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Best of the Web: Who let Capitol protesters into the building on January 6?

Julie Kelly
American Greatness
Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
Johnson/Cap Riots
© Salon/Getty ImagesWisconsin Senator Ron Johnson and Capitol riots
Judge Amit Mehta thinks no one let protesters into the Capitol building on January 6.

During a pre-trial detention hearing on Friday — Joe Biden's Justice Department continues to demand jail time for nonviolent offenders before their trials even begin — the D.C. District Court judge made that false claim. "No one was let in," the Obama appointee told the lawyer representing Jason Dolan, an alleged Oath Keeper and former U.S. Marine with no criminal record. (Mehta denied the government's motion for detention but admitted it was a "close call.")

Mehta, of course, is flat wrong. Videos taken by people at the Capitol not only show some U.S. Capitol Police officers ushering protesters toward the building and allowing them to enter but, as American Greatness exclusively reported last month, USCP officers also cautioned several protesters how they should behave.

In fact, in an anonymous interview with the Gateway Pundit in May, Dolan himself described how someone inside the Capitol opened the doors. (Dolan was arrested three days after the interview was posted.) The Justice Department, in a motion to keep Dolan incarcerated awaiting trial, called his story a "conspiracy theory."

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The decline of Western power

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:10 UTC
Boris and Earth
© UN Climate Change ConferenceUK PM Boris Johnson and the World
Boris Johnson sees himself as the heritor of a world bestriding Imperial mantle, but in truth he cannot bestride the Irish Sea. The overshadowing of the G7 summit by his peculiar concern that Irish sausages should not be eaten by those in Northern Ireland who do not believe in evolution, was a fascinating examplar of British impotence as he failed to persuade anybody else to support him. It looks like Danish bacon for the shops of Belfast and Derry will have to be imported through Dun Laoghaire and not through Larne. Ho hum.

The really interesting thing about the G7 summit is that it wasn't interesting. Nobody expected it to change the world, and it won't. John Pilger pointed out the key fact. Twenty years ago the G7 constituted two thirds of the world economy. Now they constitute one third. They don't even represent most of the world's billionaires any longer, though those billionaires they do represent - and indeed some of the billionaires they don't represent - were naturally pulling the strings of these rather sluggish puppets.

It used to be that any important sporting event in any developing country would feature hoardings for western multinationals, such as Pepsi Cola and Nestle baby milk. Nowadays I am watching the Euros football pitches surrounded by electronic hoardings in Chinese. The thing about power is this; it shifts with time.
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Hunter Biden invested millions in Chinese nuclear plant operator that vented dangerous buildup of gasses

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 15 Jun 2021 11:42 UTC
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© UnknownHunter Biden
Hunter Biden's private equity firm invested millions of dollars in a Chinese state-owned nuclear power plant operator whose French partner warned the White House that the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province was in danger of an "imminent radiological threat" due to a build-up of noble gasses in the cooling system of one of the facility's two reactors, according to the National Pulse.

As the National Pulse's Natalie Winters reported on Monday:
The Biden team's lack of concern comes as the primary operator of the China-based plant - China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) - counts millions in investment from Hunter Biden.

BHR Partners - the private equity firm where Hunter Biden served as a director since 2013 - was a $10 million cornerstone investor in CGN's initial public offering. Occurring in 2014, the IPO was the second largest of the entire year, valued at over $3 billion.
The company, which Hunter Biden reportedly retains a sizable stake in, still lists GCN as part of its portfolio on its website.
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Best of the Web: Tucker Carlson: Capitol riot is being weaponized to punish Biden's political enemies

Katie Daviscourt
The Post Millennial
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:54 UTC
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© Fox NewsTucker Carlson
Primetime Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed the Biden administration and the Democratic Party's obsession over the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, and said the riot is being used as motivation to punish Biden's political opponents.

"Because of January 6, says the chief law enforcement officer in the United States of America and many other members of Joe Biden's cabinet, we must now use law enforcement and military force to arrest, imprison, and otherwise crush anyone who leads opposition to Joe Biden's government," Tucker said. "That's their position. They say that out loud. They did today."

"So what is this exactly?" Tucker continued. "Well, it's a big change in the way the United States government assesses and then treats its own citizens. We are living through the transformation of a formerly democratic Republic into something else. We're looking at growing authoritarianism."

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Irrelevant Killary: Questioning election results is doing Putin's work -- 'Very dangerous'

Trent Baker
Beitbart
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:32 UTC
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© MSNBCHillary Clinton strives to stay in the spotlight
Wednesday on MSNBC's Morning Joe, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cautioned former President Donald Trump and other elected officials from questioning election results.

After claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin "helped elect Trump" in 2016 instead of her, Clinton said suggesting the 2020 presidential election was rigged or not conducted fairly is doing the work of Putin. She explained Putin wants to "sow distrust" and "sow divisiveness" in the United States.

Comment: Hearing Shrillary bleat on about 'protecting the Constitution' would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. From being slipped debate questions in 2016 to hinky primary results, to threats to question her own election loss, she is the epitome of political corruption. The rest of the interview is MSNBC fawning interspersed with neocon boilerplate talking points.

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German MP warns of rise in far-right extremists, says they're protesting "side-by-side" with opponents of lockdown


My Northwest
Tue, 15 Jun 2021 05:05 UTC
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© Reuters / Fabrizio BenschFILE PHOTO: German special policemen SEK search a housing area in the eastern city of Chemnitz.
Authorities in Germany said Tuesday that the number of far-right extremists in the country increased last year as neo-Nazis sought to join protests against pandemic-related restrictions.

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said authorities counted 33,300 far-right extremists in 2020, an increase of almost 4% from the previous year.

"Far-right extremists were repeatedly able to protest side-by-side" with non-extremist opponents of the pandemic restrictions, Seehofer said.


Comment: 'Able to protest side-by-side'? That's a strange way of putting it.


The minister added that it was worrying how the protesters often didn't distance themselves from the far-right extremists marching among them.

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Wolf

"Four more weeks to, er..." - The UK government's weakest excuse for a lockdown yet

Will Jones
Lockdown Sceptics
Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:10 UTC
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What justifies a lockdown? That's the question which, 16 months after the policy was introduced into Western democracies as a draconian tool of disease management, we still don't have a clear answer to. First sold to the public as a way of mitigating peak health service demand during the initial pandemic wave (and thus supposedly saving lives by ensuring more people could get treated - ignore the irony that the overuse of ventilators during those first few weeks likely increased the mortality rate), the justification has evolved over time. In November it was a "circuit breaker" to save Christmas, though Christmas was not saved. In January it was to buy time to allow the most vulnerable to receive at least their first vaccine dose, though it turned out that was not enough to restore our freedoms.

Yesterday the Prime Minister and his scientific flunkies Chris Witless and Patrick Unbalanced unveiled the Government's latest excuse to keep the restrictions going. "The objective of this short delay," said the Prime Minister, "is to use these crucial weeks to save thousands of lives, of lives that would otherwise be lost... by vaccinating millions more people as fast as we can."

Comment: Sweden didn't lockdown and fared better than countries that did; Texas has lifted all restrictions and has not suffered for it; clearly this is not about a 'deadly virus':

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Biden denies Ukraine's claim that NATO 'confirmed' they can join

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:46 UTC
Biden
© Patrick Semansky/APPresident Joe Biden did not confirm that Ukraine will be joining NATO as Zelensky stated on Twitter.
President Biden on Monday directly denied Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's claim that NATO leaders agreed to allow his country to join the military alliance.

Biden refused to give a "yes" or "no" to Ukraine joining NATO while at the alliance's annual summit in Belgium.

"It depends on whether they meet the criteria. The fact is, they still have to clean up corruption. The fact is, they have to meet other criteria to get into the action plan. And so it's, you know, school's out on that question. It remains to be seen," Biden said at a press conference that was over two hours late in starting and lasted just over 16 minutes.


Comment: Biden highlighting corruption in Ukraine is surprising because he profited from and was directly involved in corruption in the country. It also seems a little odd because the US needs to keep Ukraine on-side because they're using them as proxies to provoke Russia. But, perhaps the recent, additional, payment from the Pentagon of $150 million dollars for arms that will 'improve Ukraine's lethality' will serve as temporary hush money?

It's also notable that the conference only lasted for 16 minutes; is this perhaps yet another sign of just how quickly Biden's health is deteriorating? It's no wonder he daren't do a press conference with Putin; Putin who is renowned for his Q&A's that can easily go on for hours.


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Israel just got the most rightwing Prime Minister ever, and liberal Zionists celebrate

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
Bennett, Kochavi
© UnknownNaftali Bennett with Israel's Chief of Staff, Aviv Kochavi, May 27, 2021
A racist, religious-fundamentalist war-criminal land squatter in the form of Bennett, is now the cause of celebrations by the Israeli left, because they think the great change has come.

It's final - a new government was sworn in last night in Israel, following a razor-thin confidence vote of 60-59. The planned 61 majority was altered by an abstention from Palestinian-Bedouin lawmaker Said al-Harumi from the conservative Palestinian Islamic United Arab List (Ra'am), which is part of the government, because of yet more imminent Israeli village destructions in southern Israel. The first term in the rotation agreement between the far-right Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid is Bennett's - he is supposed to be Prime Minister until August 2023.

Bennett, of the religious-Zionist settler party Yamina ("rightwards"), is the most rightwing Prime Minister Israel ever had.

Many Zionists, especially on the left, are celebrating. The new government might mark the end of the long Netanyahu era, which has lasted longer than any other premiership, by far, including Israel's 'founding father' Ben-Gurion. Netanyahu has ruled now for 12 consecutive years, and the 1996-99 term adds another 3.

You could think it was Independence Day - thousands were celebrating with confetti and Israeli flags at the Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, as well as in other locations in Israel that identify themselves as bastions of the left. But this is the Zionist left, and when it's Zionism, the relativity is inside a paradigm which is rightwing in its ultra-nationalism.

And that's how Naftali Bennett is now going to be sanitised as a liberal: because he is supposedly this dragonslayer who ousted Netanyahu. The dragonslayer's party only got 7 seats in the last election - Lapid's party got 17 - but the Israeli logic says that this is the necessary pragmatism to make it work, to just get through this one, as it were.

Comment: Sounds like Israel has just opened a bigger can of worms. We shall see.

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The enduring false narrative about the PULSE Massacre shows the power of media propaganda

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
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© Brooks Kraft/Getty ImagesFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits the site of Pulse
July 22, 2016 • Orlando, Florida
Politicians and activists should stop ratifying the fiction that Omar Mateen was motivated by anti-LGBT hatred. It dishonors the victims and obscures the real motive.

On the fifth anniversary of the PULSE nightclub massacre in Orlando, numerous senators, politicians and activist groups commemorated that tragic event by propagating an absolute falsehood: namely, that the shooter, Omar Mateen, was motivated by anti-LGBT animus. The evidence is definitive and conclusive that this is false — Mateen, like so many others who committed similar acts of violence, was motivated by rage over President Obama's bombing campaigns in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and chose PULSE at random without even knowing it was a gay club — yet this media-consecrated lie continues to fester.

On Saturday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) falsely described the massacre as an "unspeakable act of hate toward the LGBTQ+ community." Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) went even further, claiming "the LGBTQ+ community was targeted and killed — all because they dared to live their lives." Her fellow Illinois Democrat, Sen. Dick Durbin, claimed forty-nine lives were lost due to "anti-LGBTQ hate" (he forgot the +). These false claims were compiled by the gay socialist activist Matt Thomas, who correctly objected: "the shooter literally picked PULSE at random from Google after security was too tight at the mall he went to first," adding that while LGBT groups "are hopeless of course," too much money and power is at stake for them to give up this self-serving fiction. But he asked, "Shouldn't the bar be a little higher for senators?"

Comment: Propaganda's job is to sway opinion and create a social consensus to either reinforce a trend or nail a target. Truth is never the objective.

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