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PUSHBACK IS NEEDED IN MANY AREAS: A PLAN TO PUSH BACK AGAINST CHINA’S FISHING PRACTICES.

The Soviet fishing fleet was once a near-permanent fixture on America’s Pacific coast, hauling in an estimated 1.2 million tons of fish until the two sides reached an agreement to limit the Soviet catch in exchange for a relaxation of rules on Soviet port visits. Moscow’s fishing fleet dwindled in the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, only to be replaced by China’s large fleet — and maritime militia — that Beijing now uses to encroach on the sovereignty of its neighbors. The environmental and economic challenges of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing are clearly a threat to the global fish supply, but also represent a more direct and significant threat to national security.

The vast expansion of China’s illegal fishing fleet has made large, capable vessels readily available to its maritime militia, which it uses for coercive influence in contested areas from the Spratly Islands to oil and gas standoffs with Malaysia and Vietnam. More importantly, it represents a clear example of how China refuses to accept the rights of coastal states and their claim on the resources of their economic exclusion zones.

The U.S. Coast Guard is well positioned to work with countries to push back against China’s fishing practices, and to take the lead on this issue.

Somebody should. I think China should have to give up fishing for a decade as partial reparations for Covid.

FROM CELIA HAYES AND JEANE HAYDEN: Luna City 11th Inning Stretch (The Chronicles of Luna City).

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Luna City 11th Inning Stretch (The Chronicles of Luna City) by [Celia Hayes, Jeanne Hayden]

Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas … Population 2,460, give or take! Chef Richard Astor-Hall has decided to become an American, take on a new job, and marry long-time girlfriend, Kate Heisel. His visiting parents are off on a quest for a vineyard of very special grapes, and Miss Letty tells the story of what happened when an émigré scientist from Russia found a refuge with his family in Luna City during the 1930s. Another chapter in the doings of the most perfect small town in this eleventh outing to the most perfect small town in Texas.

THERE WAS NEVER A CASE FOR MASS MIGRATION:  The Culture Transplant Shatters the Case for Mass Immigration.

Take it from someone who has done it: acculturation is difficult, painful and makes you feel like you’re going insane. Even when you are alone and purposely isolate yourself from your birth language and cultural influences and work like heck at acculturating.

When you’re surrounded by thousands come from the same homeland? It might be impossible. And while race is fairly meaningless, culture means a lot more than you can imagine. And seems to have a life of its own.

Mass immigration is a really bad idea. Unless you desperately want to import the other culture. Looks to the border. And, you know? I’d say no. Hard no.

ALSO VOMIT INDUCING:  Warning! Disturbing Images! François-Henri Pinault, CEO of Balenciaga’s parent company owns an auction site selling child sex mannequins with erect penises, vaginas, and anuses instead of mouths or noses.

DO TAKE THEIR WARNING SERIOUSLY, PLEASE.

Note that a friend who knows this better than I says this is par for the course for “transgressive modern art.” From the little I know, I think he’s right. Does that mean all these people are crazed pedophiles and psychopaths? Well, no. But the people in search of the next cool thing pour epater les bourgeois are enabling next level monsters. And rich people enable and collect these because… I don’t know. Do not ask me what is wrong with these people. Words are my profession, but I don’t have words to describe this.

AND ANY KID WHO DOESN’T FIT IN:  How the Transgender Industry Targets Victims of Autism.

Every one of my friends — and myself — are convinced we’d have been convinced we were transgender if we were going to school now. It’s a genocide of my people.