who accused the president of xenophobia after Trump’s January order banning flights from China, and continued to hold mass rallies for two weeks afterward even after many states declared emergencies, is on thin ice here in claiming Trump acted too slowly — the coronavirus isn’t going away no matter who is in the White House on Jan. 21. It’s an aspect of nature, over which politics has very little influence.
So forget talk of a return to normal under Biden. It’s not going to happen. At most, you can vote for the flavor of abnormal that you prefer. Good luck!
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Covid is the least of our worries. He has said, and so has his running mate heir apparent to the throne with him, they are after, our energy independence, our middle class wealth, your social security-can you say slave till 72?, your 401K, your weapons, your freedom. These are not over the top fear mongering, he is being very clear about what they will do. Everyone needs a plan to protect their wealth. If he wins, you will have until the new year to have it cashed out and safe. This is not hype, be prepared everyone if we lose this election.
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If too many people take your advice and cash out their 401Ks, it will crash the stock market.
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