United Front groups in Canada helped Beijing stockpile coronavirus safety supplies

spilledthebeer · May 26, 2020

Ellanjay said:
Did Dr. Fauci Fund the Research that Led to Coronavirus Outbreak?

By Bryan Fischer
May 11, 2020

The blaring headline in Newsweek: DR. FAUCI BACKED CONTROVERSIAL WUHAN LAB WITH U.S. DOLLARS, FOR RISKY CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH.

Did Dr. Anthony Fauci fund, with American taxpayer dollars, the research that produced the coronavirus that has shut down and locked up the mightiest and most free nation in history? The answer is, “Probably yes.” Should he have known better? The answer is, “Indubitably yes.”

Dr. Fauci has been virtually worshiped as an icon by the press and the public, has been played by Brad Pitt on Saturday Night Live, and is being considered for Sexiest Man of the Year. According to Newsweek, he is something of “an American folk hero for his calm, steady leadership” during the crisis.

Just last year, Dr. Fauci, who heads up the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, sent the scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) a boatload of money to pursue gain-of-function research on bat viruses, research which has been going on at Wuhan for years. “Gain-of-function” refers to research that involves manipulating viruses in the lab “to explore their potential for infecting humans.”

Writes Newsweek: “Gain-of-function techniques have been used to turn viruses into human pathogens capable of causing a global pandemic.” The catastrophic risks, should one of these manipulated viruses escape containment, are obvious.

The U.S. Embassy warned in January of 2018 that the Wuhan Institute had a record of shoddy practices that could lead to an accidental release. According to its cable, “The new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators, needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory.”

The Obama administration was so alarmed by worries about an outbreak that they suspended support for this kind research at Wuhan in 2014. But when Trump took office, Fauci was able to persuade somebody in the new administration to resume the project in 2017. The second tranche of multi-million dollar funding came in 2019, and this stash was particularly devoted to understanding how bat coronaviruses could mutate to attack humans. The National Institutes of Health canceled this project for a second time on April 24, just two weeks ago. Dr. Fauci has not responded to Newsweek’s request for comment.

Richard Ebright, an infectious disease expert at Rutgers University, said the project description refers to experiments which are designed to enhance the ability of bat coronavirus to infect human cells through genetic engineering. The risk of causing a pandemic through an accidental release from the lab is obviously a prime concern. Our intelligence agencies now believe the pandemic outbreak may have emerged “accidentally” due to “unsafe laboratory practices” at the Wuhan lab.

This research at WIV, research funded with our tax dollars, was dedicated to deliberately creating a version of a bat virus that could be transmitted to humans. The insane purpose here was ostensibly to develop such a virus so it could be studied and a therapeutic response developed before it caused a worldwide pandemic. This kind of research is so obviously crazy and dangerous that 200 research scientists wrote a letter pleading that such foolish and potentially lethal research be terminated.

But Dr. Fauci sent $3.7 million to the WIV lab in 2014, and then showered the Chinese scientists at this lab with another $3.7 million in 2019 to keep their work going, the work of developing a bat virus that could attack people. Two back-to-back 5-year projects that took $7.4 million out of taxpayer pockets and out of the United States.

When the NIH ended Obama’s moratorium on this research, and the second phase of research began, NIH established a framework to determine how the research would go forward. The heart of the framework was that scientists would have to get approval from a panel of experts who would decide whether the obvious risks were justified.

The kicker here is that these reviews were conducted in secret. After Science magazine discovered that NIH had approved two influenza projects using gain-of-function methods, scientists rightly opposed to this kind of research wrote a scathing editorial in the Washington Post.

The authors were Tom Inglesby of Johns Hopkins and Mark Liptsitch of Harvard. “”We have serious doubts about whether these experiments should be conducted at all. With deliberations kept behind closed doors, none of us will have the opportunity to understand how the government arrived at these decisions or to judge the rigor and integrity of that process.”

Dr. Fauci began working in earnest on gain-of-function research over a decade ago, in connection with bird-flu viruses. The research involved taking wild viruses and passing them through live animals until they mutated into a form that could actually pose a pandemic threat. These researchers would take a virus, that was poorly transmitted among humans, and turn it into one that was highly transmissible.

Ferrets were the animals of choice. Ferrets were deliberately infected and researchers allowed the virus to mutate in the lab’s ferret colony. The mutations continued, until the virus was able to infect a ferret, that had not been deliberately infected with the disease.

Researcher Ron Fouchier of Erasmus University in Holland knew he had succeeded, when a virus jumped from an infected ferret to an uninfected ferret in an adjacent cage, who had had no contact with the infected animal. Transmissibility had been achieved, and Fauchier had created a pandemic-causing virus in his lab. Fouchier’s work, wrote Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch in the journal Nature in 2015, “entails a unique risk that a laboratory accident could spark a pandemic, killing millions.”

A consortium of 17 scientists, the Cambridge Working Group, issued a statement of protest, that was eventually endorsed by above-mentioned 200 scientists, because well, accidents happen. Here’s how the statement read in part: “Laboratory creation of highly transmissible, novel strains of dangerous viruses…poses substantially increased risks. An accidental infection in such a setting could trigger outbreaks that would be difficult or impossible to control.”

Fauci defended this kind of research in a 2011 op-ed in the Washington Post, writing that “information gained through biomedical research…provides a critical foundation…for generating countermeasures, and, ultimately protecting the public health.”

Bottom line: it appears that dangerously misguided research in Wuhan, funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars under the direction of Dr. Fauci, created the virus that is now plaguing the world. The research was allowed to continue by Dr. Fauci, despite warnings from 200 prominent scientists that such research was exceedingly dangerous. It may be time to ask whether Dr. Fauci is in the right place at the right time.

Bryan Fischer is the host of the daily ‘Focal Point’ radio talk program on AFR Talk, a division of the American Family Association.

https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/200511

When can we exepct the conspiracy mad theorists at the Epoch Times TO CONDEMN CANADA

FOR PLAYING A PART in the Wuhan Mess?

After all - last summer Canada DEPORTED a couple of Chinese Scientiests who were shipping home odd lots

of various Viruses from Cdn labs!

In your FEVERED VISION - surely such a connection is enough to CONDEMN?

Oh wait - never mind - the actions of SLOPPY CHINESE SCIENTISTS CANNOT be blamed on foreign govt!

Just because agents operating in a FOREIGN DICTATORSHIP chose to do things that Yankees disapproved of

DOES NOT MEAN Yankees or Cdns for that matter, are complicit in any way!

After all - China WAS HONESTLY SEEKING A CURE for SARS and thus the research they were PUBLICLY DOING

would benefit us all!

Thus far all anybody has proven is that Chinese Food Markets ARE FILTHY VERMINOUS PLACES!

And that LIE-berals would rather whine about racism than CLOSE BORDERS or offend the Beijing Butchers!

if it succeeds!

Ellanjay · May 27, 2020

https://youtu.be/YTbLilUDJNE

Communist China Continues to Target American Creativity

Austin Bay
May 13, 2020 Updated: May 13, 2020
Commentary

In mid-April, a senior FBI official warned that cyber spies were attacking U.S. and allied medical research institutions developing coronavirus vaccines. The U.S. Department of Justice later pegged China as the chief witch doctor of medical espionage and suggested a crash American COVID-19/Wuhan virus vaccine project nicknamed Operation Warp Speed is Beijing’s major target.

During World War II, American leaders feared Nazi Germany sought a nuclear weapons program. So at warp speed, the Manhattan Project split atoms in an experimental reactor and then developed and deployed operational atomic bombs.

The “crash” Manhattan Project gave the United States and its allies a decisive strategic-warfare edge. A-bombs ended the conflict and saved lives by avoiding a bloody, Okinawa-type invasion of Japan.

My opinion: Nuclear proliferation remains the sane world’s major security threat. However, the COVID-19/Wuhan virus’ global proliferation (attention: it originated in Wuhan) has demonstrated (once again) that pandemics are an international security threat to human life. They also savage 21st-century economies.

That means the nation that develops and deploys the first safe and clinically effective vaccine will be able to do many things. Protecting your nation’s population is more than a material medical advantage. A vaccinated population has an economic advantage over adversaries.

Developing an effective vaccine enhances diplomatic power. Obviously, the discoverer’s allies are in line to benefit. But don’t underestimate prestige power of an effective vaccine’s quick discovery and rapid employment. Effectiveness is primary. However, speed demonstrates a society’s ability to rapidly face new, threatening conditions and produce a response that benefits the world.

A Nobel Prize isn’t the only measure of a nation’s creative scientific vitality, but it is a measure even television gab shows understand. Hence this column’s side bet: An effective COVID-19/Wuhan virus vaccine developed by fall 2020 will warrant a Nobel Prize in Medicine.

I repeat from last week’s column, for the sake of Chinese communist propagandist idiots, that Wuhan is a place, just like the Rocky Mountains (Rocky Mountain spotted fever), Uganda’s West Nile province (West Nile virus), Old Lyme, Connecticut (Lyme disease), and Congo’s Ebola River (Ebola virus).

Why hammer that fact? Because attempting to disconnect the virus from its country of origin—China—is a Chinese Communist Party propaganda ploy to shield CCP leaders from taking responsibility for having spread the virus.

The agitprop campaign has failed. In fact, the pandemic has focused attention on communist China’s global depredations and in particular its “unrestricted warfare” attack on the U.S.

“Unrestricted Warfare” (also known as “Warfare Without Limits”) is the title of a book authored by two People’s Liberation Army Air Force colonels. Published in 1999, the colonels propose weakening and then defeating an adversary using an array of operations—for example, theft, bribery, economic gimmicks, disinformation, spying, co-optation of an adversary’s media and educational institutions.

Who do the authors seek to defeat? The U.S.A.

In May 2019, I wrote a column noting spies have always sought more than military secrets. Gathering political intelligence and economic information aren’t new, though global competition has enhanced the value of “proprietary knowledge,” particularly when the intellectual property involves technology or techniques with national security application.

Intellectual property originally indicated that a creative intellect owned it, which led to that column’s central point: China targets American creativity because its system retards creativity. Dictatorships fear creativity, but Beijing’s dictators covet American creativity’s economic, military and cultural benefits.

An April 2019 Houston Chronicle and Science magazine investigative report detailing pervasive Chinese espionage at Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center spurred that column. Why target a medical institution? My take: “China’s communist elites seek to steal the creative genius, decades of training and years of cancer research of some of the world’s finest specialists and most brilliant doctors.”

Targeting America’s COVID-19/Wuhan virus vaccine project is just the latest vicious attempt by the CCP to steal the genius of American medicine.

Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and a teacher in strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”

Ellanjay · May 27, 2020

https://youtu.be/p2GUed2Kjec

Dealing With the China Challenge

Peter Huessy, Stephen Blank

May 12, 2020

In the “Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy and her companions are warned to “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”, because to do so would have exposed Oz himself as a fraud. Similarly, the worldwide spread of the COVID-19 virus has hopefully revealed the true nature of the multiple unlawful, aggressive, and dangerous policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Take first the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no doubt that this plague began in China, that the CCP suppressed information about its scope and lethality, and when that was exposed it tried to fix the blame on the United States. There is also evidence that Chinese leader Xi Jinping asked the WHO (World Health Organization) to delay transmission of information abroad concerning the scope of the pandemic.

But China’s aggressive policies also go further. China, Russia, and Iran are coordinating a tripartite information war against the United States, where China, apart from conducting its own long-standing cyber and information strikes, is now also emulating Russian IW (information war) tactics.

China has also threatened the EU and Australia with trade wars and sanctions, if they tell the truth about how China has contributed to the global dissemination of COVID-19. State-sponsored hackers from China, Russia, and North Korea have used this opportunity to launch a global campaign, to infect global networks with malware. China’s information and cyber campaign in connection with the pandemic began as early as January, according to a Stanford University report.

But beyond trade wars and information cyber strikes as part of its overall espionage programs, against the United States and its allies, China has repeatedly also shown its military hand in Asian maritime disputes. For example, China regularly threatens Malaysian and Vietnamese vessels searching for new energy deposits in the South China Sea. Chinese sailors also pointed a laser gun at a Philippine ship there. All this has led to counter deterrence moves by new U.S. Naval and air deployments.

Now these Chinese moves come on top of long-standing CCP predatory behavior regarding trade with and investment in China, as well as the theft of intellectual property and technology from the United States.

The United Nations has also just reported that China is complicit, along with Russia, in breaking the U.N. sanctions that they voted for, against North Korea, particularly in regard to oil shipments. Thus, those U.N. sanctions have essentially been nullified by Russia and China acting jointly.

We are confronting a Sino-Russian alliance that works together in Northeast and Southeast Asia, through Chinese support for Russia’s intervention in Syria and for three-sided cooperation with Iran.

How then should we reply to this China challenge? Former World Bank head Robert Zoellick recommends, we simply propose better ideas and put together attractive partnerships, particularly in which China no longer is a bad actor on proliferation, trade or climate change.

To a serious degree, many have argued for decoupling our economies from China, and doing so is in some respects inherently a long-term process. And given the scale of the global economic challenge now confronting us, it will most likely have to be done over time. But in key areas like high-tech, defense industry and technology, and the healthcare sector, we first can immediately begin to reinvigorate our own base for producing the tools and products we need here.

And second, because the challenge is an inherently global one, our response must both be realistic, and to the extent possible involve multiple allies. Now to some degree, American First policies pursued might foster inter-allied resentments, that Beijing and Moscow can then exploit and weaken allied resolve. Now to better counter the encroachments of China and Russia, whose strategy is to strike at allies and peripheries rather than directly at the United States, we might foster a hybrid approach—both standing up for U.S. interests, and doing so, in cooperation with our allies.

Thus, it is that trade wars, or appearing to stand aloof from efforts at international recovery, cause dismay among our European and Asian allies, and raise the specter of those alliances dissolving over time, an outcome that only benefits China and Russia. Warnings about precisely this outcome are now rapidly multiplying, but we should acknowledge U.S. tariff policy did persuade Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, and China to ink new trade deals.

The big issue now is “what next?”

Our allies have also been greatly harmed by the Chinese regime’s malign behavior. Thus, they are ready to seek better deals elsewhere especially with the United States. And certainly, it is very true that alliances can be a source of strength for the United States. They can, when not increasing dependency, minimize the costs of global military deployments since we can deploy forces in Japan, South Korea, Australia, and in front-line NATO countries, and those bases can serve to be jumping-off points, for projection into other global crises if necessary.

Alliances also can strengthen our ability to deter China militarily, and compete with China economically, while creating regional communities of interest with sufficient resilience, to resist both Chinese economic blandishments and or threats ,while also protecting U.S. sovereignty and interests. We could further reunite with the EU and Asian allied states, to form regional trade pacts with credible mechanisms, for dispute resolution, and build on the new trade deals with South Korea and Japan.

In the military sphere, alliances like NATO in Europe or our alliances with Japan and South Korea have kept the peace for 75 years. Indeed, it may take an alliance of Asian and interested European states to patrol the South China Sea on a permanent basis to deter China’s aggressive moves there. Securing considerable increases in allied military support—for the Western Pacific and NATO—was a singular achievement of the Trump Administration that moved things in the right direction.

Indeed, China’s suppressing knowledge of the pandemic, its massive and unconscionable repression of its Muslim Uyghur population, its militarily aggressive moves in the South China Sea, and its false news information offensives, to name only a few, are as much a sign of weakness as anything else. Leninist and authoritarian states like Russia and China cannot afford to admit weakness. They are always haunted by the knowledge of their own illegitimacy and corruption. Therefore, they are impelled to behave aggressively in world politics.

But we should also recognize that Xi Jinping’s neo-Maoist leadership may well be actually significantly weakening China’s economy, that clearly suffers from the pandemic more than it will admit. Moreover, its repressions and offensives betray its constant fear of being under attack, and that China’s domestic opposition will exploit any weakness. This ingrained paranoia simultaneously makes such states difficult to deal with, but it also is an inestimable advantage to the United States and its allies who have no such fears.

Therefore, while recognizing the China challenge, we must, at all costs, not lose our nerves. Losing our confidence is precisely China’s main goal. But a strong, confident America can, while standing up for its people’s interests, along with its allies, take advantage of China’s weaknesses and internal instability, as a regenerated American confidence can restore the right balance to U.S. and China relations.

Peter Huessy is the president of Geo-Strategic Analysis of Potomac, Md., a defense and national security consulting firm.

Stephen Blank is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/dealing-with-the-china-challenge_3348123.html

Ellanjay · May 28, 2020

https://youtu.be/ODYlMgxOk8s

Coronavirus and China — 3 Rules to Build US Up and Make Them Pay

James Carafano/Fox News
May 12, 2020

Around the world, a lot of folks are itching to retaliate against China for its complicity in launching the coronavirus pandemic. But a thirst for vengeance seldom leads one to the wisest course of action. Revenge, after all, is a dish best served cold — or at least without the heat of passion.

The ongoing competition between the U.S. and China cannot be resolved quickly. This is a marathon, not a sprint, and there are special rules for this kind of contest. Washington needs to follow them if it wants to win.

Long-term competitions are long for a reason: neither side has a decisive advantage over the other. Sparta had a great army, but it wasn’t much use against the Athenian navy — and that went for the other way round. The two city-states butted heads for 40 years. England and France fought for 100 years, because neither side had a good solution for bridging the channel. Neither Protestants nor Catholics could muster a majority in the Thirty Years War.
When neither side holds a decisive edge, conflicts can settle into wars of attrition, with the winner emerging at long last, barely standing. But there are exceptions to this debilitating outcome.

Consider the Cold War. The U.S. and its allies emerged at the end stronger and richer — and just as free — as when it started. The free world won by adopting strategies that emphasized protecting our key competitive advantages as much as going after the other side.

Investing in the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of the transatlantic community was every bit as important as fielding an army to defend against a Soviet invasion. In this manner, the West grew more powerful over time as the Soviets strained to keep up.

Today, China challenges the West. Beijing has speedily amassed power in part because we let them cut into our competitive advantages. The Chinese Communist Party ran amok through global free markets, lying, cheating and stealing their way to the top.

If the free world wants to stay on top and mitigate the threat of Beijing’s global destabilizing behavior, we are going to have to work both sides of the problem — pushing back on China and protecting our core competitive advantages.

What has kept the West from becoming a suburb of Beijing so far is that we are free. We can defend ourselves. We are affluent. If we lose those decisive advantages, we become little more than a speed-bump to the Party’s ambitions. This leads to the three rules we must follow when it comes to getting back at Beijing for the COVID-19 outbreak and its many other misdeeds.

Rule #1. Put first things first. Job one for America, its allies and partners is to get our economies safely up and running. If we can’t do that — nothing else matters. We will be faced with the worst depression in modern history. If memory serves, the last one didn’t go so well and was capped with a cataclysmic world war. So, the first rule is that no major action against China should interfere with rebooting the U.S. economy and the U.S. leading the free world in economic recovery. Let’s get everybody back to work first.

Rule #2. Getting the bad guy’s attention is more important than making yourself feel better. Toilet-papering your-ex’s car might lead to some self-satisfaction, but it won’t change his cheating heart. The only steps worth taking against Beijing are those that will actually make them sweat. Case in point: to deal with the growing debt, some want to gut defense spending. If Washington slashes our capacity to defend U.S. interests, that will send the wrong message to Beijing — a message far stronger than insisting aspirin be made in America.

Rule #3. Think long-term. China isn’t going anywhere. Neither are we. Let’s give them challenges that they will face for the long haul. Perhaps this won’t be as satisfying as a slap in the face, but such measures are much more likely to get Beijing’s attention, mitigate threats and perhaps change the Party’s behavior. Rebuilding the U.S. manufacturing capacity and strengthening trade and investment ties with our friends will worry Beijing far more than restrictionist measures that curb free markets. One good example: let’s create a real market alternative to the Huawei’s 5G telecom trap.

The best way to serve up revenge? With policies that both weaken the advantages of the Chinese Communist Party and safeguard the freedom, prosperity and security of the free world. That’s how we keep the strength needed to finish the marathon first and in good shape for the next race.

James Jay Carafano is vice president of foreign and defense policy studies The Heritage Foundation.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/coronavirus-china-revenge-3-rules-james-carafano

Ellanjay · May 28, 2020

https://youtu.be/XqzVVQW-OhM

The Lies We Believe

(Excerpt)
By J. R. Nyquist, Apr. 23, 2020

The Collapse of Communism

Conservatives have congratulated themselves, over and over, for defeating communism. But they have done no such thing. It is a classic case of conceit. To show how deluded this conceit is, recall the cancellation of the Rose Parade in Portland Oregon during 2017. It was cancelled because communists threatened violence against Republicans slated to participate.

Communists have always been a small group. But they have always exercised power and influence beyond what their actual numbers would suggest. Why? Because they possess a missionary zeal. Because they are ruthless. Because they are better organized, better at strategy, better at infiltrating, sabotaging, and taking control.

Stopping a rose parade in Oregon, the communists flexed their muscles in an important city. But elsewhere in North America, the communists have become masters of an entire country. Consider Evan McGuire’s 2018 piece in the American Spectator: “A Cold War Communist is Still Killing People in Nicaragua.” Oh yes. Reagan won the Cold War, but the Sandinistas are ruling Nicaragua as before.

Consider what happened in Venezuela. According to Luis Henrique Ball, writing in the Pan American Post of 17 December 2017, the oil-rich prize of Latin America was converted into a communist stronghold through a strategy of socialist incrementalism. What made this possible? Our conservatives made it possible, because they were no longer concerned with the spread of Marxism-Leninism. Why? Because they were swindled to believe that communism collapsed.

It is a disastrous situation. The “domino theory” has been overtaken by “domino history,” where one country after another succumbs to communism. Sadly, the so-called “fall of the Soviet Union” did not herald the end of communist expansion, but opened a new phase — in which communism advanced from victory to victory, unrecognized and unhindered.

South Africa was the first great prize to be taken by the “defunct” communists after 1991. While the West celebrated an unearned victory over Leninism, the Leninists had a great laugh. The progress of communism in South Africa is a long story. In the 1950s the South African Communist Party ordered its members to join the African National Congress (ANC). As Richard Monroe pointed out in his Lessons of the 1950s, “Whatever the Communists did was done through the Congress movement…. Apart from one or two minor instances, nothing was done by the CP [Communist Party] which was in conflict with Congress policy.”

As history records, the National Party surrendered its monopoly of power to the African National Congress (ANC) in 1994. For the past 26 years South Africa has been a one-party state ruled by ANC communists who have followed the same gradualist strategy used by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Once again, a strategic country was conquered.

How strategic?

South Africa sits astride the Cape sea route used by Europe’s oil tankers returning from the Persian Gulf. South Africa is also the “mineral storehouse” of Africa. Control of this country by the communist bloc, during the Cold War, would have frightened Western strategists. In military/economic terms, the bloc now enjoys a metals monopoly — with crippling implications for American aerospace. But no alarm has been raised. The conservatives do not care who governs South Africa — as long as the flow of precious metals continues. The West will soon discover its error when the communist bloc’s economic offensive accelerates. Essentially, South Africa is now a communist bloc country ruled by the African Nation Congress — a false front behind which lurks the Russians and Chinese.

Like Zimbabwe and Namibia, Angola and Congo, South Africa has gone communist. In each country we are deceived about the rulers, who pretend to be democrats. But they are not Democrats. Once again, our own conceit gets the better of us. These countries are on China’s side. They are on Russia’s side. And this is no minor matter.

The myth of “the collapse of communism” could be turned into a very fat book. But who would buy such a book? The preference of the market is clear. People crave lies. They want myths. The communists have fostered these myths. As Lenin said at the advent of his New Economic Policy in 1921, “Tell the capitalists what they want to hear.”

America is invincible

A flattering myth is always believed — to the ruin of the believer. Life is full of hard lessons, hard knocks, and hard heads. Many people born after World War II act as though America were indestructible. This goes a long way to explaining their readiness for destructive policies, destructive behaviors, and destructive thinking.

When the survival of a society or country is taken for granted, and every kind of social experimentation is indulged on the back of this conceit, you can be sure that a massive pile of rubble is going to be the legacy.

Look at the “baby boomer” generation: they grew up in a country that beat the Nazis and Imperial Japan. It was so rich, so powerful, that nothing could harm it. So a great deal of harm was done. The fabric of the society was not treated with gentleness or respect. Everything was subjected to ruthless criticism. Motherhood, patriotism, spanking, honesty, sobriety, chastity, common sense, anti-communism. It became fashionable to mock or discount these items. The more they were associated with the past, the more they were mocked.

In the 1980s Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America” came to the fore, as if the Republic was not already staggering from internal wounds. The true situation was papered over, and insincerity was given wider latitude. This was the context in which we embraced Gorbachev and built China into a colossus. We did it with a Reagan Happy Face.

Invincible? No. Stupid and self-deceiving? Yes. Nothing here is intrinsic to invincibility. Everything conspires to strip the whole, preparing the way for a destructive nihilism. What we have, in America, is a series of illnesses — and COVID-19 is the least of them.

Aside from these points, there are no invincible countries — especially in an age like ours. Biological and nuclear weapons can destroy any country at any time. Especially, they can destroy a country that refuses to deal realistically with them; a country that wants to live as if such weapons do not require more from us.

J.R. Nyquist has written for Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times. He is author of the book Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War (among other books).

spilledthebeer · May 28, 2020

Ellanjay said:
The Lies We Believe

(Excerpt)
By J. R. Nyquist, Apr. 23, 2020

The Collapse of Communism

Conservatives have congratulated themselves, over and over, for defeating communism. But they have done no such thing. It is a classic case of conceit. To show how deluded this conceit is, recall the cancellation of the Rose Parade in Portland Oregon during 2017. It was cancelled because communists threatened violence against Republicans slated to participate.

Communists have always been a small group. But they have always exercised power and influence beyond what their actual numbers would suggest. Why? Because they possess a missionary zeal. Because they are ruthless. Because they are better organized, better at strategy, better at infiltrating, sabotaging, and taking control.

Stopping a rose parade in Oregon, the communists flexed their muscles in an important city. But elsewhere in North America, the communists have become masters of an entire country. Consider Evan McGuire’s 2018 piece in the American Spectator: “A Cold War Communist is Still Killing People in Nicaragua.” Oh yes. Reagan won the Cold War, but the Sandinistas are ruling Nicaragua as before.

Consider what happened in Venezuela. According to Luis Henrique Ball, writing in the Pan American Post of 17 December 2017, the oil-rich prize of Latin America was converted into a communist stronghold through a strategy of socialist incrementalism. What made this possible? Our conservatives made it possible, because they were no longer concerned with the spread of Marxism-Leninism. Why? Because they were swindled to believe that communism collapsed.

It is a disastrous situation. The “domino theory” has been overtaken by “domino history,” where one country after another succumbs to communism. Sadly, the so-called “fall of the Soviet Union” did not herald the end of communist expansion, but opened a new phase — in which communism advanced from victory to victory, unrecognized and unhindered.

South Africa was the first great prize to be taken by the “defunct” communists after 1991. While the West celebrated an unearned victory over Leninism, the Leninists had a great laugh. The progress of communism in South Africa is a long story. In the 1950s the South African Communist Party ordered its members to join the African National Congress (ANC). As Richard Monroe pointed out in his Lessons of the 1950s, “Whatever the Communists did was done through the Congress movement…. Apart from one or two minor instances, nothing was done by the CP [Communist Party] which was in conflict with Congress policy.”

As history records, the National Party surrendered its monopoly of power to the African National Congress (ANC) in 1994. For the past 26 years South Africa has been a one-party state ruled by ANC communists who have followed the same gradualist strategy used by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Once again, a strategic country was conquered.

How strategic?

South Africa sits astride the Cape sea route used by Europe’s oil tankers returning from the Persian Gulf. South Africa is also the “mineral storehouse” of Africa. Control of this country by the communist bloc, during the Cold War, would have frightened Western strategists. In military/economic terms, the bloc now enjoys a metals monopoly — with crippling implications for American aerospace. But no alarm has been raised. The conservatives do not care who governs South Africa — as long as the flow of precious metals continues. The West will soon discover its error when the communist bloc’s economic offensive accelerates. Essentially, South Africa is now a communist bloc country ruled by the African Nation Congress — a false front behind which lurks the Russians and Chinese.

Like Zimbabwe and Namibia, Angola and Congo, South Africa has gone communist. In each country we are deceived about the rulers, who pretend to be democrats. But they are not Democrats. Once again, our own conceit gets the better of us. These countries are on China’s side. They are on Russia’s side. And this is no minor matter.

The myth of “the collapse of communism” could be turned into a very fat book. But who would buy such a book? The preference of the market is clear. People crave lies. They want myths. The communists have fostered these myths. As Lenin said at the advent of his New Economic Policy in 1921, “Tell the capitalists what they want to hear.”

America is invincible

A flattering myth is always believed — to the ruin of the believer. Life is full of hard lessons, hard knocks, and hard heads. Many people born after World War II act as though America were indestructible. This goes a long way to explaining their readiness for destructive policies, destructive behaviors, and destructive thinking.

When the survival of a society or country is taken for granted, and every kind of social experimentation is indulged on the back of this conceit, you can be sure that a massive pile of rubble is going to be the legacy.

Look at the “baby boomer” generation: they grew up in a country that beat the Nazis and Imperial Japan. It was so rich, so powerful, that nothing could harm it. So a great deal of harm was done. The fabric of the society was not treated with gentleness or respect. Everything was subjected to ruthless criticism. Motherhood, patriotism, spanking, honesty, sobriety, chastity, common sense, anti-communism. It became fashionable to mock or discount these items. The more they were associated with the past, the more they were mocked.

In the 1980s Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America” came to the fore, as if the Republic was not already staggering from internal wounds. The true situation was papered over, and insincerity was given wider latitude. This was the context in which we embraced Gorbachev and built China into a colossus. We did it with a Reagan Happy Face.

Invincible? No. Stupid and self-deceiving? Yes. Nothing here is intrinsic to invincibility. Everything conspires to strip the whole, preparing the way for a destructive nihilism. What we have, in America, is a series of illnesses — and COVID-19 is the least of them.

Aside from these points, there are no invincible countries — especially in an age like ours. Biological and nuclear weapons can destroy any country at any time. Especially, they can destroy a country that refuses to deal realistically with them; a country that wants to live as if such weapons do not require more from us.

J.R. Nyquist has written for Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times. He is author of the book Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War (among other books).

You offer Revisionist Historical Nonsense!

After the end of the Viet Nam War - NOBODY wanted to see more Yankee soldiers bleeding in a jungle!

Nicaragua is a sufficiently small and MESSED UP COUNTRY that few Yankees or other westerners wanted to bother

with the place!

American action in various countries has halted the blatant and overt imposition of Communism but there remain - in all countries

groups of greedy HOGS who persist in seeing their version of Communism AS SOMETHING RELATIVELY BENIGN!

We could look at former Ontari-owe premier Bob (BOOB) Rae who was a Rhodes Scholar and thus a well read and educated

man who in four years of political madness - managed to DOUBLE the Ontari-owe debt and destroy thousands of jobs and

do serious damage to our suddenly bankrupt health care system!

Rae made such a Socialist MESS that Ontari-owe turned to Mike Harris to clean up the NDPee MESS!

Sadly - federal LIE-beral Jean Chretien had hit the DEBT WALL and was forced to make drastic federal transfer spending cuts!

Which he directed - in the usual LIE-beral fashion - at provinces that were least likely to support LIE-beral candidates!

When Bob Rae was taken to task for his wasteful stupidity he whined that his economic plan had failed

BECAUSE THE BANKS WOULD NOT LOAN HIM ENOUGH MONEY TO SUCCEED"!

Yes- BOOB Rae - the vaunted Rhodes Scholar actually thought he could make us RICH with borrowed money!

The actions of Bob Rae and former Toronto mayor David Miller and former Ontari-owe premier Wynne-bag are NOT being

strongly guided by principles set out by Karl Marx!

These FAILED politicians - along with Our idiot Boy Justin and his LIE-beral losers are animated MAINLY BY GREED!

They want to "SHARE" the wealth of the nation with us - WHILE ENSURING THEY GET EXTRA SHARES!

Ellanjay · May 29, 2020

https://youtu.be/g00q7Pd86Aw

Pandemic Shows Pitfalls of Auto Industry’s Reliance on China Market

Commentary by Fan Yu, The Epoch Times
May 10, 2020

The global auto industry is currently mired in a crisis worse than the 2008 financial crisis.

J.D. Power & Associates, an industry research firm, estimated that since the outbreak of the CCP virus, auto dealers have sold almost 800,000 fewer cars and trucks than its 2020 forecast.

Virtually every auto plant in the United States has been shut since the end of March due to the pandemic. This unprecedented measure has sent auto production plummeting to levels not seen since World War II. Industry analysts expect a gradual reopening of assembly plants over the next few months, but it may take months, if not years, for production to climb back to pre-pandemic levels.

The challenges faced by the auto industry are multifaceted. Firstly, factories and assembly plants have been shut down. Secondly, car dealerships are closed to foot traffic in most states. Sales have moved online with curbside deliveries. But sales are just a fraction of normal levels, as unsold vehicle inventories are piling up at dealerships across the country.

“April auto sales took the biggest hit we’ve seen in decades,” said Jessica Caldwell, executive director of insights at car shopping website Edmunds, in a statement on April 30.

Ten million people in the U.S. auto industry, including those employed at manufacturers, parts suppliers, dealerships, and other businesses have been put out of work due to the pandemic, according to a Bloomberg report. IHS Markit estimated that April’s vehicle production in North America was only 4,300, the lowest total since 1945 during World War II.

“Fleet sales,” or car sales to rental car agencies, make up a portion of total sales to automakers. But that channel has all but dried up. Bloomberg reported that Avis Budget, Hertz, and Enterprise—three of the largest car rental agencies—have notified U.S. automakers to call off their planned purchases through the summer.

Every major automaker has seen its sales plummet in April. Hyundai Motor America posted a 39 percent sales decline in April from a year ago; Mazda North America announced a sales slump of 45 percent in April year-over-year; Toyota Motor North America saw its April sales drop 54 percent last month; while Honda sales also fell 54 percent. The big three U.S. automakers—General Motors, Ford, and FCA US—have not yet disclosed their respective April sales figures, although they are believed to be similarly down year-over-year.

Historical Reliance on China

At a macro level, such widespread calamity within a single industry should bring some pause and introspection to executives and economists.

In an April 26 editorial, The Epoch Times suggested that intimate engagement with the Chinese Communist Party and China—where the virus originated—could be a factor in the pandemic’s spread.

“All regions that are hard-hit by the virus outside China are those having intimate ties with the CCP, those who have supported the CCP in terms of trade, investment, or helping the CCP improve its international image. Likewise, individuals who have been the CCP’s supporters often find themselves vulnerable to the CCP virus,” the column states.

If this correlation is true, then could the global auto industry’s reliance on its China sales, and the acquiescence of technology to the CCP’s state-owned enterprises, play a part in the current industry downturn?

China’s 1.4 billion people have always been a draw. Ever since American Motors (shuttered after being acquired by Chrysler) formed the first foreign joint venture in China in 1984 to manufacture “Beijing Jeep” vehicles, automakers have been eyeing the potential of the Chinese market.

Vehicle manufacturing is an industry that the CCP mandates a domestic-foreign joint venture model. Foreign automakers must form a joint venture with a Chinese counterpart in order to manufacture and sell vehicles in China. The joint venture benefits from the know-how and technology of its foreign partner. For example, Ford is a 50 percent owner of Changan Ford, a joint venture between Ford and Changan Automobile. SAIC-GM is a joint venture between General Motors and SAIC Motor, which manufactures and sells GM-branded cars such as Buicks, Cadillacs, and Chevrolets.

In the fiscal first quarter of 2020, GM reported a net profit of $294 million, a whopping 87 percent decline from a year ago. GM issued $4 billion in new bonds last week to shore up its financial position.

But GM’s China operations have already been under pressure before the CCP virus hit, due to the country’s slowing auto market and the trade war. Profitability had declined and GM has lost market share, CFO Dhivya Suryadevara said during a February conference call with Wall Street analysts. In addition, the CCP’s restrictive policies also mandate a one-year delay in dividend payments to the parent company.

At GM, for instance, China sales have exceeded those in the United States. In 2019, SAIC-GM vehicle sales totaled 3.1 million, exceeding the 2.9 million cars and trucks sold by GM in the United States, according to an SEC filing.

Despite U.S. government support during the financial crisis and a relatively healthy U.S. auto sales market over the last few years, automakers have been moving jobs away from the United States and to countries such as China. Ford is building its Focus compact car in China, not in Mexico or Michigan. GM employs 58,000 workers in China, as of mid-2019, which is almost 20 percent more than the 49,000 union workers it has in the United States.

German auto giant Volkswagen’s first-quarter 2020 sales fell 23 percent globally, and its operating profit declined 81 percent compared to 2019. Volkswagen, whose FAW-Volkswagen joint-venture is one of the biggest foreign automakers in China with 3.2 million vehicle deliveries in 2019, has restarted production in China this month.

Global economies hope for a V-shaped economic recovery and healthy communities, but there is great uncertainty. While sales and profits could ebb and flow on a monthly or quarterly basis, the virus and the associated public health crisis could loom longer and cripple the long-term outlook and health of companies and economies.

Investors, board members, and company executives must take a long-term view regarding the well-being of the companies they steward. Reassessing their relationships with the CCP could well be part of the antidote.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/is-the-auto-industrys-reliance-on-china-a-faustian-pact_3344581.html

Ellanjay · May 29, 2020

https://youtu.be/L6mn_klVD2E

Marxism and Mass Destruction

By J. R. Nyquist

We have already said … that the theory of Marx and Engels of the inevitability of a violent revolution refers to the bourgeois state. The latter cannot be superseded by the proletarian state … through the process of ‘withering away,’ but, as a general rule, only through a violent revolution. —V.I. Lenin

According to the founding fathers of communism, the final overthrow of capitalism will be violent. Friedrich Engels said future revolutionary wars will result in the extermination of whole classes and races of people.

As Lenin explained, “The panegyric Engels sang in honor of [revolutionary violence], and which fully corresponds to Marx’s repeated statements … is by no means a mere ‘impulse,’ a mere declamation or polemical sally.” The founders of modern communism relished the idea of exterminating the world bourgeoisie.

“Revolution alone can ‘abolish’ the bourgeois state,” said Lenin, who did not believe in the peaceful politics of a democratic republic. “A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism,” he noted. And capitalism must be eradicated. This is the underlying impetus of the Marxist revolutionary dogma. Democracy is a fraud because — Lenin argued — it establishes the power of the capitalists “so securely, so firmly, that no change of persons, institutions or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it.”

Lenin therefore believed in smashing democracy and capitalism at the same time. But he did not stop there. Lenin believed in leveling all institutions — the family, the church, private property, etc. This campaign of eradication would bring mankind to communism; that is, a modern technocratic form of communism.

Lenin’s creed, of course, is a creed of destruction; for the Promised Land of peace and plenty will never be found. In the end, Marxism’s revolutionary violence can achieve no positive results. In practice, communism always delivers war and poverty. Communism is a system of the psychopaths, for the psychopaths, and by the psychopaths. The form of state which they have perfected — in Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, etc. — is geared toward the favored weapons of the psychopath; that is, the weapons of mass destruction.

The criminal rulers of the “socialist bloc” are always building nuclear and biological weapons. They are always dreaming of the day when these weapons will be unleashed on an unsuspecting world. A philosophy of revolutionary violence and extermination animates communist leaders.

The communist ruler wants to be God. He wants to flip creation on its head. His revolutionary theory begins with the grandiose premise that the bottom should be on top, that the creature should usurp the Creator, that destruction somehow deifies the destroyer.

“The necessity of systematically imbuing the masses with … this view of violent revolution lies at the root of the entire theory of Marx and Engels,” wrote Lenin in The State and Revolution. To imagine a peaceful or “democratic” transition to socialism is, according to Lenin, “opportunism”; that is, the sin of selling out the revolution for a piece of capitalist pie.

The emphasis on violence, mass murder and plunder, is intrinsic to Marxism. Please note: Marx, Engels and Lenin taught that the state is an instrument of violence. It consists of police and soldiers and prisons, said Lenin. These are always used by one class against another. Thus, in Lenin’s view, the bourgeois state exists to oppress the workers and the workers’ state exists to oppress — then finally destroy — the bourgeoisie.

Given this destructive impulse, a biological war should be an irresistible temptation. Capitalism accords with all the norms of social cooperation, economic optimism and free association. A deadly communicable disease derails the market system as it pulverizes economic optimism. Fear drives investment away. Terror strengthens the socialist state and the socialist revolution at the same time. Global Health Governance becomes the subversive slogan of the hour.

Given the communist thirst for power and inclination to destroy, a nuclear war is not altogether unattractive. This kind of war makes a nation dependent on top-down authority. And what could be more intoxicating than the power to incinerate cities, fleets and armies with hydrogen bombs. The planet will tremble. The human race will submit. The gods of socialism will be exalted.

There is also the logic of numeric progression: Stalin killed 30 million, Mao killed 60 million — why shouldn’t Xi Jinping kill 120 million? The ambition is all; for the World Revolution has many agents, and many useful idiots. Behind them are the missiles of the new communist bloc.

When the virus has done its work, and America’s financial power bleeds away, Lenin’s disciples will begin their destructive war. If they succeed, they will dictate peace terms to other countries. Beijing will decide the demography of Asia, the Pacific ring, and the lower 48 states. Russia will rule Europe, Alaska, and parts of Canada.

The victory of Moscow and Beijing, if they achieve it, will signal the socialist eschaton — the “end of history” as envisioned by Marx, Engels and Lenin. About this Eschaton Eric Voegelin wrote:

The eschatological interpretation of history results in a false picture of reality; and errors with regard to the structure of reality have practical consequences when the false conception is made the basis of political action.

The dictator states cannot build a new world on violence and lies. Any victory they achieve will be temporary. Their revolution “is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Marxism, as a whole, — in all its politically correct manifestations — is a doctrine of counter-principles which are opposed to the principles of existence. It facilitates a time of dying. Nothing more.

To every thing there is a season, And a time to every purpose under heaven; A time to be born and a time to die.

The present self-defeating cycle of politics will bring about new conditions and a new beginning. Whatever happens, spring will come again.

J.R. Nyquist has written for Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times. He is author of the book Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War (among other books).

https://jrnyquist.blog/2020/03/24/marxism-and-mass-destruction/

spilledthebeer · May 29, 2020

Ellanjay said:
Marxism and Mass Destruction

By J. R. Nyquist

We have already said … that the theory of Marx and Engels of the inevitability of a violent revolution refers to the bourgeois state. The latter cannot be superseded by the proletarian state … through the process of ‘withering away,’ but, as a general rule, only through a violent revolution. —V.I. Lenin

According to the founding fathers of communism, the final overthrow of capitalism will be violent. Friedrich Engels said future revolutionary wars will result in the extermination of whole classes and races of people.

As Lenin explained, “The panegyric Engels sang in honor of [revolutionary violence], and which fully corresponds to Marx’s repeated statements … is by no means a mere ‘impulse,’ a mere declamation or polemical sally.” The founders of modern communism relished the idea of exterminating the world bourgeoisie.

“Revolution alone can ‘abolish’ the bourgeois state,” said Lenin, who did not believe in the peaceful politics of a democratic republic. “A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism,” he noted. And capitalism must be eradicated. This is the underlying impetus of the Marxist revolutionary dogma. Democracy is a fraud because — Lenin argued — it establishes the power of the capitalists “so securely, so firmly, that no change of persons, institutions or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it.”

Lenin therefore believed in smashing democracy and capitalism at the same time. But he did not stop there. Lenin believed in leveling all institutions — the family, the church, private property, etc. This campaign of eradication would bring mankind to communism; that is, a modern technocratic form of communism.

Lenin’s creed, of course, is a creed of destruction; for the Promised Land of peace and plenty will never be found. In the end, Marxism’s revolutionary violence can achieve no positive results. In practice, communism always delivers war and poverty. Communism is a system of the psychopaths, for the psychopaths, and by the psychopaths. The form of state which they have perfected — in Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, etc. — is geared toward the favored weapons of the psychopath; that is, the weapons of mass destruction.

The criminal rulers of the “socialist bloc” are always building nuclear and biological weapons. They are always dreaming of the day when these weapons will be unleashed on an unsuspecting world. A philosophy of revolutionary violence and extermination animates communist leaders.

The communist ruler wants to be God. He wants to flip creation on its head. His revolutionary theory begins with the grandiose premise that the bottom should be on top, that the creature should usurp the Creator, that destruction somehow deifies the destroyer.

“The necessity of systematically imbuing the masses with … this view of violent revolution lies at the root of the entire theory of Marx and Engels,” wrote Lenin in The State and Revolution. To imagine a peaceful or “democratic” transition to socialism is, according to Lenin, “opportunism”; that is, the sin of selling out the revolution for a piece of capitalist pie.

The emphasis on violence, mass murder and plunder, is intrinsic to Marxism. Please note: Marx, Engels and Lenin taught that the state is an instrument of violence. It consists of police and soldiers and prisons, said Lenin. These are always used by one class against another. Thus, in Lenin’s view, the bourgeois state exists to oppress the workers and the workers’ state exists to oppress — then finally destroy — the bourgeoisie.

Given this destructive impulse, a biological war should be an irresistible temptation. Capitalism accords with all the norms of social cooperation, economic optimism and free association. A deadly communicable disease derails the market system as it pulverizes economic optimism. Fear drives investment away. Terror strengthens the socialist state and the socialist revolution at the same time. Global Health Governance becomes the subversive slogan of the hour.

Given the communist thirst for power and inclination to destroy, a nuclear war is not altogether unattractive. This kind of war makes a nation dependent on top-down authority. And what could be more intoxicating than the power to incinerate cities, fleets and armies with hydrogen bombs. The planet will tremble. The human race will submit. The gods of socialism will be exalted.

There is also the logic of numeric progression: Stalin killed 30 million, Mao killed 60 million — why shouldn’t Xi Jinping kill 120 million? The ambition is all; for the World Revolution has many agents, and many useful idiots. Behind them are the missiles of the new communist bloc.

When the virus has done its work, and America’s financial power bleeds away, Lenin’s disciples will begin their destructive war. If they succeed, they will dictate peace terms to other countries. Beijing will decide the demography of Asia, the Pacific ring, and the lower 48 states. Russia will rule Europe, Alaska, and parts of Canada.

The victory of Moscow and Beijing, if they achieve it, will signal the socialist eschaton — the “end of history” as envisioned by Marx, Engels and Lenin. About this Eschaton Eric Voegelin wrote:

The eschatological interpretation of history results in a false picture of reality; and errors with regard to the structure of reality have practical consequences when the false conception is made the basis of political action.

The dictator states cannot build a new world on violence and lies. Any victory they achieve will be temporary. Their revolution “is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Marxism, as a whole, — in all its politically correct manifestations — is a doctrine of counter-principles which are opposed to the principles of existence. It facilitates a time of dying. Nothing more.

To every thing there is a season, And a time to every purpose under heaven; A time to be born and a time to die.

The present self-defeating cycle of politics will bring about new conditions and a new beginning. Whatever happens, spring will come again.

J.R. Nyquist has written for Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times. He is author of the book Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War (among other books).

https://jrnyquist.blog/2020/03/24/marxism-and-mass-destruction/

YES.........Yes....................yes!

China is a BAD PLACE!

And cars and other things are not selling as they used to!

And we here in Canada can blame our civil service union HOGS AND PIERRE TRUDOPE

for making that Cdn contribution to the Chinese economy!

Our Pet Pierre bought himself a FINE SET OF HOG VOTES by bribing our civil service!

Then as now the amount of gravy flooding into HOG pockets required places to invest it prudently and make it GROW!

There were not enough suitable places to invest in Canada so HOGS started clamouring to invest OUTSIDE CANADA!

With Our Pet knowing this shipping of BORROWED Cdn gravy outside the country would affect the value of the Cdn dollar

AND affect our balance of trade as well!

But LIE-berals NEED to buy votes and so the HOGS were allowed to invest in third world pest holes like China!

Using OUR BORROWED GRAVY that we had to pay back out of our LIE-berally debauched Cdn currency!

The result has been that China thinks THEY OWN US and that we are too stupid to defend ourselves!

The result has been the Meng Huawei CRAP and the Two Michaels - Spavour and Kovrig and the release of the

WUHAN PESTILENCE which should NEVER have been allowed to infect such a large part of the Cdn economy!

Our idiot Boy should have followed the Australia and New Zealand lead and CLOSED THE BORDER EARLY ON!

Before the Wuhan Pestilence got a solid grip on the Cdn population!

BUT Our idiot Boy preferred to tell us closing the border was somehow RACIST!

LIE-berals think that protecting ourselves from STUPID LIE-beral virtue signalling is somehow WRONG!

taxslave · May 29, 2020

Ellanjay said:
https://youtu.be/XqzVVQW-OhM
The Lies We Believe
(Excerpt)
By J. R. Nyquist, Apr. 23, 2020
The Collapse of Communism
Conservatives have congratulated themselves, over and over, for defeating communism. But they have done no such thing. It is a classic case of conceit. To show how deluded this conceit is, recall the cancellation of the Rose Parade in Portland Oregon during 2017. It was cancelled because communists threatened violence against Republicans slated to participate.
Communists have always been a small group. But they have always exercised power and influence beyond what their actual numbers would suggest. Why? Because they possess a missionary zeal. Because they are ruthless. Because they are better organized, better at strategy, better at infiltrating, sabotaging, and taking control.
Stopping a rose parade in Oregon, the communists flexed their muscles in an important city. But elsewhere in North America, the communists have become masters of an entire country. Consider Evan McGuire’s 2018 piece in the American Spectator: “A Cold War Communist is Still Killing People in Nicaragua.” Oh yes. Reagan won the Cold War, but the Sandinistas are ruling Nicaragua as before.
Consider what happened in Venezuela. According to Luis Henrique Ball, writing in the Pan American Post of 17 December 2017, the oil-rich prize of Latin America was converted into a communist stronghold through a strategy of socialist incrementalism. What made this possible? Our conservatives made it possible, because they were no longer concerned with the spread of Marxism-Leninism. Why? Because they were swindled to believe that communism collapsed.
It is a disastrous situation. The “domino theory” has been overtaken by “domino history,” where one country after another succumbs to communism. Sadly, the so-called “fall of the Soviet Union” did not herald the end of communist expansion, but opened a new phase — in which communism advanced from victory to victory, unrecognized and unhindered.
South Africa was the first great prize to be taken by the “defunct” communists after 1991. While the West celebrated an unearned victory over Leninism, the Leninists had a great laugh. The progress of communism in South Africa is a long story. In the 1950s the South African Communist Party ordered its members to join the African National Congress (ANC). As Richard Monroe pointed out in his Lessons of the 1950s, “Whatever the Communists did was done through the Congress movement…. Apart from one or two minor instances, nothing was done by the CP [Communist Party] which was in conflict with Congress policy.”
As history records, the National Party surrendered its monopoly of power to the African National Congress (ANC) in 1994. For the past 26 years South Africa has been a one-party state ruled by ANC communists who have followed the same gradualist strategy used by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Once again, a strategic country was conquered.
How strategic?
South Africa sits astride the Cape sea route used by Europe’s oil tankers returning from the Persian Gulf. South Africa is also the “mineral storehouse” of Africa. Control of this country by the communist bloc, during the Cold War, would have frightened Western strategists. In military/economic terms, the bloc now enjoys a metals monopoly — with crippling implications for American aerospace. But no alarm has been raised. The conservatives do not care who governs South Africa — as long as the flow of precious metals continues. The West will soon discover its error when the communist bloc’s economic offensive accelerates. Essentially, South Africa is now a communist bloc country ruled by the African Nation Congress — a false front behind which lurks the Russians and Chinese.
Like Zimbabwe and Namibia, Angola and Congo, South Africa has gone communist. In each country we are deceived about the rulers, who pretend to be democrats. But they are not Democrats. Once again, our own conceit gets the better of us. These countries are on China’s side. They are on Russia’s side. And this is no minor matter.
The myth of “the collapse of communism” could be turned into a very fat book. But who would buy such a book? The preference of the market is clear. People crave lies. They want myths. The communists have fostered these myths. As Lenin said at the advent of his New Economic Policy in 1921, “Tell the capitalists what they want to hear.”
America is invincible
A flattering myth is always believed — to the ruin of the believer. Life is full of hard lessons, hard knocks, and hard heads. Many people born after World War II act as though America were indestructible. This goes a long way to explaining their readiness for destructive policies, destructive behaviors, and destructive thinking.
When the survival of a society or country is taken for granted, and every kind of social experimentation is indulged on the back of this conceit, you can be sure that a massive pile of rubble is going to be the legacy.
Look at the “baby boomer” generation: they grew up in a country that beat the Nazis and Imperial Japan. It was so rich, so powerful, that nothing could harm it. So a great deal of harm was done. The fabric of the society was not treated with gentleness or respect. Everything was subjected to ruthless criticism. Motherhood, patriotism, spanking, honesty, sobriety, chastity, common sense, anti-communism. It became fashionable to mock or discount these items. The more they were associated with the past, the more they were mocked.
In the 1980s Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America” came to the fore, as if the Republic was not already staggering from internal wounds. The true situation was papered over, and insincerity was given wider latitude. This was the context in which we embraced Gorbachev and built China into a colossus. We did it with a Reagan Happy Face.
Invincible? No. Stupid and self-deceiving? Yes. Nothing here is intrinsic to invincibility. Everything conspires to strip the whole, preparing the way for a destructive nihilism. What we have, in America, is a series of illnesses — and COVID-19 is the least of them.
Aside from these points, there are no invincible countries — especially in an age like ours. Biological and nuclear weapons can destroy any country at any time. Especially, they can destroy a country that refuses to deal realistically with them; a country that wants to live as if such weapons do not require more from us.
J.R. Nyquist has written for Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times. He is author of the book Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War (among other books).

one trick pony.

Ellanjay · May 30, 2020

https://youtu.be/QZSr9QX0FaE

Coronavirus Pandemic Reveals Chinese Communist Party’s True Nature

Commentary By Ding Yi, (Minghui.org)
March 22, 2020

“You disregarded the achievements of urban development since the Military Games. You are a sinner who disrupted the stability and unity of Wuhan, and you are the culprit who sabotaged the progress of Wuhan City,” said leaders of Wuhan Central Hospital when they reprimanded a female doctor who sent information to her colleagues upon discovering an unknown coronavirus in some patients.

Under extreme pressure, Dr. Ai Fen went into silence.

Dr. Ai’s story is one of the many examples of how the Chinese Communist Party covered up information about the coronavirus epidemic that later broke out in Wuhan and quickly evolved into a pandemic.

The Epidemic and Great Leap Forward

At the beginning of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, all the “common sense” established in the medical field was cast aside. It was acknowledged from the very beginning that the coronavirus is highly contagious with no effective cure. However, the CCP covered up the facts from the very beginning with lies and false information.

On December 31, 2019, a top leader of China’ s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) claimed that coronavirus was “preventable and controllable.” The same narrative was repeated by other health officials in Wuhan in January, even days before the city was locked down.

Such remarks reminded people of the exaggerated lies and destructive policies of the CCP during the Great Leap Forward campaign in 1958. In the campaign, the CCP officials claimed that grain production had reached thousands of kilograms per acre and disaster relief offices were thus disbanded, because with so much grain for consumption, the relief office was no longer in need.

Truth be told, many people, including CCP officials, came from farmlands and they knew exactly how much grain an acre of land could produce. However, under the totalitarian rule of the CCP, they went along with the lies against their conscience and common sense, and turned a blind eye to what was going on. As a result, tens of millions of people died from starvation in the Great Famine that soon followed in the same year.

Politics in Command

After the coronavirus epidemic broke out, the hospitals in Wuhan didn’t adopt any special measures to isolate coronavirus patients from regular patients, which greatly increased everyone’s potential exposure to the virus. Such poor management and lack of proper protective gear also caused thousands of medical staff to be infected, as well as suffering physical and mental exhaustion.

For public health concerns as significant as the epidemic, all treatment methods and procedures are decided by the CCP officials, while opinions and advice from medical professionals are ignored. After decades of CCP rule, people have now grown used to the term “putting politics in command.”

From the “Cultural Revolution” to the “June 4th Tiananmen Massacre,” from the persecution of Falun Gong to the suppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the CCP has always ruled by the “Party nature” instead “human nature.” For them, “maintaining stability” is much more important than following the rule of law.

At the same time, when the pandemic is yet to subside, the CCP has required factories and companies to resume work as soon as possible. If a business owner does not follow orders, he would face a huge fine.

Meanwhile, an internal document from the CCP indicated that there was a limit for the number of confirmed cases to be reported in each area. Should the number exceed the limit, local officials in that area would be removed from their positions. Such “low” record is favorable for the CCP to deceive its people and the world, while encouraging more people to go back to work to rescue the collapsing economy.

The True Nature of the CCP

As pointed out in the book Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party published in 2004, the CCP grew by steadily accumulating wickedness and perfecting its nine inherited traits, giving them “Chinese characteristics”: “evil, deceit, incitement, unleashing the scum of society, espionage, robbery, fighting, elimination, and control.”

Such inherited traits have been evident in how the CCP handles the coronavirus epidemic.

As discussed above, the CCP has been limiting distribution of testing kits as well as using other methods to strictly control confirmed infection cases and death cases around the country, in order to deceive people.

When the international community accused the CCP of refusing investigation by experts from overseas, the CCP diplomats openly claimed that the US military might have brought the coronavirus to Wuhan, and demanded that the US disclose the facts. Meanwhile, the CCP mobilized its “50 Cent Army” [internet censorship enforcers who are paid 50 cents per post] to spread rumors on the Internet, in attempts to shift the blame.

As numerous other countries face surging cases every day, the CCP “reported” “zero” new local infections on March 18, for the first time in the last two months, and claimed that all new infection cases are imported from overseas countries.

Many Chinese living abroad were misled by the CCP propaganda and believed that it is dangerous to stay overseas with the pandemic running rampant. They rushed back to China to seek protection, only to realize a different reality.

Lessons from history told us that no promise of the CCP should be trusted, because they never honor what they promise. Those who continue believing in the CCP will pay a huge price.

The CCP has always been on the path of anti-humanity. The world should be clear-headed and not become its pawn or have any illusions about it.

https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2020/3/22/183734.html

Ellanjay · May 30, 2020

https://youtu.be/V7Lbm-JiyoQ

Trading With the Devil

Commentary by James Gorrie
May 18, 2020

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not used to being pushed around. But U.S. President Donald Trump knows how to shove, and he can shove pretty hard when he sets his mind to it. Within the space of a year or so, from 2018-2019, he trashed all of the fundamentally imbalanced trade arrangements that China had built its wealth upon at the expense of American manufacturers over the past 40 years.

No one was surprised, therefore, at Beijing’s reaction to Trump’s hard-hitting trade war and stiff tariff policies toward Chinese products. A big part of China’s initial response was to resort to retaliatory trade practices against U.S. products, such as cancelling purchases of U.S. soybeans and other agricultural products.

Beijing Going After Red States

Not coincidentally, China was also punishing states that supported Trump in the 2016 national election. That was clever on Beijing’s part, but it changed nothing. Trump kept hammering the Chinese economy with his tariffs, and the Chinese economy kept declining. Even now, in the midst of America’s 2020 election season, China’s targeting of pro-Trump states is designed to erode support for the one man they can’t tolerate as President of the United States.

Meanwhile, U.S. legislators are trying to strip China of legal immunity, which would enable U.S. citizens to sue China for damages from the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Smarter Strategy

At the same time, China’s global strategy was a bit smarter. The idea was to isolate the United States from its allies, especially those that were heavily dependent upon China for trade. The thinking in Beijing was that for most nations, their lucrative trade relations with China would trump political, cultural and even military alliances with the United States.

And for a while, that was true; at least in some instances. Until recently, Australia was a perfect example of that policy. It has been, of course, closely aligned with the United States since World War I.

But as a lightly populated country rich in natural resources and in relatively close proximity, Australia relies on China as a major market for its commodities. Those include a variety of minerals, coal, gas and ore, as well as barley and beef. In short, Australia has benefitted greatly from China’s economic rise.

In fact, today, in terms of both imports and exports, China is Australia’s largest trading partner. Australia imports about 25 percent of its manufactured goods from China, and up to 13 percent of its coal exports go to China.

Australia—A Perfect Opportunity

As such, Australia posed a terrific opportunity for Beijing to deepen and expand its economic and cultural relationships with a close U.S. ally.

That explains why, as late as May of 2019, former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard insisted that Australia would not take sides in the U.S.-China trade disputes. It was an understandable but tenuous balancing act that made some sense at the time. Australia did not wish to jeopardize its deep trading relationship with China.

It wasn’t that successive Australian governments haven’t been aware of Beijing’s grand plans for a global presence in every sphere of activity. It’s no secret that technological, military, and cultural preeminence are also part of China’s ambitions.

But what could Australia do about it? Containing Beijing was far beyond Canberra’s capabilities. If it was anybody’s job to do so, it was Washington’s.

And up until recently, Canberra was behaving just as Beijing hoped it would. But then Beijing sabotaged its smartest strategy.

These days, Australia is seeking to manage the risks that come with relying so heavily upon one market, particularly one that has demonstrated its willingness to bully its own people and trading partners alike.

Today, like much of the world, Australia now understands two very important facts about China that can no longer be ignored.

Beijing’s Pandemic Misstep

First, Beijing’s monstrous extradition law and the Hong Kong crisis that followed was just a preview of the CCP’s treachery. But the Wuhan-borne viral outbreak that followed in late 2019 was the real deal-breaker. The CCP-generated pandemic that destroyed the world’s economies shattered any remaining illusions—self-imposed or otherwise—that Australia and many other trading partners, may have held with respect to China’s view of other nations.

For many Western nations, including Australia, the CCP’s own actions have made neutrality untenable. It’s simply no longer wise or even politically or morally viable.

Not only did the CCP create the virus, but it lied about its origin and the timing of the outbreak. Then the Party leadership silenced its own doctors, denied its human-to-human transmission, and withheld critical scientific information to the rest of the world.

China an Outlaw Nation

As a result, Beijing has clearly shown that it’s an outlaw nation. Most countries now understand that under its current government, China operates without any regard for human life for neither its own citizens nor for the wellbeing of the rest of the world.

To its great credit, Australia recently issued a call for an investigation into the source and cause of the pandemic, even though it’s costing them dearly in exports to China. Australia has been unequivocal that going forward, in the grand struggle that’s rapidly unfolding between the United States and China, they’re siding with the United States.

Beijing Blows Its Big Chance with the UK and the World

But Australia isn’t the only nation to wake up to the China threat. With President Trump pressuring an intransigent UK government to dump Huawei as a 5G net equipment provider, the U.S.-UK “special relationship” was becoming decidedly “less special” the past couple of years. For many months, Trump threatened the UK with fewer trade opportunities and lowering security cooperation levels if the UK approved Huawei as a participating 5G vendor.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, however, not inclined to be seen as a performing monkey to U.S. demands, was not in a cooperating mood on that very sensitive issue. Thus, the “Huawei question” presented a brilliant opportunity for China to split the U.S.-UK alliance wider than it’s been in centuries.

But Beijing’s idiotic decision to infect the world—and Boris Johnson—with their CCP virus has all but destroyed any chance that Huawei will be a part of the UK 5G upgrade. In fact, the UK is now reviewing every aspect of how they view the Chinese regime.

Despite its grandiose propaganda and its overt puppeteering of World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom, most of the civilized world understands that China is solely responsible for the pandemic.

The Party’s decision to start a pandemic and then try to use it to springboard into a position of global leadership demonstrates the fact that dictatorial regimes that answer to no one have little understanding of those democratic ones that do. As a result, the brutes in Beijing lack the vision and nuance needed to understand Western nations’ reaction to the CCP’s most egregious crimes against humanity.

The Faustian trade deals that many Western nations made with China are crumbling more each day, as the Chinese Communist Party shows them just what it means to make a deal with the devil.

James R. Gorrie is the author of “The China Crisis” (Wiley, 2013) and writes on his blog, TheBananaRepublican.com. He is based in Southern California.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trading-with-the-devil_3352662.html

Jinentonix · May 30, 2020

Hoid said:
China announces $2 billion foreign aid

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/chi...to-help-fight-coronavirus-at-who-meeting.html

As America retreats China advances

Still blowing the stupid c*nts who gave us this virus and then lied about it for weeks eh? What China calls foreign aid, the rest of us call "blood money". It's about f*cking time the CCP stepped up and started taking some responsibility for their contemptible behaviour.

Ellanjay · May 31, 2020

https://youtu.be/IR2AFij6saE

New Evidence Shows the CCP’s Cover-Up of the Coronavirus Outbreak

May 19, 2020 | By Zhang Hua, (Minghui.org)

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) insists that it has not covered up any information about the coronavirus outbreak. However, more substantial evidence has surfaced to invalidate the CCP’s claim. The following are some of such evidence.

Document Issued by the National Health Commission on January 3

On January 3, 2020, China’s National Health Commission issued a confidential document:

(1) All regional governments and health commissions are to manage samples of coronavirus that caused Wuhan pneumonia according to regulations on “Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms (Type 2)”;(2) All related organizations must not provide or release test results to any other organizations or individuals without permission;(3) all medical facilities must immediately stop any ongoing viral testing;(4) all medical facilities must destroy all samples from patients;(5) frontline doctors in Wuhan must not disclose any information about Wuhan pneumonia.

Around the same time, eight doctors, including Dr. Li Wenliang (who would later die of coronavirus) were reprimanded by police for sharing their concerns with their colleagues on social media about the virus infection symptoms.

Clearly, the CCP authorities had been informed of the danger of the highly contagious coronavirus by January 3, but instead of warning people in China and around the world, they concealed vital information and tried to cover up the outbreak.

Human-to-Human Transmission Known by the End of 2019

Nature-Microbiology, an online journal, published a paper by Liu Manqing, deputy director of the Pathogen Biology Lab of the Wuhan Center for Disease Control. Liu stated in the paper that he and his team re-analyzed 640 throat swabs collected from patients in Wuhan with influenza-like-illness from October 6, 2019 to January 21, 2020, and found that 9 were positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA, suggesting community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan in late 2019 or early 2020.

New News in Taiwan obtained two internal documents for senior CCP government officials, which revealed that several gene companies had discovered “SARS-like coronaviruses” in late December 2019 and reported them to relevant departments in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and the National Health Commission.

However, on January 1, the Health Commission of Hubei Province notified those gene companies by phone to stop further testing, destroy all virus samples, and ban the publication of relevant papers and data.

Two days later, on January 3, China’s National Health Commission issued the same instruction as detailed at the beginning of this article.

Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported on February 28, 2020, that a team led by the Shanghai Public Health Center and the School of Public Health of Fudan University, headed by Zhang Yongzhen, isolated and completed the genome sequence of the new coronavirus on January 5 and published the results of their investigation on January 11.

However, on January 12, the Shanghai Public Health Center was ordered to shut down by the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission without explanation.

It was revealed in notes by Xiao Hui, an investigative journalist with Tsaixin, that South Central Hospital in Wuhan had repeatedly reported suspected cases to the Wuhan Public Health Commission before Wuhan was locked down, but instead of having their reports taken seriously, the hospital was criticized for “not being politically conscious” and required to “pay attention to political impact and the way they speak” when WHO experts visited the hospital.

CCP authorities didn’t publicly acknowledge human-to-human transmission until January 20.

Intentional Cover-Ups

The Associated Press reported on April 15 that, based on internal documents from the Chinese communist regime, Ma Xiaowei, director of China’s National Health Commission, held a secret video conference with provincial health officials on January 14.

A memo revealed that “clusters of infection cases” were brought up at the conference, saying “the current situation of the contagious disease is complex and severe, posing the biggest challenge since the SARS epidemic in 2003.”

In the memo, Ma Xiaowei specially asked local health officials to “prioritize” political and social stability, particularly in view of the upcoming “Two Sessions” (annual meetings of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the National People’s Congress, China’s rubber-stamp legislature).

According to a number of classified CCP documents obtained by The Epoch Times on April 19, China’s National Health Commission held a nationwide video training session on how to respond to and control the epidemic on January 15, which was relayed through branch venues at provincial and county levels to officials in the health sector.

For example, the Inner Mongolian Health Commission issued an “Urgent Notice” to its subordinate regional health departments to pass down the instructions from above. The document was marked “Express” and “for internal use, and should not be transmitted on the internet.” At least seven follow-up notices about the epidemic were issued on January 19 and 20, and all of them were marked “Not to Disclose.”

The CCP secretary of the Inner Mongolian Health Commission delivered a work report of more than 10,000 words on January 18, in which nothing was mentioned about the Wuhan coronavirus; instead, it glorified the CCP and the “achievements” of the health commission.

During the six days between January 14 and January 19 that were considered critical in controlling the virus, CCP leader Xi Jinping remained completely silent, and it was not until January 20 when he made a public comment about the virus infection. By then, a large number of people had already been infected, mostly in Wuhan.

It was not until January 25 that China’s National Health Commission issued a notice to “strengthen community prevention and control.” By then, nearly two months had passed since infection became known at the beginning of December.

Delayed Response in Wuhan

The Wuhan coronavirus infection was known as of December 1 or even earlier, and cases of human-to-human transmission became more prominent by mid-December. A total of 47 such cases were reported by January 1, including infections of 7 medical professionals. By January 22, the number of patients increased to 425, and 8 more medical professionals were infected, indicating it was already a very serious health hazard.

However, the Wuhan Health Commission still stated in its bulletin on January 11 that it had “not seen any infection of health workers, and there is no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.”

According to the CCP’s bureaucratic regulations, health commissions at municipal and county levels must not release information about a disease outbreak to media outlets without permission from the provincial health commission, which may also need to seek approval from higher authorities.

Therefore, Hubei Province did not take corresponding measures in response to the devastating outbreak until January 24, a day after the lockdown of Wuhan, and after CCP leader Xi Jinping publicly addressed the issue. There was a full month delay in their response, and by then the virus had spread to other places in China and across the world.

Similar delays in response were also seen in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and other regions.

WHO Complicit in the CCP’s Cover-Up

For the past decade, the CCP has pushed aggressively to have pro-CCP figures elected to the top positions of specialized UN agencies so they would act in favor of the CCP on international issues.

“It already controls five of the 15, by using proxies, colonial-like proxies, like Tedros [Adhanom Ghebreyesus] at the WHO,” said the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro in an interview with Fox News.

“The damage done by the CCP’s control of the key health organization has been ‘absolutely enormous,’” Navarro said in the interview. “They suppressed the human to human transmission [data], they refused to call it a pandemic. They basically discouraged travel bans.”

Below is a brief recap of how the WHO, headed by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. responded to the coronavirus outbreak.

December 31 – Taiwan alerted the WHO that atypical pneumonia occurred in Wuhan, China, suggesting the possibility of human-to-human transmission. The WHO did not respond.

January 21 – When infections went out of control in China, the WHO downplayed the severity of the outbreak in Wuhan, saying there was “no clear evidence” to indicate “continued human-to-human transmission” and that it was unnecessary to put travel restrictions on China.

January 26 – The mayor of Wuhan revealed that more than 5 million people left Wuhan before the lockdown of the city on January 23. Among those who fled the city, more than 20,000 flew to Bangkok, 7,078 flew to Hong Kong, and 6,145 to Macau.

January 28 – WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus flew to Beijing to meet with Xi Jinping, saying “China’s speed and massive scale of China’s moves are rarely seen in the world,” that “it shows China’s efficiency and the advantages of China’s system” and that “the experience of China is worth learning for other countries.”

January 30 – The coronavirus had spread to 18 countries outside of China, with a total of around 98 confirmed cases. The WHO declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern” but still refused to recommend any travel or trade restrictions, mostly out of concern for China’s economic interests.

Tedros said, “Let me be clear: This declaration is not a vote of no confidence in China. On the contrary, WHO continues to have confidence in China’s capacity to control the outbreak.”

February 26 – When infection cases exploded in South Korea, Iran and Italy, Tedros still said “there is no evidence of community transmission of the virus.”

March 2 – when the coronavirus had spread to at least 65 countries, Tedros still claimed that it was not yet a “pandemic.”

It was not until March 11 that Tedros declared the outbreak a “global pandemic” in the face of undeniable evidence.

The delayed statement from him resulted in some member states losing precious and critical opportunities for prevention and suffering disastrous losses.
Repression of “Rumors” about the Infection

After the lockdown in Wuhan was lifted on April 8, it appeared that the pandemic had ended in China.

But only days later, clusters of coronavirus cases broke out in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, according to a “Warning Notice” issued by Heilongjiang Provincial Coronavirus Work Force on April 13.

Local residents also revealed that thousands of people were lined up outside hospital emergency departments. Some hospitals had to shut down because many doctors and nurses were infected as well. Harbin is now locked down for the second time.

Just like the Wuhan authorities who underreported their local cases, the authorities in Harbin did the same thing. According to an internal document obtained by The Epoch Times, the CDC of Daowai District in Harbin reported 34 positive cases on April 10, but only two confirmed cases appeared on the official tally.

The Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of Discipline Inspection issued an internal notice on April 20, requiring public servants to “keep work secrets” and not to discuss the local epidemic situation on the Internet or social media. Those who violate the rule would be dealt with as “spreading rumors.”

Meanwhile, the same cover-up policy still continues in Wuhan. In recent weeks, Dr. Yu Xiangdong, a frontline doctor in Hubei, was punished and demoted from his position as deputy director of Wuhan Central Hospital for voicing his personal views about wearing face masks, household management, the lockdown of the city, admission screening, CT detection and the use of unproven Chinese herbal medicine. He was accused of “defaming national epidemic prevention policies.”

https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2020/5/19/185087.html

Ellanjay · May 31, 2020

https://youtu.be/J_snq7lzf20

The Second Cold War has begun

By Jeff Lukens
May 18, 2020

The People’s Republic of China hides its motives in a cloak of mystery. However, their contempt and disregard of others in the Coronavirus pandemic has now torn away the shroud and made their ugly intentions clear. China has signaled its defiance of the international order and its willingness to overturn it. They are implementing a strategy to supplant the United States as the world’s dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the PRC.

Throughout the First Cold War, it was up to the United States to stand up for vulnerable nations and help those being set upon by the Soviet Union’s brutal force. Now that the Second Cold War is upon us, it is time to do it again against the tyranny of the People’s Republic of China.

Following World War II, the United States was transformed into a world superpower. World leadership had been thrust upon us in a way we could not avoid. It came to the U.S. not only because of his preeminent military and economic power but because of the generous way we had employed that power in the world of desperate need and threat of Communist expansion. These principles remained true throughout the First Cold War. Today, no major issue of global peace or stability can be resolved without involvement by the United States.

For more than 40 years, the U.S. has played a benevolent role in helping the Chinese government build a booming economy and taking its place on the world stage. We believed that China’s rise would bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade. In the past year, however, it has become clear that China’s goal is to replace America as the dominant global power. By mid-century, their GDP may surpass that of the U.S., and hence gaining a commanding position.

Unlike Americans, whose time horizon rarely extends beyond the next election, China plays the long game. The Chinese are willing to wait out difficulties as long as trends are moving their way. They seek victory through incremental moves designed to gradually improve their strength, by both legal and lawless means, until it grows into an overwhelming advantage. They wish to avoid a hot war by winning it without firing a shot.

Over the years, American consumption of Chinese products has grown to the point we are now financing their entire annual defense budget with just a few months of what Americans contribute to their trade balance. They sell us inexpensive merchandise to finance their military buildup while viewing us as their principal foe. And then they cyber-hack our submarine and fighter plane designs and reproduce them at a fraction of the cost to oppose us.

As the Chinese economy modernized, we had hoped that political liberalization would follow. We had hoped economic integration in the world would moderate the Chinese Communist Party’s autocratic government into a democracy focused on internal development and peaceful economic competition, but that has not happened. China is a significant trading partner, but the country is not our friend or anyone else’s.

The lack of transparency about the Coronavirus crisis with China is a prime example of the differences between the two national visions. All civilized nations deserve full transparency to resolve a calamity of this sort. This is the way we operate. On the other hand, China operates in secrecy, guarding their reputation and power against the rest of the world while causing a horrendous worldwide pandemic.

The U.S. bases its foreign policy on alliances with other like-minded democracies. China, on the other hand, has no natural allies. They are a power unto themselves and any partners they may have comply with them only by threats and intimidation.

For example, China is undertaking the Belt and Road Initiative to spread its influence and power, which involves dozens of countries in Asia and the Middle East. China provides assistance and loans and workforce to construct public works programs in these nations, many of them distressed Third World countries. It involves projects like roads, airports, railroads, pipelines, electrical facilities, hospitals, and so on. If the loans go into default, which is likely, China then takes control of those finished projects. The country then becomes owned and dominated by China from that point onward. This program also enables China to establish military and diplomatic bases in these nations.

We have been naïve to believe we can hasten democratic reform in China by opening our markets to them. It may never happen. We must be prepared to enter into a new Cold War with China in the same ways as we did with the Soviet Union. We need to recognize that China is not our friend and prepare accordingly. We must grow our military and improve our intelligence and counterintelligence operations. We need to strengthen our alliance with Pacific Rim nations and demand that China begin democratic reform. China’s ruthless rise to dominance is a clear danger to America and free people around the globe.

For America to succeed in the Second Cold War, business and government agencies’ data and intellectual property need to be stringently protected. Tariffs and even boycotts of Chinese goods, and a costly American arms buildup will be necessary. It will be a heavy lift. Hardest of all will be the need for a long-term bipartisan effort that lasts through the end of the Century.

As nations around the globe see the two superpowers square off, many will undoubtedly be forced to pick one or the other with which to align. So which way would nations in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim choose? American style freedom and human rights, or cheap merchandise and intimidation from a thuggish PRC? The answer to that choice will go far in determining the state of the world for generations to come.

A whole generation of U.S. government officials and China experts have gotten China completely wrong. For decades, the U.S. policy toward China was grounded in wishful thinking. We must approach China as it is, and not as we might wish it to be. Getting our China policy right is the most significant U.S. national security challenge of the 21st Century. We must approach the Second Cold War with all the determination and commitment that we approached the first one.

Jeff Lukens lives in Florida and writes about culture, politics, history, and matters of faith.

https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/lukens/200518

taxslave · May 31, 2020

This thread is looking more like a blog every day.

NZDoug · May 31, 2020

China
How dare they!

Ellanjay · Jun 1, 2020

Canada Should Correct Its Course on the Chinese Regime

Brian Giesbrecht
May 29, 2020 Updated: May 29, 2020
Commentary

To its credit, Australia, together with strong leadership from the United States, is leading the charge to conduct an inquiry into the origin of the novel coronavirus that has killed hundreds of thousands and severely disrupted the lives of billions of the world’s people.

This is a true David and Goliath story. China’s 1.4 billion population dwarfs Australia’s 25 million, not to mention its economy. And China is pulling out all the stops to quash Australia’s brave attempt. From calling Australia “gum under China’s shoe” to threatening massive economic retaliation, the Chinese communists are letting the upstart Australia know exactly what it thinks of their brash truth campaign.

And yet Australia and America are succeeding. Most of the world’s nations have now sided with Australia and are demanding answers from a communist party that is used to getting its way. France, Germany, and most of the other Western countries are following Australia’s lead and letting the communist giant know that they are refusing to be intimidated by threats of economic retaliation, or any of the other bully tactics that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) usually uses successfully on smaller nations. India is involved as well in the growing recognition that liberal democracies must stand together against an increasingly aggressive authoritarian bully.

These nations are to be commended. They are finally seeing the CCP for the dangerous totalitarian enemy of freedom that it has always been—and telling China it has had enough. They are leading the way.

But not Canada. It only reluctantly signed on to the initiative after all the other countries had signed on. Canada was at the tail end. The days when Canada was always among the first to stand with its democratic allies, such as America and Australia, for freedom and against tyranny is long past. Today, Canada cowers before communist China’s power.

What is going on here? It should be remembered that China still has two Canadian hostages that it snatched off the street and jailed—in a brazen act that can only be described as blackmail—in return for the lawful and appropriate Canadian detention of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou for possible extradition to the United States.

More immediately, it should be apparent to our prime minister that thousands of Canadian lives have been lost, and the entire life of the country completely disrupted, by a virus spawned somehow in China—the seriousness of which Beijing hid from the world for six crucial weeks. But instead of righteous anger from our leader, and instead of properly joining our allies in a demand for an inquiry into the origins of this horrific pandemic, Ottawa meekly repeats familiar talking points ad nauseum, and even often compliment the Chinese regime.

Back in 2013, when asked during an event which country he admired most, Justin Trudeau shockingly expressed admiration for China’s “basic dictatorship” which is “allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime.”

Health Minister Patty Hajdu just as famously accused a reporter on April 3 of “feeding into conspiracy theories” by even suggesting that the information provided by the CCP to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Canada was inaccurate. That information even then had been proven to be more than suspicious. The CCP had very deliberately suppressed the truth. The WHO aided and abetted that diabolical act, and Hajdu would not tolerate any questioning of that false narrative.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who owes his job to the CCP, failed to alert the world to the extreme danger of the coronavirus in a timely manner. As a result, what should have been a local event in Wuhan became the worst pandemic the world has seen in 100 years. But it was the CCP/WHO false version that Ottawa presented to Canadians as fact, until the WHO finally came clean and admitted that the virus had become an uncontrolled viral pandemic. Tedros—correctly called “China’s puppet” by U.S. President Donald Trump—has refused to resign, as demanded by Australia and most of the world’s independent nations. Trudeau will not join in that demand, and Beijing has praised Trudeau for his support of a man who was incompetent at best, and at worst criminally negligent.

It should be understood that the WHO is a very important international organization that includes excellent medical experts and dedicated officials. However, it is now beyond argument that its leadership at the top level has been thoroughly corrupted by its slavish devotion to an amoral CCP. The WHO leadership disgraced itself spectacularly and tragically by toadying to the Party when it knew better. But it is still shocking that even when the WHO’s negligence had become well known, Ottawa was far too slow to recognize the fact that the WHO’s leadership was a tool for a CCP that hid the truth around the virus outbreak.

Chief Public Health Officer Teresa Tam was still assuring Canadians that they were not at risk long after close observers knew that this was false information. Taiwan knew better and tried to warn the WHO but was rebuffed for purely political reasons. (Canadian WHO representative Bruce Aylward was so anxious to please Beijing that he pretended he couldn’t hear a reporter’s question about whether the WHO should reconsider allowing Taiwan to be a member).

It is interesting that a Conservative Party candidate asked if Tam was more loyal to the CCP than Canada. For that he was accused of being a “racist.” But the same question could be asked of the other Canadian officials who are not Chinese. In fact, if disputing the CCP narrative is somehow “anti-Chinese” and racist, then the people of Taiwan and the good people of Hong Kong would have to wear those “racist” labels too—and they are Chinese. The point here is that the CCP has been working for years to portray anyone who resists the regime as “racist” and “anti-Chinese.”

And how can Canada even consider allowing Huawei into its 5G, knowing what we now know about the sinister nature of the CCP? Canadians know that the regime currently has at least one million Uighur Muslims detained against their will in concentration camps. They know how ruthless and deadly the CCP campaign has been against peaceful Tibet. Canadians know that persecuted groups like Falun Gong have been imprisoned and even killed for their organs. They know that the older version of the CCP—the Party of Mao—was responsible for the deaths of at least 60 million of its own citizens. In short, there are no words that adequately describe the truly monstrous nature of the CCP. How can anyone continue to cozy up to such a regime?
Doing CCP’s Dirty Work

But the flawed approach to China doesn’t stop at Ottawa. It extends to Canada’s public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Recall its recent attack on The Epoch Times. Unlike many other Canadian publications, Epoch Times has never been afraid to confront the CCP head on. But the CBC seems to believe that any attack on the CCP is “anti-Chinese.” So they chose to attack with misleading information.

In addition to broadcasting misleading information about Epoch Times articles, the CBC repeated the CCP canard that the publication’s well-known criticism of the regime is “anti-Chinese.” The CBC report also repeated a CCP slur about Falun Gong that the regime uses as part of its agenda to spread misinformation about the practice. The fact that the CBC repeats CCP propaganda, and that it chose to slander one of the most persecuted groups in the world, should give one pause.

And the fact that the CBC chose to do its drive-by shooting of The Epoch Times, a brave little newspaper that has been reporting for decades about what life in communist China is actually like for persecuted groups like the Tibetans, Uighurs, Christians, and Falun Gong, is actually quite disturbing. One would think that the CBC should stand with persecuted minorities and not with the Chinese communist monolith that persecutes them.

Although the CBC later retracted their erroneous headline and part of their reporting, they well knew that the damage had by then been done, and they still haven’t retracted the main thrust of their inaccurate reporting. Canadians had been officially advised by their own national broadcasting system that the CCP slander of both the Falun Gong and The Epoch Times was fact. In short, by doing this hit job the CBC was doing the CCP’s dirty work for it. Both Falun Gong and The Epoch Times have been successfully slandered. This was true “fake news.” The CBC also emulated the CCP in its highly effective policy of “intimidate, lie and slander.”

Given the ruthless nature of the Chinese regime—something that has become starkly obvious over its handling of the virus outbreak alone—is this a prudent approach for our national broadcaster? Not to mention our government?

With many countries now taking a stronger stance on China, the time has come for the Liberals to abandon their submissive attitude and be part of that effort.

Brian Giesbrecht is a retired judge and a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/canada-should-correct-its-course-on-the-chinese-regime_3369765.html

Ellanjay · Jun 1, 2020

Canada Must Open Its Eyes to Beijing’s Belligerence

Shane Miller
May 29, 2020 Updated: May 30, 2020
Commentary

Before his death in 1994, Richard Nixon gave an interview to his former speechwriter William Safire in which he reminisced about his time as U.S. president and the momentous events over which he presided.

Intimating his thoughts on the post-Cold War landscape, Nixon had some rather prescient and regretful words on the subject of China, the opening to which he and Henry Kissinger strategically orchestrated in 1972. Asked if the opening and resulting economic engagement had sowed the seeds of political freedom in China as those in the West were hoping it would, Nixon’s reply was: “We may have created a Frankenstein,” as in Frankenstein’s monster.

Twenty-six years later, after the Chinese regime’s mishandling of the virus outbreak allowed it to spread around the world—not to mention numerous other wrongdoings over the years—it seems incredible that our political class continues to entertain the notion that communist China is a well-meaning partner whose belligerence can be tamed by accommodation.

Throughout the entire COVID-19 crisis the Canadian government has genuflected to Beijing, appearing to only deviate if the immediate political pressure becomes too much to avoid, such as thanking Taiwan for its generous donation of personal protective equipment, or Prime Minister Trudeau finally admitting that there are questions “particularly” for China regarding the pandemic.

While countries like the United States, Australia, France, and the United Kingdom are beginning to wake up to the folly of the modernization project that has aided China’s rise to superpower status, Canada remains caught up in the delusion.

This includes turning a blind eye to China’s propensity to throw its weight around on Canadian soil, particularly the situation where those who have come to Canada to escape the wretched Beijing regime often end up being abused by it through covert means.

A thorough report by the Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in China and Amnesty International released on May 12 details with disturbing clarity how various groups within the Chinese diaspora have been subjected to numerous depredations, including blackmail, censorship, monitoring, and at times, violent assault. The typical pattern goes like this: after a member of Canada’s Chinese community—whether it be Tibetans, Uyghurs, or Falun Gong adherents—speaks out publicly about the crimes of the CCP, Chinese consulates and pro-China groups respond virulently, the latter likely doing so in coordination with the regime’s United Front organization in a manner that creates the façade of a “spontaneous” demonstration.

This kind of thing has been going on for years and nothing gets done about it. The report notes there has been no improvement since earlier findings in 2017: the abuse is wide-ranging, pervasive, and consistent with allegations of a systemic campaign. It notes that Beijing-backed Chinese actors appear to have become “emboldened” in their efforts to deter human rights activists in Canada by the inadequate response from Canadian officials.

Spectacles of the last few weeks have served to further unveil Beijing’s hubristic fervour and aggression, such as the Calgary Chinese consulate’s ridiculous criticism and threats toward Alberta Premier Jason Kenney for suggesting there be a “reckoning” with China over COVID-19.

Or the Chinese Embassy denouncing the Macdonald-Laurier Institute for “anti-China nonsense,” accusing it risibly of “interfering in China’s internal affairs” and collaborating with “Taiwan Independence” forces and Falun Gong, a persecuted group in China.

Many have sounded the alarm on Chinese subversion for years, only to be scandalously dismissed by those who could actually take the necessary action on it, or condemned as “racist” by those who have imbibed the propagandistic idea that the Chinese people and the CCP are synonymous, which allows the regime to deflect any accusations of wrongdoing as it seduces wide-eyed progressives restive in their hunt to find and extinguish bigotry everywhere.

In his book “Claws of the Panda,” Jonathan Manthorpe attributes the predicament we’ve been in with China to the “missionary” sensibility that persists in the Canadian mind. The Canadian fascination with China and the liberalizing mission, he contends, has some continuity with Canadian Christians in the 19th century who believed in the “notion of the Gospel as a charter for social change.” This manifests in the confidence in the “self-evident appeal of Canadian values” that continues to guide our approach to China today. Naively, it continues to be based on the premise that through continual engagement and exchange, the CCP will eventually disabuse itself of its ruthlessness and realize the wisdom of the rule of law and upholding a social contract with its people.

The totalitarian conceit put forward by Lenin holds that the democratic system is a sham and relies on irredeemable contradictions and self-deceptions that will lead to its collapse. In the case of the CCP, this has proven true insofar as it has been allowed to take advantage of Canada’s open society and manipulate the country’s institutions and processes for its own ends. In so doing, it has eroded Canadian sovereignty and been able to violate the rights of Canadians.

This all finds its genesis in the failure of politicians to protect their citizens and elevate this duty above the false hope in a relationship that’s never going to exist as they want it to.

Many of Canada’s allies have realized their error when it comes to the “Frankenstein’s monster” in Beijing and are changing course. It’s time Canada did, too.

Shane Miller is a political writer based in London, Ontario. Follow him at @Miller_Shane94.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/canada-must-open-its-eyes-to-chinese-regimes-belligerence_3369731.html

Ellanjay · Jun 2, 2020

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This Pandemic Shows Why Socialism Always Fails

Commentary by Chad Savage
May 20, 2020, Updated May 21, 2020

In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, that has ushered more control, into the government’s hands, at the expense of individual decision-making, we are learning why socialism has failed—and always will.

Apologists for socialism and communism claim that real socialism has never been tried. That is, the failures of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, and others were due to bad leadership instead of bad political philosophy. But an egalitarian society where leaders and elites resist enriching themselves at the expense of others is impossible. And the actions of our elites during this pandemic prove the point.

As COVID-19 has temporarily stripped Americans of many of our cherished liberties, giving us a temporary taste of socialism’s sour fruit, we are learning how elites would behave if these restrictions became permanent.

Many who have championed the quarantine are flagrantly violating it. Two elites infected by COVID-19, George Stephanopoulos and Chris Cuomo, flouted rules that the rest of us are supposed to follow. Stephanopoulos went on a mask-less walk, breaking his required self-isolation. Cuomo, instead of being quarantined in his basement as he claimed on CNN, traveled to inspect his second home—which was under construction. He even got into a confrontation with a passing bicyclist while he was sick.

Former President Barack Obama has likewise violated the quarantine order. He was seen golfing the day after his wife recorded a public service announcement imploring African Americans to stay home.

Even worse is the case of professor Neil Ferguson, whose bleak forecast of millions of COVID-19 deaths led to crippling economic measures and massive shelter-in-place orders. After becoming infected with the virus, Ferguson violated his own shelter recommendation to have sex with his married mistress.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is another elite who is above her orders for other people. She omitted herself from a prohibition on haircuts.

Compare this selfish approach with what is happening to non-elites like salon owner Shelley Luther. Deprived of her ability to make a living, she was jailed for cutting hair in order to “feed my kids.”

Unlike Luther, many elites are using their entitled status to circumvent the shelter orders. These are the very same people (social, political, and scientific elites) who would likely lead a socialist United States. Their actions embody an elitist sentiment: “What’s good enough for thee is not good enough for me.”

While these individuals are certainly hypocrites, the bigger point is that this sort of behavior is natural to humanity. Socialism relies on an unrealistically rosy view of human motivation epitomized by a famous Marxist saying, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” These words suggest that self-sacrifice and self-deprecation—integral to the success of Marxism’s redistributive policies, which have been tried and proven not to work—are the heart of human nature. But as we’ve seen time and time again, proximity to power spurs self-seeking and self-affirming behavior. That’s why those in power excuse themselves from hardship when desperate situations call for deep sacrifices.

Before you conclude that this behavior is particular to our current pandemic, consider the excess demonstrated in 2018 by Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s socialist leader. He gorged on an expensive dinner prepared by celebrity chief Nusret Gökçe—while his fellow Venezuelans were starving. Some were even desperate enough to eat cats and dogs. Similarly, his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, profited off the backs of the people he claimed to help, amassing a net worth of $1 billion.

And it’s not just Venezuela. Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev enjoyed similar extravagance while supposedly existing in an egalitarian society. Gorbachev lived in a luxurious $15 million apartment while his citizens suffered in squalor.

The tendency to abuse power is so basic to humanity that, more than 3,000 years ago, the prophet Samuel warned Israel about the dangers of seeking a king. Samuel warned that a king would conscript their sons, force their daughters to work, tax their crops, and give their possessions to his friends. This warning still rings true today. Sadly, our elites have demonstrated this timeless human tendency repeatedly during the coronavirus crisis.

We should heed the wise words of Samuel from antiquity and realize what the pandemic is confirming today: When tasked with distributing the limited resources of a socialist state, leaders and elites will invariably funnel others’ wealth to themselves.

Socialist theory ignores power’s corrupting influence, turning the dream of a communal utopia into a living nightmare. That’s why socialism has always failed—and always will.

Chad Savage, M.D. is a Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation policy fellow and the founder of the DPC practice YourChoice Direct Care in Brighton, Michigan.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/this-pandemic-shows-why-socialism-always-fails_3358371.html

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