Hunter Biden Subpoenaed Over Burisma, Two Dozen Other Entities As Part Of Four Investigations
December 12th, 2020Good morning to everyone except the journalists who spent the weeks before the election telling everyone the Hunter Biden docs were “Russian disinformation,” and now walk around sanctimoniously lecturing everyone on how they’re warriors against Fake News, as if it never happened.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 12, 2020
Via: ZeroHedge:
Hunter Biden has been subpoenaed by federal investigators over his involvement with at least two dozen entities – including Ukrainian gas company Burisma, according to the Associated Press, citing a ‘person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation.”
News of the subpoena follows a joint announcement from Hunter and his father Joe Biden’s campaign last week which acknowledged that he was under investigation for tax fraud, with the Washington Post noting that Hunter had yet to be interviewed by the FBI or served with subpoenas.
The subpoena, issued Tuesday, covers a wide swath of Hunter’s taxes and international business dealings – in what could be a serious case against the Biden family (or a serious attempt to put a DOJ ‘bow’ on the ‘matter’). AP notes that it’s unclear if Burisma is a central part of the investigation – despite Joe Biden admitting on tape that he had Ukraine’s chief prosecutor fired during the same period as said investigator, Viktor Shokin, was investigating Burisma’s founder for corruption.
U.S. Supreme Court Ends Trump-Backed Texas Bid to Upend Election Results
December 12th, 2020Via: Reuters:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a long-shot lawsuit by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a likely fatal blow in his quest to undo his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden.
With News of Hunter Biden’s Criminal Probe, Recall the Media Outlets That Peddled the “Russian Disinformation” Lie
December 11th, 2020Via: Glenn Greenwald:
The now-validated facts about Hunter are precisely those the U.S. media — in tandem with Silicon Valley and the intelligence community — suppressed based on lies.
Pentagon Weighs Cutting Most of Its Support to CIA’s Counterterrorism Missions
December 11th, 2020Something big is going down with Trump vs. CIA.
My guess is that CIA can draw upon endless cutouts and private contractors to keep doing whatever it is that Trump is trying to stop.
CIA is out of control. It has been for decades. It should have never had a paramilitary covert operations capability.
Emboldened by the early coups after its formation, the use of that covert infrastructure expanded into other activities. The JFK assassination. Iran-Contra/Cocaine (never forget the cocaine). 9/11. Decade after decade, the MOCKINGBIRD media has been there to make it all right as rain.
Good luck with trying to get that genie back in the bottle.
Via: ABC:
In a surprising move, the Pentagon has told the Central Intelligence Agency that it is weighing an end to the majority of the military support it provides to the agency’s counterterrorism missions, according to a former senior administration intelligence official.
It is unclear how the decision would impact the spy agency’s worldwide counterterrorism missions that often rely on the U.S. military for logistical support and personnel.
Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller sent a letter to CIA Director Gina Haspel outlining the decision, according to the former official, who characterized the action as both surprising and unprecedented.
Related: Has Trump Transferred Control of CIA Paramilitary Covert Operations to Secretary of Defense?
Monarch: The World’s First Fully Electric, Driver Optional, Smart Tractor
December 11th, 2020I don’t know why Monarch waited almost to the end to say it, but fully supporting right to repair is huge, given the diabolical and universally hated behavior of the tractor industrial complex:
Big Tractor says farmers have no right to access the copyrighted software that controls every facet of today’s equipment, even to repair their own machines. That’s the exclusive domain of authorized dealerships.
Also, the same machine, minus the “smart” features and for a lower price, would probably sell well.
Via: Monarch Tractor:
Actual Headline: “Promising Covid Vaccine in Australia Abandoned After Trial Participants Test False Positive for HIV”
December 11th, 2020It’s as if Dr. Mengele went on the Benny Hill Show.
Via: Independent:
Australia has abandoned the trial of a locally developed vaccine against Covid-19 after some trial participants showed false HIV positive results.
The vaccine was being developed by the University of Queensland (UQ) and biotech firm CSL, which was one of the four main candidates contracted by the Australian government for coronavirus vaccines.
According to a statement from the Australian government, the evidence from the University of Queensland’s phase one clinical trials showed the vaccine to be safe and that it produced a strong immune response able to neutralise the Covid-19 virus.
But it explained that as part of the vaccine’s design, the university’s researchers included a small fragment of a protein taken from the HIV virus, glycoprotein 41 (gp41), which was used to create a “molecular clamp” to hold the vaccine’s synthetic virus in place.
“Although the university’s researchers have confirmed the protein fragment poses absolutely no health risk to people who have taken the vaccine, they have identified a partial antibody response to it among trial participants. This has the potential to interfere with some HIV screening tests that look for these antibodies – leading to a false positive test result,” the statement said.
It was “this impact on HIV screening – and in the context of other promising vaccine candidates becoming available” that led to the Australian government’s decision, it said.
“Importantly, pathology testing that directly looks for the HIV virus has confirmed negative results for the trial participants who have taken the vaccine,” the statement clarified.
Melinda Gates: “We Hadn’t Really Thought Through the Economic Impacts”
December 10th, 2020Via: AIER:
She is somehow under the impression that it is the pandemic and not the lockdowns that are the cause of the economic devastation that includes perhaps 30% of restaurants going under, among many other terrible effects.
She doesn’t say that outright but, like many articles in the mainstream press over this year, she very carefully crafts her words to avoid the crucial subject of lockdowns as the primary cause of economic disaster. It’s possible that she actually believes this virus is what tanked the world economy on its own but that is a completely unsustainable proposition.
Why Small Businesses Should Stay Closed Forever!
December 9th, 2020Via: Awaken with JP:
Russia: No Drinking for Two Months After COVID-19 Vaccine
December 9th, 2020Via: New York Post:
Russian officials are warning citizens to avoid alcohol for two months after receiving the country’s COVID-19 vaccine — tough-to-swallow news for one of the world’s heaviest-drinking countries.
The warning came from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova, who said in an interview that Russians will have to observe extra precautions during the 42 days it takes for the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to become effective.
Beijing Professor: “At the top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence, we have our old friends.”
December 9th, 2020Via: Fox:
On Nov. 28, Di Dongsheng, a professor at Renmin University in Beijing, appeared on a Chinese television show about Wall Street and international trade. Like so many in academia in China, Di is a servant of his country’s government. This video was deleted from Chinese social media soon after being uploaded, and here’s why:
DI DONSHENG (translation): The Trump administration is in a trade war with us, so why can’t we fix the Trump administration? Why, between 1992 and 2016, did China and the U.S., use to be able to settle all kinds of issues? No mater what kind of crises we encountered … things were solved in no time … We fixed everything in two months. What is the reason? I’m going to throw out something maybe a little bit explosive here. It’s just because we have people at the top. At the top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence, we have our old friends.
