Ortega Convicts His Political Opponents — Because He Can

Seven of Daniel Ortega’s opponents – including 3 presidential candidates – convicted in mass trial; looking at years in prison

Cuban intelligence laying the groundwork for Chinese expansionism in the Americas and the ideological subversion of the U.S.

China aiding and abetting North Korea’s human rights atrocities by returning refugees, buying North Koreans from the Kim regime for forced labor, etc.

North Korea’s crackdown on foreign videos ensnares military officers

House arrest a weapon of choice for Vietnamese regime suppressing activists, bloggers, and dissidents

What socialism has done to South Africa:

• Being an African born and bred and having lived in South Africa, and in fact finished my education there, I have amazing memories about a totally civilized country, well run and extremely wealthy, in fact the powerhouse of Africa. Unfortunately, since handing it to the ANC, the country has gone to hell and is looking for a place deeper than that. The communist run government is corrupt and filled with evil doers, not many of whom give a thought to the poor people they govern with a rod of iron even as their economy tanks. As usual the leadership is rolling in money while the population gets poorer daily

How Socialism Is Really Done: Twenty corrupt Venezuelans have looted the state oil company of hundreds of millions of dollars and stashed the cash in foreign bank accounts

AOC unintentionally captures socialist elites in a nutshell:

• people who have so much money that their money makes money, and they don’t have to work. And they can control industry. They can control our energy sources. They can control our labor. They can control massive markets that they dictate and can capture governments. And they can essentially have power over the many. And to me that is not a redeemable system for us to be able to participate in for the prosperity and peace for the vast majority of people….

Seattle’s socialist city council member Kshama Sawant beats back recall vote

• You get the government you deserve

Alarms sounding for San Antonio – nation’s 7th-largest city: city council in solidarity with the trained Marxists of BLM; mayor marched in unity with BLM; city pursuing unconstitutional ‘equity’ resource allocation by skin color with help from Leftist data demographic data firms; paying for race-based indoctrination; implementing U.N. sustainability programs that run roughshod over property rights and demolish voter control over local issues

Democrats Marching Left: Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut speaks at Communist Party USA affiliate awards ceremony

• “I am really excited and honored to be with you today and share in this remarkable occasion…. Thank you for your help and support over many, many years”
• Get this: he now claims he didn’t know it was a communist event.  Pretty lame, Dick.

Democratic Socialists of America to back 26-year-old hoping to join two DSA members in state senate

There Is Hope:  new Gallup poll shows Americans like free enterprise and small business, are slightly negative on big business, and put socialism at the bottom of the heap.

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