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  • Bret Baier: Why Did You Fund Iran? Kamala: ‘Let’s Go Back to Donald Trump’

    10/16/2024 6:08:18 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 78 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/16/2024 | Joel B Pollack
    Vice President Kamala Harris refused to answer a question from Fox News’ Bret Baier about why the Biden-Harris administration allowed Iran to access billions of dollars, deflecting instead to familiar criticisms of Donald Trump. Harris sat for a contentious 27-minute interview on Special Report during which the Democratic nominee often evaded questions or tried to shift the focus to her opponent. Her answer on foreign policy was no different. Given Harris’s claim that Iran (and not China) was America’s greatest enemy, Baier asked her, why had she and Biden “relaxed or failed to enforce sanctions on Iran, allowing all of...
  • Schakowsky Introduces Bill to Fund Terror-linked UNRWA; J Street Supports

    09/27/2024 12:23:14 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 4 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/27/2024 | Joel B. Pollak
    Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and other “progressive” Democrats have introduced legislation to restore U.S. funding to the terror-linked United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) despite the fact that several of its employees participated in the Hamas terror attack against Israel on October 7. The legislation, called the “UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act of 2024,” is almost certain to fail, meaning it is only a symbolic gesture, but a bizarre one. Then-President Donald Trump cut funding to UNRWA in 2018 amid concerns that it encourages conflict, because it indoctrinates Palestinian children to hate Israel and Jews, and perpetuates the idea...
  • Gavin Newsom Wants to Raid California’s ‘Rainy Day’ Fund to Help Fill $38 Billion Deficit

    01/11/2024 9:30:32 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/11/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is proposing to dip into the state’s “rainy day” fund to help fill the hole that is the state’s $38 billion deficit — a stunning shortfall, given a surplus of nearly $100 billion that the Golden State had enjoyed just a year before. As Breitbart News has noted, California received shocking news at the end of 2022 when a $98 billion surplus, partly fueled by President Joe Biden’s “rescue” plan, collapsed into a $25 billion deficit. Later projections predicted an even larger deficit.
  • Vanguard invests in Chinese military-linked companies: report

    10/15/2023 5:12:02 PM PDT · by george76 · 17 replies
    Nikkei ^ | October 13, 2023 | ECHO WONG and KENJI KAWASE,
    Index providers, Western managers face growing pressure over Chinese investments.. The report by the Coalition for a Prosperous America said a Vanguard fund has put money into companies sanctioned by the U.S. government over alleged human rights abuses.. HONG KONG -- Top index fund manager Vanguard has invested in scores of Chinese companies that have links to the nation's military or have been sanctioned by the U.S. government over alleged human rights abuses, according to research by a bipartisan U.S. group. The $98.7 billion Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets exchange-traded fund has invested in the subsidiaries of 60 companies that are...
  • 371 charged with stealing $836M in COVID funds – including gang members who paid for murder: DOJ

    08/24/2023 5:06:00 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    NY Post ^ | 08/23/2023 | Allie Griffin
    A staggering 371 Americans have been charged with stealing roughly $836 million in COVID relief funds — including gang members who used the money to hire hitmen, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The charges were the result of a three-month-long joint investigation conducted by law enforcement agencies across the nation from May through July, according to the DOJ. The department has focused on “bringing to justice those who stole from American businesses and families at a time of national emergency,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said. Sixty-three of those facing charges include gang members and defendants with connections to violent...
  • Leopard Beer - by the House of Olaf

    02/05/2023 7:53:40 PM PST · by linMcHlp · 6 replies
    House of Olaf in Savonlinna, Eastern Finland ^ | February 5, 2023 | House of Olaf
    6-pack: Box contains cans of "Leopard Beer". https://olaf.fi/collections/frontpage/products/olaf-leopard-beer-sixpack-coming-soon
  • Joe Biden Asks Congress for $ Billions More to Fund His Catch-and-Release Network

    09/11/2022 7:01:15 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/10/2022 | Neil Munro
    The White House is asking Congress for another $5 billion to bus, fly, and house the southern flood of economic migrants into Americans’ workplaces and housing. Any additional funding will accelerate the federal “cheap labor distribution [network] that too many politicians in Washington are willing to participate in,” said John Feere, a former homeland security official. He now works for the Center for Immigration Studies.
  • Millionaire Mitch McConnell: ‘Interesting Idea’ for Chair Rick Scott to Fund NRSC with Personal Money

    09/08/2022 11:10:20 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/08/2022 | WENDELL HUSEBØ
    It is an “interesting idea” for Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) to fund the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) with his personal funds, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — who is himself a millionaire — told Punchbowl News Thursday. McConnell, whose net worth was estimated in 2018 to be $34,137,534, has been taking aim at Scott, who chairs the NRSC, for the way in which Scott is planning to defeat Senate Democrats in November. Scott has publicly described the minority leader’s criticisms as a “strategic disagreement.” But when McConnell’s allies have taken to writing articles condemning Scott’s leadership, the NRSC chairman called...
  • Big Green’s untold billions

    05/21/2014 6:01:03 AM PDT · by Mozilla · 3 replies
    Cfact.org ^ | May 14 2014 | Ron Arnold
    The “Kill Keystone XL” crowd isn’t little David up against a Big Oil Goliath. As usual, conventional wisdom isn’t wisdom when the mainstream media ask all the wrong questions with commensurate answers. Behemoth Big Green outstrips Big Oil in expendable revenue by orders of magnitude — if you know how to follow the money. The mainstream media don’t know how. Like most liberals, their staffs are afflicted with what 20th century futurist Herman Kahn called “Educated Incapacity” — the learned inability to understand or even perceive a problem, much less a solution. They’ve been taught to be blind, unable to...
  • Sunak pledges crackdown on Islamist extremism

    08/03/2022 12:33:48 PM PDT · by Jyotishi · 12 replies
    The Pioneer ^ | Thursday, August 4, 2022 | PTI
    London -- British-Indian prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak on Wednesday pledged a crackdown on Islamist extremism, the UK's most “significant terror threat”, with a widened government definition of extremism and strengthening existing terrorism legislation. The 42-year-old former Chancellor, who is seen closing the gap with opponent Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in the race to 10 Downing Street, also vowed to weed out organisations that promote extremism in the UK and refocus the “failing”. Prevent programme, a government tool intended to tackle Islamist extremism. “There is no more important duty for a Prime Minister than keeping our country and our people...
  • Swiss billionaire behind Dem ‘dark money’ donations despite not being US citizen

    08/01/2022 4:53:51 PM PDT · by george76 · 28 replies
    NY Post ^ | May 26, 2022 | Isabel Vincent
    Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss citizen, has contributed millions to nonprofits that have benefited Democratic causes. Insiders say he will ramp it up leading to the November midterm elections.. A Swiss octogenarian billionaire has donated tens of millions of dollars to Democratic politicians and progressive causes in “dark money” contributions — and Hansjörg Wyss is likely funneling millions more to influence midterm elections in November, One Virginia-based think tank estimates that, since 2016, nonprofits linked to Wyss have funneled more than $253 million to Democratic candidates and related causes, such as voter registration initiatives that benefit the party and ... through...
  • Consumers’ Research Warns US Governors About BlackRock’s Retirement Fund Investments in China

    12/05/2021 5:48:14 AM PST · by Twotone · 11 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | December 4, 2021 | Bryan Jung
    Consumers’ Research, the nation’s oldest consumer advocacy organization, sent a Dec. 2 letter (pdf) to ten U.S. governors warning them about the reliance of their states’ pension funds on BlackRock’s strong ties to China. BlackRock, under its CEO Larry Fink, is the first foreign-owned company to receive a license to operate in China’s $3.5 trillion mutual fund industry, Forbes reported. Consumers’ Research executive director William Hild sent the warning to the governors of Washington, Florida, New York, Nevada, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Montana, Nebraska, and West Virginia—the ten states with the most investments in BlackRock. Washington has invested the most...
  • Social Security trust fund reserves estimated to be depleted earlier than expected

    08/31/2021 1:20:01 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 57 replies
    The Hill ^ | 08/31/2021 | NAOMI JAGODA
    The Social Security trust fund for retirement and survivors benefits is estimated to have its reserves depleted in 2033, one year earlier than previously projected, according to the trustees’ report released Tuesday. At the time of depletion, income flowing to the trust fund would be enough to pay 76 percent of scheduled benefits, the report said. Senior administration officials said on a call with reporters that the earlier projected depletion date was due to the coronavirus-related economic downturn, particularly a near-term decline in revenue.
  • Palestinian Government Pays $42,000 to Family of Terrorist Who Killed Israelis Biden admin restarts taxpayer aid to the Palestinians as they fund terrorists

    06/07/2021 11:41:58 PM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 7 replies
    freebeacon ^ | June 7, 2021 | Adam Kredo
    Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas authorized the payment on Sunday of $42,000 to the family of a terrorist who killed two Israelis through a policy that incentivizes and rewards terrorism against Israel. Laila Ghannam, governor of Ramallah’s Al-Bireh district, personally handed the money to the family of Muhannad Al-Halabi, a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group . Al-Halabi fatally stabbed two Israeli civilians in 2015 before being shot by police. The $42,000 payment was given to Al-Halabi’s parents "on behalf of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas ," according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which tracks regional media...
  • New Conservative Investment Fund ‘Boycotts’ Companies With Liberal Agendas

    11/12/2020 3:51:55 AM PST · by gattaca · 14 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | November 11, 2020 | EMEL AKAN
    WASHINGTON—An investment management firm has created a new fund that invests in companies supporting conservative beliefs and values. Founded by Ridgeline Research LLC, a Washington-based investment adviser, the exchange-traded fund (ETF) is actively managed and seeks to avoid ownership of companies that back progressive and liberal political causes. The fund, called American Conservative Values ETF, debuted on Oct. 29 with a focus on large-capitalization U.S. stocks. The fund, which refuses to invest in liberal media, also boycotts companies that are hostile to conservative values and disproportionately contribute to liberal causes, campaigns, candidates, political action committees, charities, and think tanks. Bill...
  • BU radio station cancels benefit concert for Mass Bail Fund after rapist bailed out (Boston Univ.)

    08/07/2020 5:49:02 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 11 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | August 7, 2020 | SEAN PHILIP COTTER
    Boston University’s student radio station has canceled a planned benefit concert for the Mass Bail Fund after the fund has come under heavy criticism for bailing out a convicted rapist who’s now charged with striking again. The student-run BU station WTBU said in a statement Friday afternoon, “Due to recent news about the Massachusetts Bail Fund helping to release defendants with serious charges, we have decided to cancel today’s concert. We apologize for our ignorance about the Mass Bail Fund and for triggering any trauma while recently supporting the fund.”
  • Epstein’s estate lawyers seek rush ruling on victims fund

    12/05/2019 10:55:35 AM PST · by Libloather · 9 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/04/19 | Priscilla DeGregory
    With lawsuits piling up against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, his lawyers asked a judge Wednesday to hasten approval of a victim-compensation fund, according to new court papers. The program was proposed last month, in order to facilitate settling claims with victims who say they were sexually abused by the dead pedophile, and the estate’s lawyers asked for an “expedited approval” at the time. The hope was to have the program up and accepting claims within 90 days, the lawyers said at the time. Wednesday, the lawyers gave the judge another nudge, asking that their Nov. 14 motion be ruled on right...
  • Question regarding border wall funding

    02/07/2019 5:02:41 PM PST · by Wheelman81 · 4 replies
    2/7/19 | self
    Within the last week I read an article about a fund (on the order of over $1 trillion) that the President can access to build the border wall, without the approval of Congress. I'm pretty sure it was here (as opposed to Drudge, which is my other "go to" page), but now I can't find it. I'm kicking myself for not having bookmarked or printed the article. It is NOT the 2/1 National Sentinel article that talks about Title 10, Section 284 of the US code, which grants authority to the Pentagon for support of counter-drug operations. Does this ring...
  • Mugging Taxpayers in the Swamp

    01/05/2019 1:25:35 AM PST · by vannrox · 10 replies
    townhall ^ | Dec 29, 2018 12:01 AM | Peter Ferrara
    The big dollar muggings in Washington these days are not done with pistols. The sophisticated weapons of choice are “sole source contracting,” lobbyists, and insiders. And the victims are not tourists, but taxpayers. Large multinationals game the system using the revolving door between government and the private sector, with the help of aggressive lobbying. There are so many examples, but one is the fourth largest privately- owned company in the United States, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, which originated as one of the biggest accounting companies in America. Today they are masters of the D.C. contracting game with sole source contracting....
  • My trust fund made me miserable

    08/16/2018 5:48:40 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 85 replies
    nypost ^ | 08/15/2018 | Hannan Sparks
    Over the past six years, Lane Fury has collected more than $185,000 in family money. Eventually, Fury stands to inherit roughly $6 million, but the 27-year-old doesn’t see this good fortune as a positive thing. “I don’t actually want it,” says Fury. “There is this sense of shame or embarrassment, like maybe some of the problems in the world are my fault, so I shouldn’t really be open about [my wealth].” While many people struggle to pay the bills and make ends meet, those lucky enough to have family money say they have problems of their own. Fury says having...