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Trump-Russia dossier whoppers traced to 'drunk', disgruntled Russian, who was a childhood friend of UK spy Steele's primary source

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:29 UTC
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At least three major claims in the infamous 'Russiagate' dossier reportedly originated with a Russian PR executive angry with her company in Cyprus, a childhood friend of the primary sub-source for British spy Christopher Steele.

The 'Steele Dossier' played a key role in allegations that President Donald Trump somehow "colluded" with Russia in 2016, ostensibly because the Kremlin had a sex tape of him at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton. It was used as a pretext by the FBI to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page for a year, starting in October 2016. It was also eventually revealed that Fusion GPS, which paid Steele for the dossier, was itself paid by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign via the DNC.

Yet some of its most "bombshell" claims - that Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen met with "Russians" in Prague, that a Russian company called Webzilla was behind the DNC email hack, and that its boss Alexey Gubarev was a hacker working for Russian intelligence - apparently originated with Olga Galkina, a friend of Steele's primary Russian informant.
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Mr. Potato

Russian embassy mocks Spanish media claim that Moscow offered 10,000 troops to aid Catalan independence movement


RT
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:01 UTC
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Russia's diplomatic mission in Madrid has scoffed at allegations that Russia was willing to send troops to aid Catalonia if it would become independent. Locals have mocked the alleged conspiracy with some jokes of their own.

The bizarre accusation of plans for Kremlin military assistance emerged after a Barcelona judge, Joaquin Aguirre, claimed that there was a plot in 2017 involving an unnamed Russian group, which approached Catalonia's independence supporters with an offer to mobilize 10,000 soldiers to back its potential secession from Spain.


Comment: The judge is either seriously gullible and uninformed or deliberately pushing fake news, either way, neither are preferable traits for someone in such an influential and respected position.


Aguirre alleged that the aid was part of a Russian plan of "support" to former Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont, and that the Kremlin even agreed to pay off Catalonia's debts if the region declared independence. It is said that Puigdemont rejected the offer.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Senate committee says documents reviewed so far from Hunter biz partner Tony Bobulinski are legit

Henry Rodgers
The Daily Caller
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:20 UTC
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has been successful in verifying all materials reviewed so far from Hunter Biden's ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski, the Daily Caller has learned.

Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson will not call Bobulinski to testify before the November 3 elections, as the committee is working to review all the information provided to the committee by Bobulinski. The information has to be verified, as it is subject to the same false information to Congress laws that verbal or written testimony does. However, a Johnson spokesperson told the Caller that all the material provided by Bobulinski that has been reviewed so far has turned out to be legitimate. The committee has "also" not come across any "signs" or evidence to suggest the content is false, the spokesperson added.

Comment: Tucker Carlson has a few comments:


Ground News' media sweep shows the Leftwing media completely ignoring the story:
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And another swamp creature slithers out to comment. For some unfathomable reason, MSNBC decided interviewing John Podesta was a good idea:




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Eye 1

Kamala Harris lies 4 times about Trump and racism on '60 Minutes'

Joel B. Pollak
Breitbart
Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:33 UTC
Kamala Harris
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Kamala Harris
CLAIM: President Donald Trump is a racist, as shown by Birtherism; Charlottesville; "Mexicans"; and the "Muslim ban."

VERDICT: FALSE. None of these examples is valid. All of them involve outright lies or significant omissions of context.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the Democratic Party nominee for vice president, told 60 Minutes on Sunday evening that she believed that President Trump is a racist, and cited the four reasons above.

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Black Magic

Creepy Joe ducks questions on creepy son Hunter's foreign dealings amid low-key campaign trail

Ebony Bowden
New York Post
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:38 UTC
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Joe Biden with his wife, Jill, in Wilmington, Delaware, October 28, 2020
Democratic nominee Joe Biden dodged any questions relating to revelations about his involvement in his son Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings Wednesday, as he continued his low-profile presidential campaign in Delaware.

The former veep delivered remarks on the coronavirus pandemic in Wilmington after being briefed by a panel of doctors, and in characteristic style, did not take any questions from reporters before he walked off stage.

Biden, 77, and his wife, Jill Biden, then cast their votes in their hometown before heading to a fundraiser as President Trump and Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, held rallies in the battleground state of Arizona.

Comment: Biden received help, of course, in avoiding the touchy subject of the Bobulinski interview, with reporters continuing to lob softball questions instead. Indeed the entire MSM has come to QuidProJoe's aid.
Biden briefly faced reporters after voting in Wilmington, Del. less than 24 hours after Bobulinski, a retired lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, raised concerns in 2017 to the former vice president's brother Jim Biden, about Joe Biden's alleged ties to a possible joint venture with a Chinese energy firm.

Reporters ignored the bombshell allegations, instead asking the Democratic presidential nominee about ongoing looting and unrest in Philadelphia and the Affordable Care Act before he hurried off into a waiting black SUV.

"What we saw there was another failure by the news media to ask Joe Biden about Hunter Biden and whether or not he will admit that he lied to the American people about his son's foreign business dealings," Trump 2020 campaign spokesperson Erin Perrine said on Outnumbered Overtime.

"This is a story the media refuses to cover, even when they have the candidate there, taking questions, which he so rarely does,? Perrine added.

"'Would you answer the question?' They didn't ask that... and that should worry the American people."

There has been a near blackout of coverage of Bobulinski's shocking claims.

Bobulinski's comments to Carlson were completely ignored by CNN and MSNBC through noon ET, roughly 16 hours after the start of the damning interview.

The New York Times and Washington Post didn't cover the allegations in Wednesday's paper, either.

Reporters were also criticized on Monday for their choice of questions when Biden was available. President Trump has repeatedly mocked the media for asking the former vice president what flavor he got during a recent visit to an ice cream parlor instead of asking any questions about the growing Hunter Biden controversy.


Last month, reporters were similarly blasted for questions that they asked at a lengthier press conference, which offered very little grilling of Biden.


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Russian Flag

Endangering European security: Joe Biden's assertion that Russia is number one 'threat' to US flies in face of all facts & reason

Glenn Diesen
RT
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:38 UTC
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Joe Biden's belief that Russia is the greatest danger to the US is based on emotion and outdated ideology. It should alarm Europeans as they could find themselves on the frontline of a 'struggle' that makes little or no sense.

US presidential challenger Joe Biden recently referred to Russia as the main threat to the US. The statement perplexed some observers given how his former boss Barack Obama dismissed Russia as a weak regional power in 2014, while in 2012 Obama himself had mocked Mitt Romney for arguing that Russia was America's number one "geopolitical foe."

Biden, the erstwhile vice president of Obama, has now seemingly made a complete reversal.
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Bell

Dorsey admits to mob-driven censorship on Twitter during heated section 230 hearing

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 04:12 UTC
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Update (1412 ET): It's clear that Twitter's Jack Dorsey has perhaps unintentionally acknowledged that Twitter's unofficial moderating system is based simply on whoever shows the most outrage.

In response to questioning from Sen. Rick Scott, Dorsey replied:
"We don't have a general policy around misleading information and misinformation... We rely upon people calling that speech out."
See the discussion below...

Comment: See also: Ted Cruz rips Jack Dorsey over censorship of New York Post's Hunter Biden bombshell

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Cross

Maskless pope blames 'this lady called COVID' for distance, known to not require masks in private meetings


Associated Press
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:35 UTC
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Pope Francis shares a word with Monsignor Luis Maria Rodrigo Ewart as he arrives in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican for his weekly general audience, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. A Vatican official who is a key member of Francis' COVID-19 response commission, the Rev. Augusto Zampini, acknowledged Tuesday that at age 83 and with part of his lung removed after an illness in his youth, Francis would be at high risk for complications if he were to become infected. Zampini said he hoped Francis would don a mask at least when he greeted people during the general audience. "We are working on that," he said.
Pope Francis has blamed "this lady called COVID" for forcing him to keep his distance again from the faithful during his general audience, which was far smaller than usual amid soaring coronavirus infections in Italy.

Francis again eschewed a protective mask Wednesday even when he greeted a few maskless clergymen at the end of his audience. While the prelates wore masks throughout the hour-long audience, they took them off when they lined up to shake Francis' hand and speak briefly with him one-on-one.

A Vatican official who is a key member of Francis' COVID-19 response commission, the Rev. Augusto Zampini, acknowledged Tuesday that at age 83 and with part of his lung removed after an illness in his youth, Francis would be at high risk for complications if he were to become infected.


Comment: Indeed. And yet there are multiple medications - some with a proven track record that some countries suddenly, inexplicably banned - that have been shown to be highly effective against coronavirus, and others are coming to the fore all the time.


Comment: And amidst the manufactured hysteria of the 'second wave' there have been small but widespread protests throughout Italy - and elsewhere in Europe - against the measures which many are saying are the death knell for small businesses and are a harbinger for harsher tyrannical measures.

See also: France and Germany prepare to impose harsher lockdown restrictions

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Snakes in Suits

Russia's most important officials will be banned from having foreign bank accounts

Jonny Tickle
RT
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:13 UTC
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© Sputnik / Alexey Nikolsky
Valentina Matvienko, Anton Vaino and Sergey Lavrov take part in an operational meeting between Vladimir Putin and permanent members of the Russian security Council via videoconference.
Members of Russia's Security Council will be forbidden from keeping their money and valuables in banks outside of Russia, after the country's parliament passed a law restricting financial freedoms for the most powerful officials.

The bill, which passed through parliament on Tuesday, will bring the law in line with the new constitutional reforms. In July, Russian voters approved a wide-ranging package of amendments to the constitution, including a restriction on high-level officials having foreign citizenship or residency.

Once signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, members of the Security Council will be prohibited from storing cash and valuables outside the country's borders. The Security Council is chaired by the president and comprises 12 other permanent officials, plus many more non-permanent members. Included in the permanent representation are the prime minister and the ministers for defense, foreign affairs, and internal affairs, as well the director of the Federal Security Service.

Comment: Numerous scandals in the West have exposed that it would do well to follow Russia's lead:

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War Whore

Klaus Schwab and his great fascist reset


winteroak.org.uk
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 06:59 UTC
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Born in Ravensburg in 1938, Klaus Schwab is a child of Adolf Hitler's Germany, a police-state regime built on fear and violence, on brainwashing and control, on propaganda and lies, on industrialism and eugenics, on dehumanisation and "disinfection", on a chilling and grandiose vision of a "new order" that would last a thousand years.

Schwab seems to have dedicated his life to reinventing that nightmare and to trying to turn it into a reality not just for Germany but for the whole world.

Worse still, as his own words confirm time and time again, his technocratic fascist vision is also a twisted transhumanist one, which will merge humans with machines in "curious mixes of digital-and-analog life", which will infect our bodies with "Smart Dust" and in which the police will apparently be able to read our brains.

And, as we will see, he and his accomplices are using the Covid-19 crisis to bypass democratic accountability, to override opposition, to accelerate their agenda and to impose it on the rest of humankind against our will in what he terms a "Great Reset".

Schwab is not, of course, a Nazi in the classic sense, being neither a nationalist nor an anti-semite, as testified by the $1 million Dan David Prize he was awarded by Israel in 2004.
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