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The release of what is said to be a Hunter Biden WhatsApp message that contradicts Joe Biden’s oft’ repeated claim he has never discussed his son’s business dealings with him, has prompted some belated but welcoming pushback from the White House media crowd.

Generally, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy is the only domestic journalist to ask Karine Jean-Pierre hard questions. Simon Ateba of Today News Africa is also his own man, which is why the Haitian diversity hire has made a practice of avoiding him. Now though, there are signs that there may actually be something of an independent press in America.

Normally, when Karine says she isn’t going to comment on a matter or refers the questioner to the White House counsel, that is the end of it. Not on June 23 however. John Kirby is brought in to deal with harder questions, but this time there were many voices pillorying both of them, and was that actually fear in Kirby’s eyes when finally the worms turned?

Amusing though that question is, far more interesting is the text of the actual message Hunter sent to Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017. Take a gander at it and digest what he is saying. Most critics, especially Republicans and their fellow travellers, have assumed China is the bad guy here. Does Hunter’s message to the Chinese fund manager sound as though it was written by an obsequious servant, or someone letting him know who’s boss? Pay me and pay me now, or else!

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Dr. Evangelos Venetis,

Specialist in Geopolitics

 

During his visit in Himara on 22.12.2022 Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, thirty years after his father’s visit, and created security expectations amongst Greeks in Northern Epirus, the minority which is tormented by the arbitrariness of Tirana concerning its real estate legal and human rights in relation to the booming tourist development of the area in general. In his speech, Kyriakos Mitsotakis made pre-election promises to the Himariots that “Greece will always be close to them” and that they will enjoy the protection of the Greek state and the Mitsotakis government itself. In fact, when he promised security and protection to the Greeks of Himara and Northern Epirus in general, the Greek prime minister was surrounded on the platform of his speech by Freddy Beleris and Vangelis Doules.

“Eat a big bite, don’t say a big word.” A Greek proverb.

Five months later, the promises of the Greek Prime Minister would be flatly denied and in the most emphatic way, jeopardizing the credibility of not only the Greek government but also of the entire Greek political world amongst the Greeks of Albania, who feel disappointed by the passive attitude of Athens in the Beleris Crisis .

The arrest on false charges of pre-election vote fraud of Fredi Beleris and Pantelis Kokavesis by the Albanian authorities three days before the municipal elections in the neighborhood and ten days before the parliamentary elections on May 25, 2023 created another crisis in Greek-Albanian relations which continues to this day and does not seems to be resolved before a post-election government is formed in Greece.

The recent refusal of the Albanian judicial authorities to Beleris’ new request for release from prison has political ramifications for both bilateral relations and the pre-election scene of Greece in relation to the new elections on June 25. Surprisingly, however, while the arrest of Beleris irreparably exposed the Greek government, the Greek media emphatically silenced the responsibilities of the Greek government in the matter, as in the case of the Greeks of Ukraine, apparently to avoid political costs for the ruling party in the elections of May 21.

The bottom line of the Beleris case is that both the failed policy of the recent Greek government and all Greek governments since 1990 have proven inadequate in turning the prosperous economic, social and cultural relations between the two countries into political capital between Greece and Albania. Unlike Italy, Turkey and Germany, which have substantial influence in Tirana, Greece always obedient to Washington’s urge for “calm”. But while Washington maintains a neutral policy between Tirana and Athens, this does not prevent Tirana from making bold moves against Greece. It seems that there might be another 30 years before another Greek prime minister visits Northern Epirus again.

Adam Chadwick’s parents are still none the wiser on why their son was gunned down 15 years ago.

Safety investigation likely to be complicated by poor regulation of deep-sea exploration.

Washington and Beijing pledge to stabilise relations after the US secretary of state’s visit to China.

President Putin says those who “consciously chose treason” will be inevitably punished.

O’Keefe Media Group CEO James O’Keefe publicly confronted a BlackRock recruiter named Serge Varlay this week, giving him a chance to clarify comments he made in a recently released undercover video.

The individual repeatedly denied saying things he was captured uttering on camera and claimed to be a low-level employee and a “nobody.”

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White says he was first approached by Facebook’s CEO who asked him, “Is he [Elon] serious?”

UFC CEO confirming that Zuckerberg and Elon Musk will fight pic.twitter.com/svgWGWY2lp

— Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) June 23, 2023

“And I said, ‘I don’t know, let me ask him.’ I asked him [Elon] and he said, ‘Yeah, I’m dead serious.’”

White, who has presided as UFC president since 2001, acknowledged the enormity of the potential bout between two of the world’s richest people.

“This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world, bigger than anything that’s ever been done,” White said, by no means understating the event’s magnitude.

“It would break all pay-per-view records. These guys would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charity,” White anticipated, going on to note the fight would generate significant general interest.

“You don’t have to be a fight fan to be interested in this fight. Everybody would want to see it.”

Plans for the fight first came together earlier this week when it was reported Facebook parent company Meta was developing a competitor to Musk-owned social platform Twitter.

“I’m up for a cage match if he is lol” Musk responded Tuesday to a commenter telling him he should be careful due to Zuckerberg’s jiu-jitsu training.

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Tony Blair was courted with such enthusiasm by Rupert Murdoch after he became leader of the Labour Party that he was even flown 10,000 miles by the media magnate to address the News Corporation conference on Australia’s Hayman island in 1995.

Blair later explained in his memoir, A Journey, that it was too good an opportunity to miss. ‘It seems obvious,’ he wrote. ‘The country’s most powerful newspaper proprietor, whose publications have hitherto been rancorous in their opposition to the Labour Party, invites us into the lion’s den. You go, don’t you?’

This week, it was Sir Keir Starmer who stepped into the ‘lion’s den’.

I hear that the Labour leader was entertained lavishly at the summer party given by Rupert, 92, and his son, Lachlan Murdoch, 51, at Spencer House, the magnificent townhouse in St James’s, London, owned by Earl Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother.

No doubt to the horror of Labour’s Corbynistas, Sir Keir mingled with such betes-noires of the Left as the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, Home Secretary Suella Braverman, former prime minister Liz Truss, ex-culture secretary Nadine Dorries, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch and Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove.

‘Gallons of Pol Roger were poured,’ one guest tells me of the champagne on offer. ‘We were served bowls of beef and dauphinoise potatoes sprinkled with rocket. The floral arrangements were beyond lavish. And someone had obviously spent a long time artfully scattering oranges on the stairways and borders.’

Wearing a ‘rather odd’, open-necked black shirt, Sir Keir arrived with the super-ambitious Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who may see himself as Starmer’s successor.

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