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Republican National Committee: Google Suppressed 22 Million+ GOP Emails Since September
[Breitbart] The Republican National Committee (RNC) is accusing Google of suppressing more than 22 million campaign emails since September, by sending them to users’ spam folders, and is now considering legal action against the tech giant.

Google, which insists party affiliation plays no role in determining which emails get sent to the spam folder, launched an FEC-approved program to ensure campaign emails reached users’ main inboxes under pressure from Republicans.

But the RNC, which shared data from its email campaigns with Fox News Digital, says this has not resolved the situation, with masses of emails getting spammed by Google at the end of every month.

“Every single month, like clockwork, Google suppresses important GOTV and fundraising emails at the end of the month, with zero explanation nor commitment from Google to resolve this issue,” said RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in a comment to Fox News.

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“We are less than 40 days out from Election Day, and important GOTV emails to our opted-in voters in states that have already started early voting are being systematically sent to spam.”

Google has been under scrutiny for sending political emails to spam since a study from the University of North Carolina revealed the tech giant marked 59.3 percent more emails from conservative candidates as spam during the 2020 election compared to liberal candidates.

In a statement to Fox News, Google spokesman José Castañeda insisted there was no bias in how emails are sent to spam folders, but did not explain the strange pattern of RNC emails getting suppressed at the end of every month.

“We enable political committees and other organizations to reach their constituents, donors, and key audiences via email. When Gmail users say that they don’t want to receive an email, we place the email in the spam folder, politics or political affiliation plays no role in this determination,” said the spokesman.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yahoo does the same to me. Pub mail sent to spam. Hasn't changed my mind about the election yet. Still think 22 was stolen. Will support GOP next month.
Posted by: Titus tse Tung7019 || 10/10/2022 1:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, I've been bombarded daily with GOP texts to "Terri"". I reported them as spam since they won't stop when I ask.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/10/2022 6:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Violates Federal Laws.
But who for a second thinks the LSD's with its 5 column controlling the DOJ/FBI will do anything?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/10/2022 9:36 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
A majority of GOP nominees ‐ 299 in all ‐ deny the 2020 election results
[Boston Globe] WASHINGTON — A majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for the House, Senate, and key statewide offices — 299 in all — have denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Candidates who have challenged or refused to accept Joe Biden’s victory are running in every region of the country and in nearly every state. Republican voters in four states nominated election deniers in all federal and statewide races The Post examined.

Although some are running in heavily Democratic areas and are expected to lose, most of the election deniers nominated are likely to win: Of the nearly 300 on the ballot, 174 are running for safely Republican seats. Another 51 will appear on the ballot in tightly contested races.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/10/2022 01:28 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's actually what we were told. Why should we not believe what were told and what we saw take place with our own eyes ?

Is there anyone who actually believes Biden carried the State of Georgia ?

Joe Biden brags about having “the most extensive and inclusive VOTER FRAUD organization” in history.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/10/2022 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Walk that back, WH.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/10/2022 8:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Recognizing there is a problem is the first and most essential part of recovery.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/10/2022 8:49 Comments || Top||

#4  I think that means they are all ineligible for office, right?
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/10/2022 15:36 Comments || Top||

#5  One of the greatest revelations from the 2020 election was how many of our ostensible 'allies' were complicit in the steal.
Posted by: Angstrom || 10/10/2022 17:34 Comments || Top||


Russian analyst set to face trial on charges of lying to FBI
[AlAhram] Five years after the term "Steele dossier'' entered the political lexicon,
Igor Danchenko is the third person to be prosecuted by Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed to investigate the origins of "Crossfire Hurricane", the designation given to the FBI's 2016 probe into former president Trump's Russia connections.
a think tank analyst who contributed to research about Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
and Russia goes on trial Tuesday for lying to the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
about his sources of information.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 10/10/2022 01:27 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Given the evidence that the FBI lies through its teeth, why would anyone on a honest jury believe them?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/10/2022 6:58 Comments || Top||

#2 

The trial I want to see, and I bet many, many others want to see. Is the Post-Coup hearings and the Flushing out of the Anti-American / Bill Rights Violators and subversives now in Government.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/10/2022 17:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Danchenko is Ukrainian.
Posted by: Chaim || 10/10/2022 19:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Danchenko is Ukrainian.

The FBI should have noticed that and questioned it, then.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/10/2022 20:48 Comments || Top||

#5  According to Wikipedia, Mr, Danchenko is a Russian citizen who grew up in the Perm Oblast, Russia and came to America for graduate school. He has legal residency here, but never gave up his Russian passport.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/10/2022 20:59 Comments || Top||


Twitter Crosses Red-Line, Censors Florida Surgeon General's Recommendation
[REDSTATE] On Saturday, Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, made waves by becoming the first major health official in the country to recommend against males 18-39 getting the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. That came after an extensive, multi-year study showed an 84 percent rise in cardiac-related deaths among the age group. That backed up prior studies which had also pointed to an increased risk of heart issues.

Ladapo’s job is to make those determinations and give his recommendations to the general public. That would be the same general public that chose to elect Ron DeSantis, who appointed the surgeon general, as governor of Florida.

Unfortunately, Twitter has long shown it is a ward of the politicized CDC and quickly moved to censor Ladapo’s announcement. As far as I can tell, it was an unprecedented move to silence a duly-appointed health official of a major state.

Think about how Orwellian and perhaps dangerous Twitter’s move was. They chose, supposedly of their own volition (but likely with a wink and nod from the Biden administration), to directly interfere in the public health decision of a US state. Again, a massive social media company decided it should have the power to override and ignore the recommendation of a duly-elected administration, dictating to the public instead.

It’s hard to fathom how that kind of thing became acceptable, especially after so many "conspiracy theories" during COVID-19 ended up being confirmed. You’d think Twitter would be more cautious, at least when dealing with an official of Ladapo’s stature. Besides, in this case, Florida has the data to back up what was decided. The study in question covered a year and a half of vaccinations of all age groups and it was careful to only consider cardiac-related deaths. It is a more credible a study than much of the rushed garbage appearing in medical journals these days.

There is a good ending here, though. Twitter faced such focused, immense backlash for what they did that Ladapo’s message was eventually restored.

With Elon Musk set to buy Twitter, hopefully, this kind of thing won’t be happening in the future. Still, it is good to see that public pressure, even from the right, can force a company’s hand. Twitter should release a public statement explaining what happened here, but they won’t. In the absence of that, we can only assume they regretted their decision to censor Ladapo and moved to sweep it under the rug.
Posted by: Fred || 10/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I will so enjoy the grinding of teeth when Musk fires the WOKE at Twitter.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/10/2022 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  This isn’t just another spat between woke idiots and Musk.

This is a criminal conspiracy to suppress deadly serious information that has grave implications for public health. The data are crystal clear: this horrific gene therapy imposed on our young people is unsafe. It is ineffective. It was never subjected to proper scrutiny and the trials data was suppressed for over a year. As was all the mountain of evidence of its horrific side effects.

The treatment is literally worse than the disease. To suppress this clinical fact, at this point in the debacle, with all the evidence of failure that’s accumulated across the world, is nothing short of criminal.
Posted by: Truth Teller || 10/10/2022 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  As far as I can tell, it was an unprecedented move to silence a duly-appointed health official of a major state.

What else can one call it ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/10/2022 1:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Dr. Makary of Johns Hopkins and 8 other distinguished researchers from top medical schools have published a devastating preview of their research into this gene therapy’s nightmarish cost-benefit ratio.

For each hospitalitization that the gene therapy prevents fir young people, there have been 18 to 98 serious adverse events, most notoriously severe myocarditis in young men and menstrual irregularities and infertility in young women.

“[For each] COVID-19 hospitalisation prevented in previously uninfected young adults, we anticipate 18 to 98 serious adverse events, including 1.7 to 3.0 booster-associated myocarditis cases in males, and 1,373 to 3,234 cases of grade ≥3 reactogenicity which interferes with daily activities.

“Given the high prevalence of post-infection immunity, this risk-benefit profile is even less favourable. University booster mandates are unethical because:

1) no formal risk-benefit assessment exists for this age group;

2) vaccine mandates may result in a net expected harm to individual young people;

3) mandates are not proportionate: expected harms are not outweighed by public health benefits given the modest and transient effectiveness of vaccines against transmission;


4) US mandates violate the reciprocity principle because rare serious vaccine-related harms will not be reliably compensated due to gaps in current vaccine injury schemes; and

5) mandates create wider social harms.

“We consider counter-arguments such as a desire for socialisation and safety and show that such arguments lack scientific and/or ethical support. Finally, we discuss the relevance of our analysis for current 2-dose CCOVIDovid-19 vaccine mandates in North America.”

from
COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for Young Adults: A Risk-Benefit Assessment and Five Ethical Arguments against Mandates at Universities
50 Pages
Posted: 12 Sep 2022

AUTHORS:
Kevin Bardosh
University of Washington; University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Medical School

Allison Krug
Artemis Biomedical Communications LLC

Euzebiusz Jamrozik
University of Oxford

Trudo Lemmens
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

Salmaan Keshavjee
Harvard University - Harvard Medical School

Vinay Prasad
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Martin A. Makary
Johns Hopkins University - Department of Surgery

Stefan Baral
John Hopkins University

Tracy Beth Høeg
Florida Department of Health; Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
Posted by: Truth Teller || 10/10/2022 1:23 Comments || Top||


#6  An indispensable daily roundup of the madness is available at Substack.

Florida attorney Jeff Childers is one of the best chroniclers of this idiocy — shrewd analysis and expert legal commentary that exposes all the ways these shits have lied, cheated, battered and looted their way through this debacle. Did you know that Pfizer and Modena were granted complete immunity from prosecution fir the monstrous harm they’ve inflicted?

Here is Childers’ Substack - worth reading everyday:

Coffee and Covid
Posted by: Truth Teller || 10/10/2022 1:29 Comments || Top||


Politico Obtains Military Records of GOP Candidate Jennifer Ruth-Green, Releases Story of Her Sexual Assault
[REDSTATE] In what may be the most egregious example of gutter politics of the 2022 cycle, Politico obtained and wrote a story on the stolen military records of GOP House Candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green, who is facing off against Democrat incumbent Frank Mrvan in Indiana.

But while the hacks at Politico were obviously looking for dirt, what they instead found was an instance of Green being sexually assaulted by an Iraqi soldier while she was serving a tour in the Middle-Eastern nation. Yet, instead of hitting pause, recognizing the sensitive nature of such personal information and the harm releasing it could cause, Politico published it anyway.

Green’s opponent must be incredibly desperate to pull a stunt like this. It’s bad enough to steal her military records (there is no legal way they could have been obtained given Green did not consent to their release), but to then treat an instance of sexual assault as if it’s just campaign fodder is disgusting.

According to Green, she actually asked Politico not to print the story, but the news hound refused to heed her pleas. Ask yourself what possible justification could exist to print a woman’s experience with sexual assault, garnered via allegedly stolen documents, without her consent. Was Politico thinking that would somehow make Green look bad? Or were they just desperate to salvage a dud of a story after it became clear the records didn’t show anything but Green being an honorable member of the Air Force?

Whatever the reason, it’s inexcusable, and it’s a damning indictment of the mainstream press, which will apparently do anything to try to prop up Democrats during an election.

Green responded to the situation with a video and by putting out a statement. Here’s what she had to say.

"I’m a survivor of sexual trauma in the military. I am being forced to share this information outside of my own timeline and for the first time publicly because my Congressman, Frank Mrvan, and his cronies illegally obtained my military records describing my sexual assault. His team fished the details of my assault to different news outlets, asking them to share misinformation to portray me as a failed military officer who lacks integrity. This is false.

I believe after sharing my assault against the advice of some in my command, my career was intentionally derailed. The paperwork Congressman Mrvan illegally obtained contains information that reflects me in a negative light. I have since appealed the incident with the military, and the entire issue is settled. Clearly, I have progressed as a military member, promoting to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and successfully completing a command tour.

I have written to the U.S. Attorney, the Air Force Inspector General, and the Department of Defense asking them to launch criminal probes into the release of my confidential personnel file.

I am saddened to have to share publicly one of the most private events of my life, and I’m even more saddened that Congressman Mrvan, who I applauded for authoring the Military Sexual Trauma bill, would engage in or tolerate this despicable behavior from his campaign and his allies. It’s unacceptable for every vet, it’s unacceptable for every woman, and it’s unacceptable for anyone who has ever been a victim of sexual assault.

However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
God, my family, my Pastor and his wife, and the mental health providers at the Adam Benjamin VA have been instrumental in helping me thrive after this great difficulty.

As a servant and as a leader, I take my words and my responsibilities seriously. I will continue to serve people with integrity, and I am undeterred by Congressman Mrvan’s attacks. As I have always, I will move forward and succeed despite obstacles such as this thrown in my path."

One of the things that has Green so incensed is that Politico boiled the story down to a dry account that absconds from the horrifying details. For example, Green wasn’t just randomly grabbed. She was grabbed by an Iraqi man with a gun, trapped in an enclosed area she couldn’t escape, who then exposed himself and tried to force her into sexual acts. Instead of her story being fully told, Politico chose to use a general account as political fodder to help a Democrat out, though it will certainly backfire.
Posted by: Fred || 10/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: 3dc || 10/10/2022 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Somebody needs to go down and go down HARD for this.

And then, let's talk to the blue-suited idiots who told her not to report the assault in the first place.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/10/2022 6:32 Comments || Top||

#3  So when are we going to get John Kerry's records?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/10/2022 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4 
#3 So when are we going to get John Kerry's records?
Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-10-10 07:00


...HeyheyheyheyHEY...let's not get crazy here. (sarcOFF)

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/10/2022 8:56 Comments || Top||

#5  JAWN'S RECORD FOR ALL TO SEE : Unfit For Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry , a book on Amazon.
Posted by: 746 || 10/10/2022 11:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Standard Democrat Party tactic, whether it is IRS records, sealed court transcripts or, now, military records. Why wouldn't the Democrats continue with this and escalate when there are no legal consequences for them. The only thing voters can do is punish them at the ballot box.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 12:06 Comments || Top||

#7  JAWN'S RECORD FOR ALL TO SEE.

Still hasn't release his DD-214 as promised in 2004.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 12:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Deep State
Posted by: Cletle Shinese1880 || 10/10/2022 21:04 Comments || Top||


White House spending $265K on staff to deflect Hunter Biden probe
More on this story from yesterday.
[NYPOST] The White House is gearing up for a growing army of staff to fend off potential Republican-led probes on everything from Hunter Biden to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — and taxpayers are footing the bill.

Battening down the hatches should the GOP regain control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, the White House is shelling out $265,000 a year in salary for staff whose primary portfolio will be to run comms and defense for the administration from an approaching blizzard of subpoenas.

In May, the White House poached Richard A. Sauber, the top attorney for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to serve as a "deputy counsel to the president" tasked with handling House oversight probes. Ian Sams, a veteran of Vice President Harris’ failed 2020 presidential campaign, was hired to run official comms for the team. White House records show the two men will take home $155,000 and $110,000 respectively.

And the team is only expected to grow, the Washington Post reported — indicating that its staffing and operational expenditures will balloon further.

"Americans deserve transparency from President Biden about his family’s suspicious business dealings. But instead of providing transparency, the White House is hiring staff at the American taxpayers’ expense to stonewall congressional oversight and accountability." said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is on track to chair the House Oversight Committee next year if Republicans retake the House.

"Let’s be clear: no amount of Biden White House staff or stonewalling will stop Republicans’ quest for transparency and accountability on behalf of the American people," he added.

House Republicans have vowed to investigate everything from the origins of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, to the botched withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. The party’s marquee probe will focus on Hunter Biden and what connections his father, President Biden, had to his shady overseas business dealings.
Posted by: Fred || 10/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Did Tucker Carlson's Bobulinski Home Run Crack the Media Protection Racket of the Bidens?
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] The headline over at Fox News this last week told the tale:

Tony Bobulinski tells Tucker Carlson Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...
was 'chairman' of Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings

Fox’s Tucker Carlson — aka a real journalist — had scored another interview with one-time Biden family business associate Tony Bobulinski. And mysteriously?

Two days later the Washington Post soon appeared with its own Hunter Biden story, headlining this:

Federal agents see chargeable tax, gun-purchase case against Hunter Biden

The Post story reported this:

"Federal agents investigating President Biden’s son Hunter have gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge him with tax crimes and a false statement related to a gun purchase, according to people familiar with the case.

...Agents determined months ago they had assembled a viable criminal case against the younger Biden. But it is ultimately up to prosecutors at the Justice Department, not agents, to decide whether to file charges in cases where prosecutors believe the evidence is strong enough to lead to a likely conviction at trial."

And as noted here by Kevin Tober in NewsBusters that same two days later both the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News did the same reporting as the Washington Post. Imagine that! (Although, noteworthy as NewsBusters also reported, ABC skipped the story on Thursday, only to cover it on Friday morning.)

Yet it should be noted that this sudden flurry of liberal media attention to Hunter Biden followed two days after Tucker’s story aired, with Fox reporting this of Tucker’s story:

"Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, believes Joe Biden essentially served as the ’chairman’ and a ’figurehead’ to his son’s overseas business dealings.

Bobulinski, a retired lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, is the former CEO of SinoHawk Holdings, which he has long said was a partnership between a Chinese energy firm and the Biden family. During an exclusive interview that will air Tuesday night on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Bobulinski said he met with President Biden "multiple" times prior to the 2020 election to discuss his son’s business ventures.

’There are hundreds of data points that Joe Biden was acting in — in a capitalistic term, I would say the chairman,’ Bobulinski told host Tucker Carlson."
Posted by: Fred || 10/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just like Hillary Clinton's guilty-as-hell exposing of top secret documents on her unsecured email server, prosecution will be declined as not in the national interest. Remember when Comey said she did it, but there would be no charges? Same thing here.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 10/10/2022 1:32 Comments || Top||

#2  "Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, believes Joe Biden essentially served as the ’chairman’ and a ’figurehead’ to his son’s overseas business dealings.

So does nearly everyone else.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/10/2022 1:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Did Tucker Carlson's Bobulinski Home Run Crack the Media Protection Racket of the Bidens?

You're joking, right? No. Or, they will "focus" on the gun stuff to divert attention from the real issues of the Biden crime family.

Neil Kinnock didn't have a son named Hunter, too, did he?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/10/2022 6:05 Comments || Top||

#4  I believe the Hunter -> Big Guy connection is very common for our political elites and is a major reason why they looked the other way at attempts to handicap Trump and to steal and election.

What I'm not sure of is if the corrupt will avoid re-election and hope to disappear and be left alone or try to stay in power and fight to cover their butts.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/10/2022 15:46 Comments || Top||

#5  They will spike it.

I distinctly remember the 2006 midterms. Day after day there were gory 'above the fold' photographs in the local newspaper from Iraq. Violence! Horror! Death! In living color! The day after the midterms and with the Democrats in power all of that faded away into the mists: local state official accused of corruption and a pink llama was going to feature in the local county fair were the 'above the fold' fare.

Disgraceful partisan hacks... *Spit*
Posted by: magpie || 10/10/2022 17:45 Comments || Top||


Gretchen Whitmer-Appointed Board Approves $715 Million Contract, Tax Incentives for Chinese Communist Party-Affiliated Company
[Breitbart] The Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) board, appointed by Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, approved $715 million in grants and tax exemptions on Wednesday for a battery manufacturer with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The SMF board, chaired by Quentin Messer and comprised of 11 members appointed by Whitmer, reportedly approved the Renaissance Zone tax exemption request and handed $175 million in state grants to a China-based company named Gotion Inc, and its billionaire chairman, who has deep ties to the CCP, in order to build a $2.4 billion electric vehicle battery parts facility in the outer part of Big Rapids.

In total, as the Detroit News reported, the $715 million in grants and tax exemptions include:

The property tax exemption granted by the board for the Michigan Economic Development Corp. will save the company $540 million over a 30-year period, according to estimates. The approval comes after three local government boards last week unanimously approved the Renaissance Zone request for the project that’s expected to create 2,350 jobs over the next decade [Emphasis added].

The $175 million in grant funding is made possible through new programs the state Legislature created at the end of 2021 to spur economic development in the state.



The MSF board specifically approved a $50 million Strategic Site Readiness Program grant and a $125 million Critical Industry Program grant. The money for those grants will come from the state’s Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve (SOAR) Fund. The Michigan Legislature last week approved a $1 billion spending plan with $846 million going to the SOAR Fund [Emphasis added].

Ultimately, the state-run economic development agency would scheme to “attract” jobs to Michigan by way of a cash grab of hundreds of millions of dollars and a land grab of 523 acres for a company effectively operating as an arm of the CCP.

In fact, Messer told the Detroit News that the MSF was actively pursuing the business of the Chinese-linked company. In September, the Whitmer administration refused to disclose how much taxpayer money had been offered to lure Gotion to Michigan.

While Gotion will use the funds to build an electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant in Big Rapids, the company’s United States subsidiary was incorporated in California in 2014. But Gotion was actually founded in 2006 in Hefei, China, and was China’s first power battery company to enter the capital market. In China, the company appears to go by Guoxuan.

The company is headed by Li Zhen, a Chinese billionaire with deep ties to the CCP. Zhen is the second-largest shareholder of Gotion, behind only Volkswagen, according to Electrive, and is considered the company’s “de facto controller.” He was a member of the 13th, 14th, and 15th National People’s Conference Hefei Committee, a local affiliate of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

According to the Diplomat, “the CPPCC today is a key part of China’s ‘united front’ work, which is designed to liaise with non-Communist Party members — and ultimately see them work with the CCP to advance its interests.” Mao Tse Tung infamously called the United Front one of his “three magic weapons,” along with the Communist Party and Red Army, in quelling pro-democracy republican forces in the Chinese Civil War.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Try and name a Chinese company that isn't 'CCP affiliated'. No such critter.
Posted by: magpie || 10/10/2022 3:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Just when you thought that dimwit had been relative quiet lately.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/10/2022 3:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump mocks Biden at Nevada rally with two-minute WWE-style highlight reel of his gaffes - including a reminder that 'Jackie's dead' in a clip of the President calling out for GOP lawmaker who was killed in a car crash
  • Trump rallied supporters for GOP midterm candidates in Nevada on Saturday

  • He rolled out a video compilation of President Joe Biden's 'blooper reel'

  • It's set against the 1991 classic song 'Get Ready for This' by 2 Unlimited

  • Biden's late September gaffe about Rep. Walorski was played while words superimposed next to the president read: 'Pssst....Jackie's dead'

  • Walorski's brother told the South Bend Tribune that Biden apologized for it
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