- Beijing’s publicly released military budget is inaccurate and does not adequately capture the colossal scope and scale of China’s ongoing military buildup and wide-ranging armed forces modernization.
- After accounting for economic adjustments and estimating reasonable but uncounted expenditures, the buying power of China’s 2022 military budget balloons to an estimated $711 billion—triple Beijing’s claimed topline and nearly equal with the United States’ military budget that same year.
- Equal defense spending between the United States and China plays to Beijing’s benefit. As a global power, the United States must balance competing priorities in the Indo-Pacific and elsewhere, which spreads Washington’s budget thinly across multiple theaters. Meanwhile, each yuan China invests in its military directly builds its regional combat power in Asia.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijing’s Military Spending - Mackenzie Eaglen - American Enterprise Institute
Equal defense spending between the United States and China plays to Beijing’s benefit.
Weaponized laws!-----A Texas Reporter Busted for Asking Questions Asks SCOTUS To Reject the Criminalization of Journalism
By asking police questions about a public suicide and a fatal car crash for stories on her locally popular Facebook page, they claimed, she had committed felonies punishable by two to 10 years in prison. - JACOB SULLUM"In 1973, the Texas Legislature made "misuse of official information" a misdemeanor...
Forty-four years later, police and prosecutors in Laredo deployed an amended and expanded version of that anti-corruption law against Priscilla Villarreal, a local journalist whose freewheeling news coverage and criticism of law enforcement officials had irked them.
Forty-four years later, police and prosecutors in Laredo deployed an amended and expanded version of that anti-corruption law against Priscilla Villarreal, a local journalist whose freewheeling news coverage and criticism of law enforcement officials had irked them.
- By asking police questions about a public suicide and a fatal car crash for stories on her locally popular Facebook page, they claimed, she had committed felonies punishable by two to 10 years in prison.
- In January, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit said there was nothing "obviously unconstitutional" about arresting Villarreal for engaging in basic journalism.
According to the 5th Circuit, the "benefit" that Villarreal derived by maintaining "her first-to-report reputation" included ad revenue and "free meals from appreciative readers."...
Biden is the least popular president in 70 years, below Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon: Report | Blaze Media
Biden is the least popular president in 70 years, below Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon: Report | Blaze Media:
President Joe Biden has made the record books, but probably not for the reason he had hoped. The New York Post reported that the president is the least popular leader in the last 70 years, below Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon.
The recent poll data could spell the end for the commander-in-chief. The Gallup Poll mentioned that Biden, who is 81 years old, has a staggering 38.7 percent job approval rating for the first quarter of 2024.
Biden currently sits three points lower than the one-term George H.W. Bush at the same point in his presidency.
History for April 30
History for April 30 - On-This-Day.com 
Cornelius Vanderbilt 1898
- 1789 - George Washington took office as first elected U.S. president.
- 1803 - The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million.
- 1938 - Happy Rabbit appeared in the cartoon "Porky's Hare Hunt." This rabbit would later evolve into Bugs Bunny.
- 1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. They had been married for one day. One week later Germany surrendered unconditionally.
- 1952 - Mr. Potato Head became the first toy to be advertised on network television.
- 1980 - Terrorists seized the Iranian Embassy in London.
- 1993 - CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain.
Monday, April 29, 2024
White House Changes How Biden Walks to and from Marine One in Attempt to Shield Him from Bad Optics: Report
White House Changes How Biden Walks to and from Marine One in Attempt to Shield Him from Bad Optics: Report:
Biden sometimes appears unsteady, wobbly, aimless and generally does not pick his feet up as high as he once did when walking.
Axios reported Friday that, in general, Biden no longer will walk to and from Marine One alone at the White House but will have people alongside him to shield him from cameras.
How Britain’s judicial system is being enriched out of all recognition b...
Principles of British law dating back a thousand years are being abandoned as a direct consequence of immigration to the United Kingdom.
Antifa can't cope a banana - Don Surber
intifada antifas at UCLA are crying because people are bringing bananas to their demonstration at UCLA.
"As they side with the people who raped, tortured, murdered and then mutilated the bodies of young Israelis on October 7, the intifada antifas at UCLA are crying because people are bringing bananas to their demonstration at UCLA.
Linda Mamoun posted a video of a woman eating a banana and taunting the crowd.
Mamoun tweeted, “There was a protestor in the liberated zone at UCLA with a potentially fatal banana allergy. Counterprotestors invaded the encampment and saw all the no bananas warnings.
"As they side with the people who raped, tortured, murdered and then mutilated the bodies of young Israelis on October 7, the intifada antifas at UCLA are crying because people are bringing bananas to their demonstration at UCLA.
Linda Mamoun posted a video of a woman eating a banana and taunting the crowd.
Mamoun tweeted, “There was a protestor in the liberated zone at UCLA with a potentially fatal banana allergy. Counterprotestors invaded the encampment and saw all the no bananas warnings.
The next day they came back waving bananas like settlers waving machine guns & smeared bananas everywhere.”..
From 2020-----MuskegonPundit: Must read!!--"In the midst of all this financial chicanery, the Chinese began furiously buying up Italian real estate and businesses in the North"--Fans of Best of the Web Today
as a consequence thousands of Chinese, the majority from Wuhan, began arriving in Milano."...Access was again provided to the Chinese, under the old terms, and as a consequence thousands of Chinese, the majority from Wuhan, began arriving in Milano.
In December of last year, the first inklings of a coronavirus were noticed in Lombardia...in the Chinese neighborhoods.
In December of last year, the first inklings of a coronavirus were noticed in Lombardia...in the Chinese neighborhoods.
- There is no doubt amongst senior medical officials that the virus was brought here from China.
By the end of January 2020 cases were being reported left and right.
By mid-February the virus was beginning to seriously overload the Lombardia hospitals and medical clinics.
As of my writing, they are on the verge of collapse.
The Far-Left politicians sold out and betrayed the Italian people with open border policies and social justice programs.
The Far-Left politicians sold out and betrayed the Italian people with open border policies and social justice programs.
One of the reasons the health care system collapsed so quickly is because the Renzi government (and now continued under the Conte government) redirected funds meant to sustain the medical system, to pay for the tens of thousands of immigrants brought in to Italy against the will of the Italian people...
'Shocking and severe': Biden sued for creating new definition for 'sex' | WND | by Bob Unruh
'Shocking and severe': Biden sued for creating new definition for 'sex' | WND | by Bob Unruh:
Joe Biden is trying to change the definition of "sex" from the science-based facts that make a person male or female by virtue of their DNA and their body.
He wants it to mean anything that a person thinks.
Priceless: Watch Look on Supporter's Face Change When He Realizes Biden Just Lied to Entire Room
Priceless: Watch Look on Supporter's Face Change When He Realizes Biden Just Lied to Entire Room:
"If America’s schools are to impart principles of freedom and democracy to future generations, they must start by respecting the constitutional rights of their students," said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. "While the government may not establish or compel a particular religion, it also may not silence and suppress religious speech merely because others might take offense. People are free to ignore, disagree with, or counter the religious speech of others, but the government cannot censor private religious speech."
WSL - All the Disinformation That’s Fit to Print
Will heavy-handed U.S. intelligence spooks re-elect Trump? Will the New York Times help? - Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. 
"We sometimes lose sight of how downright weird so much news reporting has become.
Imagine you’re the New York Times.
Donald Trump might return to the presidency so you report, as the paper did on April 12, on the “distrust” that exists between him and the U.S. intelligence agencies.
- But you leave out the part about top Obama intelligence officers going on national TV to call Mr. Trump a Russian agent.
- You leave out the part about FBI counterintelligence leaders knowingly trafficking in fabricated evidence about him.
- You leave out the part about 51 former intelligence officials lying to voters to influence an election and help his opponent.
How should we cover Mr. Trump, the Times famously asked on its home page in 2017.
- The answer might have been “fairly.”
- Don’t lie about him or anyone else...
School officials warned not to censor student's valedictory speech | WND | by Bob Unruh
School officials warned not to censor student's valedictory speech | WND | by Bob Unruh:
"If America’s schools are to impart principles of freedom and democracy to future generations, they must start by respecting the constitutional rights of their students," said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. "While the government may not establish or compel a particular religion, it also may not silence and suppress religious speech merely because others might take offense. People are free to ignore, disagree with, or counter the religious speech of others, but the government cannot censor private religious speech."
The enemy is inside the fence!-----George Soros, Maoist fund Columbia's anti-Israel tent city
George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country. - Isabel Vincent
"The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.
Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia — all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — and at some, students have clashed with police.
Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia — all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — and at some, students have clashed with police.
- George Soros is paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.
- The SJP parent organization has been funded by a network of nonprofits ultimately funded by, among others, Soros, the billionaire left-wing investor...
Inside the failed White House coup against press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
Inside the failed White House coup against press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre - Steven Nelson
WASHINGTON — Top aides to President Biden secretly hatched a plan this past fall to replace White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by recruiting outside allies to nudge her out the door, The Post has learned...
“There was an effort to have some outside folks who Karine knows and trusts talk to her about why leaving last fall would have made a lot of sense for her and her career,” the source said, calling it an “effort to encourage her to move along.”
“There’s a huge diversity issue and they’re afraid of what folks are going to say,” added this source...
“There was an effort to have some outside folks who Karine knows and trusts talk to her about why leaving last fall would have made a lot of sense for her and her career,” the source said, calling it an “effort to encourage her to move along.”
“There’s a huge diversity issue and they’re afraid of what folks are going to say,” added this source...
It was always about money anyway!-----College closures leave students with questions, fewer options - The Washington Post
College closures leave students with questions, fewer options - The Washington Post
...So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from one to another have now found that their new school will also close, often with little or no warning...
- Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week.
- What happens to the students?
- Most never finish their degrees, and graduates wonder about the value of degrees they’ve earned
...So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from one to another have now found that their new school will also close, often with little or no warning...
Meta AI is free, but it cannot be trusted: Report | Blaze Media
Meta AI is free, but it cannot be trusted: Report | Blaze Media:
Meta has recently released a large language model, Llama 3, that powers "Meta AI," which is a chatbot that has been implemented into several of the company's social media apps. But some in the tech world have noted that it is free to use, which, unfortunately, reflects the quality of the artificially intelligent bot.
Tech Crunch reported that the chatbot "tends to regurgitate a lot of web search results, and it doesn't excel at anything, but hey — the price is right."
America's Pravda!-----AP Admits Indictments Exist To 'Deter' GOP From Questioning Elections
Under the headline “Charges against Trump’s 2020 ‘fake electors’ are expected to deter a repeat this year,” AP’s Nicholas Riccardi wrote the indictment of 18 people “could help shape the landscape of challenges to the 2024 election.” - BRIANNA LYMAN"The Associated Press (AP) admitted Friday that this week’s indictment of 18 Arizona Republicans is “part of a campaign” to “deter” Republicans from raising challenges and concerns about the integrity of the 2024 election.
...“The indictment issued Wednesday is part of a campaign to deter a repeat of 2020, when Trump and his Republican allies falsely claimed he won swing states, filed dozens of lawsuits unsuccessfully challenging Democrat Joe Biden’s victory and tried to get Congress to let Trump stay in power,” Riccardi wrote...
...“The indictment issued Wednesday is part of a campaign to deter a repeat of 2020, when Trump and his Republican allies falsely claimed he won swing states, filed dozens of lawsuits unsuccessfully challenging Democrat Joe Biden’s victory and tried to get Congress to let Trump stay in power,” Riccardi wrote...
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