[Breitbart] The University of Delaware has ignored requests from journalists regarding the release of a collection of Joe Biden’s senate records. The collection, which was gifted to the university in 2011, was scheduled to be released at the conclusion of the Obama presidency. Some believe that the collection could contain a complaint filed by Tara Reade, who recently accused Biden of sexual misconduct during an incident that allegedly took place in 1993.
According to a report by The College Fix, the University of Delaware has ignored requests to release a series of documents from Joe Biden’s tenure in the United States Senate. Biden donated the documents to his alma mater in 2011 with the intention that they would be released at the conclusion of the Obama presidency.
The New York Times reported in April that Reade filed a written complaint Senate personnel office over an incident with then-Senator Joe Biden. Reade claims that Biden sexually assaulted her in a Capitol Hill office building in 1993.
In a comment, University of Delaware spokesperson Andrea Boyle Tippett said that the collection won’t be released until two years after Biden retires from public life, per the university’s original agreement with the former vice president.
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BP, I think you may be correct, however, CV19 has flipped the script enough that empty suit boy, or gerbalist puppet might not be able to stay afloat.
a Steyer or Bloomburg might make it on $$ alone for the nomination but I doubt that there's much else there.
[American Greatness] Hate the Chinese government if you wish, but hold your own government responsible for hollowing America out like a husk.
Excerpt follows:
Economic Elephantiasis
The sphinxly Bill Gates, we are told, foresaw the pandemic. Gates also pioneered the outsourcing of American lives to China (and India). I say "lives," because, as it has become abundantly clear, in the wake of COVID, the very stuff of life has been outsourced to China. Not mere jobs; but careers, not just some products, but entire production lines; not one or two manufacturing plants, but the entire means of production.
Engineers who can think hate Gates. America’s best and brightest have done time supervising and titivating squalid, sub-par Chinese factories, when they knew full well that, instead of cheap, nasty, and disposable, their colleagues back at home could have delivered classy, attractive, durable and sustainable products and production capability, around which real communities would have coalesced.
Instead, Gates’ vision has given us transient labor that flits between Wuhan and Washington, for, these "global beasts with their vast balance-sheets" aren’t interested in the kind of economic growth around which authentic, organic, enduring communities congregate.
The attitude of American business toward economic growth is rooted not in healthy, community-based practices (stateside and abroad), but in some aberrant economic gigantism; in an economic elephantiasis undergirded by hubris and greed.
Bill Gates, the point man, the pinhead who pontificates about pandemic best practices, was among the powerbrokers who decided, with his benefactors in D.C., that the "new economy" would hum not in America, but in China and India.
And it’s not merely for profit. Tech superstars like Gates are true believers in the borderless multicultural state. These arrogant CEOs and their minions are social-justice warriors, first; giants of industry, second. They are cosmopolitans who believe consumption alone makes the world go round. Community? That’s when you press flesh with George and Amal Clooney at the World Economic Forum in Davos!
[Fullfact.org] The Japanese professor of physiology or medicine, Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo, caused a sensation today in the media by saying that the corona virus is not natural. if it is natural, it will not have affected the whole world like that. Because, depending on the nature, the temperature is different in different countries. if it were natural, it would only have affected countries with the same temperature as China. instead, it spreads to a country like Switzerland, the same way it spreads to desert areas. whereas if it were natural, it would have spread in cold places, but would have died in hot places. I have done 40 years of research on animals and viruses. It is not natural. It is manufactured and the virus is completely artificial. I have been working for 4 years in the Wuhan laboratory in China. I know all the staff of this laboratory well. I called them all after the Corona accident. but, all of their phones have been dead for 3 months. It is now understood that all of these laboratory technicians are dead.
Based on all of my knowledge and research to date, I can say this with 100% confidence that Corona is not natural. It did not come from bats. China made it. if what I say today turns out to be false now or even after I die, the government can withdraw my Nobel Prize. but China is lying and this truth will one day be revealed to all.
Professor Honjo released a statement on 27 April saying: “In the wake of the pain, economic loss, and unprecedented global suffering caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, I am greatly saddened that my name and that of Kyoto University have been used to spread false accusations and misinformation.”
[PJ] Five Western intelligence agencies have compiled a damning report cataloging the Chinese Communist Party’s deliberate suppression and destruction of evidence regarding the coronavirus outbreak. The report claims this malfeasance is an "assault on international transparency" and cost tens of thousands of lives. It comes amid rising demands that governments hold Beijing accountable in court for its malfeasance during the pandemic.
The 15-page research document, first reported by Australia’s The Saturday Telegraph, claims that "to the endangerment of other countries" China covered up news of the pandemic by perpetrating a "deadly denial of human-to-human transmission," silencing or "disappearing" doctors who spoke out, destroying evidence of the virus in laboratories, and refusing to provide live samples of the coronavirus to international scientists who were working on a vaccine.
This report — compiled by the "Five Eyes" of the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Britain — may form the first step towards countries filing legal claims at the International Court of Justice holding the Communist Party accountable for violating the International Health Regulations (IHR). Last month, the British nonprofit the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) estimated that the G7 countries had suffered at least $4 trillion in damages from the coronavirus pandemic and should sue China for violating its obligations to share information about the outbreak with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other countries.
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So the choice for the legendary American Consumer may come (or may have come) down to this:
Here's a t-shirt. It was made in China by slave laborers, won't last long, and may be hazardous to your health. Also, part of the money you pay will wind up in the pockets of Communist tyrants who more or less want to kill you.
Here's another T-shirt. It was made in America by reasonably well-paid American workers, will last longer, and no part of the purchase price goes to Communists unless you count Democratic politicians grifting the sales tax.
The Chinese T-shirt costs 30% less than the American T-shirt.
Your call.
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The Chinese T-shirt costs 30% less than the American T-shirt.
I live in sweaty summer tshirts.
I passed on 1 brand name tshirt (white, 2x) at Walmart for $10+.
Bought 3, made in Bangladesh, <$10 at the grocery.
#5
Does your normal shopper--Walmart, Target, Sears, no matter--really, truly care where the products come from if the price is right? LOL, heck, no. I guess I must have missed those demonstrations by these shoppers outside of these chain stores protesting goods made in China.
#8
It will be interesting to see if any [temporary] tax relief comes out of this COVID-19 madness. I've heard about the payroll tax being suspended. But if you really want to get the economy on its feet (CV-19 or no CV-19), dumping taxes at all levels might we the way to go. Crazy talk, I know. In fact, I just read where Nashville, TN, wants to raise taxes 34%. I guess that's all they got left. I wouldn't buy a municipal or state bond to save my life.
#11
But what if people do not want to pay higher prices for fresh food, even if locally produced (assuming quality is the same (or better) elsewhere).
Higher prices for consumers (ugh) would possibly cancel out the higher wages. Unions and minimum wage laws are part of the reason jobs left the US in the first place.
[PeakProsperity.com] A recent Newsweek report raises an awfully lot of urgent and important questions.
One of the more acutely-asked questions since the covid-19 pandemic broke out has been: Is the virus man-made?
Debate on the matter has been wild and furious. After much investigation, Chris is now weighing in on the heels of an explosive Newsweek report.
Newsweek reveals that as recently as last year, the US funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology focused on conducting ’gain of function’ research on bat coronaviruses.
The source of that funding? The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, headed by.....(drumroll please)....Dr Anthony Fauci, lead medical expert for America’s Covid-19 presidential task force.
Now, this doesn’t mean the virus was lab-engineered as a bio-weapon. But it does suggest a naturally-occuring bat virus could have been artificially accelerated along certain vectors.
Of course, this raises an awfully lot of urgent and important questions. So far, Fauci has not commented on the Newsweek report. You can be certain we will be keeping close tabs on developments from here...
[42-minute video in link, hosted by Dr. (Pathology) Chris Martenson]
#1
I think, I see where it's going.
China created the virus and cynically let it spread around the world for fun & profit. But China is a hard target. So lets scapegoat somebody over here.
[Breitbart] Washington (AFP) — Billionaire investor Warren Buffet said Saturday he’s confident the US economy will bounce back from its pummeling by the coronavirus pandemic because "American magic has always prevailed."
The 89-year-old made the sanguine prediction about the world’s largest economy as his holding company Berkshire Hathaway reported first-quarter net losses of nearly $50 billion.
Buffett also announced Saturday that his company had sold all its stakes in four major US airlines last month, as the pandemic clobbered the travel industry.
"It turns out I was wrong," he said of his acquisitions of 10 percent stakes in American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines.
Berkshire Hathaway had paid $7 billion to $8 billion, and "we did not take out anything like that," he said.
Between the purchases that took place over months, and the sale, "the airlines business I think changed in a very major way" and could no longer meet Berkshire criteria for profitability, he said.
Buffett’s announcement may further hurt airlines already pushed to the brink by coronavirus lockdown measures, now looking to the US government for $25 billion in relief funds.
#2
Putting Buffett to the side for a moment, the current problem is basically a logistics problem: we have to manufacture a lot of stuff quickly and get it to the right places quickly. This really ought to play to our historic national strengths. The model that comes to mind is the famous Willow Run aircraft factory during WWII, where, in legend, a B-24 rolled off the production line every hour while the crews waited to take delivery. (Just how screwed were the Japanese at that point?)
Now, you couldn't do Willow Run today because the site picked for the factory would turn out to be on the ancestral mating grounds of the left-handed sea slug, and OSHA would shut the plant down in 10 minutes if it did get built. But those are limitations we've imposed on ourselves. We could put the old-school engineers in charge and furlough the bureaucrats. If ever there was a time to do that, this seems like it. Or, as Churchill told FDR, “I trust you realize that the voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.”
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Can't spur an economy with the governor's boot on the throat of business.
Re Buffett, that old hypocrite talks a good game but his actual returns have less to do with business acumen than with the man's cynical exploitation of not just the tax code but also the way Congress treats certain industries.
He rails against hedge funds -- but 60% or more of his returns come from leverage i.e. he's in effect a hedge funded himself. (The leverage comes from the huge cash flow generated by the privately-held cash cows in his portfolio).
He trashes the banks - but some of his biggest scores came from investing in well-connected mega-banks right after the 2008-09 crisis.
He postures as a champion of free enterprise -- but his most lucrative investments have always favored companies and industries that benefited critically upon favorable regulation, including at times anti-competitive cartel-like practices.
No wonder the old hypocrite is such close buddies with Gates.
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Re #6: I used to work for GEICo. (Buffet owns GEICO.)
I was hired to teach Java programming. A year or s later, they announced that they were switching to C# a Microsoft language. The rumor was that it happened because Buffet played bridge with Bill Gates.
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If he sold airlines, it was to quickly move to something else. Yes, there is a drop in passenger-seat-miles but also in oil/fuel prices. Look for FedEx, et. al. move to rail shipping.
[Zero] Well, it's official: there won't be any "Buy American" op-eds by the Oracle of Omaha this time around. In fact, if anything, they will be titled simply "Sell."
Warren Buffett, who turns 90 in 4 months, had an unpleasant surprise for the permabullish Berkshire faithful during their annual pilgrimage to Omaha live-stream of Berkshire's annual meeting: one month after Berkshire surprised investors by selling parts of its Delta and Southwest Airlines stakes - both of which had previously been above a 10% ownership level and speculation was rife that Berkshire could purchase an airline outright in the near future - the Oracle of Omaha said that, 4 years after Berkshire took major stakes in the four largest US airlines, he had liquidated the sold the entirety of its equity position in the U.S. airline industry which included $6.5 billion worth of stock in United, American, Southwest and Delta Airlines.
Assuring that Monday will be a bloodbath for Trannies (that would be the transportation stocks you perverts), Buffett justified his decision as follows: "The world has changed for the airlines. And I don’t know how it’s changed and I hope it corrects itself in a reasonably prompt way," he said. "I don’t know if Americans have now changed their habits or will change their habits because of the extended period."
[TheNationalInterest] Trump is providing a course correction for the postwar global order that may be the best hope for sustaining it. His policies may moderate the radical changes of the past seventy-five years, but they are unlikely to reverse them.
The National Interest is Irving Kristol and Owen Harries’s project, claiming the realism approach to American foreign affairs.
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Tl;dr. But I did pause at this statement: Ironically, Trump was then impeached for weakening Ukraine (and aiding Russia) by temporarily suspending that aid to pressure Kiev to crack down on corruption—corruption that happened to involve a company whose board included Hunter Biden
No, Trump was impeached on the pretext of a Ukrainian phone call. The real reason was Dems gotta be dim. The real irony is the impeachment distracted from the Chinese Death Plague invasion.
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Not so sure how much a distraction it really was. Barring some stunning turncoat actions, there was no way it was going to get through the GOP-led Senate. Yes, a pain that everybody had to go through this Pelosi lunacy (delayed as it was...hmmm, that makes me think of something else now...the reasons for the delay).
PJ via Instapundit
...The panicky, sometimes hysterical New York governor began whining about the federal government (specifically the president) not doing anything to help the states with getting medical supplies. Back in March, he kept saying he needed 30-40,000 ventilators. And when Trump pointed out that was silly, he accused the president of being an unfeeling monster.
...By the middle of April, New York was sending ventilators to other states.
But the number of deaths in New York from the coronavirus is what condemns Cuomo and marks him as incompetent.
As of yesterday, New York had experienced 18,610 deaths, nearly 30 percent of the total number of deaths out of 64,406 in the United States. Yes, New York has a high population density, but so does California. And the Golden State has twice as many people and only 2,135 deaths.
Even high population density states on the East Coast are doing better than New York. Pennsylvania, for instance, has two-thirds the population of New York and a similar population density (New York’s is 358 people per square mile, Pennsylvania’s 278 per square mile), but the Keystone State only has 2,418 deaths. It’s not population density that’s contributed to the coronavirus tragedy in New York. It’s bad governance.
This is "competence"? This is "decisiveness"?
Cuomo didn’t lock down the state until March 20 — not until there were nearly 3,000 cases of COVID-19 in the state. Nobody recalls Cuomo arguing with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio over who had the authority to close the schools after most major cities had already shuttered the schools. Meanwhile, New Yorkers were getting sick and many eventually died.
Then there are the nursing homes. Yesterday, they found 100 dead bodies in a Brooklyn nursing home. And fingers are pointing at Cuomo’s policies. Former Governor George Pataki made it clear whose fault it was.
..."Gov. Cuomo’s handling of the nursing homes has been a disaster," said Pataki."Thousands of people [sic] lives might not have been lost except for these tragic policies."
The same might be said of Cuomo’s handling of the entire crisis.
Cuomo’s panicky orders resulted in wasted resources and incompetent management.
#4
People are not favoring his response, but his daily press briefings in which he seems calm and in control and speaks down to the journalists as if they were children (he knows they are, his brother is one).
If they people knew about his goofs. Early ones excusable, later ones criminal, he'd be the least favorite governor.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Somewhat eclipsed by the global COVID-19 pandemic, the trial of two men accused of committing crimes against humanity on behalf of the Syrian state began in Germany this week.
Witnesses, victims and a military defector gave evidence about the alleged atrocities that could lead to wider accusations. In addition, under "universal jurisdiction" Germany is investigating dozens of other Syrian former officials accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
On Thursday, Germany designated Hezbollah a terror organization and banned it from carrying out any activity on its soil. All this comes at an unfortunate time for Bashir al-Assad who, after ruthlessly regaining control of most of his territory, is looking to revive his international legitimacy.
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Golly — there’s someone whose opinion we haven’t noticed for a while.
[AMERICANTHINKER] When I was an 8-year-old boy, I idolized and was inspired by the FBI. I wrote a letter to the director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. I described my aspiration to be an FBI agent, to fight crime with him, to help him bring justice to the United States of America. A short time later, I received a short reply, signed (I have no doubt) by Director Hoover himself, in which he encouraged me to follow my ideals, to diligently study and to prepare myself, inspired for a life as an honorable American.
Over the years, my childhood idol has suffered revelations about his own rectitude, but nothing he has ever done even remotely approaches the disgraceful actions revealed today, committed by the great FBI that I idolized. This week, we learned that an American hero, a loyal lifelong and proved courageous defender of our nation, was callously framed by a political conspiracy of the most senior FBI officials, seeking thereby to defame and destroy the newly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... Over the years, the FBI regrettably has shown itself to be self-serving and inept and has suffered several disgraceful scandals, but always committed by lesser men. Today, the FBI, at the very top, has shown itself to actually be seditious, subverting the office of the president of the United States!
On April 30, 2020, the 8-year-old boy in me has tears running down his face. The FBI, from its current director, Christopher Wray, to its lowest janitor, has irretrievably disgraced itself and, most grievously, has destroyed forever the faith and confidence that Americans have granted to what once was the greatest law enforcement entity in the world.
Will it ever again be an inspiration to 8-year-old American boys?
#5
I fear the retired general is becoming hysterical. “To its lowest janitor” has “destroyed forever the faith and confidence”? Surely the Army did not teach him to write that way, let alone permit him to so think. It seems to me Mr. Clark is suffering from an excess of nervous energy and would be better for a 20 mile run in full gear.
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Before it fell down the Never Trump rabbit hole, Notional Review had a cover about the dem primary when Clark ran. It was an "Island of Misfit Toys" gag and Wes was the nutcracker. Bug eyes and all.
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One ambitious sycophant retired democrat general officer defends another ambitious sycophant retired democrat general officer...nothing to see here, move along, move along...
The words "retired democrat general officer" and "ambitious" and "sycophant" just seem to go together.
#11
Nobody should trust the FBI at this point. EVERYONE they talk to should demand full audio and video under their own lawyers control. Treat all FBI agents as lying criminals intent on doing anything they can to put down uppity little people. And yes, I'm sure they are reading this. Too bad. At this point, they are on par with reporters and vermin, below used car salesmen on the trust scale.
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Re#11: I have a classmate who is a retired FBI Special Agent. Even in high school he struck me as a straight shooter.
have discussed the shenanigans at the FBI with him several times. He is sickened and disgusted by all that is going on. He is proud of his service and blames all the problems on the upper management.
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The FBI has not disgraced itself. A small number of fools at the top who consider politics to be more important than integrity, have done the damage, and should be jailed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] The University of Delaware has ignored requests from journalists regarding the release of a collection of Joe Biden’s senate records. The collection, which was gifted to the university in 2011, was scheduled to be released at the conclusion of the Obama presidency. Some believe that the collection could contain a complaint filed by Tara Reade, who recently accused Biden of sexual misconduct during an incident that allegedly took place in 1993.
[Fullfact.org] The Japanese professor of physiology or medicine, Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo, caused a sensation today in the media by saying that the corona virus is not natural. if it is natural, it will not have affected the whole world like that. Because, depending on the nature, the temperature is different in different countries. if it were natural, it would only have affected countries with the same temperature as China. instead, it spreads to a country like Switzerland, the same way it spreads to desert areas. whereas if it were natural, it would have spread in cold places, but would have died in hot places. I have done 40 years of research on animals and viruses. It is not natural. It is manufactured and the virus is completely artificial. I have been working for 4 years in the Wuhan laboratory in China. I know all the staff of this laboratory well. I called them all after the Corona accident. but, all of their phones have been dead for 3 months. It is now understood that all of these laboratory technicians are dead.
[Zero] Well, it's official: there won't be any "Buy American" op-eds by the Oracle of Omaha this time around. In fact, if anything, they will be titled simply "Sell."
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
