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GORDON CHANGE – CHINESE SABOTEURS ARE COMING TO AMERICA

Thursday, June 29th, 2023

 

Article by Gordon Change re Probable War with  China, also how the Chinese are infiltrating our country through our southern border (rough estimate of military age Chinese men – 5,000 – 10,000)   and how they will be attacking our electric grid, infrastructure , water supplies to bring us down.  All this could happen while our military is concentrating on gender identity.  We have been complacent and  are so vulnerable !  Thank God many of our citizens are armed !  We are one of the few nations of the world that allow their citizens to be armed   The stocking up on canned food and water wouldn’t be a bad idea either.  Nancy    

China’s Saboteurs Are Coming to America

by Gordon G. Chang  •  June 29, 2023 at 5:00 am

  • There is now a Chinese invasion of the U.S. homeland.
  • Chinese migrants are entering the United States on foot at the southern border. Almost all are desperate, seeking a better life for themselves and their children. Some, however, are coming to commit acts of sabotage.
  • Many [Chinese], however, are short-circuiting the long waits at the consulates. At the southern border, Chinese migrants are entering the United States in unprecedented numbers.
  • Once here, the military fighters can link up with China’s agents already in place or Chinese diplomats.
  • How many of the PLA fighters have slipped into the United States this way? Some estimate 5,000, others 10,000. Those numbers sound high, but whatever the actual figure more are coming.
  • These are China’s shock troops. The concern is that, on the first day of war in Asia they will take down America’s power lines, poison reservoirs, assassinate officials, start wildfires, spread pathogens, and create terror by bombing shopping malls and supermarkets.
  • The saboteurs will almost certainly attack American military bases. China has already been probing sensitive installations. Chinese agents posing as tourists have, for instance, intruded into bases, including the Army’s Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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INVENTORY OF WEAPONS SENT TO UKRAINE AND REPLACEMENT TIMES

Sunday, June 25th, 2023

 

Thanks to Royal Brown of Florida for sharing his comments and  information with us.  Scroll down to see the table of replacement times for critical weapons –  Nancy  

Royal A. Brown III

President, Winter Haven 912
LTC-(USA-Ret)
America First
“Resist Tyranny-Obey God’s Laws” 
Nancy – This article by OAN below is very deceptive – Yes Replacement Costs should be used because this is what the US taxpayer will have to pay to replace this equipment. Obama 3/Biden regime is making another huge mistake in supplying Ukraine with top of line munitions, equipment etc without any accountability thus depleted our US arsenal and ability to fight for years especially on 2 fronts.  Due to their lack of accountability, I have to wonder how much of this gear is also falling into hands of Russia and China to be reverse engineered or to develop counters to its effectiveness. Same crap they pulled in Afghanistan by leaving so much of our equipment and technology there.
That damn spokesman for National Security Council, Admiral John Kirby lies thru his teeth about this and everything else. Obviously so do Chair JCS Austin and entire JCS – they are violating their Oath of Office by their actions which jeopardize our Constitution and our Country. See article which follows:
 How The War in Ukraine is Impacting Security in The Indo-Pacific Region How the war in Ukraine is impacting security in the Indo-Pacific – Breaking Defense
 
Xi of Communist China does not want the war in Ukraine to end.  Xi hopes are being supported by the Biden/Obama administration and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who, for 2 ½ years, have not properly reordered and restocked depleted strategic weapons systems and the ammunition that are being transferred to Ukraine at a cost of $2 billion every other month.  Instead, the Biden/Obama administration has been doing very little while the U S Armed Forces are being disarmed.  It has taken the action of the US House Armed Service Committee to take the action to reorder and restock depleted strategic weapons systems and the ammunition to try to catch up with the ability defend the homeland.  
 
By reviewing the below listed Inventory Replacement Table, even a casual observer will understand that it will take from 3 to 18 years to rearm and restock the inventory of critical and strategic weapons systems and ammunition that is being transferred to Ukraine.  Over the past year, NATO has consistently refused to properly rearm Ukraine with the strategic weapons systems and the ammunition required to defend itself.  
 
The Biden/Obama administration has put the US Military in the difficult position of not being able to provide for the defense of Taiwan with the delivery of defensive weapons for their survival.  At the same time, the Biden/Obama administration is preventing the US Military from having adequate strategic weapons systems and the ammunition inventory to protect the homeland from an attack by Communist China.  
 
The firm and unreasonable refusal of the Biden/Obama administration to support a truce, in order to move towards a negotiated settlement of the Ukraine War, is permitting the continued drain of US strategic weapons systems and the ammunition to continue, and is supporting Xi wishes that the war continue, making the invasion of Taiwan so much easier for Communist China to initiate and to eventually prevail in.  
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CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY’S SECRET PROJECTS IN THE U.S.

Friday, April 28th, 2023

 

The Chinese Communist Party’s Secret Projects in the US: What Is Going On?

by Pete Hoekstra   

Peter Hoekstra was US Ambassador to the Netherlands during the Trump administration. He served 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the second district of Michigan and served as Chairman and Ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee and is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute.
April 27, 2023 at 5:00 am

  • Two Chinese companies, Gotion and CATL, are on the verge of building two new battery manufacturing facilities in Michigan. These companies were lured by billions in state and local tax incentives and infrastructure investments, and the environmental requirements buried in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
  • [T]he state of Michigan is making a big bet on electric vehicle (EV) technology in concert with the Chinese Communist Party. What could go wrong?
  • The answer to that is simple: Plenty. At a time when bipartisan members of Congress on the Select Committee on the CCP are conducting war games simulating a U.S. response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, one has to ask is this the right moment to seek more Chinese investment in the state. Especially when one of those projects is just 100 miles from where the U.S. is training Taiwanese troops to defend against a Chinese Communist invasion.
  • Already, Virginia, home to numerous military and intelligence facilities, has rejected one of the two projects out of national security concerns.
  • As… outlined in the unprecedented joint news conference by the FBI and MI-5, the threat from the Chinese Communist Party is real, dangerous and pervasive.
  • Another red flag is the secrecy shrouding the projects. Although the state is in the process of providing substantial sums in taxpayer money to private entities, many of the details have been covered by Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs). Members of Congress, state legislators, local elected officials, and state and congressional staff have been forced to sign NDAs so they can access information taxpayers and the media have been prevented from seeing. What is so secret that it requires taxpayers to be shielded from information about the projects that their dollars will fund? Local newspapers have requested information through Freedom of Information Act requests, but they have been denied.
  • Not only are the projects shrouded in a veil of secrecy, there are legitimate concerns about various organizations actually adhering to the Foreign Agents Reporting Act (FARA). This act requires individuals working on behalf of a foreign entity to register their activities with the Justice…. Former Ambassador Joe Cella and I have… have jointly submitted a request to the Justice Department to review specific individuals and their compliance with federal disclosure laws.
  • [N]ow is the time for both battery projects to be paused. It is time for legislators to engage in their fiduciary responsibility, recognize the changed environment, and reevaluate plans to spend taxpayer dollars to fund two Chinese companies, the CCP, and potentially even the Taliban and the re-emerging Islamic State. It is a new day and US taxpayer money should not be backing potential adversaries.
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CHINA’S RACE TO DOMINATE THE MILITARY AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Thursday, April 6th, 2023

 

China’s Race to Dominate the Military and Emerging Technologies

by Lawrence A. Franklin

Dr. Lawrence A. Franklin was the Iran Desk Officer for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. He also served on active duty with the U.S. Army and as a Colonel in the Air Force Reserve.
April 6, 2023

  • The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) openly says it wants to establish dominance in emerging critical technologies as part of its strategy to supplant the United States as the world’s dominant power, establish a new world order and replace the US-led international system established after WWII.
  • The US has only a little time left in this race. Reports indicate that deep cuts to the military made by several administrations have severely impaired its ability to catch up. Remaining talent and resources will possibly be reallocated in a new administration, if it is not too late by then. China has been supercharging its military for years while the U.S. has sat back, watched, and argued about unrelated social issues.
  • Communist China is currently preparing its people for war. America is not. The American people, who take their magical lives — when compared to so many people in the world — for granted, may be in for a tormenting shock.
China has been supercharging its military for years and is preparing its people for war. America is not. The American people, who take their magical lives for granted, may be in for a tormenting shock. Pictured: DF-17 hypersonic missiles at a military parade in Beijing, China, on October 1, 2019. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) openly says it wants to establish dominance in emerging critical technologies as part of its strategy to supplant the United States as the world’s dominant power, establish a new world order and replace the US-led international system established after WWII.

The US has only a little time left in this race. Reports indicate that deep cuts to the military made by several administrations have severely impaired its ability to catch up. Remaining talent and resources will possibly be reallocated in a new administration, if it is not too late by then. China has been supercharging its military for years while the U.S. has sat back, watched, and argued about unrelated social issues.

China also hopes to exploit the military potential of new technologies. Some, such as hypersonic advances, have the potential for developing sophisticated new weapons systems. Others, such as the science of “Big Data,” can enhance military targeting while rapidly collecting, analyzing and storing immense amounts of information.

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U.S. TRYING TO STOP CHINA FROM ACQUIRING KEY PORTS

Sunday, April 2nd, 2023

 

It is reassuring to know that the U.S. is trying to block China in their quest to own and control major infrastructure  around the world (Belt and Road Plan – www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-massive-belt-and-road-initiative 
.  But, will the U.S. be able to effectively stop the Chinese?   Very dangerous times we are in!  Nancy

In Croatia, U.S. Campaigned to Stop Chinese Bid on Key Port

Both the Trump and Biden administrations have worked with allies to limit Beijing’s influence in Europe

Interest by Chinese state-owned companies in a project at the port of Rijeka, Croatia, seen in 2019, set off a U.S. effort to foil Chinese plans there.PHOTO: JFK/APA PICTUREDESK/ZUMA PRESS

April 2, 2023 

RIJEKA, Croatia—On Rijeka’s waterfront, vast piles of scrap metal stretch for hundreds of yards, the byproduct of an ongoing construction project to renovate the port in the northern Adriatic Sea.

When a deal to remake the port emerged three years ago, it set off alarm bells in Washington: Three Chinese state-owned companies had won a bid for a 50-year deal to build and operate a modern new ship-container terminal at Rijeka, a deepwater port with easy access to central Europe’s markets.

That news, according to U.S. and Croatian officials, sparked an intense, behind-the-scenes campaign by Washington that used diplomacy, declassified intelligence and other tools to persuade North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally Croatia to keep China out. U.S. officials also quietly backed an alternate offer led by Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S.

U.S. diplomacy, coupled with pressure from the European Union, ultimately helped block Chinese ambitions, people familiar with the events said. The Croatian government canceled the tender without explanation in January 2021, rebid it, and awarded the 2.7 billion euro (about $3 billion) concession to APM Terminals, a unit of Maersk, and ENNA Logic, a Croatian logistics company.

“There was no direct intervention, but certain signals did exist,” Oleg Butkovic, Croatia’s transportation minister, said in an interview in the capital, Zagreb. “It’s a very sensitive issue.”

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WHAT’S BEHIND THE PUSH FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES?

Tuesday, February 28th, 2023

 

The negatives for EV’s just keep piling up. The possibility  that forces to be would be able to curtail our movements by shutting down or limiting our access to the electric grid just never occurred to me ! Sounds crazy, I know, but look how easy it was to lock down our  economy and severely limit our activities for two years just by using fear.     Nancy  
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: 

This coerced conversion plan is clearly a disaster if the goal is to provide the American people a better way to travel.  But what if the goal is something other than converting to a “better mousetrap?” Could it be that a coalition of globalists, environmental fundamentalists, and totalitarian-leaning politicians are conspiring to limit the freedom of Americans and control their ability to move about? After all, it is a lot easier to shut down, curtail, or monitor a centrally managed electric grid than it is to close 115,000 gas stations. Americans might want to wake up and think about the risks of buying into the virtue-signaling conversion to EVs.  The way of life that we have enjoyed for over a century may very well be at stake.
February 27, 2023

What’s behind the push for electric vehicles?

The modern internal combustion engine is an engineering marvel.  These power plants run incredibly clean.  According to the EPA, overall gasoline car tailpipe emissions are now about 98–99% less than for cars in the 1960s.  Many current gas-powered cars get well over 35 miles per gallon and have highway ranges of over 500 miles.  Refueling takes five minutes, and there are 115,000 gasoline stations in the U.S.

So why the huge push by the U.S. government to convert to electric vehicles?  It is curious, given that E.V.s are actually inferior to gas vehicles for most uses.  (Perhaps a case could be made for hybrid vehicles in short-range, high-density urban settings.)  Also, beyond vehicle performance, there are other serious negative side-effects of this E.V. conversion.  To recap, here are some of the problems with widespread conversion to E.V.s:

Environmental Damage — Several studies have shown that when factoring in the production process and electricity generation needed to charge the batteries, E.V. conversion can be more damaging to the environment that gas vehicles.

Rare Earth Mineral Mining Problems — The mining of rare earth minerals such as lithium and cobalt for E.V. batteries causes a great deal of environmental damage.  Much of this is done in foreign counties that don’t have good environmental oversight.  Furthermore, to meet the international goal of two billion E.V.s by 2050 would require triple the amount of annual lithium currently mined for all purposes.  Disposal of spent batteries can have toxic environmental effects, and mitigation of this issue hasn’t been thought through or planned.

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STICKER SHOCK – REPLACING ALL THE WEAPONS WE SENT TO THE UKRAINE

Thursday, December 1st, 2022

 

If you are shocked that the U.S. sent billions of dollars worth of weapons to defend Ukraine, wait until you see how much it is going to cost the U.S. (yes, your  taxpayers’ money) to replace all those weapons.  Nancy  
A DISARMING PROSPECT
By Jamie Mcintyre, Senior Writer   November 10, 2022
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  “We burned through seven years’ worth of Javelins [shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles] in a couple of months,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) told the Washington Examiner. “We’re running low on all our stockpiles. We have to turbocharge our munitions industrial base.”

On a warm August day last year, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was drawing the ire of Beijing with her high-profile visit to Taiwan , a small group of national security experts was huddled around two big game boards in a small window-lit conference room in Washington, D.C.

The professionals from MIT and the Center for Strategic and International Studies were playing another iteration of a tabletop exercise designed to game out what might really happen if China were to launch an invasion of Taiwan and the United States went to war to thwart them.

With two competing teams matching wits and moving tiny game pieces around on the two maps — one showing China, the other the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan — the results from 24 different scenarios, stretching over several months, varied, always with both sides suffering big losses but usually with the U.S. prevailing, albeit at enormous cost.

“The good guys win in the sense that we are able to maintain an autonomous Taiwan and the Chinese are not able to conquer the island, but the bad news is that we take a lot of casualties,” said Mark Cancian, senior adviser at CSIS, one of the participants in the real-world version of Risk.

“For example, often we lose 500 aircraft, two aircraft carriers, and Taiwanese economy is devastated, so there’s a very high price,” Cancian told the Washington Examiner. “The Chinese also lose a lot of ships and aircraft, so it’s costly all around.”

There was, however, one glaring deficiency on the U.S. side, which months later would be echoed in a display of Russia’s embarrassingly flawed plan to invade and subjugate Ukraine — namely a critical shortage of certain kinds of precision munitions.

Ukraine is primarily a ground war with stationary targets that can be attacked by cruise missiles and drones, which, as the war dragged on much longer that Russian President Vladimir Putin planned, began to be in short supply.

In a war with China over Taiwan, which is an island, the weapons of choice would be air-to-air and anti-ship missiles, especially the LRASM (Lockheed Martin’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile ).

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VIDEO – ESG’S EXPOSED

Saturday, September 24th, 2022

Heads up everyone!  This is quite an eye opener of how dangerous ESG’s are to our country.  The treasurer of West Virginia, Riley Moore, explains why.   ESG’s (Environmental, Social and Governance) will reach into many aspects of our lives, including our investment accounts.     Nancy 

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“So, there’s a big game kind of going on here, but they’re making a killing off of these ESG products. And why are they able to do that? Well, they’re charging you a little bit more to make you feel better and you’re doing something about the environment. … But they’re raking it in.”

ESG stands for “environmental, social, and governance”: a collection of corporate performance criteria that exist outside of fiduciary responsibility. Money managers such as BlackRock, arguably ESG’s biggest champion, are increasingly using them to determine investment. Riley Moore, treasurer of the state of West Virginia, sees ESG as a destructive force. He is leading a movement of state governments that are terminating contracts with companies that adopt ESG policies, and blocking them from bidding on them.

“For us here in West Virginia, it is something that would ultimately destroy our economy, our people, and our way of life,” Moore says.

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ESG Could ‘Become Part of Our Credit Scores’: W.Va. State Treasurer Riley Moore on Ending Contracts With Companies Adopting ESG

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THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE SCAM

Thursday, August 11th, 2022

 

 The Electric Vehicle Scam

Apr 9

This is an article that intrigued me on an another forum. It contains some thinking that was new to me. Give it a read and see what you think.

The Electric Vehicle Scam

Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris | Jan 15, 2022 | Climate
Change, Feature 1, Lifestyle, Politics

The utility companies have thus far had little to say about the alarming cost projections to operate electric vehicles (EVs) or the increased rates that they will be required to charge their customers. It is not just the total amount of electricity required, but the transmission lines and fast charging capacity that must be built at existing filling stations. Neither wind nor solar can support any of it. Electric vehicles will never become the mainstream of transportation!

In part 1 of our exposé on the problems with electric vehicles (EVs), we showed that they were too expensive, too unreliable, rely on materials mined in China and other unfriendly countries, and require more electricity than the nation can afford. In this second part, we address other factors that will make any sensible reader avoid EVs like the plague.

EV Charging Insanity

In order to match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in a busy 12 hours, an EV charging station would require 600, 50-watt chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid. That is enough to power 20,000 homes. No one likely thinks about the fact that it can take 30 minutes to 8 hours to recharge a vehicle between empty or just topping off. What are the drivers doing during that time?

ICSC-Canada board member New Zealand-based consulting engineer Bryan Leyland describes why installing electric car charging stations in a city is impractical:

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HIGH GAS PRICES- GOVERNMENT CARBON TAX SCAM

Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
 
High Gas Prices are Caused by Governments, Not Companies
by Daniel Greenfield Jun 2, 2022
When Governor Newsom and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern met to announce a deal between the tiny country and the broken state, it was another example of California illegally enacting its own foreign policy. And a reminder of why California gas prices are so high.

The memorandum had California promising to be “carbon neutral” by 2045 and to promote the “environmental integrity of carbon pricing instruments”. California’s crooked carbon pricing schemes have become notorious for both their worthlessness and their corruption.

And California drivers are paying the price.

report from Stillwater Associates last year found that California consumers were paying an extra $1.19 a gallon. This year the added costs include a 51 cent state excise tax, an 18 cent sales tax, 20 cents for Fuels Under the Cap, part of the state’s corrupt environmental cap and trade program and 17 cents for the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

Californians are paying a $1.41 federal and state tax markup on $3 bucks of crude.

Or almost half.

Biden and other Democrats have blamed corporate profits, but the gas stations and suppliers are making a mere 33 cents a gallon or less than a third of the state’s added $1.08 in various taxes. Even the refiners are only making 72 cents. The biggest piece of the pie is coming from the taxes, many of them hidden, imposed by Democrats in the name of saving the planet.

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