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Biden could owe as much as $500K in back taxes, government report indicates

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:00 UTC
IRS building
© AP Photo/Susan Walsh, FileThe IRS is not obligated to investigate President Biden’s “dormant” S corporations.
Republicans say a new nonpartisan report indicates President Biden improperly avoided paying Medicare taxes before he took office — raising eyebrows and the possibility that he owes the IRS as much as $500,000 in back taxes.

Biden is leading a Democratic push for a $3.5 trillion bill to subsidize child care, education and health care by targeting tax avoidance and raising tax rates on higher incomes so the rich "pay their fair share."

A House Ways and Means Committee draft of the bill would end the accounting trick apparently exploited by Biden and boost IRS funding for audits — but the new report, drafted by the Congressional Research Service and provided to The Post, suggests Biden owes taxes under current rules, according to the congressman who requested it.

Comment: All these upper class elites play accounting games with their taxes in order to avoid paying anything substantial. It seems its an easy target for political opponents, but it's likely the ones pointing the fingers have some creative accounting going on as well. All this to say - don't stop at Biden!

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Best of the Web: Tony Blair Says Govt Should Vaccinate Nursery-Age Children

Kurt Zindulka
newsbinding
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 07:43 UTC
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that the British government should begin vaccinating nursery age children and begin imposing vaccine passports in order to supposedly prevent another lockdown in the winter.

In written comments in the foreword to a coronavirus report from the Tony Blair Institute, which has been attempting to steer decision-making in the United Kingdom and across the world from the outset of the pandemic, the former Prime Minister argued children are becoming a significant source of the spread of the virus.

While the government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) did not recommend vaccinating children on health grounds, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has decided to push forward with vaccinating children over the age of 12-years-old, even without parental consent in some cases.


Comment: Tony Blair "Institute" has received millions of dollars back in 2018 for advising Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's modernization program under a "not for profit" arrangement. This "institute" enabled so-called "progressive reforms" in Saudi Arabia under which women can get their heads chopped off, even for supporting political protests.

Just follow the money, not the science if you want to see the real face of this harsh reality and all ugly creatures from the swamp which thrive on people's suffering and pain.


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Do the global managers want the "pandemic" to end?

Brian Jones
The American Conservative
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Global Managers
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Early treatment of symptoms is the last remaining enemy of the global Covid consensus.

In his March 17, 2020, article in Stat, Stanford epidemiologist Dr. John Ioannidis argued for a vast reconsideration of the societal response to the emerging SARS-COV-2 pandemic, commonly called Covid-19. For unknown reasons, the scientific and medical tradition forming the foundation for how to respond to pandemics was being quickly disbanded. Abandoning such previously established traditions entailed filling the void with the appearance of a new global consensus: The combination of unending non-pharmaceutical interventions (masks, social distancing, etc.) and universal vaccination was the key that would end the pandemic.

The totalizing power of this new global pandemic consensus has certainly been effective over the last year and a half. However, the last month and a half has brought about a palatable instability to this apparently once-certain agreement.

As one writer observes,
Until now, Corona policy in every western country has unfolded more or less according to the same script, devised by the World Health Organization at the end of February 2020. The final act was supposed to be the wide-scale eradication of Corona after mass vaccination. It is now clear that this will never happen. For the first time since March 2020, there is no obvious international consensus on the way forward.

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Texas Secretary of State's Office announces full forensic audit of 2020 general election in four Texas counties


MSN
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 22:01 UTC
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The Texas Secretary of State's office announced on Thursday, September 23 it has begun a forensic audit of the 2020 election in three North Texas counties, Dallas, Tarrant and Collin along with Harris County.

In a statement sent to CBS 11, it said in part: Under existing Texas laws, the Secretary of State has the authority to conduct a full and comprehensive forensic audit. We anticipate the Legislature will provide funds for this purpose.

Full Text Of News Release From Texas Secretary Of State:
Under existing Texas laws, the Secretary of State has the authority to conduct a full and comprehensive forensic audit of any election and has already begun the process in Texas' two largest Democrat counties and two largest Republican counties — Dallas, Harris, Tarrant, and Collin — for the 2020 election. We anticipate the Legislature will provide funds for this purpose.
Earlier in an open letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Former President Donald Trump has backed House Bill 16(PDF) that calls for a "review of the results of the 2020 general election.
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US reaches deal with Huawei's Meng Wanzhou, allowing her to return to China

Zhou Xin
South China Morning Post
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:27 UTC
Huawei Wanzhou
© Ian YoungHuawei CFO Meng Wanzhou leaves her home in Vancouver on Friday morning.
Huawei Technologies Co. executive Meng Wanzhou reached a deal with US prosecutors on Friday that will allow her to return to China, effectively resolving the case that has kept Meng in legal limbo in Vancouver for nearly three years.

The deal, in the form of a deferred prosecution agreement that will be in effect until December 2022, releases Meng on the condition that she abides by a "statement of facts" about the case, providing a reprieve to a legal dispute that helped to throw Beijing's relations with Canada and the United States into crisis.

"We fully expect the indictment to be dismissed with prejudice," Meng's lawyer Michelle Levin of Steptoe & Johnson told reporters after the hearing at a US federal courthouse in New York. "Ms Meng is free to go home to her family."

Comment: See also: New Chinese ambassador to UK barred from parliament, follows tit for tat that Britain started with unilateral sanctions on Chinese officials

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Biden falls asleep during press meeting AGAIN, aides shout at press to leave after just two questions during meeting with UK PM

Samuel Chamberlain
New York Post
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:18 UTC
Biden Johnson
© AP Photo/Alex BrandonPresident Joe Biden speaks with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the Oval Office on Sept. 21, 2021.
Press secretary Jen Psaki tried to explain away President Biden's refusal to take questions from reporters during his Tuesday sitdown with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson by claiming that the UK leader had blindsided White House aides by calling on two British reporters.

"I think our relationship with the United Kingdom and with Prime Minister Johnson is so strong and abiding, we will be able to move forward beyond this," Psaki said Wednesday, "but he [Johnson] called on individuals from his press corps without alerting us to that intention in advance."


Comment: Biden has deteriorated to the point where, in their failed attempts to cover up his addled state, the White House needs to manage every moment he's in front of the cameras: Something is wrong with the President


After Johnson and Biden answered queries from Harry Cole of the Sun newspaper and Beth Rigby of Sky News, White House press aides known as "wranglers" began shouting and herding reporters outside the Oval Office, where the meeting was taking place.

"That's absurd," one reporter was heard complaining as he headed outside. "Two British reporters get questions and we don't get anything."

Comment: Since it's clear that Biden isn't steering the ship, it begs the question, just who is? Australia sent 'extremely satisfied' letter hours before axing €56bn French contract & announcing US deal

Below is the footage of Biden drifting off during his meeting with Israel's PM:

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Stunning interview sees China warn "23 Million Australians" that new AUKUS pact now makes them "target" for nuclear attack


Zerohedge
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 20:40 UTC
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During an Australian TV primetime segment this week, the well-known China-based expert Victor Gao, who is vice president of the Center for China and Globalization and once served as communist leader Deng Xiaoping's translator, issued a chilling scenario and shock to his Aussie audience over the controversial AUKUS defense pact between the US, Australia and the UK.

Gao bluntly warned that the deal which will see Washington give Canberra nuclear submarine technology now makes all of Australia a target for nuclear strike:
"The watershed moment will be if Australia is armed with nuclear submarines to be locally produced in Australia, Australia will lose that privilege of not being targeted with nuclear weapons by other countries," Gao warned.
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Eurasia takes shape: How the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) just flipped the world order

Pepe Escobar
The Cradle
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
SCO member-states
© The CradleWith Iran's arrival, the SCO member-states now number nine, and they're focused on fixing Afghanistan and consolidating Eurasia.
As a rudderless West watched on, the 20th anniversary meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was laser-focused on two key deliverables: shaping up Afghanistan and kicking off a full-spectrum Eurasian integration.

The two defining moments of the historic 20th anniversary Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan had to come from the keynote speeches of - who else - the leaders of the Russia-China strategic partnership.

Xi Jinping: "Today we will launch procedures to admit Iran as a full member of the SCO."

Vladimir Putin: "I would like to highlight the Memorandum of Understanding that was signed today between the SCO Secretariat and the Eurasian Economic Commission. It is clearly designed to further Russia's idea of establishing a Greater Eurasia Partnership covering the SCO, the EAEU (Eurasian Economic Union), ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and China's Belt and Road initiative (BRI)."

In short, over the weekend, Iran was enshrined in its rightful, prime Eurasian role, and all Eurasian integration paths converged toward a new global geopolitical - and geoeconomic - paradigm, with a sonic boom bound to echo for the rest of the century.
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Democrats quietly limit House GOP effort to press for probes into Biden administration

Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju
KITV4
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:29 UTC
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© Drew Angerer/GettyHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
House Democrats have quietly moved to restrict the GOP's ability to use its limited power in the minority to press for investigations, an effort that has Republicans crying foul as they seek to pressure their foes over the Biden administration's handling of Afghanistan.

According to publicly available documents reviewed by CNN, Democrats last year began slipping language into House rules that essentially blocks Republicans from using a "resolution of inquiry." That tool allows a lawmaker to formally request information from the executive branch. Once the inquiry is introduced, the relevant committee is required to act within 14 days or else it can be brought up as a privileged resolution on the House floor.

While a resolution of inquiry has less teeth than a subpoena — and the party in power would have the numbers to prevent it from advancing — it's one of the few investigative tools that the minority has at its disposal. At the very least, it would enable the minority party to force members of the majority to take a public stance and vote on certain issues in committee.

Comment: The fight of the factions has become more important than serving the people.

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Best of the Web: 40 days to save the planet? Boris' green act is yet another unprincipled U-turn from a serial flip flopper

Paul A. Nuttall
RT
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 06:53 UTC
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
© AP Photo / Eduardo MunozBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, at U.N. headquarters.
The British prime minister is seeking to fashion himself as a switched-on leader on climate change - but isn't it all just more hot air and bluster from one of the world's biggest confidence tricksters?

Boris Johnson was doing his best Greta Thunberg impression at the United Nations yesterday.

According to BoJo, we have been acting like a 16-year-old and "it's time for humanity to grow up." Interestingly, Greta was only 16 when she told the UN that "you have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," and yet for some reason, everyone listened to her.

Boris also said that the world has just 40 days "to come to Glasgow to make the commitments necessary" to save the planet. And if we don't, "our grandchildren will know that we are the culprits ... and that we missed our cue, and they will ask what kind of people we were to be so selfish and so short-sighted."

If he carries on making alarmist statements like this, he'll end up gluing himself to the M25 or peppering the City of London with red paint.

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