America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Saturday, November 28, 2020
THE OBAMA - BIDEN - HARRIS KLEPTOCRACY IS ALIVE AND WELL UNDER JOE BIDEN'S WALL STREET-OWNED REGIME
Biden to Nominate CNN Analyst for Secretary of State
For some reason, CNN is reluctant to acknowledge the connection
Another media figure is joining the incoming Biden administration. The president-elect's team announced over the weekend Biden's intention to nominate CNN global-affairs analyst Antony Blinken for the role of secretary of state.
Blinken, in addition to his role at CNN, is a cofounder and managing partner of WestExec Advisors, a "strategic advisory firm that offers unique geopolitical and policy expertise to help business leaders make the best decisions in a complex and volatile international landscape." He also served as a deputy in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017.
Starting one's own "strategic advisory firm" is one of the more conventional ways in which selfless public servants ensure they become rich enough to afford a life of selfless public service. The job of secretary of state, for example, pays a mere $210,700 a year. Multinational corporations will pay a lot more than that for strategic advice from politically well-connected media analysts.
Though the practice is typically frowned upon when Republicans do it, Democrats can often count on journalists and other liberals to defend them for simply having "participated in society" by raking in cash from corporate clients while their Democratic colleagues routinely badmouth those clients in public.
For some reason, CNN was reluctant to highlight its connection to the presumptive nominee for a senior cabinet position. CNN's chief media correspondent, Brian Stelter, didn't mention Blinken's ties to the company in his morning newsletter. He did link to a CNN story about the announcement, but that didn't mention the CNN connection either. Weird.
Blinken, the CNN analyst, will join other media figures who have already been tapped for roles in the Biden administration. CNN contributor Jen Psaki is a senior advisor to the Biden-Harris transition team. Numerous NBC and MSNBC analysts have already made the jump, including Richard Stengel, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, and Karine Jean-Pierre.
Presidential historian Jon Meacham is no longer a paid MSNBC contributor after he failed to disclose his role as a speechwriting consultant for the Biden campaign. On at least one occasion, Meacham had appeared on MSNBC to praise a speech he helped write.
Biden's hiring announcements thus far have continued the tradition established by his former boss, Barack Obama, who claimed to despise corporate lobbyists but hired dozens of them. Similarly, dozens of journalists left their roles as impartial truth-seekers to join the Obama administration.
“By the time of Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, the Democratic
Party had completely repudiated its association with the reforms of the New
Deal and Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare programs to provide an
ample supply of cheap labor for the rich (WHICH NOW MEANS OPEN BORDERS AND NO
E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of black capitalists, and passed the 1994
Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three strikes” provision that has
helped create the largest prison population in the world.”
GET THIS
BOOK!
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You
and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting
Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United
Auto Workers—the same “special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase
from the temple—are profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies
that crush taxpayers, small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics,
investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media
ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and
Change, Obama is delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming
he’s battling corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory
robbery—it’s OBAMANOMICS TO SERVE THE RICH AND BILLIONAIRES.
The new aristocrats,
like the lords of old, are not bound by the laws that apply to the lower
orders. Voluminous reports have been issued by Congress and government panels
documenting systematic fraud and law breaking carried out by the biggest banks
both before and after the Wall Street crash of 2008.
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan
Chase, Bank of America and every other major US bank have been implicated in a
web of scandals, including the sale of toxic mortgage securities on false
pretenses, the rigging of international interest rates and global foreign
exchange markets, the laundering of Mexican drug money, accounting fraud and
lying to bank regulators, illegally foreclosing on the homes of delinquent
borrowers, credit card fraud, illegal debt-collection practices, rigging of
energy markets, and complicity in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.
Biden to Continue Obama Tradition of Packing White House with Corporate Lobbyists
A central component of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign was his pledge to rid the executive branch of corporate lobbyists. Obama didn't exactly follow through on that pledge, and his White House was crawling with lobbyists from day one.
Not that it mattered. The media were not very interested in following up. They just took Obama's word for it, and by 2012 they were writing stories about how lobbyists were poised to make a comeback if Mitt Romney became president.
With Joe Biden poised to take office in 2021, reports suggest he plans to follow in Obama's footsteps by hiring a bunch of corporate lobbyists in senior roles.
At least two former lobbyists who will assume top roles in the Biden administration previously served on Biden's staff during the Obama administration. Steve Ricchetti, who served as then-Vice President Biden's chief of staff, will join the White House as counselor to the president. Ricchetti founded his own lobbying firm in 2001 and worked on behalf of corporate clients such as AT&T, Eli Lily, and the American Bankers Association.
Ron Klain, who also served as then-Vice President Biden's chief of staff, will take on the role of White House chief of staff in the Biden administration. Klain is a veteran of the K Street lobbying firm O'Melveny & Myers. His clients included U.S. Airways, AOL Time Warner, and ImClone, a pharmaceutical company whose CEO was convicted for fraud. Klain also lobbied on behalf of mortgage giant Fannie Mae in an effort to fight off stricter oversight from Congress.
Rep. Cedric Richmond (D., La.) will also join the Biden administration in a senior advisory role. The move was blasted by environmental groups that pointed out Richmond's close ties to Big Oil. During his 10 years in Congress, for example, Richmond received more than $340,000 in donations from the oil and gas industry and frequently joined Republicans in voting against legislation opposed by the industry.
Biden's campaign manager, Jen O'Malley Dillon, will join the incoming administration as a deputy chief of staff. She is a cofounder of Precision Strategies, an "integrated strategy and marketing agency" that was recently hired by the American Investment Council, a lobbying group for private equity firms.
Old habits, as the saying goes, die hard.
FOR LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS, THE LAWS SIMPLY DO NOT FACTOR INTO
ANYTHING. SHE’S IN IT TO MAKE MONEY.
9. Why did your office decline to
investigate the health supplement fraud cases involving companies your
husband’s law firm represented? Did you, as California’s attorney general, ever
purposefully decline investigating or prosecuting clients of your husband’s law
firm?
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and her husband, attorney Douglas
Emhoff, gave 1.1% of their income to charity in 2019, tax records show.
Harris reported giving $35,390 to
charity, while she and her husband earned $3,095,950 in taxable income.
The
best-case scenario is that she’s a progressive who repeatedly violated her own
principles so that she could promote her career. In the worst-case scenario,
she’s just another corrupt, rotten, regressive prosecutor.
JESSER HOROWITZ
THE LOOTING OF AMERICA
KAMALA HARRIS AND HER GOLDMAN SACHS BANKSTER
STEVEN MNUCHIN
She also declined to prosecute
OneWest, run by now-Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin from 2009-2015, after her own prosecutors said they discovered over a
thousand violations of foreclosure law committed by the bank. (OneWest donated $6,500 to Harris' attorney general campaign in 2011, and
Mnuchin himself donated $2,000 to her Senate campaign in 2016.)
YOU WONDERED WHY BIDEN HAS VOTED FOR EVERY WAR FOR THE LAST 50
YEARS???
JOE BIDEN'S GLOBAL WAR MACHINE TO BE RUN BY WALL STREET CRONIES
Biden names national
security team of right-wing militarists
This is
because despite all its declarations, the Democratic Party is not a party of
workers. It, as Biden’s transition team attests, is a party of Wall
Street, big banks, Amazon, and the military-industrial complex.
Amazon is
entangled not only with Wall Street, but also with the US military and
intelligence apparatus. Amazon was awarded a $600 million contract with the CIA
in 2013, followed by a $10 billion contract with the Department of Defense last
year to move government data onto the cloud. Meanwhile, Amazon’s
facial-identification software “Rekognition” is being marketed to federal and
local police.
Hostile Takeover: Wall
Street Assumes Command of Joe Biden Transition Team
Wall Street and the biggest U.S.
banks, after spending a fortune to unseat
President Trump, are getting key spots in Democrat Joe Biden’s transition team
that he has devised before the presidential election is certified.
Many of the big banks with links to Biden transition team
members were major donors to the former
vice president.
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JOE BIDEN SAYS MUCK PROGRESSIVES, I MADE MY DIRTY MONEY SERVING
WALL STREET!
“Hauser also didn’t like the prevalence of Big Law talent on the
Department of Justice team, which signaled to him that the Biden administration
could go soft on corporate malefactors.”
“Joe Biden’s transition is absolutely stacked with tech industry
players,” noted Protocol, an online publication
that covers technology.”
“He was presumably referring to the two dozen agency review team
officials who come from law firms like Arnold & Porter. Or to the 40
or so members of the Biden transition who are current or recent lobbyists.”
GLOBALIST
DEMOCRATS: PARTY OF BILLIONAIRES, BANKSTERS and open BORDERS. I was reminded
after reading that 131 billionaires who are pouring millions into Joe Biden’s
campaign in their mindless obsession to defeat Trump in November.Among the prominent are Jeff Skoll, of eBay
who has contributed $4.5 million; Laurene Powell Jobs of Apple and owner of The
Atlantic magazine has donated $1.2 million,and Josh Bekenstein, of Bain Capital (co-founded by Mitt Romney), $5
million.STEVE McCANN
Report: Fortune 500
CEOs Will Intervene if Joe Biden Isn’t Inaugurated by January 20
Executives
from Fortune 500 corporations say they are planning to intervene if Democrat
Joe Biden is not inaugurated into office by January 20, 2021.
A report by CBS News states that
in a conference call late last week, Fortune 500 executives were planning to
step in on behalf of Biden to pressure Republican lawmakers if President Trump
holds up the former vice president’s transition.
CBS News reports:
But if Mr. Trump
tries to undo the legal process or disrupts a peaceful transition to Biden, the
CEOs discussed making public statements and pressuring GOP legislators in their
states who may try to redirect Electoral College votes from Biden to
Trump, said Yale Management Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who convened the
meeting. [Emphasis added]
“They’re all fine with him
taking an appeal to the court, to a judicial process. They didn’t want to deny
him that. But that doesn’t stop the transition,” said Sonnenfeld.
“They said if that makes people feel better, it doesn’t hurt anything to let
that grind through.” [Emphasis added]
…
The CEOs decided to wait for
the November 20 certification of votes in Georgia before meeting to decide
their next moves. Action could include threats to stop donations to
political action committees or even corporate relocations, Sonnenfeld said.
[Emphasis added]
The big business lobby and
Wall Street have been looking to undermine Trump’s economic nationalist agenda
for years. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable — both
representing some of the nation’s largest multinational corporations and
fighting Trump — congratulated Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris
(D-CA) days after the November 3 election.
“The U.S. Chamber stands ready to work with the Biden
administration and leaders on both sides of the aisle to restore public health,
revitalize our economy, and help rebuild American lives and communities,” the
Chamber’s statement reads.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos congratulates Biden as the
president-elect packs his transition teams with servants of the corporate
oligarchy
10 hours ago
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Amazon oligarch and COVID-19 profiteer Jeff Bezos, the world’s
richest man, congratulated president-elect Joe Biden following the declaration
four days after the November 3 vote that Biden had won the US presidential
election.
“Unity, empathy and decency are
not characteristics of a bygone era,” Bezos wrote on Instagram, congratulating
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. “By voting in record numbers, the
American people proved again that our democracy is strong.”
Jeff Bezos in
2019 (Image Credit: AP Photo/John Locher, File)
This sentiment was echoed on
November 7 by the Business Roundtable, including Bezos as well as the chief
executives of Apple, Cisco, Microsoft and Salesforce. The big business
organization issued a statement that said: “Business Roundtable congratulates
President-elect Biden on his election as 46th President of the United States.
We also congratulate Vice President-elect Harris on her historic accomplishment
as the first woman, Black woman and person of South Asian descent to be elected
Vice President of the United States… We look forward to working with the
incoming Biden Administration and all federal and state policymakers.”
Last week, Biden’s transition
team posted the names and most recent employers of members of its agency review
teams on the website buildbackbetter.org. Given the composition of these teams,
it is easy to see why Bezos and his fellow oligarchs are in a congratulatory
mood.
The individuals who have been
appointed are listed alongside the company for which they most recently worked,
and organized into “teams” based on the government operations they are tasked
with reviewing, such as the departments of Commerce, Defense, Education, Labor,
State and Homeland Security.
The composition of these agency
review teams demonstrates the intersection, if not outright integration, of the
technology monopolies, academic aristocracy, beltway think tanks, trade union
bureaucracies, giant law firms and the military-intelligence apparatus of war
and repression at home and abroad.
Amazon will have not one,
but two seats on the transition teams. Tom Sullivan, Amazon’s director of
international tax planning, will sit on Biden’s Department of State team. In
addition to Sullivan, Mark Schwartz, an “enterprise strategist” for Amazon Web
Services, will serve on the extremely powerful Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) team. The OMB oversees the $5 trillion federal budget and exerts
influence across a broad range of federal regulatory frameworks.
In addition to figures from
Amazon, Nicole Isaac, senior director of North American policy at LinkedIn,
will sit on the Department of Treasury team. Brandon Belford from Lyft will
serve on the Office of Management and Budget team, along with Divya Kumaraiah
from Airbnb.
Shara Mohtadi of Bloomberg
Philanthropies, which is funded by the donations of billionaire oligarch
Michael R. Bloomberg, will sit on the Council on Environmental Quality. And no
less than four individuals, serving in various capacities, are drawn from the
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is co-owned by Facebook oligarch Mark
Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.
Arun Venkataraman from Visa
will sit on the team tasked with reviewing the Office of the United States
Trade Representative, which will also review the US International Trade
Commission and the US Trade and Development Agency. This team will also include
Ted Dean from Dropbox.
The labor bureaucracies will
also have seats at the table, demonstrating their complete integration into the
apparatus of capitalist rule. Beth Antunez, Shital Shah and Marla
Ucelli-Kashyap of the American Federation of Teachers, together with Donna Harris-Aikens
of the National Education Association, will sit on the Department of Education
team.
The labor bureaucracies are
also represented by LaQuita Honeysucker from the United Food and Commercial
Workers International Union, who will be on the Department of Agriculture
review team, while Josh Nassar of the United Auto Workers will sit on the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau team.
Brad Markell of the AFL-CIO
will sit on the Department of Energy Team. His name appears right before that
of Trisha Miller from the venture capital firm Gates Ventures.
On the Department of Labor team
will be Jennifer Abruzzo of the Communications Workers of America, Dora Chen of
the Service Employees International Union, Jessica Chu of the Amalgamated
Transit Union International, Nadia Marin-Molina of the National Day Laborer
Organizing Network (NDLON), and Shaun O’Brien of the American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Employees, among others.
The major academic institutions
represented on the list include Harvard Law School, the University of Michigan
Law School, New York University School of Law, Duke University, Stanford
University, Georgetown University and others. Major law firms and consulting
firms include Deloitte Consulting; DLA Piper; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe;
Sidley Austin; Covington & Burling; and Latham & Watkins.
The racial and identity
politics promoted by the Democratic Party did not fail to be reflected on the
list, with Bonnie Jenkins appointed to the Department of State team from an
organization titled Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security. Jenkins, a
nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, previously served as
the coordinator for threat reduction programs in the Obama administration’s
Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation.
The Department of Defense team
will be led by Kathy Hicks from the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS), who will be joined by Melissa Dalton and Andrew Hunter, also
from the CSIS; Stacie Pettyjohn, Christine Wormuth and Terri Tanielian from the
RAND Corporation; Ely Ratner from the Center for a New American Security; and
Lisa Sawyer of JPMorgan Chase, among others.
The composition of Biden’s
agency review teams exposes and refutes all of the pseudo-left and opportunist
groups in the orbit of the Democratic Party and the trade union bureaucracies,
which have throughout the year attempted to persuade American workers that
Biden, the Democratic Party and the unions represented some sort of channel
through which they could advance their own independent interests.
The parade of lobbyists,
servants and agents of the capitalist class into the incoming Biden
administration prompted a defensive article in the New York Times on
Thursday, titled “Progressives Press Biden to Limit Corporate Influence in
Administration.”
The title of the article
essentially acknowledges that “corporate influence” (i.e., corruption) is
playing a pervasive role in the formation of the incoming administration, and
suggests “limits” on that influence.
The article concedes that “Mr.
Biden’s team included executives from Amazon Web Services, Lyft, Airbnb and a
vice president of WestExec Advisors, a Washington consulting firm whose
secretive list of clients includes financial services, technology and
pharmaceutical companies.”
The Times then points to
the efforts of “progressive Democrats” who are advocating “for tighter ethics
rules.” This is nothing but a fig leaf for the otherwise naked domination of
the Democratic Party by the interests of the military-intelligence-corporate-financial
oligarchy.
The facts presented in
the Times article
themselves paint a devastating picture of how the so-called “left” wing of the
party is being shoved aside as the fat cats shoulder their way into the new
administration. In a joint letter sent Thursday, a number of organizations
associated with the so-called “progressive wing” of the Democratic Party
pleaded with Biden not to “nominate or hire corporate executives, lobbyists,
and prominent corporate consultants,” and to adopt “ethics” rules to limit
corruption.
These and other feeble efforts
by the “progressive Democrats” are being unceremoniously ignored. The Times itself was
compelled to acknowledge that “Mr. Biden has not always shared the left’s
concerns about lobbying.”
Tendencies like the Democratic
Socialists of America were used by the Democratic Party during the election
campaign to further the Democrats’ electoral prospects, but within days of the
vote they were tossed aside and roundly denounced for having supposedly cost
the Democrats votes and positions with their “radical” and “socialist”
rhetoric.
These “socialist” elements had
been promised “space” in a Biden administration, but they showed up after the
election only to find their “Green New Deal” and other promised reforms piled
up in trash bags by the curb.
There
is nothing unexpected about the emerging right-wing, pro-war, pro-Wall Street
composition of the incoming Biden administration.Biden himself spent decades in Washington as a
corrupt bag-man for wealthy interests in the state of Delaware, the legal
headquarters of hundreds of thousands of corporations that take advantage of
its business-friendly laws.
As vice
president, Biden was reportedly opposed even to the barebones rules against
corruption that were imposed during the Obama presidency. In the words of
the Times:
“When he was vice president under Mr. Obama, Mr. Biden bristled at the strict
lobbying rules, which he contended would deprive their nascent administration
of experienced talent.”
From the moment Biden secured a
lead in the voting results, the Democratic Party swung viciously to the right, attacking
“socialism” and the “left” in general. On a conference call with House
Democrats after the election, former CIA agent Abigail Spanberger, now a
representative from Virginia, shouted: “We need to not ever use the word
‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again.”
While
the “socialists” have been escorted out of the back door, the front door has
been thrown open to corporate executives, lobbyists and consultants to staff
the new administration.
Tech Elites Endorse Joe Biden to Secure
More Foreign Workers for U.S. Jobs
SERVING
THEIR RICH - If Biden and Harris win, the country will devolve to a kingdom
of state and regional duchies composed of often
semi-hereditary rulers in the pay of the rich, donor class, the clerisy (media
scribblers, complaisant judicial appointees and academic rent seekers who
promote favored policies and shut out the dissenters), an impoverished,
smaller, and powerless middle class and a vast layer of muzzled, docile poor
serfs (ILLEGALS). CLARICE FELDMAN
Sold Out: How High-Tech
Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are ScrewingAmerica's Best
& Brightest
By
Michelle Malkin and John Miano
Analysis conducted in 2018 discovered that 71 percent of tech workers
in Silicon Valley, California, are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the
San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born
tech workers. Up to 99 percent of H-1B visa
workers imported by the top eight outsourcing firms are from India.
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