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EXC: Presidential Debate Commission Chief Held ‘Off-The-Record’ Meetings With Chinese Communist Propagandists, And Xi Jinping
Natalie WintersJanuary 18, 2022
Kenneth Wollack, a Co-Chair of the Commission of Presidential Debates, participated in several “off-the-record” dialogues with Chinese Communist Party officials and influence groups, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.
Wollack – also the Chairman of the publicly-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) board – was one of ten principal delegates for what was called the inaugural U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue, hosted by the EastWest Institute “in partnership” with the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The U.S. delegation was led by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, whose daughter Alice was recently tapped to run a key Biden-era foreign aid initiative despite her massive investments with the Chinese Communist Party.
“It seeks to build understanding and trust between political elites from the United States and China through an exchange of views on governance and foreign policy issues,” summarizes the think-tank.
The EastWest Institute, however, has a long track record of collaborating with premier Chinese influence groups including the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF).
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The organization was founded by the Vice-Chairman Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department, an effort that seeks to “co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and “influence foreign governments to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies.”
CUSEF has also sponsored various U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue.
Given the EastWest Institute’s close ties to Beijing, Wollack’s delegation included “off-the-record” meetings with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping and senior officials in the regime’s controversial United Front Work Department.
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In the following year, Wollack joined another U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue that took place in Beijing and Sichuan, China.
“This visit marked the first time the dialogue process expanded beyond Beijing to include meetings in other regions of China, in an effort to promote a broader understanding between the two countries’ political elites,” explained the EastWest Institute.
In December 2012, Wollack joined another business-focused delegation, which the EastWest Institute summarized as focusing on “how to expand trade ties between China and the United States, particularly at the provincial and state levels.”….
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/18/debate-commission-co-chair-participated-in-ccp-meetings/
I wonder ig Bill Nye the Science Guy signed it
https://twitter.com/laralogan/status/1483234475182071819?s=20
If any of this happened under Trump you would never hear the end of it, but not a peep about killing the unborn under bidan
https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1483339001377570819?s=20
Ot should be a jail
Probably more than that!
https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1483482754918584320?s=20
So most of the SC are sheep also, thats not a good feeling
https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1483450577027747852?s=20
#NoImmunityForFBI
https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1483473597184286720?s=20
Dan needs to go now! Doubling down of Cheney support revealed who he is
https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1483431084528390147?s=20
Everyone knew this except lefties
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1483439628153757697?s=20
COVID con, part 2: How billions in pandemic relief funds went to everything but pandemic relief
Federal money meant to combat COVID-19 instead spent on pension bailouts, critical race theory programs, cash grants to illegal immigrants.
Read part 1 of our COVID con series to see how lax government oversight of COVID-19 relief funds allowed fraudsters to take advantage of the pandemic and rake in cash as small businesses failed.
For the past two years, states and the federal government have spent billions of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds on a wide range of policy programs unrelated to the pandemic, according to a review conducted by Just the News.
The review found that, in numerous cases across the country, local, state, and federal officials used pandemic relief to fund other, often politically contentious spending priorities, such as teacher pay raises and cash grants for illegal immigrants.
One of the most prominent examples came at the federal level, where lawmakers attempted to bail out union pension plans facing possible insolvency.
In March, Democrats included in President Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which was meant to help the country recover from the health and economic effects of COVID-19, about $86 billion to save private unions' multiemployer retirement funds. The largest of these is the Teamsters' Central States Pension Fund.
Democrats argued at the time that the bailout would keep dozens if not hundreds of pensions solvent for several more years at a lower cost than if Congress acted later. It's unclear, however, why they included the pension cash infusion in a law purportedly meant to combat the pandemic rather than other legislation.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) appeared to offer a partial explanation last year, saying children would be helped by taxpayer funds directed toward struggling union-managed multiemployer pensions, noting the benefits of providing economic security for families.
Critics of the bailout counter that, because it doesn't address the structural problems that caused the pensions to face insolvency in the first place, many of these bailed out retirement plans may need another cash infusion in the not-too-distant future.
Beyond unions, the federal government also sent pandemic relief funds to businesses linked to the Chinese government. In fact, the Treasury Department and the Small Business Administration gave between $192 million and $419 million in emergency U.S. taxpayer funding to at least 125 Chinese firms with links to the Chinese Communist Party, according to the Horizon Advisory strategic consulting group.
Due to negligible government oversight, the money went to the firms by way of the Paycheck Protection Program, which was designed to assist U.S. small businesses that were devastated by the pandemic.
The Treasury Department has also said states and localities can spend COVID-19 relief on infrastructure, expanding access to broadband internet, and modernizing cyber security. Indeed, the department has given them significant flexibility in how they spend their federal pandemic relief funds, indicating the money can go to replacing lost revenue as well as infrastructure. However, the department announced this months after states already submitted their plans for how they would spend COVID-19 funds on these very areas……
You’ve got to read the whole article, very few states used it for any relief
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/covid-con-part-2-how-billions-pandemic-relief-funds-went-everything
Many states said in writing they're allocating nine-figure sums of federal pandemic relief funds on broadband, housing, and other infrastructure projects. Kentucky, for example, is devoting $250 million to water and sewer infrastructure projects across the state, billing them as part of the COVID-19 recovery effort. The Bluegrass State is also including $300 million to expand broadband services as part of its pandemic recovery plan.
Colorado, meanwhile, plans to put $550 million of its federal funds toward affordable housing and home ownership efforts and another $380 million for transportation, infrastructure, parks, and agriculture.
Connecticut, meanwhile, is devoting $7 million to retrofit affordable housing to make homes more energy efficient.
To cite another example, New Jersey, which allocated only 27% of its federal pandemic relief for public health, is devoting millions of dollars for water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure.
New Jersey has also made "equity" a "foundational issue" in its use of federal COVID-19 recovery funds, according to the state's 2021 Recovery Plan Performance Report.
"New Jersey's initial strategy to promote equity for underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected groups has been to provide direct benefits and services to individuals and families who have the greatest and most immediate need as a result of the pandemic," the report states. "For New Jersey, these groups include women, minorities, and the economically disadvantaged."
The Garden State isn't alone in spending pandemic relief funds on promoting equity. In New York, the state Education Department is diverting federal pandemic relief funds to a controversial curriculum which, critics argue, is steeped in critical race theory. The Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education Framework will train students to identify inequities and biases supposedly deeply embedded in the country and in their own lives and to plumb the "root causes of inequity."
New York's public schools have been awarded a total of nearly $9 billion in Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief aid from federal pandemic relief programs through the U.S. Department of Education, the bulk of it funded by the American Rescue Plan.
"The notion that New York is diverting funding for a critical-race-theory-focused student training curriculum is patently false," said a spokesman for the New York State Education Department.
Nationwide, schools received $190 billion through three relief packages passed. Of that total, the largest sum, $122 billion, was from the American Rescue Plan. The funds were ostensibly meant to reopen schools safely amid the pandemic and return students to in-person instruction. Millions, however, were used for COVID-19 bonuses, teacher pay raises, and even to cover payroll.
Just the News previously exposed many such examples, including Detroit Public Schools using $60 million of its pandemic relief funds to give out bonuses and Connecticut spending $21.1 million on "personal services-salaries" and $2.6 million on employee benefits.
Beyond school expenditures, Washington state is using $340 million of its pandemic relief to provide one-time cash grants of $1,000 for illegal immigrants, according to the state's Recovery Plan Performance Report. That's in addition to $128 million in funding provided by the CARES Act, another federal COVID-19 relief stimulus, for illegal immigrants last fiscal year.
Several states and cities have also taken advantage of the federal funds to try to put their fiscal houses in order. Connecticut, for example, has allocated $1.75 billion in federal pandemic aid to be used to support "budget balance" for fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Colorado put $1 billion toward fortifying the state budget and maintaining fiscal integrity.
At the same time, New York City, Tulsa, Okla., and Santa Cruz County, Calif. rehired more city workers with COVID-19 funds, spending tens of millions of dollars to do so.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/covid-con-part-2-how-billions-pandemic-relief-funds-went-everything
Last part pf the article
Meanwhile Veterans are still not taken care of!
Some states and localities allocated COVID-19 relief to child care, while New Mexico appropriated well over half a billion dollars to replenish its Unemployment Insurance (UI) Trust Fund as well as repay the federal loans issued by the U.S. Department of Labor to support the overwhelming surge of UI claimants during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Proponents of the Treasury Department's more hands-off approach to how states spend federal pandemic relief say states will better address their own needs with less limitations. Others argue that, to avoid misuse of federal funds and wasteful spending, COVID-19 relief should be focused specifically on responding to public health needs and the economic fallout of the pandemic.
These critics have noted that some governments even directed pandemic relief to museums and block parties. Indeed, San Jose, Calif. is spending $12 million to "beautify" the area by installing public toilets and funding block party events. Some of the money is also going to San Joe's National Night Out, murals, community gardens, and other related projects.
San Jose also devoted $3.7 million to an "Environmental Resilience Corp," which will "undertake environmental stewardship projects such as tree planting, defensible space and fuel reduction, biofuel maintenance, and trail maintenance, including community engagement and organizing," according to its Recovery Plan. Another $1.4 million is going to clean up parks.
In Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont (D.) last year allocated $15 million to allow children 18 and under plus one accompanying adult to visit museums throughout the state free of charge.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/covid-con-part-2-how-billions-pandemic-relief-funds-went-everything
The Dirty Truth (Josh)
The White House knew The Afghan Air Force would collapse as soon as they pulled out. https://t.co/hpXFmN8QWR
https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1483443592404295680?s=20
You have to listen till the end! Kek
The Dirty Truth (Josh)
.@SenJohnKennedy says ending the filibuster is like giving a teenager a bottle of whiskey and the keys to the car. If aliens landed tomorrow and said “take me to your leader“ it would be embarrassing. https://t.co/JkyEXXDsp1
https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1483266791912534019?s=20
These people are teaching the children of America, which will be future leaders
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1483236894901219333?s=20
Here we go
https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1482886587788767232?s=20
drefanzor
Hillary Clinton spotted at the #TrumpRally
https://t.co/3jIyN7ZMje
https://twitter.com/drefanzor/status/1482544696488460289?s=20
Yep
They are nobodies with no power..they should just disappear
I cant wait til all the fed workers unions sue the administration, and all federally funded facilities
It makes me wonder if they were allowed to do this to get caught? It msles no sense why republicans let that happen
Thats so cool, do you have a Boston Harbor there? That would be fun
I wonder if Trump put him under control
I read on ‘E will help you’ that the real deSantis is not around anymore
Wow, Facist much
Shes lying, she slways lies, like all of them do
This is SOOO stupid for an economy that relies on tourists. The Boomerang will return soon and even when they lift this no one will want to go there; just like Australia, thr entire country relies on tourists