TRUMP HAS RED CHINA REELING
Omarosa. The show trial for Paul Manafort. These are the things CNN chipmunks chattered about endlessly the last few days. But CNN has no news judgment because it is run by a moron with a Harvard degree and a Napoleon Complex.
To find the news, I read the South China Morning Post, which is worried spitless that the Red Chinese economy will tank like its stock market has.
Its stocks overall have declined in value by 40% in the last three years. Our stocks are up 33% since we elected Trump. The SCMP thus is running a series of columns by panicked investors and experts. They should be. Trump has China reeling for a number of reasons.
MUELLER’S LEGACY IS HIS BEING GUILTY OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Some 450 days ago we were treated to melodramatic announcements from the media about the start-up of Robert Mueller’s “dream” and “all-star” team.
Reporters gushed in the general hysteria of the times that Mueller would no doubt soon indict President Trump, some of his family, and almost anyone else in his campaign—and therefore end the Trump aberration.
Although that Mueller mandate of collusion was never formally defined, much less explained as a criminal offense, the media salivated at the idea that Mueller’s whiz kids nonetheless were going to find it and no doubt thereby usher in impeachment.
Now we have gone from melodrama to bathos.
PROSPERITY, THE RULE OF LAW, AND MR. MUELLER
Will China
overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy?
Perhaps, because it has about four times as many people as the United States. But U.S. per capita income will still be far greater unless China can institute a rule of law equal to that of the rich nations – or the rule of law continues to weaken in the United States.
The level of economic prosperity is closely tied to the rule of law.
In June, the World Justice Project (WSJ) issued its 2017-2018 Rule of Law Index. There are 113 countries listed. The United States ranks #19, while China ranks #75.
The United States is no longer in the top 10 countries when it comes to the rule of law. The two main reasons are the administrative state – and corruption in the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI. Of which the Mueller investigation is Exhibit A.
WHY FACEBOOK IS DOOMED TO FAIL IN CHINA
In July, Facebook quickly withdrew its pending subsidiary in the province of Zhejiang, China.
The social media giant, along with Google, Twitter, and Instagram (which is also owned by Facebook) is eager to reach China’s potential audience of 731 million internet users, but it has been blocked in the mainland for almost 10 years.
The subsidiary aimed to establish a new innovation hub as well as finally dip a toe in the Chinese market, but Facebook’s plan to enter China is doomed to fail.
This is not the first time Facebook has attempted to have a piece of the pie. It won’t be the last. Facebook is still trying, but it needs to understand it will be all but impossible for it to survive in China. Here’s why.
SPYEINSTEIN
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy (Federalist, August 8)
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/10/18
FROM 1957 TO 2018 – DEMOCRATS HAVEN’T CHANGED
It’s ironic that the founder and communications director of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens, were having breakfast at the Green Eggs Café in Philly Monday morning (8/06) when what happened to them should be a historic turning point for every normal American.
They were beset by the crazed-with-hate fascists of ANTIFA screaming at them exactly like the crazed-with-hate fascist Democrats of the 1950s Segregationist South screaming invective at young blacks going to restaurants or schools.
Over a year ago (June 9, 2017) I wrote: The Nazi Left and the Source of Trump Hatred. It’s critical for understanding the dementia sweeping through Democrats right now, with the critical difference between the German Nazis under Hitler and the New Nazis of the American today being Auto-Nazism.
That’s just the start of an amazingly intense week (becoming the new normal now). Intense yes, but we’ll have fun on the way. Let’s go.
TRUMP’S PLAN TO CHANGE THE WORLD
The President and First Lady arrive in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 20, 2017
President Donald Trump has a plan to defeat radical Islamic terrorism off the battlefield, judging from the publicly available evidence.
The plan is simple, if extraordinarily ambitious: Reform Islam.
More specifically, the aim is to induce Muslim leaders to reject jihad and terrorism, and to embrace and promote a moderate practice of Islam.
Trump’s public calls for an end to Islamic terrorism made headlines, but largely unnoticed has been a larger and concerted plan to reform Islam by eliminating the root cause of such violence: the extremist ideology that fuels jihad.
The president called upon Muslim leaders to fundamentally reform Islam by rejecting terrorism and global jihad during his landmark speech in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on May 21, 2017.
“There can be no coexistence with this violence. There can be no tolerating it, no accepting it, no excusing it, and no ignoring it,” the president insisted. There are clear signs he is succeeding. Here’s how.
PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST
When the Wicked Witch meets Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” she demands the ruby red slippers the Kansas farm girl is wearing. The Good Witch advises Dorothy otherwise. “Their magic must be very powerful or she wouldn’t want them so badly,” she says.
The Magnitsky Act is something like those ruby red slippers.
Originally passed by Congress in 2012 and named for the Russian accountant found dead in his jail cell after exposing fraud involving Russian officials, it authorized the president to block travel visas and freeze bank accounts of individual Russians deemed guilty of human-rights abuses.
In 2016 it was expanded so it could be applied to other human-rights abusers anywhere in the world. We know its power the same way we know about the power of Dorothy’s red slippers: The bad guys obsess about it.
Like Turkish Dictator Recip Erdogan, who’s feeling the heat of President’s Trump’s Americans First foreign policy of using the Magnitsky Act to force the freeing of Pastor Brunson.
TIME FOR TRUMP TO PLAY AN ACE IN THE HOLE
Time to shut these three guys out of the game
You return from a great vacation and POW — reality hits like a punch in the nose.
The pain begins when you remember that the hapless Jeff Sessions is still the attorney general of the United States.
It sharpens with the realization that Rod Rosenstein, officially Sessions’ deputy but really the boss of the Justice Department and FBI, continues to get away with the biggest partisan heist of modern times.
Rosenstein is guilty of three main sins. Here are all three, plus how Trump can trump all three with an ace in the hole.
WHY WE SHOULD EAT ENDANGERED SPECIES
Yellowstone, Wyoming. Why are bison no longer endangered?
Yes, the park rangers here insist on calling them “bison” instead of buffalo. They don’t appreciate being asked if Bill Cody should be renamed Bison Bill.
There are an estimated 5,000 bison in Yellowstone National Park owned by the government. An estimated almost 100 times as many, from 300,000 to 500,000, are in herds that are privately owned. A century ago, the bison was almost extinct in the United States, and only a few hundred were alive.
Bison, like chickens and cattle, are now abundant because private owners are allowed to own them and sell the meat for food, as well as other parts of the animals. That is, the owners have a strong economic incentive to raise many healthy animals.
The Trump administration has proposed reforms to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which predictably has caused outrage among some self-identified environmentalists. Winding its way through the courts is The Case of the Invisible Frog — aka, the “dusky gopher frog.”