Why Are Coke and Airbnd sponsoring 2022 Beijing Olympics

By Kenneth Rapoza: Coca-Cola took a lot of heat for being against the Georgia election law that requires voters to present a valid ID in order to vote. But they are sponsoring, happily, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. There’s no voting there. Airbnb proudly plastered its website with Pride Month images in June. They’re sponsoring the Beijing 2022 Olympics. Maybe they can sponsor the Shanghai Pride Parade next month, too. Oh wait … there is no such thing as the Shanghai Pride Parade. In fact, the mobile messaging app WeChat, owned by Tencent, recently banned accounts owned by openly gay Chinese. Tencent is owned by a billionaire named Huateng “Pony” Ma. Pony can sponsor the Beijing 2022 Olympics. China has plenty of billionaires. It doesn’t need Airbnb and Coca-Cola, once an American icon, now joining a chorus of activists calling the U.S. racist while sponsoring the Olympics in a country that holds tens of thousands of Uyghur Muslims in captivity in China’s war on terrorism. Some Uyghur women are sterilized against their will in Xinjiang, China. The State Department calls that genocide. Didn’t the mothers of these executives teach them, “You are the company you keep”? Activist groups, mostly those aggrieved by the Chinese Communist Party, such as those in Tibet, have called on Airbnb to abandon its sponsorship. Coca-Cola won’t abandon the Olympics, no matter where it is. They will say they are doing it for the athletes. If they are serious about doing it for the athletes, then sponsor global athletes or teams of their choice. Beijing is run by smart people. They know all the Western world’s buzz words. They are promoting their Olympics as “inclusive,” and say it will create a “harmonious world” and promote “social progress.” Make no mistake about it, the reason the CCP exists as it does today is because of companies like Coca-Cola, Nike, Airbnb, BlackRock and countless others. CCP would be a real paper tiger without them. Cai Xia, a high-level China defector and former professor at the Central Party School of the CCP now works at the Hoover Institute at Stanford. In a 49-page essay, she wrote China owes much of its success to U.S. engagement policy. That policy was used by the CCP to infiltrate the U.S., steal scientific and technological intellectual property, gather commercial and political intelligence, and “lure some American political, business, academic and technological elites to serve the interests of the CCP,” she said. I asked hedge fund manager and China hawk Kyle Bass in an open Twitter conversation if Coca-Cola should sponsor the Olympics. He said the International Olympic Committee should change the venue or the world should boycott. “We have an obligation under the genocide convention of 1948, under Article 2, to punish incidents of genocide. Entering a glorification of a regime that commits genocide and other crimes against humanity is hideous,” said Gordon Chang, a well-known China pundit. In 1971, Coca-Cola launched its now-classic “I’d like to buy the world a Coke” TV commercial. It was its foray into becoming a truly global corporation. The ad starts off with a trio of Abba-looking singers, then spreads out into a United Nations crowd singing the kumbaya lyrics of “harmony” and “peace”. Coke, go tell that to the Uyghurs, millions of Hong Kongers and maybe even some of the Old Hundred Names of mainland China. See what they think. Kenneth Rapoza is a veteran reporter and a former staff journalist for Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. — INsIdEsOurCEs

Taxes at state level

New Jersey is the third highest tax burden state. We could move to Hawaii and see overall burden reduced by .25%. In NJ some voted in legalized marijuana. That was to bring us some kind of budgetary relief, and more freedom. We have a general election coming up this November. You will have a chance to vote early for your choices. Your ballot can be very early, but if you discover a non-desirable fact against YOUR CHOICE, you cannot pull back your vote. Tough luck when you look at the referendum for Marijuana, which was passed last year. That was before young people decided to have beach parties in Avalon, as well as other seaside towns. Marijuana and alcohol are the preferred menu for fun. Now Avalon has closed their beaches after dark. Police in New Jersey are not to allowed to create a disturbance by arresting or citing party participants. Thank you, Gurbir S. Grewal, and smiling Phil Murphy, as well as those voting for legalization and restrictive policing. In the political pandemic of sloganeering to defund police how will your municipality, county and state taxes be affected. Auto accidents in Colorado increased by about 4 % with legalized mary-jane. The realistic NJ situation is an individual cannot be criminally charged for possession of small amounts of marijuana or hashish. Is that before or after giggle fests? Will we see an increase in the auto-accident statistics? I am certain taxes will not go down. Gerald Keer

TRUE AGAIN NOW, WHEN WILL IT CHANGE ?

TRUE BACK THEN AND AGIAN - NOW The Main Stream Media's Political Agenda Thursday, December 27, 2012 To the Editor: Each December we see a rerun of the news events of the past year. This year we went through primaries and the general election with innuendoes and half-truths. Television screens were filled with would-be presidential candidates. During Republican primary debates, much was done by the media to “undress” the candidates. A selection was made. Then, an old media question-and-answer sequence was pulled out in which Mitt Romney, the selected candidate, fumbled an explanation of why 47 percent would not vote for him, so it would matter little what he said or did. The media screamed about the rich man. Now print and electronic news media have publicized President Barack Obama as the “Person of the Year” as anointed by Time magazine. Four years ago, a select few opposing voices exposed this untested, clichéd candidate who talked of hope and change, for various questionable acts. But little was televised or printed with a clarion voice. Now, the disgrace of the deadly Benghazi consulate attack is being played down by relative silence of the media. A similar situation has occurred with the “Fast & Furious” weapons trading program. It seems there is a collegium among Democrat power brokers and the news media. Recently, someone asked Republican Gov. Chris Christie if his weight would be problem for a 2016 presidential candidacy. His answer should have been: “Why are you trying to undress a would-be-candidate?” Our press watches the emperor’s parade, as in the Hans Christian Anderson fable, while it witnesses Benghazi like it is another parade by a naked emperor. Our country remains in the need of a young boy who will cry out that “The emperor has no clothes.” Gerald Keer

Charge Me up

By South Jersey Times Letters Have President Joe Biden and his supporters thought through his plan to combat global warming. I’d call it “Operation Warp Pedal Faster.” I am not going to criticize Biden himself, but I will question “why.” His policy is to do away with or minimize fossil-fueled powered vehicles over time and change to electric ones. Perhaps, ironically, Philadelphia-based Curtis Publishing used electric trucks to deliver the Saturday Evening Post for more than 50 years starting in 2012. Campaigns to end climate change ignore that China is still building coal-fired power plants at a quicker pace than we are building nuclear ones. Their cooling towers emit water vapor, not carbon dioxide. Both have risks, but less atmospheric damage is done by the nuclear plants. U.S. “acid rain” impact purportedly involves fossil-fuel emissions from as far away as Asia and Europe. Yes, we know about Chernobyl. But, why are we not spending more research money on safer generation alternatives? With electric vehicles, the biggest problems are shortening charging times and increasing distance range, especially if there wide power outages. Instead of buying gold for retirement savings, buy copper. Copper wire transports power to heat your home and charge your batteries — and copper makes pennies, which you’ll need unless you have jars full. We could soon hear this on an airline flight if climate-change restrictions go too far: “This is your captain speaking: In compliance with the FAA directive, we need 50 volunteers to pedal the generators for diversion to Pittsburgh because Atlantic City is under a severe weather alert.” Gerald Keer, Turnersville

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Number of fentanyl seizures at the border continues to rise with no fix in site from Biden admin When will someone of the current Admin wake uo????

What or when will some perp go to jail?

What has happened to the investigator Attorney General Barr left in Place? Special Counsel Durham's status, ensuring that his investigation could continue after the Trump Administration ended. Days after taking office, President Joe Biden affirmed Durham's continued investigation though there is no final report as of today. For many months we heard the US Congress people affirming Trump Colluded with Russia. We had an impeachment of our President. We later found FBI members plotted, and Mueller gave up. Nothing there? Comey wrote his version of Trump’s and Comey’s his reputation. When will someone go to jail? The Democrats want to send Trump to jail, Will the House create more NEWS at that attempt?

NJ POLITICIANS will tell you how well the fought the PANDEMIC

After a poorly constructed system. they will tell voters, that they overcame the pandemic. Truth, they were totally inept! The NJ Coronavirus web site was an inept portal for registering to receive COV vaccinations. The NJ vaccination portal had bits meant to be helpful, but the site was frustrating. Citizens needed to have a smart phone or computer. Politicians used the electronic age to fully engulf our existence and it was extremely frustrating. I first attempted on January 6. I was “1B”, at age 82 and 11 months, with a pacemaker and lungs with asbestos. I never received confirmation from the “man behind the curtain”. But friends who were younger had positive experiences. Why? They were told that they were registered, scheduled, and received vaccinations. Finding that strange I tried again, and again, again, too many times to cite the numbers. I went to the office of the Senator and Assembly members. The door had a sign, “staff, are working from home, not in the office due to the pandemic”. There was a telephone number. I called, left a message, but never received a call. Again, I returned to the State portal. No notice of successful registration. Younger friends told me they registered and received vaccinations. Frustration continued we had no registration nor appointments. My appointment for annual asbestos check-up was coming. I called and asked if there was a possible appointment for a vaccine. Success for me the day of my breathing test. I was vaccinated first dose. I had nothing for my wife, a bad heart and also 1B class. My daughter out of the State contacted a vaccinator in NJ in February. Success by strings pulled. As vaccinations galore are happening, we have; Governor, State Senator and Assembly members running for re-election. THE ASSMBLY; SENATORTS, NOR GOVERNOR EVER ENLISTED SUPPORT OF YOUR DOCTOR OR HEALTH CARE INPUT THAT YOU ARE A PERSON THAT NEDED VACCINATION, BUT THEY LOVE HAVING MEDICARE ASSISTANCE FOE ALL

SUUPORT FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION S

How many days or weeks to the 2021 General Election? What are the issues and concerns we need to be working toward or against? Why do we need to replace the opposition and what wrong/s have they legislated? Did they do right by the pandemic? They,the oponents in office, probably ran for election on liberal drum beats? Have they raised taxes, grew the burocracy? Who supports the candidates, and why? There is more at risk now, that they elected Biden / Harris. This coming general election is Message to save our country’s original freedoms and character! THE CANDIDATE / S YOU FAVOR NEED SUPPORT! REMEMBER YOU ARE FIGHTING THE OPOSITION P.A.C.s.

ARE WE SERIUOS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING IF WE CANNOT HELP MPG?

We hear much ado about climate change and Electric powered no road tax autos. Don’t worry soon the tin hats will find a method to impose a tax. They must go after the Golden Egg Goose. They cannot leave any stone un-turned. What screams for correcting is stop and go traffic congestion. Watch your trips on major arteries during early morning and before dinner. The waste of fuel in jammed traffic is a problem our regulators never seem to address. The effort should be easy to minimize. Two Gloucester County road-ways have a systematic work-day affliction, of stop and go. Stop for a light then accelerate only to stop for the next red light. With computerization light could be timed so reasonable mph speeds would facilitate greater traffic flow in the direction of the flow in the morning and evenings. In a jammed city like Philadelphia the one-way traffic on Chestnut Street from Cobbs Creek Parkway (63rd street) to center city (15th Street) lights were timed at 20 mph. One could travel three to four miles while seldom catching a stop light. If that was accomplished in the 50’s and 60’s what the hell is wrong with New Jersey? Maybe a few mpg would be saved by hundreds of motorists each workday.

Beware of swamp dweller from DOJ

Watch what our Department of Justice. The Biden appointee, Merrick Garland, issued a report, and Laura Ingram; “Ingraham warned that Attorney General Merrick Garland's newly-announced "National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism" is somewhat of a misnomer, that instead will act as a tool for the DOJ to suppress and punish critics of Democrats and the Biden administration. See; https//redstate.com Joe Biden's Most Terrifying Move Is One No One Is Talking About – RedState I believe, this guy’s basic is report or your neighbor. He is citing terror groups and indicates there are many right-wing terrorists. Watch this administration’s march to the left!

SSTOP THE KNEELING

How often do you see a person wearing a shirt that announces a favored Athletic Team? Maybe you have several. Often, we see hats that memorialize branches of our armed services. Political shirts and hats started when President Trump’s campaign started in 2015. This writer has a sweatshirt honoring his stance opposing abortion. Currently there is a law suit against the NFL (Namely Fools Legion) for opposition to Police by accusing them for accusation of an officer in a murder. Personally, insults against The National Anthem. I feel the Leagues are going too far. Where individual players have a right to their beliefs as part of the Constitution’s First Amendment. The leagues would be better served if they would not support insults to our nation. When organizations, that enjoy support of our nation’s population, choose to ignore that our National Anthem is a representation of what our Country stands for and is ceremonial to all citizens who honor our nation. Those organizations are insulting our country. Stand and place your hand on heart or salute, Stop the kneeling insults.

TAX THE RICH???

Congressman Jim Moran was posted on Facebook being quoted to say $174,000 is not enough for congress. People are shown on news networks complaining the RICH are not paying enough taxes. The real problem is not the rate people are being charged as much as the loop-holes available. If a RICH tax payer is so dumb as to not hire an account manager, he would pay higher taxes. How have politicians become rich on their salaries? Are the allowed to deduct many expenses that do not get paid for from their salary. Fix the deductions for Politicians and we will see similar escapes for the business people we fault as RICH>