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One lesson from the ongoing scandal is that it lifted the curtain of foreign governments’ covert influence campaigns in the United States. Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop revealed much information, including Hunter’s shady business dealings in Ukraine and China, raising questions about the extent to which President Biden was involved in his son’s business activities. This ongoing scandal lifted the curtain of foreign governments’ covert influence campaigns in the United States. No government has conducted such influence campaigns more effectively than Communist China. To understand China’s influence campaigns on foreign soil, one has to get familiar with a secretive Chinese government...

U.S. spy agencies have determined that Russia and China are eavesdropping on President Trump's phone calls in order to gain information that they can use to influence American policy, according to a New York Times report. Although Trump's aides have repeatedly warned him that his three personal iPhones are not secure, the president refuses to give them up, the Times reported. He continues to use them to chat with friends and confidantes. China has reportedly been keeping track of the people who Trump speaks to the most, compiling them into a list of figures to target with pro-Chinese messaging. While...

LOS ANGELES - Schwartzman sounds a lot like Schwarzenegger, but don't tell the little-known candidate who finished ninth in California's recall election that his showing was due to voter confusion. George Schwartzman, a San Diego businessman, collected some 10,760 votes, finishing ahead even of porn actress Mary Carey, whose campaign was widely publicized. She placed 10th among the 135 gubernatorial wannabes on the ballot with about 9,800 votes in the election that ousted Gray Davis (news - web sites) and installed Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) as the state's governor. Schwartzman's name was listed on the lengthy ballot near...

Who is George B. Schwartzman and why did he do so well in the California recall election? This recall had 135 or so candidates. Vote totals for candidates ran the gamut from the low hundreds to over three and a half million. About 97% of the votes went to the top four candidates. Rounding out the top ten were the famous candidates, Arianna Huffington, Peter Ueberroth , Gary Coleman and others with name recognition. Except for one: George B. Schwartzman, ninth place in the race with 0.2% of the vote -- more than 10,000 votes. He got more votes than...