'Is It Willful Ignorance?': Mike Gallagher Asks Witnesses About US Financiers Trusting Chinese Data

During a House Committee on the CCP hearing prior to the Congressional recess, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) spoke about US financiers using Chinese data to justify business ventures in China.

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[nonakotler]

Whom Can We Trust If No One Is Trustworthy?
One of my favorite quips from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is when Tom is defined as “a glittering hero…the pet of the old, the envy of the young, ” and there were “some that believed that he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.” With these few words, Twain captured the essence of leadership in our world. Those who get to the top are the fiercest, most determined, and most ruthless. Today, the latter quality has become so intense that we can no longer believe our leaders, and certainly not trust them to have our best interest in mind.
I am not accusing any leader in particular, or even leaders as a whole. It is simply that in an egoistic world, where people vie to topple one another on their way to the top, the one at the top is clearly the one who trampled over and knocked down more people than anyone else. Concisely, to get to the top in an egoistic world you have to be the biggest egoist.
So how do we know whom to trust? We don’t know and we cannot know. All we know is that we are in the dark.
In a culture of unhinged selfishness, any conspiracy theory seems reasonable, while truth is nowhere to be found. When every person who says or writes something is trying to promote some hidden agenda, you have no way of knowing who is right, what really happened, or if anything happened at all.
The only way to get some clarity in the news and goodwill from our leaders is to say “Enough!” to our current system and build something entirely independent. The guiding principle of such a system should be “information only, ” no commentary. Commentary means that information has already been skewed. Information means saying only what happened, as much as possible, not why, and not who is to blame and who we should praise.
Concurrently, we must begin a comprehensive process of self-teaching. We have to know not only what is happening, but why we skew and distort everything. In other words, we have to know about human nature and how it inherently presents matters according to its own subjective view, which caters to one’s own interest. To “clear” ourselves from that deformity, we must learn how to rise above our personal interest and develop an equally favorable attitude toward others. This is our only guarantee that our interpretation of things will be even and correct.
Once we achieve such an attitude, we will discover that the bad things we see in our world reflect our own, internal wickedness. Our ill-will toward others creates a world where ill-will governs, and so the world is filled with wickedness and cruelty. Therefore, all we need in order to create positive leadership—and to generally eliminate ill-will from the world—is to generate goodwill within us. When we nurture goodwill toward others, we will fill the world with goodwill. As a result, the world will fill with kindness and compassion. By changing ourselves, we will create a world that is opposite from the world we have created through our desires to govern, patronize, and often destroy other people.

[njg.gustav]

Willfull ignorance is still complicity.

[planes]

I went to disneyland when I was about 7 and this was back in 1982 or something. THe "magic" was there, my parents and sister talked to me, disney was a good place and it hadent become a woke/pedo amusement park. My goodness the memories of the peter pan ride, haunted mansion, space mountain, the matterhorn, the monorails, big thunder mountain, captain nemo ride, snow white, sleeping beuaty. What an adventure it was so epic.

My uncle lent our family his cadilac so the drive down was comfortable and air conditioned.

Two out of three hotels had a swimming pool.

These were the best times of my life, before the destruction, divorce, finding out the truth about things etc

Man such good memories.

anyway I am just so grateful I could enjoy disney before Michael Eisner left his family to go with his buddy. This was before woke, and before disney sold and made pornography. This was before disney was a groomers paradise. I am so happy I visited the park when I was innocent and disney was too. NOw I am sure they are one of the voices standing against sound of freedom.

peace everyone hope to see you in paradise

[jamesbibee-qpei]

Give me my paychecks and my stuff and let me tell hell alone you understand me senators I'm sure you know I am not playing