COLD WAR II: China Used Stolen Data to Expose CIA Operatives in Africa and Europe. “The battle over data—who controls it, who secures it, who can steal it, and how it can be used for economic and security objectives—is defining the global conflict between Washington and Beijing. Data has already critically shaped the course of Chinese politics, and it is altering the course of U.S. foreign policy and intelligence gathering around the globe. Just as China has sought to wield data as a sword and shield against the United States, America’s spy agencies have tried to penetrate Chinese data streams and to use their own big-data capabilities to try to pinpoint exactly what China knows about U.S. personnel and operations.”

HOW MANY WAYS DOES SCHUMER BACK ANTI-SEMITES? Pretty much all of them according to The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz, who compiles a comprehensive list of examples of the Senate Minority Leader jumping in bed with the worst Anti-Semites. And the guy has a real shot at being the next Senate Majority Leader???

SHOCKER: Survey: Progressives Least Likely to Take Pride in America.

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook Lets Vietnam’s Cyberarmy Target Dissidents, Rejecting a Celebrity’s Plea.

For the past two years, Do Nguyen Mai Khoi has been trying painfully, futilely, to get Facebook to care about Vietnam. The Vietnamese singer and pro-democracy activist, known best simply as Mai Khoi, has tried tirelessly to warn the company of a thousands-strong pro-government Facebook group of police, military, and other Communist party loyalists who collaborate to get online dissidents booted and offline dissidents jailed. Her evidence of the group’s activity is ample, her arguments are clear, and despite the constant risk of reprisal from her own country’s leadership, her determination seemingly inexhaustible. The only problem is that Facebook doesn’t seem interested at all.

Facebook, once briefly heralded as a godsend for a country like Vietnam, where social media allows citizens to squeeze past the state’s censorship stranglehold on traditional media, has now become just another means of strangulation.

Don’t trust Facebook… you know the rest.

THEY’RE NOT THERE TO HELP AMERICANS:

And the NYT is covering for them because that’s its job.

ANOTHER COVID PREDICTION TRUMP GOT RIGHT: He said it was possible to develop a deliverable vaccine by Christmas and he was right. Issues & Insights (I&I) points to something else Trump predicted earlier this year about the Covid crisis for which he was derided, namely, a rousing economic recovery in the second half of the year.

The third quarter saw a 33 percent increase in GDP. Now it appears the fourth quarter will show an increase in the range of 11 percent. What a testament to the strength and fortitude of the American free enterprise system (or what’s left of it)! But there is a problem looming on the horizon, according to I&I:

“Unfortunately, Biden has no intention of leaving well enough alone. Having run on the most leftist agenda in American history, Biden intends to undo all the good things Trump has achieved and impose policies that will turn any hope of a roaring ‘20s repeat into a rerun of the ’30s Great Depression.”

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? So it all comes down to two Georgia Senate races.

TRUST US, THEY EXPLAINED: Congress releases 5,593-page COVID-19 stimulus bill hours before holding votes.

LEFT’S NON-PROFIT FUNDING LEAD KEEPS GROWING: Michael Watson and Shane Devine of the Capital Research Center (CRC) update through the 2018 campaign the center’s ongoing study comparing charitable funding resources for the Left and Right and finds the former’s advantage continues to expand.

“In the 2017–2018 cycle, the 301 groups supported by the selected conservative grant-makers received a total of a little over $2.2 billion, a roughly 1.67 percent increase over 2014 levels,” according to Watson and Devine.

“The 907 left-of-center groups selected by liberal grant-makers received over $8.1 billion, about a 9.65 percent increase. In raw dollar amounts, liberal 501(c)(3) revenue outmatched conservative revenue by 3.7 to 1 — a significant increase over the 3.4 to 1 ratio for 2014.”

Question: Why do the enemies of capitalism keep getting richer? Alternative question: Why aren’t the biggest beneficiaries of capitalism investing more of their profits in the defense of the economic system that makes those profits possible?

RADICAL CHIC: Portland Antifa Family Sends Out Christmas Cards Complete With Hoodie-Wearing Black Bloc Baby.

COLLUSION: US companies riddled with members of Chinese Communist Party.

OH, NOT THAT SHOCKING. SOME OF US EXPECTED IT:  ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ – Woke, Wobbly and the Year’s Most Shocking Dud.

JUDGING BY THE EVENTS IN OREGON TODAY, I DON’T THINK SO. I THINK THE DEMS AND THEIR FRAUDULENCE ARE LIKE THE DOG WHO CAUGHT THE CAR. THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN. AND IT WON’T BE PRETTY. AND WE’RE GOING TO HURT TOO. BUT THERE’S A CHANCE OF A REPUBLIC ON THE OTHER SIDE:  Will we go quietly into the night?

FOR YEARS WE’VE WONDERED ‘INCOMPETENCE OR MALICE?’ WELL, NOW WE KNOW. HOW LONG WILL WE TOLERATE THIS?  AG Bill Barr Says He Will Not Appoint Special Counsel to Investigate The 2020 Election Fraud or Hunter Biden’s Foreign Deals Selling Influence.

THERE ARE THIEVES IN OUR SACRED HALLS, MANY OF WHOM GOT IN THROUGH SOPHISTICATED FRAUD FINANCED BY FOREIGN INTERESTS. I THINK IT’S TIME WE ASK OURSELVES WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? ON THAT NOTE, ANYONE KNOWS WHERE TO BUY A GOOD SCOURGE?  House Voting Today on 5,600 Page Pork-Filled COVID Package No-One Has Read, McConnell Wants Unanimous Consent…

THROW SOROS IN JAIL AND SEIZE HIS ASSETS. IT’S A GOOD BEGINNING. AND HEY, THE FAUXIDENT IS GOING TO DO IT TO A LOT OF US, LET’S START WITH A GOOD CONTENDER FOR THE WORLD’S MOST DESPICABLE HUMAN BEING.  I HAVE NO IDEA IF THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE A SUICIDE PACT (IT’S ABOUT TO BE RENDERED MOOT, ANYWAY) BUT HOW COME AN ADMITTED NAZI COLLABORATOR HASN’T BEEN STRIPPED OF HIS CITIZENSHIP, YET?  What Can Be Done About Soros-Funded Prosecutors?

AS AN IMMIGRANT…. IT’S NOT JUST ALL THAT, IS THAT AS YOU TRY TO ACCULTURATE THE LEFT WILL MAKE WAR ON YOUR ATTEMPT TO BECOME AMERICAN, TRY TO PUT YOUR KIDS IN BILINGUAL EDUCATION, TELL YOU YOU CAN ONLY PRODUCE ART ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, AND IN GENERAL MAKE THE PROCESS OF ACCULTURATION (DIFFICULT ENOUGH IN ITSELF. LITERALLY LIKE DYING A BIT) IMPOSSIBLE:  The problem with modern immigration.

SO, WHEN A POPE DIES (SHUSH, IT’S RELEVANT) THERE IS A RITUAL THEY GO THROUGH.  I READ ABOUT IT WHEN JOHN PAUL II DIED. THEY DO VARIOUS THINGS THAT IN THE MIDDLE AGES WERE DESIGNED TO WAKE SOMEONE WHO MIGHT NOT BE QUITE DEAD, INCLUDING HITTING HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A SMALL SILVER HAMMER. WHICH BRINGS ME TO…. I HOPE THEY ARE. OTHERWISE IT’S DEAD. AND THAT’S TOO HORRIBLE TO CONTEMPLATE:  Are the Democrats waking the sleeping giant?

OH, DOES SHE? WE SHOULD DRAW THEM AS WORMS, GNAWING DOWN CIVILIZATION:  WaPo’s Ann Telnaes Draws GOP as Rats Cartoon.

Or perhaps pigs. Do you think this special critter EVER read Animal Farm?

WELL…. I AM. BUT BEYOND THAT, YES, I AM TOO: “I AM SARAH” Edition

AND WE CAN’T ACCEPT THIS LEVEL OF FRAUD AND GO ALONG WITH IT, AND REMAIN FREE CITIZENS:  THE IMMACULATE DECEPTION:Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities.

TWO BIG POINTS: FIRST, THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF VIEWING PEOPLE AS WIDGETS, AS CONSTRUCTS BELONGING TO A RACE OR CLASS, BUT WITH NO INDIVIDUAL EXISTENCE. SECOND, THAT IS VICE-FRAUDULENT HARRIS. BECAUSE WE CAN’T LET THEM IN OUR HEADS. EVER:  COVID, Woke Science—and Death.

SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT: New Federal Lawsuit Accuses Gov. Newsom Of ‘Gross Abuse Of Power’ And Violation Of Due Process Clause.

OPEN THREAD: Celebrate.