Hunter’s house of cards: First Son confided to lover Hallie Biden he was feeling pressure over ‘suspected involvement’ in brokering oil deal ‘directly’ with Putin and his missing Chinese partner – just as Joe was about to run for president

Hunter Biden complained to sister-in-law and one-time lover Hallie Biden about feeling ‘alone’ while dealing with the stress of his personal finances, his missing Chinese business partner, and his ‘suspected involvement’ in arranging a multibillion-dollar oil deal with Russia, DailyMail.com can reveal.

In a December 2018 text sent to his lover and brother’s widow, Hallie Biden, the First Son said he was feeling pressure over his ‘suspected involvement in brokering a deal with Vladimir Putin directly for the largest sale of oil [and] gas assets inside Russia to China’.

The deal was a failed purchase of a $9.1billion stake in Russian state oil firm Rosneft by CEFC, a Chinese oil giant Hunter partnered with.

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The Post-Prime of Miss Janeane Garofalo

I suspect that there were more than a few youngish New York Times readers who, on July 14, were baffled to turn a page and encounter a 2,500-word think piece about Janeane Garofalo.

Jane who? Perhaps you’re too young to recognize her name, too. But if you’ve seen Seinfeld reruns, you may remember her from an episode in which she played a woman whom Jerry dates because, like him, she eats plenty of breakfast cereal, reads comic books about superheroes, and is dry and sardonic. But he comes to dislike her, and the relationship ends with them exclaiming, simultaneously at a dinner table, “I hate you!”

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Biden is a gaffe-ingstock: The decline of the prez — and the presidency

“End of the quote. Repeat the line.” Such is the senescence of the 46th president of the United States that when he is not flat-out misspeaking, it is because he is reading the cues as he stumbles through the see-Jane-run prose of White House speechwriters. Like life at 79, the teleprompts come at you fast.

We must bear this in mind when assessing how consequential it may be when the putative leader of the free world misspeaks. We gasp, yes, but it is probably not as damaging as one might fear.

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Why Incarceration Matters

A Federal Sentencing Commission study rebuts progressive doctrine, showing a strong connection between lengthy sentences and lower recidivism rates.

Law enforcement and academics agree that three factors are involved in deterring crime: certainty of apprehension, swiftness of apprehension, and severity of sanctions—in other words, how likely you are to get caught, how quickly you get caught, and how long you spend in prison if you get caught. The two groups disagree, however, about which of these is most important for deterrence. Modern academics insist that length of prison sentences is not crucial, while law enforcement officials believe that the length of incarceration time actually stops people from committing crimes in the future. In a recent report, the United States Sentencing Commission put this question through a rigorous statistical testing procedure involving thousands of inmates over multiple decades and came up with a clear result: length of incarceration matters for recidivism—a lot.

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Why did MI5 name Christine Lee as an ‘agent of influence’?

British security services issued an alert earlier this year stating that a UK-based lawyer had been engaged in “political interference activities” for the Chinese state. MI5’s public naming of Christine Lee, and a recent unprecedented news conference with the FBI, mark a shift in the approach being taken against the security threat posed by China.

It is not normally good news when an MP is summoned to the office of parliament’s director of security. It is worse when officers from MI5 are waiting. That was Labour MP Barry Gardiner’s fate on the morning of 13 January.

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Even Conservative Media Stumble, Call Impregnating Male Prisoner a ‘Woman’

Conservative media are covering a story that transgender boosters want squashed, but even they feel pressured to call an impregnating male a “woman.”

On Saturday, the New York Post began: “A transgender woman behind bars at a New Jersey women’s prison impregnated two fellow inmates…[Demi] Minor, who is serving a 30-year sentence for manslaughter, is in a vulnerable unit in the new facility where she is the only woman, the spokesman said.”

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AOC fakes being handcuffed after arrest at abortion rights protest

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was roundly mocked on social media Tuesday after she put her arms behind her back as if handcuffed following her arrest at a pro-abortion demonstration outside the Supreme Court.

The Bronx and Queens Democratic lawmaker was gently escorted away by a Capitol Police officer — along with fellow city Rep. Carolyn Maloney — after blocking traffic outside the court building.

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Denmark To Demolish Migrant Ghettos To Combat Parallel Societies

Violent Muslims in Denmark

In an effort to combat the rise of parallel societies, the Danish government is set to demolish a ‘migrant ghetto’ area in the city of Aarhus, with around 1,000 homes set for demolition.

The nearly 1,000 homes to be demolished reside in the Gellerupparken area of Aarhus, as part of a plan that was originally formulated in 2018 to demolish and rebuild 15 so-called vulnerable areas across the country.

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Will China Shoot Down Explorers to the Moon?

“This is not the first time that the NASA administrator has lashed out at China in disregard of facts,” said Zhao Lijian, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, at his July 4 regular press briefing. “Some U.S. officials have spoken irresponsibly to misrepresent the normal and legitimate space endeavors of China. China firmly rejects such remarks.”

Zhao, known for rabid anti-Americanism, was reacting to attention-grabbing comments of NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “We must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying: ‘It’s ours now and you stay out,'” Nelson told German newspaper Bild in an interview published July 2.

Nelson has every right to be concerned. America may have to go to war with China if it even wants to land on the moon. The Chinese have made it clear that, if they get there first, they will shoot down visitors.

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