The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), China’s powerful military arm under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is reportedly embroiled in political turmoil amid growing discontent over President Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power.
Tensions surfaced earlier this month when the PLA’s Central Theater Command (CTC) released a politically charged article on social media, advocating for collective leadership, democratic centralism, and decision-making through group discussions. The post notably omitted references to Xi or terms reinforcing his centralized authority, such as the “Two Establishes” and the “Two Upholds.”
The post included a photo from a study session held by the 83rd Group Army, showcasing a political slogan advocating shared decision-making over power concentration. This slogan directly challenges Xi’s tight grip on power, established since he took charge of the CCP in 2012.
The study session reportedly reviewed themes discussed during the June Political Work Conference of the Central Military Commission (CMC), chaired by Xi himself. While Xi emphasized centralized leadership, the announcement from that conference omitted phrases reinforcing his power, hinting at underlying dissent.
The article gained widespread attention, sparking debates about whether collective leadership and democratic centralism were quietly championed within the military. The PLA Daily, the official publication of the CMC, added to the discourse with commentaries endorsing collective leadership and intraparty democracy, even quoting Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong to criticize the excessive concentration of power.
The Bilderberg Group – a secret organization of the global elite – is undergoing a leadership transformation as Donald Trump prepares to retake the White House.
The society, which consists of leaders in politics, industry, academia and the military, has selected former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg to chair its ‘steering committee.’
Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg group has long drawn fascination for its clandestine meetings at exclusive hotels and alpine resorts where attendees hold discussions on international relations, economics and security.
Heads of the CIA and MI6 have been among its members, while Henry Kissinger was a regular alongside the likes of Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and then-Prince Charles.
Now a major power shift is afoot as Stoltenberg, who attended his first Bilderberg summit in 2002, has been tapped for his expertise in transatlantic strategy.
It comes as Trump, whose frequent attacks on NATO have sparked outrage in Europe, ascends once more to the Oval Office. The president-elect has been adamant that he will no longer spend billions in US taxpayer money to fund other countries’ wars.
Stoltenberg’s tenure at NATO was dominated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and he proudly claimed to have overseen ‘the largest reinforcement of our collective defense in a generation.’
Many of his Bilderberg colleagues have benefited from this increased defense spending. Among them is Trump insider Peter Thiel, boss of AI giant Palantir, whose technology has been used by Ukraine in the fight against Putin.
Stoltenberg last month warned that Trump’s ‘campaign rhetoric had raised legitimate concerns about his commitment to European security.’
But the new Bilderberg boss can rest assured that if things get sticky, he now has a direct line to Trump in the form of Thiel, who has been one of the president-elect’s biggest backers.
A surprisingly good article from the Daily Mail, well-worth reading in full. Actual governance in the West is done behind the scenes in groups like Bilderberg. There is no point in not accepting that we are never going to get a Ben Franklin ‘representative’ USA again. Ofc, I am wary of what will happen next, but I am also a realist and an optimist. ABN
Donald Trump has made his strongest bid yet to take over Canada, offering the Canadian people a 60 percent tax cut if they agree to join the US and become the 51st US state.
On Christmas, Trump escalated his campaigns against the governments of both Panama and Canada.
‘Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in “repair” money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about “anything,”‘ Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.
‘Also, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose Citizens’ Taxes are far too high, but if Canada was to become our 51st State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other Country anywhere in the World.
‘Likewise, to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the U.S. to be there, and we will!’
This is how they convinced themselves that killing all of Ukraine’s young men was justified. Next, the campaign donations and lucrative no-show jobs will roll in from the investment funds that bought Ukrainian farmland the dead soldiers will no longer be able to cultivate. They also were able to kill a lot of Russians and destroy evidence the biolabs ever existed. According to them, they are heroes for standing with Ukraine. Not to mention, Zelensky is not even Ukrainian as are none of Ukraine’s oligarchs, save one. ABN
I hope Trump will do everything he can to get along with Putin and repair Russia’s horrible estrangement from the rest of Europe. It is Europe, NATO and USA that drove Russia away rather than form a mutually beneficial and friendly alliance with them. In fact, Putin himself showed interest in Russia joining NATO in 2000. It was evil to drive Russia away, dog them like this and provoke wars. I hope Trump and his people see this scenario and take action to fully embrace Russia as a major part of Europe and Western civilization, which is their incontrovertible historical heritage. ABN
Deborah Lipstadt, who is firmly on the left and got in trouble by her past statements on Republicans during her confirmation hearing, is confident that the Trump 2.0 will be good for the Jews and she is probably right. “Lipstadt’s recent insistence that the incoming Trump administration will be well-equipped to handle antisemitism is a strong, if surprising, marker of the goodwill that President-elect Donald Trump has generated on combating antisemitism.”
Actually, not surprising at all. Trump’s appointments to the Middle East are all pro-Israel fanatics and he has stated that if Gaza doesn’t release the hostages by the time he becomes president, “all hell will break loose.” Our antiwar president going to war right off the bat. Very disappointing, and a horrible way to start Trump 2.0.
Notice that Lipstadt claims that opposition to Israeli actions in Gaza is nothing more than anti-Semitism, asserting that Jews become stand-ins for “anti-democracy, anti-capitalism, anti-Western values.” I see it a bit differently. As always, conflicts of interest are at the root of anti-Semitism, and Jewish activists frame their interests as a moral crusade in an effort to persuade the gullible and uninformed even while inflicting massive casualties on a defenseless population. Lipstadt is taking advantage of the fact that Jews dominate the West to the point that Jewish interests and attitudes have come to virtually define the West. And since the West has retained its dominant global position, Lipstadt and Israel can completely ignore any and all complaints about its genocide in Gaza knowing full well that there will be no negative repercussions. And of course, democracy and Western values like free speech, individualism, and deemphasis on ethnocentrism and the priority of ethnic identification are entirely antithetical to the mainstream Jewish community throughout its history and into the present. If democracy was a Jewish ideal, Israel would allow all Palestinians in their control to vote. Generations of Jewish intellectuals wouldn’t have sided with the Soviet Union during its most murderous period. And as an elite with very large influence in the media and politics throughout the West (think Israel Lobby in the U.S.), they wouldn’t be the main force behind the anti-White hatred that is now entirely mainstream throughout the West beginning with the influence of the Frankfurt School and other groups of Jewish intellectuals. This anti-White hate is now eagerly embraced by non-Whites that Jewish elites have imported and promoted as fellow victims in Western societies.
Here’s a map plotting the properties that the Dept. of Homeland Security has said are associated with Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations, aka Chinese mafia, in Maine.
The entire Chinese mafia problem sprung up on @GovJanetMills’ watch, right after the Consul of China’s Consulate in NYC, Huang Ping, attended Mills’ inauguration.
Senator Marco Rubio was nominated for Secretary of State, thereby removing him from the Senate Intelligence Committee and leadership role in Gang of Eight intel; but Trump simultaneously put in guardrails against the neocon tendencies of the Florida Senator and junior McCain.
Rubio doesn’t have Ukraine/Russia in his portfolio, nor does he have diplomatic or policy control over the Middle East. President Trump has neutered the State Department, and the cherry on the proverbial cake is what he just announced.
Yes, President Trump has just confirmed that Ric Grenell will be the “Emissary” we have discussed. Great job Mr President (for all the obvious reasons).
With Nunes leading a private intel advisory committee and with Grenell being the most powerful, agile and flexible person to run strategic foreign policy operations, the tentacle influence of the Deep State is removed from the Oval Office. Now the official cabinet team can start pouring sunlight into the silos.
Without a doubt in my mind, the “emissary” is the most important person President Trump will select.
The Washington DC Intelligence Community (IC) actively work to isolate the office of the president. This is an almost impossible dynamic to avoid, caused by an entrenched and ideological adversary who has dug themselves deep into the apparatus of government.
The “emissary” is the person who carries the word of President Trump to any person identified by President Trump. The emissary is very much like a tape recording of President Trump in human form. The emissary travels to a location, meets a particular person or group, and then recites the opinion of the President. The words spoken by the emissary, are the words of President Trump.
The IC cannot inject themselves into this dynamic; that is why it is so valuable.
A Uyghur militant group that helped to topple Bashar-al Assad has vowed to take the fight to China.
The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) threatened Beijing in a video released on Dec 8, the day the Syrian regime collapsed, showing its fighters holding machine guns and wearing military fatigues.
“Now here in Syria, in all the cities here, we fight for Allah, and we will continue to do this in our Urumchi, Aqsu and Kashgar in the future,” said one masked man, listing cities in China’s Xinjiang region, from where the Uyghurs hail. “We will chase the Chinese infidels away.”
Using the Uyghurs’ preferred name for their homeland, he added: “We have fought in Homs, in Idlib and we will continue the fight in East Turkistan.
Samādhi (Pali and Sanskrit: समाधि), in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness. In many Indian religious traditions, the cultivation of Samādhi through various meditation methods is essential for the attainment of spiritual liberation (known variously as nirvana, moksha).[1]
In the oldest Buddhist sutras, on which several contemporary western Theravada teachers rely, it refers to the development of an investigative and luminous mind which is equanimous and mindful. In the yogic traditions, and the Buddhist commentarial tradition on which the Burmese Vipassana movement and the Thai Forest tradition rely, it is interpreted as a meditative absorption or trance, attained by the practice of dhyāna.[5]
With so much now depending on what Christians, Jews and Muslims think and do and how they interact so poorly with each other and any one else and how their beliefs are based on old stories and not much else, this may be a good time to remind or inform anyone who wants to listen that there are much older and deeper traditions of the mind including how individuals should conduct themselves morally, ethically, spiritually. Samadhi states are but one aspect of ancient traditions that vastly predate Judaism and Christianity and also provide much deeper insights into the workings of the human mind and how to deal with the ever-changing conditions of life. The way the Abrahamic religions are behaving today is an embarrassment to all of humanity. ABN
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