With Around $20 Billion in Aid to Ukraine – How Much Was Provided to Ukraine and How Much Went to “The Big Guy”?

This is what happens when corrupt politicians steal the White House. The American people have no idea who is running the show behind the scenes of the Biden regime. Americans know that the Bidens were involved in Ukraine in financial deals in the past so does this still continue?

We know that Hunter Biden was on the Board of a Ukrainian company along with his friend connected to John Kerry. They made millions being on the Burisma Board despite knowing nothing about oil and gas. They did not even speak the native Ukrainian language. When a local prosecutor began looking into Hunter’s arrangement, Joe Biden had the prosecutor removed and fired. Then he bragged about it later in front of an audience.

Well “son of a bitch”, now Biden is back in the business of sending billions to Ukraine. After his previous corruption in the country, how can any American trust that the dollars Biden is awarding to Ukraine will ever get there? This is a serious question.

In March, Biden and Congress arranged for nearly $16 billion for Ukraine. This was at first $10 billion along with an additional $6 billion. We have no idea if this ever made it over there or not.

Now there are reports that Biden has provided another $3 billion to Ukraine. This is reportedly in military aid.

Vowing to “stand with Ukraine,” President Joe Biden and his administration have committed nearly $2.6 billion in U.S. military aid to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion Feb. 24, supplying a range of weapons for Ukraine’s defense against Russian aggression.

The latest round, $800 million, was authorized Wednesday. Since August, nearly $2.8 billion has been specifically allocated for military assistance, but the White House said the total amount of aid is closer to $3.2 billion since Biden took office. That would include money from a $13.6 budget bill Biden signed in March that contained money to arm Ukrainians.

There’s also been indirect assistance to allies such as a Patriot missile system the United States repositioned to Slovakia after its government agreed to supply an S-300 air defense system to Ukraine.

“We won’t be able to advertise every piece of security we give because our allies and partners are supplying to Ukraine through us,” Biden said last week, “but advanced weapons and ammunition are flowing in every single day.”

Based on the numbers reported to date there is somewhere near $20 billion going to Ukraine from Joe Biden. But does anyone really trust the Bidens enough to believe this money will make its way to Ukraine? Or is there another 10% going to the big guy?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/around-20-billion-aid-ukraine-much-provided-much-went-big-guy/

Hunter Biden's China Business Deals Should Raise "Alarm Bells"

As federal investigation into Hunter Biden moves forward, his tangled business dealings, in particular those related to China, are drawing greater scrutiny.

Author Peter Schweizer, who wrote the book “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win,” recently told The Epoch Times that there is one simple way people can look at Hunter Bidens’ business activities.

During the Cold War, It would have raised “alarm bells” if Jimmy Carter’s or Ronald Reagan’s family, were found to have received millions from Russian businessmen connected to the KGB, according to Schweizer.

“That’s what happened here. All we’re doing is replacing the KGB with the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS). It’s the exact same story and it ought to be setting off the exact alarm bells,” he said, referring to the Chinese regime’s top intelligence agency.

Recent attention has been on a damaged laptop that was dropped off at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware in April 2019. The owner of the shop, who said the customer of the laptop never came back to retrieve it, made a copy of the hard drive for former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliano’s lawyer Robert Costello.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-bidens-china-business-deals-should-raise-alarm-bells-schweizer

Pakistan Hit With Power Blackouts As It Struggles With Fuel Shortages And Technical Problems

A once-in-a-generation inflation shock is rippling worldwide and has become a significant source of social and political instability in the weakest countries. Pakistan is the latest country to experience paralyzing inflation.

Bloomberg reports almost a fifth of electricity generation capacity is offline in the South Asian country because some power plants struggle to purchase liquefied natural gas and coal due to record high prices.

Pakistan's energy costs have doubled to $15 billion in the last nine months ended February from a year earlier. The country has struggled with purchasing energy products to fuel its power plants since the conflict in Ukraine exacerbated commodity shortages, sending prices to record highs.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/pakistan-hit-power-blackouts-it-struggles-fuel-shortages-and-technical-problems

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/pakistan-hit-power-blackouts-it-struggles-fuel-shortages-and-technical-problems

IDF Strikes 'Workshop' in Gaza After Hamas Rocket Launch

On Monday evening, Israeli air defenses intercepted a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, coming amid days of unrest in Jerusalem, which both Israel and the Palestinian National Authority claim as their capital city.

Early on Tuesday morning, observers in Gaza reported airstrikes by the Israeli Air Force.

Explosions were reported in Khan Yunis, in the western part of the territory, and were captured on video posted to social media.

🇮🇱 Air raids on the western areas of southern 🇵🇸 Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/LWDPB5mfvq

— Intelsky (@Intel_sky) April 18, 2022

In response, Hamas said it fired anti-air missiles at the IAF fighters.

#Hamas targeting #Israeli jets with SAM-7 anti-aircraft missiles tonight over Khan Younis in the southern #Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/jQAkDuvi2w

— Leon Sverdlov (@Leon_Sverdlov) April 18, 2022

"Fighter aircraft attacked several components last night (Tuesday) and destroyed a workshop for the production of weapons by the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip," the IAF said in a statement posted to Twitter. "The attack was carried out in response to a launch, which was intercepted earlier tonight (Monday) by air defense fighters. The IDF considers Hamas responsible for what is happening in the Gaza Strip."

The exchange is the first since early January and comes amid an increase in violence in Jerusalem. For Muslims, the holy month of Ramadan began in early April, and for Jews, Passover week began on Friday. In addition, last weekend and this coming weekend will see Easter celebrations by Christian sects.

Both Jews and Muslims venerate the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which was once the site of the Temple of Solomon but now holds the Dome of the Rock and the surrounding al-Aqsa mosque. After Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967, violence around the Temple Mount became commonplace, with Israeli police storming the compound and Palestinian resisters fighting back with rocks and fireworks, as happened earlier this month.

More than 340 people were injured in clashes on Friday, according to the Red Crescent, and another 200 the following day.

“Our Palestinian people are committed to holding to their rights, land and holy sites,” Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Monday. “All attempts to dominate al-Aqsa Mosque or change its Islamic identity will not succeed.”

In May 2021, a similar sequence of events triggered an 11-day war between Hamas and the IDF that killed 254 Gazans and 13 Israelis.

https://sputniknews.com/20220418/idf-strikes-targets-in-gaza-following-earlier-rocket-launch-1094873621.html

An Indianapolis Casino Executive and a Former Indiana State Senator Plead Guilty to Felonies Involving Political Contribution Schemes

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/indianapolis-casino-executive-and-former-indiana-state-senator-plead-guilty-felonies

Former Ohio Police Chief and Two Indiana Gun Dealers Plead Guilty in Conspiracy to Illegally Traffic 200 Fully Automatic Machine Guns

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/former-ohio-police-chief-and-two-indiana-gun-dealers-plead-guilty-conspiracy-illegally

Former CFO of Publicly Traded Brazilian Company Charged in Fraud Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-cfo-publicly-traded-brazilian-company-charged-fraud-scheme

68 Thais rescued from slave conditions at Chinese-run call centres

The authorities rescued 68 Thais forced to work at illegal call centres in Cambodia and sent them back to Thailand on Friday.

The rescued workers returned to Thailand via Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district on the border.

They said they had been lured by offers of well-paying jobs and travelled from Bangkok and other provinces to Sa Kaew province before entering Cambodia on foot via the natural border.

Upon arrival, they were taken to a building before being allotted to different Chinese bosses. Their job was to scam people into making investments. If they refused they would be hurt or confined. Some were even sold to other Chinese conmen for US$3,000.

Their call for help was eventually heard by Thai authorities, who then took steps to rescue them. Another 1,000 or so Thais are allegedly stranded in similar circumstances in other cities in Cambodia.

Police say that the rescued workers have been providing valuable information and investigators will hunt down those responsible for trafficking them out of Thailand.

People can report human-trafficking crimes or crimes against women or children by calling the 1599 hotline, via https://humantrafficking.police.go.th, Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/antihumantraffickingpolice/, Line @HUMANTRAFFICKTH, Twitter @safe_dek or by scanning the QR code.

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40014602

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>>16102694 Former Ohio Police Chief and Two Indiana Gun Dealers Plead Guilty in Conspiracy to Illegally Traffic 200 Fully Automatic Machine Guns

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