Hunter Biden's investment firm partnered with a Chinese company to buy the world's larges cobalt mine from an American company in 2016
Biden was one of three Americans who founded the BHR private equity firm with Chinese partners in 2013
The firm helped buy out a minor stakeholder in the Congo's Tenke Fungurume cobalt mine to help China Molybdenum buy it from Freeport-McMoRan
The $3.8 billion deal helped secure China's dominance over the precious metal, which is one of the key components of the batteries used for electric vehicles
Earlier this year, Biden had warned that America's electric car development could be threatened by China's control over cobalt
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Curiouser and curiouser. FCX is Louisiana-based. Why did they sell the mine? Even if it made sense for them to focus on their core metal, copper, why were they permitted to sell it to the Chinese?
Oh, 2016... got it. That would be when Plugs was VP and he and the Crackpipe Kid were flying around the world on Air Force Two, doing deals with state bandits, sniffing hair and snorting coke
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Plugs was VP and he and the Crackpipe Kid were flying around the world on Air Force Two, doing deals with state bandits
And "Madame Secretary" was doing the Uranium One deal...
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Is there any way to reverse these ‘sales’?
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Nationalize the mine.
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That's what Xi would do.
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If it was the real America of Reagan, he would shit himself, because the "Big Guy" would not put up with Xi's Bullshit.... Wimps you all are ...take the last of your testosterones' amd make something happen good...burgers
[FoxNews] Mayor Lori Lightfoot claims the "root causes" of crime are complex -- and accuses a city alderman of being "ill-informed" about the topic.
During the past month or so, thieves have struck at least seven times at stores in the city’s most upscale neighborhoods, according to the station.
George Cardenas, a city alderman, says such incidents are part of a "crime pandemic" sweeping the city. That pandemic also includes a murder rate that is up 3% so far over last year and 59% over 2019, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
That rise in murders comes despite Chicago police Supt. David Brown making a murder-rate drop one of his chief goals after taking the job in April 2020, the newspaper reported.
Chicago has also seen nearly 4,000 people shot this year, also an increase from last year. And carjackings are up more than 30%, with more than 1,800 such incidents this year, the Sun-Times reported.
Cardenas is calling on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to dump Brown and his leadership team if the situation doesn’t improve soon.
"They need to step it up in a big way and stop this crime pandemic themselves," Cardenas told the Sun-Times last week. "They need to find a way to recruit more people. That’s on them. The mayor can only do so much."
"You’ve got to make changes when things aren’t working out," he added later.
Lightfoot, however, dismissed the criticism from Cardenas, blaming the city’s crime problem, in part, on the coronavirus pandemic.
The crimes have occurred mostly in the Magnificent Mile area, the popular shopping and tourism area that includes Michigan Avenue and nearby streets in the downtown section.
Other crimes have taken place in the Near North Side district, a short distance away from the Magnificent Mile.
Lightfoot, a former Chicago Police Board president, supported Brown for the city’s top police job after his predecessor, Eddie Johnson, was found drunk inside his vehicle in 2019.
But some city aldermen have complained that Brown has been too low-profile during important incidents such as a police-involved shooting of a 13-year-old boy.
The mayor defended her appointee by noting that all city crime was down under Brown, except for murders, shootings and carjackings, the Sun-Times reported.
[CFP] Sherronna Bishop, founder of America’s Mom (voting integrity group)
— FBI raided her home with a battering ram and she was handcuffed in her front yard because of her political activism and support for Trump.
"I’m a very public figure. I make myself available to anyone who has questions, be it law enforcement, elected officials or regular everyday people... I have always been available, and yet they chose to come to my home in this way, break down my door, terrorize my family, and put me in cuffs, and I cannot help but think this was a major intimidation move because they did not do this with anyone else that was on that warrant." Video interview w/ Steve Bannon at link.
Come 2023, IF the new (R) lead Congress is allowed to take office.
Given the well earned perceived public view that the DOJ/FBI fails to apply US LAWS in a equal non-political manner, and their POLITICAL application of force.
A detailed “ALL Hands” review of the leadership needs to be done and the few violators reeled in quickly.
Also a maybe a strengthen rewrite of the loyalty Oath of Office for all employees and agents. A new oath requiring equal NON-POLITICAL law enforcement and providing a means of private reporting of staff in violations the IG.
Note: I suspect, in all actuality we are looking at likely less than 100 violators out of 30,000+/- that need to be criminally charged to flush out the Political Hacks and fix things.
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You never hear of FBI agents, at any level, refusing the vax. No manpower shortage.
The FBI is rotten to the core. They are the Deep State’s legal enforcers of policy.
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FBI blurb: "Did you know that the FBI was recently named as one of DiversityJobs’ Top Employers for 2020 in government? That’s not surprising given our concerted efforts in promoting diversity throughout our workforce and ensuring fairness and equality for all employees. We’ve also been named one of the Top 20 Government Employers by Woman Engineer magazine in its Spring 2020 issue and one of the Top Government & Law Enforcement Agencies by the Black EOE Journal. We’re proud to be recognized as an employer who has shown consistent outreach and dedication to hiring from all diversity groups and will continue to promote equality and inclusion in all that we do."
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Bertie Crains2651. Diversity doesn't tell me a damn thing about one's work ethics, morals, honesty and commitment to the constitution.
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Very picky George, our new aristocracy doesn't need any of that "white supremacist" personal characteristics, they are entitled based on the virtue of being not-white alone! Silly old school attitude, clearly you need more indoctrination to the new normal.
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So why is it the FBI is happy to go after conservatives. They went after the 6 Jan event and Ritterhouse. Why did they not use the drones and go after the BLM and Antifa? They had it all on enhanced video...
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Kenosha and Jan 6th - they didn't want to expose their own undercover agent provocateurs
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they didn't want to expose their own undercover agent provocateurs
Sounds believable. Isn’t that what they said about the ‘68 protests, too?
They have a great deal more on enhanced video which the public will never see. Some of that video they probably use to blackmail public figures, like congressmen and supreme court justices.
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[Federalist] A complaint alleges Pennslyvania election officials were tearing tapes 'into pieces and placing ... them into the trash stating they will have a campfire to burn the data.'
Several residents of Delaware County Pennsylvania (i.e. SW Philadelphia) filed a sprawling lawsuit Thursday against the former Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, Delaware County, the Delaware County Board of Elections, and more than a dozen individual election officials. The lawsuit followed Wednesday’s night release of videotapes taken by a whistleblower capturing concerning behavior by several election officials in the Keystone state.
A source familiar with the lawsuit provided access to the tapes, noting the then-unnamed whistleblower had come forward with video evidence purporting to show Delaware County, Pennsylvania election officials destroying records from the November 2020 general election. The videos were also filed with the complaint and a bevy of exhibits the plaintiffs maintain support the allegations contained in their 91-page complaint.
The complaint, filed by Delaware County residents, Ruth Moton, Leah Hoopes, Gregory Stenstrom, as well as the Friends of Ruth Motion campaign, prevented both detailed alleged violations of state election law during the November 2020 election and claims of a conspiracy after the election to hide the numerous problems and illegalities that occurred during the last presidential election.
While the minutia of the election law recited in the complaint may escape the public’s notice, allegations that the defendants conspired to destroy or alter election data, materials, and equipment, "to prevent the discovery of the fraudulent results of the November 3, 2020 election, and the violation of various state and federal election laws," when coupled with the videos, may finally awaken the sleeping masses to the cause of election integrity.
A May 21, 2021 request for 2020 election data and information submitted to Delaware County under Pennsylvania’s Right to Know Law served as an impetus for the alleged conspiracy and cover-up, as the complaint told the story.
A week later after the Right to Know request, a conversation is captured between two individuals, identified by those with knowledge of the lawsuit, as James Allen, the Director of Election Operations for Delaware County, and Jim Savage, identified by Delaware County’s directory as the Chief Custodian/Voting Machine Warehouse Supervisor.
In that video provided to The Federalist, Allen is heard telling Savage, "Then get rid of the pads and the second scanners."
"We can’t talk about it anymore," Savage replies, with Allen questioning, "Why?" "It’s a felony," Allen countered.
The complaint added more texture to this video, alleging that Savage then "encouraged a private conversation to continue the conversation of the removal of the pads and scanners due to other Delaware County employees and [contract employee] Regina Miller," being present.
The following month the whistleblower filmed a conversation she had with another Delaware County official, James Ziegelhoffer, according to a source with knowledge of the lawsuit. Ziegelhoffer, also known as Ziggy, held the position of "Judge of Election" for the Western Precinct in the Media Borough.
This tape purports to capture Ziggy saying, "What we have here . . . is evidence. Right? Let them figure that out."
The whistleblower interjects, "Yes, but what I don’t understand and this makes — honestly this makes me nervous. Is why tapes were being thrown away?"
Ziggy begins to deny the claim, "No, no tapes were," when the Whistleblower cuts him off:
"No, you guys have been throwing away tapes ... so what tapes are you throwing away? Like why?"
"They’re all unidentifiable," he counters before the whistleblower interrupts again:
"But it’s been that way since the November elections, so why would you throw anything away. Because you have to save it for 22 months," the unnamed source is heard saying in the video, a reference to federal retention mandates.
"Yes there are tapes that are being tossed," Ziggy finally acknowledges, but adds, "but they are of no audit value."
A third video appears filmed in the same large room and captures a man identified by individuals with knowledge of the lawsuit as a Delaware County lawyer, Tom Gallager. As Gallager tears the tapes from the voting machines and discards them, the whistleblower can be heard asking: "Tom, why do you have to rip it up? Makes you feel better?"
"At this point," Gallager replies, "I don’t want anybody to pick it up, and thinking we threw stuff away."
"We’re gonna have a little campfire going," Ziggy adds.
[Just The News] Even as the Department of Justice Inspector General released a report this week criticizing the politicization of the department, the FBI on Tuesday raided the homes of a Republican election official and several of her associates in Mesa County, Colo., in connection with a dispute about efforts to preserve 2020 election files.
In collaboration with state and county law enforcement, the FBI raided the homes of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert's former campaign manager Sherronna Bishop, and two others.
The FBI operations targeting skeptics of the 2020 election results follow the bureau's raids earlier this month on the homes of conservative guerrilla journalist James O'Keefe and several of his associates with Project Veritas.
Numerous elected officials, reporters, and the American Civil Liberties Union have voiced their concerns about potential infringement of press freedom by the FBI and Justice Department in the O'Keefe raid. These fears were exacerbated when information collected in the raid was published in the New York Times, which has been defending itself against a lawsuit filed by Project Veritas.
[Wash Times] Can you smell the sinking ship rats?
Longtime U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson announced her retirement from Congress on Saturday, putting an end to a 30-year political career.
The Texas Democrat, who has represented the Dallas area for three decades, said she will be seeking a female replacement upon her intent to leave office.
"I will retire and I will recommend to you who is the best to follow me," Mrs. Johnson, 85, said, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Mrs. Johnson is the latest in a string of House Democrats who announced their intent to retire ahead of the 2022 midterms.
So far, 16 Democrats have announced their intent to retire ahead of next year, including several in vulnerable swing districts.
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.
[CFP] Sherronna Bishop, founder of America’s Mom
