[Free Bacon] Vice President Joe Biden once told Chinese President Xi Jinping that U.S. leaders only support human rights as a matter of political optics, and that this makes the United States no better than China, according to a new New Yorker profile of Jinping.
The New Yorker relates encounters between Biden and Jinping in 2011 and 2012, when both were vice presidents of their respective nations:
Biden told me that Xi asked him why the U.S. put "so much emphasis on human rights." Biden replied to Xi, "No President of the United States could represent the United States were he not committed to human rights," and went on, "If you don't understand this, you can't deal with us. President Barack Obama would not be able to stay in power if he did not speak of it. So look at it as a political imperative. It doesn't make us better or worse. It's who we are. You make your decisions. We'll make ours."
The Wall Street Journal editorial board noted that Jinping has severely punished political dissent, becoming China's most authoritarian leader since Mao Zedong:
Mr. Xi took the advice. Since taking office he has detained more than 1,000 political prisoners, from anticorruption activist Xu Zhiyong to lawyer Pu Zhiqiang and journalist Gao Yu. He has cracked down on Uighurs in Xinjiang, banning more Muslim practices and jailing scholar-activist Ilham Tohti for life. Anti-Christian repression and Internet controls are tightening. Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo remains in prison, his wife Liu Xia under illegal house arrest for the fifth year. Lawyer Gao Zhisheng left prison in August but is blocked from receiving medical care overseas. Hong Kong, China's most liberal city, is losing its press freedom and political autonomy.
Amid all of this Mr. Xi and his government have faced little challenge from Washington. That is consistent with Hillary Clinton's 2009 statement that human rights can't be allowed to "interfere" with diplomacy on issues such as the economy and the environment. Mr. Obama tried walking that back months later, telling the United Nations that democracy and human rights aren't "afterthoughts." But his Administration's record--and now Mr. Biden's testimony--prove otherwise. Everything the regime undertakes involves a political imperative.
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ie to keep the rubes voting us in power. See, it's all about 'feelings' not substance. "We Care" trumps accomplishing anything. BTW, 'human rights' does not include Christians of conscious.
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I commend Joe for speaking the truth about those of his ilk. Despicable liars who manipulate an increasingly ignorant and passive citizenry here in collusion with fellow travelers in the media and academia. Absent some radical change in the course of our failing Republic, we will soon be subsumed by immigrants who want the benefits previous generations of Americans created for their children, but are now squandered to buy votes from mindless drones and foreign immigrant thieves. At least the clueless Biden admits a truth about those like him, power demands no principles except attainment.
[Freedom Fighters Journal] The Sum of All Fears was one of many well-written novels by the late Tom Clancy, whose fictional military, intelligence and terrorism plots were woven with fact-based tradecraft.
The title was inspired by a quote from Winston Churchill: "You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together -- what do you get? The sum of their fears."
Clancy's plot focused on an Islamist terror group's endeavor to detonate a nuclear weapon in the U.S. A Syrian cell with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine reconstituted the nuke after discovering the necessary fissile material at an Israeli aircraft crash site.
True to Hollywood form, however, filmmakers grossly altered Clancy's original plot, resulting in a much less plausible but more politically correct version. In the movie, the terrorists are not Islamists, but "right-wing" neo-Nazis conspiring to detonate a nuclear bomb in Baltimore harbor -- and to start a war between the U.S. and Russia as a catalyst for cementing fascist alliances in the rest of Europe. Leave it to Tinseltown's Left-coast libs to cast these murderous villains as right-wing white supremacists rather than expose the real Islam!
Despite Hollywood's revisionism, Clancy's original plot was close to reality back in 1992, and it's much closer to the stark reality of today, given that Islamists may soon have fissile material from Iran to wage surrogate Jihad against the U.S.
The probability of al-Qa'ida and/or Islamic State actors gaining access to a nuclear weapon and then detonating it in the U.S. (most likely in an East Coast urban center) is increasing by the day.
That escalating threat is due solely to the "sum of all lies" being propagated by Barack Hussein Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, whose record of treasonous treachery dates back to his collaboration with our enemy during the Vietnam War. Alexander's article is dated 1 April and is located toward the bottom of the page, #10 I believe. You may find those 'above the fold' quite interesting as well.
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Personally, I've said for three years on this blog that the first Iranian nuke produced will have our name on it, not Israel.
As I have said, the Mullahs aren't stupid. They know that a nuke detonated on Tel Aviv would produce a fallout plume that would go across the ME and back into Iran.
I find it very troubling that the current administration has not released the full text of this agreement for publication...despite all of the cheerleading by the media. Just what on earth is the celebrating about? There is nothing in the rumor mill, even from central leak control in DOS, to indicate this is a good deal for anyone except Iran (thank you ValJar, I hope your well connected family back in Iran is happy).
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[PJ Media] In the old days, the left railed against the eeeevils of Big Business, whether it was Upton Sinclair versus the meatpackers, or demonizing the men who built America's network of railroads with the folk Marxist twang of "Robber Barons." But these days, as we've seen in the past few weeks with Starbucks' Howard Schultz and Apple's Tim Cook, American business is almost totally onboard with the left's social agenda. Comcast's MSNBC channel and Viacom's Daily Show and all three of the broadcast network's news programs are effectively daily in-kind contributions to the Democrat Party. Don't forget 'We take SNAP' Walmart.
But individual small businesses are a lot more random in their thinking, which is why the left hates them, unless they obediently conform to the Gleichschaltung. Millionaire filmmaker Michael Moore, who poses as a big lovable stubbly-faced friend of the working man, gave the game away in 2002:
You know in my town the small businesses that everyone wanted to protect? They were the people that supported all the right-wing groups. They were the Republicans in the town, they were in the Kiwanas, the Chamber of Commerce -- people that kept the town all white. The small hardware salesman, the small clothing store salespersons, Jesse the Barber who signed his name three different times on three different petitions to recall me from the school board. F**k all these small businesses -- f**k 'em all! Bring in the chains. The small businesspeople are the rednecks that run the town and suppress the people. F**k 'em all. That's how I feel. "These people" are simply not team-players.
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Now you're getting the whole GamerGate SJW treatment. First they came for the gamers and you said nothing, then they came for bakers and pizzerias and you said nothing,....
#4
For Musselman bakers, beefcakery,
Requires of them multi-layered fakery:
Such pounding and kneading
And breathlessly pleading
They're frosted by thoughts of fey rakery!
#5
The plain, glorious, normal croissant
Is a thing few Mohammedans want.
Where the Bulgar and Turk
And fierce Saracen lurk,
It's the pain chocolat that they vaunt.
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[Free Bacon] Vice President Joe Biden once told Chinese President Xi Jinping that U.S. leaders only support human rights as a matter of political optics, and that this makes the United States no better than China, according to a new New Yorker profile of Jinping.
