There’s much more evidence of the monarch’s poor governance than a foreign conspiracy against him.

BY ANCHAL VOHRA, FOREIGN POLICY       | APRIL 13, 2021, 10:14 AM

King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein of Jordan speaks at the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2019 in New York City. STEPHANIE KEITH/GETTY IMAGES<
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A century ago, Sharif Hussein bin Ali had big dreams for his Hashemite dynasty when he was king of the Hejaz and emir of Mecca and Medina, Islam’s holiest sites. But ever since the time of Lawrence of Arabia, when the Hashemites were Britain’s main regional allies during World War I and led the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire, the dynasty has been in steady decline. And with the ongoing dispute among Hussein’s descendants in Jordan, the family may have reached a new low.

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T. Belman.  And yet the Biden administration would have us believe that Russia, and not China, is the enemy of the US. Its time for the US to get Russia and Ukraine to cut a deal.

China’s GDP is 4 times that of Russia  and its population almost 10 times that of the Russia. In the last 20 years China’s GDP went from 1.7 Trillion USD to 14.3 Trillion USD.

The communist regime’s plan to become the world’s leading superpower.

By Michael Ledeen, FRONT PAGE MAG        Apr 13, 2021

Red China constantly rethinks how it will become the world’s leading superpower, and plans accordingly. The Epoch Times has just published a detailed plan delivered in a speech in July, 2016, laying out how the People’s Republic can overtake the United States as the world’s leading nation. Professor Jin Canrong, from the School of International Studies in Beijing, explained how the PRC, following Xi Jinping’s call for a national rejuvenation, could accomplish it.

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By FRANCES MARTEL,BREITBART      10 Mar 2021

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Chinese Communist Party “experts” urged the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Tuesday to let China build and run a global database for “vaccine passports” documenting if every person on earth has received a Chinese coronavirus vaccine.

The Communist Party launched its domestic “vaccine passport” system Wednesday, despite W.H.O. officials urging countries not to implement such a system due to unequal access to vaccines and the variety in the quality of the available offerings around the world. The “vaccine passport” — A digital certification that confirms a person has received a coronavirus vaccination — joins China’s larger “social credit system,” which judges every citizen and awards them numerical “scores” based on how much the Party approves of their behavior. The behavior judged can vary from littering and volunteering, which result in respectively lower or higher social credit scores, to the display of public opinions either in favor or against the Communist Party.

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by Peter Schweizer, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  April 13, 2021

• China is certainly not the only foreign government that has made American politicians wealthy, either directly or indirectly. Given the size of their economy and the wealth of commercial ties between U.S. business and China, however, they do it bigger and more broadly than anyone else. This beneficence, I believe, poses potentially serious questions about China’s influence, China’s access to American policy makers, and China’s activities in the halls of power. Further, it shows the toothlessness of American ethics watchdogs that these issues have not been more thoroughly reviewed and challenged previously.

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BLM and ANTIFA Agitators are Rioting and Looting in America’s Cities all as a New POPULIST ALLIANCE is Forming! In this video, we’re going to take a look at the latest from Minneapolis as another police shooting has sparked renewed violence, how Antifa agitators continue to destroy the city of Portland, and how such antics are not only destroying our nation’s cities, but actually helping to form new populist alliances that promise to change politics for the indefinite future; you are NOT going to want to miss this!

T. Belman. This is outrageous.  It appears from this that these corporations are in charge and the Democratic Party are their lackies.  Not the other way around.

To my mind, these corporations should not be permitted to do this. Texas just introduced a bill that prohibits corporations like FB from interfering in how elections are run in Texas.

By Ryan Saavedra • Daily Wire • Apr 11, 2021

More than 100 corporate leaders met this weekend to plot their opposition to voter integrity laws across the United States following false statements made by far-left activists and top politicians like Democrat President Joe Biden.

CBS News reported that leaders from American Airlines, United Airlines, Levi Strauss & Co., Walmart, ViacomCBS, Ariel Investments, LinkedIn, Twitter, AMC Theaters, and “others” were invited to the leftist event.

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T. Belman. Incredible.  Who would believe that the authors of this article would write it and that Newsweek would publish it.

By Einat Wilf (former MK) and Adi Swartz (former Sr Editor of Haaretz), NEWSWEEK      4/12/21 

The Biden Administration announced last week that it is resuming funding for UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, allocating $150 Million a year as “a means to advance a negotiated two-state solution.” Whatever the Administration’s true intentions are, advancing a two-state solution cannot seriously be the goal. The Administration is consciously choosing to fund an agency that is institutionally committed to ensuring that peace will never be possible.

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T. Belman.  My suggestion was that Israel Katz become PM and Netanyahu become FM.  But this was a non-starter as one can’t serve as a Minister if they are indicted. This article refers to a variation of my suggestion that would work; namely to elect Netanyahu as President and then to include the duties of the President the role of a Foreign Minister.

PM said turning his attention to pressuring Gideon Sa’ar to join him; Katz’s political adviser said to propose mandate be passed to finance minister

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Leader of the Religious Zionism party Bezalel Smotrich, on election night, March 23, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Unnamed senior officials from the Likud party told Kan news on Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given up on the possibility of persuading the far-right Religious Zionism party to join a coalition supported in any way by the Islamist Ra’am party.

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Iranian FM vows revenge against ‘Zionists’ after attack on Natanz nuclear site attributed to Israel

Haaretz   Apr. 12, 2021 8:49 AM

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses in a conference in Tehran, in February Credit: AP

Testimony of Reiner Fuellmich

Hello. I am Reiner Fuellmich and I have been admitted to the Bar in Germany and in California for 26 years. I have been practicing law primarily as a trial lawyer against fraudulent corporations such as Deutsche Bank, formerly one of the world’s largest and most respected banks, today one of the most toxic criminal organizations in the world; VW, one of the world’s largest and most respected car manufacturers, today notorious for its giant diesel fraud; and Kuehne and Nagel, the world’s largest shipping company. We’re suing them in a multi-million-dollar bribery case.
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T. Belman.  The article refers to this assistance as “humanitarian assistance “.  So does Biden.   Congress  knows that the PA and UNRWA indoctrinate the children to hate and kill Jews.  At a minimum, I would expect such support to be contingent on UNRWA cleaning up its act. But it isn’t.

By Laura Kelly,  The Hill, 4/9/2021, 

Groups concerned about anti-Semitism are urging President Biden to take a closer look at U.S. funding for a program giving Palestinian refugee children “textbooks riddled with hateful lessons” as Biden resumes humanitarian assistance to the agency providing them.

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The United States is no longer censoring its criticism of internal Saudi affairs, particularly on the issue of human rights and this, as well as other developments, encourages the Iranians to increase actions that have negative consequences for regional stability.

By  Yaakov Lappin , JNS and ILH Staff

“The Saudis are fully reliant on the US, so they will dance to the American flute in the hope for better days,” expert says

American-Saudi ties have been growing increasingly strained in recent months – a development that will likely see the Sunni power draw even closer to Jerusalem, Israeli observers have said.

Professor Eyal Zisser, vice rector of Tel Aviv University and the holder of the Yona and Dina Ettinger Chair in Contemporary History of the Middle East, said that it appears as if relations between Washington and Riyadh are returning to the type of relationship the two countries had during the days of the Obama administration.

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State TV provides few details about electrical problem; on Saturday, Rouhani inaugurated cascades of IR-6s and IR-5s at same plant, in open breach of nuclear deal

By AGENCIES and TOI STAFF

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in an image released on November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

Iran’s Natanz nuclear site suffered a problem Sunday involving its electrical distribution grid just hours after starting up new advanced centrifuges that more quickly enrich uranium, state TV reported.

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