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Best of the Web: New facts make the Biden family the GOAT of corruption

Jonathan Turley
Fox News
Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:34 UTC
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The Biden family operated what could be one of the largest influence peddling efforts in history

"No one f--ks with a Biden." That statement by President Joe Biden last year to a Florida mayor seems than just a boast after a whistleblower at the Internal Revenue Service recently surfaced. The Wall Street Journal reported that a career IRS Criminal Supervisory Agent has alleged preferential treatment given to Hunter Biden in tax investigations. The whistleblower also alleges that he or she has information that contradicts the testimony of "a senior Biden political appointee."

The timing of the letter itself was notable. For years, the Democratically controlled committees blocked any investigation into allegations of corruption and influence peddling by the Biden family. Before the takeover by the Republicans in the House, this whistleblower would have had little reason to seek protection from a Committee with demonstrably little interest in such allegations.

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Best of the Web: Huge explosion leaves 20 meter crater in road in southwest Russia's Belgorod region


TASS
Thu, 20 Apr 2023 22:49 UTC
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© Mayor of Belgorod City Valentin Demidov via Telegram/Handout via REUTERSA view shows the accident scene following a large blast in a street in the city of Belgorod, Russia, April 20, 2023.
An explosion occurred in the southwestern Russian city of Belgorod late on Tuesday, shattering windows, damaging cars and leaving a crater of about 20 meters in diameter, Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.

"An explosion has occurred. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties. The blast left a crater around 20 meters in diameter at a crossroads in the city center. Windows were shattered in an apartment block nearby. The shockwave damaged several cars parked in the area and knocked down power supply lines," he said.

City Mayor Valentin Demidov, the region's security department chief Yevgeny Vorobyov and emergency services are working at the scene.

Details of the incident will be made public later, the governor said.

Comment: Reuters, citing TASS, alleges the blast was caused by a Russian warplane that accidentally discharged a missile:
Local authorities reported a large blast in the city, which lies just across the border from Ukraine. The regional governor said two women had been injured.

"As a Sukhoi Su-34 air force plane was flying over the city of Belgorod there was an accidental discharge of aviation ammunition," Tass cited the defence ministry as saying.

It did not say what kind of weapon was involved.

The Su-34 is a supersonic fighter-bomber jet.

The ministry said some buildings had been damaged and announced a probe was already under way, according to Tass.

Video footage from the site showed piles of concrete on the street, several damaged cars and a building with broken windows. One shot showed what appeared to be car upside down on the roof of a store.

The Belgorod region is one of several parts of southern Russia where targets such as fuel and ammunition stores have been rocked by explosions since the start of what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.
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Best of the Web: TikTok: Chinese "Trojan Horse" is run by US State Department officials

Alan MacLeod
MintPress News
Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:59 UTC
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Amid a national hysteria claiming the popular video-sharing app is a Chinese Trojan Horse, a MintPress News investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok. Many more individuals with backgrounds in the FBI, CIA and other departments of the national security state also hold influential posts at the social media giant, affecting the content that over one billion users see.

While American politicians demand the app be banned on national security grounds, try to force through an internet surveillance act that would turn the country into an Orwellian state, make clueless statements about how TikTok is dangerous because it connects to your Wi-Fi, it is possible that TikTok is already much closer to Washington than it is to Beijing.
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Best of the Web: Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers and Skin-Deep Morality

Colin Todhunter
Global Research
Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
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Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent's children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition.

In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 loans showed that 33 African countries were encouraged to pursue austerity policies. Oxfam and Development Finance International also revealed that 43 out of 55 African Union member states face public expenditure cuts totalling $183 billion over the next few years.

As a result, almost three-quarters of Africa's governments have reduced their agricultural budgets since 2019, and more than 20 million people have been pushed into severe hunger. In addition, the world's poorest countries were due to pay $43 billion in debt repayments in 2022, which could otherwise cover the costs of their food imports.

Last year, Oxfam International Executive Director Gabriela Bucher stated that there was a terrifying prospect that in excess of a quarter of a billion more people would fall into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 alone. That year, food inflation rose by double digits in most African countries.

By September 2022, some 345 million people across the world were experiencing acute hunger, a number that has more than doubled since 2019. Moreover, one person is dying of hunger every four seconds. From 2019 to 2022, the number of undernourished people grew by 150 million.
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Best of the Web: An Honest Doctor's Experiences on the Front Lines During COVID-19

A Midwestern Doctor
The Forgotten Side of Medicine
Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
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First do no harm
This is an important testimony to add to the historical record.

When I originally made this Substack, I found myself in a very frustrating position — I had something I felt was essential for the world to know (that we were repeating the disastrous smallpox vaccination campaign, its cruel mandates, and the widespread counterprotests against them by the working class). Still, I had no way to get the message out. I tried to find a way to do so for a while, and eventually, Steve Kirsch generously gave me a platform to do so.

Because of this, I have a considerable degree of empathy with people who find themselves in a similar position to mine. Thus one of my goals in building the subscriber base here has been to make that platform available to those in a similar situation to me, and I periodically publish compelling things readers share with me I believe are accurate (e.g., this citizen's survey of blood clots amongst the vaccinated).

Recently a longtime reader contacted me to share his story. Based on my previous correspondences with him over the last year, I believe he has accurately represented himself here. I also want to note that his story shares many parallels to the treatment of other doctors attempting to do the right thing throughout COVID-19 (e.g., Paul Marik's experience).
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Best of the Web: Dissent Into Madness: Projections of the Psychopaths

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Sun, 26 Mar 2023 19:31 UTC
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In Part 1 of this series on Dissent Into Madness, I recounted the sordid details of "The Weaponization of Psychology," noting how the psychiatric profession has been turned into an instrument for repressing and marginalizing political dissidents.

In Part 2 of this series, "Crazy Conspiracy Theorists," I detailed how conspiracy theorizing is being pathologized as a mental disorder and how this false diagnosis is being used to justify the forced psychiatric detention and medication of 9/11 truthers and COVID dissenters.

This week, I will examine the great irony of the situation we find ourselves in: that those who are wielding the psychological weapon against any would-be dissenters are themselves driven by a psychopathological disorder . . .
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Best of the Web: The Netherlands makes it legal to euthanise terminally-ill children aged as young as 12 at their parents' request

Gemma Parry
Daily Mail
Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:01 UTC
Noa Pothoven
It comes nearly four years after 17-year-old Noa Pothoven (pictured) was legally allowed to die at home after medics allowed her to refuse food and drink
Parents in the Netherlands can now euthanise their terminally ill children aged 12 and under plans to widen the countries existing end of life laws.

The Dutch Government announced plans to expand euthanasia regulations to include doctor-assisted death for terminally ill children between one and 12 years old on Friday.

The rules would apply to an estimated five to 10 children per year, who suffer unbearably from their disease, have no hope of improvement and for whom palliative care cannot bring relief, the government have said.


Comment: Similar claims were made about assisted suicide in Canada, except that one can now qualify for simply being poor or suffering from a mental illness: Canada euthanising 1000s of people who aren't terminally ill


'The end of life for this group is the only reasonable alternative to the child's unbearable and hopeless suffering,' the government said in a statement.

Comment: By this point it's pretty clear that this is no longer about having laws which take into account rare and unusual cases, where the specific situation is paramount, and people do not have to fear unreasonable and inhumane justice, this is instead about the establishment's agenda of promoting death and darkness: "Unintended consequences": Ireland's assisted suicide Bill was too flawed to continue

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Best of the Web: China urges US to clarify military-biological activities following Russian Parliamentary report exposing plans for 'universal genetically-altered bioweapon'


Press TV
Thu, 13 Apr 2023 07:14 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin. In a statement, the group accused the country of human rights abuses and affirmed its support for Taiwan.
China has called on the United States to fulfill its international obligations and offer clarifications on its military-biological activities at home and abroad, amid reports about Washington's military biological program in Ukraine.

A spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wang Wenbing, said on Wednesday that Washington has so far failed to provide a convincing explanation for its military-biological activities, and has obstructed multilateral negotiations to establish a verification mechanism for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

"We once again urge the US to earnestly live up to its international obligations, make comprehensive clarification and receive verification on its military-biological activities both within and outside the country," Wang said.

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Best of the Web: The latest bizarre chapter of "War on Drugs": US Special Forces train drug cartel enforcers linked to rape, torture and decapitation of victims

Zach El Parece
Covert Action Magazine
Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:44 UTC
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© Business InsiderU.S. Special Forces in Mexico.
Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) has become one of the most feared paramilitaries in Mexico over the last decade. Images of the group have become the standard depiction of the Mexican cartel writ large. Their propaganda videos often feature groups of masked men bristling with enough small arms to make them formidable against even conventional armies.

In an interview aired on Mexico's Telemundo network in May 2019, a former CJNG soldier described his experience at a training camp and claimed that the cartel employed U.S. special operations forces (SOF) to train their recruits. According to the former sicario assassin: there were Marines, there were Navy from the United States, there were Delta Force, there was everything there."
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Best of the Web: 'Special' service: Declassified Guantanamo court filing suggests some 9/11 hijackers were CIA agents

Felix Livshitz
RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2023 07:28 UTC
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What does the intelligence agency have to do with the suicide terrorist attack?

An explosive court filing from the Guantanamo Military Commission - a court considering the cases of defendants accused of carrying out the "9/11" terrorist attacks on New York - has seemingly confirmed the unthinkable.

The document was originally published via a Guantanamo Bay court docket, but while public, it was completely redacted. Independent researchers obtained an unexpurgated copy. It is an account by the Commission's lead investigator, DEA veteran Don Canestraro, of his personal probe of potential Saudi government involvement in the 9/11 attacks, conducted at the request of the defendants' lawyers.

Two of the hijackers were being closely monitored by the CIA and may, wittingly or not, have been recruited by Langley long before they flew planes into the World Trade Center buildings.
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