MORE EVIDENCE THAT JOE BIDEN IS CORRUPT

By JOHN HINDERAKER | POWERLINE

Hunter Biden traveled to Mexico City with his father aboard Air Force Two in February 2016. Paul Morigi/Getty Images

There is a major allegation that Hunter Biden used access to his father to seal previously unknown deals with Mexican businessmen, including Carlos Slim, a billionaire, once briefly considered the richest man in the world, and one of the principal owners of the New York Times. He bailed the Times out when the paper was in financial distress. This observation is correct, and infuriating:

This story has emerged in the latest round of Hunter Biden emails:

The new emails include references to the use of Air Force II by Hunter Biden to pursue the deals — a similar pattern revealed with regard to the China dealings. The emails detail a number of visits to Mexico, including a February 2016 flight on Air Force II with his father. On the plane was his business partner Jeff Cooper, who ran Illinois-based SimmonsCooper.
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These dealings continued into 2018 as Hunter pushed for deals with Slim. One text message from July 24, 2018 reads “Spoke to my dad about ‘Slim ask’” and Cooper responds “Oh that sounds SO F’ING GOOD.”

Will we ever find out what Carlos Slim’s “ask” was? Sadly, probably not. In the meantime, we know that Joe Biden’s denials that he had anything to do with his son’s influence peddling are lies.

PHOTO: Hunter Biden used the perks of his dad’s vice presidency to pursue business deals with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. Photo by Luis Cortes/Reuters

The new emails contain additional information directly contradicting President Biden. In addition to earlier pictures from golf trips and references to his involvement or knowledge, new material refers to a notable dinner arranged in Washington, D.C.

Hunter arranged for then Vice President Biden to have dinner on April 16, 2015 with his Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakhstani business associates. They appropriately chose a private room at Café Milano, a Georgetown restaurant that brags that it is “Where the world’s most powerful people go.” After the dinner, Hunter received an email from Vadym Pozharskyi, an executive with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, to thank him for introducing him to his father: “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”

It is clear that Hunter Biden was selling access and influence. It appears that Joe Biden was aware of that effort.

I have said it before, but it bears repeating: no one has ever bribed Hunter Biden. He is a poor, lost, drug-addled soul who likely would be unemployable but for the fact that his father is a well-known politician. His role was to act as a bagman, lining up and collecting bribes for his father in the form of “business deals” with the Red Chinese and operators like Carlos Slim.

We can imagine a parallel universe in which American “journalists” are able to put aside their loyalty to the Democratic Party and look into the question whether we have a president who is hopelessly compromised by bribes he has taken from foreign powers, starting with the Chinese Communist Party. But that, sadly, is not the world we live in.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/more-evidence-that-joe-biden-is-corrupt.php

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Hunter Biden used Joe’s VP perks to pursue deal with Carlos Slim

By Miranda Devine | NY Post

PHOTO: Close-up of Carlos Slim with Joe Biden in 2015

Hunter Biden used the perks of the vice presidency — parties, meetings with Joe Biden and flights on Air Force Two — to pursue business deals with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim while his father was in office, records show.

Hunter’s involvement with Slim, at one time the world’s richest man, commenced soon after a White House state dinner the magnate attended in May 2010, along with Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, to honor Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

The diary on Hunter’s abandoned laptop shows he and Slim were both guests at a State Department luncheon during Calderon’s visit, which was hosted by his father and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Spanish tenor Placido Domingo also reportedly attended.

The charmed path that always opens for Hunter when his father meets a foreign leader or oligarch led him to Mexico on a VIP trip the following year. Hunter’s diary in May 2011 shows a “tentative tour hosted by Carlos Slim” of the tycoon’s private “Soumaya Museum,” in Mexico City, which Slim founded and named after his late wife, Soumaya Domit. Containing priceless sculptures from pre-Spanish Mesoamerica, it is the most visited museum in the country. There could be no greater honor offered to Hunter than a private tour with the billionaire founder.

Hunter also had breakfast with Slim’s friend, Mexican billionaire Carlos Bremer, at his magnificent villa in the shadow of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range in Monterrey. Bremer, former director of the country’s stock exchange, had donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and sat on the foundation’s board.

Hunter subsequently would hold in-person and video conference meetings with Slim’s sons, Carlos Jr. and Tony Slim, between 2011 and 2015, although the laptop does not indicate what came of the encounters.

Hunter would visit Mexico again in March 2012, April 2013, September 2014 and February 2015. His final recorded flight to Mexico City was with his father aboard Air Force Two in February 2016. Hunter’s business partner Jeff Cooper, who ran one of the largest asbestos litigation firms in the country, Illinois-based SimmonsCooper, was on the flight. Hunter owned 3 percent of Cooper’s venture capital firm Eudora Global, according to emails.

Cooper also appears in a Nov. 19, 2015, photograph with Joe, Hunter, Carlos Slim, another Mexican billionaire, Miguel Alemán Velasco, and his son Miguel Aleman Magnani, founder of budget airline Interjet, at the vice president’s residence in Washington, DC.

Earlier that year, Hunter and wife Kathleen had stayed at Magnani’s Acapulco mansion.

PHOTO: Carlos Slim

This was also around the time that Carlos Slim became the largest shareholder in The New York Times.

Hunter’s uncle Jim Biden, Joe’s younger brother, was keen on leveraging the Slim connection for profit, emails on the laptop show.

Jim emailed Hunter on May 7, 2015, about a deal that would involve Slim and a Mexican state-owned oil and gas firm, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). “Have a very real deal with Pemex (Carlos Slim) need financing literally for a few days to a week,” he wrote.

“Have the seller (refinery /slims) and buyer major being delivered from pipeline in (h/ USA) Nothing is simple but this comes very close. As always the devil is in the detail! Any interest on the long skirts part?”

Uncle Jim still was hopeful of a Slim windfall in 2017 when he sent Hunter a “short list of foreign friends for next phase.” The list included Slim, whom Jim described as “very friendly” and “arguably the richest man in the world.”

Hunter and Cooper were hoping for Slim family money for Cooper’s online gaming company Ocho Gaming and digital wallet firm ePlata, in which Hunter had a 5.25 percent stake through his firm Owasco.

“Just wondering who is the best first major partner outside [the Aleman family’s airline] Interjet. Obviously [the] Slims provide that if we could actually sell them on the idea and not have them just take it and create their own,” Hunter emailed Cooper in February 2015. It was Gabriel Zinny from Democratic lobbying firm Blue Star Strategies who first suggested selling Cooper’s gaming interests to Carlos Slim, whose firm Telmex was entering the online gaming business.

“Below is an article from today’s press about Slim getting into the business in Mexico,” Zinny wrote to Cooper in April 2012, forwarding a Reuters piece headlined “Tycoon Slim taps online gaming market in Mexico.”

“It sounds like a potential good exit strategy for your investment.”

Zinny also was acting for another of Hunter’s wealthy Latin American associates, Manuel Estrella, owner of construction consortium Grupo Estrella and listed by Forbes as one of the top 20 richest entrepreneurs in the Dominican Republic.

In an email in December 2012, Hunter introduced Estrella to Cooper as “a good friend of mine” and “the perfect partner as you explore bringing online gaming to the Dominican Republic.”

Two years later, Hunter would arrange for Estrella to meet Joe Biden. “Hunter I just met your father!” Estrella emailed Hunter on June 19, 2014. “So exciting.”

Zinny followed up with his own email to Hunter: “Thank you so much Boss! Just talked to Manuel [Estrella] who was really excited. You are too generous with your latinos fans!!”

Estrella once had expressed interest in investing in a “new hotel” in Haiti with Hunter’s company Rosemont Seneca and the “Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund.”

“He would like to invest in this new hotel, giving Rosemont Seneca an equity participation and bringing the Fund as a potential investor,” Zinny wrote Hunter on Oct. 28, 2010. The deal doesn’t appear to have occurred and communications with Estrella cease in August 2015.

But in 2018, Hunter still was optimistic about making money from his Slim connections. Despite Joe Biden claiming he’s never discussed his son’s business with him, there’s a text message from July 24, 2018, on the laptop:

“Spoke to my dad about ‘Slim ask,’ ” Hunter wrote Cooper after a visit from his father in Los Angeles. “Oh that sounds SO F’ING GOOD” replied Cooper.

Miranda Devine’s book, “Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide,” is out in September.

https://nypost.com/2021/07/01/hunter-biden-used-joes-vp-perks-to-pursue-deal-with-carlos-slim/

'Free to Learn' Coalition Exposes the Politicization of K-12 Schools in Brutal Ad Campaign

BY STACEY LENNOX | P J MEDIA

AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File

Free to Learn is a new non-profit that is taking a non-partisan approach to highlighting the damage politicized content like critical theories are doing to our children and the quality of the education they receive. The group’s mission is to support parents, caregivers, and grassroots community organizations fighting to rid their schools of political content and to refocus on core skills.

“After a year of virtual learning and having a front-row seat in the classroom, parents are waking up to the increasingly political climate in their children’s schools,” Alleigh Marré, president of the Free to Learn Coalition, explained in a press release. “As we grow our partnerships with parent and community groups, the Free to Learn Coalition will provide a platform and tailored resources to those ready to take on political activism by school boards and administrators.”

In an interview with PJ Media, Marré shared some results taken from initial polling conducted by Free to Learn. Objections to political content in the classroom are bipartisan and resounding. A majority of respondents, 82%, want no politicized content in school. When asked where curriculum should be focused, 71% prefer to emphasize core subjects over ideology, including 66% of self-identified liberals. In a national election, these numbers would be considered a landslide. To put a fine point on the polling information, Marré emphasized that the goal is not to limit the exposure to a broad range of ideas. The objection is to teaching materials through the lens of one ideology and presenting them as facts.

The current debate over civics education in some districts provides one example. Parents prefer teaching about how our government functions, covering the mechanics of the election process at the local, state, and national level, or covering current events. As Stanley Kurtz wrote in the American Mind:

True civic education conveys the purpose, nature, and contours of our constitutional republic, tells the story of the struggle to uphold its founding principles of equal rights and liberty, and cultivates virtues necessary to the republic’s preservation. What civic education very deliberately does not attempt to do is supply students with substantive political positions. That is for students themselves to determine as free individuals, in the fullness of time.

This content can become politicized through programs like Action Civics, where students lobby, protest, and influence the political process as part of the curriculum. As the Texas Public Policy Foundation noted, “When ‘action’ proceeds from unexamined assumptions, the result is not learning, but indoctrination.” There is a distinct difference between requiring students to attend a city council meeting and report back on their observations of the process, and giving credit to students for attending an anti-gun protest.

To reach parents who may be apolitical, Free to Learn has invested seven figures in launching a national ad campaign. The national ad highlights the declining performance in reading, math, and science education in the United States. In the last OCED PISA rating, the U.S. ranked 22, far behind China and even newer nations like Estonia and Slovenia:

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FIRST AD

The ads deployed in the local markets note the declining global performance and highlight additional details of the three situations summarized in the national ad. One ad will air in the New York metro. It explicitly calls out Grace Church School and several others in the area:

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE SECOND AD

The ad that Free to Learn will air the Fairfax, Va., market highlights the problems with equity policies. Invariably, these programs demand that school officials lower requirements to give the impression of equal outcomes while handicapping exceptional students from every background:

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE THIRD AD

In Arizona, Free to Learn takes aim at the Peoria School District. It highlights allegations of abuse and the parents being denied access to the curriculum taught to their children. That level of arrogance — feeling that government employees paid by the taxpayers are better suited to determine what children need than parents — is tragically commonplace across the country:

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FOURTH AD

The goal of Free to Learn is to assist parents and grassroots organizations in networking and information sharing. The group’s polling finds that parents are not alone in wanting to move away from school curriculum that comes under labels like “social-emotional” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion” teaching through the lens of critical theories and back to skill-building that breeds critical thinking. However, messages from the media can make parents feel like they are alone, don’t understand the content, or that this is all a “right-wing conspiracy.”

 “If there was any basis to label this issue as a conspiracy theory, the recent regulatory proposals of the Biden Department of Education and should clear that up,” Marré, the Free to Learn president, told PJ Media. The proposals condition grant funding to schools on programs that use critical theories and curriculum based on the 1619 Project. Through coordinated parent-led collaboration, Marré hopes to overcome these perceptions and empower parents. “The future of our nation depends on improving the performance of our public schools.”

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Stacey Lennox is a recovering Fortune 500 executive and healthcare professional. Busting the COVID-19 narrative under the VIP tab to avoid the censors. PJ Media readers can hear Stacey on the weekly Loftus Party podcast with comedian Michael Loftus and multiple shows a week on KLRN Radio.

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The Yocum African American History Association Celebrates July 4th

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” – From the Declaration of Independence (Preamble)

The July newsletter of the Yocum African American History Association commemorates the founding of our nation, as shown below, and is in furtherance of the organization’s goal to serve the community, by providing in-depth materials to enrich the history of America and highlighting the invaluable contributions of black citizens. Please take a few minutes to read the newsletter as you enjoy your Fourth of July celebration.

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This month YAAHA celebrates July 4 by sharing excerpts from the Frederick Douglass keynote oration, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July, given at Corinthian Hall, July 5, 1852, at the invitation of The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society thought slavery "was an evil that ought not to exist, and was a violation of the inalienable rights of man." They were steadfast in refusing any partisan political alignment, hoping to broaden their appeal across partisan lines. Although Rochester was widely known as the home of Frederick Douglass' Paper, at the time, Douglass was "the only anti-slavery instrumentality in the community." The Rochester Ladies were anxious to increase the support for their anti-slavery movement.  Learn More about us at Yocumblackhistory.org.                                                    Frederick Douglass                               What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July The Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society invited Frederick Douglass to give a keynote oration at an Independence Day Celebration on July 5, 1852, in front of President Millard Fillmore and a large crowd of 600 people, some abolitionists.  Douglass refused to give the speech on the Fourth of July. The speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” was a scathing attack on the hypocrisy of a nation celebrating freedom and independence with speeches, parades, and platitudes, while, within its borders, nearly four million humans were being kept as slaves. Interestingly, President Millard Fillmore’s Whig Party had completed its party platform on June 17, 1852, and condoned the series of acts of the Thirty-first Congress to agree to the Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave Act that required the North to return escaped slaves to the South. In his speech, while Douglass acknowledged the greatness of the founding fathers, he also decried the hypocrisy of the American government in the 1850s …” Oppression makes a wise man mad. Your fathers were wise men, and they did not go mad, they became restive under this treatment. They felt themselves the victims of grievous wrongs, wholly incurable in their colonial capacity. With brave men, there is always a remedy for oppression. Just here, the idea of a total separation of the colonies from the crown was born! It was a startling idea, much more so, than we, at this distance of time, regard it. The timid and the prudent and the prudent of that day, were, of course, shocked and alarmed by it. …Citizens, your fathers made good that resolution. They succeeded, and today you reap the fruits of their success. The freedom gained is yours, and you, therefore, may properly celebrate the anniversary. The Fourth of July is the first fact in your nation’s history—the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny.” …They were peace men, but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men but did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance but that they knew its limits. They believed not in order of tyranny. With them, nothing was “settled” that was not right. With them, justice, liberty, and humanity were “final,” not slavery and oppression. You may well cherish the memory of such men. They were great in their day and generation. Their solid manhood stands out the more as we contrast it with these degenerate times. …Fellow-citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I or those I represent to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice embodied in the Declaration of Independence extended to us?” …The blessings in which you this day rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me…This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn… The audience within Corinthian Hall that included President Fillmore was enthusiastic, voting unanimously to endorse the speech at its end. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/whig-party-platform-1852 https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/_files/resources/texts/c/1852%20Douglass%20July%204.pdf   YAAHA Will Be Exhibiting at Two Locations for the Great Homeschool Conventions: Jacksonville, Florida, July 22-24, and Cincinnati, Ohio, August 12-14 Homeschool families travel from all over the country to attend one of the GHC to acquire practical ideas and resources from speakers and educators that can be used in homeschools across the nation. YAAHA is proud to share our resources on black history with attendees. Great Homeschool Conventions have become the homeschooling event of the year.  Jacksonville, Florida, July 22-24, at Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center, 1000 Water Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204. Cincinnati, Ohio, August 12-14, at Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202. Would you please join us? Register for Jacksonville here and for Cincinnati here.                                           YAAHA's Talented Volunteers                     Yocum African American History Association (YAAHA) is pleased to announce Cheyenne E. Heavener, and D'Andre J. Hill have joined our organization as volunteers. Their expertise is very much appreciated as YAAHA develops the virtual learning center for black history education.   Cheyenne E. Heavener is a May 2021 Drury University Honors graduate who received her Bachelor of Arts in English, Writing. Cheyenne's experience is versed with four years in the U.S. Air Force and served as the Records and Freedom of Information Act Manager for thirteen military bases. She organized and facilitated the university's annual English Symposium as the Sigma Tau Delta chapter president. In addition, she researched the Missouri Humanities Symposium and Drury University Humanities and Ethics Center. She provided hands-on opportunities in interpretation, educational programming, exhibit design, marketing, and non-profit business management in the private sector. YAAHA welcomes Cheyenne to the organization. D'Andre A. Hill is a May 2021 Drury University graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Animation, Writing. This honors graduate is experienced in multimedia storytelling, multimedia writing, and motion graphics. He was the senior project director of the "Solace" film and served as a marketing intern for the Lady in the Red Dress PR and Marketing Agency where he generated media, graphics, and content for social media platforms. D'Andre served as a student assistant in the Drury Office of Diversity. His additional skills include graphic design, Photoshop, and Google Docs Prezi Microsoft Office capabilities. YAAHA welcomes D'Andre to the organization. _________________________ Please Donate to the Yocum African American History Association   Donate You may make a donation also by sending a check payable to YAAHA to: YAAHA PO Box 1507 Medina, OH 44258