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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Follow the Money
[TGP] House Oversight Committee Shows Bidens Received $1 Million after China Wired $3 Million to Biden Associate

Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability issued a memorandum revealing new evidence resulting from the investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling and business schemes. Subpoenaed financial records show that from 2015 to 2017, Biden family members — Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie Biden, and an unknown "Biden" — and their companies collectively received $1.3 million in payments from accounts related to Rob Walker,
...who goes by John R. Walker when he’s being formal instead of folksy...
a Biden family associate.

Notably, on March 1, 2017, less than two months after Vice President Joe Biden left public office, State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese company, wired $3 million to Rob Walker’s company. The next day, the company wired $1,065,000 to a company associated with James Gilliar, another Biden family associate. Afterwards, the Biden family received approximately $1,065,000 in payments over a three-month period in different bank accounts. From the bank records, it appears that the Biden family received approximately one-third of the money obtained from the China wire.
Update from P.J. Media at 11:00 a.m. ET:
House Oversight Committee master-blaster Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is digging — successfully — into the Biden family’s alleged influence peddling, believes there may be more than half a dozen Bidens leeching cheddar from the tens of millions of dollars sent to family members by people with ties to the Chinese commies.

Here are the big players we know about thus far in the Biden la Cosa Nostra family:

  • Joe “the Big Guy” Biden, head of the Biden crime syndicate.

  • Jim “Consigliere” Biden, Joe’s brother. Remains close to Joe. Though Jim stays out of the press, the FBI has a bushel of evidence pointing to years of his shenanigans.

  • Hunter “Fredo” Biden, Joe’s son. Ukrainian bagman, known for videotaping himself smoking crack and plowing hookers.

  • Frank “Frankie the Magician” Biden, Joe’s brother. Takes high-paying jobs with fledgling companies, and suddenly those businesses start landing lucrative government contracts.

So who is the “new Biden” found scooping cash from the family slush fund? Comer hasn’t told us, but we have some suspects:

  • Sara Biden, wife of Jim Biden.

  • Dr. Howard Krein, husband of Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley, with whom Joe is believed to have taken “not appropriate” showers when she was a child.

  • Valerie Biden Owens, Joe’s sister. She ran all of his Senate campaigns as well as his failed 1988 and 2008 presidential runs.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/17/2023 07:23 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats



#3  If the nightly news doesn't cover a scandal at all, did it really happen?
Posted by: Tom || 03/17/2023 12:00 Comments || Top||

#4  If lack of scandal coverage was definitive, Hillary would have been president.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/17/2023 12:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Agree. Barr and Wray made sure none of this ever came to light. Covering up CCP payments is treason plain and simple.

And the CCP media makes sure this never comes to light.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/17/2023 12:10 Comments || Top||

#6  CNN has the story, but dismisses it -

The memo, which representatives for the White House and Hunter Biden’s legal team quickly dismissed, does not provide any evidence tying the payments directly to President Joe Biden, which Republicans have said is the purpose of their investigation.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/17/2023 12:47 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 Obstruction of justice as well.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/17/2023 14:42 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Poll indicates Democrats’ sympathies lie with Palestinians over Israel for 1st time
[IsraelTimes] 49% of Democratic respondents sympathize more with the Palestinians and 38% with Israelis; support for Israel among Republicans remains strong at 78%, Gallup survey finds.
The Corbynization of the Democratic Party...
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/17/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That is a pretty big spread for this to be the first time for a Palestinian preference.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/17/2023 7:19 Comments || Top||

#2  and of course, the Jewish Democrat faithful will abandon the party...

/sarc
Posted by: Frank G || 03/17/2023 9:06 Comments || Top||

#3  So the polls are somewhat accurate for the first time then.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/17/2023 9:54 Comments || Top||


Dr. Rachel Levine says changing kids' genders will soon be fully embraced: 'Wheels will turn on this'
[FoxNews] Rachel Levine also said gender-affirming care for minors had the 'highest support' of the Biden administration.
May he and they be surprised to find themselves enjoying the tender care of the demons in Hell after they die.
Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Rachel Levine promised that medically changing kids’ genders will soon be normalized.

Levine praised the "gender-affirming care" at the Pediatric Grand Rounds session at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford. Levine was invited to speak at the event about the Florida Parental Rights in Education law and the political implications of gender reassignment surgery taking place at children’s hospitals.

Levine also said gender-affirming care for minors had the "highest support" of the Biden administration.

"I think that it's not going to be politically advantageous. It wasn't particularly in 2022. And so I think that as we look to all the different elections in 2024, I think the next two years are going to be challenging. But I am positive and optimistic and hopeful that the wheel will turn after that and that this issue won't be as politically and socially such a minefield."

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb of Do No Harm organization, a national association of medical professionals that combats "woke" activism in the healthcare system, told Fox News Digital that there is "no good evidence that children treated with gender-altering hormones or puberty blockers improved mental health assessments."

"Levine’s appearance at Connecticut Children’s Hospital praising ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors and claiming it will be fully embraced is wrong and must be countered," Goldfarb said. "There is no good evidence that children treated with gender-altering hormones or puberty blockers have improved mental health assessments."

"Despite assertions to the contrary, a recent study from the University of Washington showed that there was absolutely no change in the psychological well-being of children with gender dysphoria treated with these medications," Goldfarb continued. "There can be irrevocable harm being done to children by those pushing for these radical, ideologically driven, treatments. Treatment for minors needs to be based on rigorous scientific inquiry, not on dubious, agenda-driven studies or the demands of activists."

Rep. Andy Harris, a member of the House Doctors Caucus and Co-Chair of the Pro-Life Caucus, said that it's "reprehensible for a government official—let alone the Assistant U.S. Secretary of HHS to promote the genital mutilation of minors as becoming a standard practice in the U.S."

"As a physician, I was proud to co-sponsor the 'Protect Children's Innocence Act' which would prohibit harmful medical procedures used to treat gender dysphoria in transgender minors, including puberty blockers and surgeries in which minors alter their body to correspond to a sex that differs from their biological sex," Harris said.

Harris went on to say, "Many pediatricians, particularly pediatric endocrinologists, have expressed serious concerns about the use of puberty blockers, hormone blockers, and sex transition surgeries in minors. These doctors know that these medications and procedures can impact children’s bone growth, fertility, and risk of breast and prostate cancer. Meanwhile, HHS has pressured providers to provide this care or else face discrimination lawsuits. We must protect our children."

Levine’s comments came after President Biden ramped up attacks on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a clip of a new interview Monday without naming him, calling the state's actions regarding transgender youth"close to sinful."

Florida's medical boards voted to ban puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender-affirming surgeries on children last November.

This follows a parental rights' bill the governor signed earlier in the year banning teachers from giving classroom instruction on "sexual orientation" or "gender identity" in kindergarten through third grade.

President Biden attacked Florida's response to transgender youth issues in a new interview with former Obama aide Kal Penn, one of several left-wing voices who's been guest-hosting "The Daily Show" in recent weeks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/17/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mentally ill dude in a dress says what?

Posted by: One Eyed Tsar || 03/17/2023 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder how his mother is doing.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/17/2023 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  How about instead of 'wheels will turn' we go with 'heads will roll'?
Posted by: Angong Omavilet3890 || 03/17/2023 13:29 Comments || Top||

#4  ..I saw something that looked like a wheel on the ground beside each of the four-faced creatures.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/17/2023 14:10 Comments || Top||

#5  I am half hoping for a US doctors and nurses strike over this issue if the radicals push it any farther. Probably won't happen, though.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 03/17/2023 19:12 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Going Hollywood! Barack Obama seen jetting off from LA on Ashton Kutcher's private jet as the former president continues to add to his collection of 'A List' pals
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Fundraising is a full time job. Hobnobbing is just a side effect...or possibly the other way round.
  • Barack Obama was photographed getting onto a jet at Van Nuys airport in north LA

  • He was with a security detail and brought to the aircraft in a motorcade

  • The jet he was getting onto is allegedly owned by Ashton Kutcher
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/17/2023 08:34 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lining up the donors for Big Mike's run.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/17/2023 12:11 Comments || Top||

#2  IIUC, a lot of the celebrities with their eye on after entertainment diversified into prominent share holders, or even board members, of many different organizations.

And again, IIUC, this may even be encouraged and broached by such organizations because celebrity brings access.

Hence:
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/17/2023 13:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Just remember Washington is Hollyweird for ugly people.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/17/2023 14:28 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Ex-NYC newspaper editor Elliot Resnick charged over Jan. 6 Capitol riot
[NYPost] The former top editor of a Brooklyn-based newspaper was hit with federal felony charges Thursday for allegedly assaulting a police officer and pulling other suspected rioters through a door at the US Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, according to prosecutors.

Elliot Resnick, the ex-chief editor of The Jewish Press, was arrested in Manhattan Thursday for his alleged role in the Capitol breach, during which the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said he was one of the first people to get inside the building on Jan. 6, 2021.

Resnick, 39, and the Orthodox Jewish newspaper he worked for previously acknowledged he was at the Capitol that day, but was there working as a journalist.

An FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
affidavit paints a starkly different picture.

Resnick is accused of grabbing and holding the arm of a Capitol Police officer trying to stop the mob from entering the federal building through the East Rotunda doors.

He was one of the first to successfully get inside the building around 2:30 p.m. and then pulled other rioters into the Capitol, court documents alleged.

Before allegedly ushering people inside, Resnick tried to open another door that a police officer fought to keep shut at the entrance, but when another officer tried to stop Resnick, that cop was thrown to the ground by a different rioter, the FBI said.

Resnick clapped others on the back as people entered, prosecutors said.

After Politico reported on Resnick’s presence at the Capitol in an April 2021 article, the Jewish Press Editorial Board confirmed he entered the building, but was "covering the rally and the rest of the day’s terrible events for The Jewish Press, where he has been a news hound and editor since 2006."

"The Jewish Press does not see why Elliot’s personal views on former President Trump should make him any different from the dozens of other journalists covering the events, including many inside the Capitol building during the riots, nor why his presence justifies an article in Politico while the presence of other news hounds inside the building does not," the editorial board wrote, according to Politico.

But The Jewish Press also acknowledged at the time it never printed any articles from the riot in its print edition "because of the heated atmosphere surrounding the day’s events, especially within New York’s Orthodox Jewish Community."

Among the charges he faces are civil disorder and assault of or interference with law enforcement.

Resnick was in the Capitol — at a different part of the building — for roughly 50 minutes, according to video footage, the feds said. The affidavit shows multiple instances of a man authorities said is Resnick roaming the property.

His tenure at the newspaper ended in May 2021, before authorities launched a probe into his actions.

The FBI agent in the affidavit wrote he consulted with the US Department of Justice News Media Policy before charges were brought.

About 1,000 people across the country have been arrested for their role in the Capitol breach that disrupted Congress certifying the presidential election win of Democrat Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...
The riot was preceded by a rally held by former 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......
, who falsely believes the election was not legitimate.
"falsely believes" has to be in there for editorializing
The DOJ said Wednesday that up to 1,200 additional rioters could still face charges over the Capitol riot.

Related: The Times of Israel has more here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/17/2023 00:05 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They continue to job down the moving sidewalk towards the brick wall.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/17/2023 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Our communist Chinese masters must be very pleased.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2023 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  The Jewish Press is a very politically conservative orthodox newspaper. My Dad got it his entire adult life.
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert || 03/17/2023 13:54 Comments || Top||

#4  The feebs have been so busy it took them 26 months to find the guy in Brooklyn? Where was he on their original 'hit parade', the one that had Ray Epps #6?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/17/2023 15:15 Comments || Top||

#5  The Times of Israel link in the original post has things to say about The Jewish Press:

The paper was edited in the 1960s by Rabbi Meir Kahane, a Jewish ultranationalist who advocated violence against Arabs and was banned from the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. Though the paper distanced itself from Kahane in 1969, it still lists him among the paper’s prominent past editors on its website.

In 2015, Resnick gave a glowing review to a Kahane biography written by Kahane’s wife and described his own experience of “near trance” while reading one of Kahane’s books in high school.

Posted by: trailing wife || 03/17/2023 18:27 Comments || Top||


Ex-BLM activist blasts San Francisco reparations plan as 'gaslighting' of black people
[NYPOST] A former Black Lives Matter activist muppet has blasted the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
’s "unrealistic" reparations plan, saying it’s a way to "gaslight" black Americans — and accused politicians of being "more focused on slavery" than the homelessness plaguing the city.

Xaviaer DuRousseau, a one-time BLM supporter who now works for PragerU, an advocacy group that creates videos that promote conservative ideas, said Tuesday that the costly handouts perpetuate "fraudulent narratives surrounding systemic racism
...the idea that the nation is racist to the core, always was, and always will be. 330 million Americans live in Selma, Alabama in 1965, and we're never, ever leaving...
"This is 111 ways to gaslight black Americans into thinking that we need to be dependent on a system of handouts in order to be successful," said DuRousseau, who is black, in an appearance on Fox News’ "The Ingraham Angle."

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday wholeheartedly embraced 111 recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee, including lump-sum payments of $5 million to every eligible black citizen, guaranteed incomes of $97,000 per year for 250 years,
...at the end of which it’ll be worth the price of a cup of coffee...
elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, and homes for just $1.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unfortunately, I think we all know how they intend to pay for this.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/17/2023 7:16 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Yes, as with the ongoing banking bail out, the costs will be "socialized."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2023 7:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Who, if anyone, pays if San Fran goes bankrupt?
Posted by: Omoper de Medici5830 || 03/17/2023 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  It's also how they intend to roll out payments. The yutes aren't gonna sit in their hands and wait for what is righteously owed them and will seek to extract their due from anything around them. They're talking themselves into a real nasty corner.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/17/2023 10:10 Comments || Top||

#5  to every eligible black citizen

You'll have to submit your application to the committee to verify eligibility, and they're still working on the application form. When some folks find out they're not 'eligible', there'll be 'ell to pay.

So Xaviaer is correct - it's gaslighting.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/17/2023 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6  BLM: Hey! Only we are allowed to gaslight and exploit Blacks!
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 03/17/2023 11:42 Comments || Top||

#7  The originators of this proposal have said it's not their problem to figure out how to pay for it.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/17/2023 12:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Homeland Republicans to turn up the heat on Mayorkas after Border Patrol chief's ‘earth-shattering' testimony
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/17/2023 09:22 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:



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