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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Joe Biden Repeats False War Story at Town Hall with Veterans

Well, there was a soldier.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2022 10:15 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2022 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Joe’s handlers want to give him every opportunity to tell the veterans about his son Beau’s heroic death in Fallujah. This seems like a pointless waste of everyone’s time. Keep him in the Delaware basement until his “re-election.” Stop the charade of presidential leadership. This is disrespectful to the service of the veterans.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/17/2022 12:33 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 OH man, now I am haunted.
Posted by: Dale || 12/17/2022 16:35 Comments || Top||


Economy
Biden's State Department Teams Up with Multinational Corporations to Funnel Refugees into American Jobs
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s State Department is partnering with hundreds of multinational corporations to open a jobs program for refugees arriving in the United States as the nation’s labor force participation rate remains at historical lows.

This week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed a memorandum entering the agency into a partnership with the left-wing Tent Partnership for Refugees group, founded by Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya and representing more than 300 corporations, to fill U.S. jobs with newly arrived refugees.

“The Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration is pleased to announce a public-private partnership with the Tent Partnership for Refugees to support employment opportunities and economic integration for refugees and other forcibly displaced people around the world,” the announcement states:

This partnership seeks to mobilize U.S. and international businesses and corporations to connect refugees to work opportunities – a critical pathway to the long-term economic and social resilience of both refugees themselves and the communities which host them. [Emphasis added]

Ulukaya’s Tent Partnership for Refugees includes corporations such as Accenture, Adidas, American Express, Amazon, AT&T, Deloitte, General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, Tata Consulting Services, and Visa, among others, that routinely outsource American jobs to low-wage foreign countries

Earlier this year, a group of House Republicans noted that the federal government’s refugee resettlement program funnels tens of millions of American taxpayer dollars annually to nine contractors.

These contractors’ annual budgets rely on the federal government resettling as many refugees in American towns and cities as possible — giving them a major financial stake in the process.

The jobs program for refugees comes as roughly 11.6 million Americans remain jobless, all of whom want full-time employment, and another few million are underemployed, stuck in part-time work but hoping to land full-time jobs.

Washington, DC, has responded with silence to the nation’s growing labor force participation crisis, as possibly 100 million working-age Americans are sitting on the workforce sidelines.

In particular, as Breitbart News has noted, American men are dropping out of the workforce at an alarming rate as wages have remained stagnant in working class jobs and in many cases, have fallen.

At the same time, the Biden administration is hoping to increase the number of refugees arriving annually in the United States. Next year, Biden hopes to import some 125,000 refugees.

Refugee resettlement costs American taxpayers nearly $9 billion every five years, according to research, and each refugee costs taxpayers about $133,000 over the course of their lifetime. Within five years, an estimated 16 percent of all refugees admitted will need housing assistance paid for by taxpayers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2022 10:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [7 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2  Repeat after me: "There is no such thing as population replacement theory. There is no such thing as population replacement theory. There is no such thing as population replacement theory." You have now received 5 IRS Credits deposited into your ESG Account.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/17/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Madness!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/17/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||

#4  And none dare call it treason.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/17/2022 15:10 Comments || Top||

#5  A more compliant, diverse, and moldable population is needed. An international population that has high birth rates and reduced life expectancy.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2022 19:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Import foreigners that will compete for 'non-skill' jobs and export industrial jobs overseas ...Genius! Sheer Genius!
Posted by: magpie || 12/17/2022 20:24 Comments || Top||

#7  And you thought you had India on the phone....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 12/17/2022 23:03 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
FBI 'Deep State' team of 80 people regularly handed Twitter lists of people to BAN - including actor Billy Baldwin and satire accounts, new trove of Musk's 'Twitter Files' reveal
[MAIL] A new trove of internal communications from Twitter suggests that the FBI maintained persistent contact with company employees in recent years, frequently proposing user bans, including for strident Trump critic and actor Billy Baldwin, and what appear to be satire accounts.

'Twitter's contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,' argued journalist Matt Taibbi, who shared the documents in a Twitter thread on Friday afternoon.

FBI officials, meeting with Twitter executives, told them there was 'no impediment' to sharing classified information with them, according to an internal memo.

The files were the latest in a series of documents to be released after Twitter's new owner Elon Musk gave a group of hand-picked journalists access to the company's internal records.

'Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth,' claimed Taibbi.

'But a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts,' he added.

Those singled out were shocked, with one asking how 'an amoeba' like himself had come onto the FBI's radar, while another said it was 'crazy' that the FBI was 'policing jokes'.

A third added: 'Anyone who cannot discern obvious satire from reality has no place making decisions for others or working for the feds.'

Possibly related: AP - Hacker claims breach of FBI’s critical-infrastructure portal InfraGard.

Russia, Russia, Russia.....

PJ - Elon Musk Shows How Twitter Served as the FBI's Lapdog

American Thinker - Digging deeper into 'Twitter Files 6'

Hot Air - Matt Taibbi: Twitter Files part 6 - the FBI connection (Update)
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2022 00:21 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Twitter's contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,' argued journalist Matt Taibbi, who shared the documents in a Twitter thread on Friday afternoon.

Having 'embedded' assets is a big plus. How many other social media platforms and news outlets did the "Team of 80" service ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2022 0:59 Comments || Top||


#3  FBI's InfraGard - Parnership for Protection
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2022 4:43 Comments || Top||

#4  FBI InfraGard source application form.

  • Must be a US Citizen, 18 years of age, currently employed or formerly employed at Twitter, Facebook, Google, TikTok, .....
  • Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2022 4:56 Comments || Top||

    #5  I guess that explains why Elon and his son were targeted for doxing in realtime - hoping that something would happen.
    Is there another 80 people working with Facebook, and others with other social media platforms?
    Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/17/2022 5:02 Comments || Top||

    #6  Proof that free speech and the truth scares them.

    An honest man has no fear of the truth.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2022 6:18 Comments || Top||

    #7  As Herod said in The Quick and the Dead: "Put a fox in the hen house and you'll have chicken for dinner every night."
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2022 8:35 Comments || Top||


    #9  Twittergate deepens: FBI REFUSES to reveal how many social media firms it is secretly influencing

    Raises hand. Ooh, ooh, I know! All of them.
    Posted by: Angesh Clase3351 || 12/17/2022 23:05 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Politix
    Pete Buttigieg Vacationed in Europe Amid Rail Strike Crisis
    [AG] They're trying to make him a thing for 2024, but he's barely competent in his current "job"
    While the country was facing a possible supply chain crisis due to the looming threat of a massive rail strike earlier this year, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was vacationing in Portugal.

    According to the Washington Free Beacon, Buttigieg was in Porto, Portugal in September, a tourist destination over 3,500 miles away from Washington, D.C., that is best known for its wineries. He began his vacation on August 29th, just one week before Amtrak started canceling long-distance trips ahead of a likely strike due to failed attempts to negotiate a deal that satisfied the rail workers’ unions.

    A spokeswoman for the Department of Transportation (DOT) subsequently claimed that Buttigieg’s vacation was a “long-planned personal trip,” and that he “remained available and engaged” even while he was in Europe.

    “As usual, while traveling on personal time he remained available and engaged on urgent issues,” the spokeswoman continued, “which in this case meant multiple calls with staff and stakeholders to work on the topic of rail labor negotiations.”

    Buttigieg spent an entire week in Portugal, returning to the United States on September 5th.

    The revelations have resulted in widespread mockery and criticism of Buttigieg, who has often been described as unqualified for his current position; it is generally understood that he was rewarded with a Cabinet Secretary position in return for his decision to drop out at a crucial time in the primaries when the establishment Democratic vote needed to consolidate behind Joe Biden in an effort to stop the insurgent candidacy of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

    “Pete Buttigieg will take paid vacation in Europe for days on end but doesn’t think rail workers should get more than one day of sick leave,” said Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). “This is the same guy who took months of paid leave at the height of the supply chain crisis. If rail workers showed up for work as rarely as Buttigieg does, the country would fall apart.”

    The standoff between the White House and the unions ultimately saw a number of unions vote to reject the final deal presented by the Biden Administration, which lacked several key demands such as paid sick leave. As a rail strike would have disastrous consequences for the nation’s supply chain ahead of the busy Christmas season, Biden turned to Congress to pass a law that would force the rail unions to accept the deal. The bill passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by Biden, earning him backlash from working-class voters that he once claimed to represent as a senator.
    Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2022 08:54 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Monkeypox Rave!
    Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2022 10:17 Comments || Top||

    #2  Probably best place for him during the negotiation.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/17/2022 10:18 Comments || Top||

    #3  Must have been fun riding his bike across the Atlantic.

    Snark O'The Day
    Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/17/2022 10:31 Comments || Top||

    #4  Hmmm, I seem to remember criticisms of Ted Cruz going on vacation to México when the cold snap hit and caused problems with the power grid.
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 12/17/2022 14:34 Comments || Top||

    #5  P.S. - And Cruz' trip was also a "long-planned personal trip".
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 12/17/2022 14:35 Comments || Top||

    #6  This is working proof that he doesn't have any expectation of doing his job, or even trying to.
    Posted by: ed in texas || 12/17/2022 17:34 Comments || Top||

    #7  Infrastructure is racist, so he is the spokesman for a chocolate highway.
    Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2022 19:36 Comments || Top||



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