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News Thursday of payments from a Chinese Communist Party-linked company to members of President Joe Biden’s family amounts to a potential case for bribery, an impeachable offense under the Constitution. The House Oversight Committee revealed that in 2017, China’s State Energy HK Limited sent $3 million to a company controlled by family associate Robert Walker, who in turn distributed funds to members of Biden’s family: his surviving son, Hunter; his brother, James; his daughter-in-law, Hallie; and an unknown “Biden.” State Energy HK Limited was linked to CEFC China Energy, whose chairman, Ye Jianming, did business with Hunter Biden. CEFC was...

Fred's feathers get ruffled when an old friend from St. Louis comes to town claiming to be Lamont's actual father. Aunt Esther does not take his claim well...Scene from Sanford and Son - Aunt Esther Is Fighting Mad ("Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe" - Season 3, Episode 14)

Journalist Dr. Simon Goddek dug into Greta Thunberg’s background and discovered that it was no coincidence that Greta was discovered at a protest on August 20, 2018 and that it was Ingmar Rentzhog who discovered little Greta protesting global warming. On August 20, 2018, Thunberg, then aged 15, skipped school to protest outside the Swedish parliament for more action against climate change. Ingmar Rentzhog runs the company WeDontHaveTime and is chairman of the far-left think tank Global Challenge. Greta and her mother released a book four days after she was photographed at the parliament protest. And the rest is history....

Astonishing bodycam footage has captured the moment an Oklahoma police chief begs officers to turn their camera off as he tries to wriggle out of a DUI arrest. Captain James French, 55, repeatedly asks the arresting officer to 'please talk to me' and whispers to turn his camera off, before later revealing he had been at a poker game and consumed around three or four beers. French slurs as he tries to explain that he is in fact a captain for the force's Investigations Bureau, having been employed there for 32 years.

A Chinese energy company reportedly transferred $3 million to an associate of Hunter Biden some time after father Joe Biden's term as Vice President with the Obama Administration ended. Earlier this month, the Treasury Department released reports of the suspicious transactions to the Oversight Committee, who are planning to "follow the money trail" to see the extent, if there is any at all, of the current POTUS' involvement in the arrangement. "After two months of dragging their feet, the Treasury Department is finally providing us with access to the suspicious activity reports for the Biden family and their associates' business...

El Salvador has imprisoned another 2,000 suspected gang members as part of President Nayib Bukele's major crackdown against organized crime and drug cartels with the nation. The 2,000 arrived this week at the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, a large-scale prison authorities have touted as inescapable, the New York Post reported. Bukele announced the mass incarceration via Twitter, asserted that the facility is now home to 4,000 inmates after he launched an earlier crackdown. Included in the post is a video of prisoners in the facility, many of whom sport gang tattoos.

How likely is it that Republican politicians in DC worked secretly with Democrats to keep Trump from being reelected in 2020? 55% – of all voters agree it is likely. 67% – Republicans 51% – Democrats As CTH has continued to outline, the Republican Party of Bush, Romney, McConnell et al, is dead. Voters who support President Trump reject the Wall Street professionally Republican donor class. The Republican Party is the party of MAGA, America First and Donald Trump now. Recently on Twitter I stated, “There are not enough people who take pictures of their lunches to post on Instagram...

Bravo to Rep. Jim Comer (R-Ky.) for revealing just how much of a family business Biden, Inc. is. Bank records newly obtained by his House Oversight Committee show that Hunter Biden associate Rob Walker transferred north of $1.3 million in 2017 not only to usual suspects Hunter and presidential little brother Jim but also to daughter-in-law Hallie (son Beau’s widow; Hunter’s brief fling) — plus an unknown simply tagged as “Biden.” The family that gets paid together stays together, it seems. Most of that big chunk of change came from a $3 million transfer from an affiliate of Chinese energy...

[Catholic Caucus] Ten Years of Francis: Destruction without Reconstruction in a Vatican that feels like North Korea -- by Aldo Maria Valli On the Ten Years of Francis (2013 - 2023)You have been redeemed at great cost; do not become slaves of men.1 Corinthians 7:23By Aldo Maria ValliTo comment on the ten years of Francis' pontificate, the words written by Demos (also known as the late Cardinal Pell) in the memorandum he wanted to distribute to all the cardinals a year ago would suffice: "A disaster in more ways than one, a catastrophe."Bergoglio has succeeded in the fine feat,...

Now that she’s been ousted from continuing to be mayor of the city I grew up by and love, outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot got just a sliver of what she deserves from a local journalist. “I hope that, after today’s city council meeting, you will pack your suitcase and get the hell out of my city.” Those were the words of reporter William Kelly directly towards Lightfoot at Wednesday’s city council meeting. According to Fox News, Kelly currently has a lawsuit pending against Lightfoot “for allegedly silencing him by pulling his city press credentials.” Kelly alluded that in his...

The House Oversight Committee released records today outlining how the Biden family was paid by a Chinese energy company [House Link Here]. The bank records indicate payments to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden; Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden; Joe Biden’s daughter-in-law, Hallie Biden, and an unknown “Biden;” likely the principal, “big guy”, Joe Biden himself. WASHINGTON—Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability issued a memorandum revealing new evidence resulting from the investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling and business schemes. Subpoenaed financial records show that from 2015 to 2017, Biden family members – Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie...

Pentagon officials said in a draft document last week that aliens could be visiting our solar system and releasing smaller probes like missions conducted by NASA when studying other planets. A draft research report authored by Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and Abraham Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department was released on March 7 and focuses on the physical constraints of unidentified aerial phenomena. “…An artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth, an operational construct not too dissimilar from...

Last spring Dina Sosa Cruz sat with her parents and sister in the family’s living room and reviewed her options: a full academic ride to the University of the District of Columbia, or an apprenticeship in the insurance industry. The college route meant at the end of four years the 22-year-old would have a degree, a little debt and no work experience. The apprenticeship would leave her with a two-year degree, money in the bank and training in a profession that appealed to her. Her family was unanimous: Take the apprenticeship. “You’ll be worry free,” her mother said. Family conversations...

Today, we announced Microsoft 365 Copilot—your copilot for work. Copilot combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph—your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and more—and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet. And it does so within our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Right now, we spend too much time on the drudgery of work and too little time and energy on the work that ignites our creativity and sparks joy…. Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 in...

Big Tech is at it again! A few days ago, I recorded a video of me reading my PJ Media article about TikToker Jeffrey Marsh (the strange non-binary adult male who tells trans kids to go “no-contact” with their families) and his rabid fans who have doxed and stalked a Muslim comedian for exposing Marsh’s grooming techniques. The video took off on YouTube and is currently passing 55,000 views. Normally, this kind of activity would pay pretty well but YouTube has declared the video too “graphic” for viewers and has demonetized it. This means that I cannot collect any revenue...

Numerous Mar-a-Lago staff members have been subpoenaed as part of an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to Fox News. The source did not know the exact number of staff members who were issued court orders. CNN reported that Trump’s communication aide Margo Martin appeared before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, though she declined to answer questions when approached by one of the media company’s reporters. Special counsel Jack Smith is handling investigations into Trump over the FBI’s discovery of classified documents at his Palm Beach,...

1929: The biggest economic crisis of the 20th century brought an abrupt end to the euphoria of the Roaring Twenties. Driven from their land, the farmers of the Great Plains were forced to abandon everything they had. They became migrants in their own country, and were treated as such by the vast Californian estates. They became the symbol of an America confronted by its own reality. Built on the work of the iconic photographers of the Great Depression - Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Arthur Rothstein - this full archive documentary analyzes the consequences of the economic collapse in the...

This week, an international team of virologists, genomicists, and evolutionary biologists may have finally found crucial data to help fill that knowledge gap. A new analysis of genetic sequences collected from the market shows that raccoon dogs being illegally sold at the venue could have been carrying and possibly shedding the virus at the end of 2019.

Special Counsel Jack Smith expanded his witch hunt and issued a flurry of subpoenas to Mar-a-Lago staff – including servers! More than 2 dozen Mar-a-Lago staffers were subpoenaed in the special counsel’s investigation into classified documents stored at Trump’s Florida residence. “For instance, federal investigators have talked to a Mar-a-Lago staff member seen on security camera footage moving boxes from a storage room with Trump aide Walt Nauta, who has already spoken with investigators.” CNN reported. Jack Smith is also targeting Trump’s lawyers (because they don’t have a case). The special counsel is seeking more testimony from Trump’s former lawyer...

Former President Donald Trump’s attorney warned against the “completely weaponized” legal system last week, arguing that the Manhattan district attorney’s office is navigating uncharted legal waters over potential criminal charges targeting the former commander-in-chief...