Friday, September 24, 2021
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Were You Pushed Into Taking The Jab?
Loose-hearted lady, sleepy was she
Love for the devil brought her to me
Seeds of a thousand drawn to her sin
Seasons of wither holding me in
Oh woe is me, I feel so badly for you
Oh woe is me, I feel so sadly for you in time
Bound to lose your mind
Live on borrowed time
Take the wind right out of your sail
Top Republicans Press State Department on Security Risks Posed by Chinese Cloud Services
Republicans Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin sent a letter to the State Department warning of the security risks posed by foreign governments’ use of cloud services provided by Chinese technology company Huawei.
The letter, addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, expressed concerns regarding over 70 foreign governments’ and state-backed companies’ use of Huawei’s cloud infrastructure, which the lawmakers argued could be used by the Chinese government to spy on foreign countries.
“If allowed to proliferate, Huawei’s cloud services could give the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) similar access to additional governments, companies, and other important institutions, delivering Beijing a distinct information advantage,” Cotton and Gallagher wrote.
The lawmakers cited Huawei’s e-Government Cloud, a package of services that help governments process sensitive information and manage elections, identification systems, tax services, and other functions as potentially exposing “Huawei’s clients to the prying eyes of the CCP.” The lawmakers argued this would put the entire political structure of a country using Huawei’s services in China’s “crosshairs.”
Huawei was previously found to have been helping African countries such as Uganda and Zambia spy on political opponents. The Federal Communications Commission labeled the Chinese technology company a national security threat in June 2020, banning Huawei from receiving agency funds, while the Department of Justice in January 2019 charged the company’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou with several counts of fraud.
Cotton and Gallagher also argued foreign governments’ use of Huawei cloud infrastructure threatened American citizens and enterprises.
“This threat could manifest itself in the CCP’s access to the personal data of visiting U.S. citizens, service members, business persons, and diplomats,” the lawmakers wrote. “Such an outcome could severely disadvantage U.S. diplomatic, intelligence, and economic efforts and must be...
Global Supply-Chain Woes May Imperil More Than Christmas Shopping
Vice President Kamala Harris caught a glimpse of the unfolding problem during her recent swing through Asia. In Singapore, a global hub for maritime trade, she learned that congestion at its piers was causing shipping companies to bypass the port.
What the Vice President saw in Singapore and other ports in Vietnam and China critical to global supply chains is a product of COVID. The Chinese port of Ningbo, the world's third-largest, was closed for two weeks in August by authorities over a single COVID case.
In Singapore, Harris commented that the shipping backlogs might make it hard for Christmas shoppers to have gifts on time. But the challenges are weightier than that. Our national security apparatus maintains lean inventories and relies on just-in-time manufacturing and delivery—often from overseas suppliers— to replenish their stocks. Shipping delays can create serious vulnerabilities.
The slowdown is already hitting home. In Los Angles, a key port for U.S. trade with Asia, historic shipping backlogs have resulted in a horizon full of ships at anchor waiting to enter port. The backlog is even impacting mid-west rail service and causing delays in air freight at major air hubs. For trade in perishables like fruit, delays are a deal killer; as winter approaches, consumers will find less fruit at the grocers.
The causes of these logjams are complex.
The COVID pandemic has hit global shipping and manufacturers with labor shortages for 20 months now. This problem was compounded when a large container ship grounded in the Suez Canal, blocking the waterway for six days. The cascading effects of these misadventures have created delays that will take months if not longer, to resolve.
These delays are compounding the backlogs by driving a shortage of shipping containers as ships wait at anchor to offload and reload. Container ships carry 13% of global trade by volume, accounting for 11% of global trade value. Shippers want cargo in standard containers, driving producers to look for replacements as too many are...
One Way To Take Your Freedom Away From You Is To Convince You To Give It To Them.....
The Death Of Freedom Will Come Swiftly If We Allow It To.
Death comes sweepin' through the hallway
Like a lady's dress
Death comes drivin' down the highway
In its Sunday best
A fire of unknown origin
Took my baby away
A fire of unknown origin
Took my baby away
More Cowbell Would Be Of No Assistance.
The Death of Dignity
We’re far from the republic of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison . . . and we’re heading in the wrong direction.
At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, the most shameless, undignified people ever to exist on planet Earth have overrun America’s influential institutions, only to drive them into the ground with reckless abandon.
Take MSNBC’s Joy Reid, for example. She’s a wholly unremarkable person whose only skill is turning every topic on her “news” show into a racial issue.
This week, she informed us that America’s fixation on the case of Gabby Petito, a missing Florida woman, is a case of “Missing White Woman Syndrome,” a disease not recognized by any scientific publication. If MSNBC hired Al Sharpton (another person who turned his adroit race-baiting into a career) to replace Joy Reid, he could not hold a candle to her relentless, nightly masterclass in ginning up racial hatred.
The most honest work Joy Reid has ever published was her early 2000s “Reid Report” blog, where she constantly displayed her hatred for the gay community. When those posts resurfaced in 2018, she denied writing them—which was a lie_and led the FBI on a witch hunt to investigate potential “hacking” of her online material. Later, she copped to her lie and admitted that she wrote the posts, but maintained that, “I genuinely do not believe that I wrote those hateful things, because they are completely alien to me,” which, of course, was another lie. She knows exactly when, how, and why she wrote those posts, and the whole “I’m a changed woman now” bit rang completely hollow.
After all of that, MSNBC promoted her from hosting a weekend morning show to primetime. That’s American meritocracy at work.
General Mark Milley, the drunk-driving, Communist Chinese-sympathizing practitioner of critical race theory, who also as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, happens to be America’s most senior military official, recently burst onto the scene as another perfect example of America’s long-lost dignity.
The man is an utter buffoon.
When he’s not conspiring with our Communist enemies abroad, he spends his days conspiring with America’s domestic Communist enemies, implementing their playbook for...
Dam The Communists And The Tyrannical Totalitarians...
If it keeps on raining, levee's going to break
If it keeps on raining, the levee's going to break
Red rain is coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me
I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream
I cannot make a single sound as you scream
It can't be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch
Hey, we touch
This place is so quiet, sensing that storm
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