ONE-THIRD OF ALL 'CHEAP' LABOR FARM WORKER ILLEGALS END UP ON WELFARE IN CA, WHICH HAS THE LARGEST MEXICAN WELFARE HANDOUT IN THE WORLD.
Lame Duck: Farm Investors Push for Amnesty and Cheap Labor
Farm investors are pushing Congress to give them the legal authority to import their own workforce and to pay those foreign employees with shares of U.S. citizenship snatched from American voters.
Investors and lobbyists want Congress to create this new labor pipeline — plus an amnesty for at least one million current illegal aliens — by passing the “Farm Workforce Modernization Act” during the lame-duck session in the new few weeks.
Lobbyists are hoping the public can be distracted by other drama and that a handful of retiring GOP senators will help push the giveaway over the Senate’s 60-vote barrier, and through a packed, chaotic “Lame Duck” session before Christmas.
But there’s a political problem for the Republican Party: The party cannot win majorities in 2024 if they betray their voters after they ran on a migration reform agenda in 2022.
The exit polls in the 2022 midterms showed that immigration was the top issue for one-in-seven Republican voters. Immigration was deemed more important than crime, abortion, or gun rights, and was ranked second in importance after inflation.
“A true farm workforce modernization effort would encourage mechanization and automation through subsidies, not amnesty for illegal aliens and guaranteed flow of cheap foreign laborers for years to come,” said R.J. Hauman, the government relations chief at the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
He slammed the stoop-labor sector within agriculture, saying, “Agricultural automation is the future of the industry — [and] another amnesty and massive expansion of a guest worker program are not.”
In Europe, farm companies have been pressured to invest in labor-saving, wage-boosting farm technology. The increased productivity allows farm communities and their nearby town to maintain their populations and incomes.
Americana has long led the world in farm automation for row crops:
But part of the farm industry has repeatedly blocked labor reforms to preserve its access to cheap, disposable labor, Hauman said:
Every time meaningful employment and wage protections for American workers were finally within reach as part of an immigration reform proposal or because of a friendly administration, agriculture lobbyists swooped in to gut the enforcement provisions and demand greater access to cheap foreign labor. This has gone on for three decades.
The agriculture lobbyists are now in a rush to pass the bill because the next Congress, starting in January, will be far more likely to block the combined amnesty and giveaway.
“This is the best chance we’ve got of getting it done,” said one of the giveaway’s supporters, Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID). “I think this is becoming … the last hope,” he told an NPR reporter for a sympathetic November 8 radio segment about the farm investors’ push to secede from the nation’s labor market.
The key player is Simpson’s Republican colleague, Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID,), the top Republican in the Senate’s agriculture committee.
But Crapo has held up the bill for more than a year amid much opposition from voters in his state. That holdup has been quietly supported by passive opposition from many Republican legislators.
The bill offers an endless pipeline of cheap labor to agriculture investors in exchange for Democrats getting a new flood of naturalized, Democratic-voting immigrants.
The flood of foreign workers would damage rural Americans by lowering their wages, cutting consumer spending in towns, shrinking business opportunities, and reducing technological innovation.
The federal policy of extracting workers from foreign countries also damages those countries and kills many migrants.
The bill would also dilute the political and cultural power of native-born Americans by forcing them to share their citizenship with many additional immigrants. That process is already far advanced — the current inflow of migrants allows elites in Washington to divorce themselves from the plight of millions of sidelined Americans, drug addicts, or rural poverty.
The economic and political shift would boost the wealth and political power of the “gentry Republican” landowners — and the coastal investors — who play a large role within each district and state.
In 2019, Breitbart News reported the bargain, as described by Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), who is an orchard owner and the primary GOP advocate of the bill:
It will cap the ever-skyrocketing wage growth [for H-2A workers] in this country to 3.25 percent a year. Some states next year are facing a 9.5 percent increase. On top of that, it will allow full-time employers, like dairies, to be able to take advantage and utilize the H-2A program.
Democratic cheerleader, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) described the payout for business in the worker-for-voters swap:
The bill implements a wage freeze for the year 2020 [for 250,000 H-2A visa workers]. This is a very important matter for employers, [and] wages are expected to increase by another seven to eight percent next year. Under this bill, those wage increases won’t happen.
… a recent report by the CATO institute found that the bill, if enacted, would have saved farmers $324 million in labor expenses in 2019 alone.
The bill is being pushed by investor-backed business interests that are slipping favorable op-eds into state and local newspapers around the country.
Those business groups include the American Business Immigration Council (ABIC), which is closely tied to the FWD.us lobby group for West Coast investors.
Those FWD.us investors include Mark Zuckerberg, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder who is now the biggest landowner in the United States. Investors would boost their returns if they can raise profits with cheap labor.
The FWD.us investor group backs migration because it boosts their businesses with more wage-cutting workers, more consumers, and more renters. The group has a policy of hiding its lobbying behind allied groups, such as the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration and Make the Road New York. The staff of the FWD.us group tries to hide the identity of the wealthy investors who founded and funded the group. But copies exist at other sites.
These investors prefer cheap, disposable labor to their other option of investing in farm automation.
In a November 10 press statement, ABIC’s political spinoff urged Republicans to quickly cut their voters’ wages by passing the cheap-labor farm workforce act:
Americans are hurting with the highest inflation in over 40 years emptying their pocket books. Farmers are facing an extreme workforce shortage, high labor costs [emphasis added] and increasing regulatory burdens.
That is why over the last 12 months, farmers and producers across the country, from Kansas to South Dakota, Wisconsin to Arizona, have raised the urgency of fixing the agricultural workforce shortage this year.
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Last year, the House passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act with bipartisan support. That was a good start, and now the Senate must do its part to improve the bill and pass its own version. Time is running out – farmers and American families across the nation are looking for solutions.
The ABIC statement did not mention the flood of cheap labor invited across the border by President Joe Biden and his progressive deputies. That flood includes at least one million men, including many from agricultural communities in Central America.
But the ABIC statement included links to a series of scripted interviews and op-eds in state and local media. The media spots were aimed at North Carolina, Utah, Indiana, Maine, and Texas. A TV report from Kansas, for example, said:
Some Kansas dairy farmers are even calling for permanent legal immigration, with a potential path to citizenship for immigrant farm workers who make their families part of rural communities year round. “We have a lot of Hispanic workers that work at our dairy now,” Lee Holtmeier, Linn Willow Creek Dairy owner, said.
President Donald Trump’s broader curbs in 2020 forced farm companies to recognize the need to invest some of their profits into wage-booting technology development. The interest has created a number of cooperative efforts with Silicon Valley firms, including firms that use American workers to design and build robot crop-picking machines:
The cheap-labor farms are also losing market share to foreign farms with even cheap labor, and also to urban “vertical farming”:
Many polls show the public wants to welcome some immigration. But the polls also show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and to the inflow of temporary contract workers into the jobs needed by the families of blue-collar and white-collar Americans.
This “Third Rail” opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that American citizens owe to one another.
“Lawmakers in both parties must ignore this shameful Hail Mary effort” in the lame duck, said Hauman. They should “focus on proposals that American work that help Americans and address the border crisis,” he said.
Mass layoffs expand from technology to financial and housing industries
Mass layoffs continued in the technology industry on Wednesday and spread to the financial and housing sectors as the corporate assault on jobs and wages expanded in the recession being instigated by the Federal Reserve intensified.
In a widely anticipated move, Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Inc. eliminated 11,000 jobs early Wednesday morning. In a letter to employees, Meta CEO and founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg wrote that he “decided to reduce the size of our team by 13 percent” and that he was “especially sorry to those impacted.”
Zuckerberg said the surge in social media advertising that occurred during the COVID-19 crisis did not become a “permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic” as predicted by “many people.” Instead, he wrote, the “macroeconomic downturn” and increased competition from other social media platforms such as TikTok “have caused our revenue to be much lower than I’d expected. I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.”
The mea culpa from billionaire notwithstanding—his personal net worth increased by $1.78 billion to $37.2 billion after the announcement—Zuckerberg emphasized that Meta needed to become “more capital efficient” and was “restructuring teams to increase our efficiency.”
While he claimed the layoffs were viewed as a “last resort,” it is clear that Wall Street, which lost 70 percent of their investment into Meta shares since the beginning of 2022, was demanding that Zuckerberg take drastic measures to cut costs, including the elimination of 20 percent of the 87,000-member workforce.
The impact of the Meta layoffs will be devastating as technology workers scramble to find new jobs in the general environment of mass layoffs throughout the industry. Sandra J. Sucher, a management professor at Harvard, told the New York Times, “These cycles of boom and bust are incredibly destructive within organizations because people employed there feel like they don’t know where they stand.”
Former employees took to social media to express their disgust at the layoffs and the way the $270 billion company carried them out. Carlos Giffoni, who worked as a product manager for Instagram, posted on LinkedIn, “Just woke up to find out I had been laid off by Meta/Instagram from an email.”
Giffoni continued, “No warning, and was told recently by a lead the team I worked on was high priority and wouldn’t be affected. Company-wide layoffs via email. Classy. I guess I have plenty of time for writing now.”
Those laid off were immediately denied access to Meta systems and facilities. Eric Triebe, a software engineering manager, posted on LinkedIn that he “feels like I’m in an episode of Severance [TV series]” due to the abrupt firing.
“No meeting with HR. No good-byes to co-workers. Seemingly no contact was made or discussion from leadership with my manager of skip in terms of justification. Just a cold, impersonal email and then the plug is pulled before you wake up,” Triebe said.
Other layoffs in the technology industry confirmed on Wednesday included 1,000 jobs at Salesforce, one of the largest employers in San Francisco, and Microsoft had cut 1 percent, or around 1,000 jobs, in October.
Commenting on the Salesforce layoffs, TechCrunch wrote late Tuesday, “While it was not on the scale of Twitter’s massive layoffs last week [3,700 job cuts], it still was yet another announcement in the continuing drum beat of tech layoffs we have been hearing about from companies large and small over the last several months, as companies aim for profitability after a long period of growth uber alles.”
Meanwhile, layoffs hit the financial industry on Wednesday with the investment banks Citigroup and Barclays eliminating advisory and trading staff. A report by CNBC said Citigroup “let go of roughly 50 trading personnel this week,” based on information from anonymous sources. Bloomberg also reported on Tuesday that Citigroup cut “dozens of jobs” across its investment-banking unit.
CNBC also reported that London-based Barclays cut 200 jobs across its “banking and trading desks this week,” and Credit Suisse is “cutting 2,700 employees in the fourth quarter and aims to slash a total of 9,000 positions by 2025.”
The housing industry and its mortgage arm are being turned upside down by the Federal Reserve’s interest rate increases. Layoffs have already taken place at New American Funding (240 layoffs) of Tustin, California, and Athas Capital Group (200 jobs) of Calabasas Hills, California, is closing its doors. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, independent mortgage banks had cut 8,200 jobs in the month of September.
With mortgage interest rates now reaching a 21-year high, lending activity has dropped off precipitously in the US. On Wednesday, the Seattle-based residential real estate brokerage Redfin laid off 13 percent, or 862 employees, of its workforce.
In a letter to employees published at 5:45 a.m. Pacific Time, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said, “We’ll start calling the folks being asked to leave other departments at 8:00 a.m. local time, and then send an email out to everyone else when we’re done.” Kelman said the expectation is that the housing market in 2023 will be “30% smaller than it was in 2021.”
Ian Shepherdson, Patheon Macro chief economist, told Forbes on Monday, “It’s a certainty that layoffs soon will be rising across the entire housing ecosystem.” He also warned that the struggles in housing will be akin to the well-publicized tech layoffs.
Shepherdson continued, “Layoffs are not yet rising—and the bar to letting people go probably is higher than in previous cycles, given how much trouble firms had rehiring people after the initial Covid shock—but that likely will change over the next couple months.”
Was the election on the up and up, fair and square, free of fraud? Who knows? George Soros, just one of the mega-donors to the Democrat party, spent $128 million! (Remember also that Mark Zuckerberg spent $400 million in 2020.) One can buy a lot of people, votes and/or ballots with that kind of money. How and why did the voting machines fail only in the conservative areas of Arizona? Why does it take days to count ballots? Was COVID all a grand hoax to derail Trump with mail-in ballots? It seems possible. There is no doubt that the 2020 election was stolen; did they steal this one too?
Mark Zuckerberg spent $419 million, which enabled far-left activists to target specific key districts in swing states, redesign ballots to their advantage, overrule local elected officials on how elections were to be run, and even infiltrate sacrosanct electoral infrastructure.
In sum, while the I.R.S. authorities turned a blind eye towards his illegal
activities Mark Zuckerberg used his enormous wealth to help fix the 2020
presidential election for Joe Biden — and the January 2021 Senate
runoff races for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, all the while reducing
his own tax bill. Zuckerberg did this on the pretext that he was simply
seeking to help ordinary Americans find a way to participate safely in the
electoral process during the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Nothing could
have been further from the truth. DAVID HOROWITZ & JOHN PERAZZO
Big media and Big Tech colluded to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. A poll showed that nearly four of five Americans believe that “truthful” coverage would have changed the outcome of that election.
Cutting legal immigration levels in half to about 500,000 admissions a year, ending the process known as “chain migration” where naturalized citizens can sponsor an unlimited number of foreign relatives, ending the Diversity Visa Lottery that randomly gives out 55,000 visas a year, mandating E-Verify nationwide to screen out illegal aliens from the hiring process, ending low-skilled immigration, and massively curbing illegal immigration with increased border enforcement and swift deportation. REP. BARBARA JORDON
By failures of border security, a lack of the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States and huge numbers of visas for high tech workers, the lives and livelihoods of Americans and their children, are being stolen by America’s corrupt political elite who are doing the bidding of those who provide them with huge “Campaign Contributions” (Orwellian euphemism for bribes) pursue legislation that is diametrically opposed to the best interests of America and Americans.
MICHAEL CUTLER
What’s really baffling is Hunter’s success with women. Despite being a total loser with a terrible drug habit and some weird sexual perversions, Hunter managed to seduce his brother’s widow, her sister, a stripper, and the woman he married, all over the course of four years. It’s enough to make one think that Hunter’s charm had less to do with the man himself and more with the benefits flowing from the Biden family cartel. ANDREA WIDBERG
As a senator, Biden vigorously voted for several similar bills. In short, based on his voting record, Joe Biden is not (and never was) a champion of disadvantaged Americans, unless you consider multi-billion-dollar credit card corporations and millionaires “disadvantaged.” Chris Talgo
After studying the documents on the Hunter Biden laptop, former criminal prosecutor and New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani concluded that: “What Hunter Biden is, is a bagman… I’ve prosecuted many cases like this. He’s collecting Joe’s bribes that come to about $12 million from Ukraine and $3.5 million from Russia. But the big money comes from China. And the amount of money involved is in the tens of millions of dollars.” Today, there is documented proof that that the Biden family has received at least $31 million from entities controlled by the CCP, with greater Chinese payoffs yet to come.
Rudy Giuliani sums up what ultimate elite capture looks like, stating: “The Biden Family is owned by the Chinese Communist Party.”
Dr. Robert Epstein: Google Is Influencing the Midterm Elections Using ‘Ephemeral Experiences’
Dr. Robert Epstein, a consistent enemy of Google’s election meddling plans and the senior research psychologist of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, has recently published an article claiming that Google is once again attempting to shift votes leading into the midterm elections, but believes that there is a solution to this issue coming in the near future.
In an article published by the Daily Caller, Dr. Robert Epstein, a senior research psychologist at the American Institue for Behavioral Research and Technology, states that his research team is monitoring online political content directed at voters in swing states and believes that Google and other companies are attempting to shift opinion and voting preferences using “ephemeral experiences.”
Epstein explains:
We have so far preserved more than 1.9 million “ephemeral experiences” – exposure to short-lived content that impacts people and then disappears, leaving no trace – that Google and other companies are able to use to shift opinions and voting preferences, and we expect to have captured more than 2.5 million by Election Day.
Epstein explains that ephemeral experiences were discussed by Google employees in emails leaked by the Wall Street Journal from 2018. The employees discussed how these experiences could be used to change people’s views about former President Donald Trump and his travel ban at the time.
In 2018, Epstein attended the Breitbart News event “Master of the Universe: Big Tech vs. Free Speech and Privacy,” where he discussed the control that Google and big tech firms have over the information users see, stating:
“I did a piece for the Daily Caller, a piece I wrote with Ben Edelman of the Harvard School. We estimated that if these companies were all working together and supporting the same candidate, and really pulling out all the stops and using all the methods they have to manipulate, they could shift ten percent of the voting population of America with no one knowing that they had done this, and without leaving a paper trail for authorities to track,” Epstein said.
“Ten percent could be shifted. That’s a lot of votes, with no one knowing they had done this,” he remarked.
In his latest article, Epstein states that Google is up to the same tricks in 2022:
Our preliminary analyses of the data we have collected so far in 2022 are equally disturbing. In swing states, and especially in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Florida, we are finding a high level of liberal bias in Google search results, but not in search results on Bing (the same pattern we have found in every election since 2016). In several swing states, 92 percent of the autoplay videos being fed to YouTube users are coming from liberal news sources (YouTube is owned by Google). Unless Google backs down, it will shift hundreds of thousands of votes on Election Day itself with those brazen targeted go-vote reminders – and we will catch them doing so.
Epstein says that in an effort to track the influence of these big tech firms, by 2023 he will have a “digital shield” in place to combat Google and other Big Tech giants influencing elections using this technique:
And this time, we will continue to expand the monitoring system, and we will be monitoring content going not just to voters but also to America’s children. By late 2023, we will have a digital shield in place – a panel of more than 20,000 field agents in all 50 states – and we will shame Big Tech into staying clear of our elections and our kids for many years to come.
Read more at the Daily Caller here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan
China, Elite Capture, and America’s Future
When people wonder why America is in such rapid decline with the woke normalization of censorship, cancel culture, division, unequal justice, and depravity, they need to understand the theory of “elite capture,” and how it has played such a large role.
Elite capture has been mastered by the Chinese communists (CCP), and it has proven far more successful in subverting America than the prior efforts by the Soviet Communists. While the CCP uses front groups and bots for propaganda, they have mastered all the techniques of infiltration to influence, compromise and coopt elites so as to “capture” them. Typical targets include university professors and scientists, media executives and reporters, and corporate and political leaders.
Within a decade of opening relations with China in 1972, the Chinese began wooing American businesses to set up shop in China, offering a cheap labor manufacturing platform and the promise of access to a large market. Fast forward to today and we find that industry leading American companies such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, 3M, Wal-Mart, Hasbro, Mattel, Gap, Nike, and many others now manufacture far more of their products in China than anywhere else. We learned through the COVID-19 experience that 80 percent of the basic components known as active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), come from China. All companies doing business in China have learned to remain silent and not criticize the CCP, especially regarding corruption in government and human rights violations, such as the persecutions and forced labor of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang and the Tibetans in Xizang.
With China running a multi-billion-dollar trade surplus with the United States for many years, it has plenty of U.S. dollars to facilitate elite capture through bribery. The Chinese have spent billions to buy influence in America, and when the Chinese are successful with bribery, they intend to influence and gain control of their American targets. And of course, once having taken money illicitly, people find themselves compromised and in an awkward position to extricate themselves. Often these compromised elites have little choice but to see their interests and those of China interconnected or even identical.
Today’s CCP takes heed from Mao’s ten-year Cultural Revolution in China that began in 1966. They see cultural influence as paramount because it is upstream of politics and is the single most important force in shaping society downstream. Thus, they have executed on partial elite capture of U.S. media and Hollywood studio assets in the last 10 years, acquiring controlling interests in some twelve leading Hollywood and media companies, such as AMC Theatres, Carmike Cinemas, the Legendary Jurassic World Production Company, Dick Clarke Productions, STX Entertainment, IM Global, Studio 8, Riot Games and more. With China being one of the largest markets for big-screen movies, all American production houses now self-censor -- avoiding any criticism of the Chinese government or mention of Taiwan, Tibet, or the Uyghurs.
With media conglomerates being multidimensional, it’s impossible for their news entities to remain insulated from Chinese influence. For example, companies such as Disney, which owns ABC, and Comcast, which owns NBC News, CNBC, and MSNBC, for example -- are large multinational conglomerates that own news organizations among many other holdings, including entertainment companies. Conflicts of interest resulting from Chinese relationships between not only Hollywood and the news media but also theme parks, cellular and cable networks, and movie theaters -- with nearly all the products they sell manufactured in China -- are inevitable. The same Disney that owns ABC has a theme park in Shanghai, and it also owns ESPN. In turn, ESPN has a multibillion-dollar content-rights deal with the NBA. Lebron James the biggest American basketball star in China and the center of the Nike-NBA industrial complex has defended the CCP crackdowns in Hong Kong.
Without a doubt the greatest elite capture by the CCP has been the Joe Biden family, which started at least as far back as 2013 when son Hunter accompanied his father Joe, then U.S. vice president, on a trip to China. Significant payments to the Biden family started a few years later.
After studying the documents on the Hunter Biden laptop, former criminal prosecutor and New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani concluded that: “What Hunter Biden is, is a bagman… I’ve prosecuted many cases like this. He’s collecting Joe’s bribes that come to about $12 million from Ukraine and $3.5 million from Russia. But the big money comes from China. And the amount of money involved is in the tens of millions of dollars.” Today, there is documented proof that that the Biden family has received at least $31 million from entities controlled by the CCP, with greater Chinese payoffs yet to come.
Rudy Giuliani sums up what ultimate elite capture looks like, stating: “The Biden Family is owned by the Chinese Communist Party.”
We will conclude where we began with more insight about why America is in such trouble. The normalization of censorship, cancel culture, unequal justice, depravity, Critical Race Theory indoctrination of the military in America today is all related to “elite capture.”
Clarity about our predicament can start with taking heed of George Washington’s warning to the nation in his 1796 Farewell Address: “Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.”
Scott Powell is senior fellow at Discovery Institute. His latest acclaimed book, Rediscovering America, has been a #1 new release in history for eight straight weeks at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637581599). Reach him at scottp@discovery.org
What all those Democrats voted for in the midterm election
Joe Biden: Threats of Hunter Biden Investigations from Republicans ‘Almost Comedy’
President Joe Biden dismissed upcoming investigations by House Republicans on Wednesday when they ultimately take control of the House of Representatives as expected.
“Lots of luck in your senior year as my coach used to say,” Biden scoffed when asked about investigations into his administration and his family.
The president spoke about looming investigations during a press conference at the White House regarding the results of the midterm elections.
Republicans have previewed investigations into Biden’s handling of the border crisis, the exit from Afghanistan, some of his cabinet officials, and his son Hunter Biden.
Biden referred to reports that Trump was asking Republicans how many times they planned to impeach him.
“I mean, I think the American people will look at all that for what it is – it’s almost comedy,” he said.
He indicated that Americans did not care about those issues, but said he could not control what Republicans would do.
“I think the American public wants us to move on and get things done for them,” he said.
Democrats 'abused' power to enrich themselves: Rep. Scalise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfoTX49Dsew
THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
GOP Lawmaker: 'Once Joe Biden Gets In The White House, Suddenly Hunter Biden's An Artist'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaCah_BKAlg
However, the lust for power and immense pecuniary gains cause people to behave in the most cold-hearted fashion. It is inhuman of Biden's wife and family to allow him to be exploited like this, such that he becomes the target of ridicule.
'Abundantly Clear Why His Handlers Have Been Keeping Him Away From Cameras': GOP Rep Rips Biden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8EjOxytgic
VIDEO
MARK LEVINE OUTLINES JOE BIDEN'S CATASTROPHIC FAILURES
What if America gave away highest technologies to its enemies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C00OcRojFT8
On the 14th of August 2020, Politico Magazine, in a lengthy article, revealed for the first time Barack Obama’s true opinion of Joe Biden together with his warning to the people of America. During the 2020 primary Obama told a fellow Democrat: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”
Whistleblower: Joe Biden Involved with Family Gambling Business in 2012
President Joe Biden was involved with a family gambling business venture in Latin America while he was vice president of the United States, a whistleblower revealed Monday.
The revelation again contradicts Joe Biden’s vow he never spoke to his son on multiple occasions about the family’s business ventures.
The informant told the Daily Mail Joe Biden’s involvement included conducting a conference call in 2012 with Hunter Biden, his business partner Jeff Cooper, the late Harry Reid, and his son Key Reid about an online gambling platform, Ocho Global, which was operating in Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Argentina.
“With the direct observations I had, it’s obvious Joe was participating in the business,” the source stated. “He wasn’t passive, he was talking about it. If I had to describe him, he was like a member of the Board of Directors.”
The whistleblower described additional interactions from the phone call:
‘Harry Reid asked whether or not the Peruvian government had been taken care of,’ the source said. ‘Cooper replied that it had all been taken care of; the Peruvian cooperation was in place.
‘That’s when Joe Biden said: ”That’s what we need to hear more of boys. We need to be making progress,” or something like that. Just an effusive comment that was endorsing that he was happy that things were proceeding.
‘He had all sorts of questions about other stuff. ‘Do we need to be doing other things with government officials? What do we need to do to get this moving ahead?’ He asked about what the revenue projections were and how soon the Ocho Rio software… could be demoed.’
Emails from Hunter show Cooper valued the gambling business at around $30 million in 2011 with the its Argentina component worth $10 million in March 2012.
Emails also reveal Hunter had an interest in Ocho’s parent company, Eudora Global, which yielded the president’s son a 2015 gain of $300,000, along with “income of $77,000 and a long term capital gain of $584,000 in 2017 and a gain of $646,000 in 2019,” the publication reported. By 2016, Hunter reportedly ended up with a three percent stake in Eudora.
It is unknown if Joe Biden received any income or kickbacks from the deal, as he tried to do with businessman and whistleblower Tony Bobulinski, who revealed in 2020 that Joe Biden was promised ten percent cut of a deal with a CCP-linked Chinese energy company.
In the same year as Hunter owned a three percent stake in Eudora, Joe Biden brought Hunter aboard Air Force Two to Mexico, where Hunter met with his business associates from Mexico City. On the trip, Cooper, who ran a large litigation firm, SimmonsCooper, was also involved in the business meeting.
Two years prior, 2014 emails from Hunter’s laptop show Hunter apparently wanted to be compensated from the online gambling platform via a joint venture law firm set up between Cooper, Joe, Hunter, and Beau Biden.
“In order to develop this as a platform for both JRBs [Beau and Joe] I think it is imperative we (the three of us) have full control come 2016 when JRB1 [Joe] comes on board,” Hunter wrote in an email.
The communications also included how the members of the deal would be paid. The joint venture law firm would yield somewhere in the “ball park” of $1.2 million annually and another $500,000 salary for Beau.
The joint law firm never materialized between the family due to Beau’s death in 2015 at a Maryland hospital, though Joe Biden has twice claimed he died in Iraq.
It is not the first time the Bidens had worked with Cooper on a business venture. According to the New York Post, Coopers’ law firm had tried to set up a hedge fund with the Biden in 2009 with a $1 million dollar injection of cash. In 2016, Cooper joined Joe and Hunter Biden to Mexico to work out a failed petroleum deal with Aleman Magnani.
While Joe Biden has claimed he never spoke to Hunter and the family business dealings, in June, 2018, Joe Biden texted Hunter, “Call I’m with Jeff Cooper,” and, “Jeff asked for you. Wants to do some work with you. Love Dad.”
Joe Biden and his staff have claimed at least seven times that the president has not been involved in the family business, yet 18 pieces of evidence suggest Joe Biden has played an influential role in his sons Hunter and Beau and brother James’s activities.
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Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
There it is. That's the issue. To begin, you have the corrupt family Biden. They've been scamming us and our system well for almost fifty years. The man is supposedly worth over 250 million dollars. How is this possible on his salary? It's not. So where did his wealth come from? Not from being a brilliant businessman. DAVID PRENTICE
THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY
RIDING THE DRAGON: The Bidens' Chinese Secrets (Full Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRmlcEBAiIs
He also acknowledged that the country needs a “new generation of leaders,” not the “old generation” like his opponent, in addition to the U.S. needing to “protect” American single-family homes and farmland from foreign investors such as China and billionaires such as Bill Gates.
Chinese had the 'front door' with Hunter Biden: Rep. Darrell Issa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QiArczr2FE
Is that not what the Democrat Party has created right here n America, transforming a once prosperous, strong, united, and safe nation into a debt-laden, militarily weak, socially divided, and increasingly dangerous society? Here are some of the Bizarro policies and beliefs inflicted on us by the neo-socialist, globalist, anti-American Democrat Party over the past few decades
— PAUL E. SCATS
New Hunter Biden revelation undermines president's comments: Turley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCk4RlPkFSQ
Bidens of all sorts are under federal investigation for tax evasion, money-laundering, and unregistered agent foreign ties, as this Politico report citing
Hunter notes.
Biden lied when he denied knowledge of Hunter’s businesses deals: Devine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680-KEfZuT8
Joe Concha blasts media over Hunter Biden diamond scandal: 'He is untouchable'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L80nVRtiUoc
New details further link Hunter Biden to China’s payroll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgVOirLNWpw
I'm Going To Highlight A New Hunter Biden Record...': Grassley Goes After POTUS Son On Senate Floor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY_UrM8TvGE
This is Biden's biggest problem: Steve Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqP7hPQACFA
HUNTER AND JOE BIDEN: CHINA'S RENT BOYS!
Hunter Biden will be a top priority for Republicans: Rep. Comer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AumMMgIGNs'
'The Five' knock Biden for reassuring Dems he's running for reelection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zYoaV9VOs
America sees two weak leaders in the White House: Mercedes Schlapp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVL-8P82_20
Naïve American people had no idea what they were getting with Biden: A senile, corrupt, debauched old man with a son who was a conduit for his dirty dealings and who has a personal life so disgusting it’s hard to write about it. That’s what the American media and the tech tyrants have done to America. ANDREA WIDBURG
New Hunter Biden revelation undermines president's comments: Turley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCk4RlPkFSQ
Bidens of all sorts are under federal investigation for tax evasion, money-laundering, and unregistered agent foreign ties, as this Politico report citing Hunter notes.
‘Chaos and Division’: China Predicts Republicans Will Impeach Biden After Midterms
China’s state-run Global Times propaganda outlet predicted on Wednesday that Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives was “highly likely to trigger an impeachment” against leftist President Joe Biden.
Americans nationwide went to the polls on Tuesday for the 2022 midterm elections. Many election results remain outstanding at press time. Experts are predicting that Republicans take control of the House, while control of the Senate remains unclear, potentially hinging on a runoff election between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Republican contender Herschel Walker in Georgia.
The Chinese Communist Party’s media outlets, used to advance the regime’s agenda and promote totalitarianism, regularly mock America for holding elections and allowing the existence of multiple political parties. The Global Times especially repeatedly refers to any election in America or public political disagreement that does not end in mass arrests as “chaos,” suggesting the “harmony” of totalitarian communism as a superior alternative.
The Global Times‘ analysis of Tuesday’s elections followed its typical model, predicting “further chaos and division” no matter who ends up winning the remaining undecided elections. The newspaper predicted that the primary fueling event of chaos would be an impeachment against Biden in the near future as a form of revenge for the two times Democrats attempted, and failed, to impeach former President Donald Trump.
“Analysts believe that launching impeachment proceedings against Biden is a high-probability event, as a ‘political payback’ for Democrats’ ‘weaponized impeachment’ against former president Donald Trump,” the state newspaper claimed, referring vaguely only to both “analysts” and “political observers.” Usually, the Global Times uses those terms to refer to Chinese regime-approved pundits; one of those quoted is a Beijing professor identified as Diao Daming.
“What Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did to Trump, Republicans are likely to do the same to Joe Biden in the future,” Diao reportedly said. “The GOP wants Biden to live with an ‘impeached’ label.”
The article elsewhere describes an impeachment process as “highly likely … amid an atmosphere of intense partisan rivalry,” but did not choose a specific issue on which Republicans would focus for such a process. Citing an unspecified Washington Post report, the Global Times listed potential impeachable acts as “the chaotic Afghanistan pullout, [Chinese coronavirus] pandemic eviction moratorium, failing to enforce immigration laws and prevent border crossings, as well as Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s actions in Ukraine.”
As usual, the Global Times concluded by asserting that highly contested, peaceful elections were proof that America has become a “fragile an unstable democracy” and that allowing public political disagreement caused countries undue harm. It also claimed that countries allied with America are reconsidering their ties, expecting Biden to make bold moves on the international stage to distract from “domestic U.S. chaos.”
“Biden’s China policy in the future may be a bit more Republican, with more obvious ideological bias and Cold War mentality,” the outlet predicted, “for example, by engaging with allies in areas where there is bipartisan consensus and further antagonizing China on so-called values, experts predicted.”
The Global Times‘ assessment of the election follows a slew of anti-election content from multiple Chinese government outlets. Last week, for example, the People’s Daily published a screed proclaiming all elections in America a mirage that actually strips citizens of power over their governments.
“The ugly truth of American democracy: Elections are political shows that fool the American people. The so-called democracy is, in fact, a game of power and money,” the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, railed. The article went on to cite left-wing talking points to condemn the founding of America.
“More than 200 years ago, the United States chose representative democracy upon its founding, from which the U.S. Electoral College was born,” the People’s Daily observed. “‘Unfair from day one’ is how the New York Times described the system.”
The newspaper also condemned the ability of Americans to donate to political campaigns as creating an “oligarchy.”
China is a totalitarian state beholden to the whims of genocidal dictator Xi Jinping, who secured another five-year term at the helm of his party with no visible dissent last month. During the Communist Party Congress, which coronated him as the unquestionable leader of the country, a bizarre situation unfolded in which his predecessor, former President Hu Jintao, was manhandled and abruptly removed from the premises on camera. Hu appeared to be looking at official documents and potentially about to disagree with a decision Xi had made in appointing senior Politburo members, though the origin of the discussion that led to Hu being purged on camera remains a mystery.
Hu has yet to be seen in public since the event occurred in mid-October. The Chinese news outlet Xinhua claimed that the elderly Hu had suffered an unknown health issue and was “much better now” before Chinese internet censors began erasing traces of Hu on social media.
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END OF BIDENS' MAKE CHINA GREATER DAYS???
China has said this 'openly': Gen. Keane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCceQcogD4
THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY
American people deserve to know what China was up to with Joe Biden, especially when Beijing had already shelled out millions of dollars to Biden family members — including millions in set-asides for “the big guy.” What else is on that infamous Hunter Biden laptop? The conflicted Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to engage in any meaningful oversight on this issue. We need a special counsel now.
TOM FITTON - JUDICIAL WATCH
“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
There it is. That's the issue. To begin, you have the corrupt family Biden. They've been scamming us and our system well for almost fifty years. The man is supposedly worth over 250 million dollars. How is this possible on his salary? It's not. So where did his wealth come from? Not from being a brilliant businessman. DAVID PRENTICE
THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY
RIDING THE DRAGON: The Bidens' Chinese Secrets (Full Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRmlcEBAiIs
China Working To Undermine Midterm Elections, Cybersecurity Group Says
China, Russia, Iran sowing dissent ahead of midterm elections
TikTok Hires Biden’s Campaign Spokesman
Karl Salzmann • November 4, 2022 12:00 pmChinese spyware app TikTok has hired a longtime Democratic flack who served as President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign press secretary and deputy Pentagon spokesman, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.
The news that TikTok hired former Biden spokesman Jamal Brown first appeared "in one line of a Politico newsletter on Tuesday," with TikTok not publicizing it. Brown has changed his Twitter bio to reflect his new job, at which he will "manage policy communications for the Americas, primarily focusing on the United States."
Brown's hire comes as evidence mounts that TikTok's Chinese parent company spies on American citizens. The Biden administration has allowed that company, which spends millions on lobbying, to dodge federal regulations, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Federal Communications Commission commissioner Brendan Carr on Tuesday called for the federal government to ban TikTok.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) called Brown's move from the Pentagon to the social media app "alarming," saying it shows a "cozy relationship between the Biden Defense Department and TikTok."
In light of the government scrutiny, the former Biden administration spokesman is a particularly "well-connected hire" for the Chinese app, the Daily Mail noted.
DO A SEARCH FOR BIDEN AND HIS BIGGEST BRIBSTER BLACKROCK!
Exclusive–J.D. Vance: Americans and their Property Must Be Protected from China, BlackRock Buying U.S. Land
VIDEO
MARK LEVINE OUTLINES JOE BIDEN'S CATASTROPHIC FAILURES
What if America gave away highest technologies to its enemies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C00OcRojFT8
He also acknowledged that the country needs a “new generation of leaders,” not the “old generation” like his opponent, in addition to the U.S. needing to “protect” American single-family homes and farmland from foreign investors such as China and billionaires such as Bill Gates.
J.D. Vance: U.S. Needs ‘National Policy of Tariffs’ to ‘Rebuild Industrial Heartland of America’
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Republican J.D. Vance, running against Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) for Ohio’s open United States Senate seat, says the U.S. needs a “committed national policy of tariffs” to “rebuild the industrial heartland of America.”
Vance, whose best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy chronicled the deindustrialization of Middletown, Ohio, where he spent his childhood, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that a national industrial policy is vital to revitalizing what was once the heartbeat of American manufacturing.
The interview with Vance happened over lunch after one of Vance’s stops in Chillicothe — roughly 100 miles outside of Cincinnati — when he was making a swing through southeast Ohio to channel his Appalachian roots. Vance started the day in Gallipolis in Gallia County, Chillicothe in Brown County, and Mt. Orab in Ross County.
“Far too many Republicans,” Vance said, have been concerned “about the interests of multinational corporations instead of their voters” when it comes to job-killing trade deficits and free trade deals.
The U.S.-China trade deficit, alone, has resulted in the elimination of 3.7 million American jobs from 2001 to 2018. Ohio, during that period after China entered the World Trade Organization (WTO), lost nearly 138,000 jobs. Hundreds of thousands more jobs in Ohio have been eliminated as a result of other free trade deals and trade deficits with countries such as Mexico and Canada.
In Ryan’s district, since he took office in 2003, nearly 25,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost and drug overdose deaths have skyrocketed by up to 400 percent in some areas at the same time.
“It’s really straightforward and simple. The basic model of globalization has undercut the jobs of Ohioans in two basic ways: One, directly shipping their jobs overseas to places like China or Mexico, and two, through the immigration system — allowing the importation of a large class of people to undercut the wages of American citizens,” Vance said.
“Both of those consequences of globalization are really horrible for Ohio workers and we have to take the country in another direction,” Vance continued. “It just hasn’t worked. It’s created a large group of people in the state of Ohio, a large class of people all over the country, who have lost good middle class jobs … I care about those people.”
Vance said the issue of offshoring American jobs is not just about economics but also about a community’s culture and social wellbeing.
“When an anchor factory that supports the middle class and the town shuts down, I mean, it destroys people’s wages, it destroys the local churches because people don’t have wages to give back to those churches, it destroys the community infrastructure,” Vance said. “It doesn’t just affect people’s jobs, it affects the entire life, the civic life of the community, which is why I think we have to be willing to protect those jobs.”
A Republican congress, Vance described, ought to take the first step in protecting American jobs and industry by passing legislation that would make U.S. tariffs on foreign imports more permanent and across the board.
“To really rebuild the industrial heartland of America, you need a committed national policy of tariffs, of protecting American industries, and of supporting the workers who are going to work in those industries,” Vance said. “Without that, you’re at best going to do a little bit less damage than before.”
The latest research has suggested that permanent U.S. tariffs on nearly all foreign imports would create about 10 million American jobs in manufacturing and supporting industries while generating $600 billion in revenue.
Former President Trump’s tariffs on billions of dollars worth of foreign imports and China-made goods helped spur a manufacturing boom, the latest data shows, across a number of states.
Such a tariff-based industrial policy would have broad support from American union workers who have urged President Joe Biden not to end U.S. tariffs on China.
Executives with Cleveland Cliffs, the largest steel manufacturer in the U.S., told Vance they began reinvesting in American plants after Trump imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum. Since then, though, Biden has considered ending the steel tariffs, throwing the industry for a loop.
“When you talk to, like Cleveland Cliffs … they say, ‘We actually started to really reinvest in American steel production because the tariffs protected the American steel industry and the American worker from [Chinese] dumping,'” Vance said.
“They’re worried that the Biden administration is thinking about undoing a lot of those tariffs under pressure from corporate interests and that makes it harder for them to invest in the long-term capacity that employs workers because building a steel mill isn’t like flipping a switch,” he said. “It takes years of capital investment and years of planning.”
Another component of rebuilding the nation’s heartland, Vance said, is unleashing the American energy industry and ensuring wide-scale investment in energy jobs that would otherwise go to China.
“The energy piece of it, in some ways, is as important as the tariff piece of it because if you’re thinking about whether you produce steel, for example, an incredibly energy-intensive industry, you need a high amount of natural gas at a low cost to produce steel at that scale,” Vance said.
“So if you’re an American steel maker, thinking about whether you will open a factory in China versus the United States, one of the parts of the equation is whether America will protect its industries,” he continued.
The Biden administration, Vance said, is crushing the American energy industry as its number one competitor, China, is working to dominate the sector.
“Another part of the equation is America is shutting down its energy capacity, whereas the Chinese are building their energy capacity as we speak,” Vance said. “… the [Biden administration is] really bad on American energy capacity and they are really bad on protecting our industries from the Chinese.”
“And Tim Ryan, of course, has supported them 100 percent of the time,” Vance noted.
As Vance noted, throughout Ryan’s campaign, he has attempted to portray himself as being independent of his party’s leadership. As Breitbart News has reported in the past, Ryan has voted with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and President Joe Biden 100 percent of the time in the most recent Congress.
In fact, during the first Ohio Senate debate, Ryan again attempted to distance himself from Democrat party leadership, saying politicians “who don’t have the guts to stand up to their own party” are a “huge threat to democracy.” Ryan claimed to align himself with Trump’s policies on occasion, even though he only voted for Trump’s agenda 16 percent of the time.
Over the lunch interview, Vance spoke about the need for a new Congress to reverse federal immigration laws that allow multinational corporations to replace American professionals — often in high-paying STEM jobs — with cheaper foreign workers on the H-1B visa program.
He also acknowledged that the country needs a “new generation of leaders,” not the “old generation” like his opponent, in addition to the U.S. needing to “protect” American single-family homes and farmland from foreign investors such as China and billionaires such as Bill Gates.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY
American people deserve to know what China was up to with Joe Biden, especially when Beijing had already shelled out millions of dollars to Biden family members — including millions in set-asides for “the big guy.” What else is on that infamous Hunter Biden laptop? The conflicted Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to engage in any meaningful oversight on this issue. We need a special counsel now.
TOM FITTON - JUDICIAL WATCH
“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
There it is. That's the issue. To begin, you have the corrupt family Biden. They've been scamming us and our system well for almost fifty years. The man is supposedly worth over 250 million dollars. How is this possible on his salary? It's not. So where did his wealth come from? Not from being a brilliant businessman. DAVID PRENTICE
THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY
RIDING THE DRAGON: The Bidens' Chinese Secrets (Full Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRmlcEBAiIs
He also acknowledged that the country needs a “new generation of leaders,” not the “old generation” like his opponent, in addition to the U.S. needing to “protect” American single-family homes and farmland from foreign investors such as China and billionaires such as Bill Gates.
Chinese had the 'front door' with Hunter Biden: Rep. Darrell Issa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QiArczr2FE
Is that not what the Democrat Party has created right here n America, transforming a once prosperous, strong, united, and safe nation into a debt-laden, militarily weak, socially divided, and increasingly dangerous society? Here are some of the Bizarro policies and beliefs inflicted on us by the neo-socialist, globalist, anti-American Democrat Party over the past few decades
— PAUL E. SCATS
J.D. Vance: Tim Ryan’s ‘Kill and Confront’ Comment Was Another Attempt from the Left to Engage in Political Violence
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Republican J.D. Vance, running for Ohio’s open United States Senate seat, blasted his opponent Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) by saying his “kill and confront” MAGA was just another attempt from the left to engage in political violence.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News the weekend before last, Vance blasted Ryan’s “kill and confront” MAGA comments and doubled down on his “extreme rhetoric” as just another attempt from the left to engage in political violence, after a debate this month where Ryan included Vance in a group of people he labeled as “extremists.”
The interview took place in Chillicothe, roughly 100 miles outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, while the Buckeye State Republican was making a swing through the southeast part of the state to channel his Appalachian roots with two weeks left in the race.
Vance told Breitbart News that if any Republican had attempted to make the same comments as Ryan did — such as wanting to “kill and confront” the far left or “kill and confront” the radical Democrats — “it would be around-the-clock national news” and “every single media figure would accuse you of inciting murder against Democratic leadership.”
The Buckeye State Republican explained that “it’s more of a commentary on the media” because Ryan has said “a lot of stupid stuff” over his last 20 years in Washington, DC, but “that the media won’t call him out on some pretty extreme rhetoric, and I do think some pretty extreme dangerous rhetoric.”
“I think that it’s irresponsible for Tim Ryan to use that rhetoric when his side is engaged in political violence,” he added.
Vance, when discussing the violence that happened during the riots throughout 2020, said, “What happened over the summer of 2020, where the media and major political figures actively encouraged looting, rioting, burning down of cities, is a far bigger threat to democracy than anything that’s happened since.”
“We’re talking about 26 people dead, tens of billions of dollars of property damage, entire communities are effectively destroyed, and it’s taken them years to recover, and the media and the Democrats egged it on,” he explained. “For them to come back and say I’m a threat to democracy because I think that people have a right to a speedy jury trial…It’s the craziest and most ridiculous accusation.”
Vance also spoke to Breitbart News about the need for a new Congress to reverse federal immigration laws that allow multinational corporations to replace American professionals — often in high-paying STEM jobs — with cheaper foreign workers on the H-1B visa program.
He also acknowledged that the country needs a “new generation of leaders,” not the “old generation” like his opponent, in addition to the U.S. needing to “protect” American single-family homes and farmland from foreign investors such as China and billionaires such as Bill Gates.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
GOP Lawmaker: 'Once Joe Biden Gets In The White House, Suddenly Hunter Biden's An Artist'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaCah_BKAlg
However, the lust for power and immense pecuniary gains cause people to behave in the most cold-hearted fashion. It is inhuman of Biden's wife and family to allow him to be exploited like this, such that he becomes the target of ridicule.
'Abundantly Clear Why His Handlers Have Been Keeping Him Away From Cameras': GOP Rep Rips Biden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8EjOxytgic
VIDEO
MARK LEVINE OUTLINES JOE BIDEN'S CATASTROPHIC FAILURES
What if America gave away highest technologies to its enemies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C00OcRojFT8
On the 14th of August 2020, Politico Magazine, in a lengthy article, revealed for the first time Barack Obama’s true opinion of Joe Biden together with his warning to the people of America. During the 2020 primary Obama told a fellow Democrat: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”
DO A SEARCH FOR BIDEN AND HIS BIGGEST BRIBSTER BLACKROCK!
J.D. Vance: Americans and their Property Must Be Protected from China, BlackRock Buying U.S. Land
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Republican J.D. Vance, running against Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) for the state’s open United States Senate seat, says the U.S. must “protect” American single-family homes and farmland from foreign investors like China and billionaires such as Bill Gates.
“The Founding Fathers recognize that to have a constitutional republic, we needed a nation of owners, not a nation of renters, and there is this large-scale effort to turn the American people into a permanent renter class,” Vance told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.
The interview took place over lunch after Vance’s second campaign stop last Saturday in Chillicothe — roughly 100 miles outside of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Buckeye State Republican was making a swing through the southeast part of the state to channel his Appalachian roots with two weeks left in the race. Throughout the day, Vance made multiple stops starting in the village of Gallipolis, a stone’s throw from West Virginia and ending 40 miles east of Cincinnati.
Vance told Breitbart News that forcing Americans into a permanent renter class rather than making home ownership easier is a “huge mistake.” Vance emphasized that single-family homes and farmland need to be protected from China-linked investors, Wall Street firms like BlackRock, and billionaires such as Bill Gates — the largest private owner of U.S. farmland.
“BlackRock is going around and buying billions of dollars of American single-family homes,” Vance added. “That’s a problem whether Blackrock is getting the money from the Chinese or somewhere else. The issue is you want Americans to be able to buy those homes and actually own a stake.”
Specifically, Vance told Breitbart News he would co-sponsor Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AK) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) legislation that bans China and China-linked firms from buying land anywhere in the U.S.
Vance said he would like to see the legislation expanded to include restrictions on how many acres of land one particular Wall Street firm, corporation, or billionaire can purchase.
On the other hand, Ryan voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act without raising concerns about farming provisions that do nothing to protect American farmland from continuing incursions from China. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) proposed an amendment to ban China from buying American farmland, but the measure was blocked by Senate Democrats.
Analysis from 2019 shows that about half a million acres of farmland in Ohio are owned by foreign investors — primarily from China, Germany, and the Netherlands. Bill Gates alone now owns nearly 250,000 acres across 19 states, including nearly 9,000 acres in Ohio.
In 2021, Chinese investors were allowed to buy $6.1 billion worth of homes and land across the U.S. Most recently, a Chinese firm bought 300 acres of farmland in North Dakota that sits just 20 minutes from a U.S. Air Force Base.
The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) figure reveals that Chinese investors’ holdings of U.S. farmland skyrocketed from 13,720 acres in 2010 to 352,140 acres in 2020. Foreign investors now hold interest in more than 37 million acres of U.S. farmland — a region larger than the state of Iowa.
As Breitbart News reported this week, Vance spoke on the need for a new Congress to reverse federal immigration laws that allows multinational corporations to replace American professionals, often in high-paying STEM jobs, with cheaper foreign workers on the H-1B visa program.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
Wall Street CEOs Planning MASS LAYOFF (75% Job Cuts at Twitter)
Senate GOP Gives Victory to Kamala Harris, Her Big Tech Donors with Green Card Giveaway…. WITH KAMALA, JUST FOLLOW HER LONG HISTORY OF BRIBES SUCKING!
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/12/is-kamala-harris-another-closet.html
Big Tech is facilitating the border crisis: Rep. Cammack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bzvanfZ838
Democrat Joe Biden has chosen Ronald Klain to be his chief of
staff should he enter the White House in January. Klain
worked on behalf of Silicon Valley executives and their
interests, which include providing tech corporations with an
endless supply of H-1B foreign visa workers (THROUGH
TOTAL AMNESTY) and more free trade.
JOHN BINDER (MORE BELOW)
Trickle Down Zuckanomics: Service Workers Supporting Facebook to Lose Their Jobs
WHITE COLLAR WORKERS GET THE SHAFT
Time to Panic. Wall Street CEOs Planning MASS LAYOFFS.
Analysis conducted last year reveal that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born (DATED FIGURES), while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers.
Despite his Wall Street, big business, Big Tech, and billionaire donations, Biden has attempted to portray himself as a small-town fighter from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
By failures of border security, a lack of the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States and huge numbers of visas for high tech workers, the lives and livelihoods of Americans and their children, are being stolen by America’s corrupt political elite who are doing the bidding of those who provide them with huge “Campaign Contributions” (Orwellian euphemism for bribes) pursue legislation that is diametrically opposed to the best interests of America and Americans.
MICHAEL CUTLER
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Republican J.D. Vance says a new Congress must reverse a policy that allows corporations to replace American professionals, often in high-paying STEM jobs, with cheaper foreign workers on the H-1B visa program.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Saturday, the Ohio Senate candidate blasted a plan by OhioHealth where nearly 640 American tech and finance employees are being laid off and having their jobs sent to Accenture — a Fortune 500 multinational corporation notorious for importing foreign H-1B visa workers to replace Americans in white-collar jobs.
The interview took place over lunch after Vance’s second campaign stop for the day in Chillicothe — roughly 100 miles outside of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Buckeye State Republican was making a swing through the southeast part of the state to channel his Appalachian roots with two weeks left in the race. Throughout the day, Vance, vying for the open United States Senate seat, visited Gallipolis in Gallia County, Chillicothe in Brown County, and Mt. Orab in Ross County.
While speaking with Breitbart News over a Mad Dog sandwich at 7 Mile Smokehouse, Vance spoke on a number of issues including what he calls the “bipartisan … big mistake” of shipping American jobs to China and, in some cases, Mexico, as well as crime, the U.S.-Mexico border, and inflation, which he attributes mainly to the Democrats shutting down American energy.
On the OhioHealth layoffs, set to occur early next month and continue through the beginning of 2023, Vance said federal law must be overhauled to ensure corporations like OhioHealth are not allowed to replace their American employees via third-party outsourcing firms like Accenture.
Generally speaking, a lot of the H-1B abuse we see is in the interests of the people hiring the [foreign visa] worker, who can undercut the wages of Americans, but is it in the interest of the 700 Ohioans who lost their jobs? Absolutely not,” Vance told Breitbart News.
“This is one of these issues where you actually need public policy to solve this problem because they’re taking advantage of a visa system that’s meant to ensure that American companies have the workers that they need, it’s not meant to undercut the wages of American workers in this country,” Vance continued. “Unfortunately, that’s what the H-1B visa is just being used to do right now.”
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), whom Vance is running against, has for years voted to increase foreign competition in the labor market that working and middle class Americans are forced to compete against.
“My argument to [Tim] Ryan is the legislature creates these policies that allow these companies to take advantage of American workers, the only real solution is for the legislature to make different policies,” Vance said. “I really think we have to cut down on the abuse of the H-1B visa system.”
The outsourcing-offshoring business model has proven extremely lucrative for Fortune 500 companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, JP Morgan Chase, and others as they often contract with “body shop” firms like Cognizant, Tata Consulting Services, Infosys, Accenture, IBM, and Capgemini to lay off their American employees and replace them with tens of thousands of foreign H-1B visa workers primarily from India.
Accenture, for instance, sought to import more than 3,800 foreign H-1B visa workers this year alone. In 2021, Accenture sought to bring 6,200 foreign H-1B visa workers to the U.S. to take white-collar American jobs.
While being laid off, Americans are often forced to train their foreign H-1B visa replacements. If they do not, in most cases, their employer withholds their severance package. There are about 650,000 foreign H-1B visa workers in the U.S. at any given moment.
In Ohio, alone, firms and corporations including Cognizant, Tata Consulting Services, Accenture, and JP Morgan Chase were allowed to fill more than 9,700 American white-collar professional jobs with foreign H-1B visa workers this year.
Vance said “the first principle” of national immigration policy ought to “be about defending the interests of America and America’s workers” rather than corporate special interests.
“The question when we allow a new person to come to America should be, ‘Is this in the interests of the people who live here? Or is this in the interests of some narrow, multinational corporate interests?'” Vance told Breitbart News.
Economic Policy Institute research has shown that most corporations importing foreign H-1B visa workers are making significant savings in wages paid by doing so.
Likewise, internal documents from the India-based HCL Technologies body shop firm have detailed how the company grows its profit margins by hiring cheaper foreign H-1B visa workers over American professionals who have worked in the tech industry for years.
Last year, Facebook reached two settlements with the federal government after it was sued for discriminating against qualified American professionals and graduates in favor of imported foreign H-1B visa workers.
Though Vance is one of only a couple of Republicans to speak on H-1B visa abuse this election cycle, the GOP base, swing voters, and a majority of Americans — for years — have said U.S. employers should boost wages and offer better benefits to attract Americans for jobs rather than being allowed to import foreign visa workers whenever possible.
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey on the issue shows that 57 percent of American adults, 65 percent of Republicans, and nearly 6-in-10 swing voters say companies should raise their pay and try harder to recruit Americans for blue-collar and white-collar jobs over the federal government subsidizing them with foreign labor year after year.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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New Hunter Biden revelation undermines president's comments: Turley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCk4RlPkFSQ
Bidens of all sorts are under federal investigation for tax evasion, money-laundering, and unregistered agent foreign ties, as this Politico report citing
Hunter notes.
Biden lied when he denied knowledge of Hunter’s businesses deals: Devine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680-KEfZuT8
Joe Concha blasts media over Hunter Biden diamond scandal: 'He is untouchable'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L80nVRtiUoc
New details further link Hunter Biden to China’s payroll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgVOirLNWpw
I'm Going To Highlight A New Hunter Biden Record...': Grassley Goes After POTUS Son On Senate Floor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY_UrM8TvGE
This is Biden's biggest problem: Steve Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqP7hPQACFA
HUNTER AND JOE BIDEN: CHINA'S RENT BOYS!
Hunter Biden will be a top priority for Republicans: Rep. Comer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AumMMgIGNs'
'The Five' knock Biden for reassuring Dems he's running for reelection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zYoaV9VOs
America sees two weak leaders in the White House: Mercedes Schlapp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVL-8P82_20
Naïve American people had no idea what they were getting with Biden: A senile, corrupt, debauched old man with a son who was a conduit for his dirty dealings and who has a personal life so disgusting it’s hard to write about it. That’s what the American media and the tech tyrants have done to America. ANDREA WIDBURG
New Hunter Biden revelation undermines president's comments: Turley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCk4RlPkFSQ
Bidens of all sorts are under federal investigation for tax evasion, money-laundering, and unregistered agent foreign ties, as this Politico report citing Hunter notes.
China Working To Undermine Midterm Elections, Cybersecurity Group Says
China, Russia, Iran sowing dissent ahead of midterm elections
Adam Kredo • October 31, 2022 3:10 pmCommunist China is behind a massive online disinformation campaign aimed at undermining the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, according to findings by a cybersecurity group.
China is using a network of social media accounts and altered news articles to "sow division both between the U.S. and its allies and within the U.S. political system itself," according to a threat assessment by Mandiant, a cybersecurity and intelligence organization that works with governments and the public sector. China’s latest efforts to undermine the American democratic process come amid parallel attempts by Russia and Iran to interfere with the upcoming elections.
The CCP influence operation, dubbed Dragonbridge, is attracting concern in the cybersecurity sector for its "aggressive attempts to discredit the U.S. democratic process, including attempts to discourage Americans from voting in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections," according to Mandiant’s research. The organization assesses "with high confidence" that the online campaign is "operating in support of the political interests of the People’s Republic of China."
Efforts by foreign actors to meddle in the upcoming elections have fueled concerns among federal authorities, including the FBI, which recently warned that an Iranian government-backed hacking collective is working to target U.S. entities. Russia also "is working to amplify doubts about the integrity of U.S. elections" as voters head to the polls next week, according to the Associated Press.
The CCP’s Dragonbridge operation has similar hallmarks to those of other foreign actors, according to Mandiant. Dragonbridge, through a network of online social media accounts that obfuscate their true identity, is promoting "narratives that appeared intended to discredit and undermine the U.S. political system."
In September, for instance, Dragonbridge-affiliated accounts posted an English-language video on online platforms that included "content attempting to discourage Americans from voting in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections." Like the efforts helmed by Russia and Iran, China wants to sow doubts about "the efficacy of voting and of U.S. government institutions more broadly," according to Mandiant.
The video, portions of which were captured by Mandiant, claimed "the solution to America's ills is not to vote for someone," but to "root out this ineffective and incapacitated system"—a narrative that mirrors those promoted by U.S.-based radical groups on the left and right.
Chinese operators also promoted rhetoric meant to divide Americans and reinforce the impression that the country is irrevocably broken.
Dragonbridge content collected by Mandiant promotes the narrative "that political infighting, partisanship, polarization, and division had become fundamental aspects of American democracy. The campaign also pointed to frequent mentions of ‘civil war’ on social media and incidents of politically motivated violence, including confrontations between individuals supporting opposing parties and acts against the FBI, as evidence of the deterioration of the political process and its impending demise."
The group also has been observed altering actual news articles and pushing content that appears to be legitimate but is actually the product of CCP manipulation.
Throughout the 2022 election cycle, the CCP-orchestrated campaign has exhibited "aggressiveness through both the content of its narratives and its willingness to experiment with new tactics to accomplish its aims," according to Mandiant. This includes attempts to mobilize American protesters to take to the streets and potentially commit violent acts.
"Such persistence, combined with clear intent and scale, renders the campaign a priority for monitoring," the security group warned.
John Hultquist, head of threat intelligence for Mandiant, said in a statement that while Russia and Iran are more aggressive in their efforts to undermine U.S. elections, "what’s troubling [about the CCP groups is] their aggressive growth."
A Bay Area post office box and a shadowy online war.
In May 2022, Mary Trump tweeted, “Hundreds of voter subversion laws are only a governor’s signature away from going into effect. Please join the Democracy Defense Fund in supporting these gubernatorial candidates who are committed to protecting our #VotingRights.”
Mary Trump, the former president’s niece, has become an anti-Trump figure specializing in deranged rhetoric like calling him “mass murderer criminal Donald Trump”. DDF is a PAC that is intervening in races across the country, including in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Ohio.
The Democracy Defense Fund, a nationwide PAC, was supposedly created by Mary Trump, who has no apparent background or ability to create or manage such an organization. After an extensive search, I was unable to locate any other employees or personnel involved with it.
Who’s really behind DDF which claims to have a nationwide reach for the midterms?
Aside from Mary’s name out front, the DDF PAC has been a black box. The site only mentions her name and no other employees, advisers or board members. And yet DDF has sent out fundraising emails urging donations to Stacey Abrams, Beto O’Rourke and Raphael Warnock. It bombarded mailboxes with a plea from Mandela Barnes, running against Senator Ron Johnson: something that the Democrat Senate candidate and DDF could do because it’s a hybrid PAC.
The only address listed by DDF is a post office box at a Bay Area post office. But this particular post office is also used by the Hold the House PAC fronted by former Democratic Rep. Mike Honda and run by a Silicon Valley strategy firm. The former congressman was a controversial figure who was accused of a pay-to-play scheme with donors.
An Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) report stated that there is “substantial reason to believe … Honda improperly tied official activities to past or potential political support.”
Honda’s “1,000 Cranes” list served as an index of special favors that appeared to be performed for top donors. And Honda was one of the politicians targeted by Fang Fang, a Chinese spy. Honda can be seen posing with the foreign agent at the Chinese Embassy in D.C.
The existing questions about who is really behind the Democracy Defense Fund took on a new urgency with the release of the Dragonbridge or the Spamouflage Dragon influence operation running out of China. The latest Chinese operation in which operatives pretended to be Americans made waves because for the first time they appeared to be directly interfering in an election by adopting American personas and promoting American political organizations.
While the Chinese Communist operatives pretended to be Americans from across the spectrum, the Left and the Right, one tweet was notable. It read, “Hundreds of voter subversion laws are only a governor’s signature away from going into effect. Please join the Democracy Defense Fund in supporting these gubernatorial candidates.”
Dragonbridge was amplifying Mary Trump’s tweet and promoting the Democracy Defense Fund. There is no record of the Chinese influence operation promoting any other PACs.
DDF claims that “our democracy is in danger”, but it’s being promoted by one of the world’s most brutal totalitarian dictatorships which is at war with the United States. It alleges that Republicans are “planning the next coup”, but DDF’s amplification by Communist China raises questions about where the real backing for the next coup is coming from.
The account in question has since been suspended but it raises troubling questions about not only Communist China’s involvement in the midterms, but its support for a Democrat PAC.
And it makes it more urgent than ever to answer the question of who’s really behind DDF.
While the Democracy Defense Fund seeks to intervene in battleground elections, its only listed address is in the Bay Area. That is also where China’s espionage and influence operations are strongest. It’s also the wellspring of money pouring into American elections.
California is the only state where the PRC’s Ministry of State Security has a unit. Chinese operatives were able to recruit a staff member working for Senator Dianne Feinstein. Fang Fang pursued primarily California Democrats like Rep. Eric Swalwell and Rep. Ro Khanna.
Chinese-owned firms have already been caught donating to PACs. Others, like Huawei, TikTok and Hikvision have invested a fortune in lobbying Congress. But beyond the millions of dollars being spent by companies with links to the Communist Party, and with lobbyists formally registered as foreign agents, there is a hidden underworld of spies and political operatives.
It may be entirely a coincidence that a Chinese influence operation promoted a Democrat PAC, just a question of random algorithms and 50-cent party ignorance, but it is dangerous to assume that China has no interest in our political system and no plans for calculatedly disrupting it.
The Biden administration and the Democrats have dismantled many of the safeguards and preventative measures put into place to deter China by the Trump administration.
The destruction of the China Initiative by the Biden administration in particular has given the Communist enemy regime a green light to resume its mass theft of our technologies and secrets. Would Beijing like this state of affairs to continue? The answer is all too obvious.
A shadowy PAC with a post office box is out to influence midterm elections in Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania among other places. An even more shadowy Chinese influence operation has promoted it. While the media has eagerly talked up Mary Trump, it’s shown no interest in the question of who is behind the Democracy Defense Fund. That lack of accountability is a cloak under which foreign interests and enemy states can operate safely while knowing that they won’t be exposed. The media would rather attack Republicans than defend America.
And Communist China knows it.
Who is behind the Democracy Defense Fund? The answer likely lurks in the Bay Area, but who is to say that it may not have an echo thousands of miles away in the corridors of Beijing?
Antony Blinken Checks in with Chinese Foreign Minister for Routine Scolding
Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a phone conversation with his Chinese counterpart Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday in which the latter chided Blinken to “stop trying to put up new obstacles to bilateral relations.”
The State Department readout of the call, published on Sunday (the call appears to have taken place on Monday Beijing time), does not mention anything that Wang said, instead focusing on Blinken, who allegedly “raised Russia’s war against Ukraine” and the “security situation in Haiti.” The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the government, through state propaganda outlet Global Times, offered much more specificity, depicting a frustrated Wang hectoring Blinken to urge the administration of left-wing President Joe Biden to stop trying “to contain and suppress China.”
The tone echoed that of multiple past encounters between the two, as well as discussions held between Blinken and other Chinese Communist Party envoys, in which aggressive Chinese representatives badgered Blinken over his government not acting sufficiently in the best interests of China. The pattern began after a disastrous meeting between Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Wang and senior Politburo member Yang Jiechi in Alaska last year during which Yang ranted for 16 minutes about alleged racism and “Black Lives Matter” in America.
“On human rights, we hope the United States will do better on human rights. China has made steady progress in human rights, and the fact is that there are many problems within the United States regarding human rights, which is admitted by the U.S. itself as well,” Yang protested in Alaska. “The challenges facing the United States in human rights are deep-seated. They did not just emerge over the past four years, such as ‘Black Lives Matter.’ It did not come up only recently.”
The Biden representatives notably did not mention the fact that China is currently engaging in genocide against majority-Muslims groups in occupied East Turkistan, among other Communist Party atrocities.
According to the State Department, Blinken “discussed the need to maintain open lines of communication and responsibly manage the U.S.-PRC [China] relationship” with Wang, adding no more detail on what would presumably be the most important issue between the top diplomats of the U.S. and the People’s Republic of China.
“The Secretary raised Russia’s war against Ukraine and the threats it poses to global security and economic stability,” the readout continued. “The Secretary also noted the deteriorating humanitarian and security situation in Haiti and the need for continued coordinated action in support of the Haitian people.”
In contrast, the Chinese Foreign Ministry depicted a fuming Wang berating Blinken on American foreign policy.
“The US side should stop its efforts to contain and suppress China, and not create new obstacles to the relationship between the two countries,” the ministry paraphrased Wang as saying. “Wang Yi pointed out that bringing China-US relations back to the track of stable development is not only in the common interests of China and the US, but also the general expectation of the international community.”
The Global Times claimed that Wang spent much of the call pressuring Blinken to closely study the 2022 Communist Party Congress, which concluded last month and cemented dictator Xi Jinping’s stranglehold on power. The Congress, which occurs every five years, determines who remains or gets promoted to the Politburo, the highest authority in the Party. This year, Xi removed several top officials on the basis of their advanced age, replacing them with a host of loyalists that are unlikely to question controversial policies such as an endless wave of city lockdowns to fight Chinese coronavirus.
The Congress was also the site of a bizarre scene in which elderly former President Hu Jintao, who preceded Xi Jinping in power, appeared to be hauled off violently by security while pleading with Xi for mercy. Hu has not been seen in public since his apparent purge was caught on camera.
Wang, the Global Times said, essentially assigned Blinken to read Xi Jinping’s report to the Congress as homework.
“If the US truly wants to know about China, it should carefully read the report, Wang said, noting that China’s domestic and diplomatic policies are open and transparent and its strategic intention is frank and forthright,” the state newspaper relayed, “and the US should not make subjective conjectures, nor be blinded by its ideological prejudice.”
It also repeated Wang’s lecture on respecting the genocidal communist Chinese government.
“When talking with Blinken, Wang pointed out that bringing bilateral relation back on track is not only in accordance with the two countries’ mutual interests, but also what the international community expects,” the Global Times reported. “The US should stop cracking down on China, and also stop trying to put up new obstacles to bilateral relations, Wang urged.”
The state newspaper nonetheless described the phone call as “positive” and potentially an avenue for future high-level talks, including a possible meeting between Biden and Xi. Biden and Xi are both expected to attend the G20 summit in Indonesia this month, but have not made any official announcements on meeting. As of Monday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry denied having any information on a potential in-person discussion between the two leaders.
The G20 is expected to be an explosive meeting this year due to its invite list, which not only includes Biden and Xi but both Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose nations are currently at war. Biden has publicly demanded Indonesia disinvite Putin to no avail.
Also expected to attend is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose relationship with Biden is arguably the world’s most deteriorated. The White House has denied any plans for Biden to meet with the crown prince amid a growing diplomatic crisis triggered by Washington accusing Riyadh of supporting OPEC oil production cuts to support Putin. The Saudi government has reacted to the accusation with outrage and received support from Zelensky. Saudi officials have also taken Biden’s strident stance as an indication to enhance diplomatic ties with China.
At least year’s G20 summit, Blinken and Wang repeated their regular scolding sessions on the issue of Taiwan, which did not reportedly come up during this week’s call. Taiwan is a sovereign, democratic nation off the coast of China that has long sought relations with America. Beijing falsely claims Taiwan as a province of China and regularly pressures America to cut economic and strategic ties with Taipei, even though Washington does not recognize Taiwan as a country.
“We urge the United States to realize the serious harm of the ‘Taiwan independence,’ to pursue a real one-China policy, instead of a fake one, to fulfill its commitments to China faithfully rather than treacherously,” Wang demanded last year.
Wang also complained about specific legislation in the American Congress at the time, meddling in domestic affairs.
“The United States has wantonly interfered with China’s internal affairs, Wang stressed, noting that the current U.S. Congress has introduced more than 300 anti-China bills,” Xinhua reported, “and the United States has included more than 900 Chinese entities and individuals in various unilateral sanctions lists, which severely disrupted the normal bilateral exchanges.”
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Feds Charge 7 Chinese Nationals Over Plot to Repatriate U.S. Resident to China
Eight-count indictment is latest case by Justice Department targeting Beijing's expatriation campaign in U.S.
Reuters • October 20, 2022 4:50 pmBy Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—The United States unsealed criminal charges on Thursday against seven Chinese nationals accused of waging a surveillance and harassment campaign against a U.S. resident and his family, in a bid by the Chinese government to repatriate one of them back to China.
The eight-count indictment, unsealed in a U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, is the latest case by the Justice Department targeting China's apparent expatriation campaign, known as "Operation Fox Hunt."
The seven individuals charged are Quanzhong An, 55, of Roslyn, New York his daughter Guangyang An, 34, and five others still in China: Tian Peng, Chenghua Chen, Chunde Ming, Xuexin Hou, and Weidong Yuan.
The lead defendant, Quanzhong An, and his daughter were arrested on Thursday morning. The rest of the defendants remain at large. The United States does not have an extradition treaty with China.
According to the indictment, Quanzhong An is accused of working at the behest of China's Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection to harass and intimidate a Chinese man and his son living in the United States. The man and his son are identified only as "John Doe-1 and John Doe-2."
As part of the plot, the defendants allegedly coerced a relative of the family to travel from China to the United States in a bid to convince John Doe-1 to return to the country.
At a meeting in a restaurant in Sept. 2018, the relative explained to John Doe-2 that he had been forced to travel there by the government as part of a plan to repatriate the 100 most-wanted fugitives, the indictment said.
Other examples of harassment the family endured included a letter-writing campaign, with one letter warning that "coming back and turning yourself in is the only way out."
The Chinese government also filed a lawsuit against the father and son in a New York state court, claiming the father had stolen money from a Chinese employer and his son illegally profited from the scheme.
"The victims in this case sought to flee an authoritarian government, leaving behind their lives and family, for a better life here. That same government sent agents to the United States to harass, threaten, and forcibly return them to the People's Republic of China," said Michael Driscoll, the FBI's assistant director in charge in the New York office.
(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
Trafalgar Poll: Majority Support Republican J.D. Vance, 10 Points over Democrat Tim Ryan
Republican J.D. Vance secured 53.9 percent of support from likely voters in the Ohio U.S. Senate race and has a ten-point lead over Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan in the latest Trafalgar Group poll.
Trafalgar’s late Sunday night poll showed that 53.9 percent of voters in Ohio would support Vance in the midterm election in just two days, compared to the 43.5 percent who said they would support the Democrat. Only 2.5 percent were undecided.
The poll sampled the 1,123 likely general election voters from November 3 to 5, with a 2.9 percent margin of error and a 95 percent confidence level. The poll’s respondents were 45.1 percent Republican, 40.6 percent Democrat, and 14.3 percent had no party or other affiliation.
Sunday night’s Ohio poll indicated that Vance had gained ground since the Trafalgar poll from roughly three weeks ago when the Buckeye State Republican had support from 47.3 percent, leading Ryan by 3.5 points when the congressman had 43.8 percent support.
During the election cycle, the two candidates have gone back and forth on who would be better to represent the state. However, Ryan has done a disservice to himself by trying to campaign like a moderate.
In fact, during the first debate between the two, Ryan, who votes with his own party’s leadership 100 percent of the time, said that politicians “who don’t have to guts to stand up to their own party” are a “huge threat to democracy.”
But, as Breitbart News has reported in the past, Ryan has voted with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and President Joe Biden 100 percent of the time in the most recent Congress. Additionally, Ryan has even claimed to align himself with Trump’s policies occasionally, even though he only voted for Trump’s agenda 16 percent of the time.
However, Vance acknowledged during an exclusive interview with Breitbart News that, despite what Ryan is saying, the country needs a “new generation of leaders,” not the “old generation” like his opponent the congressman is a part of.
Ohio’s U.S. Senate race is critical to the Republicans’ chance to retake the majority in the 2022 midterm elections. With Ohio currently being represented by a Republican, it is crucial for the party to keep the seat.
The Senate is currently divided 50-50 between the parties, with Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. Senate Republicans must hold seats in states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania and net at least one seat to put the GOP back in the majority and hinder Biden’s agenda.
The Ohio Senate election, along with other races throughout the country, will take place on November 8.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
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