Monday, July 10, 2023

JOE BIDEN BUILDS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S BASE - Report: ‘Dangerous’ NYC Migrant Shelters Filled with Gang Members

 

Report: ‘Dangerous’ NYC Migrant Shelters Filled with Gang Members

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 6:Hundreds of asylum seekers line up outside of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on June 6, 2023 in New York City. New York City has provided sanctuary to over 46,000 asylum seekers since 2013, when the city passed a law prohibiting city agencies …
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New York City’s migrant shelters are plagued with “volatile” and “dangerous” conditions, prompting a search by city officials to hire private security guards for the facilities, a report details.

Since the spring of last year, more than 84,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in New York City with about 50,000 remaining in shelters across the city, now outnumbering native New Yorkers.

Gregory Floyd with Teamsters Local 237 told the New York Post that the migrant shelters are too dangerous for the unarmed peace officers he represents. Some, Floyd said, are gang members.

“There are migrants who are gang members in these facilities,” Floyd told the Post.

“It’s volatile. It’s dangerous,” he continued. “We don’t know if all these migrants are properly vetted. My members are unarmed.”

As Breitbart News reported, more than six-in-ten border crossers and illegal aliens who have arrived in New York City since the spring of last year are living off local taxpayers in subsidized housing and shelters — including luxury hotels like the Roosevelt Hotel.

The sheer volume of border crossers and illegal aliens staying in shelters has increased the system’s population by more than 110 percent since Adams took office. To afford subsidizing new arrivals, Adams has said New Yorkers will see public services like meals for senior citizens and library hours cut.

Every day, illegal immigration is costing New Yorkers nearly $8 million, and by the middle of next year, Mayor Eric Adams predicts it will have cost more than $4.2 billion.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here

N.A.F.T.A. JOE BIDEN'S NEVER - ENDING ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER - United Auto Workers Call Out Biden’s Green Agenda for Cutting Wages, Showering Automakers with Billions

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.

United Auto Workers Call Out Biden’s Green Agenda for Cutting Wages, Showering Automakers with Billions

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 7: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event about lowering health care costs in the East Room of the White House July 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Biden announced a series of new actions under his “Bidenomics” agenda to lower health care costs and …
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The United Auto Workers (UAW) is going after President Joe Biden’s so-called “green energy” agenda for its wage-cutting outcomes while showering billions in American taxpayer money on the three largest automakers in the nation: Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis.

As part of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, passed last year, automakers are set to enjoy a massive windfall via tax credits for electric vehicles (EVs) made in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

UAW President Shawn Fain, as well as the union’s members in Lordstown, Ohio, are sounding the alarm on severe cuts to auto workers’ wages as a result of the Biden administration’s push to steer automakers towards EVs, enticing them with federal subsidies.

“There have been clear winners and losers and the same people who’ve always won, the corporate elite and the billionaire class, seem to think they can keep calling the shots,” Fain said in a video produced by the UAW:

The ‘Big Three’ automakers, Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, are taking billions of dollars in government subsidies to go electric. But those benefits aren’t trickling down to UAW members. [Emphasis added]

In particular, Fain points to GM’s closure of its manufacturing plant in Lordstown only a few years ago, which saw thousands laid off — a devastating blow to the small Ohio community.

“I think it was like an economic crash almost. I mean, everybody here was GM,” said Dominic Giovannone of UAW Local 1112. “… my kids went to Lordstown schools so a lot of their friends moved away. It took a hometown community and separated it.”

ince then, GM has partnered with LG to open Ultium Cells, an EV battery plant that the automaker promised would bring high-paying, green energy jobs.

“Residents were pitched on the new facility, bringing good-paying, green jobs back to Lordstown,” Fain said. “What [Lordstown] found was a far cry from what was promised.”

Dave Dellick of UAW Local 1112 said the Lordstown community thought the new EV battery plant “would be the next wave” of manufacturing jobs but said since the plant opened, “it hasn’t been good yet.”

Signage stands in front of the closed General Motors Co. (GM) plant in Lordstown, Ohio, U.S., on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. GM announced it would cease production at plants in Ohio, Maryland, Michigan, and Ontario by the end of the year. (Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty)

According to Fain, former Lordstown Assembly employees made upwards of $30 an hour. At Ultium Cells, employees are earning $16.50 an hour with hourly earnings increasing to $20 only after seven years.

“Ultium [Cells] cut auto wages in half,” Fain said.

In the meantime, GM, along with Ford and Stellantis, are receiving billions in taxpayer money in the form of EV tax credits.

According to data analyzed by Good Jobs First, many EV plants “will each receive more than a billion dollars per year from the U.S. government, with no requirement to pay good wages to production workers” while average annual wages will fall below the national average for workers in the auto industry.

“GM, LG — they get a kickback from the government,” Dellick said. “We pay our taxes, so that’s our money going into these companies’ big, billion-dollar companies’ pockets. You should be able to pay me a livable wage. I shouldn’t be working two jobs.”

As Breitbart News reported, the UAW is withholding an endorsement for Biden as the administration has yet to follow through on commitments that auto workers will not have their wages cut if their manufacturing jobs are transitioned to green energy jobs.

For years, Breitbart News has detailed how a publicly funded transition from combustion engines to EVs has the potential to eliminate millions of American auto jobs and leave auto workers with drastically cut wages.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.

Biden appoints senior economic advisor as White House point man in UAW contract talks

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With the start of official negotiations between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three auto companies set to open within days, the Biden administration has appointed Gene Sperling, a top White House aide and long time Democratic Party operative, to coordinate the administration’s intervention against 150,000 GM, Ford and Stellantis workers whose contracts expire on September 14.

The talks between UAW and auto executives, which begin on Thursday, are in no sense “negotiations” between two antagonistic parties. On the contrary, the UAW bureaucracy has already agreed to a new round of massive job cuts and concessions. The only things being negotiated are: 1) How to preserve the financial and institutional interests of the UAW bureaucracy during the transition to electric vehicles; and 2) How best to sell another pro-company deal to an increasing restive workforce, which is determined to strike the tremendously profitable companies.

American Rescue Plan Coordinator and senior adviser Gene Sperling speaks during the American Rescue Plan Workforce Summit held in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. [AP Photo/Susan Walsh]

With the appointment of Sperling, the White House is putting an experienced corporate hatchetman in charge of its dealings with the UAW apparatus and the automakers. Biden’s aim is to make sure there are no disruptions to plans to impose the costs of the transition to electric vehicles on the backs of workers. The White House sees a potential auto strike as a threat to its plans to expand its military offensive against Russia and China.

The auto companies, facing billions of dollars in development costs for Evs, are planning to cut tens of thousands of jobs and create a new lower-paid tier of workers in factories building electric batteries and other components. The auto companies see the 2023 contract as even more “transformational” than the 2009 bankruptcy restructurings of GM and Chrysler and are not prepared to make the slightest concessions to workers.

Biden is clearly concerned over the ability of the newly installed UAW leadership, headed by longtime bureaucrat Shawn Fain, to control rank-and-file autoworkers who are determined to win inflation-busting raises and recoup decades of UAW-backed concessions.

Sperling, who by one report has a net worth of $50 million, has established a track record as an enforcer of austerity for workers. His specialty has been providing a certain reformist fig leaf to reactionary measures aimed at impoverishing workers and enriching corporations. He was director of the National Economic Council under both Presidents Clinton and Obama and a member of the Auto Task Force that oversaw the slashing of the pay of autoworkers, the elimination of cost-of-living raises and pensions and a huge expansion of temporary and part-time work.

Under Clinton, he was principal negotiator of the 1997 bipartisan Balanced Budget Act, which slashed federal spending by imposing regressive changes, including cuts to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. In 2013, Sperling was appointed head of Obama’s Detroit “rescue” task force during the bankruptcy that oversaw the slashing of the pensions of city retirees and the fire sale of city assets, including handing off the priceless collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts to a private foundation.

In 2021, Biden appointed Sperling to oversee the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan. While touted as a significant measure of social reform, the bill was a short-term stimulus aimed at preventing a social explosion amid the forced reopening of the economy and the multi-trillion CARES Act handout to Wall Street and corporate America.

Sperling’s services have not come cheaply. In 2009, the Financial Times reported that Sperling was paid $888,000 by Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for speeches to companies, including the Stanford Group, headed at the time by Allen Stanford. In 2012, Stanford was convicted for operating an $8 billion Ponzi scheme and sentenced to a 110-year federal prison sentence.

The auto contract talks take place with militancy growing among workers in the US and internationally. This is underscored by the breakdown of negotiations between the Teamsters and United Parcel Service and the walkout by dockworkers in Vancouver, Canada, under conditions where US West Coast longshoremen have been working without a contract for one year. Biden recently sent acting Labor Secretary Julie Su to intervene in the Canadian strike before it sparks a broader movement by port workers in the US. Su was also sent to help cobble together a tentative agreement between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the US Pacific port operators last month, amid a growing number of wildcat strikes. Details of the deal have still not been released.

The UAW bureaucracy is widely hated by rank-and-file workers. In 2015, workers at Fiat Chrysler, now Stellantis, voted down a national auto contract for the first time in decades. A second, similar deal was only rammed through by a campaign of threats and intimidation overseen by UAW bureaucrats, including UAW President Dennis Williams and Vice President Norwood Jewell, who would later be jailed for embezzling workers’ dues money and taking bribes from FCA management.

In 2019, the UAW sold out the 40-day strike by 48,000 GM workers, opening the way for the closure of the Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant and other factories, and a further expansion of low-paid temporary labor. Shortly afterward, then-President Gary Jones was forced to resign amid a federal investigation into the embezzlement of $1.5 million in dues money.

There is little doubt that the Obama administration, including Sperling, were fully aware of the gross corruption of the UAW bureaucracy when the Auto Task Force engineered the 2009 bankruptcy deal, which handed over billions in GM and Chrysler corporate shares to Solidarity House in exchange for the massive concessions. It was only after the rank-and-file revolt of 2015, however, that the federal government initiated its investigation into UAW corruption and its eventual campaign to “clean up” the UAW.

The first ever direct elections for UAW officers in 2022–23, mandated by a court appointed monitor to provide the union apparatus a facelift, were tainted by irregularities. The UAW took no measures to make workers aware of the election or update mailing lists, so as a consequence a large proportion of the membership did not receive ballots or even know there was an election. As a result, turnout was an abysmal 9 percent. Despite this, socialist rank-and-file autoworker Will Lehman from Mack Trucks won nearly 5,000 votes.

Warren Truck workers come in for second shift on July 6, 2023

US and Canadian autoworkers, whose contracts both expire in September, face a historic showdown with the auto companies, as well as the Biden and Trudeau governments.

Workers are in a determined mood. “They’re stockpiling vehicles in case we strike,” a young temporary part-time worker at the Stellantis Warren Truck plant in suburban Detroit told the World Socialist Web Site. “They’ve got us on critical status, so they can work us seven days a week for up to 12 hours. The company expects us to eat, breathe and live Warren Truck. But we have lives outside the plant. It’s reckless and intentional: they want us to think we’re under their thumbs, under their control. It’s immoral the union lets them get away with it. We have to stick together and fight for our human rights.”

Another Warren Truck worker added, “Conditions are a nightmare, and this critical status is upending our whole lives. They’re got us working overtime so the dealers’ lots won’t be empty if we strike. No one trusts the UAW. The Clarios workers got shafted. When I was a kid, I walked the picket lines with my dad and my uncle. Today, the UAW is completely watered down. People, the workers during the Flint sit-down strike, had to fight and die for the eight-hour day. Now we’re working 10, 12 hours a day. We have to stand up because we’re not going to give up anything more.”

Autoworkers suffered a steep decline in real wages over the four years of the last contract, which only included two annual 3 percent rates and two 4 percent bonuses, even as inflation rose above 9 percent.

Nevertheless, auto companies and the Wall Street investors behind them have no intention of giving up anything to workers, including restoring cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) that were taken in 2009. According to the Detroit News, “[I]t’s likely that the automakers will put up a fight over COLA because of reluctance to introduce another structural cost at a time when investors are looking for leaner operations to support the costly transition to electric vehicles. The focus on cost-cutting was highlighted most recently by Ford’s move last week to cut salaried jobs in the United States and Canada.

Auto equity analysts with Bank of America consider the prospect so unlikely that they did not include COLA in a recent forecast in which they estimated a 25 to 30 percent increase in labor costs for the Detroit automakers over the four years of the new contracts with the UAW. “That’s a no-go… the automakers won’t do it,” John Murphy, managing director and lead US auto analyst in equity research at Bank of America, told the News.

With the sentiment for an all-out strike spreading through the factories, Fain will reportedly skip the traditional handshakes with the corporate bosses when talks begin with Stellantis on Thursday. “The members come first,” Fain said Monday in a statement. “I’ll shake hands with the CEOs when they come to the table with a deal that reflects the needs of the workers who make this industry run.

This is nothing but empty grandstanding. Behind the scenes, the UAW apparatus, the corporations and the Biden administration are all conspiring to beat back the militancy of autoworkers and impose the demands of big business.

The appointment of Sperling again makes clear that any strategy based on pressuring the corporations or the Biden administration is futile. As the Autoworkers Rank-and-File Committee Network said in its statement, “Autoworkers will win this fight, not through appeals to company executives and big business politicians, but by means of hard and uncompromising class struggle. The allies of workers are not in the corporate boardrooms or the halls of Congress, but rather among the millions of workers across the US and in other countries who are similarly looking to fight corporate exploitation, including the 350,000 UPS workers whose contract expires at the end of July.”

Workers must fight to take power and decision-making out of the hands of the UAW apparatus and transfer it to the workers on the shopfloor by expanding the network of rank-and-file committees. At the same time, US workers must turn to their brothers and sisters around the US, Canada, Mexico and globally. The International Alliance of Rank-And-File Committees is organizing and coordinating this struggle.

POS JOE BIDEN'S 'INTEGRITY AND DECENCY'!?!?!? - 7 Times Joe Biden Vowed to Restore ‘Integrity’ and ‘Decency’ to White House Before Cocaine Scandal

 JOE IS NOTHING BUT A LYING PARASITE LAWYER!

7 Times Joe Biden Vowed to Restore ‘Integrity’ and ‘Decency’ to White House Before Cocaine Scandal

President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks about lowering health care costs, Friday, July 7, 2023, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Seven times before law enforcement found cocaine smuggled into the White House, President Joe Biden promised to restore “integrity” and “decency” to the presidency.

Over the July 4th weekend, officials discovered cocaine stashed in the White House. The Secret Service has yet to reveal its findings of who smuggled the white powdery drug into one of the most secure buildings in the world. And the White House refuses to provide much insight into the growing scandal.

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The White House press team refuses to say whether or not the cocaine belonged to Joe or Hunter Biden, citing campaign law. They refuse to say if the White House will provide transparency on who the Secret Service potentially finds responsible for the drug. They also would not say if the White House supports prosecuting the unknown cocaine White House smuggler.

But before the cocaine scandal arose, Joe Biden and his campaign promised seven times to “restore” “integrity” and “decency” back to the White House. Over and over again, Biden promised to restore the “soul of the nation,” while claiming former President Donald Trump was the antithesis of integrity, decency, and transparency:

1)  “It’s time we bring integrity back to the White House,” Biden announced on his Twitter page on August 20, 2020. He then went on to call out former President Trump’s “lack of integrity,” explaining that:

I will put the INTEGRITY of my whole CAREER IN PUBLIC SERVICE to this nation up against Trump’s LACK OF INTEGRITY any day of the week.

2) In October 2020, Biden teamed up with Vice President Kamala Harris in Phoenix to kick off their campaign bus tour, and, as she posted on her Twitter page, “to fight for our democracy and bring integrity back to the White House”:

3) In January 2020, Biden posted a video of an exchange between supporter “Vicky” and himself at a campaign event, along with the quote, “Like Vicky said, we need a president who will restore integrity to the White House.”

4) ABC News proudly posted a picture of Biden on their December 19, 2019, Twitter post along with a quote from Biden prefaced with the statement, “Joe Biden says [Trump’s] impeachment was a ‘constitutional necessity.'” The quote from Biden read:

“We need to restore the integrity of the presidency, of the office of the presidency … my job is to just go out and make the case why [Trump] doesn’t deserve to be president.”

5) In October 2019, Biden stated that, “President Trump is leading the most corrupt administration in modern American history,” and continued, saying:

It’s got to end.

We must restore integrity to our government and ensure our elected officials work for all Americans — not just the powerful.

6) “We need to restore honor and decency to the White House,” Biden said on September 6, 2020:

7) In October 2021, Biden explained:

I ran for president for three reasons: To restore the soul and decency of our country. To rebuild our economy from the bottom up and the middle out. And to help unite our country.

We’re on the right track — but there’s still work to be done.

Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.



I’d be inclined to disagree with Don except for one thing: Biden has proven to be a very adept criminal mastermind. For decades, he has funneled millions of dollars to his children and siblings and, especially, to his debauched, deviant son, Hunter. 

                                               ANDREA WIDBURG

 

There it is.  That's the issue.  To begin, you have the corrupt family Biden.  They've been scamming us and our system well for almost fifty years.  The man is supposedly worth over 250 million dollars.  How is this possible on his salary?  It's not.  So where did his wealth come from?  Not from being a brilliant businessman. DAVID PRENTICE


The book is a devastating chronicle of political corruption. From Ukraine to Mexico to China, Hunter Biden's private correspondence shows how he and his family leveraged his father's position to win high-paying, low-work gigs with shady foreign actors—and how Joe's official actions at times directly benefited his family's financial backers.  ALANA GOODMAN

Where there’s smoke, look for fire.  Biden came from humble means, never worked in the private sector, but somehow became wildly wealthy.  Several of Biden’s family members essentially work in the family business of apparent influence peddling.  Does Biden’s frequent refrain, “I never spoke with my son about his overseas business deals” come to mind?  It makes one wonder if “never” really means “never!”.  Biden has nine relatives receiving millions in foreign cash.  What were they talking about when Vice President Biden and his cronies met 80 times at the White House?  Veracity is everything when you solicit the public’s trust, and Biden’s persona is wrapped around his supposed trustworthiness.  However, the facts here point to a person who uses hyperbole, manipulation, and outright lying to sway public opinion.

                                                                  ALLAN J FEIFER


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.


Biden Knew about Hunter’s Foreign Business Deals, Took $5 Million Bribe as V.P., Six in Ten Voters Say

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A new survey of U.S. voters reveals that six in ten U.S. voters believe President Joe Biden was involved in his son Hunter’s dubious foreign business dealings, corroborating similar recent poll findings.

Fully 58% say it’s at least “somewhat” likely that “Joe Biden was involved in his son Hunter’s foreign business deals,” including 44% who call it “very” likely, according to results of a national Rasmussen survey of likely voters released on Thursday, July 6.

At least sixty percent of voters in all demographic categories – except Democrats, Blacks and those earning at least $200,000 – believe it’s likely that, as vice president, Joe Biden was involved in his son’s foreign business deals that delivered millions to members of the Biden family.

The results mirror those of a Harris poll conducted last month, in which 57% of U.S. registered voters said they “think Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe when he was Vice President.” What’s more, a majority said they don’t believe the FBI is fully investigating the corruption allegations against Pres. Biden:

  • 57% of voters said Joe Biden took $5 million bribe as vice president.
  • Two-thirds (66%) of voters said Joe Biden lied by claiming he never discussed Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings with his son.
  • 55% said the FBI is “not really investigating” the possibility that Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe.

 

Although Republican and Democrat voters greatly disagreed, six in ten Independent voters said they think Biden took $5 million in bribes:

  • 57% of Independents said Joe Biden took $5 million bribe as vice president.
  • Two-thirds (68%) of Independent voters said Joe Biden lied by claiming he never discussed Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings with his son.
  • 50% of Independent voters said the FBI is “not really investigating” the possibility that Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe.



  • Loving Dad Joe Engages Son in Life of Crime

    The propaganda ministry is in full spin mode, trying to explain why Joe Biden is parading around the world with Hunter in tow.  The two are together for state dinners, overseas junkets, and weekends at Camp David.  As the narrative goes, Hunter is a troubled man, victimized by the demon of addiction.  Any appearance of presidential impropriety is simply a loving father concerned about his son, holding him close to keep him out of trouble.

    I say hogwash.

    Organized crime bosses protect themselves from legal jeopardy by insulating themselves from the dirty work.  They use underlings to sell their product, collect the money, launder the money, and if necessary take the fall.  If a legal price is to be paid, it's paid by the expendables.  The boss keeps them quiet with hush money, legal assistance, and witness intimidation.

    Does anyone believe that a cartel boss helps an arrested underling out of love?  Nope.  He does it in service to his own selfish interests — which brings me to Hunter Biden's loving father, Joe.

    We've learned a great deal about the Biden family business in the last three years from abandoned laptops, congressional investigations, and federal whistleblowers.

    We know that Hunter was working on a deal with a Chinese energy company in which 10 percent would go to the "big guy."  We learned from Hunter's business partner, Tony Bobulinski, that the "big guy" was Hunter's code name for his dad, Joe Biden.  Oddly, Bobulinski was never interviewed by Biden's consigliere or his crew, the Department of Justice.

    What was Hunter selling to the Chinese?  We've learned that from WhatsApp text messages to Henry Zhao, the group chairman of China's Harvest Fund Management.  He texted:

    The Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this [partnership].

    Oddly, Hunter's communications with the Chinese never discuss any product or service other than access to Joe.  I'm sure what "the Bidens are the best ... at" doesn't involve anything harmful to America — like granting his pal Xi Jinping permission to fly reconnaissance balloons over America.

    But Hunter was involved in not only the sales side of the family business.  He also did the dirty work of collections.  In another message to Zhao, he texted:

    I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.

    That was Hunter Biden giving a Chinese businessman, with ties to Chinese intelligence, an "or else" if they didn't pay up.  Five million bucks arrived in the next few days.

    But the Chinese weren't the only clients of Biden Inc.  They also did extensive work (I'm using the term loosely) with Burisma in Ukraine.  A whistleblower has come forward identifying evidence in FBI possession that the Bidens were working a side deal, while Joe was the vice president, to help Burisma Holdings out of some legal difficulties.

    It seems Burisma needed a Ukrainian investigation to go away.  Joe helped by threatening to withhold a billion dollars of U.S. aid if the Ukrainians didn't fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma.  The Ukrainians complied, the investigation was terminated, and Hunter and Joe each received $5 million.

    The whistleblower claims that the president of Burisma told him that he has audio recordings of his conversation with Joe — presumably as insurance to make sure the bribed stay bribed.  We know that Joe did the deed, because he bragged about it at a Council for Foreign Relations meeting — on video.  Maybe now we have a better idea about why he did the deed.

    The Bidens created a vast network of shell companies to launder the money received.  But ill gotten gains are still gains, and subject to taxation.  Therefore, the IRS was following the money.

    Investigators had to work their way through the maze of shell companies, which received money, divided it up, moved it around, and eventually deposited it in Biden family bank accounts.  The investigation was a time-consuming process of subpoenaing records, fighting legal resistance, and moving to the next link in the money chain — hoping to reach the end before the statute of limitations expired.  The investigators almost pulled it off — until they were told to stand down, ignore leads associated Joe Biden or the "big guy," and let Hunter off with a couple of misdemeanors for defrauding taxpayers of millions of dollars.

    This is all ample evidence that in the Biden family business, Joe had the product, and Hunter took care of sales, collections, and distribution of the proceeds.

    Does Joe love Hunter?  Maybe so, but demonstrably not as much as Joe loves Joe.

    Would a father who loves a son more than himself involve that son in a criminal enterprise that could land him in jail for decades?

    Would a father who's concerned about his troubled son facilitate his access to easy money for drugs, strippers, and hookers?

    Wouldn't a loving father try to separate his troubled son from the influences that corrupted him — rather than increase his exposure to temptations at state dinners, West Wing meetings, and overseas travel to meet with foreign businessmen?

    Wouldn't a concerned father be able to keep drugs away from his addicted son in the most secure building in the world — the White House?  However, we've learned that the White House was evacuated because a bag of cocaine was found in the West Wing.  We've also learned that the Bidens have directed the White House staff to "lay off" Hunter Biden.  Just how extensive was that directive?  Did it include "laying off" stopping the first son from snorting cocaine in the West Wing?

    Those are rhetorical questions.  We know the answers, so spare me the "loving father" nonsense.  Joe is the head of a criminal enterprise, selling government influence to the highest bidder, with complete disregard for America's interests.  He used his son and other family members to do the dirty work of

    • selling the product (influence),
    • collecting the proceeds, and
    • laundering the money for use by the first family.

    While they did that, Joe smiled for the cameras and worked to maintain the façade of returning normalcy to the White House.

    But Hunter is no criminal mastermind, and he left far too much evidence of family misdeeds for the public to ignore.  Now that Hunter has been caught, Joe is suddenly concerned about his troubled son?  Baloney.  Joe is running interference with the DOJ and keeping Hunter close to keep him quiet.

    Nothing Joe Biden is doing is being done out of affection for his son.  It's being done to save his own skin.  He's doing what any other mob boss would do with an underling when the truth starts bubbling to the surface: keep him quiet at all costs.  Some loving father.

    John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho.  He has written for American Thinker and American Free News Network.  He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.

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    The Liberal Media Need Shock Treatment

    We hear it all the time and it’s true: “How would the liberal media be treating this story if it was a Republican instead of a Democrat?”

    • The IRS whistleblowers in the Hunter Biden matter are ignored by the liberal media.
    • Biden steals thousands of classified documents -- without the authority to declassify them -- when he was a senator and vice-president and the story disappears.
    • FBI insiders bravely reveal the blatant pro-Democratic bias of the organization and their testimony is sloughed off.
    • Joe Biden commits one embarrassing verbal gaffe after another, demonstrating an unarguable diminution of mental acuity, and the video clips are nowhere to be seen on the mainstream stations.
    • James Comer finds one ironclad, tangible example after another of inappropriate, even illegal, financial dealings by the entire Biden family and Comer’s investigation is dismissed by the liberal media as unfounded hearsay.
    • Talk of the 2016 presidential election being stolen by President Trump from Hillary is hailed as heroic, patriotic protest, but presenting the mountains of indisputable evidence of 2020 election fraud committed by the Democrats against President Trump gets you branded as a traitor by the mainstream media.

    This list of examples could go on and on, but for the sake of brevity and current relevance, we’ll leave it there. The mainstream media is totally biased in favor of the Democrats. The networks, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, late-night television, the major newspapers, and PBS are all vessels of liberal thought. The editors and correspondents at these organizations actively promote liberal positions and intentionally cast anything conservative in a negative light, especially if it has anything even remotely to do with President Trump.

    None of this is new. It’s been going on for quite a while. Some people say that the specific event where the media turned and became liberally biased was in June 1987. This was when the painfully unintellectual Democratic bomb-thrower Ted Kennedy -- desperately seeking some small measure of self-justification after a disappointing political career totally bereft of any significant accomplishments whatsoever -- took to the Senate floor and tore into President Reagan’s Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork with a totally unfounded, hateful, cliché-ridden screed attacking his character and his qualifications. It was all false, but the networks jumped on it and replayed it endlessly, until even the average casually attentive voter had a negative opinion of Bork’s nomination and he was defeated.

    The bigger issue is can anything be done to change the liberal media’s behavior. That’s the question. So far, the answer has been “no.”

    There is a conservative organization called the Media Research Center that bills itself as “America’s Media Watchdog.” They are a good organization that does a lot of very valuable work. By far their biggest contribution to the news/media environment is the research and record-keeping functions they perform. They maintain innumerable (probably in the millions) files of media occurrences dating back decades and they are constantly monitoring the news and chronicling the coverage. When you see a report on TV that the “coverage of President Trump a month before the election was 91% negative” or that the “major networks devoted only 53 seconds of coverage to the Hunter laptop story,” chances are that was the MRC at work.

    But unfortunately, The MRC is an after-the-fact “Ah ha!” organization. They do a great job of reporting and detailing out exactly what crimes the liberal media have committed, after they’ve already committed them. They will not and cannot go after the liberal media and get them to change their behavior before their next Kennedyesque transgression. So we are left with the Joy Reids, Jake Tappers, Joy Behars, and Jim Acostas continually spewing their insulting, tilted lies, totally uninhibited by any thought of being called to account for their behavior.

    The key to behavior modification is negative, painful consequences. If the subject experiences a painful rebuke on a repeated basis, they learn to not continue that behavior. If a dog messes in the house and is met with a rolled-up magazine across the snoot every time, it soon learns not to mess in the house. If a lab rat is given the choice of getting a food pellet from two dispensers, one of which gives out a sharp electrical shock, the rat will learn in very short order not to use that dispenser and go to the other instead.

    Who is handing out shocks to the liberal media for their repeatedly intentional dishonest reporting? Who is holding them to account when they refuse to cover a major story that redounds negatively to Democrats?

    The feeling here is that unless specific reporters can be individually humiliated and made to feel distinct personal embarrassment, they will never change their behavior. Being called out by a conservative evening cable host doesn’t do any good, because the viewing audience is too small and that’s like preaching to the choir anyway.

    Maybe a Kevin McCarthy or a Ted Cruz could hold a weekly press conference and list, by correspondent name and example, that week’s worst offenders, the biggest lies, the worst omissions. But this kind of plan runs the very real risk of not being covered by the liberal media, who are highly unlikely to report on bad acts by other “teammates.”

    It’s a vicious cycle. The liberal media lie about conservatives, refuse to cover stories that are negative to Democrats, and therefore the average casually attentive swing voter never knows the real story. It’s a nice racket they’ve arranged for themselves. The liberal media rats have unfettered access to all the pain-free food pellet dispensers, without any shocks in sight.

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    Exclusive – Ex-DNI John Ratcliffe Slams Two-Tiered Justice System: ‘They Need to Protect Hunter Biden to Protect Joe”

    President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden arrive at Fort McNair, Sunday, June 25, 2023, in Washington. The Biden's are returning from Camp David. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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    Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe in an exclusive interview with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday slammed the Justice Department’s light-handed treatment of Hunter Biden versus former President Donald Trump, suggesting it was to protect President Joe Biden.

    “When we talk about why the Justice Department [and] the FBI are doing these crazy gymnastics to protect Hunter Biden, they need to protect Hunter Biden to protect Joe Biden,” Ratcliffe told host Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.

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    Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 5, 2020. (Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images)

    “Because I think if Hunter … the saying goes, a crack addict would sell out their mother to save themselves — and in this case, it would be his father. And I think that that’s a part of what we’re seeing here,” he said.

    Ratcliffe said it was “not just Hunter Biden” who was receiving money from shady foreign business partners.

    “It’s not just the president’s son, it’s the president’s brother. It’s the president’s daughter in law, it’s the President’s grandchildren — somewhere between $10 [million] and $40 million from entities in different foreign jurisdictions [to] include the CCP. These foreign transactions for which the Biden family has provided no products and no services,” he said.

    Ratcliffe noted that it took five years for the Justice Department to investigate Hunter Biden, only returning two misdemeanors and a diversion on a gun violation, while it took the Justice Department only seven months to charge Trump over his handling of alleged classified documents.

    “At the very same time, the very same Justice Department takes seven months to charge former President Trump — the President’s primary political opponent — with crimes that would put him away for 400 years. You line that up side-by-side, and it just sort of underscores the reality of what we’re talking about,” he said.

    Ratcliffe said according to statistics gathered by Right on Crime, the Biden Justice Department has charged 4,000 users in possession (or people using a controlled substance possessing a firearm illegally), and only once has it recommended pretrial diversion.

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    “Guess who that is? That’s Hunter Biden,” Ratcliffe said.

    He also said the DOJ in its entire history has offered pretrial diversion in less than one percent of 189,000 cases for “restricted persons in possession,” which includes users of a controlled substance, felons in possession, and illegal aliens.

    But, he said, “I think the more staggering statistic is only one out of 4,000 times, has this very same Justice Department shown this type of leniency and it’s for the president’s son.”

    He contrasted that leniency with the fervor with which the DOJ pursued Trump for “Russian collusion” despite receiving intelligence that it was a smear by Hillary Clinton to hurt him him during the 2016 election.

    “When I was in Congress, when we were asking questions about potential FISA abuse [and] spying on the Trump campaign, we were all told that was a bunch of nonsense, it was ridiculous … we were conspiracy theorists. But when I became DNI and had access to our very best intelligence, one of the first things I said was, ‘Well, I want to see everything we have on Russian collusion,'” he said.

    “I learned that we didn’t have any intelligence on Russian collusion, because there wasn’t any what we had was intelligence — that the Hillary Clinton campaign created the Russia collusion hoax … what John Durham called the ‘Clinton intelligence plan,'” he added.

    “There’s been so much talk about this perception of a two-tier system of justice, but it’s not a perception. It’s a reality,” he said.

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    I’d be inclined to disagree with Don except for one thing: Biden has proven to be a very adept criminal mastermind. For decades, he has funneled millions of dollars to his children and siblings and, especially, to his debauched, deviant son, Hunter. 

                                                   ANDREA WIDBURG

     

    There it is.  That's the issue.  To begin, you have the corrupt family Biden.  They've been scamming us and our system well for almost fifty years.  The man is supposedly worth over 250 million dollars.  How is this possible on his salary?  It's not.  So where did his wealth come from?  Not from being a brilliant businessman. DAVID PRENTICE


    The book is a devastating chronicle of political corruption. From Ukraine to Mexico to China, Hunter Biden's private correspondence shows how he and his family leveraged his father's position to win high-paying, low-work gigs with shady foreign actors—and how Joe's official actions at times directly benefited his family's financial backers.  ALANA GOODMAN

    Where there’s smoke, look for fire.  Biden came from humble means, never worked in the private sector, but somehow became wildly wealthy.  Several of Biden’s family members essentially work in the family business of apparent influence peddling.  Does Biden’s frequent refrain, “I never spoke with my son about his overseas business deals” come to mind?  It makes one wonder if “never” really means “never!”.  Biden has nine relatives receiving millions in foreign cash.  What were they talking about when Vice President Biden and his cronies met 80 times at the White House?  Veracity is everything when you solicit the public’s trust, and Biden’s persona is wrapped around his supposed trustworthiness.  However, the facts here point to a person who uses hyperbole, manipulation, and outright lying to sway public opinion.

                                                                      ALLAN J FEIFER


    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.