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The Morning Report 11/28/22

Good morning, kids. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday. The volume of links is still thin but there are some things happening that potentially could be huge as we head towards the end of 2022. The internal unrest in Iran and China continues to percolate. As I touched upon last week, it’s rather ironic that two of the world’s most oppressive regimes might, or at least have the potential, to spark a geopolitical earthquake that, like most of these sort of things, was unanticipated and seemingly out of the blue.

I’ll stop right here and state for the record that in no way am I predicting either or both of these are going to be overthrown and their leaders given the Ceacescu-Mussolini lamppost treatment, let alone Jeffersonian democracy established. The odds are long indeed. But the elements in both those accursed nations are certainly there, which make those odds, long as they are, still higher than zero. 

Let’s focus in on China, where repression is now at a level, thanks to high tech either stolen from, or worse eagerly developed by and given to the regime by Microsoft, Google et al that makes surveillance of a billion souls at Stasi levels of effectiveness. The nation’s economy is on a bubble that could crash at any moment, their one-child policy has put even them on the path towards depopulation within less than 100 years, and at least a generation have come of age with at least a taste of the forbidden fruit of western culture, now threatened by the megalomaniacal dreams of Xi Jinping who fancies himself as the second coming of Mao. 

The Chinese character is such that its respect for authority is deeply ingrained. And yet, with these lockdowns that are literally locking people down as physical prisoners in their own homes across much of the nation, this sense of deference to authority, one that has no qualms about crushing any and all dissent, is not in evidence.

Protests intensified over the weekend in major cities across China, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan. According to media reports, a demonstration in Shanghai eventually devolved into chaos, with police clashing with protesters and deploying pepper spray. The protests emerged as a response to the “zero COVID” policies imposed by the Chinese Communist Party government since the beginning of the pandemic.

Protests intensified over the weekend in major cities across China, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan. According to media reports, a demonstration in Shanghai eventually devolved into chaos, with police clashing with protesters and deploying pepper spray. The protests emerged as a response to the “zero COVID” policies imposed by the Chinese Communist Party government since the beginning of the pandemic.

The protests reportedly began on Thursday after ten people were killed in a fire at a residential high-rise building in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang autonomous region. Videos of the incident posted on social media spawned accusations that lockdowns contributed to the deaths, the New York Times and Reuters reported. Residents of the city have been locked down and prevented from leaving their homes for as long as 100 days at a time, Reuters added. . . 

. . . In several cases, protesters reportedly took aim directly at Xi. “Down with the Chinese Communist Party, down with Xi Jinping,” protesters reportedly shouted at the Saturday demonstration in Shanghai, per Reuters.

“We want freedom,” others chanted, according to the New York Times.

“Xi Jinping!” “Step down!” another group chanted back and forth, NYT reported.

It’s evident now that the protests have gone beyond merely just the draconian lockdowns. They are anti-government in general in tone and focus. A friend sent me a link where one protester actually quoted Patrick Henry, “Give me liberty or give me death.”

“There is only one disease in the world, that is, being unfree and poor, and now we have both,” a man in Chongqing, in southwest China, declared in a video that spread widely in the country in recent days despite censorship. 

“Give me liberty or give me death!” shouted the man, whose identity is unknown but who quickly acquired the nickname “Super Brother” online.

Aside from the bitterly ironic fact that an alarming percentage of American children have no idea who Patrick Henry even was nor the quote itself and its context, the interesting thing to note in terms of the Chinese citizen who said it is, coupled with all the other protests, it indicates to me that there is a definite anti-regime if not pro-freedom sentiment in China. How large it is and how organized it is is anyone’s guess. Yet, given what we know of that regime’s internal security apparatus, that it is able to exist at all even at the most minimum level has got to come as a shock to Xi and his ilk. 

So, to Psaki-psircle back, does this mean the Chi-Com regime is in imminent danger of collapse? I don’t think so. What it does indicate to me though, and gives me a measure of hope is that, while things like Democracy projects and all the rest of that crap are just that, crap, it does mean that at a minimum, people do not enjoy being abused by those in positions of power. They may as the Chinese, have deference to authority figures part of their cultural DNA, but shit like what they are going through now is intolerable. 

A scenario that is easy to imagine is Xi going too far and perhaps a clique in the military removing him and his comrades. Sadly, they’ll still be replaced by Communists, and the Red Chinese goal of global domination will still be their prime objective. But at least the citizenry will be somewhat mollified. Or will they?

You could make the pessimistic case that after that anonymous and insanely brave man stopped a column of T-62s in Tiananmen Square 33 years, the movement died with him and perhaps tens of thousands of others who were rounded up and killed out of view from the TV cameras. And yet, a generation later and the candle of freedom still burns in the pitch darkness. 

In certain ways, it might be more difficult to restore Jeffersonian democracy right here at home where it was born. But things like this give me hope. If for no other reason than to just flip the bird at the evil bastards no matter the consequences.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that but the way things are going over here, be prepared.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG “RIOT” & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION 

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

  • Lloyd Billingsley: “The white coat supremacist can’t seem to remember the destructive policies he imposed on the American people.” Fauci Forgets
  • “The time has come for the Biden [junta] to follow the science.” End the Vaccine Mandates
  • It’s unclear whether his tour of Sunday’s news shows marks the last of Fauci’s public appearances as he plans to step down from his role as the Biden [junta’s] chief medical advisor and from his positions as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immuno-regulation in December. Fauci Changes Tune: ‘Completely Open Mind’ About Lab Leak, Gives School Closure Warning
  • “In other words, Jha was lying, and he was doing so in plain defiance of the data that has been accumulating exponentially in the past year.” Government Lies vs Chinese COVID Truths

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

SECOND AMENDMENT

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEIST & AFTERMATH

SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

  • “As he wraps up his Russiagate investigation with the now-failed prosecution of Igor Danchenko, we are left only with questions about what John Durham failed to do.”The Questions John Durham Didn’t Ask

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

POLITICS 

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  • “A memo from Giancarlo Sopo, the founder of Visto Media and one of the most respected analysts in the Republican Party, showcases just how important this increase is for Republicans, focusing on key battleground states like Arizona, Florida, and Georgia, where the shift among Hispanics from Democrat to Republican is most pronounced all three states are crucial to any possibility of Republicans garnering 270 Electoral Votes in the next presidential election.” Roger Stone Op-Ed: The Hispanic Shift To The GOP– And Why Democrats Should Be Terrified
  • “Why the new GOP House should avoid choosing for that office anyone not elected to the House.” (considering the Constitution is used as toilet paper in that whore House, what’s the big deal? – jjs) An Outside Speaker? A Constitutionally Dubious, Bad Idea
  • If you think the government only has trouble counting ballots, you ought to see what happens when bureaucrats try counting people. Just as self-government depends on honesty at the ballot box, our Republic’s safety valve of “voting with your feet” depends on an honest Census count. Former Rep Jason Lewis: How the Census Saved the Democrats
  • “Early thinkers in the movement anticipated many of the concerns of today’s dissident Right.” The Neoconservative Shadow

THE UKRAINIAN “FRONT”

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY 

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

HITHER & YON 

NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.