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 Canada - "This is What's Coming" Peterson

History Should Be Our Guide (Ukraine) - VDH

 History Should Be Our Guide (Ukraine)

There are several historical referents we should keep in mind about the Ukraine war.

 

Senators Release Bank Records Showing Payments to Hunter Biden From China

By Zachary Stieber

 

March 30, 2022 Updated: March 30, 2022

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Newly released bank records show that payments were made to President Joe Biden’s son from a Chinese Communist Party-linked company.

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) presented the records on the Senate floor on March 28 and March 29.

One showed a wire payment of $100,000 to Owasco, one of Hunter Biden’s firms, from CEFC China Energy, a now-defunct company closely associated with the Chinese regime,

Another showed a wire transfer of $5 million to Hudson West, a company Hunter Biden invested in and managed, from Northern International Capital, a business that partnered with CEFC. A contract also made public by the senators showed $500,000 went to Hunter Biden as a “one-time retainer fee.”

Two others showed a $1 million payment made to Hudson West by CEFC and a transfer of $1 million from Hudson West to Owasco, with the money appearing to go to Hunter Biden for the purposes of representing Patrick Ho, a Chinese businessman who has helped CEFC gain advantages through bribery.

The receipts are just some of the records that “undeniably show strong links between the Biden family and communist China,” Grassley said.

The $100,000 transaction was dated Aug. 4, 2017; the $5 million transfer was dated Aug. 8, 2017; the two other payments were made on Nov. 30, 2017, and March 22, 2018, respectively.

Hunter Biden’s lawyer didn’t respond to requests by The Epoch Times for comment; the White House also didn’t respond to an inquiry.

For years, Grassley and Johnson have been probing Hunter Biden, who is under federal investigation, producing a report in 2020 that exposed connections between the younger Biden and Chinese nationals connected to the Chinese regime and military.

Among them is Ye Jianming, a Chinese oil tycoon who founded CEFC. Ye was put under investigation by Chinese authorities in 2018 and hasn’t been seen since then.

President Joe Biden walks with his son Hunter Biden, second from left, as Hunter carries his son Beau and walks next to his wife Melissa Cohen, center, before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on March 26, 2021. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)

The senators discovered that Hunter Biden made millions from Ye and his company and millions more from Dong Gongwen, a financier and business associate of Ye. Messages later obtained by The Epoch Times showed Hunter Biden had a close relationship with Ye, including being the first guest at the Chinese businessman’s new apartment, while other messages listed Joe Biden and Dong as “office mates.”

Andrew Bates, who at the time was representing Joe Biden’s campaign, claimed the Senate report was using taxpayer dollars to launch “an attack founded on a long-disproven, hardcore right-wing conspiracy theory.” Bates is now a White House spokesman.

Acknowledging their efforts have drawn criticism, Grassley told colleagues on March 28 that the report was largely based on records from the Obama administration and almost a dozen interviews with government officials.

Grassley said he and Johnson “did what any good investigator would do: we gathered even more records to prove all these people wrong.”

The senators said they plan on releasing the financial records they’ve obtained in full. Their offices didn’t respond by press time to requests for more information.

“Bank records like this piece of evidence are pretty hard to deny and sweep under the rug,” Johnson told senators, asserting that the documents show corruption and conflicts of interest that could compromise Biden.

“The evidence is stunning, and it is growing.”

Frank Fang contributed to this report.

 Mississippi Beats Biden

How Mississippi Flipped the Script on the Labor Shortage

This shows how a CONSERVATIVE GOP can save his state TRUE Hardship caused by Liberal INSANITY.....

Others should follow his example!

By Jonathan Bain
March 29, 2022

 Joe Did That

Blistering New Report Takes Down Media's Gas Price Narrative,

 Reveals 81 Ways Biden Has Sent Prices Sky High

New report: 255,000 ‘excess votes’ for Biden in six key 2020 states.

 NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: 

New report: 255,000 ‘excess votes’ for Biden in six key 2020 states. 

“A new deep dive into discrepancies in the ballot counts of six key battleground states in the 2020 election has turned up more than 250,000 ‘excess votes’ for President Joe Biden, and maybe far more.”

I’m told that one reason Youngkin won in Virginia was that Republicans there maintained a full-court press on polling places and counting centers to deter fraud. That needs to happen everywhere.

89Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds   

This is a sad moment — for Canada

 REX MURPHY: 

Justin Trudeau has become a punchline on the world stage — for good reason: This is a sad moment — for Canada and its standing within the free world.

It is a brazen thing to go to other countries like some John the Baptist for the democracies, shortly after having trampled all over the rights of those involved in a largely peaceful democratic protest.

Let me make a plain, direct statement: The trucker protest was not an attempted coup. It was not a rebellion. It was not an assault on Canada’s democracy. It was none of those things.

The convoy protest was strong and present, but it was unthreatening and largely non-violent. It was superbly Canadian. It should not be slandered.

And it surely should not be used as some sort of example of anti-democratic forces by the leader of the country in which it took place. Most especially when he goes about the world delivering passionate defences of the idea of democracy itself.

To defend democracy, you should adhere to its principles. Don’t go to Brussels to preach what you skip over in Ottawa. Some examples:

For a start, don’t sic the banks on peaceful protesters. . . .

And yet, three weeks later, after all that, Trudeau went over to Brussels and presumed to tell European parliamentarians that, “The leaders of those convoys were effective in turning citizens with real anxieties against the system best suited to allay those concerns.”

He presumed to lecture them on “leadership” and confronting the threat posed by Russia. Yet, given his record, who is listening? Given his government’s treatment of veterans, who can believe his fealty to the Canadian military? Given his lack of interest in civil liberties, who would not question his commitment to democratic principles? This is indeed a sad moment — for Canada and its standing within the free world.

Indeed. Related: Canadian Media Ignores Scolding of Trudeau as Rest of World Media Reports It:

Despite Canadian legacy media outlets burying the story, the reprimand of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by European parliamentarians in Brussels has made headlines around the world.

Trudeau was treated to scathing condemnation by several Members of European Parliament (MEP) after giving a speech to the European Union on Wednesday.

Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakusic called out the Canadian prime minister for engaging in a “dictatorship of the worst kind” over his treatment of peaceful Freedom Convoy protestors in February.

At least three other MEPs echoed Kolakusic’s remarks, with Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș entirely boycotting Trudeau’s speech.

Just think of the Canadian media as Liberal Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

66Posted at 8:24 am by Glenn Reynolds   

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