Perhaps Putin has been hanging with Khamenei a little too long

Supreme Ruler Putin? Kremlin Non-Committal on Proposed New Job Description

Trump accused of 'American Collusion' in the Russian election process.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin had no view on a proposal that would see his job description change to Supreme Ruler from head of state after a government commission said it was considering the idea.

The title change is one of an array of possible alterations to the Russian constitution put forward by members of a government commission set up after Putin earlier this month said he wanted to change the Russian basic law.

Putin, 67, proposed his own constitutional changes, which were widely seen as giving him scope to retain influence once his current presidential term expires in 2024, though he has said he does not favor the Soviet-era practice of having leaders for life who die in office.

The overhaul, which triggered a change in government, also cemented Putin's control of the transition process and was seen by some as an attempt to reduce intra-clan infighting between now and 2024, while allowing Putin to show he is responding to public discontent after years of belt-tightening.

The State Duma, the Russian lower house of parliament, has already given its backing to his reforms in a preliminary vote. The government commission is considering further possible changes.

"There are... some very curious proposals among those put forward. For instance, they proposed renaming the position of head of state to 'Supreme leader'," Pavel Krasheninnikov, the government commission's co-chair, told the Rossiiskaya Gazeta government newspaper.

When asked about the idea on Wednesday, the Kremlin was non-committal, calling it a "new initiative" and one of various proposals that may or may not be implemented.

"Right now all this is at the discussion stage," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "President Putin has no view on this."

Other proposals include formally recognizing Russia's status as a "victorious power" in World War Two and recognizing Orthodox Christianity as the country's main religion, the Kommersant newspaper reported.

"Naturally some (of the proposals) will be eliminated, some will be accepted and from this the commission's sought-after result will appear," Peskov told reporters.

Russia's TASS news agency said Vladimir Zhironovsky, leader of the nationalist pro-Kremlin LDPR party, had suggested the president be known as the Supreme Leader many times in order to move away from job titles derived from foreign languages.

Perhaps Putin has been hanging with Khamenei a little too long

When I first laid eyes on her...

I thought Jerry Nadler must have a daughter.

When I first laid eyes on her...

Hunter Biden has agreed to pay child support to the Arkansas woman he fathered a child with while he was also dating his brother's widow

A real class guy just like his old man!

Wasn't he the scuzzbucket who swore up, down, and sideways emphatically denying he was the father? So if he lied about something so provable just imagine what else he's lying about when it comes to Ukraine and China.

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Hunter Biden on Monday agreed to pay child support to the mother of his lovechild in Arkansas.

Linden Alexis Roberts gave birth to Biden's child in August 2018, but took legal action in May 2019 after Biden stopped paying child support.

A DNA test in November 2019 identified Biden as the father. Biden had denied being the father in initial court filings.

Biden agreed to backpay child support to November 2018. The amount is not know, and was redacted in the court order on Monday.

Hunter Biden has agreed to pay child support to the mother of his child in Arkansas, and backpay 13 months of missed installments.

An agreed order from Independence County Circuit Court released on Monday said Biden had agreed to a deal with Lunden Alexis Roberts, who mothered Biden's child in August 2018.

Judge Holly Meyer, however, noted that she couldn't narrow down what was appropriate for Biden to pay in child support "based off the defendant's income" because she "lacks sufficient information."

Biden will backpay child support to November 2018 and pay Roberts' legal fees, according to the order. He will pay child support from February 1, 2020, and on the first of every month.

Roberts first filed a petition for paternity and child support in May 2019, and requested that Biden pay healthcare for the child.

Legal council for Roberts said that she only filed because of Biden's "refusal to continue to support his child." 

She asked for $11,058 in fees, and filed a petition for paternity and child support, court filings show.

In November 2019, a DNA test confirmed "with scientific certainty" that Biden was the father.

Biden had previously denied being the father in an August 2019 court filing. He is yet to comment publicly. 

"He's doing the right thing by finally stepping up and paying what he should've been paying," Roberts' attorney, Clinton Lancaster told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

"He's going to begin paying monthly child support. He's going to pay retroactive child support back to November of 2018. And he's going to pay attorney's fees and costs."

Roberts met Biden while studying at George Washington University, her lawyers said.

After Roberts appealed to the court, Biden is to face contempt proceedings after he failed to give the courts relevant financial documents.

His case will be heard on March 1, unless he provides the information, according to the court order.

Biden's relationship history is complicated. In 2017, he finalized his divorce from Kathleen Biden, his wife of more than 20 years, after she accused him of spending money on drugs and strip clubs.

That year, he started dating Hallie Biden, his brother Beau's widow and the mother of his niece and nephew.

Additionally:

 He was listed as a customer of Ashley Madison when the pro-adultery site was hacked in 2015. 

 He married a South African woman named Melissa Cohen, who is 17 years younger than him. Married her like 10 days after they met. She is also pregnant.

Kicked out of the Navy after getting two waivers...1) For being over 42 years old, 2) Past drug-related conviction, and then failing a drug test for cocaine. If his old man wasn't VP think he would have gotten in?

Like I said a class act.

Hunter Biden has agreed to pay child support to the Arkansas woman he fathered a child with while he was also dating his brother's widow

Report: Comey’s Brother Works for the Law Firm That Handles Clinton Foundation’s Taxes

The shit keeps getting deeper. This article was written in 2017  back then I don’t recall reading anything about the Comey brothers interaction with the Clinton’s. It appears the Comey’s had closer ties to the Clinton’s than we thought.

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Ousted FBI Director James Comey’s ties to the Clinton Foundation and the conflicts of interest that lie there are too close to not raise red flags.

James Comey worked several years in the public and private sector. 

Comey served as general counsel atLockheed Martinuntil 2010 when he departed with over $6 million to show for it. That same year Lockheed Martin became a member of the Clinton Global Initiative and “won 17 contractsfrom the U.S. State Department, which was led by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,”Big League Politics reports.

Comey just so happened to have joined the board of the British bank HSBC Holdings in 2013, which just so happens to be aClinton Foundation partner.

Noting all of this, one of the most important conflicts of interest is Comey’s brother Peter Comey’s role at the Washington law firm DLA Piper, where he serves as “Senior Director of Real Estate Operations for the Americas”.

As Big League Politics reported, “DLA Piper’s offices [shortly before the election] . . . confirmed that the law firm immediately [patched] callers through to Peter Comey’s direct line there.”

DLA Piper is one of thetop ten all-time career campaign donorsfor Hillary Clinton. On top of this, DLA Piper also happens to do the Clinton Foundation’s taxes. DLA Piperperformed the 2015 auditof the Foundation when the scandal first broke.

Big League Politics reports:

Property records show that James Comey owns the mortgage on his brother Peter Comey’s house in Virginia. Therefore, James Comey had a direct financial relationship with a DLA Piper executive at the time he was investigating Clinton.

These relationships, though egregious, are symptomatic of the brazen culture of crony capitalism that exists in our nation’s capital. The public usually is prevented from learning these kinds of things, with the mainstream media blocking information from coming out. Sunlight is the only remedy.

When President Donald Trump finally fired James Comey as FBI director, Tucker Carlson said that everyone in Washington knows it was well past due.

Report: Comey’s Brother Works for the Law Firm That Handles Clinton Foundation’s Taxes

Millions of locusts are swarming in Kenya. This striking photo shows just how bad the outbreak is

Outbreaks of locusts have been occurring for thousands of years. There are many passages in the bible that refer to the scourge of swarming locusts. Only now has it become the result of climate change. 

It's the worst locust outbreak to hit Kenya in 70 years.

Hundreds of millions of the small bugs are swarming in from neighboring Somalia and Ethiopia with unprecedented size and destructive potential, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.

The Desert Locust, the most devastating of all locust species, is eating up crops in areas already susceptible to food and water shortages.

"This has become a situation of international dimensions that threatens the food security of the entire subregion," FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said in a press release.

Some scientists say climate change is at fault: Heavy rainfall in locust breeding areas has allowed breeding conditions to remain favourable, FAO said. East Africa had one of its wettest years on record last year, thanks to warming waters in the Indian Ocean, Nairobi-based climate scientist Abubakr Salih Babiker told the Associated Press.

(And if it didn’t rain when crops died causing a widespread famine they would have blamed it on what?) 

Millions of locusts are swarming in Kenya. This striking photo shows just how bad the outbreak is