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Report says that after 100 days of Biden admin, Hunter Biden STILL owns shares in Chinese equity firm

Andrew Kerr
The Daily Caller
Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:44 UTC
Joe and Hunter Biden
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Where there's smokescreen, there's hellfire! US President Joe Biden and son Hunter
Biden had previously pledged no family involvement with foreign corporations.

Hunter Biden continues to hold a minority stake in a Chinese private equity firm 100 days into President Joe Biden's term, business records show.

Hunter Biden holds a 10% equity stake in BHR Partners through his company, Skaneateles LLC, according to Qixinbao and Baidu, two independent services that provide business records on Chinese corporations based on China's National Credit Information Publicity System.

Joe Biden promised in October 2019 that if elected president, nobody in his family would have any business relationship with any foreign corporation or country.

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Wolf

UK Health Sec takes first steps towards legalizing assisted suicide


Telegraph
Sat, 01 May 2021 20:00 UTC
Hancock
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Matt Hancock said his attitudes towards assisted suicide had been affected by speaking to Sir Paul Cosford, the medical director of Public Health England, who suffered from cancer and died aged 57
Matt Hancock has opened the door to legalising assisted suicide in Britain by asking for official figures on how many people who have killed themselves for medical reasons.

The Health Secretary wrote to Sir Ian Diamond, the national statistician, last week to ask for data on how many Britons who kill themselves have terminal medical conditions.


Comment: Hancock might want to inquire about the rise in mental health issues caused by the lockdowns that he has supported: As a headmaster I see children suffering mental health issues unlike anything before, this new shutdown of schools is disastrous


Mr Hancock told a private meeting of MPs and peers that he wanted the figures to inform a new debate on legalising doctor-assisted suicide in the UK, The Telegraph can disclose.

Comment: As with many serious issues, assisted suicide is nuanced and judgement depends on the specific situation. However, it's notable that the Health Secretary that likely presided over an increase in deaths of old and vulnerable people, caused by the lockdowns he supported, is now, calling for assisted suicide.

Considering the failures and scandals the health secretary has been linked to, and many in just the last year, one wonders why citizens would trust him to the be right person to handle a matter of such significance?

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Clashes on Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan border leaves 3 dead and 22 injured


Sputnik
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 06:44 UTC
kyrgyzstan tajikistan
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Three Kyrgyz border patrol agents were killed and 22 others injured in the border conflict with Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz National Security Committee's State Border Guard Service told Sputnik on Friday.

"Three servicemen of the Boru special detachment of the National Security Committee's State Border Guard Service were killed in clashes with the Tajik side, 22 servicemen sustained injuries of differing levels of severity. The condition of two servicemen is assessed as grave," a spokesman for the Kyrgyz State Border Guard Service said.

Comment: Notably, according to a recent report in the New York Times the Pentagon is 'discussing repositioning forces to neighboring states in the event they need to redeploy, suggesting Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan as candidates', all of which bring the US closer to Russia's border: US begins 'withdrawal' from Afghanistan... by sending MORE troops & gear for 'temporary force protection'

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Washington Post, NY Times and NBC News retract reports on FBI Giuliani briefing

Orion Rummler
Yahoo News
Sun, 02 May 2021 08:53 UTC
Giuliani
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Attorney Rudy Giuliani
The New York Times, Washington Post, and NBC News issued corrections on Saturday to clarify that Rudy Giuliani did not receive advance warning from the FBI that he was the target of a Russian influence campaign.

Why it matters: The corrections, which follow extensive reporting from the outlets to outline Giuliani's dealings in Ukraine, come after federal investigators searched Giuliani's apartment last week as part of a probe on whether his Ukraine lobbying on behalf of former President Trump broke federal law.

State of play: "An earlier version of this story, published Thursday, incorrectly reported that One America News was warned by the FBI that it was the target of a Russian influence operation," read the Post's correction.
  • "That version also said the FBI had provided a similar warning to Rudolph W. Giuliani, which he has since disputed. This version has been corrected to remove assertions that OAN and Giuliani received the warnings."
According to CNN, NBC said its story
"was based on a source familiar with the matter, but a second source now says the briefing was only prepared for Giuliani and not delivered to him, in part over concerns it might complicate the criminal investigation of Giuliani."

Comment: See also:
Feds raid Rudy Giuliani's NYC apartment, seize phones and other electronics

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Bullseye

Biden administration discloses Trump rules for strikes outside war zones

Tal Axelrod
The Hill
Sat, 01 May 2021 02:58 UTC
drone firing
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The Biden administration disclosed a set of rules former President Trump issued in 2017 for counterterrorism operations outside war zones. The disclosure comes as the current White House mulls whether to keep them in place. The operations covered under the rules include commando attacks and drone strikes.

The release from the Biden administration shows that under the Trump-era rules, commanders were given the authority to launch attacks if there was "near certainty" no harm would come to civilians. Exceptions to those rules were also permitted "where necessary."

The release comes after an October ruling by a federal judge in Freedom of Information Act lawsuits filed by The New York Times and by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The rules that were disclosed were redacted in some areas, according to the Times's report the documents.

Comment: Biden was part of Obama's reign of drone terror that regarded innocent people, caught in the target zones, as mere byproducts. Optics and criticizing Trump take center stage in this administration. Chances favor that the rules, if not made deadlier, will hold.

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Biden needs to stop lying about the cause of the border crisis and start fixing it


New York Post
Sat, 01 May 2021 07:26 UTC
Biden/migrants
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US President Joe Biden • Border patrol agent and migrants
President Joe Biden on Friday laid fresh blame for the border not-a-crisis (he insists) at the feet of his predecessor. Does he not realize that his nonstop lies on the issue undermine his credibility across the board?

In an NBC interview, Biden complained he inherited "one god-awful mess at the border" from President Donald Trump, one made worse by
"the failure to have a real transition — cooperation from the last administration, like every other administration has done. We didn't find out they had fired a whole lot of people, that they were understaffed considerably."
Huh? It's near-impossible to fire a career federal employee, while political appointees always exit when the other party takes over the executive branch.

Anyway, Trump was adding to the Border Patrol and other enforcement branches his whole time in office.

The reality: Biden inherited a package of successful policies . . . that he immediately overturned. And Team Trump gave Team Biden a very public warning that doing so would bring chaos, so the core "transition" problem is on you, Joe.
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Black Cat

Sorry, corrupt media: Sleepy Joe is the worst left-wing culture warrior since Obama

Tristan Justice
The Federalist
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:38 UTC
joe biden
© Evan Vucci/AP
Joe Biden pitching his infrastructure "plan".
In his first 100 days, Joe Biden has redefined what it means to run a progressive presidency. To those paying attention, his radicalism was clear from the start.

In a primary full of socialists, President Joe Biden clinched the Democratic nomination and rode his way to the White House on the appearance of a supposed moderate, a pragmatist who promised an American "return to normalcy" in a 21st-century digital version of the early front-porch campaigns.

To those paying attention, however, Biden's radicalism was clear from the start, with normal nowhere in sight. He ran on a platform cloaked in centrism only by virtue of what others were proposing on stage. Even McClatchy wrote in September 2019, "Biden's current set of policy prescriptions would likely be considered radical if they had been proposed in any previous Democratic presidential primary."

Comment: One might wonder if the snoozer-in-chief read even one of those Executive Orders.

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'Perfect' for the job: VP Harris named head of National Space Council

Mary Kay Linge
New York Post
Sat, 01 May 2021 18:11 UTC
harris
© AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File
Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to visit the US-Mexico border after being tapped by President Joe Biden to be the nation’s migration czar.
She won't go to Mexico, but she'll try to get Americans to Mars.

Vice President Kamala Harris will chair the National Space Council, a cabinet-level advisory body, she confirmed in a tweet.

"In America, when we shoot for the moon, we plant our flag on it," Harris posted Saturday. "I am honored to lead our National Space Council."

The new role adds yet another task to the veep's bulging portfolio.

Harris has been slammed for her lackluster performance as the nation's migration czar, a job that President Biden gave her March 24 as illegal immigrants surged into border states like Texas and Arizona in record-breaking numbers.

While Biden called his No. 2, the former attorney general of California, "the most qualified person" to lead that effort, she has made no move to visit the US-Mexico border to speak with enforcement officers or evaluate overflowing detention centers as the influx intensified.

The White House has tried to recast her duties, insisting that she will focus on correcting the "root causes" of migration and not on the border crisis as a whole.

Comment: She's the 'perfect' pick, according to Sen. Bill Nelson.

Yes, she is about as perfect for the job as Hunter Biden was for his seat on the board of Burisma.

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NPC

'Private' sector tyranny: Most US & UK businesses to require at least some employees to get vaccinated - Biden mulling mandatory vaccines in military


RT
Sat, 01 May 2021 18:05 UTC
masks workplace
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Many Americans and Brits will face de facto vaccine mandates, as a new poll shows that 56% of businesses will require at least some employees to be inoculated against Covid-19, in many cases under threat of losing their jobs.

The poll, which was conducted by Arizona State University and released on Thursday, showed that 40% of businesses will require all employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19, while 16% will mandate the jabs for at least some of their workers. All told, 88% of businesses will require or encourage their employees to be vaccinated, and 60% said they will demand some kind of proof of inoculation.

The survey, which was backed by the Rockefeller Foundation, paints a bleak picture for those who plan to resist getting the Covid-19 jabs. While the US and UK governments have refrained from making vaccines mandatory - and facing legal challenges that might ensue - the private sector may effectively do it for them. Businesses are already setting the stage to require so-called 'vaccine passports,' forcing customers to show proof of inoculation or a negative Covid test before accessing certain goods, services and events.

While many people can choose not to travel abroad or go to business venues that require proof of vaccination, an employer mandate could be more problematic. Arizona State said 31% of businesses plan to take disciplinary action, including possibly firing employees who refuse to comply with their vaccine policies.

Comment: Around one third of U.S. military service members have been vaccinated. Biden isn't committing one way or the other at this point as to whether or not to force the rest to do so:
"I don't know. I'm going to leave that to the military," Biden told NBC News's Craig Melvin in an interview broadcast Friday.

"I'm not saying I won't. I think you're going to see more and more of them getting it. And I think it's going to be a tough call as to whether or not they should be required to have to get it in the military, because you're in such close proximity with other military personnel."


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Bad Guys

Al-Qaeda promises 'war on all fronts' after Biden misses US troop withdrawal deadline and extends occupation of Afghanistan by 5 months


Yahoo
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 12:00 UTC
Taliban
© AFP / Javed Tanveer
FILE PHOTO: Afghan Taliban militants and residents stand on a armoured Humvee vehicle of the Afghan National Army (ANA) as they celebrate a ceasefire, Kandahar, Afghanistan, June 17, 2018
As the United States' "war on terror" enters a new phase as President Joe Biden has begun withdrawing all US forces from Afghanistan, al-Qaeda has claimed that its war with America is far from over.

In an exclusive interview with CNN conducted through intermediaries, an al-Qaeda official said that "war against the US will be continuing on all other fronts unless they are expelled from the rest of the Islamic world".

Terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank, editor-in-chief of West Point's CTC Sentinel, who reviewed al Qaeda's answers, says it is possible "they feel buoyed by the Biden administration's decision to pull out troops from Afghanistan, but they may also be seeking to deflect attention from the many recent losses."

Comment: RT provides a more objective news report:
Saturday marked Trump's planned withdrawal date from Afghanistan, which the former US leader announced last year. With Biden pledging to withdraw American troops by September 11, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid declared that all bets are off between now and then.

"As withdrawal of foreign forces from #Afghanistan by agreed upon May 1st deadline has passed, this violation in principle has opened the way for [Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan] Mujahidin to take every counteraction it deems appropriate against the occupying forces," he tweeted.


The Mujahidin of IEA will now await what decision the leadership of Islamic Emirate takes in light of the sovereignty, values and higher interests of the country, and will then take action accordingly, Allah willing," he added in a follow-up tweet.

Coming directly from the Taliban's spokesman, Mujahid's warning is about as clear as threats get in Afghanistan. Other warnings have been more dubious, as was the case last year after Trump struck a deal with the militant group and announced his withdrawal plans. Immediately afterwards, the New York Times claimed that Russia was offering cash bounties for Taliban-linked militants to attack US forces. The anonymously sourced story drew condemnation from Trump's opponents in Washington and the national media, but turned out to be completely bogus. Nevertheless, it spurred a bipartisan group of representatives to pass an amendment forbidding a withdrawal from Afghanistan before Trump's term was up.


And so the propaganda served as a pretext for the US to claim it was necessary to stay in the country, but it wasn't the only lie used to justify extending the 20 year war on the country: 'Woke imperialism strikes again': CNN faces backlash after it defends keeping US troops in Afghanistan by citing 'women's rights'


Similar stories warning of an imminent terrorist "resurgence" surfaced in the runup to the May 1 deadline, amplifying the concerns of US intelligence and military officials who aren't on board with either Trump or Biden's pullout plans.

The Taliban have not agreed to Biden's withdrawal date, failing to show up at a peace conference in Turkey last month. Nevertheless, Mujahid told Reuters last month that Taliban officials are still in contact with the US, and were still discussing whether or not to hold off on attacks until September.

If all goes to plan and US forces leave Afghanistan in September, they will depart a month before the conflict turns 20 years old. They will also leave the Taliban in a stronger position and in control of more territory than at any point since the beginning of the war.
The war on Afghanistan never was intended to make either the US nor Afghanistan a safer place, it was, in part, to serve as yet another base for deep state chaos creation in the Middle East and beyond: US begins 'withdrawal' from Afghanistan... by sending MORE troops & gear for 'temporary force protection'

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