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Hunter Biden violated divorce settlement by not paying delinquent taxes

Tori Richards
Washington Examiner
Sun, 30 May 2021 07:00 UTC
hunter biden
Although Hunter Biden made millions, he hampered his ex-wife's quest to build a new life after their 2017 divorce by refusing to pay back property taxes or deed over one of their homes to her, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner .

Biden's actions violated his divorce settlement agreement and resulted in the federal government garnishing Kathleen Biden's $5,345 tax return. She was also unable to refinance a home in her own name in 2018, Kathleen Biden's divorce attorney, Rebekah Sullivan, wrote in a letter to Hunter Biden.

At the time, Biden was making up to $50,000 a month from his consultant job with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings. Property records show the couple owned homes in Washington, D.C., Delaware, and on a lake in Indiana.

Comment: You can't get much more scummy than Hunter Biden.

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Family

China relaxes family planning policy amidst rapidly ageing population


Hong Kong Free Press
Mon, 31 May 2021 16:00 UTC
china children
© Noel Celis/AFP.Children play a jump rope game in a park in Beijing on February 9, 2021.
China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media reported Monday, further unwinding four decades of controls in the world's most populous nation which have strangled the birthrate.

For almost 40 years, China enforced a controversial "one-child policy" — one of the strictest family planning regulations worldwide — which was relaxed in 2016 to a "two-child policy" due to widespread concerns over an ageing workforce and economic stagnation.

Despite government efforts to encourage couples to have children, China's annual births have continued to plummet to a record low of 12 million in 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics said last month.

Comment: Note that Uyghur families were exempt from the child limiting quotas, but, in recent years, like other populations that have seen their living standards rise, have chosen to have less: Drop in Xinjiang birthrate largest in recent history

See also: Xinjiang residents to sue BBC over its fake news claims of 'Uygur forced labor camps'

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5 police officers injured after attempting to disperse hundreds of youths defying lockdown in Germany


RT
Sun, 30 May 2021 17:23 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Christoph Schmidt
An attempt by German police to disperse a crowd of young revelers in Stuttgart late on Saturday ended up in clashes that left five officers injured. Large gatherings are still banned in the city because of Covid-19.

Around 600 young people gathered in downtown Stuttgart late on Saturday, according to German media. A particularly large crowd occupied the Schlossplatz square - a popular spot among the city's youth.

The revelers, who were drinking alcohol and flouting the Covid-19 restrictions on gatherings imposed in the city, soon attracted police attention. However, they did not follow the orders of law enforcement to disperse.
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Bad Guys

Homeless man attacks & knocks down female police officer in San Francisco's Chinatown - bystanders rush to help


RT
Mon, 31 May 2021 20:43 UTC
homeless man attack police officer san francisco
© Instagram / @the_asian_dawnA homeless man attacks a female police officer in San Francisco's Chinatown, May 28, 2021
A homeless man suspected of vandalizing property and shouting racist slurs in San Francisco's Chinatown was filmed attacking an Asian police officer as she approached to detain him.

The incident happened near Portsmouth Square on Friday night, but videos of the scuffle shared online on Sunday show how the incident unfolded, as a female officer attempted to detain a heavily-built male suspect without any backup.

At first, the man seems to be cooperating, but as the officer approaches and puts on her gloves, he suddenly turns around and grabs her. After struggling for several seconds, he easily pins her to the ground.

Comment: It's time for the sane people to abandon San Francisco to its woke delusions of 'tolerance and inclusivity'. They are clearly not working out.

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Police capture fugitive ex-soldier after huge manhunt in southwest France


The Guardian
Mon, 31 May 2021 19:39 UTC
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© GIGNTerry Dupin was wanted in a domestic violence case.
Suspect is shot and wounded after exchanging fire with police in the Dordogne region

Police in south-west France have detained a former soldier who fled into a forest after firing on security forces in an incident that sparked a huge manhunt.

The government's most senior official in the Dordogne region, Frederic Perissat, told a press conference in Le Lardin-Saint-Lazare that the suspect was shot and wounded after exchanging fire with police, and had been taken into custody.

He sustained serious injuries, said Andre Petillot, the head of the gendarme police for Nouvelle-Aquitaine, who added that no officers had been wounded.
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Mexico: Cartels are hunting down police at their homes

Mark Stevenson
AP
Sun, 30 May 2021 00:00 UTC
Police in Apaseo El Alto
© AP/Rebecca BlackwellPolice in Apaseo El Alto
The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico's "hugs, not bullets" policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.

It is a type of direct attack on officers seldom seen outside of the most gang-plagued nations of Central America and poses the most direct challenge yet to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's policy of avoiding violence and rejecting any war on the cartels.

But the cartel has already declared war on the government, aiming to eradicate an elite state force known as the Tactical Group which the gang accuses of treating its members unfairly. A professionally printed banner signed by the cartel and hung on a building in Guanajuato in May reads:
"If you want war, you'll get a war. We have already shown that we know where you are. We are coming for all of you. For each member of our firm ('CJNG' - cartel in Spanish initials) that you arrest, we are going to kill two of your Tacticals, wherever they are, at their homes, in their patrol vehicles."
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Wikipedia may be branded 'foreign agent' if Russia adopts law imposing new rules on tech giants

Jonny Tickle
RT
Mon, 31 May 2021 11:31 UTC
Wikipedia/mag glass
© Ali Balikci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
If Moscow legislators pass a proposed law to force large IT companies to maintain offices on Russian soil, Wikipedia could be registered as a foreign agent, and as such it may have to deal with numerous sanctions and restrictions.

That's according to Stanislav Kozlovsky, the executive director of Wikimedia RU, the Russian arm of the online encyclopaedia's parent foundation. Speaking last Friday at a meeting of the country's parliamentary committee on technology and communications, he asked politicians not to pass the proposed legislation.
"If official representation of a nonprofit organization is established in Russia, it automatically becomes a foreign agent. It is subject to all the sanctions against foreign agents."
Kozlovsky told the MPs that Wikipedia is not run for profit and is financed by donations from users.

In Russia, any NGO receiving foreign agent designation faces multiple restrictions, including a prohibition on employing foreigners, and regular audits.
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'Very complicated matter': ABC bans term 'apartheid' in coverage of Israel/Palestine conflict


RT
Mon, 31 May 2021 15:25 UTC
Israeli soldiers Pal woman
© Reuters/Raneen SawaftaIsraeli soldiers talk to a Palestine, Hawara checkpoint near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Australian Broadcaster ABC has announced that they will not allow the use of the word 'apartheid' in their coverage of Israel and Palestine in an effort to "be as objective as possible." The network has also noted the term's "specific meaning in South African history" as part of its reasoning for the move, according to an "internal advisory note" reported in the Australian.

While some of the network's coverage has managed to stay away from using the word, it has still made its way onto the airwaves, recently on Q+A when Palestine advocate Randa Abdel-Fattah accused Israel of being based "on a racial apartheid system," leading to a fiery debate during which the word was used multiple times.

ABC head David Anderson has said the network is closely monitoring its coverage and insists reporters try to remain neutral on social media:
"I will say that when there are conflicts such as this, on very complicated matters, there are certainly things that we've looked into that have already been published to ensure they're accurate."
The network has received complaints from both sides of the argument by viewers, according to Anderson, being accused of having both an anti-Israel stance and anti-Palestine stance. They have received 29 complaints saying they are anti-Israel and 24 alleging they are anti-Palestine in their coverage.

Comment: An obvious CYA move on the part of ABC by limiting the definition of apartheid. Cost? One fired outspoken reporter.

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Texas neo-Nazi arrested for planning mass shooting at Walmart

Gabrielle Fonrouge
New York Post
Sun, 30 May 2021 11:59 UTC
Blevin and things
© Kerr County Sheriff's OfficeColeman Thomas Blevin and items of interest
An apparent neo-Nazi in Texas has been arrested for planning a mass shooting at a Walmart, police said Sunday.

Coleman Thomas Blevins, 28, was arrested Friday in Kerrville, about 70 miles northwest of San Antonio, after investigators intercepted a message indicating he planned to carry out a mass shooting with a specific threat that included Walmart, the Kerr County Sheriff's Office announced in a Facebook post.

Investigators from the sheriff's office made contact with Blevins and confirmed "his affiliation and networking with extremist ideologies" and determined he was capable of "following through with the threat" so they "moved immediately to arrest him," cops said.

The sheriff's office posted an image of Blevins and evidence they found after a search warrant of his home.

Items found in Blevins' home included flags depicting the swastika and other Nazi symbols and extremist books like The Turner Diaries, which was written by the leader of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Firearms, ammunition, electronic evidence, concentrated THC, and radical ideology paraphernalia, including books, flags, and handwritten documents were also seized, cops said.
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'Cruella': The perfect kids' movie for a culture that celebrates cruelty and malignant megalomania

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Mon, 31 May 2021 19:13 UTC
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© Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesCruella (2021) Directed by Craig Gillespie
Disney has discarded the old princess narrative and, under the guise of self-empowerment, is now teaching generations of young girls to embrace self-serving toxicity.

This article contains minor spoilers for Cruella

In the new Disney movie Cruella the Rolling Stones classic Sympathy for the Devil plays over the film's final scene, which felt a bit too on the nose for the origin story of a notorious character that will go on to attempt to skin puppies for the sake of fashion.

Cruella, of course, is Cruella de Vil, the infamous arch villain of the iconic animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians. With this new, live-action, reimagined reboot starring Emma Stone, we discover why Cruella hates dalmatians so much and how she rose to power.

What we really learn, though, is that the suits at Disney will go to any lengths to plumb the depths of their intellectual property vault to make money and corrode the culture.
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