China Expanding Military Budget

Ivo Fysic March 21, 2022

In a Period of Brute Force, China Increases Its Military Budget Yet Again

From www.dailysignal.com
2022-03-11 19:05:35
Frederico Bartels
Excerpt:

The Chinese Communist Party announced this week it will increase the budget for the People’s Liberation Army by 7.1%.

The announcement occurred at the opening session of the National People’s Congress—the annual rubber-stamp parliament. Thus, it is just a matter of time before the extra resources start following to the People’s Liberation Army.

This increase continues the trend of sustained increases in the Chinese military budget. Since 2018, the Chinese Communist Party has increased the People’s Liberation Army budget by over 28% with consecutive annual increases of between 8.1% and 6.6%.

Contrast this with the U.S. defense budget which grew little under 5% from 2018 to 2021. However, if you take inflation into account, the U.S. defense budget decreased by 3% in those four years.

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Over 100 Dead After Chinese Jetliner Plummets to Ground

Freedomist Editor March 21, 2022

Chinese airliner crashes with 132 aboard in country’s south

From abcnews.go.com
2022-03-21 14:12:32

Excerpt:

BEIJING — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade.

More than seven hours after communication was lost with the plane, there was still no word of survivors.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement the crash occurred near the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region. The flight was traveling from Kunming in the southwestern province of Yunnan to the industrial center of Guangzhou along the east coast, it added.

Villagers were first to arrive at the forested area where the plane went down, sparking a blaze big enough to be seen on NASA satellite images. Hundreds of rescue workers were swiftly dispatched from Guangxi and neighboring Guangdong province.

The plane was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members, the CAAC said, correcting earlier reports that 133 people had…

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Dems Losing Blacks, Hispanics in Latest Polls

Ivo Fysic March 21, 2022

Poll: Republicans Take 9-Point Lead with Hispanics, Support from Black Voters More than Doubles — Now 27 Percent

From www.breitbart.com
2022-03-11 17:26:33
Matthew Boyle
Excerpt:

Republicans have taken a 9-point national lead among Hispanic voters and more than doubled support in the black community to 27 percent, a Wall Street Journal survey shows.

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Justice Clarence Thomas in Hospital with Infection

Freedomist Editor March 21, 2022

Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized with infection, Supreme Court says

From abcnews.go.com
2022-03-21 13:41:24

Excerpt:

Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized with an infection, the Supreme Court announced in a statement.

Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Friday evening after experiencing flu-like symptoms, Supreme Court spokesperson Patricia McCabe said in a statement.

He was diagnosed with an infection after undergoing tests and is being treated with intravenous antibiotics, McCabe said. She did not provide more details on the nature of the infection.

“His symptoms are abating, he is resting comfortably, and he expects to be released from the hospital in a day or two,” McCabe said. “Justice Thomas will participate in the consideration and discussion of any cases for which he is not present on the basis of the briefs, transcripts and audio of the oral arguments.”

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Is it Time to Ghost the Left?

Paul Collier March 21, 2022

Your news outlets are not in the business of making money. They’re mostly subsidized by the mega corp that owns them.

Megacorpos, whatever you want to call them, produce content marketing packaged as news.

These same megacorpos have more lately also been using entertainment production more for content marketing than seeking to make profitable products.

These megacorps have been subsidized, in essense, by foreign markets, with China being bigger than maybe all the others combined. China has become the de facto subsizer of content marketing in America for the past 5-8 years.

The number one content marketing producer, by far and away, with over 80 percent shares in almost every market, is the DNC and the coalition of hate and opportunism that supports this death machine.

The DNC has been using megacorps, and being used by them as well (these folks are all always only frenemies), to push narratives and create ‘realities’ that create support for destroying a Constitutional Republican America, by any means necessary, as this slows down the mega-powered minute few from being able to move as quickly at manipulating society to their advantage as the rest of the world can, especially their number one frenemy, China.

None of these nation-states have a people with such a sense of individual liberty entitlement, and the DNC and megacorp coalition want nothing more than to join the rest of the world at the expense of American individual rights.

None of the major social and cultural means of production owners (and there’s maybe 15 or 20 total companies that own 80 plus percent of most of our major markets) have any interest in restoring or preserving rights for individuals. Not a one.

They want to compete with Chinese billionaires, but they imagine they can keep their DNC dangerous dragon ally on a leash.

This is not about being pro or anti-monopolistic, this is about the values of the leaders of those monopolies becoming fundamentally revolutionary in nature, antithetical to an American Constitutional Republic with a Bill of Rights that emphasizes the rights of individuals to choose their own beliefs, not have them forced on them by the powerful minute few.
Americans have a right to bad beliefs. End stop. No one can be forced to like anyone or anything or any belief or any action they choose not to like. This is America, not Soviet DNC, not yet.

The DNC looks at the megacorp Citadelians in the same way as these elites view them, as a necessary dangerous dragon ally, but one they will ultimately control.

These alliance are all frenemy alliances. Everyone in this ‘cult of self over the masses’ cabal sees themselves as the final highlander, ready to kill their best friend when the time comes. In minecraft, of course….

Perhaps it is time for the rest of us to simply start ignoring them
Those of us not fooled by the hateful agit prop, those of us not choosing to be opportunists and take advantage of the passive aggressive unaccountable type of power the DNC narratives create, and those of us who are not simple cowards afraid to speak up, might want to simply start ignoring these people altogether.

Stop complaining about their wackadoodle bad art woketarian garbage content. Laugh at it, sure, but stop acting angry. Let these fools play out their melodramatic out-of-tune song, and laugh while they drunk post their own l’s on twitter. Or not.

Maybe not even laugh at them. Just. Ignore them. They’re boring. They have like five lines and 15 words they use, and that’s about it. They’re not even entertaining lolcows at this point. They’re not even cringe. They’re just…….boring.

All this to say, if you can, just turn them off, tune them out, and make your own content if you have to.

We who have not gone insane will find each other and be there for our former friends and family when they stumble out of the mist and ask themseles “What the heck was I thinking?”

Unlike the left, we have mercy, we have grace, so no one who wants back will be rejected. No one gets permabanned for their crappy beliefs alone.

So yeah, just tune out and create. That’s my take.

World Situation Report – March 18th, 2022

Michael Cessna March 18, 2022

Welcome to the World Situation Report For March 18th, 2022

The goal of this column is to present news from around the world that is not often – if ever – covered by more mainstream entities, using local sources wherever possible, but occasionally using news aggregators not used, again, by the mainstream media. Also, please note that we do use links to Wikipedia; while Wikipedia is well-known as a largely-useless site for any kind of serious research, it does serve as a launch-pad for further inquiry, in addition to being generally free of malicious ads. As with anything from Wikipedia, always verify their sources before making any conclusions based on their pages.

This column will cover the preceding week of news.

North America

Starting off in the United States, a wave of bomb threats were called in across the country, to everything from junior and high schools, to grocery stores, a YMCA, a comedy club and even to facilitate a back robbery. Just a short sample of stories are under the links below:

[Source 1] – [Source 2] – [Source 3] – [Source 4] – [Source 5] – [Source 6] – [Source 7]

Meanwhile, 21 year/old Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams pleaded guilty to attempting to join the Islamic State in May of 2021. Williams was arrested by FBI agents as he attempted to board a flight bound for Cairo, Egypt. Williams had come to the attention of Federal law enforcement some five years ago, when he was reportedly kicked off of social media for expressing his opinion that the 2017 suicide attack on the Manchester, England Arena following a concert headlined by singer Ariana Grande was justified because of how she dressed on stage. The Seattle-area mosque Williams attended attempted to de-radicalize him, even obtaining a laptop and cellphone for him, to help him find a job; however, after finding him using the devices to view extremist content online, the mosque demanded the devices be returned and contacted the FBI. The mosque was not named in court documents. Williams was arrested after contacting what he believed to be Islamic State recruiters.

[Source 1] – [Source 2] – [Source 3]

Finally, the US Consulate in Nueva Laredo, in Mexico’s Tamaulipas State, announced that it will be temporarily closed to the public, after being hit by gunfire from suspected gangs on the night of March 13-14, following the arrest of Juan Gerardo Trevino, or “El Huevo,” the purported leader of the Cartel of the Northeast, a breakaway group that calved off of the Los Zetas criminal syndicate.

There was no word on when full operations at the consulate might resume.

[Source 1] – [Source 2]

Europe

Turning to Europe, in a disturbing possible expansion of the current war in the Ukraine, a pair of drone aircraft, reported to be a Tu-141 dating from the Soviet era, in current use by Ukrainian forces, crashed near the outskirts of the capital city of Zagreb, Croatia, while a current-model Orlan-10 scouting drone, believed to be in exclusive use by Russian forces, was discovered crashed in a field northern Romania, signalling a possible spill-over in the on-going fighting.

Both vehicles were reported to have contained traces of explosive material, although investigations by local authorities continue.

NATO officials confirmed that NATO air defense units had tracked the Tu-141 as it flew through the airspace of member-states Hungary and Croatia, but made no effort to intercept the drone. Croatia and Hungary have both raised protests with NATO, as well as launching investigations within their own air defense forces as to why the six-ton, forty-seven foot long was not intercepted before crashing near a large dormitory of an unnamed university, reportedly damaging some 40 vehicles.

The Tu-141 was long ago replaced in the Russian inventory by newer designs, but numerous examples are known to be operated by Ukraine, leading to speculation that some may have been armed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces as long-range strike weapons

Although the Orlan-10 is normally unarmed, the small Russian drones are known to be capable of carrying small ordnance of c.15lbs.

[Source 1] – [Source 2]

In the southern port city of Marseilles, France, meanwhile one police officer was hospitalized and two others injured after a man attacked the officers with a knife, according to reports, on March 12. The reason for the attack remains unclear. The perpetrator, who apparently was unknown to police for any prior offenses, was killed by other offices after “warning shots” were fired. An investigation is underway in an attempt to determine if the attack has any terrorist connections.

[Source 1] – [Source 2]

Africa

Turning to Africa, Moroccan police arrested five suspects on the 16th, on suspicion of being affiliated with the Islamic State, and plotting attacks throughout Morocco.

[Source 1] – [Source 2]

Further south, the West Africa region, thirteen gendarmes were killed by unidentified gunmen in the northern region of Burkina Faso.

In northwestern Nigeria, meanwhile, a wave of kidnappings is sparking fears of a return to “forced recruitment” by terror groups such as Boko Haram, although the kidnappings could be related to “forced labor human-trafficking groups” (i.e., slavers).

In Central Africa, the so-called “Allied Democratic Forces”, an Islamist terror group operating in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with ties to ISCAP, continued their offensive in the northeastern DRC province of Ituri, killing as many as fifty-two civilians in attacks on four villages. This comes as one of the ADF’s main leaders, Kabanda Abdulla Musa, was arrested by Ugandan authorities following a series of surprise raids in that country’s border region with the DRC.

In the nation of Sudan, at least 133 pro-democracy demonstrators were injured in crackdowns against protests against the October 25, 2021 coup d’état in the African nation that placed General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan at the head of a military junta.

[Source 1] – [Source 2] – [Source 3] – [Source 4] – [Source 5] – [Source 6] – [Source 7] – [Source 8] – [Source 9]

Arabia

Moving to the Arabian Peninsula, the war in Yemen grinds on, with near-continuous air strikes by Saudi-led coalition jets being countered by Houthi strikes against oil refineries by bomb-carrying drones attacking the vulnerable facilities. The confusing, multi-sided conflict – part of the 40+ year-old Saudi-Iranian Proxy War – is now in its seventh year, with no end in sight.

[Source 1] – [Source 2] – [Source 3] – [Source 4] – [Source 5] – [Source 6]

Middle East

In the Middle East, proper, Israeli government websites were targeted in a large-scale cyber attack on the 14th, as Palestinian confrontations with Israeli security forces in the West Bank killed two, with three more being arrested.

Throughout Iraq and Syria, sporadic, low-level fighting continues, including attacks on US logistics convoys rolling north into Iraq from Kuwait, as well as attacks on Iraqi Army commanders by numerous groups.

This comes as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired a series of twelve ballistic missiles into the Kurdish city of Erbil on the 13th. The IRGC claimed the attacks were in response to purported attacks on an Iranian drone factory by Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, in February and March of this year.

[Source 1] – [Source 2] – [Source 3] – [Source 4] – [Source 5] – [Source 6] -[Source 7] – [Source 8] – [Source 9] – [Source 10]

South Asia

In South Asia, Pakistani security forces reportedly killed one of the architects of the March 4th attack on a Peshawar mosque that killed 64 and wounded 190.

To the south, in Balochistan, 4 gendarmes of the Frontier Corps (FC) were killed and eight wounded in an IED attack on an FC convoy on the 15th. Elsewhere, in North Waziristan, security forces killed four suspected terrorists in a pair of gun battles, after acting on tips.

[Source 1] – [Source 2] – [Source 3]

Turning to India, Indian security forces have reportedly killed 39 terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir, so far this year, although continual skirmishing with Islamic terror groups continues.

Meanwhile, four terrorists from Bangladesh, from the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) group, were captured in the northern city of Bhopal, along with laptops and explosives.

Finally, in Central India’s “Red Corridor”, several Communist guerilla’s were killed in encounters with various security forces, while others planted a crude IED at a train station in the northern city of Bihar. The device was discovered and disarmed by police, disrupting rail operations for over three hours.

[Source 1] – [Source 2] – [Source 3] – [Source 4] – [Source 5] – [Source 6] – [Source 7] – [Source 8] – [Source 9]

How The US Could Counter Putin

Bill Collier March 13, 2022

William Collier- Regardless of HOW and WHY we, the US, got to this place of Russian revanchism, which was certainly goaded on by the would-be globalist hegemonic ruling class of the West, the situation now is that Russsia has become a hazard to our country and its allies. We can leave for future articles how we the freedom-loving masses ought to deal with our own corrupt ruling class who are to blame for this and focus for now on how we, as the US, might contend with the Putinistas, basically Putin and the oligarchs who support him.

We can start with the premise that Putin’s strength comes from a 60% to 70% approval among the Russian people because, basically, although it’s never quite as simple as this, he is viewed as a strong man and Russians, in the main, but not all Russians, adore the strong and despise the weak. There may be many reasons for this, but in general, when a leader is seen as strong they enjoy support, even if in character and in how they treat the Russian people, they are corrupt and evil.

This may SOMEWHAT be shifting as more and more Russians do not cotton to such thinking, but among most, among at least 60% if polling is accurate, it still holds that “strong is good and weak is bad.”

Keep this in mind.

Next, let’s consider three other factors: Russia has a basically under-developed and corrupt economic system, Russia is essentially a gas station, and the only real power Russia has is their nuclear arms.

So now we have four key things: Russians support the strong and hate the weak, Russia has an underdeveloped economy due to massive corruption, Russia’s only economic asset is gas and oil, and the only real military strength they have is nuclear arms.

The Putinistas are authoritarian and corrupt. While they cater to the Russian nationalist sentiment and some rightly see them as a counter to the West’s vision of a globalist corporate-government hegemony that is directly against nationalist sovereignty, the Putinistas are mostly for themselves first. Perhaps in Putin’s mind he and his cronies ARE the living embodiment of Russia, but the net effect is all wealth and power centers on Moscow and to hell with everyone else.

Add to all this that we, as in the US, have other fish to fry, as it were. We face threats in many quartets.

Internally we have this corporate-led assault on our history and way of life through the cancel-culture wokatariate and their rather intolerant behavior toward anyone who refuses to ditch their Judeo-Christian values for the new alt-gendered fantasy they call progress. On the other hand we have a reactionary core who, in response to this, are embracing things like identitarianism and either racial separatism or racial supremacism, and this could grow.

But externally we have threats coming from places like Iran and China, North Korea, Pakistan, Cuba, and Venezuela, among others.

Thankfully, at this time, our internal and external threats haven’t unified. The true powers, as in the actual shot-callers behind each of these threats, are as much against each other as they may be a threat to the people of the United States of America.

With all this in mind, how do we, as in the US, counter Putin and his cronies?

At the basic level we have to seek ways, in every possible arena, to make him and his cronies look weak and powerless. His chosen arena is Ukraine and while countering him there may be important, as we analyze all the arenas Russia must operate in we will find many opportunities to out Putin on his back foot.

First, there is the more obvious fact Russia depends on energy exportation. Second, there are Russian goals in Syria whose regime Putin props up. Third, there is the Russian defense industry which exports weapons all over the world. Fourth, there are Russian territories claimed by Japan and China. Fifth, there are Russian economic and investment schemes in Africa.

All these vulnerabilities present opportunities to bring pain to bear and make Putin look weak.

In Syria, for instance, and with Iran as her ally, Russia has severe disadvantages if we care to exploit them. The US can shut Iran off from all exports and imports via the sea. The US can arm anti-Assad forces in Syria while Russia cannot bring seaborn reinforcements as long as the war in Ukraine is happening. These moves would potentially force the Russians out of Syria and would demonstrate how Russia could do nothing to help their ally Iran.

As for Ukraine itself, efforts to continue to supply Ukraine with anti-air and anti-armor weapons and munitions should continue apace, albeit through many points and not via massive convoys the Russians can bomb. The erosion of Russian military might in Ukraine plays into a narrative that Putin is weak.

Now let’s consider all the places where Russia is vulnerable internally and use our covert means to foment trouble on every periphery. Russia has a substantial and growing, and disaffected, Muslim minority, some of whom may feel strongly that Russia is their foe. Russia has cordial relations with the Central Asian countries, this is something we ought to be undermining.

We can support the opposition in Belarus and Khazajstan, for instance, and foment unrest at a time when Russia cannot spare forces to put them down.

Instead of thinking holistically about a global response on Russia’s periphery, the present US administration, whose policies in line with past Presidents have goaded the Russians into attacking Ukraine, are thinking in a very limited and one-dimensional way. They are actually perpetuating the mythos of Putin as a strong man who they are powerless to stop because it might “escalate” things. Having goaded the Russians we are now saying we don’t want to escalate things further with them lest they unleash nuclear holocaust.

It would have been better to counsel the Ukrainians to pursue strong neutrality, to cool their ambitions to join the EU and NATO, and to actually invest in a credible air defense, which they neglected up until now. As for whether or not the US actually operates or funds biolabs and whether or not they are former Soviet labs or present-day bioweapons programs, the activities of the US, under Fauci’s management, in these things remains suspect.

But, be that as it may, the mythos of Russia as being 10 feet tall and Putin being beyond our reach stems from the fact we are playing in his sandbox and on his terms instead of taking a holistic approach. Goading the Russians into a war that is spiraling out of control was bad policy, but now that we have, the question is, “should we retreat and let Putin be the strong man or should we take the battle into arenas where he is helpless?”

Undermining Putin’s standing as a strong man is the easiest way to depict him as weak and undermine his support among his people but, most importantly, his fellow oligarchs.

The fact the US is not taking a holistic view of limiting Putin’s power and is not encouraging peace in Ukraine based on neutrality may prove that the people pulling the levers of power in Washington today aren’t really doing so in the interest of the American people.

Use Gold to End Inflation Without Recession

Ralph Benko March 11, 2022

By Ralph J. Benko

Donald Trump, inadvertently, certainly, and unnoticed, virtually, has put his successor Joe Biden in the hot seat. How so?

As Nobel economics laureate Milton Friedman famously declared and later distinguished economists confirmed it takes up to two years before the Fed’s overenthusiastic gunning of the money supply shows up in consumer prices.

Called: “inflation.” Let’s rewind.

But first… inflation is a misnomer. Rising prices are just a symptom of the real problem: a sinking dollar.

Donald Trump spent a lot of time pounding the table for a weaker dollar going on two years ago:

Bloomberg, March 3, 2019: Trump Says Dollar Too Strong in Renewed Criticism of Powell;
- Reuters, June 25, 2019: Trump thinks dollar is too strong, blames Fed policy;
- Reuters, November 18, 2019: Trump says he told Fed’s Powell US interest rates are too high.

Trump, a very “in the moment” guy, surely had no idea that a weak dollar would cause inflation later. But … you get the drift.

Fed chairman Jay Powell discretely accommodated Trump’s incessant demands. Now Trump’s inflation chickens are coming home to roost … in the Biden henhouse.

A president, after a lag, always gets the dollar – weak or strong – he wants. This is an open secret. As I wrote at Forbes back in 2014:

As journalist Steven Solomon wrote in his indispensable exploration of the Fed, The Confidence Game: How Unelected Central Bankers Are Governing the Changed World Economy (Simon & Schuster, 1995):

“Although they strained to portray themselves as nonthreatening, nonpartisan technician-managers of the status quo, central bankers, like proverbial Supreme Court justices reading election returns, used their acute political antennae to intuit how far they could lean against the popular democratic winds. ‘Chairmen of the Federal Reserve,’ observes ex-Citibank Chairman Walter Wriston, ‘have traditionally been the best politicians in Washington. The Fed serves a wonderful function. They get beat up on by the Congress and the administration. Everyone knows the game and everyone plays it. But no one wants their responsibility.’”

True news.

Yet old news.

What’s weird and unsettling is that virtually nobody in Washington is pinning the blame where it obviously belongs, on Donald Trump’s weak dollar demands. The Pachyderms, who know better, or should, blame inflation on the big Democratic Party-led spending.

Balderdash! Yet it’s understandable that Pachyderms would wish to avoid placing blame on their former titular leader, the punitive Trump. Truth be told, the GOP spent at least as drunkenly as the Dems. But it’s plain dopey to pin a monetary disorder, inflation, on fiscal policy.

So, what’s up with the Donks? Instead of sticking their archnemesis Trump with the blame that belongs to him they are making absurd claims that Greedy Big Business is at fault for rising prices. Preposterous.

We have known at least as far back as Adam Smith that businessmen will always conspire to raise prices. Smith, who practically invented capitalism, called out the greed of businessmen explicitly in capitalism’s bible, Wealth of Nations.

It’s not munificence or counsels of civic virtue that constrains businesspeople from raising prices. It’s competition.

Big Businesswomen (and men!) are no greedier now than they were before inflation kicked up. Profit maximization is a constant among the merchant class.

So, by blaming Big Business, Biden and the Bidenistas are making a transparently absurd argument. Nobody to the right of Bernie Sanders – meaning, most Americans – buys this lame story.

This is doubly weird because the midterm elections are coming up. These will be a referendum on the government’s pandemic response … and inflation.

This farce would be funny if the joke weren’t on us. With both the Republicans and Democrats getting the cause of inflation badly wrong we are likely to get continuing inflation… followed by a cure as bad as, or worse: recession.

As the Wall Street Journal recently observed, “Historically, the Fed hasn’t been able to push down inflation without a recession.” This, sadly, is true enough. Yet a recession really isn’t required to cure inflation.

H.L. Mencken once wrote that “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” So long as the Republicans and the Democrats are engaging exclusively in blame-shifting, rather than restoring the proven-effective supply-side policies of stabilizing the dollar and keeping tax rates reasonably low, we common people are going to get it good and hard.

That said, nobody I know of in power in America is looking at the real, historically proven, Constitutional solution. That would be making the dollar legally convertible into gold at a fixed price, say $2,000/oz.

After a short adjustment period gold convertibility would end inflation while creating a wonderful climate of equitable prosperity and job creation. The gold standard worked extraordinarily well for almost 200 years!

Gold is out of fashion with the smart set, such as PhD economists who haven’t delivered anything nearly as good. Nothing else has worked nearly as well as gold.

And so here we are, facing the worst inflation in 40 years. Our politicians giving us a Hobson’s Choice between seeing our savings and salaries shrink in buying power, by inflation, or seeing our neighbors, or even ourselves, thrown out of work by a completely unnecessary recession.

Yikes! Money printer go brrr?

It falls to us—including you, dear reader—to contact our Representatives by their websites, emails, phone calls and even good old-fashioned letters. Guide their footsteps back onto the Paths of Righteousness. Tell them:

“You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of federal reserve notes!”

Onward to a golden age.

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© 2022 by Ralph J. Benko, co-author of The Capitalist Manifesto and chairman and co-founder of “The Capitalist League,” is the founder of The Prosperity Caucus and is an original Kemp-era member of the Supply-Side revolution that propelled the Dow from 814 to its current heights, doubled American real per capita GDP, and world GDP from $11T to $94T.

Ukraine Hopes Home Drone Defense Can Defeat Russia

Mark Clouse March 10, 2022

Ukrainian drone owners are using their drones in a range of ways to resist the Russian army. There is a great risk involved if your drone is from China, as it has a special feature that allows the operator of the drone to be easily located. However, there are workarounds that all but eliminate the problem. The drones have been used for a variety of missions, including being used as drone suicide bombers.
The pattern is emerging for how retail drones come into play in any conflict, starting with earnestness in Syria and reaching new strategic expressions over the skies of Livya, where Turkey emerged as a drone superpower, along with China. Today, Turkey is arming the Ukrainian military with the now legendary Bayraktar,
The future of war is drones. The future of self-defense is drones. The future of associative defense is drones. The Ukraine War is becoming an inexact proving ground for the ability of drones to either defend or propel offenses in a modern conventional war. My supposition is that drones are leveling the playing field for the smaller, defensive, or insurgent powers, which could be a great opportunity for liberty to emerge, or great risk for any short-term return to stability.

Ukraine Drone Enthusiasts Form Flying Fury Force To Thwart Russian Forces

From amp.hothardware.com
2022-03-07 20:34:59

Excerpt:

Drone enthusiasts in Ukraine have volunteered to use their flying skills in an attempt to combat Russians forces. This is a major shift from flying their drones as a hobby, to flying them to save potentially save lives. One retail store in the capital city of Kyiv has emptied its stock, as it has given out some 300 DJI drones for the purpose of war related missions. Others throughout Ukraine are attempting to get their hands on more drones from friends and colleagues in Poland and other places throughout Europe.

“Why are we doing this? We have no other choice. This is our land, our home,” stated Denys Sushko, head of operations at Kyiv-based industrial drone technology company DroneUA. Before the war, the company sold mainly to farmers and energy companies.

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Report Connects Amazon to Uyghur Forced Labor Camps

Mark Clouse March 10, 2022

Amazon has been caught, again, and again and again, doing business in China with firms that do business with Chinese Forced Labor Camps. Some of these Forced Labor Camps are Uyghur labor camps. In addition to Amazon, Apple also was found to have ties to many of these same labor-camp-powered Chinese manufacturing firms. The report comes from the Tech Transparency Project.

According to Tech Transparency Project, two of these companies were Luxshare Precision Industry and AcBel Polytech, who also do business with Apple. Both Apple and Amazon have fully embraced the woketarian corporatism also reflected politically in the DNC, yet while they preach moral supremacism at home, equality, social justice, they make products for the world from the labor of political prisoners and victims of genocide.

In response to the report, Amazon Inc issued this vague statement, “Amazon complies with the laws and regulations in all jurisdictions in which it operates, and expects suppliers to adhere to our Supply Chain Standards. We take allegations of human rights abuses seriously, including those related to the use or export of forced labor. Whenever we find or receive proof of forced labor, we take action…”

Amazon suppliers reportedly have ties to forced labor camps in China

From www.yahoo.com
2022-03-08 00:28:09

Excerpt:

A number of Amazon’s Chinese suppliers are linked to from China’s Xinjiang region, according to a new from the Tech Transparency Project. The organization found that five of Amazon’s suppliers have been directly accused by watchdog groups and journalists of relying on workers from China’s many , which it uses to detain Uyghur Muslims, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities. The suppliers produce Amazon devices and Amazon-branded products, such as the line of home goods and tech accessories.

“The findings raise questions about Amazon’s exposure to China’s repression of minority Uyghurs in Xinjiang—and the extent to which the e-commerce giant is adequately vetting its supplier relationships,” wrote the authors of the report. “Amazon says that its suppliers ‘must not use forced labor’ and that it ‘does not tolerate suppliers that traffic workers or in any other way exploit workers by means of threat, force, coercion, abduction, or fraud.’ But its supplier list tells a…

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