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Best of the Web: Leaked 2016 call reveals Joe Biden risked national security and violation of the Logan Act to sabotage incoming Trump administration

Alex Plitsas
The Federalist
Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
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© White House photoFormer President Barack Obama • Former VP Joe Biden
A recently leaked phone call between then-Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko directly after the 2016 presidential election shows that Biden sought to sabotage the incoming Trump administration before Donald Trump even took office, and much worse.

During the course of the call, Biden badmouthed the incoming administration, saying, "The truth of the matter is that the incoming administration doesn't know a great deal about [Ukraine]" and that they were unprepared for the transition. This in itself is inappropriate, but it was meant to set the stage for Biden's next statement and future plans.

Biden then told Poroshenko, "I don't plan on going away. As a private citizen, I plan on staying deeply engaged in the endeavor that you have begun and we have begun." In a matter of moments, Biden undermined the incoming administration, branded them as not knowing anything about Ukraine, and attempted to set up a foreign policy backchannel for himself after he left office as a private citizen, which could violate the Logan Act.

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Oopsies: Joe Biden's 2016 call with ex-Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko is leaked

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Best of the Web: UK's NHS to enlist ARMY to vaccinate ENTIRE population with coronavirus vaccine, will do a 'dry run' with flu vaccine

Jane Merrick
iNews
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 20:00 UTC
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© Andrew Milligan/AFP/GettyThe scale of the programme, potentially to cover the entire UK population of nearly 67 million, would also require military assistance
The Army is to be drafted in for the biggest vaccination programme in UK history to protect the population against coronavirus, i can reveal.

Public health and civil contingency planners believe they will need military assistance to help administer tens of millions of jabs when the Covid-19 vaccine is ready.

Nightingale hospitals - currently mothballed after the first wave of the pandemic - and public buildings could be commandeered as mass vaccination sites.

Comment: People who chose jobs with the intention to protect the health and the security of their country have potentially been duped into doing the exact opposite: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Best of the Web: Steve Bannon is behind bogus study that China created COVID

Adam Rawnsley and Lachlan Markay
The Daily Beast
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:32 UTC
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The study goes against basically all scientific evidence and expert opinion. But it fits with the former Trump adviser's anti-China posture.

A new study purporting to show that the novel coronavirus was manufactured in a Chinese lab was published by a pair of nonprofit groups linked to Steve Bannon, the former top Trump strategist now facing felony fraud charges.

The study, co-authored by a Chinese virologist who fled Hong Kong this year, claims that "laboratory manipulation is part of the history of SARS-CoV-2." Its findings were quickly picked up by a handful of prominent news organizations such as the New York Post, which hyped the "explosive" allegations that run counter to virtually all existing scientific literature on the source of the virus.

The study is the work of the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation, sister nonprofit organizations that Bannon was instrumental in creating. According to documents posted on the Society's website last year, he served as that group's chair. The Bannon connection was first spotted by Kevin Bird, a Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University, and shared by Carl Bergstrom, a biology professor at the University of Washington, who called the study "bizarre and unfounded."

Comment: Regardless of whether or not it was intentional, it seems the current fraudulent study will be used to further discredit the actual evidence that SARS-CoV2 was man-made. Rather predictable.

See also: Chinese defector virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan publishes report claiming COVID-19 was made in a lab

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Best of the Web: Joe Biden - the show is over! Revealing the tools and programming for implementing a sustainable US coup

George Eliason
Medium
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 21:35 UTC
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Checkmate.

This is where the bar is set. If the DNC leadership and Joe Biden had a shred of decency or understanding of the national interest (reason of state) among them, both Biden and the DNC would bow out of the 2020 election so traitors to the Constitution, companies, lobbies, and people could be investigated and prosecuted.

Now, if you're a Democrat reading this, you have two choices. You can read the following with all the skepticism you can muster and I welcome that. Then go into 2020 elections based on your conclusions. Or you can ignore it and burn the country down. Your choice.

I've been covering this specific story since February 2015, writing it from the perspectives of the players and victims as it developed through primary source evidence. This story developed in Ukraine.

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Best of the Web: Census Bureau stats: US poverty rate hit record low in 2019, particularly among minorities

Jordan Lancaster
The Daily Caller
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:59 UTC
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© Mandel Ngan/AFPPresident Donald Trump
Poverty levels in the United States hit a record low in 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday.

The 2019 poverty rate was 10.5%, the lowest ever recorded since the national poverty rate was first published in 1959. The poverty rate decreased by 1.3% from 2018, marking the fifth straight year of decline, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Between 2018 and 2019, 4.2 million people were lifted out of poverty.

Median household income increased by 6.8% from 2018 and was up to $68,703 last year, data showed. Black, white, Asian and Hispanic households all saw an increase in median household income.

Comment: And so it would have continued except for the Plandemic and its business-killing lockdown.

Trump truly is a rare phenomenon: a US president who lives up to his campaign promises and actively improves the welfare of the population.

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Best of the Web: Playing with fire: Democrats and their military quislings flirt with a borderline seditious military coup


Revolver
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:45 UTC
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As the election approaches, more and more ominous evidence is quickly piling up that the U.S. military's nearly 250-year separation from national politics is eroding. Frightening signs indicate that senior members of the military are open to an anti-Trump coup d'etat. If such a coup happens, Democrats will gleefully cheer it on.

Revolver wants make clear that this article is not based on any inside information. Nobody on the Joint Chiefs of Staff is passing on warnings about what the military is planning. Instead, this article is based on a reading of public statements and events, which are already worrisome enough.

The first red flag is buried in Bob Woodward's latest book on the Trump Administration, Rage. According to the book, former Defense Secretary James Mattis spent much of his tenure in office plotting to undermine the elected leader who appointed him.

Comment: The Deep State has been trying for almost four years now:

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Best of the Web: The one incredibly green thing Donald Trump has done: Cleaning up the USA's most toxic sites

David Ferry
Politico
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 06:45 UTC
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"Every one of these houses, I can tell you the people that has died," Susie Worley-Jenkins told me as she nosed her pickup down the steep ravine into her hometown. "A woman right there, she died, her dad died, her mom died. All with cancer."

Minden, West Virginia, is in a small holler — hollow, to non-Appalachians — and 40 years ago it was home to about 1,200 people. Today it's home to 250. There are around 25 homes on the main road into town, mostly low-slung or trailers, and we drove slowly so Worley-Jenkins had time to recount the dead.
"This woman here, she died of cancer. Her son's right there now, he's dying with bone cancer. And the woman there died of cancer. This guy and his wife both died with cancer; he bought this to fix it up. He was our sheriff."
Minden was born a coal town. Five decades ago, the Shaffer Equipment Company, which serviced the local coal industry, dumped its transformers into the abandoned mines above town. The machines were laced with extremely toxic industrial chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as probable human carcinogens.

Comment: Politico does not often give the president more than passing credit for his leadership or humanitarian efforts. 54 Superfund sites were redeemed and Trump put corporations on the hook for cleanups that numbered 80% of the sites...that, in itself, is remarkable. Does everyone want these sites cleaned up? Yes. Has anyone else done it? No. Leading activist Lois Gibbs said: "You know the last time I saw something like this? Never." Green groups aren't about to focus on this Trump priority, neither will a Biden administration.

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Best of the Web: All of the bad news in 2020 is causing a shockingly high number of Americans to 'seriously consider' suicide

Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
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This is a very difficult article for me to write, but I definitely need to write it. All over the country, people are considering suicide because of all the bad things that have happened this year, and things are only going to get even more challenging in 2021 and beyond. This greatly grieves me, because suicide is never the answer to anything, and I wish that I could sit down individually with every person that is considering suicide and get them to understand this. Our lives are meant to be lived with purpose, passion and great joy, and that doesn't change when times get very difficult. In fact, when challenging times come that is when bright lights are needed the most.

Personally, even though I am constantly writing about all of the hard things that are going on in the world, I am not down, I am not depressed, and I am not on any pills. Instead, I am incredibly thankful for the gift of each new day, and there is no other time in all of human history that I would rather be living than right now.

But if you allow your life to be defined by the system that the global elite have established, and if you are living for what you can get from that system, then the years ahead are going to be exceedingly difficult for you because that system is failing.
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Best of the Web: Trump and the Gordian Knot, year three

Patrick Armstrong
Strategic Culture
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:00 UTC
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In January 2018 I advanced the hypothesis that U.S. President Trump understood that the only way to "Make American Great Again" was to disentangle it from the imperial mission that had it stuck in perpetual wars. I suggested that the cutting of this "Gordian Knot of entanglements" was difficult, even impossible, to accomplish from his end and that he understood that the cutting could only come from the other side. I followed up with another look the next March. I now look at my hypothesis as Trump's first term comes to an end.

While we are no closer to knowing whether this is indeed Trump's strategy or an unintended consequence of his behaviour, it is clear that the "Gordian knot of U.S. imperial entanglements" is under great strain.

German-American relations provide an observation point. There are four demands the Trump Administration makes of its allies - Huawei, Iran, Nord Stream 2 and defence spending - and all four converge on Germany. Germany is one of the most important American allies; it is probably the second-most important NATO member; it is the economic engine of the European Union. Should it truly defy Washington on these issues, there would be fundamental damage to the U.S. imperium. (And, if George Friedman is correct in stating that preventing a Germany-Russia coalition is the "primordial interest" of the USA, the damage could be greater still.) And yet that is what we are looking at: on several issues Berlin is defying Washington.

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Best of the Web: Was Covid-19 spreading freely worldwide before last Christmas? The evidence keeps stacking up

Peter Andrews
RT
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:29 UTC
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© Reuters/Danish SiddiquiMedical workers treat patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New Delhi.
A new study from America indicates that people were falling ill with coronavirus-like symptoms in December 2019, but doctors at the time dismissed it as ordinary flu.

A team of doctors from Los Angeles scouring the hospital records from last winter has discovered a series of smoking gun clues which almost guarantee that Covid-19 was present in America well before Christmas.

Scientists from UCLA have been analysing over 10 million hospital records from December 1, 2019 to February 29, 2020. Comparing that winter to previous ones, they noticed a 50-percent increase in 'coughing' as a symptom on admission forms. In addition, 18 more people than would ordinarily be expected were hospitalised with acute respiratory failure.


Comment: 18! That seems to be an incredibly insignificant number given 10M records, unless a typo!


Comment: We noticed this early on, that around a dozen countries reported spikes in hospitalizations of respiratory illness as early as November 2019.

UCLA provided the following statement on its investigation:
Dr. Joann Elmore, the study's lead author and a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said in a statement:
"For many diseases, data from the outpatient setting can provide an early warning to emergency departments and hospital intensive care units of what is to come.

"The majority of COVID-19 studies evaluate hospitalization data, but we also looked at the larger outpatient clinic setting, where most patients turn first for medical care when illness and symptoms arise.

"We may never truly know if these excess patients represented early and undetected COVID-19 cases in our area. But the lessons learned from this pandemic, paired with health care analytics that enable real-time surveillance of disease and symptoms, can potentially help us identify and track emerging outbreaks and future epidemics."
The study was posted Wednesday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Medical Internet Research.


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