patrick.net

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/c-and-c-year-in-review-saturday-december

In January, the House of Representatives barely shifted Republican and the battle for Speaker began. Kevin McCarthy would be elected subject to a bunch of concessions like creating a bunch of investigatory committees. The House Oversight Committee immediately began looking into the Biden Bribery case and found thousand of documents like check stubs, wire transfer confirmation slips, emails from alias accounts, and even a hand-written confession from Joe Biden that the media carefully determined, weighing all the pro’s and con’s, represents no evidence whatsoever.

Okay I made up the part about the hand-written confession. But it wouldn’t have made any difference.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Hunter-Biden-Contempt-Report-Oversight.pdf

RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FIND
ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR REFUSAL TO COMPLY
WITH A SUBPOENA DULY ISSUED BY THE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND
ACCOUNTABILITY

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/biden-sues-texas-saying-its-against-the-law-to-pass-a-law-to-enforce-the-law

https://slaynews.com/news/gallerist-admits-hunter-biden-knew-most-art-buyers/

Gallerist Admits Hunter Biden Knew Most of His ‘Art’ Buyers

Hunter Biden’s gallerist has admitted during testimony that Democrat President Joe Biden’s son knew most of the buyers of his “artwork,” despite claims of the contrary from the White House.

When it was first announced that Hunter was suddenly an “artist” and was planning to sell his “art” for large sums of cash, critics immediately accused the Bidens of running a pay-for-play scheme.

In July 2021, the White House responded to the allegations by insisting that a “system” had been “established” to ensure the identities of those who bought Hunter Biden’s “artwork” would remain anonymous for ethical reasons.

The White House assured the taxpaying public that even Hunter Biden wouldn’t know who was buying his “art.”

Due to the intervention from the White House, American taxpayers funded the facilitation of the first son’s “anonymous” art sales.

Hunter's "art" is just a way to launder bribes.

Hey Patrick. I noticed a lot of pgn's not loading on this thread. The PNG for 130, for example, gives me a 404.

Thanks for telling me @SunnyvaleCA

I was messing with rate limiting after some AWS service was scraping the whole site, and not respecting robots.txt. Amazon won't tell me who it was.

Should be OK now, please let me know if not.

https://slaynews.com/news/hunter-whistleblower-testifies-joe-biden-enabled-family-sell-access-most-dangerous-adversaries/

Hunter Whistleblower Testifies: Joe Biden ‘Enabled’ Family to Sell Access to the ‘Most Dangerous Adversaries’

Hunter Biden’s former business partner-turned-whistleblower is testifying against the president’s family before congressional lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

As Slay News previously reported, Bobulinski is testifying Tuesday behind closed doors before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees.

Bobulinski worked with Hunter Biden to create SinoHawk Holdings – a joint venture with Chinese energy company CEFC.

He has previously revealed that he met with Joe Biden to discuss the family’s foreign business dealings in 2017.

Bobulinski has been preparing to testify against the Bidens and expose the family’s alleged foreign influence peddling and bribery scheme.

The corruption is hopelessly endemic. Garland, head of the DOJ, is actively working to prevent justice.

Multiple forms of treason:

- selling his office to foreigners
- defrauding the electorate

https://nypost.com/2024/02/13/news/e-mail-allegedly-helps-prove-bidens-in-biz-with-china-linked-firm-while-joe-was-vp/

Newly surfaced e-mail allegedly helps prove Bidens in biz with Beijing-linked firm while Joe was still VP

WASHINGTON — A newly surfaced document allegedly helps prove Hunter Biden was working with Chinese state-linked CEFC China Energy while his dad was vice president — as suspected by Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry into reputed corruption by the president.

President Biden has repeatedly claimed his family never got money from China — despite his own alleged direct involvement in relations with two different Chinese government-backed firms, including CEFC. ...

Hunter Biden and first brother James Biden ultimately received more than $7 million from CEFC in 2017 and 2018, according to reports from congressional Republicans.

No different than this whereas Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Coast Guard Investigative Service agents seize the records of an investigative journalist. That journalist was investigating the DHS and in contact with potential whistleblowers within the department.

In this case CBS is acting as goons on behalf of the Biden Crime family and his corrupt DOJ.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/213614/coast-guard-seizes-journalists-records-in-search/

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https://sashastone.substack.com/p/jim-jordan-on-biden-family-corruption/comments

Between 2014 and April 25, 2019, the day Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President, Biden family members received approximately $15 million from foreign entities. It was done through a complex series of transactions involving over 20 different companies. What did the Bidens do? What services did Hunter Biden and his associates provide? What was worth the receipt of $15 million?

Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s business partner, gave us the answer. In his transcribed interview before Congress, he said they were selling “the Brand.” And “the Brand” was Joe Biden. As another one of Hunter Biden’s business partners, Jason Galanis, put it, the Bidens provided the “relationship capital”—the “political access” the brand provided “in the United States and around the world.”

The deal with the Chinese energy company, CEFC, is one example of how the Bidens’ influence peddling operation worked. For months, Hunter Biden and his associates had been working to close a deal with CEFC. However, it wasn’t until “the Brand” himself stopped by a lunch at the Four Seasons in Washington, D.C. in mid-February 2017 that the agreement was finalized. At the lunch were Hunter Biden, his business partners, and eight Chinese executives with CEFC. Joe Biden—the “big guy”—“drop[ped] by” and gave remarks to the group. Just a few weeks later, Hunter Biden and his partners received $3 million from CEFC.

Four months after the $3 million was wired to Hunter Biden, he sent a WhatsApp message to a CEFC official: “I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.” Later he reiterated, “I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.” Nine days later, another $5 million was wired to an entity jointly controlled by Hunter Biden. Later that same day, $400,000 was moved from the joint entity’s account to a personal account of Hunter Biden. A few weeks later, Joe Biden received a $40,000 check.

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/the-blob-quivers

Speaking of bad looks, did you happen to read the transcript of Hunter Biden’s testimony to the conjoined House Committees yesterday on the matter of the Biden family’s global bribery business? It’s available at this link, all 229 pages of the hours-long session. I read over 120 pages of the dang thing in the wee hours overnight and it’s really a fabulous soap opera of First Son Hunter Biden copping a plea over his various addiction problems (boo-hoo), and repeating endlessly, against a blizzard of incriminating documentary evidence, that his “dad” had no knowledge of his business deals with Ukrainian, Chinese, Russian, Kazakh, and Romanian parties, and did not receive any money filtered through the network of Hunter’s many fake companies (multiple Rosemont Senecas and Hudson Wests) that had no other business except routing payments into Biden family bank accounts.

The DOJ arm of the Blob has worked double-overtime, of course, to keep the mighty paws of the law from mauling poor, addiction-victim Hunter, most recently last month trotting out veteran “trusted” FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, arrested as “a liar” for having purveyed info about multi-million dollar bribes to the Biden family from the Ukrainian Burisma natgas company where Hunter was a board member (at roughly a million dollars a year), supposedly to get then Veep Dad to grease the exit ramp for Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was famously investigating the company and its oligarch owner Mykola Zlochevsky.

One conclusion you can draw from all these matters is that they are not going away. Rather, they are leading to a set of gruesome showdowns not just for the ever more pathetic looking “Joe Biden,” but for his Party of Chaos heading toward a possible extinction event in November. The big question really is, will that party blow up the United States of America in the process?

Yes, I think there's a big chance that "Biden" (meaning the CIA) will literally set off a nuclear bomb in the US in order to cancel elections and declare martial law.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/03/opinion/hunter-bidens-chinese-legal-client-threatens-to-sue-unless-first-son-pays-back-1-million/

Hunter Biden’s Chinese legal ‘client’ threatens to sue unless first son pays back $1 million

Hunter Biden was paid $1 million by Chinese firm CEFC to act as attorney for their employee, Dr Patrick Ho, but now Ho is threatening to sue the first son within seven days unless he gets the money back — because he claims Hunter did no legal work for him.

Ho sent a legal letter to Hunter last week requesting that their attorney-client agreement be terminated immediately and threatening legal action unless he receives a detailed list of services provided by Hunter and reimbursement for the unused funds, as laid out in the 2017 contract.

Ho’s letter, sent by Hong Kong law firm Huen & Partners to Hunter’s attorney Abbe Lowell in Washington, DC, set a deadline of seven days for the repayment of any remaining funds.

“Patrick says he paid him, and that Hunter never did anything for him,” a friend of Ho’s told The Post, “and that according to the contract the money should be reimbursed.”

The $1 million legal retainer was wired from CEFC in China to CEFC’s Hong Kong HSBC account, and then, on November 2, 2017, to the American bank account of Hudson West III (HWIII) the firm Hunter co-owned with CEFC, and then to Hunter’s private firm, Owasco, according to his California tax indictment.

Patrick says

Hunter Biden’s Chinese legal ‘client’ threatens to sue unless first son pays back $1 million

This looks like an attempt to make that $1 million look like a bona fide payment for legal services rather than an influence purchase. Better to be an incompetent attorney than a graft conduit.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/three-advisors-friday-march-22-2024

The New York Post, maybe the only large paper not controlled by a U.S. intelligence agency, was the only outlet to report the story, headlined “CIA blocked feds from interviewing Hunter Biden’s ‘sugar brother’ Kevin Morris during five-year tax probe.”

According to the Post, the whistleblower told Oversight chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary chairman Jim Jordan (R-Oh.) that in August 2021, two DOJ officials on the Hunter Biden tax investigation were ‘summoned’ to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. — and were told Mr. Morris “could not be a witness” for the investigation.

Comer’s letter added that the whistleblower’s story “seems to corroborate our concerns about DOJ’s deviations from standard process to provide Hunter Biden with preferential treatment.”

Deviations. You don’t say. ...

Like Epstein, Morris also runs a money laundry. That we know of, Morris has given Hunter a ton of money. On January 18th, Morris testified at the House Oversight Committee. He admitted that, since he first met Hunter in 2019 at a Hollywood political fundraiser, he has “loaned” the 54-year-old first son at least $5 million (and maybe more, he can’t remember). Morris testified he’s also paid Hunter $875,000 for some kindergarten-style ‘artwork.’

Morris also told the Committee he’s allowed the crack-addled first son to fly coast-to-coast on his private jet.

Nevermind his “strategic advisory services,” nothing about Morris’ entertainment-law background explains where he got the kind of money to “loan” millions to drug addicts, buy sham artwork for the price of a luxury house, or own and operate a private jet to fly his friends and acquaintances around — just like Jeffrey Epstein. ...

Finally, Morris admitted that Hunter has never paid any of the loans back. Morris claims they are due in 2025. Uh huh.

It has not escaped anyone’s notice that the Kevin Morris money shower effectively replaced Hunter’s now-cut-off foreign friends, taking up for Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and China, who were until recently paying Hunter millions after ‘conversations’ and meetings including the Big Guy, Joe.

The natural question arises: is Kevin Morris handling Hunter Biden for the CIA? Is he Hunter’s handler? Is Morris another one of the CIA’s crooked rogues? ...

Yesterday, deep-state analyst and former state department guy Mike Benz responded to the new Oversight letter. In this clip, Benz explained that he (like me) thinks Hunter Biden was advancing a CIA project in Ukraine to steal the natural gas market from Russia’s oligarchs and deliver the billion-dollar business to NATO oligarchs like George Soros. And that is why Hunter is untouchable (6:03).

Benz, who studies, writes, and talks about the security state, is much more qualified than I am to connect those dots. I think the real Ukraine story — the one Trump got impeached for trying to expose in 2018 — that story is slowly trickling out. Drip, drip, drip. We originally thought it was just about Hunter and Joe and the rest of the Biden Crime Family getting rich off influence peddling. But the truth is looking much bigger and much more sordid than we even thought.

https://genesiustimes.com/aoc-if-we-just-make-everything-the-bidens-did-legal-then-they-didnt-do-anything-wrong/

https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1770962540295487845

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1770962540295487845

Half the country would interpret that as Hunter doing a noble deed.

HeadSet says

Half the country would interpret that as Hunter doing a noble deed.

It's the CIA that is doing criminal activity.

Basically, this is pointless to do. Russia just won't be selling energy to Europe, this does NOT hurt Russia. I don't see why people think that Russia needs EU money, they don't. If the US was entirely cut off from European goods and services, people would likely notice it, but it wouldn't harm this country. That'st he position Russia is in with EU. They'd LIKE to do business, but they don't by any means need to do it. Now, Europe on the other hand is dependent on Russian energy, they don't just want to do business, they need to.

Fucking idiots run our foreign policy. This whole bullshit is nothing than a way to make short term trouble that will end up backfiring on the United States. If Europe wasn't run by a bunch of quisling scumbags, they would have turned their back on the United States 20 years ago.

richwicks says

It's the CIA that is doing criminal activity.

Correct, but not my point. I am saying that Hunter now has an "out." The narrative can now be "It was not that Hunter was bribed to buy influence from his dad, it is just that Hunter was an undercover agent working for the US."

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/consequences-day-april-xx-2024-c

Yesterday, Russia’s top criminal investigative body — its version of the FBI — announced commencing a criminal investigation into “senior officials in the United States” and of NATO member countries for financing terrorism. As you can imagine, the story was completely invisible to Western corporate media, but the Daily Beast trotted out the old ‘no evidence’ canard...

The Daily Beast jumped the gun a little, since Russia’s announcement didn’t specifically name Hunter, just Burisma, where Hunter used to earn a cool million a year simulating a potted rhododendron.

HeadSet says

Correct, but not my point. I am saying that Hunter now has an "out." The narrative can now be "It was not that Hunter was bribed to buy influence from his dad, it is just that Hunter was an undercover agent working for the US."

He's both.

Our criminals are our CIA, and our DOJ that refuses to prosecute criminals and our public refuses to see them for what they are. They are fearful to acknowledge what they are "that's not smart", well I live in a world where being smart is to pretend to be stupid - to be corrupt, to be an accessory to criminality.

There's a war on that has killed, I've heard (take with a grain of salt!) 300,000 Ukrainians at LEAST. Our CIA overthrew Ukraine and that led to all these deaths. The CIA is a group of criminals, which 99.999% of Americans won't even acknowledge, they've caused the deaths of at least 100's of thousand, cost of 100's of billions of dollars which we've all paid for - and Hunter Biden is profiting off from this, minimally - he's making a little scratch, off from taxpayers though a bogus bullshit job. It's a bribe not really from Ukraine, but our intelligence agencies.

An entire society has been destroyed by our "intelligence officials". We have a propaganda media, we have censorship, and those that appear to be DIMLY aware of this, don't seem to care. "Just Bidness".

Our society is totally corrupt at this point. Anybody in any position of knowledge they're just ignored. They murdered Gary Webb, they are torturing Julian Assange to death, slowly, Edward Snowden is a refugee in fucking Russia. The propaganda box doesn't stress it, it ignores this, nobody cares. These things around me that laughably call themselves people only think about what they're told to think about. It had to be in the propaganda box or the toilet paper of record, or it never happened!

None of you will stand up. I've seen countless people cut down and cut out. People you've never heard of.

Some dickhead claimed I was threatening him, @Wookieman - was that you? You fucking idiots don't recognize that they'll come for you, and I'm one of the very few people driven by basic, basic ethics to want to stop it. He'll join the gubermint, he'll change it, talk to your representative, talk to your local mafia cutout shithead.

Because so few of us exist, we're headed for a totalitarian dictatorship that won't collapse for hundreds of years. Imagine the technology we have today in the hands of the Stasi, or the Soviets - of the Chinese. You're going to see it in China first. You're seeing it now. China actually worries about revolution, the US, doesn't - because there's "two parties", "we can vote the right party in". Well can we? Biden is the most popular presidential candidate in all of US history, getting the largest percentage of votes ever in US history, and we had the greatest jump in voter turnout in history in 2020. Sure it took 2 weeks, there were a shitload of anomalies our judicial system wouldn't listen to any court cases - I'm sure it will be fucking fine. Just vote harder!!!

We are so fucking further ahead in technology even engineers don't understand it. I can record every fucking word you say in all your lifetime, every noise you hear, every word you read on a $500 disk drive. But the government would never just collect information now, and later on use it against you, right???? They fucking do. It's not a government, it's a criminal syndicate, and they are ruthless. It's so easy to do, I know it is done. But it's too overwhelming that all of society has been asleep at the wheel for 2 decades.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/stiletto-era-friday-december-18-2024

Talk is cheap, which is why I almost skipped this non-story, but social media was buzzing about it all day yesterday. NBC’s article was headlined, “Biden says he supports a congressional stock trading ban.” You have got to be kidding me. You could cut the irony with a knife.

In an interview with the obsequious, far-left progressive blog More Perfect Union, Biden answered a softball question about how he, Joe “Ten Percent for the Big Guy” Biden, never traded stocks while he was in Congress, and let him explain how he, Burisma Biden, thinks there should be a law against Congressional stock trading. People should make their money the honest way, like forcing Ukrainian gas companies to hire your son as a “Board Member,” or shaking down Chinese oligarchs for kickbacks.

Anyway, Joe said, “I think we should be changing the law that we have to abide by at the federal level—that nobody, nobody in the Congress should be able to make money in the stock market while they’re in the Congress. Not a joke.”

Nancy Pelosi, one of the House’s biggest traders, who helped overthrow Joe for Kamala, was unavailable for comment. Something about her hip.

In fairness, Joe never needed to play the market. He had lots of other ways to grift his and his crime family’s way through his political career. Hunter’s hand-painted (mostly) portraits, which are not stocks, have been very lucrative, for example.

NBC covered a non-story. It’s going nowhere. It was just something snarky Joe said. And it helpfully came up right as Congress is debating a last-minute budget to fund a bunch of progressive priorities. This issue usually surfaces somewhere in corporate media whenever the deep state wants something. (For a much better story, research how after the Edward Snowden disclosures in 2013, Adam Schiff —yes, that one— concluded the intelligence agencies needed reform and started proposing various possible laws reining them in. After Democrats put him on the Intelligence Committee, CBS ran a “breaking” story about “insider trading” in Congress, and just like that, the story went away —poof!— and Adam got on the reservation.)

In 2011, Congress passed the STOCK Act, designed to prevent insider trading in Congress, and requires “timely” disclosures of trades. So we already have a law, as Biden well knows, since he was Vice-President when Obama signed the Stock Act into law. The problem is that nobody enforces the Act, except through insignificant fines ($200).

In truth, the Act is a little murky on enforcement.

No member of Congress has ever been prosecuted under the STOCK Act, despite what you might call a “target-rich environment.” There is not even any public record of payments of the $200 fines for late reporting trades. Some watchdogs think public officials are ignoring even these insignificant fines. To be fair, the STOCK Act’s main focus was to require disclosure of trades, to disinfect things with sunlight, and to let an informed public do the rest.

Obviously, that failed. This summer some good people tried again, filing a tougher, bipartisan bill titled ‘Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks,’ or the ETHICS Act. The ETHICS Act would ban stock trading altogether by lawmakers and some family members. But the bill remains stalled, locked in a committee dog cage, where it is slowly starving to death.

Yesterday, when making his anti-trading comments, Joe never mentioned the ETHICS Act.

The problem is that there is zero incentive in Washington, DC, to change the current system, apart from humility and morality, which are both in short supply. Congressmen are clearly conflicted; voting for ETHICS means voting against their own self-interest and against the most financially lucrative perk that federal public service can offer.

The President also has a conflict; Congressional trades and the prospect of DOJ enforcement is very useful, as blackmail, as the cyclical every-few-years “insider trading” “breaking” media event shows. If the President ever signed an ETHICS law with teeth, he (and the executive-branch deep state) would lose a lot of leverage over Congress.

It will take a miracle to end this incredibly destructive practice. Fortunately, God has been delivering miracles lately. So who knows?