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‘The Justice Department just baptized Hunter Biden: a lifetime of sins washed away in an instant,’ Carlson said. ‘It was a secular miracle.’ (LifeSiteNews) — Following the news of Hunter Biden accepting a plea deal from his father’s Department of Justice (DOJ), Tucker Carlson argued that while ordinary citizens would go to jail for “cheating on [their] taxes or violating federal gun laws,” such “princelings” may “do what they want” and avoid any real consequences. It was reported Tuesday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges in exchange for avoiding prosecution...

Children of the Revolution China's 'princelings,' the offspring of the communist party elite, are embracing the trappings of wealth and privilege—raising uncomfortable questions for their elders. By JEREMY PAGE One evening early this year, a red Ferrari pulled up at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Beijing, and the son of one of China's top leaders stepped out, dressed in a tuxedo. Bo Guagua, 23, was expected. He had a dinner appointment with a daughter of the then-ambassador, Jon Huntsman. The car, though, was a surprise. The driver's father, Bo Xilai, was in the midst of a controversial campaign to revive...

WikiLeaks: China's Politburo a cabal of business empires China's ruling Politburo is a cabal of business empires that puts vested interests over the needs of the poor and curtails media freedoms to avoiding having shady business deals exposed in the press, according to a leaked US government diplomatic cable. By Peter Foster, Beijing 9:00PM GMT 06 Dec 2010 The damning description of China's secretive leadership machinations also described how the descendants of China's Communist revolutionaries – known as "princelings" – derided officials from less august revolutionary backgrounds as mere "shopkeepers". The assessment of what motivates China's opaque top-level decision-makers was...

Enter the Princelings to Ensure Continued Rule by the CCP By Boxun Jul 29, 2009 - 2:16:22 PM Exclusive Report of Boxun Though the 18th CCP Party Congress is still three years away, skirmishes on personnel matters have already begun. This time, however, something unprecedented has happened ?C the princeling clique, who has so far kept a low profile, are playing an unusually active role, as many of them believe the CCP is faced with such serious challenges that its continued rule is at stake and that the CCP rule is able to survive only if they, descendants of the...

Prince Harry’s Nazi outfit would not have been tolerated in the Army and he would have been punished for his actions, a former British commander said today. Colonel Bob Stewart said he would have given the 20-year-old prince, who will join the forces later this year, two weeks’ worth of extra duties for being pictured dressed up in a fascist uniform, complete with swastika armband. The army hero, who led British UN troops in Bosnia, branded the antics “bad taste”, saying they had caused offence to many people. Harry is set to attend the prestigious Sandhurst military academy for officer...

As the character played by John Huston, said in Chinatown, “Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” Beware, so do terrorists! The world just witnessed the burial of one reconstructed murderer in Ramallah, and if we are not careful, we might reconstruct another. It is high time to put Bin Laden in perspective. Islam is not his prime motivation. Perhaps too much ink has been spilled trying to expose Osama bin Laden to a Western audience. As many writers have thoughtfully argued, we have created the myth of Bin Laden through all our media...