*Snicker* An unexpected twist in this sprawling family saga…
[NYPOST] Hunter Biden was paid $1 million by Chinese firm CEFC to act as attorney for their employee, Dr Patrick Ho, but now Ho is threatening to sue the first son within seven days unless he gets the money back — because he claims Hunter did no legal work for him.
Ooooooooohhhhhhh…. But Hunter doesn’t have any money, so he’ll have to borrow it from the big guy…
Or his Sugar Daddy Attorney Remora Kevin Morris
Ho sent a legal letter to Hunter last week requesting that their attorney-client agreement be terminated immediately and threatening legal action unless he receives a detailed list of services provided by Hunter and reimbursement for the unused funds, as laid out in the 2017 contract.
Ho’s letter, sent by Hong Kong law firm Huen & Partners to Hunter’s attorney Abbe Lowell in Washington, DC, set a deadline of seven days for the repayment of any remaining funds.
"Patrick says he paid him, and that Hunter never did anything for him," a friend of Ho’s told The Post, "and that according to the contract the money should be reimbursed."
The $1 million legal retainer was wired from CEFC in China to CEFC’s Hong Kong HSBC account, and then, on November 2, 2017, to the American bank account of Hudson West III (HWIII) the firm Hunter co-owned with CEFC, and then to Hunter’s private firm, Owasco, according to his Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, tax indictment.
Ho was arrested in New York on November 18, 2017, as he got off a plane from Hong Kong.
The former Hong Kong Home Affairs secretary was convicted in 2019 for paying bribes to the presidents of Chad and Uganda. He was sentenced to three years’ jail before being deported to Hong Kong.
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Yes, irb. At this point it seems pretty clear Biden will not be impeached so wait until Trump appoints an AG who will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, an AG who will show Hunter the same consideration that Garland has shown the J6ers.
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[FoxNews] Garland appeared in Selma, Alabama Sunday alongside Vice President to mark the 59th anniversary of Blood Sunday.
That’s the Democrats: still fighting loudly about an issue resolved by the Republicans two generations ago.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in Selma, Alabama on Sunday where he pledged to fight voter ID laws and other election integrity measures that he deemed "discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary."
Their appearance marked the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama.
Speaking at a Selma church service to mark the anniversary of the attack by Alabama law officers on civil rights demonstrators, Garland recounted the history of voting rights since the end of slavery – a history which, he told the crowd, has "never been steady" for Black Americans and "other voters of color."
He lamented that in recent years, certain measures such as voter ID laws and redistricting maps have made it harder "for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect the representatives of their choice."
"Those measures include practices and procedures that make voting more difficult; redistricting maps that disadvantage minorities; and changes in voting administration that diminish the authority of locally elected or nonpartisan election administrators," Garland told worshippers at Selma's Tabernacle Baptist Church, the site of one of the first mass meetings of the voting rights movement. "Such measures threaten the foundation of our system of government."
Garland said the DOJ was "fighting back." He pointed to having doubled the number of lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, and his legal challenges to state and jurisdictions to implement when he deemed "discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes, and voter ID requirements. Polls consistently show that huge majorities of Americans favor voter ID.
"That is why we are working to block the adoption of discriminatory redistricting plans that dilute the vote of Black voters and other voters of color," he said, later adding that the DOJ "recognizes the urgency of this moment."
Garland's remarks come at a time when illegal immigration into the country is at historic highs.
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^ Or drive a car or fly or travel overseas or....
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03/04/2024 9:16 Comments ||
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For elections, I work the polls in a location that has two precincts. Everyone that comes in presents a license that we quickly scan a provide them with a ballot that is also scanned which locks the system so that they can’t get more than one. Thoth precincts are racially, ethnically, demographically and economically mixed. Everyone has a license or State ID. If it is expired, they get a provisional ballot. I don't know of any homeless folks at our polling location although there are certainly some in town. All of them have ID as smoking, drinking and welfare benefits are predicated of identification. What Garland is saying is demonstrably false and also a red herring. A low percentage of cheating is done a polling locations. The majority of illegal ballots for fake or ineligible ballots are absentee where ID is not an issue. In person cheating is probably more prevalent in states that facilitate issuing licenses to illegals.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
03/04/2024 10:00 Comments ||
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It is as they say Super, it isn't who gets the most votes it's who does the counting. And that is where the cheating seems to be happening according to the data. 3am spikes in demoncrat vote counts is pretty common nowdays.
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Take "mail-in" out of the equation. Absentee ballots must be collected at the voter's residence by a deputy sheriff will verify legal residence and valid ID at that time. Narrow time window for valid ballot pickup, no post-election deadline ballots accepted.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/04/2024 10:20 Comments ||
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Supreme Court just disapproved Colorado issue on Trump, 9-0.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
03/04/2024 11:35 Comments ||
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It's easy, pass a law that states must mirror rights requirements, so if you need an ID, background check etc for buying a gun, it's the same for voting:)
#12
Anyone who is too lazy and/or stupid to get an ID is too lazy and/or stupid to vote.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/04/2024 12:53 Comments ||
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An interpreter is available at the polls for Spanish speakers unable to read the ballot questions in English. Same for blind or otherwise disabled.
When I challenged this the last time around I was soundly thrashed by the poll watchers, verbally.
What was revealed later...the interpreters were volunteers from a NGO sponsored Spanish speaking
congregation church. They would get the voters nicely settled and relaxed, then tell them which boxes to check.
[RedState] Is any public figure having a worse start to the year than Fani Willis?
The once-lauded Fulton County prosecutor was billed as the savior of "democracy" not too long ago. The press were writing glowing profiles of her, supposing that her sheer girth of courage and expertise would ensure Donald Trump would never come near the White House again. She was going to put the former president in jail, avenging aggrieved Democrats and proving she was not a woman to be messed with.
That was the plan, at least, and you know what they say about plans.
Early in 2024, in an astonishing turn of events, it was revealed that Willis had committed adultery with an underling whom she hired with taxpayer money to help work the Trump case. Nathan Wade, the man in question, was allegedly paid higher than the market rate, raking in over $500,000. To compound the scandal, he used that money to take Willis on lavish vacations, going so far as to put expenses on his business credit card. Well, it was a business expense for him.
...The arrogance demonstrated by Willis has been simply astounding. She truly thought she was going to get away with pursuing the political prosecution of a former president despite having a closet full of skeletons. Instead, Willis has become the epitome of Democrat corruption, and her hubris has led her into a corner she won't easily escape. I wonder how many "affirmative action" appointees could withstand a close scrutiny?
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Everything about her is slathered in abuse of power. It may be her body wash. One of the fundamental issues is that she fundraised on the pledge to prosecute Trump. That is not something we want allowed for any DA. It swaps blind justice for a cash register.
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"her sheer girth of courage"
There's a girth there, but I don't think courage plays into it.
(slaps self)
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…how awful it must be to go from golden-ish girl to laughingstock in a few short months, poor dear…
beat Donald Trump for the very first time in the Washington, D.C., Republican primary Sunday night handing her what might be her only win heading into Super Tuesday.
The D.C. Republican Party reported Haley won 62 percent compared to Trump's 33 percent with only 2,035 voters participating. That makes Haley the first Republican woman to ever win a primary in U.S. history.
The result in D.C. comes one day after Trump's clean sweep of GOP primaries in Idaho, Michigan and Missouri on Saturday as he inches closer to a rematch with Biden in November.
Her win in Democrat-run and urban D.C. shakes Trump's stronghold on nearly every facet of the Republican Party, but it isn't expected to make a massive impact nationwide.
Trump and Haley were vying for the district's coveted 19 Republican delegates - out of 2,429 total to the Republican National Convention in July - in the race that came down to the wire. Now going into Super Tuesday, Trump has 244 delegates to Haley's 43 with 1,215 needed for the GOP nomination.
D.C. was seen as Haley's best shot at beating Trump in any primary race as the former president is expected to sweep the 15 upcoming Super Tuesday states.
[10 News] Washington is overwhelmingly Democratic, with just around 23,000 registered Republicans. In the 2020 election, Biden secured 92% of the vote in the district.
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Up until Trump, the GOP was considered the party of the establishment. It is now the party of the people. If Trump wins in November, maybe we will see Nicki and all the clowns evacuated by helicopter from the National Mall to NYC.
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Wait, there are 23,000 registered Republican voters in D.C.?
#22
The best thing that Congress could do is let congress critters vote from their home state. They would only have to appear once a year at the inauguration.
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From a week ago, what Mrs. Haley thinks she’s doing:
I’m a woman of my word. I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Trump and Biden.
In the next 10 days, 21 states and territories will speak. They have the right to a real choice, not a Soviet-style election with only one candidate. And I have…
[Eurasia Review] Public support from the West is growing for the Dutchman Mark Rutte to become NATO’s next secretary-general, but he will still need to secure crucial support among members from Eastern Europe.
The outgoing Dutch prime minister has been a top contender to take over Jens Stoltenberg’s spot at the helm of the Western military alliance for months now and even become an "official candidate", meaning he is seriously looking for support.
His path toward the NATO top job seemed to straighten significantly on Thursday (22 February) when Washington, London, and Berlin expressed their official backing, the first public support since he entered the race.
But it was quickly overshadowed by reports that Romanian President Klaus Iohannis could also throw his hat into the race.
Pundits in Romania suggest Iohannis is looking for a job as he has served two five-year terms and cannot run for president again when his term ends in December.
Whether he is serious or not, the mention of his name highlights that Rutte will have to convince the Eastern European NATO members to support him after they have been coveting the job for years.
The appointment of a new secretary-general follows an unofficial, informal, closed-doors process, including several criteria to be taken into account, like availability, gender, but also nationality, and national military spending, which makes it difficult to get a clear sense of who will take up the job.
Most importantly, backing by the United States, the largest defence spender and the biggest army in NATO is seen among members as almost a seal of approval.
Stoltenberg’s term is scheduled to end on 1 October, after ten years on the job.
Efforts to select the best-fitting replacement for the Norwegian have been inconclusive before. His mandate has been renewed several times already, including twice since the war in Ukraine started, as NATO members preferred to keep the alliance in a safe pair of hands in times of war.
East vs. West
Around the NATO defence ministerial meeting last week, Rutte’s bid had received backing from around two-thirds of NATO member, sources told Euractiv.
However, Rutte is facing two main hurdles: his nationality and the fact that he has never advocated for increased defence spending until recently.
Out of all the secretaries-general in the 75 years of NATO’s history, three came from the Netherlands, helming the alliance for over twenty years. Meanwhile, none ever came from the East.
Iohannis is from the East but is not too Russia hawkish and has always pledged to important defence spending.
Romania has been present in the alliance with Mircea Geoană, Stoltenberg’s deputy for close to five years, but the idea of proposing Iohannis as head of the alliance has been floated in the alliance’s corridors since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022 — albeit never publicly.
Other Easterners have also expressed interest, such as former Latvian prime minister and now Foreign Minister Krišjānis Kariņš, or Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, both seen as a good fit.
But for Western NATO members, naming someone from Eastern Europe, which is traditionally more hawkish toward Moscow, could send too strong a signal of confrontation to Moscow, while putting aside the China issue.
Turkey, on its end, argues it needs reassurance from Rutte that he would take the threat of terrorism seriously into account, and lobby to drop restrictions on export of weapons between allies.
Discussions among NATO members are continuing, with an agreement coming "soon", one diplomat told Euractiv, as the upcoming horse-trading over distributing the top EU jobs after the June elections, and the US elections may slow down or complicate the process.
People with knowledge of the process said the name would be revealed during the foreign ministerial meeting of 3-4 April, when officials and politicians will also celebrate the alliance’s 75th anniversary.
The next secretary-general would, however, only succeed Stoltenberg in the autumn, leaving the Norwegian to chair the leaders’ summit in Washington from 9-11 July.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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