China’s new world order

By Clifford D. May, FDD – –

Tuesday, October 20, 2020For countless centuries, tribes have fought and conquered other tribes, nations have fought and conquered other nations, empires have fought and conquered other empires.

After World War II, a different future was imagined. The United States created the hopefully named “United Nations.” Americans began to build what would become known as the “liberal international rules-based order.”

When the Soviet Union disintegrated, America was left as what Charles Krauthammer termed “the unipolar power.” Unlike hegemons of the past, and consistent with the international order it had nurtured, the United States sought consensus, shared decision-making, attempted to resolve conflicts through diplomacy, obeyed rules and signed multilateral treaties that constrained its own power. A long period of peace and rising prosperity seemed all but inevitable.

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Fentanyl is often sent to the U.S. by mail, which means the Chinese state, through the National Postal Service of China, is the distributor. U.S. Customs and Border Protection learned that 13% of packages from China contain some form of contraband, including fentanyl and other deadly substances.

by Gordon G. Chang, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  October 21, 2020

Pictured: An officer from Customs and Border Protection works with a dog to check parcels at John F. Kennedy Airport’s US Postal Service facility on June 24, 2019 in New York. (Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images)

• For one thing, the Communist Party, through its cells, controls every business of any consequence…. Beijing tightly controls the banking system and knows of money transfers instantaneously…. Furthermore, fentanyl cannot leave the country undetected, as virtually all shipped items are examined before departing Chinese soil.
• Chinese gangs are large and far-flung. In China’s near-totalitarian state, it is not possible for them to operate without the Communist Party’s knowledge. And if the Party somehow does not know of a particular gang, it is because it has decided not to.

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By Dick Morris on October 20, 2020<
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Two weeks out is a dangerous vantage from which to predict Senate races, particularly with the presidential race in flux. But as of now, the Democrats have a very slight edge in the race to capture the Senate.

Republicans now rule the upper chamber 53-47. Add one Republican gain coming this year in Alabama and you have 54-46.

Here’s the story from there:

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It is objectively unlikely that so accomplished a president and so incomparably more forceful and capable a candidate will be turned out of office.

By Conrad Black, AM GREATNESS

For anyone with any perspective on American elections, it is clear that the polls do not entitle us to predict with any confidence the outcome of the current campaign. Many of the polls included in the average of polls on aggregator sites are really just the products of Democratic Party front organizations, such as Vox, Politico, Quinnipiac, Monmouth, and others whose chief function is to facilitate the Democratic media locker room cry that they’ve already won and the counting of the votes is practically superfluous. Open the beer kegs! The Trump tyranny is already over. 

Trafalgar, the only poll that showed Trump winning four years ago, shows him winning again this year. And the next most accurate of polls that covered the 2016 campaign and are doing so again is Rasmussen, which has fluctuated and briefly joined the ranks of the Biden victory celebration squad two weeks ago but now has Trump’s approval rating back at 48 percent. 

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By Amiram Barkat, GLOBES

The existing Eilat Ashkelon pipeline will save the expense and time of shipping oil from the Gulf through the Suez Canal.

T. Belman. A number of people have been roasting me for not condemning ANON.  Like Trump I kept saying I didn’t know much about them. What I had heard sounded horrible but I did not want to be railroaded into condemning them. This article went a long way to explaining them to me.

THE GUARDIAN
“The QAnon conspiracy theory is vast, complicated and ever changing, and its adherents are constantly folding new events and personalities into its master narrative. But the gist of it is that national Democrats, aided by Hollywood and a group of “global elites”, are running a massive ring devoted to the abduction, trafficking, torture, sexual abuse and cannibalization of children, all with the purpose of fulfilling the rituals of their Satanic faith. Donald Trump, according to this fantasy, is the only person willing and able to mount an attack against them.”

By Brian C. Joondeph, AM THINKER

Big media has had multiple obsessions during President Trump’s first term. From Stormy and Avenatti to the myriad tell-all books about Trump, his administration, and his family. From Russia and an innocuous phone call to Ukraine, to his taxes and how many scoops of ice cream he is served.

These are all red herrings, a way to pick at Trump while studiously avoiding serious policy issues, what he is actually accomplishing as president, promises made becoming promises kept.

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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

Years ago, a young man told me that his generation doesn’t care about either Rush Limbaugh or Rachel Maddow. Instead, they get their cultural and political information from podcasts and videos. And in the world of podcasts and videos, one of the biggest political stars is 36-year-old Ben Shapiro — who refused to vote for Trump in 2016. This time around, though, Shapiro has given Trump an enthusiastic thumbs-up, both because of Trump’s proven history of conservative governance and because the Democrats have become insane.

In a statement that lasted less than nine minutes, Shapiro opened by succinctly stating the three reasons why he supports President Trump in 2020:

1. “I was simply wrong about Donald Trump on policy.”

2. “I wasn’t really wrong about Donald Trump on character, but whatever damage he was going to do has already been done, and it’s not going to help if I don’t vote for him this time.”
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We’re told by Chinese dissident, Luther (or Lude), that three high-ranking members of the Old Guard of the CCP, former Chairman Jiang Zemin, former Politburo member Zeng Qinhong and former Attorney General Meng Jianzhu delivered three hard drives to the US Department of Justice, the first of which appears to share the same or similar files to the ones described in the laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden at a repair shop in Delaware.

Luther said that although corrupt #Resistance bureaucrats at the DOJ tried to keep a lid on these documents, allies of the Chinese dissidents prevailed in getting them to the President.
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Trump’s record of friendship, generosity, and affection for US and Israeli Jewry is extraordinary, since way before his presidency. Op-ed.

By Jeff Dunetz , INN 20/10/20

Trump Tower in New York City, USA

Liberal publications and websites have been posting op-eds from people who are considered Jewish leadership, telling jews to reject President Trump and vote for Joe Biden.

For example, one recent essay came from Abe Foxman, the former head of the ADL. Under his leadership, the ADL stopped being an organization protecting the rights of Jews and became a group trying its best to sell progressive politics and policies.

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Defense minister calls on countries around the world to confront Tehran after US bid to renew international ban on weapons sales to the Islamic Republic fails

By JUDAH ARI GROSS, TOI 

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks to IDF Home Front Command soldiers, during a visit int the Southern city of Ashdod. September 14, 2020. (FLASH90)

Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday vowed to take “whatever measures necessary” to prevent Iran from purchasing weapons after a United Nations arms embargo against the country ended despite an American effort to extend it.

Earlier on Sunday, the Iranian foreign ministry announced that it considered the ban on weapons sales to be fully over.

“As of today, the Islamic Republic may procure any necessary arms and equipment from any source without any legal restrictions, and solely based on its defensive needs,” the ministry added in the statement sent out on Twitter.
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Today’s Left sees their efforts bending in a preordained historical arc that ends with ultimate progressive justice—and retributions

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS

Some yearn for the ancient monopolistic days of network news, the adolescent years of public radio and TV, and the still reputable New York Times—when once upon a time the Left at least tried to mask their progressivism in sober and judicious liberal façades.

An avuncular Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, Jim Lehrer, or Abe Rosenthal at least went through the motions of reporting news that was awkward or even embarrassing to the Left. Their agenda was 1960s-vintage Great Society liberalism, seen as the natural evolution from the New Deal and post-war internationalism. Edward R. Murrow, the ACLU of old, and Free Speech Movement at Berkeley—these were their liberal referents. Those days are gone.

Yet even during the Obama years, when studies showed the president had received the most slanted media honeymoon in news history, overt media bias was, at least, as hotly denied as it intensified. There were still a few ossified, quarter-hearted efforts now and then to mention the IRS scandal, the surveillance of Associated Press reporters, the various scandals embroiling the Veterans Administration, General Service Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Secret Service. But even that thin pretense is over now, too.
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By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

The Left is saying the quiet part out loud more and more.

The First Amendment in the age of disinformation – New York Times

The framing of the headline highlights the agenda. The term “disinformation” has become a catchall in the media for anything it dislikes. But it has always existed. The Founding Fathers dealt with it. But now the former proponents of free speech would like to bring back the Alien and Sedition Act. The same folks who lectured us on the importance of keeping flag burning legal want to rethink the First Amendment.

I’ll pare down the 99% of rants about Trump, FOX News, Republicans, and all the other things that the Times and Bazelon loathe and get to the agenda items.
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In first, Channel 13 News survey shows that if Yamina, Yesh Atid and Yisrael Beytenu band together, they could form a 61-seat coalition, establishing a government that excluded Likud and the Haredi parties.

By ILH Staff

Last modified: 10-19-2020

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett | File photo: AFP

A poll that aired on Channel 13 News on Sunday projected a tight race between Yamina and Likud, giving the later only a three-seat lead on the former.

Were elections held at this time, the survey found that Likud would win 27 Knesset seats and Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party would secure 24 mandates.

Yamina has been growing stronger in almost every poll held by mainstream media over the past two months, leading pundits to hedge that the national-religious faction comprising the New Right and National Union parties will pose a significant challenge for Likud come Election Day.

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By MATTHEW BOYLE, BREITBART

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The business partner of Hunter Biden who flipped on the Biden family from prison provided access to 26,000 emails, Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer said in a Saturday morning radio appearance.

Schweizer, appearing on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel, said that former Hunter Biden business partner Bevan Cooney provided 26,000 emails to him—the first of which were published late last week in a Breitbart News exclusive investigation by Schweizer and author Seamus Bruner. Cooney is currently serving a sentence in federal prison due to his conviction over financial deals he made connected to Hunter Biden and his other partner Devon Archer. Archer, who was also convicted by a jury in federal court, saw his conviction vacated by a federal judge. That conviction was later—just a couple weeks ago—reinstated by an appellate court, which overruled the lower court judge’s decision to vacate it. Archer awaits sentencing.

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MEZMERIZING

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2020/10/18/joe-biden-is-not-a-good-person-n2578301?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/10/going_sour_on_joe_biden.html

Amid deepening rift within government, Gantz reportedly tells associates his party will not be beholden to coalition agreements if Knesset vote not held on budget by November’s end

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press briefing, July 27, 2020 (Gobi Gideon/GPO)

Blue and White has reportedly warned that should the dysfunction in the coalition continue and a state budget for 2021 fail to advance in the Knesset by the end of November, the centrist party will “act as an opposition” within the government.

According to the Kan public broadcaster, Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz, who has gone head-to-head with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent months over the budget, told close associates over the weekend that if it does not pass its first reading in parliament by next month, his party will no longer be beholden to the coalition agreement that set up the government.

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By Emil Avdaliani, BESA     October 18, 2020

Narendra Modi holding All-Party video conference to discuss situation in India-China border areas, June 19, 2020, via Wikipedia

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: India has initiated a grand strategic shift away from active engagement with China and toward its outright containment. This evolution was long in coming, but recent military clashes in the Himalayas have accelerated the process. India’s emerging strategy undermines the notion of a multipolar world championed by Moscow and Beijing, putting into question the degree to which the liberal world order is in decline.

A grand strategic shift is taking place in India’s geopolitical calculus.

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T. Belman. This poll is ridiculous. According to it, 88% of Jews say they are pro-Israel yet the put Israel and Iran at the bottom of a list of 16 issues.  Respondents ranked Biden as better on handling a range of issues, including anti-Semitism and the rise of white nationalism, 67-26; the coronavirus pandemic, 66-24; security of the Jewish community, 55-29; and U.S.-Israel relations, 46-32.

Can our fellow Jews be that stupid?

Nonetheless, 88 percent of respondents said they were pro-Israel.

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA OCTOBER 5, 2020

A survey of Jewish voters shows 67 percent plan to vote for Joe Biden in November and 30 percent plan to vote for Donald Trump.

The numbers in the survey released Monday by the Jewish Electorate Institute broke the same way when voters were asked about President Trump’s performance: 67 percent said they disapprove and 30 percent said they approve.

The survey suggested gains for Trump among Jewish voters since 2016, when Hillary Clinton won 71 percent of the vote to Trump’s 24 percent. Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate in 2012, won 30 percent of the Jewish vote, the highest for a Republican since the 1980s

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