White House ADMITS No More Money For Maui, TONE-DEAF Biden Brings Up House Fire AGAIN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjOcbAqjDEs
DO WE HAVE A CLEAR NOTION THAT AMERICAN WILL NEVER BE No ONE FOR THE BRIBES SUCKING BIDEN?
BLACKROCK IS JOE BIDEN'S BIGGEST BRIBESTER. THEY GO WAY BACK
Biden, long known as Delaware’s “senator from DuPont,” Biden served
on committees that were most sensitive to the interests of the ruling
class, including the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Relations
Committee. He supported the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, a
milestone in the deregulation of the banks, and other right-wing
measures. After nearly four decades in the Senate, Biden became
Obama’s vice president, helping to oversee the massive bailout of Wall
Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent
restructuring of class relations to benefit the rich. That included the
bailout of General Motors (ORCHESTRATED BY BRIAN DEESE OF
BLACKROCK) and Chrysler, based on a 50 percent cut in the pay of all
newly hired autoworkers.
Biden to Send Maui Less than One-Tenth of One Percent of What He Wants to Send Ukraine
President Joe Biden is asking Congress to approve $24 billion more in aid for Ukraine, which would bring the total amount of U.S. taxpayer-funded aid to Ukraine since February 2022 to $135 billion.
In contrast, Biden announced Wednesday that he would send $95 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to aid in rebuilding Maui after the nation’s deadliest fire in over a century, which has claimed more than 115 lives, with hundreds still unaccounted for.
The $95 million is less than one-tenth of one percent of the $135 billion that Biden is seeking to spend on aid to Ukraine in a war that has no end in sight.
The announcement came after Biden offered Maui households affected by the fire a one-time payment of $700 each — less than the $900 each household spends on the Ukraine war, according to a calculation by a budget expert at the Heritage Foundation.
A Maui resident who is leading grassroots relief efforts on the ground told Breitbart News that the $700 amount was “laughable.”
Burnt-out cars line the sea walk after the wildfire on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
“That’s laughable,” said Dale Hermo-Fernandez in a phone interview from Maui. “I mean, that’s laughable. The government should have engaged the unemployment for these people the first week [and] give them $700 hours a week on top of that, to help them,” he said.
“Just like how they did during the COVID…That would help them get on their feet. There should be an emergency subsidy in the unemployment just to help people stay on their feet because they have nowhere to go to,” he said.
According to preliminary figures from the University of Hawaii’s Pacific Disaster Center and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, it will cost more than $5.52 billion to rebuild Lahaina, which was destroyed in the fires.
At least 2,207 structures in Lahaina were damaged or destroyed in the fires — 86 percent being homes, and nine percent of that commercial.
Thousands of Lahaina residents are currently homeless and living in temporary housing. Earlier this week, a Hungarian company sent 60 fold-up homes to Maui, the first batch of 250 it hopes to send by October.
U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House on December 21, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the Department of Defense announced this week that it is sending another package of military assistance to Ukraine worth $250 million. That amount was about 16 times more than the $16 million in assistance the Biden administration claimed it had already provided to 4,200 households.
In July, at a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Biden boasted that the U.S. has given more money to Ukraine than all the other nations combined.
Biden had told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, “I think we’ve given more than any other nation combined in terms of assistance and cost and the American people are supportive. They’re supportive, because they know it’s about you, it’s about more than you, it’s about innocent people around the world, and the absolute brutality with which Putin is acting and the Russians are moving on, it’s like something out of the 14th Century, the way they’re acting.”
ONE OF BIDEN'S BIGGEST BRIBESTERS IS LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK. THEY PUMPED MORE THAN $30 MILLION INTO JOE'S ELECTION CAMPAIGN WITH JOE'S PROMISE THAT HE WOULD FLOOD AMERICA WITH MILIONS AND MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS WHO WILL ALWAYS BE RENTERS.
THEN FINK/BLACKROCK WENT OUT AND ACQUIRED $60 BILLION (not million) IN RENTALS.
AFTER THAT THE RENTS WENT UP AND UP AND UP.
BLACKROCK IS JOE BIDEN’S BIGGEST BRIBESTER.
Mr. Kennedy calls the issue a “crisis,” and directed blame on companies like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard.
EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr. Proposes 3 Percent Mortgages, Says Corporations Make Housing Crisis Worse
EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr. Proposes 3 Percent Mortgages, Says Corporations Make Housing Crisis Worse
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. waves to the audience after delivering a foreign policy speech at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on June 20, 2023 (MORE BELOW)
Democrat-Corporate Alliance: Big Banks, BlackRock, Pfizer Back Hochul Plan to Have Americans Bail Out New York for Illegal Immigration
The nation’s biggest banks on Wall Street, investment firms, and pharmaceutical companies are among a number of multinational corporations throwing their support behind a plan from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) that would have American taxpayers bail out the sanctuary state for an illegal immigration influx.
As Breitbart News reported, Hochul unveiled the bailout this week — promising to lobby President Joe Biden for millions, potentially billions, in American taxpayer money that would ensure border crossers and illegal aliens in New York secure jobs, healthcare services, housing vouchers, and free public transit.
“It is past time for President Biden to take action and provide New York with the aid needed to continue managing this ongoing crisis,” Hochul said in an address.
Hochul’s bailout plan is now receiving praise from the corporate lobby, a number of whom are donors to the upstate Democrat.
In a letter from the Partnership for New York City — a coalition of massive multinational corporations — business executives write to Biden that they fully support such a bailout and ask that he consider moving ahead with the plan.
“We write to support the request made by New York Governor Hochul for federal funding for educational, housing, security, and health care services to offset the costs that local and state governments are incurring with limited federal aid,” the executives write.
Most importantly to the corporate lobby, the executives note they want to see the Biden administration release border crossers and illegal aliens into the United States interior with work permits so they can take American jobs and expand the labor market.
Mass immigration is a boon for Wall Street, real estate investors, and corporations as it adds millions of new consumers to the economy, new residents who need housing, and new workers whom employers can hire to keep the price of labor down.
WATCH: Migrants Sleep On Sanctuary New York City Streets
Saul Acevedo“… there is a compelling need for expedited processing of asylum applications and work permits for those who meet federal eligibility standards,” the executives continue:
Immigration policies and control of our country’s border are clearly a federal responsibility; state and local governments have no standing in this matter.
There are labor shortages in many U.S. industries, where employers are prepared to offer training and jobs to individuals who are authorized to work in the United States. The business community is also providing in-kind assistance and philanthropic support to organizations that are addressing the immediate needs of this largely destitute population.
Executives who signed the letter represent corporations like Pfizer, Paramount, JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, the WNBA, Citibank, Macy’s, AlleyCorp, Wells Fargo, Blackstone, Etsy, Goldman Sachs, Hearst, Maverick Capital, McGraw Hill, Tapestry Inc., the Georgetown Company, MetLife Inc., the IBM Corporation, LVMH, HSBC Bank USA, Deutsche Bank, Vox Media, and Apollo Global Management, among others.
“… we urge you to take immediate action to better control the border and the process of asylum and provide relief to the cities and states that are bearing the burdens posed by the influx of asylum seekers,” the executives write to Biden.
A number of the executives who signed the letter served as major donors to Hochul’s gubernatorial re-election bid last year against former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY).
Hochul donors whose companies signed the letter include those linked to Vornado Realty Trust, the Related Companies, Tishman Speyer, the Fisher Brothers, and Standard Industries.
Already, American taxpayers are billed $143 billion annually for costs associated with illegal immigration. This estimate does not include any of the social and economic costs — such as higher housing prices, depleted wages, lost jobs, increased crime, and strained public resources at hospitals and schools.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Biden Admin Blames NY for Not Communicating Better With Illegal Immigrants Who Are Overwhelming City
The Biden administration responded Monday to criticism from New York elected officials over the migrant crisis, citing "structural and operational issues" with the state and city’s response.
Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sent letters to Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City mayor Eric Adams, citing two dozen areas where the city needs to improve its response to the crisis, Politico reported. The letters urged the city to improve data collection and "communications" with migrants in order to facilitate applications for asylum and work authorization.
The letters come the day after an anti-migrant protest in the city turned violent outside the mayor’s official residence.
Hochul and Adams have both criticized the federal government for not doing enough to alleviate the crisis.
At the same time, tensions have risen between Adams and Hochul over the handling of the crisis. Hochul recently criticized Adams, blaming him for the shortage of migrant housing. On Tuesday, Adams hit back, saying Hochul needed to aid the city in processing migrants by having other New York counties share the burden.
A recent poll showed that 82 percent of New Yorkers consider the influx of migrants a "serious" problem, with 54 percent saying it is "very serious."
BLACKROCK IS JOE BIDEN’S BIGGEST BRIBESTER.
Mr. Kennedy calls the issue a “crisis,” and directed blame on companies like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard.
EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr. Proposes 3 Percent Mortgages, Says Corporations Make Housing Crisis Worse
EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr. Proposes 3 Percent Mortgages, Says Corporations Make Housing Crisis Worse
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. waves to the audience after delivering a foreign policy speech at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on June 20, 2023
By Jeff Louderback
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that if elected president, he would create a 3 percent mortgage for Americans guaranteed by the government and funded by the sale of tax-free bonds, and he would work to make it less profitable for large corporations to own single-family homes in the United States.
“If you have a rich uncle who co-signs your mortgage, you will get a lower interest rate because the bank looks at his credit rating. I’m going to give everyone a rich uncle, and his name is Uncle Sam,” Mr. Kennedy said at a recent town hall in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Mr. Kennedy added that the first 500,000 of those 3 percent mortgages would be reserved for teachers.
ANALYSIS: US Housing Market Facing Many Challenges From High Mortgage Rates to Lack of Supply
8/29/2023
ANALYSIS: US Housing Market Facing Many Challenges From High Mortgage Rates to Lack of Supply
Since entering the 2024 presidential race and announcing he would challenge President Joe Biden for the Democrat party nomination, Mr. Kennedy has promoted a platform centered on “healing the divide” and “restoring the middle class.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to a crowd at a town hall in Richmond, Va., on Aug. 23., 2023. (Jeff Louderback/The Epoch Times)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to a crowd at a town hall in Richmond, Va., on Aug. 23., 2023. (Jeff Louderback/The Epoch Times)
He recently traveled around South Carolina talking to voters about his ideas.
“Both President Trump and President Biden are running on platforms that they’ve brought prosperity to this country. But when I travel around South Carolina and other states, I’m not seeing that,” Mr. Kennedy told an audience in Charleston. “I’m seeing people who are living at a level of desperation that I have not seen in this country ever.”
Soaring Costs and Debt
Mr. Kennedy chastised the Biden administration, noting that the country has seen higher food prices, credit card debt, and energy costs, as well as an affordable housing crisis.
“In the last two years, the price of housing has gone from $250,000 average to $400,000. Interest rates have gone up 20 percent, and we don’t need to have that happen,” Mr. Kennedy said. “There are ways that the federal government can help people without driving up the debt.”
Making it easier for Americans to buy single-family homes without competing against institutional investors is a priority, Mr. Kennedy said.
A Wall Street Journal report in 2021 showed that 200 corporations were aggressively buying tens of thousands of single-family houses, including entire neighborhoods, and significantly increasing rental prices.
Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonpartisan research organization based in Philadelphia, reported that investors purchased 24 percent of the single-family homes bought in 2021. In 2022, the number climbed to 28 percent of single-family home purchases, according to the organization.
A MetLife Financial Management study contends that institutional investors could own up to 40 percent of single-family homes by 2030.
“Americans are being shut out of the American dream,” Mr. Kennedy said.
Mr. Kennedy calls the issue a “crisis,” and directed
blame on companies like BlackRock, State Street,
and Vanguard.
A 2017 academic paper published by Cambridge University Press reported that the three firms constitute the largest shareholder in 88 percent of S&P 500 firms.
“And now they have a new target, which is to gain ownership of all the single-family residences in this country. And they are on a trajectory to do that,” Mr. Kennedy told an audience in Greenville, South Carolina.
“Usually, when a company buys a home with a cash offer, there is an LLC with an ambiguous name. It often can be traced back to one of those big companies,” Mr. Kennedy explained.
Mr. Kennedy added that Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, is a World Economic Forum board member.
“The WEF is a billionaire boys club that meets in Davos every year and has a plan, which is New World Order and what they have called the Great Reset,” Mr. Kennedy noted. “Klaus Schwab, who wrote the book on that agenda, says that you will own nothing and you will be happy. They are well on their way to accomplishing that first part.”
Corporate Investments in Ohio
Earlier this year, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced legislation called the “Stop Predatory Investing Act” that would ban federal tax breaks on interest and depreciation for corporations (JOE BIDEN’S CRONY, LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) that own 50 or more single-family rental homes. If passed, the bill would make it less profitable for large investment companies to buy so many homes.
In Cleveland, Mr. Brown said, institutional investors own 70 percent of homes in one zip code.
The same problem exists in neighborhoods like Cincinnati’s East Price Hill, Mr. Brown remarked.
"In 2021, the last year we have complete data at this point, investors bought 15 percent of homes, and nearly 50 percent of homes in some communities like Price Hill,” Mr. Brown told reporters. “It drives up prices and makes it harder for relatively low-income families. That's where they prey on people."
Another presidential candidate agrees with Mr. Kennedy’s assessment of BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard
Ohio entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has emerged as one of the main challengers behind former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, wrote on social media that BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard represent “arguably the most powerful cartel in human history.”
"They're the largest shareholders of nearly every major public company (even of each other)," Mr. Ramaswamy posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
"And they use your own money to foist ESG agendas onto corporate boards—voting for 'racial equity audits' & 'Scope 3 emissions caps' that don't advance your best financial interests. This raises serious fiduciary, antitrust, and conflict-of-interest concerns."
Economic Struggle
Mr. Kennedy, who is scheduled to speak at a town hall in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Aug. 30, criticized Mr. Ramaswamy and the other seven Republicans who were on stage at the party’s first 2024 presidential debate in Milwaukee on Aug. 23.
“The Republican debate last night was out of sync with the mood of the country,” Mr. Kennedy said in a statement, pointing out that the candidates “said nothing about the desperation and hardship working people face in this country. They said nothing about wages, housing costs, food costs, child care costs, and medical costs, or what we can do about it. They said nothing about the systemic corruption that enriches corporations and the elites as swaths of the former middle class fall into poverty.”
“Our nation deserves better than posturing and bickering masquerading as debate. Instead of arguing, we can tap into the swelling popular will to turn this country around,” Mr. Kennedy added.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addresses a crowd during a town hall in Greenville, S.C., on Aug. 21., 2023. (Jeff Louderback/The Epoch Times)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addresses a crowd during a town hall in Greenville, S.C., on Aug. 21., 2023. (Jeff Louderback/The Epoch Times)
At every stop in South Carolina, Mr. Kennedy said that one of his first priorities as president would be to change the tax code so that “it will be less profitable for large corporations to own single-family homes.”
During his address in Brooklyn, just as he did in South Carolina, Mr. Kennedy is expected to talk about the economic challenges facing American families, and his plan to address those issues.
Curbing credit card debt is another way to help more Americans achieve home ownership and become more financially comfortable.
“Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. The average income in this country is $5,000 less than the average cost of living. What that means is people have to make up the difference by putting those expenses on credit cards,” Mr. Kennedy told a crowd in Richmond, Virginia.
“We recently reached a milestone in this country with more than $1 trillion in personal credit card debt,” Mr. Kennedy said, adding that many creditors are charging interest rates of 22 percent and higher. “If it was the mafia, it would be loan sharking and they would go to jail, but for banks and credit card companies, it is considered the cost of doing business.”
Before concluding his remarks about credit card debt, Mr. Kennedy asked the audience a question.
“Who do you think owns many of those
companies? BlackRock, State Street, and
Vanguard,” he said. “They are strip mining the
wealth of the American public, and their political
clout allows them to do that, which is why I’m
going to make it less profitable for large
corporations to own single-family homes.”
San Francisco May Lose Lucrative Tech Conference Because of Drugs and Homelessness, Organizer Says
San Francisco could lose a massive conference that brings in millions of dollars because of the city's homelessness and rampant drug use.
Marc Benioff, cofounder and CEO of Salesforce, said his company may be hosting its final "Dreamforce" tech conference in San Francisco this year, pointing to attendees' fears about safety in the city. Benioff said he projects the event, which will run from Sept. 12-14, will bring 40,000 people to the city and inject $57 million into the downtown economy.
"If this Dreamforce is impacted by the current situation with homelessness and drug use, it may be the last Dreamforce," Benioff told the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday. He has told the outlet in previous years that attendees have complained about the situation in San Francisco.
Salesforce has given tens of millions of dollars to fight homelessness and crime, but the city continues to struggle with public safety, an issue that has prompted dozens of businesses to close or relocate.
Homicides in San Francisco have increased nearly 40 percent from 2020 to 2022, and deaths from fentanyl have spiked.
Office vacancies in San Francisco hit a record-high rate in the second quarter this year. Among the companies trying to ditch their office space in the struggling city that quarter were Uber and Airbnb.
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NYTimes: Immigration Spikes Housing Costs
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Mass migration has quickly spiked Canadians’ housing prices and rapidly reduced the share of Canadians who can own homes, admits the pro-migration New York Times.
“Basically southern Ontario has become unaffordable” amid a massive inflow of immigrants, real-estate agent Bryan Adlam told the newspaper for an October 8 article, and added:
“I have two clients I have right now whose budget is $500,000 to $600,000, which is not chump change,” he said. “Are they going to be renters for life? Probably. Has owning a home become unattainable for someone on the lower income echelon? I would say, yes.”
The impact was also admitted in a 2021 report by the government-run Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation:
House price surges in Toronto and Vancouver between 2015 and 2019, partly owing to much higher international migration, [and] were the catalyst for significant changes in domestic migration patterns within their respective provinces.
The rising house prices also help push young Canadians out of the major cities, the 2021 report noted:
Since 2015, a greater share of people from nearly every age cohort moved out of Toronto and Vancouver to live in other regions of their respective provinces.
…
For people 25-44 years old, surging house prices in Toronto and Vancouver led to a greater incidence of “drive until you qualify.” Homeownership had become too expensive in Toronto and Vancouver for many potential first-time buyers in this age group
“Census data released this month showed that the [homeownership] rate fell to 66.5 percent last year from a peak of 69 percent 11 years ago,” the New York Times reported.
The newspaper’s pro-migration editors downplayed the role of immigration, but the reporter repeatedly hinted at the relationship, writing:
HAMILTON, Ontario — Even with a budget of 1 million Canadian dollars, Ritu Choudhary and Nippun Goyal, a newly married couple living in Toronto, discovered that buying a house there would be impossible. The competition inside the city and nearby was so stiff that they had to consider 50 properties, before finally outbidding everyone to pay 995,000 Canadian dollars, or about $730,000.
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Canada’s housing costs are already among the highest in the world, driven, in part, by robust real estate markets in its largest cities, like Toronto and Vancouver, that have a global appeal.
On October 7, the Wall Street Journal also admitted migration’s role in pricing ordinary Canadians out of good housing:
Population growth, a shortage of housing stock and low interest rates helped push up house prices in Canada’s biggest centers, prompting would-be buyers to look farther afield and drive up prices in smaller, far-flung communities unaccustomed to housing booms.
The WSJ also quoted a low-wage immigrant — with eight other family members — who are helping to drive up real-estate prices:
Kanishka Noorzai and his wife, his four sons, his parents and his younger sister arrived here in February, from Afghanistan via Albania, and settled in the Waterloo region, an urban center of a half-million people west of Toronto. After a monthslong search that took him to apartments, townhouses and other domiciles, he found a three-bedroom bungalow — at a cost of nearly $3,000 a month for a one-year lease, or “really, really above our budget,” said Mr. Noorzai, 43 years old. He is currently working part time as a security guard but is seeking full-time hours.
“I really was surprised,” he said, “because I did not think it would be that difficult to find a house in Canada. It was a nightmare.”
Noorzai’s group can likely pay for their expensive housing because it includes at least five working-age people who can pool their low wages.
Immigration is also changing the housing markets for Americans as it shifts more wealth from wages to Wall Street.
Wealthy investors are using their immigration-related profits to buy more housing that would otherwise would have put young Americans on a road to middle-class housing wealth, the Washington Post reported October *
ROUND ROCK, Tex. — Adam and Tahnya Gaston arrived in this Austin suburb in June with a toddler, a dog and enough money for a down payment. But within days they scrapped their plans for buying a house, deterred by soaring home prices and rising mortgage rates. Instead, they’re paying $4,000 a month to lease a three-story house in a new development aimed squarely at renters.
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It’s one of thousands of “build-to-rent” developments springing up around the country, billed as an attainable route to single-family homes and front yards at a time when homeownership is increasingly out of reach. Developers are expected to add 105,000 homes in such communities this year, and 50 percent more by 2025, according to real estate consulting firm Hunter Housing Economics.
“We fit the demographic of people who, five years ago, would’ve bought a huge house in the suburbs,” Adam Gaston told the Post. “But now prices are crazy, and we’re making different decisions.”
Nearly all corporate-run media outlets in the United States favor migration. So their editors hire pro-migration reporters for the immigration beat. Very few of those immigration reporters want to recognize Americans’ views about migration, or the damaging impact of international migration on Americans’ pocketbooks, housing, and wealth.
But many ordinary business reporters want to follow the money, and they are freer to sketch migration’s economic impact in articles that are not directly about U.S. migration. Their articles tell careful readers about immigration’s impact on housing prices in Canada, or about fights over zoning regulations.
Breitbart News, however, extensively covers the U.S. government’s economic strategy of extraction migration and has covered the impact of migration on housing costs in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
New York City Wants $1 Billion to Help Exploit Biden’s Migrants
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New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams wants $1 billion from other Americans to subsidize the city’s economic strategy of importing penniless immigrants for use by New York’s business leaders.
“We need help — and we need to now,” Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said in a Friday press conference, adding:
Today we’re issuing a clear message — [the] time for aid to New York is now. We need help from the federal government. We ned help from the state of New York. Our city is doing our part and now others must step up and join us …. We need those to come through.
Adams also demanded preferential treatment from legislators nationwide:
We need legislation that will allow these asylum seekers to legally work now, not the six months … We need a coordinated effort to move asylum-seekers to other cities in this country to ensure everyone is doing their part and Congress must pass emergency financial relief for our city and others. Finally, we need a bipartisan effort to deliver long awaited immigration reform.
“We expect to spend at least $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year on this crisis, all because we have a functional and compassionate system,” he said.
Eric Adams, mayor of New York, speaks to members of the media during a New York State Financial Control Board meeting in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. (Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The demand was $500 million two weeks ago, as officials counted the cost of housing migrants who are being drawn to the free overnight shelters attracted to the jobs and schooling in the so-called “sanctuary city.”
City leaders want more migrants because they help to cut wages, inflate real-estate rents and values and boost profit for local business leaders.
The policy also generates many customers for the city’s welfare, aid, housing, education, and medical agencies. For example, Adams admitted in his speech that the city is providing overnight shelters to 61,000 homeless people each night, and is adding 5,500 migrant children to the overcrowded and failing schools needed by non-wealthy Americans in the city.
The cheap-labor migrants also provide more profits for investors in the city businesses. Without the extra labor, the investors otherwise would be forced to hire unemployed Americans in upstate New York cities, or other states such as New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, and West Virginia.
Overall, the Biden migrants being welcomed by Adams allow the city’s Democratic leaders to preserve their high/low economy, where a small number of wealthy landlords and investors keep political power amid a fractured city of divided, diverse, distracted, and poor voters.
Between the 1940s and about 1980, the city’s wage gap was much smaller, in part, because nearly all migrants to the city were outspoken, equality-minded Americans from nearby U.S. states, such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
City leaders hide their post-1990s exploitation of migrants behind the 1950s “Nation of Immigrants” narrative. That elite-imposed narrative repurposes the Statue of Liberty from a celebration of Americans’ constitution into a “Golden Door” invite for foreign economic migrants.
In his speech, Adams repeatedly declared his support for the Democrats’ policy of extracting migrants from poor countries, even as he tried to blame Republican governors for the resulting economic damage to American pocketbooks:
Our right-to-shelter laws, our social services, and our values are being exploited by others for political gain. New Yorkers are angry. I am angry too. We have not asked for this. There was never any agreement to take on the job of supporting thousands of asylum seekers. This responsibility was simply handed to us without warning as buses began showing up. There’s no playbook for this. No precedent.
But despite all this, our city’s response has been nothing short of heroic. From setting up welcome centers, organizing housing, health care, and transportation, New York city agencies and their community partners have done great work in the face of overwhelming need. New Yorkers as always, have responded to this crisis by pulling together as one.
Yet Adams simultaneously denied that the Democrats’ sanctuary city policies have any role in the migrants’ arrival.
“This crisis is not of our own making, but one that will affect everyone in this city now, and in the months ahead,” he insisted, before ending his speech with a contradictory flourish:
Generations from now, there will be many Americans who will trace their stories back to this moment in time. Grandchildren who will recall the day their grandparent arrived here in New York City and found compassion — not cruelty. A place to lay their head, a warm meal, a chance at a better future. Thank you New York, for doing the right thing.
Breitbart News has extensively covered the damage caused to citizens by the establishment’s policy of Extraction Migration.
BREAKING: James O’Keefe Confronts BlackRock Recruiter
The truth hurts - especially when you're caught lying.
June 26, 2023 by Frontpage Editors 4 Comments
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Journalist James O’Keefe continues to do the job no one in the mainstream media will do: actual journalism. In this short video below, O’Keefe confronts a recruiter for BlackRock and exposes the big money behind the push for war profiteering in Ukraine.
Check out the video below as things quickly get awkward, the recruiter denies his own words, and ultimately hides from O’Keefe and the truth in a police station:
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JOE'S CRONY CAPITALISM
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com
AND YOU WONDERED WHY JOE PUMPED SO MUCH MONEY INTO UKRAINE???
DO A SEARCH FOR BIDEN AND BLACKROCK AND BRIAN DEESE
THE G.M. WAS BAILOUT WAS PERPETRATED FOR OBAMA-BIDEN BY BRIAN DEESE OF BLACKROCK.
That included the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, based on a 50 percent cut in the pay of all newly hired autoworkers.
Biden, long known as Delaware’s “senator from DuPont,” Biden served on committees that were most sensitive to the interests of the ruling class, including the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. He supported the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, a milestone in the deregulation of the banks, and other right-wing measures. After nearly four decades in the Senate, Biden became Obama’s vice president, helping to oversee the massive bailout of Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent restructuring of class relations to benefit the rich. That included the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, based on a 50 percent cut in the pay of all newly hired autoworkers.
Gabbard: Democratic Party ‘an Elitist Cabal of Warmongers — Corrupt Politicians, Propaganda Media, Big Tech and the National Security State’
27 May 2023314
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Friday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard decried her former political party as tearing the country apart.
She described it as a group with ill intentions coalescing around a label.
“Now, I think what most of the — of today’s Democratic Party, they haven’t grappled with the fact that people aren’t leaving the party because of just one issue,” host Laura Ingraham said. “They’re leaving the party because of like 10 issues in the lurch to the left. That’s, I mean, they’ve gone so far left, they’ve left America. I mean, this is an unrecognizable coalition of radicals.”
“Yes, Laura, they’re lurching further and farther towards insanity. Really, there’s no other word that I can find to describe it, you know,” Gabbard replied. “The list of reasons, unfortunately, is long. And I think we will continue to see more and more Americans who maybe call themselves Democrats and are used to but leaving the Democratic Party because of a whole host of reasons. It’s, you know, an elitist cabal of warmongers that’s made of corrupt politicians, the propaganda media, big tech, and the national security state. They are weaponizing the security state to go after political opponents.”
“They’re undermining our God-given rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution,” she continued. “You know, they are seeking to censor and silence anyone who does not agree with them. They’re tearing us apart with identity politics and racializing everything looking at what the NAACP just announced with Florida. I mean, the list, unfortunately, we could do a whole show on all of these things. And I think more and more Americans are seeing clearly what they’re doing not to the party. This isn’t about the party, but it’s really what are they doing to this country and how are they undermining our rights and freedoms in our democracy. That’s really what’s at the heart of this.”
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WHILE BLACKROCK OWNS JOE BIDEN, J.P. MORGAN OWNS THE OBOMB. GOOGLE IT!
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is tapping Wall Street firms like BlackRock and JPMorgan to help garner private and public investments to rebuild Ukraine amid its war with Russia.
“This was not because of difficulties in securing indictments or convictions. On the contrary, Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate committee in March of 2013 that the Obama administration chose not to prosecute the big banks or their CEOs because to do so might “have a negative impact on the national economy.”
OBAMANOMICS TO SERVE BANKSTERS AND GLOBAL BILLIONAIRES
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/10/barack-obama-his-plundering-banksters.html
One of the premier institutions of big business, JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact of central bank actions in driving inequality between asset owners and labor."
During his presidency, Obama bragged that his administration was “the only thing between [Wall Street] and the pitchforks.”
In fact, Obama handed the robber barons and outright criminals responsible for the 2008–09 financial crisis a multi-trillion-dollar bailout. His administration oversaw the largest redistribution of wealth in history from the bottom to the top one percent, spearheading the attack on the living standards of teachers and autoworkers.
The Republican staff of the US House Committee on Financial Services released a report Monday presenting its findings on why the Obama Justice Department and then-Attorney General Eric Holder chose not to prosecute the British-based HSBC bank for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels.
Wall Street Windfall: BlackRock Tapped to Rebuild Ukraine’s Economy
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is tapping Wall Street firms like BlackRock and JPMorgan to help garner private and public investments to rebuild Ukraine amid its war with Russia.
Through the Ukraine Development Fund, BlackRock and JPMorgan will “mobilize capital from private and public sector investors toward rebuilding the Ukrainian economy,” according to CNN, as financial investors admit they see the fund as a lucrative windfall.
CNN reports:
Private investors see a “tremendous opportunity” to invest in Ukraine’s post-war future, according to Stefan Weiler, JPMorgan’s head of debt capital markets for central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. [Emphasis added]
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It’s an opportunity to “socialize” the idea of the fund and its mission, which is to “attract as much private sector capital into the reconstruction of Ukraine as possible,” said Brandon Hall, co-head of BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory arm. [Emphasis added]
Wall Street’s involvement in helping to rebuild Ukraine comes as journalist James O’Keefe published footage of BlackRock employee Serge Varlay saying the country’s war with Russia is “good for business”
“I’ll give an example: Russia blows up Ukraine’s grain silos. The price of wheat is gonna go mad up … the Ukrainian economy is tied very largely to the wheat market, global wheat market,” Varlay said. “Prices of bread, you know, literally everything goes up and down. This is fantastic if you’re trading.”
“Volatility creates opportunity to make profit … war is real fucking good for business,” Varlay continued.
American taxpayers, specifically, have funded Ukraine’s war with Russia to the sum of billions — making the war especially profitable for Department of Defense contractors like Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman.
Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the Defense Department had estimated that it sent nearly $41 billion in taxpayer money to aid Ukraine.
This week, though, agency officials said they made a $6.2 billion “misevaluation.”
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JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, a Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes. In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK
Pentagon Says It Has $6.2B More for Ukraine After Accounting Error
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The Pentagon announced Tuesday it miscalculated the value of U.S. military equipment it had taken from its stocks and given to Ukraine, and now has an extra $6.2 billion more in equipment it can send.
Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh announced at a press conference that in its “regular oversight” of its authority to transfer U.S. military equipment to Ukraine, “we discovered inconsistencies in equipment valuation for Ukraine.
She said that in a “significant number of cases,” the U.S. military services had used replacement costs for the transferred equipment rather than the net book value of the equipment, which ended up overestimating the value of the equipment provided to Ukraine.
“Once we discovered this misvaluation, the Comptroller reissued guidance on March 31st clarifying how to value equipment in line with the financial management regulation and DOD policy to ensure we use the most accurate of accounting methods,” Singh said.
She said the amount the DOD overestimated for fiscal year 2023 was $3.6 billion for fiscal year 2023 and $2.6 billion for fiscal year 2022, for a combined total of $6.2 billion.
Singh said the miscalculation did not affect any prior transfers to Ukraine, and that the Pentagon “retains the authority to utilize” the “recaptured” authority to transfer that amount of equipment.
The news that the Pentagon would pony up an extra $6.2 billion for Ukraine was met with outrage from the right and the left.
Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator tweeted: “A $6.2 BILLION DOLLAR ACCOUNTING ERROR?!”
Joe Kent, a Republican candidate for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in Washington, tweeted: “This is absurd. The DOD cannot be allowed to operate like this. Make the DOD account for every penny, show congress & the American ppl exactly where our money is going.
“Secure our border w/spare 3 billion the DOD bean counters just ‘found,'” he added.
Prior to the accounting error, the Department of Defense had calculated that it has send more than $40.7 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including more than $40 billion since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Biden, long known as Delaware’s “senator from DuPont,” Biden served on committees that were most sensitive to the interests of the ruling class, including the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. He supported the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, a milestone in the deregulation of the banks, and other right-wing measures. After nearly four decades in the Senate, Biden became Obama’s vice president, helping to oversee the massive bailout of Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent restructuring of class relations to benefit the rich. That included the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, based on a 50 percent cut in the pay of all newly hired autoworkers.
BLACKROCK PUMPED $30 MILLION INTO THE BIDEN ELECTION FRAUD WHICH BOUGHT THEM A PLACE IN THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE UNDER BLACKROCK'S BRIAN DEESE.
What has taken so long? We’ve all heard about the younger Biden making millions from shady business associations in Ukraine, China and other countries. He didn’t pay taxes on much of it, and only paid his tax bill when a new friend in Hollywood, Kevin Morris, who also just happens to be a big donor to Joe Biden’s campaign, stepped in to pay the back taxes — about $2 million — as well as Hunter’s sky-high living expenses. The idea was that Morris’ largesse would allow Hunter to say to the Justice Department: “Look, I paid my taxes. I’m clean. Let’s move on.”
Zelensky Meets with BlackRock Vice Chairman as Globalists Salivate over Lucrative Reconstruction Contracts..
OF COURSE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL COVER THE COST OF REBUILDING UKRAINE EVEN AS BIDEN REFUSES TO DEFEND AMERICA'S BORDER WITH NARCOMEX!
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met management representatives from the globalist investment firm BlackRock in Kyiv this week to discuss the formation of a massive fund for the reconstruction of the war-torn country.
In a meeting with Philipp Hildebrand, Vice Chairman of BlackRock, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that the sit down will send a “strong signal of strengthening the investment climate.”
“The details of the creation of an investment fund to restore Ukraine’s economy were discussed at a meeting with the management of the largest asset management company in the world, BlackRock. The main goal of the fund’s creation is to attract private and public capital for implementing large-scale business projects in Ukraine,” the president wrote on Telegram.
“It is important not only for our people, our society, but also for business, entrepreneurs abroad. Today is a historic moment because, since the very first days of independence, we have not had such huge investment cases in Ukraine. We are proud that we can initiate such a process,” Zelensky added.
BlackRock, the infamous investment firm backing the controversial ESG (Environmental Social Governance) scheme often likened to the Chinese Communist Party’s social credit score, said that the company has agreed to provide support for Ukraine’s Development Fund.
“It is a historic moment if not the greatest opportunity to unite the private and public sectors at a time when technological innovation can become a catalyst for further development,” Philipp Hildebrand said.
Globalist onlookers have for some time been champing at the bit to take advantage of the potentially lucrative opportunities to rebuild Ukraine following over a year of Russian assaults on the country, with European leaders, in particular, seeing a possible solution to the economic woes of their own countries by scooping up reconstruction contracts from Kyiv.
Speaking from Davos at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in January, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed the looming business boon of reconstructing the country, saying that German businesses should expect the benefits of a “Ukrainian economic miracle”.
The left-wing Chancellor said that he envisioned German firms being at the forefront of a “Marshall Plan for the long-term reconstruction of Ukraine”.
“Private-sector capital will play a key role here. I know that many companies in Germany and beyond are very aware of the opportunities that a Ukrainian economic miracle could offer to them,” Scholz added.
More recently, last month, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has come under criticism from her populist base for her strident support of the Zelensky government, held a bilateral conference in Rome attended by scores of Italian and Ukrainian businesses. At the meeting, Meloni went on to call for the European Union to fast-track the admission of Ukraine.
For his part, Zelesnky has long stressed the business opportunities awaiting allies at the conclusion of the war, with the president claiming back in September that the estimated cost of rebuilding the country had already climbed above one trillion dollars.
Zelensky, who has long been in contact with BlackRock and other potential investors, said at the time that: “the general project of Ukrainian reconstruction will be the largest economic project in Europe of our time. The largest for several generations.”
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In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism.
It's currently unknown whether he met with foul play or voluntarily dropped out of sight. However, what is well established is that since that fateful interview with the FBI in March 2019, Luft has made powerful enemies in both Chinese and American intelligence and, of course, in the Biden syndicate.
Where Is the Missing Biden Witness, Gal Luft?
By Mark Adams
Last February, Dr. Gal Luft, a retired Israel Defense Forces lieutenant colonel with deep intelligence ties in Washington and Beijing, was arrested as an alleged gun runner. At the time, he claimed the arrest was to stop him from revealing what he knows about the Biden crime family and FBI corruption. Now, Dr. Luft has disappeared entirely.
In the early 2000s, Luft formed a think tank called the Institute for Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) that focused on energy innovations and policy. Accordingly, from 2015 to 2018, Luft organized international energy conferences. He did this in partnership, with the China Energy Fund Committee (CEFC-USA), the non-profit arm of CEFC, China’s huge energy conglomerate that was headed by one Ye Jianming. Ye reportedly has ties to Chinese military intelligence. CEFC-USA, in turn, was headed by Patrick Ho.
In September 2020, the story broke about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which first revealed that the CEFC began to court the Bidens in 2015:
According to documents in the laptop, the Biden family began their ties with CEFC in 2015. In May 2017 … the Bidens formed Sinohawk Holdings to carry out their partnership with CEFC. CEFC agreed to pay Sinohawk $5 million and transfer another $5 million to the Biden family as a gift. (Emphasis added.)
As the New York Post summarized,
Hunter met with Ye, over a private dinner in early February 2017, at which the CEFC chairman made him a generous offer of $10 million a year, for a minimum of three years.
The funds, suspiciously, were earmarked for “introductions alone.”
Later in the summer of 2017, Ye was concerned that Patrick Ho might be under investigation and asked Hunter Biden for help. Hunter told the New Yorker that he agreed to represent Ho and to “try to figure out” if he was under scrutiny by law enforcement.
Image: Gal Luft by Web Summit. CC BY 2.0.
So where does Gal Luft fit into this? In February 2023, Gal Luft found himself detained in Cyprus on arms trafficking charges as he was about to head for Israel. He claimed that this was politically motivated because had dirt on both the FBI and the Biden family. He’d tried to inform the DOJ in 2019, during Trump’s presidency, but was ignored. Now, though, with things heating up around Biden, says Luft, he’s being silenced.
He contends that Hunter Biden had an FBI mole named “One-Eye.” That mole told Ye and Ho that the DOJ was investigating them. Further, said Luft,
Soon after that tipoff, Ye offered Hunter $1 million to be his “private counsel” and flew to China, leaving his wife, daughter, son, mother, and nanny in his $50 million penthouse at 15 Central Park West.
He was detained in Shanghai three months later and disappeared.
Before he left New York, Ye told Ho that the coast was clear for him to come back to the US.
On Nov. 18, 2017, Ho flew into JFK Airport, where he was arrested by FBI agents on bribery and money laundering charges.
Ho’s arrest provided another shady business opportunity for Hunter. From the same article:
“Hunter was paid $1 million by CEFC to represent Ho, which entailed contacting his FBI sources on Ho’s behalf and engaging another attorney to do the legal work, according to emails on his laptop.”
Luft claims he contacted the DOJ after Ho was jailed and federal investigators flew to Brussels to interview him in the presence of his attorney Robert Henoch for more than 18 hours on March 28 and 29, 2019. (Emphasis added.)
While the Hunter info is interesting, what’s really significant is that Luft told the DOJ that an FBI insider was “selling sealed U.S. law enforcement information to Chinese individuals”—and the DOJ didn’t care.
Now, though, Congressman Comer’s House Oversight Committee has been investigating Luft’s claims:
In a March 2 interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox, Comer referred to Luft as “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” He said that after word got out of Luft’s arrest, “we’ve had three people that were involved in the Hunter Biden shady business schemes that have communicated with my committee staff.”
The reason Luft’s information mattered so much is that it helped explain the money Hunter Biden was bringing in, As Robert Henoch, Luft’s lawyer said,
“Congress has the Biden bank records but it doesn’t know the reason for the payments. Now it does. The information that the whistleblower Dr. Luft gave the DOJ four years ago is the missing link for the reason behind the China-Biden money transfers. Clearly, this is explosive stuff.” (Emphasis added.)
It was this information, which lay dormant in the DOJ for so many years that was the predicate to Luft’s arrest on what he claims are trumped-up charges of arms trafficking to China and Libya and violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. One must ask why, if Luft was such a notorious gun runner, he wasn’t arrested over four years ago in March 2019 when he spent 18 hours telling FBI agents everything he knew about the Bidens and Hunter.
Moreover, while the warrant was issued in November 2022, and it spells out heinous crimes, Luft wasn’t arrested for another three months:
The government issued its arrest warrant in November. It has a cooperative agreement and relationship with the Israeli Ministry of Justice and state prosecution. And yet, it didn’t communicate the arrest warrant to Israel. Israeli officials could have arrested and investigated Luft at any time. (Emphasis added.)
That long delay, standing alone, is suspicious. Immediately after his arrest, Luft went public about his claims regarding the FBI, the Bidens, and China:
Luft’s arrest prompted concern for his safety. On March 23, former congressman Steve King shared his worries on Twitter:
King may have been right to worry. Things took a sinister turn at the end of March. Luft, who was being held in a Cyprus jail awaiting a hearing to determine if he should be extradited to the United States, was released on bail after finally securing the necessary funds. And then he disappeared:
In March, a Cypriot court deliberating a US extradition request had instructed him to surrender his passport to authorities and post 400,000 euros as bail before being released from custody. He was also required to register at the Paphos police station weekly but failed for the past month and did not appear for three trial dates. Luft’s car was found abandoned on the island a day after his disappearance was reported.
It's currently unknown whether he met with foul play or voluntarily dropped out of sight. However, what is well established is that since that fateful interview with the FBI in March 2019, Luft has made powerful enemies in both Chinese and American intelligence and, of course, in the Biden syndicate.
The Hunter Biden Whistleblower
This one might just be a game changer.
May 1, 2023 by Byron York 9 Comments
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The Justice Department has been investigating President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden for a long time. The probe began in 2018, before the elder Biden even decided to run for president. It is now in its fifth year. Hunter Biden has not been charged with any wrongdoing. The investigation continues.
What has taken so long? We’ve all heard about the younger Biden making millions from shady business associations in Ukraine, China and other countries. He didn’t pay taxes on much of it, and only paid his tax bill when a new friend in Hollywood, Kevin Morris, who also just happens to be a big donor to Joe Biden’s campaign, stepped in to pay the back taxes — about $2 million — as well as Hunter’s sky-high living expenses. The idea was that Morris’ largesse would allow Hunter to say to the Justice Department: “Look, I paid my taxes. I’m clean. Let’s move on.”
Hunter Biden also retained a new, high-powered legal team, plus an aggressive public relations team, and in January, the New York Times reported that the Justice Department, in the person of the U.S. attorney in Delaware, David Weiss, was moving toward letting Hunter off easy. From the Times, on Jan. 11: “Mr. Weiss, people familiar with the investigation say, appears to be focused on a less politically explosive set of possible charges stemming from [Biden’s] failure to meet filing deadlines for his 2016 and 2017 tax returns, and questions about whether he falsely claimed at least $30,000 in deductions for business expenses.”
That’s a slap on the wrist! What a deal! If the leak was true — and who knows exactly what path it took into the New York Times — then Hunter Biden was heading toward a very happy ending to his corruption investigation. The probe would take years and years and then … fizzle out.
How exactly might that happen? Now there is a new story that could help explain what has been going on. A whistleblower has emerged from inside the Internal Revenue Service, which has been working with the Justice Department on the Hunter Biden investigation. The whistleblower is a career IRS criminal supervisory special agent who has retained a lawyer and written a letter to Congress claiming the Biden administration is interfering with the investigation into the president’s son.
The anonymous special agent retained a lawyer, Mark Lytle, who took the matter to the inspectors general of both the IRS and the Justice Department. Now, Lytle has written to the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate tax and judiciary committees. According to the letter, the special agent can detail “examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected.” The special agent can also tell about “clear conflicts of interest” as well as possible false testimony to Congress about the case.
Now the whistleblower wants to tell the story to Congress — but only if he can secure the “appropriate legal protections.” “Despite serious risks of retaliation,” Lytle wrote, “my client is offering to provide you with information necessary to exercise your constitutional oversight function.” In addition, Lytle said, the special agent wants to give information to Congress “in a non-partisan manner,” which is why the letter was sent to both Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
It would be an understatement to say that Republicans on the Hill gave the whistleblower letter a positive reception. It’s a “game changer,” Senate Judiciary Committee member Lindsey Graham told Fox News recently. “This is somebody in the IRS at a high level who apparently is willing to come forward to tell Congress that during the investigation of Hunter Biden, there was obstruction, there was a thumb on the scale to the point that they feel they need to let the Congress know if this is true. And I don’t know yet, but if this is true, if the Department of Justice yet again puts their thumb on the scale politically, then all hell is going to break out and there will be hell to pay.”
It should be said that Graham can be a big talker, but there is no doubt that if the whistleblower’s allegations — whatever they are — are both true and significant, they could make big waves in the Hunter Biden investigation, which House Republicans frequently point out is really a Joe Biden investigation. Realizing the risk, some Democrats are cautiously saying they want to know more about the whistleblower’s story.
What else could they say? Three years ago, Democrats went to the barricades to defend an anonymous CIA employee who filed a legally baseless whistleblower complaint against then-President Donald Trump in the Ukraine matter. It was legally baseless because there is no legal process for filing a whistleblower complaint against the president of the United States. There is no inspector general, no supervisor, who has the authority to investigate the president.
Nevertheless, House Democrats embraced the whistleblower and his complaint all the way to Trump’s first impeachment. They did that because they could; in the House of Representatives, the majority can do what it wants. Now Republicans have the majority in the House, and another whistleblower escapade could be coming into view.
Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism
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MASSIVE BONUSES APPROVED, WAS ORCHESTRATED BY
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HOUSE BRIAN DEESE.
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BRIBESTER! JUST AS LARRY FINK WHAT THE PIG GAMER
LAWYER JOE BIDEN WILL DO FOR A COIN!
Biden, long known as Delaware’s “senator from DuPont,” Biden served on committees that were most sensitive to the interests of the ruling class, including the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. He supported the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, a milestone in the deregulation of the banks, and other right-wing measures. After nearly four decades in the Senate, Biden became Obama’s vice president, helping to oversee the massive bailout of Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent restructuring of class relations to benefit the rich. That included the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, based on a 50 percent cut in the pay of all newly hired autoworkers.
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