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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Biden Admin To Announce Another 15 Million Barrel SPR Release Before Midterms

Oil markets are drifting sideways this morning after the Biden administration plans to release 10-15 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a bid to suppress gasoline and diesel prices at the pump ahead of the next month's congressional elections, Bloomberg said citing people familiar with the matter.

At least it's not all 400 million, but anything to crush gas before the midterms.

U.S. TO RELEASE ANOTHER 10-15 MILLION OIL BARRELS FROM EMERGENCY STOCKPILE IN BID TO BALANCE MARKETS/KEEP GAS PRICES FROM CLIMBING - BLOOMBERG REPORTER TWEET https://t.co/GAU4lCsK6n— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 18, 2022

President Biden's upcoming announcement of up to 15 million barrels, one of the largest ever, comes as 180 million barrels have been drained from the nation's emergency stockpile since May.

For context, the Biden administration has cut the SPR to a record low 22 days worth of supply... That is not what you want to see when liberal war hawks are gunning for nuclear war.

On Sunday, White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein said Biden was still mulling over the final SPR release figures. He told Fox News the reserve is 50% full.

"The fact is there is capacity to use the SPR to deal with some of the energy shocks we're seeing in the world. But I'm not saying we will. That's up to the president to decide, he hasn't made that decision yet," Bernstein said.

Last Tuesday, David Turk, the Energy Department's deputy secretary, said, "We still have some additional ability to use the SPR over the coming weeks and months as needed."

Turk said the administration was willing to move forward with an export ban on refined products in response to OPEC+'s decision to cut production.

But while the Biden admin was reluctant to pursue an export ban, a move that would send oil prices higher over the long run, it had fewer qualms about potentially extending its SPR drain.

Sources told Bloomberg White House officials have been discussing with oil companies, including ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp., about what to expect in...

"The documents in the FBI’s possession include specific details with respect to conversations by non-government individuals relevant to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden," Grassley wrote.

New whistleblower documents obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley have revealed that President Biden "was aware of Hunter Biden’s business arrangements and may have been involved in some of them."

On Monday morning, Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and US Attorney for Delaware David Weiss outlining new whistleblower allegations that claim the FBI has "significant, impactful and voluminous evidence with respect to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and James Biden," according to Fox News.

The whistleblowers allege that the FBI has documents relating to information on Mykola Zlochevsky, who is the owner of Burisma Holdings, where Hunter Biden sat on the board.

"The documents in the FBI’s possession include specific details with respect to conversations by non-government individuals relevant to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden," Grassley wrote.

"These documents also indicate that Joe Biden was aware of Hunter Biden’s business arrangements and may have been involved in some of them," Grassley said.

The Senator added that it is "unclear whether the FBI followed normal investigative procedure to determine the truth and accuracy of the information or shut down investigative activity based on improper disinformation claims in advance of the 2020 election."

"It is also unclear whether US Attorney Weiss has performed his own due diligence on these and related allegations," Grassley continued.

Grassley, alongside Senator Ron Johnson, led an investigation into Hunter Biden starting in 2019, which discovered that officials within the Obama administration "knew" of Hunter Biden’s "problematic" position on the board, saying that it interfered "in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine."

Hunter Biden joined the board in April of 2014, while his father was serving as vice president and running US-Ukraine relations and policy for the administration.

Additionally, Grassley noted an FBI interview with Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner, from October 2020, where he stated that Hunter Biden and his uncle, James Biden, had created a business agreement with foreign nationals connected to the Chinese government during Biden’s vice presidency.

Grassley said that the interview summary states that work "remained intentionally uncompensated while Joe Biden was vice president."

"After Joe Biden left the vice presidency, the summary makes clear that Hunter Biden and James Biden worked with CEFC and affiliated individuals to compensate them for that past work and benefits they procured for CEFC," Grassley said.

Hunter Biden, James Biden, and their business partners created a joint venture, known as SinoHawk Holdings, that would be a "vehicle to accomplish that financial compensation."

the venture was a partnership between the two Bidens, and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming. 50 percent of SinoHawk was owned by Oneida Holdings, which according to the summary, was made up of five evenly divided LLCs, two of which went to Hunter and James Biden, and 10 percent, Bobulinski revealed, was "to be held for Joe Biden."

Grassley said that the FBI "has a document within its possession that notes that then former Vice President Joe Biden met with Hunter Biden and his business associates at a conference in Los Angeles on May 2, 2017 and May 3, 2017."

According to Fox News, this conference was the Milken 2017 Global Conference, held in part at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Biden spoke on May 3, 2017 at the conference, holding a "Conversation with the 47th Vice President of the United States."

Text messages between Bobulinski and Hunter Biden, as well as James Biden, showed that the group had met, but the White House has declined to state whether President Biden met with Bobulinski.

In his letter, Grassley said that those meetings "have been publicly disclosed; however, the fact that the FBI maintains documents referencing these data points has not been made public before."

Based on the whistleblower allegations, Grassley said that Bobulinski's interview established a "sufficient basis to open a full field investigation on pay-to-play grounds," but added that it is unclear whether the FBI has done so, or if the information is being used in an ongoing criminal investigation by Weiss.

Grassley wrote that both the Justice Department and FBI "have not disputed the accuracy of...

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France in shock: 4 Algerian migrants arrested for brutal rape and murder of 12-year-old Paris girl found stuffed in a suitcase with throat slashed

The young schoolgirl girl was raped, stuffed in a suitcase, and found inside a car trunk

French police has four Algerians in custody suspected of participating in the brutal murder and rape of a 12-year-old schoolgirl only identified as Lola. The suspects (Dahbia B., Amine K., Friha B., and Rachid N.) all hail from the same Algerian village, and one of them may be in the country illegally.

The body was found in a suitcase curled up, shackled, with a deep wound in her throat, and marked with inscriptions. According to the autopsy, carried out on Saturday, her death was due to asphyxiation. Two of the suspects in the case have been charged with “murder of a minor under the age of 15 in connection with a rape committed with acts of torture and barbarism,” “rape of a minor under the age of 15 with acts of torture and barbarism,” and “concealment of a corpse.” Although there was no mention of sexual violence when the story first broke, the latest details from BMFTV allege the girl was also raped.

Police also say that “a device” was used to imprint the numbers “one” and “zero” on her body, but further details about what these numbers mean and how they were “imprinted” on the body remains unclear.

Lola’s father reported her disappearance on Friday because she had not returned after her classes at Georges-Brassens College, located just behind the building where she was eventually found. Lola’s mother, Delphine, went to the police station of the XIXth. The schoolgirl, with medium-length blond hair, was wearing white jeans with holes in them, a white hoodie, a sleeveless jacket and white sneakers, the report said.

The mother posted a desperate message on social media to find her daughter after she went missing, writing: ”Our daughter Lola was last seen at 3:20 p.m. in the company of a woman we do not know in our residence.”

The investigators also arrested a fourth suspect early this Saturday morning in Bois-Colombes, in the Hauts-de-Seine. It is a woman, whose description could match that of a woman seen on video surveillance at the time of the crime. Another woman, who allegedly asked for help from a local Friday afternoon to carry a big trunk to her car, is the fourth person presently in police custody, according to Le Parisien. The two women in custody are sisters, and according to media reports, one of them is homeless.

The Paris prosecutor’s office currently says that a 24-year-old man is the main suspect in the case; he spoke “clearly” to investigators, apparently divulging key evidence in the case, according to BFMTV. A second suspect, in his 40s, is suspected of having helped the younger male perpetrator transport the body. It is unclear what role the female suspects may have...