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China’s State Propaganda Group Boasts Control Over Western Think Tanks, ‘Election Integrity’ Groups, And Even Joe Biden’s National Security Team

Via The National Pulse

New, bombshell admissions over China’s influence in both the United States and Europe link organizations such as the Berggruen Institute with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Berggruen Institute first rose to national attention after co-founding the “Transition Integrity Project” which advised on how Joe Biden could seize power on the back of an ostensible Trump victory.

The news lends further credibility to election-tampering theories especially concerning Chinese Communist Party influence.

A 2017 report effectively claims – on the CCP’s behalf – that CNN host Fareed Zakaria, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook Oversight Board member Helle Thorning-Schmidt, NeverTrump philanthropist Pierre Omidyar and many others “co-operate” with the CCP and its goals.

‘Party Media’.

An unearthed media communique entitled “Holding High the Banner of Party Media and Fulfilling Its Duties and Missions” appears on the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) website.

The government entity reportedly engages in “online propaganda and public opinion work” and upholds a “Socialist core value view,” while spearheading censorship of media and the internet in China. In other words, they pump out pro-CCP lines abroad, while cracking down on dissent within.

The release brags of the work of the Chinese Communist Party’s Western-focused propaganda efforts via the state-owned China Daily newspaper and website. China Daily has purchased placement inside the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post – the latter of which also carries a Fareed Zakaria opinion column, weekly.

At the time of publication, Zakaria’s latest column is entitled: “The Pentagon is using China as an excuse for huge new budgets,” wherein the CNN host lauds China’s “ambitious” Belt and Road Initiative and insists the U.S. need not worry about China’s rise as a military power.

“As a party media website,” the CAC document confirms, “China Daily uses international communication to implement the spirit of the important April 19th speech [by Xi Jinping], conscientiously fulfilling its duties and missions, and effectively internalizing the spirit of the speech into the entire network’s strategy and guidelines for all journalists.”

The April 19th speech of 2016 discussed the “spiritual garden” of cyberspace, with Xi insisting that China “strengthen governance in cyberspace according to the[ir] law, strengthen the construction of online content, strengthen positive online propaganda, foster a positive, healthy, upward and benevolent online culture, [and] use the Socialist core value view.”

With this in mind, the CAC proclaims boasts of promoting over 10,000 propaganda pieces to foreign audiences and, critically, brags of their work with Western think-tanks in achieving this goal.

Read the entire article HERE.

Montana Senator Complains Local Meth Producers Can’t Compete With Mexican Imports

Via True Pundit

In a humorous clip that made the rounds on social media overnight, Montana Sen. Steve Daines was caught on camera appearing to wax nostalgic about the good ol’ days when Montana’s basement-dwelling meth cooks had yet to be driven out of business by high-purity Mexican imports.

Fans of the show Breaking Bad could be forgiven for suspecting that Daines might have been role-playing as Walter White, the show’s anti-hero, who produced a type of extremely pure “blue” meth many times more potent than the Mexican-made stuff coming over the border (keep in mind, the show is a work of fiction).

“Twenty years ago in Montana, meth was homemade. It was homegrown. And you had purity levels less than 30%,” Daines told a gathering of his Senate colleagues during a visit to the Mexican border. “Today the meth that is getting into Montana is Mexican cartel.”

Daines – who was speaking during a press conference at the border, where the Biden Administration is struggling to deflect blame for a surge in migration that’s reached crisis levels – added that illegal immigration was partly to blame for the influx of potent meth into the “Big Sky State”, before laying the blame for the state’s meth crisis at the feet of President Joe Biden.

Read the entire article HERE.

Joe Biden ‘Infrastructure’ Bill Includes $20 Billion Fund to Destroy ‘Racist’ Highways

Via Breitbart News

President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill includes funds to actually destroy infrastructure, according to reports.

The White House cited the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans and Interstate 81 in Syracuse, New York, as two problematic highways going through black neighborhoods they would support destroying.

Biden’s mention of the Claiborne Expressway thrilled New Orleans activist Amy Stelly who has worked to destroy the highway.

“I’m floored,” she said to the Washington Post. “I’m thrilled to hear President Biden would call out the Claiborne Expressway as a racist highway.”

The White House fact sheet plans $20 billion to “reconnect neighborhoods” suffering from current infrastructure and make sure all new projects “advance racial equity and environmental justice.”

The concept of the injustice of racist infrastructure continues spreading throughout the Biden administration as they work towards racial equity across government.

“Black and brown neighborhoods have been disproportionately divided by highway projects or left isolated by the lack of adequate transit and transportation resources,” Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote on social media in December, promising to focus energy on “righting these wrongs.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Scientists discover X-rays emitting from Uranus

Via The Washington Examiner

The seventh planet from the sun emits X-rays, a scientific study revealed.

Astronomers examined two images of Uranus and discovered that it exhibits X-ray activity, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

The images were taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2002 and 2017 and showed a clear detection of X-rays in the first image and a possible flare in the second.

The cause for the planet emitting X-ray light is most likely due to the sun, as scientists already know Jupiter and Saturn scatter X-rays given off by the sun.

It is not clear as to whether there is another cause for the X-ray light. There are “tantalizing hints” that at least one other source of the X-rays is present, coming from the planet itself, according to a NASA press release.

“If further observations confirm this, it could have intriguing implications for understanding Uranus,” NASA said in a press release. “One possibility is that the rings of Uranus are producing X-rays themselves, which is the case for Saturn’s rings.”

Studying X-ray emissions can provide insight into a planet’s characteristics, such as clues about the “atmospheric, surface and planetary ring composition,” NASA said.

Read the entire article HERE.

Service Stations Begin Widening Signs In Preparation For Higher Gas Prices

Via The Babylon Bee

U.S.—Service stations across the country have begun widening their signs in preparation for higher gas prices, sources confirmed Thursday.

The wider signs allow for prices up to eight digits long, “an absolute necessity” for the Biden presidency, according to local fuel station franchise owners.

“We’re gonna need a bigger sign,” gas station owner Amir Wallenfeld said in an interview with a local news station in Los Angeles. “This should get us through the first few years of the Biden presidency, though we’re looking for a bigger one should he be reelected in 2024, should he live that long.”

“There, that oughtta do it,” he said as he updated the price of regular gasoline to $82.89. “Oh, wait, no — sorry, just got an alert on my phone.” He then climbed up and added a “1” to the front of the price. “It’s a good thing we thought ahead!”

Sources have also confirmed that the national debt clock will be widened to prepare for Biden’s coming spending policies.

Check out all of the Bee’s takes on a world gone made HERE.

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