A video appearing to show Chinese citizens kneeling in the street while their vaccine passports are scanned has gone viral.
The footage was allegedly recorded in Jinan City in Shandong Province on April 1, and it has so far been viewed over 450,000 times.
China is going all-in again with COVID lockdowns and fear-mongering. Compliant Chinese are seen kneeling waiting in line for what appears to be a check by the government to ensure they are vaccinated and have a vaccine passport that is up to date.
Back around Christmas in December, the same Twitter account showed Chinese authorities carrying guns at checkpoints. The COVID guards were reportedly checking people’s QR codes and green passes to ensure Chinese citizens comply with vaccine passport requirements.
shan'xi province ( not shanxi province it's another province) xia county My worst nightmare comes true again: Chinese covid guards are carrying guns at every checkpoint to check people's qr code green passes again… If you don't comply,they can shoot you immediately! 2021.12.25 pic.twitter.com/1aVD9FpI1g
Rep. Jim Jordan gave one of the best speeches in recent history yesterday on the US House floor yesterday when he summarized the crimes, projections and destruction of America created by the current gang running this country and currently in place.
Jim Jordan presented an excellent list of crimes, projections and corruption over the past few years in a presentation yesterday on the House floor. While the Democrats and elites fight to steal the country, Americans can see these crimes and it is comforting to know that a few in Congress see them too.
Jordan shared:
Democrats have closed the Capitol, allowed proxy voting, kicked Republicans off committee, won’t let Republicans serve on this select committee. First time in the history of the Congress the minority leader was not allowed to put on committee the individuals he or she selected, first time in the history of our nation.
Democrats are trying to end the electoral college, trying to end the filibuster, trying to pack the court, this committee, the Jan 6 Committee altered evidence and presented it to the American people as if it were true. And they accuse us of bein a danger to our democracy.
Although Jordan noticeably failed to list the 2020 Election steal as the major crime committed in our country’s and perhaps world history, the rest was excellent.
Furthermore, there is no way that Kevin McCarthy should be a leader in the Republican caucus ahead of Jim Jordan. No way. This speech by Jordan tells you why. McCarthy would never make this speech.
Russian forces may only be able to sustain full fighting capacity for another ‘ten to 14’ days, senior UK defence sources indicated last night, after which Putin’s men will struggle to hold the ground they have already captured from Ukrainian troops. UK defence sources say that Kyiv has Moscow ‘on the run’ and the Russian army could be just two weeks from ‘culmination point’ – after which ‘the strength of Ukraine’s resistance should become greater than Russia’s attacking force.’ Advances across Ukraine have already stopped as Moscow’s manpower runs short.
Looks like General Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not get the memo. He told the House of Representatives a different story this week:
“It’s a bit early, still. Even though we’re a month-plus into the war, there is much of the ground war left in Ukraine,” he added. “But I do think this is a very protracted conflict, and I think it’s at least measured in years. I don’t know about a decade, but at least years for sure.
In other words, no one knows how long. I admit I was not a good prophet. I was overly optimistic at the outset. I assumed that Russia launched its “special operation” with more troops then it actually did. So, I have been wrong too. Took me a bit to see that Russia’s plan was not to proceed conventionally by occupying cities. I finally listened to Putin’s words and accepted his view that the objective is the demilitarization of Ukraine and the elimination of the Nazi minority that wields too much power over a weak government.
Which brings me to my dog analogy. If you are told there is a ferocious dog in a house and you do not hear any barking, even after you bang on the door, you are faced with a number of possibilities:
There is no dog.
The dog is a sound sleeper.
The dog is not home but will be back soon.
Those in the West are being fed a daily supply of breathless reports about the fierce Ukrainian dog that is savaging the Russians but I do not hear or see any evidence of the big bark. Is there no dog? Are the Ukrainians sleeping? Or are they biding their time? Consider the following:
Hordes of Western journalists were ushered into Bucha to record the horrors of an alleged Russian atrocity, but I have not seen any of those journalists on the frontlines with the Ukrainians who are actually fighting Russians.
Russia has hit dozens of airfields, military bases and supply depots with Air Launched Cruise Missiles and other land based hypersonic missiles but the Western reporters are mute.
Russia has control of most of Mariupol and only reporters embedded with Russia are reporting (and they are doing so from the front).
The alleged atrocity uncovered in Mariupol was not reported until April 2nd, but had supposedly be carried out in the preceding two weeks. Why did U.S. intelligence fail to report on any of this prior to the 2nd? The U.S. has terrific capabilities with overhead satellites to capture action on the ground. It also can intercept Russian military communications, such as orders to execute civilians or cleanse a town. Do you think that General Milley and his press flacks would have hesitated to beat that propaganda drum? That is a dog that did not bark.
Also worth noting that suburban towns surrounding Kiev reportedly taken back from the Russians did not show mountains of wrecked Russian armor or dead Russians littering the landscape.
We have seen brutal images of Ukrainian forces murdering Russian captives. It was so bad that even Ukrainian officials had to go on TV to denounce the actions.
It would be one thing to have a news blackout, especially from the Ukrainian side, if the electrical power grids lighting up the country were obliterated. They are not. The lights are still on. The internet is still up and running as well it appears in most parts of the country. If the Ukrainians were stomping the life out of armed and armored Russian units I would expect a tweet or two from non-combatants in the area. But we are hearing none of that.
The destruction of the oil depots around Ukraine by the Russians cannot be ignored. Those attacks mean that Ukraine’s ability to send fuel is severely degraded. If there is fuel, the Ukrainians face the daunting task of trying to haul it to the army now trapped in the Donbas. Russia’s virtual control of the air gives the Russians a decided advantage in being able to destroy resupply columns.
Food, fuel and ammunition for weapons are critical for an army to remain a viable combat force in the field. This is another dog I don’t hear barking. We have seen no evidence that Ukraine has been able to resupply the army bogged down and in danger of being surrounded by the Russians. If the Ukrainians can pull off a resupply miracle then they might have a chance for delaying or even defeating Russia’s intent to secure the region.
But Ukraine has a bigger problem. Russia’s control of the southern coast of Ukraine means no more imports or exports:
Ukraine is one of the world’s top grain exporters, loading container ships that carry 12% of the world’s wheat supply and 16% of its corn.
That business is done for the foreseeable future. And Ukrainian farmers are not headed to the fields to plant. The Ukrainian Army has planted explosive mines in many of them. Truck convoys and railroad cars going to Poland cannot make up for the loss of container ships sailing from Odessa and Mariupol.
Then there is the import side of ledge. Here are Ukraine’s top ten imports:
Mineral fuels including oil: US$7.8 billion (14.4% of total imports)
Machinery including computers: $6.1 billion (11.3%)
Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $1.2 billion (2.3%)
Iron, steel: $1 billion (1.9%)
Rubber, rubber articles: $927.6 million (1.7%)
The ports are not open for business and Ukraine no longer has a Navy. Therefore Ukraine has no way to dislodge Russia’s stranglehold on its port cities unless NATO decides to intervene. This means nothing short of economic devastation for Ukraine.
Compare Ukraine’s Zelensky’s hysterical pronouncements against the stoic silence from Putin. I have seen no evidence that Putin is panicking. He is not the one begging for Western military intervention without regard to the implications of that request for the very survival of his government. Notwithstanding the heated, belligerent rantings of senile Joe Biden, U.S. and NATO military commanders appear to understand that Russia is dead serious about engaging any Western planes, tanks or troops that dare venture into Ukraine. Crossing that line puts nuclear weapons in play.
General Milley is wrong. This is not going to take years. Ukraine does not have the economic means to survive even if there is a military stalemate in the East. I guess Milley was too busy studying pronouns to take time to consider the economic disaster facing Ukraine. In six months, if he lasts that long, Zelensky won’t be begging for bullets. He will want bread.
On Tuesday President Trump requested that the Clinton-appointed judge overseeing his Russiagate case against Hillary Clinton and others be removed from the case due to obvious conflicts of interest.
President Trump recently sued a number of individuals and former officials for their actions related to the Russiagate hoax and attempted coup of his administration.
Somehow this case was assigned to Clinton appointed Judge Middlebrooks and Judge Ryon McCabe.
President Trump urged the courts to replace the Clinton judge with someone who is not biased in the case.
Currently, in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is carrying out atrocious acts of war in which 1,400 men, women, and children have been killed. Millions of Ukrainians have lost their homes, and their careers and have been displaced — turned into refugees, overnight. Many parts of the country have been reduced to rubble and it will take years to rebuild — even if the war ended tomorrow.
On top of the 1,400 deaths, another 2,000 have been injured and that list is growing by the day. By all definitions, Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. This much is clear and most everyone would agree. Rightfully so, millions of people are demanding justice for Ukraine.
But something peculiar happens when we examine these calls for justice and the desire to hold war criminals accountable for their actions. If you truly support the cause for war criminals to be held accountable, then you must remain consistent in this inclination. Unfortunately, however, the overwhelming majority of people calling for Putin to be held accountable for war crimes, are egregiously inconsistent.
Last month, President Joe Biden called Putin a war criminal, and as pointed out above, this is correct. But if Biden were truly interested in accountability for war criminals, he would turn himself in to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, for immediate prosecution.
But Biden is not interested in accountability and the US, just like Russia, does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. This is because justice is not the point, demonization of Russia and out political enemies is the point.
The propaganda behind the well-deserved demonization of Russia is so thick that it has blinded the West from seeing the very well-documented war crimes committed by their own governments.
Journalist Julian Assange pointed out some of these war crimes by releasing the “Collateral Murder” video through WikiLeaks. We had video evidence of the United States targeting and murdering civilians — including two Reuters journalists — and the only one who’s been arrested is Assange, who has been tortured in isolation for years for exposing these crimes.
If the West were truly concerned about war criminals we would have already arrested Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. Every single one of these people have overseen the wholesale slaughter of over a million people, nearly half of whom were innocent men, women, and children.
If we care about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we must also care about the US invasions, occupations, and aerial warfare programs carried out in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Pakistan.
If we are concerned about the 4 million displaced refugees from Ukraine, certainly we must be concerned with the 39-59 million refugees created by US foreign policy in the post 9/11 interventions, invasions, and occupations of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya, and Syria.
If the West demands Hungary be ejected from the EU for having diplomatic relations with Russia during the invasion, then we must also be concerned with the support, logistics, and weapons given to Saudi Arabia as they lay waste to Yemen with US bombs, killing thousands of innocent children and displacing millions more. Not to mention, the US sanctions on Yemen are facilitating a mass genocide, starving hundreds of thousands of civilians — mostly children — to death.
If we are concerned that Russia is intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure — a war crime — we must also be concerned with the villages, schools, hospitals, and cities the US has turned to rubble since 2001.
We know exactly who is responsible for all of these war crimes and instead of moving in to arrest them, we build them statues, libraries, and airports.
Since 2001, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have been murdered by US puppets in the White House. These puppets even admit it and instead of accountability, they are celebrated.
Instead of trials or prison time, these mass-murdering psychopaths retire to their million-dollar mansions as those who expose their war crimes rot in prison like Julian Assange and Daniel Hale.
If anyone attempts to point out this hypocrisy on a massive scale, the majority of Americans — who claim to be against war criminals — accuse those individuals of engaging in “whataboutism” and supporting Russians. It is absolute insanity, yet it has become status quo.
The bottom line is that what’s happening in Ukraine right now is a travesty. Innocent people are suffering and it is unacceptable. War is the plight of mankind and should be avoided at all costs. Unfortunately, however, when a physical conflict or war breaks out, it is always preceded and accompanied by psychological attacks, in the form of propaganda which helps to start it and keep it going. These psychological attacks are usually carried out against the citizens of the country who engage in the war, or who profit from the war.
The propagandists involved in the Ukrainian crisis have been in a full-court press well before the first shot was fired or border crossed. Americans were bombarded with conspiracy theories about Russian false flags before the invasion and they have been bombarded with false stories taking place after it began. The result of such a massive propaganda campaign has ushered in a new era of McCarthyism.
The Ukrainian people are being used as cannon fodder for US imperialism and most Americans are completely oblivious — opting for a Ukraine flag emoji and obstinance instead. Unfortunately, this is nothing new and has long been a function of empires. As Chris Hedges reminds us:
The mass slaughter of industrial warfare, the failure to hold ourselves to account, to see our own face in the war criminals we condemn, will have ominous consequences. Author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi understood that the annihilation of the humanity of others is prerequisite for their physical annihilation. We have become captives to our machines of industrial death. Politicians and generals wield their destructive fury as if they were toys. Those who decry the madness, who demand the rule of law, are attacked and condemned. These industrial weapons systems are our modern idols. We worship their deadly prowess. But all idols, the Bible tells us, begin by demanding the sacrifice of others and end in apocalyptic self-sacrifice.
Are you willing to blindly support war to the point of apocalyptic self-sacrifice or are you willing to admit that all war is hell, not just the ones you’re told to care about? Will you see this blind spot and realize that maintaining this hypocrisy is marching humanity off of a cliff? Or, will you continue to be part of the problem and ensure our mutual demise because the television told you that “Russia bad”?
Defund the Police street mural in Washington DC at night
Radical Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser gained national attention in June of 2020 after she had a section of 16th Street near the White House painted with the words “Black Lives Matter” in support of the violent street protesters who vandalized historical statues, attacked police and torches a historic DC church.
But now, after being part of the Democratic movement that has turned the nation’s capital into a lawless urban disaster, Mayor Bowser is pretending she never supported the “Defund the Police” movement.
Last year Washington DC had 227 murders, the fourth straight year of rising murders.
The Conservative Treehouse reported:
This is well beyond pretending not to know things, this is just plain lying in an effort to rewrite history.
DC Mayor attended an Axios sponsored “What’s Next” summit to discuss the future of policymaking, business and politics. According to Axios, Mayor Bowser denied ever supporting the “Defund the Police” movement in her city; however, the truth is the opposite. The mayor even supported the movement as it was painted on the road outside her office:
(Via Axios) D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday said she “never supported defunding the police” and talked up her plan to hire up the city’s police force to 4,000 officers — with 30% made up of women cops by 2030.
What she’s saying: “We and many cities across the country are facing spikes in violence, and we’re throwing every resource that we have in curbing that violence,” Bowser said.
[…]
D.C. hit 227 homicides last year, the fourth year of rising murders, sparking renewed debate over public safety in the nation’s capital.
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A crowd of peaceful protesters gathered in front of the Disney headquarters in Burbank, California on Wednesday.
The protesters chanted, “Boycott Disney!” in response to a leaked Zoom call showing Disney executives openly admitting they add sexual content to shows to groom children.
Democrats in the House Oversight Committee blocked a Republican-backed subpoena that would have forced Hunter Biden to testify before Congress earlier this week.
Unfortunately, we will have to wait a little longer to see crackhead Hunter under oath in a hot seat on Capitol Hill.
According to the House Oversight Republicans, the Democrats denied the motion with little to no justification, and are effectively running interference for the Biden Crime Family, refusing to hold them accountable.
The committee made the announcement in a Tweet on Tuesday afternoon:
If the motion had passed, Hunter would have had to appear and provide his ‘expert’ testimony at an upcoming Oversight hearing about making all US Postal Service vehicles electric, answering questions about his long history of energy deals with China, Russia, and Ukraine.
With him under oath, there surely would have been some other questions about his business dealings too. Is it any wonder why Dems shot this down?
The motion to subpoena Hunter was originally submitted by GOP Rep. Andy Biggs (AZ), who explained his reasoning in a Tweet this week.
Biggs wrote:
I just made a motion to subpoena Hunter Biden as a witness for the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s hearing on electrifying.
Hunter sold a U.S. cobalt mine to a Chinese company. Cobalt is necessary for electric car production. Hunter’s expertise is invaluable!
As the DC Swamp attempts to protect the degenerate bagman of the Biden Crime Family, the investigation surrounding him just continues to heat up in the wake of the NY Times recent acknowledgment of his ‘laptop from hell.’
This latest subpoena request isn’t even the first one the Democrats have blocked this week. According to the Epoch Times, a separate request for Hunter to appear in front of Congress was also rejected after it was submitted by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.)
In other words, the walls are closing in, and it’s about time.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday that he would send the illegal immigrants dumped by Biden’s administration in Florida to Biden’s home state of Delaware.
Governor DeSantis vowed to transfer the illegal immigrants to sanctuary states like Delaware, claiming they now have the funding for rerouting.
It can be recalled that DeSantis introduced a proposal last December to add $8 million to the state’s budget in order to send those illegals out of the Sunshine State and into Democrat areas such as Marthas Vineyard and Biden’s home state of Delaware.
“If businesses or contractors are dumping people who are illegal into Florida from Southern Texas, you know, we’re going to go after their ability to do business in Florida,” Gov. DeSantis said Wednesday after he signed the No Patient Left Alone Act into law in Naples, Florida.
“If Biden is dumping people, which he has dumped people, they fly them in at 2 in the morning. They haven’t done it lately, but they did it many months ago. We now have money where we can reroute them to sanctuary states like Delaware. And we’re going to do that, to make sure we’re keeping people safe here.” DeSantis asserted.
On the same day, Texas Governor Greg Abbott also announced he would begin to use up to 900 charter buses or “as many as needed” to send illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., as part of his strategy for the overwhelming influx of illegal immigrants.
“To help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the Biden administration, Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington, DC,” Governor Abbott announced in his press conference.
“We are sending them to the United States Capitol, where the Biden administration will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border,” Gov. Abbott continued.
Defund the Police street mural in Washington DC at night
Radical Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser gained national attention in June of 2020 after she had a section of 16th Street near the White House painted with the words “Black Lives Matter” in support of the violent street protesters who vandalized historical statues, attacked police and torches a historic DC church.
But now, after being part of the Democratic movement that has turned the nation’s capital into a lawless urban disaster, Mayor Bowser is pretending she never supported the “Defund the Police” movement.
Last year Washington DC had 227 murders, the fourth straight year of rising murders.
