Tony Podesta Hired By Huawei To 'Warm Relations With Biden Administration'

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...biden-administration

Chinese telecom giant Huawei is hiring Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta to try and 'warm relations with the Biden administration,' according to Politico which cites two people familiar with the matter.

Podesta will work to advance a variety of the company’s goals in Washington, according to one of the people. He declined to comment. A spokesperson for Huawei also declined to comment.

Huawei faces a host of challenges in Washington. In February 2020, the Justice Department charged the company with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO — a key DOJ tool for going after organized crime. DOJ alleged that Huawei helped Iran’s authoritarian government build out its domestic surveillance capabilities and tried to secretly do business in North Korea. The Justice Department has also brought charges against the company’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou. She was arrested in Canada, where she is fighting extradition to the U.S. Huawei and Meng maintain their innocence. Huawei has said the accusations are an effort to “irrevocably damage” its reputation and business, as CNBC has reported.

Podesta, the art-collecting, red-shoe wearing, K-street lobbyist whose firm self-destructed after he became a target in the Mueller probe, was reportedly offered immunity to testify against former partner Paul Manafort.

Manafort and Podesta both made millions together as unregistered agents on a pro-Russia project in Ukraine. While Podesta had the uncanny foresight to retroactively file as a foreign agent in April 2017, Manafort did not, and was subsequently found guilty of tax fraud, failing to disclose foreign bank accounts, and bank fraud.

One week after Mueller announced he was targeting Manafort and an unnamed "Company B" in October, Podesta resigned from his position as chairman of the Podesta Group, which he co-founded with his brother Tony in 1988.

As we noted in 2018, Manafort and Podesta worked with the Pro-Russia European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU), a Brussels based think tank tied to former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych which was pushing for Ukraine's entry into the European Union. Manafort oversaw the ECMU project, on which the Podesta Group made some $1.2 million, Manafort's firm also earned $17 million between 2012 - 2014 consulting for Yanukovychs centrist, pro-Russia Party of Regions. Yanukovych fled from Ukraine to Russia after he was unseated in a 2014 coup.

The Podesta Group received more than $1.2 million from the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine for its work from 2012 to 2014, according to the new disclosures. The Podesta Groups work included meetings with State Department officials Tom Nides and Jake Sullivan and staffers of Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), as well as contacting congressional staff, reporters and think tank researchers. -Politico

As Mueller began to close in on Paul Manafort, Podesta Group clients became spooked.

Before dawn on Monday Oct. 23, 2017, NBC News reported that Mr. Mueller was preparing to indict Mr. Manafort and implicate Mr. Podesta regarding the Ukraine work. The phones started ringing: Clients wanted to know what was going on. The firms bank wanted to discuss its account.

The following night, Mr. Podesta threw himself a birthday party, serving hundreds of guests pizza from a brick-oven stove in his backyard in Kalorama. -WSJ

Podesta's problems began long before Mueller's probe grazed his orbit. During the summer of 2016, SunTrust bank severed ties with the Podesta Group over their work for a U.S. subsidiary of a sanctioned Russian bank - presumably Russias Kremlin-owned Sberbank - which paid the Podesta group $170,000 over a 6 month period through September 2016 to lobby against economic sanctions handed down by the Obama administration over the 2014 annexation of Crimea.

SunTrust Banks Inc. sought to sever ties with the firm over the sanctioned Russian bank. The Podesta Groups chief executive sent an exasperated email to a colleague. Tony thinks these types of clients have no repercussions on the firm, she said, but this should really provide evidence that we have to take the clients we bring on seriously.

Following Mrs. Clintons defeat that November, the Podesta Group cut bonuses and commissions. -WSJ

Fast forward to October, 2017 - just one day after US prosecutors announced the indictments of Manafort and Gates, "an official with the firm's new bank, Chain Bridge Bank, demanded $655,000 in cash or collateral within 24 hours - or it would cut the firm's credit line."

Mr. Trump, who occasionally pointed an unwelcome spotlight on the firm, tweeted that day: The biggest story yesterday, the one that has the Dems in a dither, is Podesta running from his firm. -WSJ

Finally, in April of this 2018, the Podesta Group shuttered its doors in what the Wall Street Journal described as a "calamitous collapse":

Then he fell, a calamitous collapse propelled by unexpected blows, delivered by fate and made worse by hubris. Financial problems, legal threats and the election of President Donald Trump took it all awaythe clients, the firm and, finally, Mr. Podestas position as one of Washingtons most influential players. -WSJ

Last but not least; in October 2017 a "long time" former Podesta Group executive with "direct personal knowledge" of the operation divulged several other aspects of life inside Tony Podesta's lobbying machine to Tucker Carlson, after he says he was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller. Perhaps he felt his testimony would end up on the cutting room floor, which detailed potential money laundering through Tony's art collection, Clinton Foundation links to Uranium One, and claims that the Russians were trying to establish inroads to the Obama White House through the Podestas.

According to the Politico report, "Podesta is expected to soon pick up more clients. He has known President Joe Biden for decades and is friendly with a number of his advisers. Podesta also lives down the street from former President Barack Obama in the glitzy D.C. neighborhood of Kalorama. His brother John was a counselor for Obama as well as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton."

Let's see if the ol' Podesta magic can help Huawei worm its way into the Biden administration's good graces.

Q to biden: Are there people in the Democratic Party who want to defund the police ?

biden response: "Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?"


video at link:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1418576362349207555

Vampirism would explain more than a few things about the Democrat party.

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Q to biden: Are there people in the Democratic Party who want to defund the police ?

biden response: "Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?"


video at link:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1418576362349207555

Oh yeah, his brain's working at 100% efficiency. This guy is totally gone at this point. Light is barely flickering but no one is home.

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biden response: "Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?"

Sounds like a guy who's guilty of sucking the blood out of kids.

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biden response: "Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?"

Demoncraptic Party Leaders: "Oh shit, Uncle Joe revealed our blood harvesting plan, we need to quickly move it. Call "Bela" Pelosi and tell her that this weeks blood will be late."

Was this one of his usual nonsensical, non sequitur remarks, or is there some vague basis for it?

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is there some vague basis for it?

He may have used it as in "Does the bear live in the woods ?"

Asking if the REPs think they are sucking blood out of kids, and expecting that reply to be "No", would emphasize his answer is No too.

The trick here is, there are absolutely "people in the Democrat Party who want to defund the police"

He couldn't answer the question honestly

example:

Missouri Democrat Rep. Cori Bush's campaign paid a handful of entities for security services totaling more than $98,000 from January through June despite her frequent statements advocating for police budgets to be slashed.

"It’s not a slogan. It’s a mandate for keeping our people alive. Defund the police," she has said while knowing her own safety will not be jeopardized as a result. Meanwhile, her community deals with the highest murder rate in 50 years.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...r-this-year-n2592820

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Originally posted by sdy:
Q to biden: Are there people in the Democratic Party who want to defund the police ?

biden response: "Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?"

Blood? No. Brains? Definitely.

video at link from Australia about Biden in the CNN TownHall

https://twitter.com/rising_ser.../1418966739086360578

more biden stumbling and rambling

"If your kid wanted to find out if there is a man on the moon ...."

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Was this one of his usual nonsensical, non sequitur remarks, or is there some vague basis for it?

I think most everything that comes out of his mouth that was not scripted, is word salad. Like someone said "He can't find his was home after dark".

I find his constant eye blinking and other nonverbal behaviors quite annoying. He holds out both of arms while speaking from the podium as if he is a TV preacher in an impoverished area. His speech does not yet qualify as word salad or gibberish, but he is working on it. His aphasia appears worse as is his tangential thinking.

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“Everyone will be vetted” means “we have to know they have got the cash” and “Manhattan District Attorney has agreed to look the other way because it’s not Trump”

For me, "everyone will be vetted" means they made "deposits" already.

From NYT.

https://www.breitbart.com/econ...mazon-and-uber-gigs/

NYT Compares Biden’s Promised ‘Green Jobs’ to ‘Grueling’ Low-Wage Amazon and Uber Gigs

Now they tell us. That is, now they are telling us that “green jobs” won’t be such good jobs after all.

We get this blunt assessment from the New York Times

just last year the presidential campaign of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris pledged:

"Our response to climate change can create more than 10 million well-paying jobs in the United States that will grow a stronger, more inclusive middle class enjoyed by communities across the country, not just in cities along the coasts."

But what, according to the Times, is the real deal about the Green New Deal? On July 16, under the headline, “Building Solar Farms May Not Build the Middle Class,” a news article delivered the bad news about good jobs:

"On its current trajectory, the green economy is shaping up to look less like the industrial workplace that lifted workers into the middle class in the 20th century than something more akin to an Amazon warehouse or a fleet of Uber drivers: grueling work schedules, few unions, middling wages and limited benefits."

We might pause over some of those words: “Amazon warehouses…Uber drivers.” Not quite the stuff of the American Dream. You know, the American Dream that powered the upward rate of homeownership in the middle of the last century, from 43 percent in 1940 to 64 percent in 1970.

Yet today, working Americans—the folks who once might have looked forward to middle-class-making blue- and white-collar jobs in factories—are confronting a bitter reality. As the Times story continued, “There’s a nagging concern among worker advocates that the shift to green jobs may reinforce inequality rather than alleviate it.”

To be sure, the news isn’t so bad for Times readers themselves because few, if any, of them are looking for regular work in factories. Instead, Times readership tends to be wealthy and white collar. As the liberal New Republic noted two years ago, the median income for Times subscribers is $191,000

Now we can ask: Why the wide gap between the good-jobs promise and the looming bad-jobs destiny? The Times points to f’rinstance: In the past, electricity came from utility plants, typically fired by coal, oil, or gas. These plants were locally constructed, using local companies and local labor—including, of course, lots of skilled labor.

By contrast, the Biden administration wants more power to comes from solar, which means solar panels—80 percent of which are made in China. (The U.S.-made share of the world market for panels is in the low single digits).

So we can see: If we rush to install solar panels in the U.S., they will have to come from overseas, most likely China . Which is to say, the jobs for Americans will be as low-value-added solar-panel installers, not high-value-added solar-panel manufacturers.

To get a better sense of the impact of tech (and related finance) companies on the job market, we might consider findings from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, showing the long-term decline of wages as a percentage of national income, from 51.6 percent in 1970 to 43.4 percent in 2019—that being the latest year for which data are available. To put those numbers another way, over the last half-century, the share of national income going to wages fell by 15.9 percent.

Yes, that’s right: Working Americans of all classes have seen their share of the national wealth fall by almost a sixth. And now, if the Times is to be believed, that skid could continue.

more at link

I like Sky News and listen to it regularly. Why do I have to go to the other side of this fucking planet for unbiased current events?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmINVi5BKuk

^^^ If you haven't realized it yet, the Democrats don't give a shit about the environment. What they are doing is engaging in economic and class warfare against the middle class and red states. They have already decimated manufacturing and the coal industry, and now they are after the petroleum industry once again. Illegal immigration has killed construction wages. Oh, and agriculture is next - "no you can't raise cattle anymore, it's too inefficient and cow farts cause global warming".

Kill manufacturing, kill coal, kill oil, kill natural gas, kill ranching = kill the red states and republican base. Put them all in poverty and get them on the dole. And the WuFlu conveniently helped them kill small businesses along the way.

With no Republican voters, they will get the single party rule they want so badly.

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I doubt if this guy can find the winky window in his underwear.

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Who is pulling the strings?

This is a globalist effort. What is happening here is exactly what we saw happening in western Europe over the last several years. We are being flooded with non-Americans from all over the globe. Not only are central and south Americans pouring in, but we are getting them from asia, the ME, and northern Africa. This is not a mistake or a, accident from the democRATs; this is a globalist attack on our sovereignty and national identity.

One thing is for certain - this isn't going to fix itself.

“My butt’s been wiped” - Joe Biden 25 July 2021
At least that’s what it sounds like.

President Joe Biden took one question from reporters when he returned to the White House this afternoon after *another* weekend in Delaware but we have no idea WTF he said at the start of the exchange.

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