Dear Reader,
You’ve now heard the news about Ukraine.
But what you probably haven’t seen reported is… while the world is distracted…
5,000 miles away from Ukraine… a similar crisis is occurring — on a tiny island just 100 miles off the coast of China.
Taiwan.
Here is what one US Army General reports: “China is clearly… developing the ability to invade Taiwan in the near future.”
Few understand what this really means.
You see, one critical resource is being stashed there in Taiwan… one used by every Big Tech corporation in America…
And if an invasion does happen… my colleague, tech expert Jeff Brown, says the financial world is in for the “Shock” of all time.
Regards,
Van Bryan
Editorial Director, Brownstone Research
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Is Macron about to follow Bennett?
As Le Pen Surges in Polls, France Faces Danger of a Red-Black Coalition in Its National Assembly
What is emerging in France is a wide Resentment Coalition that pits the ‘peripheral nation,’ Right and Left, against the ‘elites,’ and which, potentially, might attract more than 60 percent of the vote.
In 1965, the French Fifth Republic went fully presidential: following a constitutional amendment passed three years earlier in a referendum, the Head of State was to be elected by popular vote for the first time. It was widely assumed that General Charles de Gaulle, the incumbent president, would be reelected by a landslide — so much so that he stayed aloof from the campaign.
A very bad calculation, as it turned out: in the first round, de Gaulle garnered only 45 percent of the vote. A TV interview with Michel Droit, a popular conservative anchorman, was hastily arranged and eventually allowed for a 55 percent margin on the second round. One cartoonist, Jacques Faizant, portrayed Marianne — in the French political mythology, the incarnation of the Republic — as a pretty young thing seated on the old General’s knees after a lovers’ quarrel.
“You see,” she was telling him, “this is how you should have talked to me from the very beginning.”
De Gaulle’s days are gone, and Emmanuel Macron, the current president of France, can hardly compare. He might, however, have made the same mistake. Relying on polls that steadily granted him a marked advance on his challengers, and confident that, in a context of pandemics and war, the French would not take chances and were more inclined to reelect a tested president than to experiment with a new one, he almost withdrew from the campaign.
As a result, the outlook of the election was modified. The space he left empty was taken by the Hard Right’s candidate, Marine Le Pen. According to an Ifop poll released on April 6, Macron would get 27 percent of the vote in the first round, coming Sunday, and Marine Le Pen would qualify as his sole opponent in the second round, on April 24, with 23 percent. The final score might then be 53 percent for Monsieur Macron and 47 percent for Madame Le Pen.
Pollsters warn that such narrow margins cannot be accounted for. In other words, anything can happen, including Mme. Le Pen’s victory.
If one is to consider the political families rather than the candidates, the situation is no less awkward. The centrist, moderate camp — the combined votes ascribed to Monsieur Macron and to the classic conservative Valérie Pécresse — gets 36.5 percent. The rightist camp — Mme. Le Pen, Eric Zemmour, and gadfly Nicolas Dupont-Aignan — totals 34 percent. And the Left — now increasingly rallying around Jean-Luc Mélenchon, France’s Jeremy Corbyn — is rising to 27.5 percent.
The truly ominous point is that, unlike what happened in the past, many leftwingers are likely to vote for Le Pen in the second round. Most pollsters opine that 30 percent at least of Monsieur Mélenchon’s voters could switch to Mme. Le Pen. Some even predict a 50 percent switch. Mme. Le Pen herself called them to vote for her in an interview of Europe 1, a mainstream radio channel, on April 6.
The old “defense of the Republic” or “anti-Fascist” imperative that has provided moderates with a substantial last minute reinforcement from the Left ever since the Dreyfus Affair or the 1930’s, and that secured President Jacques Chirac’s reelection in 2002 against Marine’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, does not appear to be working any more.
What is emerging instead is a wide Resentment Coalition that pits the “peripheral nation,” Right and Left, against the “elites,” and which, potentially, might attract more than 60 percent of the vote. It does not help saying that such an outcome would be irrational or unethical, or that France is much better off than what rightists and leftists are willing to admit. Resentment is a powerful engine. And once launched, an almost unstoppable one.
Even if Monsieur Macron manages to be elected after all, he will be facing what the French call the “third round” — the National Assembly’s elections that are to follow almost immediately. It is vital for any president, in any country, to engage with a friendly legislature.
Moreover, the French president would be compelled, under the Fifth Republic constitution, to pick a prime minister and a cabinet from the National Assembly’s majority, a provision that might give him quasi-monarchical powers when the Assembly backs him, or alternatively turn him into a lame duck when it rejects him, as it happened for extensive periods to François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.
The issue now is that a narrow Macron victory in the second round would be a near victory for Mme. Le Pen, and might enable the whole Resentment Coalition to enter en masse the National Assembly or even to dominate it. A frightening prospect for the outgoing president — a Red-Black coalition, history suggests, is full of danger for any western country.
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Gibson's Bakery Scores a Victory for Truth
By Star Parker
Gibson’s Bakery sued Oberlin College for libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress and intentional interference with a business relationship, because of the school’s involvement and support of student demonstrations accusing the bakery of racial profiling and discrimination.
The decision is worthy of our attention because it shows just how troubling the situation is at our colleges and universities.
As our nation leans increasingly to the left, as our most basic values — now called conservative values — are being pushed out the door, while they are displaced by the chaos of moral relativism, some bold individuals — in this case, the proprietors of Gibson’s Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio — refuse to be intimidated and concede.
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Time for Perdue to give himself and Georgia their due. Drop out David:
NEW POLL: Kemp Leads Primary, Would Beat Abrams Again
ATLANTA - Today a poll commissioned by WRBL and conducted by Emerson College & The Hill showed conservative small businessman Governor Brian Kemp with a commanding lead of 11 percentage points in the GOP primary for governor. The poll also showed Kemp is the best Republican candidate to beat Stacey Abrams this fall, leading the presumptive Democratic nominee 51% to 44% in a hypothetical matchup.
"After a Perdue rally and $3 million spent by the former senator and his allies since February throwing mud at Brian Kemp, the Governor still holds a double-digit lead. It is clear Georgians aren't buying what David Perdue is selling," said Cody Hall, Director of Communications and Senior Advisor. "Every public poll shows Governor Kemp is the only Republican who will beat Stacey Abrams this November. It is past time for David Perdue to realize he is the only thing standing in the way of Georgia Republicans achieving that goal."
Find the full results of the poll here.
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Are Donald's wings about to be clipped?
'Sovereign Rule' May Be A Price Disney Pays For Being Woke
An Orlando-based Christian attorney is glad to see that lawmakers in Florida are considering clipping the Magic Kingdom's wings over its pernicious misinformation campaign surrounding the state's "Parental Rights in Education" bill.
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