https://www.scmp.com/print/news/china/diplomacy/article/3096978/south-china-sea-chinese-military-told-not-fire-first-shot

China has told its serviceman “not to fire the first shot” as Beijing looks to de-escalate tensions with the US in the South China Sea, sources familiar with the situation told the South China Morning Post.

Both sides have stepped up their operations in the disputed waters, increasing the risk of incidents that spiral out of control, but Beijing does not want to give American hawks the opportunity to escalate things further.

The sources said it had ordered pilots and naval officers to exercise restraint in the increasingly frequent stand-offs with US planes and warships.

Meanwhile, further details have emerged about a phone conversation between the two countries’ defence ministers last week.

The call was first suggested by the US side about “a month earlier” but was initially given a frosty reception in Beijing. But a source said the Chinese leadership later had a change of heart and decided to reach out as tensions escalated in the South and East China Seas.

April 12, 2019: In an email to Durham and Inspector General Michael Horowitz, DuCharme offered “to explain what John [Durham] and [redacted] and I are working on.”

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6890194-DOJ-OIP-19-0688-A.html#document/p11/a564583

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/number-of-shootings-in-broad-daylight-more-than-double-in-new-york-city

Some gunmen in New York City are no longer waiting for the cover of night to carry out their crimes.

The number of shootings that took place during the hours between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. more than doubled in New York City in the last three months compared to the same time frame in 2019.

Daytime shootings were up 137%, according to data from the New York City Police Department

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has blamed the surge in shootings on boredom

Flynn (justice) needs a win in the stacked DC circuit. That would go a long way in invalidating most of the dems arguments regarding russia, and clear an American patriot of any wrongdoing.

A presidential pardon allows them to always argue coverup

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good question

Where's Hunter ?

https://www.theblaze.com/news/hunter-biden-settled-450k-tax-debt

Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden, reportedly settled more than $450,000 in tax debt within just six days last month, despite claiming last year that he was too poor to pay child support.

The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday that Biden was hit with the sizable tax lien on July 9 by the District of Columbia over unpaid state income taxes in 2017 and 2018. By July 15 — just six days later — a spokesman for D.C.'s Office of the Chief Financial Officer confirmed that the "tax issue was resolved."

According to the Free Beacon, tax expert Harvey Bezozi noted that tax liens often take months or years to resolve and that the only way to do it is to pay the required amount in full through "a payment plan, penalty abatement, or other compromise with the government — or to prove the lien was filed in error."

"Six days had to be some kind of expeditious kind of process for this," Bezozi suggested. "Generally the lien filing process is a very stringent and reviewed approach because it's a serious thing when you file a lien. It's public record."

am unemployed and have had no monthly income since May 2019," he wrote in a statement to the court in November. "I currently have significant debts (in part as a result of obligations arising from my divorce which was final in April 2017)."

Yet at around the same time, Biden was reportedly renting a $12,000 per month 2,000-square-foot house in Beverly Hills and cruising around town in a Porsche Panamera — modestly valued at $129,300.