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CA attorney and DACA architect Alejandro Mayorkas chosen by Biden in historic pick for DHS secretary

President-elect Joe Biden is turning to a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security to lead the agency created after the Sept. 11 attacks but reshaped by President Donald Trump to carry out hi…

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CA attorney and DACA architect Alejandro Mayorkas chosen by Biden in historic pick for DHS secretary

by: Associated Press
Posted: Nov 23, 2020 / 10:59 AM PST / Updated: Nov 23, 2020 / 03:25 PM PST

President-elect Joe Biden is turning to a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security to lead the agency created after the Sept. 11 attacks but reshaped by President Donald Trump to carry out his hardline immigration and law enforcement agenda.

Biden on Monday announced the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas, who served under President Barack Obama as deputy secretary of homeland security and director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Mayorkas has achieved some historic firsts. In 1998, he was the youngest U.S. attorney. He was the highest-ranking Cuban American under Obama. And he helped negotiate the first homeland security memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Cuba, where he was born.

If confirmed by the Senate, Mayorkas, who turns 61 on Tuesday, would be the first Hispanic and the first immigrant to lead DHS. He noted the poignancy in a tweet after his nomination was announced.

“When I was very young, the United States provided my family and me a place of refuge,” he said. “Now, I have been nominated to be the DHS Secretary and oversee the protection of all Americans and those who flee persecution in search of a better life for themselves and their loved ones.”

Mayorkas, whose mother is a Holocaust survivor, came to the United States in 1960 as his parents fled the Cuban Revolution. The family settled in Southern California. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received his law degree from Loyola Law School.

“It is an honor to be nominated and entrusted by the President-elect to serve,” he said in a follow-up tweet. “It is no small task to lead the Department of Homeland Security, but I will work to restore faith in our institutions, and protect our security here at home.”

Mayorkas ran the citizenship agency within DHS from 2008 to 2013, developing the program to shield from deportation people who had been brought to the U.S. illegally as minors, a program Trump has sought to end.

Afterward, as the second in command at DHS until 2016, he led its response to the Zika and Ebola outbreaks.

As a former federal prosecutor and a partner at the prominent law firm WilmerHale, Mayorkas is well versed in the criminal cases involving transnational crime that are generated by the agencies under DHS purview.

“His knowledge of the department and ability to hit the ground running will enable him to start the repair work that is sorely needed,” said Alan Bersin, a former assistant secretary in the Office of Policy at DHS.

At DHS, he would assume command of a sprawling agency, with more than 250,000 employees, that has experienced repeated leadership changes. For more than a year, it has been led by an acting secretary who hasn’t been confirmed by the Senate.

“They need people particularly like him who have that institutional knowledge of DHS,” said Gil Kerlikowske, who served as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under Obama. “It’s a huge, complex organization and it’s probably the one that, of all the Cabinet offices, has been buffeted the most by pure politics and incompetent leadership.”

The challenges he would face at DHS include rolling back some of the hundreds of immigration policies changed under Trump without triggering a surge of migrants at the border, where the number of people apprehended rose in October for the sixth straight month.

Bersin said Mayorkas is a “centrist” who will seek to balance humanitarian concerns with the need for border security.

“The number of migrants who are moving toward the border are dramatically increasing as we speak and the imperative of the Biden administration to focus its efforts on the pandemic and the economic recovery would make a migration crisis a burden,” he said.

Mayorkas was honored by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles for developing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, granting a reprieve to people brought to the country as children. The group’s executive director, Angelica Salas, also praised him for authorizing discretion in decisions on whether to deport people in the country illegally as well as waiving immigration fees for poor people.

Salas said she’s hoping he will help create a “more humane” immigration system. “We need to repair so much after the pain and suffering that people have gone through under the Trump administration.”

DHS was at the center of Trump administration efforts to reduce both legal and illegal immigration through a large number of policy changes. That included separating children from their parents at the border in response to a surge of migrants from Central America, severe curbs on the ability of migrants to claim asylum at the southwestern border and efforts to build a border wall with Pentagon funds after Congress refused to fund the project.

The agency, which was created to improve the nation’s resistance to external threats, also moved more deeply into domestic law enforcement under Trump, sending agents and officers to Portland, Oregon, and other cities to respond to unrest without the consent of local authorities.

It was also the subject of a complaint filed by a whistleblower, who alleged he was pressured by senior officials there to suppress facts in intelligence reports that Trump might find objectionable, including information about Russian interference in the election and the rising threat posed by white supremacists.

Last week, the head of the DHS cybersecurity agency was fired by Trump after knocking down unsubstantiated rumors that the election results could have been affected by technical problems or fraud, directly refuting the president and his allies.

 

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Biden already working to rejoin Iran Nuclear Deal: report
•Jan 17, 2021


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Fox News Senior Strategic Analyst General Jack Keane argues the U.S. has ‘got to be tougher’ when negotiating a new nuclear deal with Iran.

 

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Joe Biden Looks Totally Lost and Confused After Finishing Up Speech in Delaware (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

78-year-old Joe Biden on Saturday introduced his “science team” and announced he would be elevating the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to a Cabinet position.

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Joe Biden Looks Totally Lost and Confused After Finishing Up Speech in Delaware (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published January 17, 2021 at 2:18pm

78-year-old Joe Biden on Saturday introduced his “science team” and announced he would be elevating the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to a Cabinet position.

Biden’s ‘science team’ will focus on Covid-19, climate change, technology, the economy and the ‘long-term health of science and tech’ in the US.

This is all a part of the “Great Reset” where Big Pharma and Big Tech will work together to control who can travel, who can work and who can participate in the exchange of commerce.

“We’re going to lead with science and truth,” Biden said at a speech in Delaware. “We believe in both.”

Kamala Harris also spoke on Saturday and blasted ‘climate change deniers.’
“The science behind climate change is not a hoax. The science behind the virus is not partisan. The same laws apply, the same evidence holds true regardless of whether or not you accept them,” Kamala Harris said.

Joe Biden looked totally lost and confused after he wrapped up his speech.

The look on his face says it all.

If he were a Republican, there would be talk of invoking the 25th Amendment.

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Here is close up of Joe Biden’s face:

We are so screwed.
He has no idea where or who he is sometimes. pic.twitter.com/1NNJNXEvxf
— Josh Lekach (@JoshLekach) January 17, 2021

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Biden To 'Immediately' Send Congress Bill That Would Offer Citizenship To 11 Million Illegals

SATURDAY, JAN 16, 2021 - 22:30
President-elect Joe Biden will 'immediately' send a legislative package to Congress which would provide a pathway to citizenship for some 11 million illegal immigrants, according to the Los Angeles Times, according to "immigrants rights activists in communication with the Biden-Harris transition team."


The bill would also provide a shorter pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of people living in the United States under a temporary protected status and/or who qualify under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program who were brought into the US as children.

And in what the Times calls a "significant departure from many previous immigration bills under both Democratic and Republican administrations," the Biden plan would contain zero provisions for stepped-up immigration enforcement and security measures, according to Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center Immigrant Justice Fund, who was informed of the details by Biden staffers.

Both Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have said their legislative proposal would include a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants in the U.S. without legal status, and The Times has confirmed the bold opening salvo that the new administration plans in its first days doesn’t include the “security first” political concessions of past efforts.

Hincapié, who was co-chair of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force on Immigration — part of Biden’s outreach to his top primary rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and his progressive base — said that Biden’s decision to not prioritize additional enforcement measures was probably a result of lessons learned from the Obama administration’s failed attempt to appease Republicans by backing tighter immigration enforcement in hopes of gaining their support for immigration relief. -Los Angeles Times

"On Inauguration Day, President-elect Biden will sign roughly a dozen actions to combat the four crises, restore humanity to our immigration system, and make government function for the people," reads a Saturday memo by incoming Biden chief of staff, Ron Klain, who said the incoming president's agenda included "the immigration bill he will send to Congress on his first day in office."

If Republicans don’t stop this in the Senate, it’s GG for the GOP https://t.co/LEE5OkqqpD
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) January 16, 2021

Under BIden's plan - the most sweeping and comprehensive since President Regan's 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act granting some 3 million people legal status (after which California flipped blue), immigrants would be eligible for legal permanent residence after five years, and US citizenship after three more years.

Several immigration activists who spoke with The Times praised the reported scope and scale of the bill and expressed surprise at its ambition. A number of legislators and analysts had predicted that the new administration, at least in its first months in power, would be likely to pursue immigration measures that would stir the least controversy and could be achieved by executive actions rather than legislation. -LA Times

Will it pass?
Given the sweeping changes, Democrats are likely to face serious pushback despite holding slim majorities in both chambers of Congress - and the bill will likely face months of political debate as conservative members and immigration hard-liners push back.

Meanwhile, Texas Democratic Rep. Juaquin Castro said in a Friday call with reporters that he's formulating a bill which would offer illegals immediate protection from deportation and a fast-tracked path to citizenship for essential workers who are undocumented.

"It’s time for essential workers to no longer be treated as disposable, but to be celebrated and welcomed as American citizens," said Castro, adding "If your labor feeds, builds and cares for our nation, you have earned the right to stay here with full legal protection, free from fear of deportation."

And look at this - just in time:

A Honduran migrant caravan is heading to the United States.

Arriving just in time for Joe Biden’s inauguration.

This is the future Democrats’ voted for.

pic.twitter.com/sKy8NHJfkJ
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 15, 2021

 

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Large Migrant Caravan Heading To US, Urges Biden Admin To "Honor Its Commitments"

SUNDAY, JAN 17, 2021 - 12:50
Authored by Ben Wildon via SaraACarter.com,

A new migrant caravan is forming in Central America with hopes of reaching the United States to a welcoming Biden administration.

As many as 9,000 immigrants appear to be in processions moving towards America—with at least 1,000 illegally entering Guatemala Friday, according to the AP.

A Honduran migrant caravan is heading to the United States.

Arriving just in time for Joe Biden’s inauguration.

This is the future Democrats’ voted for.

pic.twitter.com/sKy8NHJfkJ
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 15, 2021

Migrant rights group Pueblo Sin Fronteras issued a statement on the caravan, calling for the Biden team to give the migrants a warm reception.

“We recognize the importance of the incoming Government of the United States having shown a strong commitment to migrants and asylum seekers, which presents an opportunity for the governments of Mexico and Central America to develop policies and a migration management that respect and promote the human rights of the population in mobility,” the statement said.

Clashes reported as migrant caravan attempts to cross into Guatemala Clashes reported as migrant caravan attempts to cross into Guatemala pic.twitter.com/PHYt2UQYWM
— New York Post (@nypost) January 16, 2021

The group also said “We will advocate that the Biden government honors its commitments,” as reported by Fox News.

Guatemalan authorities estimate that as many as 9,000 Honduran migrants have crossed into Guatemala as part of an effort to form a new caravan to reach the U.S. border. https://t.co/TbQ0OKBqCl
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 17, 2021

The group further advocated immigration reform, including getting rid of laws that require migrants to stay in Mexico while they await hearings.

“A new United States Government is an opportunity to work with the Mexican Government to develop a cooperation plan with Central America to address the causes of migration, together with civil society organizations, as well as an opportunity to increase regional cooperation regarding the persons in need of protection, and to dismantle illegal and inhuman programs such as Remain in Mexico, the United States’ Asylum Cooperation Agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, as well as the Title 42 expulsions by the United States authorities,” the group said.

Biden has promised to work towards citizenship for illegal immigrants and reversing many Trump administration policies—including a moratorium on ICE deportations, as reported by Fox News.

Fox also reported that Biden officials may not be as welcoming to the illegal group, as incoming policy advisor Susan Rice said the border “will not” be fully open on Day 1.

“Processing capacity at the border is not like a light that you can just switch on and off,” Rice said to Spanish news site EFE.
“Migrants and asylum seekers absolutely should not believe those in the region peddling the idea that the border will suddenly be fully open to process everyone on Day 1. It will not.”

As the growing group of migrants near the US border, the incoming Biden administration will face a real test on its immigration policy in the very early days of its time in office.

 

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Biden planning several executive orders on first day in office, including rescinding travel ban

President-elect Biden is planning to sign several executive orders on day one of his presidency, incoming chief of staff Ron Klain announced in a statement.

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Biden planning several executive orders on first day in office, including rescinding travel ban

The president-elect will sign roughly a dozen executive orders that day,

By Morgan Phillips | Fox News

President-elect Biden is planning to sign several executive orders on day one of his presidency, his incoming chief of staff announced in a statement.

The president-elect will sign roughly a dozen executive orders that day, including reversing President Trump’s travel ban on 13 majority-Muslim countries, rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and extending the pause on student loan payments, according to Ron Klain.

Biden also will initiate his "100-Day Masking Challenge" with a mask mandate on federal property and during interstate travel. Klain promised the president-elect would sign additional executive orders on climate change and health care access in the first week of the new administration.

"Much more will need to be done to fight COVID-19, build our economy back better, combat systemic racism and inequality, and address the existential threat of the climate crisis," Klain said in the statement. "But by February 1st, America will be moving in the right direction on all four of these challenges — and more — thanks to President-elect Joe Biden’s leadership."

Biden has long promised to rescind Trump’s travel ban and rejoin the Paris Climate Accords on "day one" of his presidency. He’s also promised to send a bill to Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s Dreamers, immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, and the 11 million undocumented people currently living in the U.S.

But in November he loosened that timeline, committing to forging a pathway to citizenship within the first 100 days.

"Some of it’s gonna depend on the kinda cooperation I can or cannot get from the United States Congress," Biden acknowledged.

On the campaign trail, Biden pledged to end the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) that keep migrants in Mexico as their hearings play out. Known as the "Remain-in-Mexico" policy, opponents have claimed it puts migrants in danger, but Trump officials said it has been key in ending "catch-and-release" by which migrants were released into the U.S. instead.

Biden will take the oath of office Wednesday after a whirlwind lame-duck period where President Trump repeated regularly that the presidential election was "rigged" and alleged mass voter fraud. The House impeached the president this week for incitement of an insurrection after rioters stormed the Capitol following a rally where he spoke.

Inauguration Day will, of course, look different than in years past. Congress has been invited, but each member only got one guest ticket.

President Trump has said he will not attend the ceremony, but Vice President Mike Pence is expected.

States deployed their National Guards to Washington in anticipation of more potential unrest. Still, Biden has said he is "not afraid" to take the oath of office outside.

 

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Team Biden Vows ‘Decisive Action’ On ‘Four Crises’ In First Ten Days | The Daily Wire

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Team Biden Vows ‘Decisive Action’ On ‘Four Crises’ In First Ten Days

By Eric Quintanar
Jan 16, 2021 DailyWire.com

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Incoming White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain vowed Saturday that President-elect Joe Biden will take “decisive action” on four different crises affecting the country during his first ten days in office.

In a memo to incoming senior White House staff, Klain identified the four crises as “the COVID-19 crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, and a racial equity crisis,” and promised Biden would take executive actions to address them.

Some of Biden’s Day-One actions will include reversing the Trump administration’s ban on travel from certain Muslim-majority countries, rejoining the Paris Agreement, extending eviction protections, and launching a “100 Day Masking Challenge.” Klain said the so-called challenge will be accompanied by a mask mandate for people on federal property and for people engaging in interstate travel. (Biden announced back in December that he’d require masks on planes, trains, and buses traveling between states).

The Biden administration will also extend a pause on federal student loan payments and interest and prevent interest from accruing for millions of borrowers, a policy first pursued by the Trump administration. The current student loan payment freeze is set to expire at the end of January. It’s not clear how long Biden wants to postpone payments.

Klain said that on the day after the inauguration, Biden will sign executive orders related to COVID-19 testing and also sign orders related to unspecified worker protections and public health standards. Then on January 22, wrote Klain, Biden plans to “direct his cabinet agencies” to take unspecified “economic relief” actions for families.

Other actions Biden plans to take in his first ten days include: Taking “significant early actions to advance equity and support communities of color and other underserved communities,” taking an unspecified action toward “reforming our criminal justice system,” and signing climate change-related executive actions.
The memo was light on details but said more would be available in coming days.

Earlier this week, Biden announced that he wants Congress to pass a $1,400 boost in direct relief stimulus checks and increase the unemployment supplement to $400 per week (up from $300 per week under the Trump administration). He also wants to extend those benefits, which expire in March, until the end of September, reports CNBC.

According to National Review, Biden’s plan for Congress would cost about $1.9 trillion, which would include $400 billion for pandemic management, and $350 billion for state and local governments, as well as tribal governments. The proposal would also increase the federal minimum wage, which is currently $7.25 per hour, to $15 per hour.

The Washington Post reports that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had not commented on Biden’s relief plan as of Friday afternoon, but that a growing number of Republican senators were voicing opposition to it.

“We cannot simply throw massive spending at this with no accountability to the current and future American taxpayer,” Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) said in a statement.

 

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Biden Plans Executive Actions To Undo Trump’s Work

January 17, 2021
by Carmine Sabia

Written by Carmine Sabia
OPINION | This article contains commentary which reflects the author's opinion.

Life in the United States is about to change drastically after President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated and it will not take long.

The former vice president is set to sign executive orders changing the policies of President Donald Trump, CNN reported.

President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign roughly a dozen executive orders, including rejoining the Paris climate accord and ending the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries, on his first day in office, according to a memo from incoming chief of staff Ron Klain.

He’ll also sign orders halting evictions and student loan payments during the coronavirus pandemic and issuing a mask mandate on all federal property in an effort to either roll back moves made by the Trump administration or advance policy in a way that was impossible in the current administration.

One of Biden’s most common campaign trail promises was to tackle an issue on his first day in office — a pledge he usually made to either contrast himself with President Donald Trump or highlight just how important he believed an issue to be. These promises were made on everything from climate change to immigration to foreign policy, and many are reflected in Klain’s Saturday memo, which was first reported by the New York Times.

“During the campaign, President-elect Biden pledged to take immediate action to start addressing these crises and build back better,” Klain said.

“As president, he will keep those promises and sign dozens of executive orders, presidential memoranda, and directives to Cabinet agencies in fulfillment of the promises he made,” he said.

In addition to the executive actions Biden plans to send Congress a plan to provide a pathway to citizenship for the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States, and with the Senate now on his side he can get it passed.

“On Inauguration Day, President-elect Biden will sign roughly a dozen actions to combat the four crises, restore humanity to our immigration system, and make government function for the people,” Klain said.

“You have a public health crisis, an economic challenge of huge proportions, racial, ethnic strife and political polarization on steroids,” Rahm Emanuel, the former top adviser to Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, who once said that a crisis should never go to waste, said. “These challenges require big, broad strokes. The challenge is whether there’s a partner on the other side to deal with them.”

The election of Biden is such a welcome development from those who wish to come into the United States that Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a group that organizes caravans of immigrants and asylum seekers, has called on the Biden administration to help them.

“We recognize the importance of the incoming Government of the United States having shown a strong commitment to migrants and asylum seekers, which presents an opportunity for the governments of Mexico and Central America to develop policies and a migration management that respect and promote the human rights of the population in mobility,” it said. “We will advocate that the Biden government honors its commitments.”

And, as Klain stated, it will not take long for the nation to change dramatically.
“Of course, these actions are just the start of our work,” he said. “But by February 1st, America will be moving in the right direction on all four of these challenges – and more – thanks to President-elect Joe Biden’s leadership,” he added.

 

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Biden to cancel Keystone Pipeline on day 1…

“Biden indicates plans to cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit on first day in office, sources confirm.”

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Biden to cancel Keystone Pipeline on day 1…
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CBC: Biden indicates plans to cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit on first day in office, sources confirm
— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) January 18, 2021

“Biden indicates plans to cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit on first day in office, sources confirm.”

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Alberta Premier Kenney: “I am deeply concerned by reports that the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden may repeal the Presidential permit for the Keystone XL border crossing next week.” pic.twitter.com/ZnBM2cjcEJ
— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) January 18, 2021

 

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Well going that fast on that many things is only going to drive home the fact that the water in the pot is flashing to steam....

 

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Mayorkas Raked In Millions At Corporate Law Firm, Where He Represented Utility Company Responsible For Fatal Gas Explosion

Alejandro Mayorkas, who President-elect Joe Biden nominated for secretary of homeland security, received $3.3 million last year as a partner at his law firm.

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Mayorkas Raked In Millions At Corporate Law Firm, Where He Represented Utility Company Responsible For Fatal Gas Explosion

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CHUCK ROSSINVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
January 17, 20218:28 PM ET
Alejandro Mayorkas represented a portfolio of major corporations as a partner at WilmerHale, according to his financial disclosures.

• Mayorkas represented one company facing federal charges related to contracts it had with the Department of Energy. He also negotiated a plea deal for a utility company responsible for a gas explosion in 2018 that killed one person and injured dozens more.
• Mayorkas will appear for a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday for the role of secretary for homeland security.
• Mayorkas was dogged by scandals during the Obama administration, when he was accused of exerting “improper influence” to help politically-connected Democrats who sought access to a visa program for wealthy foreign investors.

Alejandro Mayorkas, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of homeland security, received $3.3 million last year as a partner at his law firm, where he represented a defense contractor accused of kickbacks to secure a Department of Energy contract and a utility company found responsible for an explosion that killed one person in Massachusetts.

Mayorkas, who served as deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under President Barack Obama, also faced an investigation during the Obama administration regarding a visa program he oversaw as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

A 2015 report from the DHS inspector general said Mayorkas “exerted improper influence” to help politically-connected Democrats navigate the EB-5 visa program, which awards green cards to foreigners who invest in American companies.

Mayorkas was also accused in a House report in 2002 of “inappropriate” intervention on behalf of a Democratic donor who sought a presidential pardon from former President Bill Clinton.

Mayorkas will appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Jan. 19 for his confirmation hearing.

Mayorkas, who was a U.S. attorney in Los Angeles during the Clinton administration, joined Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, a prominent Big Law firm, after leaving the Obama DHS in October 2016.

According to financial disclosures filed with the Office of Government Ethics, he received $3.3 million in payouts as a partner with the firm.

Mayorkas represented multiple billion-dollar companies at WilmerHale, including Uber, Cisco, Clorox, Blackstone, and Airbnb. He also represented several clients that were targets in federal investigations for their business practices.

One of Mayorkas’s clients was Mission Support Alliance, a subsidiary of defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The company was charged on Feb. 8, 2019, under the False Claims Act, and was accused of paying $1 million in kickbacks in order to secure an environmental cleanup project with the Department of Energy.

The case remains open.

Mayorkas also represented NiSource, Inc., an Indiana-based energy provider, against federal charges one of its subsidiaries faced over its role in a gas explosion in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Sept. 13, 2018, that left one person dead, one person severely disabled and 22 others injured.

According to the Justice Department, Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, the NiSource subsidiary, “recklessly disregarded a known safety risk” related to a system that regulated gas pressure.

An internal notice from the company in 2015 said that negligence of the control lines could lead to a “catastrophic event.”

Columbia Gas entered a plea agreement with the government on Feb. 26 and was ordered to pay $53 million in a settlement, the largest settlement ever paid under the Pipeline Safety Act.

Mayorkas signed the plea agreement in the case. He also negotiated an agreement with federal prosecutors in Massachusetts that deferred prosecution for NiSource.

NiSource agreed to sell the subsidiary and to compensate victims of the gas explosion, according to the deferred prosecution agreement.

In exchange, prosecutors agreed not to file criminal charges against NiSource or Columbia Gas.

Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, a Democrat, said in a statement after Columbia Gas agreed to the plea deal that the fine was a “mere slap on the wrist” for NiSource. He said that the terms of the plea deal “will not do nearly enough to dissuade other massive billion-dollar energy companies from future negligence or from exploiting the same regulatory loopholes.”

Mayorkas also represented Intuit, the tax preparation company, against charges that it tricked customers into paying to file their taxes through TurboTax, its tax filing program.

Courthouse News reported that Mayorkas represented Intuit in litigation in Los Angeles, but was not part of the legal team that handled a Federal Trade Commission investigation into the company.

Neither Mayorkas nor the Biden transition responded to questions about Mayorkas’s clients at WilmerHale. The Biden team has largely avoided the various scandals that have followed Mayorkas over the years, instead highlighting the historical significance of his nomination to lead DHS.

Mayorkas, who was born in Cuba, would be the first Latino and immigrant to serve as homeland security chief.

The Biden transition website says Mayorkas has led a “distinguished legal career,” including at WilmerHale, where “he has specialized in strategic counseling and crisis management.”

No Democratic senators have expressed opposition to Mayorkas’s nomination, meaning he is likely to win confirmation in the Senate, which is now controlled by Democrats. But some Republicans are likely to put up a fight during confirmation over investigations conducted into Mayorkas’ activities in the Obama and Clinton administrations.

A report from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general released in March 2015 said Mayorkas “exerted improper influence” in the process to approve the EB-5 applications for a company owned by former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe and Tony Rodham, the late brother of Hillary Clinton.

According to the report, McAuliffe and Rodham communicated directly with Mayorkas when he headed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding a pending application for their company, GreenTech Automative, to participate in the EB-5 program, which grants green cards to foreign nationals who invest at least $500,000 in American companies.

McAuliffe and Rodham were later sued by 32 Chinese investors who claimed they were falsely promised that their investments in GreenTech would help them get green cards in the U.S.

Mayorkas also met with then-Sen. Harry Reid, whose son was legal counsel for a Nevada-based casino that wanted access to the EB-5 program, according to the inspector general.

USCIS granted the companies’ EB-5 applications after Mayorkas’ intervention, the IG report said.

Some Senate Republicans delayed a vote to confirm Mayorkas as deputy secretary of DHS, citing the ongoing IG investigation. He was eventually confirmed to the post on Dec. 20, 2013, on a vote of 54-41.

Mayorkas was also criticized in a congressional report of a 2002 investigation into Bill Clinton’s last-minute presidential pardons.

Mayorkas, who was the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles during the end of Clinton’s tenure, intervened in the pardon process to help Carlos Vignali, a convicted cocaine trafficker whose father was a major Democratic donor in Los Angeles.

The House report said that Mayorkas’s intervention in seeking a commutation for Vignali was “totally inappropriate” given his position as a federal prosecutor.

The federal prosecutor who handled the initial case in Minnesota expressed outrage that Mayorkas would be involved in a case far outside his jurisdiction.
Todd Jones, who was a U.S. attorney in Minnesota, told House investigators he was “troubled” that Mayorkas intervened in Vignali’s case. He said at the time that Mayorkas should “stay the hell away” from the case.

Xavier Becerra, who Biden chose as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, also lobbied for Vignali’s pardon. Vignali’s father donated to Becerra’s political campaigns, according to the House report.

 

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CA attorney and DACA architect Alejandro Mayorkas chosen by Biden in historic pick for DHS secretary

President-elect Joe Biden is turning to a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security to lead the agency created after the Sept. 11 attacks but reshaped by President Donald Trump to carry out hi…

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CA attorney and DACA architect Alejandro Mayorkas chosen by Biden in historic pick for DHS secretary

by: Associated Press
Posted: Nov 23, 2020 / 10:59 AM PST / Updated: Nov 23, 2020 / 03:25 PM PST

President-elect Joe Biden is turning to a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security to lead the agency created after the Sept. 11 attacks but reshaped by President Donald Trump to carry out his hardline immigration and law enforcement agenda.

Biden on Monday announced the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas, who served under President Barack Obama as deputy secretary of homeland security and director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Mayorkas has achieved some historic firsts. In 1998, he was the youngest U.S. attorney. He was the highest-ranking Cuban American under Obama. And he helped negotiate the first homeland security memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Cuba, where he was born.

If confirmed by the Senate, Mayorkas, who turns 61 on Tuesday, would be the first Hispanic and the first immigrant to lead DHS. He noted the poignancy in a tweet after his nomination was announced.

“When I was very young, the United States provided my family and me a place of refuge,” he said. “Now, I have been nominated to be the DHS Secretary and oversee the protection of all Americans and those who flee persecution in search of a better life for themselves and their loved ones.”

Mayorkas, whose mother is a Holocaust survivor, came to the United States in 1960 as his parents fled the Cuban Revolution. The family settled in Southern California. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received his law degree from Loyola Law School.

“It is an honor to be nominated and entrusted by the President-elect to serve,” he said in a follow-up tweet. “It is no small task to lead the Department of Homeland Security, but I will work to restore faith in our institutions, and protect our security here at home.”

Mayorkas ran the citizenship agency within DHS from 2008 to 2013, developing the program to shield from deportation people who had been brought to the U.S. illegally as minors, a program Trump has sought to end.

Afterward, as the second in command at DHS until 2016, he led its response to the Zika and Ebola outbreaks.

As a former federal prosecutor and a partner at the prominent law firm WilmerHale, Mayorkas is well versed in the criminal cases involving transnational crime that are generated by the agencies under DHS purview.

“His knowledge of the department and ability to hit the ground running will enable him to start the repair work that is sorely needed,” said Alan Bersin, a former assistant secretary in the Office of Policy at DHS.

At DHS, he would assume command of a sprawling agency, with more than 250,000 employees, that has experienced repeated leadership changes. For more than a year, it has been led by an acting secretary who hasn’t been confirmed by the Senate.

“They need people particularly like him who have that institutional knowledge of DHS,” said Gil Kerlikowske, who served as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under Obama. “It’s a huge, complex organization and it’s probably the one that, of all the Cabinet offices, has been buffeted the most by pure politics and incompetent leadership.”

The challenges he would face at DHS include rolling back some of the hundreds of immigration policies changed under Trump without triggering a surge of migrants at the border, where the number of people apprehended rose in October for the sixth straight month.

Bersin said Mayorkas is a “centrist” who will seek to balance humanitarian concerns with the need for border security.

“The number of migrants who are moving toward the border are dramatically increasing as we speak and the imperative of the Biden administration to focus its efforts on the pandemic and the economic recovery would make a migration crisis a burden,” he said.

Mayorkas was honored by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles for developing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, granting a reprieve to people brought to the country as children. The group’s executive director, Angelica Salas, also praised him for authorizing discretion in decisions on whether to deport people in the country illegally as well as waiving immigration fees for poor people.

Salas said she’s hoping he will help create a “more humane” immigration system. “We need to repair so much after the pain and suffering that people have gone through under the Trump administration.”

DHS was at the center of Trump administration efforts to reduce both legal and illegal immigration through a large number of policy changes. That included separating children from their parents at the border in response to a surge of migrants from Central America, severe curbs on the ability of migrants to claim asylum at the southwestern border and efforts to build a border wall with Pentagon funds after Congress refused to fund the project.

The agency, which was created to improve the nation’s resistance to external threats, also moved more deeply into domestic law enforcement under Trump, sending agents and officers to Portland, Oregon, and other cities to respond to unrest without the consent of local authorities.

It was also the subject of a complaint filed by a whistleblower, who alleged he was pressured by senior officials there to suppress facts in intelligence reports that Trump might find objectionable, including information about Russian interference in the election and the rising threat posed by white supremacists.

Last week, the head of the DHS cybersecurity agency was fired by Trump after knocking down unsubstantiated rumors that the election results could have been affected by technical problems or fraud, directly refuting the president and his allies.

God has truly turned his back on us.....no one is coming,it's up to us!

 

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Joe Biden Looks Totally Lost and Confused After Finishing Up Speech in Delaware (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

78-year-old Joe Biden on Saturday introduced his “science team” and announced he would be elevating the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to a Cabinet position.

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Joe Biden Looks Totally Lost and Confused After Finishing Up Speech in Delaware (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published January 17, 2021 at 2:18pm

78-year-old Joe Biden on Saturday introduced his “science team” and announced he would be elevating the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to a Cabinet position.

Biden’s ‘science team’ will focus on Covid-19, climate change, technology, the economy and the ‘long-term health of science and tech’ in the US.

This is all a part of the “Great Reset” where Big Pharma and Big Tech will work together to control who can travel, who can work and who can participate in the exchange of commerce.

“We’re going to lead with science and truth,” Biden said at a speech in Delaware. “We believe in both.”

Kamala Harris also spoke on Saturday and blasted ‘climate change deniers.’
“The science behind climate change is not a hoax. The science behind the virus is not partisan. The same laws apply, the same evidence holds true regardless of whether or not you accept them,” Kamala Harris said.

Joe Biden looked totally lost and confused after he wrapped up his speech.

The look on his face says it all.

If he were a Republican, there would be talk of invoking the 25th Amendment.

WATCH:

View: https://youtu.be/nqG689GdBvM
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Here is close up of Joe Biden’s face:

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Biden adviser defends liberal agenda items in $1.9T coronavirus relief plan, dodges on ending filibuster

President-elect Joe Biden’s proposed coronavirus relief package would cost taxpayers $1.9 trillion, and his economic adviser defended the inclusion of several Democratic agenda items.

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Biden adviser defends liberal agenda items in $1.9T coronavirus relief plan, dodges on ending filibuster
Relief package includes $20 billion for public transit, $9 billion for cybersecurity, and a $15 minimum wage
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News

President-elect Joe Biden’s proposed coronavirus relief package would cost taxpayers $1.9 trillion, and his economic adviser defended the inclusion of several Democratic agenda items.

During an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Brian Deese insisted that items including $1,400 payments to all Americans, $20 billion for public transit, $9 billion for cybersecurity, and a $15 minimum wage were all important means of helping Americans hurting during the pandemic.

"Let's look at each of those," Deese said. "The cybersecurity resources there are in the wake of the SolarWinds hack. We have seen, and now understand significant vulnerabilities that are exacerbated by COVID, and the fact that so much federal operations are happening online. We need those resources to secure our systems now."

Deese did not explain what transit funding had to do with COVID-19 relief, other than to say that "our transit systems across the country are facing acute crisis" and that improving them now while people are working remotely will prevent difficulties when people eventually start commuting again.

As for the increased minimum wage, Deese said it "is a concrete and direct way to help support those workers who are out there on the front lines right now, providing services to all of us, and give them direct support and a direct boost right now."

Direct support already came in the form of $600 payments to individual Americans, and Biden is proposing an additional $1,400. Deese pointed to bipartisan support for the increased payments. President Trump himself had called for $2,000 checks instead of the $600 that ended up in the most recent stimulus package.

Host Chris Wallace noted that Republicans were unwilling to spend more than $1 trillion in the last package, and that was with a Republican president. With Biden himself saying "there’s not time to waste" and that "we have to act now," Wallace asked if Biden would support ending the filibuster if the GOP said no to his $1.9 trillion plan. Deese did not give a direct answer, pointing to Biden’s past calls for unity, but he also said that acting "quickly" is the incoming administration’s priority.

"Well look, we think we need to move quickly here, but I would also say there’s a lot of skepticism that the president-elect’s call for unity and working together was going to resonate and he won the election resoundingly," Deese said.

"There’s a lot of skepticism that Congress would come together in a bipartisan way and deliver a down payment on this relief, and that happened. So let's see where we can get here. There is a lot of, again, a lot of elements of this plan that have support across the board, both in Washington and in state capitals and around the country. But we need to act. We need to act quickly. That's what the economy is telling us, that's what the experts are telling us and so that's our priority."

 

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Biden picks Chopra, Gensler for financial oversight roles

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Rohit Chopra as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tapping a progressive ally of Sen. Elizabeth Warren to helm the agency whose creation she championed

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Biden picks Chopra, Gensler for financial oversight roles

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Rohit Chopra as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tapping a progressive ally of Sen. Elizabeth Warren to helm the agency whose creation she championed

By MARCY GORDON and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press
January 18, 2021, 3:14 PM

NOTIFIED: Jan. 18, 2021
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Rohit Chopra to be the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tapping a progressive ally of Sen. Elizabeth Warren to helm the agency whose creation she championed.

Chopra, now a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, helped launch the consumer agency after the 2008-09 financial crisis and served as deputy director, where he sounded the alarm about skyrocketing levels of student loan debt. The pick comes as Democrats are eyeing ways to provide student loan relief to millions of Americans as part of a COVID-19 relief package.

Biden announced the move Monday, along with his intent to nominate Gary Gensler, a former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as the next chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Gensler, a former Goldman Sachs banker, tightened oversight of the complex financial transactions that helped cause the Great Recession.

Biden's choice of an expert with experience as a strong markets regulator during the financial crisis to lead the SEC signals a goal of turning the Wall Street watchdog agency toward an activist role after a deregulatory stretch during the Trump administration.

Consumer and investor advocate groups praised the selections of Gensler and Chopra. The two must be confirmed by the Senate, which will be controlled by Democrats.

Gensler, now a professor of economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, was an assistant Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration and later headed the CFTC during Barack Obama’s term. With a background of having worked for nearly 20 years at Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs, Gensler surprised many by being a tough regulator of big banks as CFTC chairman.

Fluent in the nexus between politics and economic policy, Gensler was chief financial officer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign against Donald Trump and an economic adviser to Obama in his 2008 presidential bid.
Gensler has been a leader and adviser of Biden’s transition team responsible for the Federal Reserve, banking issues and securities regulation.

Jay Clayton, a former Wall Street lawyer who headed the SEC during the Trump administration, presided over a deregulatory push to soften rules affecting Wall Street and the financial markets, as Trump pledged when he took office. Rules under the Dodd-Frank law that tightened the reins on banks and Wall Street in the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession were nipped in.

“Gensler will tip the SEC away from making it easy for companies to raise money and toward protecting unsophisticated investors," said Erik Gordon, an assistant professor of business at the University of Michigan. “His history in the Obama administration leaves him few friends on the Republican side — and he probably doesn’t care."

The senior Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, said Gensler's receptiveness to new financial technologies and cryptocurrency is positive. But he added, “I fear Democrats want to steer the (SEC) away from bipartisan common ground in an attempt to achieve their most partisan goals."

Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the senior Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee who is set to become its chairman, said Gensler's record as a regulator “demonstrates that he will hold bad actors accountable and put the interests of working families first."

Brown said Chopra will return the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to its central mission of protecting consumers and also will “ensure the agency plays a leading role in combatting racial inequities in our financial system."

The CFPB was created at Warren's behest as an independent agency by the Dodd-Frank law. Its director was given broad latitude to act alone, without winning agreement from members of an agency board.

While it enforces consumer-protection laws, the CFPB also gained powers to scrutinize the practices of virtually any business selling financial products and services: credit card companies, payday lenders, mortgage servicers, debt collectors, for-profit colleges, auto lenders, money-transfer agents. Chopra was a deputy to its first director, Richard Cordray, as the agency undertook enforcement actions against an array of companies large and small, and returned tens of billions of dollars to consumers harmed by illegal practices.

The CFPB became a keen target of conservative Republicans. Trump named then-White House budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the CFPB when Cordray left in November 2017.

Mulvaney had been a vocal critic of the consumer agency and made deep changes to it, softening regulations on payday loans, for example, and pulling back on enforcement efforts. The agency has been led by Trump appointee Kathy Kraninger since December 2018.

As one of two Democratic commissioners on the five-member Federal Trade Commission, Chopra has been an outspoken critic of practices by big companies, especially tech giant Facebook. He has lodged strong dissents on FTC actions against the company for privacy violations and alleged anti-competitive conduct, saying they didn't go far enough.

 

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Biden’s Disastrous Pick to Head DOJ Civil Rights Division | Frontpage Mag

Kristen Clarke, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, is a disastrous choice. Clarke has a long

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Biden’s Disastrous Pick to Head DOJ Civil Rights Division

Senate must reject Kristen Clarke’s nomination.
Fri Jan 15, 2021

Joseph Klein

Kristen Clarke, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, is a disastrous choice. Clarke has a long record of making racially charged-comments, going back to her time in college and continuing to this day. She also has spoken out in favor of anti-Semites. Back in college, Clarke led a student group that provided an anti-Semitic professor a platform to spew his vile remarks. Much more recently, Clarke supported an advocate of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. If Clarke’s name is not withdrawn from consideration, the Senate must reject her nomination.

Back in the day when Clarke served as the president of the Black Students Association (BSA) at Harvard, she co-authored a letter to the Harvard Crimson asserting that blacks are born with “superior physical and mental abilities.” It’s all due to the chemical melanin, Clarke claimed, which “endows lacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities -- something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards." The Harvard Crimson editors at the time called for Clarke to resign her position at the BSA unless she was “prepared to retract her statements, and apologize publicly for making them.” The furthest that Clarke was willing to go at that time was stating that "The information [contained in the letter] is not necessarily something we believe.” [Emphasis added] There was no public retraction back then.

Clarke also invited the late Wellesley Professor of Africana Studies Anthony Martin to speak at a 1994 Black Students Association-sponsored event. Clarke’s guest used his time to slander Jews with the accusation that Jews had a “tradition” of persecuting blacks. "There was a Jewish monopoly over Blacks being cursed," Martin said during his address.

Clarke defended the choice of Martin to speak after receiving criticism from the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel. "Professor Martin is an intelligent, well-versed Black intellectual who bases his information on indisputable fact," Clarke said. The real indisputable fact is that Jews have put their lives on the line in the cause of the black civil rights movement. For example, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman served in 1964 as voting-registration volunteers in Meridian, Mississippi and were murdered by Klansmen.

Now that Clarke is craving for the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights position in the Biden administration, she wants a do-over. In a recent interview, Clarke said that she realizes it was a mistake to invite Martin to speak at Harvard. “Giving someone like him a platform, it’s not something I would do again,” Clarke said, adding that “I unequivocally denounce antisemitism.”

Clarke’s recantation comes way too late. If Democrats had an ounce of intellectual honesty, which they do not, Clarke’s invitation to an anti-Semitic professor to speak at Harvard when she was a student would be reason enough for them to “cancel” Clarke now. After all, Democrats in the Senate were willing to throw Trump nominees’ alleged behavior in college and high school back at them when their nominations were being considered. The worst case involved the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But there were others as well who were targeted by the cancel culture crowd.

In any case, we don’t even have to look back at Clarke’s college days to find proof of her support for radicals who espouse anti-Semitic views. In 2018, for example, Israel denied Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, entry to the country because of his organization’s support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. Clarke tweeted, “Incredibly disturbed to hear that @VinceWarren was detained and denied entry into Israel on a trip that was carefully and thoughtfully planned out over the course of several months. #CivilRights Lawyers should not be penalized for their work to promote justice.”

As for the letter to the Harvard Crimson Clarke co-authored, claiming that blacks have “superior physical and mental abilities,” Clarke is now saying that it was all a misunderstanding. She claims that the letter was intended as a satirical response to the book The Bell Curve, which posited genetic differences between whites and blacks. Clarke wants us to believe that her letter’s references to melanin as the cause of black superiority “was meant to express an equally absurd point of view — fighting one ridiculous absurd racist theory with another ridiculous absurd theory.” That’s disinformation. At the time when the letter was written, Clarke said that she was uncertain whether the melanin theory of black superiority was true or not. There wasn’t a hint of sarcasm in the letter.

Putting aside her comments about melanin back in college, Clarke certainly shows no uncertainty today in embracing critical race theory, which posits that America is inherently racist. In her capacity as president and executive director of Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Clarke condemned the Trump administration’s decision to remove critical race theory from federal government training programs. "Our nation stands at an inflection point as communities are grappling with the ongoing threat of racism, white supremacy and police violence," Clarke said in a statement. "President Trump's latest federal directive is an attempt to discredit, condemn and silence important conversations happening in communities and workplaces about anti-racism and about our nation's history of white supremacy. By banning government support for these discussions, he sends a dangerous message to the country that racism is a fallacy."

Last year, Clarke denounced what she claims is “systemic racism that pervades every aspect of our lives, especially when it comes to policing and the operation of the criminal justice system of our country.” She supports defunding of the police. “I advocate for defunding policing operations that have made African Americans more vulnerable to police violence and contributed to mass incarceration, while investing more in programs and policies that address critical community needs,” she wrote last June for Newsweek. She called the concerns regarding the violence that broke out last year in the wake of the George Floyd killing a “distraction.”

Clearly, if Clarke were to become Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and have her way, she would push to put the police on trial all over the country. She would also force-feed critical race theory to all federal employees and beyond. She would support the BDS movement as a civil right.

The Senate must reject Kristen Clarke’s nomination.

 

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Biden's 'Soak the Rich' Tax Hikes in Trouble on the Hill

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Biden's 'Soak the Rich' Tax Hikes in Trouble on the Hill

BY RICK MORAN JAN 17, 2021 2:11 PM ET

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Despite having a majority in both houses of Congress, Joe Biden’s plan to raise taxes on the rich will still have a rough go of it in the nation’s legislature.

For some Democrats, no tax bill will go far enough in stripping the rich of their wealth. For others, it will go too far. And with a solid phalanx of Republicans adamantly opposed to any tax hikes — which they rightly point out would be suicidal in a pandemic with the economy tipping into recession — Biden’s path to success is narrow and strewn with rocks.

The Hill:

Biden’s campaign tax proposals included rolling back President Trump’s 2017 tax-cut law for taxpayers with income above $400,000, taxing capital gains at the same rates as ordinary income for people with income above $1 million and raising the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent.

Democrats broadly think that wealthy people and corporations are not paying enough in taxes. A debate over how best to raise taxes on the rich was front and center during the Democratic presidential primary, with some Democratic candidates, such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), taking more aggressive positions than Biden and calling for a wealth tax.

The Tax Foundation analyzed Biden’s tax proposals and their effect on the economy. It’s not a pretty picture.

According to the Tax Foundation General Equilibrium Model, Biden’s tax plan would reduce the economy’s size by 1.62 percent in the long run. The plan would shrink the capital stock by about 3.75 percent and reduce the overall wage rate by a little over 1 percent, leading to about 542,000 fewer full-time equivalent jobs.

The corporate tax hike would be devastating. Once again, the United States will have the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world — higher than the socialist countries in Europe.

The increase in the corporate income tax from 21 percent to 28 percent and the 15 percent minimum book tax on corporations make up a majority of the economic impact of Biden’s tax proposals.

Applying the Social Security payroll tax on earnings over $400,000 also reduces long-run output by about 0.18 percent. Taxing capital gains as ordinary income for those earning over $1 million, repealing step-up in basis, and limiting itemized deductions to 28 percent of value for higher earners also contribute to lower economic output for a combined reduction of 0.11 percent. Biden’s plan to increase the estate and gift tax would reduce long-run output by 0.15 percent.

The plan envisions a revenue gain of $3.3 trillion over 10 years. But the Foundation says this is based on “conventional” analyses, which is no good when seeing the effects of raising taxes in the real world. There, expected revenue projections from tax increases never match what actually comes into government coffers.

A recent example was the “super tax” imposed in 2012 in France that taxed earnings over 1 million euros at 75 percent. The tax was supposed to bring in billions. Instead, a meager 260 million euros was raised.

Then finance minister, now President Emmanuel Macron, quipped that the super tax was “Cuba without the sun.”

There are many arguments against raising taxes on anyone or anything with the economy teetering on the brink. Biden may want a tax bill in the first few months of his presidency but even his radical leftist allies have to see the futility. They will probably be able to force a vote in the House on some kind of plan, but it will be dead on arrival in the Senate.

 

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Joe Biden Will Sign Executive Order on Day 1 Forcing Americans to Fund Planned Parenthood - LifeNews.com

Joe Biden is expected to make abortion a priority on his first day in office. Backed by the pro-abortion lobby, Biden supports killing unborn babies in abortions without restriction and wants to force taxpayers to fund their deaths. Among his first actions, NBC News predicts Biden will overturn...

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Joe Biden Will Sign Executive Order on Day 1 Forcing Americans to Fund Planned Parenthood

NATIONAL MICAIAH BILGER JAN 18, 2021 | 10:58AM WASHINGTON, DC

Joe Biden is expected to make abortion a priority on his first day in office.

Backed by the pro-abortion lobby, Biden supports killing unborn babies in abortions without restriction and wants to force taxpayers to fund their deaths.

Among his first actions, NBC News predicts Biden will overturn the Mexico City Policy and President Donald Trump’s Protect Life Rule, both of which defunded the abortion chain Planned Parenthood of millions of dollars.

The Mexico City Policy, established by President Ronald Reagan, traditionally gets repealed by Democrat presidents and reinstated by Republican presidents. It prohibits taxpayer funding to international aid groups that promote and/or do abortions, including Planned Parenthood’s international arm.

Trump expanded the policy to cut off more streams of revenue to international pro-abortion groups. The rule defunded the International Planned Parenthood Federation of about $100 million and the British abortion chain Marie Stopes International (now MSI Reproductive Choices) of about $73 million in U.S. tax dollars.

The two pro-abortion groups received millions of American tax dollars under President Barack Obama, and they are expected to receive millions more under Biden’s leadership.

Pro-abortion leaders expressed confidence that Biden will support their goals.

“… knowing we have champions there who understand what needs to happen in the first 100 days is tremendously exciting,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, told NBC.

Nationally, Planned Parenthood, a billion-dollar non-profit that does more than 340,000 abortions a year, also could see more federal tax dollars come its way under the Biden administration.

Its executives expect that the incoming president also will repeal Trump’s Protect Life rule, which defunded Planned Parenthood of an additional $50 million through the Title X program.

Abortion activists are pressuring Biden to end the Hyde Amendment as well. The long-standing amendment prohibits taxpayer funding for elective abortions in Medicaid. Biden could not end the measure by executive order, however; Congress also would need to vote to end it.

Pro-life leaders promised to continue fighting for life.

“It’s certainly disheartening, but we aren’t going to give up, and we will do whatever we can to stop abortion from being promoted,” Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, told NBC.

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, said if Biden wants to unify Americans, he should drop his radical pro-abortion agenda. She pointed to polling that consistently shows most Americans oppose taxpayer funding for abortions.

“If Joe Biden truly wants unity, respecting the free speech and conscience rights of Americans, including those of his Church, is essential, along with limiting taxpayer funding of abortion at home and around the world. That’s common ground and a good place to start a conversation,” Hawkins wrote at the Washington Times.

Hawkins said abortions are not health care, they kill unborn babies.

“As the anniversary of Roe [v. Wade] approaches when thousands usually brave the January cold to march in memory of those lost to abortion, it’s important to remember that pregnancy is not a disease cured by abortion,” Hawkins said.

 

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Incoming White House Climate Team Blames ‘Systemic Racism’ for Climate Change

Biden’s climate team taps the go-to ‘systemic racism’ talking point to cover for the real motive behind claim

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Incoming White House Climate Team Blames ‘Systemic Racism’ for Climate Change

Biden’s climate team taps the go-to ‘systemic racism’ talking point to cover for the real motive behind claim

by FRANK SALVATO
January 18, 2021



Two of the top environmental aides to President-Elect Joe Biden have openly declared that “systemic racism” is a driver of climate change. In doing so they seek to justify a government-led economic overhaul.

Mr. Biden has named Maggie Thomas as Office of Domestic Climate Policy chief of staff and Cecilia Martinez as “senior director for environmental justice.” Both Thomas and Martinez have said racial inequality in a factor in perpetuating climate change

Both Thomas and Martinez argue that a key component to the Biden administration’s environmental policy needs be focused on “racial and economic justice.”

Biden unveils picks to staff White House climate officeBiden unveils picks to staff White House climate office
— Axios (@axios) January 14, 2021

“Unless intentionally interrupted, systemic racism will continue to be a major obstacle to creating a healthy planet,” Martinez said in a 2019 self-promotional policy press release. “The only path forward is to design national climate policies that are centered on justice.”

The transformative policies touted by Thomas and Martinez would require a significant increase in government spending and, as they have stated, the “realignment of public dollars at all levels.”

Thomas’s approach to combating climate change not only goes after the fossil fuel industry but calls for “trillions” to fund welfare programs, to include rent and utility relief. Martinez’s platform adds increased government spending on “affordable and quality housing.”

Thomas’s plan calls on the President-Elect to issue a day one executive order establishing a “government-wide environmental justice initiative” tasked with the purpose of focusing “federal environmental policy around equity, justice, and inclusion.”

Climate, meet change https://t.co/X515kJZR9g

— Maggie Thomas (@maggiethomas315) December 18, 2020

Daniel Turner, the founder and executive director of Power the Future, declared that Biden’s climate team – and specifically Thomas and Martinez – is attempting to use “racism” and “social justice” to nationalize the US energy industry.

“Punishing America’s energy workers will do nothing to address climate change and it will do nothing to address injustices,” Turner told reporters. “It will, however, cause the prices of gas and utilities to rise sharply, and that will punish the less privileged most of all.”

Eco-extremists are pressuring the federal government to enact an immediate, radical shift to renewable energy. By immediate, they mean to start on Inauguration Day. This completely ignores states’ rights to make decisions best for their local communities. What the Georgia Election Results Mean for Biden’s Climate Agenda

— Power The Future (@powerthefuture) January 7, 2021

Thomas and Martinez’s agenda mirrors the Green New Deal, a $94-plus trillion piece of legislation introduced by US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), in 2019.

The Green New Deal calls for, among other radical measures, the “economic transformation” of the nation and increased investment in federal housing, two issues that have zero to do with the subject of the climate.

 

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China Ties Raise Questions for Biden's Top Defense Post Pick

Joe Biden's pick for a top Pentagon post works at a research center partnered with China's Peking University, a school that has long been eyed as a security risk by western intelligence.

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China Ties Raise Questions for Biden’s Pick for Top Defense Post

Colin Kahl works at a research center partnered with China's Peking University

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Alana Goodman - JANUARY 18, 2021 5:00 AM
Joe Biden's pick for a top Pentagon post works at a research center partnered with China's Peking University, a school that has long been eyed as a security risk by western intelligence.

Colin Kahl, whom Biden tapped for undersecretary of defense for policy, has served as a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University since the beginning of 2018. The institute oversees the Stanford Center at Peking University in northern Beijing, which opened in 2012.

Peking University, which is run by former Beijing spy chief Qiu Shuiping and has been linked to multiple espionage cases in the United States, recently updated its charter to require loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party, according to an NPR report. The school has also been ramping up its student and faculty surveillance system in what China watchers see as part of the government's broader crackdown on independent scholarship.

Kahl is not the first Biden nominee whose employer has business entanglements in China. Biden's pick for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, cofounded the consulting firm WestExec, which helped U.S. universities raise money from China without running afoul of Pentagon grant requirements, the Washington Free Beacon reported last month. WestExec scrubbed the details of this work from its website over the summer.

The association could be an obstacle for Kahl, who will need Senate confirmation. Congressional Republicans and federal law-enforcement agencies have expressed growing concerns about China's attempts to influence American academics through university partnerships and donations. Last year, the Department of Justice charged at least 17 academics affiliated with U.S. universities with secretly working for China, including one medical researcher at Stanford University.

"China has made a no holds barred effort to compromise China scholars," said Steven Mosher, a China expert and human-rights advocate.

Kahl, a longtime Biden national-security adviser and DJ, was closely involved in crafting the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal and reportedly played a key role in removing language identifying Jerusalem as Israel's capital from the 2012 Democratic National Convention platform.

Kahl has slammed the Trump administration's Asia policy as a "train wreck," accusing President Trump in a tweet of "falling in love with autocrats in NKorea & China" and "ignoring human rights in Hong Kong."

Kahl argued that Trump's financial ties to China made him vulnerable to pressure, tweeting last year that "the next time Trump breathes one word about Biden and China, remember this: Trump is up to his eyeballs in debt to the Bank of China … and the loan is due soon."

He also objected to the supposedly entrenched "view among elites in Washington" that the United States and China are locked in a "zero-sum showdown and should move to more rapidly ‘decouple' their economies" in an article he coauthored at War on the Rocks last spring. He argued for further scientific collaboration between the countries in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

"Such sentiments could frustrate responses to this virus and future public health challenges by driving the two scientific communities apart when they should be working together to develop treatments and vaccines," the article states.

Kahl and his employer, the Freeman Spogli Institute, do not appear to have weighed in on alleged human-rights violations at Peking University during his time at the institute.

Scholars at Risk, an organization that monitors academic freedom on campuses around the world, reports that since 2018 there have been at least 10 attacks on academic freedom at Peking University, with professors facing dismissal for being critical of the government and multiple campus labor activists being detained by police.

He Weifang, a law professor at Peking University, said faculty members are required to have lecture plans and conference presentations approved by the Communist Party Committee and that classrooms are monitored by cameras and facial-recognition software, according to a Scholars at Risk report.

Scholars at Risk did not respond to a request for comment.

A spokesperson for Stanford University declined to comment on whether the Freeman Spogli Institute has received funding from China, and the Freeman Spogli Institute did not respond to a request for comment. The Department of Education is currently investigating Stanford for failing to report the sources of over $67 million in donations from China since the Peking institute opened in 2012, a department spokesperson confirmed to the Free Beacon.

Kahl's work with the Freeman Spogli Institute has caught the attention of some Republicans on Capitol Hill.

"The closer you are to Biden world the more likely it is that you ended up in a ChiCom orbit," one GOP official told the Free Beacon.

Coit Blacker, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, said his employer agreed to open its Beijing outpost after receiving "an intriguing offer from the leadership" at Peking University in 2007, according to the Stanford Daily. "The way things work in China is nothing like this comes about accidentally," he added, suggesting that the proposal emerged from upper levels of the Chinese government.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a national-security think tank founded by the Australian government, has warned of a "high risk" for groups partnering with Peking University, because of its collaborations with the Chinese military.

"Peking University (PKU) is designated high risk for its involvement in defence research and links to China’s nuclear weapons program," the think tank said on its China Defence Universities Tracker site, noting that the school hosts at least four major defense laboratories.

The FBI recently homed in on Peking University as a potential recruitment ground for Chinese intelligence, according to NPR, which reported that at least five students were interviewed by federal agents after returning to the United States in the past few years. Last summer, a former George Washington University student pleaded guilty to spying on the United States for China while working as a researcher at Peking University. In 2010, a chemistry professor at the university was convicted of stealing trade secrets from DuPont Chemicals.

When Harvard chemist Charles Lieber was indicted last year for failing to disclose his China funding, he was barred from having any contact with individuals at Peking University as part of the terms of his bail release.

In a letter to Stanford last August, the Department of Education questioned whether undisclosed Chinese funding to the school was linked to the Peking University center run by the Freeman Spogli Institute.

"As Stanford must know, Peking University is directly controlled by Chinese Communist Party officials and recently even amended its charter to reinforce its long-standing role as a tool of the Chinese communists," wrote the department.
The letter noted that the Stanford Center at Peking University's website "features a full-page banner image of Stanford students and faculty posing in front of a [People's Republic of China] monument commemorating the ‘front of the old railroad tracks in Dandong, Liaoning province, that helped transport Chinese troops into North Korea during the Korean War.'"

The department added that the banner was a "particularly bizarre (and extremely indecorous) image for Stanford to highlight," considering that over 30,000 U.S. troops were killed in the war.

Mosher, the human-rights advocate who was ousted from Stanford's Ph.D. program in the 1980s—which he attributes to Chinese pressure on the university—said there is "no academic freedom" at Peking University today.

"For Stanford to be there, it in effect endorses what the Chinese government is doing, by default," he said. "[That Stanford] tolerates these kinds of things sends a signal to the Chinese people that maybe America isn't the bastion of freedom of speech and freedom of inquiry that [they] thought it was."

A prominent American sinology professor, who asked that his name not be used so that he could speak freely, said the Stanford Center at Peking University is "not a place that people take seriously" in terms of academic rigor.

"There is no intellectual freedom at Peking University. … In that sense, it isn't really a university," he said. "They have silenced people, they have fired tenured professors, people have disappeared from there, the students are under close watch."

"I think Stanford has made a terrible mistake," he added.

 

[Southside]

Watch Live — Sleepy Joe picks his ‘science team’…

www.citizenfreepress.com

Watch Live — Sleepy Joe picks his ‘science team’…
Posted by Kane on January 16, 2021 3:15 pm

View: https://youtu.be/xw5dir8PEn4
40:30 min

View: https://youtu.be/nqG689GdBvM
38:10 min

OK, did good. Got through 36 seconds of the first video, and 7 seconds of the second. I am nursing the resulting wrist wounds. Who can watch that sh!t?
OMG.
Donald, come back, come back......

Southside

 

[Doomer Doug]

On top of everything else bideypoop plans to extend eviction bans from January 30th 2021 to 9-30-2021. Landlords were not paid from March of 2020 to 12-31-20, some 9 months, plus 8 more for 2021.
18 months of no rent or mortgage will prove fatal to real estate.
Bideypoop also plans to extend student loans forgiveness.

Yep, he is going to buzz saw into a depression for sure.

 

[marsh]

On top of everything else bideypoop plans to extend eviction bans from January 30th 2021 to 9-30-2021. Landlords were not paid from March of 2020 to 12-31-20, some 9 months, plus 8 more for 2021.
18 months of no rent or mortgage will prove fatal to real estate.
Bideypoop also plans to extend student loans forgiveness.

Yep, he is going to buzz saw into a depression for sure.

A landlord with clear ownership should file a "takings" case against the federal government. There is existing case law that if the government takes temporary use of your property, it is still a government takings requiring "just compensation" for the value of the loss. Private property ownership is the exclusive use, enjoyment and disposal of property. Not only has the government essentially commandeered private property for a public purpose without compensation, it has impaired the obligation of contracts, which is a no no.

There must be something odd here that I am not seeing. I am no attorney, but I don't think this is constitutional.

 

[marsh]

Biden's Pick For Deputy Secretary of Education Believes Schools "Spirit Murder" Black Children - White Teachers Should Undergo "Antiracist Therapy" | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

President Trump banned hateful and divisive critical race theory from federal agencies and Joe Biden, a lifelong racist, is bringing it back.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Biden’s Pick For Deputy Secretary of Education Believes Schools “Spirit Murder” Black Children – White Teachers Should Undergo “Antiracist Therapy”

By Cristina Laila
Published January 18, 2021 at 6:13pm

President Trump banned hateful and divisive critical race theory from federal agencies and Joe Biden, a lifelong racist, is bringing it back.

Joe Biden on Monday nominated San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten to serve as his administration’s Deputy Secretary of Education.

I am honored to serve alongside @teachcardona to restore our education system – putting teachers, students, and parents first. Work Hard. Be Kind. Dream Big. Let’s do this!
— Cindy Marten (@BeKindDreamBig) January 18, 2021

Cindy Marten is a far left radical who promoted dangerous ‘critical race theory’ in San Diego public schools.

According to whistleblower documents obtained by investigative reporter Christopher Rufo, Marten promoted the concept that schools “spirit murder” black children and that white teachers should undergo “antiracist therapy.”

BREAKING: Joe Biden announces San Diego school superintendent Cindy Martens as his Deputy Secretary of Education.
Martens promoted the concept that schools “spirit murder” black children and that white teachers should undergo “antiracist therapy.”
Read more https://t.co/WKrk7A6zVF
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) January 18, 2021

San Diego Unified School District tells white teachers they are guilty of “spirit murdering” black children and should undergo “antiracist therapy for White educators.”

This summer, San Diego Unified hired critical race theorist Bettina Love for a district-wide training on “[challenging] the oppressive practices that live within … school organizations.” The district forbade recordings, but my whistleblower took screenshots and detailed notes.

This summer, San Diego Unified hired critical race theorist Bettina Love for a district-wide training on “[challenging] the oppressive practices that live within … school organizations.” The district forbade recordings, but my whistleblower took screenshots and detailed notes. pic.twitter.com/haprjyQxgB
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) January 6, 2021

According to the whistleblower notes, Love began by saying that “racism runs deep” in America and that blacks alone “know who America really is.” Love claimed that public schools “don’t see [blacks] as human,” perpetuate “anti-Blackness,” and “spirit murder babies.”

According to the whistleblower notes, Love began by saying that “racism runs deep” in America and that blacks alone “know who America really is.” Love claimed that public schools “don’t see [blacks] as human,” perpetuate “anti-Blackness,” and “spirit murder babies.” pic.twitter.com/jumMapxZ79
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) January 6, 2021

The concept of “spirit murder” is at the heart of Love’s teachings. Love writes that public schools are guilty of “the spirit murdering of Black and Brown children,” defines as “a death that is built on racism and intended to reduce, humiliate, and destroy people of color.”

The concept of “spirit murder” is at the heart of Love’s teachings. Love writes that public schools are guilty of “the spirit murdering of Black and Brown children,” defines as “a death that is built on racism and intended to reduce, humiliate, and destroy people of color.” pic.twitter.com/e1jyPejxAm
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) January 6, 2021

 

[marsh]

[COMMENT: Might as well understand the lens/construct through which the Biden Administration will be viewing and approaching everything.]

Critical Race Theory Is A Classic Communist Divide-And-Conquer Tactic

Rather than serve help heal the nation, critical race theory has proven to be poisonous to liberty, true community, and our common humanity.

thefederalist.com

Critical Race Theory Is A Classic Communist Divide-And-Conquer Tactic

Rather than serve help heal the nation, critical race theory has proven to be poisonous to liberty, true community, and our common humanity.

By Stella Morabito
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Of all the ways identity politics is used as a tool to sow hatred among people where there should be the potential for friendship, “critical race theory” is one of the gravest offenders. Every person of goodwill should know that judging people based on their physical characteristics is cruel and wrong.

This is not the nature of critical race theory, however. Rather, the insidious ideology is being used to promote estrangement rather than friendship, and hostility rather than goodwill. Indeed, the tactics used by proponents of critical race theory share many parallels with old tactics used by the Bolsheviks.

As such, federal employees and those who work for corporations that do business with the federal government sucked into the poisonous vortex of critical race theory can thank President Trump for ordering a stop to the promulgation of critical race theory. Thanks should also be sent to scholar Christopher Rufo, whose diligence brought the critical race theory venom to the forefront of Trump’s attention, and Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, who is working to root out members of the administrative state who defy that order.

It’s important to remember that because very few of its activists have shown much sincere desire to end racism, critical race theory should not be taken entirely at face value. If a majority of its supporters were sincere, they would be willing to have fruitful discussions in a civil society that supports civil discourse. Rather, critical race theory’s agitators are committed to tearing down civil society on the pretense that it is an incubator for “systemic racism.”

If you’ve any doubt about that, consider the Smithsonian display on “whiteness” that condemned all elements of civil society, including politeness, hard work, self-reliance, logic, planning, and family cohesion. None of those are “white” values, but critical race theory frames them just so. This sort of animus proves that critical race theory “arguments” are non-starters and merely serve as convenient pretexts for power grabs.

Doused with critical race theory, the Black Lives Matter organization and its related Antifa-infused mobs are organized for the same purposes as all cult recruits: to recruit more people and to implement the desire to divide and conquer. The phenomenon can be seen as they surround people in vehicles or restaurants, demanding their victims raise a fist and recite slogans under the intense intimidation and implications of violence.

Indeed, agitators who deploy critical race theory have zero interest in ending racism. Instead, they’ve made essentially the same point over and over again: Racism is an unsolvable problem. If you’ve been tainted as “white,” there’s nothing you can do about it. You are eternally a racist, especially if you don’t believe you are.

Robin D’Angelo explains it all in her best-selling book “White Fragility.” Your only option is the cultist’s option: submit to your critical race theory overlords, then recruit others to do the same. If, however, you’re a black person who disagrees with all of this, well, then, “You ain’t black.”

As with all forms of identity politics and intersectionality, critical race theory stokes divisions between people where few or none existed before. It’s all about relational aggression and predatory alienation.

Let’s look at a perfect example of this process, a parallel case from Soviet history. As peasant farmers tended to be overwhelmingly religious, traditional, and family-oriented, the Bolshevik government hated them with a fiery passion.

Increasing the acrimony further, the peasants resisted giving up their family-run farms—a roadblock to the Soviet leadership’s desire to exercise complete control over the nation’s food supply.

To collectivize agriculture, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin devised a plan to stir up hostilities among the peasants where resentments had never existed before. As would be the case later with Mao’s Red Guard (and today’s radical statue-toppling, Molotov-cocktail-throwing radicals), the Soviets used mobs of youth to do the dirty work.

The communist youth league, known as the Komsomol, went into villages to propagandize and incite divisions, turning formerly peaceful neighbors against one another. In his book “The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia,” Orlando Figes describes the situation:

The villagers had never heard such propaganda in the past, and many were impressed by the long words used by the leaders of the Komsomol. At these meetings, the villagers were told that they belonged to three mutually hostile classes: the poor peasants, who were the allies of the proletariat, the middle peasants, who were neutral, and the rich or ‘kulak’ peasants, who were its enemies. The names of all the peasants in these different classes were listed on a board outside the village school.

This process is eerily similar to the way critical race theory — and all identity politics — has been applied in America. You can see the same three divisions: victims, oppressors, and those who might save themselves by becoming “allies” of the victims.

Note the reference to the Komsomol using impressive “long words.” Today our miseducated youth are easily impressed by new terms such as “systemic racism,” “intersectionality,” and “white fragility.” Finally, the wokesters identify and condemn those marked as oppressors — doxing and canceling them by name — in a written list of names posted in the village. Today such work is helped along by media and Big Tech.

The whole idea is to sow chaos where there was peace — or, at least progress. It is to disrupt and destroy any sense of community a person may have. Figes continued: “These divisions were entirely generated by the Komsomol. The villagers had no previous conception of themselves in terms of social class. They had always thought of themselves as one ‘peasant family.’”

They then use those newly established identities to “rub resentments raw.” In “Rules for Radicals,” agitator Saul Alinsky described the process:

The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression . . . an organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent; provide a channel into which people can angrily pour their frustrations . . . your function — to agitate to the point of conflict.

Conjuring up such hostilities is also the essence of what Karl Marx was aiming for in his call for “class consciousness.” The problem, as he saw it, was that people were busy with life and willing to live and let live. Or, to put it in modern terminology, they were “insufficiently woke.” All power elites likewise see social contentment as an impediment to their power.

In the same fashion, today’s critical race theory agitators call for a form of race consciousness that breeds in themselves the same sort of blind hate. Ironically, they’re like a photographic negative, a mirror image of the segregationists in Jim Crow days. We have been assaulted with many other forms of “consciousness” intended to sow hostilities and lawlessness: immigrant status, gender identity, sexual identity, and on and on. We are being overwhelmed.

Saddest of all is how critical race theory exploits the tragedy of racial divisions in America. The tragedy is thus reduced to nothing but a vehicle for a power grab by elitists in the circles of academia, media, and Big Tech. Ironically, those power elites are vastly and disproportionately white and in it for their gain. So, rather than serve as a balm for healing, critical race theory has proven to be poisonous to liberty, true community, and our common humanity.

 

[marsh]

[COMMENT: Post modernism - the only digestible explanation I can find ]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el6TVEMnS3E
7:04 min
Postmodernism in a nutshell - Jordan Peterson
•Jan 20, 2018


Dose of Truth

___________________________________________________

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_WwQjwjwQQ
5:10 min
We need to talk about post-modernism
•Aug 25, 2018


BlazeTV

 

[marsh]

Honduran Migrant Heading to US Border: Joe Biden is Going to Help All of Us, He's Giving Us 100 Days to Reach the US (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

A massive migrant caravan formed in Honduras in anticipation of a Biden Administration.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Honduran Migrant Heading to US Border: Joe Biden is Going to Help All of Us, He’s Giving Us 100 Days to Reach the US (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published January 18, 2021 at 4:00pm

A massive migrant caravan formed in Honduras in anticipation of a Biden Administration.

According to Center for Immigration Studies, the new caravan left San Pedro Sula, Honduras on Friday and is hoping to reach ‘paradise’ (United States) by January 20th.

The Honduran migrants busted through the Guatemala border on Saturday.
Migrants overwhelmed the border security and trampled each other as they ran through the checkpoint.

Video shows migrants break through Guatemala’s border security lines today, entering Guatemalan territory through the El Florido Border Post and failing to comply with immigration and health requirements. pic.twitter.com/fQIKZYi7ix
— The Hill (@thehill) January 17, 2021

CNN interviewed a Honduran migrant who said he is heading to the United States because Joe Biden is going to help him and his fellow Hondurans.
Even Hondurans know that Joe Biden and the Democrat party support an “America last” agenda.

“What I want for my people, I just want to get to the US because they’re having a new president, with Biden, he’s going to help all of us. He’s giving us 100 days to get to the US and give us papers so we can get a better life for our kids and families,” he said.

The Honduran migrant was referring to Joe Biden’s 100 day plan to give illegal aliens a pathway to citizenship.

WATCH:

Honduran migrant: President-elect Biden is “going to help all of us.” pic.twitter.com/dlvld5APd0
— The Hill (@thehill) January 18, 2021

 

[marsh]

Biden team suddenly worried about illegal migrant hordes…

‘Joe Biden is going to help all of us’… ‘Let us in, Joe!’ Biden team to migrant caravan — Don’t com…

www.citizenfreepress.com

Bwahahaha… Biden team suddenly worried about illegal migrant hordes…
Posted by Kane on January 19, 2021 12:36 am



‘Joe Biden is going to help all of us’…

Honduran migrant: President-elect Biden is "going to help all of us." pic.twitter.com/LkrVCsXcSb
— The Hill (@thehill) January 18, 2021

‘Let us in, Joe!’

Biden team to migrant caravan — Don’t come, you won’t get in immediately

WASHINGTON — As thousands of Honduran migrants make their way to the U.S. border, the incoming Biden administration, just days from taking office, has a message: Don’t come now.

President-elect Joe Biden has promised an end to the immigration policies of the Trump administration, which focused on building a border wall and restricting eligibility for asylum.

But those promises may be put to the test in the new government’s first days. If would-be illegals from Central America perceive that now is the time to travel to the U.S., the southern border could quickly be overwhelmed before systems are put in place to handle the influx.

A senior Biden transition team official said the perception that the Biden administration will be able to allow all arriving asylum seekers to enter the U.S. to make their claim on day one is false.

“The situation at the border isn’t going to be transformed overnight,” the transition official told NBC News in an exclusive interview. But the official declined to say when asylum seekers might be able to come to the U.S. and whether they will be detained as they await a court hearing.

On Friday night, about 2,000 members of the caravan pushed past Guatemalan authorities and entered Guatemala without showing documentation or negative COVID screenings, the Associated Press reported.

The caravan may arrive at the U.S. border in the coming weeks.

Trump adviser Stephen Miller, the administration’s immigration hawk, told reporters shortly before the 2020 election that Biden’s immigration policies would result in “open borders” and the end of America being a “sovereign nation.”

Prior to the recent caravan, there were already tens of thousands of migrants who had been stopped at the U.S. border by the Trump administration and told to wait in Mexico until their court dates to present their asylum cases. Many have given up and returned south, but thousands remain in poor conditions in Northern Mexico waiting to enter the U.S.

The senior Biden official said those who have been waiting at the border, along with other vulnerable populations, will be a priority for processing and entry, rather than those who have recently arrived.

The official said migrants attempting to cross into the U.S. to claim asylum in the first few weeks of the new administration “need to understand they’re not going to be able to come into the United States immediately.”

The official also emphasized that any immigration legislation proposed by the Biden administration will be for undocumented immigrants already living in the U.S., not those who are considering arriving now.

Batons and tear gas

View: https://youtu.be/Pv0G-f8ls4A
2:30 min

 

[Doomer Doug]

The magnitude of Trump's betrayal is becoming clear. America is finished. 11 to 20 million new illegals voters. Transgenders in school bathrooms and sports.
White guilt. Yada
The only positive thing is bideypoop will trigger an economic collapse and have no money to do anything. Total corruption in plain view.
Of all the possible election results I saw, Trump turning into a gutless coward and running away wasn't on my radar.
Every fruitcake idea liberals ever had will be done by bideypoop and his vollection of raving lunatics.
Sheesh, what a farce.

 

[marsh]

Biden Institute Has No Plans To Disclose Donors - ThePalmieriReport

The Biden Institute is not going to have their donors disclosed according to a new report. “The Biden Institute…has no plans to disclose its donors after the president-elect takes office,” – https://t.co/8rmxpijNjp — Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) January 18, 2021 From The Free Beacon: The...

thepalmierireport.com

Biden Institute Has No Plans To Disclose Donors
Published on : Published by : Jacob Palmieri

The Biden Institute is not going to have their donors disclosed according to a new report.

“The Biden Institute…has no plans to disclose its donors after the president-elect takes office,” – Report: Biden Institute Won't Disclose Donors
— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) January 18, 2021

From The Free Beacon:

The Biden Institute, a policy research center founded by Joe Biden at the University of Delaware, has no plans to disclose its donors after the president-elect takes office, Politico reported on Monday.
Legal experts and watchdog groups said the lack of transparency could create an ethical dilemma for Biden, particularly if he keeps his name on the institute and it continues to fundraise while he’s in the White House.

“They should at the very least disclose their donors, and I think the Biden family should at the very least take their name off if they’re going to continue to raise money,” former George W. Bush administration chief ethics lawyer Richard Painter told Politico.
The Biden Institute, which had many of Biden’s incoming administration staffers on its payroll, is part of a network of foundations and policy centers that he established after his vice presidency.

The institute is currently in the middle of a large fundraising push to raise $20 million that is expected to continue well into Biden’s presidency.

A University of Delaware spokesperson told Politico that the university already publishes a list of contributors who give $100,000 or more to the school, but gave no indication that the institute plans to release the names of specific donors to the Biden Institute, or those who give less than six-figures.

Don’t worry though folks.

The Mainstream Media will never follow up or care to look into who donated to this.

If this was President Trump every single outlet would be claiming that Russians donated.

We don’t need to know the donors to know who backs Biden. Those in power do.

The Media.
Wallstreet.
Big Tech.
The globe’s biggest corporations.
That is who Biden represents.

 

[marsh]

Who Is Biden's Shadow Puppeteer? And NO It Is NOT Obama.....

Joe Biden is in no condition to actually make decisions, so who is working in the shadows to prop up his performance?

welovetrump.com

Who Is Biden’s Shadow Puppeteer? And NO It Is NOT Obama…..

Joe Biden is in no condition to actually make decisions, so who is working in the shadows to prop up his performance?

by vince20 hours ago20 hours ago

Contrary to popular belief Obama may not be Joe’s puppeteer.

I know, I know…..I was surprised when I heard it too.

Instead, he is reportedly being propped up and handled by Susan Rice……the leftist who was sitting on the board of directors for Netflix, and was the former ambassador to the U.N.

Anyone who has ever had a Netflix subscription knows two things:
1- Netflix is a leftist platform filled with disturbing trash…..including a doc which sexually exploited young children, and promoted pedophillia.
2- The service has become so much worse over time, and the board of directors is directly responsible for this.

I cancelled this service a long time ago, and if you have not already you most definitely should. In the meantime you should take a good hard look at Rice, and what she stands for.

Take a look:

Grenell: Susan Rice should be watched 'very closely' Grenell: Susan Rice should be watched 'very closely' @FoxNews @SundayFutures @RichardGrenell
— Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) January 17, 2021

So Susan Rice is going to be pedo Joe shadow president! What the hell is that ????
— Donna (@bamagirlme) January 18, 2021

The Red State Observer had more:

Bartiromo, incorrectly saying Rice has been tapped to run Biden’s Foreign Policy Council, a position that doesn’t require Senate confirmation, asked Grenell where the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations might fit into the larger Biden puzzle.

Grenell first corrected the host on Rice’s announced position.

“So Susan Rice has been tapped to do domestic policy, and what is really interesting about that is she’s got no experience in domestic policy. She is going to be somebody who is incredibly influential. Remember that she was National Security Advisor so she knows that entire apparatus. […]

“So I think the reality is she’s gonna be running foreign policy, domestic policy. She’s probably extremely happy that Kamala Harris is going to be preoccupied with the Senate, trying to manage 50-50, being the 101st senator, there, and won’t have a lot of time to get into policy issues.”

I trust him cause he’ll forget the codes anyway... I worry he’ll lose the nuclear football or give it to China tho! I sure as hell don’t trust Kamala Harris or Susan Rice!!!
— Conservative Independent (@ConservativeI20) January 18, 2021

Susan Rice’ legacy!#13Hours
The hero survivors of Benghazi, she killed the rest of them! pic.twitter.com/PxwoQhoeuw
— John Richardson (@RichardsonJH) January 18, 2021

Newsmax also reported:

Former ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell on Sunday claimed Susan Rice, tapped by President-elect Joe Biden to run the Foreign Policy Council, will really act as the “shadow president” in the administration.

In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Grenell said “you need to watch Susan Rice very closely.

“She will be the shadow president,” he claimed. “We have a president-elect in Joe Biden who clearly is not the Joe Biden of 10 years ago. He's not even the Joe Biden of five years ago when it comes to policy issues.

“We saw him raise his hand during the Democratic primary for some really radical ideas. The progressives have clearly taken over him and I think that that's why he won.

 

[marsh]

Ric Grenell Reveals Who the Real 'Shadow President' Will Be in Biden White House

Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell just warned Americans who will be playing the role of “shadow president” in Joe Biden’s White House, and it’s not who you think it is. For months during last year’s presidential campaign cycle, as...

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Ric Grenell Reveals Who the Real ‘Shadow President’ Will Be in Biden White House

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell just warned Americans who will be playing the role of “shadow president” in Joe Biden’s White House, and it’s not who you think it is.

For months during last year’s presidential campaign cycle, as Biden’s mental decline became more pronounced, politicos on both sides of the aisle speculated that should he win, his power-hungry running mate, Kamala Harris, would be the de facto president.

And while that may happen at some point, for now, Grenell says to keep all eyes on a familiar Obama-era figure: Susan Rice.

Yes, the lady who took to multiple morning shows following the Benghazi crisis to lie repeatedly that the attack on the American embassy resulting in five deaths including the U.S. ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was a ‘spontaneous’ reaction to a video, is back, large and in charge, apparently.

Fox News reports:

Former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice has been tapped to lead the White House Domestic Policy Council in the Biden administration, but former acting DNI Ric Grenell believes she could be in control of a lot more.

“I think you need to watch Susan Rice very closely,” he said on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “She will be the shadow president.”

Grenell called Biden’s pick “interesting” considering Rice has no experience in domestic policy but nonetheless will be “incredibly influential” under the new administration.

Rice, the former acting DNI says, already knows the drill.

“I think the reality is, she’s going to be running foreign policy, domestic policy,” he said. “She’s probably extremely happy that Kamala Harris is going to be preoccupied with the Senate… and won’t have a lot of time to get into policy issues.”

He then went on to say the secret part out loud: Democrats crapped on Bernie Sanders (again) and went with Biden because they knew he could be manipulated.

“We saw him raise his hand during the Democratic primary for some really radical ideas,” he said. “The progressives have clearly taken over him… And Susan Rice being right there at the White House to be the shadow president is probably exactly where she wants to be.”

 

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Biden Picks A Second Sympathizer Of Critical Race Theory For Ed Dept | The Daily Wire

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Biden Picks A Second Sympathizer Of Critical Race Theory For Ed Dept

By Hank Berrien
Jan 18, 2021 DailyWire.com

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On Monday, president-elect Joe Biden announced his choice for Deputy Secretary of Education: San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten, whom it was reported had praised a speaker promulgating the idea that schools “spirit murder” black children and that white teachers should undergo “antiracist therapy.”

Investigative reporter Christopher Rufo wrote, “According to whistleblower documents, Martens personally introduced the speaker, Bettina Love, and praised her presentation about ‘spirit murder,’ ‘antiracist therapy,’ and ‘abolitionist teaching’” when Love was a featured speaker at a training program last August.

According to whistleblower documents, Martens personally introduced the speaker, Bettina Love, and praised her presentation about "spirit murder," "antiracist therapy," and "abolitionist teaching." Martens is one of the most radical superintendents in the country.
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) January 18, 2021

Earlier this month, Rufo wrote:

The school district hired Bettina Love, a critical race theorist who believes that children learn better from teachers of the same race, for the keynote address at the August Principal Institute and for an additional district-wide training on how to “challenge the oppressive practices that live within the systems and structures of school organizations.”

Rufo noted that a whistleblower “took detailed notes of the speech and captured screenshots of the presentation” despite the district’s ban on attendees from recording the session. He continued, “According to these notes, Love began her presentation by claiming that ‘racism runs deep’ in the United States and that blacks alone ‘know who America really is.’ She argued that public schools in particular ‘don’t see [blacks] as human,’ are guilty of systemic ‘anti-Blackness,’ and ‘spirit murder babies’ in the education system.”

“At the end of her presentation, Love told the teachers that whites are directly responsible for the plight of ‘dark children,’” Rufo reported, adding that a slide labeled “Teacher Education Gap” stated, “Whiteness reproduces poverty, failing schools, high unemployment, school closings, and trauma for people of color.”
Love reportedly asserted that “white educators” derived privileges from “white supremacy culture.”

Biden’s prospective Department of Education looks as though it may be highly sympathetic to “critical race theory.” As The Daily Wire reported in December:

Joe Biden’s choice for Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, the current Connecticut commissioner of education, helped oversee curricula for high school students to be implemented in fall 2022 that is influenced by “critical race theory.”

As The Washington Free Beacon noted, Connecticut requires a course in African-American, Puerto Rican and Latino studies. The Connecticut Mirrorreported on December 2:

Connecticut high schools will now be required to offer a course in African American, Black, Latino and Puerto Rican studies after the state Board of Education unanimously approved its implementation on Wednesday. The new curriculum will be offered as a full-year elective for students, but the board is hoping that with enough momentum, it could expand and be required for all students.

Under “Learning Objectives,” the curricula states, “Analyze how race, power, and privilege influence group access to citizenship, civil rights, and economic power.”

Cardona stated: “Let’s not forget the connection between kids wanting to be in school and kids attending school. And when we see that our attendance rate with Black and Latino students is worse, when we see that our achievement outcomes or academic outcomes are disparate in Connecticut, we have to take real action. I think there’s equal benefit to students who are not Black and Latino to take this course. We hear about windows and doors, that curriculum serves as a window into other cultures. This is a window into another culture for many students.”

 

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EXC: Biden's Chief Financial Regulator Headlined Chinese Chamber of Commerce Event Alongside Communist Party Officials - The National Pulse

Joe Biden’s pick for Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman headlined at the American Chamber of Commerce in China’s 2016 Beijing-based business conference.Gary Gensler, who will lead the stock market and securities oversight body, delivered the keynote at the group’s 2016 Asia Pacific...

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EXC: Biden’s Chief Financial Regulator Headlined Chinese Chamber Of Commerce Event Alongside Communist Party Officials

• JANUARY 19, 2021
• NATALIE WINTERS

Joe Biden’s pick for Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman headlined at the American Chamber of Commerce in China’s 2016 Beijing-based business conference.

Gary Gensler, who will lead the stock market and securities oversight body, delivered the keynote at the group’s 2016 Asia Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce (APCAC) Business Conference.

“The theme of this year’s conference addresses China’s shift toward a new stage of economic development. Discussion topics will cover the wide range of challenges and opportunities that are affecting US business in Asia, the future of Asia as a financial hub, China’s regional engagement, the “One Belt, One Road” initiative and the regional trading environment,” an event press release from the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China) notes.

Among other speakers at the AmCham China conference were Chinese Communist Party officials including the Ministry of Commerce’s Trade Representative, Vice Mayor of the city of Fuzhou, and high-level leadership from state-run universities, think tanks, and media outlets. American counterparts included a who’s who of corporates keen on securing access to Chinese markets including PepsiCo and Kamala Harris’s husband’s firm DLA Piper.

GENSLER SPEAKING.

“As in previous years, this conference will offer the region’s businesspeople a valuable opportunity to gather with peers and government officials. The conference will be a deep-dive into more China-specific issues including leveraging corporate and government relations, China’s economic outlook and the 13th Five-Year Plan,” the summary continues.

Panels at the conference included advising firms on “public-private partnerships between leading US companies and the Chinese government.”

Former Ambassador to China Max Baucus – who leveraged the credential to consult for Chinese government-linked firms – also delivered an “off the record” keynote “shedding light on the environment and opportunities for US Businesses operating throughout the Asia Pacific.”

Gensler spoke at a luncheon session entitled “China and the Global Economy: Slowing Growth, Increased Volatility and Implications for American Business.”

GENSLER SPEECH.
AmCham China functions as a pro-Chinese Communist Party lobbying group, whose leadership is comprised of American companies – investment banking firms, law firms, technology companies, and more – keen on securing market access and outsourcing American jobs to the country.

AmCham liaises between the Chinese Communist Party and its American members to bolster ties:

“As a primary pillar in our pursuit of improving the business environment and helping American companies succeed in China, AmCham China’s advocacy efforts address a wide scope of industry needs and extend from the central government to the local municipality levels. AmCham China advocates on behalf of our members’ evolving needs in the ever-changing China business landscape through a host of central and subnational government engagement efforts, large events such as the Annual Appreciation Dinner, and ongoing policy analysis and recommendations.”

Concerning Huawei, the group’s chairman has praised the company, which has collaborated with the Chinese Communist Party military for over two decades and was labeled a “national security threat” by the Trump administration, as “a very successful, very advanced company.” The praise came in an exclusive interview AmCham China Chairman Tim Stratford provided to state-run outlet Global Times for an article arguing for “negotiations” as opposed to bans on the company.

Gensler, also the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Barack Obama and Chief Financial Officer of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, led Biden’s Federal Reserve, Banking and Securities Regulators Transition Team efforts.

 

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WOW! Biden Picks Crazy Penn Health Director Rachel Levine as Assistant Health Secretary | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S.

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WOW! Biden Picks Crazy Penn Health Director Rachel Levine as Assistant Health Secretary

By Jim Hoft
Published January 19, 2021 at 8:47am

Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Democrats will cheer the transgender’s promotion and completely ignore her failed track record.

Rachel Levine has a work history of failure and illegal practices so the pick makes sense.

Levine made an order forcing nursing homes to accept infected COVID patients, killing thousands of people in Pennsylvania, while she secretly took her mom out and put in Suite in Hershey Motel.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Moved His Own Mother Out of Senior Facility to a Hotel While Coronavirus Swept Through Nursing Homes (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

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Rachel Levine supported the Black Lives Matter protests and riots while shutting down small businesses.

PA Health Secretary Twists Himself Into a Pretzel Trying to Justify Limitless BLM Protests While Standing by COVID-19 Restrictions For Small Businesses (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

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A judge ruled in September that Levine and Governor Wolf’s Pennsylvania policies were unconstitutional.

Judge Rules COVID-19 Directives by Democrat Pennsylvania Governor and Crazy Health Director Deemed Unconstitutional | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

The Democrats’ actions in Pennsylvania are insane and most likely will cost them the 2020 election. They won’t be able to steal enough votes to stop the massive rebuke of their insane policies. Way back in May we reported on Tom Wolf, the Democrat Pennsylvania Governor, who popped his lid at the...

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Rachel Levine even issued COVID guidelines on group sex.

Pennsylvania Health Department Issues Preferred COVID Orgy Regulations: Wear a Face Covering, Avoid Kissing, Wash Hands Often | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

This gal.

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So it just makes sense that she would be promoted into a Biden Administration.

 

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Biden Plans to Grow Economy By Blowing Trillions of Dollars with Hopes of Having Same Success as Trump | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

What a terrible joke. The Biden team has no idea how to get the economy rolling.

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Biden Plans to Grow Economy By Blowing Trillions of Dollars with Hopes of Having Same Success as Trump

By Joe Hoft
Published January 19, 2021 at 9:30am

What a terrible joke. The Biden team has no idea how to get the economy rolling.

Joe Biden hopes to be inaugurated Wednesday. Shortly after that the Biden gang is planning to initiate trillions in spending, hoping this will get the economy back to the days of the Trump economy. According to Hot Air and the New York Times:

As President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr. prepares to take office this week, his administration and the Federal Reserve are pointed toward a singular economic goal: Get the job market back to where it was before the pandemic hit.

The humming labor backdrop that existed 11 months ago — with 3.5 percent unemployment, stable or rising work force participation and steadily climbing wages — turned out to be a recipe for lifting all boats, creating economic opportunities for long-disenfranchised groups and lowering poverty rates. And price gains remained manageable and even a touch on the low side. That contrasts with efforts to push the labor market’s limits in the 1960s, which are widely blamed for laying the groundwork for runaway inflation…

“That’s really the thing that we’re most focused on — is getting back to a strong labor market quickly enough that people’s lives can get back to where they want to be,” Mr. Powell said. “We were in a good place in February of 2020, and we think we can get back there, I would say, much sooner than we had feared.”

The New York Times says Biden will get back to the Trump economy by spending nearly $2 trillion.

What no one is saying is that this spending spree is no doubt another corrupt allotment to Democrat cronies, like the stimulus was in 2009. This in turn will come back to the politicians in donations to campaigns in one big circle of corruption.

The Biden gang thinks spending trillions, more than most companies will ever earn, let alone pay in taxes, will help build the economy. They don’t understand that getting the government out of the way and allowing businesses to open and people to work again is the best solution.

 

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Joe Biden Suddenly Becomes Emotional During Farewell Speech to His Home State, Talks About His Death (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

What did we just watch?

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Joe Biden Suddenly Becomes Emotional During Farewell Speech to His Home State, Talks About His Death (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published January 19, 2021 at 2:05pm

What did we just watch?

78-year-old Joe Biden on Tuesday suddenly became emotional during his farewell speech to his home state of Delaware as he quoted Irish poet James Joyce.

“James Joyce was said to have told a friend, that when it comes his time to pass, when he dies, he said: ‘Dublin will be written on my heart.'” Biden said getting emotional (because the teleprompter told him to).

“Well, excuse the emotion, but when I die, Delaware will be written on my heart,” Biden said.

Biden is not well.

If Biden were a Republican there would be efforts to remove him with the 25th Amendment.

WATCH:

Biden makes sudden emotional pivot as he tries quoting James Joyce pic.twitter.com/9pq6IZelYD
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 19, 2021

 

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Joe Biden Suddenly Becomes Emotional During Farewell Speech to His Home State, Talks About His Death (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

What did we just watch?

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Joe Biden Suddenly Becomes Emotional During Farewell Speech to His Home State, Talks About His Death (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published January 19, 2021 at 2:05pm

What did we just watch?

78-year-old Joe Biden on Tuesday suddenly became emotional during his farewell speech to his home state of Delaware as he quoted Irish poet James Joyce.

“James Joyce was said to have told a friend, that when it comes his time to pass, when he dies, he said: ‘Dublin will be written on my heart.'” Biden said getting emotional (because the teleprompter told him to).

“Well, excuse the emotion, but when I die, Delaware will be written on my heart,” Biden said.

Biden is not well.

If Biden were a Republican there would be efforts to remove him with the 25th Amendment.

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Using the excuse of Covid and security I expect that there will be fewer and fewer live events with Biden.