Instapundit - China is already the top trade partner for most of South America.
In this serene town on South America’s Pacific coast, China is building a megaport that could challenge U.S. influence in a resource-rich region that Washington has long considered its backyard.
The Chancay deep-water port, rising here among pelicans and fishermen in small wooden boats, is important enough to Beijing that Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected to inaugurate it at the end of the year in his first trip to the continent since the pandemic.China is already the top trade partner for most of South America.
Previously: “Somebody from a developing country said to me, ‘what we get from China is an airport. What we get from the United States is a lecture.'” - Stephen Green
"The author of a popular romance novel from nearly two decades ago has come forward to reveal that one of the main characters is based on Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Sally Quinn, who in 1991 released the bestselling book Happy Endings, told Washingtonian magazine that the character arose after meeting Fauci at a function in D.C.
“I just fell in love with him. Usually those dinners, you make polite conversation, and that’s it,” Quinn said. “But we had this intense conversation, personal conversation. I thought, ‘Wow, this guy is amazing.’”
That interaction led Quinn to create Michael Lanzer, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientist working on a therapy for AIDS in the book...
The 2020 election may seem like a distant memory, but as November 5 draws nearer, many are worried about repeated voter fraud.
And they should be worried.
Sara Gonzales points to a 2023 poll conducted by the Heartland Institute. According to the survey, “in the 2020 general election, more than one in five mail-in voters admitted to voting illegally.”
If that wasn’t disturbing enough, the Heartland Institute just released another poll indicating that “approximately 44 million Americans would vote illegally in the 2024 election ‘to prevent [the] other side from winning.”’
The western globalists, leftists, communists and advocates of multinational corporations running government (ie Fascists) consider Orban their arch nemesis.
Radicals hostile to America and the West committed to a campaign of deracination and iconoclasm in the summer of 2020, digging up graves, toppling statues, renaming animals, melting down busts, knocking out church windows, and killing off iconic brands. Disney made sure to get in on the action.
"A newly surfaced internal memo from the national gym chain 24 Hour Fitness has revealed that employees were told they can wear items containing Pride or Black Lives Matter logos without restriction, while items containing the American flag could only be worn on holidays like the 4th of July. "We’ve committed to creating a more inclusive environment at 24 Hour Fitness, recognizing that we have work to do to become stronger allies in support of those who are impacted by systemic oppression and inequality," the internal memo...
"If you head over to “The Federalist” entry on Wikipedia, you will find, among other smears of our little operation, a “COVID-19 pandemic misinformation” section.
It’s a sad reminder of how authoritarians misuse the idea of “misinformation” to quash debate and control the conversation...
But this “great jobs news” is entirely a fiction. "...“The great American comeback continues,” Biden enthused. “On my watch, 15.6 million more Americans have the dignity and respect that comes with a job.” But this “great jobs news” is entirely a fiction.
The truth is that the job growth under Biden is much closer to zero than it is to 15.6 million. Let’s break it down...
Back in January, Blaze News shared the story of Dr. Eithan Haim, a 33-year-old, board-eligible general surgeon who publicly revealed that transgender-related medical interventions continued at Texas Children's Hospital, even after its leaders claimed they had been put on "pause." Dr. Haim now faces four federal charges in connection with his exposure of Texas Children's, and Blaze News spoke with him to learn more details about his recent interaction with armed federal agents and his unwavering desire to see the truth prevail.
Tim Allen 1953 - Comedian, actor ("Home Improvement")
1866 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
1940 - Paris was evacuated before the German advance on the city.
1966 - The landmark "Miranda v. Arizona" decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights before being questioned by police.
1989 - The Detroit Pistons won their first National Basketball Association title. They beat the L.A. Lakers in four games.
1992 - Future U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks "filled with hatred" towards whites.
Defendants in the case are the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Family Medicine, and the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Additionally, Joe Biden's homeland security secretary, is a defendant because of the government's participation in the alleged censorship.
Since 2023, Michigan has authorized $4.4 billion of select corporate business subsidies.
Assuming that money is fungible, what could it have bought Michiganders?
The average price of a ticket to a Taylor Swift concert in 2023 was $1,088, as calculated by CNBC. At that rate, Michigan could have bought Taylor Swift tickets for 40% of the state population.
Or, Michigan taxpayers could have bought 33 million days — 90,000 years and then some — at Disney World via $130-day passes.
The money could have funded child care and living expenses for the roughly 10,000 Michigan kids in foster care.
It could have lowered Michigan’s personal income tax rate to 2.85%, down from 4.25%.
...He cited a 2023 report from the Public Service Consultants, which estimates Michigan underfunds transportation infrastructure by $3.9 billion, and an Education Law Center report that said public education is underfunded by $4.5 billion.
"...These publications don't make their money from advertisers.
To have a research paper published in a top-tier journal will cost the research team several thousand dollars...
Why, you might add, would anyone pay $12,000 to have their paper published in one of Nature's 156 titles?
The way you win grants, acquire and maintain academic tenure, and move from the underpaid gypsy status of a post-doctoral researcher is by publishing.
Nearly all the problems associated with academic publishing — fraudulent data, insipid and irrelevant subjects, and incoherent writing being top among them — stem from the role publishing in academic journals plays in scientific research.
Paradoxically, the business model of academic journals is based on selling space to needy scientists, and so there is a tension between academic integrity and the bottom line that technology, especially the emergence of large language models, has exacerbated...
WND reported only a few weeks ago of the stark double standard the Biden administration is using to operate.
Another special counsel, Jack Smith, has launched a massive attack on President Donald Trump over his retention of presidential papers in his home.
There are several differences from the Biden case. Trump was president and had authority to declassify any documents; Biden never was and never did.
If you wonder why I—a woman of color, an African, a former Muslim, a former asylum seeker, and an immigrant—look at the antics of today’s anti-Israel, anti-American protesters with such fear and trembling, allow me to explain.
I was born in Somalia in 1969. The country had achieved independence nine years before. But less than a month before I was born—on October 21, 1969—a junior member of the brand-new Somali armed forces seized power with the help of the Soviet Union. The first two decades of my life were shaped by the upheaval that followed that coup... What followed was a nightmare.
Right now, so many Western nations are under grave threat from the twin forces of cultural Marxism and an expansionist political Islam familiar to me from my youth.
