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Snakes in Suits

"Plague" of corruption in UK tax haven British Virgin Islands, outgoing governor declares

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© Morrelli & Melvin Design and Engineering in Newport BeachWith a judicial inquiry looming and the EU looking to blacklist the territory, the BVI is debating where its future lies
The shuffling of diplomats around the UK's Caribbean territories rarely makes much of a splash. But Gus Jaspert ensured his last days as governor of the British Virgin Islands would be remembered.

In an emotional Facebook video post to the BVI's 30,000 inhabitants, he accused the country's government of overseeing a "plague" of corruption, interfering in the criminal justice system and attempting to silence anyone who raised concerns about the misuse of funds, including £30m to help the islands' fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Jaspert claimed that the BVI government had deliberately delayed legal reforms and hindered local inquiries into a string of corruption allegations including £5m spent on a non-existent airline and nearly £1m on building a short wall around a school. Tens of millions more spent on a hospital and a cruise ship dock are in question. Citing concerns about organised crime, he mentioned $250m (£180m) of cocaine seized from the home of a police officer last year.

Comment: That these tax havens exist and have been used to cover and support ongoing nefarious activity in the UK in particular, and elsewhere in the West, is not news, so one wonders just what else is behind these recent maneuvers:


Cow

Ice Age Farmer Report: Experts Sound Alarm: We Must Protect Our Food Supply

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The US continues to shovel grains out the door even as Argentina, Ukraine, and Russia impose export limits. Experts are now warming that they are concerned (on a scale of 1-10...12) and that we MUST stop China from buying out all of our food, or our livestock -- and ultimately we! -- will suffer the consequences.


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Yoda

Senator Hawley: It's time to stand up against the muzzling of America

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© Carolyn Kaster/APSenator Josh Hawley R-Mo.
Have you checked your social credit score lately? You might want to. Mine seems to have taken a nosedive this month. You might want to see how yours is doing.

Everyone knows what a credit score is. But social credit scores are new. They're the latest corporate import from Communist China, where government and big business monitor every citizen's social views and statements.

And they're the latest form of cancel culture in this country, as corporate monopolies and the left team up to shut down speech they don't like and force their political agenda on America.

For those who still believe in free speech and the First Amendment, this is the time to take a stand.

Comment: A victim of self-appointed congressional ethics police, Hawley is filing a counter-complaint:
Senator Hawley sent a letter on Monday to Sens. James Lankford (R-OK) and Chris Coons (D-DE) arguing that the seven senators who submitted an ethics complaint against Hawley and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) last week issued a "frivolous complaint to accomplish impermissible partisan purposes."
"These Senators have engaged in improper conduct that may reflect upon the Senate. The Committee should discipline these Members to ensure that the Senate's ethics process is not weaponized for rank partisan purposes."
Hawley's pushback comes as he faces fierce criticism for his actions on Jan. 6 — including calls for him to resign or be expelled from the Senate — after he and Cruz led the challenges against Pennsylvania's and Arizona's election results, respectively.

Democratic Senators. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.), Ron Wyden (OR), Tina Smith (MN), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA) and Sherrod Brown (OH) last week sent a complaint to the Ethics Committee asking that it investigate Hawley and Cruz and "offer recommendations for strong disciplinary action, including up to expulsion or censure, if warranted by the facts uncovered."

Hawley has denounced the violence after rioters breached the Capitol, resulting in the death of five people, but he has stood by his decision to try to challenge President Biden's win in Pennsylvania. Hawley made his objection after the joint session resumed after being suspended for hours because rioters stormed the building.

Hawley on Monday appeared to reference calls for him to resign, writing in a separate letter to the Democratic senators that had "considered whether I should call for you to resign or be expelled from the Senate."
"The First Amendment does not ... give you carte blanche to abuse the Senate ethics process. I have today filed a complaint with the ethics committee that details your deliberate and partisan abuse of this process, including your apparent coordination with various dark money groups, and requests that you be appropriately disciplined."


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Whistle

After a string of censorship scandals, Twitter launches 'Birdwatch' initiative to combat 'misinformation'

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© Tech Startups'Birdwatch' - A deflection layer of Big Tech control
After a tumultuous fall during which Twitter brazenly censored American news outlets, pundits, and Trump supporters, the social media platform announced a new plan to manage disinformation and misinformation on the site. They're calling it Birdwatch.

"Introducing Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation," Keith Coleman, Vice President, Product, writes on Twitter's blog. Coleman writes that
"Birdwatch allows people to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading and write notes that provide informative context. We believe this approach has the potential to respond quickly when misleading information spreads, adding context that people trust and find valuable. Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors."
Twitter's announcement via video shows how a false claim, in this case the claim that "whales are not real" but "robots funded by the government," can go viral in minutes and can change the narrative about, in this case, whales. Then they say that "You can't trust everything you see online," and that this is why they're "introducing Birdwatch."

Comment: Encouraging the Twitterati to police each other is one of the key markers in establishing a totalitarian society - with potentially global significance in that tweets have the capacity to reach millions.


Briefcase

'Lawyer up, and get out': FBI first spurned Hunter Biden laptop, says Delaware tech repairman

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© gofundme.comJohn Paul Mac Isaac
John Paul Mac Isaac, the Delaware computer shop owner who unwittingly came into possession of Hunter Biden's laptop, says an FBI agent initially gave a stern warning to his family when first offered a copy of the explosive evidence about Joe Biden's son: "You better lawyer up and get out of my office."

In a wide-ranging interview Monday with Just the News, Isaac described what concerned him most about the contents on the laptop, his extensive efforts to get authorities in law enforcement and Congress to pay attention to it and his anger at the news media, Democrats and even security officials who initially accused him of carrying out a Russian disinformation campaign or trying to make money off the discovery.

U.S. intelligence has determined the laptop contents — now in the hands of the FBI and Congress and part of a criminal tax case — were not Russian disinformation. Isaac said he never took a dime for providing the materials to the FBI, Congress and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, not even when offered reimbursement for the hard drive equipment he used to make copies. Isaac told the John Solomon Reports podcast:
"Well, for somebody who's not very political, I assume what happened to me was the quintessential political hit job, to have that many people come out, without even talking to me, or having a conversation without doing a single background check.

"I still feel a little bit upset about that. I have people that I've known for a long time, they're convinced that I'm a tool, or I've been a pawn or I got huge payout. And it's completely decimated my business. I had to leave town."

Comment: Check out this 2-part interview with John Paul Mac Isaac:






Star of David

Israeli Health Minister compares his obligation to vaccinate Palestinians to Palestinians' responsibility to care for 'dolphins in the Mediterranean'

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© Rambam spokespersonIsraeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein
Andrew Marr of the BBC grilled Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein about why Israel is not extending its vaccination program to the Palestinian people in territories it occupies, and Edelstein said Israel has no more obligation to them than the Palestinian minister of health has to "take care of dolphins in the Mediterranean." Yes, you heard that right.

Mr. Potato

Flashback Blast from the past: Things we have (not) missed about Jen Psaki

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© Associated PressWhite House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden has now declared victory in the November vote, despite Donald Trump's insistence that the election was rigged. On Sunday, Biden named Obama-era staffer Jen Psaki as a potential candidate for White House Press Secretary.

What some have feared has become reality - Jen Psaki is returning to the White House, of course, if Joe Biden is confirmed as the new US president by the Electoral College in December.

Before assuming the role of White House communications director under President Barack Obama back in 2015, Psaki had already made history with some of her most controversial, and often simply faulty, statements while working as the State Department's spokesperson, a position she was tapped for in 2013.

Comment: Lucky for Psaki, the presstitutes will treat her with kid gloves, and guarantee a soft landing for her gaffes.




Target

Hopkins: That's All Folks!

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As they used to say at the end of all those wacky Looney Tunes cartoons, that's all folks! The show is over. Literal Russian-Asset Hitler, the Latest Greatest Threat to Western Democracy, the Monster of Mar-a-Lago, Trumpzilla, Trumpenstein, the Ayatollah of Orange Shinola, has finally been humiliated and given the bum-rush out of Washington by the heroic forces of the GloboCap "Resistance," with a little help from the US military. The whole thing went exactly to script.

Well ... OK, not quite exactly to script. Despite four years of dire warnings by the corporate media, the Intelligence Community, Hollywood celebrities, the Democratic Party, faux anti-fascists, fake-Left pundits, and pretty much every utterly deluded, Trump-obsessed liberal with an Internet connection, there was no Hitlerian "Reichstag Fire," no Boogaloo, no Civil War II, no coup, no white-supremacist uprising. Nothing. The man simply got on a chopper and was flown away to his Florida resort.

I know, you're probably thinking ... "Wow, how embarrassing for the GloboCap 'Resistance,' being exposed as a bunch of utterly shameless, neo-Goebbelsian propagandists, and liars, and hysterical idiots, and such!" And, in any other version of reality, you'd have a point ... but not in this one.

Propaganda

'US plundering Syrian oil to send to Israel' - former US diplomat

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© AFP 2020 / STR
Syria's state-run media earlier reported that 200 troops had been flown to US bases in al-Shaddadi on 21 January for future deployment at Omar oil field and Koniko gas field in neighbouring Deir ez-Zor province. It was also reported that the US-led military coalition had dispatched 40 truckloads of weapons and logistical equipment to Hasakah.

The United States is plundering Syria's natural resources to send them to other places that will benefit from American theft, claimed J. Michael Springmann, a former US diplomat in Saudi Arabia.

"The United States of America is moving soldiers from Iraq, which it is occupying, to Syria, which it continues to occupy, in order to steal Syrian oil from the Syrian people and to send the oil to somewhere else, presumably to the Apartheid entity (Israel) and other places that will benefit from American theft of Syrian oil," the American political commentator and author was quoted as saying by Press TV on 23 January.

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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Ben Swann interviews Gad Saad: Dems want a war on 'domestic terror'

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Now that the Neo-Liberal order has taken control of all branches of the Federal Government, media, big tech and academia, the new push for is a "war on domestic terror". Plus, there is now talk of "deprogramming" Trump supporters. I speak with Gad Saad, author of "The Parasitic Mind" about how to overcome this. Saad explains that 10's of millions of Americans must now channel their "inner honey badger."