China is Everywhere

#3 - China has Infiltrated Our Society (Seven Things We Can't Say about China by Tom Cotton)

Correction: Number of Chinese dying each year from outdoor air pollution is 1 million (not 500M as previously reported). 500M would be a BIG number even by Chinese standards. Sorry.

Let's start in Hollywood.

Hollywood hasn't produced a film portraying China as a villain or even in a negative light for over a decade. The CCCP took over Hollywood in 1997, when, in retaliation for its criticism in the films Seven Years in Tibet and Kundun, China brought the hammer down. It banned Disney and Columbia Pictures/SONY from doing business in the country. Brad Pitt and Martin Scorcese were banned from visiting China. China threatened to expel all SONY employees.

So what did Disney and SONY do? Why they capitulated, of course. Michael Eisner, the Disney CEO, visited and made a groveling apology saying that Seven Years was a "stupid mistake." SONY pulled Kundun from theaters after just two days. China has had its boot on Hollywood's neck ever since. But that's not the only neck in the entertainment game.

After Houston Rocket's GM , Darryl Morey, tweeted, "Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong." the proverbial sheet hit the fan. China suspended all cooperation with the Rockets and threatened to do so with the entire league. The NBA hopped to. Forced Morey to delete the tweet and offered its own groveling apology. Lebron that erudite international ambassador jumped in, criticizing Morey and stating that "while we have freedom in the US, there can be a lot of negatives that come with it." From the high school grad himself. In a year, Morey was out of a job. Since there have been other examples of basketball and soccer stars who had the temerity to call a Chinaman Chinese and were given the boot.

As all but Fox News are owned by parent companies under Chinese subjugation, LSM - especially CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN - issue nary a critical word about the Commies.

Higher Education is even worse off.

Almost 300,000 Chinese students study in the US. Most pay full tuition. Some 2500 are scientists and engineers sponsored by the Chinese military. But fear not. For teaching China's youth how build the technologies of tomorrow (so they can take over our asses), universities are handsomely rewarded. $15-20 billion in tuition. $1B in identifiable donations and an estimated $7B in under the table ones. Several billion in cooperation agreements with Chinese companies. Hundreds of $ millions in grants every year to US professors and colleges. And the Confucius Institutes on college campuses to foster cultural understanding (Trump did manage to kill most of these in 2020).

But it gets even better in US Boardrooms and on Wall Street.

US behemoths like Microsoft, Google, IBM, Cisco, Intel and hot chipmaker Nvidia are all up to their eyeballs in Chinese cooperation. Again helping the Chinese attain the cutting edge of the future. Several of these relationships bear the lion-share of responsibility for creating China's surveillance state.

US CEOs are happy to do their own share of groveling. Gates said, "I'm most impressed with how hard President Xi works. He's amazing." How so? Compared to Joe Biden. Zuckerberg bought copies of Xi's book, The Governance of China" for his employees. Charlie Munger (Buffett's former partner - RIP) said, "I'd say their system has worked better for them than ours has for us." NIKE CEO, Donahue stated, "Nike is a brand that is China - for China". Hip hip hooray. A ballroom of US CEOs even gave Xi a standing ovation when Biden invited him to SF. How fitting. Biden, SF, groveling CEOs and the Commie King all together.

United, American and Delta all removed Taiwan from their drop down list of countries served. Marriott did the same including Tibet and Hong Kong. The list of US companies who joined a lawsuit to stop banning Chinese imports made by Chinese slave labor reads like a who's who. GAP apologized formally for showing a map of China without Taiwan.

JP Morgan sponsored a Sons and Daughter program to hire princelings of Chinese elites. US billionaires lobby ferociously for Chinese support, currying favors with bribes to politicians. US banks have loans and investments between $46 and $65 billion in China.

Then there is the high prince of political correctness and unshrouded hypocrisy, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock. Fink, who regularly extols diversity while cutting off funds to US gun manufacturers and fossil fuel companies, heaped praise on XI. "I would call the Chinese leadership as one of the best in the world. I would say the majority of society in China has done quite well." Not if you lost your farm and work in a city sweatshop or if you are Tibetan or Uyghur or Falun Gong or Christian or Muslim or live in Hong Kong. Then "quite well" is not how you've fared.

The revolting moral equivalence these CEOs show is breathtaking.

Let's Not Forget the Government and the Military

China regularly steals our military secrets. Employing vets, awarding contracts to contractors, embedding its scientists in our research lads, bribing politicians and, of course, cyber hacking, China has taken theft of intellectual property to heights heretofore unimaginable. Critical technologies have been stolen from Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Hughes Electronics and others. Sometimes it's not even necessary to steal them, our contractors give them away as part of doing business. China never met a politician or contractor it couldn't purchase.

Everywhere You Look but Can't See

China has infiltrated our society. On countless levels. Gathering intelligence, probing for weaknesses, stealing secrets and in general (pardon my French) preparing to kick our ass when the day comes.

And It's Not Just China...

trying to infiltrate our society and indoctrinate our young.

Khaled Al-Hroub is a professor at Northwestern in Qatar. He is no more than a mouthpiece for the Hamas terrorists whom he portrays as "symbols of resilience". Same old tired rhetoric - Jews are the real terrorists. What do our universities expect? Whose bread you eat, his song you sing.

In a report (see link) entitled "Inside America's Student Intifada", the true strategy of foreign terrorist organizations to poison our universities is explained. Columbia University was the tip of the spear...as the insanely liberal institution quite happily opened its gates to these outside activists. The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a local chapter of The National Students for Justice in Palestine (yes, it's all over the place) were the ringleaders of the invasion - while Columbia administrators stood idly by, some even assisting and applauding.

https://canarymission.org/campaign/Columbia_Intifada

This is not free speech. This is not the open exchange of ideas. This is slander, heresy, persecution and a carefully orchestrated campaign to control the mind of American students - thus turning our younger generations against our nation, its principles and its security. Damn right we should take away those green cards and throw them the hell out.

Thanks to Roberta for these excellent inputs.

Trump’s EPA vs. Biden’s Dark Climate Money

Imagine if Republicans gave the Trump Administration tens of billions of dollars to dole out to right-wing groups to sprinkle around to favored businesses. That’s what Democrats did in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Trump team’s effort to break up this spending racket has led to a court brawl, which could be educational. CME has opined before on the criminal deception of the so-called "inflation reduction" act . Well here's more proof.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin recently canceled some $20 billion in grants that his Biden predecessors rushed out to leftwing groups from the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Democrats established this quasi-private green bank in the IRA to avoid government oversight of climate spending.

Mr. Zeldin claims the freeze is needed because of “substantial concerns regarding program integrity, the award process, programmatic fraud, waste, and abuse, and misalignment with the Agency’s priorities.” He’s right that the program is rife with political conflicts. In one example, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund director Jahi Wise oversaw a $5 billion grant to his former employer, Coalition for Green Capital.

The Biden EPA awarded another $2 billion to Power Forward Communities, an umbrella group of climate outfits that was formed in 2023 supposedly to “finance home energy efficiency upgrades.” But the IRA includes tax credits and other grant programs for this purpose. Power Forward’s real purpose is to spread taxpayer funds to progressives.

One Power Forward member is Rewiring America, which is backed by the Windward Fund, a nonprofit managed by the liberal dark money group Arabella Advisors. Rewiring America hired Stacey Abrams as a senior counsel in 2023 to “guide the organization as it builds the tools and capacity” to connect Americans—i.e., liberal groups—to “Inflation Reduction Act incentives.” Remember Ms. Abrams, the former candidate for Georgia Governor who refused to concede she’d lost for years?

The program’s biggest recipient is Climate United, which was also formed in 2023 and has received $7 billion—nearly as much the EPA’s annual budget. Climate United claims on its website to have made a handful of “investments,” including $32 million for a solar project in Arkansas and $250 million for California electric truck manufacturing.

Climate United says it is “partnering with” Forum Mobility, a California electric truck and charging startup, whose CEO Matt LeDucq is a Biden-Harris donor. The primary beneficiary of the Arkansas “investment” is Scenic Hill Solar, whose CEO is Bill Halter, the state’s former Democratic lieutenant governor who worked in the Clinton Administration.

And on and on. So you see - the larceny of the BCF is not limited to direct kickbacks and bribes. It extends to many indirect schemes to peddle influence as well. And guess who's paying? Ka-ching, ka-ching.

Thanks to Chicago Mike for this excerpt from last week's WSJ editorial.

More on the Sorry State of US Education

An appellate court judge recently sided with Tennessee student William A., ruling that the student was denied the free public education to which he is entitled under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Turns out

"William graduated from high school without being able to read or even to spell his own name," Circuit Judge Raymond Kethledge wrote in his judgment. "That was because, per the terms of his IEPs, he relied on a host of accommodations that masked his inability to read."

To write a paper, William would speak the topic into a speech-to-text software and paste the words into an AI app like Chat-GPT, which would then "generate a paper on that topic," Kethledge explained. William would then paste that text back into his own document and "run that paper through another software program like Grammarly, so that it reflected an appropriate writing style." WOW. I coulda been a contenda with AI!

William, who has severe dyslexia, went through 12 years of public education with an individualized education program (IEP), never learned to read or write, and still graduated with a 3.4 GPA, according to court documents.

In a similar lawsuit out of Connecticut, a high school graduate named Aleysha Ortiz argues similarly that she went through years of public education in Hartford County with a learning disability and was never taught how to read or write. Ortiz not only graduated with honors, but she was also admitted into the University of Connecticut, according to the complaint. 

Clearly these two examples involve children with true learning disabilities. But how many others are there with no such disabilities who are given social promotions, moved along through the system and then thrust into adulthood with no hope of earning an acceptable living let alone thriving? Many garnering unearned college admissions denied to deserving candidates.

President Donald Trump has railed against the Department of Education for "failing American students," and the administration plans to eliminate the Department altogether, directing education authority to individual states. Since 1979, the U.S. Department of Education has spent over $3 T-R-I-L-L-I-O-N with virtually nothing to show for it.

Ka-ching.

Despite per-pupil spending having increased by more than 245% over that period, there has been virtually no measurable improvement in student achievement: Math and reading scores for 13-year-olds are at the lowest level in decades. Seven-in-ten fourth and eighth graders are not proficient in reading, while 40% of fourth grade students don’t even meet basic reading levels. Little doubt why the proficiency of our population diminishes and so many depend on handouts. #40 in the world doesn't cut it.

Big Boo Boo...Dems Ecstatic!

Well, there you have it. The new Administration committed its first big screw up. The Dems have their first real Gotcha. Turns out Jeff Goldberg, the Editor of that leftwing rag, The Atlantic, was somehow looped into a high level discussion among top Trump officials (Vance, Hegseth etc.) concerning the upcoming initiative to take out the Houthis. Held on the supposedly uber secure Signal app, this Goldberg guy was online mistakenly and nobody knew. In true patriotic spirit, he published the entire discussion in his online magazine. Taking the opportunity to allege that highly classified, national security matters were divulged through hugely careless, inept mismanagement.

The Dems went ballistic. Held parades, shot off fireworks. Called the whole Administration little leaguers. Called for criminal prosecutions. As we know the libs have many leftwing judges in their pocket, so this isn't far fetched.

Consequences of this faux pax? Errr...like none. Hell, Trump announced on Truth Social a few days before, "We're gonna get 'em." Big surprise we attacked. Actually there were consequences - for the Houthis.

Now don't get me wrong. This was a black eye. A real SNAFU. But to turn it into a wholesale condemnation is ludicrous. Anybody remember when Hilary deleted 33,000 emails and FBI Chief Comey declined to prosecute. She had 600,000 private, high level emails on her personal computer. Some must have been classified or she wouldn't have had staffers going around smashing hard drives. And what about letting the sad old man who forgets a lot off the hook for storing classified documents next to the Corvette?

Oh well, no surprise in the land of convenient memories and double standards.

Another Promise Made - Promise Kept

Bringing "elite" universities to heel. As documented, large unis depend mightily on federal government largesse. From research grants to student loan subsidies to massive tax breaks. They depend because they don't want to drain and have to replenish their precious, billion dollar endowments.

Trump just announced he froze $400M in federal largesse to the ringleader of anti-American sentiment. The Columbia University. Columbia's administration did more than burp. They keeled over backwards and capitulated (a word we've used a lot in this first 100 days). Columbia agreed to: 1) discipline students who took over buildings during Hamas agitations; 2) ban protestors from wearing masks; 3) empower campus police to make arrests; 4) specify a detailed antisemitism policy and adhere to it; 5) put the Middle East studies Department into receivership, which means an outsider is in charge.

This kind of punishment will no doubt be extended to numerous other offenders. UPenn got whacked for $140 million. One estimate is at least 60 other universities will be subject to the same "or else". Academia is scared sheetless.

Like we've always said...it's all about the money, rarely the principle.