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Right Now with Ann Vandersteel: China’s Belt and Road Initiative a tool to further spread COMMUNISM – Brighteon.TV

December 12, 2023 -

Vandersteel noted how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intends to dominate the world through the BRI, despite its seemingly acceptable partnership with the globalist World Economic Forum (WEF). Given this, Vandersteel said the BRI is not just about the "takeover and takedown of America" – but the "furtherance of communism" and profiteering.

According to the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think tank, the BRI – also called the New Silk Road – "was ...

Study links legalization, commercialization of cannabis to increased road accidents

January 23, 2024 -

Researchers from the University of Ottawa (UOttawa) examined changes in the number and characteristics of marijuana-involved traffic injury emergency room visits in individuals ages 16 years and older in a repeat cross-sectional study during three time periods: before legalization from January 2010 to September 2018, after legalization with product and retail store restrictions from October 2018 to February 2020 and full commercialization with new products and an expanded number ...

Why was a barricade blocking the only paved road out of Lahaina?

August 27, 2023 -

(Article republished from EndOfTheAmericanDream.com)

A fire broke out on the outskirts of Lahaina at around 6.30am on Tuesday, August 8 and was declared ‘100 percent contained’ several hours later. Fire crews then left the scene even though the fire was still burning within the containment area.

But within a few hours, there was a ‘flareup’ which quickly spiraled out of control and fire crews who responded again were unable to extinguish it.

Once the fire came ...

Heavier EVs are tearing up California roadways – but paying nothing for road maintenance

February 11, 2024 -

"Can it be true that California, in pursuit of reduced emissions from internal combustion engine vehicles, has mandated that heavier EV cars and trucks tear up the states' roads?" asked Ronald Stein, engineer and senior policy advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.

California has almost 400,000 miles of roadways used by the more than 31 million motor vehicles in the state. Those roadways are heavily dependent ...

Bumpy road ahead: Rental giant Hertz dumps electric vehicles for gas-powered counterparts

January 22, 2024 -

A regulatory filing disclosed this business decision by the company to sell EVs from Tesla, Chevrolet and BMW. The company cited higher repair costs following collisions as the primary decision for the move, according to Newsweek.

Hertz's decision to sell off EVs came about two years after it made a deal with Elon Musk to offer Tesla vehicles for rent. The rental company had earlier aimed to convert a quarter of its fleet to EVs by the end of 2024. According to Reuters, ...

Hundreds of German farmers set up disruptive road blockades to protest punitive taxes

January 12, 2024 -

Across the country, people are dealing with heavy traffic and struggling to reach certain locations. Several border crossings with France have also been blocked. A Volkswagen car plant in the city of Emden in northwestern Germany had to stop production because blocked access roads meant that employees were unable to get to work.

A group of farmers stopped Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck from getting off of a ferry in a North Sea port when he was returning from a personal ...

END OF THE ROAD: Digital freight startup founded by ex-Amazon execs suspends operations

October 23, 2023 -

Despite raising an impressive $260 million in a funding round just last year, which valued the company at a significant $3.8 billion, Convoy has been grappling with the impacts of a dwindling demand in the freight industry over the past year.

This has prompted the company to explore alternative paths, potentially including the sale of its cutting-edge technology.

In an email sent to its employees on a Wednesday, Convoy conveyed its decision to halt the acceptance ...

Misery Miles: Homeless denizens of Binford Road work multiple low-paying jobs to afford HIGH RENTS

May 18, 2023 -

According to the Daily Mail, some 135 motor homes, cars and shacks can be found along the stretch that can be reached via a 45-minute drive from San Francisco. The outlet shared the stories of some of the denizens priced out of the housing market and now working night and day for a roof over their heads.

Sixty-nine-year-old former carpenter John Sherry and his 70-year-old wife Siriporn Lyness once owned a restaurant and a window cleaning business. Now, they live in a trailer ...

Federal report: More truck drivers are dying from not using seat belts

July 04, 2023 -

Polly Trottenberg, the deputy secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT), spoke at a DOT safety forum and warned that seat belt usage has gone down in trucking and other sectors. "And when we look at the fatality numbers they are extraordinarily disproportionately people who are unbelted," said Trottenberg.

In 2021, an alarming 64 percent of truck drivers killed in large truck crashes were not wearing their seat belts, according to the latest data compiled by the ...

Stretch of road near SF’s Highway 101 now home to low-income locals priced out of the housing market

May 15, 2023 -

Shocking photos and footage taken by the Daily Mail revealed that Binford Road in California's Marin County now sees an increasing line of trucks and other vehicles. The line, which covers two miles of road, is now one of the biggest encampments in the nation. While Binford Road has about 80 permanent residents, the number of people living in their cars along the stretch has risen to no less than 135.

The photos and footage showed families living in tents and using portable ...

New Energy Market Order: Russia, China, Iran sign over a dozen new trade agreements – mostly concerning energy

June 09, 2023 -

Moscow signed at least 10 new cooperation agreements with Iran for the benefit of both of their oil sectors by May 18. China similarly signed new cooperation agreements with Iran and is also significantly expanding its influence in the Middle East to secure sufficient hydrocarbon supplies to fuel its own economic growth. (Related: Iran's trade with BRICS nations SURGES 14% as it eyes joining bloc and divesting from the dollar.)

On May 18, Iranian Deputy Minister for Oil ...

Hungary’s Orban: World is heading for a clash due to U.S. decline

July 24, 2023 -

(Article by Jake Welch republished from TheNationalPulse.com)

Orban suggested at a Transylvanian conservative festival over the weekend that the balance of global power is shifting at an unprecedented pace and is making the world far more dangerous as a result. The “million dollar question,” Orban asserts, is whether the world is able to avoid the mass collision.

“The USA’s dominance on the world stage is constantly waning. They are not happy, they want to stay on ...

China backs Palestinians’ right to use armed force against Israel

February 26, 2024 -

This statement by Zhang Jun, the Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, was delivered during the fourth day of public hearings convened by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands.

Zhang Jun emphasized the historical precedent of various nations liberating themselves from colonial rule and asserted that such nations have the right to employ "all available means, including armed struggle."

He underscored that the deployment of armed ...

Huge grain supply contract signed between Russia and China, shoring up China’s food supply for years to come

November 15, 2023 -

The contract between Beijing and Moscow amounted to almost 2.5 trillion Russian rubles ($25.8 billion) – the biggest in their food-trade history under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Russian state-owned news agency TASS confirmed this development, citing a Russian insider during the third Belt and Road Forum.

Karen Ovsepyan of the New Land Grain Corridor (NLGC) – a logistics center being created in Russia's Ural Mountains, Siberia and its Far ...

END OF THE DOLLAR: South Africa says over 40 countries want to join BRICS

August 16, 2023 -

This is according to financial expert and analyst Andy Schectman, who recently spoke with Kitco News to discuss the South African government's recent revelation that some 40 or so nations are gearing up to submit their formal applications to join BRICS.

Schectman noted that the developing world is creating multinational institutions that are steadily growing in power and influence to the point that they may one day be able to threaten America's global financial hegemony....

America’s brutal heat wave is affecting domestic migration hotspots

August 17, 2023 -

During the past decade, the Sun Belt was the site of 75 percent of America's population growth, with the region overall now home to roughly half of the U.S. population. It is also home to 12 of the country’s 15 fastest-growing cities.

The Sun Belt is the southern part of the U.S., stretching from Florida to California and encompassing Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Nevada and Arizona along its path. Some of the major cities found in the ...

Comer: Joe Biden received $40k in laundered Chinese funds from his brother

November 09, 2023 -

The company at the heart of the controversy is CEFC China Energy, which was part of China’s “Belt and Road” foreign influence campaign at the time and is linked to the CCP; it is now defunct.

The transfer in question could be the first verifiable instance of Joe receiving part of his family’s foreign income. The money came from Joe’s brother James and James’ wife Sara and was part of a complex financial transaction that took place within weeks of his son Hunter ...

World Bank caught funneling cash to sanctioned Chinese companies tied to the CCP, human rights abuses

May 12, 2023 -

The U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report showing that the World Bank funneled $25 million in 2021 to various Chinese companies that are on the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions lists, meaning nobody is supposed to be doing business with them.

Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps., for instance, received $7.1 million from the World Bank in 2021 for being a "state-run paramilitary corporate conglomerate" that ...

Beijing plans to INTERFERE with Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections on Jan. 13

January 05, 2024 -

According to a Reuters report, this interference campaign has extended to public opinion – with the mainland's National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) allegedly tapping the services of popular Taiwanese rock band Mayday. The NRTA reportedly asked the band to publicly make pro-Beijing statements, support the CCP's "One China Policy," cooperate with anti-Taipei propaganda efforts and provide other unspecified "political services" ahead of the elections. Mayday refused ...

Taiwanese foreign minister expects China to manipulate the upcoming 2024 Presidential election in Taiwan

September 22, 2023 -

According to Wu, a member of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), China could possibly use disinformation and misinformation campaigns instead of large-scale military forces to turn the election in their favor.

"Whenever China tries to interfere in our elections in a forceful way, it tends to backfire," Wu said, recounting how Beijing would test-fire missiles during Taiwan's election cycle. The practice initially started during the island nation's 1996 presidential ...