Hunter Biden associate Patrick Ho schemed to evade Iran sanctions, secure arms deal, court files say

Court documents filed in the New York criminal trial show Patrick Ho’s scheme to evade U.S. oil sanctions on Iran and secure illicit arms deals in the years before Hunter Biden legally represented him for $1 million. The threat of FARA charges still hang over his head.

Hunter Biden was paid $1 million by Chinese energy tycoon Ye Jianming to represent his deputy Patrick Ho, who was later convicted of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act and money laundering, was also accused in the trial of conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran and of helping to broker illicit arms deals with Arab countries while he was funded by Ye’s energy company.

Patrick Ho was arrested in November 2017 at New York’s JFK Airport two days after charges were filed against him in a sealed complaint. Ho was eventually convicted of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit the same in late 2018. In a press release after the conviction, the Department of Justice detailed two wide-ranging schemes by Ho to bribe African officials in Chad and Uganda to secure business advantages for the CEFC China Energy—Ye Jianming’s energy conglomerate.

One of the first phone calls that Ho placed after his arrest was to James Biden—Joe Biden's brother—who believed that Ho was trying to get in contact with his nephew, Hunter.

As the New York Post reported, before Ho’s arrest and trial, Hunter Biden signed on as “Counsel to matters related to US law and advice pertaining to the hiring and legal analysis of any US Law Firm or Lawyer” in September 2017, according to an attorney engagement letter obtained by the Post. Hunter Biden was wired $1 million for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation” according to once-confidential documents obtained by the U.S. Senate Committees on Homeland Security and Finance and described in a report published in 2020.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/hunter-bidens-client-patrick-ho-schemed-evade-iran-sanctions-and

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Emails show how feds coalesced around Russia, QAnon to dismiss Hunter Biden laptop

FOIA revelations and new litigation give ammunition to GOP lawmakers' efforts to rein in Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

ANew York Post scoop based on emails from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop, published three weeks before the 2020 election, immediately drew attention from the federal agency that helped set up a private consortium intended to squelch purported election misinformation.

It's not clear why from heavily redacted emails the Department of Homeland Security turned over to America First Legal among several productions under the Freedom of Information Act.

What's unambiguous, however, is the Mis-, Dis- and Malinformation (MDM) Team in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency had settled on a narrative for the laptop by the following week: guilt by association with the Russian state and QAnon, and disinterest in its authenticity and integrity despite the FBI confirming it nearly a year earlier, according to a contemporaneous IRS memo.

Other legal groups are pulling on loose threads from similar disclosures about public-private collaborations that may involve policing purported misinformation.

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ANew York Post scoop based on emails from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop, published three weeks before the 2020 election, immediately drew attention from the federal agency that helped set up a private consortium intended to squelch purported election misinformation.

It's not clear why from heavily redacted emails the Department of Homeland Security turned over to America First Legal among several productions under the Freedom of Information Act.

What's unambiguous, however, is the Mis-, Dis- and Malinformation (MDM) Team in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency had settled on a narrative for the laptop by the following week: guilt by association with the Russian state and QAnon, and disinterest in its authenticity and integrity despite the FBI confirming it nearly a year earlier, according to a contemporaneous IRS memo.

Other legal groups are pulling on loose threads from similar disclosures about public-private collaborations that may involve policing purported misinformation.

Judicial Watch announced Wednesday it had filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Justice Department for records of FBI payments to X, formerly Twitter, based on a Twitter Files disclosure that the bureau paid the company nearly $3.5 million for staff time to process requests. The FBI denied the FOIA request, citing an exemption for investigation techniques.

Last week, the group sued the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for ignoring its request for National Counterterrorism Center records and communications regarding the Foreign Malign Influence Center – whose existence does not appear to have been officially acknowledged until a May congressional hearing.

The disclosures and litigation give House Republicans under new Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., further ammunition in their quest to rein in CISA, the subject of an interim report in June by Republican staffers on the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee

Without a Senate GOP majority, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul leads "a lone crusade" against CISA's expansion, according to anti-censorship group Reclaim the Net, citing his recurring "no" votes on cybersecurity bills as the Senate Homeland Security Committee's top Republican member.

CISA gave Just the News a nearly identical statement as its response to the Judiciary GOP staff report when asked to explain the MDM Team's immediate interest in the Post report.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/emails-show-how-federal-misinfo-team-coalesced-around-russia-qanon-dismiss#google_vignette

Georgia election case goes to trial over mass voter challenge as cases mount

Fair Fight asks the court to find that True the Vote violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act and to bar the organization from future operations in Georgia.

The trial over a 2020 Georgia election case has begun, including mass challenges of voter eligibility and allegations of voter intimidation. Similar legal challenges continue in the state.

On Thursday, the trial of Fair Fight v. True the Vote began, with the plaintiff arguing that the defendants' challenging the eligibility of more than 364,000 voters in the 2020 presidential election amounts to "voter intimidation."

Fair Fight is a voting rights PAC founded by twice-defeated Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, and funded by left-wing fundraiser "ActBlue." Fair Fight first filed the lawsuit in December 2020, in the weeks leading up to the Senate runoff election in the state.

Abrams herself is considered by many to be the left-wing's version of an "election denier." The Washington Post reported that at various times Abrams said gubernatorial election was “stolen” from her, and in a New York Times interview, that “I won.” She suggested that election laws were “rigged” and that it was “not a free or fair election.” She also claimed that voter suppression was to blame for her loss, even though she admitted she could not “empirically” prove that. According to The Post, while she eventually acknowledged Kemp was the governor, she refused to say he was the “legitimate” governor.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/ga-2020-election-case-goes-trial-over-mass-voter-challenge-intimidation

Soros-Funded PAC Labels Black Republican An Uncle Tom In Campaign Ad: ‘Skinfolk Ain’t Kinfolk’

The ad from Black Voters Matter Action PAC, an electioneering group that spends millions in support of Democrat candidates, is up with an ad that refers to Cameron as “Uncle Daniel Cameron,” and uses the saying, “Skinfolk ain’t kinfolk” — a refrain used by black liberals to suggest that anyone who disagrees with them politically is a race traitor.

http://www.womensystems.com/2023/10/soros-funded-pac-labels-black.html

Israeli Politician Moshe Feiglin: "Gaza Needs to Turn Into Dresden! Annihilate Gaza Now!"

Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin is giving interview after interview on Israeli television demanding the IDF carry out the complete and total "annihilation" of Gaza with endless airstrikes to cause "destruction like Dresden and Hiroshima."

"We still have not revenged in a biblical way…we did not burn Gaza to ashes immediately. Create a tremendous humanity crisis. Level the entire area. Do not leave a stone upon stone in Gaza. Gaza needs to turn to Dresden. Annihilate Gaza now!"#Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64085

IRS stops 'unannounced' visits to Americans following Weaponization of Government probe: report

"History has shown how the IRS, with its vast power to reach into the lives of Americans, has the tremendous potential to violate the civil liberties of American citizens."

In an interim staff report published on Friday, the Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government outlined civil liberties abuses performed by the Internal Revenue Service and showed that the IRS ceased its unannounced visit policy after Congressional oversight.

"History has shown how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), with its vast power to reach into the lives of Americans, has the tremendous potential to violate the civil liberties of American citizens. As Justice John Marshall noted over two-hundred years ago, the 'power to tax involves the power to destroy.’ The Committee’s and Select Subcommittee’s oversight demonstrates that Justice Marshall’s warning is as potent now as it was then," the report states.

The report sheds light on several civil liberties abuses that have occurred within the first nine months of the 118th Congress, including the IRS conducting an unannounced field visit to the home of journalist Matt Taibbi the same day he was testifying before Congress on government abuses, an IRS giving a fake name and used "deception to gain entry into the house of an Ohio taxpayer and then threatened her when asked to leave," and the IRS repealing it’s policy on unannounced field visits after the committee and subcommittee’s oversight uncovered abuses by the IRS.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-irs-reverses-stops-unannounced-visits-to-americans-following-weaponization-of-government-probe-report

Russia threatens NATO state’s foreign minister with criminal charges

Lithuania’s Gabrielius Landsbergis has called for a coup in Moscow

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis could be prosecuted over his calls for regime change in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

According to Zakharova, in a recent meeting with fugitive Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Landsbergis openly called for “a violent change of government” in Russia.

The Lithuanian foreign minister claimed “no one in Europe and the world” was safe from the “Kremlin regime,” and therefore Vilnius wanted to see “active opposition to [Russian President] Vladimir Putin not only abroad, but also in Russia itself,” which would “seek changes to the Russian political system,” according to Baltic media that quoted Landsbergis.

“This is unacceptable behavior for the head of a foreign ministry, although we understand perfectly well that [Landsbergis and others like him] have long stepped over the line and gone completely beyond any legal framework,” Zakharova told reporters at the daily press briefing.

She noted that this was not the first time Landsbergis has voiced “extremist ideas,” for which Russia has already sanctioned him, and that he should know he faces criminal liability for such statements “in accordance with Russian legislation, and also with international practice.”

https://swentr.site/russia/585908-lithuania-landsbergis-regime-change/

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i'm having all kinds of technical issues the link was from RT but morphed

The pending crisis for the Israel lobby

As Israel experiences its greatest crisis in 50 years, the Israel lobby has risen to the occasion. But despite its best efforts, the lobby is now up against foes it has never had before, and that in the long run will defeat it.

As Israel experiences its greatest crisis in 50 years, the American Israel lobby has risen to the occasion. Jewish organizations have consolidated their support for the Israeli military, with even liberals like J Street joining the cry that there must not be a ceasefire.

Jews who heard their parents’ stories about the crises for Israel in 1948 and 1967 and 1973 are demonstrating that they will show up for the Jewish state in its hour of need, politically in the West.

And surely that organized Zionist community has been successful so far in traditional methods: in getting Biden to fly to Israel and stand by Netanyahu’s war cabinet and invoke the Holocaust; in pressing the mainstream media to humanize the October 7 Jewish victims, and not the faceless Palestinian ones; and in organizing campaigns to cancel and demonize Palestinian supporters in Jewish forums and media ones too.

But despite the lobby’s best efforts, there is a new political map in the U.S., and the lobby is approaching a crisis. Today, it is up against foes it has never had before and that, in the long run, will defeat it.

Three forces have announced themselves: 1. the establishment is wobbly; even pro-Israel voices (Peggy Noonan, Richard Haass, Thomas Friedman) are expressing deep fears about what Israel has become and its absence of a vision for a future beside massacring Palestinians; 2. the Jewish community on which the lobby depends is fracturing, with brave strong young people labeling apartheid and genocide; 3. the intersectional politics of the left have brought a diverse coalition to challenge Israeli racism in ways that were marginalized in the past. That coalition is exerting a groundswell that is now scaring Democrats about losing Michigan.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/the-pending-crisis-for-the-israel-lobby/

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>>19812295

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Israel Has Permanently Lost The Argument

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

I’m sorry if this makes me an evil terrorist-loving baby-raping sieg-heiling Nazi, but in my humble opinion genocidal massacres are bad.

Israel and its allies get away with a lot by marketing this as a “war”. It’s not a war. Israel launches high-tech military explosives at civilian buildings in a huge concentration camp while Hamas fires back with glorified fireworks which do light property damage. That’s not a war, it’s a massacre.

I was upset when I saw that Israel has killed seven thousand people in its Gaza bombing campaign but then a really smart Israel apologist told me Hamas might be exaggerating those numbers and maybe it’s more like four thousand, so now I think it’s fine.

What kind of drooling, knuckle-dragging, tapioca-brained moron can look at the satellite images of the damage caused by Israeli airstrikes and believe Gaza is lying about its death toll?

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-has-permanently-lost-the-argument

>>19812335

posts say 2 years

2017 to 2019

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6 years

2019 to 2025

However it'll take 2 years to clean this shit up once it breaks

Israeli Think Tank Lays Out a Blueprint for the Complete Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

An Israeli think tank with ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a report on October 17 promoting the "unique and rare opportunity" for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.”

Update on October 24, 2023

After this article was originally published, the Israeli outlet Calcalist reported on a separate plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza that is being circulated by the Israeli Intelligence Ministry headed by Gila Gamliel. The leaked document was reportedly created for an organization called “The Unit for Settlement – Gaza Strip” and was not meant for the public.

In the plan being proposed by the Intelligence Ministry, Palestinians in Gaza would be displaced from Gaza to the northern Egyptian Sinai peninsula. In the report, the ministry described different options for what comes after an invasion of Gaza and the option deemed as “liable to provide positive and long-lasting strategic results” was the transfer of Gaza residents to Sinai. The move entails three steps: the creation of tent cities southwest of the Gaza Strip; the construction of a humanitarian corridor to “assist the residents”; and finally, the building of cities in northern Sinai. In parallel, a “sterile zone”, several kilometers wide, would be established within Egypt, south of the Israeli border, “so that the evacuated residents would not be able to return”.

In addition, similar to the plan described in the original story below, the document calls for cooperation with other countries, in fact “as many as possible” so that they may “absorb” the Palestinians who have been uprooted from Gaza. Among the countries mentioned as possible sites for Palestinians from Gaza are Canada, European countries such as Greece and Spain, and North African countries.

Original article

The Hamas attack on Israeli towns surrounding Gaza on October 7 has provided a pretext for an unprecedented, genocidal revenge campaign by Israel involving the massacre of now nearly 5,000 Palestinians, including over 2,000 children – and that may only be the beginning. Now, an Israeli think tank with ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is promoting plans for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

On October 17, the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategypublished a position paper advocating for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.” The report advocates exploiting the current moment to accomplish a long-held Zionist goal of moving Palestinians off the land of historic Palestine. The report’s subtitle makes it clear: “There is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government.”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-think-tank-lays-out-blueprint-complete-ethnic-cleansing-gaza/5837896

>>19812380

>Shall I continue??

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O’Keefe Media Group: Mole Inside ActBlue Discloses Secret Conference in Boston… Police Called on O’Keefe as He Questions FEC Money Laundering Allegations!

James O’Keefe: A mole inside ActBlue disclosed a secret conference held in Boston. Inside the hotel, I questioned ActBlue on FEC money laundering allegations. The Boston Police were called and bodycam footage forthcoming…

James O’Keefe brought attention to the ActBlue donation mules in Maryland in a recent report.

Earlier this year Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent off a letter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) demanding an investigation into the hundreds of thousands of small donations adding up to millions of dollars given to Democratic fundraising giant ActBlue in the past two elections.

As The Gateway Pundit first reported late last year on the thousands of donation mules donating to Democrat Raphael Warnock from across the country.

Via James O’Keefe:

“Months ago we found a handful of donors who donated small amounts to ActBlue, but when ActBlue reported the donations to the Federal Elections Commission, something didn’t add up. Unaware retirees, among many others, were reported having given tens of thousands more than their actual donation.” O’Keefe said.

“We went to get some answers from ActBlue staffers on the inside at their secret meeting in Boston. When confronting ActBlue employees outside of the hotel, no responses were given.” he said.

I was questioned by conference security and when they saw my OMG press pass, I was immediately asked to leave the hotel premises. Once outside of the hotel, things got even more heated and the police were called on our team.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/okeefe-media-group-mole-inside-actblue-discloses-secret/

The Right To Keep And Bear Arms

The Relationship Between Gun Control And Genocides

https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/RKBA/genocide.html

Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney ADMITS he declined to prosecute Hunter for tax crimes and says it was because he was too 'short-staffed' and didn't have enough lawyers to pursue the case

California U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada confirmed claims by whistleblowers that he declined to prosecute Hunter Biden for tax crimes

Estrada told congressional investigators he didn't have enough lawyers to pursue the president's son

A top Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney has confirmed he declined to prosecute Hunter Biden for tax crimes, bizarrely claiming he was 'resource-strapped' and didn't have enough lawyers to handle the case.

DailyMail.com reviewed the transcript of a closed-door House Judiciary Committee interview with Martin Estrada, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, which was conducted on Tuesday.

Estrada detailed a phone call he had in October 2022 with David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney in Delaware, who is leading the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's alleged gun and tax offences.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12677775/Biden-appointed-prosecutor-ADMITS-declined-prosecute-Hunter-tax-crimes-short-staffed.html

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Remote Russian region bans Halloween

“This universally favored holiday is now being celebrated in our republic as well,” a statement on the ministry’s Telegram channel said, adding that the day has become particularly popular with “teens and youth.”

Despite the global appeal, however, the local educational authorities still “deem it inappropriate.” The statement said the advice came “in light of recent events” though it did not elaborate on which events it was referring to.

Instead of Halloween, schools should focus on education and events “preserving and strengthening moral values… patriotism, and protecting the historical heritage” of the country, they said.

https://www.rt.com/russia/585988-russian-region-ban-halloween/