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Congress secures first Hunter Biden whistleblowers as memos unmask lucrative gas deals with China Internal company memos show Hunter Biden effort to score American LNG ports, gas deals, and drilling ventures for Beijing.
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“The public interest is served by maintaining the constitutional structure and maintaining the liberty of individuals who do not want to take the COVID-19 vaccine. This interest outweighs Agency Defendants’ interests. The public has a liberty interest in not being required to take a vaccine or be fired from their jobs. The public interest must be considered before allowing Agency Defendants to mandate vaccines. Although vaccines arguably serve the public interest, the liberty interests of individuals mandated to take the COVID-19 vaccine outweigh any interest generated by the mandatory administration of vaccines.” The government has an option to appeal to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Western District; the same court blocked the government’s vaccine mandate for private businesses, the release says. The Liberty Justice Center and the Louisianabased Pelican Institute for Public Policy represented Brick. “Although President Biden recently declared that the ‘pandemic is over,’ the fight to restore Americans’ individual liberties is not,” Daniel Suhr said in the release. He’s managing attorney at the Liberty Justice Center. “We will continue to fight for teachers like Sandy and the lowincome students they serve until every illegal and unjustified mandate is wiped from the books. Today’s decision is a significant step toward un-
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By John Solomon President Joe Biden boasts proudly today he is leading an "incredible transition" from fossil fuels, but just three years before he won the presidency his family worked to score billions of dollars in deals helping executives in communist China gain access to U.S. natural gas, oil and energy infrastructure, according to internal business memos and interviews with congressional investigators. Memos obtained by Just the News from the Hudson West III LLC partnership that presidential son Hunter Biden operated with a prominent Chinese business executive named Gongwen Dong show the Biden family pursued at least 21 major deals in 2017 and 2018 for Chinese interests seeking U.S. energy assets, including liquified natural gas export terminals, LNG trade deals, drilling exploration firms, pipelines and other key energy assets. Many of the deals targeted assets in the oil-rich Gulf Coast, including Louisiana, and aimed to help an energy-hungry China gain access to U.S. oil and gas, according to a summary memo of the 21 deals. Just the News found the memo on a Hunter Biden laptop turned over to the FBI in 2019 and corroborated its authenticity with a Biden business associate directly familiar with the deals and memos. "Discussed both oil and LNG trading/exporting opportunities," one memo sent to Hunter Biden read. "Our team was more interested in pursuing the LNG spread trading opportunities, due to the timing of upcoming winter peak usage season and the spiking natural gas price in China."
other oil and gas deals, ranging from pipelines to drilling assets, the memo shows. "Explore U.S. natural gas industry midstream investment opportunities (including natural gas pipeline projects with international and U.S.based financial institutions)," the memo recommended as one of the 2018 opportunities.
deals Hudson West III sought were massive, ranging from $800 million to as large as $2.8 billion, one internal company memo stated.
Comer, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee and its likely chairman next year if the GOP wins control of Congress, told Just the News on Thursday night that he has secured cooperation from at least two Another goal, the memo of Hunter Biden's former stated: "Explore potential business associates, who investment opportunities have authenticated that in the petrochemical and Hunter Biden's strategy energy production space." was to help China secure U.S. oil and gas interests. The Hudson West III opportunities memo stated it "What we know is that was seeking to acquire Hunter Biden's company interests in some drilling Hudson West III was neand exploration compagotiating a deal with the nies, like Noble Energy's Chinese energy company parent firm, that had fallen CEFC to not only puron hard times when oil chase American natural and gas prices plummeted gas, but also to try to start during the Trump admin- purchasing interest in istration. "Explore poten- American drillers for nattial investment opportuni- ural gas so they can start ty in distressed internato take control of the tional energy company American natural gas inaffiliates (for example, the dustry through the drillNoble Group and affiliers," the congressman ates)," the memo read. said in an interview with the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show. File HW Project Summary2018.pdf The Hunter Biden-connected "We have two whistlefirm also dabbled with the blowers," he added. "And I'm confident they're gonotion of getting better prices by targeting minor- ing to come forward in a Republican majority ity-owned energy firms that got preferential treat- when I can conduct hearings, and I have the gavel ment in some markets. The "model involves the for oversight, to tell us in support and nurturing of detail what their objectives were. And these peominority business and commodity brokers" and ple were associates of Hunter Biden. And the the benefit would be to "gain further discount and ultimate goal — and the better service terms from Bidens knew this — was its oil major partners," the for China to start to take ownership in all the difstrategy memo stated. ferent parts of the natural gas industry in the United According to evidence States." released by Republican Sens. Charles Grassley Earlier this month, Comer and Ron Johnson and (Continued on page 16) Rep. James Comer (RKy.), Hudson West III's goal was to find deals to benefit its primary partner in Beijing, CEFC, the Chinese energy giant led by Chinese businessman Ye Jianming, whom Hunter Biden met back in 2015.
That LNG deal and others like it never went forward, but Hunter Biden's team chose to pivot in 2018 to The size of some of the
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InTexas governorrace, RepublicanAbbott leads O’Rourke by 7 points, poll shows Majority surveyed listed economy and border security as their top issues this election.
By The Center Square Staff Less than two months out from the November election, a new poll shows Gov. Greg Abbott leading Democratic challenger Robert “Beto” O’Rourke by seven points. The majority of those surveyed listed the economy and border security as their top issues this election. The majority polled also expressed support for Abbott’s border security effort, including busing people who illegally entered Texas to blue states and cities. According to the new Spectrum News/Siena College poll, Abbott leads O’Rourke 50% to 43%. “Governor Abbott, who won a landslide thirteenpoint race against Democratic challenger Lupe Valdez four years ago, has a seven-point lead with over six weeks until Election Day,” SCRI Director Don Levy said in a statement. “Abbott has the support of 95% of Republicans and O’Rourke has the support of 93% of Democrats, while independents tilt toward Abbott by one point.” According to the poll, Abbott has a 47-46% favorability rating. O’Rourke has a negative 39-52% favorability rating. The majority polled, 59%, said the economy/ inflation/cost of living was the most important
issue “in determining the election.” Among them, 75% of Republicans, 60% of Independents and 38% of Democrats said the economy is their top concern. “Economic issues are by far the dominant election issues for all voters. Republicans overwhelmingly put economic issues in the top spot, and say immigration is the second most important issue affecting their vote,” Levy said. Thirty-one percent of those polled list immigration and the southern border as their top concern, including 54% of Republicans, 27% of Independents and 6% of Democrats. The majority, 58%, also approve of Abbott’s border security initiative, Operation Lone Star, with 93% of Republicans, 53% of Independents and 24% of Democrats supporting it. Another majority, 52%, expressed support for Abbott’s busing strategy. Since April, he’s bused more than 12,000 people to Washington, D.C., New York City and Chicago after they’d illegally entered the U.S. in Texas. Since the majority are likely ineligible for admittance according to federal immigration law, they are required to be detained, processed and removed. Instead, the Biden administration has been releasing an historic number into the U.S., prompting states to sue. In the meantime, Abbott and the governors of Florida and Arizona (continue reading here)
