Hunter Biden’s Art Imitates Communist Chinese Life

The Biden family’s lucrative financial relationships with the Chinese are undeniable, but now it appears that the Renaissance man, Hunter Biden, toast of the art world, has even taken a leaf from the Deng Xioaping playbook on graft.

In the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping was the chief foreign and domestic policy maker and paramount leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He held sway well into the 1990s. Deng’s secret sauce was a ladleful of authoritarian communism with a dash of capitalism shaken in by privileged gang members.

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A Revolting System

One of Nikolai Bukharin’s last known observations about the Bolshevik revolution, before Stalin had him killed, was that it was driven by a hatred of the people it was supposed to serve. The revolution was supposed to create a society in which all people enjoyed the fruits of their collective production. By the end of the 1920s, Stalin’s revolution from above promised to unleash mass murder, genocide, and famine.

It is a well-known feature of history that revolutions not only eat themselves, but they unleash terror on the people. There is always a point where the aspirations that fueled the revolution slam into the reality of the human condition. Since abandoning the revolutionary vision means abandoning the revolution, the revolutionaries turn on the human condition, first on each other, then on the people.

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An American Story: Tennessee Girl Discards Christianity, Becomes Climate Change Activist, Joins ISIS

Ariel Bradley wasn’t even the only Islamic jihadi from Chattanooga, Tennessee. On July 17, 2015, a fellow resident of the Chattanooga suburb of Hixson, Mohammad Abdulazeez, murdered four Marines at a Navy base in Chattanooga. This delighted Bradley, who wrote: “Gifted this morning not only with Eid but w/ the news of a brother puttin fear n the heart of kufar [non-believers] n the city of my birth. Alhamdullilah [thanks be to Allah].” By that time, Bradley was far from Chattanooga; she was living in the domains of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, and was calling herself Umm Aminah, that is, Aminah’s mother, after her two-year-old daughter, Aminah Mohamad. Six years later, Ariel Bradley is dead, and Aminah is being brought back to a United States that is even more riven now by the divisions and confusions that drove her mother’s life so wildly off course than it was when her mother made her fateful choices.

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What the IPCC climate report doesn’t tell you

Humans have never been more safe from the impact of extreme weather than they are today.

Today, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first tranche of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). This report, focusing on the ‘physical science basis’ of climate change, will be followed by other reports on ‘adaptation and vulnerability’ and climate-change mitigation early next year. Meanwhile, the publication today has ignited predictably excited commentary from politicians, activists and environmental journalists, who all hope that AR6 will refocus world leaders’ attention on the upcoming COP26 climate meeting later this year.

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Obama’s 60th Birthday Party Is Peak Democrat COVID Sanctimony

In case you didn’t hear, former President Barack Obama had a birthday bash over the weekend. His 60th was celebrated in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., alongside Hollywood elites, friends, confidants, and politicos. And yes, it is only the latest instance of Democrats operating on a “for thee, but not me” basis when it comes to the coronavirus.

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Proud Boys or FBI informants?

Some arrested on Jan. 6th, who remain in jail without bail, had close ties with the FBI

The FBI has relied on the Proud Boys as informants on the roughneck group’s arch urban enemy–––far-left Antifa.

Joseph Randal Biggs was one, his lawyer says in a court filing. Mr. Biggs considers himself a political prisoner as he begins his fourth month in a Florida jail on U.S. Capitol rioting charges. The Biden Justice Department, keen on prosecuting as many Jan. 6 Trump supporters as possible, depicts him as an insurrection ringleader.

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Erin O’Toole’s anti-trade, anti-business stand is at odds with his own party’s history

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole pitches his position on free trade as a stand against the failed policies of the Liberal government. In reality, his battle is with the ghosts of his own party.

In a short video posted to Twitter last week, Mr. O’Toole railed against a government “that chases bad trade deals with countries like China,” and the greed of the corporate “power brokers” who support those trade pursuits at the expense of workers at home.

“I believe that the goal of economic policy should be more than just wealth creation,” he said.

Is he listening? Go Incognito.

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War Between Iran and Israel May Be Inevitable

Israel says it’s only ten weeks before Iran has enough weapons-grade material to make a nuke.

Winston Churchill wrote that there was never a war that could have so easily been avoided as World War II. Almost the precise opposite must be said about the coming war with Iran over its nuclear weapons: there have been few wars as inevitable as the one that will soon erupt.

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