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Paternity suit will force Hunter Biden to disclose finances, Bursima cash; mother demands Secret Service for son - UPDATE

Cheyenne Roundtree and Martin Gould
The Daily Mail
Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:34 UTC
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Lunden Roberts and Hunter Biden
Lunden Roberts, the mother of Hunter Biden's baby, will get to grill Joe Biden's scandal-ridden son under oath about his finances while he was on the board of an Ukrainian oil company, according to court papers obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.

Biden, 49, is expected to bring all his financial records as Robert's legal team plans to question him about his monthly earnings serving as a board member for Burisma. The two are currently engaged in a high-profile paternity case after Roberts, 28, filed suit against Biden in May, seeking child support for their 16-month-old child.

The deposition will take place a few days before Christmas, on December 23, at 9am in Little Rock, Arkansas, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.

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UPDATE 23/12/2019: ZeroHedge reports:
Update: Biden has denied the allegations against him and asked the court to strike the filing from the record, claiming the allegations were improperly filed, and may constitute "redundant, immaterial, impertinent or scandalous" material, and that it was a "scheme by a non-party simply to make scandalous allegations in the pending suit to gain some quick media attention."

Biden also asked for attorney's fees and costs to address the allegations.

Judge Don McSpadden only agreed that it was improperly filed, striking the evidence on a technicality "as it was not filed in any acceptable manner to this court."

It is unclear whether it may be re-filed pursuant to (Ark R. Civ. P. 24).

According to the New York Post: "Reached by phone, Dominic Casey, the D&A investigator who filed the papers, refused to say whether his group had been retained by Roberts, or sent the information to the court of its own volition."

A new filing in an Arkansas lawsuit against Hunter Biden claims that the former Vice President's son "is the subject of more than one (1) criminal investigation involving fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme."
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A page from the court filing alleging Hunter Biden's involvement with Burisma's money laundering scheme.


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Best of the Web: Pepe Escobar: You say you want a (Russian) revolution?

Pepe Escobar
Consortium News
Sat, 21 Dec 2019 12:00 UTC
Andrei Martyanov
The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs by Andrei Martyanov. Andrei Martyanov's latest book provides unceasing evidence about the kind of lethality waiting for U.S. forces in a possible, future war against real armies (not the Taliban or Saddam Hussein's).
Once in a blue moon an indispensable book comes out making a clear case for sanity in what is now a post-MAD world. That's the responsibility carried by "The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs," by Andrei Martyanov (Clarity Press), arguably the most important book of 2019.

Martyanov is the total package — and he comes with extra special attributes as a top-flight Russian military analyst, born in Baku in those Back in the U.S.S.R. days, living and working in the U.S., and writing and blogging in English.

Right from the start, Martyanov wastes no time destroying not only Fukuyama's and Huntington's ravings but especially Graham Allison's childish and meaningless Thucydides Trap argument — as if the power equation between the U.S. and China in the 21stcentury could be easily interpreted in parallel to Athens and Sparta slouching towards the Peloponnesian War over 2,400 years ago. What next? Xi Jinping as the new Genghis Khan?

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Epstein 'admitted to me' he was a Mossad SPY: Ex-business partner claims Prince Andrew is protecting Ghislaine Maxwell because of blackmail

Dylan Howard
Medium
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 12:00 UTC
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Steven Hoffenberg is the former chairman of Towers Financial Corporation, a debt collection agency, that he used in a Ponzi scheme. He was the owner of the New York Post. The firm collapsed in 1993, and in 1995 Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to bilking investors out of $475 million. The SEC considered his financial crimes as “one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history” prior to Bernie Madoff’s crimes a decade later.
Steven Hoffenberg was arrested by FBI agents in Arkansas in 1996, after regulators accused him of defrauding investors. The former business partner of Jeffrey Epstein in Towers Financial spent 18 years in jail for the largest Ponzi schemes in history prior to Bernie Madoff's crimes. But the notorious sex criminal got away scot-free. Why? In a series of new and exclusives conversations, Hoffenberg reveals the real reason he evaded justice in one of America's largest Ponzi schemes — he was an international spy.

Britain's Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein's alleged pimp Ghislaine Maxwell have joined forces to stonewall investigators and prevent Epstein's victims from obtaining justice.

That's the explosive claim of former Epstein colleague and friend, Steven Hoffenberg, who confirms that Epstein was indeed a top-level agent for the Israeli Mossad, as first confirmed in the best-selling book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Comment: One might suspect that if the full nature of Epstein and his involvement with the intelligence services was revealed in the promoted book, it would unlikely be available at 'booksellers nationwide'.

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Putin saved the country's economy - Russia's ex-Finance Minister


Sputnik
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 11:27 UTC
Alexei Kudrin
© Sputnik / Konstantin ChalabovAlexei Kudrin, Chairman of the Board, Center for Strategic Research Foundation
A project by the Russian news agency Ria Novosti devoted to the 20th anniversary of Vladimir Putin at the helm of the country features several interviews with the nation's most prominent public figures, who recount their most memorable experiences with Vladimir Putin during the last two decades.

Former Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin opened up about which of President Vladimir Putin's decisions potentially "saved" the Russian economy during the 2008 global financial crisis. Kudrin, who currently serves as chairman of the Accounts Chamber, said that it was Putin's order to create reserve funds during his prime ministership that played the most vital role for Russia.

Comment: And the proof is clear for all to see: US 'shot itself in the foot' by sanctioning us, Putin says amid reports that Russia has become 'bulletproof' for investors

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Snakes in Suits

Congress and the White House compete in year-end stupidity sweepstakes

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
stupid washington
At the end of the nineteenth century, Lord Palmerston stated what he thought was obvious, that "England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests." Palmerston was saying that national interests should drive the relationships with foreigners. A nation will have amicable relations most of the time with some countries and difficult relations with some others, but the bottom line should always be what is beneficial for one's own country and people.

If Palmerston were alive today and observing the relationship of the United States of America with the rest of the world, he might well find Washington to be an exception to his rule. The U.S., to be sure, has been adept at turning adversaries into enemies and disappointing friends, and it is all done with a glib assurance that doing so will somehow bring democracy and freedom to all. Indeed, either neoliberal democracy promotion or the neoconservative version of the same have been seen as an overriding and compelling interest during the past twenty years even though the policies themselves have been disastrous and have only damaged the real interests of the American people.
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Proof that America's "deep state" exists and controls the government

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh
The readers at the international-news site South Front tend to be technologically far more knowledgeable about the internet than most people (including myself) are, and so their responses to a news-report that I did on December 17th, titled "Former NSA Tech Chief Says Mueller Report Was Based on CIA-Fabricated 'Evidence'", not only corrected a misspelling of a particular spoken acronym (my "PHAT" there should have been spelled "FAT") but they also explained some technological details which enable a deeper understanding of how the CIA had perpetrated the 'Russiagate' hoax that Robert Mueller in his report as the U.S. Special Counsel had asserted to be a "Russiagate" fact (i.e., Mueller's allegations that the Russian Government had hacked computers of the Democratic National Committee). Especially informative there was this reader-comment, which comes from one of the world's leading experts on cyber technology, Luke Herbert-Hansen:
Luke Herbert-Hansen Peter Jennings

Well FAT may not [be] a common OS file system anymore, but it is still widely used on various removable media such as a USB sticks.
As everyone knows who has been closely following the most-reliable evidence regarding the question of how DNC emails had been copied and supplied to Wikileaks, there has been much credible, soundly-sourced, speculation that the DNC employee Seth Rich had physically copied the data from a computer there onto a thumb drive (or "USB stick"), which then was picked up in the U.S. by a Wikileaks agent, who physically delivered it to Julian Assange at London's Ecuadorean Embassy. The great independent investigative journalist (virtually barred since 2007 from being published in the U.S. anymore), Seymour Hersh, personally investigated the records of the murder of Seth Rich, both at the Washington DC police and at the FBI, and this is from the transcript I had made of his statement in a Web-posted phone-call [my boldfaces for emphasis]:
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Italian prosecutors: Russiagate initiator Joseph Mifsud 'is dead', but Papadopolous says otherwise

Sara Carter
saraacarter.com
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
Joseph Mifsud
© Stephen RohMaltese professor Joseph Mifsud, May 2018
UPDATE: Late Friday night, George Papadopolous responded to the reports that Italian prosecutors in Agrigento, Sicily believe the Maltese Professor Joseph Mifsud is dead.

"Lil Joey Mifsud is not sleeping with the fishes," Tweeted Papadopolous. "More to come."
What happened to Joseph Mifsud? It is the biggest mystery surrounding the man that allegedly began the FBI's probe into President Donald Trump's campaign and the now debunked theory that campaign officials conspired with Russia in the 2016 election.

A new story out of Italy suggests that an infamous audio file allegedly sent by Mifsud to two Italian papers is believed to be fake, according to reporters who had it analyzed by one of Italy's top forensic experts. The audio file is not the same deposition audio file that is in the possession of the Department of Justice and the Senate Judiciary Committee, in which Mifsud allegedly describes the work he was doing and why he targeted George Papadopoulos. The last anyone has heard from Mifsud was the Spring of 2018.

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Dollars

Tucker Carlson's right! Heritage Foundation, paid by big tech, cut conservative voices from Internet

Jim Holt
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 22 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
TuckerFOX
© Fox News
Since the 2016 election Big Tech in coordination with far left groups have been working tirelessly to eliminate conservative voices and content on the internet.

The Gateway Pundit has been a prime target of this internet jihad by Big Tech. In 2016 The Gateway Pundit was the fourth most influential conservative publisher on Facebook in 2016 according to Harvard and Columbia Journalism Review studies. Since that time Facebook eliminated our reach by 90% using excuses of fake news, conspiracy and click-bait. This is after the liberal mainstream media pushed the fake Trump-Russia collusion narrative for over three years.

Conservative publishers (who aren't having dinner with Mark Zuckerberg) have seen their traffic from Facebook diminished by more than 90%. If you combine the total number of page-views lost by conservative online publishers since 2017 you are looking at a loss of over 1.5 billion page-views from Facebook in one year.

We are seeing the same tactics used by Twitter, Google, Wikipedia and even Pinterest of eliminating and censoring conservative content.

Tucker Carlson was absolutely correct to call out old-school conservative groups for working with big tech companies as they continue on a daily basis to eradicate conservative content online. Here is Tucker Carlson on Friday night:


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Pirates

Mali: Macron announces military's first drone strike as operations deliver 'heavy blow' to Islamist group


The Guardian
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 08:44 UTC
Macron
© Reuters/Luc GnagoFrench President Emmanuel Macron during visit to Ivory Coast
France's military has said it carried out a drone strike for the first time, during operations in Mali in which 40 alleged terrorists were killed.

On Saturday, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced that French forces had "neutralised" 33 jihadists in the central Malian region of Mopti, in an operation that had started the previous night.

In a statement on Monday, the French military command said the drone strike took place during a follow-up operation on Saturday in which a further seven jihadist fighters were killed.

As French commandos were searching the combat zone in Ouagadou forest, 90 miles from the town of Mopti, "they were attacked by a group of terrorists on motorbikes", the statement said. A Reaper drone and a French Mirage 2000 patrol opened fire to support the ground troops.

"This is the first operational strike by an armed drone," the statement said, confirming an earlier report published in the specialist blog Le Mamouth.

Comment: The Guardian, 21/19/2019 French forces in Mali focus on jihadist threat
Macron tweeted that he was "proud of our soldiers who protect us". Two Malian gendarmes also were rescued in the operation, he said. The militants have since regrouped and pushed further into central Mali, where Saturday morning's operation was carried out.


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Pompeo announces John Sullivan as new US ambassador to Russia


Sputnik
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:44 UTC
John Sullivan
© AP/Natacha PisarenkoJohn Sullivan, US Ambassador to Russia
John Sullivan has been sworn in as the new United States Ambassador to Russia, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.

On 12 December, the US Senate confirmed Sullivan to be the next US envoy to Russia in a 70-22 vote. Sullivan, who previously served as deputy secretary of state, will replace Jon Hunstman who completed his tenure in Moscow on 3 October.

"I'm confident John will effectively lead the effort to strengthen cooperation and build a constructive relationship with Russia", Pompeo said in a tweet.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his recent visit to the United States characterised Sullivan as being a highly professional diplomat and said Moscow would be happy to cooperate with him.
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