With extraordinary, global political courage, China’s President Xi, initially acting alone, called and organized this past weekend’s summit in Beijing of 29 heads of state and 130 nations’ representatives: the “Belt and Road International Forum for Cooperation.” In doing so, Xi has created a new international economic and monetary order — not to crash and be bailed out, but to build and develop. Thus far it is based largely on China’s own commitment of more than $1 trillion to other nations, in investments in critical infrastructure projects; and on the openness of the Belt and Road Initiative to all nations.READ MORE
We the undersigned, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents call upon our Senators and Representatives to immediately start acting on our behalf based on the following statements, principles and political program. 1. Donald Trump was elected President because he addressed forgotten Americans, promised to revitalize and modernize the manufacturing and productive economy of the United States, and to end the ceaseless, deadly, and purposeless foreign wars of the last decades; 2. He was not elected because Russians manipulated social media accounts or otherwise suckered the American people into voting for him. Such a premise is stupid, ridiculous, and not backed by any ascertainable fact. From this standpoint, any rational observer looks in horror, not at what the President has done, but at the media and select politicians who appear to have gone collectively insane, and are hell bent on getting the rest of us to join them in the looney bin.READ MORE