Ivy League Colleges Have Received Billions From Arab Countries

Ivy League among top recipients of $8.5 billion Arab funding – Campus Reform, 2023/10/17

Qatar has given American universities $4.3 billion over 35 years, according to a 2021 report by Executive Director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise Dr. Mitchell Bard.

“Between 1986 and 2021, colleges and universities received nearly $8.5 billion from Arab sources,” the report states.

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Dr. Brad also notes that since 1976, Arab governments and individuals have been providing American universities with hundreds of grants to create chairs and centers in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.

Student groups at major gift recipients have come out against Israel in droves since the start of the latest Israel-Palestine conflict—beginning with the Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7.

According to Dr. Brad’s report, Cornell is the single largest recipient of Arab funding with over $1.5 billion gifted between 127 gifts or contracts. Qatar also signed contracts with Cornell for six years prior to 2020 for the strange amount of $99,999,999.

Schools get the money, and then the students receive the propaganda that the Arabs want.

If America is continuously giving money to these nations, is it our money being used to indoctrinate anti-Israeli sentiment?

Another Biden, Ukraine Coincidence… $50,000 per month

Lindsey Graham Wants Justice Department To Look into Biden’s Ukraine Dealings – Western Journal, 2019/09/23

In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday, as reported by The Hill, Graham, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, said the phone call uproar gives a good opportunity to revisit dealings between Ukraine and former Vice President Joe Biden. According to a May report in The New York Times, Biden pushed Ukraine in 2016 to oust a prosecutor who was closing in on an energy company called Burisma Holdings, for which Biden’s son, Hunter, was a board member pulling down a salary of about $50,000 a month.

$50,000 a month…

Document: Hunter Listed $49,910 Monthly Rent Payments While Living at Joe Biden’s Residence – Breitbart, 2023/01/15

On a document titled “background screening request,” it appears Hunter paid $49,910 in monthly rent for one year while living at Joe Biden’s Delaware residence, where the president kept classified documents alongside his Corvette in the garage.

Hunter listed his rental tenancy from March 2017 to February 2018, the document shows. The document is signed July 2018.

Nothing to see here… (sarcasm)

Penn Biden Center and the Ukraine

Saving for future use… pretty coincidental that the amounts are the same.

Burisma paid Joe Biden $900,000 for lobbying – Ukrainian MP – Interfax-Ukraine, 2019/10/09

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 for lobbying activities from Burisma Group, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada member Andriy Derkach said citing investigation materials.

Derkach publicized documents which, as he said, “describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr.” at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine’s press center in Kyiv on Wednesday.

“This was the transfer of Burisma Group’s funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe, personally to Joe Biden through a lobbying company. Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the U.S.-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners, which according to open sources, in particular, the New York Times, is affiliated with Biden. The payment reference was payment for consultative services,” Derkach said.

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Penn has paid Joe Biden more than $900K since he left the White House. What did he do to earn the money? – The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2019/07/12

What did the University of Pennsylvania get for the more than $900,000 it has paid Joe Biden?

The former vice president collected $371,159 in 2017 plus $540,484 in 2018 and early 2019 for a vaguely defined role that involved no regular classes and around a dozen public appearances on campus, mostly in big, ticketed events.

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Vice President Joe Biden to lead the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement – Penn Today, 2017/02/01

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann today announced that Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has been named the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he will lead the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a new center focused principally on diplomacy, foreign policy, and national security. The Center will be located in Washington, D.C. Biden will also have an office on the Penn campus in Philadelphia.

Bill Gates Gave Millions To Media Outlets To Promote Global Agenda

Documents show Bill Gates has given $319 million to media outlets to promote his global agenda – Grayzone, 2021/11/21

Up until his recent messy divorce, Bill Gates enjoyed something of a free pass in corporate media. Generally presented as a kindly nerd who wants to save the world, the Microsoft co-founder was even un-ironically christened “Saint Bill” by The Guardian.

While other billionaires’ media empires are relatively well known, the extent to which Gates’s cash underwrites the modern media landscape is not. After sorting through over 30,000 individual grants, MintPress can reveal that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has made over $300 million worth of donations to fund media projects.

Recipients of this cash include many of America’s most important news outlets, including CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS and The Atlantic. Gates also sponsors a myriad of influential foreign organizations, including the BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom; prominent European newspapers such as Le Monde (France), Der Spiegel (Germany) and El País (Spain); as well as big global broadcasters like Al-Jazeera.

Some of the outlays…

• NPR- $24,663,066
• The Guardian (including TheGuardian.org)- $12,951,391
• BBC- $3,668,657
• CNN- $3,600,000
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting – $2,430,949
• Financial Times – $2,309,845
• The Atlantic- $1,403,453
• Al-Jazeera- $1,000,000
• ProPublica- $1,000,000
• PBS – $499,997

Pelosi Approves $2M In Personal Tesla Stock Options

Pelosi Exercises Tesla Stock Options To Buy $2 Million In Shares – MSN/Forbes, 2022/03/22

In a periodic transaction filing, Pelosi disclosed her husband, Paul Pelosi, exercised 25 call options on Thursday to buy 2,500 shares of Tesla stock, worth nearly $2.2 million at the time; the options were set to expire on Friday.

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It’s not the first high-priced options bet Pelosi has placed on big-tech stocks: Last year, Paul Pelosi reportedly made about $5 million on options contracts tied to Alphabet stock.

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Lawmakers’ personal investments have garnered increased scrutiny since a series of trades by Federal Reserve officials led to high-profile resignations in recent months. Though the Fed, whose monetary policy measures helped the stock market recover during the pandemic, has since unveiled rules banning officials from individual stock trades, Congress is still considering what steps it should take. Pelosi initially rejected the idea of a ban in December, saying: “We are a free market economy. [Lawmakers] should be able to participate in that,” but she’s since turned a corner. In February, the Speaker directed the House Administration Committee to work on legislation prohibiting lawmakers from trading individual stocks. A vote is expected this year.

Well of course she is changing her tune – she is about to retire soon since she is in her 80s.

Being in a safe voting district that does not hold her accountable, she can pretty much do whatever she wants. So she can sponsor and vote for legislation with which she would subsequently profit.

Democrats Seek To Disbar and Shame Trump Lawyers

Scoop: High-powered group targets Trump lawyers’ livelihoods – Axios, 2022/03/07

A dark money group with ties to Democratic Party heavyweights will spend millions this year to expose and try to disbar more than 100 lawyers who worked on Donald Trump’s post-election lawsuits, people involved with the effort tell Axios.

Why it matters: The 65 Project plans to begin filing complaints this week and will air ads in battleground states. It hopes to deter right-wing legal talent from signing on to any future GOP efforts to overturn elections — including the midterms or 2024.

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David Brock, who founded Media Matters for America and the super PAC American Bridge 21st Century and is a Hillary Clinton ally and prolific fundraiser for Democrats, is advising the group.

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The 65 Project is targeting 111 attorneys in 26 states who were involved to some degree in efforts to challenge or reverse 2020 election results. They include lawyers at large national law firms with many partners and clients and lawyers at smaller, regional firms.

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Brock told Axios in an interview that the idea is to “not only bring the grievances in the bar complaints, but shame them and make them toxic in their communities and in their firms.”

They are scared to death of not only Trump, but anyone that they consider a threat to their power. These are pre-emptive actions to try and mute any legal actions in response to election shenanigans. These people don’t win elections with favorable policies for Americans. It’s all about fear and intimidation and bullying if necessary.

Most Democrats don’t win elections based on what’s best for lower and middle class America. They don’t even campaign on that anymore. They run their campaigns based on fear of others. These people are racists, or bigots, or homophobes, or they favor the rich. People end up voting out of fear and then wonder why life is messed up.

Democrats and authoritarians do these things in order to maintain their power and influence which leads to monetary gain.

The Clinton Global Initiative is Back

Grifters are gonna grift…

Clinton Global Initiative restarted to tackle urgent needs – Associated Press, 2022/03/04

The Clinton Foundation is planning another Clinton Global Initiative – a high-profile gathering of business, political and philanthropic leaders – this September in New York, according to a letter former President Bill Clinton sent to the foundation’s supporters Friday.

The initiative, which began meeting annually in 2005 and boasted speakers ranging from former presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter to celebrity philanthropists like Bono and Ben Affleck, ended in 2016 during former Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, when questions were raised about the appearance of potential conflicts of interests if donors then had business before Hillary Clinton’s administration.

Bill Clinton said he wants to bring back the initiative because the kind of “cooperation and coordination” it created is urgently needed. “The COVID-19 pandemic has ripped the cover off of longstanding inequities and vulnerabilities across our global community,” Bill Clinton wrote in the letter Friday. “The existential threat of climate change grows every day. Democracy is under assault around the world, most glaringly in Ukraine where Russia has launched an unjustified and unprovoked invasion that has put millions of lives in grave danger.”

And look at how convenient the timing is for their first meeting…

Clinton said the meeting, which will coincide with the United Nations General Assembly in September, will likely look different than it has in the past, perhaps in reference to new health and security concerns. However, he hopes the spirit of cooperation it fostered will return.

Just to go back to when CGI was shut down after Hilary Clinton was defeated by Donald Trump in the election…

The Clinton Foundation Shuts Down Clinton Global Initiative – New York Observer, 2017/01/15

The Clinton Foundation’s long list of wealthy donors and foreign government contributors during the 2016 elections provoked critics to allege conflicts of interests. Clinton partisans defended the organization’s charitable work, and dismissed claims that it served as a means for the Clintons to sell off access, market themselves on the paid speech circuit, and elevate their brand as Hillary Clinton campaigned for the presidency.

But as soon as Clinton lost the election, many of the criticisms directed toward the Clinton Foundation were reaffirmed. Foreign governments began pulling out of annual donations, signaling the organization’s clout was predicated on donor access to the Clintons, rather than its philanthropic work. In November, the Australian government confirmed it “has not renewed any of its partnerships with the scandal-plagued Clinton Foundation, effectively ending 10 years of taxpayer-funded contributions worth more than $88 million.” The government of Norway also drastically reduced their annual donations, which reached $20 million a year in 2015.

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WikiLeaks revealed several criticisms of the Clinton Foundation were true, as pay-to-play schemes and the foundation’s corrupt management were exposed. On October 26, The Washington Post reported a memo detailed how the Clinton Foundation was used to boost Bill Clinton’s income.

“The memo, made public Wednesday by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, lays out the aggressive strategy behind lining up the consulting contracts and paid speaking engagements for Bill Clinton that added tens of millions of dollars to the family’s fortune, including during the years that Hillary Clinton led the State Department,” reported The Washington Post.

China Buys Influence By Paying $5M To Bush Foundation

Bush Family Scion Sponsors Event With Blacklisted Chinese Company – Washington Free Beacon, 2021/11/16

Neil Bush, the son of President George H.W. Bush, is a cosponsor of the International Symposium on the Peaceful Use of Space Technology that begins Nov. 18 in Beijing. Three co-chairmen of the forum are executives with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), a state-controlled contractor that builds China’s military and space equipment. A subsidiary of CASC reportedly developed a hypersonic missile that the Chinese military tested in August. American officials called the nuclear-capable missile a “national security crisis” because of its ability to evade detection.

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Bush has extensive business ties in China and has worked closely with some of the country’s propaganda organizations. He chairs the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations, which is cosponsoring the space symposium. The Bush Foundation received $5 million in funding in 2019 from the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a leading think tank in the Communist Party’s propaganda network. Bush’s business partner, the Chinese real estate investor Wang Tianyi, is executive chairman of the space symposium.

“Bush is basically a power broker. He’s an access point for the Chinese to leverage,” said Brandon Weichert, a space security analyst and author of the book Winning Space.

Weichert said the space symposium follows “the classic Chinese model” of using academic and business forums to recruit experts and investors in the West.

“One of their big missions is to get Western talent and investment to come to China to do cutting-edge research and development,” Weichert told the Washington Free Beacon.

A few things to note… one – it’s just not Democrats in bed with China. Two – the participants are downplaying this as no big deal, but China doesn’t play. Three – it is more selling out of the country – in this case, $5 million from the Communists to the Bush Foundation. Four – most of these ex-presidents, except Trump, have some sort of foundation that accepts money from foreign interests.

Health Care Firm Donated Huge Money To Democrats, Gets Slap On The Wrist For Medicare Fraud.

Nothing to see here… keep moving…

Health firm that donated big to Biden, Dems pays $90 million for allegedly bilking Medicare – Just The News, 2021/08/31

A California health care firm whose executives and employees donated big to Joe Biden and other Democrats has agreed to pay a $90 million civil penalty to settle allegations it bilked Medicare by filing paperwork to make patients look sicker than they were.

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Sutter Health, headquartered in Sacramento, Calif., agreed to pay the fine and enter into a corporate integrity monitoring agreement with the government for five years to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting inaccurate diagnosis codes for Medicare Advantage patients, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

DOJ alleged that Sutter Health “knowingly submitted unsupported diagnosis codes for certain patient encounters” that “caused inflated payments to be made to the plans and to Sutter Health,” and it then failed to take corrective action after being alerted to the problems.

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Sutter’s practices were well known inside the Biden team, in part because current Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra pursued the company when he was California attorney general, obtaining a 2019 settlement agreement requiring the company to pay $575 million in compensation for anticompetitive practices.

Despite the cloud of allegations lingering over it, Sutter Health found a welcoming home among Democrats seeking donations in the last election.

Executives and employees of Sutter health ramped up giving to federal candidates in the 2020 election to more than $932,000, nearly five times more than what they donated in the prior presidential election in 2016. Democrats received the lion’s share of the donations — more than $800,000 in 2020 — with President Biden’s campaign being the largest recipient with more than $233,000, according to Federal Election Commission records gathered by the Center for Responsive Politics.

In the end, no liability for defrauding the government and taxpayers. And $90 million is probably a small slap on the wrist for them.

China’s Connection With The Media

Just a reminder that China can influence how they are covered in the media.

Chinese Propaganda Outlet Has Paid US Newspapers $19 Million For Advertising, Printing – The Daily Caller, 2020/06/08

One of China’s main propaganda outlets has paid American newspapers nearly $19 million for advertising and printing expenses over the past four years, according to documents filed with the Justice Department.

China Daily, an English-language newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has paid more than $4.6 million to The Washington Post and nearly $6 million to The Wall Street Journal since November 2016, the records show.

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China Daily also paid for advertising in several other newspapers: The New York Times ($50,000), Foreign Policy ($240,000), The Des Moines Register ($34,600) and CQ-Roll Call ($76,000).

It spent a total of $11,002,628 on advertising in U.S. newspapers, and another $265,822 on advertising with Twitter.

China Daily has also paid out more than $7.6 million to newspapers and printing companies for its newspaper for U.S.-based readers, the Justice Department’s filings show.

Filing: China Daily – Amendment to Registration Statement Pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act – 2020/06/01

Huawei Hires Former Democrat Lobbyist Tony Podesta

Huawei hiring former Democratic super lobbyist Tony Podesta – Politico, 2021/07/23

Huawei is hiring Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta as a consultant, according to two people familiar with the matter. Podesta will aim to help the controversial Chinese telecom giant warm relations with the Biden administration.

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Huawei faces a host of challenges in Washington. In February 2020, the Justice Department charged the company with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO — a key DOJ tool for going after organized crime. DOJ alleged that Huawei helped Iran’s authoritarian government build out its domestic surveillance capabilities and tried to secretly do business in North Korea. The Justice Department has also brought charges against the company’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou. She was arrested in Canada, where she is fighting extradition to the U.S. Huawei and Meng maintain their innocence. Huawei has said the accusations are an effort to “irrevocably damage” its reputation and business, as CNBC has reported.

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Podesta — a colorful K St. personality known for his loud ties and elaborate art and wine collection — previously helmed the Podesta Group, his eponymous lobbying shop. But in 2017, special counsel Robert Mueller scrutinized the firm for its work with Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chief Paul Manafort. Manafort’s team enlisted Podesta Group in its efforts to sanitize the reputation of Ukraine’s Russia-friendly president Viktor Yanukovych.

Podesta was not charged with wrongdoing, but shut down his firm and stepped back from lobbying after Manafort’s indictment. He spent several years in the political wilderness, focused on selling art.

What is to note here? Huawei has been blacklisted by President Trump, and the Biden Administration has not changed course to this point. The article mentions Huawei hiring several other people to represent them. Huawei is likely tied to the Chinese Communist Party. They are obviously ready to try and do business with the U.S. again. China has already seen that the Biden Administration has reversed course with Russia on the European oil pipeline.

The second thing to note.  Podesta was doing the exact same thing as Paul Manafort – except Podesta did it as a Democrat, and Manafort under Trump.  Manafort was prosecuted for FARA violations while Podesta was able to shut down and slither away.  Now he’s back under Biden.  This is our double standard justice system.

The other thing to note is the selling of art. It’s basically money laundering. Because the value of art is subjective based on whomever deems it as valuable, it’s difficult to hold that value to any sort of scrutiny – and the money is difficult to trace, especially from foreign buyers. A good explanation is here.

Hunter Biden Selling Art to Anonymous Buyers Is Genius-Level Corruption – Breitbart, 2021/07/18

Biden Breaks Campaign Promise To Meatworkers

Biden Just Decided Not to Protect Meatpacking Workers From COVID – Mother Jones, 2021/06/10

On the campaign trail last year, Joe Biden vowed that as president, he would stand up for workers being ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic. One set of laborers in particular caught his attention: those who toil in the large slaughterhouses that process the vast majority of the US meat supply, working shoulder to shoulder to cut animal carcassess into steaks, wings, and chops. As COVID-19 swept through plants, hundreds of workers died, tens of thousands tested positive, and slaughterhouses emerged as primary vectors for spreading the virus into surrounding communities.

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Candidate Biden wasn’t having it. Discussing the unfolding COVID catastrophe in meatpacking plants at an event with activist chef José Andrés in May 2020, Biden declared that “absolutely, positively, no worker’s life is worth me getting a cheaper hamburger. No worker’s life is worth that. That’s what the hell’s happened here.”

A little more than a year later, Biden’s ire appears to have cooled. On June 10, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a division of the US Department of Labor, released long-awaited new rules to protect vulnerable workers from the virus. In a move that stunned labor advocates, the rules, which include an obligation to ensure 6 feet of distance between workers as well as paid time off “to get vaccinated and to recover from any side effects,” only apply to the healthcare industry—leaving out other vulnerable workers.

The workers pleaded for protection from Trump as well but got nowhere.

As the regulations were being processed, industry lobbyists weighed in and poured water on Biden’s urgency.

The moral of the story…? Trump/Republicans did nothing. Democrats lied and did nothing. Industries prevailed through their lobbyists and businesses were protected. Don’t depend on government to help you.

Dark Money Groups Push Leftist Liberal Agenda

Soros & Wyss-Backed ‘Dark Money’ Group Boosts Un-American H.R. 1 Election Bill – Newsbusters, 2021/05/12

A leftist “dark money” group funded with millions of dollars from both liberal billionaires George Soros and “foreign national” Hansjörg Wyss is attempting to make the atrocious and un-American H.R. 1 election overhaul bill a reality.

In addition, the group is also trying to sway lawmakers on “D.C. statehood” and the “Voting Rights Act Amendment.”

Fox News reported yesterday that the leftist Sixteen Thirty Fund “has spent $1.3 million on internal lobbyists to push the reforms while dishing out $480,000 to outside firm Keefe Singiser Partners between 2019 and 2020, according to disclosures.” In addition, “Maura Keefe, the former chief of staff for Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, heads up the shop.” The Fund also “paid $100,000 to Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid to advocate on democracy reform and election integrity, including H.R. 1,” according to Fox News. Soros gave at least $16,568,483 to the Fund between 2016 and 2019. Wyss, who is of Swiss origins and has not disclosed publicly if he is even a U.S. citizen, gave a whopping $135 million to the Fund between 2016 and 2020.

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The Fund was recently discovered to be behind a project push to kill the Senate filibuster. The New York Times even labeled the Sixteen Thirty Fund as “among the leading dark money spenders on the left.” 

I am just posting this to illustrate the network of background organizations used to money resources and money around.

Sixteen Thirty Fund (1630 Fund)

OSHA Quietly Removes Requirement For Employers To Report Vaccine Injuries

Dept of Labor and OSHA Reverse Course, Will Not Enforce Employer Responsibility to Report COVID Vaccination Injuries – The Conservative Treehouse, 2021/05/22

An interesting about-face from the Dept of Labor and OSHA.  Previously OSHA stated that any employer who required vaccinations must report adverse reactions as workplace injuries.  However, OSHA is now saying they will not “enforce” that record-keeping requirement until May of 2022.

From OSHA under Vaccine Related…

DOL and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers’ vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination through May 2022. We will reevaluate the agency’s position at that time to determine the best course of action moving forward.

One of the comments I read spells out the issue pretty well when asked to differentiate between the COVID and flu vaccines. So I will quote him.

The annual Flu vaccination is a vaccination approved by the FDA. That vax underwent some 5 to 10 yrs of tests. The covid “vaccination” is an experimental drug, not approved by the FDA. That vax underwent 2 months of tests.

If your Employer required you to have the covid vax as a condition of employment, the employer becomes liable under OSHA and DoL laws.

That’s how.

It would be different if you willingly, solely and only of your own choice, chose to take the covid vax. But if you are required to take it by the employer, then the employer becomes responsible. Also, under the Nuremberg Laws, no person can be forced to participate in medical experiments. That includes experimental, unapproved, vaccines.

So now companies can require the vaccines and not be on the hook for any injuries from side effects. How convenient. The government sure knows how to please their core constituency. And what does this say about the safety of the vaccines – which are not FDA approved?

Russia Paid Democrats For Waiving Sanctions On Russian Pipeline

Lobbying fuels push for Russian pipeline as Biden weighs in – Open Secrets, 2021/05/20

The controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is getting a push from foreign interests and Washington lobbyists as President Joe Biden weighs the U.S. response to the project.

The Biden administration imposed sanctions Wednesday on thirteen vessels and four entities involved in construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. But the administration waived sanctions on Nord Stream AG and its chief executive due to “U.S. national interests,” Axios reported earlier this week.

My link is here… Biden Administration To Waive Sanctions To Build Pipeline From Russia To Germany

Now to the money…

Companies involved with the pipeline spent more than $1 million lobbying on sanctions and other issues related to the project through the first three months of 2021. 

Nord Stream 2 AG spent $840,000 on lobbying in the first quarter of 2021, on pace to surpass its nearly $3.6 million lobbying spending last year. The Swiss firm is wholly-owned by Russia’s state-run energy firm Gazprom. Alexei Miller, Gazprom’s executive chairman, is longtime Putin ally, as is Nord Stream CEO Matthias Warnig. 

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Other foreign firms are also dispatching lobbyists to advocate for the pipeline. Five foreign companies partnering on the project — Austria’s OMV AG, the Netherlands’ Shell International, France’s ENGIE, and Germany’s Wintershall and Uniper SE — hired lobbyists at McLarty Inbound to lobby the State Department and the National Security Council.

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McLarty managing partner Richard Burt, the former U.S. Ambassador to West Germany and a member of several influential Washington think-tanks, reported lobbying for a slate of foreign companies that have partnered on the project on “Russian sanctions issues” and “natural gas as an element of European energy security.” Burt donated $2,000 to Biden’s 2020 campaign and $10,000 to pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country while he was a registered lobbyist for foreign companies partnering with Nord Stream on the pipeline. Biden’s campaign had not refunded Burt’s money at the time of publication, more than 6 months after the donations were given, despite pledging to reject lobbyist donations.

I am old enough to remember when President Trump was Putin’s lackey. He approved sanctions on the project.

NBA Continues To Make Itself Available To China

NBA to participate in China International Consumer Products Expo, expected to help bilateral relations – Global Times, 2021/04/25

The US National Basketball Association (NBA) is expected to participate in the maiden China International Consumer Products Expo, the expo organizers said on Saturday, since the “Morey incident” on Hong Kong-related issues has cooled the relationship between the NBA and one of its biggest markets, China. The collaboration is anticipated to pave the way for further restoration of the relationship between the US league and China, observers noted. 

The expo will run from May 7 to 10 in Haikou, South China’s Hainan Province. The NBA earlier participated in the third China International Import Expo in November 2020 in Shanghai. 

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Compared with the previous ice-breaker of ping-pong games, the current chapter of China-US sports diplomacy may “reheat cool water.” However, it is not a unilateral effort, and the NBA should undertake a certain amount of lobbying within the US, observers said. 

I don’t watch the NBA as much as I used to, but I will still watch. However, this is a problem as China’s interests conflicts with U.S. interests, and they are currently enslaving 500,000 to a million people. And the underlined above, China will want the NBA to be a proxy for them.

100 Companies That Do Not Want Election Integrity

Use your purchasing dollars wisely… Or, if you like their products, contact upper management.

Here Are 100 Companies That Don’t Want Your Money if You Want Secure Elections. Spend Accordingly – PJ Media, 202/04/12

Nearly 100 of America’s top corporate leaders and CEOs gathered both in-person and virtually on Saturday to strategize ways to combat new election integrity laws like Georgia’s H.B. 531. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale University management professor who helped organize the meeting, framed it as a response to threats of reprisals after Georgia-based companies like Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, and Aflac Insurance condemned the Georgia bill. He called election integrity measures “anti-undemocratic.”

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A group calling itself “Civic Alliance” is in on the scheme to destabilize our elections with its list of woke companies and CEOs that oppose election integrity measures—their site boasts 1,119 supporting companies that influence more than 5 million employees.

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America had a good run as a democratic republic. Somewhere along the line, without a vote of the people or a single amendment being added to the Constitution, we’ve become a corporatocracy—an economic and political system controlled by corporations and corporate interests. They’re calling the shots on everything from who is allowed to use social media and what views are allowed to workplace cancel-culture rules, and, now, they’re dictating how our elections are run.

Here’s the list of companies choosing to leverage their products and services to alter our elections. The control government through lobbying… now this.

• Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
• Airbnb
• Amazon
• AMC Theatres
• Ben & Jerry’s
• Best Buy
• Blue Apron
• Bombas
• Capital One
• Chobani
• Cisco
• Columbia Sportswear Company
• Comedy Central
• Conde Nast
• Cummins
• Dataminr
• Deloitte
• DeVry University
• Discovery
• Doordash
• Dow
• Dropbox
• Envision Healthcare
• EOS
• Estee Lauder Companies
• Etsy
• Eventbrite
• Evolve Vacation Rental
• Expedia Group
• Facebook
• Gap Inc.
• GitHub
• GoFundMe
• Harry’s
• Hilton
• HP
• iHeart Media
• Imperfect Foods
• Instacart
• Instagram
• Intel
• JetBlue
• Kind
• Keurig Dr. Pepper
• Levis
• Lime
• LinkedIn
• Loreal USA
• Lululemon
• Lyft
• Macy’s
• Major League Baseball
• McDonald’s
• Microsoft
• MLS
• MTV
• Nextdoor
• NBA
• NFL Votes
• Nordstrom
• Paramount
• PayPal
• Pepsico
• Petco
• Pinterest
• PGA
• Ranker
• Reddit
• REI Co-op
• Salesforce
• Shipt
• Shutterstock
• Snapchat
• Soundcloud
• Spotify
• Squarespace
• Starbucks
• Survey Monkey
• Tampa Bay Rays
• Target
• Thumbtack
• Tofurky
• TripAdvisor
• Tumblr
• Twitter
• Tyson
• Uber
• Under Armour
• Unilever
• United Airlines
• Universal Music Group
• Univision
• Unilever
• Urban Outfitters
• Verizon Media
• Vimeo
• VH1
• Wayfair
• Weight Watchers
• Zillow

Ex-Democrat Senator Registers As Foreign Lobbyist For Blacklisted Chinese Company

Ex-Democratic Sen. Boxer registers to lobby for Chinese firm blacklisted for surveillance of Muslims – Just The News, 2021/01/12

Former California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer has registered as a foreign agent for an American subsidiary of a Chinese company blacklisted by the U.S. government for conducting surveillance of Muslim Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang province.

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In October 2019, the Commerce Department added 28 Chinese firms – including Hikvision – to a trade blacklist, saying they have abused Muslim minorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region.

She knows who will be winning in the next presidential term.

Columbia Univ Received $1M From China Which Was Not Disclosed

Columbia got $1M to fund what the US now calls Chinese ‘propaganda’ – New York Post, 2020/12/07

Columbia University accepted $1 million to underwrite an educational program that the State Department has since branded part of China’s “global influence and propaganda apparatus.”

The “Confucius Institute” at Columbia was established pursuant to a deal signed in 2013 “to help enhance Columbia faculty’s collaborations with Chinese scholars in teaching and research,” according to a page on the university’s website.

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In August, the US State Department designated the Washington, DC-based Confucius Institute US Center — which is in charge of running the American network — as a Chinese “foreign mission.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the move was aimed at “recognizing CIUS for what it is: an entity advancing Beijing’s global propaganda and malign influence campaign on U.S. campuses and K-12 classrooms.”

China has rebranded the Confucius Institute. It is now the Ministry of Education Center for Language Education and Cooperation.

China govt bankrolls culture institute at CU – Columbia Spectator, 2011/11/11

Biden Cancer Charity Spent Zero on Research

Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research – NY Post, 2020/11/14

The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife, Jill Biden, to “develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research and care and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes,” according to its IRS mission statement. But it gave out no grants in its first two years, and spent millions on the salaries of former Washington, DC, aides it hired.

The charity took in $4,809,619 in contributions in fiscal years 2017 and 2018, and spent $3,070,301 on payroll in those two years. The group’s president, Gregory Simon, raked in $429,850 in fiscal 2018 (July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019), according to the charity’s most recent federal tax filings.

Simon, a former Pfizer executive and longtime health care lobbyist who headed up the White House’s cancer task force in President Barack Obama’s administration, saw his salary nearly double from the $224,539 he made in fiscal 2017, tax filings show.

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But under grants distributed, it listed zero.

Simon had said the main point of the charity was not to give out grants, and that its goal was to find ways to accelerate treatment for all, regardless of their economic or cultural backgrounds.

Over 60% of 4.8 million spent on salaries in two years and just short of $1 million in conferences and travel.

This is a snapshot of government run healthcare. This is how they operate when dealing with issues that have nothing to offer them in return. They will line their own pockets first.

FARA Registration – Smalley

Posting this for reference purposes…

Hold Saudis accountable for Khashoggi’s murder [Opinion] – Houston Chronicle, 2018/12/18

FARA Registration – Smalley – 2020/03/19

Smalley has received $292,000 from Qatar between Sep 2019 and Mar 2020.

Top 50 Organizations That Contribute Money Politically

The NRA as been in the news with regards to the school shooting in Florida. Some media outlets have been complained about the NRA and political donations.

Here is a top 50 list of organization that donate politically. The NRA is nowhere to be found. 11 of the top 15 are solid left leaning organizations.

Top Organization Contributors – Open Secrets, 2016 Election Cycle

Dershowitz Says There Is No Crime With Trump and Russia

This is a must watch if you are interested in the truth.

Dershowitz, who proudly supported Clinton in the election, says the only reason we are having this investigation and the special council is to protect reputations – not because of illegalities. Even if Trump shared information with Russia, it may be unethical, but it is not a crime.

Fox Version

CNN Version

Report: The Panama Papers

Found this as a reference… just marking it for future reference. This came out in April 2016.

The Panama Papers – Politicians, Criminals, and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Tony Podesta… Lobbied For Russia to Get Sanctions Removed

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Super-Lobbyist Podesta Got $170K to End US Sanctions On Russian Bank – The Daily Caller

Democrat super-lobbyist Tony Podesta was paid $170,000 over a six-month period last year to represent Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, seeking to end one of the Obama administration’s economic sanctions against that country, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned.

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Podesta is the brother of John Podesta, who was the national campaign chairman for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s losing 2016 campaign for the presidency. Former President Barack Obama imposed the sanctions following the Russian seizure of the Crimean region of Ukraine in 2014.

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The Sberbank-Podesta relationship goes back many years. Sberbank was the lead financial institution in the Russian deal to purchase Uranium One, owned by one of Bill Clinton’s closest friends, Frank Giustra.

Links…
Tony Podesta lobby application

Total Lobby Income $24,040,000

Russian sanction involving Crimea

Uranium One Deal – Daily Caller