SO LONG AS THERE IS EVEN ONE SLAVE, WE ARE ALL SLAVES AND MUST KILL OUR SLAVE MASTERS
JOE'S REGIME WILL DO ANY AND ALL FOR HUNTER'S PAYMASTERS!
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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.
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8. Hunter Biden’s firm scored a $1.5 billion deal with the Bank of China only days after Joe Biden and his youngest son visited the country.
Peter Schweizer, a senior contributor at Breitbart News, revealed in his bestselling book Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends that Hunter Biden’s firm signed a multi-billion dollar with a subsidiary of the state-owned Bank of China only ten days after he visited the country with his father aboard Air Force Two.
State Department Gives Corporate Excellence Award to Patagonia, Accused of Using Chinese Slave Labor
Patagonia has been accused of using cotton produced in Xinjiang
The State Department gave a corporate excellence award Wednesday to an apparel company that has been accused of using Chinese slave labor to make its products.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave Patagonia the agency's "climate innovation" award for its work on environmental issues in Argentina. The State Department bestows the honor on companies that "represent American values in the way they do business." Five other companies received awards alongside Patagonia, known for its trademark fleece vests.
A self-proclaimed "activist company," Patagonia has been accused of using cotton produced in Xinjiang, China, where the Chinese government has forced Muslim Uyghurs into labor and reeducation camps. Blinken has accused the communist regime of waging genocide against Uyghurs. The European Center for Constitutional Rights last week filed a criminal complaint urging Dutch authorities to investigate Patagonia, Nike, and other apparel companies that are "directly or indirectly complicit in the forced labor" of Uyghurs. Patagonia pledged last year to end its sourcing of fibers and manufacturing in Xinjiang after the Congressional-Executive Commission on China found the company was suspected of using slave labor in its supply chain.
The allegations against Patagonia come amid reports the State Department and White House have pressured lawmakers to soften language in a bill that would ban imports from Xinjiang because of forced labor concerns. The Washington Free Beacon reported the White House has lobbied Senate Democrats to block the bill, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, due to concerns it will undercut U.S. climate negotiations with China. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has also urged top Democratic senators to oppose the bill, the Washington Post reported.
American companies like Nike and Apple have also lobbied Congress to revise the bill, claiming it is too broad and would ban imports on materials that are not produced by forced labor.
Patagonia has ramped up its political activism in recent years. The company garnered headlines last year by adding the tag "VOTE THE ASSHOLES OUT" to its apparel in protest over the Trump administration's environmental policies. Patagonia sued former president Donald Trump over his decision to shrink the size of Utah's Bears Ears National Monument.
Patagonia has also joined social justice crusades, including the Black Lives Matter movement.
"The Black Lives Matter movement has forced a reckoning of the deep racial injustice around us and laid bare our complicity," Patagonia said in a statement last year, which acknowledged that it was "a white-led outdoor company reliant on recreation on stolen Native lands that are not yet safe for all."
Patagonia also joined a corporate-led boycott of Facebook over its alleged failure to prohibit hate speech on its platform. But while decrying the American social media giant, Patagonia continued advertising on VK, a Russian social media site that blocks gay rights groups and is popular with white supremacists.
The State Department did not respond to requests for comment about its award to Patagonia. The apparel company also did not respond to comment requests.
Deal with the Devil: Apple Signed $275 Billion Contract with China to Avoid Crackdown
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly signed a $275 billion deal with China in 2016 in order to prevent a crackdown by the communist government on its vast business in the country. The Masters of the Universe committed to “grow together with Chinese enterprises to achieve mutual benefits and a win-win situation.”
The Information reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook signed a deal with China in 2016 worth $275 billion to prevent restrictions on its business in the country. As part of the deal, Apple agreed to help Chinese firms build “the most advanced manufacturing technologies” and invest “many billions of dollars” in the country. The five-year agreement was designed to placate Chinese government officials who felt that Apple was failing to invest enough in the Chinese economy.
Tim Cook, Apple CEO, in China (NG HAN GUAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping vote at the closing of the 19th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People on October 24, 2017 in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
In 2016, Cook lobbied Chinese government officials over regulations that could threaten Apple services including the App Store, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Cook signed the deal with China during one of several visits to China that year after Chinese regulators’ actions tanked iPhone sales in the country.
A memo of understanding was created by Apple’s government affairs team in China alongside China’s National Development and Reform Commission to improve the company’s relations with Chinese leaders. Apple executives also made it a priority to meet with top Chinese government officials after the 2016 regulations affected iTunes books and movies.
The deal made Apple commit to helping Chinese manufacturers build the most advanced manufacturing technologies” and train workers. It also included promises to use Chinese suppliers for more parts for Apple devices, develop deals with Chinese software firms, work with Chinese universities, and invest “many of billions of dollars more,” than Apple was already investing in China.
Apple further committed to “grow together with Chinese enterprises to achieve mutual benefits and a win-win situation,” develop China’s IT industries, promote education in the fields of science, technology, education, and environmental protection, and in exchange China agreed to provide “necessary support and assistance.”
Apple has long done its best to placate China, it was reported in May of 2021 that Apple made a number of concessions to the Chinese government in order to continue operations in the country. The New York Times wrote:
Inside, Apple was preparing to store the personal data of its Chinese customers on computer servers run by a state-owned Chinese firm.
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, has said the data is safe. But at the data center in Guiyang, which Apple hoped would be completed by next month, and another in the Inner Mongolia region, Apple has largely ceded control to the Chinese government.
Chinese state employees physically manage the computers. Apple abandoned the encryption technology it used elsewhere after China would not allow it. And the digital keys that unlock information on those computers are stored in the data centers they’re meant to secure.
The Times also alleges that while U.S. regulations prohibit Apple from handing data over to Chinese authorities, storing user data on local Chinese storage creates a loophole allowing it. A Chinese firm named Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD), is actually the legal owner of Apple iCloud customer data in China. Due to this, Chinese authorities can demand access to data from GCBD rather than Apple.
Since 2017, around 55,000 apps have been removed from the Apple App Store in China, according to data provided by Sensor Tower. Some of the apps included foreign news outlets, encrypted messaging apps, gay dating services, and VPNs allowing users to bypass China’s strict internet restrictions.
Read more at the Information here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
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