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Overheard people in my neighborhood talking about this press conference yesterday while Lamestream Media ignored it. They said the Ukrainians were not shy at all about exposing Joe and Hunter.
If Joe is President, the entire nation will be considered corrupt to the outside world.
[American Action News] A recent press conference in Ukraine detailed new allegations of Biden family corruption. Ukrainian MP Andriy Derkach buttressed his claims with bank records and witnesses he says proves that individuals close to President-elect Joe Biden committed tax evasion:
Derkach links members of the president-elect’s inner circle to a transnational criminal scheme that stole millions from the Ukrainian people for the Biden family’s financial benefit. Townhall columnist Marina Medvin and others say Ukrainian speakers have confirmed the veracity of the video’s subtitles.
Derkach further discusses recordings of alleged conversations between then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-Ukraine President Petro Oleksiyovych about procuring coal and gas from Ukraine in a manner that enriched high-ranking officials both in Washington and Kyiv. At the same time, ordinary Ukrainians suffered the indignity of paying higher utility tariffs.
[NationalPulse] A delegation from a Chinese Communist Party-run think tank identified by the U.S. government as carrying out “undercover intelligence gathering” operations and seeking to coerce foreign actors into backing the Chinese Communist Party’s “preferred policies” met with Hillary Clinton and a host of high-level military leaders during the Obama-Biden administration, The National Pulse can reveal.
The exchange with the controversial group – China Association for International Friendly Contact (CAIFC) – occurred in October of 2009, while Clinton was serving as Secretary of State. The CAIFC delegation, composed of China’s former top military leaders, visited Clinton after stopping in Hawaii to meet with American generals.
“The leader of the Delegation of the CAIFC was [the] previous chief of the general staff of People’s Liberation Army Xiong Guangkai, the Secretary General was Vice Chairman of the CAIFC Li Xiaohua, and the main members include previous commander of air force Yu Zhenwu, previous commander in Lanzhou military region Li Qianyuan and previous president of National Defense University Pei Huailiang and previous commander of East China Sea Fleet Zhao Guojun,” CAIFC’s summary of the event notes.
In addition to meeting with the aforementioned Chinese military leaders, the U.S. government also identifies the CAIFC as an integral component of China’s United Work Front, which aims “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party.”
“The United Front strategy uses a range of methods to influence overseas Chinese communities, foreign governments, and other actors to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review commission’s report cautions.
The report singled out CAIFC, noting it is a “front” for the Chinese military:
While in Hawaii, the Chinese Communist Party delegation met with a group of several senior, retired American military officials led by Admiral William Owens. Owens was appointed by former President Bill Clinton to serve as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the second-ranking military office in the United States, in 1994.
“The senior generals of China and the United States had a frank and extensive discuss on furthering the relations between arms of China and the United States and exchanged their ideas on the issues of common interests,” CAIFC’s summary of the group’s exchanges described.
After departing Hawaii, CAIFC recounts how the delegations “headed toward and paid a visit to Washington and New York” where “Secretary of State Hilary and Assistant Secretary [Kurt] Campbell met with and entertained the delegation in the State Council respectively.”
The delegation later met with Obama-era Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn and then-Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright.
CAIFC’s report on the visit also reveals that among the bodies funding the exchange were China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) and the U.S.-based establishment think tank, Center for Strategic and International Studies. CUSEF, however, is a Chinese Communist Party-funded propaganda initiative chaired by Tung Chee Hwa, the vice-chairman of CCP advisory body the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and a former head of Hong Kong.
CAIFC’s report on the visit also reveals that among the bodies funding the exchange were China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) and the U.S.-based establishment think tank, Center for Strategic and International Studies. CUSEF, however, is a Chinese Communist Party-funded propaganda initiative chaired by Tung Chee Hwa, the vice-chairman of CCP advisory body the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and a former head of Hong Kong.
The foundation is a registered Chinese foreign agent that often targets American universities with offers to fund policy research, high-level dialogues, and exchange programs. While U.S. government officials were willing to accept their donations, many schools, including the University of Texas at Austin, have divested from CUSEF in light of these compromising ties.
According to Politico, a CAIFC-sponsored business aviation event was one of many “red flags from [the] State [Department] for proposals for paid speeches” from Chinese Communist Party-linked groups for former President Bill Clinton. Reportedly, the State Department blocked Bill Clinton from participating in the speech, which was declined on the basis of alleged scheduling conflicts.
This unearthed connection follows The National Pulse linking an Obama-era Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) board member and Brookings Institute Fellow to CAIFC, as Michael O’Hanlon visited the think tank in 2012.
[FreeBeacon] Georgia Democratic Senate hopeful Jon Ossoff promoted a Chinese state-run media outlet that has rebuffed U.S. lawmakers' demands to register as a foreign agent.
Months after leaving Rep. Hank Johnson's (D., Ga.) office—where he spent five months serving as a "national security aide" with top-secret clearance—in August 2012, Ossoff urged his Twitter followers to read Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese Communist Party-run propaganda organ.
Full disclosure: Rantburg used to get some of our articles from the Xinhua website, before we found better sources.
The Democrat has struggled to fend off GOP senator David Perdue's criticism of his ties to China. In July, Ossoff quietly disclosed receiving a payment from a Chinese-backed media giant, but has since refused to release private financial information from his foreign film company, Insight TWI. In addition, Ossoff's father—who has bankrolled the Democrat's political career—met with Chinese "dignitaries" after commissioning a 60-foot yacht from a China-based shipbuilder tied to Communist Party Officials.
Founded in 1931, Xinhua News Agency is the largest media outlet in China and serves as the communist nation's primary state-run mouthpiece, though it boasts that it will never "yield to the pressure of ideological stigmatization and political bias" in its Twitter bio. The outlet was chastised by U.S. lawmakers in January after paying the social media giant to promote posts that attacked pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
The outlet rebuffed a 2018 Justice Department order to register as a foreign agent. The Trump administration's order followed a bipartisan appeal from senators Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.).
While another Chinese state-run outlet—China Global Television Network—went on to register as a foreign agent in February 2019, Xinhua News Agency has thus far refused.
Ossoff came under fire for misrepresenting his time working in Johnson's office during his failed 2017 congressional campaign. While the Democrat claimed that he spent five years as a "national security aide with top-secret clearance," Ossoff later admitted that he worked full-time for Johnson for just two years and held top-secret clearance for only five months.
[Just The News] High court decision vacates two lower court rulings against Trump policy excluding illegal aliens from the population count on which apportionment of congressional seats is based.
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That ought to twist some knickers.
Not sure if it will be implemented, though.
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NY, CA, and quite a few other states were counting on these numbers for $, congressional seats
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CA is gonna be pissed. Without the inflated count with illegals, they will lose 3-4 congressional seats and a couple electoral votes
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When NY loses a seat in 2022, I just hope it's AOC's. She's not making too many friends on either side of the aisle and I've read an article or two speculating about this, so that's my hunch.
When MA lost a seat back in 2013 my congressman was Bill Delahunt (MA - 10th, now gonzo) and now it's Stephen Lynch's district (MA - 8th).
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God bless us (normies), every one!
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#7 this is a very small favor. The gutless Supreme Court just passed the buck and ducked what should have been a decision that resolved this problem once and for all.
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The fact that such a simple issue had to go all the way to the US Supreme Court is why the USA is absolutely doomed.
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Who is doing the counting and how many illegals have been prosecuted for lying on The census? Tiresome when honest people keep thinking the other side plays by the rules. They cheat at everything that doesn’t actually hurt them when they do!
[Behind the Black.com] How convenient: A comparison of the number of actual voters logged in Pennsylvania versus the number of votes counted has discovered a 200k discrepancy, with the number of votes exceeding the number of voters by that amount.
A comparison of official county election results to the total number of voters who voted on November 3, 2020 as recorded by the Department of State shows that 6,962,607 total ballots were reported as being cast, while DoS/SURE system records indicate that only 6,760,230 total voters actually voted. Among the 6,962,607 total ballots cast, 6,931,060 total votes were counted in the presidential race, including all three candidates on the ballot and write-in candidates.
The difference of 202,377 more votes cast than voters voting, together with the 31,547 over- and under-votes in the presidential race, adds up to an alarming discrepancy of 170,830 votes, which is more than twice the reported statewide difference between the two major candidates for President of the United States.
In other words, the count somehow found about 200K extra votes that do not belong to any known voters. We don’t know to whom these extra votes went, but who cares? They make the final tally very suspect.
The analysis was done by a group of Republican state lawmakers, who then said this:
"We were already concerned with the actions of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the Executive branch, and election officials in certain counties contravening and undermining the Pennsylvania Election Code by eliminating signature verification, postmarks, and due dates while allowing the proliferation of drop boxes with questionable security measures and the unauthorized curing of ballots, as well as the questionable treatment of poll watchers, all of which created wholesale opportunities for irregularities in the 2020 presidential election."
"However, we are now seeing discrepancies on the retail level which raise even more troubling questions regarding irregularities in the election returns. These findings call into question the accuracy of the SURE system, consistency in the application of the Pennsylvania Election Code from county to county, and the competency of those charged with oversight of elections in our Commonwealth.
"These numbers just don’t add up, and the alleged certification of Pennsylvania’s presidential election results was absolutely premature, unconfirmed, and in error."
That’s nice, but what is the state legislature going to do about it? It is their responsibility, and just whining about voter fraud allegations accomplishes nothing. They need to actually vote to decertify the election if they are convinced it "was absolutely premature, unconfirmed, and in error."
The problem of course is their Republican leadership, which doesn’t want to do that, because it might hurt the feelings of the Democrats. God forbid! It is all right to disenfranchise millions of Republicans and allow for election fraud, but allowing Democrat feelings to be bruised cannot stand!
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My guess is she is not cooperating and may have refused to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA). Her story must be kept from the Princeton, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford publishers. A speedy trial, justice, and freedom will escape her unless the Orange man, on his way out the door....
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She is so evil that she deserves whatever happens to her. She’ll have got her punishment, however non-judicial, even if the evidence only eventually comes out, just as it eventually did about President Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, Stalin, and all the rest.
[NOQreport] A majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives joined their Democrat colleagues in voting to override President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Attentions now turn to the Senate where it will face a tougher battle to get the necessary 2/3rds vote to override a presidential veto.
There were several objections about the bill from the President, but the most contentious issue is Section 230. He has called it a national security issue because the influence of foreign entities like the Chinese Communist Party over Big Tech “platforms” like Twitter and Facebook is reason enough to refine or completely remove the protections given to them by Section 230.
[EpochTimes] The upcoming runoff elections in Georgia will operate in the same manner as the Nov. 3 election, except for one minor change, a spokesperson from the secretary of state’s office says.
Counties are allowed to start tallying the absentee and mail-in ballots two weeks before the Jan. 5 runoff, the spokesperson told The Epoch Times.
This time, though, it will be required starting on Dec. 30, one week before Election Day. Consequently, results should be posted much more quickly than in November, when it took days before an unofficial result was available.
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[EpochTimes] Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones, a Democrat who is a supporter of President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , indicated recently that he may be open to running for election in 2022 to be the state’s secretary of state.
"A lot of people have been urging me to run for Georgia’s Secretary of State," Jones wrote on Twitter on Dec. 23.
"The people of Georgia deserve to have faith in the integrity of our elections again. It might just be time to help #DrainTheSwamp right here at home."
Jones, a lifelong Democrat, delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention on Aug. 24, in support of Trump’s reelection.
He believes there was fraud during the general election in November.
"There are too many sworn affidavits, there are too many people who have felt like their rights have been infringed upon, their voting rights," Jones told The Epoch Times during a rally in Washington on Dec. 12.
Trump referred to the current secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, as an "enemy of the people" and claimed that Georgia had a "fraudulent system" in late November.
Running the elections is one of the main responsibilities of a state’s secretary of state.
[EpochTimes] The House of Representatives voted late on Dec. 28 to amend the COVID-19 relief bill to boost direct payments to Americans to $2,000 from $600.
Of course they did. Now it remains to be seen what the Senate does.
A two-thirds majority was required to pass the bill, known as the CASH Act. It passed the Democratic-majority House in a 275—134 vote; the measure now heads to the Republican-majority Senate for consideration.
The bill would increase payments for adults and children from $600 to $2,000. People with income of up to $75,000 and married couples with income up to $150,000 would be eligible for the full amount. The amounts would decrease for those earning higher incomes.
The measure would also let adult dependents—such as college students or elderly or disabled adults—be eligible for both the $2,000 payments and the $500 payments that were authorized by the March CARES Act.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.06472 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... (N.Y.) said on Monday that he would try to pass the bill on Tuesday.
The move comes after President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... used the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to increase the stimulus payment amount to $2,000 and remove what he called "wasteful spending" from the relief bill.
"As President, I have told Congress that I want far less wasteful spending and more money going to the American people in the form of $2,000 checks per adult and $600 per child," Trump wrote in a White House statement late on Dec. 27.
The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 allows the president to make demands to Congress, although Congress ultimately decides whether they will accept his demands and any rescissions and vote on them.
[FreeBeacon] Among the indignities 12-year-old Anthony Washington endured at the church camp overseen by Reverend Raphael Warnock: counselors who tossed urine on him and locked him outside his cabin overnight.
Washington, now 30, recounted the events in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon and said his experience at the camp resulted in a 2003 lawsuit that ended two years later, when Washington says he and his family received a large financial settlement.
Washington’s account of the 2002 events provides the first direct insight into the alleged abuse and neglect that transpired at Camp Farthest Out, which Warnock oversaw as senior pastor of Maryland's Douglas Memorial Community church, and raises new questions for the Democrat, who is currently vying for a Senate seat in Georgia.
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But try reading any of this is in a majority of Local Newspapers here in GA.
It seems 2 years ago in the run up to the 2020 Election USA TODAY Media Network / Gannett Association bought up a number of the larger city GA media outlets. The other large ones (eg. AJC) are owned by Cox Enterprises, which is another Liberal Leaning group.
These News Monopolies need to be broken up, if Freedom of Speech & the Presses is to actually be practiced. Because as it stands about 10 US Media Groups control a majority of the what the public hears and read each day.
BTW: Foreign Ownership or control in these media groups runs high.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
