A private equity firm managed by the sons of former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... and former Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... struck a deal with China's state-owned bank in 2013 at the same time that Biden was in the country to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Hunter Biden, who arrived in China aboard Air Force Two alongside the vice president and the rest of the U.S. delegation, was at the time in control of Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC., a private equity firm that would go on to strike a deal with the state-owned Bank of China to create a $1 billion joint investment fund.
In excerpts from his upcoming book, "Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends," Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Peter Schweizer writes that the China deal was part of a trend of high-stakes deals between the sons' investment firm ‐ under the Rosemont entities umbrella ‐ and foreign governments that were also in the middle of striking deals with the B.O. regime.
Hunter Biden, along with Kerry's son by marriage Chris Heinz, control the Rosemont entities, which describes itself as "a $2.4 billion private equity firm."
In December 2013, Hunter Biden met with top Chinese government fund leaders alongside managing partner Devon Archer and James Bulger, the nephew of notorious mobster Whitey Bulger, who controls a Massachusetts-based consultancy firm. The meeting took place just hours before the vice president met with senior Chinese officials.
Ten days later, Rosemont entities inked a $1 billion deal with the bank of China. The deal was eventually increased to $1.5 billion.
Deals made by the firm ‐ co-owned by the government of China and the two sons of top American officials ‐ would go on to have serious national security implications for the United States. One such deal was with the automotive subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), a major Chinese military contractor accused of frequently stealing U.S. military technology.
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Reads like a Hillary "Pay-For-Play" scheme. Now, we've got collusion with the Chinese. Still, we've got that drunk Mueller looking for his keys under the street light because that is where the most light is (rather than where he lost them).
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Thanks Frank but it is not from me. It is from a State Inspector I live with.
"The failure was in the concrete itself and has nothing to do with the supports at each end. concrete crack / failure - possible at a 'seam' where the concrete was poured in segments - not sure what was happening within the concrete - but it was a transverse fracture - the key was looking at the support that is standing - by itself. it happened at the other end "
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#1 - With all due respect, that's utter bullshit. Concrete in shear is resisted by the reinforcing, not concrete shear strength with at least a factor of safety of 1.5 and more likely 2 or higher. Pour joints don't mean squat and in any event they'd have keyways and extra reinforcing at any joint. Your State Inspector needs edumacating
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But then, I've only been doing bridges and structures for 35 yrs, so what the hell do I know?
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Whaddaya know about Figg, Frank?
Figg is the world-famous bridge designer.
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Excellent reputation
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Um, the Pantheon is made of UNreinforced concrete and has been standing for 2000 years. Seems to be a problem with modern technology......or more likely modern financing aka greed.
Will be very interested to see how much of this is covered up. BTW anyone hear anything about that Vegas shooting?
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The main ingredient is probably Dade County corruption.
My thoughts exactly. The construction company has a few other issues in their past as well and yet go the bid anyway.
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More linkies and some video via NeverYetMelted.
Interesting bits: The bridge is also made of self-cleaning concrete. When exposed to sunlight, titanium dioxide in the concrete traps pollutants and turns them a bright white, the university said.
Referring to the modular construction and Inadvertent Snark of the Day: Saturday installation marks the first time a bridge this large has been installed in this way.
#19
Fault lies with the Fly Ash Liberation Army. Ask Commodore Frank, he knows........
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yep or bad tensioning/tensioning design...more likely
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It's supposed to be a suspension design. This is the first time I've seen the suspension wasn't built first. It's crazy that the supported section was left without support.
[AnNahar] It was a few days before the one-year anniversary of U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's inauguration and a Lebanese-American businessman was on his way to Mar-a-Lago.
George Nader, an international fixer whose long history included intrepid back-channel mediation between Israel and Arab countries ‐ and a 15-year-old pedophilia conviction in Europe
Continued on Page 49
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It would be interesting to know whether this clown has offended in the US. Not that it matters; the feebs can fake something up pretty quick. But he'll memorize whatever Mueller wants him to testify to.
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CDC says there were 64,000 U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2016, mostly involving opioids, a 28 per cent jump from 2015
Trump suggested Saturday in Pennsylvania that drug dealers who broadly push lethal narcotics should be treated like any other mass killer in federal courts
Plan expected to be rolled out Monday in New Hampshire also will make it easier for Medicaid to pay for inpatient drug rehab
And it will tell the DOJ to seek mandatory-minimum sentences in more drug trafficking cases that involve opioids like the synthetic drug Fentanyl
Some in Congress and many in the public health field worry that the ambitious plan could be a budget buster with little chance of actually being implemented
#3
Still hardly any news coverage about the US postal service subsidy of small package deliveries from China and that inspection of these packages is rarely done.
The death toll is well past the "weapons of mass destruction" level now.
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Saw that Milwaukee County is suing manufacturers over OxyContin. Doctors were also suing the manufacturer over oxy. The claim is that the manufacturer misrepresented the dangers of OxyContin.
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Boy Howdy, I expect a full court press to resist this from the AMA. After all, doctors are the biggest pushers of opioids in the US...thousands of doctors writing prescriptions for pushers.
#8
Fentanyl, while dangerous isn't the primary problem. Tons and tons of cheap Mexican meth coming across the border is the main problem...but that doesn't fit the mainstream media narrative.
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Some in Congress and many in the public health field worry that the ambitious plan could be a budget buster with little chance of actually being implemented
Who? Name them. "Critics say" is a cheap and easy way for "Journalists" to push opinion and agenda
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They won't go after the real "dealers". The government will prosecute low hanging fruit, like someone trying to buy oxycontin for grandma with bone cancer, who has a doctor who won't prescribe appropriate medication for fear of being prosecuted herself.
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A few years back, I broke a limb. The ER doc offered oxycontin. I emphatically declined and told him that 800 mg of ibuprofen would do the trick. No excuse for ignorance.
It works pretty well in the places where it's been instituted. But it will require funding to expedite trials. If arrest to exhaustion of appeals followed by execution (or acquittal) can be reduced to 5 years, I expect we will see a general fall in supply. The moment a single pill mill doctor is given the needle is probably the last you'll ever hear of pill mill doctors.
Note that I am for complete legalization of drugs. But the way I see it, drugs either need to be completely legal or completely illegal. Completely illegal means a noose as the end point for purveyors of the product. What we have now is neither fish nor fowl.
The Singapore penal code for drug possession is probably a good initial start for planning on the subject:
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Fentanyl and its analogies ARE the main problem in overdose deaths.From the CDC "Approximately 90% of unintentional overdose deaths in 24 Ohio counties that occurred during January and February 2017 involved fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, or both. "
[American Thinker] Why do those who criticize Donald Trump for not being a "traditional" president fawn over President Obama not being a "traditional" post-presidential citizen?
I would say Michelle and Barack Obama are back in the news, but they've never left the news since the 22nd Amendment mercifully exiled them from the Oval Office last year. When President Clinton took the oath of office in 1992, President George H.W. Bush went away. When President George W. Bush assumed power in 2000, President Clinton went away (until the prospect of being the first gentleman came a-knockin'). When President Obama placed his hand on President Lincoln's Bible in 2008, President Bush went away.
When President Trump made his miraculous win constitutionally official last year, President Obama went away, back to Chicago, to administer the death and destruction left in the wake of 30,000 consecutive days of Democrat rule over the Windy City.
Just kidding: Obama moved into a $5-million D.C. mansion ‐ but only after the wall surrounding the 8,000-square-foot mansion was completely erected. Oh, and Obama's former senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, moved in with the Obamas, which is just bizarrely weird. It's like House of Cards meets Three's Company; rumor has it that Val makes a mean Belgian waffle with an Iranian secret touch.
#8
Actually Mullah Richard, he's what would be defined in the DSM as a toxic narcissist.
My wife the psychotherapist (really, she is one) listened to one of his speeches and said that she thought we were all in trouble because he was a toxic narcissist.
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It's not any kind of surprise. Obama needs a high profile to keep on raking in money for his political sermons, which are heavy on inspiration and light on substance. That money keeps him in the style to which he has become accustomed. Politics has taken the place of traditional religion in modern life.
As Pope of the far left, but without the vow of poverty, he gets to make speeches for mucho dinero as long as he keeps his name in the news. For people who fund his musings before large audiences, it's the equivalent of religious tithing, except it's done with corporate or non-profit money, which is the best way (from a personal financial perspective) to tithe. It's not so much that Obama is a narcissist, as liberals and far leftists alike have anointed him a saint. All Obama is doing is cashing in.
#4
probably not very many illegals or dead voting or coerced voting in this district
there may be some stealth vote stealing, e.g., where people get ballots of seniors in assisted living and send them in by mail, but that is difficult to detect
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PeeAye has the second oldest population in the US after Florida. Plenty of shenanigans involving elders ballots. The problem in the western end of the state is Allegheny County because of Pittsburgh. Get rid of Pittsburgh, Philly, Scranton and Erie and you basically have a state as red as Texas.
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[NY Post] “My frustration,” writes Peter Schweizer in his new book, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” “is not that the solid reporting on Trump has been too tough, but that the reporting on the Obama administration has been way too soft or in some cases nonexistent.” The author of the 2016 sensation “Clinton Cash” says Trump and his children didn’t invent the blurring of government and business, and details a number of ethical violations on both sides of the political aisle. One example: the little-noticed private equity firm run by the sons of Democrats Joe Biden and John Kerry, as detailed in this exclusive first excerpt.
Joe Biden and John Kerry have been pillars of the Washington establishment for more than 30 years. Biden is one of the most popular politicians in our nation’s capital.
His demeanor, sense of humor, and even his friendly gaffes have allowed him to form close relationships with both Democrats and Republicans. His public image is built around his “Lunch Bucket Joe” persona. As he reminds the American people on regular occasions, he has little wealth to show for his career, despite having reached the vice presidency.
One of his closest political allies in Washington is former senator and former Secretary of State John Kerry. “Lunch Bucket Joe” he ain’t; Kerry is more patrician than earthy. But the two men became close while serving for several decades together in the US Senate. The two “often talked on matters of foreign policy,” says Jules Witcover in his Biden biography.
So their sons going into business together in June 2009 was not exactly a bolt out of the blue.
But with whom their sons cut lucrative deals while the elder two were steering the ship of state is more of a surprise.
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I didn't see him mentioned in the article, but I'd wager old Henry Kissenger provided an assist. Little wonder no one in the UniParty wants to go after the Clintons.
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Biden and Kerry peres have noted that being a moneyman running politicians is better than being a politician run by moneymen. Hence the progression to Biden and Kerry fils...
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If they ever fully investigate the Clinton Foundation, they will find the tentacles everywhere and hundreds of officials, elected and appointed on the hook for a lot of corrupt dealings.
The Foundation may be why the FBI and DoJ went full throttle on the dossier to protect their investments and their supplemental income.
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protect their investments and their supplemental income
That's where W Boosh's animosity comes from too, though it really isn't Trump's fault the Sauds aren't in a position (or inclined) to pay as much these days.
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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.
Joe 
[American Thinker] Why do those who criticize Donald Trump for not being a "traditional" president fawn over President Obama not being a "traditional" post-presidential citizen?
[NY Post] “My frustration,” writes Peter Schweizer in his new book, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” “is not that the solid reporting on Trump has been too tough, but that the reporting on the Obama administration has been way too soft or in some cases nonexistent.” The author of the 2016 sensation “Clinton Cash” says Trump and his children didn’t invent the blurring of government and business, and details a number of ethical violations on both sides of the political aisle. One example: the little-noticed private equity firm run by the sons of Democrats Joe Biden and John Kerry, as detailed in this exclusive first excerpt.
