Alaska’s Rep. Mary Peltola, who has been missing from the state for weeks, told Alaskans last week she was traveling the state of Alaska. No one has seen her in state.
But over the weekend she was spotted at a party in Colorado, celebrating with fellow Democrats and a Lakewood city council candidate, for whom she was the keynote speaker. The event was not found on Peltola’s campaign pages or official pages on social media, but appeared on the Isabel for Lakewood (Colorado) Facebook page.
Last week, when the House Infrastructure and Transportation Committee met in Alaska over three days, Peltola was not in attendance, even though she serves on the committee, which was reviewing, touring, and learning about Kodiak, the Port of Alaska, and other major infrastructure projects needed in Alaska. She told the media that when Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is in Alaska this week, she will not be available to travel to Kotzebue or Southeast Alaska with him to review transportation issues.
Rep. Mary Peltola has been a no-show in the state for the past several weeks, missing meetings in Anchorage of the House Infrastructure and Transportation Committee, of which she is a member, and advising media she can’t fit Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg into her schedule, but she’ll be back in 10 days.
At least that is the schedule.
Peltola is set to be on a panel for the Kenai River Classic Roundtable on Aug. 23, from noon to 3 pm at the Soldotna Sports Center. After the Kenai Classic, she is said to be appearing at a charity fishing event, the Lu Young Children’s Fund, which raises funds for Alaska Native children.
But her invisibility has continued for weeks now. In fact, she hasn’t been seen in the state since possibly as early as June. Her office cryptically posted a social media post on Aug. 9 that advises she is “traveling across the state this August” — with no photographic evidence she is anywhere close to the state.
Peltola’s campaign has also gone dead silent since July 28.
Her official social media accounts only show sporadic file photos of things like interns in her D.C. office and articles from The Washington Post. It’s all very vague.
While Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Sen. Dan Sullivan are crisscrossing the state from Ketchikan to Kenai, “Where’s Mary,” has become the refrain in political circles, as people on both sides of the political spectrum wonder about the health and welfare of their only U.S. representative, who is supposed to be working in her district in August but is nowhere to be found.
At a ceremony in Mississippi on Aug. 19, a new U.S. Navy destroyer will be christened with the name of former Alaska U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.
At the time he left office, Stevens was the longest Republican U.S. senator in history, having served since 1968. Stevens, who served as an Army Air Corps in World War II, was a lifelong advocate for the nation’s military, military men and women, and national security.
The USS Ted Stevens will be the third vessel in the Flight III series of the Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers. The destroyers are built around the Aegis Combat System (tracks and guides weapons to destroy enemy targets), and the SPY-1D multi-function passive electronically scanned array radar, according to the description at the christening committee web page.
This class of destroyers is named after Admiral Arleigh Burke, a decorated destroyer officer during World War II and later the chief of Naval Operations.
Ranging in size from 505 to 509.5 feet in length, with a displacement of 8,300 to 9,700 tons, and equipped with over 90 missiles, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are larger and more heavily armed than preceding classes of guided-missile cruisers.
The ships have anti-aircraft warfare capabilities with surface-to-air missiles, tactical land strikes via Tomahawk missiles, anti-submarine warfare, anti-submarine rockets, and anti-sub helicopters, as well as anti-surface warfare with over-the-horizon Harpoon missiles.
The lead ship of this class, the USS Arleigh Burke, was commissioned during Admiral Burke’s lifetime on July 4, 1991. Following the decommissioning of the final Spruance-class destroyer, the USS Cushing in 2005, the Arleigh Burke-class vessels remained the sole active destroyers within the U.S. Navy until the introduction of the Zumwalt class in 2016.
The Arleigh Burke class holds the record for the lengthiest production run of any U.S. Navy surface combatant. As of May 2022, 70 of these destroyers are active, with additional units planned for future service. More information at this Ted Stevens Foundation link.
Sponsor of the christening is Sen. Stevens’ widow, Catherine Stevens, a fourth-generation Alaskan who grew up in the territory and then State of Alaska. She has a long history of public service and a legal career that included being the state’s district attorney in Fairbanks. Catherine received presidential appointments to the Eisenhower Memorial Commission and to the board of the Kennedy Center.
Ship sponsors are the invited persons who typically has ties to the namesake of the ship and plays a ceremonial role during the christening, launching, and commissioning of a vessel. They are often family members related to the namesake. In 1986, Catherine Stevens was the sponsor for the USS Alaska (SSBN-732), a U.S. Navy Ohio class ballistic missile submarine.
Also sponsoring the ship are Ted Stevens’ daughters Susan Stevens Covich, and Lily Becker. Granddaughter Laura Sexton is matron of honor and grandchildren of Stevens will attend.
The christening will take place in Pascagoula, Mississippi at the Ingall’s Shipbuilding yard, which is one of the leading builders of ships for the Navy.
The ceremony, beginning at 8:30 Central Time (5:30 am Alaska Time), will be streamed live on YouTube at the following link:
After three reconnaissance flights, officials have declared that pilot Jason Tucker, 45, from Wasilla, and passenger Nicolas Blace, 44, from Chugiak, are presumed to have lost their lives in a PA-18 Super Cub aircraft accident within the remote southwest preserve of Denali National Park and Preserve.
The incident unfolded on Wednesday, when the Alaska Air National Guard Rescue Coordination Center was alerted about an overdue aircraft in the wilderness of Denali National Park. Initial search efforts faced weather challenges, forcing a turnaround. Nevertheless, the following day, a military team on an Air National Guard flight successfully located the wreckage in a narrow ravine north of the West Fork of the Yentna River. However, the treacherous terrain prevented a safe landing, leading to a grim preliminary assessment of the crash’s survivability.
On Thursday, Denali National Park mountaineering rangers undertook a perilous journey to evaluate the feasibility of a helicopter short-haul line to reach the accident site. The rangers faced numerous hazards, including the steep ravine walls, loose rocks, and an absence of safe landing zones near the rapidly flowing creek. It was determined that a short-haul mission was not viable, adding complexity to the recovery efforts.
The Alaska State Troopers were alerted about a stranded hunter outside the preserve who had communicated that his pilot had not returned to collect him.
After the hunter was safely retrieved, it was revealed that the pilot, Jason Tucker, and his hunting partner, Nicolas Blace, were en route to a Dillinger River airstrip before the accident occurred. Tucker was supposed to drop off Blace before returning for another hunter but never completed the second leg of the journey.
The investigation yielded evidence that the aircraft did not reach the intended Dillinger airstrip. Fresh landing tracks were absent, no hunters were present at the strip, and communication from Blace, who was equipped with an InReach device, ceased. These findings led authorities to presume the loss of both Tucker and Blace in the accident.
A National Transportation Safety Board investigator arrived at the wreckage site on Friday. Accompanied by Denali National Park mountaineering rangers, the investigator used a drone operated from a tundra plateau to capture imagery of the wreckage and evaluate the immediate terrain.
An inter-agency review, involving officials from the National Park Service, NTSB, Alaska State Troopers, and AKRCC, was conducted to analyze the findings. If deemed feasible, the recovery of the bodies and the aircraft will require a complex and potentially high-risk ground operation. Denali mountaineering rangers are poised to undertake further investigation as weather conditions permit.
Brooke Merrell, the superintendent of Denali National Park and Preserve, expressed heartfelt condolences: “Our thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those involved as we work through this response.”
Photo credit: National Park Service photo of ravine.
By NICOLE ROBINSON AND GRACE PHILLIPS | REAL CLEAR WIRE
The Sino-U.S. “cold tech war” is reaching new heights—or rather depths—as tensions are building under the sea. First it was semiconductors. Now it’s submarine cables.
Undersea cables, unseen and often ignored, are essential to daily life and critical to U.S. national security.
Over 97 percent of global data traffic travels through a network of cables that sit atop the seabed of the world’s oceans. Those same cables transmit upwards of $10 trillion in financial transactions every day and are a central component of the American military’s network-centric warfare operations.
In the current geopolitical climate, submarine cable financing and construction is about far more than turning profits. Control of cable networks means control of information—a center of gravity in modern conflict. Now, national governments are inserting themselves in bidding wars between private firms to gain a strategic edge over their adversaries in the information sphere. Nowhere is such competition more apparent than between the United States and China.
The Chinese Communist Party openly monitors and regulates the flow of information between its citizens, and increasingly, the same is true worldwide. In fact, the CCP mandates that Chinese-based fiber-optic companies conduct surveillance on its behalf both at home and abroad. The U.S. government has since limited the use of equipment from these businesses on American shores, stating that its authorization poses “an unacceptable risk to national security.”
In 2018, a consortium including state-backed China Mobile applied to build the “Bay to Bay Express”cable, connecting Hong Kong to California. However, a Trump-era working group assessed that Hong Kong-based cables “would expose U.S. communications traffic to collection” by the Chinese Communist Party. Approvals for cable landings linking U.S. soil to Hong Kong were therefore blocked, forcing China to abandon the project.
Following the collapse of several similar deals in the Pacific, China’s undersea cable industry turned toward Africa and Eurasia—markets that receive low levels of American investment and are therefore open to Chinese capital. Already part of the “Belt and Road Initiative,” President Xi Jinping’s colossal investment strategy to enhance the CCP’s political influence in the developing world, some of these countries were more receptive to becoming part of China’s cable network.
In 2021, China Mobile, Facebook, and others constructed a submarine cable surrounding the African continent. The cable advances China’s “Digital Silk Road,” the technological component of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative that will expand its global infrastructure network.
Additionally, notorious tech giant Huawei’s cleverly rebranded subsidiary HMN Tech laid a cable in December 2022 known as “PEACE,” linking Kenya and Pakistan to France. The PEACE cable extends through the Suez Canal—a vital waterway connecting the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea along China’s “Maritime Silk Road” route.
The U.S. is combating CCP fiber-optic influence at its source—the bidding process. In February 2023, a U.S. government push successfully removed HMN Tech, China Telecom, and China Mobile from the South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 6 (Sea-Me-We 6) project, a proposed 12,000-mile cable that will connect southeast Asia to western Europe.
Unfortunately, that success was short-lived. Two months later, China Telecom and China Unicom announced plans to finance a $500 million undersea cable, calling it Europe-Middle East-Asia, or EMA. This undersea cable will rival the Sea-Me-We 6, stretching along a remarkably similar route and landing at many of the same locations.
The U.S. and China are now engaged in a full-fledged tit-for-tat cable competition, launching new projects of their own and disrupting projects started by the other. For instance, the United States, Japan, and Australia signed an agreement with Micronesia in June of this year to construct an undersea cable for their island chain. These islands are situated in the western Pacific—an area where Washington and Beijing are both vying for influence. The U.S. successfully convinced the Micronesians to reject a similar offer from the Chinese in 2021, warning that the CCP would likely use a Chinese-laid cable to collect intelligence.
Capitol Hill is also taking steps to counter China’s ability to build undersea cables. In early 2023, House Republicans led by Rep. Brian Mast (FL-21) drafted a bill that “would require the Biden Administration to develop a strategy to limit foreign adversaries like China from accessing goods and technologies capable of supporting undersea cables.” The legislation, titled the Undersea Cable Control Act, unanimously passed the House in March, and is expected to pass in the Senate.
Submarine cable competition between the United States and China has serious implications for today’s information war. If China and the U.S. continue to bid against each other, countries will be forced to choose between their cable networks, forming a “digital Iron Curtain” that splits the internet ecosystem in two.
Just like Cold War-era Germany, a boundary line will separate two ideological worlds. This time though, the Berlin Wall will be invisible, and the divide will not be one of peoples, but of information itself.
Nicole Robinson is a Senior Research Associate in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at The Heritage FoundationGrace Phillips is an intern with The Heritage Foundation.This article was originally published by RealClearDefense and made available via RealClearWire.
The National Weather Service had warned government in Hawaii that a powerful and dangerous wind event was on the way — days before it arrived.
But authorities on Maui and in Oahu, the capital of Hawaii, took no action to cut the power to the power lines, even after the power poles started swaying and falling over during the wind storm that fed the fire that consumed the historic town of Lahaina on Aug. 9.
Hawaiian Electric, which provides power to 95% of the island, was caught flat-footed and the government made no attempt to intervene to prevent an electrical spark. Emergency sirens were not activated, which meant the residents had no warning to evacuate.
Gov. Josh Green, if he knew the storm was coming, chose to be out of state at the time of the disaster, which is now the largest in state history.
Surrounded by water and subject to regular tropical storms, the island has had fires before on its dry side. This one is said to have been started by electric sparks from power lines that were blown down.
But the jury is still out about the cause of the inferno. Environmentalists and the media point to climate change.
Yet, there are hundreds of electric vehicles on Maui, thousands of electric bikes, all with batteries that sometimes catch fire spontaneously. There are also a number of homeless encampments. According to Maui Times, at any given time, there are approximately 800 people sleeping on the streets or in the wooded areas of Maui County.
In 2022, three people were arrested on Maui for arson after six arson brush fires were reported within a 90-minute window, burning five acres of Central Maui that May.
Could it have been arson this week as well? As of now, the officials are saying it was the electric power lines, which puts the laid-back government and utilities of Maui and Hawaii on the hot seat.
Although Hawaiian Electric knows that a power shut-off is the number one most effective strategy, as determined in California and across the dry Western states, it had not adopted it as part of its fire mitigation plans, according to the company and two former power and energy officials interviewed by The Washington Post.
“Doug McLeod, a former energy commissioner for Maui County, also said the utility was aware of the need for a regular shut-down system and to bury lines, especially given the ‘number of close calls in the past,'” The Post wrote.
Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez announced that the Department of the Attorney General will conduct a comprehensive review of critical decision-making and standing policies leading up to, during, and after the wildfires on Maui and Hawaiʻi islands this week.
“The Department of the Attorney General shares the grief felt by all in Hawaiʻi, and our hearts go out to everyone affected by this tragedy,” Attorney General Lopez said. “My Department is committed to understanding the decisions that were made before and during the wildfires and to sharing with the public the results of this review. As we continue to support all aspects of the ongoing relief effort, now is the time to begin this process of understanding.”
In Anchorage in 2022, Mayor Dave Bronson cleared homeless encampments from the wooded areas and centralized the campers into Centennial Campground, after a wildfire was set by a vagrant camp in the East Tudor area. At the time, his administration said it was necessary to keep a major fire from erupting during the summer fire season.
On Friday night, the County of Maui updated the fatalities to 80, (Sunday update: 96) but hundreds more are believed to be missing. Other official information provided by the county on Friday night:
Firefighters continue working to extinguish flare-ups and contain fires in Lahaina, Pulehu/Kihei and Upcountry Maui.
A Ka’anapali fire reported above Puukolii at 6:10 p.m. Friday was reported to be 100 percent contained before 8:30 p.m. The fire is in the area where a county fueling station was positioned Friday to distribute an estimated 3,000 gallons of gas and 500 gallons of diesel for an estimated 400 vehicles that were lined up before the operation began. No fuel will be distributed Saturday.
Police are restricting access into West Maui through both Ma’alaea and Waihe’e. Honoapiilani Highway is open for vehicles leaving Lahaina. The burned historic Lahaina town area remains barricaded, with people warned to stay out of the area due to hazards including toxic particles from smoldering areas. Wearing a mask and gloves is advised.
Volunteers are distributing food, water and other supplies at Napili Plaza.
Food, water, toiletries, canned goods, diapers, baby formula, clothing and pet food will be distributed from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Lahaina Gateway Center.
Donations of non-perishable food, bottled water and hygiene items will be accepted from 8 a.m. to 6 pm. Saturday at the War Memorial Complex field in Wailuku. No clothing is being accepted.
A Family Assistance Center for family members who are looking for information about loved ones who are unaccounted for will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Kahului Community Center.
The county Department of Transportation is coordinating buses to transport people staying at emergency shelters to the county Department of Motor Vehicles and Licensing, which will be open for special hours from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday so shelter occupants can have their driver’s licenses and state identification cards reissued. Fees will be waived. County are volunteering to work to open the department.
On Friday, a total of 1,418 people were at emergency evacuation shelters at War Memorial Gymnasium, Hannibal Tavares Community Center, Maui High School, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Maui Lani, Kings Cathedral Church and Grace Bible Church.
Additional cellphone service was becoming available in West Maui. Cellphone users are reminded to text not talk so everyone can share the limited resources.
For organizations and individuals wishing to offer services or donations to aid in the county rescue and relief efforts, an online tool is available. Information can be provided at https://tinyurl.com/mauireliefsurvey to be used to help organize and deploy resources.
The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle announced this spring that it will remove all traces of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling from its Harry Potter collections.
In a blog post announcing this change, the museum writes that “there’s a certain cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity in the world of Harry Potter and, this time, it is not actually a Dementor,” comparing Rowling to one of most horrible of the evil creatures from her wizard-themed books.
The museum now refers to Rowling as “She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named,” in the same way Voldemort is so feared in the fantasy world of wizardry world that it is considered dangerous to speak his name.
“Her transphobic viewpoints are front and center these days, but we can’t forget all the other ways that she’s problematic: the support of antisemitic creators, the racial stereotypes that she used while creating characters, the incredibly white wizarding world, the fat shaming, the lack of LGBTQIA+ representation, the super-chill outlook on the bigotry and othering of those that don’t fit into the standard wizarding world, and so much more. We’re going to be focusing on You-Know-Who’s transphobic views in this blog post because she’s really doubled down on them lately,” the museum writes.
The writer, who refers to him/herself as transgender continues in that vein for several more paragraphs.
“While the Harry Potter series is a major player in the pop culture sphere, we wanted to give credit to the work of the actors, prop makers, and costume designers in our Fantasy gallery. We learned that You-Know-Who was a problem, which is why you’ll see the artifacts without any mention or image of the author. After all, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint are all incredibly vocal allies. Should we forget their work now that the original author is terrible? I’m not even talking about “separating art from artist” but giving credit where it’s due. I’ll never be able to purely enjoy Hagrid or Stephen Fry again because of their support of the author, but I’ll always be a wreck when Dumbledore… y’know. No spoilers. Besides, there’s plenty about Dumbledore that I’ll be a wreck about,” the museum wrote.
The inductees into the museum are chosen by public voting, the museum said.
“You-Know-Who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2018 before she became the face of trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF). If you keep looking in there, you’ll see other figures with questionable if not downright disturbing pasts. But what does that mean? Are MoPOP’s hands tied on something that is in our building? Again, it’s complicated. For the time being, the Curators decided to remove any of her artifacts from this gallery to reduce her impact,” the museum said. Read the entire statement here.
Rowling came up with the idea for the Harry Potter series while working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990. By 1997, she had published the first novel in the series, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.” After six sequels, movie rights, and worldwide fame, she became the highest-paid author in the world.
In 2018, Rowling started expressing her views about the transgender movement and its cultural norm of harassing, threatening and doxing all women who stand for women’s rights. She was a target of trans attack when she stood up for a woman who lost her job due to her support for actual women.
“For people who don’t know: last December I tweeted my support for Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who’d lost her job for what were deemed ‘transphobic’ tweets. She took her case to an employment tribunal, asking the judge to rule on whether a philosophical belief that sex is determined by biology is protected in law. Judge Tayler ruled that it wasn’t,” Rowling wrote on her website in 2020.
“My interest in trans issues pre-dated Maya’s case by almost two years, during which I followed the debate around the concept of gender identity closely. I’ve met trans people, and read sundry books, blogs and articles by trans people, gender specialists, intersex people, psychologists, safeguarding experts, social workers and doctors, and followed the discourse online and in traditional media. On one level, my interest in this issue has been professional, because I’m writing a crime series, set in the present day, and my fictional female detective is of an age to be interested in, and affected by, these issues herself, but on another, it’s intensely personal, as I’m about to explain,” Rowling wrote.
“All the time I’ve been researching and learning, accusations and threats from trans activists have been bubbling in my Twitter timeline. This was initially triggered by a ‘like’. When I started taking an interest in gender identity and transgender matters, I began screenshotting comments that interested me, as a way of reminding myself what I might want to research later. On one occasion, I absent-mindedly ‘liked’ instead of screenshotting. That single ‘like’ was deemed evidence of wrongthink, and a persistent low level of harassment began,” Rowling wrote.
“Months later, I compounded my accidental ‘like’ crime by following Magdalen Berns on Twitter. Magdalen was an immensely brave young feminist and lesbian who was dying of an aggressive brain tumour. I followed her because I wanted to contact her directly, which I succeeded in doing. However, as Magdalen was a great believer in the importance of biological sex, and didn’t believe lesbians should be called bigots for not dating trans women with penises, dots were joined in the heads of twitter trans activists, and the level of social media abuse increased,” she wrote.
“I mention all this only to explain that I knew perfectly well what was going to happen when I supported Maya. I must have been on my fourth or fifth cancellation by then. I expected the threats of violence, to be told I was literally killing trans people with my hate, to be called cunt and bitch and, of course, for my books to be burned, although one particularly abusive man told me he’d composted them,” she wrote.
“What I didn’t expect in the aftermath of my cancellation was the avalanche of emails and letters that came showering down upon me, the overwhelming majority of which were positive, grateful and supportive. They came from a cross-section of kind, empathetic and intelligent people, some of them working in fields dealing with gender dysphoria and trans people, who’re all deeply concerned about the way a socio-political concept is influencing politics, medical practice and safeguarding. They’re worried about the dangers to young people, gay people and about the erosion of women’s and girl’s rights. Above all, they’re worried about a climate of fear that serves nobody – least of all trans youth – well.
“I’d stepped back from Twitter for many months both before and after tweeting support for Maya, because I knew it was doing nothing good for my mental health. I only returned because I wanted to share a free children’s book during the pandemic. Immediately, activists who clearly believe themselves to be good, kind and progressive people swarmed back into my timeline, assuming a right to police my speech, accuse me of hatred, call me misogynistic slurs and, above all – as every woman involved in this debate will know – TERF,” Rowling wrote.
“TERF” is an acronym coined by trans activists that stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist.
MoPOP is funded by corporate, government and foundations. In the 2021 annual report, major corporations and foundations and taxpayers were listed as funders, including The Boeing Company, Seattle Seahawks, the State of Washington, and Walt Disney:
U.S. Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) filed articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden on Friday, citing high crimes and misdemeanors.
“It’s long past time to impeach Joe Biden,” said Rep. Steube.“He has undermined the integrity of his office, brought disrepute on the Presidency, betrayed his trust as President, and acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice at the expense of America’s citizens. The evidence continues to mount by the day – the Biden Crime Family has personally profited off Joe’s government positions through bribery, threats, and fraud. Joe Biden must not be allowed to continue to sit in the White House, selling out our country.”
The articles of impeachment include:
ARTICLE 1: ABUSE OF POWER: BRIBERY, HOBBS ACT EXTORTION, & HONEST SERVICES FRAUD Robert Hunter Biden (Hunter Biden) and James Biden sold access to then Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. while he was in office from 2009 to 2017 and sold promised access to a future Biden presidential administration while he was out of office from 2017 to 2021.
Hunter and James appear to have promised official actions by Joe Biden in return for payments and business opportunities from foreign and domestic business partners. Joe Biden assisted by making appearances, phone calls, meeting with the “business partners,” and knowingly allowing his family members to promise access to him and actions by him in furtherance of these schemes.
Hunter Biden threatened business partners that official actions could be taken against them if they did not meet terms or make payments. In at least one instance, Hunter implied that Joe Biden was aware of these threats and willing to assist in enforcing the threats, potentially through official actions.
Hunter Biden attempted to enrich himself and the Biden family by threatening official actions from his father, who he claims was willing to assist in the scheme.
“These acts are abuses of power as well as the following federal crimes or conspiracy to commit the following federal crimes: Bribery of Public Officials, 18 USC § 201; Hobbs Act Extortion ‘Under Color of Official Right,’ 18 USC § 1951; Honest Services Fraud relating to use of official position, 18 USC § 1346.
ARTICLE 2: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE According to testimony from IRS whistleblowers, members of the Biden campaign improperly colluded with Justice Department officials to improperly interfere with investigations into tax crimes alleged to have been committed by Hunter Biden.
“These acts constitute an abuse of power as well as Obstruction of Justice, 18 USC §§ 1505, 1510, 1512.“
ARTICLE 3: FRAUD James Biden recruited “investors” for business ventures that ultimately failed. There is evidence to suggest that these investment opportunities were sold to investors based on false and fraudulent pretenses and promises. Access to Joe Biden and indications that Joe Biden supported these schemes were used to lure investors into the schemes.
“These acts constitute fraud or conspiracy to commit fraud in violation of 18 USC §§ 1943, 1949.“
ARTICLE 4: FINANCIAL INVOLVEMENT IN DRUG AND PROSTITUTION Joe Biden and Hunter Biden have a long history of comingled and intertwined finances. Between 2010 and 2019 thousands of dollars of Biden family money was spent on illegal drug transactions and prostitution.
“These acts constitute violations of or conspiracy to violate federal drug laws at 21 USC §§ 841, 842, 843, 846 and federal prostitution laws at 18 USC §§ 2421, 2421A, 2422.“
In June, Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, brought impeachment articles to the House floor, saying Biden intentionally ceded command and control of the southern border to cartels, and he should be removed from office.
A 21-year-old cannon crew member assigned to the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is in jail on charges of Murder 1, Murder 2, and Tampering with Evidence, stemming from the alleged killing of his 21-year-old wife, Saria Hildabrand.
Saria was reported missing by family members on Aug. 7. The young woman, a team member at Bread and Brew, incoming student at University of Alaska Anchorage, and member of the Alaska National Guard, was last seen on Aug. 6 at approximately 10 am in the vicinity of Mockingbird Drive and Alpenhorn Ave. As the investigation unfolded, authorities became increasingly focused on her husband, Zarrius Hildabrand, as a person of interest.
Investigators found a blood-soaked mattress in the couple’s apartment, blood in other places in the apartment, and discovered that Zarrius’s credit card showed purchases of several items of interest, such as cleaning supplies, a mattress cover, and a large trash can on wheels. As the search widened, police found such a trash can in the back of a truck parked on Alpenhorn, with blood in it, and the trail led them to a storm drain, where they found Saria’s remains. She had been shot in the head.
