When a 'Smash and Grab' is portrayed, and because of political correctness, the guy stealing the necklace is Caucasian.
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
The left response to Waukesha
Pretty despicable don't you think? Even more despicable are the assholes who vote Democrat.
Ilhan Omar was the only Democrat to comment.
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Kamala Harris told Jacob Blake she is 'proud of him' during visit with his family in Kenosha NEWS
https://www.theblaze.com/news/kamala-harris-proud-of-jacob-blake
Probably didn't cross her mind because the people in Waukesha weren't murdered by Brooks they were killed by an SUV.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Laptop from Hell (Nice to have the FBI in your back pocket)
Imagine the wall-to-wall coverage it would be getting if this was Don Junior!
‘More money than God:’ Chinese titan lavished Hunter Biden with 3-carat gem, offer of $30 million
Miranda Devine
Ye Jianming, former chairman of the Shanghai-based CEFC China Energy conglomerate in an undated photo. A Senate committee is investigating a bombshell cache of alleged Hunter Biden documents acquired by a Delaware computer repairman.
The Biden family offered their services to a huge, Chinese-government-linked energy consortium to expand its business around the world. How do we know? Because of hundreds of emails documenting the deal found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, left in a Delaware repair shop in April 2019. In her new book, “Laptop from Hell,” New York Post columnist Miranda Devine tells the tale:
James Gilliar, a wiry, 56-year-old British ex-SAS officer, got to know Ye Jianming, the 40-year-old chairman of CEFC, when they were both working in the Czech Republic.
CEFC was a Chinese conglomerate, one of the largest energy companies in the world.
Ye’s task at was to spend $1.5 billion as quickly as possible to ensure the Czech Republic would become China’s “Gateway to the European Union,” a priority of President Xi.
To that end, Ye bought everything from a football team and a brewery to an airline, before being named “special economic advisor” to Czech President Milos Zeman.
Now he was looking for an influential partner to help with acquisitions in other locations around the world that had strategic significance for the Chinese state.
Gilliar had an idea who could help: The Biden family.
Gilliar connected with Hunter Biden through trusted Biden family friend Rob Walker, a former Clinton administration official whose wife, Betsy Massey Walker, had been Jill Biden’s assistant when she was Second Lady.
Miranda Devine’s book Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.
Gilliar emailed Walker in February 2015 to praise Hunter’s appearance in Beijing at a board meeting of the fledgling investment fund Hunter had founded with John Kerry’s son, called BHR.
“Hunter was great,” Gilliar wrote to Walker. “True sheikh of Washington.”
He emailed Hunter a few weeks later: “It has been made clear to me that CEFC wish to engage in further business relations with our group.”
Gilliar knew CEFC was the capitalist arm of President Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative to spread China’s influence — and debt traps — across the world. No Chinese company executed its goals more ardently than CEFC and its young chairman, who was dubbed the “Belt and Road billionaire” in the press.
Chairman Ye had built his provincial energy company into a Fortune 500 colossus virtually overnight, an achievement described by Chinese news agency Caixin as “another great enigma in the miraculous world of Chinese business.” He enjoyed the support of President Xi and was former deputy secretary general of the government’s propaganda arm, the China Association for International Friendly Contacts.
In a rare interview with Caixin at CEFC’s palatial marble headquarters in Shanghai’s upscale French Concession District, Ye is portrayed as a “hermit king” sitting on a golden chair in “a room that resembles a miniature Great Hall of the People.”
Uniformed staff members wearing earpieces glide by. “Most of them were young women wearing smart clothes and bright faces.”
Ye’s face was “as expressionless as a stone statue. Amidst the gilded surroundings, his canvas shoes had an eye-catching plainness. . . .
“In his public activities as a private entrepreneur, Ye Jianming is al- ways walking alongside important foreign political figures. He has been photographed with world leaders such as Israeli President Peres, Turkish President Erdogan, Chadian President Déby, and European Commission President Juncker. He has met with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and the Prime Minister of Bulgaria held a feast to welcome him.”
In the winter of 2015, Chairman Ye and CEFC Executive Director Jianjun Zang, a.k.a. “Director Zang,” flew to Washington, DC. A meeting with Ye was scheduled in Hunter’s diary for December 7, 2015, in a week that was a swirl of back-to-back Christmas parties hosted by Joe and Jill at the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory.
One of his former associates, who spoke on condition of anonymity, believes that Hunter brought Chairman Ye to meet Joe at one of those parties. There is no indication of any such meeting on the laptop, but Hunter had a pattern of introducing business associates to Joe when they came to DC.
After a frustrating experience in another Chinese deal as a minority partner in private equity firm BHR, in which the payday would not come until the end of the fund’s life, Hunter and his uncle Jim Biden wanted more control of the CEFC partnership and a regular income stream.
Enter Tony Bobulinski. The naval officer turned wealthy institutional investor came highly recommended by Gilliar to build what they planned would be a world-class investment firm, called SinoHawk, named after Hunter’s late brother Beau’s
favorite animal, the hawk .
Tony Bobulinski, former business partner of Hunter Biden.REUTERS/Tom Brenner
In December 2015, Gilliar tells Bobulinski he needs help structuring a Chinese joint venture for “one of the most prominent families in the United States.”
The plan is to “build an investment firm like Goldman Sachs,” he writes in a WhatsApp message, transcripts of which were obtained separate from the laptop.
“The family is the Biden family,” Gilliar will soon disclose. Joe, who has announced that he will not run for president in 2016, will be actively involved once he leaves office, and the Bidens expect billions of dollars of projects to flow through the company, Gilliar says.
He lets Bobulinski in on the last piece of the puzzle in March 2016: the Bidens’ Chinese partner is CEFC, which has “more money than God,” he writes. “This is the capital arm of one belt one road.”
At about this time, Bobulinski is introduced to Rob Walker, who tells him he is “a proxy for Hunter Biden, Jim Biden and the Bidens around the world.”
Finally, in February 2017, Gilliar sends Bobulinski a WhatsApp message saying he wants to introduce him to his “partner.”
“Who is your partner?” asks Bobulinski.
“Hunter Biden,” replies Gilliar.
Bobulinski is leery. “I understand you want me to . . . help drive things in the US, but Hunter is [already] here.”
Gilliar: “Money there, intent there . . . skill sets missing . . . We need to create the best deal platform in history, and they haven’t got a clue.” Bobulinski doesn’t like the fact Hunter “was kicked out of US Navy for cocaine use.”
“But he’s super smart,” says Gilliar. “Just a lot of under achievers around them using their name. Has a few demons but u are used to those, right?”
Bobulinski asks: “Is he the decision maker or the Chinese?”
Gilliar: “New platform. Best discuss face to face but I’m the driver.”
Later, Bobulinski asks: “Ok who is putting up the $10MM [million]?”
Gilliar: “Joint vehicle — half us and then equally split — money is already in. Discuss more face to face.”
Ye Jianming, chairman of Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC, gave Hunter Biden a 3.16-carat diamond estimated to be worth $80,000.
Three weeks after his father left office, in 2017, Hunter flew to Miami with Gilliar and Walker to meet Chairman Ye, who was there for the Miami International Boat Show.
They booked into the $700 a night beachfront Nobu Hotel on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, and scheduled lunch with the Chinese for Thursday in a private room set for 10 at the Bourbon Steak restaurant in the ritzy JW Marriott Turnberry Resort & Spa, where Ye was staying with his entourage.
But Hunter flew home the day before the lunch. He already had met with Ye, over a private dinner on the Tuesday night, at which the CEFC chairman made him an offer too good to refuse: $10 million a year, for a minimum of three years, for “introductions alone,” as Hunter would later assert in an imperious email to CEFC executives.
Ye sealed the new alliance with a rich gift — a 3.16 carat diamond worth $80,000. Photographs of the stunning stone appear on Hunter’s laptop along with a grading report that lists it as a “round brilliant” of Grade F with prime “VS2” clarity and “excellent” cut.
Photos of the A 3.16-carat diamond were found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The gift could not have come at a better time. Hunter was in the middle of an ugly divorce from Kathleen, and his office manager, Joan Peugh, had just sent him the latest in a series of overdue bills, a tax collection notice from the District of Columbia for $47,226.78.
Hunter would tell the New Yorker’s Adam Entous that he had flown to Miami to meet Chairman Ye purely for charitable purposes, hoping to secure a donation to World Food Program USA, the nonprofit on whose board he served and which he had used before as a cover for his foreign business activities.
Hunter said it was just chance that the altruistic encounter “turned to business opportunities” and claimed to be surprised when Ye gave him the diamond. He didn’t mention the happy coincidence that his business partners Gilliar and Walker were with him in Miami to clinch a business deal with CEFC.
An Aug. 2, 2017 email from Hunter Biden to CEFC associates Gongwen “Kevin” Dong and Mervyn Yan demanding more money.Robert HunterBut the diamond was just an appetizer.
Nine days after Hunter’s meeting in Miami with Ye, $3 million is wired into an account for Rob Walker’s company, Robinson Walker LLC, from State Energy HK Limited, a Shanghai-based company linked to CEFC, according to the Chuck Grassley-Ron Johnson inquiry.
On March 1, another $3 million is wired to Robinson Walker by the same company. Both transactions are flagged by the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement network in a “suspicious activity report,” filed with the Senate committees as “Confidential Document 16.”
Using the document as a source, the Grassley-Johnson report of Nov. 18, 2020, says: “At the time of the transfers, State Energy HK Limited was affiliated with CEFC China Energy, which was under the leadership of Ye Jianming. In the past, State Energy HK Limited transferred funds to at least one company associated with Hunter Biden’s business associate, Gongwen Dong . . .
“These transactions are a direct link between Walker and the communist Chinese government and, because of his close association with Hunter Biden, yet another tie between Hunter Biden’s financial arrange- ments and the communist Chinese government.”
The Senate report concludes it is “unclear what the true purpose is behind these transactions [$6 million from CEFC] and who the ultimate beneficiary is.”
We know from the laptop that Hunter received regular payments from Robinson Walker. One document lists $56,603.74 from Robinson Walker as income for Rosemont Seneca Advisors, between June and December 2017.
Rob Walker paid at least $511,000 to Hunter’s firm Owasco in 2017, according to an email from Hunter’s tax accountant, Bill Morgan.
Walker tells Bobulinski his role in CEFC is “being a surrogate for H [Hunter] or Jim when gauging opportunities, i.e. digging around in Texas on high speed rail with some of my republican friends . . . or hitting new countries and contacts abroad where things are lukewarm, but not hot enough for H to close or too odd for H to be present . . .”
An Aug. 3, 2018 photo of Hunter Biden in bed at Palms Casino Resort Vegas was found on his laptop.
On March 5, 2017, Page Six breaks the news that Hunter and his brother’s widow Hallie are an item.
When Hunter doesn’t show up for a scheduled meeting three days later in New York, Gilliar tells Bobulinski it doesn’t matter: “In brand he’s imperative but right now he’s not essential for adding input to business.”
It is at this point that Gilliar explains to Bobulinski that the Chinese involved in CEFC are “intelligence so they understand the value added” of the Biden name.
Bobulinski remains troubled by Hunter’s scandals, and Gilliar, who is in Australia with Director Zang looking for acquisitions, is worried he might pull out. So, he arranges for him to meet Hunter the following month at the Chateau Marmont, in Bobulinski’s hometown of L.A.
They meet by the hotel pool in April and speak for two hours while Hunter chain-smokes. Bobulinski finds him respectful and polite. Hunter boasts that he has his father’s ear and can bypass his advisers.
Hunter tells Bobulinski how the joint venture vehicle should be structured and expresses caution about US laws, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which prohibits businesses paying bribes to foreign officials. He appears to conflate that law with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a 1938 antispying law that requires anyone acting as a lobbyist for a foreign power to register with the US government as a foreign agent.
“No matter what, it will need to be a US company at some level in order for us to make bids on federal and state funded projects,” Hunter writes later.
“Also, we don’t want to have to register as foreign agents under the FCPA which is much more expansive than people who should know choose not to know.
“Regardless we should have a . . . company called CEFC America, and ownership should be 50 me 50 them. We then cut up our 50 [percent] in a separate entity between the 4 of us.”
Hunter seems focused, but Bobulinski is puzzled about Uncle Jim’s frequent meddling in CEFC business.
For instance, in April 2017, Jim pulls strings at New York’s elite Horace Mann School to get Director Zang’s daughter Rouqi fast-tracked for entry, although she ends up enrolling in another school.
Jim also writes a letter on behalf of CEFC to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo requesting a meeting. “We intend to discuss potential projects and investments in New York.” He lists the other attendees as Hunter, Chairman Ye, Director Zang, and an unnamed “Member of the Royal Family of Luxembourg.”
“What is the deal w Jim Biden as he wasn’t part of the discussion but now seems a focal point?” Bobulinski asks Gilliar. “What role does Jim see himself playing?”
“Consultant is what he’s offered as [far as] I know,” Gilliar replies. “He [Hunter] brought in Jim simply to leverage getting more equity for himself and family in the final hour, that is evident.”
In another WhatsApp message, Gilliar tells Bobulinski: “With H [Hunter’s] demons, could be good to have a backup, he [Jim] strengthens our USP [unique selling point] to Chinese as it looks like a truly family business, and I like the dude.”
With the deal progressing, Hunter tells Bobulinski it’s time for the next step.
“I want Dad to meet you,” he says.
Excerpted with permission from “Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide” (Post Hill Press), out Tuesday.
COMING TOMORROW:
JOE BIDEN JOINS THE DEAL
How to Fix the Black Community In 5 Simple Steps
By Justin “Master Chim” Garcia
1. Accountability
“There is a much stronger case to be made that efforts to help blacks have had more pernicious and lasting effects on black attitudes and habits than either slavery or segregation.” ~Jason L. Riley (Black Guy)
Facts matter and words mean things. The unquenchable need to blame people you don’t know for things you’ve never experienced done by folks who aren’t even alive is, well, irrational. There isn’t a need for blame when it comes to fueling one’s engine for success. Self-sabotage, though? Yeah, we have to beat someone with the blame stick when that happens. Black folks, prepare.
See, what’s always been baffling to me was the complete inconsistent logic used by race baiters and embraced by the black community when it came to “success”. The BC is no stranger when it comes to athletic success and in that realm we see champions of a “no excuses” mindset that all but disappear once the balls get put away. I mean, who remembers my man Mugsy Bogues? That idiot had no idea midgets weren’t supposed to play in the NBA! Or what about the ’66 Miners from Texas Western? Ever hear of them? Yeah, they kind of put all the obstacles and meanies out of sight and focused on what mattered…results.
Today what do you have? Eric Garner is a martyr for your “fight” against brutality? Al Sharpton is your fearless leader? We see criminals defended and looters supported. We see corrupt politician leeches put on pedestals. You want to argue with teachers that hit your kids back, or administrators that don’t have the patience (who can blame them?) to deal with uncivilized children who are being educated FOR FREE by taxpayer dollars. It’s EVERYONE’S fault but yours when your kids don’t know how to operate in society because slavery, right? Others are to blame because your brothers can’t find a job but have IPhones and jewelry because racism, right? Someone has to pay for your lack of maternal preparation because of Jim Crow, right?
STOP IT and GROW UP! Losers lose because they don’t DO what winning requires. In sports, we don’t complain how big the other team is, or how much they keep scoring, or why the refs seem to be against us…IF WE’RE TRYING TO WIN. No, we score, then score some more. That’s it. No mystery, conspiracy, or travesty. Either you do what it takes to win or you lose. If what it takes YOU is more than what it takes THEM, then tough shit. Nobody cares. I did say these steps were simple, didn’t I?
2. Fatherhood.
“One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man” ~Ben Okri (Black Guy)
Fathers are the most important piece of the childhood puzzle missing in the Black Community. They’re the model for masculinity. They’re the earner who provides the slack a mother needs to mother. They’ve always been the champion of a family’s struggle, and the hero of its sons. They show what a man’s supposed to do to daughters. They show what a man’s supposed to be to sons.
Well, in the black community, they show everyone how to disappear, if anything at all. In the BC, if you’re a kid, you’re currently 72% likely to be born to a single mother. Over half of you will be raised by her, with a boyfriend (or girlfriend) here and there in the mix. I’m reminded of a recent visit to the dr.’s office where the receptionist asked who the lady was to my right. I answered “My wife.” She then proceeded to follow up with “Are you legally married?” I laughed and replied affirmatively. She then STILL followed up with “Do you reside at the same address?” I was like “Holy crap? Are you serious?” She said to me, and she was a BLACK nurse, “Well, if I only ask the black families I’ll get in trouble.” WTF?
But back to you, Black Dads…
There was a time when you were in the household MORE than your white counterparts. Yep, and that’s AFTER slavery, btw. What happened? I know, I know. Welfare forced you out, feminism kept you out. Look, you’ll find no adversary on those fronts here, but again, I have to say…Nobody cares.
When there’s a 5 year old black boy with no dad at a little league game, no one cares about how hard it is to be a dad. When the 10 year old boy is struggling to not be victimized in school, no one cares what’s keeping you away from empowering him. When a young lady is having sex at 12 because she has no strong image of what a man is and how he treats a woman, no one cares about your child support struggles.
Magicians make a career out of making something disappear. Why? Because being here and not being here is so different that it should take magic to make it so.
Your child didn’t ask to be here. You brought him. Man up and father him now.
Simple, right?
3. Education.
“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.” ~Thomas Sowell (Black Guy)
Anyone who knows me knows that I hold the education of our children in the highest regard. A super talented drug addict singer once sung “I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.” This is where education comes in.
Now unbeknownst to so many parents out there, education begins as soon as that baby is out of the womb and into this cold, cruel, beautiful world. Education begins with stories of pride, exposure to character, and the warmth of one’s loved ones. Education begins with the reassuring embrace of a loving mother. The delightfully fulfilled gaze of a father. Even the laughter shared amongst friends. But it continues…
The world is a map only navigated by a vision tempered in reality. We do not get through, by, nor over obstacles in this life by finding the feelgood. We don’t put food in the fridge or gas in the car by making the goosebumps rise or the butterflies flutter. We can only navigate the map. The map has paths that have been used by others that are safe and fruitful, just as it has those that have led to others’ demise. The beauty is that these maps are available. The challenge is that kids can’t read them. That’s where it truly takes a village, but you get to get them started.
Eventually, many of you will forge some sort of relationship with some government sponsored “school”, but whatever they try to sell you, don’t you dare think that building of strangers is responsible for your child’s “education”. On the contrary, you’ll find them undermining your authority and “discovering” new reasons why your child can’t succeed at every pass. Nobody cares. Don’t trust them. Certainly don’t believe them. Your child’s education is YOUR privilege. Nobody can rob you of that gift and don’t you ever think otherwise.
Keeping it simple.
4. Ritual.
“When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.” ~Chinua Achebe (Black Guy)
Links on a chain. We’re all just links on a chain. There was a time when we all knew that. Whether it was the dance “of your people” or the phrase the old folks use to say, we all have, at the very least, clues and remnants of where we came.
Before technology and the distraction of an overzealous government, we practiced being “us” together. We’d sing, dance, pray, eat, and share together in the fashion and manner which we were shown. We were shown by a compassionate grandparent or elder. We would, in turn, pass down these customs and traditions to the next genera…link in the same manner. This connected us to more, fueled a pride for accomplishments done by other links, but it made sure of one incredibly important thing. It showed, no, proved we weren’t alone in this. There were others like us who faced the very things in front of us…and they crushed it. They conquered all would be saboteurs. The land, money, weather, disease, war… Nope. None of those things could prevent the chain from reaching you.
Make sure none of you forget it.
5. Tribe.
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” ~Alex Haley (Black Guy)
You can NOT do this alone. The government is NOT designed to help you. Those who don’t look like you and aren’t from the places you are simply do NOT know how to help, despite some of their best elitist intentions.
You need your people. People need people. YOUR people represent the best of you. From your history, to your identity, to your customs and traditions, we’re stronger when surrounded by our loved ones in any situation. The most dire of them tend to benefit the most from the safety net of our tribe.
Like strands on a spider’s web, the more connections it has, the stronger a tribe will be. From the celebration of new life, to the reverence shown to its elders, your tribe can provide a powerful synergy the black community has missed for some time now. Abandoned? Had stolen? Again, nobody cares.
Get results. The kind of simple results only to be found in tribe.
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” ~George Washington Carver (yeah, you guessed it…black guy.)
So what’ll it be? A new direction or just some more hate mail in my spam folder? I would hope that some in the black community will listen to this half-Puerto Rican, quarter Irish, quarter Italian, full blooded American, but I know better.
Hope is not a plan and, after all, nobody cares.
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