Forget about personalities and stress philosophies
GREAT COMMENT AS ALWAYS, CFS
R.I.P. Charlie Daniels, ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia’ Singer, Dies at 83 with a stroke.
My favorite artist of all time. I say him at the local Fair in Vancouver, WA. Zack Brown is actually a close second!
Better to vote for an abrasive businessman, than a senile fool, who would destroy the country.
Well there is a 3rd option now…. 🙂
Tom Cruise 2020 – Presidential Campaign Announcement
Or a 4th option…. 😉
Kanye West Seemingly Announces 2020 Presidential Run
I would overwhelmingly prefer Tom Cruise to any of the demoncrates…Tom is courageous and well read hates the corrupt fake medical cartel and is persuasive and rationale….You may proceed to shred me…lol
haha! Well that was just a joke video up above by a Tom Cruise impersonator, but after reviewing it in jest, I’d prefer him as well to the other candidates. This country is a mess – talk about mission impossible… (lol)
I hate to say it, but Trump is not “Mission Impossible” at all
Big Al – That was a Tom Cruise joke, since he was in about 4 of those Mission Impossible movies. I was stating that the country is a mess and metaphorically that cleaning it up was “Mission Impossible.”
For clarity, I’m an optimist and don’t believe our country is really mission impossible, and believe we just need folks to wake up and use a little “conservative common sense”.
Tom Cruise is a bit older looking nowadays, and why on earth would he want to take a pay-cut to be president?
Perhaps, after he retires…
I’d rather have Jon Voight or Tom Selleck as POTUS than Tom Cruise.
Take a pay cut, you mean like the President did?
bonzo – I agree Jon Voight would be a better choice.
That’s all we need. An avowed Scientologist leading this country to Satan himself.
I have absolutely no intention to shred you!
“Help me to help you”! Sorry, Trump may be an asshole but he is what our country needs today!
Big Al that was a spoof joke campaign by a Tom Cruise impersonator, and that “Help me help you” was a play on his movie Jerry McGuire, as we Mission Impossible.
Just a little comedic levity to ease the tension so many are facing.
I happen to complete agree with you Excelsior. I look at the situation just the way I described in during the Segment.
Big Al – I agree that the actions lately of the liberals are as ridiculous as they are dangerous. Speaking of the liberal PC renaming of long standing institutions, did you see that after tearing down the Christopher Columbus statue in Columbus, OH, that they have now proposed renaming the city “Flavortown.” I’m not kidding this time.
In this short interview with Trey they bring up this irony of tearing down Columbus in Columbus and the proposed name change to Flavortown in honor of Guy Fieri.
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Trey Gowdy: Difference between ‘remembering our past and romanticizing’ it
Is making a Buck more important to the younger generation than the exploitation and destroying the life of young, INNOCENT girls ?
May Reddit go bankrupt.
Ellen Pao: Former Reddit CEO Says She Knew Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Supplied Underage Girls for Sex’
https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/ghislaine-maxwell-reddit-ceo-ellen-pao/
Another tooth pulled from the snarl of BLM:
It should be obvious to anyone who is observant
https://cnsnews.com/index.php/commentary/allen-west/shared-history-naacp-and-black-lives-matter,
But increasingly Marxist is a word that seems to apply to all Democrat leadership.
I agree, CFS, that it does seem to apply today to all Democratic leadership!
https://nypost.com/2020/07/06/ghislaine-maxwell-wont-snitch-on-prince-andrew-accusers-lawyer/
I don’t know a lot of English law, but Maxwell is primarily a British citizen, and I suspect ,while England did away with the death penalty for criminals a long time ago, there are some crimes against the monarchy that still come with the death penalty.
(Not that the monarchy would dare to try and get away with that…..The Monarchy ONLY exists at the tolerance of the people, and but for Diana’s death may well have been abolished by now.)
Let’s see what happens when she sits in a NY jail for a few weeks – if she survives that long – then we will see if she talks. It will take time to break down all the scumbags involved. Steve Bing seems to have been worried. https://www.dcclothesline.com/2020/07/06/hollywood-producer-who-was-part-of-jeffrey-epsteins-lolita-express-circle-dead-falls-off-27th-floor-of-building/
If Biden gets elected, she walks – as do all the elitist, hedonists, morally corrupt powerful Dem funders.
I completely agree with your final sentence, Jim!
We should remember Maxwell is innocent until proven guilty.
Certainly Maxwell seems not to believe she did anything wrong, which is puzzling to me.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/05/ghislaine-maxwell-sobbed-during-her-court-virginia-roberts/
For example, with multiple passports, born in France, she could have lived the rest of her life in France without fear of being arrested and could not be deported…..so why buy a house in the U.S. ?
Just entertainment…..for the sheeple…….
Or maybe she cut a deal already, will testify, then plans to retire there? LOL Regardless, there are some powerful people squirming right now.
And, they truly deserve to squirm, Jimmy!
Her arrest a week after Berman is removed is interesting timing.
I don’t think she’s made a deal YET.
If you look at the charges: two very early charges of procurement of young girls and two charges of lying under oath. I would guess the later date charges (ones on which Epstein was convicted) are being held over her head after persuasion to make a deal.
That’s my guess.
This is Rich……………..this is good, if, they just stop funding ,….but heck the money is already gone…..
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-dems-move-block-all-new-construction-military-bases-confederate-names
I think New York City deserves the Darwin Award:
http://andmagazine.com/talk/2020/07/06/new-york-city-mayor-de-blasio-sticks-with-defund-police-amid-historic-shooting-sprees-and-crime-in-the-city/
With the future “work at home” philosophy, which was bound to cripple the City anyway, it’s Mayor seem h*ll-bent on driving New Yorkers out to the suburbs.
This is the Rich…….getting a taste of reality……….if , the demwhits get control
I wasn’t going to get involved with Politics but lately I’ve seen Conserative Common Sense.
As an Independent CCS as I will call it sounds more like an oxy moron than anything.
Ghishlane Maxwell seems to be the hot topic so I will fill in the blanks a little bit, I will not be posting any links and all I can say is do your own research.
Jeff Epstein was in big trouble in Florida back when Goerge W Bush was President.
It was GW’s Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez who made it go away.
Not exactly what I would call Conservative Common Sense.
Bill Barr………
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr
On December 24, 1992, during his final month in office, Bush, on the advice of Barr, pardoned Weinberger,[12][56] along with five other administration officials who had been found guilty on charges relating to the Iran–Contra affair.[12][57][58][51] Barr was consulted extensively regarding the pardons, and especially advocated for pardoning Weinberger.[59]
Walsh complained about the move insinuating that Bush on Barr’s advice had used the pardons to avoid testifying and stating that: “The Iran-contra cover-up, which has continued for more than six years, has now been completed.”[60] In 2003, he wrote an account of the investigation in his book, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up.
Because of this and Barr’s unwillingness to appoint an independent counsel to look into a second scandal known as Iraqgate, New York Times writer William Safire began to refer to Barr as “Coverup-General Barr.
Max doing Well…………DOA……………not going to uncover anything……..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barr………..Father of
Donald Barr (August 8, 1921 – February 5, 2004) was an Office of Strategic Services (OSS) agent, an American educator, and a writer. He taught English at Columbia University, was headmaster at the Dalton School in New York City (1964–74) and the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York[1], and wrote two science fiction novels.[2] One of his sons is United States Attorney General William Barr.
Why was Epstein at Dalton in the first place? He’d been an outstanding high school student, and graduated two years early. But he had no college degree when he taught at Dalton, though he had briefly attended Cooper Union and NYU. But Dalton had a reputation for unconventional hires. The headmaster at the time was Donald Barr, father of US Attorney General Bill
I listened to a speech by Safire, in Portland Oregon which he gave in person. What an interesting man!
Thanks CFS!
W and his team weren’t exactly conservatives – Neo Cons globalists that kinda sold out the U.S. in many ways. Acosta, the US Attorney at the time, worked with local prosecutors. Gonzales had a part, but there was much more. There were “intel community” concerns, according to Acosta. And to prosecute a case with a powerful team for a win is much harder than a plea, as the OJ team proved. Had Dershowitz and the super lawyers got Epstein off in 07 (by smearing the young victims and proving investigative incompetence (probable)), Jeffry and Billy might still be flying Lolita around today, with no possibility of double jeopardy.
Jimmy………there are a lot of people who have sold out the USA……..
if a prosecution fails at the Federal level a conviction is usually possible at the state level or vice versa. Unlike British Law, Double Jeopardy rarely works in the U.S.
And failing that a civil prosecution can financially destroy.
No John, your comment is absolutely correct. Don’t want to loose you by the way!
If only every democrat would read this:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/haworth-the-deadly-double-standard-of-communism-vs-fascism
R.I.P. Capitalism, Killed by excessive Government, died at age 75
https://youtu.be/SJXwYXm-0uU
:
Who died at age 75?
If your high school class president vetoed repairing the basketball court flooring in order to fix dangerous hazards would you acclaim them as reasonable and rational… But further, If they actually declared the reason was simply that they did not like the person the sports hall was named in honor of…Would you think of them as sane and vote for them to represent you?…lol…Get this in the land of the irrational and insane…
Larry, I posted that one above…….great minds thinking alike…. lol
ok that is funny Jerry…I scanned too fast…..and yes so true…duffff
There are a huge number of ridiculous things coming from the Dumbs, I mean Dems! And, this is only one of them!
There is some low probability of unexpected long-term Covid-19 damage in young people/clidren.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2767979
I am not an M.D., but I suspect this may be do to blood clots in extremely small diameter arteries.
Please note: As far as I can determine, no one, at any age, has ever suffered long-term damage or death with a blood serum concentration of Vitamin D above 40nG/mL.
(For some reason, possibly cost, the U.S. does not give a blood test for patients entering hospital with covid-19, so most of those results come from Covid patients outside the U.S., possibly with different virus mutations.)
It is, however, chemically true that oxidative stress in red blood cells is reduced by Vitamins C, D plus the presence of Zinc. In herbal (Chinesese medicine) it is also shown that natural immunity to viruses is enhanced by certain Birch tree chemicals, and that these are most easily acquired by consuming a half-to one teaspoon a day of powdered Chaga mushroom, which grows on birch trees. (Half teaspoon for under 120 lbs weight person, one teaspoon for heavier person. Most easily consumed in coffee.)
It distresses me that nothing seems ever mentioned on US/UK News Broadcasts about these preventative measures, which have been used successfully in China by many doctors,together with hcq, for four months now.
The CDC, NIH ,Centers should all have required every hospital admission positive with COVID-19 to be associated with calibrated I.V. vitamin C, D, Zinc and hydroxychloroquinone as baseline resuscitation measure….Plus a follow up full nutritional profile and support..But that implies that humans need nutrition not true they need drugs…OR that nutrition can boost immunity and defeat opportunistic virus pathogens not so they need drugs and vaccines….Because our medical authorities are anti human and believe you are garbage and only live because of their genius medical manuveurs,lmao,,,,. none of that…Respirators plus long term incubation of insurance proceeds….Whores killed Americans not Viruses….
Bill Still
I gave this speaker some time to develop his points…I agreed with his unique interpretations……I added him to my extensive file called medical corruption…thanks cfs!
There were many arrests and clashes at Mount Rushmore before Trump’s Speech.
RSBN was on scene for the entire standoff between the protesters and law enforcement. At approximately 1 hour 43 minutes into their broadcast, they started filming the standoff. A loud bang is heard when the protesters were blowing out the tires on the vans. The National Guard and the Sheriff’s Department in riot gear surrounded the area around the protesters and they moved forward after the group ignored a police-imposed deadline to leave. At 6:30 p.m., law enforcement gave remaining protesters 30 minutes to disperse before they would arrest anyone left in the road. The troops pushed back the protesters so they could access the vans, and flatbed tow trucks were brought in, which removed the vans quickly. Shortly after 7 p.m., the National Guard held back onlookers and pressed in on protesters while the sheriff’s department moved in to arrest the 15 people who stayed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgq0qbzYBtE&feature=youtu.be
My 2 cents.
I dont trust Barr….At the stroke of his pen , Duram could be strook- down.
I hope i am proven wrong….Time will tell, as it alwaws does.
Have you checked out his background…….
Barr……..
From 1973 to 1977, Barr was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency during his schooling years.
Barr’s father was in OSS……….
Barr’s father hired Epstein, at the Dalton School….
Here is some more….
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index3265.htm
CIA Assassins Inventing Ghislaine Maxwell Capture Fable Kill 8 In Idaho Plane Disaster
on 20 June, the press discovered that the international child sex slaver Ghislaine Maxwell was hiding out in a luxury apartment near the Israeli Embassy
Just more info
Little known to the American people, this report notes, is that in the early 1980s, the British tabloid press establishment began to organize itself into two competing covert intelligence organizations—with one faction being headed Rupert Murdoch and his The Sun tabloid newspaper—and the other headed by Robert Maxwell and his Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper—and after each had filled their ranks with mainly former British spies, engaged in an actual 7-years long war to the death against each other—a war that ended on 5 November 1991, which was when Maxwell supposedly fell overboard from his boat, with his naked and bruised body later being recovered—and since has seen Murdoch becoming the most powerful media baron in the world—and one of whose best friends is the world’s most powerful person President Donald Trump.
I think that you will see in the the relatively near future the most powerful person in the world come out of the Far East.
Jerry,
Is the Israel location provable?
I have not dug much into her location prior to arrest, but I got the impression she was in Paris.
CFS………Did you read the article …….
I can not prove , but, most of the pieces make sense.
CIA……ties are what I was looking for…..especially with BARR, and his ties to Epstein.
And is Barr and Durham, a total sham….
The Info. on Murdoch and Maxwell……competition is interesting…..
So what does that prove? The location of the Israeli embassy is completely immaterial.
OWL………who are you talking to…….
Owl…….the above discussion, is concerning Maxwell……not Israel…..
You might want to read the above article I posted…..from What Does That Mean….
I know you said before , it is difficult to read, …you made that statement to Chartster.
The ties and connection to Epstein, Maxwell, and the ones about to get exposed or not get exposed, ….considering she might not make it to the holding tank alive.
IF, we can count on Barr, which has been linked to Epstein..via Barr’s Father……we will see how far gone our country is, or is heading….The snake pit is deep,…..And that is what Trumpster said he was going to take care of…..I am waiting for Barr, and Durham…..to bring to justice the corrupt politicians , and corrupt FBI, CIA, and Bankster fraudster(good luck with that one). Maxwell, will be the test case…….let’s see , what they expose.
Since Murdoch, Rothschild, own Genie Oil,….
delete the part about Murdoch and Rothschild and Genie oil…that is another topic.
Commonsense………..Home-schooling.
It seems to me the primary reason well-educated people send their children to school is to gain social skills. They send to a private school for education and social skills, if they can afford, but to public school if they have no other option.
Home-teaching possibly will provide an education; a better education, perhaps, if concentration is on teaching the child to think and reason.
If, however, under covid, there is an intent of self isolation in public school, wearing of masks, isolation or even no provision for school meals and absence of organized sports, it seems to me there will be little or no socialisation.
If that is the case, then Home-schooling for those capable will provide a better education. It could be aided by many relatively cheap on-line programs that have grown in the last few years. e.g.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=freedom+project+academy+cost&atb=v106-3_g&ia=web
On the pther hand we have PURE GREED:
I am going to reply to Mr McKinneys comment to the comment I posted here to make sure he sees it.
One again you display your twisted logic. To say Acosta had intel community concerns for not prosecuting Epstein is like saying Dennis Hassert didn’t like little boys.
You know exactly what was going on as did everybody else in the intel community. It is just now that it is starting to come out.
Jeff Epstein walked free to run his sex ring because the people in charge of conducting Justice on behalf of the American People failed and yes Mr McKinney they were Republican Conservatives.
Mathew posted a link to Jeff Diest from the Mises Institute explaining the accumulive failure of the Conservatives. After you kick a dog so many times, he will no longer stick around.
The Botom line was that Intel Community Concerns was the same mumble Jumble that you continue to spew and expect us to believe.
Jeff Epstein was given the blessing to keep molesting young women, along with his friends because nobody had the balls to say anything different.
I actually looked up the definition of Conservatism. Nothing has changed from when Bush was President.
Like I said many times a new way of thinking will be required to get us out of the mess were in.
Unfortunately I haven’t heard it from you.
Point of Correction, John Kruschke.
Epstein committed his crimes over many years. Officials in Clinton, W and Obama administrations failed, not just Republicans. (Have there been any “conservative” Republicans in power since Reagan ?)
Indeed, it is clear both Bill and Hillary took part in Epstein’s disgusting rituals/ preditory sex.
They were all working together……each administration…..
What is the point of that? Is it to gain supernatural power or to eliminate our country as it existed?
Why is it clear or is it something that you want to believe? That “clearness” is something that I would love to see verified.
G.W. Bush, of course, was little other than a corrupt crony pseudo-capitalist, who ran as a Republican.
I would not necessarily call him a pseudo-capitalist. I would call him an unsuccessful capitalist.
He is comfortably wealthy, but you know what the Bible says about God and money! Because of some of the good things that I saw he and his wife do down in The Desert for some of the Christian schools I would say that I am certain that he is a definite Believer. I am also and the Lord knows about every single one of my personal transgressions and I will of course pay for them even though I really try hard to “go and sin no more”
Sorry Owl…….but, didn’t he renounce or say he was not a believer….., I remember him saying that after he left office…..so, if, he has changed his mind again , so be it.
Ditto John………..on……..a new way of thinking will be required to get us out of the mess were in.
Definitely some type of new thinking Jerry. This unimaginably large! I think that some type of end is inevitable. I do have faith in America, but I am scared to death of the Progressives. They are incredibly, almost insanely, dedicated to destruction.
We all agree, I think, the Demwhits…..are way off base…..and most are crazy , liars, and thieves….Marxist leaning, …..
Rather than spew anger, why don’t we seriously work together to find the truth. We do have the intelligence to accomplish that.
I do not think anyone is spewing anger……..We all need to get on the same page.
If, American is to get great, or just stay sane…..but, it sure has not been sane the last several presidential elections.
If, we are to find truth, …we need to uncover the corrupt ones……and they are on both side of the isle.
Jim’s way of thinking is sound in that he is simply dedicated to saving our country from the progressive criminals who have no sense of “the rule of law” You better hope that his philosophy is successful or we will all have something to be really angry about. And, that something is dangerous in a very deadly sense! Jim may very well make some mistakes but we desperately need people like him.
Please, let’s all work together!
I think we have been talking about Clinton, and Obama for a long time…..showing how corrupt both were and are…….
I have no problem with Jimmy…….just for the record…
One thing we agree on, we need a new way of thinking – but it isn’t the leftist socialist way of thinking. Epstein’s entourage was mostly, not all, but mostly very powerful elitists who were leftist in mindset. That is a fact.
Acosta said there was intel interests, no one said who’s intel, but speculation abounds of Israeli, UK, Russian and CIA. Or maybe he just black mailed for his money, after filming these people with his stable. IF nothing else, he had dirt on so many. You don’t know, I don’t know, but lets hope we find out.
Regardless, what he did, with some of the worlds most powerful like Bill Clinton (Dem), Steve Bing (Dem), Ehud Barak(labor), Prince Andrew, Leslie Wexner (Dem), Alan Dershowitz (Dem) was to abuse innocent people – how many of these were sick depraved pedophiles? I don’t know – but rich and powerful people, Repubs and Dems alike, think they can be above the rest and buy their way out of problems, and usually do.
Why do Repubs get fired for a simple accusation of an off color comment, Ed Henry, Bill O’Reilly, but Justine Trudeau or Ralph Northam get away with evidentiary race baiting? Because with no morals, and lots of money, you can do whatever you want in a leftists eyes. A true conservative has a moral code, though we may fail at times, we strive to keep it. A true leftist has no moral compass and satisfies a lust for power and hedonism without regard. Been that way throughout history – read up on the Soviets first years, you might learn something.
Jimmy…….have you ever done any background work on BARR……?
I have, and seen much of your writings on him. I don’t evaluate a person for his family history, I look at a person for his character and actions. In the last few months, Barr is showing character and willingness to purse equal justice – can’t say it will last, but I do hope so.
Good……..Let us see if he has the stuff. going forward……….I have been waiting…..
if, he does not come up with some BIG CONVICTIONS……..IMO, it will be just the same old show…..since 1947.
Oh, ….thanks for the reply…..appreciate…..have a great day…..best JOOTB
Agree, we need action. If the NAT SEC STATE rules, we lose.
For the record, Alan Dershowitz says:
https://spectator.us/ghislaine-maxwell-know-jeffrey-epstein-alan-dershowitz/
Nothing but………CYA………Who would believe anything he had to say….
He lied about the constitution, and he most likely is lying now.
Sorry Jerry, I am behind on what is going on here. Who are you referring to?
Alan Dershowitz……..who would believe anything he had to say concerning Maxwell….
ICE has raised what might be a trial balloon, but to me it makes sense……
For those Universities that are offering only on-line courses and have closed dorms, ICE is cancelling new overseas student visas for starting this fall.
Atlanta Mayor Asks Citizens to Stop ‘Shooting Each Other’ After 8-year-old Murdered Near BLM Protest Site
Mike Vance July 6, 2020
During an emotional press conference Sunday night, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms called for citizens to stop “shooting each other up on our streets.” This was after an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed near a Wendy’s on the 4th of July.
Bottoms, who is considered a possible running mate with Joe Biden, fought back tears during the remarks. There have been a staggering number of deaths in cities across the United States. Sixty-three people were injured and 17 killed in Chicago, including two children, over the weekend; and in New York City, 44 were hurt and at least six killed.
BUT the Governor of Georgia is doing NOTHING TO STOP armed Black militants on Stone Mountain, who are stopping cars and demanding Cash “reparations”. That seems like a felony: Armed Robbery to me.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/07/06/im-your-worst-nightmare-armed-black-militia-detain-white-driver-wheres-our-reparations-943511
Dang right…..it is robbery…….extortion…….
Nothing but crickets from Obama & Biden. Watch Presidential candidate Biden become the NEW Sherriff to get tough on crime & clean up the mess. And if he don’t take down Isreal, he ain’t white
After all, it was accomplished police work that exposed Charles Manson.
https://youtu.be/A35TWFMWM70?t=151
SGT Report
Why it took 24 years to arrest Ghislaine Maxwell….
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/06/federal-authorities-ghislaine-maxwell-prison-jeffrey-epstein/
Speculation on my part is that the FBI only had limited he said, she said witnesses, whose stories did not all exactly mesh. (Remember Epstein was acquitted once on such evidence, and rich people hire better attorneys than prosecutors are.)
I think Berman firing has something to do with Epstein and Maxwell, and Clinton. It is obvious that long time DOJ/FBI libs and RINOs have tried to keep Clinton’s out of the court system despite evidence. Berman may have been one of those, and wouldn’t push in order to protect the “system”. I think this is going to get interesting for all the Obama/Clinton/Biden cult followers.
Meanwhile in the Middle East….
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/07/israel-launches-new-spy-satellite-to-monitor-iran/
and Ithere is a third unexplained explosion at an Iranian Nuclear power plant.
Moral Values:
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/nc-dem-takes-millions-from-coronavirus-program-he-criticized/
He’s a Democrat and a politician……so what do you expect ?
Moral values
https://www.foxnews.com/media/pompeo-responds-to-susan-rice-slam-she-has-a-history-of-going-on-sunday-shows-and-lying
But she’s a democrat and a politician……so what do you expect ?
Did you know…..
Between 2002 and 2016, Chinese state-owned or state-linked companies acquired more than $120 billion worth of assets in 40 states across the U.S. Just 15 Chinese entities (sovereign wealth funds, state-owned corporations, or state-linked private sector firms) accounted for 60% of this activity. In 2016 alone, more than 50 of these Chinese acquisitions exceeded $50 million. Several Chinese takeover deals exceeded $1 billion.
Here are 20 Chinese investments and buyouts that have consequences for American consumers (and potentially 2020 election voters):
. Reddit — China’s Tencent Invested $150 Million in 2019
Online social forum Reddit (majority-owned by Conde Nast publishing) received $150 million in funding from China’s Tencent. The investment is “an odd pairing between one of the architects of China’s Great Firewall of censorship and one of America’s most lawless free-speech forums,” wrote TechCrunch’s Josh Constine. Reddit has since placed the most popular pro-Trump subreddit, The_Donald, in “quarantine,” where it effectively ceased all activities. (CHINESE censorship of Trump himself!)
2. TikTok — Viral video platform owned by Chinese company valued at over $100 billion
China’s ByteDance created TikTok in September 2016 and launched the millennial-friendly social network on the iOS and Android app stores in 2017. In October 2018, TikTok became the most downloaded app in the U.S. — the first Chinese app to do so — and ranked among the 10 most-downloaded apps in the last decade (with the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram). TikTok users were recently praised by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for helping to disrupt a Trump campaign event in Tulsa, Okla.
3. Universal Music Group — Tencent bought 10% of UMG in December 2019 for $3.4 billion
China’s Tencent bought a major stake in the California-based “Big Three” record company for a whopping $3.4 billion.
UMG owns the rights to most of the world’s most popular artists, including Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Post Malone, Billie Eilish, Queen and The Beatles (among thousands of other worldwide global music stars).
4. Warner Music — Tencent recently (June 12) completed its purchase of a significant stake in another one of the “Big Three” record labels for $200 million
This year, Tencent bought 10% of Warner’s publicly available shares (or 1.6% of the entire company) for $200 million, with the option to double the purchase for the same price.
5. Riot Games — Tencent purchased 93% of Riot in 2011 for $400 million
Riot Games produces the world’s most popular PC game: League of Legends (LoL). In 2015, Tencent bought the remaining 7% for an undisclosed sum. When Riot Games would not cooperate with Tencent’s demand to make a mobile LoL platform, Tencent cloned the software and produced their own version of the game.
Tencent also owns 40% of Epic Games (creator of “Fortnite,” which pulled in $2.4 billion in 2018, making it the world’s most profitable game), 11.5% of Bluehole (PlayerUnknown’s “Battlegrounds”), and significant chunks of Activision Blizzard (“World of Warcraft”), Ubisoft (“Assassin’s Creed” and “Far Cry”), and even distributes the infamous “Candy Crush Saga,” among other popular games in the U.S.
In 2018, Tencent joined several other investors in a $150 million funding round for Discord — a popular chatroom app used by video gamers.
6. AMC Theaters bought out by Wanda Group in 2012 for $2.6 billion
In 2012, China’s most Hollywood-focused M&A machine, Dalian Wanda, bought the popular movie theater chain AMC Entertainment Holdings for $2.6 billion. AMC was founded in Missouri more than a century ago and has 300 locations across the United States. Now owned by China, AMC was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and has said that a bankruptcy filing is “likely.”
Other American movie theaters and movie studios have received heavy investment from the Chinese as well, including Dick Clark, Carmike and Starplex Cinemas (all invested in heavily by Dalian Wanda), Dick Cook (CITIC), Studio 8 (Fosun), and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners (undisclosed investment from Alibaba as part of $300 million group funding round).
7. Legendary Entertainment Group Inc — Dalian Wanda Group purchased the major Hollywood studio for $3.5 billion in 2016
The takeover by Dalian Wanda in 2016 for $3.5 billion was the largest Hollywood-China deal to date.
As the Wall Street Journal reported, the deal “significantly expands Wanda’s presence in the global entertainment business, as it now owns one of the largest independent movie companies in Hollywood.”
China’s influence became apparent when Legendary Entertainment began planning to make more films in China, including a series of Godzilla films and a Chinese co-production starring Matt Damon titled “The Great Wall.”
(Have you wondered why “the bad guys are now often British, not Chinese?)
8. Smithfield Foods — Bought out by China’s WH Group (formerly the Shuanghui Group or “Shineway”) for $4.7 billion in 2013
Virginia-based Smithfield Foods owns a variety of household names, including Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs, Cook’s hams, Farmland, and Healthy Ones. Smithfield is the world’s largest hog farmer and pork processor, and its products are sold in approximately a dozen countries.
Shuanghui’s deal with Smithfield was the largest takeover of a U.S. company by a Chinese buyer.
(This will lead to CHINA getting preference in Meat supplies, come future SHORTAGES)
Notably, COVID-19 tore through Smithfield’s American processing plants leading to worker shortfalls and concerns that there may be a meat shortage in the U.S.
9. GE Appliances — China’s Qingdao Haier Co. Ltd. purchased General Electric’s appliances unit for $5.6 billion in 2016
Haier chairman Zhang Ruimin (also a party delegate to the 19th congress the Chinese Communist Party) plans to connect Chinese software with as many American households as possible, telling the South China Morning Post: “Imagine by touching the screen on your fridge, you can buy things from online shops … By using apps on your cellphone, you can check which laundry room close to you has washing machines available.”
With its purchase, Haier reportedly laid off more than 12,000 GE personnel and now owns approximately 15% of the U.S. appliance market.
10. Ingram Micro — HNA Group bought California-based IT company Ingram Micro in 2016 for $6 billion.
China’s HNA Group was founded in 1993 and grew exponentially over the next 20 years (thanks in part to a sizeable investment by billionaire George Soros). Ingram Micro touts itself as “the global leader in technology and supply chain operations” and the “leading global cloud ecosystem and digital commerce platform,” generating $50 billion in annual revenue from operations across six continents (customers in more than 160 countries). HNA now controls all Ingram Micro operations. (HNA previously held a 25% stake in Hilton Hotels and formed a partnership with ride-sharing app Uber, among other major U.S. investments).
11. Airbnb, Inc. — China Investment Corporation (CIC) invested $100 million in 2017
The Chinese Communist Party’s sovereign wealth fund (CIC) snapped up roughly 10% of Airbnb’s $1 billion funding round in March 2017. The deal, according to Sky News, underlined “the strategic importance to technology groups such as Airbnb of making strong inroads into the Chinese market.”
Notably, Airbnb pledged to donate $500,000 to Black Lives Matter and the NAACP amid the George Floyd protests. (NO SURPRIZE THERE>>>>>!!!)
To be Continued….
“It is very easy to get drunk with hate. Hate is like the glass of whisky which is given to the soldiers before a bayonet charge. Whisky stimulates but does not nourish.
Hate is not creative, only love is creative. These sufferings will not cause us to crumble but will help us, more and more, to become stronger. They are necessary—together with the sacrifices of others—so that the ones who come after us may be happy.”
Maximilian Kolbe, Auschwitz