Hunter Biden's Lawyer Abruptly Quits After 'Father-Of-The-Year' Blows Off Child Support Hearing

Hunter Biden's lawyer abruptly quit on Monday after the former Vice President's son and Ukraine energy expert failed to show up for a child support hearing regarding his out-of-wedlock child with a D.C. stripper from Arkansas.

According to the Daily Mail, lawyer Dustin McDaniel - the former Attorney General for Arkansas, filed a motion to withdraw after he says Biden's personal lawyer 'advised' him that he was being discharged.

"(C)ounsel will take all steps reasonably practical to protect defendant's interests and make every effort to ensure an efficient and judicious transition for new counsel," wrote McDaniel.

Lunden Roberts, 28, is suing Biden for $11,000 in legal fees, plus child support payments after a DNA test revealed he was the father. Biden, meanwhile, says he's broke an has requested that the judge seal his financial records due to "significant debts" despite having been paid vast sums of money while sitting on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma.

Hunter was ordered by Judge Don McSpadden to provide at least three years of tax returns before he could reach a decision on monetary support for the child, whose name and gender have not been revealed. Biden has requested that his financial records be sealed to avoid public 'embarrassment' over claims of 'significant debts,' according to the Mail.

In addition to preventing the disclosure of Biden's alleged debts, it is thought information on his business ventures, investments, expenses, taxes and personal property valuations would also be included in the documents. -Daily Mail

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/75643/hunter-bidens-lawyer-abruptly-quits-after-fatheroftheyear-blows-off-child-support.html

France Paralyzed By Largest General Strike In Decades

In what appears to be the biggest disruption to French society since the gilets jaunes demonstrators nearly torched Paris last year, public workers across the country stayed home on Thursday, immobilizing public transit across the country as the first general strike in more than 20 years began.

The walkout was called by unions angry at President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms (not unlike how a planned - then scrapped - gas tax hike sparked the giles jaunes).

On the fist day of the strike, parts of Paris resembled a ghost town during what are typically busy morning-commute hours. Roads were empty, and train stations were deserted, according to the Times of London.

The biggest industrial action of Macron's tenure is, so far, staggering in scale: 50% of French teachers are off work, nine out of ten trains were cancelled and eleven of the fourteen underground lines in Paris are closed. A total of 245 separate demonstrations have been announced across France as students, firefighters, healthcare workers and others joining in. Strikes at Air France forced a wave of flight cancellations, leaving thousands of travelers scrambling for a workaround. Air France cancelled 30% of its domestic flights and 10% of international short- and medium-haul flights on Thursday, RT reports.

Millions of workers are staying home.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-paralyzed-largest-general-strike-decades

The "Silicon Six" Are Doing A Great Job Avoiding Taxes

The “Silicon Six" - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft. Collectively, they had 2018 revenues in excess of $800 billion and currently have a combined market capitalization of more than $4.5 trillion.

The "Silicon Six" have avoided over $100 billion in taxes between 2010 and 2019, according a report from Fair Tax Mark, a British organization that certifies businesses for good tax conduct. They analyzed 10-K filings to compare tax provisions, which is the amount corporations set aside to pay taxes, to cash taxes, which is the amount actually handed over to the government.

The aggregate tax contingencies of the six companies has increased from $8.9 billion at the end of 2010 to $47 billion in 2019. An additional $5.7 billion in interest and penalties has been accrued over the same period.

"The international tide is turning on the acceptability of corporate tax avoidance. The idea of countering the profit-shifting of Big Tech multinationals via the introduction of digital sales taxes has taken root in many countries. Investors need to look afresh at the future impact that this will have on company valuations and income flows," said Paul Monaghan, Chief Executive of the Fair Tax Mark.

The report singled out Amazon as having the poorest tax conduct. Amazon paid just $3.4 billion in income taxes since 2010, or 12.7% of profits, while the federal tax rate in the U.S. was 35% for seven of the eight years analyzed. "The company is growing its market domination across the globe on the back of revenues that are largely untaxed and can unfairly undercut local businesses that take a more responsible approach," said the report.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/silicon-six-are-doing-great-job-avoiding-taxes

EXCLUSIVE: Shifty Schiff Obtained Rudy Giuliani’s Phone Records A Day After AG Barr and US Attorney Durham Traveled to Rome – What Was He After?

Representative Adam Schiff from California reported earlier this week that he had obtained the phone records of President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. The date of the phone records shows as September 30th. This also happens to be the Monday after the weekend that AG Barr and his US Attorney Durham went to Rome. What was Schiff after?

We discussed AG Barr’s and US Attorney John Durham’s meetings with Italians earlier this year. Bloomberg had reported:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/exclusive-shifty-schiff-obtained-rudy-giulianis-phone-records-a-day-after-ag-barr-and-us-attorney-durham-traveled-to-rome-what-was-he-after/

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Check Out The INSANE Salaries Of The Highest-Paid CEOs In America This Year And Feel Poor With Me

I stumbled upon a report of the 101 highest paid CEOs in America yesterday after seeing an article about a (Walt) Disney heiress putting the Disney CEO on blast for his salary. Disney’s CEO, Robert A. Iger, ranks 3rd on the list of the highest paid CEOs in America with annual compensation of $65,645,214.

Abigail Disney is the granddaughter of the late Walt Disney and despite being born into a world of immense wealth she decided now was the time to lash out at the pay gap. An Equilar report found that Disney’s CEO makes 1,424 times the median salary of Disney employees.

I clicked around to the Equilar report which shows the highest paid CEOs of 2019 and here’s what the top 15 looks like. The CEO Pay Ratio is pretty self-explanatory, it explains how much more the CEO makes compared to the median company salary.

1. Mark V. Hurd (Oracle) $108,295,023, 1205x median employee salary

2. Safra A. Catz (Oracle) $108,282,333, 1205x median employee salary

3. Robert A. Iger (Disney) $65,645,214, 1424 CEO Pay Ratio

4. James R. Murdoch (FOX) $44,415,365, 741 CEO Pay Ratio

5. Michael F. Neidorff (Centene) $26,122,414, 396 CEO Pay Ratio

6. Satya Nadella (Microsoft) $25,843,263, 154 CEO Pay Ratio

7. Randall L. Stephenson (ATT) $25,600,312, 304 CEO Pay Ratio

8. Michael L. Corbat (Citigroup) $24,179,166, 486 CPR

9. Dennis A. Muilenburg (Boeing) $23,392,187, 184 CPR

10. Miles D. White (Abbott Labs) $22,872,393, 301 CPR

11. Brian T. Moynihan (B of A) $22,434,351, 247 CPR

12. Pierre Nanterme (Accenture) $22,299,174, 1222 CPR

13. Hans Vestberg (Verizon) $22,206,086, 198 CPR

14. Marillyn A. Hewson (Lockheed Martin) $21,516,545, 191 CPR

15. Charles H. Robbins (Cisco) $21,284,339, 160 CPR

https://brobible.com/success/article/highest-paid-ceos-america-2019-millions-compensation/

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Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation: Part I

There’s something happening here

What it is ain’t exactly clear”

Join me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a time nearly four-and-a-half decades ago – a time when America last had uniformed ground troops fighting a sustained and bloody battle to impose, uhmm, ‘democracy’ on a sovereign nation.

It is the first week of August, 1964, and U.S. warships under the command of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. This event, subsequently dubbed the ‘Tonkin Gulf Incident,’ will result in the immediate passing by the U.S. Congress of the obviously pre-drafted Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which will, in turn, quickly lead to America’s deep immersion into the bloody Vietnam quagmire. Before it is over, well over fifty thousand American bodies – along with literally millions of Southeast Asian bodies – will litter the battlefields of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

For the record, the Tonkin Gulf Incident appears to differ somewhat from other alleged provocations that have driven this country to war. This was not, as we have seen so many times before, a ‘false flag’ operation (which is to say, an operation that involves Uncle Sam attacking himself and then pointing an accusatory finger at someone else). It was also not, as we have also seen on more than one occasion, an attack that was quite deliberately provoked. No, what the Tonkin Gulf incident actually was, as it turns out, is an ‘attack’ that never took place at all. The entire incident, as has been all but officially acknowledged, was spun from whole cloth. (It is quite possible, however, that the intent was to provoke a defensive response, which could then be cast as an unprovoked attack on U.S ships. The ships in question were on an intelligence mission and were operating in a decidedly provocative manner. It is quite possible that when Vietnamese forces failed to respond as anticipated, Uncle Sam decided to just pretend as though they had.)

https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-i/