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Grassley reveals FBI form says Joe and Hunter Biden caught on 17 recordings talking to Burisma owner

Jerry Dunleavy
Washington Examiner
Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:03 UTC
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© Fox News(L) Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, (R)Hunter and Joe Biden
A top Senate Republican revealed Monday that an FBI informant said the Ukrainian oligarch involved in an alleged "criminal bribery scheme" with Joe and Hunter Biden also claimed to have 17 recordings of his conversations with the president and his son.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed on the Senate floor that a largely unredacted version of the bureau's FD-1023 confidential human source form said that "the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them — 17 such recordings."

The Republican senator said, "These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case he got into a tight spot."

Mykola Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian owner of Burisma, was the "foreign national" involved in the alleged "criminal bribery scheme" detailed in the FBI form, and Zlochevsky referred to Joe Biden as the "big guy" during a conversation several years before the June 2020 date of the bureau document, according to sources familiar with the FBI record who described its contents to the Washington Examiner.
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Pentagon document highlights Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Green, along with other conservatives, as security threats

Danny
TRMLX
Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:01 UTC
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The Pentagon has been hard at work keeping us all safe from "fringe social media." The Joint Staff Civil Disturbance cell, an element within the National Military Command Center (NMCC), referenced numerous posts from conservatives such as LTG(R) Flynn, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rep. Lauren Boebert, Matt Walsh, and others in a document titled "Alternative Social Media Update 06 February 2021 (0600)." The document highlights specific platforms such as Gab and 4chan as being fringe, yet it also posted screenshots of a Tweet from Rep. Boebert.
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Executive summary of the document.

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George Soros hands control of his $25 billion empire to his son Alex

Jihye Lee
CNBC
Sun, 11 Jun 2023 10:21 UTC
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© Ilya S. Savenok | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - JUNE 06: Alexander Soros speaks during 2017 Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on June 6, 2017 in New York City.
Philanthropist billionaire George Soros confirmed that he is handing control of his $25 billion empire to his son Alex.

Soros, 92, has a net worth of $6.7 billion, according to Forbes, and is the one of the top 400 richest people in the world. In 2017, he shifted $18 billion from his family office to his Open Society Foundations — a group of charities that works in more than 100 countries — which Alex was named chair of in December.

Alex, speaking to the Wall Street Journal in an exclusive interview published over the weekend, said he is "more political" than his father and hinted at a significant financial role for the Soros organization in the U.S. elections next year. The Open Society Foundations did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment but a spokesperson did confirm the details of the interview with the Reuters news agency.

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Burisma executive who allegedly paid Hunter and Joe Biden has 17 recordings of them as 'insurance policy', GOP Senator reveals

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:01 UTC
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“I’m proud of my son” — Joe Biden
Speaking on the Senate Floor on Monday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that a Burisma executive cited in the FBI 1023 form alleging a bribery scheme with then-Vice President Joe Biden kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations as an "insurance policy."

Grassley stated that the FD-1023 form has a redacted reference stating the Burisma executive possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls that took place between himself and Hunter Biden.


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RFK Jr.'s lawsuit spotlights alleged media collusion to censor 'misinformation'

Fred Lucas
Fox News
Sat, 10 Jun 2023 04:36 UTC
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© CBS NewsCandidate for US President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Major news outlets facing litigation from a group run by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. would not be protected from the alleged violation of federal antitrust laws, a media law expert says.

"Media outlets do not get a First Amendment exemption from antitrust laws," Lyrissa Lidsky, chair of U.S. Constitutional Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, told Fox News Digital.

Kennedy's organization, Children's Health Defense, filed the second lawsuit this year against news outlets that are members of the Trusted News Initiative, a global coalition of news organizations and tech firms, alleging some of the member organizations violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by censoring information.

Lidsky, a media law expert and former dean of the University of Missouri School of Law, said:
"One problem is that we rely on the media to be watchdogs of the government. The allegation here seems to be that powerful actors in the media and the government colluded to suppress information."

Comment: It used to be folks could decide for themselves what was true, what was not. Many did, many didn't but it was an individual responsibility to exercise discernment and formulate an opinion, be it right or wrong.

Tulsi Gabbard: Democrats are trying to discredit RFK Jr.



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Three ways the indictment of Donald Trump hurts America

Liz Peek
The Hill
Sat, 10 Jun 2023 12:30 UTC
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© Spencer Platt/Getty Images/KJNProtesters against former President Trump gather outside Manhattan Criminal Court prior to arraignment on April 4, 2023
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for illegally storing and hiding classified documents. As conservative radio host Steve Gruber describes it, the "bananafication" of our republic continues apace.

There are three reasons every American — even those of us not supporting Trump's 2024 campaign — should find this further assault on the former president repugnant.

First, it reinforces the view, shared by many conservatives, that our government delivers a two-tiered system of justice — one for people on the right and another for those on the left. Donald Trump, after all, is not the only public official found to have mishandled secret documents. Special Counsel Jack Smith claimed, as he brought the indictment: "We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone."

History suggests otherwise.

Comment: They lie for US.

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Witness with evidence of alleged Biden bribery died under 'mysterious circumstances'


Truth Press
Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00 UTC
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who previously served as an attorney for former President Donald Trump, claimed that he offered to give a U.S. attorney information about a whistleblower with access to smoking gun evidence of a Biden international bribery scheme, but he was ignored and she later died under mysterious circumstances.

The former Trump attorney gave his statements about the now-deceased chief accountant at Burisma, the Ukrainian oil and gas company that gave Hunter Biden hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit a board seat, while on Newsmax.

During an interview on Saturday Report with Rita Cosby, Giuliani referred to special counsel Jack Smith, who conducted an investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents, leading to the former president's federal indictment. Giuliani stated that Smith had emphasized the existence of a single system of laws in the United States that applies equally to everyone.
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US attempts 'divide and conquer' strategy against BRICS

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik News
Mon, 12 Jun 2023 11:08 UTC
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Something extraordinary, at least on the surface, happened on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore earlier this month - a somewhat pompous affair self-described as "Asia's premier defense summit".

Intel heads of 24 nations met in de facto semi-secrecy, because in the end the event was duly leaked (Western spin qualified it as an "informal" meeting).

Among the 24, the real deal comprised the US and all the other Five Eyes, plus representatives of two BRICS members, China and India. All the others were not identified with certainty or preferred to remain anonymous - presumably due to their "hanger on" status.

Crucially, key BRICS member Russia was not represented.

Reuters swore the information about the not-so-secret gathering came from five different - unnamed - sources. A Southeast Asian diplomat independently confirmed the presence of the Five Eyes, China, India and Singapore - and that was it. The de facto sponsor of the meeting was Singapore's Ministry of Defense.

Things gets curioser and curioser when we examine the leak a bit closer. So many sources basically corroborating each other point to a concerted spin - practically on an official level. If this was meant to be really secret, as in the past, that would have been the case, with every involved lip conveniently sealed. So why leak it?
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Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian prime minister, has died at 86

Emilio Parodi, Elvira Pollina and Alvise Armellini
Reuters
Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:08 UTC
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Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul and former Italian prime minister who transformed the nation's politics with polarising policies and often alarmed his allies with his brazen remarks, died on Monday aged 86.

Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving premier who counted Russian President Vladimir Putin as a close friend and gained notoriety for his "bunga bunga" sex parties, had suffered from leukaemia and recently developed a lung infection.

He died at Milan's San Raffaele hospital, where he was admitted on Friday. His five children, partner Marta Fascina and younger brother Paolo were with him, a hospital spokesperson said.

A state funeral will be held in Milan Cathedral on Wednesday, which the government declared a day of national mourning. Flags will fly at half mast until Wednesday.
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Analysis: The complex Russian fortifications Ukraine needs to break through in its counter-offensive

Joe Barnes
The Telegraph
Sun, 11 Jun 2023 14:50 UTC
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© Maxar TechnologiesLayered Russian defences have sprung up along the more than 600 miles of front lines
New satellite images reveal the array of minefields, anti-tank ditches and trenches lying ahead of Ukrainian troops

Advancing Ukrainian troops must break through an elaborate network of Russian defences running hundreds of miles across the country that were built in anticipation of Kyiv's offensive.

With the initial assaults now underway, new satellite imagery provided to The Telegraph by Maxar Technologies has revealed the array of minefields, anti-tank ditches, and trenches lying ahead of the Ukrainian troops attempting to push south.

The defences, according to a Ukrainian intelligence officer, are constructed in a "three-line system", with varying levels of fortifications, the depths of which can exceed around 19 miles on some axes.

Comment: Ukraine has already crashed up against the first of three lines of defense, and came away with some territory, but without penetrating even that first line of defense. Russia ceded the ground in front of the line (preserving men and materials), a strategy which military analyst Simplius the Thinker has called "crumple zones" — but every inch of territory Ukraine now occupies has been attained at such a high cost, there is no way Ukraine (or rather, its Western backers) can sustain it.

The strategy of crumple zones was first noted in the battle for Bakhmut:
(The] Russian/Wagner forces had temporarily halted advances in Bakhmut proper in favor of broadening the flanks to create 'crumple zones' for the very purpose of having a large buffer area to fall back through for when Ukraine launches their long-awaited counter-assaults. Screenshot from the report:
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The point of such crumple zones militarily is to create a large buffer of space that you technically 'don't need' in capturing your objective, but is captured solely for the sake of establishing a layered defense which you can withdraw through to put your advancing enemy through a grinder. How defense typically works is you don't just sit there on one line and "butt heads" with your enemy til you're both gored. You preferably lead him back through several layers of increasingly fresher echelons that can put him through the ringer.
No matter the current crowing over Ukraine's "advances" in Zaporizhzhia, the outcome will not only be defeat, but the loss of its third NATO-built army. And the West has nothing more to give.

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