In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Last week I posted on an incresingly unserious-looking Kevin Morris , who represents himself as Hunter Biden's lead attorney. One item I noted was that Morris has hired bigfoot and UFO expert Denver Riggleman to work on the defense team. As I outlined in that post, Riggleman, who is not an attorney, served one term as a Republican congressman from Virginia from 2019 to 2021, but he managed to get so crosswise with the Republicans in his district that they refused to renominate him for the 2020 election. The illustration at the top of this post is from his podcast's web site, which you can find here . On one hand, he pretty clearly believes in bigfoot and UFOs, and he also believes QAnon is a vast conspiracy. After leaving the House in January 2021, he nevertheless attached himself as an adviser to the January 6 committee and argued that the demonstrators had been guided by QAnon types. As I said in my post last week, he's a flake and a quack. This is only confirmed...

Over the weekend there was an uptick in calls from various quarters for Joe Biden to step down from his intent to run for reelection next year, but I think the attempts by B-listers like Steven Hayward to see reason for optimism are just wishful thinking. I still say Biden won’t be the Democratic nominee next year. And I think there’s a 50/50 chance that if Biden doesn’t drop out of his own volition, Gavin Newsom will decide some time this fall to jump in the race, with a “more in sorrow than anger” announcement that praises Biden for his good deeds, but that it’s time for a generational shift. Don’t think Newsom and his advisers aren’t weighing this possibility. The big factor that Hayward and the others who think this way are leaving out is that Biden is basically the last Democrat who can remotely claim to lead a fusion party that unites what's left of the New Deal coalition -- which, recall, once comprised labor, Catholics, immigrants, Jews and other ethnics, Souther...

The other day I noted that the White House versions of the cocaine story seem to come from the same alternate universe as the story of the frantic race to find the missing Titan sub before the oxygen runs out. Now it'sd starting to look as though former FBI Director and international fixer Louis Freeh has access to the same portal. Just the first page of hits from a web search on Freeh brought up the strange story of the August 25, 2014 one-car accident in rural Vermont, in which Freeh is said to have fallen asleep at the wheel and crashed his GMC Yukon. What was hinky about the story from the start was that it was an explanation of the accident eight months after the fact, and it came from none other than James Comey, who was FBI Director at the time, backed up by Vermont Sen Patrick Leahy. In LA, celebrities wreck their Porsches and Lambos all the time, LAPD or CHP gives the details, KTLA or the Times reports a day or so later, and everyone moves on. Here, it turns out, Louis ...

While we can't be 100% sure that former FBI Director Louis Freeh is the mole who, according to Gal Luft, Hunter called "One Eye", there is in fact evidence from e-amails on Hunter's laptop that Hunter and Freeh engaged in several financial transactions related to their mutual business interests as international fixers. I cited those in yesterday's post. But this brought me to look more closely at Louis Freeh himself. Freeh was FBI Director from September 1, 1993 to June 25, 2001. According to Wikipedia , Shortly before and during Freeh's tenure, the FBI was involved in a number of high-profile incidents and internal investigations. Writing about Freeh in 2011, Reuters wrote that Freeh "faced widespread criticism for a series of high-profile blunders" during his tenure as FBI Director. These included the Waco siege, which took place several months before Freeh became director, but he was involved in the highly controversial investigation, in...

Allegations have resurfaced in the past week from Dr Gal Luft, an Israeli specialist in energy and security, who was an advisor to the Chinese energy company CEFC. CEFC, headed by Ye Jianming, paid $4,790,375.25 to Hunter's firm Owasco P.C. over about one year around 2017. Luft was arrested in Cyprus in February 2023 on what he claims was "a politically motivated extradition request by the US". Luft claims to be in fear for his life if he is returned to the US. Over the past week, Luft made a video that he sent to the New York Post that repeats allegations he had earlier made in March. These include that CEFC was paying huge sums to Hunter and Joe's brother James ($100,000 and $65,000 a month) in exchange for use of their family name in promoting China’s interests. He also alleged that Hunter had a pet mole that he called "One Eye" within the FBI, who provided tipoffs to CEFC honchos about incoming heat. Speculation about the identity of "One ...

Nothing new, of course, we're just living in the same alternate universe where there was a desperate race to locate the missing Titan submersible before the oxygen ran out. The latest version of the White House cocaine baggie has morphed from "in the residence library" to "in a cubby in a West Wing holding area", and now to "downstairs in the West Wing near the Situation Room" : MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell acknowledged Thursday that contrary to the idea that a random tourist left cocaine in the White House in what officials have described as a “heavily trafficked” area, the cocaine was actually found in a “limited access place” near the Situation Room. At this point, there's less and less credibility for each update, while the White House press office is fumbling over the Hatch Act . That in turn suggests to me that they're as much in the dark as anyone else. I would surmise the strategy for now is to act confused until it all goes away. Th...

I don't have a good feeling about this. One of the main narratives we've seen in recent current events has been how Stockton Rush, CEO of Oceangate, brushed aside all counsels of prudence in the design and construction of his Titan submersible, only to succumb with four passengers to what proved to be the predictable outcome. Meanwhile, we're starting to hear of Joe Biden angrily dismissing equivalent warnings of predictable outcomes : President Joe Biden, who is reportedly “consumed” with his son Hunter’s scandals, allegedly angrily dismisses White House aides who believe Hunter Biden’s controversial history might politically hurt his father. . . . In recent days, White House aides reportedly tried to speak with Joe Biden about the continual drip drop of damning evidence streaming from Hunter Biden’s foreign business transactions, but NBC News sources report Joe Biden’s response was “outright angry” towards anyone who would challenge him on the subject. Joe Biden re...