[NYP] One of Hunter Biden’s former business partners referred to Joe Biden as "the Big Guy" in a panicked message the same day The Post broke news of the infamous laptop from hell left behind by the president’s son, The Post has learned.
James Gilliar, a former British Special Forces officer with ties to UK intelligence services, discussed The Post’s exclusive report with an unnamed person on Oct. 14, 2020, according to the message provided by a whistleblower to GOP congressional investigators probing the laptop.
In the message, Gilliar, 58, reassured the person that the revelations about Biden’s apparent involvement in his son’s foreign deals would not be damaging — regardless of the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Gilliar was asked if "Hunter and/or Joe or Joe’s campaign [would] try to make it ’Oh, we were never involved’ ... and try to basically make us collateral damage?"
"I don’t see how that would work for them..." Gilliar responded in the 6.07 p.m. message reviewed by The Post.
"I think in the scenario that he wins they would just leave sleeping dogs lie," Gilliar added.
Etymology - The saying “let sleeping dogs lie” was a favourite of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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James Gilliar, a former British Special Forces officer with ties to UK intelligence services
I anxiously await the Christopher Steele (same age and similar line of work as Jim), Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell connections.
* Rare fotos (Horse breeder wife Erika - Hay is cheaper in the Czech Republic)... and other interesting bits sourced at - Polo link
Gillier warned Bobulinsky in a WhatsApp message on May 20, 2017 about the need for discretion: “Not to mention who gets involved, it’s only when you’re face-to-face, I know you know.” But they’re crazy.”
Based in the Czech Republic, Gillier was dubbed “MI6” by Bobulinsky, after the British Foreign Intelligence Service, due to Gillier’s secretive manner. He also told Hunter that he had worked with British intelligence and introduced a potential participant in the Middle East to Oman as the “former MI Six Head of Region”. Gillier wanted to hire former British “diplomat” David Holtum to help with the Oman energy project he was working on for CEFC.
The MI6 angle is intriguing because another British spy, Christopher Steele, was at the center of a Russia collusion plan devised by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to portray Donald Trump as a Russian agent. Steele was the former head of MI6’s Russia desk.
In a biography on Hunter’s laptop, Gillier describes himself as “expert training in civil/military security operations and analysis, counter-terrorism, close security and firearms, armed and unarmed warfare” with expertise in security and intelligence-based analysis and systems. Gives background.”
His first appearance on the laptop is a CC’d email to Hunter on 23 February 2016, discussing his upcoming trip to Beijing to meet the CEFC board and acquire the US Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
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My guess the drip is orchestrated by those behind the current Puppet Show and who now have a plan for Post Biden Puppet Show 2.0. Turning up the heat but not blowing up the entire package because too many second-tier players know names and faces. It is of note to me that the most seasoned and intimate player from the Obama era, still at the White House and fully exercising enormous power, has become invisible for months now. Susan Rice. My guess is she is a principal in the coming solution to the Post-Biden solution. The question remains has the Cackle-Jackal been bought, muzzled or is there a bypass plan in place? By every outside measure, she has a deeply flawed ego, and little demonstrated intellect or American character. Deals with her will not survive an elevation to the Oval Office...
Oversight Republicans asked Hunter's financial adviser Edward Prewitt to turn over all documents related to Biden family business
Wednesday letter notes he sent an email to Hunter that Wells Fargo Corporate Compliance flagged 'transactions connected to his accounts… further scrutiny'
Former Clinton Administration appointee is now part of the Prewitt, Mahler, Tucker Private Wealth Management Group
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has declined to provide Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to Congress – breaking with longstanding policy to do so
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Maybe to close all this saga Hunter should commit suicide…
So in that case old Joe presidency will be saved by the painful loss of his beloved son …maybe
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That kind doesn’t commit suicide, as they see nothing to despair of.
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Would they be using that authority to lockdown the sick and at risk groups?
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I would need to see outbreak locations and demographics involved first please and thank you.
Perhaps like Covid, we should wait 12 months before any real action, and then action performed should be totally contrary to an effective response. Like turning bathhouses into emergency shelters, and wearing some form of Furry costume.
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Re# 2 Oh no, ca't lock down the letter people. They are exempt from common decency these day.
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^ Who would make our TeeVee shows and movies?
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I doubt they make the military documentaries I usually watch. Otherwise most the shit they come up with these days is utter shit. Except Blue Bloods, but I doubt the fags come up with that script.
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Original Red Dawn is to the remake,
As Team America is to The Current Thing.
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last week that the Biden administration, in an effort to get out in front of today’s poor economic news, took the liberty of redefining “recession.”
There! See? Problem solved! Just ;like the covid "vaccine".
Snark O'The Day
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there will be two revisions to today's estimate
fairly often the final estimate is +/- 0.4%
very seldom is it more than +/- 0.6%
given the negative retail news, e.g., Walmart's quarterly results and projections, consumer confidence, Q3 is not looking good
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Biden administration took the liberty of redefining “recession.”
Will we hear the WH Press Sec. finally say the magic word Recession or not?
Question: Will inflation and the devaluation of the US $ be the way that the US Gov. pays off its $30.6 Trillion dollar National Debt? 🤪 Hell if we go hyper inflation we can wipeout the national debt and the DNC in 2 may be 3 years.
eg. 2022 1.00 US Dollar = 558,019.37 Venezuelan Bolívares (VEF)
vs.
1990 1.00 USD = 9.9 Venezuelan Bolívares. The Venezuelan Liberal Solicalist Democratic government created it's own hyperinflation by givining, giving and giving socialism for votes. The exchange rate was 6 million bolívars to the U.S. dollar. At one point. A wheel barrel tire was worth more than the wheel barrel filled with 1,0000 VEF notes.
[FoxBusiness] The three-quarter percentage point hikes in June and July — the first since 1994 — underscore just how serious Fed officials are about tackling the inflation crisis after a string of alarming economic reports. Policymakers voted unanimously to approve the latest super-sized hike.
The move puts the key benchmark federal funds rate at a range of 2.25% to 2.50%, the highest since the pandemic began two years ago. It marks the fourth consecutive rate increase this year.
Policymakers signaled in their post-meeting statement that additional increases are likely in the coming months as they remain "strongly committed to returning inflation to its 2% objective." Unfortunately, the Fed had made almost no progress unwinding the $6Trillion QE pile of debt they hold. They keep making noises about this but action is slow
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Yet the interest on my saving accounts remain near zero.
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2.25% isn't nearly enough. You can borrow that all day and pay it back next year in dollars that are worth 9.1% less. So the real interest rate is 9.10 - 2.25 = negative 6.85%. Yes, THAT will cure inflation, no doubt.
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[BREITBART] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North... ignored cries of anger and desperation from farmers and provincial officials last weekend by pressing ahead with a climate change agenda that will dramatically reduce Canada’s use of fertilizer — the same ruinous strategy that drove Dutch farmers into revolt and destroyed the agriculture of Sri Lanka.
The Toronto Sun reported on a dismaying Friday meeting of federal and provincial ministers, in which the latter could not convince the Trudeau administration to show any "flexibility" in its emissions targets, not even with a global food crisis on the horizon:
Several provincial governments, and organizations representing farmers have asked for emissions reductions from fertilizer to be measured via intensity — how much food is produced compared to the amount of fertilizer used. The Trudeau government is demanding an absolute reduction in emissions, which farmers say will result in less food being produced at a time when the world can ill afford it.
"The world is looking for Canada to increase production and be a solution to global food shortages. The Federal government needs to display that they understand this," Alberta minister Nate Horner said.
"We’re really concerned with this arbitrary goal," Saskatchewan’s David Marit said.
Although Canadian farm organizations warn the Trudeau plan will significantly reduce crops, slash the income of farmers, and increase Canadian grocery prices, Trudeau officials essentially said farmers would get used to their reduced allocation of fertilizers and devise new methods of growing "sustainable food."
The Toronto Sun noted Trudeau’s plan is similar to the one that touched off massive protests from farmers in the Netherlands. The Dutch, in turn, took a page from the "Freedom Convoy" protests against vaccine mandates in Canada, using their farm vehicles to block highways and city roads.
Canada’s Post Millennial (PM) saw the Dutch revolt as "a warning sign to those across the pond in Canada for what might come if Trudeau gets his way."
PM cited reports that estimated Canadian farmers could lose $48 billion by 2030 if Trudeau’s plan is implemented, due to both lost income from reduced crop yields and the increased cost of using "green" fertilizer.
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Way to go, ya fuckin' communist asshole - can't wait for the rebellion, and I have a feeling this one's gonna make the vax protests look like a walk in the park by comparison.
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^ Yes, but we have no idea what they have done to it. Our safety regulations not
observed there. Cardboard steaks. Farm dust spices. Anything cheap is used.
The world is watching. We’ve seen reports on this story from Israel and now Pakistan.
[Dawn] A District of Columbia man who pleaded guilty to assaulting coppers outside the US Capitol was sentenced on Tuesday to 63 months behind bars, tying the record for the longest prison term to date for anyone convicted in the Jan 6, 2021 riot.
Mark Ponder, 56, also was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution and faces three years of supervised release following his federal prison term of five years and three months, the US Department of Justice said in announcing the sentencing.
Ponder assaulted three officers in a series of confrontations on the Capitol grounds after a mob of supporters of then-president Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... overwhelmed police lines on the West Plaza of the building on the afternoon of Jan 6, according to court documents in the case.
The ensuing riot led to several deaths, left more than 140 coppers injured and delayed a joint session of Congress in certifying the November 2020 presidential election victory of Democrat Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... over Trump, the Republican incumbent who falsely claimed he lost due to widespread fraud and summoned supporters to Washington to "stop the steal." Arrested on March 17, 2021, Ponder pleaded guilty in April of this year to charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon.
According to the DOJ statement, he swung a pole at a US Capitol Police officer, striking the officer’s riot shield and breaking the pole in two, before arming himself with a thicker pole that he wielded against other officers, striking one of them in the shoulder. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, at Tuesday’s hearing, said Ponder "was leading the charge" as "part of a group who, when they couldn’t get what they wanted, decided they were going to take it, and they were going to take it with violence," according to the Washington Post.
The 63-month-long sentence levied against Ponder matches the prison term imposed in December against a Florida man, Robert Scott Palmer, convicted for throwing a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher at police during the Jan 6 riot.
Palmer’s sentence was then the longest yet stemming from the attack on the Capitol.
More than 850 people have been charged with taking part in the riot, the most violent mostly peaceful assault on the halls of Congress since the British invasion of Washington during the War of 1812. More than 325 guilty pleas have been entered to date in connection with the Jan. 6 upheaval.
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Now I see why all those rioters - antifa attacking police - were on the west coast. DC District Judge Tanya Chutkan would've thrown the book at them!
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If, by some outside chance, we get another Republican prexident, you will know if it was worth your trouble to vote by whether or not every jailed J6 defendant is pardoned on day one or not.
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^^^^ this
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[AMERICANTHINKER] When it comes to the most insufferable Democrat in Congress, Rep. Eric I farted on national television Swalwell ... U.S. Representative-for-Life from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s 15th congressional district since 2013. Naturally he's a Dem. His district covers most of eastern Alameda County and part of central Contra Costa County. He was rapidly eliminated from the 2020 Dem nomination pool. He looks a lot like Greg Marmelard, and has the distinction of being one of the few politicians to ever fart on national teevee... , there's always the stench of something.
This time, it's raw campaign finance corruption, given Swalwell's amazing life of luxury lived out to the max on campaign funding. It sounds like the same kind of grift that put his California Republican congressional colleague, Duncan Hunter, Jr., in a prison cell.
According to Fox News:
Eric Swalwell's campaign shows no signs of slowing its luxury spending, racking up more international costs at the likes of a five-star Gay Paree hotel, federal filings show.
The California Democrat's campaign has consistently dropped cash into high-end items, such as limousine services, flights and posh accommodations. His latest filings show the trend has spilled over into this year's second quarter.
Swalwell's campaign, comprised of just two paid staffers, reported spending nearly $38,000 on travel expenses between May 19 and June 30, including $3,538.94 in late May for catering for a fundraising event at La Belle France's "iconic" Ritz Gay Paree, a posh hotel that features several upscale bars and reservation rooms.
"Whenever you require nourishment for both body and soul, the Ritz Gay Paree is ready," the highly-rated hotel's website states.
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The RNC should be going after these people with a vengeance.
[TOWNHALL] President Biden warned oil companies last week that if they don’t do more to help address rising prices, he will revoke their drilling permits on federal lands.
While touting that gas prices have fallen to below $4 at 30,000 gas stations across 35 states, he said more needs to be done.
"First, we’re going to look at ways to increase oil production from the existing wells and permits that exist today," he said. "The industry has more approved permits for production on federal lands than they can possibly use. That’s a fact. Let me say it again: They have more than they can use.
"So my message to these companies is: Use the permits or lose them. Don’t say we can’t — you don’t have access," he added.
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...he will revoke their drilling permits on federal lands.
A classic example of political bullshit. If they supposedly have those 'approved permits for production on federal land', then what explains the domestic shortage? Are they in fact extracting oil from said fields? 'Approved permits' but Uncle Joe won't let you extract oil? What / which is it?
I think I could explain things better by talking outta my ass, which is the Biden approach.
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Wasn't he a Senator of the party that banned drilling in Alaska (ANWR) because "...You can't drill your way out of the 'Oil Shortage'?" Consistency and Biden live on different planets.
[FRONTPAGEMAG] Was anyone really surprised when Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced that "highly credible" whistleblowers had given him information about FBI efforts to make the Hunter Biden scandal go away? Grassley wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland Monday that "the information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation. The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter." Will anyone hail me as a prognosticator of extraordinary powers when I predict, correctly, that in response to this letter, Wray and Garland will do absolutely nothing, except possibly to cover their tracks more effectively? No, because anyone who has been paying attention can see that.
The FBI has become a cancer on the American body politic. The FBI must go.
Grassley summarized how the FBI spiked the Hunter Biden material, stating that "the allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation." He noted that a 2020 FBI intelligence assessment that was "used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation." He added: "Based on allegations, verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation."
Grassley continued: "In light of these allegations, I remain very concerned that political bias by a select group of Justice Department and FBI officials has infected the Justice Department’s and FBI’s usual process and procedure to open and pursue high-profile and politically charged investigations." He then concluded: "If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are — and have been — institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law."
That’s right. And Hunter Biden isn’t even close to being the first sign of this institutional corruption. Garland even sicced the FBI on parents protesting at school board meetings over the imposition of the woke agenda in public schools. When challenged, Garland insisted that this was all on the up-and-up: "Parents have been complaining about the education of their children and about school boards since there were such things as school boards and public education. This is totally protected by the First Amendment. True threats of violence are not protected by the First Amendment. Those are the things we are worried about here. Those are the only things we are worried about here. We are not investigating peaceful protests or parent involvement in school board meetings. There is no precedent for doing that and we would never do that. We are only concerned about violence and threats of violence against school administrators, teachers, staff."
That sounds reasonable, but PJ Media’s Megan Fox did a deep dive into the supposed "threats" that school board members had allegedly received that justified FBI intervention, and came up empty. Fox concluded, "There isn’t one legitimate threat on the NSBA’s list or a situation that wasn’t handled easily by the police." The NSBA is the National School Boards Association, which appealed to the FBI for help, with Wray’s corrupt Bureau only too happy to oblige.
This is the same FBI that consistently denies the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and lied outright about the jihadi who stormed the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, and took hostages in January 2022, demanding the release of convicted jihad terrorist Aafia Siddiqui ...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her... . FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said: "We do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, uh, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community, uh, but we’re continuing to work to find motive and, and we will continue on that path." Several days later, with the evidence overwhelming, the FBI had to admit sheepishly that it was a assassination on Jews after all.
FBI and Homeland Security Department officials have often insisted and frequently repeated the claim that "white supremacists" and other "domestic bully boys" constitute the foremost terror threat the nation faces. The FBI is currently pursuing no fewer than 2,700 investigations of "domestic extremism," more than twice the usual number of such investigations. The dramatic increase in investigations suggests, at least in a sane world, a response to a sharply increased threat, but Biden’s handlers have shown no evidence of a massive spike in "white supremacist" terrorism. It’s just something we’re supposed to take their word for. Timothy Langan, the assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, in November 2021 presented it to Congress as axiomatic: "It goes without saying that the threat from domestic terrorism is heightened and has significantly increased in the last 18 months."
Does it really? Or is that just what the feds would have us believe as the January 6 Committee continues its efforts to stigmatize legitimate political opposition as terrorism? Even the far-Left Daily Beast reported as far back as April 2021 that "the FBI, without any court order, sifted through the National Security Agency’s massive troves of foreign communications for information on American ’racially motivated violent mostly peaceful bully boys,’ a newly declassified order from the secret surveillance court details."
And all this is aside from the FBI’s role in the Russian Collusion hoax and so much more. The FBI today is a rogue, out-of-control agency in service not of justice but of the interests of the Democrat Party. It should be shut down. But will there ever be a president with the courage to do so?
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Screw this! Defunding it’s not enough!
Peoples wants revenge and executions , and wealth confiscation.
CIA FBI DOJ PENTAGON need tabula rasa
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[NEWSWEEK] To expand access to abortion globally, Democrats introduced a bill—the Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act—in the Senate on Wednesday that seeks to repeal the Helms Amendment.
Enacted in 1973, the Helms Amendment prohibits U.S. foreign aid from being used for abortion "as a method of family planning." In practice, it has banned all U.S. foreign assistance funds from being used for any abortion care.
"We know that many countries have used Roe to support liberalizing their abortion laws and now face challenges," Senator Tina Smith, one of the bill's co-leads, told Newsweek.
"That's why it's critical for the United States to help protect and expand access to reproductive health care."
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No thanks. Keep it, you need the money.
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Because war, conflict, and urban crime have failed to reduce these onerous carbon emitters fast enough. The globalist answer must include 'all of the above.'
Let us help you decide who mush live and who must die.
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My neighbor told me that the Christian Gnostics that got wiped out to the last man were on to something. They called Satan the Demiurge and demons Archons.
Whether that is literal or not, they said you can always detect pure evil by inversion, not partial, completely flipped. They were absolutely right. Some texts were burned in library of Alexandria arson, but some were later found in modern times, hidden in desert in Egypt.
This findings were some of the only unedited texts and there was no real arguments on their translation or authenticity. They are the earliest really. They also thought the old testament God was the Demiurge.
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Did you ever try to read any of the gnostic sludge? The "Gospel of Thomas" (which wasn't lost, btw; it was known in the east all along) is relatively readable, but still awful.
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They also thought the old testament God was the Demiurge.
The Gnostics couldn’t bear the idea that God came first to the Jews for a reason, and that Jesus Christ himself was born into Jewish family for the same reason. And they loved the idea that they were privy to secret knowledge, whereas in general both Judaism and Christianity insist that that the knowledge is available for anyone who cares to look.
[PJMEDIA] The Senate passed a $280 billion "CHIPS and Science Act," — the culmination of several years’ efforts to create a modern industrial policy for the U.S. The bill will also give $100 billion to support regional technology hubs to support start-ups in areas of the country that haven’t traditionally drawn big funding for tech.
The bill would give $52 billion in subsidies to microchip manufacturers like Intel Corporation and will allow them to compete on a somewhat even playing field with China.
Considering the polarization in Congress, it’s remarkable that the bill received as much Republican support as it did — 17 GOP Senators voted for the bill. The bill now moves on to the House where Speaker Nancy Pelosi promises to bring it to the floor quickly. It’s expected that there will be Republican support for the bill in the House as well.
The bill, a convergence of economic and national security policy, would provide $52 billion in subsidies and additional tax credits to companies that manufacture chips in the United States. It also would add $200 billion in scientific research, especially into artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing and a range of other technologies.
The real impetus for passage was the pandemic when America’s chip shortage contributed to the supply chain problems suffered by many industries.
In the end, it was made possible only by an unlikely collision of factors: a pandemic that laid bare the costs of a global semiconductor shortage, heavy lobbying from the chip industry, Mr. Young’s persistence in urging his colleagues to break with party orthodoxy and support the bill, and Mr. Schumer’s ascension to the top job in the Senate.
Many senators, including Republicans, saw the legislation as a critical step to strengthen America’s semiconductor manufacturing abilities at a time when the nation has become perilously reliant on foreign countries — especially an increasingly vulnerable Taiwan — for advanced chips.
But a Wall Street Journal editorial points out the perils of allowing the government to subsidize any industry. Companies are going to have to play by different rules, including paying workers the "prevailing wage" in the region. This is interesting.
Currently the US makes 80% of the TOTAL VALUE of the chip market. Meaning if you need server/desktop CPUs/GPUs or other high end chips, it is designed and made in the US or the design is sent to Taiwan to make. We make the good shit.
Middle ground chips like for automobiles or other value added goods are typically made in Korea, Indonesia, Japan, etc.
Cheap chips like the Internet of Things talking toaster are made in China.
It will be interesting to see what the US pushes our chip manufacturers to make here. If they want the mid-range chips brought back, we can expect they think Asia is going to hell in a handbasket. The cheap crap chips China puts out are just not profitable and will have to be outsourced to a nation like Columbia or such that has cheap, but educated labor.
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In this week's set of disappointing quarterly reports from tech companies, Texas Instruments was the outlier, beating on all components of its report. Meanwhile, all the big chip makers are forecasting slower growth ahead. You hear basically no more talk of a "chip shortage" now, only a slowdown in demand.
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Media says they lost about $675k. Of course, there are ways to trade stock at a loss with an option to buy back later at the sale price. Not a trade available to the average prole.
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Did they close out ALL of their positions in that company at a net loss? Or did they swap out a shorter timed options position and only report the loss, not the new or existing, longer positions which may gain net profit if the company gets a nice slice of the pie? Over time I have come to just assume that demokrats always tell lies with partial truth. Its the lawyer mindset so may of them have, Clintonesque!
[NationalReview] Democrats are sounding the alarm over their own party's campaign organization, raising concerns about the morality and strategic wisdom of propping up pro-Trump candidates in GOP primaries.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee received wide-ranging complaints from Democrats after the committee spent $425,000 on a campaign ad to apparently boost pro-Trump Michigan candidate John Gibbs over Representative Peter Miejer, Politico reported.
Miejer voted to impeach Trump but Gibbs, whom the ad says is “too conservative for West Michigan,” is seen as an easier target for Democrats to beat in November. However, propping up the deemed enemy could be dangerous for Democrats’ own messaging that some Republicans are a “threat” to the country, and could backfire if Gibbs wins in the Republican red wave.
Representative Jason Crow (D., Colo.) said propping up pro-Trump candidates is a "terrible idea."
"It’s very dangerous, I think, in this environment to be propping up candidates like that," Crow said, according to Politico.
"Of course, it could backfire. And that’s part of the reason why I don’t think it’s a good idea," he added. "Not only do I think it sends the wrong message, but it’s substantively risky."
[Breitbart] Senate Democrats are admitting defeat in their efforts to slip an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens into an upcoming budget reconciliation package.
While Senate Democrats and Republicans are currently negotiating a reconciliation package — a filibuster-proof budget that only needs majority support to pass — Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) admitted that amnesty for illegal aliens will not make it into the final deal.
“Asked if immigration is at all part of reconciliation talks, [Sen. Durbin] responds with a clear and unequivocal ‘no,'” NBC’s Sahil Kapur posted on Twitter on Tuesday.
The admission comes after Senate Democrats failed repeatedly last year to slip an amnesty for illegal aliens into a budget reconciliation package.
Last month, Durbin said he and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) were in talks about an amnesty deal. Tillis, this week, said those talks are still ongoing.
Also flailing is an amnesty plan for illegal aliens claiming to have worked on United States farms. The plan, backed by a swath of House and Senate Republicans representing the west coast, would give green cards to as many as 2.1 million illegal aliens.
Supporters now admit that time is dwindling to get the legislation through Congress before an August recess.
At the same time, House Democrats have introduced a daily “rolling” amnesty plan that would give green cards to millions of illegal aliens every single year by changing a little-known registry date in federal immigration law.
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.
James Gilliar, a former British Special Forces officer with ties to UK intelligence services
...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
...46th president of the U.S. 
... U.S. Representative-for-Life from 
[TOWNHALL] President Biden warned oil companies last week that if they don’t do more to help address rising prices, he will revoke their drilling permits on federal lands.
[FRONTPAGEMAG] Was anyone really surprised when Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced that "highly credible" whistleblowers had given him information about FBI efforts to make the Hunter Biden scandal go away? Grassley wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland Monday that "the information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation. The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter." Will anyone hail me as a prognosticator of extraordinary powers when I predict, correctly, that in response to this letter, Wray and Garland will do absolutely nothing, except possibly to cover their tracks more effectively? No, because anyone who has been paying attention can see that.
...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her...
[PJMEDIA] The Senate passed a $280 billion "CHIPS and Science Act," — the culmination of several years’ efforts to create a modern industrial policy for the U.S. The bill will also give $100 billion to support regional technology hubs to support start-ups in areas of the country that haven’t traditionally drawn big funding for tech.
