Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai, also known by his Chinese name of Ching-te, has emerged victorious after a tightly contested presidential election as the island’s next leader, Fox News Digital confirms.
“The results are in, and Taiwan’s voters stood up to China and all its war talk of recent weeks,” Gordon Chang, Gatestone Institute Senior Fellow and China expert, told Fox News Digital. “Free people, living just a hundred miles from the menacing Chinese state, refused to be intimidated.”
Lai, defeated his rival, New Taipei City Mayor Hou Yu-ih of the Kuomintang (KMT) party, by just over 7% of the vote after Hou conceded at 8 p.m. local time. Taiwan saw around 69% of voters turnout for the election this year – less than the impressive 75% seen in the 2020 election, which saw 13.6 million people turn out to vote, but more than the 66% that turned out for the 2016 election, according to the Taipei Times.
The victory marks DPP’s third successive win over KMT for the first time since Taiwan began democratic elections over 30 years ago – the first time a party has done so, with parties retaining control for no more than 8 years before switching places as voter sentiment swayed between the two major parties.
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Maine’s Shenna Bellows in her own words
UPDATE: As a psycholinguist, I find their voices both alarming and telling. The dialect is woke progressive with creaky voice and rising intonation, replete with doublespeak. They do what they accuse and ooze self-righteousness. Bellows confesses having trained with ACLU and SPLC, organizations known for hypocrisy and sleazy lawfare. Parasites have taken over our government at all levels. They are a community and act as a community with almost no reference to the larger community they are supposed to represent, except to exploit it. You can hear it in their voices, or at least I can. An effeminate, unyielding stubbornness based not on reason or kindness but on mimicry and knowing nothing else. ABN
‘Extremely Dangerous’: Meet The Three Maine Politicians Behind Challenge That Led To Trump’s Removal From Ballot
Three Maine politicians, including the former mayor of the state’s largest city, are behind one of the complaints that prompted a single Democratic official to deem former President Donald Trump ineligible to appear on the state’s ballot.
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows determined Thursday that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, a Civil War era addition to the Constitution which restricts individuals who took an oath to the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection” from holding office, bars Trump from appearing on the state’s ballot. Her ruling was in response to three complaints challenging his eligibility, including one filed by local politicians Kimberley Rosen, Thomas Saviello and Ethan Strimling.(RELATED: Meet The Left-Wing Activist Politician Who Kicked Trump Off The Maine Ballot)
Strimling was the mayor of Portland, Maine, from 2015 to 2019. He was also a Democratic state senator from 2002-2008. After overwhelmingly losing reelection, Strimling became active in the Maine chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, according to The Nation. He filed the complaint to remove Trump from the ballot with Saviello and Rosen in December.
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Religious Leaders Join UN, WEF To Push the Global Climate Agenda
Deep in a Cambodian old-growth forest, Buddhist “ecology monks” wrap trees in saffron clerical robes before ordaining the trees into the Buddhist faith.
The practice is an example of “forest activism” that spread to Cambodia after Thai monks in the 1990s began ordaining trees as they would a new monk.
Ordained trees become sacred and protected from illegal logging because harming an ordained monk is taboo in the Buddhist religion.
The recognition that religion can be a powerful tool when applied to selling the global warming narrative has been gaining traction at the United Nations and the World Economic Forum (WEF), where faith has traditionally been kept at arm’s length.
The globalist agencies are now welcoming help from religious leaders fighting climate change, one of the 17 U.N. sustainable development goals for 2030.
But some religious leaders are alarmed by their colleagues’ involvement in the climate debate.
Virtually all religions can be understood, in part, as rulebooks for slaves. Each one has been coopted, transformed, or created by powerful leaders to subjugate their populations. This includes Buddhism which was abridged by Ashoka and tailored to pacify and control his subjects. Confucianism is similar. In the early Han Dynasty it was declared the state doctrine and has functioned as a hierarchical quasi-religion ever since. All of the Abrahamics also encourage slavish obedience in their various ways. I believe our world religions should NOT bow to the WEF but rather should figure out how to stop WEF. ABN
UPDATE: The obedient/ surrender side of religion is not all bad. It is good when we surrender to benevolent higher beings or powers; when we surrender to the dictates of our consciences, to reason, to moral and ethical soundness. Buddhism is a dynamic, always-evolving tradition. It was not written in stone. This is why Buddhism can easily accept any and all good science, technology, new ideas, new takes on politics, history, psychology. It is no accident that some of the best psychological treatments today are derived from Buddhism. The core of all Buddhist teaching is the Three Dharma Seals—impermanence, no-self or emptiness, and nirvana. If a teaching has those Three Dharma Seals or does not contradict them, it is good Buddhism. If it does not, it is not Buddhism even you think you heard a Buddha say it.
There is nothing in Buddhism which should cause us to surrender to the dictates of WEF, WHO, or the UN. In fact, there is much in Buddhism that should cause us to oppose those totalitarian institutions. This human realm is characterized by delusion and suffering, as can easily be seen today. But that does not mean we can do nothing about it. Buddhist compassion and wisdom require of us some effort to help others while we help ourselves. That said, in some cases extreme withdrawal from the world can be beneficial for individuals and others.
It is not good to divide the Buddhist community or speak in a way that divides it. With this in mind, I want to add that I am disappointed in the many Buddhist groups who bowed to the covid vaxxes and encouraged others to do the same. These behaviors lacked wisdom and were not compassionate. They were slavish, bow to the emperor, thoughtless behaviors. No religion did well with covid totalitarianism, but from what I saw, Christianity did the best. Most of the doctors, scientists, and clergy who stood tall and resisted covid anti-science were Christians. Buddhists can find sympathetic joy in their actions and, I hope, emulate them when the next jackboot starts to fall on us.
Climate-change anti-science is a similar ruse to seize control of the world. I deeply hope Buddhist clergy and lay practitioners will rise against it in great numbers. A strong Buddhist non-violent but heard-by-many reaction to this globalist power-grab will serve all sentient beings in this realm while also furthering the beneficial influence of our community. In five years, I hope I can look back and praise Buddhists as I have praised Christians today. ABN
Because, of Course He Does – JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Wants Crypto Currency Banned in USA
Having spent time doing the legwork, I have a completely different perspective on the issues.
If you choose to live in the world of pretending, or if you trust the expressed justifications and motives of the USG as outlined by the DC proletariat, this is not going to be a read that retains your comfort. However, if you want to boil it all down to the real reasoning, read on.
This is a strong essay, well-worth reading. Sundance has dropped the ball on Israel/Gaza from what I have seen but not on USA. His focus always has been USA so let’s leave it at that. ABN
There Is No “White Lung” Outbreak
Your children aren’t being targeted by another Chinese bioweapon.
…The condition is being characterized as walking pneumonia, or “white lung”; an infection of the lung that progresses silently, causing pneumonia and lung injury, without any of the usual outward symptoms, such as coughing, fever, et cetera. The responsible pathogen has been, at least tentatively, identified as mycoplasma pneumoniae. The “142 cases” being reported are actually the sum of similar such syndromes – a collection of symptoms – with which primarily children have presented to hospitals, since August this year.
That minor fact has been largely omitted from the breathless fearmongering that is suddenly being splashed across Twitter feeds and news headlines. 142 cases, over three months, adds up to about a case and a half per day. That is not what an outbreak of a new, potentially pandemic infectious disease looks like.
Furthermore, the responsible pathogen being mycoplasma raises several more questions. Mycoplasma is a commensal bacterium; it is a natural, occasional inhabitant of our human microbiome. With a functional immune system keeping it in check, it’s no more dangerous than any of the multitude of other bacteria that naturally reside there.
Summary of nations rejecting WHO International Health Regulations
Philippines notifies WHO it rejects the amendments to International Health Regulations “in toto”
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives (“HOR”) of the Republic of the Philippines passed a resolution to reject the World Health Organisation’s (“WHO’s”) amendments to the International Health Regulations (“IHR”) adopted by the World Health Assembly (“WHA”) on 27 May 2022. Additionally, the resolution rejected proposed amendments that are “currently being negotiated in secret” by the WHA and due for adoption by member states in May 2024.
Immediately following the passing of this resolution, Representative S. Dan Fernandez, who submitted the resolution to the HOR and is also the Chairman of the Public Order and Safety Committee, notified WHO in writing that the Philippines House of Representatives rejects the IHR amendments adopted in 2022.
Estonia notifies WHO that it rejects the Pandemic Treaty and amendments to International Health Regulations
On 22 November, 11 Members of the Estonian Parliament wrote a letter to the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) to reject the proposed international agreement on pandemic prevention preparedness and response – also known as the “Pandemic Treaty” or “Pandemic Accord”. The letter also rejects the amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) (“IHR”).
The Boss Asset Transfer Path Revealed/Facing the end of the Ponzi scheme, Xi Jinping has no solution
Mass Arrests Made at China’s Teetering Evergrande Property Giant
Chinese police descended upon the financial services arm of doomed property giant Evergrande on Saturday night, arresting numerous employees at the company’s Shenzhen offices, possibly including General Manager Du Liang.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the arrests followed Friday’s takeover of the Evergrande life insurance company by a state-owned firm and Saturday’s announcement that a case had been filed against the Evergrande Financial Wealth Management Company over violations of disclosure regulations.
Shenzhen police did not reveal exactly how many people they arrested, but the SCMP noticed a reference to “Du” as the surname of one detainee. The general manager of the Evergrande financial subsidiary is named Du Liang.
Du faced an angry mob of investors two weeks ago after they were unable to recover the money they poured into Evergrande investments. Surrounded by security guards linked into a human chain to hold irate customers at bay, Du admitted he was able to get his own money back in May because he faced “some family issues” and needed the funds.
The crowd was not mollified by his explanation; in fact, one woman collapsed, prompting a weary-looking Du to explain that it was simply impossible to pay off the $5.5 billion in mature investment products to some 200,000 investors. Evergrande management previously proposed payoff schemes, like repaying investors in installments or offering them property in lieu of cash repayment.
China’s coming lawfare offensive
A weaponized ‘legal toolbox for foreign struggles’ is reshaping Chinese economic relations with the rest of the world
China has accelerated the implementation of an integrated program, founded on Xi Jinping Thought, to weaponise law, with both territorial and extraterritorial effect. Expressly termed “lawfare,” this program seeks to reshape economic relations with the rest of the world, creating a capital market “with Chinese characteristics”.
Analysis by the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies signals China’s intention. The goal, foreign minister Wang Yi is quoted as saying, is make to “good use of rule-by-law as a weapon and constantly enrich and improve the legal toolbox for foreign struggles” against governments, businesses, and individuals Beijing views as insufficiently deferential.
The central elements are China’s amended Counter-Espionage Law (2023) and new Law on Foreign Relations (2023). The old Counter-Espionage Law focused on unmasking spies. The amended law targets ordinary business practices, such as gathering information on local markets, potential partners, and competitors. While the old law sought to protect “state secrets and intelligence,” the new law adds an all-encompassing new category — “other documents, data, materials, or items related to national security or interests,” which could mean anything.
The effect has been to make potentially radioactive any negative information about China, including its economy.
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