China preparing to seize control of Taiwan

Analysts say China is gaslighting the West while Taiwan sounds alarm on incursions

Communists blame the Philippines for escalating tension in nearby international waters

Tensions between China and Taiwan have reached a boiling point, and analysts are warning the U.S. won't defeat China if the communists go ahead with plans to invade the island nation.

According to Brandon Weichert, a National Interest national security analyst, former congressional staffer, and geopolitical analyst, China is preparing to seize control of Taiwan, and far sooner than 2027.

The balance of power in the Indo-Pacific has shifted away from the United States and toward China in the last decade. Should Beijing opt to hit Taiwan now with a blockade, they will be able to do so. China will likely be victorious," Weichert said.

According to TaiwanPlus News, Taiwan's Defense Minister Wellington Koo said China's increased military activity around Taiwan makes it harder to spot potential acts of war and China's People's Liberation Army has staged over 2,000 incursions into Taiwan's air defense zone in 2024 alone.

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Taiwan makes the chips that power everything from mobile phones to electric cars—and chips make up 15% of Taiwan’s GDP. Taiwan produces over 60% of the world’s semiconductors and over 90% of the most advanced ones. Most are manufactured by a single company, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC).

And that's why Taiwan is so important to us and to China.

CHIPS Act

CHIPS Act Passes: House Approves $280 Billion Bill To Boost Microchip Production And Counter China

Now, this seems like a bill that makes sense to me even though it is expensive. Perhaps its benefits far outweigh the concern and real worries about inflation. But Biden is touting more spending with the Pro-Climate Inflation Reduction bill for $369 billion!

"Proponents of the CHIPS bill have cast it as a way of easing the ongoing microchip shortage and helping the U.S. semiconductor industry catch up with East Asia, which produces roughly 75% of the world’s chips. The United States imports many of its high-tech chips from Taiwan, but China has expanded production recently. A strong domestic semiconductor industry is “critical to the economic growth and national security of the United States,” the Senate bill states."

According to the Commerce Secretary, the CHIPS bill could fund both U.S. companies and foreign companies looking to invest in manufacturing inside the U.S.

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We can't keep spending and raising taxes in a recession.

Pentgagon working on Implantable Microchips for Covid use

Pentagon Reveals Implantable Microchip for Use During COVID Pandemic

Pentagon scientists working inside a secretive unit set up at the height of the Cold War have created a microchip to be inserted under the skin, which will detect COVID-19 infection, and a revolutionary filter that can remove the virus from the blood when attached to a dialysis machine.

The team at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have been working for years on preventing and ending pandemics.

One of their recent inventions, they told 60 Minutes on Sunday night, was a microchip which detects COVID infection in an individual before it can become an outbreak.

Read this and see how it works!

Scott Silverman 10th Highest Paid Executive in Palm Beach County

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Scott Silverman
Applied Digital Solutions Share Holder Meeting 2005

Right on the front page of today's Post was a photo of one of my former bosses, Scott Silverman, listed as the 10th top paid executive in Palm Beach County with a total compensation of $5.9 million. No surprise. He was paid well when I worked with him years ago in a public company, Applied Digital Solutions, that grew by acquisitions. Scott also had a law degree and was extremely smart.

While working for Applied, we all eventually grew to believe that the company we worked for was a pump and dump. Some very good people left. When I resigned I walked out the door never to look back. I never gave one good bye. Even Silverman was fired at one time and then was brought back in. He was way too valuable to the scheme and its goals.

Applied Digital, with offices on Royal Palm Way in Palm Beach later moving to Delray Beach, gave the illusion to the public that the company was actually going places and was making money through sales. I used to get calls from people world-wide threatening my life. I had one guy who swore that the government was tracking him through the implantable chip. He was a whacko and he called me often. As a public company, of course, you want the public to buy your stock. It is now out of business after losing hundreds of millions of investor money with top and even middle executives made wealthy, all part of the plan, before the doors were finally shut.

ChipMeNot.org gave out its Hall of Shame award to Scott Silverman, CEO of the VeriChip Corporation (now known as the "Positive ID Corporation"), which markets the human microchip implant. If you read their web site, you really believe that this is a company going places too. Verichip Corporation originally was an acquisition by Applied Digital Solutions, a fine company that manufactured implantable chips for pets. But Applied had a better idea--market it for human tracking. Scott Silverman even went so far as to have a chip implanted in his shoulder...went on CBS promoting the thing.

"In September 2007, the link between implantable microchips and cancer was revealed through AP investigative reporter Todd Lewan's ground-breaking article "Chip Implants Linked to Animal Tumors."

Sensing the imminent demise of his company, Mr. Silverman began flooding the media with inaccurate statements, denial of facts, and outright lies. Details of his numerous misstatements can be found here.

Fortunately, his company's stock lost more than 90% of its value, and at last report, VeriChip (The Positive ID Corporation) was no longer marketing implantable microchips for humans."

The SEC is useless and most public companies know it.