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  • #31
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    Who says you can't buy a job...

    Report: Labor Pick Paid $90,000 to Biden-Linked Firm Before Nomination

    Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Labor Department, had paid thousands of dollars to a consulting firm founded by top Biden adviser Anita Dunn, The Washington Free Beacon is reporting. Walsh made the payments using campaign funds in the months before being selected for the Labor post, according to the Beacon. The news outlet said the Walsh campaign paid the communications firm SKDKnickerbocker $18,000 in consulting fees in September. It said just one day later Dunn, SKDK’s managing director who had led the Biden presidential campaign, joined the Biden transition team as one of four national co-chairs.

    Walsh paid SKDK an additional $72,000 over three months ending in late December. About two weeks later, Walsh was picked by Biden to lead the Labor Department. A week following his selection, Dunn was selected to be a senior White House adviser.

    The Beacon pointed out that Walsh had never previously used the firm for campaign expenditures. His payment to the firm was his largest to a single vendor during the months of September, November, and December.

    Walsh attended the Biden inauguration on Wednesday. A Senate hearing on his confirmation has not been scheduled. Politico reported that Walsh and Biden have strong personal ties. Biden spoke at the mayor’s 2017 inauguration and the two have been spotted together at various times.

    https://www.newsmax.com/politics/wal...21/id/1006563/
    If Junior really cared about union workers... he would of been standing in the pipeline line with a huge donation in hand.

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    • #32
      Re: Big Tech, Social media and the government

      Originally posted by Docker View Post
      Who says you can't buy a job...



      If Junior really cared about union workers... he would of been standing in the pipeline line with a huge donation in hand.
      I won't knock him for that as there were quite a few that did the same thing in the Trump administration.. Two that ring a bell are the guy that runs the Post Office from I think XPO or something like that and Zollars ,formally from YRC and YRC did get that covid 19 loan.. And if it wasn't for Zollars ,IMO , YRC could be history right now.. How quickly those teamsters forgot about that..

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      • #33
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        Nancy And Paul Pelosi Bought More Than $1 Million In Tesla, Disney And Apple Calls In December

        When one looks at a situation like Monday's insanity-fueled, retail induced short squeeze across the board, one must ask: who are the government officials that have allowed this to happen and what have they been doing during the time they should be regulating such multiple-sigma market absurdities? Allow us to offer a partial answer. If you were Nancy Pelosi and her husband, you were buying call options in names like Apple, Tesla and Disney. That's what a new disclosure, detailed in Barron's, revealed late last week. Paul Pelosi purchased LEAPS in Tesla, Apple and Disney and shares in AllianceBernstein on December 22, the disclosure revealed. In other words, it's not just clueless retail Robinhood investors that are speculating; it's also clueless politicians.



        He purchased 100 $100 strike Apple calls that expire in January 2022 and paid between $250,000 and $500,000 for them. He also bought 25 in the money Tesla calls, selecting the $500 strike calls with a March 2022 expiration, according to the report. Those cost between $500,000 and $1 million. Finally, he bought between $500,000 and $1 million in Disney options, buying 100 calls at a $100 strike that expire in January 2022. He also "paid $500,001 to $1 million for 20,000 shares of global investment firm AllianceBernstein," putting his average price around $33.37.

        Obviously, the call option purchases are worth noting - not only because they are leveraged investments and are far more risky than buying outright stock - but because the Speaker now clearly has a vested interest in the success of names like Tesla, whose trajectories as public companies can be altered drastically by government decisions.

        Paul Pelosi and Speaker Pelosi’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment, Barron's said. Can't say we're surprised.

        https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/na...calls-december
        That's one of the places where their real income comes from... their salary is just a drop in the bucket.

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        • #34
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          Communist China Infiltrating Everything

          Information indicates that not only is China’s communist regime running an influence campaign in America, it is infiltrating organizations worldwide.

          It has become popular for conservatives to exclaim, only half jokingly, that “China owns Biden.” And while it may sound funny to the uninformed, the reality is deadly serious. Unfortunately, Biden is just the tip of the iceberg: At all levels, U.S. officials, businesses, and media outlets are being compromised. In fact, whether the mass-murdering regime in Beijing officially owns Biden or not, it “owns” a growing array of assets among Western politicians, companies, technologies, media outlets, and more, a situation that threatens the survival of America as a free nation.

          Even official disclosures reveal an enormous problem, including U.S. politicians being wined and dined by a CCP front. And now, leaked documents, which identify almost two million Communist Chinese Party (CCP) members, have confirmed that even organizations and companies not officially owned by the party are at least packed with members and spies loyal to Beijing. The American media, which would normally be responsible for reporting all this, is being paid off and compromised by Beijing, too, a growing array of documents and evidence reveal.

          The new revelations add urgency to recent warnings from U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe. He noted that Beijing poses the “greatest threat to freedom” since World War II and that the murderous regime was seeking to “dominate the planet economically, militarily and technologically.” U.S. lawmakers are being targeted via bribery and blackmail to do the dictatorship’s bidding, he added. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo echoed those warnings. And of course, many key members of the globalist elite in America have been openly aiding and abetting the rise of the CCP for decades, as this magazine has documented.

          Taken together, it is becoming more and more clear that the Communist Party of China is now a threat not just to the United States, but to liberty and free peoples worldwide. With help from Deep State globalists across the United States and the broader Western world, Beijing now has agents placed at every level of power. And if not stopped, the “New World Order” often touted by Communist Chinese bigwigs and their allies in the West will remake the planet in the image of the CCP and the barbarous tyranny it oversees. America is the last barrier — and the walls have already been breached. There exists a massive array of powerful organizations in the United States working to build up Communist China — especially its economic and military power. Aside from the Council on Foreign Relations, which has been key, one of the most powerful but obscure is the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, whose leadership reads like a who’s who of pro-Beijing powerhouse figures in the United States. The roster includes former U.S. Secretary of State Henry “New World Order” Kissinger, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, and more.

          As The New American magazine has been reporting for decades, Deep State globalists in the West were crucial in betraying the people of China into communism, and then building up the regime enslaving them. Today, the Deep State and Beijing are essentially partners in the quest to undermine America and freedom as they pursue what they openly describe as the “New World Order.” Billionaire globalists including such well-known names such as Rockefeller, Soros, Gates, Bloomberg, and more have been instrumental. If not stopped, the New World Order that globalist elites and Beijing are seeking to build will look a lot like Communist China — and America’s sellout journalists, politicians, and corporations will bear a large part of the blame. It is time for urgent action to deal with the foreign and domestic threats before they prove fatal.

          https://thenewamerican.com/magazine/...3/page/115294/

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          • #35
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            Originally posted by Docker View Post
            That's one of the places where their real income comes from... their salary is just a drop in the bucket.
            Nothing there !! Move on!!

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            • #36
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              Originally posted by crazy View Post
              Nothing there !! Move on!!
              And we must not forget the corrupt lobbyists...

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              • #37
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                Poor Joe... just not as popular as he would like... lol

                Joe Biden's got a social media problem

                This, when you think about it, is pretty grotesque.Despite an amazing media buildup, a vote tally of supposedly 81 million votes, and lots of judges ruling in favor of Biden on the cheating issue, Biden just can't cough up much evidence of popularity out among the hoi polloi who supposedly voted for him in the majority and aren't easily controlled.This is about par for Biden, who not only couldn't draw a crowd to his campaign rallies but who repeatedly demonstrates instances of favoring illusion over fact. To take another example, on Twitter, Biden boasts 16% fake internet followers (which are bots and the like), which is quite a high count, particularly with Twitter now scrubbing accounts for fake followers. Many pols have been known to put them there to appear more popular than they are (see Kamala Harris), so one can just guess the story with Biden.

                Nova notes that a pretty brilliant woman named Zoe Phin has dug into the Javascript code and found that YouTube is actually repressing dislikes at this point.

                In newer Whitehouse videos' the downvotes continue. Clearly the Social Media controllers have a problem. One week later, and Youtube don't just unlist the video's [sic] — the Swat team has started deleting the deporable votes instead.

                Zoe Phin downloaded the data every 80 seconds and graphed it. Within six hours of posting a video, the dislikes were nearly ten times high than the likes — but then the magic eraser of unpopularity gets to work.
                Phin's code work from examining four videos, complete with charts showing those famous precipitous drops associated with Biden voting tallies, can be viewed here.

                Which highlights the amazingly cynical nature of the Biden regime, somehow the most popular, but unable to cook up any evidence of its much-bragged about popularity, which tops that of Barack Obama.

                It's kind of like dictatorships, actually. Dictatorships do that. Those 99% popularity rates sported by the likes of Saddam Hussein or Hugo Chávez seem to be visible here. In the past, these were objects of ridicule. Joe Biden, on the other hand, seems to be taking these dictator doings as a how-to guide.

                https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...a_problem.html

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                • #38
                  Re: Big Tech, Social media and the government

                  Twitter Suspends Christian Group for Accurately Describing Biden’s Transgendered Health Official Dr. Levine’s Biological Sex

                  A Christian organization has been suspended from the Twitter social media platform for stating Dr. Rachel Levine’s, assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), biological sex.In recent weeks tech giants like Twitter, Facebook, and Google have been censuring mostly conservative voices on social media platforms, including former President Donald Trump and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell. “You can now add Focus on the Family’s The Daily Citizen to the list,” Jim Daly, president of the organization, wrote in a blog last week. Daly wrote about the ongoing censorship that has taken place in the wake of a volatile election:

                  As I’ve noted before, Big Tech titans are the new emperors of the twenty-first century, wielding an inordinate amount of power by silencing individuals and organizations that don’t comport or cave to their political or social point of view.

                  This past week, Twitter locked The Daily Citizen for an alleged rules violation, specifically that we had posted “hateful” content. It’s simply not true. We did no such thing.

                  At issue was a Tweet pointing to a story about Dr. Rachel Levine, President Biden’s controversial nominee for Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services. The tweet included the following sentence:
                  “Dr. Levine is a transgender woman, that is, a man who believes he is a woman.” Daly said the appeal to Twitter about the suspension was denied. “Over the course of the last week, President Biden has been stressing the need for unity – but his actions since taking office are all about demanding uniformity,” Daly wrote. “There appears to be no room for convictional disagreement.You will comply – or be silenced.”

                  Daly included in his blog a list of others who have been silenced on social media.

                  • Curt Schilling — had his insurance dropped by AIG; may not make Hall of Fame today because of statements supporting conservative causes

                  • Brandon Eich — Mozilla CEO, ousted after it was discovered he’d privately given money in support of California’s anti-gay marriage referendum in the past

                  • Martina Navratilova — thrown off LGBT advocacy board and loses speaking engagements and documentary after arguing that transgender male athletes shouldn’t be able to compete in women’s sports

                  • JK Rowling — prevented from getting last book published because of tweets making distinctions between the sexes

                  • Ariel Pink dropped from record label for attending Trump rally, not to mention all of the people who have been fired from jobs for attending the January 6 rally, regardless of whether they even came near the Capitol

                  • CrossFit founder Greg Glassman forced to sell company after making remarks critical of the rioting last year

                  “It goes on and on,” Daly wrote. “And we’re only at the beginning of a coordinated effort to silence those of us with socially conservative convictions.”

                  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...iological-sex/

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                  • #39
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                    A lot of people went to Newsmax when they left Foxnews.. The "Pillow" guy did a lot of advertising on both outlets but Lindell has continued with the voter fraud issue and Twitter not only cancelled him on his personal account but they cancelled his company account as well.. So Newsmax invites Lindell to speak about censorship and the cancel culture and they do the same thing as the big media outlets do.. How can Mike Lindell explain why he is banned from twitter without mentioning voter fraud??

                    WATCH: Newsmax Host Has Mike Lindell on to Talk About Tech Censorship — Ends Up Censoring Him As Well — Then Storms Out of Studio

                    Newsmax host Bob Sellers had My Pillow founder Mike Lindell on his show to talk about big tech censorship — then ended up censoring him as well.
                    Lindell was appearing on “American Agenda” to discuss the fact that he and his company were both recently banned from Twitter.
                    The segment was supposed to be focusing on big tech tyranny and censorship, but Sellers ultimately ended up doing the very thing that his show was attempting to criticize.

                    As Lindell began to explain why he was silenced on social media — his belief that the election was rigged and that Dominion Voting Machines played a role in it — Sellers promptly jumped in to read a prepared statement about how Newsmax accepts the election results.
                    “Well, first mine was taking down because we have all this election fraud with these Dominion machines — we have 100 percent proof —” Lindell began before Sellers interjected to cut him off.

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                    “Mike, thank you very much, Mike, Mike — you’re talking about machines that we at Newsmax have not been able to verify any of, uh, those kinds of allegations. We just want to let people know that there’s nothing substantive that we have seen. Let me read you something there,” Sellers says as Lindell attempts to continue speaking.

                    Sellers proceeds to read off a statement saying “there were some clear evidence of some cases of vote fraud and election irregularities, the election results in every state were certified and Newsmax accepts the results as legal and final. The courts have also supported that view.”


                    After silencing his guest, Sellers has the audacity to say that he wants to talk to Lindell about cancel culture.


                    “We don’t want to relitigate the accusations that you’re making Mike,” Sellers asserts as Lindell gets increasingly agitated by the interruption.

                    “You’re going to suppress, just like Twitter,” Lindell says as the host continues to speak over him.

                    Sellers then asks if Lindell thinks it will be a temporary ban, and the MyPillow owner attempts to explain that he is reviewing more evidence of fraud on Friday.

                    “Can we ask our producers, can we get out of here please?” Sellers says before getting up and walking off air.



                    It is highly likely that they are attempting to avoid a lawsuit, which Dominion has been handing out left and right, but silencing their guests leaves them little room to critique censorship by others.

                    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...storms-studio/

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                    • #40
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                      There's no backing down from this Lt Governor...

                      North Carolina’s Lt. Governor shows how to fight back against a corrupt media

                      In 2018, Mark Robinson stood up before the city council in Greensboro, North Carolina, and gave an impassioned defense of the Second Amendment. That video went viral and led to him entering politics. Last year, Robinson became North Carolina’s Republican Lieutenant Governor. This year, when a local paper published a cartoon calling the entire North Carolina Republican party a KKK entity, Robinson (who is black) ferociously attacked the newspaper for its dishonesty and ignorance. He needs to give master classes in handling the media.

                      To get a sense of the man, I recommend that you take the four minutes to watch his defense of the Second Amendment in the face of the Greensboro city council’s plan to ban gun shows from coming to the city. It’s epic:



                      This man is not a shrinking violet. So, as I said, that speech was the springboard to a successful political career that saw Mark Robinson go from private citizen to North Carolina Lieutenant Governor in just two years.

                      On Tuesday, WRAL.com published a cartoon that showed the Republican party as the KKK party. The cartoon revolves around the North Carolina Board of Education’s plan to have “inclusive” social studies standards. In a word, the standards are “woke” – they are the usual anti-American stuff about America being a racist, imperialist, destructive, hate-filled, yadda, yadda, yadda country. Republicans on the Board of Education – and Robinson is one of those Republicans – object to the proposed standards. By way of rebuke, the cartoon shows an elephant draped in KKK garments, saying that, as to the proposed standards, “We prefer to start with a clean sheet”:

                      Robinson was neither amused nor apologetic. Instead, he launched a full-frontal attack against the media for being racist, hypocritical, and historically ignorant:



                      “I’m not going to go along to get along. I’m going to call them out every time.” That’s what every Republican should say when the media goes low.

                      https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...upt_media.html
                      We would have all these wacky liberals running for cover in no time if we had a whole hell of a lot more republicans like him in office!!!

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                      • #41
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                        Originally posted by Docker View Post
                        There's no backing down from this Lt Governor...



                        We would have all these wacky liberals running for cover in no time if we had a whole hell of a lot more republicans like him in office!!!
                        We should make 3D printing copies of this guy.. I remember his original speech two years ago and if I remember right Hannity had him on his show after the speech.. He tells you where it is at.. No bullsh*t..

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                        • #42
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                          Tucker Carlson's plan to end systemic racism and income inequality in America

                          Sometimes, Tucker Carlson shows a real touch of genius. That was the case with his suggestion for true societal change in America. It's time, he said, for America's elite educational institutions (the Ivy Leagues and other high-ranking colleges and universities) to stop promoting generational affluence. They need to jettison their rich student body and, in the future, admit only disadvantaged students.

                          Tucker opened his proposal by noting that we're currently experiencing a non-traditional revolution in which the ruling class is attacking and destroying the working and middle classes. Thus, while the French had "liberty, fraternity, equality," the new revolution, the one that's against ordinary Americans, is framed as "diversity, equity, inclusion."

                          However, after detailing the attacks the elites are leveling against working- and middle-class Americans, Tucker explains that the real failure of diversity, equity, and inclusion is to be found at America's top colleges and universities. The data show conclusively that these are institutions in which rich people cluster. Further, attending one of these indoctrination centers ensures generational wealth. With an eye toward the academies, Tucker proposes a more traditional revolution, one that sees America's elites give way to those who are victims of systemic racism and economic inequality.

                          To achieve this end expeditiously and without bloodshed, Tucker proposes immediately requiring the top 50 colleges and universities to stop admitting their usual cohort of students from rich families and, instead, to admit only economically disadvantaged people. These new admittees don't even have to be in America legally. They just need to come from the bottom-most echelons, representing people who have suffered from the systemic racism that the elites see everywhere and from the economic inequality that Democrat policies promote.

                          https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...n_america.html

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                          • #43
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                            Biden “War on Energy” is Really Deep State War on US

                            In this episode of Behind the Deep State, host Alex Newman explains that the apparent Biden administration war on U.S. energy production and security is actually a Deep State war on you–and the United States–as well as freedom. Primarily, it will benefit the Deep State and foreign powers such as the regimes ruling China, Venezuela, Russia, and much of the Middle East. It is all perfectly in line with the Deep State agenda to treat humanity as “the enemy,” as outlined by the Club of Rome in 1991. A shadowy “Billionaires Club” in involved too...



                            https://thenewamerican.com/biden-war...ate-war-on-us/

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                            • #44
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                              ATTENTION SNOWFLAKES...

                              Get your very own RegretsReporter browser extension today for both... your Firefox and Google Chrome browsers and geting offended by conservative news... opinions and views will soon be a thing of the past...

                              They must of heard and now responding to this plea for help...

                              Originally posted by fxstc07 View Post
                              Only in the feeble weak minds of those insurrectionists traitors that post constantly now.
                              I also heard that if you put down fx as the one who referred you... you will also receive a free gift... an autographed picture of Joe Biden when he was still able to spell his name correctly... which will only gain in value as time goes on.

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                              • #45
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                                Goldman, Bank Of America Made Hundreds Of Millions From Texas Blackouts

                                Who needs Enron when you have taxpayer-backed "banks"

                                Whereas 20 years ago, it was Enron that made billions from the California electricity crisis (which it caused), a scandal which culminated with Enron’s scandalous and convoluted bankruptcy, this time it is pristine banks such as Goldman and Bank of America that made hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue as tens of millions of Texans were stuck in the dark. According to the Financial Times, in the days when the Texas electric grid failed during last month’s polar vortex blast and which sent electricity prices to staggering levels, Bank of America made hundreds of millions of dollars in trading revenue “highlighting the upside for Wall Street from mayhem that knocked out power and heat across the state, industry executives and traders said.”

                                The bank’s Houston-based energy trading group – which is part of BofA’s FICC division that made revenues of $1.7bn in the fourth quarter – had electricity contracts that soared in value when wholesale Texas power prices rose 10,000 per cent to a cap of $9,000 a megawatt-hour the third week of February, the FT reports.The story is familiar to our readers: while the record prices were ordered by the Texas utility regulator in an attempt to bring more generation into service, this plan imploded when almost half the state’s capacity fell offline as wind farms froze over starting a catastrophic chain reaction which lead to widespread blackouts amid blocked supplies of natural gas and frozen coal piles. The Blackouts lasted days, leaving millions in the dark.

                                Like numerous other power merchants, BofA takes part in the Texas energy market by trading power and gas and selling products that enable generators and other asset owners to hedge against fluctuating prices. That activity left BofA with an inventory of power contracts that surged in value during the blackouts. “The volatility of the energy market has heightened the value of risk management,” the bank’s website says, perhaps in anticipation of the outrage that will follow the realization that a handful of banks made huge windfalls as the population froze, in some cases to death.

                                To ease its conscience – and preempting the angry populist chants in front of its Texas office – the bank pledged $1.1 million – or a tiny fraction of its power revenues – to charities to provide shelter, water, food and other essentials after the weather catastrophe.

                                The final outcome, according to Bloomberg, depends in part on developments in places such as Texas. That market’s manager, ERCOT or the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, is grappling with a $2.5 billion shortfall as more than a dozen companies face default. In a further complication, an independent monitor told state regulators that Ercot incorrectly priced electricity during the emergency, resulting in $16 billion in overcharges. If that were reversed, the adjustment would cut profits expected by some of the market’s biggest winners. Meanwhile, in the statehouse, discussion of a potential bailout or other intervention continues.

                                https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/go...exas-blackouts

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