Biden Withholding $150 Million from Ukraine – Wonder What Kind of Trouble Hunter’s Gotten Into This Time?

Joe Biden is reportedly withholding millions from Ukraine again. This is getting to be a terrible habit for Biden.

OANN is reporting:

oe Biden is withholding military aid from Ukraine that had already been approved by Congress in the face of Russian military maneuvers at its borders.

Biden will reportedly provide only $125 million to Ukraine this year, although Congress has already approved a $275 million package. White House officials said $150 million of that aid will be withheld until Ukraine conducts the reforms that Biden is asking for.

Biden is famous for withholding money from Ukraine until they fired a prosecutor who was looking into his son’s dealings with Ukrainian company Burisma which paid Hunter over $3 million. Ukraine fired the prosecutor so they could receive the money (a billion dollars) from Biden/Obama and the US.

https://youtu.be/UXA–dj2-CY

Fortunately, Biden was confronted at one of his ‘rallies’ on this incident:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/biden-withholding-150-million-ukraine-tensions-russia-rise-wonder-kind-trouble-hunters-gotten-time/

Stockton Man Sentenced to over 17 Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking of a Child

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/stockton-man-sentenced-over-17-years-prison-conspiracy-engage-sex-trafficking-child

Day 75: Hunter Biden Lovefest.

On Day 75, the adult son of the current U.S. president was welcomed onto “CBS This Morning” with open arms for tearful talk of trauma and catharsis.

Biden Disapproval Ticks Up After Easter Sunday.

President Joe Biden’s disapproval rating has again reached 51 percent, according to new Rasmussen data released Monday. Disapproval rose to 51 percent for the first time on March 25-26, 2021. This rating clocks in below average for U.S. presidents in their first quarter, with Biden’s approach to the border crisis and gun-related issues drawing particular ire.

12th Overflow Detention Facility To Open In California.

The Long Beach Convention Center is expected to open as a holding space for 1,000 unaccompanied migrant minors under a 90-120 day contract between the city and the Department of Health and Human Services. This would be the twelfth overflow facility to open under Biden, and California’s second.

“As of Monday, 14,287 children were in the custody of the Refugee Resettlement office after being transferred from Customs and Border Protection,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

Vice President and onetime border czar Kamala Harris spent several hours in Oakland, California, on Monday to stoke support for Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure, workforce, and climate plan, but did not visit the southern border or the San Diego Convention Center, recently repurposed to house migrant girls between the ages of 13-17.

Hunter Book Tour/Therapy Session Continues On CBS.

Following an Easter Sunday book promo appearance in which he revealed that he used to scrounge for cocaine in the carpet and end up smoking Parmesan cheese instead, Hunter Biden was back on CBS on Monday morning with Anthony Mason. The publisher of “Beautiful Things,” Gallery Books, is an imprint of Simon & Schuster, which is a division of ViacomCBS.

In the CBS informercial/therapy session hosted by a major news network for the son of the president of the United States, Hunter attributed his cocaine addiction to “the feeling of never fitting in. It’s that hole, and you don’t know what it is, exactly,” Hunter said. “I am more convinced now that trauma is at the center of it.”

Afterward, Gayle King asked, “Is this cathartic for him?” Mason agreed—having clearly made efforts to deeply understand the thinking of President Joe Biden’s son—that based on what another former addict had told him, the book did seem to be part of Hunter Biden’s personal catharsis.

“If it helps him get better, I’m sure Joe Biden’s all for it,” Tony Dokoupil chimed in.

Revisiting Biden’s Four Pinocchios.

In the briefing room Monday, both Peter Doocy of Fox and Kaitlan Collins of CNN revisited Biden’s four-Pinocchios election law claims, which press secretary Jen Psaki had originally defended. This time, Psaki stuck with the message that “fundamentally,” Biden wants to make it easier to vote, and the Georgia law doesn’t do that.

https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/day-75-hunter-biden-lovefest/

Huawei, HSBC Agree on Document Deal for Extradition Case

HONG KONG—Chinese telecommunications equipment firm Huawei said Monday that it has reached an agreement with HSBC in Hong Kong to obtain documents that its chief financial office Meng Wanzhou hopes will help prevent her extradition to the United States.

Meng, who was detained in Canada in 2018 at the behest of U.S. authorities, has been fighting a legal battle over the last two years as the United States seeks to extradite her over allegations of bank fraud and violations of sanctions against Iran.

The United States accuses Huawei of using a Hong Kong shell company called Skycom to sell equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. It says Meng committed fraud by misleading HSBC about the company’s business dealings in Iran.

An earlier request by Meng’s legal team for documents from HSBC was rejected by a court in Britain.

In a court hearing Monday, Hong Kong High Court judge Linda Chan approved the document-sharing agreement between Huawei and HSBC.

“An agreement has been reached with HSBC in relation to the Hong Kong legal proceedings for document production and an order has been approved by the court,” Huawei said in a statement on Monday.

It is not clear which documents Huawei has obtained or what the scope of the agreement covers. Meng’s team has sought internal compliance documents pertaining to Huawei and Skycom.

During extradition proceedings in Canada, Meng’s lawyers have argued that the United States has no jurisdiction to bring the case.

Final hearings of Meng’s extradition battle are expected to conclude in May in Vancouver, although appeals could prolong the process.

https://www.ntd.com/huawei-hsbc-agree-on-document-deal-for-extradition-case_595814.html

BLM Co-Founder’s Consulting Firm Goes Offline As Reports Expose Her Multimillion Dollar Real Estate Buying Spree

The website for a consulting firm owned and operated by Black Lives Matter Global Network co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors went offline during the weekend.

The firm’s website stated Khan-Cullors and her spouse “specialize in strategic planning, media and narrative building and intervention and culture shift work within organizations and institutions.”

Khan-Cullors, a self-described “trained Marxist,” purchased a $1.4 million home in a majority-white Los Angeles neighborhood on March 30 through a corporate entity under her control, according to a celebrity real estate news site.

It’s unclear if Khan-Cullors consulting firm, Janaya and Patrisse Consulting, LLC, was involved with the purchase of the home.

Khan-Cullors has purchased four homes across the U.S. for a total of $3.2 million since 2016, according to the New York Post.

The website for a consulting firm owned and operated by Black Lives Matter Global Network co-founder and executive director Patrisse Khan-Cullors went offline recently amid reports that she’s in the midst of a multimillion-dollar real estate buying spree.

The firm, Janaya and Patrisse Consulting, LLC, is named after Khan-Cullors and her spouse, Janaya Khan. The firm stated on its website, which the Daily Caller News Foundation reviewed on Friday, that it specialized in “Transforming Organizations One Strategic Planning Session at a Time.”

Khan-Cullors, a self-described “trained Marxist,” has purchased four homes across the U.S. since 2016 for a total of $3.2 million, according to the New York Post. Her latest acquirement came on March 30 with the purchase of a $1.4 million home in the Topanga Canyon neighborhood in Los Angeles through a corporate entity under her control, according to a celebrity real estate news site.

It’s unclear if the corporate entity that Khan-Cullors used to purchase the home is Janaya and Patrisse Consulting. Khan-Cullors and her spouse did not return requests for comment.

The website was taken offline by Monday morning, however, a version of the website as it appeared on March 29 is still available to view via Google’s cache service. And former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani published screenshots of the website to Twitter on Saturday.

The website stated that Khan-Cullors and Khan “specialize in strategic planning, media and narrative building and intervention and culture shift work within organizations and institutions.”

“‘Freedom fighter’ Patrice Cullors and ‘staunch Afrofuturist’ Janaya Khan exploit their association with Black Lives Matter to monetize themselves…as capitalists,” Nomani said.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/12/patrisse-cullors-blm-firm-goes-offline/

Lavrov: US Unwilling to Abandon ‘Flawed Course’ Toward Global Dominance

The United States is persistent in its line on pursuing global dominance, but it is absolutely counterproductive in the multipolar world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the IRNA news agency.

"The main problem, as we see it, is Washington's persistent unwillingness to abandon its flawed course towards upholding the US's global dominance, which was adopted in the early 1990's following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today, it is obvious to everyone that such a policy is entirely counterproductive, particularly given that the objective process of shaping a fairer, more democratic and therefore more sustainable multipolar world order is gaining momentum right before our eyes," Lavrov said in an interview ahead of his visit to Iran.

Despite this, the US, backed by its European allies, "has been taking aggressive steps aimed at destroying the UN-centered international legal architecture and substituting it with the so-called ‘rule-based order,’" he continued.

Russia, the minister noted, does not oppose the idea of everyone following rules.

"[Y]et these rules should be developed not within a narrow circle comprising Washington and its satellites and bypassing the United Nations but within universal formats involving all key global players based on the existing universally recognized norms of international law," he stressed.

Russia Actively Working on Switching to National Currencies in Trade

Russia is actively working with its trading partners to abandon West-controlled payment systems, Lavrov also told the IRNA news agency.

"It is equally important to step up efforts to reduce risks associated with [US] sanctions [on Iran] and potential expenses for economic operators. In particular, gradual steps should be taken to move towards de-dollarization of national economies and transition to payments in national or alternative currencies, as well as to stop using international payment systems controlled by the West. Russia has been working actively to that end," Lavrov said in an interview ahead of his visit to Iran.

"We see great prospects for cooperation in that field with all interested international partners," the Russian top diplomat added.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202104121082609842-lavrov-us-unwilling-to-abandon-flawed-course-toward-global-dominance/

Border Patrol Arrests Dangerous MS-13 Gang Member

Release Date:

April 12, 2021

SALTON CITY, Calif. – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector arrested an MS-13 gang member Thursday afternoon.

The incident occurred at approximately 3:45 p.m., when an agent assigned to the Indio Station performed a vehicle stop on a 2005 Honda Odyssey near the intersection of Spa Road and Hot Mineral Spa Road. The agent performed an immigration inspection on both driver and passenger of the vehicle. The driver stated he was a U.S. citizen and presented a valid passport. The passenger stated that he was a citizen of El Salvador and admitted to being illegally present in the United States. The driver was arrested and transported to the Highway 111 immigration checkpoint for further processing. The passenger was arrested and transported to the El Centro Station Centralized Processing Center for immigration and criminal history screening.

The driver was booked for 8 USC 1324 alien smuggling and released. The vehicle was seized by El Centro Sector.

The passenger, a 33-year-old man, is a self-admitted MS-13 gang member. The gang member is being held in federal custody pending removal back to El Salvador.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/border-patrol-arrests-dangerous-ms-13-gang-member