Investigators Subpoena Bank Records Of Hunter, James Biden After Uncovering $20 Million In Foreign Payments

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer followed through on his pledge to “continue to follow the money” on Thursday when he issued three subpoenas for the bank records of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and brother, James “Jim” Biden.

The latest round of subpoenas is part of House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president and, according to Comer, will “help the Committees determine whether Joe Biden abused his office by selling access and/or by receiving payments or other benefits in exchange for official acts.”

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The slow and delicate aircraft taking on spy missions

Most military spying is conducted from satellites hundreds of miles above the Earth’s surface.

But there’s a new entrant in the old game of keeping an eye on your strategic opponents, and this new spy is surprisingly sluggish.

Phasa-35 moves so slowly it can appear to be going backwards.

This weird, elongated British aircraft is powered by small electric engines attached to elongated wings encasing solar panels. These capture power during the day and keep the two engines turning at night.

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Danger to Western Lives Takes Off, Thanks to the Biden Administration

The Iranian regime has lately been collecting hostages: Topher Richwhite and Bridget Thackwray from New Zealand, detained in July 2022, Johan Floderus, a European diplomat from Sweden detained in April 2022, and Bernard Phelan from France detained in October 2022.

This escalation in hostage-taking of Europeans by Iran’s regime should not come as a surprise: the Belgian government last year proposed and ratified legislation that paved the way to transfer terrorists who have been convicted abroad back to Iran. The so-called treaty between the Belgian government and the Iranian regime was designed to secure the release of Iranian diplomat-terrorist Assadollah Assadi.

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Sam Bankman-Fried warned by judge he may face ‘very long sentence’ if convicted

Sam Bankman-Fried, the indicted founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, may face a “very long sentence” if convicted at his fraud trial starting next week, the judge overseeing the case said Thursday.

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan’s comments came just before he denied the 31-year-old former billionaire’s request to be released from jail temporarily during the trial to better help his lawyers mount his defense case. Kaplan said Bankman-Fried was a flight risk.

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Freeland’s Budget Speech Viewed as ‘Self-Congratulatory’: Federal Research

In-house research by the federal government found that some participants in an online focus group thought the budget speech delivered by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was “self-congratulatory.”

The study was conducted by market research firm Leger on behalf of the Department of Finance, to gauge public opinion on the Mar. 28 budget speech, as first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter. The findings were released on Mar. 31.

You’ll find your self nodding in agreement.

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Rob Schneider Asks Canada to Fire Justin Trudeau over Nazi Honor

Actor-comedian Rob Schneider publicly called upon Canada to fire Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after his parliament honored a former Nazi Yaroslav Hunka during a special session at Parliament Hill.

Schneider said that Canada officially lost its title as the “coolest country in the world” under Trudeau and said it must fire him to get its mojo back.

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Sask. premier vows to use notwithstanding clause after court injunction halts pronoun policy

A Regina judge has granted an injunction to halt a Saskatchewan policy that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to go by different names and pronouns at school.

The decision by Court of King’s Bench Justice Michael Megaw, delivered Thursday, stops the policy for now, until the court concludes a still-to-come legal challenge on whether the policy violates children’s rights to security and privacy.

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GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau ducks when there’s bad news

While I wish I’d thought of it first, the best description of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s performance over the past few days during Canada’s global diplomatic disaster, goes to former Conservative senator Linda Frum, who tweeted on ‘X’:

“Have a look: on Friday Trudeau and his deputy PM were thrilled to use @ZelenskyyUa visit to mount an election-style rally w/ Toronto’s Ukrainian community. When there was glory to be had, it belonged to them. The mess that’s left behind belongs to Canada.”

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Sweden Launches Explosives Registry To Fight Gang Bombings

Amid ongoing violent criminal gang conflicts, the Swedish government has announced it will create a new explosives registry, as criminal gangs continue to engage in bombings against their rivals, including two such bombings that occurred only this week.

Sweden’s Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer was part of an emergency meeting on Wednesday, September 27th, and later stated that the government would look to act swiftly to counter the bombing trend, broadcaster SVT reports.

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NYC streets turn into raging rivers during epic downpour flooding roads and subways

Wild scenes of flooding unfolded throughout New York City Friday morning as an intense rainstorm barreled through the tri-state area, turning local roads into rivers during the morning rush hour and stranding motorists.

Videos showed cars plowing through knee-deep water in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood, with a whirlpool seen swirling in the middle of the waterlogged road.

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RFK Jr. Warns ‘Next Step‘ Is Military Advisers in Ukraine

Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned on Thursday that the “next step of Ukraine War escalation” is stationing United States military advisers on the ground.

He flagged a recent article by Foreign Affairs titled “Why America Should Send Military Advisers to Ukraine: On-the-Ground Help Will Bolster Kyiv Without Risking Escalation.”

I don’t think this is far fetched at all.

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The ugly week that was

It has been a very bad couple of weeks for social cohesion in Trudeau’s Canada.

But I am pleased to witness Trudeau’s weaponized use of identity politics blowing up in his face.

To recap…

Junior tossed a hand grenade into the middle of relations with India over his support of resident Sikh separatists.

He offended parents in general by defaming them as bigots because they stood up for parental rights. Now members of the Muslim diaspora are demanding a formal apology.

Then came the topper, his government invited a Ukrainian man with an indisputable association with the Waffen SS to be honored in parliament.

Backed into a corner Trudeau offered his usual mealy mouthed non-apology to all who were offended.

All of this obscuring this week’s upcoming “National Day for Truth and Reconciliation” a celebration of the anti-Christian church burnings Trudeau triggered by supporting the fake graves mania.

No one wins in Trudeau’s genocidal nation of Canada.

We are being deliberately manipulated into a permanent state of racial and sectarian tension.

And that’s how they want us, scared and malleable.

Liberal party policies have resulted in large swaths of society conditioned to believe they possess a permanent entitled victimhood.

Our history and heritage are trampled, our institutions made hollow and our social and economic security crushed under a wave of mass immigration that benefits only the Corporate class and their minion politicos.

This is not the Canada I grew up in. It is not the Canada any of us deserve.

I have never seen the comments section of this blog as inflamed as it was this week.

Reader has been pitted against reader all of it tied to Trudeau’s Photo-Op gone wrong.

My view remains unchanged.

There were no easy choices in that time and place.

The Waffen-SS Galicia Division did commit war crimes.

Poles and Jews are rightfully indignant that a member of the Waffen SS was honored in parliament.

Not every man who volunteered for what came to be known as the 1st Ukrainian Division was a Nazi or personally committed war crimes.

We have not heard the last of it.

There are calls for new inquiries and for old reports to be re-opened with all information withheld to be made public.

No doubt new wounds will be inflicted and old ones re-opened.

But we should not forget our history good or bad.

Operation Keelhaul is one example: The repatriation of Russian POWs turned out to be a ghastly and grisly process. Some of the men simply committed suicide rather than return. The world hardly knew what was happening, though details managed to trickle out here and there.

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Sweden gangs: PM summons army chief after surge in killings

Sweden’s prime minister has summoned the head of the armed forces to help curb a surge in gang killings.

The two men and the country’s police chief will meet on Friday to discuss what role the military could play.

It comes after a bloody 12 hours that saw two men shot dead in Stockholm and a 25-year-old woman killed in a blast at home in a town north of the capital.

“We will hunt the gangs down and we will defeat them,” PM Ulf Kristersson promised in a rare televised address.

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Only One Submarine in Canada’s Costly Naval Fleet Has Been to Sea in Years: Records

Only one of the vessels in Canada’s expensive submarine fleet has been to sea in recent years. Submarine maintenance and upgrade costs have surpassed $3 billion, records show.

An inquiry tabled in the Commons revealed the Royal Canadian Navy stated that only one vessel, HMCS Windsor, has been at sea since Dec. 1, 2021, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. The submarine was at sea for 43 days last year.

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