2) @ComradeJoeMcD of @AP's Beijing bureau is a business reporter. He barely covers politics.
Comrade Joe has never written about #GuoWengui before. His profile of Guo, with the hook being the arrest of Steve Bannon, contains glaring omissions. @AP_Politics
3) @ComradeJoeMcD omits Guo's connections to China's MSS secret police.
He does say "The former deputy chief of the Chinese intelligence agency, Ma Jian, was convicted in December 2018 of taking bribes to help Guo," but omits allegations in US that Guo is a spy. @AP_Politics
4) Based for 22 years in China, @ComradeJoeMcD never covered #GuoWengui when Guo did high-profile business inside China, and never reported on the Wall Street Journal's coverage that Guo was "accused of spying for Beijing." wsj.com/articles/chine…
5) @ComradeJoeMcD said that a senior Chinese intelligence official was "close to Guo," but did not explore Guo's larger relationship with the MSS secret service, even though Guo spoke about it publicly in the US. This follows the CCP line to preserve the MSS image. @AP_Politics
6) Bannon has not been charged with anything relating to #GuoWengui.
So why did @ComradeJoeMcD suddenly write about Guo as an "irritant" to the Communist Party, as if it's news? @AP_Politics
7) Why, for that matter, does the world-class Associated Press allow its business correspondent to write from Beijing and call himself "comrade"? @ComradeJoeMcD@AP_Politics@AP
8) @ComradeJoeMcD says nothing about the August 19 Wall Street Journal report that #GuoWengui himself is under FBI investigation.
9) AP disserves its readers by having @ComradeJoeMcD suddenly cover #GuoWengui after years of silence, and from Beijing where he is subject to regime incentives.
The fact that the CCP has let Comrade Joe stay in China for 22 years prompts skeptics to ask "why." @AP_Politics
10) WSJ reported on July 8/9 that #GuoWengui was subject of an FBI "national security" investigation. The story appeared globally in English and in the WSJ's Chinese edition in Mandarin.
Let's dissect this important article on 🇺🇦 by my colleagues @AnIllarionov and @morganwirthlin.
"Biden already has the authority to send roughly the same amount of aid he is demanding from Congress in the ’emergency’ supplemental bill."
What’s in the bill? Few proponents have even bothered to read the it. My colleagues have.
"The supplemental bill provides funds through three main channels: the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), Foreign Military Financing (FMF), and the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA)."
Te $13.8 billion for USAI until September 30, 2025, or 1-1/2 fiscal years.
FMF provides only $1.6 billion for Ukraine AND OTHER COUNTRIES, for 1-1/2 fiscal years.
PDA is capped at $7.8 billion GLOBALLY through September 30, not only for 🇺🇦, but for 🇮🇱, 🇹🇼, and anywhere else POTUS designates. (continued)
"According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the USAI and FMF funds in the current bill will be spent in annual increments over the next 10 years, from 2024 to 2033."
This means that ALMOST NOTHING in the present "emergency" bill to 🇺🇦 will go to 🇺🇦 soon.
Biden has not spent - nor has Ukraine pleaded for - the USAI funds that CONGRESS HAS ALREADY PROVIDED.
Illarionov and Wirthlin continue:
"Of the $18.9 billion of USAI funding in fiscal years 2022 and 2023, production orders had been placed for only $12.3 billion, as of Jan. 15, 2024. More than a third of the funds, $6.6 billion, have yet to be used in the 18 months since congressional authorization."
🧵 This video shows the logic of the 2024 “democracy is under attack” meme. Watch the video and then see my comments as I post them. ft.com/video/bd19b92f…
2) The central theme is that democracy is under attack and that climate change is a crisis to endanger the earth.
It presumes that central government should "deliver basic necessities" and not simply ensure the conditions for the people to deliver those necessities.
3) The circle model shows a "temperate zone," not of government by the consent of the governed, but "that those ruled ought to have a say in their rulers."
Narrator describes a technocracy "that rulers should be accountable to rule of law" but not to the people or constitution.
Boston Globe finds that Massachusetts dumps illegal aliens on the middle class and spares wealthy liberal towns. bostonglobe.com/2024/02/09/met…
They voted for this.
Massachusetts is a sanctuary state with a "right to shelter" law.
“The sense is that wealthier communities are not bearing any of the burden,” said Taunton Mayor Shaunna O’Connell, whose city has a median household income of about $89,800. “When you suddenly have 300 or 400 new people coming to your city, it puts a strain on services. . . . Communities like Newton or Wellesley could bear some of the obligation that we are under.”
The state of Massachusetts doesn't even tell the middle-class towns to prepare for the dumping of illegal aliens.
It works out contracts behind the scenes with those who profit from the trafficking.
Boston Globe: "Local municipal leaders say they are often the last to know when the state decides to locate a new shelter site; the contracts are negotiated directly between the hotel owner and the state or, in many cases, a nonprofit."
Biden’s Senior Director for Intelligence Programs on the White House National Security Council staff, Maher Bitar, was an official of @UNRWA while the group was providing material support to terrorism. saudipress.com/biden-appoints…
This is called ideological infiltration of our intelligence services. It started with Stalin.
1) Excerpts from the important letter from 10 former top @FBI officials about the border crisis:
"we write to express our concern about a current, specific threat that may be one of the most pernicious ever to menace the United States." justthenews.com/sites/default/…
@FBI 2) "The danger arises from the nature of the threat itself. Wars and espionage and bombings and riots are sadly familiar delivery systems of instability, intimidation, and insecurity....
"The threat we call out today is new and unfamiliar."
@FBI 3) "In its modern history, the U.S. has never suffered an invasion of the homeland and, yet, one is unfolding now. Military aged men from across the globe, many from countries or regions not friendly to the United States, are landing in waves on our soil by the thousands...."
I'm starting a 🧵about the orchestrated hysteria that American democracy will end because Trump will become a murderous dictator if elected.
A lot of this is projection, anyway. We'll start with Eric Holder, who, as a student radical at Columbia University, held a dean hostage in solidarity with assorted Soviet-backed Third World revolutionaries and racial identity terrorists here at home. breitbart.com/politics/2024/…
3) From The Nation, which, during the most dangerous times of the Cold War, was a reliable transmission belt for Kremlin disinformation. thenation.com/article/politi…