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'10 for the big guy': Politico confirms Hunter Biden's China, Ukraine emails are legit

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 04:44 UTC
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John Paul Mac Isaac • Hunter Biden
Several emails from Hunter Biden's laptop have been confirmed as legitimate, according to Politico, citing claims in a new book, along with emails released by a Swedish government agency.
Ben Schreckinger's The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power, out today, finds evidence that some of the purported HUNTER BIDEN laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October's controversy.

A person who had independent access to Hunter Biden's emails confirmed he did receive a 2015 email from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet Joe Biden. The same goes for a 2017 email in which a proposed equity breakdown of a venture with Chinese energy executives includes the line, "10 held by H for the big guy?" (This person recalled seeing both emails, but was not in a position to compare the leaked emails word-for-word to the originals.)

MORE: Emails released by a Swedish government agency also match emails in the leaked cache, and two people who corresponded with Hunter Biden confirmed emails from the cache were genuine. -Politico
Recall that news of Hunter Biden's laptop was broken by the New York Post shortly before the 2020 election - resulting in a multi-week Twitter ban on the outlet, and a baseless claim spread throughout the MSM and by notable Democrats including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) that it was Russian disinformation.

Comment: Raise your hand if you thought there was even a remote chance Hunter's laptop was a fake...not anybody?

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Libya's parliament withdraws confidence from unity government

Wakud Abdullah, Mahmoud Barakat
aa.com.tr
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Dbeibah
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Libyan PM Abdul Hamid Dbeibah
Libya's House of Representatives on Tuesday withdrew confidence from the unity government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.

The parliament decided to withdraw confidence from the government by a majority of 89 out of 113 lawmakers who attended today's session, parliamentary spokesman Abdullah Belhaiq said on Facebook. He did not give further details.

The High Council of State criticized the move, with its spokesman Muhammad Abdel Nasser tweeting that it
"rejects the procedure of withdrawing confidence from the national unity government, and considers it void for violating the constitutional declaration and the political agreement, and considers everything that results from them null."
There was no comment from the unity government on the move.

Meanwhile, 38 lawmakers signed a petition in opposition to parliament withdrawing confidence from the government, local Al-Ahrar TV channel reported. Also, mayors of 65 out of 116 municipalities in Libya announced their rejection of the motion, saying it lacks constitutional or legal basis and "aims only to sow chaos."
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New proof emerges on the Biden family emails: A definitive account of the CIA/Media/BigTech fraud

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:05 UTC
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CNN's Wolf Blitzer warns that emails and other documents reported on by The New York Post about Joe Biden's activities in Ukraine and China may be "Russian disinformation," Oct. 16, 2020.
An axis of the CIA, Big Tech and the DNC-allied wing of the corporate media spread an absolute lie in the weeks before the 2020 election. We now have definitive proof.

A severe escalation of the war on a free internet and free discourse has taken place over the last twelve months. Numerous examples of brute and dangerous censorship have emerged: the destruction by Big Tech monopolies of Parler at the behest of Democratic politicians at the time that it was the most-downloaded app in the country; the banning of the sitting president from social media; and the increasingly explicit threats from elected officials in the majority party of legal and regulatory reprisals in the event that tech platforms do not censor more in accordance with their demands.

But the most severe episode of all was the joint campaign — in the weeks before the 2020 election — by the CIA, Big Tech, the liberal wing of the corporate media and the Democratic Party to censor and suppress a series of major reports about then-presidential frontrunner Joe Biden. On October 14 and then October 15, 2020, The New York Post, the nation's oldest newspaper, published two news reports on Joe Biden's activities in Ukraine and China that raised serious questions about his integrity and ethics: specifically whether he and his family were trading on his name and influence to generate profit for themselves. The Post said that the documents were obtained from a laptop left by Joe Biden's son Hunter at a repair shop.
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How National Propaganda Radio (NPR) negatively slants reporting about Covid and Ivermectin

Eric Zuesse
The Duran
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:42 UTC
ivermectina
On September 21st, NPR's "All Things Considered" had a segment titled "How Ivermectin Ended Up In The Middle Of A COVID-19 Controversy" and reported by Pien Huang.

She totally ignored — didn't mention at all — the actual scientific research studies that have been done comparing the disease-outcomes of covid patients who have been receiving ivermectin versus the patients who haven't. That should have been what her report was focusing on, but instead she totally ignored that question, and the interviewer (the program-host) never even raised the question with her.

Here are those data, all of which she ignored:

Comment: NPR is the propaganda outlet targeted at those who consider themselves the intelligensia. There's a program for everyone.

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White House press corps launch 'formal objection' to Biden refusing to answer questions

Steve Watson
Summit News
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:01 UTC
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden at a press conference in the Oval Office, September 21, 2021
Pathetic scene in Oval Office as British PM takes press questions while Biden's handlers refuse to allow him to speak

CBS News reported Tuesday that the press pool of White House reporters have launched a formal objection over the fact that Joe Biden refuses to answer any questions, with reporters routinely being yelled down and physically pushed away by Biden's handlers.

The revelation came after an embarrassing scene in the Oval Office with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson answering questions, but Biden not being allowed to by aides.

Comment: Twiite has been speculating over how much control is being exerted by White house staff as well as the First Lady:





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Chess

US Gen. Mark Milley meets with Russian counterpart Gen. Valery Gerasimov to discuss post-Afghan withdrawal terms, 'basing rights'

Lolita C. Baldor
Military.com
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:39 UTC
general milley Gerasimov meeting helsinki
© Department of Defense
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley met with Chief of Russian General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021 in Helsinki, Finland.
The top U.S. military officer met with his Russian counterpart Wednesday, against the backdrop of U.S. struggles to get military basing rights and other counterterrorism support in countries bordering Afghanistan — a move Moscow has flatly opposed.

The meeting in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, between Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Chief of the Russian General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov comes at a crucial time in the wake of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Without troops on the ground, the U.S. needs to forge more basing, intelligence sharing and other agreements to help monitor al-Qaida and Islamic State militants in Afghanistan to ensure they are not regrouping and posing a threat to America and its allies.

Comment: Russia will have enough on its hands with the Taliban and it opposition being right next door. There is no way they will permit the US to be in a position to disrupt Russia's delicate negotiations with Afghanistan and the other nations of Central Asia, nor interfere with any reconstruction assistance it may offer to the Taliban government.

Afghanistan asks Russia to provide help in economic reconstruction

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Prediction: The Deep State will toss Joseph Biden out like an old casserole within a year

Ben Bartee
The Daily Bell
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Jill and Joe Biden

Biden’s handers: ‘Let’s get you home away from these cameras, sweetie muffin’
The Ides of March are upon us in September, and the air is heavy with palace intrigue.

When White House officials leak damaging goodies to their allies at Politico, it's a sure sign the sinking ship is barely treading water. The rats appear to be jumping; Biden's presidency will likely not survive another year.

Via Yahoo! News:
"Anxiety about what President Joe Biden might say if he takes questions from the media drives some in the White House to mute him or turn off his public appearances altogether, Politico reported Tuesday, citing White House officials...

Biden has made frequent flubs during press events and other public appearances by losing his line of thinking, stumbling, and forgetting names...

Biden occasionally shrugs off reporters' inquiries by telling the press that his staff directed him not to take questions, suggesting officials seek to minimize the number of those incidents."
This is all an outrageous, illegitimate affront to the façade of American democracy. No voter elected the anonymous staffers/bureaucrats who control when the president can speak and what he can speak about. In a functional representative democracy, shadowy figures in the background don't get to control such issues; the people, theoretically, elect their representatives to personally work on their behalf.
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Bullseye

New Iran leader gives fiery UN speech: Sanctions are "new means of war" by "US hegemon"


Zerohedge
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 23:45 UTC
Raisi addressed the UN General Assembly
For the first time newly installed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addressed the UN General Assembly meeting on Tuesday afternoon, hours after Biden spoke wherein the US president said the White House still wants a full return to the JCPOA nuclear deal "if Iran does the same". Raisi addressed the UN body via remote feed, given sanctions on him could make the trip into New York difficult.

Raisi, who has long been described as more hardline than his predecessor Rouhani, wasn't so conciliatory in his tone. He took the occasion to lash at the foreign policies of both Trump and Biden, saying "The world doesn't care about 'America First' or 'America is Back."

He blasted and mocked the "US hegemonic system" as having "failed miserably" while calling continued US-led sanctions initially imposed by former President Trump "crimes against humanity during the coronavirus pandemic." He further took the opportunity to declare the failure of the US in Afghanistan.

"One clear message was sent to the world: the United States' hegemonic system has no credibility, whether inside or outside the country," Raisi said. He added forcefully that "not only the hegemonist and the idea of hegemony, but also the project of imposing Westernized identity, have failed miserably."

Comment: Possibly the strongest words given at the UN criticizing US policy and leadership since Venezuela's Chavez "smelled sulfur in the room" - though Putin has certainly delivered some serious critiques a time or two as well.

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Windsock

ECHR rules Russia was responsible for death of Litvinenko, former FSB agent who defected to Britain's MI6 - Moscow denies role


RT
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:46 UTC
Litvinenko
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Alexander Litvinenko. (inset) The European Court of Human Rights.
Europe's top human rights court has ruled that Moscow's security services were behind the 2006 death by poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence officer who moved to London and defected to Britain's MI6.

In a judgement issued on Tuesday morning, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) concluded that "Russia was responsible for assassination of Litvinenko in the UK."

The spy, who ran key operations in the war-torn region of Chechnya during the bloody civil conflict in the early 1990s, began working for the UK's MI6 foreign intelligence service after leaving Russia in 2000. He was recruited, officials said, to provide "useful information about senior Kremlin figures and their links with Russian organized crime." In his absence a court in Moscow found him guilty of corruption and sentenced him to three-and-a-half years behind bars.

Comment: Over the years it has become blatantly clear the ECHR are compromised, and so for insight into just which group was likely responsible for the murder of Litvinenko, check out SOTTs: See also:

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Sudan coup attempt has failed, government says

Peter Beaumont
The Guardian
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:22 UTC
Sudan coup protest
© Ibrahim Ishaq/AFP/GettyPeter Beaumont and agencies
Demonstrators blocked Port Sudan this week in protest at a peace deal with rebel groups.
Sudan's fragile political transition has been plunged into uncertainty after a reported coup attempt by soldiers loyal to the former autocrat Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted in 2019.

As Sudan woke up to the government's claims of the alleged coup, details - including the individuals behind it - remained murky. Bashir himself came to power after a military coup in 1989.

Amid reports of sporadic shooting at a base in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, which is linked to the capital by bridge, government officials said the coup involving military officers and civilians linked to the deposed regime had failed.

Comment: See also:

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