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 Federal Retirement Funds Invest 
in Sanctioned China
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Arnold Ahlert  
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Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff: 
Whistleblower Has Agreed To Testify
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by SHELBY TALCOTT
{ dailycaller.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff announced Sunday that the whistleblower who filed a complaint regarding President Donald Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president has agreed to testify before the committee... adding that it will likely happen “very soon.”  A  whistleblower complaint filed in August accused Trump of pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to dig up dirt on former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter loose lips liar-Biden, during a July 25 phone call. Following the news, the House of Representatives opened up an impeachment inquiry into Trump. scumbag-Schiff said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that the whistleblower will likely testify “very soon,” confirming that an agreement has been reached. How soon the whistleblower can testify depends on how quickly Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire clears “the security clearance process” for the whistleblower’s lawyers, scumbag-Schiff said. Maguire testified Thursday in front of the House Intelligence Committee.“And, as Director Maguire promised during the hearing, that whistleblower will be allowed to come in and come in without a ‘minder’ from the Justice Department or from the White House to tell the whistleblower what they can and cannot say,” scumbag-Schiff said. “We will get the unfiltered testimony of that whistleblower.” scumbag-Schiff added that they will be taking precautions to ensure that the whistleblower can provide full testimony while keeping his identity a secret... Will he testify under oath.
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Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement
Of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge 
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By Sean Davis 
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Between May 2018 and August 2019, the intelligence community secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide direct, first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings... This raises questions about the intelligence community’s behavior regarding the August submission of a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump. The new complaint document no longer requires potential whistleblowers who wish to have their concerns expedited to Congress to have direct, first-hand knowledge of the alleged wrongdoing that they are reporting. The brand new version of the whistleblower complaint form, which was not made public until after the transcript of Trump’s July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the complaint addressed to Congress were made public, eliminates the first-hand knowledge requirement and allows employees to file whistleblower complaints even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and only “heard about wrongdoing from others.” The internal properties of the newly revised “Disclosure of Urgent Concern” form, which the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) requires to be submitted under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA), show that the document was uploaded on September 24, 2019, at 4:25 p.m., just days before the anti-Trump complaint was declassified and released to the public. The markings on the document state that it was revised in August 2019, but no specific date of revision is disclosed. The complaint alleges that President Donald Trump broke the law during a phone call with the Ukrainian president. In his complaint, which was dated August 12, 2019, the complainant acknowledged he was “not a direct witness” to the wrongdoing he claims Trump committed. A previous version of the whistleblower complaint document, which the ICIG and DNI until recently provided to potential whistleblowers, declared that any complaint must contain only first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoing and that complaints that provide only hearsay, rumor, or gossip would be rejected. “The Intelligence Community Inspector General cannot transmit information via the ICPWA based on an employee’s second-hand knowledge of wrongdoing,” the previous form stated under the bolded heading “FIRST-HAND INFORMATION REQUIRED.” “This includes information received from another person, such as when an employee informs you that he/she witnessed some type of wrongdoing.”...
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Jim Jordan and Chip Roy Discuss liar-Pelosi
Rush to Complete Articles of Impeachment
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Representative Jim Jordan and Representative Chip Roy discuss the urgency in the Democrats’ rush to assemble articles of impeachment.
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NY Gov. scumbag-Andrew Cuomo Blasts Impeachment Push, Blames Leftists
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By Erielle Davidson
{ thefederalist.com } ~ On Wednesday evening at an event on “political civility” with ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, New York Gov. scumbag-Andrew Cuomo offered a sharp rebuke of the Democrats’ latest cries for impeachment... blaming “leftist” Democrats for forcing Congress to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. scumbag-Cuomo, a Democrat himself, felt the “quote unquote inquiry” was a result of Democratic radicals in Congress pushing House Speaker liar-liar-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to engage in an ultimately pointless exercise that would just result in political gridlock. According to scumbag-Cuomo, “There is a heightened leftist component of the Democratic Party that she was feeling pressure from.” scumbag-Cuomo also provided a lengthy catalog of the legislative priorities that would be shoved aside until after the 2020 elections as a result of the futile impeachment process taking front and center. “It’s a long and unproductive road,” emphasized scumbag-Cuomo. “Where does it go ultimately? Nowhere.” scumbag-Cuomo’s assessment isn’t totally wrong, but he’s not exactly right either. According to latest Marist polling, only 49 percent of polled adults nationally approve the House’s formal launch of an impeachment inquiry. However, 88 percent of Democrats polled support the impeachment inquiry, with support jumping to 93 percent among progressives. Therefore, while it is clear impeachment is quite popular among progressives, it’s likely inaccurate to say the popularity of the impeachment inquiry is limited to the far-left. If anything, it seems the impeachment inquiry, though likely to be a show trial with no removal at the end, is a fan favorite among the Democrats. scumbag-Cuomo’s speech reveals the governor’s unawareness of the far-left’s takeover of the Democratic establishment.
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scumbag-Soros-funded protests 
highlight the real climate tragedy
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by patriotnewsalerts.com ~ The latest “climate crisis” protests have shifted from spontaneous to coordinated events, and globalist scumbag-George Soros is a major backer... throwing millions of dollars into the leftist climate agenda. The recent protests are a tragic manifestation of the rottenness at the heart of the climate change movement — from exploiting children to appropriating the imagery of lynching. These are the symbols of a sick culture. Climate protestors in Germany stood on iceblocks with nooses around their necks to protest climate change. The American Psychological Association released a 69-page report detailing ties between climate change and mental health issues.People affected by natural disasters will see a suicide spike. This expected outcome is amplified by misinformation and hysteria. But instead of hurricane survivors seeing a higher suicide rate, we see this effect in people who are unaffected by natural disasters. A lawyer in Brooklyn, New York set himself on fire in a hope to galvanize action on climate change. This story should galvanize people to stand up and demand an end to hysteria and the fake news that surrounds the climate change movement. A child in Manchester, England is rumored to have committed suicide over fears about climate change. Greta Thunberg herself suffered from severe depression related to worries about climate change. This will only become more of a problem. Children are being traumatized and mental illness is on the rise all in the name of a leftist agenda. scumbag-George Soros is funding a hysterical movement that is giving children depression and manipulating them to espouse an agenda they don’t understand.This is an awful and despicable thing. scumbag-George Soros needs to be exposed for the agenda he is willing to push, no matter the cost. Let’s hope that sanity will prevail before more children are victimized by the doomsday fearmongering from leftist radicals. This is truly the tragedy of our day.   https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/george-soros-funded-protests/   
Italy: Salvini Out, Migrants In
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by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Italy's new government, which has pledged to reverse former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's hardline approach to migration policy... appears to have triggered a new wave of mass migration from northern Africa. More than 1,400 migrants reached Italian shores since the new government took office on September 5, according to data compiled by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). During just the past several weeks, the number of migrant arrivals to Italy has increased incrementally: 59 migrants arrived on September 6; 67 arrived on September 9; 121 arrived on September 14; 259 arrived on September 15; 275 arrived on September 18; and 475 arrived between September 19 and September 25, according to the IOM. Overall, the number of migrant arrivals in September 2019 is up by more than 100% over the number of arrivals in September 2018. Many of the new arrivals are reaching Italy by using new people-smuggling routes that originate in Turkey. In recent weeks, at least five migrant boats have landed in Calabria, in the far south of Italy. On September 21, for instance, 58 migrants, all Pakistani males, reached the Calabrian port of Crotone. People-smuggling mafias are also using new routes in the Southern Mediterranean to move people to Italy from sub-Saharan Africa. In recent weeks, criminal groups have used small boats to transport migrants from Libya to Tunisia, from where the crossing to Lampedusa, Italy's southern-most island, is shorter and less risky. On September 20, for example, 92 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa — Gambia, Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal — reached Lampedusa. At the same time, Italy's new government also appears to be taking a more lenient approach to the migrant rescue ships operated by European charities, which have been accused of coordinating with people-smuggling mafias to pick up migrants off the coast of Libya and transport them to Italian ports...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14933/italy-salvini-immigration 
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Federal Retirement Funds Invest in Sanctioned China
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Arnold Ahlert:  Elitists’ contemptible embrace of the globalist agenda is reaching metastatic levels. Despite the Communist Chinese government’s transparent effort to supplant America as the most powerful nation in the world, our Washington, DC Ruling Class and their Wall Street allies continue to abet those ambitions with unrelenting vigor. In a highly enlightening column, Curtis Ellis, a senior policy advisor with both America First Policies and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, spells out the latest machinations of people who put profit before patriotism — assuming patriotism is even part of the equation.

“The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board oversees the Thrift Savings Plan, the retirement fund for federal workers and members of the armed services,” Ellis explains. “In November 2017, the board decided the Thrift Savings Plan’s international stock fund should invest in an index fund known as the Morgan Stanley Capital International — All Country World Index (MSCI ACWI.)”

That would be the Morgan Stanley index that includes companies like ZTE Corporation, Hikvision, and the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). All of them are headquartered in China — and all of them are sanctioned by the the federal government because they have committed human-rights violations and engaged in activities antithetical to our national security.

“ZTE is a cyber-espionage arm of the People’s Liberation Army disguised as a telecom company,” Ellis reveals. “Hikvision makes the surveillance equipment used in western China, where over 1 million people have been imprisoned in concentration camps for the ‘crime’ of being Muslim.”

Hikvision’s parent company is the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation. In August 2018, it was added to the Commerce Department’s “entity list” identifying it as a company “acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.”

What about AVIC? The government-owned company is China’s leading defense contractor. Yet as Ellis notes, “defense” is a euphemism. “It develops manned aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles, and other weapons for the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, People’s Liberation Army Naval Air Force, and People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force,” Ellis reveals. “AVIC built its stealth fighter based on plans for the American F-35 jet stolen by Chinese hackers and has been sanctioned for selling weapons to Iran, North Korea, and Syria.”

That hack happened in 2007, and was codenamed Operation Byzantine Hades by U.S. intelligence agencies who characterized it as a large-scale, multi-year cyber program that targeted governments and industry. “Defense officials said the stolen data was obtained by a Chinese military unit called a Technical Reconnaissance Bureau in the Chengdu province,” The Washington Free Beacon reported in 2014. “The data was then passed to the state-run Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC).”

It gets worse. The Pentagon’s Defense Science Board also revealed that Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile systems and Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile defenses, along with many other systems, were compromised by the cyber espionage.

Were there serious repercussions? If so, they weren’t reflected in our trade deficit with Beijing: A $312 billion trade deficit in 2012 skyrocketed to $419 billion in 2018. For perspective’s sake, it should be noted that China’s entire 2018 military budget was $175 billion.

Can we finally admit the decades-long project whereby U.S. politicians in both parties insisted that “opening up” China would “bring them around” is officially dead?

Not by a long shot. As Ellis points out, while “officials at the highest levels of the Pentagon, Treasury, Commerce, intelligence agencies, and the White House have identified these companies as a threat to our national security,” America’s “deep state bureaucracy wants to take money from the paychecks of federal employees and uniformed servicemen and give it to our enemy.”

Some members of Congress are finally coming around to reality. Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), along with Senate Committee on Foreign Relations members Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) are asking Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board Chairman Michael Kennedy to stop this unconscionable effort. In a letter  sent to Kennedy on Aug. 26, they explained the dangers of doing so and perhaps, more important, requested to be informed as to how such decisions are reached in the first place.

The two Senators pointed out another alarming reality: Despite China’s reputation for fraud and stealing intellectual property, the Securities and Exchange Commission has allowed them to be listed on America’s three largest stock exchanges absent compliance with U.S. accounting and oversight regulations.

It doesn’t get more ideologically bankrupt than that. And China’s excuse that it consider its companies’ accounting information state secrets doesn’t wash — not when the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission  revealed there were 156 Chinese companies, including 11 state-owned enterprises, with a combined market capitalization of $1.2 trillion on those exchanges.

Again, some members of Congress have stepped up. On June 5, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), scumbag-Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the Ensuring Quality Information and Transparency for Abroad-Based Listings on our Exchanges (EQUITABLE) Act. It would increase oversight of foreign companies on U.S. exchanges — and delist out-of-compliance firms for a period of three years.

“Beijing should no longer be allowed to shield U.S.-listed Chinese companies from complying with American laws and regulations for financial transparency and accountability,” Rubio declared. “If China-based companies want to list on stock exchanges or access capital markets in the U.S., we should make them comply with American laws.”

Unfortunately, 112 days have passed since the bill’s introduction. Is it too much to expect legislation this critical to get fast-tracked, or are we seeing another effort that will ultimately be buried by the globalist factions in both parties once the attention dies down?

Ellis is pessimistic. “Wall Street financiers, whose highest principle is ‘love for sale,’ make a fortune listing Chinese companies on U.S. exchanges,” he writes. “They justify their treason by leaning on a foreign policy establishment that believes, ‘You never have to say you’re sorry’ or never admit to wrongdoing about anything” [italics original].

Dirty dealings like this are worth remembering the next time one hears another in the seemingly endless number of hand-wringing tales about Trump’s “misguided” get-tough approach with China that inevitably bemoans the deleterious effects of tariffs.

Compared to what? This nation desperately needs a national conversation regarding where multinational avarice ends and patriotism begins. For far too long, America has abided a political and financial Ruling Class that has embraced the hollowing out of America’s heartland, championed the open-borders agenda that exacerbates it, and consorted with some of the worst actors on the planet to enrich themselves, even if it takes embracing double standards to do so.

Ordinary Americans? Buy your cheap consumer goods — and shut up.

Enough. The Thrift Savings Plan divestment request should be a demand, and the Equitable Act should be passed ASAP. Furthermore, America’s sovereignty and security must no longer be compromised to accommodate internationalist-minded kleptocrats who believe “America First” is an anachronism.

It’s not. Not by a long shot.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65724?mailing_id=4552&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4552&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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