China’s Challenge to the Monroe Doctrine

Until recently the U.S. seemed serious about enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, but China has now established a foothold throughout Latin America. What gives?

Time magazine reported earlier this year that China is South America’s top trading partner. Chinese companies, according to correspondents Ciara Nugent and Charlie Campbell, invested nearly $13 billion in Latin America in 2019, while China is a major consumer of Latin American exports, purchasing “beef from Uruguay, copper from Chile, oil from Colombia, and soya from Brazil.” State-controlled Chinese tech companies (Huawei, ZTE, Dahua, Hikvision) have made inroads in Latin America, Time reports, that will allow “Beijing to dictate the rules of commerce for a generation.” And China’s political influence has spread to the Caribbean Sea and Central America, where the Dominican Republic, Panama, and El Salvador switched their formal recognition from Taiwan to China.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", South America, USA

Release of JFK assassination records delayed *again*

There was an obscure deadline for the federal government coming up on Tuesday that is now being pushed back for the umpteenth time. According to the latest interpretations of the Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (also known as the JFK Records Act or simply the JFK Act), the final trove of federal records related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the subsequent findings of the Warren Commission had to be reviewed by this coming Tuesday, October 26, 2021, “to determine whether continued withholding from disclosure is necessary.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

GOLDSTEIN: Higher cost of living the goal of climate change policies

When the United Nations’ 26th giant, carbon-dioxide spewing conference on climate change begins Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland, let’s be clear about its message.

It will be that to save the planet from catastrophic warming, you will have to pay much more for driving your car, heating your home, buying your food and living your life than you already are.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Activist Behind Netflix‘s Dave Chappelle Protest Has Racist, Homophobic, Anti-Asian Tweets Exposed

Ashlee Marie Preston, the activist behind the Netflix protest over veteran comedian Dave Chappelle and his comedy special, The Closer, has had a series of bigoted tweets exposed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Racists, Big Tranny, WTF?

Terence Corcoran: Report on environmental groups targeting Alberta oil exposes disastrous charitable system

The Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns on Thursday delivered a massive report that is guaranteed to reignite debate and conflict, denial and dismissal. However the inquiry’s commissioner, Steve Allan, provides all the evidence needed to conclude there is something disastrously wrong with Canada’s charitable system.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

Will Apple be the last US tech giant left in China?

There was a time when the US tech giants were all in China – even Facebook. Today, Apple’s huge presence in the country looks increasingly conspicuous.

Last week Microsoft, which still operates in China, announced it was to shut down its social network, LinkedIn, there.

The company said having to comply with the Chinese state had become increasingly challenging – so it pulled the plug.

Apple has its own censorship problems in the country.

The BBC reported last week that two popular religious apps had been removed from Apple’s App Store.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

The 1 percent lecture about climate change while making it worse

Just west of the Pacific Coast Highway in the Paradise Cove area of Malibu, a major construction project is underway. Every day, at least 20 pickup trucks full of workers, earthmovers and multiple cranes belching black smoke crowd onto the lot, power up and get to work building Laurene Powell Jobs’ dream beach compound.

To date, Steve Jobs’ widow has spent more than $80 million on three oceanfront lots — tearing down the existing houses and, according to one person in the know, now building a “massive 20,000-square-foot home for her and her two grown daughters and two smaller ‘cottages’ that are around 4,000 square feet a piece for guests.” 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Where are the workers? Cutoff of jobless aid spurs no influx

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Earlier this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut off a $300-a-week federal supplement for unemployed Americans. Many people, they argued, would then come off the sidelines and take the millions of jobs that employers were desperate to fill.

Yet three months after half the states began ending that federal payment, there’s been no significant influx of job seekers.

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Google Strong-Arms Smaller Competitor With Data Demands

Lawmakers call the moves anti-competitive behavior

In a move that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called anti-competitive, Google has announced it will remove its YouTube apps from TV streaming app Roku if Roku does not provide Google with special privileges.

At issue are demands made by Google that would change how Roku operates. The demands include a dedicated section of search results for YouTube—something no other Roku partner receives. Roku tells users searching for a movie where to watch it based on their streaming subscriptions; Google is pushing for some searches to route directly to YouTube, even if it means consumers would pay more. And Google wants Roku to provide the valuable search data it receives from users, a demand Roku calls a fundamental threat to business.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGoogle, Google is Evil

Erdogan orders removal of 10 ambassadors, including those from Canada, U.S.

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that he had ordered 10 foreign ambassadors who called for the release of a jailed philanthropist to be declared persona non grata.

The envoys, including the U.S., French and German representatives in Ankara, issued a statement earlier this week calling for a resolution to the case of Osman Kavala, a businessman and philanthropist held in prison since 2017 despite not having been convicted of a crime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inErdogan, Turkey

Migrant caravan breaks through Mexican police as Biden blasted for claiming he hasn’t had time to visit border

A migrant caravan made up of thousands has broken through Mexican security forces attempting to stop them from making it to the US border on the heels of US President Joe Biden saying he lacks the time to actually go there.

Thousands of migrants gathered in Tapachula, near the Mexico-Guatemala border, and are now making their way to Mexico City and eventually the US border. Among them are people fleeing Haiti, Venezuela, and multiple other Latin American countries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA