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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Milwaukee County DA admits it was a mistake to grant $1,000 bail to SUV-driving felon days before he smashed into Xmas parade: Darrell Brooks was freed after running over mother of his child and will now be charged with homicide after killing five
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, is the driver of the red Ford SUV that plowed through crowds on Sunday at the parade

  • Brooks was bailed out of jail on November 19 after posting a $1,000 cash bond on charges of battery, disorderly conduct, bail jumping and resisting an officer

  • The Milwaukee District Attorney admitted on Monday the bond was 'inappropriately low'

  • The charges relate to an incident on November 2 involving the mother of one of his children in Milwaukee

  • Brooks is said to have hunted her down in a hotel then followed her in the street in his car, demanding that she get in, before 'punching her with a closed fist' and then 'running her over'

  • Court records show he was charged on November 5, paid cash bond on the 11th but the records weren't updated until the 19th

  • On Sunday, he plowed through crowds at 4.39pm in his red Ford SUV, killing five people and injuring 48

  • The victims are all adults and their ages range from 52 to 81; they were named by police on Monday

  • Brooks Jr. was fleeing the scene of a domestic dispute which cops were on their way to


Milwaukee County Attorney John T Chisholm previously spoke of trying to reduce his county's prison population. He even let a progressive criminal justice nonprofit called Vera perform an 'audit' on his office.

Vera, which is based in New York, opposes cash bail, with the implementation of that measure partially-blamed for a crime spike in NYC. Milwaukee saw murders spike by 95 per cent between 2019 and 2020, with 2021 currently recording as many homicides as there were by the same stage of 2020.

Brooks lives some 20 miles away in Milwaukee in a suburban home where he films rap videos in the street.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2021 00:35 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2  Self-writing parody: Lorne Greene, The Old Chisholm Trail
Posted by: Whoque Elmelet9465 || 11/23/2021 1:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Wokeomania, the downside.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/23/2021 1:59 Comments || Top||


#5  Cause the Left doesn't recognize human free will. Thus all miscreants are 'victims' even though hundreds and thousand in the same situation choose not to do destructive and criminal acts.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/23/2021 8:14 Comments || Top||

#6  A Soros-backed prosecutor.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/23/2021 9:32 Comments || Top||

#7  $1,000 bond on a charge of "battery" for "running over his baby mama" ... thats called "attempted murder" in the rest of the US.

$1,000 bond for attempted murder and bail jumping...this goes beyond even deliberate indifference and is clearly criminal negligence o behalf of that DA...much like what those aggressive DA's charged the officers standing by in the Floyd incident.

I could make a criminal negligence case against the DA for intentionally setting a low bond or even any type of bond in that circumstance. A bond is set to ensure the accused will show for hearings/trial...which he did not...this is insanity. The DA took time to read those charges...make some type of deal...or through gross negligence release this obviously dangerous individual back on the streets to steal those victim's lives. They lost all that they are, were, or ever will be due to the negligence of that DA and the evil heart of that killer.

There has to be a way around qualified immunity to ensure the DA pays for his gross negligence.
Posted by: Tennessee || 11/23/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#8  There has to be a way around qualified immunity to ensure the DA pays for his gross negligence.

Don’t re-elect him. He’s not the type to do well in private industry.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/23/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ That's a good plan. It will work much better if criminals (and their relatives) don't get to vote and "outside money" is banished from the political equation. Unfortunately, I'd say neither improvement is anywhere in our immediate futures.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Silly me. I thought if you were charged with bail jumping, and then subsequently arrested, you were immediately thrown in jail.
I mean, if you didn't show up for a hearing previously, why would they think you would show up next time, and set bail at $1000?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/23/2021 10:37 Comments || Top||

#11  A mistake? It's like Alec Baldwin saying he didn't know the gun was loaded.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/23/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#12  If creatures like this one only killed their own kind, I'd still be dissatisfied about the malfunctioning system, but more willing to leave it up to others of his tribe to solve the problem as it relates to themselves.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||


#14  That gentleman might not want to venture his 'revolution' much out of the city where he lives, Skidmark.

Lots of 'Private Firepower' in the suburbs and countryside.

Surprised it was only a Police Officer who fired at the suspect after the ramming. Concealed-carry is becoming a thing in the Milwaukee suburbs.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/23/2021 11:21 Comments || Top||

#15  Yeah, but those evil, dangerous, Trump-supporting Jan. 6 guys are still in solitary confinement. Remember, it's the white supremacists who pose the threat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/23/2021 11:50 Comments || Top||

#16  Pretty certain that many of the people wearing MAGA hats are not Trumpsters. Some are ANTIFA and some are most likely agent provocateurs, Jan.6 needs an honest airing instead of this boondoggle created by Queen Nancy to support a left-wing anti-Trump narrative. The one guy in the article photo inside the House looks a lot like Ray Epps from Arizona.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/23/2021 13:04 Comments || Top||

#17  The "fleeing a knife fight" thing has been debunked. I wonder if the DA or media will bring up that he crossed the county line to go on his escapade.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 14:57 Comments || Top||

#18 
Concealed-carry is becoming a thing in the Milwaukee suburbs.

I suspect we may see Badgers open carrying AR-15s at all public gatherings in red Wisconsin in the near future, although probably not in Milwaukee County.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/23/2021 15:19 Comments || Top||

#19  The live stream of the brave justice warrior race terrorist is supposed to be here at 5 pm ET.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 16:50 Comments || Top||

#20  A mistake is putting Beanboozles in the Easter Candy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/23/2021 16:53 Comments || Top||

#21  Multiple counts first-degree intentional homicide. No "jus' a axedent while ah was fleein'" bullscrit.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 17:05 Comments || Top||

#22  They're reading his rap sheet now. This will take a while...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 17:06 Comments || Top||

#23  Multiple jurisdictions in multiple states took a pass on locking this creep up over the recent years.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 17:11 Comments || Top||

#24  First words out of the judge's mouth are discussion of bail. Really. YJCMTSU.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 17:19 Comments || Top||

#25  I'm watching the arraignment. I can't believe they are even considering giving him bail of any amount. $5 million cash was proposed. The suspect is a real and present danger to anyone within his reach, should he not be kept locked up. That would be a reasonable thing -- no bail.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/23/2021 17:20 Comments || Top||

#26  To the court commissioner's (judge's) credit, he's just following the law of the state of Wisconsin. He's going into some impassioned detail right now as to how he's appalled and has not in his 40 years with the court seen a case anything like this.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 17:32 Comments || Top||

#27  The filthy bastich was just led back to jail.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 17:33 Comments || Top||

#28  For bail, how about $1 million per each person killed or injured during the "incident". After all, the DOJ is about to pay out about $130 million to families connected to the Stoneman School massacre since the FBI did not do what it could have done to prevent it.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/23/2021 17:35 Comments || Top||

#29  A 6th death reported today.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/23/2021 18:32 Comments || Top||

#30  OK. Any over-under bets on when the GoFundMe for the turd starts and when it reaches $5 million without any interference from the company?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 18:44 Comments || Top||

#31  DA Chisholm has blood on his hands. It was entirely predictable that his deliberate policy would result in innocents being slaughtered.

"Guaranteed," you could say -- and Chisholm actually did say that years ago, in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

"Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody?" Chisholm said in a 2007 interview with the Journal Sentinel. "You bet. Guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/23/2021 22:01 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Workmen remove Thomas Jefferson statue from NYC City Hall after 187 years because workers complained America's slave-owning third president made them uncomfortable
It will be interesting to see what the new guy does about it once he’s sworn in.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The request for Jefferson's statue removal came from the Commission on Racial Justice and Reconciliation, led by outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife Charlene McCray, after black staff complained about the statue that honors a slave owner.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2021 07:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Over the years, that statue had taken on a frown...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/23/2021 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I read news like this and think "Surely we have reached Peak Insanity now." But there's always something else.
Posted by: Matt || 11/23/2021 13:39 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ aka "tomorrow"
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/23/2021 14:56 Comments || Top||

#4  I imagine those same workers have zero qualms about accepting $1 and $20 bills bearing images of other slave-owning US presidents.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/23/2021 15:14 Comments || Top||

#5  3 & 4 -- LOL

Oddly, there's very good video portrait of Jefferson by the very liberal Ken Burns. It hasn't been banned yet, but, as the lady said, tomorrow is another day.
Posted by: Matt || 11/23/2021 16:12 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Hickenlooper Probably Sold Too Soon
Trade Details
Date Ticker Type Amount Details

10/28/2021
CVX

Sale (Full)
$100,001 - $250,000
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 11/23/2021 08:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Keep in mind - Congress exempts itself from insider trading laws.
Posted by: Angstrom || 11/23/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||

#2  was about 114 per share on 10-28

closed today at 116

not really a big deal
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/23/2021 16:54 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Jeff Bezos donates $100MILLION to the Obama foundation and asks him to rename the plaza at his Chicago presidential center after late Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Amazon founder and owner of the Washington Post Jeff Bezos donated a whopping $100 million to the Obama Foundation, the largest ever to the charity.

As part of the gift, Bezos asked the plaza at the Obama Presidential Center be renamed John Lewis Plaza, after the late congressman and civil rights leader who spent decades fighting for voting rights.

Bezos, one of the world's richest men, has made a series of high-profile donations since stepping down as CEO of Amazon in July, in addition to self-funding his brief jaunt into space on his Blue Origin rocket. Last week, he pledged almost $100 million to groups working to end homelessness.

In September, standing alongside climate envoy John Kerry, Bezos pledged $1 billion from his coffers to fight climate change through the Bezos Earth Fund foundation.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2021 00:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is this going to be another Clinton Foundation?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/23/2021 13:19 Comments || Top||


Wall St Journal: Alejandro Mayorkas Blamed for Del Rio PR Disaster
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief reversed a short-lived enforcement policy in August shortly before roughly 30,000 Haitian migrants converged on the border crossing at Del Rio, Texas, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The November 18 report described how border chief Alejandro Mayorkas reversed the planned August enforcement against one group of Haitian migrants:

In August, as intelligence reports showed large groups of Haitian migrants in southern Mexico preparing to move north, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to deport about 600 Haitians who had recently crossed the border.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Economy
Slick move? Biden orders release of FIFTY MILLION barrels of oil from US reserves today in bid to lower prices at the pump - which have hit $4.84 a gallon in California
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2021 08:27 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  WTI has been below $80/barrel most of the past week or so.

Interestingly, the market expected a bigger release so the price of oil is actually up today (though still below $80/bar.

FYI, average daily consumption of oil products in the US is between 10M and 16M barrels.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/23/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  At ZH, (where no news is good news, ever) they are calling it a "rounding error."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Some math
a barrel of oil equals about 20 gallons of gas per barrel.
20 x 50 million = 1 Billion of eventul gas.

The USA uses about 340 million of gas a day.
Of 29 days of gas.

Or enough to us thru the holidays to help the stores.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/23/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||

#4  The 50 million number is a "coordinated release," so not all of it is from the US SPR, nor is all of it coming here. AFAIK, anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ I was wrong on the above. It is all coming from SPR.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Isn't half that price self-inflicted?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/23/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#7  NN2N1,
Actually you are off by a factor of 10. This release is 3 days worth of gas. So Zero Hedge is right, this really is a rounding error for gas prices.

Depending on how quickly they release it, and where, it might have a marginal effect on the Christmas shopping season.
Posted by: Angack B. Hayes6356 || 11/23/2021 12:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Thank you for fixing the math.
I was about to take my shoes off.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2021 13:35 Comments || Top||

#9  This sums it up...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||

#10  That's it exactly.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/23/2021 15:37 Comments || Top||

#11  /\ What am I missing? Oh.... WAIT !
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/23/2021 15:56 Comments || Top||

#12 
Some math

C'mon man! MAFF be hard. Go Brandon!
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/23/2021 18:34 Comments || Top||


Biden just praised GM for being the leader in electric cars then GM shutdown producing of Bolt for the year.
[CleanTechnica] If you own a Chevy Bolt that is affected by the battery recall due to the risk of fire, you’re in luck. General Motors started producing new battery cells in September to fix the manufacturing defect that led to about a dozen fires. GM says it will replace the entire battery pack in 2017, 2018, and 2019 cars, and some of the battery modules in 2020 and newer cars.

In September, GM released a statement saying, “GM and LG have identified the presence of two rare simultaneous defects, found in the same battery cell, made during module manufacturing process.” The company explained the cause is a torn anode tab and folded separator within the battery modules, as we reported earlier.

If you are looking to buy a new Chevy Bolt or EUV, you’re out of luck, however. Production was shut down at the Orion factory where the cars are manufactured starting the week of August 23. GM said at the time it would prioritize getting the newly manufactured modules and battery packs to dealers by October 1 so the task of replacing the defective batteries could begin.

Production restarted on November 1 but stopped again on November 15. The cars made during those two weeks were built as replacements for some of the cars in the hands of current Bolt owners, according to the Detroit News.

Last week, GM spokesman Dan Flores issued a statement saying, “GM has notified employees at Orion Assembly the plant will take downtime for the remainder of the 2021 calendar year. This decision will enable us to continue prioritizing recall repairs. We will continue to inform employees at the appropriate time of any additional production schedule adjustments in early 2022, as we continue to focus on battery module replacements.”

Also last week, Orion Plant Director Reuben Jones sent a note to employees that read, “Beyond 2021, our production schedule continues to be dictated by what is needed to help the customers affected by the recall, as opposed to filling orders for new vehicles.” Translation: “We aren’t building any new cars at Orion for the rest of this year and we’ll see about restarting production next year. Happy Holidays.”
Posted by: 3dc || 11/23/2021 03:15 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Musk tweeted this on the article:
Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Transforming America!
Posted by: 3dc || 11/23/2021 3:19 Comments || Top||

#2  and smile
Posted by: 3dc || 11/23/2021 3:29 Comments || Top||

#3 
Well at least hishandlers had him say something good about an american industry... GM is still US owned and not CCP right ?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/23/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Kash Patel connects the dots on Russia hoax


Former Pentagon chief of staff Kash Patel weighs in on Durham investigation latest.
Kash is one sharp cookie
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Excellent piece of investigative work by Patel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/23/2021 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Former Pentagon chief of staff Kash Patel weighs in on Durham investigation latest.

Will it make any difference? Is the Russian collusion hoax too big for Durham to handle? Nunes expressed some doubts on 8/10/21. So far, things are very slow going. None of the big fish have been reeled in who cooked up this mess for the nation.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/23/2021 13:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Sen. Blackburn says as many as 6 Senate Democrats waffling on massive social spending bill
[Just The News] With President Joe Biden's massive social spending bill facing an uncertain future in the U.S. Senate, most media attention has focused on two skeptical Democrats, Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

But a prominent Republican says she senses more Democrats in the chamber who are facing tight 2022 reelection races are considering bolting from their party's $1.75 trillion signature Build Back Better legislation, which passed the House last week on a party line vote.

"Not only is it Manchin, but you've got about five or six others in the Senate that are looking at their races, they're down in the polls, or they're tied up in the polls," Sen. Marsha Blackburn told Just the News on Monday. "And the Republican ballot is up. Joe Biden, his popularity is just unbelievably low. I mean, whoever thought he would be lower than Jimmy Carter.

"It is harder every day for Democrats to support this abysmal bill," she said during an interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast. "And some of these House members who finally came around and voted for it. They might as well start cleaning their office out and heading home, give somebody their proxy to vote. They will not be reelected."

Blackburn suggested Democratic support is weakening as the CBO found the legislation will add significantly to the U.S. debt. Americans realize those costs will be passed on to them, and fears grow that a massive injection of federal spending will only worsen persistent inflation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/23/2021 07:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We know two.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/23/2021 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  From your lips to God's ears Senator Blackburn. The Build Back Bankruptcy program will enslave the current and future generations of Americans. There may be no digging out of the hole created by these Democrats and a few Republicans.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/23/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||


The Disturbing And Shocking Plan To Replace Kamala Harris
BLUF:
[American Thinker] Two names were mulled over. They see Pete Buttigieg as a malleable young figurehead, figurehead being the operative word. The movers and shakers wanted someone in the Oval Office, like Biden, who will do their bidding over policies and budgets. However, Buttigieg is too much of a lightweight. He just proved himself to be a failure as Transport Secretary. He spent over two months at home feeding the baby as hundreds of freighters and tankers were unable to offload their cargo because thousands of truck drivers went missing.

The other name that is a constant is Hillary Clinton. This is probably due to Hillary Clinton constantly pushing herself for the job. The problem with Hillary Clinton is that, although they consider she’d be a capable vice president, would she be able to beat Donald Trump in 2024 should The Donald decide to take his title back? The answer is no.

The answer is clear, the problem is solved, according to my source, by selecting Michelle Obama. Money, the machinery of power, the media will be behind her.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/23/2021 06:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One problem: Kamala isn't going willingly. She wants the #1 job for herself.
Posted by: Jomosh Unolusing3028 || 11/23/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, HELL NO!
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2021 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Possible? Sure. More importantly, to me, it highlights how few possibilities they have for 2024.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/23/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Interesting isn't it. They realize that they f*d up in selecting her but none of their other decisions.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/23/2021 8:08 Comments || Top||

#5  And I was predicting it was a plan to get Hildabeast into the White House. I guess I'm just a pollyana.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/23/2021 8:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Moochelle as VP seems to be speculation or wishful thinking. Watching her career (as it were) she suffers from the same thing as Barack - she's allergic to real work. Plus - she's never held elected office, so I don't see it happening.
Posted by: Raj || 11/23/2021 9:28 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ Excellent! Work and effort involved. Certainly is a potential disqualifier.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/23/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Someone of her caliber... perhaps a Fleshlight?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/23/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||

#9  HJAHAHA!!! Imagine the riots if they move her out. Every black neighborhood will burn. And the second question is how will they get her out? What is the constitutional process?
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/23/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#10  Hollywood Hulk Hogan would never have happened, if Hulk Hogan wasn't willing to play the part.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/23/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||

#11  They have trashed the world and the Democrat party enough that Michelle Obama might actually be their best option in 2024.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/23/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

#12  It's not a concern if Big Mike never did a lick of work in her life as long as she can read from a teleprompter.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/23/2021 12:19 Comments || Top||

#13  The plan to install Obama 4.0 trial balloon is floated. Pelosi is preparing to bail, and the massive House of Representatives tsunami is apparent even to the morons at the DNC, with the Senate not a better than even bet to go red.

So, if you want to dump Kamala, act now to use every bit of PR leverage and insider information you have to make the Cackle-Jackal recognize she would never be elected President, and would not be on the ticket if JoJo can be propped up for another year or so. Then, offer her the sweet ride of a lifetime as a Supreme Court Justice, no work involved, propped up by smart clerks like Kagan and Sotomayor. Add the special backdoor benefit of the Pelosi spousal retirement plan of lifetime investment access to insider info, and poof...she willingly leaves the job open for Big Mike. But they have to act now to get the ball rolling. Look for even greater disasters for the VP in the weeks to come...its an uphill plan, but its backed by the current powers that control the WH.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/23/2021 12:38 Comments || Top||

#14  Kamala isn't going willingly.
There is always the chance of an Epstein or Foster departure...
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/23/2021 13:23 Comments || Top||

#15  Maybe Big Mike. I don't get that feeling. However, the thought of Hilda as Veep invokes images of Ft. Marcy Park for the Big Guy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/23/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||



John Kerry Softens U.S. Stance on Uyghur Slave Labor from Which He Financially Benefits
[Breitbart] Biden administration climate czar John Kerry is drawing scrutiny from Republicans for downplaying and trying to derail legislation against China’s use of Uyghur forced labor, from which Kerry and his wife seem to benefit financially.

The Biden administration is officially against China’s use of forced labor from its Uyghur minority population, which Chinese companies are suspected of using in the manufacturing of solar panel parts. President Joe Biden as a candidate and president has called China’s treatment of the Uyghurs a “genocide” and compared it to the Holocaust.

However, when a reporter asked Kerry at the recent COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference how he has addressed with Chinese officials the issue of Uyghur slave labor being used to build solar panels in China, he responded, “That’s not my lane here. … My job is to be the climate guy, and stay focused on trying to move the climate agenda forward.”

The comment raised eyebrows in Washington, given Kerry’s past role of promoting human rights as secretary of state during the Obama administration and given the administration’s official stance.

Republicans say Kerry has also been lobbying against bipartisan legislation that would ban the import of any Chinese goods made with Uyghur slave labor from entering the United States, including solar panels.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who introduced the legislation in the Senate, wrote in an op-ed last month, “Kerry has been working against my legislation, and has convinced President Joe Biden to stay silent on the bill.”

“What we’ve heard from various folks is that the administration does not want it to pass because it makes things much more difficult to meet their climate objectives,” a senior Senate aide told Breitbart News.

“Those companies have to prove there’s no slave labor in their supply chain, it’s a very difficult thing to do, the solar industry in particular. So we’ve heard that John Kerry is forcefully behind that and potentially some others.”

The Uyghur Forced Labor Act would go further than steps the Biden administration took during the summer to sanction some Chinese companies and entities accused of using Uyghur slave labor.

The legislation easily passed in the Senate on a bipartisan voice vote in July but has been held up in the House under the alleged pressure from Kerry.

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