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James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00 UTC
Ben/Hunt/Joe
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Someone's watching... Hunter Biden • Joe Biden
"The statement that "Joe Biden wasn't involved in Hunter Biden's business," is absurd in its face. Joe Biden was Hunter Biden's business." — Margot Cleveland
Understand: no amount of political blustering will bring this gaslit nation into daylight when there is no more money and no more credit and no feasible way to feed the blob that ate our government. The equation is simple. Our country can't handle normal interest rates; and the value of the dollar can't withstand more ultra-low interest rates. Someone, please, ask Congress to stop screwing that pooch over there!

Oh, and that "can" we've been kicking down the road turns out to be a rusty old 50-gallon drum. Somebody has stuffed America into it and is fixing to drop us overboard beyond the continental shelf off the Jersey Shore. Can that be stopped, too?

So, here at week's end we see these two rather momentous issues juxtaposed: the battle over how to finance that blob-infested monster in DC; and the battle to expose the crimes of a real-life Manchurian Candidate president. Neither battle is going all that well for the minority of citizens who want to live in a pro-reality society. If we follow the fiscal trend, all the tax revenue we can grudge up will barely cover the annual interest on our $30+trillion debt. If we can't boot out the brain-dead cat's paw in the White House, then say goodbye to the rule of law and liberty with it.
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Briefcase

House GOP to present evidence against Biden in first impeachment hearing

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Thu, 28 Sep 2023 04:00 UTC
Biden
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US President Joe Biden
House Republicans on Thursday morning are set to hold their first impeachment inquiry public hearing, where they will present all evidence uncovered to date as part of their investigation into the Biden family's business dealings while examining "the value" of the inquiry.

The House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., will "examine the value of an impeachment inquiry and present evidence House Republicans have uncovered to date regarding President Joe Biden's knowledge of and role in his family's domestic and international business practices," according to the panel. The hearing is to begin at 10 a.m.

Bruce Dubinsky, a forensic accountant with decades of experience in financial investigations and consulting - and who the committee says has testified in more than 80 trials, including trials that involved financial fraud - will testify, along with former Assistant Attorney General Eileen O'Connor, who served in the Department of Justice Tax Division.

Law professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley, who testified in the Clinton and Trump impeachments, will also testify.

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The threat of a forgotten American 'map' unearthed by the Taliban

Shannon Vavra
Daily Beast
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:21 UTC
Surveillance
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Afghan surveillance state
Lost and Found: Another troubling consequence of the hasty U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan appears to have emerged.

The Taliban has reportedly obtained a years-old security plan created by the U.S. that could help launch a sweeping new surveillance system in Afghanistan, raising concerns among experts that the system could be used for nefarious purposes.

The plan, which is based on a map the United States apparently created before withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2021, was originally intended for the previous government. Now, the Taliban regime is considering using it as a basis for a project meant to root out terrorist threats, Ministry of Interior spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani told Reuters.
"At the present we are working on a Kabul security map, which is [being completed] by security experts and [is taking] lots of time. We already have two maps, one which was made by U.S.A for the previous government and second by Turkey."
The United States has claimed it is not working with the Taliban on the surveillance program, which will take at least four years to roll out, according to Qani. It's not clear how the Taliban obtained the alleged surveillance maps from either the United States or Turkey.

Comment: Biden's priorities and actions have never considered detrimental consequences. As such, he is one for the US.

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Stop

Federal prosecutor blocked agents from including Joe Biden in investigation into Hunter Biden

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00 UTC
PUSBiden
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US President Joe Biden
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf blocked federal agents from including then Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in their investigation into whether his son, Hunter Biden, violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

The revelation was contained in a new, lengthy report from the House Ways and Means Committee's investigation of the government's handling of the investigations into the Biden family.

Wolf, in an email to FBI and other U.S. officials, said:
"As a priority, someone needs to redraft attachment B. I am not sure what this is cut and pasted from but other than the attribution, location and identity stuff at the end, none if it is appropriate and within the scope of this warrant. Please focus on FARA evidence only. There should be nothing about Political Figure 1 in here."
The Committee released a separate court filing that identified Biden as "Political Figure 1."
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Target

Washington using 'traitor' Armenian PM to strike at Moscow - analyst


RT
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:52 UTC
Pow/Pash
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USAID Administrator Samantha Power • Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
Nikol Pashinyan enjoys American support because he is willing to harm his own people to serve US interests...

The US has poured money into Armenia for a decade, knowing that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan would do Washington's bidding by relinquishing Nagorno-Karabakh and aligning himself with the West, geopolitical analyst Kevork Almassian told RT on Tuesday.

US Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power touched down in Yerevan on Monday with promises of "support for Armenia's sovereignty." The visit came less than a week after the ethnic Armenian leadership in the disputed province of Nagorno-Karabakh agreed to lay down arms and allow the territory to be subsumed into Azerbaijan, an outcome that Pashinyan endorses against the wishes of the Armenian population.

"This delegation from the United States prepared and paved the ground for Pashinyan to come to power," Almassian told RT, referring to the massive outlay of funds that USAID, the US State Department, and the Pentagon have funneled into Armenia in recent years, particularly to pro-Pashinyan and pro-Western media projects.

Comment: See also:

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Mr. Potato

German ambassador applauded Ukrainian Waffen SS Nazi - Berlin


RT
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:55 UTC
German ambassador to Canada
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The German ambassador Sabine Sparwasser, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau honor Waffen-SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka, September 22, 2023
The foreign ministry has claimed that its diplomat was not aware that Yaroslav Hunka fought with a notorious WWII Ukrainian-based battalion

Germany's Foreign Office has shrugged off the participation of its ambassador to Canada in last week's embarrassing standing ovations for a Ukrainian veteran of the Waffen SS, saying she was unaware that he was a Nazi when she joined with Ottawa lawmakers in applauding him.

Foreign Office spokesman Sebastian Fischer acknowledged the gaffe for the first time on Wednesday, when asked at a press briefing about Ambassador Sabine Sparwasser's honoring of World War II Nazi collaborator Yaroslav Hunka.

Members of the Canadian parliament stood and gave long ovations for the 98-year-old Hunka when he was introduced during a visit by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on Friday. Zelensky and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were among the enthusiastic participants in the cheers.


Comment: Claiming that she was unaware is disingenuous. He was presented as having fought against the Russians during WW2, which happened to be who Nazi Germany was also fighting. If she didn't know who the person was, then why giving a standing applause and twice? Perhaps she is of the same diplomatic caliber as the '360 degree' German Foreign minister, Baerbock.


Comment: Canadian Pm Justin Trudeau apologized after 5 days had passed and even apologized to Zelensky which is kind of strange given that Ukraine celebrates the SS division Galicia:


More about the Canadian Nazigate:

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Bad Guys

Polish minister calls for extradition of Ukrainian Nazi honored in Canada


RT
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:29 UTC
Polish minister of education Przemyslaw Czarnek
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Przemyslaw Czarnek wants a probe into Yaroslav Hunka's possible war crimes

Polish Minister of Education Przemyslaw Czarnek has signaled that he intends to seek the extradition of a Ukrainian Nazi SS veteran who was cheered in the Canadian Parliament last week.

Czarnek was reacting to the controversy surrounding Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian who fought for the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, also known as the 1st Galician Division, formed by Nazi Germany from mostly Western Ukrainians, that took part in atrocities against Russian, Polish, and Jewish civilians during WWII.

Hunka received a standing ovation during the ceremony in the House of Commons after being introduced by now-former House Speaker Anthony Rota as "a hero... who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians." Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky also attended the ceremony.

Comment: Poland appears to suddenly remember that the Ukrainian nazies under WW2 were not so friendly towards Poles. Something they have willfully forgotten or ignored as they have for long supported nazism in Ukraine. It likely has something to do with the upcoming election in Poland in October.

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Globalists likely have another shock event planned


LeoHohmann.com
Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:00 UTC
globalists
2024 will make 2023 look like a walk in the park but we can make it through the storm if we hold onto our humanity and faith in God

The convergence of multiple red-alert warnings is staring us in the face, all pointing to a major "event" of some type in the upcoming weeks or months.

Whatever it is, this new catastrophe will hasten the collapse of the old world system, a collapse of economies and political structures that is already underway, paving the way for the Great Reset or, as some call it, the New World Order. I call it the beast system.

Predicting the timing of such an event is impossible but I do believe we are looking at a major shock event happening roughly within the next three to nine months, a year at most.
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No Entry

"Palestine is entirely wiped out": Netanyahu's skewed map of Israel includes the West Bank and Gaza

Michael Jansen
The Jordan Times
Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00 UTC
Israel's wall
The verbal battle for Palestine erupted once again during the opening session of the UN General Assembly, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presenting his skewed version of the current situation and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas describing the reality.

Once again, Netanyahu projected an image to impress the few in the vast auditorium who were prepared to listen to him. In 2012, he presented a cartoon of a bomb to justify military action against Iran's civilian nuclear programme. He claims Iran intends to build an atomic bomb to drop on Israel. He adopted this ploy to instruct ignorant US citizens to adopt aggressive lines toward Iran and exert pressure on the then Obama administration to follow his lead.

This did not impress Obama administration officials who were negotiating with Iran on a deal for limiting its nuclear programme in exchange for lifting punitive sanctions. The agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA, was signed in mid-2015 and implemented in January 2016. Iran complied fully with the terms of the JCPOA and derived some benefit from sanctions relief until Israel's pal and patron Donald Trump exited the JCPOA in May 2018. This has given Netanyahu no end of opportunities to castigate Iran, kill its scientists, and threaten war. Tehran has not obliged Netanyahu by drawing up plans for a nuclear bomb and has repeatedly urged the Biden administration to restart negotiations on US re-entry to the JCOPA.
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Attention

How Vanguard conquered the World

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Sun, 24 Sep 2023 21:10 UTC
Vanguard
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So, you've watched How BlackRock Conquered the World and you're now aware of how this financial behemoth with trillions of dollars of assets under management has taken over vast swaths of the economy. You know how BlackRock is one of the top institutional investors in seemingly every major Fortune 500 company, and you understand how Fink and the gang are leveraging this incredible wealth to wield political and social power, directing industry and ultimately steering the course of civilization.

And since you did watch that podcastumentary to the very end, you'll also remember how I pointed out that the top institutional investor in most of these companies is not BlackRock, but The Vanguard Group.

Share Owners
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So what is The Vanguard Group? Where did it come from? What does it do? And how does this financial colossus fit into the overall BlackRock/ESG/Net Zero plan for the future of the (controlled) economy? Good questions! Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work answering them.
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