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Police detain HNA's founder Chen Feng, CEO Adam Tan days after breaking one of China's biggest conglomerates into four units

Eric Ng
South China Morning Post
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 09:36 UTC
Chen Feng, founder of China'
© Chen Feng, founder of China's Hainan Airlines and HNA Group Xiaomei Chen
Chen Feng, founder of China's Hainan Airlines and HNA Group
Two top executives of HNA Group have been detained by China's police, days after one of the country's largest private conglomerates was broken down into four separate businesses following its bankruptcy restructuring.

HNA's founder and former chairman Chen Feng, and the former chief executive Adam Tan Xiangdong have been detained by police on "suspected crimes," the group said in a statement in its official WeChat account.
"HNA Group and its member enterprises are operating in a stable and orderly manner. The [company's] bankruptcy restructuring is going smoothly and its production and operations have not been affected."
The detentions bring the curtains down on HNA, built on the foundations of China's most successful private carrier Hainan Airlines.

With a handful of aircraft, the carrier - with an early investment from the American financier George Soros - quickly built a business flying holiday makers and Russian tourists from China's frigid north to the country's sole tropical island, long regarded as "China's Hawaii" for its beaches, azure waters and holiday resorts.
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China releases two Canadians charged with espionage after US deal to release Huawei exec


Hong Kong Free Press
Sat, 25 Sep 2021 09:33 UTC
Spavor Kovrig
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Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
Two Canadians imprisoned in what China's Western critics branded "hostage diplomacy" were headed home Friday after being released, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

The pair — former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor — had "left Chinese airspace, and they're on their way home," he told a news conference in Ottawa.

Their plane was expected to land Saturday in Canada, he said.

Comment: See also: US reaches deal with Huawei's Meng Wanzhou, allowing her to return to China

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Israeli Pegasus spyware found on smartphones of FIVE French cabinet ministers


RT
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:48 UTC
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Pegasus spyware has been found on the phones of at least five French ministers, multiple sources told news outlets. The company behind the tech, the Israel-based NSO Group, denies it was used to target French officials, however.

The revelation was first made by French investigative website Mediapart, with the report further corroborated by the AFP news agency on Friday.

Traces of Pegasus spyware have been found on the mobile phones of at least five current cabinet ministers, Mediapart said, citing a confidential intelligence report and numerous anonymous sources. The alleged activity of the spyware was traced back to 2019 and, to a lesser extent, 2020.

The five affected officials include Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer, Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie, Housing Minister Emmanuelle Wargon, Overseas Territories Minister Sébastien Lecornu, and Territorial Cohesion Minister Jacqueline Gourault, according to Mediapart.

Comment: That politicians across the planet are potentially being blackmailed has profound implications, and perhaps goes some way to explaining the otherwise inconsistent, nonsensical, deviant, and increasingly tyrannical rule that has infected governments: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Biden could owe as much as $500K in back taxes, government report indicates

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:00 UTC
IRS building
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The IRS is not obligated to investigate President Biden’s “dormant” S corporations.
Republicans say a new nonpartisan report indicates President Biden improperly avoided paying Medicare taxes before he took office — raising eyebrows and the possibility that he owes the IRS as much as $500,000 in back taxes.

Biden is leading a Democratic push for a $3.5 trillion bill to subsidize child care, education and health care by targeting tax avoidance and raising tax rates on higher incomes so the rich "pay their fair share."

A House Ways and Means Committee draft of the bill would end the accounting trick apparently exploited by Biden and boost IRS funding for audits — but the new report, drafted by the Congressional Research Service and provided to The Post, suggests Biden owes taxes under current rules, according to the congressman who requested it.

Comment: All these upper class elites play accounting games with their taxes in order to avoid paying anything substantial. It seems its an easy target for political opponents, but it's likely the ones pointing the fingers have some creative accounting going on as well. All this to say - don't stop at Biden!

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Tony Blair Says Govt Should Vaccinate Nursery-Age Children

Kurt Zindulka
newsbinding
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 07:43 UTC
Tony Blair
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that the British government should begin vaccinating nursery age children and begin imposing vaccine passports in order to supposedly prevent another lockdown in the winter.

In written comments in the foreword to a coronavirus report from the Tony Blair Institute, which has been attempting to steer decision-making in the United Kingdom and across the world from the outset of the pandemic, the former Prime Minister argued children are becoming a significant source of the spread of the virus.

While the government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) did not recommend vaccinating children on health grounds, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has decided to push forward with vaccinating children over the age of 12-years-old, even without parental consent in some cases.


Comment: Tony Blair "Institute" has received millions of dollars back in 2018 for advising Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's modernization program under a "not for profit" arrangement. This "institute" enabled so-called "progressive reforms" in Saudi Arabia under which women can get their heads chopped off, even for supporting political protests.

Just follow the money, not the science if you want to see the real face of this harsh reality and all ugly creatures from the swamp which thrive on people's suffering and pain.


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Do the global managers want the "pandemic" to end?

Brian Jones
The American Conservative
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Global Managers
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Early treatment of symptoms is the last remaining enemy of the global Covid consensus.

In his March 17, 2020, article in Stat, Stanford epidemiologist Dr. John Ioannidis argued for a vast reconsideration of the societal response to the emerging SARS-COV-2 pandemic, commonly called Covid-19. For unknown reasons, the scientific and medical tradition forming the foundation for how to respond to pandemics was being quickly disbanded. Abandoning such previously established traditions entailed filling the void with the appearance of a new global consensus: The combination of unending non-pharmaceutical interventions (masks, social distancing, etc.) and universal vaccination was the key that would end the pandemic.

The totalizing power of this new global pandemic consensus has certainly been effective over the last year and a half. However, the last month and a half has brought about a palatable instability to this apparently once-certain agreement.

As one writer observes,
Until now, Corona policy in every western country has unfolded more or less according to the same script, devised by the World Health Organization at the end of February 2020. The final act was supposed to be the wide-scale eradication of Corona after mass vaccination. It is now clear that this will never happen. For the first time since March 2020, there is no obvious international consensus on the way forward.

Comment: See also: MindMatters: Is Liberalism the New Totalitarianism? A Conversation with Ryszard Legutko

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Texas Secretary of State's Office announces full forensic audit of 2020 general election in four Texas counties


MSN
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 22:01 UTC
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The Texas Secretary of State's office announced on Thursday, September 23 it has begun a forensic audit of the 2020 election in three North Texas counties, Dallas, Tarrant and Collin along with Harris County.

In a statement sent to CBS 11, it said in part: Under existing Texas laws, the Secretary of State has the authority to conduct a full and comprehensive forensic audit. We anticipate the Legislature will provide funds for this purpose.

Full Text Of News Release From Texas Secretary Of State:
Under existing Texas laws, the Secretary of State has the authority to conduct a full and comprehensive forensic audit of any election and has already begun the process in Texas' two largest Democrat counties and two largest Republican counties — Dallas, Harris, Tarrant, and Collin — for the 2020 election. We anticipate the Legislature will provide funds for this purpose.
Earlier in an open letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Former President Donald Trump has backed House Bill 16(PDF) that calls for a "review of the results of the 2020 general election.
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US reaches deal with Huawei's Meng Wanzhou, allowing her to return to China

Zhou Xin
South China Morning Post
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:27 UTC
Huawei Wanzhou
© Ian Young
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou leaves her home in Vancouver on Friday morning.
Huawei Technologies Co. executive Meng Wanzhou reached a deal with US prosecutors on Friday that will allow her to return to China, effectively resolving the case that has kept Meng in legal limbo in Vancouver for nearly three years.

The deal, in the form of a deferred prosecution agreement that will be in effect until December 2022, releases Meng on the condition that she abides by a "statement of facts" about the case, providing a reprieve to a legal dispute that helped to throw Beijing's relations with Canada and the United States into crisis.

"We fully expect the indictment to be dismissed with prejudice," Meng's lawyer Michelle Levin of Steptoe & Johnson told reporters after the hearing at a US federal courthouse in New York. "Ms Meng is free to go home to her family."

Comment: See also: New Chinese ambassador to UK barred from parliament, follows tit for tat that Britain started with unilateral sanctions on Chinese officials

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Biden falls asleep during press meeting AGAIN, aides shout at press to leave after just two questions during meeting with UK PM

Samuel Chamberlain
New York Post
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:18 UTC
Biden Johnson
© AP Photo/Alex Brandon
President Joe Biden speaks with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the Oval Office on Sept. 21, 2021.
Press secretary Jen Psaki tried to explain away President Biden's refusal to take questions from reporters during his Tuesday sitdown with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson by claiming that the UK leader had blindsided White House aides by calling on two British reporters.

"I think our relationship with the United Kingdom and with Prime Minister Johnson is so strong and abiding, we will be able to move forward beyond this," Psaki said Wednesday, "but he [Johnson] called on individuals from his press corps without alerting us to that intention in advance."


Comment: Biden has deteriorated to the point where, in their failed attempts to cover up his addled state, the White House needs to manage every moment he's in front of the cameras: Something is wrong with the President


After Johnson and Biden answered queries from Harry Cole of the Sun newspaper and Beth Rigby of Sky News, White House press aides known as "wranglers" began shouting and herding reporters outside the Oval Office, where the meeting was taking place.

"That's absurd," one reporter was heard complaining as he headed outside. "Two British reporters get questions and we don't get anything."

Comment: Since it's clear that Biden isn't steering the ship, it begs the question, just who is? Australia sent 'extremely satisfied' letter hours before axing €56bn French contract & announcing US deal

Below is the footage of Biden drifting off during his meeting with Israel's PM:

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Stunning interview sees China warn "23 Million Australians" that new AUKUS pact now makes them "target" for nuclear attack


Zerohedge
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 20:40 UTC
nuclear submarine
© The Drive
During an Australian TV primetime segment this week, the well-known China-based expert Victor Gao, who is vice president of the Center for China and Globalization and once served as communist leader Deng Xiaoping's translator, issued a chilling scenario and shock to his Aussie audience over the controversial AUKUS defense pact between the US, Australia and the UK.

Gao bluntly warned that the deal which will see Washington give Canberra nuclear submarine technology now makes all of Australia a target for nuclear strike:
"The watershed moment will be if Australia is armed with nuclear submarines to be locally produced in Australia, Australia will lose that privilege of not being targeted with nuclear weapons by other countries," Gao warned.
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