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The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to Start Using It — Lord Buckbeak

Townhall, Elizabeth Yore: When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to demolish Chinese Catholic churches, Vatican silence echoes. When the CCP goes on a crusade to destroy crucifixes and holy statues in systemic eradication of the faith, Vatican silence echoes. … Continue reading → The post Has China Bought Vatican Silence? appeared first on Catholicism.org.

Has China Bought Vatican Silence? — Catholicism.org

This is mind blowing! Two billion dollar payments (yes, that’s plural) from China to the Vatican …

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“While the world is combating the new coronavirus, COVID-19, China continues to fortify its islands in the South China Sea, with only muted response from the international community. Even the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing vessel brought minimal reaction from the international community, through the Philippines (https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Philippines-sides-with-Vietnam-after-China-sinks-fishing-boat)and U.S. military have made statements against the incident.

Prior to COVID19, China’s “War Without Gunsmoke strategy had already (https://www.usni.org/press/books/chinas-maritime–gray-zone-operations resulted in the near-normalization of its South china Sea military buildup and its “nine dash line” claims. Since 2013 the “Great Wall of Sand” (so dubbed by former Pacific Fleet Commander Adm. Harry Harris) has become even more formidable. Combined with Chinese disregard for a 2016 Hague ruling that invalidated Chinese nine-dash-line claims, it is obvious that China will continue to persist in its claims, as I detailed in a 2017 article for Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/29/could-the-chinese-communist-party-survive-dropping-south-china-sea-claims/

Despite this, the United States, the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Nations states can make headway by quickly acting in concert to prevent further garrisoning of the islands claimed by China in the South China Sea.

The islands afford China bases from which it can intimidate ASEAN states: (Association of South East Asian Nations, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) into abandoning their claims or acquiescing to China’s demands. China’s paramilitary forces and fishing vessels use the island bases as hubs from which to harass and even sink commercial ships from ASEAN countries. A coordinated, international response is necessary to curtail the success of China’s Monroe-esque Doctrine throughout Asia. (Monroe Doctrine warned European nations that the U.S. would not tolerate puppet regimes 1823)

The UN has a vital role to play in ensuring that China adheres to international law and respects the sovereignty of other member states. Any country that does not uphold the law or support the international system should be pressured to do so by the UnN. , lest its rulings become irrelevant”

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It would be difficult to bring cohesion to the above looming assaults on South Asian states by China on this day of July 18, 2020 as the world contends with the Chinese Communist Party Virus Covid-19. This is the name which China approved of and so we use it. The entire world has been infected by something from atheist Communist China.

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“China’s dream is to invade the whole world. The Philippines is its’ favorite”1948

Indeed it seems that this is coming, or, has come, to pass.

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By Emily Clarke eclark@wickedlocal.com

Plymouth – A downtown business owner is suing Gov. Charlie Baker for requiring that she and her workers and customers wear masks. She alleges the requirement is unconstitutional

In her complaint, filed with the U.S. District Court June 12, Noreen Bachade, who owns Healthy Vibes at 21 Court St., claims that Baker’s executive order requiring the wearing of masks violates her civil rights. According to the complaint, she is seeking damages, including lawyer’s fees, court costs and any other damages the court thinks appropriate.

Massachusetts Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Monica Bharel and Massachusetts Department of Labor Standards Director Bill McKinney are also named in the suit.

On May 1, the Baker-Polito Administration ordered all residents older than 2 years old to use a face covering or mask in public places where maintaining proper social distancing measures to prevent the spread of COVID19 are not possible. This statewide order went into effect May 6 and applies to those working in businesses and those entering them like customers. Violators face $300.oo fines.

Bachade charges that the governor’s mask mandates violate her constitutional rights to privacy and free speech because it prohibits facial expression, a strong conveyor of communication. She also states that the mandate violates her constitutional rightsto make her own personal medical decisions and violates Massachusetts police power and the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.

Bachade explained why she is taking legal action.

“Since the COVID 19 pandemic has begun, the government has taken some measures that were helpful in protecting the people, and other measures that were not helpful in protecting the people.

Many of the measures that were not helpful (in protecting the people) violated our unalienable rights, as found in the Constitution,” she wrote in a statement late last week.”

“When it comes to the subject of masks and whether they actually protect other peoples’ health, the government and the experts have been contradictory -numerous examples of which are explicitly noted in our complaint.

In our opinion, these contradictions show how the mask mandates are arbitrary rules that do not actually keep anyone safer from COVID 19.”

The complaint specifically takes issue with a number of apparent contradictions in the CDC’s guidelines, first warning people against wearing masks, then issuing guidelines to wear them.

Bachade compares COVID 19 deaths in the United States with other illnesses, such as heart disease and cancer, and concludes that the governor’s assertion that the disaster reaches the level of “unprecedented size and destructiveness” is false. Bachade notes that in 2017 heart disease killed 65,000 Americans, while COVID has killed 115,000 as of the complaint’s date. (The number is 131,413 as of July 2). The complaint further states that COVID 19 has impacted a tenth of a percent of the population of Massachusetts.

“There is a constitutional problem when the government imposes arbitrary rules that infringe freedom of choice.” Bachade writes in her statement. “If the government and the experts are permitted to contradict each other, then there is no lesser good in permitting people and private businesses to choose whether to wear masks, or enforce their own private policies. During this pandemic, I was fortunate enough to have had my business deemed an ‘essential business.’ My philosophy is: “From whom much is given, much is expected.’ Preserving constitutional rights for everyone – including those who might disagree with me – is my way of giving back to my community.”

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