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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Alex Marlow's ‘Breaking Biden: Antony Blinken Is the Patron Saint of the Military-Industrial Complex
I’m not one to advocate self promotion but this review from Breitbart has meat and may be of interest to some.
[Breitbart] Spend any significant time in Washington D.C. and you’ll learn that pretty much everything that is said about the Military-Industrial Complex—a term that was popularized by Dwight D. Eisenhower—is true, if not worse.

It is a truly national disgrace that the diplomats who are tasked with carrying out our foreign policy and those who allocate and distribute our war budget make millions of dollars from the defense industry itself.

As documented across multiple chapters of my new book, Breaking Biden: Exposing the Hidden Forces and Secret Money Machine Behind Joe Biden, His Family, and His Administration, there is no person in Joe Biden’s administration who is a bigger part of this swampiest part of D.C. than Secretary of State Tony Blinken.

SECRETARY OF BOEING
In 2018, Antony Blinken — then managing director of the Penn Biden Center, home of Joe’s infamous classified documents — co-founded WestExec Advisors, a boutique D.C. consultancy focused on “advising companies on geopolitical risk and emerging opportunities.”

Staffed largely by former Obama administration officials looking to turn their expertise into dollars, WestExec Advisors also served as a sort of “government-in-waiting” for the next Democratic administration.

When Joe Biden took office, they finally had their opportunity.

At least sixteen Biden administration officials have come from WestExec, including Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

WestExec employees — at least 16 of whom joined the Biden administration — disclosed clients including Boeing, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Blackstone, FedEx, AT&T, Discovery, Facebook, LinkedIn, Gilead Sciences, and Uber. Once they entered the Biden administration, they were supposed to provide oversight of these exact companies.

Tony Blinken’s own clients included companies such as Boeing, Microsoft, and AT&T. Blinken has attempted to recuse himself from foreign policy that relates to Boeing, but to completely disqualify himself from this part of his portfolio would leave him little left to do as secretary of state. Boeing’s products are crucial in diplomacy with China, Israel, the Middle East, and Ukraine. For example, the U.S. sent Ukraine GPS guided bombs in February 2023 made by… wait for it… Boeing! The company’s CEO later said he hoped Blinken’s 2023 visit to China would lead to more orders for planes.

BAGGING CASH FROM CHINA AND GOOGLE
The company’s work isn’t limited to typical defense industry buckraking either. On its website, WestExec claimed to help American universities seek funding and partnerships in Communist China; they scrambled to hide this fact in the months leading up to the 2020 election. Upon its founding, WestExec quickly partnered with Jigsaw, a branch of Google that “explores threats to open societies,” one of which is disinformation. Blinken helped execute the “Russian disinfo” hoax that got the Laptop from Hell censored before the 2020 election.

Have no doubt, this business has been lucrative for Blinken and his allies. Blinken initially valued his stake in WestExec at between $500,000 and $1 million, but upon taking office, he sold it back to the firm for between $1 million and $5 million — up to ten times its initial reported value. And that’s not counting the nearly $1.2 million he was paid by WestExec prior to taking office. Perhaps the original value estimate turned out to be a little off. Or perhaps the prospect of having its partners staff the incoming administration inflated WestExec’s value even further.

Blinken’s career has delivered serious value to his friends and corporate paymasters, but comparatively little to the American people.

As secretary of state, Antony Blinken has served up false promises and embarrassments, claiming during a June 2021 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing that there would be no urgent need to evacuate the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan: “We’re staying, our embassy’s staying . . . if there is a significant deterioration in security, I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.” But two months later, in mid-August, a “Friday-to-Monday” disaster is literally what happened when the Taliban violently and swiftly swept through Kabul over the course of a weekend, forcing a dramatic acceleration of embassy evacuations.
And more at the link.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:




Government Corruption
Then-VP Biden's office exchanged nearly 20,000 emails with Hunter Biden, Jim Biden and their businesses associates sparking MORE questions about the extent of the 'Big Guy's' involvement
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/11/2023 00:56 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They leveraged all the elements of the administration that they found useful and he wasn’t even president. Zero chance that Joe wasn’t involved and no chance Obama didn’t know it was happening.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/11/2023 12:14 Comments || Top||


Frank Biden Suggests He Was Hacked After Naked Selfie Surfaces on Porn Site
[BREITBART] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
’s younger brother, Frank Biden, said on Monday he was hacked after a naked selfie surfaced on a pornographic website.

"They must have hacked my phone," Frank Biden told the Daily Mail on Monday, confirming the image to be his. "I really don’t want to start my day off this way," he added. "Definitely didn’t post it anywhere."

The image, obtained by Breitbart News, was first unearthed by the nonprofit Marco Polo. It was posted to the site on May 23, 2018, according to the image’s watermark.

"I’ve absolutely no comment. I could [sic] care less. I haven’t even looked at it," Frank said. "What lengths will these cretins go to? Why do they care about a 70-year-old man."

"Guys With iPhones" apparently accepts images posted by users of the website. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
many images on the site are not posted by the individuals in the photos, the Daily Mail reported.

Frank Biden currently has a female partner, Mindy Ward, 64, who has two children. He divorced his first wife in the 1990s, with whom he had one daughter. He also has a second daughter with Judy Rodgers, who passed away last year.

Frank Biden works with Berman Law Group LLP in Florida and is a member of the Biden family business.
Posted by: Fred || 10/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Keeps it in his pocket so he can look at his little buddy during meetings and stuff.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/11/2023 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The best thing about AI: Soon all politicians will appear in ghey pr0n videos.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/11/2023 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Or, politicians can blame AI for getting caught on video.

and is a member of the Biden family business.

Obviously a digital business card.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/11/2023 13:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Republicans blast DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in new report criticizing 'coldly calculated' border policies as they eye potential impeachment
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/11/2023 01:47 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Do they plan to impeach him in September?
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/11/2023 12:15 Comments || Top||

#3  That open border and the number of terrorist caught crossing (and presumably many more not crossing) will be a massive issue in the next election.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/11/2023 18:49 Comments || Top||


Trump wonders how 'anybody who's Jewish' could vote for Dems
[NYPOST] Former President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
openly pondered Monday how Jewish Americans could back Democrats during a New Hampshire screed against President Biden’s foreign policy following this past weekend’s deadly terrorist attack against Israel.
I've often wondered about that myself.
"I can’t imagine how anybody who’s Jewish or anybody who loves Israel — and frankly, the evangelicals just love Israel — I can’t imagine anybody voting Democrat, let alone for this man," Trump said during remarks in Wolfeboro.
Looking at cities, which used to be centers of culture and commerce, I'm not sure about Blacks either.
During his speech, the 77-year-old claimed Biden, 80, had "betrayed Israel," citing the rampage by the Paleostinian terror group Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
that has killed at least 900 people in the Jewish state, including 11 Americans.
Having lived in European and Asian cities, in fact, it's incomprehensible.
"Less than four years ago, we had peace in the Middle East with the historic Abraham Accords. Today we have all-out war in Israel, and it’s going to spread very quickly," Trump predicted. "What a difference a president makes."
Joe's intent from day one was to tear down everything Trump had done.
The 45th president and 2024 Republican frontrunner vowed that he would "once again stand strongly" with Israel should he be elected to a second non-consecutive term.
Posted by: Fred || 10/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden is bad, but the real issues are within the bureaucracy. How many presidents promised to move the embassy and could not get it done due to resistance within their own administration.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/11/2023 12:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Jews voting for Dems... BLM riots comprised entirely of Whites... abortion saves lives... yeah it's a wonder.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/11/2023 13:59 Comments || Top||

#3  ...and wonders how anybody who is a 'devout' Catholic* could vote for baby killing Dems.

Maybe because they're social rather than truly religious people?

*and it appears the Pope is moving in that direction.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/11/2023 20:27 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm RC and I don't
Posted by: Frank G || 10/11/2023 21:22 Comments || Top||



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  Israeli Soldiers Find Dead Babies After Palestinian Hamas Attack
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