Wednesday, July 24, 2019

FBI - 1000 INVESTIGATIONS INTO CHINESE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT - HOW MUCH DID SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN MAKE OFF THE DEALS?


SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN: I got rich, really, rich, selling out my country as my husband/pimp paid out bribes to other DEM POLS so they would keep their mouths closed about our corruption!
IN THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts.
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“All in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
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“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan  AMERICAN THINKER.com

FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT HER ENTIRE POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALL OF CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT HAVE PUT MILLIONS IN HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM’S BOTTOMLESS POCKETS!

IN THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts.
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“All in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician.Trevor Loudon

$ERVANT OF RED CHINA FOR RAW CA$H, $ENATOR FEIN$TEIN’S DRIVER IS A $PY FOR HER CHINE$E PAYMA$TER$!

“All in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician.Trevor Loudon

WAR PROFITEERS!
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND PARASITE HUSBAND RICHARD “BRIBSTERS” BLUM


Blum has long handed out bribes in the form of “campaign contributions” to other corrupt Democrat politicians so they keep their mouths shut about the staggering corruption that has profitably followed Feinstein from day one!
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“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan  THEAMERICAN THINKER.com


FBI Director Wray: 1,000 Open Investigations into Chinese Intellectual Property Theft

F.B.I director Christopher Wray is shown before speaking to reporters during a dedication ceremony for the new Atlanta Field Office building Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, in Atlanta, (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
AP Photo/John Bazemore
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FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday his agency has almost a thousand open investigations into intellectual property theft, almost all of them “leading back to China.”

“There is no country that poses a more severe counterintelligence threat to this country right now than China,” Wray said.
“It is a threat that’s deep and diverse and wide and vexing. It affects basically every industry in this country,” he said of Chinese intellectual property theft.
“And so, we’re working extremely hard with all of our partners to combat it,” he assured the Senate Judiciary Committee. “But make no mistake, this is a high priority for all of us.”
Voice of America News summarized some key points from Wray’s testimony:
U.S. businesses targeted by China run the gamut both in size and industry type, ranging from small high-tech startups to agriculture companies, Wray said.
Last year, two Chinese rice researchers were charged in a conspiracy to steal highly proprietary rice seeds developed by Colorado-based Ventria Bioscience.
[…] Increasingly, China uses what the FBI calls “nontraditional collectors” such as businessmen, scientists, academics and graduate students to gather intelligence, Wray said. With the Communist Party of China spreading its tentacles throughout Chinese society, the traditional lines between public and private sector actors have been blurred, if not eliminated, complicating counterespionage efforts. 
“The difference between the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, not really a difference,” the FBI director said. “The difference between the Chinese government and its private sector is not really a difference.” 
Wray expressed particular concern about Chinese economic espionage “pipelines” established at U.S. universities, warning that American taxpayers are “essentially funding [China’s] economic resurgence through grants.”
The FBI director stressed that “this is not about the Chinese people as a whole and it is certainly not about Chinese-Americans in this country.” He also said the FBI is not warning Americans to completely avoid doing business with China, but advised them to be “clear-eyed” about the espionage risks.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry was nevertheless infuriated by his testimony, denouncing his allegations as “baseless” on Wednesday.
“China is different from the United States. China’s ideas and practices are totally different. We don’t steal, we don’t rob, and we don’t lie,” insisted Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying.
“We have achieved our remarkable achievements on our own wisdom and sweat. If China is fighting a war, it is a just war to defend its legitimate rights and interests,” she said.

DOJ LAUNCHES ANTITRUST PROBE INTO TECH GIANTS AND ZUCKERBERG'S FASCIST EMPIRE



DOJ Launches Antitrust Probe into Tech Giants

The Associated Press
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday announced it is opening a review into whether the United States’ biggest and most powerful technology companies have stifled competition or hurt consumers.

The federal agency’s antitrust division said in a statement that the sweeping inquiry will evaluate “whether and how market-leading online platforms have achieved market power and are engaging in practices that have reduced competition, stifled innovation, or otherwise harmed consumers.”
Further, the DOJ stated it will “consider the widespread concerns that consumers, businesses, and entrepreneurs have expressed about search, social media, and some retail services online.”
Amazon is one of the world’s largest online retailer, while Facebook has dominated the social media space over for a decade. For years, Google has operated the most popular search engine and dominated online advertising, a duopoly that Amazon is just now gaining a foothold against.
“Without the discipline of meaningful market-based competition, digital platforms may act in ways that are not responsive to consumer demands,” said Makan Delrahim, the Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division. “The Department’s antitrust review will explore these important issues.”
It comes as a growing number of lawmakers have called for stricter regulation or even breaking up of the big tech companies, which have come under intense scrutiny following a series of scandals that compromised users’ privacy.
Technology giants such as Amazon and Facebook have not commented on the development.
The DOJ’s announcement comes on the heels of a Washington Post report stating that the FTC will allege that Facebook misled users about its privacy practices as part of an expected settlement.
The federal business watchdog will reportedly find that Facebook deceived users about how it handled phone numbers it asked for as part of a security feature and provided insufficient information about how to turn off a facial recognition tool for photos.
Advertisers were reportedly able to target users who provided their phone number as part of a two-factor authentication security feature.
The FTC didn’t respond immediately to a request for comment. Facebook had no comment.
The complaints will reportedly be detailed in a settlement on Wednesday. Facebook will not be required to admit guilt but will have to submit to federal oversight, the newspaper reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. 




Amazon, Facebook Smash Lobbying Records

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos during the JFK Space Summit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
AP Photo/Charles Krupa
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Amazon and Facebook have both smashed quarterly lobbying records Tuesday amidst rising interest in regulating and using antitrust laws against America’s largest technology companies.

Facebook and Amazon both spent roughly $4 million on lobbying in the second quarter of 2019, which serves as the first time either company spent that much on influencing Congress.
In contrast, Google spent only $2.9 million in the second quarter, which amounts to the least it spent on lobbying since 2011. Google recently ended its relationships with at least 17 lobbyists at six different lobbying firms as Karan Bhatia, the search engine’s global policy chief, moves to reorganize its lobbying approach. Apple only spent $1.8 million in the second quarter.
The surge in big tech spending arises as Congress and federal regulators have become increasingly interested in regulating big tech. The Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee has held hearings on antitrust in big tech, and populist senators such as Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) have proposed to crack down on Internet censorship and big tech’s abuse of Americans’ privacy.
Sen. Blackburn also announced a task force to investigate big tech’s collection of Americans’ private data and competition in the big tech markets.
The FTC reportedly fined Facebook $5 billion for violating Americans’ privacy through the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The latest lobbying reports show that Facebook and Amazon, and to some degree, Google and Apple, have amassed a more lobbying army in Congress amidst rising interest in regulating big tech.
The four technology giants spent a combined $55 million on lobbying in 2018, doubling their previous record $27.4 million spent in 2016.
Big Tech’s rapidly growing influence puts these companies at relative parity with traditional lobbying powerhouses such as the defense, automobile, and banking industries.
Silicon Valley’s influence even extends to some conservative groups, such as Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the R Street Institute, and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which often fight regulation of big tech firms and receive donations from Google and Facebook.
Sheila Krumholz, the executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, told the New York Times that these companies have ramped up their lobbying efforts.
Krumholz said, “They are no longer upstarts dipping a toe in lobbying. They have both feet in.”
Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.


Google Insider to Project Veritas: Big Corporate Power Merging with Politics Is ‘Dangerous’

The Associated Press
Eric Risberg/AP
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“I don’t see any doubt that [Google] is very politically biased” — those are the words of Greg Coppola, a senior software engineer at Google who spoke to Project Veritas about political bias at the company for which he has worked for five years.

In his interview, Coppola questioned the veracity of Google’s assurances to the world — and to Congress, under oath — that its products are not politically biased.
“I look at search and I look at Google News and I see what it’s doing and I see Google executives go to Congress and say that it’s not manipulated. It’s not political. And I’m just so sure that’s not true” said Coppola.
Coppola, who works for the tech giant on artificial intelligence at the Google Home assistant, went on to say that Americans must grapple with the problem of tech bias before it completely undermines democracy.
“Well I think we’re just at a really important point in human history. I think for a while we had tech that was politically neutral. Now we have tech that really, first of all, is taking sides in a political contest, which I think, you know, anytime you have big corporate power merging with political parties, that can be dangerous.”
“I think we had a long period, of ten years, let’s say, where we had search and social media that didn’t have a political bias” continued Coppola.
“We kind of got used to the idea that the top search results, that Google is probably the answer. And Robert Epstein who testified before Congress last week, looked into it and showed that, you know, the vast majority of people think that if something is higher rated on Google Search than another story, that it would be more important and more correct. And you know, we haven’t had time to absorb the fact that tech might have an agenda. I mean, it’s something that we’re only starting total about now.”
Read the Project Veritas report here.

TRUMPERNOMICS FOR THE RICH…. and his parasitic family!
Report: Trump Says He Doesn't Care About the National Debt Because the Crisis Will Hit After He's Gone

 "Trump's alleged comment is maddening and disheartening,
but at least he's being straightforward about his indefensible
and self-serving neglect.  I'll leave you with 
this reminder of the scope of the problem, not that anyone in power is going to do a damn thing about it."
  
TRUMPERNOMICS:
THE SUPER RICH APPLAUD TWITTER’S TRUMP’S TAX CUTS FOR THE SUPER RICH!

"The tax overhaul would mean an unprecedented windfall for the super-rich, on top

of the fact that virtually all income gains during the period of the supposed

recovery from the financial crash of 2008 have gone to the top 1 percent income

bracket."

 Mark Levin Warns: America’s Spending, National Debt ‘Will Destroy the Country from Within’







Michael Morris
By Michael Morris | July 23, 2019 | 2:19 PM EDT


Nationally syndicated radio talk show host, TV host, author and American lawyer Mark Levin (Screenshot)
On his nationally syndicated radio talk show “The Mark Levin Show” on Monday, host Mark Levin warned that the United States of America’s spending and national debt “will destroy the country from within.”
“Look around you, because 50 years from now, this country’s not going to be anything like it is today,” said Mark Levin of America. “I’ll be gone. Many of us will be gone, but your children and grandchildren will be here and future generations. And I am telling you that what we are doing to our children and grandchildren and generations yet born is going to destroy them. This is going to destroy them. All this crap about Mueller, Russia-collusion, all these lies, the focus of the media, unfortunately, mark my words, this will destroy the country from within.”
Mark Levin’s comments came in response to a piece by Brian Riedl in National Review, which states that, “President Trump and congressional leaders are nearing a [budget] deal that would raise the discretionary-spending caps by $320 billion over two years and offset less than one-quarter of those costs (and even those offsets would take a decade to materialize).”
Below is a transcript, in pertinent part, of Mark Levin’s remarks from his show on Monday:
“There is no desire – none – to cut spending. None. There’s no pressure on Congress to cut spending – none. There’s no rational discussion on this in the media. It will all be blamed on Trump. It should be blamed on all of them quite frankly, both parties, all leaders – both parties, all leaders.
“There is no budget control act anymore. There’s no budget control anymore. Right now the fiscal operating debt is $22 trillion, and massively expanding. The unfunded liability debt is over $250 trillion. They don’t even tell you about that. All they ever do is talk about the $22 trillion fiscal operating debt. They never tell you about the unfunded liabilities. They complain, ‘You know, we can’t control entitlements.’ Then you ought to ask them, ‘Well, what does that contribute to the debt?’ They don’t want to talk about it because they might have to do something about it. So when you add the $22 trillion— Let’s just round it off to $220 trillion – it’s much higher – in unfunded liabilities, that means each and every one of you owes about $700,000 in debt. Babies, teenagers, senior citizens, about $700,000 each. It’s about $68,000 if you just consider fiscal operating debt. But we’re into all of it. There isn’t just a fiscal operating debt. There’s an unfunded liabilities debt.
“Then we have the Democrats running off and saying, ‘College for all!’ ‘How are you going to pay for it?’ ‘Oh, you know, just tax the rich.’ ‘Health care for all!’ ‘Well, how are you going—’ ‘Oh, well, we’ll just tax the rich.’
“And then the Republicans, at least they used to give lip service to controlling spending, don’t even give lip service anymore.
“I want you to look at your children and grandchildren. I want you to think about 50 years from now, just 50 years from now. We talk about Apollo 11, right? 50 years ago.
“Look around you, because 50 years from now, this country’s not going to be anything like it is today. I’ll be gone. Many of us will be gone, but your children and grandchildren will be here and future generations. And I am telling you that what we are doing to our children and grandchildren and generations yet born is going to destroy them. This is going to destroy them. All this crap about Mueller, Russia-collusion, all these lies, the focus of the media, unfortunately, mark my words, this will destroy the country from within.
“China will be on the rise. Other countries will be on the rise, while we destroy ourselves from within because we’re too d--- selfish, because we want something for nothing, because we have demagogues at the helm that keep telling us, ‘You have a right to this and a right to that and a right to this and a right to that.’”

Report: Trump Says He Doesn't Care About the National Debt Because the Crisis Will Hit After He's Gone


 "Trump's alleged comment is maddening and disheartening,
but at least he's being straightforward about his indefensible
and self-serving neglect.  I'll leave you with 
this reminder of the scope of the problem, not that anyone in power is going to do a damn thing about it."
  
TRUMPERNOMICS:
THE SUPER RICH APPLAUD TWITTER’S TRUMP’S TAX CUTS FOR THE SUPER RICH!

"The tax overhaul would mean an unprecedented windfall for the super-rich, on top

of the fact that virtually all income gains during the period of the supposed

recovery from the financial crash of 2008 have gone to the top 1 percent income

bracket."


America’s Future Looks Bleak as Debt Continues to Mount






Romina Boccia
By Romina Boccia | July 23, 2019 | 10:49 AM EDT


President Donald J. Trump shaking hands with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. (Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)
With an economy that’s strong, that creates opportunities, and that grows wages, people are experiencing the American dream. But this dream is in danger of becoming the American nightmare.
The future looks bleak: job losses, lower wages for those lucky enough to keep a job, and massive tax increases on average Americans.
For many families, that could mean tighter budgets, less money to buy food and clothes, and little prospect for a family vacation or being able to improve their financial situation in the future.
It might mean working longer hours, taking on a second job, or working an extra few years instead of retiring, just to keep up with mounting bills. And that dream of giving your kids a better life than you had? That may be out of reach.
This isn’t the plot of some dystopian novel. This is our future if we don’t demand that politicians in Washington control their spending addiction.
Despite their promises to the contrary, every year, politicians continue to spend hundreds of billions of dollars more than the government takes in. And every year, they put it on the national credit card and the bill grows bigger.
That bill currently averages $67,000 for every single American. If you’re a family of three, that’s over $200,000. And just like the credit card bill you get at the end of the month, this bill is coming due.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. There are several ways our politicians can reform their reckless spending habits and save us from this fate.
First, they can stop spending billions of dollars on things that have already been identified as waste, fraud, and duplicative services.
Second, they should focus on funding the constitutionally mandated duties of the federal government, first and foremost national defense.
The federal government should return control of many programs to the private sector and state and local governments. Programs often work best and cost less when they’re run by those closest to the people affected by them.
Third, they should reform the biggest social programs in the budget, from Social Security to health care, to return control over health care and retirement decisions to Americans while protecting the most vulnerable.
And finally, Washington should keep taxes low and eliminate thousands of heavy-handed regulations that just grow government and siphon away our money and our freedoms. The recent tax cuts and deregulation are allowing the economy to flourish, which leads to more jobs and rising wages.
Higher taxes are not the solution to out-of-control spending. We need to address the problem at its roots.
It’s not too late to save the incredible promise that is America. But first, we have to convince leaders to end their runaway spending habits and adopt spending controls.
By taking these steps, we can reverse the current course, live in a freer, more prosperous America, and save the American dream for our generation and for generations yet to come.
Romina Boccia focuses on federal spending and the national debt as director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget at The Heritage Foundation.



Report: Trump Says He Doesn't Care About the National Debt Because the Crisis Will Hit After He's Gone


 "Trump's alleged comment is maddening and disheartening,
but at least he's being straightforward about his indefensible
and self-serving neglect.  I'll leave you with 
this reminder of the scope of the problem, not that anyone in power is going to do a damn thing about it."
  
TRUMPERNOMICS:
THE SUPER RICH APPLAUD TWITTER’S TRUMP’S TAX CUTS FOR THE SUPER RICH!

"The tax overhaul would mean an unprecedented windfall for the super-rich, on top

of the fact that virtually all income gains during the period of the supposed

recovery from the financial crash of 2008 have gone to the top 1 percent income

bracket."


Mark Levin: ‘Republican Party Today Does Not Stand for Fiscal Responsibility’ – ‘Nobody Does’





Michael Morris
By Michael Morris | July 23, 2019 | 12:18 PM EDT


Nationally syndicated radio talk show host, TV host, author and American lawyer Mark Levin (Screenshot)
Host Mark Levin blasted leaders in Washington, particularly Republicans, for not standing for fiscal responsibility while speaking on his nationally syndicated radio talk show “The Mark Levin Show” on Monday.
“We used to at least have fiscal conservatives,” stated Mark Levin. “There are no more fiscal conservatives, maybe a handful. But the Republican Party today does not stand for fiscal responsibility. Therefore, nobody does.”
Mark Levin’s comments came in response to a piece by Brian Riedl in National Review which states that “President Trump and congressional leaders are nearing a [budget] deal that would raise the discretionary-spending caps by $320 billion over two years and offset less than one-quarter of those costs (and even those offsets would take a decade to materialize).”


Below is a transcript, in pertinent part, of Mark Levin’s remarks from his show on Monday:
“Alright, I wasn’t going to start with this. I’m going to talk tonight about the press, about climate change, but first, now, we’re going to talk about the debt.
“It doesn’t matter who the president is. It doesn’t matter which party controls Congress. The fact is that when those in charge of spending and borrowing and taxing do what’s about to be done to the American people, it’s unconscionable. Spending is completely out of control, and we simply do not have any adults who want to do anything about it because it’s much easier politically to just keep spending.
“As Mitch McConnell once said, and I paraphrase, ‘You don’t lose votes by spending.’ That’s the Republican majority leader of the Senate.
“Now, we used to at least have fiscal conservatives. There are no more fiscal conservatives, maybe a handful. But the Republican Party today does not stand for fiscal responsibility. Therefore, nobody does. People can call me and ‘[indiscernible].’ I don’t care. I have kids and grandkids too. I care about the future of this country. This is the most selfish act one generation can do to the next, to impose on generations yet born this massive debt because we want health care for all and we want free college, and we want more this and more of that and so forth and so on is unacceptable. It’s unacceptable.
“What a bunch of punks we’ve become – this generation. I’m not kidding. You know, we like to talk about Millennials: ‘You know, those d--- Millennials!’ We’re doing this! And the generation before us did this.
“We’re told there’s nothing we can do about it. What do you mean there’s nothing we can do about it?
“And then we have a Democrat Party that wants to quadruple what’s taking place, while the Republican Party’s doubling what’s taking place.
“We sent people to Congress during the Tea Party revolution who are now voting for massive spending and massive debt. Why? I’ll tell you why. Because politically – this is what they’re going to tell you – they don’t want to shut down the government, and you have a treasury secretary who’s a liberal Democrat who’s already saying we don’t want to default. There would be no default.
“Well, let me tell you something. One day there will be a default. One day there will be a default, but it will be a different kind of default. It will be one completely out of our control when the economy crumbles. There’ll be no health care; there’ll be no pensions; there’ll be no minimum wage; there’ll be no property rights. It’ll all go up in a puff of smoke.
“And then you have these hucksters on TV and radio saying, ‘You know, they always warn us about this, but none of it happens.’ Well, look at history. It has happened. Just because our economy is so big, it takes time. But the laws of economics, as I’ve said a thousand times, are like the laws of physics. They don’t change. I don’t care how many statutes are passed, I don’t care how many proposals are made, how many claims about redistributing wealth take place, we simply can’t produce enough to keep up with this.”

Report: Trump Says He Doesn't Care About the National Debt Because the Crisis Will Hit After He's Gone


 "Trump's alleged comment is maddening and disheartening,
but at least he's being straightforward about his indefensible
and self-serving neglect.  I'll leave you with 
this reminder of the scope of the problem, not that anyone in power is going to do a damn thing about it."
  
TRUMPERNOMICS:
THE SUPER RICH APPLAUD TWITTER’S TRUMP’S TAX CUTS FOR THE SUPER RICH!

"The tax overhaul would mean an unprecedented windfall for the super-rich, on top

of the fact that virtually all income gains during the period of the supposed

recovery from the financial crash of 2008 have gone to the top 1 percent income

bracket."