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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma not seen since attack on officials over 2 months ago, skips his TV show

Lee Brown
New York Post
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:54 UTC
Jack Ma
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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma has not been seen for more than two months after publicly attacking Beijing finance officials — even skipping his own reality show, according to reports.

The Alibaba founder came under fire in October for a speech in which he attacked China's financial regulatory system for stifling innovation, calling for reform of what he called an "old people's club," The Telegraph noted.

Within days, Chinese regulators halted a $37 billion stock debut of Alibaba's financial affiliate, Ant Group, and launched an anti-monopoly investigation of Ma's e-commerce giant, known as the "Amazon of China."

Ma has not been seen in public since his controversial speech, The Telegraph said, and his last tweet was even earlier in October.


Comment: Is he in RSDL? Chinese citizens have been "residentially detained" for less... Unfortunately, until he shows up again, there will be no way of knowing.


Speculation started swirling about his whereabouts when he failed to show as a judge in the final of an "Apprentice"-style TV show he created, "Africa's Business Heroes," the UK's Financial Times (FT) noted.

One of his last tweets had been about the show, with Ma gushing of the finalists, "I can't wait to meet them!"
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Black Cat

Ignore the Leftist gaslighting - cancel culture is real

Andrew Doyle
spiked
Fri, 01 Jan 2021 22:31 UTC
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In 2021, let's put a stop to the malicious vogue for shaming anyone who speaks out of turn.

By now most of us will be familiar with 'gaslighting', a term which describes the tactic of contradicting observable reality as a means to undermine someone's security in their own point of view. The word comes from the 1940 movie, Gaslight, in which a husband convinces his wife that she is going insane by, among other things, dimming the lights and then denying that the house is getting darker when she complains. Social-justice activists are well-known for levelling the charge of 'gaslighting' at their opponents, yet it is a strategy that they have themselves perfected. Even their accusations of 'gaslighting' are a form of gaslighting, given that we are expected to believe that they are somehow not guilty of the very behaviour they are projecting on to others.

Perhaps the most obvious example of gaslighting is how the identitarian left has created a system of public shaming known as 'cancel culture', which its adherents carry out ruthlessly while repeatedly denying its existence. The denial is an extension of the strategy because it enables them to continue with impunity. They insist that they are not 'cancelling' anyone, but merely 'holding the powerful to account'. But when a supermarket employee loses his job for a joke he posted on Facebook, it doesn't feel much like a valiant blow against plutocracy and the ruling class.
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Light Sabers

Jovan Pulitzer's team is being shot at after they were given directive to identify fraudulent ballots in Fulton County, Georgia - UPDATE: Byrne shares ballot fraud details

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:23 UTC
Jovan Pulitzer
Jovan Pulitzer
Jovan Pulitzer and his team have the ability to save America. Now they are being shot at.

Jovan Pulitzer and his team have the ability to determine the validity of millions of ballots in a day. He spoke last week in Georgia and offered to review the absentee ballots in Fulton county for free. He said he could go through the 500,000 or so absentee ballots in the Atlanta based county in a couple hours and determine which ones are valid and which ones are frauds.

Pulitzer could save the union. With his approach, he can audit millions of ballots in a short period of time and have all the swing state votes forensically reviewed in a matter of days.

Comment: The hearing regarding handing over the ballots to Pulitzer was postponed:



According to Pulitzer, his team already has evidence of machine-filled ballots.


Patrick Byrne shared more details of what's going on in Georgia:
READ AND RETWEET AS THOUGH THE LIFE OF YOUR NATION DEPENDS ON IT. WHICH IT DOES. Citizens, I am going to add to the picture with more information. I am not going to let this pass while keeping information to myself. I am going to walk you through 2 narratives.

A printing shop in Michigan prints ballots for Delaware County, Pennsylvania and as Lancashire County, Pennsylvania (this is normal). But along with the ballots it prints on contract and delivers to those counties, it prints some ballots that get diverted to Bethpage, New York.

There, a boiler room of folks fill in "Biden" (often without even voting downballot). The ballots (which are forensically legitimate, given that they come from the same print shop as the good ballots, ) then get trucked into Pennsylvania and mailed. Hundreds of thousands.

We have all of that documented. Texts, statements, affidavits, everything.

We also know that this same ballot printing company (and other firms in the same family) also print for Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia.

Narrative #2: China sent counterfeit ballots to Fulton County, Georgia. During the counting on election night, all but four people were shoved out of the counting operation on the grounds of a dangerous "water main break" (that turned out to be "a toilet overflowed").

Last Wednesday, December 30, the Georgia Senate Judiciary voted to inspect those Fulton County voting operations. Hours later (as I have previously posted) an Enterprise vans pulled up and got filled up with voting materials.

A shredding company in neighboring Cobb County, Georgia was on December 31 given roughly 3,000 pounds of ballots to shred. Authorities have come into possession of those materials.

A handful of papers stuck to the side of the shredding bin. They include some unshredded ballots (which 2 federally certified forensic examiners have affied do not match the legitimate ballots). ALSO, A SHIPPING RECEIPT FROM THE CHINESE FIRM THAT PRINTED THE BALLOTS! IN CHINESE!

Word is the DOJ and DHS have been told to stand down. That President Trump himself has had to call agents on the ground asking them to continue. If you think they should continue, retweet to let @TheJusticeDept know your feelings.
It looks like some of the fraudsters outsourced their printing to a Chinese firm, which may or may not support that video that was going around last year of a Taiwanese man ordering fake ballots from a Chinese printing company.




He explains what Jovan described in his Georgia testimony:





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Quenelle - Golden

Best of the Web: French govt announces 'delay' to mass vaccination campaign after just 516 people get one in first week


RT
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:59 UTC

Comment: Too funny! Now the French govt has a problem; how to 'induce' people to line up for one?...


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© REUTERS/Charles Platiau(FILE PHOTO)
The head of the French health authority has justified their slow progress in immunizing people against Covid-19 and suggested that there are still things we don't know about the Pfizer vaccine.

Speaking on Monday, Dominique Le Guludec, president of the High Authority of Health (HAS), admitted that the vaccination campaign had started too slowly but defended her strategy.

The medical chief said that they didn't know if the jab would stop transmission and therefore the program must be focused on those who are at most risk.

Comment: In other words, the French people are living up to their reputation as the world's most vaccine-skeptical population, and practically no one from its population of 65 million wants the new franken-vaccines!

For more on the situation, check out Dr Gaby's new article on SOTT: COVID Mass Vaccination Experiment: Prepare For The Worst With This Health Protocol

And check out SOTT radio's:

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Health

Best of the Web: A doctor speaks: I've studied the data swirling around this perplexing Covid virus. One stark truth stands out: lockdowns don't work

Malcolm Kendrick
RT
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 20:31 UTC
patient lockdown mask
© Pexels / Andrea Piacquadio
One year since it began, there are still more questions than answers about Covid-19. Just about the only reliable data on it are the mortality rates for various countries. In a murky world, they give us clarity.

I've not written much about Covid-19 recently. What can be said? In my opinion, the world has simply gone bonkers. The best description can be found in Dante's Inferno, written back in the 14th century.

In it, Dante describes the outcasts, who took no side in the rebellion of angels. They live in the vestibule. Not in heaven, not in hell, forever unclassified. Naked and futile, they race around through a hellish mist in eternal pursuit of an elusive, wavering banner, symbolic of their pursuit of ever-shifting self-interest.

Comment:

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Attention

George Galloway: I'm happy my friend Julian isn't being sent to a US gulag. But this shameful episode is a huge stain on Britain

George Galloway
RT
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:28 UTC
Assange supporters
© Reuters/Henry NichollsJudge ruled Assange should not be extradited to the US, January 4, 2021.
Julian Assange will go down in history as a great and brave journalist, and I hope he finds the strength to continue his noble work. But his persecution shames this country and those who went along with it.

The global historic figure Julian Assange, the greatest journalist and publisher of our age, will not be extradited to the gulag of the American injustice system. Sing Hallelujah! But as Wellington said after the Battle of Waterloo: "It was a damn close run thing."

Hard pounding it has been. Most of all for the frail and gentle Mr. Assange, his partner and children, and his mother and father.

The Calvary of false allegations, house arrest in the Embassy of Ecuador (in truth a ground-floor flat), and the hell of Belmarsh Gaol, a maximum security, freezing cold and Covid-stricken concrete bunker. Abandon hope all ye who enter here, it may as well say above the entrance.

As it happens I have the most excellent relations with Britain's prison officers through long involvement with their trade union affairs, and I pressed throughout for the officers to treat Julian fairly during his detention. I failed.

Not because the guards wanted to treat him mean, but because the meanness came from on high. Britain has cavalierly burned much of its reputation in the case of Julian Assange.
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Health

America's hospitals to publish the secret prices on more than 300 medical procedures for the first time

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:00 UTC
Hospital Emergency entrance
© Federation of American Hospitals
President Trump's health-care policy ambitions didn't receive much attention from the mainstream media, but as we head into the new year, some of his market-based reforms are starting to become reality.

One of the most important is a directive requiring the nation's biggest hospital chains to publish the rates they've agreed to charge various insurers. As WSJ explains, after a failed attempt at an appeal, the major hospital operators are saying they will comply with the new rules and make their prices public starting on Friday.

Suddenly, America's hospital operators, a $1.2 trillion industry comprising some 6% of the country's economy, will be subjected to more transparency than they've seen in decades. And the Trump Administration policy wonks he pushed the idea are hoping that good ol' fashioned market dynamics will kick in, and help lower prices across the board.

Per WSJ, the nation's largest hospital chains, including publicly traded giants HCA Healthcare, Universal Health Services and Community Health Systems, and national nonprofit chains CommonSpirit Health and Ascension, are planing to comply with new requirements to post pricing. Tenet Healthcare declined to comment.

Within a week, hospitals will disclose prices for 300 common procedures.

Comment: Reform in this area has been long overdue. Success will depend upon finding a financial equilibrium between hospital, insurance and patient. So far it has been a two-sided tug-a-war with the patient stuck in the middle. Trump deserves credit for poking this sacred cow.

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Arrow Up

Google employees announce creation of a union

Chris Mills Rodrigo
The Hill
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 06:30 UTC
Google employees
© Michael Short/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesGoogle employees protest event
More than 200 Google employees on Monday announced the creation of a union, a historic first at a major technology company.

The Alphabet Workers Union, referring to Google's parent company, is launching with support from the Communications Workers of America.

While smaller subsets of Google workers — cafeteria workers in the Bay Area and contractors in Pittsburgh — have unionized before, this marks the first effort to establish a companywide union. Dylan Baker, a Google software engineer, said in a statement:
"This is historic — the first union at a major tech company by and for all tech workers. We will elect representatives, we will make decisions democratically, we will pay dues, and we will hire skilled organizers to ensure all workers at Google know they can work with us if they actually want to see their company reflect their values."
Google workers have some history of collective action.
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Blue Pill

Mayor De Blasio's New Year's dance and the delusional politics of 2021

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
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Below is my column in the Hill on the rise of delusional politics in America — a problem captured vividly on New Year's Eve as Mayor Bill de Blasio dancing with his wife to a virtually empty Times Square. This is not Chicago where Sinatra sang about seeing a "guy dancing with his wife." It is New York and the only one dancing seemed to be de Blasio.

We are watching as both parties seem blissfully and utterly detached from reality.

Here is the column:

At midnight at the start of the new year, if you listened hard, you could almost hear the teeth of an entire nation grinding, or at least of those watching coverage from New York as Mayor Bill de Blasio danced in a nearly empty Times Square. Millions watched as he dipped his wife in a romantic flourish to Frank Sinatra singing "New York, New York." At least Nero made his own music.

The scene drew angry rebukes. Andy Cohen said it made him feel sick. "I did not need to see that at the start of 2021. Do something with this city! Honestly, get it together!"


Comment: There is a Big difference between the righteous anger of seeing the vote stolen from Trump (and the demonization he has suffered at the hands of the mainstream media) - and the rage of the pathological and ideologically possessed that we've seen from the left in recent years.

As for "delusional politics" and the pseudo realities that they engender, we haven't read a better explanation of how this works than the following:

Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism

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Mr. Potato

Congress reopens as freakshow: Democratic Rep & pastor ends opening prayer in US House with 'Amen... and Awoman'


RT
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:56 UTC
Emanuel Cleaver
© Reuters/Scott Audette (file photo)U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) addresses the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 28, 2016.
Missouri Democrat and United Methodist pastor Emanuel Cleaver has come under fire after he wrapped up his prayer in the US House by saying "amen" and "awoman" in an apparent nod to gender equality.

Cleaver (D-MO), who has represented Missouri's 5th congressional district since 2005, led a short prayer to mark the opening of the 117th Congress on Sunday. He closed off his speech, which called for unity, by saying: "We ask it in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and the god known by many different names, amen and awoman."

It did not take long for conservative commentators on social media to notice the creative wording. Some began to question Cleaver's theological credentials - the lawmaker received his master's from St. Paul's School of Theology of Kansas City - while others accused him of mocking the religion.

Comment: Clown Congress!

The whole institution really needs to just be abolished. Trump would rule fine alone.

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