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Blinken: ‘Not Engaging in Politics’ of Whether Hunter Biden Laptop Is Russian Disinformation
During an interview on Monday with Fox News State Department Correspondent Benjamin Hall aired on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken refused to say that the Hunter Biden laptop isn’t Russian disinformation because he’s “not engaging in politics” and he has “a lot on my agenda” with the war in Ukraine, engaging with American allies, dealing with China, and dealing with the situation in Sudan.
Blinken said that the 2020 letter from former intelligence officials claiming that the laptop story was Russian disinformation “wasn’t my idea, didn’t ask for it, didn’t solicit it. And I think the testimony that the former Deputy Director of the CIA, Mike Morell put forward confirms that.”
Hall then asked, “Do you accept that the laptop is not Russian disinformation?”
Blinken responded, “Again, from my perspective, I’m not engaging in politics. I’ve got a lot on my agenda [with] the things that we’ve just talked about, trying to help the Ukrainians in the Russian aggression against them, engaging with allies and partners around the world, and dealing with some of the challenges posed by China. We have a situation now in Sudan that’s fully occupied my time. So that’s where my focus is.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/05/01/blinken-not-engaging-in-politics-of-whether-hunter-biden-laptop-is-russian-disinformation
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May 03, 2023, 12:41 AM
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-460-sec-of-state-tony-blinken-on-thin-ice-as/id1585243541?i=1000611505713
https://truthsocial.com/@JackPosobiec/posts/110302911928272613
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Why Are We Letting the Chinese Buy Our Land?
May 2, 2023
Recent events make this question less about commerce and agriculture and more about national security.
When we think of the open spaces out in what’s derisively known as “flyover country,” we think of land that’s used for farming, ranching, mining, and timber. We think of millions upon millions of bountiful acres that keep our bellies full, our lights on, and our industries producing.
While Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is our nation’s largest farmland owner, his portfolio of 269,000 agricultural acres pales in comparison to the acreage — generally in vast holdings of ranch land — owned by various individuals and families. You may recognize some of the names among the top 10: CNN founder Ted Turner, Subway cofounder Peter Buck, and Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke. Even the family heirs controlling the venerable King Ranch make the list with more than 900,000 acres owned.
But there are other entities attempting to muscle their way onto this list — Red Chinese entities.
It hasn’t drawn as many headlines as the controversy over the Confucius Institutes we talked about a few years back, or the more recent flight of the red zeppelin, but there’s a growing concern about Chinese ownership of our domestic land — particularly the soil on which we’re growing our food.
The ChiComs have been on a global land-buying spree, and our farms are no exception. The amount of American land owned by Chinese interests has increased by more than fivefold in the last decade, with that property often strategically purchased near sensitive military or civilian institutions. That buying spree is even more pronounced in other areas of the world, leading South Dakota Republican Congressman Dusty Johnson to observe, “When they own that African farmland, when they own that Southeast Asian farmland, they gain more control over the whole global food supply.”
At this point, America can still pretty much feed herself, but a portion of our agricultural exports are now competing with Chinese-owned farms in other parts of the world. The issue is being addressed, however, and it’s a two-pronged approach. States worried about the encroachment of foreign interests on our farmland have been willing to place restrictions on its purchase, with the latest of several examples being a state house bill called the North Carolina Farmland and Military Protection Act.
“Our state’s agricultural land is one of our most important assets and it is common sense that we protect it from foreign governments that do not have America’s best interests in mind,” said State Representative Jennifer Balkcom, the bill’s sponsor. If adopted, North Carolina would join a list of 18 states with some form of regulation on foreign ownership of property.
Good for those 18. What’s keeping the other 32?
Meanwhile, Congress is itself trying to get into the act with a series of competing proposals. And while Johnson cautioned that the Biden administration “is not engaging with us in Congress as much as I think some people would hope,” the bills are proceeding in a hearteningly bipartisan fashion. One key change would be the addition of the secretary of agriculture to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which reviews the potential foreign acquisition of land and businesses.
Two of America’s biggest assets are its landmass and its attractiveness to foreign investment. Sometimes, though, that investment involves our land, and we as a sovereign nation should be able to dictate whether such purchases are in our best interests or not.
Recent events — such as the spy balloon flyover and the opening of clandestine police stations in our cities — strongly suggest that the Red Chinese might not have our own best interests at heart.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/96945-why-are-we-letting-the-chinese-buy-our-land-2023-05-02
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04-May-2020 4:43:12 PM UTCQ !!Hs1Jq13jV68kun/qresearch9025008
Archived links:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/03/congressman-nancy-pelosi-blocking-investigation-chinese-coronavirus-origins/
Why would Pelosi [D] block origination-source [roll-out] investigation of COVID-19 in [China]?
Prevent public exposure of truth?
Ask yourself, why?
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Banks Collapse After Federal Fiscal Failure
Joe Biden doesn’t run the banks, but his economic mismanagement and federal regulation brought down another big bank.
We humans are funny creatures. We all know deep down that responsibly managing resources, including our finances, is critically important. But in practice, we often simply don’t care.
We just want that next vacation or new toy. We just want the bank on the corner to keep dispensing money without failing. We just want the federal government to keep running those programs to “take care” of people. Let someone else pick up the tab.
Oh how reality intrudes.
The U.S. national debt is $31.7 trillion and counting, and we officially hit the statutory debt ceiling in January. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has been using “extraordinary measures” to keep things running, though she warned yesterday that those measures will expire faster than she thought previously. “After reviewing recent federal tax receipts,” Yellen wrote in a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, “our best estimate is that we will be unable to continue to satisfy all of the government’s obligations by early June, and potentially as early as June 1, if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit before that time.”
Her lecturing letter ought to be addressed to Joe Biden. McCarthy and his fellow Republicans already did pass legislation increasing the debt ceiling. It is Joe Biden who has so far refused to negotiate, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has dutifully waited with him on the sidelines. They prefer to blame Republicans than to actually do anything responsible.
Biden did finally reverse course Monday, inviting McCarthy to come to the White House … next week. Nothing like urgency.
We bring that up because Biden has a fiscal log in his own eye when it comes to the rash of bank failures on his watch — including three of the four biggest failures in U.S. history.
In March, Mark Alexander thoroughly covered the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. SVB was America’s 16th-largest bank, and its failure was the second largest in U.S. history.
Regulators seized First Republic Bank and on Monday sold its assets to JPMorgan Chase. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will take a $13 billion hit, compared with about $20 billion for SVB. First Republic’s failure is now the second biggest, outmatched only by the 2008 collapse of Washington Mutual. JPMorgan also purchased Washington Mutual, and its buyout of First Republic only adds to the balance sheet of America’s largest bank.
Too big to fail just keeps getting even bigger.
What happened? In short, bad management. “Since the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March, attention has focused on First Republic as the weakest link in the U.S. banking system,” reports CNBC. “Like SVB, which catered to the tech startup community, First Republic was also a California-based specialty lender of sorts. It focused on serving rich coastal Americans, enticing them with low-rate mortgages in exchange for leaving cash at the bank.”
In other words, like SVB, First Republic served wealthy Democrat elites — like Mark Zuckerberg. Its strategy of five-star service and cheap loans rather than rate of return for wealthy depositors didn’t end up panning out.
One particular wealthy Democrat elite blames the nebulous forces of deregulation. “The failure of First Republic Bank shows how deregulation has made the too big to fail problem even worse,” Senator Elizabeth Warren declared. “A poorly supervised bank was snapped up by an even bigger bank — ultimately taxpayers will be on the hook. Congress needs to make major reforms to fix a broken banking system.”
Someone get a Leftmedia fact-checker on the line. They scolded and censored anyone who dared suggest that taxpayers might “be on the hook” for SVB or Signature Bank. We’re guessing they’ll just whistle and look the other way now that Warren has said it, maybe because she hedged with future tense.
Moreover, Warren is a big fan of the Dodd-Frank financial takeover that passed before Harvard’s most famous “Native American” arrived in the Senate. Whatever deregulation happened under the too-brief Trump administration was merely rolling back some of the power grabbed by Warren’s ilk. It does not mean the feds don’t still regulate the financial sector even more heavily than before 2008.
Remember that three of the four biggest bank collapses in U.S. history occurred post Dodd-Frank and under Joe Biden’s inflationary economic regime.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve just released its autopsy of SVB Friday, and it echoes Warren’s statist conclusion: The failure of regulation means more regulation is needed.
The inconvenient truth, however, is that SVB collapsed in part because of regulation. The Fed’s regulatory “framework is quite complicated,” the report admits, and SVB expended “considerable effort seeking to understand the rules and when they apply, including the implications of different evaluation criteria, historical and prospective transition periods, cliff effects, and complicated definitions.”
As the editors of The Wall Street Journal translate, “SVB seems to have been more focused on complying with financial regulation than prudently managing its balance-sheet risks.” Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr boasts of this “unflinching” report, but in reality all we got from the Federal Reserve was scapegoating and blame-shifting.
Just remember that these are the same people — mostly Democrats — who are managing our national fiscal house. SVB, Signature Bank, and First Republic all had bad debts that overwhelmed them.
What happens when America is finally overcome by the fiscal profligacy of politicians like Biden and Warren?
https://patriotpost.us/articles/96972-banks-collapse-after-federal-fiscal-failure-2023-05-02
May 3, 2023
Wednesday Short Cuts
Notable quotables from Antony Blinken, Greg Abbott, Vivek Ramaswamy, and more.
The BIG Lies
“One of the great benefits of this job is that I don’t do politics and don’t engage in it.” —Secretary of State Antony Blinken
“We get up every day making sure that this economy is delivering for working people all across the country.” —Biden economic adviser Heather Boushey
Upright
“If you truly want to ‘work together to find a real solution’ to this border crisis gripping our nation, you must call on the Biden Administration to do its job by securing our border, repelling the illegal immigrants flooding into our communities, classifying the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and intercepting the deadly fentanyl that is endangering our country. You are right that ‘this situation is completely untenable,’ but this is not a Texas problem — this is a problem for the entire United States of America. Texas began busing migrants to sanctuary cities such as your ‘Welcoming City,’ along with Washington, D.C., New York City, and Philadelphia, to provide much-needed relief to our overrun border communities. Until President Biden secures the border to stop the inflow of mass migration, Texas will continue this necessary program.” —Texas Governor Greg Abbott in response to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
For the Record
“‘The failure of First Republic Bank shows how deregulation has made the too big to fail problem even worse,’ Senator Elizabeth Warren declared. ‘A poorly supervised bank was snapped up by an even bigger bank — ultimately taxpayers will be on the hook. Congress needs to make major reforms to fix a broken banking system.’ Someone get a Leftmedia fact-checker on the line. They scolded and censored anyone who dared suggest that taxpayers might ‘be on the hook’ for SVB or Signature Bank.” —Nate Jackson
“Remember that three of the four biggest bank collapses in U.S. history occurred post Dodd-Frank and under Joe Biden’s inflationary economic regime.” —Nate Jackson
Re: The Left
“Gay movement: the sex you’re attracted to is hardwired at birth, even though there’s no gay gene. Trans movement: your sex is entirely fluid, even though there is a definitive sex chromosome. LGBT movement: you must believe both of those things at once, or else you’re a bigot.” —Vivek Ramaswamy
“If you are a Christian using trans pronouns, you are aiding the Enemy in advancing a movement that’s destroying bodies, souls, families, & nations. There’s no neutrality or nuance here.” —Allie Beth Stuckey
And Last…
“There is no carefully crafted narrative or hand-selected imagery that can erase the downward spiral and loss of freedom and rights that we can see with our own eyes. We are too aware of the suffering we do not want to see continue for our friends and neighbors. Joe Biden has repeatedly demonstrated no interest in preserving freedom.” —Samantha Koch
https://patriotpost.us/articles/96975-wednesday-short-cuts-2023-05-03
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>>18789660, >>18789667 TONY BLINKEN ON THIN ICE AS CONNECTIONS TO BURISMA, LAPTOP SCANDALS PILE UP
>>18789709 Why Are We Letting the Chinese Buy Our Land? Q 4097
>>18789719, >>18789720 Banks Collapse After Federal Fiscal Failure
>>18789726 The BIG Lies- “We get up every day making sure that this economy is delivering for working people all across the country.” —Biden economic adviser Heather Boushey
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Can Italy Defeat Its Most Powerful Crime Syndicate?
A prosecutor takes hundreds of mobsters to court.
By Rachel Donadio
October 2020 Issue
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/italian-mafia-ndrangheta/615466/
Category: Sicilian Mafia/Ndrangheta
https://mafiatoday.com/category/sicilian-mafia-ndrangheta/
https://mafiatoday.com/mafia-structure-and-definitions/
https://mafiatoday.com/how-the-mafia-built-the-casinos-in-las-vegas/
What is the ‘Ndrangheta?
What is the ‘Ndrangheta?
Once seen as a less organized version of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, the ‘Ndrangheta has risen to become not only Italy’s most powerful mafia but also one of the largest and most sophisticated criminal organizations in the world.
Made up of a sprawling network of ‘ndrina, or clans, rooted in Calabria at the toe of boot-shaped Italy, the syndicate is believed to rake in as much as US$60 billion annually — roughly equivalent to the GDP of Croatia.
The group’s interests run the spectrum of economic activity, from outwardly legal enterprises in construction, green energy, and waste management to criminal schemes involving fraud, extortion, high-level corruption, and trafficking in humans and weapons.
However, academic studies have suggested that drugs are the ‘Ndrangheta’s biggest earner, with the group controlling some of the world’s most lucrative trafficking routes.
According to an estimate by Italy’s parliament, the organization may dominate more than 80 percent of the European cocaine trade, and its operatives have been detected at major ports on nearly every continent.
’Ndranghetisti have also long been known as skilled money launderers, navigating the global financial system with ease and using complex ownership structures and financial secrecy laws to conceal the origins of their wealth.
“The 'Ndrangheta is among the richest and most powerful organized crime groups at a global level. It has a dominant position on the European cocaine market due to excellent relations with the producers [and] reproduces abroad perfect copies of its operational structures. The 'Ndrangheta […] has repeatedly proven its skill in infiltrating political and economic environments and its remarkable capacity for corruption.
– Europol & Guardia di Finanza, 2013
https://www.occrp.org/en/ndrangheta/what-is-the-ndrangheta
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