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Posted on 01/01/2025 12:57:31 PM PST by ransomnote
Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
Good summary of Vegas news conference. ThankQ!
Yep.... figured it needed better exposure since it popped super late on the last thread.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4286757/posts
"Canadian ‘Shark Tank’ Star Kevin O’Leary Says He’s Going to Mar-a-Lago to Convince Trump to Merge US and Canada"
No, I do not think it will be quite the same as a corporate merger but its probably better to have business people discuss it first.
@SebGorka
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My reaction to the Terror Attack in New Orleans. 2 min
https://truthsocial.com/@SebGorka/113756504992081568
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Happy New Year everyone.
I don't do "Broken China Updates" just to hear myself type (This is good since I have a silent keyboard). I try to wait until I have something new or unusual to report. I have been almost uniformly negative in my updates this year (12/16/24, 8/26/24, 8/18/24, 5/12/24). I blame this on a year long bout of optimism. If anything, I have been nowhere negative enough about the economic and political situation in the PRC. The facts on the ground are, at best, dire. I'm probably STILL being too optimistic.
Why do I think this way? Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride this year.
Item One: Destruction of private savings and investment.
As bad as inflation can be for destroying wealth, deflation is worse. You have heard me harp on the collapse of the Real Estate sector of the PRC economy. For the past four decades one of the major drivers of the PRC economy has been building. It has been one of the very few places that individuals have been able to invest in. As a result the people invested their retirement savings in real estate.
This began to unravel three years ago with the default of EverGrande and later Town & Country, the two largest developers in the country. This did more than harm those who had purchased houses and apartments. (In the PRC, you pay for the house BEFORE it is built.) It bankrupted subcontractors & materials providers through non-payment. Workers were also left with months of unpaid wages.
With the onset of a deflationary spiral, new home building has virtually ceased. It used to be 30-45% of the economy. The property resale market is down 80-90% in valuation meaning investors can't sell their property and remain on the hook for mortgage payments.
It is now estimated that some 30 TRILLION Dollars, not Yuan, of asset valuation has vanished during the period 2021-2024. This is wealth that the people are depending on to cover their retirement. They will not be happy to learn it is gone. They will demand the CCP so something it can't, bring back their money.
Item Two: The ongoing collapse of retail sales
At a time when the PRC desperately needs to boost private consumption to take up the slack in its export driven economy, retail businesses are closing at a record. Entire shopping districts in the tier one and two cities are eerily quiet with boarded up shop fronts being the norm rather than the rule. Upscale retailers are either closing or renegotiating leases for a fraction (20-30%) of their former rents. Landlords who won't cut rent to retain tenants find themselves with empty buildings which places a further downward pressure on rents. The rate of business closures at the low end, small food and retail shops is even higher.
This is placing a severe downward pressure on wages throughout the economy. Workers without wages can't spend them.
Item Three: Long distance Phishing
Over the past two months, over 80 senior business leaders of major Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Hong stock exchange listed companies have been detained by local officials, generally at a distance from the company's primary business operations. This appears to be a shakedown effort by local governments to extort funds from these businesses to try and close local revenue shortfalls. It also appears to NOT be sanctioned by the national government although the national CCP does not seem to be acting to curb the practice.
This is yet one more negative item depressing the business environment in the PRC.
Item Four: Demographic collapse
I have mentioned this before. I do not believe that the PRC has anywhere close to its claimed 1.4B population. I have seen recent estimates running between one billion down to as low as 700 million. Regardless of what the true number is, it has the CCP scared to death. Family Planning clinics under the One-Child Policy are being reopened as birth promotion centers with all sorts of intrusive questions to newly wed couples inquiring as to the date of the wife's last menstrual period and how soon she expects to be pregnant.
I don't know how the CCP expects this heavy handed approach to have much effect when the 20-somethings they want to have babies are having trouble finding jobs that will allow them to feed, house, and clothe themselves.
Item Five: Misplaced spending priorities
It is evident the there are at least some in the hierarchy of the national CCP that see things clearly both as to the national problems and the necessary corrective action to be taken. That doesn't mean that they have either the power or the inclination to take that action as doing so will threaten the sinecures of others who would take action against them.
The CCP continues to spend extravagantly, trillions of Yuan, on things that will solve the national problems and reverse the decline of the PRC. Examples include: a continued naval build-up, hundreds of miles of high speed rail infrastructure without a pressing need, the Belt & Road Foreign Policy Initiative.
Conclusion:Where do I see things going?
This is the hardest question. Eventually the bill for economic misadventure will come due and the CCP will not be able to cover the tip, much less the bill. The Chinese refer to this as "Losing the Mandate of Heaven." At this point, historically, China has descended into civil war, famine, and population contraction until a new dynasty is founded. The CCP will either be swept away (dead), or will rule over a mountain of rubble and skulls.
The best we can do is not get caught in the crossfire.
WWG1WGA
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Fantastic update. Thank you for these!
-SB
New Orleans Jihad Attack: How Government Cowardice and Islamic Whitewashing Endanger America
https://rairfoundation.com/new-orleans-attack-how-government-cowardice-islamic-whitewashing/
Excerpt:
The attack in New Orleans was not just an act of terror; it was a glaring reminder of a government more committed to appeasing Islam and preserving political correctness than protecting American lives.
The Islamic terror attack in New Orleans by an assailant identified as 42-year-old U.S. citizen Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was found carrying an ISIS flag, was not just a tragedy; it was a damning indictment of a government that has spent years willfully dismantling the very defenses meant to protect us. Authorities have confirmed that Jabbar did not act alone, revealing ties to a broader network that enabled and supported the attack. This incident was predictable, not because of intelligence failures alone, but because of the systemic whitewashing of Islam by leaders too terrified—or too complicit—to confront the ideological threat it poses. This is not a failure of understanding; it is a deliberate betrayal of the American people.
nder the Biden administration, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) issued guidance warning intelligence personnel against using terms like “jihadist,” “Islamic extremist,” or “radical Islamist”—phrases that accurately describe the ideology motivating global terrorism. These terms were deemed “problematic” because they might “hurt Muslim feelings.” Think about that: the feelings of a religious group were prioritized over the lives of innocent Americans. This wasn’t a simple bureaucratic blunder; it was the result of years of infiltration by Islamic advocacy groups with ties to extremism.
The involvement of controversial figures like Shaykh Hamza Yusuf in shaping counterterrorism policy highlights the extent of this infiltration. Yusuf, a man with a documented history of anti-American, antisemitic rhetoric and associations with groups like the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA)—a known promoter of jihad—has been invited to influence the U.S. government’s counterterrorism approach. This is the same man who once referred to Judaism as “a most racist religion” and America as “a country that has little to be proud of.” How can a government claim to defend its citizens while taking advice from someone with a track record of praising jihad and condemning the very principles of Western civilization?
The betrayal doesn’t stop there. This administration’s refusal to name the enemy is not new. Judicial Watch exposed how, under the Obama administration, FBI Director Robert Mueller met with radical Islamic groups like CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) to purge FBI training materials of anything deemed “offensive” to Muslims.......
This political correctness is killing us. In case after case—Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Orlando nightclub shooting—the warning signs were ignored. Major Nidal Hasan’s emails praising jihad were dismissed. The Tsarnaev brothers were flagged by foreign governments as threats, yet no action was taken. Why? Because acknowledging these individuals as threats would mean acknowledging the ideological link between their actions and Islam—a link our leaders are too cowardly to name.
......It is time to hold this government accountable. The American people deserve leaders who are willing to call out the ideological roots of terrorism and act decisively to combat it. This means:
Purging Islamic influence from intelligence and policy-making institutions. Individuals with ties to radical organizations have no place in shaping counterterrorism strategies.
Restoring truthful language in counterterrorism training. Intelligence agencies must be allowed to use accurate terminology to describe the threats we face. Anything less is willful negligence.
Ending government partnerships with Islamic advocacy groups. Groups like CAIR and ISNA, with their documented ties to extremism, must be cut off from all influence and funding.
Reprioritizing national security over political correctness. The safety of American citizens must always come first, even if it means offending certain groups.
The attack in New Orleans is another wake-up call—but only if we listen. Our government’s whitewashing of Islam has left the nation vulnerable, and the cost is measured in American lives. We must reject the lies, confront the truth, and demand action before more blood is spilled. The enemy is not in the shadows; they are in plain sight. It’s time to name them, fight them, and stop them.
Hey :) Among other interesting features of that photo, I noticed the stripes are vertical and the stars are black...what flag is that?
Harry Chandler, Navy medic who helped rescue sailors injured in Pearl Harbor attack, dies at 103
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-chandler-dies-navy-medic-pearl-harbor-attack-age-103/
Excerpt:
Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval base, has died. He was 103.
Chandler died Monday at a senior living center in Tequesta, Florida, according to Ron Mahaffee, the husband of his granddaughter Kelli Fahey. Chandler had congestive heart failure, but Mahaffee said doctors and nurses noted his advanced age when giving a cause of death.
The third Pearl Harbor survivor to die in the past few weeks, Chandler was a hospital corpsman 3rd class on Dec. 7, 1941, when waves of Japanese fighter planes dropped bombs and fired machine guns on battleships in the harbor and plunged the U.S. into World War II.
He told The Associated Press in 2023 that he saw the planes approach as he was raising the flag that morning at a mobile hospital in Aiea Heights, which is in the hills overlooking the base.
“I thought they were planes coming in from the states until I saw the bombs dropping,” Chandler said. His first instinct was to take cover and “get the hell out of here.”
......His unit rode trucks down to attend the injured. He said in a Pacific Historic Parks oral history interview that he boarded a boat to help pluck wounded sailors from the water.
The harbor was covered in oil from exploding ships, so Chandler washed the sailors off after lifting them out. He said he was too focused on his work to be afraid.
“It got so busy you weren’t scared. Weren’t scared at all. We were busy. It was after you got scared,” Chandler said.
He realized later that he could have been killed, “But you didn’t think about that while you were busy taking care of people.”
.....Chandler’s memories came flowing back when he visited Pearl Harbor for a 2023 ceremony commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the bombing.
“I look out there, and I can still see what’s going on. I can still see what was happening,” Chandler told The Associated Press.
Asked what he wanted Americans to know about Pearl Harbor, he said: “Be prepared.”
“We should have known that was going to happen. The intelligence has to be better,” he said.
.....Military historian J. Michael Wenger has estimated that there were some 87,000 military personnel on the island of Oahu the day of the attack. With Chandler’s death only 15 are still living, according to a tally maintained by Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors.
Bob Fernandez, who served on the USS Curtiss, also died this month, at age 100, and Warren Upton, 105, who served on the USS Utah, died last week.
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O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. — Psalm 139:1-2 (ESV)
+1 Reprioritizing national security over political correctness.
Thanks for the article. Skimmed it...will read in full.
https://rairfoundation.com/new-orleans-attack-how-government-cowardice-islamic-whitewashing/
@TrumpTeam24
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BREAKING: U.S. Senators are now urging the expedited confirmation of Trump’s national security team following the suspected terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
ThankQ MqD for the new thread!
The Highlander reporting in!
Happy New Year, all y’all!
And from previous thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4281822/posts?page=5810#5810
To: Melian
https://youtu.be/MU2daHWfNXc?si=SMSkyG9SHjAn41oX
video of Mar a Lago.
Is that Hail to the Chief playing while waiting
for President Trump to enter the party?
5,810 posted on 1/1/2025, 2:26:49 PM by Marmolade
A NewsGuard ‘Fact Checker’ Sent Me Some Questions. Here Was My Answer.
Robert Spencer
Thanks LP
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