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Biden aide Kathy Chung refutes classified docs 'locked closet' spin: Comer

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:31 UTC
Biden Penn
© AP/KJNUS President Joe Biden • Penn Biden Center, University of Pennsylvania
President Biden's former assistant contradicted White House claims that classified documents discovered at Biden's post-vice presidency DC office this past November were in a "locked closet" — and revealed the White House sought to quietly retrieve the papers, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Tuesday.

Comer (R-Ky.) added in a statement that Chung, who sat for an interview with the panel, "provided startling information that undermines the Biden White House's narrative on the matter."
"Today we learned that when Joe Biden left the vice presidency, boxes containing classified documents, vice presidential records, and other items were stored in three different locations around the Washington, DC, area, including an office near the White House, an office in Chinatown, and eventually the Penn Biden Center.

"At some point, the boxes containing classified materials were transported by personal vehicles to an office location.

"The boxes were not in a 'locked closet' at the Penn Biden Center and remained accessible to Penn Biden employees as well as potentially others with access to the office space. We need to find out who had access to these documents."
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Leonardo DiCaprio testifies that CCP-linked Malaysian financier, now a fugitive, sent $30 million to Obama during 2012 campaign

C.G.Jones
The Post Millennial
Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
DiCaprico/Obama
© UnknownActor Leonardo DiCaprio • Former US President Barack Obama
Movie star Leonardo DiCaprio took the stand in a federal trial on Monday that seeks to hammer down the details of what appears to be a money-funneling scheme that features a Malaysian financier funneling tens of millions of dollars through a prominent 90s rap artist for the purpose of donating to former President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.

DiCaprio plays into the saga because he was said to have partied with Jho Low, a Malaysian financier who apparently suggested to DiCaprio once during a conversation that he intended to contribute to Obama's presidential campaign, according to the New York Post.

DiCaprio said:
"It was a casual conversation about what party he was in support of, I told him what party I was in support of. And he told me that he, or he and a group, were going to make a significant contribution to the Democratic Party. ... I said 'wow, that's a lot of money.'"
Prakazrel "Pras" Michel, founder of The Fugees, has been recruited by Low in an effort to funnel money to Obama's re-election bid, because foreigners are not allowed to contribute to US campaigns. The report indicated that Michel had taken "tens of millions of dollars" to lobby the government on behalf of the Chinese government.
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US efforts to ban TikTok are pure projection by the world's biggest spy power

Timur Fomenko
RT
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:15 UTC
Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., questions TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew
© Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesRep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., questions TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew during the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing titled TikTok: How Congress Can Safeguard American Data Privacy And Protect Children From Online Harms, in Rayburn Building on Thursday, March 23, 2023.
Washington is used to controlling the planet's top tech companies and doesn't want anyone to threaten its surveillance domination.

As the United States contemplates a possible ban on TikTok, it relentlessly accuses Beijing of using the popular Chinese-owned social media application as a means of espionage, claiming that the Communist Party has access to user data.

Ironically, Washington itself is known to be doing exactly what US politicians are accusing China of doing. Using the unique advantage of having jurisdiction over the world's top internet companies, the US has given itself the right to look into the private communications of foreign citizens anywhere in the world. Combine that data-sharing between intelligence agencies of the US and its allies, and you get the most comprehensive espionage regime in the world.

While American politicians and media constantly talk about fears of Chinese espionage, the near-absence of coverage of Washington's own spying efforts ought to be a reminder of where the true power lies. When it comes to the shady activities of the CIA and the NSA, the public tends to only learn what they did years later from declassified documents, or what they "have been doing all along" from rare whistleblowers like Edward Snowden. All discussion and speculation about what they "may be doing right now" tends to be dismissed as conspiracy theories. Conversely, allegations of Chinese spying activities are constantly explained as "we all know they're doing it" in the public eye, despite the lack of solid proof.

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The Everything Collapse

Egon von Greyerz
Gold Switzerland
Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
building collapse
Sadly, gold is now on its way to heights which are unthinkable for most people.

To all the people who have asked me over the years why gold doesn't go up, I have replied:

"Don't wish for gold to go up substantially for when it does, your quality of life will deteriorate remarkably."

And we are now at the point in the world when this is likely to happen.

Let me be clear, now is the time to protect whatever assets you have in order to avoid the total asset destruction that is coming next. More about this later in this article.

THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM WILL NOT SURVIVE

I came to the conclusion early in this century that a sick financial system was not going to survive the infestation of vermin in the form of debt that started just over 50 years ago.
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Anatomy of a Biden Family business deal: Get son Hunter or sister Valerie to sign 'on behalf of the VP'

Seamus Bruner
Breitbart
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 18:41 UTC
Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Valerie Biden
© AP/Visar Kryeziu(L-R) Hunter Biden, Joe Biden
Email exchanges between Joe Biden's family and business associates show the Bidens planning to cash in on the family name in an academic venture with the University of Delaware while discussing ways to carefully distance Joe himself from financial documents outlining the deal.

Team Biden was to receive $12.5 million for the establishment of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware (UD), which launched shortly after Joe Biden left the vice presidency in 2017. The arrangement meant a nice payday for the Bidens and their associates. And, as it turned out, the launch of the Biden Institute coincided with a bonanza in foreign money donations for the university. Correspondences show that UD wanted Joe Biden to raise funds for the university after his institute opened.

In the weeks and months following the opening of the Institute, UD received foreign cash donations totaling more than $33 million, including $6.7 million from China. Of that sum, three gifts came directly from the Chinese Communist government.
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Trump under arrest in New York - Justice Dept. reportedly pursuing separate obstruction case against him


RT
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 18:01 UTC
Donald Trump
© AP Photo/Corey SipkinFormer President Trump leaves Trump Tower in New York for Manhattan Criminal Court, where he will be booked and arraigned on charges stemming from a hush money payment to a porn actor during his 2016 campaign, Tuesday, April 4, 2023.
Former US President Donald Trump arrived at the Manhattan District Attorney's office on Tuesday afternoon, to be placed under arrest and face a series of charges his attorneys have denounced as a politically motivated "witch hunt" by the New York Democrat Alvin Bragg.

The existence of the charges was leaked to the press last Friday, and more details were leaked on Monday, indicating that Bragg is going after the 45th president for the "crime" of allegedly falsifying business records in regard to "hush money" reportedly paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Federal prosecutors declined to pursue the case, and multiple legal scholars have argued that the charges amount to a misdemeanor campaign violation at best. Hillary Clinton paid a fine for the same exact transgression in the matter of funding the notorious "Steele dossier," a series of fabrications accusing Trump of having ties to Russia.

Trump himself has denounced the indictment as purely political. Though Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he might not honor the politicized New York arrest warrant, Trump decided to fly in from his Mar-a-Lago home to New York on Monday, and turn himself in on Tuesday.

Comment: NewsReal: Trump Says 'US Dead' as Regime Indicts Him

Trump is charged with 34 felony counts, with a possible prison sentence of over 130 years. Though a prison sentence is unlikely - "No one gets jail time for that as a first offender," said a New York law enforcement official.
After this story was posted, a spokesman for Trump said the former president's legal team had not seen the indictment or been briefed on the details. Trump himself responded with a post on Truth Social.

"Wow! District Attorney Bragg just illegally LEAKED the various points, and complete information, on the pathetic Indictment against me," Trump wrote. "I know the reporter and so, unfortunately, does he. This means that he MUST BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED. Now, if he wants to really clean up his reputation, he will do the honorable thing and, as District Attorney, INDICT HIMSELF. He will go down in Judicial history, and his Trump Hating wife will be, I am sure, very proud of him!"

A spokesperson for Bragg said in an email that the district attorney's office "declined to comment on a sealed indictment."
And it's not just the DA.
The Department of Justice is reportedly building a case around the issue of obstruction of justice, as it investigates Donald Trump for potentially mishandling classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago.

The Washington Post reported the development first on Sunday, citing multiple sources familiar with the ongoing investigation.

According to the Post, Mr Trump is under investigation for potentially obstructing authorities as they attempted to secure all the classified materials retained by Mr Trump without the permission of the National Archives from his days in the White House. Some of those retained documents had classified markings, prompting the review into whether any classified information was mishandled.


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US argues for immunity from MK-ULTRA mind control experiments case before Quebec Court of Appeal


CBC.ca
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 22:29 UTC
Quebec's Court of Appeal
© Simon-Marc Charron/CBC/Radio-CanadaQuebec's Court of Appeal will rule on whether Quebec Superior Court was right in granting immunity to the U.S. government over its alleged involvement in the MK-ULTRA experiments.
A proposed class-action lawsuit over infamous brainwashing experiments at a Montreal psychiatric hospital was before Quebec's highest court Thursday, as victims attempted to remove immunity granted to the United States government.

The U.S. government successfully argued in Quebec Superior Court last August that the country couldn't be sued for the project known as MK-ULTRA, allegedly funded by the Canadian government and the CIA.

U.S. lawyers argued that foreign states had absolute immunity from lawsuits in Canada between the 1940s and 1960s, when the program took place.

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Europe can't afford to 'decouple' from China - former Italian official


Global Times
Mon, 03 Apr 2023 05:44 UTC
Michele Geraci
Michele Geraci
Leaders from European countries have recently announced trips to China. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attended the Boao Forum for Asia in South China's Hainan Province which lasted from March 28 to 31. French President Emmanuel Macron and some EU leaders, including EU Commission President Urusla Von der Leyen, will also pay visits to China. What does this wave of visits signal about China-Europe relations?

How should Europe balance its ties with China and the US? Global Times (GT) reporter Wang Wenwen talked to Michele Geraci (Geraci), former undersecretary of state at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, over these issues on the sidelines of the Boao Forum for Asia.

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Bad Guys

A New Pandemic Treaty: The most dangerous International treaty ever proposed

Molly Kingsley
Brownstone Institute
Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
WHO Flag
Human history is a story of forgotten lessons. Despite the catastrophic collapse of European democracy in the 1930s, it appears that the tale of the twentieth century - in which citizens, cowed by existential threats, acquiesced in the rejection of liberty and truth in favour of obedience and propaganda, whilst allowing despotic leaders to seize ever more absolutist powers - is perilously close to being forgotten.

Nowhere is this more evident than in relation to the apparent nonchalance which has greeted two international legal agreements currently working their way through the World Health Organisation: a new pandemic treaty, and amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations, both due to be put before the governing body of the WHO, the World Health Assembly, in May next year.

As concerned scholars and jurists have detailed, these agreements threaten to fundamentally reshape the relationship between the WHO, national governments, and individuals.

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Finland joins NATO, Russia warns of counter-measures

Anne Kauranen
Reuters
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 23:40 UTC
finland nato
Finland formally joined NATO on Tuesday, its flag unfurling outside the military bloc's Brussels headquarters, in a historic policy shift brought on by Russia's invasion of Ukraine that drew a threat from Moscow of "counter-measures."

Finland's accession, ending seven decades of military non-alignment, roughly doubles the length of the border the North Atlantic Treaty Organization shares with Russia and bolsters its eastern flank as the war in Ukraine grinds on with no resolution in sight.

Finland's flag - a blue cross on a white background - was hoisted alongside those of the alliance's 30 other members as a military band played in bright spring sunshine.

Comment: The people of Finland haven't benefited from siding with Western belligerence, and there's no reason to believe they'll be any better off now that they've joined NATO: See also:

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