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Dominic Barton, Canada’s ambassador to China under scrutiny by US Senate Intelligence Committee for ties to McKinsey & Co. relationship with Communist regime

Canada’s envoy to China draws attention of U.S. Senate intelligence committee chair Marco Rubio

Senator Marco Rubio, chair of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, is drawing attention to an earlier chapter in the life of Dominic Barton, now Canada’s ambassador to China, as the U.S. politician presses giant global consulting firm McKinsey and Co. on its business ties to the ruling Chinese Communist Party and state-owned enterprises.

Senator Rubio has used open letters to query New York-based McKinsey and Co. on its financial relationship with Beijing and to ask whether company executives acted against U.S. economic and national security interests as an adviser to Chinese companies. According to The New York Times, McKinsey’s clientele in China included as many as 22 of the country’s 100 largest state-owned enterprises.

Mr. Barton, now Canada’s envoy to Beijing, was head of McKinsey for nine years as global managing partner. He stepped down as a global managing partner emeritus in September, 2019, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named him ambassador.

Your China Class at work. They have been selling us out to Communist China for decades.

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— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) December 11, 2020

by Blazingcatfur•December 11, 2020December 11, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

MIT’s China problem

‘Why do schools censor themselves? They often do it out of fear of offending China,’ says Mike Pompeo

Mike Pompeo delivered a speech at Georgia Tech on Wednesday about the Chinese Communist party’s undue influence on American higher education. According to the secretary of state, the Massachusetts Institute for Technology rejected his attempts to give the same speech on their campus. The reason why is now a matter of public dispute.

by Blazingcatfur•December 11, 2020December 10, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Failure of Imagination

We’re fighting among ourselves while our real adversary is watching with glee.

We are a vast country, but too many of us have a limited understanding of the rest of the world. We have the right to vote and freedom of speech. We can move around our country as we wish, and we with can start a company or quit a job as we desire. We get to determine who our friends are and where we spend our time. With such great freedom comes a failure of imagination. We forget that our system is special, unique, so we believe that every other country is like ours.

We are wrong.

We have a “China Class” comprised of politicians, academics and the usual assortment of corporate sociopaths who have happily sold us out for their 30 pieces of silver.

by Blazingcatfur•December 10, 2020December 10, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Infographic on Election Night Events in Atlanta

Must-see:

On the night of Nov. 3, tens of thousands of absentee ballots for Fulton County, Georgia, were counted at the State Farm Arena’s vote-tabulation center in Atlanta. In recent days, the fog of incomplete and conflicting information provided by interested parties has begun to clear.

Also – The Band:

by Osumashi•December 10, 2020•0•"US Presidential Election 2020", Music, USA

US to Put Sanctions on China For Its Treatment of Falun Gong Practitioners

Not Uighurs for a change:

The Donald Trump administration on Dec. 10 sanctioned a Chinese official for his involvement in “gross human rights violations” against Falun Gong practitioners—a spiritual practice persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1999.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States would bar entry to Huang Yuanxiong, a police chief at the Wucun police station in Xiamen city, southern Fujian Province. The restriction also applies to Huang’s wife.

“Huang is associated with particularly severe violations of religious freedom of Falun Gong practitioners, namely his involvement in the detention and interrogation of Falun Gong practitioners for practicing their beliefs,” Pompeo said in a statement.

The sanction, made on International Human Rights Day, marks the first time the United States has punished a CCP official over their role in persecuting adherents of Falun Gong.

by Osumashi•December 10, 2020•0•China, Communism, USA

Falls Church, Virginia School Board Cancels Thomas Jefferson

In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Falls Church, Virginia School Board voted to rename Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, as well as George Mason High School, replacing the names of these Founding Fathers with those of people who are more woke and acceptable to the vanguard of today’s Cultural Revolution.

by Sarcasticat•December 10, 2020December 9, 2020•0•Cultural Marxism, Revisionist History, USA

Beijing Slams US Sanctions on Top Lawmakers: ‘Outrageous, Unscrupulous, Crazy and Vile’

China reacted with fury on Tuesday after the Trump administration targeted for sanctions 14 senior lawmakers in the country’s top legislative body, including one of the 25 members of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politiburo, in a further U.S. response to Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong’s long-cherished democracy.

by Sarcasticat•December 9, 2020December 9, 2020•0•China, Hong Kong, Sanctions, USA

‘A Day That Will Live In Infamy’: Pearl Harbor Remembered In Silence 79 Years Later

What I did in 2019 to mark the 78th anniversary of Pearl Harbor would be absolutely unthinkable today in 2020.

I joined a group of veterans — several of whom were veterans of the Pacific Theater in World War II — along with a few of their family members and my own fifteen-year-old daughter. We attended a special screening of the film “Midway.”

I watched these men, who were in their mid-nineties, stand tall and salute the “Missing Man” table that was set up at the front of the theater.

by Sarcasticat•December 7, 2020December 7, 2020•0•history, Japan, USA, War

Let The Joker Go Wild

Okay, we’re in a pickle.

We are in risk of losing the republic. And if we lose it it’s going to be very hard to claw our way back. It could take centuries. So I’m going to suggest we don’t lose it. I’m going to suggest we refuse to stop being Americans.

by Sarcasticat•December 7, 2020December 6, 2020•0•Democratic Party, Election 2020, USA, Voter fraud

‘Havana Syndrome’ likely caused by microwave energy, government study finds

The mysterious neurological symptoms experienced by American diplomats in China and Cuba are consistent with the effects of directed microwave energy, according to a long-awaited report by the National Academies of Sciences that cites medical evidence to support the long-held conviction of American intelligence officials.

The report, obtained Friday by NBC News, does not conclude that the directed energy was delivered intentionally, by a weapon, as some U.S. officials have long believed. But it raises that disturbing possibility.

by Blazingcatfur•December 5, 2020December 5, 2020•0•USA, WTF?

Chinese Professor Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI in Huawei-Related Case

A Chinese professor accused by U.S. prosecutors of helping steal American technology to benefit China‘s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd on Dec. 4 pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, but is expected to be allowed to return home after prosecutors decided not to pursue a more serious charge.

The professor, Bo Mao, had been charged with conspiring to defraud Silicon Valley’s CNEX Labs and faced up to 20 years behind bars. He was a visiting professor at the University of Texas when he was arrested in August 2019.

by Blazingcatfur•December 5, 2020December 5, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

If Meng is released to China, she’ll return to hero’s welcome and likely continue her work at Huawei

Meng Wanzhou, the scion of the Huawei telecommunications company, who is mired in extradition proceedings in Canadian court, has spent the last two years living under partial house arrest in her Vancouver mansions, a colourful and relaxing life compared to the “grey, grinding monotony,” endured by the two Canadians in China who were seized in retaliation for Meng’s 2018 arrest in Vancouver.

by Blazingcatfur•December 5, 2020December 5, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

Trump orders the withdrawal of the majority of US troops in Somalia… and redeploy to Minnesota

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to remove most of the its about 700 troops in Somalia working to assist the East African nation’s military with its long battle against al-Shabab terrorists, the Pentagon announced Friday.

Most of the troops to be removed from Somalia will be relocated to neighboring countries, from where they will continue efforts against the al-Qaida-aligned al-Shabab group, according to a Pentagon statement, which did not provide specifics on how many troops would remain in Somalia. The withdrawal was to be completed by an unspecified date in early 2021, according to the statement.

by Blazingcatfur•December 5, 2020•0•Somalia, USA

Will We Be Citizens or Subjects?

A decisive moment comes and passes, a fleeting chance for action. People rise to the occasion or not, their measure taken and place in history assigned.

We, the citizens of the United States, have reached such a moment. For those who still remember the old republic, the questions it poses are self-evident. Do we make a stand or nervelessly surrender our rights? Do we affirm ourselves citizens—an historically rare and noble title—or do we accept becoming subjects, the fate of most humankind?

by Sarcasticat•December 5, 2020December 4, 2020•0•Election 2020, USA, Voter fraud

Anti-Israel Groups Mobilize to Install Allies in Biden Admin

Anti-Israel organizations have launched a coordinated effort to pressure the incoming Biden administration into selecting people who will champion their causes, a push that reportedly includes opposing mainstream nominees supported by leading Democrats and Republicans.

In a bid to agree on strategy and maximize pressure on Joe Biden’s transition team, more than 100 far-left organizations, including Code Pink and Win Without War, held a Wednesday conference call “to try to get on the same page and make a more coherent pitch to the Biden team,” according to Politico. The organizations are preparing to recommend some 200 staffers who share these organizations’ foreign policy ideology, which includes rolling back sanctions on Iran and challenging American aid to Israel.

by Blazingcatfur•December 5, 2020December 4, 2020•0•Israel, USA