[For many years, TTPers have known about the deranged Chicom claim of the entire South China Sea.  A typical article is The Trap of Lizzie Webber (March 2009).  How deranged?  Here is a map of the Chicom claim:

The South China Sea is Where Chicoms Must Stop Being Children (June 2015).  Now, ace national security reporter Bill Gertz gives us the latest on how President Trump is standing up to the Chicoms in one of the world’s most critically strategic areas. – JW]

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The truth is that the COVID-19 epidemic, the lockdown, and the rioting were seen by the Left, the media, and now the Democrat Party as a renewed effort in this election year to do what Robert Mueller, Ukraine, and impeachment had not—abort the presidency of Donald Trump, or make it impossible for him to be reelected.

To that end, almost daily, entire fantasies were birthed, floated, crashed, and then were replaced by new hoaxes. The strategy was that while one lie might be refuted, the bigger and more numerous the lies, the more a continuous narrative could be fabricated.

Consequently, the last two weeks, in succession we were told by the media:

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The first part of what you see above is a TikTok video that recently went viral on social media of Claira Janover, a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said “all lives matter.”

She won a huge audience as she intended. But then the narcissistic Harvard alum posted a very different video — the second part above, one that shows her weeping in a near-fetal position.

She fights back tears while complaining how unfair the world had been to her. Her initial TikTok post had earned cruel pushback from the social media jungle she had courted. Deloitte, she sobbed, was mean and hurtful. And she wanted the world to share her pain.

Guess what, Claira?  The world could care less about your pain.  You’re an object of ridicule instead. A sampling of YouTube comments:

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As the summer of our discontent drags on, the fall of 2020 will bring with it either the fall of America or its rise from the ashes.

This Independence Day, the battle lines were drawn unambiguously, and the fate of our nation truly does rest on the decision of the American voters in November.

It is now a commonplace that every election of our recent history is “the most important” election ever. Even accepting that given, any objective look at the parameters of the national discussion leading into this election makes it clear that 2020 is not only an important election, but indeed, a domestic existential crisis unlike any this country has seen since 1860 on the eve of the Civil War.

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For months, and particularly during the end of June and start of July, Russian politics was centered on ensuring the desired result in the vote on the set of amendments to the constitution to keep him in perpetual power.

By resorting to crude manipulations and fraud, President Vladimir Putin secured his “triumph” and can now claim yet another (his fifth) presidential term in the elections scheduled for 2024.

Economic indicators are also carefully doctored: even as real incomes and household consumption keep contracting, government forecasts continue to predict a fast recovery (Rosbalt, June 30).

Putin cannot order the recession to stop, so he has turned to the area where he used to thrive—foreign policy.  Used to – but not any more.

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I’ve been a avid TTPer for some years now.  In that time I’ve gotten to know Jack, talking geopolitics applying to my specialties as an international lawyer -- offshore banking, international trusts, and asset protection in foreign jurisdictions.

When I told him the other day about one of his favorite countries – St. Lucia in the Caribbean – and its “Coronavirus Passport,” he asked me to tell fellow TTPers about it.  So here we go.

The Coronavirus Pandemic that has been swamping the world the last six months and has brought death, destruction and economic devastation in its wake.  One silver lining in all of this negativity, however, for those seeking to protect themselves and their families, has been in the second passport arena.

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