Man faces federal indictment for Justice Kavanuagh assassination attempt
https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/press-release/file/1513296/download
Hunter Biden raged at sister-in-law-turned-lover Hallie after she tossed his gun in trash: report
Hunter Biden flipped out on his sister-in-law-turned-lover, Hallie Biden, for ditching his handgun in a trash can in 2018, accusing her of making him look like an “abusive pedophile with homicidal tendencies” and asking her “do you want me dead,” according to a new report Wednesday.
During an hours-long text conversation on Oct. 23, 2018, the now-disgraced first son tore into his paramour for tossing the .38-caliber revolver in a garbage bin outside a grocery store in Wilmington, Del. — saying at one point: “I won’t ever recover from this,” the Washington Examiner reported.
“There are 5 guns in dads house. There are f—ing more weapons in your sons room then in an armory,” Hunter messaged Hallie at 9:20 p.m. “What’s my f— up? Owning a gun?”
“Beau owned a handgun issued by the state and I[t] was in the front glove compartment of his car,” he wrote more than two hours earlier, referring to his older brother — Delaware’s former attorney general — who passed away from brain cancer in 2015. “So f— you.”
In response to Hallie’s claim that she was afraid her boyfriend would “use” the gun, Hunter fired back: “To do what Hallie.”
“They think you’re scared I would shoot you,” he went on before calling her a “f—ing a–hole.”
“You now have me as an abusive pedophile with homicidal tendencies,” Hunter went on. “And that’s now in the hands of the FBI.”
In March of last year, Politico reported that Delaware State Police and the FBI began an investigation after Hunter’s gun was removed from the trash can and Hallie Biden reported it missing to the store.
The outlet also reported that Secret Service agents approached the owner of the shop where the younger Biden purchased the gun 11 days earlier and asked him for the sale paperwork. The owner refused and later turned the documents over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
According to Politico, the gun was later returned by a man who had been searching the trash for recyclables and no arrests were made or charges filed in connection with the incident.
“It’s hard to believe that anyone is so stupid … so what’s my fault here Hallie that you speak of. Owning a gun that’s in a locked car hidden on another property,” Hunter Biden scolded Hallie in another text at 6:47 p.m. Oct. 23 before asking: “Do you want me dead.”
At that point, Hallie Biden attempted to defend her actions, telling Hunter that “I just want you safe. That was not safe” and adding that the car where she found the gun was “open unlocked and windows down and the kids search your car.”
Hunter Biden began an affair with Hallie shortly after Beau died of brain cancer in 2015, while Hunter was estranged from his wife, Kathleen Buhle. He and Buhle divorced in 2017 after 24 years of marriage.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/15/hunter-biden-raged-at-hallie-after-she-trashed-his-gun-report/
https://nypost.com/2022/06/15/hunter-biden-raged-at-hallie-after-she-trashed-his-gun-report/
No end for power crisis after AEMO suspends National Electricity Market
Radio host Ben Fordham and NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean have come to blows on air, as dwindling reserves have become an “operational reality”.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/costs/no-end-for-power-crisis-after-aemo-suspends-national-electricity-market/news-story/28b099f2fd933f334849215bab4ad731
FMR. TRUMP ADVISOR BANNON: The Jan. 6 "ratings stink, and they can't compete with the trial of Bannon. […] MAGA is on the march. The Jan. 6 Committee is totally irrelevant."
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1537228117743263745
Former KGB general in apparent suicide
SVR describes veteran historian’s death as a “personal tragedy”
Retired Russian intelligence officer Lev Sotskov has been found dead at his Moscow apartment, authorities said on Wednesday. Police say that initial information suggests the 90-year old retired major-general used a pistol he’d received as a gift from Mongolian colleagues to commit suicide.
Sotskov’s body was discovered by his wife around noon on Wednesday, inside the bathroom of their apartment in southwestern Moscow, Russian media reported, citing police sources. He had a gunshot wound to his head.
“According to initial information, the cause of death was suicide,” police told the media. Next to Sotskov was a Tokarev TT-30 semi-automatic pistol, along with a note explaining where it came from.
“The pistol is a relic of the battles on the Khalkhin-Gol River. I received it when I was an envoy to the Mongolian secret service, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Ulan-Bator, in 1989. - L. Sotskov,” it read.
The veteran had a number of serious medical conditions and had repeatedly told his relatives that he was “tired of living,” newspaper Kommersant reported.
Born in Leningrad in 1932, Sotskov joined the KGB in 1959, spending more than 40 years in foreign and central intelligence of the Soviet Union and then Russia. The KGB’s First Chief Directorate was succeeded by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in 1991.
“Unfortunately, a major general and worthy veteran of the Foreign Intelligence Service, has passed away,” said Sergey Ivanov, head of the SVR press office, describing Sotskov’s death as a “personal tragedy” for the service.
After retirement, Sotskov dedicated himself to history, combing through the SVR archives to write several books about the intelligence service’s work. He received a special SVR prize in 2006, for his book ‘Operation Tarantula,’ detailing Soviet intelligence activities targeting British politicians and spies between 1930 and 1945.
Sotskov had also published documents showing that the June 1941 invasion of the USSR by Nazi Germany was not as unexpected as official histories of the time had maintained.
https://www.rt.com/russia/557232-svr-general-suicide-moscow/
Taiwan outlines consequences of potential Chinese attack
Global trade would be hit more than it has been by the Ukraine conflict, Taipei says
A Chinese military assault on Taiwan would have a much greater impact on global trade than the ongoing fighting in Ukraine, Taipei’s top trade negotiator warned on Tuesday, insisting it would lead to a global shortage of semiconductor chips.
Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of a major World Trade Organization meeting in Geneva, John Deng noted that the disruptions to international supply chains and the commodity price hikes caused by Russia’s ongoing military campaign in Ukraine could potentially pale in comparison to the consequences of a Chinese attack on Taiwan.
The trade negotiator underscored the world’s reliance on Taiwan for high-tech chips used in the production of technologies such as electric vehicles, mobile phones and more.
“The disruption to international supply chains; disruption on the international economic order; and the chance to grow would be much, much [more] significant than this one. There would be a worldwide shortage of supply,” he said.
Taiwan currently exports most of the world’s advanced semiconductors, making over $118 billion in exports just last year, with 40% of those exports going to China.
While the government in Taipei has not reported any signs of an imminent attack from China, Taiwan has been on high alert since the war in Ukraine began, fearing that Beijing may be inspired by the conflict and attempt to retake what it considers to be its territory.
China, meanwhile, has stated that it would prefer “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan, which it considers to be a Chinese province, but has warned that it still reserves “other options.”
Last week, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe warned foreign powers against interfering in the China-Taiwan relationship, insisting that if anyone dared to “split Taiwan from China,” Beijing would ”fight to the end, no matter the cost.”
In response to Wei’s warning, Taiwanese Premier Su Tseng-chang called for peaceful talks with China, stating that “Taiwan does not want to close the door to China.” However, he insisted that Beijing was using “various means to oppress and treat Taiwan unreasonably” while Taipei was trying to act with goodwill towards China.
“As long as there is equality, reciprocity and no political preconditions, we are willing to engage in goodwill with China,” said Su, adding that “as for China’s harassment of Taiwan with military aircraft, warships, unreasonable suppression and political actions, the one being most unreasonable is China.”
Geopolitical tensions in the region have recently flared up after President Joe Biden stated last month that the US would use its military to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, walking back on America’s long-standing adherence to the ‘One China Policy’ – which recognizes but does not endorse Beijing’s sovereignty over Taiwan and rules out guarantees of a US military intervention in a China-Taiwan conflict.
Although Biden’s comments were later retracted by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the Chinese government was nevertheless agitated by the statement. Beijing’s frustration has also been spurred by the Pentagon’s recent approval of a $120-million arms sale to Taipei, which Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said had “seriously violated the one-China principle.”
https://www.rt.com/news/557204-taiwan-china-attack-consequences/
I'm of the view the CCP is run from Taiwan - Corporate headquarters
I believe the CCP was decapitated in 2020 on mainland China
2016
Arrest of top General signals China’s unfinished military revamp
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/Arrest-of-top-General-signals-China%E2%80%99s-unfinished-military-revamp/article14547608.ece
12/13/21
CCP exposed: Over 160 CCP generals investigated for corruption
https://thebl.news/world-news/ccp-exposed-over-160-ccp-generals-investigated-for-corruption.html