Anonymous ID: a92aba Feb. 19, 2025, 4:08 p.m. No.22615373   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5385 >>5398 >>5616 >>5632

There's this:

 

Two weeks after leaving White House, former President Joe Biden signs with talent agency

The Creative Artists Agency also represents former President Barack Obama and wife Michelle, former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke.

Fernando Cervantes Jr. USA TODAY 4 Feb 2025

 

Two weeks after leaving the White House, Joe Biden has already lined up representation.

 

The Los Angeles-based Creative Artists Agency, which also represents former President Barack Obama and wife Michelle, announced on Monday that it had signed Biden for representation. The agency also represented Biden between 2017 and 2020.

 

“President Biden is one of America’s most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs,” Richard Lovett, co-chairman of the agency, said in an Instagram post. “His lifelong commitment to public service is one of unity, optimism, dignity, and possibility. We are profoundly honored to partner with him again.”

 

During his first stint being represented by Creative Artists Agency, Biden published the book, "Promise Me, Dad," in which the former president talks about his eldest son Beau’s battle with cancer. The book release was also accompanied by a nationwide paid tour.

 

Creative Artists Agency also represents other politicians

 

The Creative Artists Agency also represents other high-profile Democrats, like the Obamas' Higher Ground Productions, former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, among other politicians.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/03/joe-biden-creative-artists-agency/78195017007/

 

And today this:

 

Canada #71

Failed Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris Signs with Hollywood Talent Agency

by Cassandra MacDonald Feb. 19, 2025

 

Kamala Harris has signed with a Hollywood talent agency after losing her presidential bid to President Donald Trump.

 

The Creative Artists Agency (CAA) announced on Tuesday that it will represent Harris “in all areas, focusing on speaking engagements and publishing.”

 

The CAA also represents Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.

 

“CAA will work closely with Harris on her post-White House initiatives, creating strategic opportunities that expand her platform in support of the issues she has championed throughout her decades-long career in public service,” the talent agency said in a statement.

 

Harris was previously represented by the Los Angeles-based agency while serving as a California senator.

 

The agency is very liberal and frequently pushes for DEI hiring.

 

“It is also our goal to lead the way in diversity, advocating with marketplace buyers for talent from historically underrepresented groups – and for the cultural and commercial value of inclusion. CAA continues to increase the diversity of our talent roster and our employees, and always will,” the CAA’s website states.

 

There have been rumblings that Harris may run for California governor.

 

A recent Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics/The Hill poll found that if she entered the race, she would be the frontrunner.

 

“If Vice President Harris enters the Democratic Primary, she would start as the clear favorite,” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling. “Without Harris in the race, the primary is wide open.”

 

When asked about her plans, Harris said, “I have been home for two weeks and three days. My plans are to be in touch with my community, to be in touch with the leaders and figure out what I can do to support them.”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/failed-presidential-candidate-kamala-harris-signs-hollywood-talent/

Anonymous ID: a92aba Feb. 19, 2025, 4:43 p.m. No.22615589   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Canada #71

Beijing Underground Command Center Signals Preparation For Conflict

Authored by John Mills via The Epoch Times Tuesday, Feb 18, 2025

 

The media recently reported that China’s People’s Liberation Army is building the world’s biggest military base underground in possible preparation for conflict with the United States.

 

Large enough to fit 10 Pentagons, the new super large facility should not be a surprise - it is a logical and iterative next step of a long program of underground facilities by China. The command center is on the western outskirts of the capital city of Beijing.

 

In about 2011, stories began to appear around China’s “Underground Great Wall.”

 

“In March 2008, China’s state-run CCTV network broke the news about a 5,000-kilometre-long network of hardened tunnels built to house the Chinese Second Artillery Corps’s (sic) increasingly modern force of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles,” The Diplomat reported on Aug. 20, 2011.

 

Hui Zhang of Harvard’s Belfer Center downplayed China’s Underground Great Wall and explained it was only “defensive in nature.”

 

Prior to the Underground Great Wall, the People’s Liberation Army Navy built a large underground submarine base on Hainan Island that is still being expanded and improved.

 

The new command center in Beijing is described by online media BulgarianMilitary.com as a “command-and-control center for the PLA in wartime.“ The report notes that ”the site’s sheer scale, combined with its underground elements, points to a design built for survival,“ and ”experts believe that the complex will feature a series of underground nodes, perhaps even a hidden subway system, all interconnected by subterranean passageways.”

 

When completed, this facility—now dubbed the “Beijing Military City” by Western military analysts—will be the largest underground command center in the world, possibly in history.

 

Western Equivalents Are Limited in Comparison

Zhang of the Belfer Center described the Beijing Military City as defensive in nature. That is one viewpoint but should also be measured and compared in terms of equivalency in the West. The challenge is that there is little equivalency in the West in modern times.

 

There are underground facilities dating back to the Cold War days in the West, but most have been decommissioned. Canada’s “Diefenbunker” in Ottawa is a museum and tourist attraction. In the UK, there was the Central Government War Headquarters (CGWHQ), close to Bristol, about 100 miles due west of London, which could accept about 4,000 to 5,000 essential personnel for the Continuity of Government (COG).

 

In the United States, there was The Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, where, at one time, Congress would relocate to in case of conflict; it is now a museum with a gift shop. The Pentagon contains the existing National Military Command Center, which is in the above-ground basement, but also has a backup at Raven Rock and air and ground mobile alternate command posts. The White House has an alternate facility for COG, if necessary.

 

Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, has an underground facility that is being rebuilt due to a flood in 2019 that damaged part of the facility. The vaunted and historic Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was essentially closed around 2005 but was reopened beginning in 2015 as a backup for the above-ground facilities below at Peterson Air Force Base.

 

Most of the Cold War facilities in the West closed because there was a perception there was no compelling reason to keep them open, along with the enormous maintenance costs to keep them operational. The reality is that all of these Western facilities, whether they are active or museum pieces, would fill up only a small portion of the operational side of the underground Beijing Military City currently under construction.

 

More:

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/beijing-underground-command-center-signals-preparation-conflict

Anonymous ID: a92aba Feb. 19, 2025, 4:46 p.m. No.22615610   🗄️.is 🔗kun

And Planefags had planefagged these Buffs and their tankers over the Med

 

Canada #71

US Flies Bomber Group Over Middle East In Warning To Enemies

by Tyler Durden Tuesday, Feb 18, 2025

 

he Pentagon has confirmed that it deployed a pair of strategic bombers over the Middle East on Tuesday, accompanied with fighter jet escorts as well as refueling aircraft, in order "to demonstrate force projection capabilities in the region."

 

US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that "live munitions drops at ranges in several partner nations" were part of the mission, making it a rare 'live-fire' exercise and warning to regional enemies.

 

CENTCOM Conducts Bomber Task Force Mission in Middle East

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted a Bomber Task Force Mission in the Middle East, Feb. 17, to demonstrate force projection capabilities in the region.

Two B-52s from RAF Fairford, U.K., flew across Europe and… pic.twitter.com/MEepc9hGiI

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) February 18, 2025

 

CENTCOM further described that this shows the US "ability to respond to any state or non-state actor seeking to broaden or escalate conflict."

 

Tehran will no doubt see this as a threat aimed at the Islamic Republic, given Trump's recent words saying the Iranians should negotiate a new deal to end their nuclear program, or else potentially face American bombs. The Houthis could also come under attack, given they are threatening to start up Red Sea shipping attacks if the Gaza ceasefire collapses.

 

The provocative bomber exercise and flyover of the region also comes after Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Israel Sunday. Prime Minister Netanyahu during that visit urged a muscular anti-Iran policy by Washington, after Trump restored 'maximum sanctions'.

 

Importantly, Netanyahu declared that Israel and the US should "finish the job" against Iran. Israeli officials have frequently floated the idea of preemptive attack against Tehran and nuclear facilities.

 

Iran has meanwhile said it won't respond to such threats, and has described that even if it wanted a deal, it can no longer trust Washington given it agreed to the JCPOA nuclear deal under Obama, and then Trump pulled out of it in 2018.

 

Tuesday's flyover included live ordinance drops…

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-flies-bomber-group-over-middle-east-warning-enemies

Anonymous ID: a92aba Feb. 19, 2025, 5:15 p.m. No.22615833   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5844

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