‘Something went wrong’: Twitter suffers global outage amid ‘censorship’ scandal ahead of Trump & Biden town halls
15 Oct, 2020 22:08 / Updated 3 hours ago
Users across the US and Europe are unable to access Twitter on Thursday evening, for reasons unknown, getting an error message saying the social media platform is “over capacity.”

The outage tracking website DownDetector noted a sharp spike in complaints about Twitter around 2130 GMT, and the outage map shows the US and UK most affected.

The unexplained blackout comes just hours before the competing televised town halls featuring US President Donald Trump and his Democrat challenger Joe Biden, which replaced the debate originally scheduled for October 15 but scrapped due to disagreement over a sudden rule change.

 

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https://www.rt.com/usa/503617-twitter-censors-republicans-nypost-biden/

SAN FRANCISCO — It is the 11th hour before the presidential election. But Facebook and Twitter are still changing their minds.

With just a few weeks to go before the Nov. 3 vote, the social media companies are continuing to shift their policies and, in some cases, are entirely reversing what they will and won’t allow on their sites. On Friday, Twitter underlined just how fluid its policies were when it began letting users share links to an unsubstantiated New York Post article about Hunter Biden that it had previously blocked from its service.

The change was a 180-degree turn from Wednesday, when Twitter had banned the links to the article because the emails on which it was based may have been hacked and contained private information, both of which violated its policies. (Many questions remain about how the New York Post obtained the emails.)

Late Thursday, under pressure from Republicans who said Twitter was censoring them, the company began backtracking by revising one of its policies. It completed its about-face on Friday by lifting the ban on the New York Post story altogether, as the article has spread widely across the internet.

Twitter’s flip-flop followed a spate of changes from Facebook, which over the past few weeks has said it would ban Holocaust denial content, ban more QAnon conspiracy pages and groups, ban anti-vaccination ads and suspend political advertising for an unspecified length of time after the election. All of those things had previously been allowed — until they weren’t.

The rapid-fire changes have made Twitter and Facebook the butt of jokes and invigorated efforts to regulate them. On Friday, Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said he wanted to subpoena Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, to testify over the “censorship” of the New York Post article. Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, said that Twitter was “against us.” And President Trump shared a satirical article on Twitter that mocked the company’s policies.

“Policies are a guide for action, but the platforms are not standing behind their policies,” said Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School. “They are merely reacting to public pressure and therefore will be susceptible to politician influence for some time to come.”

A Twitter spokesman confirmed that the company would allow the link to be shared because the information had spread so widely across the internet that it could no longer be considered private. He declined further comment.

“Meaningful events in the world have led us to change some of our policies, but not our principles,” said Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesman.

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/technology/twitter-new-york-post.html

 

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Now, if you are a conspiracy theorist, with no shame like Gus, you would suspect that the ban by Twitter and Facebook on Biden's emails, was a publicity/public relations stunt in favour of GOP... Why so, you may think? Simple... The truth is that the MSM won't touch anything bad against Joe Biden. The emails are still viewed as "not reliable" by the MSM, like WaPo and the NYT... But as the emails were published by the NYP (a Murdoch paper), they would not get much traction if they stayed there in the conservative sphere (including Breitbart)... So in order to raise more awareness, the ban on the email news by Twitter and Facebook got far more attention than the story itself and a lot more people thus got the opportunity to discover what the MSM was "trying to hide". 

 

Having done the stunt, Twitter and Facebook can now reverse the ban — as a "service to freedom of the press". All is well in the most devious country on Earth...

 

Gus is a wicked person.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. marched into adulthood in Bass Weejuns penny loafers.

He was known around the University of Delaware campus as the teetotaling semi-jock with a sweater around his neck — the type who seemed more consumed with date nights than civil rights and expected a certain standard of decorum from his companions, once threatening to break off an evening with a woman who lit a cigarette in his borrowed convertible.

And when Mr. Biden and his friends from Syracuse University law school happened upon antiwar protesters at the chancellor’s office — the kind of Vietnam-era demonstration that galvanized so much of their generation — his group stepped past with disdain. They were going for pizza.

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/us/politics/joe-biden-college-1960s.html

 

Yes, our Joe, the clean un-viced Patriot, did not like the Peaceniks...

 

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The Republican Party has lodged a complaint against Twitter and Facebook with the Federal Election Commission.

Indeed, these two companies implemented technical measures to prevent the dissemination of the New York Post articles unveiling the criminal offenses committed by Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine.

Thousands of accounts have been closed by Twitter and Facebook in order to quash this information.

The New Yok Post raised the curtain on FBI documents proving that the Ukrainian company, where Hunter Biden sat on the board of trustees, "stole $ 1 billion from Kiev with the complicity of a Chinese state-owned company*", and that Hunter’s father Joe Biden used his leverage as Vice President of the United States to have the Ukrainian prosecutor fired and the prosecution dropped [1].

 

 

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https://www.voltairenet.org/article211256.html

 

 

Joe Biden's campaign lied.

 

"stole $ 1 billion from Kiev with the complicity of a Chinese state-owned company*"??? This is new to Gus... Is this real info?

 

Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns

 

U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

 

U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Majority Staff Report

 

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In late 2013 and into 2014, mass protests erupted in Kyiv, Ukraine, demanding integration into western economies and an end to systemic corruption that had plagued the country. At least 82 people were killed during the protests, which culminated on Feb. 21 when Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych abdicated by fleeing the country. Less than two months later, over the span of only 28 days, significant events involving the Bidens unfolded.

On April 16, 2014, Vice President Biden met with his son’s business partner, Devon Archer, at the White House. Five days later, Vice President Biden visited Ukraine, and he soon after was described in the press as the “public face of the administration’s handling of Ukraine.” The day after his visit, on April 22, Archer joined the board of Burisma. Six days later, on April 28, British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky. Fourteen days later, on May 12, Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma, and over the course of the next several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.

The 2014 protests in Kyiv came to be known as the Revolution of Dignity — a revolution against corruption in Ukraine. Following that revolution, Ukrainian political figures were desperate for U.S. support. Zlochevsky would have made sure relevant Ukrainian officials were well aware of Hunter’s appointment to Burisma’s board as leverage. Hunter Biden’s position on the board created an immediate potential conflict of interest that would prove to be problematic for both U.S. and Ukrainian officials and would affect the implementation of Ukraine policy.

The Chairmen’s investigation into potential conflicts of interest began in August 2019, with Chairman Grassley’s letter to the Department of Treasury regarding potential conflicts of interest with respect to Obama administration policy relating to the Henniges transaction.1 During the Obama administration, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved a transaction that gave control over Henniges, an American maker of anti- vibration technologies with military applications, to a Chinese government-owned aviation company and a China-based investment firm with established ties to the Chinese government. One of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion-dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government-linked firm Bohai Capital and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then-Vice President Joe Biden, by Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others.2

 

Access to relevant documents and testimony has been persistently hampered by criminal investigations, impeachment proceedings, COVID-19, and several instances of obstructive behavior. Accordingly, this investigation has taken longer than it should have. The Chairmen’s efforts have always been driven by our belief that the public has the right to know about wrongdoing and conflicts of interest occurring within government, and especially those conflicts brought about by the actions of governmental officials. This is a good-government oversight investigation that relies on documents and testimony from U.S. agencies and officials, not a Russian disinformation campaign, as our Democratic colleagues have falsely stated.

What the Chairmen discovered during the course of this investigation is that the Obama administration knew that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board was problematic and did interfere in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine. Moreover, this investigation has illustrated the extent to which officials within the Obama administration ignored the glaring warning signs when the vice president’s son joined the board of a company owned by a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch. And, as will be discussed in later sections, Hunter Biden was not the only Biden who cashed in on Joe Biden’s vice presidency.

This report not only details examples of extensive and complex financial transactions involving the Bidens, it also describes the quandary other U.S. governmental officials faced as they attempted to guide and support Ukraine’s anticorruption efforts. The Committees will continue to evaluate the information and evidence as it becomes available.

Key Findings

•   In early 2015 the former Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden’s office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board. Kent’s concerns went unaddressed, and in September 2016, he emphasized in an email to his colleagues, “Furthermore, the presence of Hunter Biden on the Burisma board was very awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anticorruption agenda in Ukraine.”

•   In October 2015, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine.

•   Although Kent believed that Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board was awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine, the Committees are only aware of two individuals — Kent and former U.S. Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein — who raised concerns to Vice President Joe Biden (Hochstein) or his staff (Kent).

•   The awkwardness for Obama administration officials continued well past his presidency. Former Secretary of State John Kerry had knowledge of Hunter Biden’s role on

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Burisma’s board, but when asked about it at a town hall event in Nashua, N.H. on Dec. 8, 2019, Kerry falsely said, “I had no knowledge about any of that. None. No.” Evidence to the contrary is detailed in Section V.

•   Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland testified that confronting oligarchs would send an anticorruption message in Ukraine. Kent told the Committees that Zlochevsky was an “odious oligarch.” However, in December 2015, instead of following U.S. objectives of confronting oligarchs, Vice President Biden’s staff advised him to avoid commenting on Zlochevsky and recommended he say, “I’m not going to get into naming names or accusing individuals.”

•   Hunter Biden was serving on Burisma’s board (supposedly consulting on corporate governance and transparency) when Zlochevsky allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to officials serving under Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Vitaly Yarema, to “shut the case against Zlochevsky.” Kent testified that this bribe occurred in December 2014 (seven months after Hunter joined Burisma’s board), and, after learning about it, he and the Resident Legal Advisor reported this allegation to the FBI.

•   Hunter Biden was a U.S. Secret Service protectee from Jan. 29, 2009 to July 8, 2014. A day before his last trip as a protectee, Time published an article describing Burisma’s ramped up lobbying efforts to U.S. officials and Hunter’s involvement in Burisma’s board. Before ending his protective detail, Hunter Biden received Secret Service protection on trips to multiple foreign locations, including Moscow, Beijing, Doha, Paris, Seoul, Manila, Tokyo, Mexico City, Milan, Florence, Shanghai, Geneva, London, Dublin, Munich, Berlin, Bogota, Abu Dhabi, Nairobi, Hong Kong, Taipei, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Johannesburg, Brussels, Madrid, Mumbai and Lake Como.

•   Andrii Telizhenko, the Democrats’ personification of Russian disinformation, met with Obama administration officials, including Elisabeth Zentos, a member of Obama’s National Security Council, at least 10 times. A Democrat lobbying firm, Blue Star Strategies, contracted with Telizhenko from 2016 to 2017 and continued to request his assistance as recent as the summer of 2019. A recent news article detailed other extensive contacts between Telizhenko and Obama administration officials.

•   In addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden’s and Archer’s board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds.

•   Archer received $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, the same day Vice President Joe Biden appeared with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arsemy Yasenyuk and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia’s actions in Crimea.

•   Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.

  •   Hunter Biden opened a bank account with Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden.

  •   Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and the People’s Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow.

  •   Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an “Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.” 

   

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https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf

 

 

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In late 2013 and into 2014, mass protests erupted in Kyiv, Ukraine, demanding integration into western economies and an end to systemic corruption that had plagued the country. At least 82 people were killed during the protests, which culminated on Feb. 21 when Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych abdicated by fleeing the country. Less than two months later, over the span of only 28 days, significant events involving the Bidens unfolded.

 

Please note these mass protests were organised by Nazis in Ukraine FINANCED BY THE USA to diminish the influence of Russia, which no matter the corruption of the Bidens, was the goal. Most of the people killed were Russian sympathisers and the problem carried on with the Dombass area. (see https://yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/33008)

 

 

It is likely that the Impeachment proceedings against Trump were designed to delay this investgation beyond the coming Presidential elections...

 

 

Please note that yourdemocracy.net.au has tackled this issue at least since February (see 

biden's sacrifice...)

 

 

See also: 

the art of deception...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday falsely told senators that his company lifted a ban on users tweeting articles from The Post’s Hunter Biden exposé, despite the fact that the ban remained on one of The Post’s bombshell stories and was only lifted after he made the claim.

“Anyone can tweet these articles,” Dorsey told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) about The Post’s articles on emails implicating Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in his son’s work in China and Ukraine.

But Twitter users quickly noted that the social network still banned distribution of The Post’s article describing a business proposal in China involving Hunter Biden and a document indicating a 10 percent set-aside for “the big guy.”

“Jack Dorsey of Twitter just told Senator Cruz that anyone could now share the NY Post’s bombshell stories on Twitter. Dorsey is lying,” tweeted Abigail Marone, a rapid response official on President Trump’s re-election campaign, linking to a screen recording of the app blocking the post.

“Twitter is STILL blocking the URL for the NY Post story about the Biden’s foreign corruption & China dealings,” Marone wrote in a tweet shared by White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on her personal account.

Users were not able to share a link to the article on the proposed China business deal until just hours ago, which last week was corroborated by former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski.

“Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot,” an error message informed Twitter users.

Twitter said of the article: “We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful. Visit our Help Center to learn more.”

 

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https://nypost.com/2020/10/28/twitter-ceo-anyone-can-tweet-post-articles-after-censorship/

 

 

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Anti-Trump crowds, No-more-Trump personnel, Push-Trump-Out people are annoyed at Gus for obviously promoting the Anti-Biden false claims by the Post that Hunter Biden, possibly aided by his dad, did some crooked deals in China and in Ukraine. I suppose in order to get Trump out, Gus should shut up. Biden should be viewed as a JC saviour that will deliver us from evil Trump — and take on Russia front-on, by bombing Damascus — as suggested by the Democratic Party advisors in 2016... Am I kidding? This is why more than 70 big oils and generals left the Republican Party to Join Joe on "his" next crusade... They are anti-Trump because he is a loony who "does not want war"... Many anti-Trump are so because he is a loony who says things without thinking and signs a lot of useless documents — and tends to spruik in favour of the violent right. He should go... He should be pushed. He has done enough damage by bringing ridicule to the empire... The empire won't survive another four years of Trump, but the final question is should the empire survive anyway? The world will breath a sigh a relief when Trump is gone but will this bring long-lasting happiness, instead of a momentary pleasure? 

Is global warming part of the equation? Can Trump see the light on this subject? Can Biden, in the pocket of the rich, achieve the impossible: peace, net zero emissions of global warming gases, happiness for most of the world population, protection of the environment, etc? Let's hope so... Donald or Joe, both should wake up to the real problems and tackle inequalities, etc. You know the rest...

See: 

...and this sociopathic idiot means killing them, short of an assassination...

 

operation iraqi freedom ...

 

war in her veins in vain...

 

killing democracy

 

insanity...

 

bernie sells out...

 

a dirty US war...

 

nutsos...

 

détente..

 

nothing new...

 

rejected by the empire...

 

the long game, the west duplicity, the trap, the naive russians and Zbigniew Brzezinski...

 

not so clever self-deception to this day...

 

the prince of peace ...

 

memories ...

 

diplomacy...

 

choosing a vice-president...

 

remembering goebbels ...

 

nato: holier than thou...

 

the game of empire...

 

coming back to bite him in the bum...

 

home improvements...

 

spreading democracy like hot mustard on salted porkies...

 

the outrageous behaviour of the empire... getting worse than dubya's disastrous "mission accomplished"...

 

more than one string to the empire's trojan horses...

 

staying top dog is a funny business...

 

despeigelable...

 

and more and more...

 

the beginning of a new reality: teaching others the lessons we never learnt...

 

insanity is voting for one of them and expect a change of weather...

With the US election long over, and news of the Biden family’s influence-peddling since censored, a Politico reporter’s new book has confirmed the veracity of emails previously said to have been the result of Russian interference.

Reporter Ben Schreckinger’s book ‘The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power’, published on Tuesday, claimed a source who had independent access to emails from the US president’s son Hunter confirmed he had received two of the messages at the center of the New York Post’s influence-peddling scoop last October.

NEW in Playbook this morning, from "THE BIDENS" book out today: Evidence that at least some of the alleged Hunter Biden laptop material is genuinehttps://t.co/RHm4b2mHF9

— Ben Schreckinger (@SchreckReports) September 21, 2021

 

One of the messages allegedly came from Vadym Pozharsky, an adviser to Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings, who thanked the younger Biden in 2015 for getting him a meeting with Joe Biden. The other was a 2017 email from Hunter Biden’s business partner, James Gillar, which included the line “10 held by H for the big guy?”Another former partner said the phrase referred to Hunter Biden holding a 10% stake for his father in a deal involving China’s largest private energy firm.

Emails released by a Swedish government agency also matched some of the messages the Post found on Hunter Biden’s laptop after it was left at a Delaware repair shop, Schreckinger said, citing two other people who had correspondence with the president’s son.

As Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross pointed out on Tuesday, however, conservative media outlets had confirmed the authenticity of the Hunter Biden emails long before Schreckinger’s book was published. The Daily Caller said a cyber-security expert had confirmed the laptop trove was authentic last October, so Schreckinger was 11 months late to the story.

Conservative news outlets have confirmed time and again that emails from Hunter's laptop were authentic. It's not a new revelation just because Politico finally figured it out. pic.twitter.com/LFlLQXKCrU

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 21, 2021

 

But for such reporting to now come from Politico, which was among the mainstream-media outlets that had sought to squash the Post’s scoop as the presidential election approached, represents a sea change. Last fall, Politico called the story “Russian disinfo,” citing a letter signed by 50 former US intelligence agency officials. Those officials offered no evidence to support their claim, but pointed the finger at Moscow, saying, “Russia is trying to influence how Americans vote in this election.”

Twitter censored the Post’s reporting, citing its hacked-materials policy without any evidence that the laptop had actually been hacked. Not only was the Post’s account blocked for over two weeks, but users of the social media platform were prevented from sharing the article.

The Federal Election Commission ruled last week that the censorship wasn’t politically motivated and Twitter therefore hadn’t made an illegal in-kind contribution to Joe Biden’s campaign by doing his news-suppression bidding.

 

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GusNote: It's annoying to be in step with the Murdoch media, but on this issue WE WERE QUITE AHEAD OF IT, anyway. We knew there had been some shenanigans in Ukraine by both Joe and Hunter Biden... See : https://yourdemocracy.net/drupal/node/35235, especially: 

biden's sacrifice...

 

assangez

While the Ukrainian government is quietly waging a war against its people in Donbass, it feels increasingly threatened by its Russian neighbor.

As an initial measure, Moscow granted Russian citizenship to almost the entire population of Donbass (whose culture and language are Russian), a gesture which was enthusiastically accepted. As a second step, Moscow is supposedly planning to organize anti-government protests across the country in order to delegitimize the Kiev government to bolster independence for the Russian-speaking region. And, should this operation fail, it would be prepared to provide military assistance to the people of Donbass. At least, that is the picture that Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov painted for US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland on 18 November 2021, and echoed by Chief Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, to the Military Times [1].

However, according to the Washington Post, President Vladimir Putin has yet to reach a decision. [2]. As stipulated in the Russian constitution, he is personally responsible for the fate of Russian citizens abroad, which includes those in Donbass suffering under Ukrainian bombs.

Rejecting in this specific case the right of peoples to self-determination, Washington regards the independence of Donbass and its attachment to the Russian Federation as an unacceptable invasion and annexation. On 31 August 2021, the United States pledged to provide military assistance to the Ukrainian government in the event of a Russian intervention.

The Minsk Accords, which were designed to resolve the Ukrainian crisis by giving guarantees to the Russian-speaking minority, have never been respected by the successive Ukrainian governments, which continue to wage war against their own people.

 

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The United States and Ukraine are the only two states to have voted against the UN General Assembly resolution against the glorification of Nazism.

The resolution was adopted on 12 November 2021 at the GA Third Committee meeting, with 121 votes in favor and 53 abstentions. The United Nations has 193 member states.

US diplomats denounced "Russia’s rewriting of history", while Ukrainians denounced "the rehabilitation of the criminal regime of dictator Stalin."

The Biden and Zelensky administrations are the only two governments in the world that consider that Ukraine was liberated by the Nazis.

Ukraine, with the help of the United States under the Obama administration, enlisted genuine Nazis in its government following the [1].

 

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https://www.voltairenet.org/article214772.html

 

 

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Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars

 (from the NYT)

Journalists and academics are developing a new language for truth. The results are not always clearer.

 

On Friday afternoons this fall, top American news executives have dialed into a series of off-the-record Zoom meetings led by Harvard academics whose goal is to “help newsroom leaders fight misinformation and media manipulation.”

Those are hot topics in the news industry right now, and so the program at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy drew an impressive roster of executives at CNN, NBC News, The Associated Press, Axios and other major U.S. outlets.

A couple of them, though, told me they were puzzled by the reading package for the first session.

It consisted of a Harvard case study, which a participant shared with me, examining the coverage of Hunter Biden’s lost laptop in the final days of the 2020 campaign. The story had been pushed by aides and allies of then-President Donald J. Trump who tried to persuade journalists that the hard drive’s contents would reveal the corruption of the father.

The news media’s handling of that narrative provides “an instructive case study on the power of social media and news organizations to mitigate media manipulation campaigns,” according to the Shorenstein Center summary.

 

The Hunter Biden laptop saga sure is instructive about something. As you may recall, panicked Trump allies frantically dumped its contents onto the internet and into reporters’ inboxes, a trove that apparently included embarrassing images and emails purportedly from the candidate’s son showing that he had tried to trade on the family name. The big social media platforms, primed for a repeat of the WikiLeaks 2016 election shenanigans, reacted forcefully: Twitter blocked links to a New York Post story that tied Joe Biden to the emails without strong evidence (though Twitter quickly reversed that decision) and Facebook limited the spread of the Post story under its own “misinformation” policy.

But as it now appears, the story about the laptop was an old-fashioned, politically motivated dirty tricks campaign, and describing it with the word “misinformation” doesn’t add much to our understanding of what happened. While some of the emails purportedly on the laptop have since been called genuine by at least one recipient, the younger Mr. Biden has said he doesn’t know if the laptop in question was his. And the “media manipulation campaign” was a threadbare, 11th-hour effort to produce a late-campaign scandal, an attempt at an October Surprise that has been part of nearly every presidential campaign I’ve covered.

The Wall Street Journal, as I reported at the time, looked hard at the story. Unable to prove that Joe Biden had tried, as vice president, to change U.S. policy to enrich a family member, The Journal refused to tell it the way the Trump aides wanted, leaving that spin to the right-wing tabloids. What remained was a murky situation that is hard to call “misinformation,” even if some journalists and academics like the clarity of that label. The Journal’s role was, in fact, a pretty standard journalistic exercise, a blend of fact-finding and the sort of news judgment that has fallen a bit out of favor as journalists have found themselves chasing social media.

 

While some academics use the term carefully, “misinformation” in the case of the lost laptop was more or less synonymous with “material passed along by Trump aides.” And in that context, the phrase “media manipulation” refers to any attempt to shape news coverage by people whose politics you dislike. (Emily Dreyfuss, a fellow at the Technology and Social Change Project at the Shorenstein Center, told me that “media manipulation,” despite its sinister ring, is “not necessarily nefarious.”)

The focus on who’s saying something, and how they’re spreading their claims, can pretty quickly lead Silicon Valley engineers to slap the “misinformation” label on something that is, in plainer English, true.

 

Shorenstein’s research director, Joan Donovan, who is leading the program and raised its funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, said that the Hunter Biden case study was “designed to cause conversation — it’s not supposed to leave you resolved as a reader.”

Ms. Donovan, a force on Twitter and a longtime student of the shadiest corners of the internet, said she defines “misinformation” as “false information that’s being spread.” She strongly objected to my suggestion that the term lacks a precise meaning.

She added that, appearances aside, she doesn’t believe the word is merely a left-wing label for things that Democrats don’t like. Instead, she traces the modern practice of “disinformation” (that is, deliberate misinformation) to the anti-corporate activists the Yes Men, famous for hoaxed corporate announcements and other stunts, and the “culture jamming” of Adbusters. But their tools, she wrote, have been adopted by “foreign operatives, partisan pundits, white supremacists, violent misogynists, grifters and scammers.”

Ms. Donovan is among the scholars who have tried to unravel the knotty information tangle of contemporary politics. She’s currently a compulsive consumer of Steve Bannon’s influential podcast, “War Room.” Like many of the journalists and academics who study our chaotic media environment, she has zeroed in on the way that trolls and pranksters developed tactics for angering and tricking people online over the first half of the last decade, and how those people brought their tactics to the right-wing reactionary politics in the decade’s second half.

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/28/business/media-misinformation-disinformation.html

 

 

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Interestingly, these media experts in misinformation do not concentrate on the way "the Russians have influenced the psyche of the US presidential elections" which has been a lot of poppycock pushed by the various US administrations... "The Ruskies are coming" is HIGHLY unverifiable by the Mass Media or any other media, but they buy the news because it's official info AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO ANY WORK... The Hunter Biden saga is buried of course in his stint working in Ukraine, for an energy company founded by a crook businessman.

 

Read: https://yourdemocracy.net/drupal/node/35235 

 

 especially: 

 

biden lies...

 

biden's sacrifice...

 

hunter joins burisma, 2014...

 

biden's medusa wreck...

 

and more:

 

 

As Joe Biden's administration warned Moscow of "enormous consequences" if it moves ahead with an alleged “invasio ” of Ukraine, which it claimed Russian troops amassed on the border were poised to do, the Kremlin vocally denied allegations, accusing NATO of artificially inflating tensions.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has weighed in on Joe Biden’s vocal support for Ukraine amid unproven frenetic claims by Washington and some NATO countries that Russia is gearing up to “invade” Ukraine.

The Republican, also known for her initials, MTG, claimed that the US POTUS was so eager to pump Kiev with $200-million worth of military aid, including Javelin anti-tank missiles and multipurpose assault weapons, because Ukraine "has dirt on Hunter Biden."

QAnon Marge says Biden wants to go to war with Russia because Ukraine “has the dirt on Hunter Biden.” pic.twitter.com/UnsS8MbMKl

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 25, 2022

Biden has been "playing cover" for his son Hunter, who has been mired in allegations of corruption over his “shady” business dealings with Ukraine, stated Greene in an interview on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast.

 

"I am blown away with what we're seeing. The president of the United States Joe Biden is willing to take our military to war ... against nuclear Russia because of Ukraine," Rep. Greene said.

 

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New York Times finally admits Hunter Biden laptop was authentic

 

Rival rips the outlet for leading push to squash Biden emails as ‘Russian disinfo,’ then later saying in passing that they were real 

The New York Times is facing criticism from its oldest rival after quietly reversing its stance on the authenticity of emails found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, mentioning only in passing that the messages were real and not the product of a Russian disinformation campaign.

“Forgive the profanity, but you have got to be sh*tting us,” the New York Post said in an editorial published on Thursday. “First, the New York Times decides more than a year later that Hunter Biden’s business woes are worthy of a story. Then, deep in the piece, in passing, it notes that Hunter’s laptop is legitimate.”

The editorial came in response to an article on Wednesday in which the Times reported about a criminal investigation into the tax filings of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. The newspaper said that emails between Hunter Biden and business associates about Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma and other overseas dealings had been “authenticated” by “people familiar” with the messages and the tax probe.

 

 

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The most egregious and blatant official U.S. disinformation campaign in years took place three weeks before the 2020 presidential election. That was when dozens of former intelligence officials purported, in an open letter, to believe that authentic emails regarding Joe Biden's activities in China and Ukraine, reported by The New York Post, were "Russian disinformation.” That quasi-official proclamation enabled liberal corporate media outlets to uncritically mock and then ignore those emails as Kremlin-created fakes, and it pressured Big Tech platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to censor the reporting at exactly the time Americans were preparing to decide who would be the next U.S. president.

The letter from these former intelligence officials was orchestrated by trained career liars — disinformation agents — such as former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Yet that letter was nonetheless crucial to discredit and ultimately suppress the New York Post's incriminating reporting on Biden. It provided a quasi-official imprimatur — something that could be depicted as an authoritative decree — that these authentic emails were, in fact, fraudulent. 

After all, if all of these noble and heroic intelligence operatives who spent their lives studying Russian disinformation were insisting that the Biden emails had all of the "hallmarks" of Kremlin treachery, who possessed the credibility to dispute their expert assessment? This clip from the media leader in spreading this CIA pre-election lie — CNN — features their national security analyst James Clapper, and it illustrates how vital this pretense of officialdom was in their deceitful disinformation campaign:

 

This same strategic motive — to vest accusations of “disinformation” with the veneer of expertise — is what has fostered a new, very well-financed industry heralding itself as composed of “anti-disinformation" scholars. Knowing that Americans are inculcated from childhood to believe that censorship is nefarious — that it is the hallmark of tyranny — those who wish to censor need to find some ennobling rationale to justify it and disguise what it is. 

They have thus created a litany of neutral-sounding groups with benign names — The Atlantic Council, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, various "fact-checking” outfits controlled by corporate media outlets — that claim to employ “anti-disinformation experts” to identify and combat fake news. Just as media corporations re-branded their partisan pundits as "fact-checkers" -- to masquerade their opinions as elevated, apolitical authoritative, decrees of expertise -- the term "disinformation expert" is designed to disguise ideological views on behalf of state and corporate power centers as Official Truth.

Yet when one subjects these groups to even minimal investigative scrutiny, one finds that they are anything but apolitical and neutral. They are often funded by the same small handful of liberal billionaires (such as George Soros and Pierre Omidyar), actual security state agencies of the U.S., the UK or the EU, and/or Big Tech monopolies such as Google and Facebook. 

Indeed, the concept of “anti-disinformation expert” is itself completely fraudulent. This is not a real expertise but rather a concocted title bestowed on propagandists to make them appear more scholarly and apolitical than they are. But the function of this well-funded industry is the same as the one served by the pre-election letter from “dozens of former intelligence officials": to discredit dissent and justify its censorship by infusing its condemnation with the pretense of institutional authority. The targeted views are not merely wrong; they have been adjudged by official, credentialed experts to constitute "disinformation.”

This scam is the critical context for understanding why the Biden Administration casually announced last week the creation of what it is calling a "Disinformation Board” inside the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). There is no conceivable circumstance in which a domestic law enforcement agency like DHS should be claiming the power to decree truth and falsity. Operatives in the U.S. Security State are not devoted to combatting disinformation. The opposite is true: they are trained, career liars tasked with concocting and spreading disinformation. As Politico's Jack Schafer wrote:

Who among us thinks the government should add to its work list the job of determining what is true and what is disinformation? And who thinks the government is capable of telling the truth? Our government produces lies and disinformation at industrial scale and always has. It overclassifies vital informationto block its own citizens from becoming any the wiser. It pays thousands of press aides to play hide the salami with facts….Making the federal government the official custodian of truth would be like Brink’s giving a safe-cracker a job driving an armored car.

The purpose of Homeland Security agents is to propagandize and deceive, not enlighten and inform. The level of historical ignorance and stupidity required to believe that U.S. Security State operatives are earnestly devoted to exposing and decreeing truth — as CNN's Brian Stelter evidently believes, given that he praised this new government program as “common sense” — is off the charts. As Jameel Jaffer, formerly of the ACLU and now with the Columbia’s Knight First Amendment Institute put it, most troubling is “the fact that the board is housed at DHS, an especially opaque agency that has run roughshod over civil liberties in the past.”

Typically, any attempt to apply George Orwell's warning novel 1984 to U.S. politics is reflexively dismissed as hyperbolic: a free and democratic country like the United States could not possibly fall prey to the dystopian repression Orwell depicts. Yet it is quite difficult to distinguish this “Disinformation Board” from Ingsoc's Ministry of Truth. The protagonist of Orwell's novel, Winston Smith, worked in the Ministry of Truth and described at length how its primary function was to create official versions of truth and falsity, which always adhered to the government's needs of the moment and were subject to radical change as those interests evolved.

That the Board will be run by such a preposterous and laughable figure as Nina Jankowicz — a liberal cartoon, a caricature of a #Resistance Twitter fanatic who spent 2016 posting adolescent partisan tripe such as: “Maybe @HillaryClinton's most important point so far: ‘A @realDonaldTrump presidency would embolden ISIS.’ #ImWithHer” — has, in some sense, made this board seem more benign and harmless. ....

 

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Moments of Russiagate Truth

May 30, 2022

Tags: 2016, 2020, China, Durham, Elias, Hillary, Hunter Biden, laptop, nbc, Russiagate, Sussman, ukraine
Posted in: Biden, Democracy, Trump

It’s sometime a very sad moment when truth is all that’s left. Suspicions of infidelity become credit card receipts from the no-tell motel. A Facebook post tells of a meal shared when a business trip was scheduled. It is ugly, especially the now certainty that you were lied to by someone you once trusted. Two such instances passed through the MSM this week with barely a notice that deserve notice.

The first is Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, through the MSM, lied Russiagate. Hillary, et al, paid experts to create two data sets, one showing Russian cellphones accessing Trump WiFi networks, and another showing a Trump computer in contact with a mystery Alfa Bank server in Russia. The latter was supposedly how Trump communicated incognito with his handlers in Moscow Center. Neither happened, both were lies, and both were made up for and paid for by Hillary. How do we know this with certainty?

Former Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias on the stand May 18, 2022 in the trial of his former partner, Michael Sussmann swore to it under oath. Special Counsel John Durham brought Sussmann to trial for allegedly lying to the FBI, denying he was working for a client when he was representing the Clinton campaign. Elias testified he and Sussmann worked for the Clinton campaign, and had engaged Fusion GPS to acquire dirt on candidate Donald Trump. He also admitted that he had briefed Clinton campaign officials about the fake information, including contacts with Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, campaign chair John Podesta, spokesperson Jennifer Palmieri, and policy director Jake Sullivan, now Joe Biden’s national security adviser and who aggressively pushed the Alfa Bank server story in the media. Elias said he also spoke with Hillary Clinton and was involved in meetings where she was present.

Does this have to really be so ugly? Do we have to hear it in her own words? Somethings it takes that harsh splash of cold water. Yes. Hillary tweeted on October 31, 2016 Trump had a secret server and it was communicating with Russia. She knew it was false at that moment because her campaign paid to create that information. The only thing left for the trial to prove or disprove is whether Sussmann lied about working for the campaign when he met with the FBI. He pleaded innocent but is a very bad liar; Sussmann billed the Clinton campaign for his meeting with the FBI. The material facts otherwise have been demonstrated — she lied. Cold and simple. No one colluded with Russia (as the Mueller Report later concluded.)

The next splash of water require you to wallow so deep in hypocrisy and lies if it was all water you’d drown. After refusing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story except to label it Russian disinformation in autumn 2020, the same NBC news headlined a story May 18, 2022, almost two years after the laptop story first broke, reporting “analysis of Hunter Biden’s hard drive shows he took in about $11 million from 2013 to 2018” from Ukrainian and Chinese companies for dubious consulting work. NBC reports this as breaking news, and made no mention whatsoever that they sat on the story.

To understand why NBC spiked the story for almost two years, one needs to go back to 2020 as the laptop tale was breaking elsewhere. Almost in real time more than 50 former senior intelligence officials signed a letter claiming the emails “have all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” With absolutely no evidence, the signers said their national security experience made them “deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.” “If we are right,” they added, “this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this.”

The letter was evil brilliance in that it played off earlier prejudices created by Hillary Clinton in 2016, that the Russians sought to manipulate American elections. In fact, most of the key signatories — James Clapper and John Brennan among them — had misdirected public opinion around the whole of Russiagate. In the hands of the MSM the meme quickly morphed into “the laptop is fake,” a parallel to “but her emails!!!”

NBC News wrote in 2020 U.S. intelligence agencies suspected Trump associate Rudy Giuliani, who had been shopping the laptop contents to various media organizations, had been in contact with alleged Russian intelligence agents. The FBI was “looking into whether the Russians played any role, and no official has ruled that out,” said NBC. Twitter also blocked the Hunter laptop story after intelligence officials shared Russian hack rumors.

NBC also claimed in 2020 the laptop was not “newsworthy” as it contained no smoking gun, and because despite any ethical lapses by Hunter “Trump… is ethically challenged when it comes to appearing to use the power of his office to enrich himself and his family.” NBC in 2022 offers no explanation why the same laptop contents which it deemed not newsworthy days before Joe Biden’s election to the presidency are suddenly newsworthy in the middle of his second year in office.

The takeaway is NBC News did not pursue the Hunter laptop story in 2020, when it mattered most, because it acted in collusion with the U.S. intelligence community to make the story go away during the election. As Hunter has publicly paid millions in back taxes and the New York Times among others validated the laptop contents, there’s no need to pretend the story is not newsworthy or Russian trickery.

It is easy enough to say “so what?” at this point. Most people who did not support her long ago concluded Hillary Clinton was a liar and untrustworthy. Her supporters know she’ll never run for public office again, hence the claims that none of this matters. As for NBC, the last days before the election were confusing times, and the Hunter laptop story after all was out there for anyone who wanted to read it at the NY Post or Fox. So that doesn’t really matter either, right?

Wrong. What matters is less the details of Hillary’s lie but that as someone very close to being elected she would lie about such a thing, claiming her opponent was working for Russia against the interests of the United States he would soon swear an oath to. As for NBC (and Twitter) its journalistic slovenliness laid bare news organizations work with the intelligence community to manipulate elections. Both of this week’s revelations are bombshells if you blow the smoke away, and both threaten to make a second run at our democracy in 2024.

 

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Former acting CIA Director Mike Morell said Joe Biden’s presidential campaign played a role in the creation of an open letter, signed by 51 ex-intelligence officials, aiming to discredit embarrassing reports about Biden’s son in the lead-up to the 2020 election. 

In recent closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Morell acknowledged that Antony Blinken – the current secretary of state, then a senior campaign staffer for Biden – had contacted him to discuss critical reporting by the New York Post on Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings in October 2020, according to Republican lawmakers with knowledge of the hearing.

During those conversations, Blinken was said to have emailed Morell a USA Today article claiming that the FBI was examining whether the Hunter Biden story was part of a “disinformation campaign.”

Morell said the discussions prompted him to reach out to fellow former intelligence officials and organize an open letter stating that the Hunter Biden reporting had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” While subsequent investigation has revealed the reports were based on genuine documents obtained from the younger Biden’s laptop, the letter was highly influential ahead of the 2020 presidential race, endorsed by five former CIA directors and a litany of other ex-senior officials.

Prior to his contact with Blinken, Morell acknowledged he had no plans to compile the letter, but added that he sought to “help Vice President Biden … because I wanted him to win the election.”After the letter was handed off to Politico for publication, Biden campaign chairman Steve Ricchetti called Morell to thank him for creating the letter, the ex-official continued.

Biden would later invoke the open letter during his October 22, 2020 debate with then-President Donald Trump, helping to dismiss embarrassing reports suggesting his son was involved in political influence-peddling in his foreign business deals, among other things.

 

Republican congressmen have demanded answers in the wake of Morell’s testimony, with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner penning a letter seeking for more information from Blinken.

“It is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election,” they said in a statement.  

The Hunter Biden laptop story was highly controversial at the time, prompting multiple social media outlets to take unprecedented steps to suppress the reports, with Twitter even barring users from sharing them in direct messages. While Joe Biden’s campaign was in close contact with Twitter and other platforms at the time and flagged some posts for removal, it is unclear whether they explicitly urged the sites to bury the laptop story.

 

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 WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US House lawmakers are requesting information from Secretary of State Antony Blinken after new testimony revealed the top diplomat's ties to a statement falsely claiming that reports about Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop were Russian disinformation, Congressmen Jim Jordan and Mike Turner said in a letter.

“We are examining the origins of the infamous public statement signed by 51 former intelligence officials that falsely discredited a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop as supposed Russian disinformation. As part of our oversight, we have learned that you played a role in the inception of this statement while serving as a Biden campaign advisor, and we, therefore, request your assistance with our oversight,” the letter said on Thursday.

Jordan and Turner chair the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, respectively. The panels recently conducted an interview with former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell, one of the 51 signatories to the statement falsely claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story as misinformation, the letter said. 

 

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When Joe Biden accused Donald Trump during a 2020 Presidential debate about spreading Russian propaganda over Biden’s son Hunter’s alleged laptop, the Democratic nominee was lying — and he knew it. That’s because he and his campaign had personally solicited members of the intelligence community to write a letter calling the laptop a Russian disinformation campaign, which the letter’s authors did because, as former CIA head Mike Morell explained, they wanted Biden to win.

BREAKING: Biden Told CIA To Lie About Hunter Biden Laptop!

 

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THE STORY OF THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP AS ABOVE AND FROM TOP, SHOULD HAVE MADE SOME WAVES IN THE WESTERN MEDIA.... SO FAR AS FAR AS I CAN SEARCH, THERE IS ZERO ON THE ABC (AUSTRALIA)... THE MAIN (INTERNATIONAL) NEWS IS :

Russian billionaires see wealth rise to three-quarters of a trillion dollars in past year

Russia's richest people added $227 billion to their wealth over the past year, buoyed by high prices for natural resources and rebounding from the huge loss of fortunes they experienced just after the Ukraine war began.

 

 

THE LOCAL NEWS REGARDS A FAKE DAME:

The death of the beloved Australian entertainer has prompted an outpouring of tributes at home and abroad, including from fellow comedians Ricky Gervais and Rob Brydon.

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Whenever, moreover, Blinken pontificates about the “rules-based order,” everybody should reach for their sick bags. The US is a serial rules-abuser, and its hypocrisy knows no bounds. Indeed, the next time Blinken holds forth about his “rules,” people should remember Ferdinand Barnacle, the Charles Dickens character, who, in Little Dorrit, said, “We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn’t get on without humbug.”

 

 

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The Biden Campaign's Deep State Conspiracy To Discredit The Hunter Biden Laptop

 

by Debs is Dead

 

Frankly I'm not sure where to post any more as 'not Ukraine' threads age for so long before being replaced that I doubt many but the most assiduous readers get to discover news which is actually vital to comprehending the Amerikan empire decline.
Not to worry I'll stick to the ancient rules & post here.

Which discloses former temporary CIA boss Michael Morell's conspiracy to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop tosh:

An all-time media blackout is in effect. We’re experiencing real-time Sovietization. by Matt Taibbi

It transpires that the infamous incident before the 2020 election in which 50 former intelligence officials signed an open letter declared a New York Post expose about Hunter Biden’s laptop to have the “classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” was instigated at the behest of the Joe Biden campaign. This at least is the allegation in a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released by Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government.

In that letter, which is not easy to find, you’ll see three snippets of dialogue from questioning of Morell, who appears to have organized the open letter. In the first snippet, he explains that the idea originated with a call from Blinken, then of the Biden campaign, and that absent that call, Morell wouldn’t have done what he did:

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In the second snippet Morell bluntly explains that he did it because “I wanted him to win,” him being Joe Biden.

The snippets are from congressional record. Matt has them, read them through the link above I provided.

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Hunter Biden has pleaded guilty to all nine charges in his federal tax evasion case, surprising federal prosecutors who were ready to begin his trial on Thursday. 

The son of US President Joe Biden had previously denied allegations that he intentionally avoided paying $1.4m (£1m) in income tax from 2016-19.

Initially Biden, 54, said he wanted to enter a plea where he would accept the charges while maintaining his innocence, but then he agreed to simply plead guilty after prosecutors objected.

Once prosecutors finished reading aloud the entire 56-page indictment against him to the court, the judge asked Biden if he agreed that he had "committed every element of every crime charged."

"I do," Biden said. 

 

His last-minute reversal, first announced in a Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday as jury selection was about to start, is his second criminal conviction this year.

Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell said his client wanted to forego a trial “for the sake of private interest”, sparing his friends and family from testifying about something that happened "when he was addicted to drugs". 

Judge Mark Scarsi said that in pleading guilty to all nine counts Biden faced a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and fines ranging from $500,000 to $1m.

He is due to be sentenced on 16 December, a month after the White House election but a month before his father leaves office.

President Biden has previously said he would not use his executive power to pardon his son.

There is a portrait of the president in each federal courthouse in the country, and Biden, accompanied by his wife, lawyers and Secret Service detail, had to walk by the picture of his father on the way to court. 

The prosecution - representing President Biden’s justice department - said they were “shocked” by the suggested Alford plea and reluctant to agree to the deal if it allowed Hunter Biden to maintain his innocence.

“Hunter Biden is not innocent. Hunter Biden is guilty,” lead prosecutor Leo Wise said in court.

“We came to court today to try this case.”

Biden previously sought to have the case thrown out, arguing that the justice department's investigation was motivated by politics and he was targeted because Republican lawmakers are working to impeach his father.

He also argued that the special counsel on the case, David Weiss, had been appointed unlawfully.

These arguments were dismissed by Judge Scarsi, a Trump appointee.

The president's son was charged with three felony tax offences and six misdemeanour offences in December. These include failure to file and pay his taxes, tax evasion and filing a false return.

According to the indictment, Biden earned $7m in income from his foreign business dealings between 2016-19.

The indictment also said he spent nearly $5m during that period on "everything but his taxes".

Those purchases included drugs, escorts, lavish hotels, luxury cars and clothing, according to the indictment, which Biden allegedly falsely labelled as business expenses.

Prosecutors said Biden's actions amounted to "a four-year scheme".

"In each year in which he failed to pay his taxes, the defendant had sufficient funds available to him to pay some or all of his outstanding taxes when they were due," the indictment said. "But he chose not to pay them."

His tax evasion trial marks the second federal criminal proceeding for Biden this year. 

In June, he was found guilty of charges related to gun possession and drug use, becoming the first criminally convicted son of a sitting US president.

Specifically, Biden was convicted on three felony charges connected to his purchase of a revolver, in 2018, while battling a drug addiction, and lying about his drug use on a federal form to buy the gun.

After the gun and tax charges were first brought, Biden struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors that then fell apart. 

He did not get anything in exchange for pleading guilty on Thursday, except for avoiding a public trial.

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