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One of my favorites is The Boxer Rebellion. Simple lines but I enjoy the sound. Here are two links - Fragile and Diamonds. These are live, if you can listen to the studio cut, all the better.
Photo when Lady GaGa performs Gimmie Shelter with The Stones.
Not a believer in The Swamp? I know we need something like the CIA; however, this was done right after WWII, in one small section of the world, totally renegade...
So maybe some good can come out of this Virus...
Joe Biden sent an unambiguous response.
"I will continue to abide by the same principle that has guided me throughout my 21 years in the Senate: those of us who are opposed to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them," he wrote.
"As you may know," Biden continued, "I have consistently — on no fewer than 50 occasions — voted against federal funding of abortions."
"(T)he government," Biden said, "should not tell those with strong convictions against abortion, such as you and I, that we must pay for them."
Today, Biden is the most powerful man in the United States government — and he is demanding that Americans "with strong convictions against abortion" must pay for them with their tax dollars. This is the moral price Biden was willing to pay to become Vice President and then president as the nominee of a party that will not tolerate leaders who insist on defending the innocent unborn.
When Biden ran for president in 2020, he made clear on his campaign website that he favored not only nationwide abortion on demand but also federal funding of it.
"Vice President Biden favors repealing the Hyde Amendment," his website said. This is the amendment Congress has habitually added to annual appropriations bills over more than four decades to prohibit funding of abortions except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is endangered.
"Biden will work to codify Roe v. Wade," said his website, "and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade."
Roe, of course, is the 1973 Supreme Court decision that declared abortion a "right."
Biden — in 2020 — also said he would: "Restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood." In 2019, according to its annual report, Planned Parenthood performed 354,871 abortions.
When Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill — the so-called American Rescue Plan — was being considered in the House, Reps. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., offered a Hyde-type amendment to prevent it from funding abortions. This amendment was co-sponsored by 203 of their colleagues.
"Without Hyde protections in the reconciliation package, over $414 billion in taxpayer dollars could potentially be used to pay for elective abortions or plans that cover elective abortions," said a statement from Walorski's office.
But Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee rejected the amendment and the House Rules Committee refused to allow it to be considered on the House floor.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., co-chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, then noted in the House debate on the bill how Biden had flip-flopped on federal funding of abortion. Smith demonstrated this point by quoting from and linking to the letter Biden had written to his constituent in 1994 and a similar letter Biden had authored in 1977.
"Mr. Biden once wrote to constituents explaining his support for laws against funding for abortion by saying it would 'protect both the woman and her unborn child,'" Smith said.
"I agree," said Smith.
But Biden no longer agrees with himself.
In the future, China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States. Chinese acquisition of US businesses set a new all-time record last year, and it is on pace to shatter that record this year.
The Smithfield Foods acquisition is an example. Smithfield Foods is the largestpork producer and processor in the world. It has facilities in 26 US states and it employs tens of thousands of Americans. It directly owns 460 farms and has contracts with approximately 2,100 others. But now a Chinese company has bought it for $ 4.7 billion, and that means that the Chinese will now be the most important employer in dozens of rural communities all over America.
T hanks in part to our massively bloated trade deficit with China, the Chinese have trillions of dollars to spend. They are only just starting to exercise their economic muscle.
It is important to keep in mind that there is often not much of a difference between "the Chinese government" and "Chinese corporations". In 2011, 43 percent of all profits in China were produced by companies where the Chinese government had a controlling interest.
Last year a Chinese company spent $ 2.6 billion to purchase AMC entertainment – one of the largest movie theatre chains in the United States. Now that Chinese c ompany controls more movie ticket sales than anyone else in the world.
But China is not just relying on acquisitions to expand its economic power.
"Economic beachheads" are being established all over America. For example, Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group, Inc. recently broke ground on a $100 million plant in Thomasville, Alabama. Many of the residents of Thomasville, Alabama will be glad to have jobs, but it will also become yet another community that will now be heavily dependent on communist China.
And guess where else Chinese companies are putting down roots? Detroit. Chinese-owned companies are investing in American businesses and new vehicle technology, selling everything from seat belts to shock absorbers in retail stores, and hiring experienced engineers and designers in an effort to soak up the talent and expertise of domestic automakers and their suppliers. If you recently purchased an "American-made" vehicle, there is a really good chance that it has a number of Chinese parts in it. Industry analysts are hard-pressed to put a number on the Chinese suppliers operating in the United States.
China seems particularly interested in acquiring energy resources in the United States. For example, China is actually mining for coal in the mountains of Tennessee. Guizhou Gouchuang Energy Holdings Group spent 616 million dollars to acquire Triple H Coal Co. in Jacksboro, Tennessee. At the time, that acquisition really didn't make much news, but now a group of conservatives in Tennessee is trying to stop the Chinese from blowing up their mountains and taking their coal.
And pretty soon China may want to build entire cities in the United States just like they have been doing in other countries. Right now China is actually building a city larger than Manhattan just outside Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
Are you starting to get the picture?
China is on the rise. If you doubt this, just read the following:
# When you total up all imports and exports, China is now the number one trading nation on the entire planet.
# Overall, the US has run a trade deficit with China over the past decade that comes to more than 2.3 trillion dollars.
# China has more foreign currency reserves than anyone else on the planet.
# China now has the largest new car market in the entire world.
# China now produces more than twice as many automobiles as the United States does.
# After being bailed out by US taxpayers, GM is involved in 11 joint ventures with Chinese companies.
# China is the number one gold producer in the world.
# The uniforms for the US Olympic team were made in China.
# 85% of all artificial Christmas trees the world over are made in China.
# The new World Trade Center tower in New York includes glass imported from China.
# China now consumes more energy than the United States does.
# China is now in aggregate the leading manufacturer of goods in the entire world.
# China uses more cement than the rest of the world combined.
# China is now the number one producer of wind and solar power on the entire globe.
# China produces 3 times as much coal and 11 times as much steel as the United States does.
# China produces more than 90 percent of the global supply of rare earth elements.
# China is now the number one supplier of components that are critical to the operation of any national defence system.
# In published scientific research articles China is expected to become number one in the world very shortly.
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