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Chamber of Commerce Details Globalist Agenda: Impose Unlimited Immigration, Ink More Free Trade Deals
[Breitbart] The United States Chamber of Commerce detailed its globalist policy agenda for the year, including advocating for more overall immigration regardless of its impact on the nation’s workers along with inking new free trade deals regardless of the impact on American jobs.

Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark delivered an annual address, laying out the group’s agenda for the year on behalf of the multinational corporations that it represents in Washington, DC.

As part of that agenda, Clark endorsed unlimited immigration to the U.S. where employers can import as many foreign workers as possible whenever “they need it” by blowing the lid off caps to employment-based visas.

Previously, Clark demanded that Congress double legal immigration levels — a plan that would bring in a record more than two million foreign nationals a year.

In addition, Clark continued the Chamber’s call on Congress to pass amnesty for millions of illegal aliens who are enrolled or eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“Last year, with the strong support and input of the Chamber, there were meaningful bipartisan talks on proposals to secure the border, expand E-Verify, protect Dreamers, and increase the number of employment-based visas — crucial steps to get American businesses the talent they need, when they need it,” Clark said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:


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Ex-intel Official Doug Wise Admits 2020 Hunter Biden Story Is ‘Real’ After Calling It Russian Disinformation’
[AAN] Douglas Wise, a former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director and former senior CIA operations officer, was one of the over 50 different intelligence officials who claimed the content in the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election was part of a "Russian information operation." Wise and the over 50 different signatories claimed that the story initially published in 2020 by The New York Post "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

Wise would go on to have an interview with The Australian this week, where he told them:

"All of us figured that a significant portion of that content had to be real to make any Russian disinformation credible," adding he had "no surprise" that The New York Posts story, as well as the emails, were largely genuine.
So he figured the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop was so important it had to be surrounded by a body of lies? A properly trained journalist would have followed that statement up by asking why. I wish I could cuss properly to express my feelings about the lot of them.
In 2020, multiple left-wing signatories were among those who signed the open letter claiming the 2020 Hunter Biden email story was Russian disinformation, including multiple guest speakers on MSNBC and CNN, such as John Brennan, James Clapper, and Michael Hayden.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2023 00:38 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They did what they had to do to get you to support Biden. Lying, censorship, blaming the Russians...it worked, didn't it? They're not sorry at all.

Now think about how you came out in full-throated support of Ukraine just because they told you. Sobering, isn't it?
Posted by: Herman Hapsburg8987 || 01/18/2023 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Ach! "Befehl ist Befehl."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2023 1:14 Comments || Top||

#3  They did what they had to do to get you to support Biden. Lying, censorship, blaming the Russians...it worked, didn't it?

No, it didn’t. Without cheating he did not win.

support of Ukraine just because they told you.

Russia’s history is its own worst enemy. It doesn’t help that we’ve been watching the Antifa, founded and funded for decades as a Soviet project, rampaging cities as the militant arm of the Democratic party.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2023 2:06 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 think about how you came out in full-throated support of Ukraine

And what does our herb-powered bot see
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Posted by: Whump Whinetle9496 || 01/18/2023 4:31 Comments || Top||

#5  It doesn’t help that we’ve been watching the Antifa, founded and funded for decades as a Soviet project, rampaging cities as the militant arm of the Democratic party.

You've got some words, Girl.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2023 7:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Power is self rationalizing and self justifying. Power by any means necessary.

No special trust should be given to any of these men. Your best defense is to remove the power that they so crave.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/18/2023 7:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Apologies to the late US Senator from Wisconsin.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2023 7:55 Comments || Top||


#9  "A Tyrant does not make a tyranny, rather it is all the minions abusing power in his name." --a quote I do not recall the original source
Posted by: magpie || 01/18/2023 10:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Probably predates the earliest Pharaohs in some form or another.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/18/2023 11:13 Comments || Top||

#11  Now think about how you came out in full-throated support of Ukraine just because they told you. Sobering, isn't it?

Some of us do not seem to be able to connect the dots. Sobering indeed.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/18/2023 14:36 Comments || Top||

#12  There was a term for it. It was like preponderance of intel or the mosaic of intelligence. All the pompous bozos used it during SpyGate. Brennan used it most. Maybe it was the charcuterie board on intelligence.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/18/2023 17:24 Comments || Top||

#13  Wise is pure swamp. West Point, military, DIA, CIA, CIA to DIA. Retired and associated with some very spooky outfits in New Mexico and Colorado. Assuredly, would attack anyone trying to reign-in the intelligence outfits.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 01/18/2023 18:09 Comments || Top||

#14  Maybeit was the charcuterie board on intelligence.

"Pronounced: Shark-Cootchie"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/18/2023 19:27 Comments || Top||

#15  Charro’s favorite snack.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/18/2023 22:10 Comments || Top||


Hunter Biden's China-Linked Company Paid $49,910 In Rent – Identical To Amount Hunter Biden Paid For Joe's House Where Classified Documents Found, Expense Reports Reveal.
From a comment Tues posted by our own Mad Eye Omeretch
[War Room] Following revelations that Hunter Biden was paying his father, President Joe Biden, $49,910 in monthly rent to live at a Delaware residence where confidential documents were discovered, War Room can reveal the funds for the arrangement came from Rosemont Seneca Advisors LLC.

Two documents from the First Son’s hard drive reveal that the consulting firm, which was involved in Hunter Biden’s Chinese Communist Party-linked business ventures, was the source of funds for the astronomically high rent. Entities that comprised Hunter Biden’s income, according to the document, include LLCs tied to the Chinese Communist Party and its foreign influence operations.

Rosemont Seneca Advisors LLC was an offshoot of Rosemont Capital, an international private equity firm co-founded by Hunter Biden, the stepson of former Secretary of State and President Biden’s Climate Czar John Kerry, and his Yale roommate in 2009. Other subsidiaries of the multi-billion-dollar firm included Rosemont Seneca Partners, Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners, and even Rosemont Realty.

Rosemont Seneca Partners infamously joined the BHR Partners investment fund, a $1.5 billion deal birthed less than two weeks after Hunter Biden accompanied his father on a trip to China. The venture was underwritten and controlled by Chinese Communist Party-run banks and officials.

The Rosemont Seneca name appears to be the entity through which Hunter Biden conduct a majority of his Chinese Communist Party-linked business dealings.

The freshly obtained documents link Rosemont Seneca Advisors to the already suspicious rent payment scheme between Hunter Biden and his father, which many have alleged could have been an avenue whereby the former veep received his "10 percent for the big guy."

A PDF document titled "RSA Rev Exp June-Dec 2017 Profit and Loss" lists $215,967.62 in income and $310246.25 in expenses. Among the expenses listed on the document is $49,910 in rent, which is the same figure Hunter Biden listed on a background check first revealed by journalist Miranda Devine.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  the way I read the last paragraph, the $49,910 was for six (or maybe seven) months rent; that is about $8000/mo which is a lot but not astronomically off the market rate
Posted by: lord garth || 01/18/2023 0:40 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ as lord garth noted it most certainly is aggregate not monthly: "12 x 49,910 > 310,246.25 total expenses".
Posted by: magpie || 01/18/2023 10:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Not A Coup, But A Cover-Up
[ZERO] Speculation is growing in Republican media circles that the recent scandal over President Joe Biden’s improper possession of classified information from his time as vice president represents an internal coup. The theory holds that Democratic Party insiders, particularly Obama-era officials situated within the Biden administration, are using the revelations of Biden’s carelessness to push him aside or at least prevent him from running for reelection in 2024.

Capitol Hill sources say it’s true that the Biden administration is a hornet’s nest with several factions vying for control, including one led by domestic policy adviser Susan Rice and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, both Obama loyalists. However, a careful look at the evidence shows that senior Biden aides, Democratic officials, and the party’s media apparatus are circling the wagons to protect Biden. What we’re watching isn’t a coup but a coverup.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2023 01:22 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....revelations of Biden’s carelessness

"Carelessness".....? Oh please, forfoksake.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2023 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  It's no surprise some label this as the "Biden" Administration.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/18/2023 3:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Kremlinology. We're reduced to guessing what's going on behind the scenes. In the Soviet Union, it was due to official censorship. In America, it's due to our traitorous upper class journalists who refuse to investigate and expose the crimes of our government.

Journalists are the enemy of the people.
Posted by: Herman Hapsburg8987 || 01/18/2023 5:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Journalists are the enemy of the people.

As are tiresome trolls.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2023 7:04 Comments || Top||

#5  OR
Could it be Michelle O. will run in 2024?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/18/2023 7:05 Comments || Top||

#6  ^A recent poll of voting women found she has a majority support from them. Add the woke "men" and she could pu;; it off like Slow Joe did.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/18/2023 8:17 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Big Mike has been awful quiet recently,even with the book launch.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/18/2023 8:28 Comments || Top||


#9  as is usually the case, at any given time there are multiple active collaborations of the ruling class

some of these work against other collaborations

certainly with all the career flunkies who have hitched their career to JoeB, there are multiple collaborations to keep JoeB in office and even to have him run again

there are other collaborations trying to get him to resign in favor of Kamala or whatever
Posted by: lord garth || 01/18/2023 10:58 Comments || Top||

#10  What is really important is the cables themselves. What do they say? Who do they represent? Why were they so important that they were purloined? Until we know this, we will only have half the story.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 01/18/2023 18:06 Comments || Top||


Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee introduces bill to combat 'white supremacy'
[NYPOST] US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
...the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome...
has introduced a bill aimed at fighting "white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...
" by attaching criminal charges to certain forms of hate speech.

The Texas Democrat introduced the Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023, which aims "to prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime."

The conspiracy addition means people who use hate speech online could face criminal charges under the legislation even if they don’t act on their threats.

That includes a person who publishes "material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on ’replacement theory,’ or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-white person or group."

The text of the bill specifically lists social media platforms as one area where hate speech could result in criminal consequences — if that hate speech motivates another person to go out and commit a racist crime against others.

"Mass shootings and other hate crimes motivated by white supremacy have been increasing in frequency and intensity," the bill states. "These heinous and virulent crimes are inspired by conspiracy theories, blatant bigotry and mythical falsehoods such as ’replacement theory.’ All instances must be prevented and severe criminal penalties must be applied to their perpetrators."
Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No Vivian, you are not suffering a social-political hallucination. There is a discernable pattern in recent events. Tucker made a muffled South African analogy just last night.

The urban areas are being made unsafe for you. Elementary school re-education schemes are now underway. The military is being transformed, and a 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission' with cash awards and compensations is soon to come.

No, the Nigerians are not the 'replacement people' this go around. The logistical costs would be far too prohibitive.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2023 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Starting to get the drift why the Anti-Federalists points became the first 10 Amendments?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/18/2023 6:51 Comments || Top||

#3 
To Rep. Ms. Jackson ----> Heal Thyself ... 1st. Luke 4:23

How about a simple Good for the Goose, Good for the Gander rule of law.

Starting with race/color specific media (BTV), Racial hate groups like Black Lives Only Mater, or US Congressional groups like the Black Carcass, Or the politically and/or commercially staged and promoted use of created racial issues.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/18/2023 7:19 Comments || Top||


#5  Now. Now. The poor dear is js trying to get ahead of the curve...
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/18/2023 9:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Her weave is too tight. This 73yr old dumb-as-a-box-of-hair racist AA bitch has a BA from Yale and a JD from U of VA but doesn't know what the Constitution proscribes
Posted by: Frank G || 01/18/2023 9:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Kind of goes against the first amendment don't it? I can hate all I want as long as I don't threaten. Fuck you black bitch.
Posted by: Chris || 01/18/2023 11:22 Comments || Top||

#8  HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! (snork) HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! She's lucky that breathing doesn't involve thinking! HA!HA!HA!HA!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 01/18/2023 17:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Some smart@$$ congresscritter out to copy her bill word for word, substituting "Black" for "White" and file it as the "Be Care What You Wish For, Sweetie Act"
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/18/2023 17:44 Comments || Top||


Biden helped sink CIA nominee in 1970s with classified documents allegation
[JustTheNews] Then-Sen. Joe Biden had previously said he would help the CIA director nominee through the nomination process.

When President Joe Biden was a senator during President Jimmy Carter’s term, he reportedly used an accusation about the mishandling of classified documents to sink a nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Classified documents from Biden's tenure as vice president were found in November, December and this month at his former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., and at his home in Wilmington, Del. A special counsel was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland last week to investigate the matter.

While Biden was a member of Senate Intelligence Committee, which was established after Watergate, he worked with Republicans to end the nomination of CIA critic Ted Sorensen as director of the agency, The Intercept reported.

Sorensen had admitted to taking classified documents for a biography of his longtime friend President John F. Kennedy and defended Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.

Carter had nominated Sorensen, who didn’t have experience in foreign policy or covert ops, because he said he wanted an outsider for the CIA position as part of his pledge to reduce the agency’s power and budget.

Biden told Sorensen that he would help him with the nomination process. Sorenson recalled Biden leading him to believe that he had the senator’s “enthusiastic” support, saying that he was “the best appointment Carter has made.”

However, when Republicans went after Sorensen’s nomination, Biden dug up an affidavit Sorensen had written regarding classified documents.

The affidavit was never filed in court, but Sorensen had given it in Ellsberg’s case, where Sorensen noted that he, like many other officials in Washington, would take classified documents home to review and officials typically leaked much more sensitive documents to the press without being prosecuted.

Biden learned about the affidavit from a Republican colleague and believed it would be used to discredit Sorensen. A Biden aide found the affidavit, which combined with allegations that Sorensen was a pacifist and dodged the Korean War draft, hurt Sorensen’s nomination.

“It was like being blindsided by a truck,” Sorensen said, calling the campaign against him an effort where “many little dirty streams flowed together to make one large one.”

Biden spoke with Carter after confirming the document, saying, “I think we’re in trouble. I think it is going to be tough.” Carter then gave a defense of Sorensen’s comments regarding classified documents in a public statement, calling it “‘most unfortunate’ if frank acknowledgement of common practice should ‘deprive the administration and the country of his talents and services,’” according to a report from The New York Times at the time.

Biden went after Sorensen during his confirmation hearing, saying, “Quite honestly, I’m not sure whether or not Mr. Sorensen could be indicted or convicted under the espionage statutes,” questioning “whether Mr. Sorensen intentionally took advantage of the ambiguities in the law or carelessly ignored the law.”

Sorensen subsequently agreed to have his nomination withdrawn, but later said Biden should be awarded the “prize for political hypocrisy in a town noted for political hypocrisy.”

In August, Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate was raided by the FBI over classified materials from his tenure at the White House. Trump had previously complied with a subpoena and voluntarily handed over some classified materials before the raid.

Biden criticized Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents in September, saying it was “totally irresponsible.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It looks like vintage Biden backstabbed an outsider at the behest of the CIA.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/18/2023 17:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Ironically, Biden gave the CIA Stansfield Turner who much preferred robots to humans.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 01/18/2023 18:03 Comments || Top||



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