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If you are really industrious, you can dig 20 pages into the A section of today’s New York Times and find a 1,700-word news story by three of its top reporters, relating that the Justice Department’s investigation of President Biden’s son, Hunter, is not merely a tax matter. Turns out that prosecutors are probing his penchant for cashing in on his father’s political influence, through payments by overseas entities for which he did not register as a foreign agent.

Well, I’ll be damned!

Even better, if you wade 23 paragraphs into the story, you will learn that prosecutors are examining emails between Biden and his business associates that come from “a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop.”

You don’t say.

You may recall that the laptop was reported on extensively by the New York Post because the emails showed that Hunter provided access to his father, then the vice president of the United States, for a corrupt Ukrainian energy firm that was paying Hunter goo-gobs of money to sit on its board — even though Hunter had no relevant experience. (See the Post’s reporting, e.g., here, and my column here; see also my column, here, on a digital recording in which Hunter discusses his lucrative dealings with executives of a regime-connected Chinese firm, one of whom –Patrick Ho — he refers to as “the f***ing spy chief of China,” and another of whom — Ye Jianming — he describes as a billionaire who “is now missing.”)

Yet, in the weeks prior to the 2020 election, the media-Democrat complex and its allies who run the big social-media platforms zealously suppressed coverage of the Hunter computer files, claiming they had not been authenticated and could be Russian disinformation (an absurd lie amplified by the Biden campaign). The Times was right there with them.

Full story:

She was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, November 1994 and worked in the adult film industry making more than 200 movies. Married to a movie producer, August who suffered from depression, committed suicide by hanging in 2017.
Why did I blog about a dead porn star?
Scammers are still using her photos.
One showed up this morning in using a photo of August and claiming to live in Oklahoma, California. I wasn't aware there is a city named Oklahoma in the state of California.



One of many links about the woman:

The Republicans are quick to talk about the Biden administration but they have been hushed about 'anything negative about Trump' which is strange as he's been in the news several times a day. Whether it's been boxes of confidential White House documents found at Mar-a-Lago, including some that were torn and taped back together, reports of him flushing papers down the toilet at the White House, his accounting firm dropping him as a client, suspected misuse of campaign funds, over valuing and devaluing his properties to obtain loans or avoid taxes, They are all quiet.

Hush...

Beijing says nothing will stand in the way of “national reunification” with Taipei

China has warned that no foreign powers or militaries will succeed in interfering with Taiwan, cautioning that any country attempting to offer military support to Taipei will face “consequences.”

“The Taiwan question is a purely internal affair of China,” Defense Ministry spokesman Senior Colonel Tan Kefei told reporters on Friday.

“No one and no force can stop” Beijing from a “complete national reunification” with Taiwan, Tan said, adding that anyone who tries to do so, “will suffer the worst consequences in the end.”

Tan said the Chinese military stood ready to thwart any outside interference on the matter. His statement came days after Australia’s defense minister, Peter Dutton, argued that it would be “inconceivable” for Canberra not to join with the US should Washington decide to defend Taiwan.

Russia state television employee Marina Ovsyannikova, who ran on to the set of a live broadcast shouting: ‘Stop the war. No to war’, also made a pre-recorded video statement.

Yahoo reports that Actor William Hurt died today of natural causes. Wiki reports that in 2018 it was announced he had terminal prostate cancer that had metastasized to the bones and his death was due to complications of the disease.

From cancer.net:
Metastasis means that cancer spreads to a different body part from where it started. When this happens, doctors say the cancer has “metastasized.” Your doctor may also call it "metastatic cancer," "advanced cancer," or "stage 4 cancer."

Savor It, Y'all - It'll NEVER Again Occur Anytime In The Likely Existence Of The Planet.

That's a Helluva Thing, if one Thinks 'bout it.

Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova said Thursday that a platoon of Russian soldiers surrendered to the Ukrainian military, saying they "didn't know that they were brought to Ukraine to kill Ukrainians."

At a press briefing, Markarova said, “Just before I came here, we got information from our chief commander that one of the platoons of the 74th motorized brigade from Kemerovo Oblast surrendered.”

“They didn’t know that they were brought to Ukraine to kill Ukrainians. They thought they were doing something else there,” she added.

Markarova was unable to say how many troops were in the platoon and did not say whether they were being detained by Ukraine.

The ambassador called on leaders of the free world to form an “anti-Putin coalition” to stop Russia’s attack against Ukraine.

“Ukraine is defending our home. We will defend our home and it’s time for all free and democratic nations who value the principles and the territorial integrity and the right of any country for peace to stand together with us, but not only stand together with us, act together with us to stop the war in Europe,” said Markarova.

When asked if she expected U.S. troops to be sent into Ukraine, Markarova noted that her country is not a part of European or Atlantic security alliances such as NATO and said Ukraine does not expect any countries to fight on its behalf, though she said any help and peacekeeping operations would be welcome.

On January 7th, doctors performed a very experimental surgery by implanting a genetically modified pig's heart into a 57 year old man as a last-ditch effort of saving his life.
Five weeks after surgery they reported the heart shows no sign of rejection.
News today... the man has died.
Doctors didn't give an exact cause as to what happened, only saying his condition deteriorated several days earlier.

One story I read said, it was ironic that an animal we turn into food that could ruin a heart is also an animal that can provide a new one.



This was the first of such experiments and I doubt it will be the last.

If The War Was Afflicting Darker Folks On A Different Continent - Who'd Give A Damn?