While U.S. Diplomats Negotiated With China, China Hacked Them | Frontpage Mag

While U.S. Diplomats Negotiated With China, China Hacked Them | Frontpage Mag - Daniel Greenfield

"...Meanwhile, China had been hacking.the State Department...

The Biden administration and China had different definitions of “moving forward”...

• The stark contrast between America’s idea of diplomacy and China’s idea of diplomacy is that we want dialogue and they want control. 

The People’s Republic of China is not interested in conversations or relationships, they want to know our bottom lines and anything they can exploit to gain a strategic advantage. 

That’s why diplomacy with China will always fail.
Generations of Chinese Communist officials came of age reading Mao’s quote that, “politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.” 

Americans view diplomacy as a means of bringing nations together, while China’s Communist Party sees it as a zero-sum game. 

• For them to win, we must lose. 
• The more we negotiate with China, the more we lose.

Hillary cares!

Gallup Poll Reveals Americans’ Plummeting Confidence in Public Schools

Gallup Poll Reveals Americans’ Plummeting Confidence in Public Schools - Kerry McDonald

"Americans have soured on public schools. 

That’s the takeaway from Gallup polling results released earlier this month showing that Americans’ confidence in public schools is at a low point, with only 26 percent of respondents indicating a “Great deal/Fair amount” of confidence in that institution.

• Indeed, public schools join three other institutions that are also at or tied with their record lows, including the police, large technology companies, and big business. 
• Along with the presidency, public schools are now among the most politically polarizing institutions in the US...

#1 This day 1969-----Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525

Read it all!-----Ayn Rand has some prescient thoughts about Democrats' avoidance of reality - American Thinker

Ayn Rand has some prescient thoughts about Democrats' avoidance of reality - American Thinker - By R.W. Trewyn

"The consequences of avoiding reality are killing us … literally!
American leaders and policy makers in the 21st century should have paid attention to the profound wisdom put forth by Ayn Rand in the last Millennium:

• “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

...Consider the following illustrations:
1. “You can avoid [the brain-dead] reality” of funding coronavirus gain-of-function research in a communist country whose long-term goal is to destroy you, “but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding [that] reality.”...

Cover up!

Congressional investigators: Former FBI special agent has verified IRS whistleblower's key claims about Hunter Biden's criminal investigation - TheBlaze

Congressional investigators: Former FBI special agent has verified IRS whistleblower's key claims about Hunter Biden's criminal investigation - TheBlaze: 

The former top FBI agent overseeing the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden has corroborated key details in IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley's testimony, according to the House Oversight Committee. The FBI supervisory special agent formerly assigned to the bureau's Wilmington office in Delaware and the Biden criminal investigation sat down with committee staff Monday for a transcribed interview, in which he discussed possible efforts by the Biden transition team and the Secret Service to hinder the probe into possible crimes committed by the first son.

Must read! She's on the FAST-Track!-----How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic Stronghold | The New Yorker

How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic Stronghold | The New Yorker

• The Governor’s strategy for revitalizing her state has two parts: to grow, Michigan needs young people; to draw young people, it needs to have the social policies they want...

AM Fruitcake--What a concept!

 

History for July 20

History for July 20 - On-This-Day.com

Francesco Petrarch 1304

• 1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the White House.
• 1917 - The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
• 1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
• 1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
• 1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
• 1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan pulled the U.S. out of comprehensive test ban negotiations indefinitely.
• 1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the Clinton/International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.

FBI Director Wray must correct House testimony following 'demonstrably untrue' claims, GOP lawmaker says | Fox News

FBI Director Wray must correct House testimony following 'demonstrably untrue' claims, GOP lawmaker says | Fox News: 

Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to correct his congressional testimony on Sunday, alleging he made a number of "demonstrably untrue" statements during his hearing before the House Judiciary Committee last week. "Chairman Jim Jordan and I are preparing a letter that we'll issue probably Monday or Tuesday to ask the director to correct his testimony," Johnson told "Sunday Night in America." We are going to point out the contradictions and what he said under oath and we'll start with that."

The way we were-----How the Allies won WW2's Longest Battle

Judith Curry: "Relax, there is no climate emergency!"

"Charmed life?!!"-----FBI tipped off Biden team night BEFORE Hunter faced interview in tax and gun probe | Daily Mail Online

FBI tipped off Biden team night BEFORE Hunter faced interview in tax and gun probe | Daily Mail Online

"Whistleblower agent says he was shocked at way he was told to conduct investigation in testimony to Republicans

• The House Oversight Committee said they had spoken to an FBI agent, who confirmed some claims made by an IRS whistleblower 
• The whistleblower, Gary Shapley, said he believed the Justice Department gave Hunter Biden special treatment while investigating tax and gun accusations
• READ MORE: Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort says it's 'obvious' Hunter Biden is the White House cocaine culprit...

The answer is more "scholarships?!!-----Dershowitz: Bad Behavior by Schools Helped Create Student Debt Issue, Harvard Runs, Charges Like a Huge Corporation

Dershowitz: Bad Behavior by Schools Helped Create Student Debt Issue, Harvard Runs, Charges Like a Huge Corporation - IAN HANCHETT

"...He added, “When I started teaching at Harvard in 1964, we had essentially a couple of buildings, a few secretaries and administrators. 

Now, it’s like a mega-corporation and the tuition reflects it. 

And it — and they do have a good scholarship program for kids who can’t afford to go, but…ordinary Americans can’t afford it. 

• People who are poor get aid, 
• but middle-class people who work hard and make even a couple of $100,000 a year, which is a lot of money, can’t afford education today, so something has to be done about that...

Biden called out for 'factual error' in 'Bidenomics' tweet, after boasting about wage levels | Fox News

Biden called out for 'factual error' in 'Bidenomics' tweet, after boasting about wage levels | Fox News: 

President Biden took to Twitter Monday to tout his economic policies and the impact "Bidenomics" was having on workers' wages over the last two years. His self-praise was short-lived, however, as Twitter fact-checkers said it "contains a factual error."

"Right now, real wages for the average American worker is higher than it was before the pandemic, with lower wage workers seeing the largest gains," the president wrote on Twitter. "That's Bidenomics."

Twitter’s Community Notes added context for readers that said: "The tweet’s claim about real wages contains a factual error."

CREEPSHOW

Campus Reform | Profs help push program that claims math is 'racist' because it requires a 'right answer'

Campus Reform | Profs help push program that claims math is 'racist' because it requires a 'right answer'

• Profs help push program that claims math is 'racist' because it requires a 'right answer'
• A new program promoted by the Oregon Department of Education is designed to “dismantle” instances of “white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom.”

"...One example of “white supremacy” highlighted by the course was “the concept of mathematics being purely objective,” an idea which the resource stated is “is unequivocally false."...

Lunch video-----'Nobody Voted For You': Brian Mast Directly Confronts John Kerry Over Hi...

"At a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) questioned former Sec. John Kerry about the State Department's climate budget. 

Noon-toon

 

DeSantis to unveil plan to 'rip' wokeness 'out of the military' | Fox News

DeSantis to unveil plan to 'rip' wokeness 'out of the military' | Fox News: 

"You look at today’s military, it’s going woke," he says. "You are pursuing a social agenda in the military rather than having your eye on the ball."

DeSantis says in the video that on his first day in the White House, he’ll "rip it all out of the military, all the Obama-Biden nonsense is gone, and we’re restoring it to its glory."

"Since then...no change".

 

Big trouble ahead for MI. Much here, read all!!-----Poor students and Black students are disappearing from Michigan colleges - mlive.com

Poor students and Black students are disappearing from Michigan colleges - mlive.com

...As the number of college students in Michigan has plummeted over the last decade or so, the numbers of low-income students and Black students have fallen much faster.
The number of Michigan college students eligible for federal Pell grants, which go largely to students from low-income families, fell by 52 percent between 2011 and 2021, according to federal data compiled by Michigan Independent Colleges & Universities. 

• It’s the largest drop in the country, both numerically and percentagewise.
• ...The number of Black students fell by 48 percent, second only to Illinois.

...It’s a dismal sign for the state’s economic future - Michigan is already less educated than most other states - and for what income inequality might look down the road....

"...most pathogenic protein in history..."!!??

 

Will Someone Please Wake Me From This Nightmare? - American Thinker

Will Someone Please Wake Me From This Nightmare? - American Thinker - By Jim Hollingsworth

• When Joe Biden became president, America was on a solid footing, inflation was under control, we were energy independent, the price of gasoline was under $2.00, and things in America were great.

"Now most of that has been undone, and nothing is being done about it. 

This is like a nightmare in which you are terrified only to awake and be thankful it was only a dream.
But the present nightmare is no dream, and things are only getting worse in America.
Will someone please wake me from this nightmare?

• While Trump was president, nearly 500 miles of wall were built and immigration was controlled. Biden has opened the border and invited all to come, and they are coming by the millions.

• When Biden became president, America was energy independent and we were even selling energy abroad. Biden stopped construction of oil pipelines, stopped drilling on public lands, and began a campaign against fossil fuels, the very product that has made America great. Will someone please wake me from this nightmare?...

#1 This day 1970------They Long To Be (Close To You) - Carpenters HD_HQ 1970

Fake programs paid with school/government money going directly to pockets of race-scammers----Civil rights complaint filed against NYU for whites-only anti-racism workshops | The College Fix

Civil rights complaint filed against NYU for whites-only anti-racism workshops | The College Fix -JENNIFER KABBANY

"A civil rights complaint has been filed by the Equal Protection Project against New York University for recently hosting a series of workshops only for white parents to teach them how to be anti-racist...
At issue is NYU’s “From Integration to Anti-Racist Workshop Series,” first reported by the Washington Free Beacon:

The all-white seminar, “From Integration to Anti-Racism,” cost $360 to attend and met six times between February and June, according to a description of the program that has since been scrubbed from the university’s website without explanation. Organized by NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education, the workshop was “designed specifically for white public school parents” committed to “becoming anti-racist” and building “multiracial parent communities.”

But to promote solidarity with all races, participants were told, it was necessary that the seminar include only one...

Good question!

 

Climate change extremists protest German airport over pollution - TheBlaze

Climate change extremists protest German airport over pollution - TheBlaze: 

Climate change extremists caused travel turmoil at two German airports after the radicals glued themselves to the runways to protest pollution.

The Last Generation – a self-described "national student-led organization focused on raising awareness for climate change and environmental injustice" – blocked air traffic at airports in Hamburg and Düsseldorf. The so-called protest over environmental issues by "Letzte Generation" caused dozens of flight cancellations and hours of delays in Germany on Thursday.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED

Instapundit  Blog Archive  QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED

Shot: Is Bezos Employee Jennifer Rubin Auditioning For a Job At The Babylon Bee?

—Newsalert, November 3rd, 2021.

Chaser: Wash Post publishes piece with debunked claim about DeSantis’ Florida despite source admitting it was wrong.

Several days after Business Insider admitted they had published inaccurate numbers of state residents that moved to Florida during the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin cited them and used them in an attack piece about Gov. Ron DeSantis’, R-Fla., leadership of the state....

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Despite Business Insider admitting its original claim was contrary to the actual numbers, Rubin published the debunked fact in her piece three days later.

On Saturday afternoon, the Post offered a correction to Rubin’s column, admitting to “mischaracterizing” the numbers: “A previous version of this article mischaracterized Floridians’ state-to-state migration in 2021. According to the Census Bureau, more people moved into Florida than any other state that year. This version has been corrected.”

—Fox News, yesterday.

Much of what Rubin writes these days is unintentionally satiric, but to be honest, I trust the reporting at America’s Newspaper of Record much more than the vast majority of the WaPo’s output. -  Ed Driscoll