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"MENLO PARK, Calif.—One of California's newest residents recently stepped off a plane after a 16-hour flight from New Delhi." So reports the Wall Street Journal.
California's ruling class wants you to believe the state is thriving again. Their elites point to a small population increase and frame it as a comeback story. The corporate press is hailing it as proof of resilience. But peel back the layers of celebration and the truth emerges, that California's recent "growth" is less about revival and more about replacement. And one man's story exposes the entire deception.
The poster child of this trend is a little-known Indian tech executive named Nagendra Dhanakeerthi, a 39-year-old Indian national who landed in San Francisco in May and walked into a Silicon Valley boardroom just hours later.
The Wall Street Journal elevated his arrival to a symbol of California's rebirth, while AI Squared, the startup that imported him, positioned him as their extraordinary savior of innovation. What neither of them disclosed is how shaky the legal and factual foundation of his entry really is.
According to the Journal, Dhanakeerthi entered the United States under an O-1A visa, a classification reserved exclusively for individuals of extraordinary ability in the sciences, business or education, applicants whose work has garnered sustained national or international acclaim and must be recognized as among the very few at the top of their field.
That standard is not a formality. It is meant to reserve the program for the world's top minds – think Nobel Prize winners, published academics or inventors with global recognition. The bar is intentionally high: Nobel laureates, Fields Medalists, world-renowned academics or top 1% innovators.
But a comprehensive investigation into Dhanakeerthi's background, professional footprint and public presence turns up no evidence that he meets these requirements. He has never won a major international award. There are no scholarly publications in his name. He has not been profiled in peer-reviewed literature or cited for groundbreaking innovation. His resume shows stints at Indian fintech firms like Razorpay and Affle, followed by co-founding a modest startup called Multiwoven, which was later acquired by AI Squared, raising immediate questions about whether the acquisition was designed to manufacture "extraordinary" status to satisfy visa requirements.
While he lists himself as a "builder" with experience in startup ecosystems, Dhanakeerthi's actual work sits firmly in the middle tier of global tech labor, not at the apex. His inclusion in Forbes Technology Council is not a competitive accolade; it is a pay-to-join industry group known for offering "official member" status in exchange for fees. This further undermines any suggestion of elite or exclusive status.
In truth, the available record paints Dhanakeerthi as a journeyman engineer with a decent resume, but nowhere near the caliber the O-1A visa demands. The fact that he was granted this visa despite lacking the required credentials exposes how far the system has strayed from its legal intent.
AI Squared's participation in India's FOSS 2024 developer conference in Bengaluru also reveals deeper ties to India's workforce export infrastructure. The startup has embraced a transnational hiring model that taps into India's massive supply of visa-ready engineers, often displacing American talent in the process. Dhanakeerthi's own career path, from India to Dubai to California, follows a common foreign labor funnel, often backed by Indian consultancies and recruiting firms skilled in working visa systems for maximum gain.
That's what California is celebrating. Not opportunity for Americans, but the successful execution of a foreign labor scheme that leverages loopholes, lax enforcement and a system rigged in favor of foreign nationals over U.S. citizens.
There are thousands of equally or more qualified American engineers, many of them veterans, mid-career professionals or recent graduates who were never even given a chance. They don't get fast-tracked into six-figure jobs with startup equity. They don't get puff pieces in the press. Instead, they're told to learn to code while corporate America hires abroad.
This isn't "growth." It's corporate-engineered displacement, funded by companies, facilitated by foreign governments and quietly endorsed by America's own leaders. Dhanakeerthi is not an exception. He is the template.
When Kimura said, "We paid a lot of money to get him here," the American people should ask: Did that cost include a lawyer to exploit immigration loopholes? Did it include bypassing qualified American workers? And did it include a silent agreement that India's interests now matter more than America's?
While Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is publicly touting the population bump as a sign of California's comeback, maybe he should've picked a better poster boy than a visa-hopping tech bro from Bangalore. If a state's comeback story starts with a six-figure foreign import who needed a lawyer and a loophole to get the job, that's not rebuilding, that's outsourcing. Visa fraud and foreign labor pipelines aren't economic wins, they're surrender flags. This is not how to rebuild an economy. It's how a nation's people get replaced, one visa at a time.
And if this is Newsom's big audition for president, someone should tell him: Propping up your state with paperwork gymnastics and Silicon Valley spin isn't leadership, it's globalist cosplay. America deserves better than a governor who celebrates being replaced.
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A new media narrative has emerged claiming the president's speech patterns show that he likely is suffering "cognitive decline" – but the president with the supposed problem is the 47th, not the 46th.
Amid increasing agreement in establishment media that Joe Biden was not serving with a full deck in the White House, now the Daily Beast is hoping to shift that diagnosis to President Donald Trump.
Writes the site's chief national correspondent, David Gardner: "Donald Trump's rambling speeches and stream-of-consciousness press briefings could be symptoms of his 'cognitive decline,' according to one of America's top rhetoric experts."
Noting Trump's age when he began his second term, 78, Gardner notes, "His father, Fred, was reportedly diagnosed with dementia in the early 1990s and died of pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease at age 93 in 1999."
The Daily Beast quotes Jennifer R. Mercieca, professor of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University:
"His lack of focus makes it seem as though he's experiencing cognitive decline, that his brain is not well-disciplined, and he's unable to maintain a thought and carry it through to a logical conclusion," she said.
Mercieca, the author of "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump," added: "Trump sees himself as someone who is unscripted and not teleprompted. He likes to brand himself as a 'truthteller' who can and will say anything that comes to mind.
"Unfortunately, that makes his speeches difficult to follow as he digresses from thought to thought – seemingly connecting ideas at random."
The irony of Mercieca's analysis was not lost on X users. On posted: "Daily Beast From 2021-2025: The President is doing back flips and differential calculus just out of sight … we can barely keep up with him. Daily Beast Today: Forget what we just said."
X user Rusty Rockefeller addressed the premise of the report, saying, "You wouldn't know cognitive decline if it was shoehorned through a primary, and was in the White House for 3 and a half years only to be tossed on the curb after crumbling for a woman without any accomplishments."
Another user referenced an oft-mentioned excuse for Biden's speech difficulties: "It's just a stutter."
Meanwhile, the Daily Caller reported Wednesday that Trump has already become one of the "most accessible" presidents in modern history, with 111 media appearances in 138 days as president.
Reports the site, "The president's easy accessibility is a stark contrast from Biden, who held the fewest number of press conferences in modern times and had been hidden from the press by his aides to hide his cognitive decline, according to 'Original Sin,' a book written by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson."
Trump responded to 1,009 questions from journalists in his first month in office, which was seven times the amount of questions answered by Biden in that same period.
Notably, the 47th president does not use note cards with the names, photos and affiliations of reporters as a tool in press conferences, as did his predecessor.
The Daily Beast insists, however, "Trump has shocked audiences with sudden changes of subject and repeated topics and claims," specifically citing his weekend address to the graduating class at West Point.
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A nonprofit group that advocates for domestic energy production is calling on Congress to investigate several executive actions during the Biden administration, saying they should be declared null and void based on their allegedly being signed by an autopen.
As reported by Fox News, the organization, Power the Future, reviewed eight Biden executive orders that it says were significant shifts in domestic energy policy and said it found no evidence of the president speaking about any of them publicly, raising concerns that the orders were signed by autopen and that he was not aware of them.
"These are not obscure bureaucratic memos; these were foundational shifts in American energy policy, yet not once did Joe Biden speak about them publicly," Daniel Turner, founder and executive director of Power The Future, told Fox News Digital.
The specific orders cited by the group include an Arctic drilling ban in 2023, a 2021 executive order committing the federal government to net-zero emissions by 2050, an executive order mandating "clean energy" AI centers, and an offshore drilling ban executive order shortly before leaving office in 2025.
Power The Future contacted several federal agencies and House and Senate Oversight Committees, calling for an investigation to determine who actually drafted and approved the orders.
"In light of the growing evidence that actions purportedly taken by the former president may not have been approved or signed by him, but instead promulgated by a small coterie of advisers in his name without his knowledge or over his signature using an 'autopen,' the need for congressional access to information has grown in importance with these revelations," the letter to GOP House Oversight Chairman James Comer states.
"Congress deserves to know how or whether these executive actions were authorized, and whether the former President was aware of such orders before they were implemented by the federal bureaucracy. Were these actions taken on behalf of the president and purporting to execute his authority undertaken with the president's knowledge and approach? It appears incumbent upon Congress to inquire about all parties involved in these actions, who instructed them to do what, when."
On Tuesday, President Trump took to TruthSocial to highlight the autopen scandal, saying, "Other than the Rigged Presidential Election of 2020, the Biggest Scandal in American History is the 'AUTOPEN!'
"Whoever used it was usurping the power of the Presidency, and it should be very easy to find out who that person (or persons) is.
"They did things that a Joe Biden, of sound mind, would have never done, like Open Borders, Transgender for everyone, men in women's sports, and far more. Fear not, however, we will bring America BACK, BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!"
Comer has already identified five Biden aides allegedly involved in the cover-up of Biden's deteriorating cognitive abilities as well as the autopen scandal.
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Former FBI Director James Comey is blasting the top two officials at the bureau, Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, for their lack of experience as well as their re-examination of several unsolved cases, including cocaine found at the White House during Joe Biden's term in office.
On Monday, Bongino posted a message on X stating: "Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest. We made the decision to either re-open or push additional resources and investigative attention to these cases.
"These cases are the DC pipe bombing investigation, the cocaine discovery at the prior administration's White House, and the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case. I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress. If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us, then please contact the FBI."
Appearing with Wolf Blitzer on CNN Wednesday, Comey said: "It's a little confusing to me, honestly. I'm sure it's a huge adjustment to go from being a podcaster to being the deputy director of the FBI. But I don't understand this tweet."
"First of all, I assume that this investigation of the pipe bomb that was found on Jan. 6 was never closed. The FBI never closes such a thing. So I guess it means they're gonna focus on it more?
"And as to the other things, I thought that the Supreme Court marshal had investigated the leak of the opinion, the draft opinion. I don't know what the FBI's role is there.
"Cocaine at the White House, I thought the Secret Service investigated that. I don't follow it and understand it. I also don't understand who the audience is for this tweet. The FBI often calls for public assistance, or in matters of great public concern, will announce an investigation to reassure the public. This seems much more narrowly targeted, maybe to a former podcast audience."
Blitzer also played a May 8 clip of U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., asking Patel about the fiscal year 2026 budget request for the FBI, which Patel said was not ready at the time.
"I cringe at that clip," Comey remarked. "I actually feel kind of sorry for the guy. It's like showing up for a final exam with no pencils and no paper, and you didn't even know there was a final exam."
"Nothing in their life or in their career gives me confidence that they know anything about leading an organization like that. And so I would have serious doubts. I bet they do internally about whether they have doubts. Great. Let the people who know what they're doing give you advice and listen to them."
Online journalist Benny Johnson noted: "Disgraced James Comey is losing it on live TV over Dan Bongino and Kash Patel reopening investigations into the White House cocaine, the J6 pipe bomber, and the Dobbs leak. This is how you know they are right over the target."
Comey has recently come under fire for posting a photo of shells on the beach arranged to spell out the message: "86 47," which many have said is a threat to assassinate President Donald Trump.
Comey has claimed he thought it was a "political message," but did not believe it was any call to violence against the president.
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Who exactly is the person who controlled the use of Joe Biden's presidential autopen?
According to David Sacks, President Donald Trump's crypto and artificial intelligence czar, it was actually Democrat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts who ran the electronic signature device.
"SHHH DON'T TELL JOE!" said Jesse Watters of Fox News after Sacks spilled the beans on his "Primetime" show Tuesday night.
"David Sacks just said POCAHONTAS had the AUTOPEN and wasn't afraid to use it!"
Sacks claimed Warren ran the autopen due to her "pathological hatred of the crypto community."
"This is the financial system of the future, Jessie, and we have to encourage it. What the Biden administration was doing – and let's face it, it wasn't Biden – Elizabeth Warren controlled the autopen during that administration," Sacks said.
"She, for some reason, has this pathological hatred of the crypto community. She wants to drive this community offshore; she doesn't want it happening in the United States. That's the wrong policy for the United States.
"We want all the innovation happening here. This is a financial system of the future. It's cheaper, it's more efficient – we want it happening here, Jessie. And I think people are thrilled that President Trump is making that possible."
About two hours before Watters' program aired, Trump took to Truth Social to address the autopen mystery, saying: "Other than the Rigged Presidential Election of 2020, the Biggest Scandal in American History is the 'AUTOPEN!'
"Whoever used it was usurping the power of the Presidency, and it should be very easy to find out who that person (or persons) is.
"They did things that a Joe Biden, of sound mind, would have never done, like, Open Borders, Transgender for everyone, men in women's sports, and far more. Fear not, however, we will bring America BACK, BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!"
House Oversight Chairman James Comer has already identified five Biden aides allegedly involved in the cover-up of Biden's deteriorating cognitive abilities as well as the autopen scandal.
On May 22, he sent letters to President Biden's physician and former White House aides demanding they appear for transcribed interviews.
Comer is demanding testimony from Biden White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor, former Director of Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden, former Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser to First Lady Jill Biden Anthony Bernal, former Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, former Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Oval Office Operations Ashley Williams.
Comer said: "The cover-up of President Biden's obvious mental decline is a historic scandal. The American people deserve to know when this decline began, how far it progressed, and who was making critical decisions on his behalf.
"Key executive actions signed by autopen, such as sweeping pardons for the Biden Crime Family, must be examined considering President Biden's diminished capacity. Today, we are calling on President Biden's physician and former White House advisers to participate in transcribed interviews so we can begin to uncover the truth.
"In the last Congress, the Biden White House blocked these individuals from providing testimony to the Oversight Committee as part of the effort to cover-up Biden's declining health. Any continued obstruction will be met with swift and decisive action. The American people demand transparency and accountability now."
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The FBI is being instructed to investigate the recent chaos in Seattle where rallying Christians were attacked by leftists, and the city's mayor then blamed the Christians for being attacked.
A report at the PostMillennial explains that Dan Bongino, deputy director, has asked the bureau to begin investigating the fracas on Sunday in which Mayday USA, a Christian organization, obtained a permit and held an event in Cal Anderson Park.
Leftists, including antifa, arrived to counter-protest and "then attacked the Christians." Twenty-three arrests were made.
Bruce Harrell, the far-left mayor of Seattle, admitted the Christians were attacked, but wildly claimed they were "far-right" and had no business holding an event in the park because of the presence of the city's LGBT community.
"We have asked our team to fully investigate allegations of targeted violence against religious groups at the Seattle concert. Freedom of religion isn't a suggestion," Bongino explained.
A subsequent protest at City Hall to express opposition to the mayor's anti-Christian statements also resulted in multiple arrests.
Harrell's claim? "Today's far-right rally was held here for this very reason – to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city's values in the heart of Seattle's most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood."
His rant continued, "When the humanity of trans people and those who have been historically marginalized is questioned, we triumph by demonstrating our values through our words and peaceful protest – we lose our voice when this is disrupted by violence, chaos, and confusion."
Christians on Tuesday who protested Harrell's anti-faith statements were themselves "protested" by antifa and activists for transgender beliefs.
The report pointed out that it actually was the city that had recommended the park for the event.
A report from Fox News said the original event was a "Don't Mess With Our Kids" rally held by Mayday USA.
Leftists converged on the scene and then created violence.
The latter protest of the mayor's comments, which organizations described as religious bigotry, was called "Rattle in Seattle" and focused on criticizing the mayor's attack on the First Amendment.
"Following the MayDay USA worship event at Cal Anderson Park on Saturday, Mayor Harrell had the audacity to issue a press release blaming Christians for the premeditated violence of Antif,a which resulted in the hospitalization of Seattle Police Department personnel and the arrest of 23 Antifa agitators," the organizers said in a statement. "Under Mayor Harrell's leadership, the city of Seattle has continued its spiral into lawlessness and dysfunction while the First Amendment rights of citizens to peacefully assemble have been disregarded."
The mayor's office, in turn, released comments from multiple leftist religious officials supporting his comments.
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A Texas school district has blinked in its battle over a student's typed Bible verses she wanted to hand out to classmates.
According to a report from the American Center for Law and Justice, officials in the Killeen Independent School District have confirmed a reversal of their policy that had been used to deprive a 5th-grade student with special needs of the right to share Bible verses with classmates.
"After swift legal intervention from our team, the school district acknowledged that students have the right to distribute religious materials during non-instructional time," the organization reported. "This is more than just a policy change – it's a clear affirmation that students do not lose their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate."
The case developed when "a young girl, deeply rooted in her Christian faith and motivated solely by love and sincerity, began sharing typed Bible verses on little strips of paper with classmates during recess, lunch, and after school."
Everything the girl did was outside classroom instruction time.
However, she was reprimanded by her principal and her materials were confiscated in a confrontation that was triggered by school officials on May 12.
Her offense was that the materials "contained Scripture," the ACLJ report said.
"This little girl was deceived by the principal into thinking the principal wanted to hand out these strips of 'joy' when, in reality, the principal was suppressing her speech. The justification? Hypothetical complaints from parents – complaints that were never made," the report said.
The ACLJ was told by the student's foster mother of the constitutional violations at the district and immediately dispatched a demand letter.
"We were prepared to take legal action, including completely drafting a lawsuit in case the school district wanted to close ranks and erroneously protect unconstitutional conduct by its administrators and teachers," the report said.
As the minutes wound down to the deadline for the school to respond, its lawyer, Mike Harper, approached the ACLJ with a letter explaining, "I discussed with the principal that a student may distribute religious materials during non-instructional time, when the distribution does not interfere with work in the classroom. I explained that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held in a similar case that a student may be allowed to distribute religious messages and that Killeen ISDS Board Policy has incorporated the holding of this case and its progeny… Based on the law in the Fifth Circuit and Board Policy, we further discussed that if a student brings small slips of paper with Bible verses to distribute to classmates, she should be allowed to distribute these during non-instructional time."
The ACLJ point out that it actually is the U.S. Supreme Court, in Tinker v. Des Moines, that established that students retain their First Amendment rights in public schools.
The legal team explained, "The Constitution does not permit a 'heckler's veto' – silencing speech just because someone might be offended."
"This incident is part of a disturbing trend. Across the country, we're witnessing growing hostility toward religious expression in public schools. Too many administrators operate under the false belief that faith must be excluded from the classroom entirely. That's not just wrong – it's unconstitutional," the ACLJ said.
WND reported when the fight arose that the student's mother, in fact, "explained to school officials that her daughter had a 'constitutional right to distribute religious literature and share her joy and faith during non-class time.'"
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The American people have lost jobs. They've watched industries shipped overseas, their towns hollowed out by corporate greed and globalist interests. But most Americans still don't know the latest betrayal: Both Democrat and Republican state governments are now fueling that collapse with American workers' retirement savings.
According to India's Consul General Ramesh Babu Lakshmanan in Atlanta and U.S. Consul General Mike Hankey in India, states like California, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida and Tennessee have invested over $50 billion directly or indirectly into India. On top of that, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation has injected another $4 billion.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. U.S. pension and endowment managers now control $1.8 trillion in assets targeted for even deeper exposure to the Indian economy. Consul General Hankey, who led the "Building Financial Futures" roadshow with India's Ministry of Finance, called the plan a "win-win." He boasted that top executives from U.S. public pension funds representing all 50 states had come together to "boost U.S. investment into India."
"It is going to deliver good returns for hard-working Americans," Hankey declared. "At the same time, it's going to enable and accelerate what India is doing as it grows and as its stature in the world grows."
America's own diplomats are now championing this offshoring agenda
U.S. Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti has told investors to embrace India as the future: "If you want to see the future, come to India. If you want to feel the future, come to India. If you want to work on the future, come to India."
India's ambitions aren't hidden. As laid out by India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, the playbook is simple: "The weaker player solicits or manipulates stronger forces to its advantage". This is not a defensive posture, but a calculated, opportunistic game; India plays every side, commits to none. The goal isn't alliances, but leverage.
Jaishankar's doctrine rejects traditional partnerships, exploits global rivalries and treats the West not as a friend, but as a tool for India's advancement. As U.S. pension dollars pour into India, American retirees are being forced to bankroll a foreign government that sees them not as allies, but as a means to its own rise.
Ambassadors like Garcetti, after praising India's economic "miracle," now frame investment in India as the next patriotic move for Americans looking to leave China behind. But in reality, the only winners are the global investment firms, foreign governments and corporate elites orchestrating the largest transfer of American wealth, jobs and opportunity in recent history.
India's government, its politicians and corporate backers repeat the same message: To outcompete China, America must build up India. Jaishankar's own book, "The India Way," makes it clear that India's rise is built on exploiting rivalries and drawing in Western capital, never on genuine partnership or shared sacrifice.
Ambassador Eric Garcetti has encouraged deeper ties with India, describing the country as a democratic alternative to China. But the question remains: What is the long-term cost of duplicating the China strategy with another foreign economic giant?
America funds its own decline: U.S. pension cash flows to Indian industry
The United States has become the largest foreign portfolio investor into India making up over 39% of assets under custody for India. These include equities, private equity partnerships, real assets and early-stage ventures that directly or indirectly benefit from offshored U.S. labor and government contracts.
Funds such as Florida's SBA have committed $300 million to $500 million through Asia Alternatives. California's CalPERS, alongside pensions in New Jersey and New York, have funded Indian equities, tech hubs and logistics startups through opaque partnerships with Indian capital firms. These platforms often invest in firms that are direct beneficiaries of outsourcing arrangements from American companies.
Trade & Investments: India and South East USA
$300 million in Pennsylvania teacher's pension funds Invested in troubled firms in India
Fraud and systemic risk: Will Americans ever see those returns?
India's stock markets have posted record growth, but beneath that boom lies a dark reality. On average, over 400 stock-related fraud complaints were filed daily in 2024. Cyber fraud jumped fourfold and unsanctioned trades by brokers hit record highs.
According to the PwC India 2024 survey, 59% of Indian companies experienced economic fraud, compared to a global average of 41%. Procurement scams, bribery and cyber fraud dominate India's corporate landscape.
Hankey claims India is "stable" and "transparent." Yet only 2% of Indian financial influencers are registered and 63% fail to disclose financial ties. India's securities fraud is not just frequent, it is systemic and even regulators warn that investor trust is on the verge of collapse.
Scam after scam has defrauded U.S. citizens and global investors alike:
And the list goes on and on.
India's Stock Market Mania Sparks Surge in Financial Frauds and Cybercrimes
The investments raise questions of legality, ethics and public trust. And the scale and structure of these investments raise multiple red flags. U.S. fiduciaries are legally obligated to act in the best interest of beneficiaries. Investment decisions must be based on transparency, risk mitigation and long-term security. To date no official has yet explained how funding India's digital economy, infrastructure and workforce aligns with the economic interests of American workers and retirees.
Yet these funds are being invested in foreign markets with high systemic risk, including:
Worse, many of these investments are funneled through black-box intermediaries like Asia Alternatives, Blackstone and private equity firms that do not disclose their full holdings, leaving pensioners and taxpayers in the dark.
Exporting your future: What America loses every time India wins
This is no longer a trade debate. This is about state-sponsored capital transfer where American cities, schools and workers are stripped of their economic base while foreign governments grow stronger using U.S. dollars.
As American families struggle to pay rent, get healthcare and afford college, their own government is funding India's rise, not their own. As workers lose jobs to H-1B visa holders, Indian firms grow richer funded by U.S. pension capital. And while Indian billionaires profit, America's middle class is being erased.
As one Indian official proudly stated, the influx of U.S. pension funds will allow India to "unlock $800 billion in infrastructure development over the next decade."
That's $800 billion not invested in American bridges, broadband, manufacturing or workers.
That's $800 billion diverted from the future of American retirees, children and veterans into the coffers of a foreign state that openly says it wants to replace the West as the global rule-maker.
This is not a partnership. It is a hostile economic takeover sponsored by the very people elected to defend Americans. The final question is not whether this strategy helps India. It clearly does. The question is: Who in Washington will stand up and stop it?
The people responsible for undermining your retirement security, shipping your jobs overseas, and selling out our country for foreign gain are counting on your silence.
Don't let them get away with it.
Follow my ongoing investigations at WND.com and stay tuned for more exposés uncovering how global power games, foreign manipulation and corrupt policymaking are dismantling America from the inside.
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There have been plenty of anti-Trump performers who have chafed at the president taking an active role at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.'s premier cultural venue, including some whose opposition resulted in the cancellation of a performance of the hit musical "Hamilton."
But now a legendary Tony-winning Broadway actress is resorting to violent language, saying the facility now "should get blown up."
In a recent interview, Patti LuPone, a three-time Tony winner and two-time Grammy awardee, also said New York should secede from the Union. Lupone's remarks were reported in The New Yorker Monday.
In February, Trump took action to "dewokify" the Kennedy Center, posting to Truth Social:
"I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture. We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP! Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP. The Kennedy Center is an American Jewel, and must reflect the brightest STARS on its stage from all across our Nation. For the Kennedy Center, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!"
The New Yorker interviewer reported:
[Lupone is] even angrier at the rest of the country. She told me, more than once, that the Trumpified Kennedy Center "should get blown up." In the S.U.V., apropos the current Administration, she pronounced, "Leave. New York. Alone. Make it its own country. I mean, is there any other city in America that's as diverse, as in-your-face? It's a live-or-die city, it really is. Stick it out or leave." The car dropped her off at a restaurant on the Upper West Side. She asked for sherry – she'd discovered it while doing "Les Misérables" in England in the eighties – but the bartender said that they didn't carry it, so she settled for a glass of rosé, with a side of ice cubes.
The Gateway Pundit notes that LuPone went viral in 2017 for calling Trump a "motherf–-er" on the Tony Awards red carpet.
The Trump-run Kennedy Center has noticeably turned a corner regarding its cultural offerings. It is hosting a free family screening of "The King of Kings" at the Concert Hall on June 1. The Christian film takes audiences on a "Journey through history alongside a young boy as he witnesses Jesus' miracles, trials, and ultimate sacrifice."
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An Illinois man is fighting a subpoena from officials in Riverview, Missouri, who have demanded he appear before them and answer questions on their claims of "inciting violence" and "cyber bullying" after he went online and posted a joke about the town mayor, Michael Cornell.
And now the Institute for Justice, which has successfully fought similar battles, has written to the mayor and the town board warning them it appears as if they are retaliating against the man, James Carroll, based on his speech in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
The legal team explained it has written to Riverview officials with the message, "The First Amendment is a bulwark against thin-skinned government officials abusing their authority to punish their critics."
It was IJ lawyer Ben Field who added, "You can understand why an elected official would be tempted to retaliate against somebody making a joke at their expense, which is why the Constitution stands in their way."
The IJ is calling for officials to rescind their subpoena and halt their retaliation.
"Joking about elected officials is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, making Riverview's attempt to punish James a flagrant violation of his constitutional rights and an affront to a core tenet of American democracy," the IJ noted.
"James wrote his joke poking fun at Cornell on the website Nextdoor in early April. Days later, on April 15, and again on April 16, James found a subpoena on his door from the city of Riverview. The subpoena demanded James appear at a Riverview meeting to testify on several allegations, including that he cyber bullied Riverview residents, threatened a city official, and that he defamed someone's character," the organization revealed.
James sued the city to quash the subpoena, and a hearing is scheduled soon.
"The First Amendment prohibits the government from censoring protected speech. That includes retaliating against the speaker. The courts have been clear about this issue. In a very similar case to this—one which IJ argued—the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a joke published online was fully protected by the First Amendment," the IJ said.
In that case, the court said, "[t]he First Amendment's protections apply to jokes, parodies, satire, and the like, whether clever or poor taste."
Field explained to city officials: "It appears that Mayor Cornell issued this subpoena in response to Mr. Carroll's online joke—putatively to investigate the joke, but also with the (likely intended) side effect of inconveniencing Mr. Carroll by compelling him to travel to Riverview to attend a hearing where he would be confronted by City officials about his joke. If that is correct, and the subpoena was indeed retaliation against a joke about a public official, then it is plainly a violation of the First Amendment."
The letter said, "The subpoena hints at some categories of speech that are not constitutionally protected, but it is obvious that none of them applies to an innocuous joke like Mr. Carroll's. For instance, the subpoena mentions '[s]lander and [d]efamation.' But when it comes to public figures like an elected mayor, there can be no defamation without 'actual malice—that is, with knowledge that [the statement] was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.' Here, Mr. Carroll's joke made no statement of fact at all—at most, it implied an opinion based on prior allegations against Mayor Cornell. The subpoena also hints that Mr. Carroll's joke was somehow responsible for '[i]nciting violence.' But, as for defamation of a public official, the constitutional standard for incitement is demanding. It is satisfied only when 'advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.' A (rather mild) online joke comes nowhere near meeting that high bar."