China Says no to WHO Probe of Cough Cough Origins

China Says no to WHO Probe of Cough Cough Origens

China Says no to WHO Probe of Cough Cough Origins

Freedomist Editor July 23, 2021

In a move that has literally shocked no one, China has told the WHO (World Health Organization) that it would prefer not to have any more investigations into the origins of Covid-19 because reasons. That’s right, Chairman Xi is insisting that to do any more investigating into figuring out what led to a worldwide shutdown and millions of dead is no bueno.

The people that Xi lets live and speak on his name have come out and declared the lab leak theory is crazy talk from extremists and stuff. They feign surprise that the WHO would offer this token suggestion, one which we are sure will not seriously be followed up, but one that that had to be made to hold on to any semblence of not being what they really have become, Chairman Xi’s diplomatic soldiers.

China Has Rejected A WHO Plan For Further Investigation Into The Origins Of COVID-19 : Coronavirus Updates : NPR

From www.npr.org
2021-07-22 09:44:52
The Associated Press
Excerpt:

China cannot accept the World Health Organization’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday.

Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the National Health Commission, said he was “rather taken aback” that the plan includes further investigation of the theory that the virus might have leaked from a Chinese lab.

He dismissed the lab leak idea as a rumor that runs counter to common sense and science.

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A Freedomist Response To The Growing Threat of Global Authoritarianism

Bill Collier July 23, 2021

The methods of 1776 don’t apply today in our response to modern, and globalist, authoritarianism, but the spirit of unilateral resistance and refusal to be cowed or owned must be reinvigorated among the populace!

In America, both the Democrats and the Republicans seem infected with different strains of the same disease: globalist authoritarianism.

For today’s Democrats, and by this we mean shot-callers not rank file registered Democrats, authoritarianism is sexy and the Bill of Rights or even the idea of America as a Union of sovereign and free Commonwealths, a Republic of Republics, is execrable. They don’t hate America, but they love monopoly power and they do hate anyone who won’t bow before their alt-gendered rainbow gods of wanton depravity and collectivist regimentation.

The bogeymen of the establishment left include racists, “phobes”, clinate change skeptics, cisgendered Christian white males especially, “insurrectionist” white supremacists and anyone on the “right” who isn’t down with the Democrats.

On the other hand, Republicans, again the shot-callers not rank and file registered Republicans, don’t hate justice and equality but they do love the blue-blooded Chamber of Commerce “cronyism over people” riches. They seem to evince a design of corporate monpolozation of the economy and worker exploitation to fatten the few at our expense. They may seem less authoritarian now, being out of power, but they are in fact just as likely to seek a world without competitors.

The bogeymen of the establishment right include “illegal aliens”, “Islamic terrorism”, “communists” who aren’t communists, and anything that hurts corporate profits and the stock market.

On one hand we have woke communism and on the other cronyist monopolism, two sects of the same “religion”, that of globalist authoritarianism, two factions of a ruling class whose aims against the interest, rights, persons, and property of the People are becoming more blatant and unchecked. Where human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing are concerned, the establishment, in both major factions, has nothing to offer but bogeyman fears and fake utopian promises and unworkable schemes.

While there are major surface differences here, the heart is the same. But there is another real difference of substance: today’s Democratic Party has evidently purged all non-authoritarians from leadership while the Republicans still face internal opposition at the leadership level to this spirit of authoritarianism. Basically, the Democratic shot-callers are almost 100% authoritarians while the Republican shot-callers are divided between the ruling class and outsiders who reject the siren call to monopoly power.

While we assess the woke communists as the main and strongest threat by far, we remain skeptical of the Republicans and vigilent against their authoritarian establishment, led by the likes of Mitt Romney and company. The fact most Republican leaders, office holders, and candidates refuse to even name “woke communism” and the authoritarianism that permeates the Democratic Party establishment is seen by many as proof the GOP has settled into a role a controlled opposition for theater only.

Authoritarianism is a growing threat to everything from supply chains and freedom of movement and commerce to individual rights and the good of the people. Policies aimed ultimately at restructuring society in every aspect to be easily managed by the few and for the few at our expense will not produce the monopoly power desired but can cause harm to the innocent caught up by their machinations.

The pushback will likely include political and civic action, but at the deeper level it must involve unilateral freedom-building actions by individuals and groups of people by freewill participation. It is proposed that freedom builders seek individual to local food, energy, health care, education, housing, and true press independency and the transformation of locales into freedom havens through official support of the Bill of Rights. These may be the most important foundational actions needed to begin to turn the tide and transfer power from the center and top to individuals, families, and various types of freewill participatory associations and communities.

In our natural sin state, humans will tend toward corruption and moral depravity against the laws of nature and nature’s God. In our natural redeemed state, when we actively seek God’s standards of righteousness and justice, humans tend toward a family-centered, as in a mother and father with their biological or adopted children, state of individual liberty within a free and pluralistic society of equals.

The one path leads to violence, poverty and ruin as the price for enriching the few and giving them absolute monopoly control over civilization itself. The other path leads to freedom with liberty and justice for all along with a high quality of life and universal opulence.

We don’t see the authoritarians winning, but we do see dark times and crises for those who righteously oppose this authoritarianism and its vehicles of power, including the alt gendered rainbow totalitarianism over culture, the wanton assault on marriage and family according to thousands of years of Judeo-Christian orthodoxy, and the monopoly corporations owning most vital aspects of our economic structure.

Even after the woke communists are vanquished, and unless they are we face a stunning collapse of the quality of life for all save the very few, the work of remaining vigilent against other hazards to our interests, rights, dignity, flourishing, persons, and property as free and spiritually sovereign human beings will remain a necessity.

UK Pingdemic Creates Limited Food Shortage

Bill Collier July 23, 2021

A contact tracing app telling people in the UK to isolated for 10 days after coming into contact with any Covid-19 sufferers has been keeping some critical staff away from work. This has hit the food industry where some towns have been seeing problems with pricessing or moving food to the stores, resulting in some unhappy customers being greeted with bare shelves.

The pings come when the contact tracing app detects the user has been in contact with someone who tested positive for the virus. This has led some to simply uninstall the app. While over 86% of the population have had at least a partial vaccine and 68% havrbeen fully vaccinated, the new strain called “delta” is getting vaccinated people sick as well.

The 7 day average of new cases is up to 45k per day while at the height of the pandemic in January the the average got to 59k per day. Some 5.6 million people in the UK have had Covid-19 while 129k have died. But the current death rate is far below what it had been with 84 deaths per day being the average while it reached around 1400 per day in January of 2021.

But while the number of deaths is way down, and not expected to appreciably rise, disruptions to supply chains are still likely to occur here and there, as they are in the UK. And the differences can be dramatic, with places like London lacking a few items, like bottled water, while some towns saw a more dramatic supply distribution. There are concerns, however, it could get worse and, as word of the problem spreads, so too does hoarding.

Being prepared in these times requires a set aside of at least a few weeks to a month worth of basic nutrition needa and household supplies as disruptions of the supply chain are unlikely to become a thing of the past any time soon. The impetus for local and home grown food production is becoming greater. Even without a high death rate, outbreaks of the virus, even among the vaccinated, who are far less likely to die, can and will cause problems.

The Women of Afghanistan Face the Taliban…..Alone…..

Freedomist Curator July 21, 2021

Americans are busy defending or assaulting the ties that bind within, but have some reckoning to confront in regards to the wars we fought over the last 50 or so years where a pattern of abandonment of allies has reared its ugly head with regularity. Afghanistan might be perhaps the most tragic of them all in terms of the grim results on our abandoned allies, were it not for what happened to our abandoned in Cambodia.

This move was initated by Trump and followed through with Biden, though his manner of exit might not be as aligned with Trump’s (a detail that might forever elude our objective-seeking senses) exit plan.

The population that might be the most in danger is one identified as being part of the disenfranchised, a class of humans that we should be extra-vigilant in protecting and lifting up, women.

The female population is in great danger as the Taliban advances into the vacuum of power the US leaves with her hasty retreat.

Afghan Foly Leaves Women of Afghanistan in Grave Danger After US Exit

The women of Afghanistan who enjoye more autonomy under American power, now find themselves at risk of losing it, and worse….

Women’s groups call for UN peacekeeping force in Afghanistan –
From apnews.com
2021-07-16 00:17:51

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Women’s rights supporters and faith leaders are calling for a United Nations peacekeeping force for Afghanistan to protect hard-won gains for women over the last two decades as American and NATO forces complete their pullout from the war-torn country and a Taliban…

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Ben and Jerry Freeze Their Ice Cream Sales to Israel

Freedomist Curator July 21, 2021

Ben and Jerry Won’t Ice Cream Israel Anymore

Ben and Jerry have decided that in the competition among coercive enterprises, nation-statism, they will choose which nation-statisms are best nation-statisms, and so to that end they have decided the nation-state of Israel is irrelevent when compared to the potential nation-state of Palestine.

Ben & Jerry’s to stop ice cream sales in West Bank and east Jerusalem –

From feeds.breakingnews.ie
2021-07-19 17:07:35
BreakingNews.ie
Excerpt:

Ben & Jerry’s is going to stop selling its ice cream in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and contested east Jerusalem, saying the sales in the territories sought by the Palestinians are “inconsistent with our values”.

The announcement was one of the strongest and highest-profile rebukes by a well-known company of Israel’s policy of settling its citizens on war-won lands.

The settlements are widely seen by the international community as illegal and obstacles to peace.

Ben & Jerry’s…

The Great Reset Telegraphs Global Authoritarian Aims

Bill Collier July 20, 2021

Bill Collier- The World Economic Forum, an organization of ultra-globalist authoritarians, has made the claim, and then taken the video down, that “you will own nothing and like it.” In telegraphing its intentions for a world of peasants under the ruling class’s firm authoritariam control, the WEF itself proclaims that the idea of a coterie of ruling class shot-callers conspiring against the entire planet is not far-fetched.

Now comes their simulation exercises in which they actually test their intentions. Prior to the pandemic, they ran a simulation of a global pandemic. We can only guess how the WEF could have run a simulation that then played out in the real world, but one must consider their simulations as a telegraphing of their intent.

Their new “Cyber Polygon” exercise has all the marks of a massive global power grab meant to further reduce the economic freedoms of every human being on this earth. Here is a snippet from The Sociable:

Following up on last year’s cyber pandemic simulation, this year’s Cyber Polygon will hold live training exercises responding to “a targeted supply chain attack on a corporate ecosystem in real time.”

Running parallel to the training exercise will be discussions on how to tackle everything from ransomware and supply chain attacks to implementing “resilient” digital currencies, and a desire for global governance on the internet.

Massive disruptions that essentially collapse economies and soften people up may sound like a villain from a James Bond movie who has gone amuck, but the very goals of this exercise clearly, as it says in our Declaration of Independence, “evince a design of tyranny.” This global junta, or would-be junta, is making it clear they will use massive supply-chain disruptions to control you and keep you desperate and needy and all too ready to submit to a “global governance” aimed at the very heart of freedom.

Global governance of the internet is evidently critical, as well as top-down global control of supply-chains. A recent “study” by the IMF, which was a mathematical simulation based on assumptions, basically claims that a country depending on global supply chains is better off in a pandemic than one with a “nationalized” supply chain, i.e. a supply chain bssed mostly on internal production.

The aim of the great reset is to destroy faith, family, and community, to eliminate private property and individual agency, and to construct a totalitarian top-down system of control at the global level.

They are arguing against self-sufficency and self-reliance at the level of entire countries just as they (the ruling class) openly admit they desire a society without individual ownership. The Center For Risk Analysis did an extensive video on this, detailing the dangerous elements of this ideology.

This group of mostly financial sector shot-callers and political power brokers has decided to take upon itself the central management of the entirety of human civilization without any real input from the billions of people on the planet.

This is the essence of woke communism. It is a modern take on Marxism which relied on 100% state ownership of everything, including the means of production, but it uses a combination of state and corporate structures, all controlled from the top by a select few ruling class, in a centrally managed socioeconomic and sociocultural system.

Collectivist ownership is merely the ownership of everything and everyone by the very few. “You will own nothing and be happy” is totalitarian on two grounds: you have no ownership and therefore no freedom and “you will be happy” means you cannot dissent but will be forced, 1984 style, to like your bondage.

It is sometimes hard to discern whether the financial sector shot-callers are controlling the government shot-callers or the other way around. Is the new global governance structure being proposed a form of fascism where the government controls corporations and uses them as its agents (like having platforms banish people from the digital commons and marketplace at its behest)? Or is it really the mega corporate shot-callers using their influence and ownership of political rulers to essentially make the state an agent of the corporate interests in a sort of “corpostate” hybrid of collectivism and cronyism?

We use the term woke communism because, ultimately, the means of production and property are indeed centralized in terms of ownership and management while the woke cancel culture radicalism, complete with white shaming and alt gender rainbow authoritarianism, is the primary means of advancing that control and destroying the anti-authoritarian institutions of faith, family, and community.

Assaulting your own faith, family, and community and rendering you an undifferentiated and atomized cog in the top-down sociocultural and socioeconomic structure owned by the few but paid for by the many is the essence of what we call woke communism. It is all a form of corpo-statist politocracy: a state and corporate ownership and control of everything coupled with the poltization of all aspects of society wherein politics controls everything and very, very few people control politics.

While the masses as a whole carry more weight and could decimate the power of the ruling class, this requires scaled-up structures and organizations that can pool shared resources and both facilitate comity of action and determine the consensus of the whole so that action is agreeable to everyone participating.

We posit the concepts of spiritual nationhood to create larger-scale organic cohesiveness and alt sovereignties like virtual commonwealths and cryptonations as positive alternatives to the top-down corpo-statist structures and their controls. The ability to gather and organize people on a massive scale to exercise their agency in comity of action requires alt structures that both make larger-scale collaboration possible while positively upholding the spiritual sovereignty and agency of each individual.

The realization that We The People have the ultimate power, because we produce all wealth while the ruling class only control it and fleece the masses, is an internal awakening of agency and spiritual sovereignty that must precede effective action. Harnessing this power requires an at-scale comity of action that individuals and small groups cannot muster because the threat of this “great reset” as a massive scale effort.

That being said, there are many things individuals and small groups can do to find gaps for freedom and essentially hide themselves from the influence and control of the ruling class. We propose things like the multi-family freehold villa or estate, local food and energy freedom clubs, local safety and home security cooperatives, and individuals being well prepared for massive disruptions to society.

At-scale structures that promote comity of action as an offset to the global war on freedom and the whole woke communist ideology will emerge as and when individuals and small groups adopt freedom building methods and moral/ethical precepts on a freewill participatory basis.

The “great reset” is best described as a form of neocommunist dictatorship at the global level that combines corporate and governmental power controlled by the very few who then use woke cancel culture to demoralize the individual and eliminate such institutions as faith, family, and community. Ownership and agency fall before the ruling class, the anti-authoritarian institutions of faith, family, and community are gone, and all speech and economic interactions are controlled by this same ruling class.

Because this combines neocommunist destruction of private ownership with the woke cancel culture to undermine faith, family, and community we call it woke communism. But whatever name you want to call it, “the great reset” is a global power grab that uses cancel culture to destroy anti-authoritarian institutions while also destroying private ownership and instituting a global totalitarian “governance” that only serves the ruling class.

European Floods Become New Justification For Climate Change Authoritarianism

Bill Collier July 17, 2021

By Bill Collier- Flooding in Europe is the new excuse for climate change authoritarianism. As people hope to rebuild their lives, the EU and other governments in Europe are focused less on people’s needs and more on new ways to impoverish them and reduce their freedom.

Citing the “obvious” connection between massive rainfall and hotter climate, once again climate change authoritarianism is asserting itself before the dead and wounded can even be sorted out in a major disaster. The speed with which any event, be it rain or draught, hot or cold temperatures, is blamed on climate change, coupled with more calls for yet more authoritarian responses, far outpaces the speed of recovery from such events.

Journalists, ideologically drawn to authoritarianism as most are thanks to their poor educations in schools of journalism, unquestionably repeat every claim without seriously questioning why the climate change theory, unlike other scientific theories, presents anything that would disprove itself. In short, everything that happens unpleasant is counted to the same cause without question.

Meanwhile, over 1300 people are missing and over 125 dead in a torrential outburst that dumped some two months worth of rain in 24 hours over mostly northwest Germany and parts of Holland and Belgium. Flooding in other areas, ranging from Switzerland to areas in northern and eastern Germany was also reported. The floods in western Germany were particularly dangerous because they came suddenly with walls of water pouring through towns and villages, in some cases collapses houses or simply tearing through them.

German Minister of the Environment Svenja Schulze announced, “These are the harbingers of climate change that have now arrived in Germany.” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called the flooding “a clear indication of climate change” and “something that really, really shows the urgency to act.”

The EU is busy promoting rather draconian and authoritarian measures to allegedly mitigate climate change, such as literally banning all but electric cars within 20 years, a shocking move that would lead to economic devastation but also render the population less mobile and more controllable.

Serious proposals focused on house portable and house affordable energy, loosening zoning and codes rules to allow for more sustainable building technologies and for home-based hydroponics, gardens, and graywater recycling, for instance, are off the table. The entire focus is on more authoritarian and draconian measures that create a One Big System (OBS) approach wherein 100% of the cost and loss of freedom falls on working people without impacting the ruling class.

The propensity of “climate scientists” to regularly and shamelessly don the mien of totalitarian ideologues is most certainly one of the chief reasons many view their preachments with suspicion. For the German government to, at this very hour, leap to conclusions simply because it serves their increasingly authoritarian agenda, is a gross disservice to victims of this flooding.

The issue is less about whether we need to reduce polluting emissions that can harm the environment and lead to climate change and more about the fact every proposed solution impoverishes billions of souls and reduces their freedom while, at the same time, this theory brooks no dissent and offers no example where a prediction not happening or other unpredicted events happening would disprove it.

Climate change, like other hobgoblins, may have a basis of truth, but the problem lies in the oversimplification of its effects, in the exploitation of every disaster, in the authoritarian proposals for dealing with it, and with how it’s claims of proof know no bounds and are contradictory.

Impoverishment and totalitarianism won’t solve a changing climate, especially if the changes aren’t totally man-made. These measures will lead to societal instability and ruin without appreciably effecting outcomes but all to further increase the power and wealth of the ruling class.

Real solutions to mankind’s baneful impact on the planet are available and would increase individual wealth and freedom, because they would shift resources from OBS to the homes and communities controlled by average workaday people.

OUR THOUGHTS-

Most of those who claim to care about climate change offer only rather authoritarian responses which impoverish people, make them less free, and don’t make a dent on the climate itself. The truth is, they don’t care about the bogeyman they are using to scare you into submission, their objective is the radical global transformation of society into an authoritarian regimen ruled by the few at the grave expense of the many.

If you’re really serious about climate change, abandon OBS model and embrace a “house portable and house affordable” solution that seriously reduces negative impacts through human activities but also makes average people wealthier, more free, and healthier.

Free people from the many backwards and technology-suppressing rules, regulations, and “codes” that keep them from creating local food, energy, and housing independence through locally renewable resources. Invest in technology to advance food and energy independence at the level of the home primarily and the local neighborhood or town. Provide tax and regulatory waiver incentives to those seeking food and energy independence and sustainable home design.

The left authoritarians don’t propose these things, they propose draconian measures like banning all combustion engines and leaving people high and dry without affordable transportation or taxes and regulations that drive energy costs into the stratosphere. Their “solutions” are inhumane power grabs and massive wealth redistribution schemes that rob from the working class and feed the ruling class.

It’s hard to take climate change seriously when so many of those who bang the drum of alarm offer very non-serious proposals that truly read almost exclusively like a recipe for an authoritarian hellscape than an earth-friendly and humane approach to reducing humanity’s impact on the environment.

As for the Freedomist, we do not think all climate change is man-made or bad, but we do think the impact of human activity on the planet needs a serious rewrite. This begins with a strong emphasis on house-portable and house-affordable solutions, as opposed to OBS, that will make people more wealthy and free and devolve power from the top and center to individuals, families, and communities.

Enabling people to build affordable, sustainable housing and obtain food and energy independence at the very local level would dramatically reduce the environmental cost of human activity without threatening human flourishing.

The OBS approach won’t fix any problems, it will lead to instability, it decreases freedom and increases poverty, and, in the end, delays a truly effective response to a growing negative environmental and climate impact from human activity. None of the EU’s proposals do anything more than create a society of poor, working class cogs in the wheels of a neofeudal machine run by and for the ruling class at everyone’s expense but their own.

New Alliance Tackles Pandemic In Face of Political Headwinds

Bill Collier July 16, 2021

The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), a group of highly published, world-renowned critical care physicians and scholars are striving to find ways to effectively mitigate the effects of Covid-19 through early treatments. Their website is here- FLCC

The FLCCC Alliance – with the academic support of allied physicians from around the world – works to research and develop lifesaving protocols for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in all stages of illness. Their MATH+ Hospital Treatment Protocol, introduced in March 2020, has saved thousands of patients who were critically ill with COVID-19. Now, the FLCCC’s new I-Mask+ Prophylaxis and Early At-Home Outpatient Treatment Protocol with Ivermectin has been released – and is a potential solution to the global pandemic.

Political headwinds are the only real hindrance to further advancing the treatment options for patients and their efforts are meant to publicize research and findings while documentation successful treatments.

The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance was initially formed as a working group under “emergency” conditions of the early COVID-19 pandemic in response to multiple early reports of COVID patients with an inexplicably high need for prolonged mechanical ventilation and an excessive mortality associated with the prevailing “supportive care only” recommendations disseminated by the majority of national and international health care organizations.

Cuban-Americans Demand US Action, Democrats Exposed As Pro Communist

Bill Collier July 14, 2021

Cuban-American protestors shut down the Palmetto Expressway near Miami amid demands the US end comminism in Cuba shouting, “Estados Unidos, acaba el comunismo!”

The Cuban connunity in Florida numbers 1.53 million and plays a significant role in swaying elections at the state level, including presidential races. The community are generally unhappy with the tepid response from the current US President who is barely giving lip service to the Cuban protestors and who is doing nothing as the Cuban regime clamps down on dissent.

Despite Biden’s open-door policy for migrants to the US from Central America and Mexico, migrants known for supporting Democrats and socialism according to some, the New York Post reported his DHS has issued warnings to Cubans and Haitians not to come to the US.

According to The Post:

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had a stern warning Tuesday for Cubans and Haitians thinking of escaping the ongoing unrest in both countries by sailing to the US: Don’t even think about it.

“The time is never right to attempt migration by sea,” Mayorkas said during a news conference. “To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Allow me to be clear: If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.”

In other words, “if your community isn’t reliably supportive of Democrats, you aren’t welcome in America.”

Famed chess champion Garry Kasparov, generally a supporter of Democrats and the current President, was not amused with the Administration’s response.

“Bad news for the Biden admin when I agree with Rubio & Cruz!” he posted on Twitter. “The people of Cuba deserve vocal support from a US government that isn’t worried about offending its Socialist members by speaking for freedom.”

The Democrats’ collective penchant toward totalitarianism, witness their overblown histrionics about the January 6th riots at the Capitol, which they use to label all legitimate dissent as sedition, is welle established. Their brand of woke communism through a cancel America crusade is still not waking Americans up to this quisling threat to their very national existence as a free country.

At the same time, Florida’s governor DeSantis is vocal in supporting the Cuban community but the recent law passed to make it a felony to shut down roadways and to not prosecute drivers who push through crowds rather than be surrounded and attacked, could be used against these protestors. No arrests were reported and no incidents took place. But the irony this kneejerk law in response to BLM riots may be used against a group favored by the governor wasn’t lost on anyone.

The Biden response to the Cuban protests exposes a bedeviling problem for Democrats in Florida and among Hispanics, who generally oppose actual forms of communism, including modern woke communism, and the divisive social issues/cancel culture extremism that controls that Party.

According to an opinion piece in the Hill, “Biden won Miami-Dade County by just 7 percent, compared to Hillary Clinton’s 30 percent margin in 2016, a decline that put Florida’s electoral votes well out of reach. Democrats also lost two House seats that they thought were safe. Trump won more than 60 percent of the Cuban American vote – the most since Bush in 2000.”

Biden’s current inaction on Cuba may be an admission that the Democrats have essentially given up on Florida for the foreseeable future. If Democrats don’t think this seals their brand as pro-communist, then someone needs to wake them from their wokeness and show them reality.

While it isn’t America’s job or responsibility to free the Cuban people, it is within our rights and interests to more robust support them and to demand the Cuban regime refrain from further abuses or face real action, including potentially arming the dissenters.

South Africa Is Not Collapsing Despite Violent Looting In Two Provinces

Bill Collier July 13, 2021

In a rambling speech, President Ramaphosa sought to calm the situation as looters raged throughout numerous locales in an apparent protest against the jailing of fomer President Zuma. While the looting is a serious problem, causing the call-out of the Army and a meeting of all political party heads to develop a unified repsonse, the sensational headlines that claim South Africa is collapsing are inaccurate.

South Africa is in crisis, and all such crises CAN lead to an unraveling, but the forces of civil unity appear to have the upper hand overall, at least for now. Troops have been called out in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, with the latter being Zuma’s homeland. But the looters can hardly be said to be legitimately “protesting” and many doubt this is more than an opportunistic event than an actual public outpouring of support for the former President.

Perhaps real blame lies with Economic Freedom Fighters Party head Julius Malema, a fireband radical neocommunist agitator who has threatened genocide against whites and the rich. Malema’s party has promised to “join” the looters if the Army was called out of barracks. The EFF have been working hard to destabilize South Africa and conduct their own revolution which would plunge the country into race war, not just whites against blacks, but all the racial identifies with one another, and the rich against the poor.

While it is too soon to see if the looters themselves were organized, as it is alleged, by payments from EFF backers to key agitators, it is certainly something that authorities will have to investigate.

Former President Jacob Zuma on 29 June 2021 became the first South African president since the end of white-minority rule in 1994 to receive a prison sentence. South Africa’s Constitutional Court issued a 15-month sentence for contempt of court after Zuma defied an earlier court order to return and testify before the Zondo Commission.

On 7 July 2021, Zuma handed himself over to the police and was admitted to the Estcourt Correctional Centre in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal.

Zuma still has his backers, and some say this current dustup is really an internal power srruggle, but the former President was widely believed to be corrupt during his almost 9 years as President, from 2009 to 2018.

President Ramaphosa’s speech, in which he urged calm, was widely panned but all parties save the EFF agreed to back his present measures and to do their part to calm their supporters. But with the army deployed, the looting continued.

KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala told the press on Tuesday morning, “Yesterday’s events brought a lot of sadness. The number of people who have died in KwaZulu-Natal alone stands at 26. Many of them died from being trampled on during a stampede while people were looting items.”

The total death toll stands at 32.

The looting and violence are mostly limited to Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

“What we are witnessing now are opportunistic acts of criminality, with groups of people instigating chaos merely as a cover for looting and theft,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a late-evening address on Monday.

Looting is bad, and it could get worse, it may be insitgated by the EFF and/or the Zuma wing of the ANC, as he challenges his sentencing, but South Africa isn’t “collapsing” and most of its people are standing against the madness.

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