{"id":55580,"date":"2023-08-11T20:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T01:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=55580"},"modified":"2023-08-11T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T01:30:03","slug":"linkswarm-for-august-11-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=55580","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm For August 11, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still more Biden corruption comes to light, Yellow goes belly-up, things get worse in China, and a truly horrifying food discovery. It’s the Friday LinkSwarm!<\/p>\n

  • “Biden Family Received Millions from Foreign Oligarchs Who Had Dinners with Then-VP Joe Biden<\/a>.”
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    The Biden family and its business associates received millions of dollars from oligarchs in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine while Joe Biden was vice president, according to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n

    With the new payments included, the committee says it has now identified more than $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Biden family and their business associates. Those foreign sources include not only the three aforementioned countries, but also China and Romania as well.<\/p>\n

    Hunter Biden\u2019s former business associate Devon Archer previously testified that then-Vice President Biden joined roughly 20 phone calls on speakerphone with Hunter Biden\u2019s foreign business associates and attended dinners with foreign oligarchs who paid large sums of money to Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n

    The foreign funds were sent to accounts tied to Devon Archer that used the Rosemont Seneca name and were then doled out in incremental payments to Hunter Biden, the records show, in what the committee suggests was an attempt to hide the source and size of the payments.<\/p>\n

    Those payments included $3.5 million sent from Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina to the shell company Rosemont Seneca Thornton in February 2014. Roughly $1 million was transferred to Devon Archer, while the rest was used to fund a new account Rosemont Seneca Bohai, which was used by both Archer and Hunter Biden to receive other foreign wires.<\/p>\n

    After Baturina sent the massive sum to Rosemont Seneca Thornton, then-Vice President Joe Biden attended dinner with Baturina, Archer, Hunter Biden, and others at Cafe Milano in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

    Then-Vice President Joe Biden attended dinners with Hunter Biden; Archer; Baturina; Burisma executives; and Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakhstani oligarch, in the spring of 2014 and 2015 at Cafe Milano.<\/p>\n

    In February 2014, Hunter Biden met with Rakishev at the Hay Adams Hotel in Washington, D.C. In emails to Archer discussing the D.C. meeting, Rakishev, who was a director at Kazakhstan\u2019s state-owned oil company KazMunayGas, asked that then-Secretary of State John Kerry visit Kazakhstan. Archer said, \u201cif we have some business started as planned I will ensure its planned soonest.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    So members of the extended Biden business family were asking the Secretary of State of the United States of America to visit a foreign country so the Biden clan could do business<\/i>. Are all American institutions now corrupted for the sole purpose of enriching Democratic Party insiders? <\/p>\n

    In April 2014, Rakishev wired $142,300 to the Rosemont Seneca Bohai account. The figure amounted to the exact price of Hunter Biden\u2019s sports car that the account purchased one day later.<\/p>\n

    After receiving the payment, Archer and Biden arranged for executives at Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma to visit Kazakhstan in June 2014 to discuss a deal between Burisma, a Chinese state-owned company, and the government of Kazakhstan. Rakishev had a working relationship with Karim Massimov, who became prime minister in April 2014. Earlier this year, Massimov was sentenced to 18 years in prison for treason, abuse of power, and attempting a coup.<\/p>\n

    Also in spring 2014, Archer and Biden joined the Burisma board of directors at a salary of $1 million per year each. President Biden visited Ukraine soon after Archer and the younger Biden received their first payments \u2014 payments that were sent to Rosemont Seneca Bohai and later sent in incremental amounts to Hunter Biden\u2019s different bank accounts. <\/p>\n

    The committee confirmed IRS whistleblower testimony that Archer and Hunter Biden received $6.5 million in funds from Burisma, which is owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, a Ukrainian oligarch who bribed officials $6 million over the investigation into the natural gas company.<\/p>\n

    Archer told the committee last week that Hunter Biden\u2019s value on Burisma\u2019s board was \u201cthe brand.\u201d Archer said then-vice president Biden was \u201cthe brand.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \u201cBurisma would have gone out of business if \u2018the brand\u2019 had not been attached to it,\u201d Archer said, according to the committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    We can’t let corrupt foreign companies that keep Hunter in cocaine go tits-up, can we? <\/p>\n

  • “China Wanted to Use Biden Family to Acquire U.S. Energy Assets<\/a>.
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    Text messages that have recently been given to the FBI show that a Chinese energy company sought to utilize its connections to Hunter Biden in order to purchase domestic energy assets within the United States.<\/p>\n

    According to Just The News, the text exchange in question took place between two of Hunter\u2019s business partners, James Gilliar and Tony Bobulinski, on Christmas Eve of 2015. This exchange was shortly after Hunter had first been told about the conglomerate, CFEC China Energy, led by wealthy businessman Ye Jianming.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI think this will then be a great addition to their portfolios as it will give them a profile base in NYC, then LA, etc,\u201d said Gilliar in the text message. \u201cFor me it\u2019s a no brainer but culturally they are different, but smart so let\u2019s see. \u2026 Any entry ticket is small for them. Easier and better demographic than Arabs who are little anti US after trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

    This evidence further supports the bombshell claims made by another former business partner of Hunter, Devon Archer, in closed-door testimony before Congress earlier this week. Archer testified that Joe and Hunter Biden both actively sought to promote their \u201cinfluence\u201d to potential foreign partners, and that the two of them were considered a package deal in efforts to sell the \u201cbrand\u201d of their family name and political power while Joe was Vice President.<\/p>\n

    According to calendar schedules from his abandoned laptop, Hunter eventually did have a meeting with CEFC Executive Director Jianjun Zang in December of 2015. By March of 2016, two of Hunter\u2019s business partners, Gilliar and Rob Walker, drafted a memo for Hunter to sign and send to CEFC, to which Hunter agreed.<\/p>\n

    The text messages, exchanged between 2015 and 2017, eventually reveal that CEFC simply hoped to gain \u201cinfluence\u201d through its partnership with the Bidens, in order to eventually enter the American energy market with the purchase of energy assets in America and elsewhere in the West.<\/p>\n

    \u201cStill closing the perimeters of ops with the Chinese, will know Thursday if we are driving U.S. investments,\u201d Gilliar wrote to Bobulinski in May of 2016, adding that things might be \u201cstill a little premature.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

  • Want to know who funded that dirty Chinese bioloab in California? Would you believe Gavin Newsom<\/a>?\n
  • Yellow files for bankruptcy<\/a>, citing union contracts. Look how they shine for you. And all the things that you do…\n
  • Judge slams Southwest Airlines<\/a> for ignoring ruling over firing an employee for daring to have wrongthink on abortion. “The judge said the airline acted as if its own policy limiting what employees can say is more important than a federal law protecting religious speech.” (Hat tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit<\/a>.)\n
  • Teacher who made racist statements and bragged about how she couldn’t be fired fired<\/a>. (More<\/a>.)\n
  • “Twitter Sues Pro-Censorship Wokescolds<\/a> Over “False And Misleading Claims” of racism.\n
  • Tell the truth about the losing streak for the team you’re reporting on? That’s a suspension<\/a>.\n
  • Old and Busted in China: Sleeping on someone’s couch because you can’t afford your own bedroom. The New Hotness: Sleeping in the same bed with strangers because they can’t afford a couch<\/a>\n

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    (hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

  • Every day, we drift further and further from God’s light<\/a>.\n
  • How Oppenheimer<\/b> is breaking IMAX projectors<\/a>. (Previously<\/a>.)\n
  • There’s a new meme for ironic failure<\/a>.\n
  • “Biden Makes Things Up To 7th Grandchild By Appointing Her Head Of Ukrainian Shell Company<\/a>.”\n
  • “Democrats Hire Professional Puppeteer To Continue Operating Dianne Feinstein<\/a>.”\n
  • “Trump Indicted For Mocking US Women\u2019s Soccer<\/a>.”\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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