thelibertybeacon--2020-10-22--China “Pwns” Us: How the Chinese Are Buying Up America

China “ Pwns ” Us : How the Chinese Are Buying Up America The People ’ s Republic of China isn ’ t exactly a favorite of the American public .
Since the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak of early 2020 , Americans are questioning whether or not all of that cheap plastic junk from Wal-Mart doesn ’ t come with a hidden cost .
It ’ s not just about the virus : There is also the spectre of deindustrialization , which has been a social disaster for the United States , particularly the rust belt .
What ’ s more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the early days of the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak that the United States was dependent on China for basic medical supplies , such as penicillin .
Carlson ’ s comments are incredibly important , especially when we begin drilling down further into just how reliant the United States is on China : 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of all active ingredients in American pharmaceuticals come from China .
In 2017 alone , the United States imported a whopping $ 4.6 billion in foodstuffs from the People ’ s Republic of China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ silent on this matter , which isn ’ t surprising : They have a long history of sympathy for the People ’ s Republic of China and virtually all enemies of America and liberty .
But there is also a deep presence by the People ’ s Republic of China in the United States , both in our media and in our economy , specifically in the real estate market .
If it sounds insane to you that United States laws allow a hostile foreign power to own both media and land in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re not alone .
And while it might sound like we ’ re making a mountain out of a molehill , if you read the following article you will probably be amazed at just how deep the rabbithole of Chinese influence in the American media and economy goes .
This is nothing less than the defining national security issue of our age .
China Buying U.S. Land : How Much Land Does China Own in the U.S. ?
American prosperity has largely been built on a dual foundation : cheap land , expensive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Immigration Act of 1965 , Ronald Reagan ’ s Amnesty of 1986 and NAFTA opened up the floodgates of Third World immigration ( both legal and illegal ) this formula basically held firm .
When there was not enough labor , employers had to pay more rather than simply importing massive amounts of cheap labor from countries with little in the way of worker protections .
The same laws allowing for a massive influx of cheap labor have also destabilized the American real estate market : More buyers means more demand means higher @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home .
There are a myriad of social consequences from this , chief among them that family formation is more expensive and thus less attainable for the average young American worker in the 21st Century than it was in years past .
But beyond this , there is the problem of allowing foreign nationals to own real estate in the United States , a practice that is outlawed in a number of countries .
Where foreign nationals are allowed to own real estate , there are often restrictions on where they can buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The reasons for this hardly need explaining , but we will do so anyway : First , the citizens of a nation have first claim on the land there .
Second , it is potentially dangerous to allow too much of a nation ’ s land to fall into the hands of foreigners .
Currently 30 million acres of American farmland is owned by foreign investors or fully 2.2 percent of all American farmland .
For context , that ’ s an area roughly the size of Mississippi or Pennsylvania These are effectively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ best real estate in the United States .
For its part , China owned 191,000 acres worth $ 1.9 billion as of 2019 .
This might not sound like a lot , but Chinese ownership of American farmland has exploded dramatically over the last decade .
Indeed , there has been a tenfold expansion of Chinese ownership of farmland in the United States in less than a decade .
Six states — Hawaii , Iowa , Minnesota , Mississippi , North Dakota and Oklahoma — currently ban foreign ownership of farmland .
Massive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for one very obvious reason : It puts the food security of the nation in the hands of a hostile foreign power .
But there is also the social cost of allowing foreign buyers who have effectively unlimited resources to compete on the real estate market with smaller domestic buyers .
It is understandable if no one reading this has any tears to shed for Big Aggie , but the real victims of this are smaller landholders .
For those concerned about environmental issues , ask yourself who is more likely to practice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ farmers or Chinese bureaucrats thousands of miles away .
Chinese Real Estate Investors in the U.S .
In addition to their farmland holdings , China owns more residential real estate than any other foreign country , which has a significant impact on the real estate market on the West Coast .
Sound far-fetched ?
According to Market Watch , “ Chinese buyers accounted for roughly 25 percent of total foreign investment in U.S. residential real estate.
” Canada was far behind at a relatively scant 9 percent .
The article specifically mentions Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ driving force behind high housing prices in the Golden State .
It ’ s worth noting that many of these properties are owned as rental properties by absentee landlords .
Again , who is going to care more about the quality of tenant life ?
An American down the street or a Chinese bureaucrat thousands of miles away ?
Precious little is written in the major media in the United States about this epidemic of Chinese ownership of American land and real estate .
Even less is written about the influence and leverage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China has within the corporate media .
This often takes the form of the corporate directors of media firms having close financial ties to China that are little known to the American public .
This creates a financial incentive to white wash the actions of the People ’ s Republic of China , both domestically and abroad .
Recall the way that the media bristled at calling COVID-19 “ the China Virus ” or “ Wuhan Coronavirus.
” There is a reason for this beyond simple political correctness .
Many in the upper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vested interest in protecting the reputation of the People ’ s Republic of China .
Take Carlos Slim , the largest shareholder of The New York Times , who controls about a third of the board .
His other ventures have very close ties to Chinese firms that are directly tied to the Chinese government .
His Giant Motors is engaged in joint operations with China ’ s JAC Motors to penetrate the Latin American market .
This was an attempt to work around the Trump Administration ’ s aggressive trade policies against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phone company , has partnered with Huawei Technologies to sell 5G technology in Colombia .
Huawei is a proven threat to American security and wants to end federal restrictions on their access to 5G technology .
Jeff Bezos , Amazon CEO and owner of the Washington Post .
Many of Amazon ’ s biggest-selling products , such as the Echo and the Kindle , are manufactured in China by low-wage , low-skill labor .
Bezos ’ cheerleading for the People ’ s Republic of China is much more explicit than that of Slim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called “ China Watch ” which is written directly by the Chinese government ’ s official media arm .
The fact that this is a paid advertising supplement shouldn ’ t calm any worries about the PRC ’ s influence over at the Post — it effectively means that Bezos is accepting money from the Chinese government to run official Chinese propaganda in an American newspaper .
CNN is a property of WarnerMedia , which is very closely tied to the People ’ s Republic of China .
They have a $ 50 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Specifically , this is an investment in China Media Capital , a private company ( in as much as such things exist in the PRC ) subject to the censorship of the Chinese government .
It is worth remembering how CNN fawned over the Chinese reaction to the Wuhan Coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic .
Both MSNBC and NBC are owned by NBC Universal who have a partnership with China ’ s state-run media , Xinhua , to cooperate on international news .
The United States State Department has identified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effectively Chinese propaganda outfits with no independence from the Chinese government .
What ’ s more , CMC Partners , an investment group with direct technological and financial oversight from Beijing , now has full ownership of Oriental Dreamworks , formerly owned by NBC Universal .
ABC arguably has the strongest ties with the Chinese economy .
The Chinese government and state-owned enterprises provided significant support for the $ 3.6 trillion cost of building a Disney World in Shanghai .
ESPN , another ABC property , told staff to not disparage the Communist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ avoid the topic entirely .
This was during the fracas over an NBA coach ’ s criticism of the Chinese regime , American media properties effectively siding with China over America .
Bloomberg is heavily invested in China , which is perhaps why Michael Bloomberg refuses to even refer to the People ’ s Republic of China as a dictatorship .
For Bloomberg , it is a far more insidious relationship than other American media companies : They have sent $ 150 billion into Chinese bond markets to 364 companies .
Out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the Chinese government .
Bloomberg ’ s media arm has been a willing servant of the Chinese Communist Party .
In 2014 , they squashed a story about the wealth of the Chinese elites .
They leveraged a non-disclosure agreement to silence both a reporter based in Beijing and his wife , neither of whom ever worked for Bloomberg .
Lest one think that this is simply an example of companies seeking to do good business in a large and emerging market , it is worth noting that conservative media outlets are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China and when they are , they tend to be significantly less invested than their mainstream , liberal counterparts .
News Corp , for example , the parent company of Fox News , has effectively abandoned trying to penetrate China in any significant way .
Finally , there is the question of communication infrastructure in the United States .
In February 2020 , Attorney General William Barr warned Americans that we were losing the war to roll out 5G networks both domestically and abroad .
The economic concern here is not insignificant : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 5G infrastructure and it ’ s much better that this go in the pockets of Americans than to the People ’ s Republic of China .
However , especially in the wake of the Huawei security scandal , it is worth asking whether or not any American data is safe in a world where the Chinese control the dominant mobile telecommunications infrastructure .
There ’ s no “ smoking gun ” per se , but there is a heck of a lot of smoke when it comes to Chinese influence in the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the literal ownership of Chinese propaganda media in the United States .
China Radio International is effectively the Chinese equivalent of Radio Free Europe .
It broadcasts PRC propaganda all around the world , including in the United States .
They own ten radio stations in the United States , which might not sound like a lot until you consider that they ’ re in most of the major American media markets including Atlanta , Houston , Boston , Las Vegas and two in the Washington , D.C. metro area .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world via Internet or shortwave .
The People ’ s Republic of China ’ s penetration in the American media is not limited to a few AM radio stations , either .
Beginning in 2012 , the People ’ s Republic of China began looking for ways to penetrate the American film market .
Specifically , China has sought to create inroads into owning American film distribution .
This effectively allows them a veto over films that might run contrary to the PRC ’ s goals for its image abroad .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a movie revolving around protests .
They can also help to promote films that are a sort of soft propaganda for the Chinese regime , such as the Disney nature documentary Born In China .
Dalian Wanda is a Chinese firm that stands as an exemplar of how Chinese penetration of the American media market will work .
It is , since 2012 , the owner of the AMC theater chain , which it then used to purchase Carmike Cinemas .
When taken together , these two companies form the largest chain of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Chinese firm a massive amount of leverage over the American movie marketplace .
The parent company , Dalian Wanda , has been very candid about its intention to use ownership of these chains to promote Chinese interests in the United States .
The bottom line is , don ’ t expect to see any films about Tibet or the Hong Kong protests in AMC theaters anytime soon .
Dalian Wanda and other Chinese firms are also looking to acquire significant stakes in American film production companies , controlling the content that Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world market — can see from the very source .
Dalian Wanda purchased Legendary Entertainment in 2016 .
This is the studio responsible for such international hits as : Godzilla : King of the Monsters , The Dark Knight , Jurassic Park : Fallen Kingdom and many others .
Paramount Pictures wanted to sell 49 percent of its shares to Dalian Wanda , however the deal fell through .
Instead , they formed a partnership with Chinese media companies Shanghai Film Group and Huahua Media .
In addition to pro-Chinese propaganda , China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the American film market to begin pushing anti-American propaganda .
In Joshua Kurlantzick ’ s article “ China : Economic Power , Political Enigma ” in Washington Quarterly , he details how film companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party have glorified the 9/11 attacks .
Coming soon to a movie theater near you .
The PRC has likewise made inroads into the lucrative and popular gaming market .
For many young people , the preferred form of media is not movies or even television , but gaming .
Chinese companies are now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Games , and Cryptic Studios .
This means that China will now be controlling media consumed by children and young adults , able to insert various forms of subtle propaganda into their favorite games .
But the real concern might not even be a hostile foreign power propagandizing to your children through the medium of video games .
It might be the technological and military capabilities that China has access to when they purchase video game companies .
The United States military has worked in the past with large research universities to come @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality .
And , of course , there was also TikTok , the Chinese social media platform popular with “ Zoomers ” that was little more than Chinese spyware .
The Trump Administration moved to either ban it or force China to sell it to an American firm .
This represents the first significant pushback against Chinese infiltration of the American media and economy , but we sincerely hope that it will not be the last .
The Fight Against Communist Chinese Influence in America In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that five state-run Chinese “ media ” companies ( China Daily Distribution CorpChina Global Television Network , China Radio International , Hai Tian Development USA Inc. and Xinhua News Agency ) would no longer be recognized as such , but would instead be called by their proper names — they will now be treated as foreign embassies .
In June of that same year , the Trump Administration added an additional four state-run media entities to that list : China Central Television , China News Service , the Global Times and the People @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part thanks to increased use of these media arms as propaganda outlets in the United States .
China retaliated in March by revoking the press credentials of three reporters from the New York Times , Washington Post and Wall Street Journal before expelling them from the country .
PRC officials were very candid that this was in direct response to American actions to curb and monitor the activity of Chinese propaganda outlets in the United States .
The tangible effect of this is that the companies now have to disclose to the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as share all hiring and firing decisions with the State Department .
They likewise will now have to register with the State Department all properties rented and owned within the United States .
Before they can purchase or lease new property , they will have to obtain approval from the State Department .
It is worth noting that Western media outlets operate under far more strict rules in China than their Chinese counterparts do in the United States .
It is unsurprising that the People ’ s Republic of China would do anything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reach and to influence public opinion abroad , especially at a time when more and more Westerners are becoming skeptical of the relationship between the PRC and the West .
However , what is surprising is how little the United States and other Western governments have done to prevent Chinese penetration of their economy and culture .
It may or may not be troubling when foreign nationals own real estate and media within the United States .
There are solid arguments in either direction .
However , one would be hard pressed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Republic of China — a rogue state by virtually any definition , the chief rival of the United States internationally and an enemy of liberty around the world — any influence in the American real estate market and media is a mistake of potentially world-changing proportions .

China “Pwns” Us: How the Chinese Are Buying Up America
By: Alex Horsman
The People’s Republic of China isn’t exactly a favorite of the American public. Since the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak of early 2020, Americans are questioning whether or not all of that cheap plastic junk from Wal-Mart doesn’t come with a hidden cost.
It’s not just about the virus: There is also the spectre of deindustrialization, which has been a social disaster for the United States, particularly the rust belt. What’s more, Tucker Carlson and others reported during the early days of the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak that the United States was dependent on China for basic medical supplies, such as penicillin.
Carlson’s comments are incredibly important, especially when we begin drilling down further into just how reliant the United States is on China: 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of all active ingredients in American pharmaceuticals come from China. In 2017 alone, the United States imported a whopping $4.6 billion in foodstuffs from the People’s Republic of China.
The corporate press has largely been silent on this matter, which isn’t surprising: They have a long history of sympathy for the People’s Republic of China and virtually all enemies of America and liberty. But there is also a deep presence by the People’s Republic of China in the United States, both in our media and in our economy, specifically in the real estate market.
If it sounds insane to you that United States laws allow a hostile foreign power to own both media and land in this country, well, you’re not alone. And while it might sound like we’re making a mountain out of a molehill, if you read the following article you will probably be amazed at just how deep the rabbithole of Chinese influence in the American media and economy goes.
This is nothing less than the defining national security issue of our age.
China Buying U.S. Land: How Much Land Does China Own in the U.S.?
American prosperity has largely been built on a dual foundation: cheap land, expensive labor. Until Ted Kennedy’s Immigration Act of 1965, Ronald Reagan’s Amnesty of 1986 and NAFTA opened up the floodgates of Third World immigration (both legal and illegal) this formula basically held firm.
When there was not enough labor, employers had to pay more rather than simply importing massive amounts of cheap labor from countries with little in the way of worker protections.
The same laws allowing for a massive influx of cheap labor have also destabilized the American real estate market: More buyers means more demand means higher prices for those looking to buy a home.
There are a myriad of social consequences from this, chief among them that family formation is more expensive and thus less attainable for the average young American worker in the 21st Century than it was in years past.
But beyond this, there is the problem of allowing foreign nationals to own real estate in the United States, a practice that is outlawed in a number of countries. Where foreign nationals are allowed to own real estate, there are often restrictions on where they can buy and how much they can own.
The reasons for this hardly need explaining, but we will do so anyway: First, the citizens of a nation have first claim on the land there. Second, it is potentially dangerous to allow too much of a nation’s land to fall into the hands of foreigners.
Currently 30 million acres of American farmland is owned by foreign investors or fully 2.2 percent of all American farmland. For context, that’s an area roughly the size of Mississippi or Pennsylvania These are effectively absentee landlords who own some of the best real estate in the United States.
For its part, China owned 191,000 acres worth $1.9 billion as of 2019. This might not sound like a lot, but Chinese ownership of American farmland has exploded dramatically over the last decade. Indeed, there has been a tenfold expansion of Chinese ownership of farmland in the United States in less than a decade.
Six states — Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota and Oklahoma — currently ban foreign ownership of farmland.
Massive Chinese investment in American farmland is troubling for one very obvious reason: It puts the food security of the nation in the hands of a hostile foreign power. But there is also the social cost of allowing foreign buyers who have effectively unlimited resources to compete on the real estate market with smaller domestic buyers.
It is understandable if no one reading this has any tears to shed for Big Aggie, but the real victims of this are smaller landholders. For those concerned about environmental issues, ask yourself who is more likely to practice good stewardship of the land — American farmers or Chinese bureaucrats thousands of miles away.
Chinese Real Estate Investors in the U.S.
In addition to their farmland holdings, China owns more residential real estate than any other foreign country, which has a significant impact on the real estate market on the West Coast. Sound far-fetched?
According to Market Watch, “Chinese buyers accounted for roughly 25 percent of total foreign investment in U.S. residential real estate.” Canada was far behind at a relatively scant 9 percent.
The article specifically mentions Chinese investment in California real estate as a driving force behind high housing prices in the Golden State. It’s worth noting that many of these properties are owned as rental properties by absentee landlords. Again, who is going to care more about the quality of tenant life?
An American down the street or a Chinese bureaucrat thousands of miles away?
Modern Chinese Propaganda and the Corporate Media
Precious little is written in the major media in the United States about this epidemic of Chinese ownership of American land and real estate. Even less is written about the influence and leverage that the People’s Republic of China has within the corporate media.
This often takes the form of the corporate directors of media firms having close financial ties to China that are little known to the American public. This creates a financial incentive to white wash the actions of the People’s Republic of China, both domestically and abroad.
Recall the way that the media bristled at calling COVID-19 “the China Virus” or “Wuhan Coronavirus.” There is a reason for this beyond simple political correctness. Many in the upper echelons of the corporate media have a vested interest in protecting the reputation of the People’s Republic of China.
The New York Times (NYT)
Take Carlos Slim, the largest shareholder of The New York Times, who controls about a third of the board. His other ventures have very close ties to Chinese firms that are directly tied to the Chinese government. His Giant Motors is engaged in joint operations with China’s JAC Motors to penetrate the Latin American market.
This was an attempt to work around the Trump Administration’s aggressive trade policies against China. America Movil, his mobile phone company, has partnered with Huawei Technologies to sell 5G technology in Colombia. Huawei is a proven threat to American security and wants to end federal restrictions on their access to 5G technology.
Washington Post (WaPo)
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO and owner of the Washington Post. Many of Amazon’s biggest-selling products, such as the Echo and the Kindle, are manufactured in China by low-wage, low-skill labor.
Bezos’ cheerleading for the People’s Republic of China is much more explicit than that of Slim: The Washington Post includes a supplement called “China Watch” which is written directly by the Chinese government’s official media arm.
The fact that this is a paid advertising supplement shouldn’t calm any worries about the PRC’s influence over at the Post — it effectively means that Bezos is accepting money from the Chinese government to run official Chinese propaganda in an American newspaper.
Cable News Network (CNN)
CNN is a property of WarnerMedia, which is very closely tied to the People’s Republic of China. They have a $50 million investment deal with the PRC. Specifically, this is an investment in China Media Capital, a private company (in as much as such things exist in the PRC) subject to the censorship of the Chinese government.
It is worth remembering how CNN fawned over the Chinese reaction to the Wuhan Coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic.
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Both MSNBC and NBC are owned by NBC Universal who have a partnership with China’s state-run media, Xinhua, to cooperate on international news. The United States State Department has identified Xinhua as “foreign missions,” effectively Chinese propaganda outfits with no independence from the Chinese government.
What’s more, CMC Partners, an investment group with direct technological and financial oversight from Beijing, now has full ownership of Oriental Dreamworks, formerly owned by NBC Universal.
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
ABC arguably has the strongest ties with the Chinese economy. The Chinese government and state-owned enterprises provided significant support for the $3.6 trillion cost of building a Disney World in Shanghai.
ESPN, another ABC property, told staff to not disparage the Communist regime and, where possible, to avoid the topic entirely. This was during the fracas over an NBA coach’s criticism of the Chinese regime, American media properties effectively siding with China over America.
Bloomberg
Bloomberg is heavily invested in China, which is perhaps why Michael Bloomberg refuses to even refer to the People’s Republic of China as a dictatorship.
For Bloomberg, it is a far more insidious relationship than other American media companies: They have sent $150 billion into Chinese bond markets to 364 companies. Out of the 364, 159 were directly controlled by the Chinese government.
Bloomberg’s media arm has been a willing servant of the Chinese Communist Party. In 2014, they squashed a story about the wealth of the Chinese elites. They leveraged a non-disclosure agreement to silence both a reporter based in Beijing and his wife, neither of whom ever worked for Bloomberg.
Lest one think that this is simply an example of companies seeking to do good business in a large and emerging market, it is worth noting that conservative media outlets are far less likely to be invested in China and when they are, they tend to be significantly less invested than their mainstream, liberal counterparts.
News Corp, for example, the parent company of Fox News, has effectively abandoned trying to penetrate China in any significant way.
Finally, there is the question of communication infrastructure in the United States. In February 2020, Attorney General William Barr warned Americans that we were losing the war to roll out 5G networks both domestically and abroad.
The economic concern here is not insignificant: There’s tons of money in 5G infrastructure and it’s much better that this go in the pockets of Americans than to the People’s Republic of China.
However, especially in the wake of the Huawei security scandal, it is worth asking whether or not any American data is safe in a world where the Chinese control the dominant mobile telecommunications infrastructure.
There’s no “smoking gun” per se, but there is a heck of a lot of smoke when it comes to Chinese influence in the American media ecosystem. One step beyond this is the literal ownership of Chinese propaganda media in the United States.
Meet China Radio International: China’s Equivalent to Radio Free Europe
China Radio International is effectively the Chinese equivalent of Radio Free Europe. It broadcasts PRC propaganda all around the world, including in the United States.
They own ten radio stations in the United States, which might not sound like a lot until you consider that they’re in most of the major American media markets including Atlanta, Houston, Boston, Las Vegas and two in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
It can also be accessed basically anywhere in the world via Internet or shortwave.
China Buys Hollywood: Chinese Penetration in the Film Market
The People’s Republic of China’s penetration in the American media is not limited to a few AM radio stations, either.
Beginning in 2012, the People’s Republic of China began looking for ways to penetrate the American film market. Specifically, China has sought to create inroads into owning American film distribution. This effectively allows them a veto over films that might run contrary to the PRC’s goals for its image abroad.
This could be something as simple as squashing a movie revolving around protests. They can also help to promote films that are a sort of soft propaganda for the Chinese regime, such as the Disney nature documentary Born In China.
Dalian Wanda is a Chinese firm that stands as an exemplar of how Chinese penetration of the American media market will work. It is, since 2012, the owner of the AMC theater chain, which it then used to purchase Carmike Cinemas.
When taken together, these two companies form the largest chain of theaters in the United States, giving a Chinese firm a massive amount of leverage over the American movie marketplace. The parent company, Dalian Wanda, has been very candid about its intention to use ownership of these chains to promote Chinese interests in the United States.
The bottom line is, don’t expect to see any films about Tibet or the Hong Kong protests in AMC theaters anytime soon.
Dalian Wanda and other Chinese firms are also looking to acquire significant stakes in American film production companies, controlling the content that Americans — and, of course, the world market — can see from the very source.
Dalian Wanda purchased Legendary Entertainment in 2016. This is the studio responsible for such international hits as: Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Dark Knight, Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom and many others.
Paramount Pictures wanted to sell 49 percent of its shares to Dalian Wanda, however the deal fell through. Instead, they formed a partnership with Chinese media companies Shanghai Film Group and Huahua Media.
In addition to pro-Chinese propaganda, China can and has used their leverage in the American film market to begin pushing anti-American propaganda.
In Joshua Kurlantzick’s article “China: Economic Power, Political Enigma” in Washington Quarterly, he details how film companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party have glorified the 9/11 attacks.
Coming soon to a movie theater near you.
TikTok Controversy: China Controls the Algorithm
The PRC has likewise made inroads into the lucrative and popular gaming market. For many young people, the preferred form of media is not movies or even television, but gaming. Chinese companies are now in control of Riot Games, Epic Games, and Cryptic Studios.
This means that China will now be controlling media consumed by children and young adults, able to insert various forms of subtle propaganda into their favorite games.
But the real concern might not even be a hostile foreign power propagandizing to your children through the medium of video games. It might be the technological and military capabilities that China has access to when they purchase video game companies.
The United States military has worked in the past with large research universities to come up with realistic training simulations leveraging emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
And, of course, there was also TikTok, the Chinese social media platform popular with “Zoomers” that was little more than Chinese spyware. The Trump Administration moved to either ban it or force China to sell it to an American firm.
This represents the first significant pushback against Chinese infiltration of the American media and economy, but we sincerely hope that it will not be the last.
The Fight Against Communist Chinese Influence in America
In February 2020, the Trump Administration announced that five state-run Chinese “media” companies (China Daily Distribution CorpChina Global Television Network, China Radio International, Hai Tian Development USA Inc. and Xinhua News Agency) would no longer be recognized as such, but would instead be called by their proper names — they will now be treated as foreign embassies.
In June of that same year, the Trump Administration added an additional four state-run media entities to that list: China Central Television, China News Service, the Global Times and the People’s Daily. This was in part thanks to increased use of these media arms as propaganda outlets in the United States.
China retaliated in March by revoking the press credentials of three reporters from the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal before expelling them from the country.
PRC officials were very candid that this was in direct response to American actions to curb and monitor the activity of Chinese propaganda outlets in the United States.
The tangible effect of this is that the companies now have to disclose to the government who works for them, as well as share all hiring and firing decisions with the State Department. They likewise will now have to register with the State Department all properties rented and owned within the United States.
Before they can purchase or lease new property, they will have to obtain approval from the State Department. It is worth noting that Western media outlets operate under far more strict rules in China than their Chinese counterparts do in the United States.
It is unsurprising that the People’s Republic of China would do anything within its power to expand its global reach and to influence public opinion abroad, especially at a time when more and more Westerners are becoming skeptical of the relationship between the PRC and the West.
However, what is surprising is how little the United States and other Western governments have done to prevent Chinese penetration of their economy and culture.
It may or may not be troubling when foreign nationals own real estate and media within the United States. There are solid arguments in either direction.
However, one would be hard pressed to make the case that allowing the People’s Republic of China — a rogue state by virtually any definition, the chief rival of the United States internationally and an enemy of liberty around the world — any influence in the American real estate market and media is a mistake of potentially world-changing proportions.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-23--FDA Lets Pfizer Test Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine on U.S. Children

Americans have been following COVID-19 vaccine trial developments for weeks , watching companies jockey for frontrunner status like contestants in a reality TV show .
And though participants in some of the studies ( by Moderna , Oxford , Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer ) have surfaced with reactions serious enough to pause several of the trials , market analysts remain “ bullish ” about the near-term prospects for approval of these liability-free products by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) .
On Oct. 16 , Pfizer ’ s CEO indicated the company would likely file for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BNT162b2 vaccine in late November .
That statement came three days after Pfizer announced that it had received FDA permission to administer the unproven vaccine to children as young as 12 , becoming the first company in the U.S. to include young participants in Phase 3 trials .
In the UK , Oxford and AstraZeneca gained approval to test their vaccine in children aged 5-12 back in May , a couple of months before two of their adult clinical trial participants developed transverse myelitis .
To date , Pfizer has administered two doses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in five countries .
Unworried by the dramatic side effects reported by some of these adults — including high fever , pounding headaches , body aches , exhaustion and shivering intense enough to crack teeth — more than 90 parents have already expressed interest in volunteering their teenagers .
Are these parents ( perhaps left unemployed by coronavirus restrictions ) tempted by the financial incentives offered to clinical trial participants , reportedly anywhere from $ 1200 to $ 2000 ?
Otherwise , their motivation for wanting to throw their children into the experimental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Cincinnati Children ’ s Hospital stated , “ most of the time , what a coronavirus causes is a cold ” that does not even make children “ sick enough to where a parent says they need to go to a doctor.
” The Cincinnati physician has , nonetheless , just started giving Pfizer ’ s shot to 16- and 17-year-olds ( and soon to 12-15-year-olds ) .
To entice additional young participants , he tells parents that the COVID-19 death rate in children is “ not zero ” — but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the survival rate in those age 19 and under is 99.997 % .
Using similarly vague language , a Memorial Sloan-Kettering health policy expert said that a COVID-19 vaccine ’ s benefits for the young would likely be “ secondary ’ in nature ” but characterized the gesture as “ an act of service to help protect others.
” However , reports in Pediatrics and other journals assert that children are not a source of infection and are far more likely to acquire COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to them.
” In other words , policymakers expect children to accept a risk-benefit equation heavily tilted toward risk .
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer — the second-largest drug and biotech company in the world and the fourth-highest earner of vaccine revenues — has seen a 7 % increase in its share value this year .
However , though Pfizer claims to be a standard-bearer for “ quality , safety and value , ” it has a corporate rap sheet a mile long .
Pfizer is routinely mired in controversies involving alleged price-fixing , bribery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ misdirection and other unsavory practices and has also repeatedly paid fines for environmental violations at its research and manufacturing plants .
Critics point to decades of aggressive and questionable marketing .
In 2009 , this behavior earned Pfizer the dubious distinction of paying the largest-ever criminal fine at the time — $ 2.3 billion — for fraudulent and illegal promotion of four drugs , including a painkiller marketed at “ dangerously high ” doses .
In 2016 , a British regulator levied a $ 106 million fine against Pfizer for a 2600 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prescribed anti-epilepsy drug that increased the National Health Services ’ expenditures from one year to the next — for a single drug—from $ 2.5 million to $ 63 million .
Perhaps to compensate for its unpleasant track record , Pfizer is the top drug company spender in state elections , even outspending the industry ’ s own lobbying group , Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America ( PhRM ) .
As a just-published analysis of drug company political spending by STAT and the National Institute on Money and Politics shows , Pfizer ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 778,000 since January 2019 ) “ mirrors its behavior at the federal level , where its [ political action committee ] was also the top political spender among drug companies ” — roughly $ 1 million over the same time period .
The report pointedly notes that while the amounts paid out to legislators represent a “ pittance ” for a company earning tens of billions a year , “ those small chunks of corporate change can have a significant impact.
” Pfizer is responsible for two vaccines on the U.S. childhood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine Prevnar-13 ( given to children under 5 and also to older adults ) and the meningococcal vaccine Trumenba ( approved for 10 – 25-year-olds ) .
Package inserts link the two vaccines to a large number of serious adverse events , including anaphylaxis and other allergic reactions , severe headaches and chronic muscle and joint pain .
Among the roughly 40 harms listed in the Prevnar-13 insert are sudden infant death syndrome ( SIDS ) and half a dozen other fatal outcomes .
Pfizer developed its COVID-19 vaccine — which uses experimental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in partnership with the German biopharma company BioNTech .
Although mRNA vaccines must be stored in special ultra-low-temperature freezers that pose certain logistic obstacles , Pfizer is gung-ho on the never-before-approved approach because it bypasses the more costly and difficult methods used in traditional vaccine production .
It does this by essentially turning recipients into “ vaccine factories ” — with long-term risks that are unknown .
Pfizer and BioNTech brought their COVID-19 vaccine candidates “ from concept into clinical development ” in under three months , perhaps helped along by the current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pfizer into a more “ nimble ” company .
At the same time , observers who now place Pfizer at the head of the pack for COVID-19 vaccines credit the company ’ s “ well-oiled system , ” remarking that “ Pfizer ’ s incredibly organized and is always … a couple steps ahead , planning where they want to go.
” In the summer of 2019 , after having served as the Trump administration ’ s FDA commissioner for two years , Scott Gottlieb passed through the revolving door to join Pfizer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as becoming a regular contributor on CNBC .
For the past four decades , stepping onto pharmaceutical boards has been par for the course for departing FDA commissioners , though Gottlieb may have upped the ante by also joining the boards of the AI- and big-data-reliant genetic testing start-up , Tempus , and the biotech company Illumina .
While at the FDA , Gottlieb presided over a record number of drug approvals .
According to one commentator , this “ trail-blazing ” FDA stint and Gottlieb ’ s focus on “ hustling up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ helped endear him to the industry , making him one of the most popular commissioners in FDA history.
” As the director of a consumer watchdog group put it , “ He ’ s basically been a shill for pharmaceutical corporations for much of his career.
” Two months before stepping down from the agency , Gottlieb attracted notice when he strongly denied any link between vaccines and autism while publicly threatening that the federal government might be “ forced ” to intervene in states with vaccine exemptions to make vaccines mandatory across @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with CNBC may explain why he has been a frequent public face during the coronavirus pandemic , promoting the U.S. as a world leader in the vaccine race but also vocally endorsing measures like universal masking , universal testing and restaurant and school shutdowns .
On October 19 , Gottlieb dourly told Americans that the U.S. is “ entering a pretty difficult period ” and that “ the hardest part is probably [ still ] ahead.
” Ironically , around the same time that Gottlieb was using positive test results to hype ongoing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and chief science officer in the UK characterized mass testing as “ inappropriate , ” asserting that “ it is impossible for the positives to be much other than false.
” Discussing the harsh policies that have been particularly disastrous for children , the former Pfizer executive agreed that they have essentially been based on “ completely fake data.
” Reporter Whitney Webb recently outlined how Operation Warp Speed is awarding contracts to vaccine companies through a nongovernmental defense contractor intermediary , a tactic that shields the contracts from oversight and federal regulation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heads up the Operation Warp Speed initiative — stated that after a round of testing in adolescents , he expects the leading coronavirus vaccines to also be tested in toddlers and babies .
Parents would do well to keep their children on the sidelines of these experiments .
If vaccine clinical trials , including Pfizer ’ s , are already generating concerning results in adults capable of describing their symptoms , what will happen when preverbal babies experience similar adverse outcomes ?

FDA Lets Pfizer Test Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine on U.S. Children
By: Children’s Health Defense Team
Americans have been following COVID-19 vaccine trial developments for weeks, watching companies jockey for frontrunner status like contestants in a reality TV show. And though participants in some of the studies (by Moderna, Oxford, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer) have surfaced with reactions serious enough to pause several of the trials, market analysts remain “bullish” about the near-term prospects for approval of these liability-free products by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
On Oct. 16, Pfizer’s CEO indicated the company would likely file for FDA Emergency Use Authorization for its experimental BNT162b2 vaccine in late November. That statement came three days after Pfizer announced that it had received FDA permission to administer the unproven vaccine to children as young as 12, becoming the first company in the U.S. to include young participants in Phase 3 trials. In the UK, Oxford and AstraZeneca gained approval to test their vaccine in children aged 5-12 back in May, a couple of months before two of their adult clinical trial participants developed transverse myelitis.
To date, Pfizer has administered two doses of vaccine to almost 35,000 adult participants in five countries. Unworried by the dramatic side effects reported by some of these adults — including high fever, pounding headaches, body aches, exhaustion and shivering intense enough to crack teeth — more than 90 parents have already expressed interest in volunteering their teenagers.
Are these parents (perhaps left unemployed by coronavirus restrictions) tempted by the financial incentives offered to clinical trial participants, reportedly anywhere from $1200 to $2000? Otherwise, their motivation for wanting to throw their children into the experimental fray is unclear; as the director of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital stated, “most of the time, what a coronavirus causes is a cold” that does not even make children “sick enough to where a parent says they need to go to a doctor.”
The Cincinnati physician has, nonetheless, just started giving Pfizer’s shot to 16- and 17-year-olds (and soon to 12-15-year-olds). To entice additional young participants, he tells parents that the COVID-19 death rate in children is “not zero” — but declines to spell out that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the survival rate in those age 19 and under is 99.997%. Using similarly vague language, a Memorial Sloan-Kettering health policy expert said that a COVID-19 vaccine’s benefits for the young would likely be “secondary’ in nature” but characterized the gesture as “an act of service to help protect others.”
However, reports in Pediatrics and other journals assert that children are not a source of infection and are far more likely to acquire COVID-19 from adults “rather than transmitting it to them.” In other words, policymakers expect children to accept a risk-benefit equation heavily tilted toward risk.
Corporate bad guy
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer — the second-largest drug and biotech company in the world and the fourth-highest earner of vaccine revenues — has seen a 7% increase in its share value this year. However, though Pfizer claims to be a standard-bearer for “quality, safety and value,” it has a corporate rap sheet a mile long. Pfizer is routinely mired in controversies involving alleged price-fixing, bribery, kickbacks, tax avoidance, regulatory misdirection and other unsavory practices and has also repeatedly paid fines for environmental violations at its research and manufacturing plants.
Critics point to decades of aggressive and questionable marketing. In 2009, this behavior earned Pfizer the dubious distinction of paying the largest-ever criminal fine at the time — $2.3 billion — for fraudulent and illegal promotion of four drugs, including a painkiller marketed at “dangerously high” doses. In 2016, a British regulator levied a $106 million fine against Pfizer for a 2600% increase in the price of a widely prescribed anti-epilepsy drug that increased the National Health Services’ expenditures from one year to the next — for a single drug—from $2.5 million to $63 million.
Perhaps to compensate for its unpleasant track record, Pfizer is the top drug company spender in state elections, even outspending the industry’s own lobbying group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRM). As a just-published analysis of drug company political spending by STAT and the National Institute on Money and Politics shows, Pfizer’s “prolific” state-level spending ($778,000 since January 2019) “mirrors its behavior at the federal level, where its [political action committee] was also the top political spender among drug companies” — roughly $1 million over the same time period. The report pointedly notes that while the amounts paid out to legislators represent a “pittance” for a company earning tens of billions a year, “those small chunks of corporate change can have a significant impact.”
Pfizer’s vaccines
Pfizer is responsible for two vaccines on the U.S. childhood and adolescent vaccine schedule: the pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar-13 (given to children under 5 and also to older adults) and the meningococcal vaccine Trumenba (approved for 10 – 25-year-olds). Package inserts link the two vaccines to a large number of serious adverse events, including anaphylaxis and other allergic reactions, severe headaches and chronic muscle and joint pain. Among the roughly 40 harms listed in the Prevnar-13 insert are sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and half a dozen other fatal outcomes.
Pfizer developed its COVID-19 vaccine — which uses experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) technology — in partnership with the German biopharma company BioNTech. Although mRNA vaccines must be stored in special ultra-low-temperature freezers that pose certain logistic obstacles, Pfizer is gung-ho on the never-before-approved approach because it bypasses the more costly and difficult methods used in traditional vaccine production. It does this by essentially turning recipients into “vaccine factories” — with long-term risks that are unknown.
Pfizer and BioNTech brought their COVID-19 vaccine candidates “from concept into clinical development” in under three months, perhaps helped along by the current Pfizer CEO’s efforts to restructure Pfizer into a more “nimble” company. At the same time, observers who now place Pfizer at the head of the pack for COVID-19 vaccines credit the company’s “well-oiled system,” remarking that “Pfizer’s incredibly organized and is always … a couple steps ahead, planning where they want to go.”
Conflicts of interest and revolving doors
In the summer of 2019, after having served as the Trump administration’s FDA commissioner for two years, Scott Gottlieb passed through the revolving door to join Pfizer’s board of directors as well as becoming a regular contributor on CNBC. For the past four decades, stepping onto pharmaceutical boards has been par for the course for departing FDA commissioners, though Gottlieb may have upped the ante by also joining the boards of the AI- and big-data-reliant genetic testing start-up, Tempus, and the biotech company Illumina.
While at the FDA, Gottlieb presided over a record number of drug approvals. According to one commentator, this “trail-blazing” FDA stint and Gottlieb’s focus on “hustling up the [drug approval] process … helped endear him to the industry, making him one of the most popular commissioners in FDA history.” As the director of a consumer watchdog group put it, “He’s basically been a shill for pharmaceutical corporations for much of his career.” Two months before stepping down from the agency, Gottlieb attracted notice when he strongly denied any link between vaccines and autism while publicly threatening that the federal government might be “forced” to intervene in states with vaccine exemptions to make vaccines mandatory across the board.
Gottlieb’s affiliation with CNBC may explain why he has been a frequent public face during the coronavirus pandemic, promoting the U.S. as a world leader in the vaccine race but also vocally endorsing measures like universal masking, universal testing and restaurant and school shutdowns. On October 19, Gottlieb dourly told Americans that the U.S. is “entering a pretty difficult period” and that “the hardest part is probably [still] ahead.” Ironically, around the same time that Gottlieb was using positive test results to hype ongoing restrictive measures, a former Pfizer vice-president and chief science officer in the UK characterized mass testing as “inappropriate,” asserting that “it is impossible for the positives to be much other than false.” Discussing the harsh policies that have been particularly disastrous for children, the former Pfizer executive agreed that they have essentially been based on “completely fake data.”
Kids at risk
Reporter Whitney Webb recently outlined how Operation Warp Speed is awarding contracts to vaccine companies through a nongovernmental defense contractor intermediary, a tactic that shields the contracts from oversight and federal regulation. Meanwhile, Moncef Slaoui — who heads up the Operation Warp Speed initiative — stated that after a round of testing in adolescents, he expects the leading coronavirus vaccines to also be tested in toddlers and babies. Parents would do well to keep their children on the sidelines of these experiments. If vaccine clinical trials, including Pfizer’s, are already generating concerning results in adults capable of describing their symptoms, what will happen when preverbal babies experience similar adverse outcomes?
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-23--KEN’S CORNER: A Blinding Light & the Lost Shadow of New Orleans, 1967

KEN ’ S CORNER : A Blinding Light & the Lost Shadow of New Orleans , 1967 It had been raining that night , and as the signal flashed from yellow to red , glimmers and sparks flashed from it ’ s reflection on a street slick with a thin veneer of exhaust oil and city dander .
In the bounce and roll , I made my way down the aisle , holding on to the chrome edge of seat-railings to keep balance… I put my unlit cigarette to my 16-year-old-lips , and descended down to the second step… and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The bus gave off a low and steady toned/high pitched vibration from deep inside , and it throbbed from the hand-hold into my arm , and into my chest .
I retrieved my silver Zippo , the one I had found in a Quarter-bar a million years ago , and clicked it open and shut like absent-minded taps on concrete .
I put one foot up and glanced at the old Driver dressed in his faded , dark blue uniform , and he looked me up and down .
I had never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stare curious .
I had a brand new pair of patent-leather beetle ( fruit ) boots , somewhat hidden under the wide cuffs of my well-washed Nega jeans that flared-out like some gaucho dungaree .
Tucked inside of my 32″ black alligator belt was my dark , mint-green ban-lon shirt , and the silver threads running through it showed my social ranking… My left sleeve had my smokes rolled up tightly .
It was the registered trademark of my kind , and as I thought there was no one else like us in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I was right… That red flashed molten through the window , and as the grinding broke to silence , it seemed to ignite my slicked-back Brylcreamed hair… My beardless face looked vacant to a casual observer , but I saw everything from the 360 degree parameter of my mirrored Ran-Bans… It was a method taught to me by boys who looked , acted , and dressed just like me… It was but a few of the elements that separated us from the frats and pits , who we considered weak-natured , dependent , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no victims , in fact we though ourselves to be the very top of the food chain .
I carried a roll of silver dimes in my left pocket for a killer right hook , an eject-able slot “ mace ” pin in the other , just in case , and with a switch-blade in my right boot sock , it seemed the icing .
They were a kind of comfort , a validation of my true station , I suppose… but tools to survive in a jungle .
None that I knew @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a gun , unlike the cesspool New Orleans has become today , where life is cheap .
We needed only the first punch… A Hood only needed one .
When we squared off , there was always blood , but both survived to try again… most always .
“ You getting off here son ?
” he said with a raspy , pulsating voice .
“ This is a bad-ass neighborhood after midnight , man.
” I saw that he had what looked to be a burn-mark on his chin… The door opened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ air , wafting on a thick perfume of honey-suckled tar… with the familiar melody of our midnight train-whistle , coming all the way from People ’ s avenue canal , it sounded like WTIX in Mandeville… My little Microcosm was but a pinhead on a world map I knew nothing about… that AM station , along with WNOE , played loud and clear everywhere .
My silver Zippo sparked and lit a yellow-kerosene flame to my Marlborough Red , and a cloud of ruby and silvered smog appeared like magic dust .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Dulcinea , dissipating as concentric spirals seeking the humid Gentilly night… A second went by , and then another… but a second was an eternity to me then… I looked at him with a practiced laugh and said .
“ Bad ass ?
I AM the bad ass , sir.
” And like a spider-monkey swinging on a well-worn handle , I jumped… and before I even hit the St. Augustine , that door had shut… I walked to the sidewalk , and headed south on Elysian Fields Avenue toward Saint Raphael @ @ @ @ @ @ @ held my rocket-pen that could shoot a small-condensed cloud of mace 16 feet… I practiced a dozen times , and learned quickly to be upwind… The other inserted a key to unlock the door of my 66 Mustang , and as the light turned to green overhead , I fit perfectly into my bucket seat .
All in one motion… smoothly practiced from the solid click of the door locking , to the start of it ’ s 289… I pulled from the curb , and in a moment was passing that public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distance the lights of Pontchartrain Beach , and I was free… and in what seemed like a moment , that bus was but a spec in my rear view .
I was a samurai , a knight for right , Conan the Barbarian , and a song of my own creation… I was the son of the inner city , New Orleans borne , and my experiences had molded me to be fearless… and as I moved under the neutral ground oaks , under blue soda lamps and tungsten street- lights , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I thought myself a blinding light , and a blinding light leaves no shadow .
Yes , I know now I had a lot to learn… but no one could tell me that back then… and no one is really at fault when you are a product of your environment… as life ’ s lessons will attest .
These days I carry a 9mm concealed , with two extra clips , and with practice I can now shoot directly into the wind .
I figured to leave New Orleans because I was responsible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and it was the Murder capital of the US when we left in ’ 76… I don ’ t drink or smoke any more , and now retired oilfield , but in my heart I still consider myself a hood , from the old neighborhood , and my experiences there served me well from Viet Nam to Saudi Arabia… And really , New Orleans was invaded by a new kind of “ folks ” of low-quality , mean spirited , and a limited IQ… who trashed everything white out of spite .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and destroyed , because they had little to nothing inside to ignite… Those days have made the man I am today , good or bad , right and wrong , and yet without them I would not have the love of my life , nor a lifetime of being responsible for myself .
That , to me , is of great value , and I am what I am….very lucky .
And then I found Madeline .
She was 14 , and has never left my side .
From the Author , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Liberty movement have been fighting to take back this country for less than a decade , peacefully and with the love of God and country in our hearts .
Our banner has been trampled on and displaced by a multitude of distractions , further eroding our nation and the cause for Liberty .
And so , as we are pulled by forces we can not fathom , powerful entities with unlimited resources stolen from our future , unaccountable trillions printed out of thin air and put on our backs as debt , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ questions any patriot might ask in the final hour : Are we going to fight for our master ’ s tyranny , or are we going to demand the return of our civil liberties and Constitution ?
Are we going to choose The Banner of Liberty , or the shackles of voluntary servitude ?
Will it be a war for corporate profit , or a war to regain our ability to self govern , as the blood and toil of our forefathers presented to us , their children , as a gift ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ I fear that any decision will be a hard one , but my greatest fear of all is that the decision has already been made for us .

KEN’S CORNER: A Blinding Light & the Lost Shadow of New Orleans, 1967
Commentary by TLB Contributing Writer: Ken LaRive
It had been raining that night, and as the signal flashed from yellow to red, glimmers and sparks flashed from it’s reflection on a street slick with a thin veneer of exhaust oil and city dander. In the bounce and roll, I made my way down the aisle, holding on to the chrome edge of seat-railings to keep balance… I put my unlit cigarette to my 16-year-old-lips, and descended down to the second step… and as the bus slowed, I braced.
The bus gave off a low and steady toned/high pitched vibration from deep inside, and it throbbed from the hand-hold into my arm, and into my chest. I retrieved my silver Zippo, the one I had found in a Quarter-bar a million years ago, and clicked it open and shut like absent-minded taps on concrete.
I put one foot up and glanced at the old Driver dressed in his faded, dark blue uniform, and he looked me up and down. I had never seen him before, and found his stare curious. I had a brand new pair of patent-leather beetle (fruit) boots, somewhat hidden under the wide cuffs of my well-washed Nega jeans that flared-out like some gaucho dungaree. Tucked inside of my 32″ black alligator belt was my dark, mint-green ban-lon shirt, and the silver threads running through it showed my social ranking… My left sleeve had my smokes rolled up tightly. It was the registered trademark of my kind, and as I thought there was no one else like us in the world, I see now that I was right…
That red flashed molten through the window, and as the grinding broke to silence, it seemed to ignite my slicked-back Brylcreamed hair… My beardless face looked vacant to a casual observer, but I saw everything from the 360 degree parameter of my mirrored Ran-Bans… It was a method taught to me by boys who looked, acted, and dressed just like me… It was but a few of the elements that separated us from the frats and pits, who we considered weak-natured, dependent, with a victim mentality. We were no victims, in fact we though ourselves to be the very top of the food chain. I carried a roll of silver dimes in my left pocket for a killer right hook, an eject-able slot “mace” pin in the other, just in case, and with a switch-blade in my right boot sock, it seemed the icing.
They were a kind of comfort, a validation of my true station, I suppose… but tools to survive in a jungle. None that I knew, like me, thought to carry a gun, unlike the cesspool New Orleans has become today, where life is cheap. We needed only the first punch… A Hood only needed one. When we squared off, there was always blood, but both survived to try again… most always.
“You getting off here son?” he said with a raspy, pulsating voice. “This is a bad-ass neighborhood after midnight, man.” I saw that he had what looked to be a burn-mark on his chin…
The door opened and I could feel the cool night air, wafting on a thick perfume of honey-suckled tar… with the familiar melody of our midnight train-whistle, coming all the way from People’s avenue canal, it sounded like WTIX in Mandeville… My little Microcosm was but a pinhead on a world map I knew nothing about… that AM station, along with WNOE, played loud and clear everywhere.
My silver Zippo sparked and lit a yellow-kerosene flame to my Marlborough Red, and a cloud of ruby and silvered smog appeared like magic dust. It enveloped me like a protective shield, a Dulcinea, dissipating as concentric spirals seeking the humid Gentilly night… A second went by, and then another… but a second was an eternity to me then…
I looked at him with a practiced laugh and said. “Bad ass? I AM the bad ass, sir.” And like a spider-monkey swinging on a well-worn handle, I jumped… and before I even hit the St. Augustine, that door had shut…
I walked to the sidewalk, and headed south on Elysian Fields Avenue toward Saint Raphael School. In one hand, I held my rocket-pen that could shoot a small-condensed cloud of mace 16 feet… I practiced a dozen times, and learned quickly to be upwind… The other inserted a key to unlock the door of my 66 Mustang, and as the light turned to green overhead, I fit perfectly into my bucket seat.
All in one motion… smoothly practiced from the solid click of the door locking, to the start of it’s 289… I pulled from the curb, and in a moment was passing that public service bus. I saw in the distance the lights of Pontchartrain Beach, and I was free… and in what seemed like a moment, that bus was but a spec in my rear view. I was a samurai, a knight for right, Conan the Barbarian, and a song of my own creation… I was the son of the inner city, New Orleans borne, and my experiences had molded me to be fearless… and as I moved under the neutral ground oaks, under blue soda lamps and tungsten street- lights, I noticed I no longer had a shadow… I thought myself a blinding light, and a blinding light leaves no shadow.
Yes, I know now I had a lot to learn… but no one could tell me that back then… and no one is really at fault when you are a product of your environment… as life’s lessons will attest.
These days I carry a 9mm concealed, with two extra clips, and with practice I can now shoot directly into the wind. I figured to leave New Orleans because I was responsible for my family’s safety, and it was the Murder capital of the US when we left in ’76… I don’t drink or smoke any more, and now retired oilfield, but in my heart I still consider myself a hood, from the old neighborhood, and my experiences there served me well from Viet Nam to Saudi Arabia…
And really, New Orleans was invaded by a new kind of “folks” of low-quality, mean spirited, and a limited IQ… who trashed everything white out of spite. They cast a shadow on what they touched, and destroyed, because they had little to nothing inside to ignite… Those days have made the man I am today, good or bad, right and wrong, and yet without them I would not have the love of my life, nor a lifetime of being responsible for myself. That, to me, is of great value, and I am what I am….very lucky.
And then I found Madeline. She was 14, and has never left my side.
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From the Author, Ken La Rive – We in the Liberty movement have been fighting to take back this country for less than a decade, peacefully and with the love of God and country in our hearts. Our banner has been trampled on and displaced by a multitude of distractions, further eroding our nation and the cause for Liberty. And so, as we are pulled by forces we cannot fathom, powerful entities with unlimited resources stolen from our future, unaccountable trillions printed out of thin air and put on our backs as debt, we must formulate the most pitiful of all questions any patriot might ask in the final hour: Are we going to fight for our master’s tyranny, or are we going to demand the return of our civil liberties and Constitution? Are we going to choose The Banner of Liberty, or the shackles of voluntary servitude? Will it be a war for corporate profit, or a war to regain our ability to self govern, as the blood and toil of our forefathers presented to us, their children, as a gift? I fear that decision is emanate. I fear that any decision will be a hard one, but my greatest fear of all is that the decision has already been made for us.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-23--The Great Worldwide Awakening 2020 [VIDEO ONLY]

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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-23--Honesty, Responsibility and Declaring Fake Emergencies

What passes for government on this planet is , by and large , a mismanaged mess .
It has been a mismanaged mess for thousands of years .
The mismanaged mess results in a very hard time for billions of this planet ’ s inhabitants .
If we are to guarantee the survival of our hard-won civilisation , let alone evolve our civilisation into a more desirable and more benign form , then we really must take action to sort out the business of government .
The mismanaged mess derives in large measure from the fact that we have not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ basic principles as to what we want government to be and do – and then communicated those principles to those carrying the responsibility of governance and MADE them abide by them .
In the absence of broadly agreed and insisted upon basic pro-survival principles to keep them honest , clear-headed and straight , governments can and do go astray .
It is therefore imperative that we who desire benign , pro-survival governance designed and operated for the good of all ( ALL ) the people of our nation and of our planet figure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ principles .
A primary difficulty we have with government is that politicians and officials lie to the people .
We can all agree that no matter what ideals , bright ideas , policies and so forth the different politicians promote , they SHOULD TELL THE TRUTH .
This enables us to establish the following principles of benign governance : No person in government may communicate or seek to communicate by any means overt or covert any knowing falsehood , false report or misrepresentation to the people or to other officials or representatives .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ be enshrined in just laws .
* those just laws must be applicable and enforceable upon ALL government officials , representatives , agents , agencies , proxies and representatives .
* those just laws must also be enforceable on and applicable to ALL persons , entities and agencies , corporations et al making representations , applications or submissions to or entering into co-action with government or any agency thereof .
One can observe that persons in government can engage in deceitful , capricious , corrupt and damaging actions that would be treated as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a non-government sphere , with little or no fear of ever being held to account for what they do .
This creates an environment in which criminality can flourish .
By its nature , the effects created by government upon the rest of society can be extensive and thus the damage caused by criminality can be extensive .
For that reason it is absolutely imperative that there is no room in government for criminality .
It is an inviolable principle of sound and ethical governance that each person involved therein is responsible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must be held accountable under just laws for his or her own actions .
This principle applies to ALL spheres inside and outside government – such as corporations , banks and so forth – and is in fact a fundamental requirement for the good health and well being of any culture or society .
* there are no exemptions to the above * the notion that any person carrying out , or ordering or aiding and abetting the carrying out of any act that results in harm to others is exempt due to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governmental entity is hereby CANCELLED .
A corporate , business or governmental entity is not a person but comprises persons and among these persons are the specific persons who conceive , plan , order or carry out actions and are responsible for those actions .
* this principle of personal responsibility applies not just to government but to all entities large or small so , for example , when a corporation produces a drug that harms or kills and it is found that the harm results from negligent safety testing or disingenuous marketing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made the decisions or gave the orders or devised the company ’ s policies or were party thereto , from the Board and CEO and major shareholders on down , must be held accountable and prosecuted for causing actual bodily harm or whatever the appropriate criminal charge might be .
This principle of personal accountability will compel the decision makers and planners in all entities to behave responsibly towards their fellows .
The need to act swiftly to deal with an emergency can on rare occasions require the temporary suspension of democratic norms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elements who have subverted or are operating within government in that emergencies are provoked , fabricated or propagandised so as to justify the suspension of democratic norms and the cancellation or inhibition of the human rights of the citizenry .
The damage done to the nation by such actions can be considerable .
For the well being of the nation , it is VITAL that such activity is never allowed to happen again .
The fabrication of a fake emergency or threat ( whether natural or man-made ) or the exaggeration of an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a threat is forbidden and must be proscribed by just laws .
Any such action by any person within the broad sphere of government and their allies , proxies and co-conspirators shall result in prosecution with terms of imprisonment for any person found guilty thereof .
* any government must be able to declare an emergency where such actually exists .
Therefore , clear criteria , easily understood by the populace for the declaring such an emergency must be drawn up and made public .
The government must be bound by law to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criteria shall include the specific maximum length of time that such an emergency may exist before government has to re-apply to the parliament for its extension and this must include clear criteria for granting an extension * the criteria shall include exact stipulations as to what government may and may not do during the emergency * no laws , edicts , regulations , enactments powers and the like announced during the emergency in accordance with the criteria may exist beyond the ending of the emergency and any attempt to extend or make permanent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law .
* the criteria shall include the legal requirement that after the emergency is over , a full judicial inquiry shall be held to scrutinise the good faith or otherwise , the legality or otherwise and the adherence to the criteria established for such emergencies of the actions of those persons involved in the presentation of the alleged emergency and any suspension of democratic norms .
Any person found to have knowingly or negligently issued or forwarded by any means overt or covert false or misleading statistics , reports or information shall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guilty liable to a term of imprisonment .
More Observation and Principles to follow The above article is from UK Reloaded

by Fabian Ubiquitus
What passes for government on this planet is, by and large, a mismanaged mess. It has been a mismanaged mess for thousands of years.
The mismanaged mess results in a very hard time for billions of this planet’s inhabitants.
If we are to guarantee the survival of our hard-won civilisation, let alone evolve our civilisation into a more desirable and more benign form, then we really must take action to sort out the business of government.
The mismanaged mess derives in large measure from the fact that we have not even figured out and agreed upon some basic principles as to what we want government to be and do – and then communicated those principles to those carrying the responsibility of governance and MADE them abide by them.
In the absence of broadly agreed and insisted upon basic pro-survival principles to keep them honest, clear-headed and straight, governments can and do go astray.
It is therefore imperative that we who desire benign, pro-survival governance designed and operated for the good of all (ALL) the people of our nation and of our planet figure out and insist upon some basic common-sense principles.
#1 Honesty
Observation
A primary difficulty we have with government is that politicians and officials lie to the people. We can all agree that no matter what ideals, bright ideas, policies and so forth the different politicians promote, they SHOULD TELL THE TRUTH.
This enables us to establish the following principles of benign governance:
Principle
No person in government may communicate or seek to communicate by any means overt or covert any knowing falsehood, false report or misrepresentation to the people or to other officials or representatives.
* the requirement for that truthfulness must be enshrined in just laws.
* those just laws must be applicable and enforceable upon ALL government officials, representatives, agents, agencies, proxies and representatives.
* those just laws must also be enforceable on and applicable to ALL persons, entities and agencies, corporations et al making representations, applications or submissions to or entering into co-action with government or any agency thereof.
#2 Personal Responsibility
Observation
One can observe that persons in government can engage in deceitful, capricious, corrupt and damaging actions that would be treated as criminal if carried out by any person in a non-government sphere, with little or no fear of ever being held to account for what they do. This creates an environment in which criminality can flourish. By its nature, the effects created by government upon the rest of society can be extensive and thus the damage caused by criminality can be extensive. For that reason it is absolutely imperative that there is no room in government for criminality.
Principle
It is an inviolable principle of sound and ethical governance that each person involved therein is responsible for his or her own actions and must be held accountable under just laws for his or her own actions. This principle applies to ALL spheres inside and outside government – such as corporations, banks and so forth – and is in fact a fundamental requirement for the good health and well being of any culture or society.
* there are no exemptions to the above
* the notion that any person carrying out, or ordering or aiding and abetting the carrying out of any act that results in harm to others is exempt due to the collective liability of some corporate or governmental entity is hereby CANCELLED. A corporate, business or governmental entity is not a person but comprises persons and among these persons are the specific persons who conceive, plan, order or carry out actions and are responsible for those actions.
* this principle of personal responsibility applies not just to government but to all entities large or small so, for example, when a corporation produces a drug that harms or kills and it is found that the harm results from negligent safety testing or disingenuous marketing and so forth, those persons who made the decisions or gave the orders or devised the company’s policies or were party thereto, from the Board and CEO and major shareholders on down, must be held accountable and prosecuted for causing actual bodily harm or whatever the appropriate criminal charge might be. This principle of personal accountability will compel the decision makers and planners in all entities to behave responsibly towards their fellows.
#3 Declaring or Promoting Emergencies
Observation
The need to act swiftly to deal with an emergency can on rare occasions require the temporary suspension of democratic norms. This can be abused by criminal elements who have subverted or are operating within government in that emergencies are provoked, fabricated or propagandised so as to justify the suspension of democratic norms and the cancellation or inhibition of the human rights of the citizenry. The damage done to the nation by such actions can be considerable. For the well being of the nation, it is VITAL that such activity is never allowed to happen again.
Principle
The fabrication of a fake emergency or threat (whether natural or man-made) or the exaggeration of an existing non-optimum situation or the provoking of a threat is forbidden and must be proscribed by just laws. Any such action by any person within the broad sphere of government and their allies, proxies and co-conspirators shall result in prosecution with terms of imprisonment for any person found guilty thereof.
* any government must be able to declare an emergency where such actually exists. Therefore, clear criteria, easily understood by the populace for the declaring such an emergency must be drawn up and made public. The government must be bound by law to abide by these criteria.
* such criteria shall include the specific maximum length of time that such an emergency may exist before government has to re-apply to the parliament for its extension and this must include clear criteria for granting an extension
* the criteria shall include exact stipulations as to what government may and may not do during the emergency
* no laws, edicts, regulations, enactments powers and the like announced during the emergency in accordance with the criteria may exist beyond the ending of the emergency and any attempt to extend or make permanent such temporary measures shall be forbidden by law.
* the criteria shall include the legal requirement that after the emergency is over, a full judicial inquiry shall be held to scrutinise the good faith or otherwise, the legality or otherwise and the adherence to the criteria established for such emergencies of the actions of those persons involved in the presentation of the alleged emergency and any suspension of democratic norms. Any person found to have knowingly or negligently issued or forwarded by any means overt or covert false or misleading statistics, reports or information shall be subject to prosecution and if found guilty liable to a term of imprisonment.
More Observation and Principles to follow
Fabian Ubiquitus writes for UK Reloaded
His identity is confidential
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