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Joe Biden, Hunter's laptop and the media lapdogs

Michael Goodwin
New York Post
Sat, 03 Apr 2021 09:04 UTC
Joe & Hunter Biden
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Where there's smokescreens, there's hellfire! US President Joe Biden and son Hunter
On a corner of my desk, there is a small pile of newspaper clips, notes and documents. They date back to last October and are part of the scandalous information contained on a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden.

Normally I would have thrown the papers away or stored them by now. But I kept them handy because I knew the day would come when they would be needed again.

Friday was that day.

In a TV interview, Hunter effectively conceded for the first time the laptop was his, opening the door to a new round of scrutiny about his foreign business scams and influence peddling. This time, the door must stay open until America gets the truth.

Thanks to The Post's dogged work last fall, it was obvious the laptop was Hunter's. But because Democrats and their media mouthpieces tried to hide the truth, e-mails revealing suspicious conduct of the man who is now president have never been fully examined and explained.
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Jordan's Queen Noor calls coup plot allegations 'wicked slander'

Tom Batchelor, Ella Glover
Independent
Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
Queen Noor/Prince Hamzah
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Jordan's Queen Noor and son Prince Hamzah
Queen Noor, widow of the late King Hussein of Jordan, said on Sunday that allegations by the authorities against her son, the former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, of an attempted coup amounted to "wicked slander".

Jordan's military has said that Prince Hamzah, King Abdullah's half-brother, had been told to halt actions used to target the country's "security and stability".

"Praying that truth and justice will prevail for all the innocent victims of this wicked slander," Noor Al-Hussein tweeted. "God bless and keep them safe."

The warning to Prince Hamzah was part of a broader, ongoing security investigation in which a former minister, a junior member of the royal family and unnamed others were detained. Prince Hamzah said in a video recording he was under house arrest and had been told to stay at home and not contact anyone. Speaking in English in the video, passed by his lawyer to the BBC, he said he was not part of any foreign conspiracy and denounced the ruling system as corrupt.
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Snakes in Suits

British lawyer Geoffrey Robertson and his fake Magnitsky story

Lucy Komisar
The Komisar Scoop
Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:23 UTC
William Browder, Amal Clooney and Geoffrey Robertson

William Browder, Amal Clooney and Geoffrey Robertson on zoom webinar
Sometimes the people who work for the West's Deep State are subtle. But not this time. A webinar by British lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, a self-proclaimed international human rights advocate who was promoting a book, was mired so deep in lies that if I was the UK authority overseeing that lawyer, I would disbar him for corruption of character. Either that or he is so credulous that he should be disbarred for extreme stupidity.

The April 1 webinar was sponsored by Doughty Street Chambers, a British association of lawyers which Robertson founded, and Intelligence Squared, a British speakers bureau.

Doughty allegedly represents the best interests of Julian Assange, the world's poster child for free speech oppression who exposed U.S. Iraq war crimes and was indicted by the U.S. and locked up in Britain's Belmarsh prison in conditions UN torture monitor Nils Melzer calls torture. You wouldn't know that from this "human rights" event. He was never mentioned.

Amal Clooney, another self-anointed human rights defender, whose fame comes from marrying actor George Clooney, introduced the hour with reference to tax fraudster William Browder, who has been on a campaign since "his lawyer was murdered in Russia." That lie was soon repeated by Robertson. Let's pass on Clooney, she didn't say much and didn't seem to know anything.
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Pumpkin 2

Data indicates YouTube DELETED 2.5 million 'dislikes' from Biden White House videos

Petr Svab
The Epoch Times
Fri, 02 Apr 2021 16:12 UTC
BidenYouTube
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US President Joe Biden
YouTube has deleted about 2.5 million 'dislikes' from videos on the official White House channel of President Joe Biden, according to data collected and posted online by a researcher who wished to remain anonymous. YouTube recently announced that it's testing a new page design that hides the dislike count.

The Google-owned video platform allows users to give videos either a thumb up (like) or thumb down (dislike). For at least two years, it's had a policy to remove likes and dislikes it considers spam.

"We have policies and systems in place to ensure that the engagement on YouTube is authentic, and remove any fraudulent metrics," a YouTube spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email, but when asked, wouldn't go into details on what criteria it uses to make these calls.

Comment: YouTube has been coving for Biden for quite a while

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Take 2

Even as a White Helmets boss admits 'former' militant links, Canadian national media talks 'Russian disinfo'

Eva Bartlett
RT
Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:26 UTC
White Helmets
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A White Helmets member uses a saw on rubble after an airstrike in this screen grab taken from a social media video said to be taken in Idlib, Syria on July 16, 2019.
Even when a high-ranking White Helmet admits that some of the 'rescuers' came from the ranks of Syrian militants, all he gets from Canada's national broadcaster is unquestioning praise and concern about "Russian disinformation."

On March 30, Carol Off, the host of As it Happens on Canada's government-funded CBC, interviewed Montreal-based Farouq Habib, deputy general manager of the White Helmets, about the organization's operatives and their family members evacuated to Jordan (via Israel, with Canada's help) nearly three years ago.

At the time, Canada pledged to take in 50 White Helmets and 200 family members. Off's focus was on 43 evacuees who still haven't arrived in Canada.

Comment: See also:

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Eye 1

State of Fear: How UK Govt. 'Used Covert Tactics' to Unnecessarily Terrify Public

Gordon Rayner
UK Telegraph
Sun, 04 Apr 2021 10:02 UTC
Boris Johnson, along with scientific advisers Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance, have been accused of 'weaponising fear'

Boris Johnson, along with scientific advisers Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance, have been accused of 'weaponising fear'
Government's 'psychological strategies' to manipulate unwitting public's behaviour may backfire and lead to long-term damage, experts claim.
Failures in the UK's pandemic response are not hard to identify, but on one front the Government's success is undeniable: persuading a fearful nation to stay locked indoors for much of the past year.

The daily diet of statistics on deaths, hospitalisations and Covid cases has been so effective that compliance with lockdown has gone far beyond what ministers expected.

But the problem with fear, as one behavioural scientist said on Friday, is that "you can't turn it on and off like a tap".

As the country prepares for the complete end of lockdown in June, there are far-reaching questions about how many people will return to the workplace, or to normality, and the consequences of that for the economy and for physical and mental health.
Boris Johnson pounds home the stay at home message at a Downing Street press conference

Boris Johnson pounds home the stay at home message at a Downing Street press conference
Whether frightening the public was a deliberate - or honest - tactic has become the subject of intense debate, and dozens of psychologists have now accused ministers of using "covert psychological strategies" to manipulate the public's behaviour.
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Attention

Crucial interview of Foreign Minister Lavrov - a must read!


The Saker
Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
Nikonov/Simes/Lavrov
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Vyacheslav Nikonov • Dimitri Simes • Russian FM Sergey Lavrov
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview given to Channel One's Bolshaya Igra (Great Game) talk show, Moscow, April 1, 2021.

Vyacheslav Nikonov: The word "war" has been heard increasingly more often lately. US and NATO politicians, even more so the Ukrainian military, have no trouble saying it. Do you have more reasons to be concerned now than ever before?

Sergey Lavrov: Yes and no. On the one hand, the confrontation has hit bottom. On the other, deep down, there's still hope that we are adults and understand the risks associated with escalating tensions further. However, our Western colleagues introduced the word "war" into the diplomatic and international usage. "The hybrid war unleashed by Russia" is a very popular description of what the West perceives as the main event in international life. I still believe that good judgment will prevail.

Vyacheslav Nikonov: Recently, the United States has ratcheted the degree of confrontation up to never-before-seen proportions. President Joe Biden said President Vladimir Putin is a "killer." We have recalled Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov.

Sergey Lavrov: He was invited for consultations.

Vyacheslav Nikonov: Hence, the question: How do we go about our relations now? How long will this pause last? When will Mr Antonov return to Washington?

Sergey Lavrov: What we heard President Biden say in his interview with ABC is outrageous and unprecedented. However, one should always see the real actions behind the rhetoric, and they began long before this interview back during the Barack Obama administration. They continued under the Trump administration, despite the fact that the 45th US President publicly spoke in favour of maintaining good relations with Russia, with which he was willing to "get along," but was not allowed to do so. I'm talking about the consistent degradation of the deterrent infrastructure in the military-political and strategic spheres.

Comment: Trajectories forecast the moral, physical and political futures of nations, be it conquest or partnership - a topic insightfully discussed by Mr. Lavrov, along with many astute and relevant perceptions - a long read, but worth it.

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Iran's foreign ministry dismisses possibility of 'step-by-step' lifting of sanctions by US

Tim Korso
Sputnik
Sat, 03 Apr 2021 10:56 UTC
Khatibzadeh
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh
The statement follows remarks by the US State Department deputy spokeswoman, who noted the Joint Commission of the parties to the Iran nuclear deal will be discussing "sanctions relief steps" that Washington will have to take in order to return to compliance with the accord.

Iran will not accept a gradual lifting of US sanctions, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh stated in an interview with PressTV.
"The definitive policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the lifting of all US sanctions, whether those which Trump reimposed after withdrawing from the JCPOA or those which he initiated, as well as sanctions imposed under any other heading."
The ministry spokesperson's statements go in line with Tehran's previous demands for Washington to return to compliance with the provisions of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, also known as the Iran nuclear deal) and lift all sanctions on the country. In return, Iran promised to remove the "remedial" measures it has enacted over the past two years in response to the US withdrawal from the accord.
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Pirates

Rebranding al-Qaeda in Syria: US journalist scores interview with jihadist leader Jolani - American 'asset'

Priyanka Boghani
Frontline, PBS
Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:05 UTC
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, leader of the Syrian Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, sits for a February 2021 interview with FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith in Idlib province, Syria.
Over most of two decades, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani's life has been a roadmap of Islamist militancy in Iraq and Syria. He joined the fight against U.S. forces in Iraq and was jailed by the Americans. He became a commander within the group known as the Islamic State of Iraq. He founded an Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria and then broke with Al Qaeda and ISI, striking out with his own group to oppose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The United States has labeled him a terrorist since 2013 and offered a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture.

Today, Jolani is the leader of the most dominant force in opposition-held Syrian territory. From his base in the northwestern corner of the country, he and his organization have fought against Assad's forces, Assad's Russian and Iranian allies, and Jolani's own former allies in ISIS and Al Qaeda.

In his first interview with an American journalist, Jolani told FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith that his role in fighting Assad and ISIS, and in controlling an area with millions of displaced Syrians who could potentially become refugees, reflected common interests with the United States and the West.

Jolani told Smith that his group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, posed no threat to the United States, and the government should remove him from its list of designated terrorists.

"First and foremost, this region does not represent a threat to the security of Europe and America," Jolani told Smith. "This region is not a staging ground for executing foreign jihad."
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Vader

Understanding the anti-Putin PSYOP: The Empire prepares its Ukrainian puppet for war

The Saker
The Unz Review
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:21 UTC
ukraine troops donbass

Ukraine forces move towards Donbass, March, 2021
Intro: cause vs pretext

It is not an exaggeration to say that in the mythology of the AngloZionist Empire Putin is something akin to Satan or, at least, that he is a kind of "Sauron" who is the epitome of evil. And, we all heard that recently, Biden, in a recorded interview, declared that Putin is "a killer". When given a chance to soften this statement Jen Psaki did no such thing. We can, therefore, conclude that this was an official, deliberately planned, characterization of the Russian leader.

This kind of language was never used by western officials during the Cold War, at least not on the top levels. So why this seething hatred for Putin?

It is not because he is ex-PGU KGB SSSR. Yuri Andropov was a former KGB Chairman, and he did a lot to strengthen the KGB, its personnel and operations. Yet nobody called him a killer. Neither is this because of Crimea or the Donbass, at least not directly, because when the USSR invaded Czechoslovakia and, before that, Hungary, western politicians did not call Khrushchev or Brezhnev "killers". It is not because of the shooting down of MH-17 (western leaders all know that these are lies created by western special services), because there have been quite a few civilian airliners shot down by various states, but that did not result in the kind of total demonization of the leaders of these states. I could go on and on, but you get the point: even if we carefully parse all the accusations against Putin, we find out that the kind of total demonization he has been the subject of is quite unique in its intensity and scope.

Comment: Moscow has continued to warn Ukraine against escalating the situation in the Donbass, calling it 'frightening':
Speaking to journalists on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that a series of military clashes in the Donbass region was a cause for concern. "Unfortunately for us," he said, "the reality on the line of contact is quite frightening, and not just one, but many, provocations by the Ukrainian Armed Forces are taking place."

Kiev insists that Russia is building up troops near the shared border and blames separatists, who have previously received support from Moscow, for breaking a ceasefire. "Russia's current escalation is systemic, [the] largest in recent years," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dimitry Kuleba said in a statement issued earlier this week. Kiev officials last week said that four of its soldiers had been killed by shelling during clashes with rebels in the east of the country.

Andrey Rudenko, Russia's deputy foreign minister, denied that Moscow had anything to gain from an increase in tensions. "I am sure that all the talk about some upcoming conflict between Ukraine and Russia is an example of another fake spread primarily by the Ukrainian authorities," he said. "Russia is not interested in any conflict with Ukraine, let alone a military one."
Russian spokesman Peskov issued a further warning to the West to keep its military nose out of the area regardless of the fact that Ukraine is claiming NATO support:
Russia has warned that it would regard any deployment of Western troops in Ukraine as a serious provocation, after Kiev asked NATO to step up its local combat readiness and claimed the US would come to its aid in any future war.

On Friday, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry issued a statement saying that it had received guarantees of American support after a telephone call with Washington's top military official, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austen. "The US Secretary of Defense stressed that in the event of an escalation of Russian aggression, the United States will not leave Ukraine alone," the Ministry said.

Asked about the prospects of a standoff in the region, Peskov warned that this could begin a potentially dangerous chain of events. The Kremlin official said that "undoubtedly, such a developing scenario would lead to a further increase in tensions near Russia's borders. Of course, this will require additional measures from the Russian side to ensure its security."

His comments came as US President Joe Biden expressed Washington's "unwavering support" for Kiev in the face of what he called "Russia's ongoing aggression in the Donbass and Crimea." In his Friday phone call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, he also said his administration is committed to revitalizing the "strategic partnership" between the two nations.

Zelensky responded by saying that Kiev and Washington "stand shoulder to shoulder when it comes to preservation of our democracies" and called partnership with the US "crucial for Ukrainians."

Moscow has previously described Ukraine's membership of NATO and the deployment of troops there as a red line for the country. The situation has echoes of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when Soviet weaponry was deployed on the Caribbean island off the Atlantic coast of America, sparking a crisis that led the two superpowers close to nuclear war.
The Empire is stoking a powder keg. We fervently hope Russia will be able to navigate the insanity, as matters are becoming more dangerous by the minute:





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