| From: Thomas M. | 3/10/2025 8:13:53 PM | | | | | | Newsom's ties to CCP under microscope in new book exposing alleged corruption
A new book sounding the alarm about corruption in California spends a chapter focusing on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s history with a nonprofit organization that the authors say served as a major "gateway" for corrupt CCP-aligned corporations to flood into the state.
In their book, "Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All," authors Jedd McFatter and Susan Crabtree write extensively about Newsom’s relationship with the Chinese community in the Bay Area and his ties to CCP businesses.
The book explains that Newsom came into office as San Francisco’s mayor in 2004 after receiving strong support from Chinese voters, enough so that he celebrated his victory in Chinatown and the authors write that from an early point in his tenure he was ready to "go full steam ahead with Chinatown’s interests."
One of those interests, according to Chapter 3 of the book, was a nonprofit organization initiative started by Newsom called ChinaSF that the book argues served as a gateway for CCP officials and Chinese criminals to exploit California.
The book describes a Newsom trip to China, where he was hosted in a Shanghai "clubhouse" by Vincent Lo, a Chinese businessman with deep ties to the CCP.
"It was during this meeting that Newsom and Lo hatched a long-?term plan to turn San Francisco into the premiere gateway through which Chinese companies could invest and expand their businesses in the United States," the book says. "Upon his return from China, starry-?eyed Gavin told his staff that he was going to set aside a couple of million dollars to set up a public-?private partnership called ChinaSF that would open the floodgates to Chinese money and business like never before. It turns out the young mayor wasn’t just blowing smoke: three years later, Newsom and Lo joined forces in Shanghai to co-launch ChinaSF."
The book says that ChinaSF impacted the Bay Area arguably "more than any other" program that Newsom created as mayor and that the initiative hauled in almost $5.5 billion of economic impact to San Francisco from 2008 to 2018 while recruiting 108 Chinese companies into the city.
The book alleges that during this time period, ChinaSF "helped several corrupt Chinese corporations come to America."
One of the several companies discussed in the book was Suntech, a Chinese solar company developed by the CCP that was personally recruited by Newsom into the United States, and he publicly praised the company’s CEO, Dr. Zhengrong Shi, multiple times, and made him an advisory board member for ChinaSF.
In addition to green energy companies who streamed through ChinaSF, real estate companies were also involved, and the book alleges that Newsom received over $23,000 in anonymous contributions from Chinese real estate company Z&L, whose billionaire owner was criminally sentenced for bribing a San Francisco government official.
Chapter 3, titled "Feeding the Dragon," goes into detail about a variety of potential red flags on Newsom’s ties with China, including ChinaSF being used as a "tool to build San Francisco into a global hub for biotechnology and pharmaceutical science."
"Dozens of Chinese biotech companies were drawn to the Bay Area with huge tax breaks and other incentives, but it appears that there was very little vetting," the book states. "One of ChinaSF’s most concerning recruits is the biotech company JOINN Laboratories, which has close ties to China’s military."
The authors also drew attention to the controversial connection between ChinaSF and Huawei, a company that has been involved in a myriad of questionable practices that have drawn scrutiny from U.S. presidential administrations, resulting in restrictions.
"However, no one seemed to notice when an infamous Chinese company became their top financial sponsor in 2016," the book says. "This might be because the U.S. government has long identified that company, Huawei Technologies, as one of China’s most dangerous tech companies. According to an internal report, ChinaSF hosted two events in 2016, headlined by Huawei, which led to Huawei establishing a new research and development office in San Francisco. The amount of money Huawei funneled to ChinaSF is unknown, but it’s worth noting that in 2016, Huawei generated more than $75 billion in revenue, so they had plenty of cash to flash around."
ChinaSF once described itself as a nonprofit, including on its now defunct website, the book explains, but between 2009 and 2014 it was a limited liability corporation whose only member was the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
"In other words, for a period of time, ChinaSF was a private entity embedded in a local chamber of commerce," the book says.
The chapter closes with a summary of why ChinaSF’s influence in the state deserves more scrutiny.
"Close analysis of available data reveals that most descriptions of ChinaSF by government and media have been vacuous and misleading,": the book says. "Essentially, ChinaSF is the branded name of a complex bureaucratic mirage used as cover to legitimize the massive transfer of Bay Area technology, property, and wealth to China while streamlining the establishment of Chinese business in the United States. It’s the secret elixir Newsom concocted to help transform San Francisco into the primary entry point and hub of China’s BRI in the United States."
"On the surface, the flurry of MOUs, press conferences, ribbon cuttings, and so forth – propped up by reassuring proclamations from chambers of commerce and government officials like Newsom – cohere into what may look like an innovative job-?generating public-?private partnership. But the deeper you probe into who’s funding ChinaSF, who’s failing to vet all the Chinese companies coming in, and who’s making money off the deals – you discover there’s no reasonable public accountability structure in place, not enough records for the public to review, and no clear explanations for why the San Francisco mayor’s office has a right to engage in risky subnational business schemes in some cases with People’s Republic of China criminals and shady Chinese firms who have exploited and damaged the US economy and fleeced American citizens with their fraudulent schemes."
foxnews.com
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| From: Savant | 3/13/2025 3:03:00 PM | | | | | | Republican Congress Pushes To DEPORT Ilhan Omar?! or Jail??...Married her brother to get him a green card...it appears and she also misused finance funds..and went to brother/husband?
**Biden's admin didn't do anything about it and like usual, the media suppressed the information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKzv9zzAP78
Ilhan Omar is FINALLY getting DEPORTED & REMOVED From Congress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKzv9zzAP78
Karoline Leavitt DESTROYS Ilhan Omar on Live TV AGAIN....and exposes the hypocrisy of the press..and does a very good job of it
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| From: Savant | 3/17/2025 12:07:46 PM | | | | | | Donald Trump Sends Warning To Enemies As He Says Biden Pardons Void /**time will tell
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the pardons issued by his predecessor are not valid because they were allegedly signed using an autopen—a device that replicates a person's signature.
Trump also warned members of the former January 6 House select committee that they would now be "subject to investigation at the highest level."
President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: "The 'Pardons' that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT because they were done by Autopen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them, but more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two-year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level. The fact is, they were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden!"
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| To: Savant who wrote (2712) | 3/17/2025 1:07:30 PM | | From: Stock Puppy | | | | Donald Trump Sends Warning To Enemies As He Says Biden Pardons Void /**time will tell
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the pardons issued by his predecessor are not valid because they were allegedly signed using an autopen—a device that replicates a person's signature. |
Re: President trump kvetching about Biden's things signed by autopen / so pardons are invalid:
This is actually quite brilliant by the President -
whether he wins or not, this is going to the courts
where EVERYTHING about Biden and his cognitive issues
(along with who actually was running the country) will come out.
It will also force the Democrats to focus on this issue instead of DOGE,
immigration and everything else.
He has them all out there,
steppin and fetchin
Like their heads are on fire
and their asses are catchin |
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| From: Savant | 3/18/2025 12:13:31 PM | | | | | | EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin ‘Intentionally Buried’ Inconvenient Study To Justify Major Energy Crackdown, Sources Say
The Biden administration deliberately buried a final draft version of a study that would have undermined its January 2024 decision to pause approvals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects, according to four Department of Energy (DOE) sources.
Former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and former President Joe Biden announced the LNG freeze in January 2024, stating that it would remain in place until the DOE could conduct a fresh study of the climate and economic impacts of LNG export growth. The Biden DOE finalized a draft of the study in 2023 and subsequently buried it because the initial version’s findings would have contradicted the administration’s rationale for the LNG freeze, according to four sources inside the Trump DOE granted anonymity by the Daily Caller News Foundation to freely discuss a sensitive matter.
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| From: Savant | 3/29/2025 3:28:29 PM | | | | | | President Donald Trump has officially revoked the security clearances of several prominent political opponents. The White House stated that it is "no longer in the national interest" for such individuals to access classified information. Most recently, Trump's revocations targeted former President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.We examine the decision in this photo gallery.
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| From: Savant | 4/10/2025 11:36:40 AM | | | | | | Biden Administration Concealed Congressionally Mandated Report on Earliest Suspected American COVID Cases
Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration concealed from the public.
The December 2022 report, which the Biden administration was required by law to release to the public over two years ago but didn’t, reveals for the first time that seven U.S. military service members contracted COVID-19-like symptoms during or after their participation in the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019—contradicting the Biden administration’s public claims in 2021 that there was no evidence that any American participants contracted the virus at those games. The revelation adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan for months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019 and further bolsters the growing consensus that it could have leaked into the human population from a Chinese lab.
The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act required the Biden administration to make its report on the 2019 Wuhan World Military Games "publicly available on an internet website in a searchable format" by the summer of 2022. Though the Biden administration transmitted copies of the two-page report to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in December 2022, it didn’t see the light of day until sometime in late March when the Trump administration quietly uploaded it to a Defense Department website.
The potential COVID-19 illnesses from the American participants in the Wuhan World Military Games appear to have been a closely guarded secret of the Defense Department. Chinese authorities have suggested since as early as February 2020 that America could have unleashed COVID-19 into Wuhan through their participation in the World Military Games.
The games were held within close proximity of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where Chinese scientists, backed by U.S. taxpayer funds, conducted risky gain-of-function research on the same sort of bat coronaviruses that caused the pandemic.
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