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May 23, 2023 11:19 pm  #1


Always using Russia as a shield

The biden family is very practiced at this garbage.  So was Hagzilla, the obozo's, and obozo's entire cabinet. 

I heartily agree with the writer of this article (Unz) in his assessment of Jonathan Turley (whom I adore!).  This is really all fascinating reading. 

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/05/ron-unz/the-limits-of-media-corruption/

It's kind of a long QUOTE, but I had to print the whole thing or it wouldn't make sense.  This is great stuff!

TAKEN FROM THE LINK ABOVE:

" . . . just last week he (Turley) published an outraged column[/url] in The Hill—a very respectable DC outlet—expressing his amazement at the total unwillingness of our media to report the massive evidence of financial corruption engulfing the family of President Joe Biden. His stunned reaction was so forceful that his remarks are worth excerpting at considerable length:This week, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) tried to do the impossible. After he and his colleagues presented a labyrinth of LLC shell companies and accounts used to funnel as much as $10 million to Biden family members, Donalds tried to induce the press to show some interest in the massive corruption scandal. “For those in the press, this easy pickings & Pulitzer-level stuff right here,” [url=https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1656409400817352706]he pleaded[/url].The response was virtually immediate. Despite showing nine Biden family members allegedly receiving funds from corrupt figures in Romania, China and other countries, The New Republic quickly [url=https://newrepublic.com/post/172627/republicans-admit-no-incriminating-evidence-joe-biden]ran a story[/url] headlined “Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden.”For many of us, it was otherworldly. A decade ago, when then-Vice President Joe Biden was denouncing corruption in Romania and Ukraine and promising action by the United States, massive payments were flowing to his son Hunter Biden and a variety of family members, including Biden grandchildren.The brilliance of the Biden team was that it [url=https://jonathanturley.org/2021/10/19/joe-biden-and-the-disappearing-elephant-how-to-make-a-full-sized-scandal-vanish-in-front-of-an-audience-of-millions/]invested the media in this scandal at the outset[/url] by burying the laptop story as “Russian disinformation” before the election. That was, of course, false, but it took two years for most major media outlets to admit that the laptop was authentic.But the media then ignored what was on that “authentic laptop.” Hundreds of emails detailed potentially criminal conduct and raw influence peddling in foreign countries.When media outlets such as the New York Post confirmed the emails, the media then insisted that there was no corroboration of the influence peddling payments and no clear proof of criminal conduct.[url=https://jonathanturley.org/2023/01/11/bidens-closet-it-is-not-the-crime-but-the-clarity-that-concerns-the-press-and-pundits/] It entirely ignored the obvious corruption itself[/url].Now that the House has [url=https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-reveals-new-evidence-in-biden-familys-influence-peddling-schemes%EF%BF%BC/]released[/url] corroboration in actual money transfers linking many in the Biden family, the media is insisting that this is no scandal because there is no direct proof of payments to Joe Biden.Putting aside that this is only the fourth month of an investigation, the media’s demand of a direct payment to President Biden is laughably absurd. The payments were going to his family, but he was the object of the influence peddling.The House has shown millions of dollars going to [url=https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/nine-biden-family-members-who-allegedly-got-foreign-money-identified-by-house-gop/]at least nine Bidens[/url] like dividends from a family business. As a long-time critic of influence peddling among both Republicans and Democrats, I have never seen the equal of the Bidens.The whole purpose of influence peddling is to use family members as shields for corrupt officials. Instead of making a direct payment to a politician, which could be seen as a bribe, you can give millions to his or her spouse or children.Moreover, these emails include [url=https://nypost.com/2021/11/29/joe-biden-expected-10-percent-cut-in-deal-with-a-chinese-giant/]references to Joe Biden[/url] getting a 10 percent cut of one Chinese deal. It also shows Biden associates warning not to use Joe Biden’s name but to [url=https://jonathanturley.org/2022/11/10/washingtons-pandoras-box-the-opening-of-the-hunter-biden-laptop-could-expose-the-cottage-industry-of-influence-peddling/]employ code names like “the Big Guy.”[/url] At the same time, the president and the first lady are referenced as benefiting from offices and receiving payments from Hunter.Indeed, Hunter complains that his father is taking half of everything that he is raking in.None of that matters. The New York Times ran a piece [url=https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-limits-of-media-corruption/%22https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/us/politics/hunter-biden-house-republicans-report.html]headlined[/url], “House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden.” That is putting aside evidence against all the family members around Joe Biden. It also ignored that other evidence clearly shows Biden [url=https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/biden-lied-about-family-and-china-money-gop-house-committee/]lied[/url] about his family not receiving Chinese funds or that [url=https://jonathanturley.org/2022/06/28/i-think-youre-clear-new-audiotape-is-the-latest-contradiction-of-president-bidens-claims-on-his-knowledge-of-his-sons-foreign-dealings/]he never had any knowledge[/url] of his son’s business dealings.In discussing modern Russian propaganda, researchers at the Rand Corporation [url=https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html]described it[/url] as having “two distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions.”Sound familiar?Today we are seeing a much more dangerous phenomenon. The coverage this week has all the markings of a state media. The consistent spin. The almost universal lack of details. The absurd distinctions.It is the blindside of our First Amendment, which addresses the classic use of state authority to coerce and control media. It does not address a circumstance in which most of the media will maintain an official line by consent rather than coercion.The media simply fails to see the story. Of course, it can always look to the president for enlightenment. Just before his son received a massive transfer of money from one of the most corrupt figures in Romania, Biden explained to that country why corruption must remain everyone’s focus. “Corruption is a cancer, a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy,” [url=https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/comer-shows-bidens-got-1m-from-convicted-romanian-businessman/]he said. “Corruption is just another form of tyranny.”It is just a shame that no one wants to cover it."



 


A government which robs Peter to
pay Paul can always depend on
the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
 

May 23, 2023 11:28 pm  #2


Re: Always using Russia as a shield

I also liked Unz's reference to John T. Flynn, who wrote the book about FDR's "friendship" with Kruzchev (The Roosevelt Myth) and the money FDR laundered through that relationship.  He had time to do this even while cheating on his wife - massively.   Eleanor was a great lady (queer but smart as hell), and she wanted nothing to do with his foreign antics.  GOOD FOR HER !

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/05/no_author/biden-okays-f-16s-for-ukraine-us-weapons-to-attack-crimea/

QUOTE FROM LINK AT ABOVE POST:

"It is not okay for our rulers to play games with our lives like this. It is not okay for them to keep rolling the dice on nuclear escalation more and more often in the name of securing US unipolar hegemony. These people are making it abundantly clear that sanity and level-headedness are not in the driver’s seat here. Everyone on earth should be shouting a loud, unequivocal “no” to this at the top of their lungs."
 


A government which robs Peter to
pay Paul can always depend on
the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
     Thread Starter
 

May 24, 2023 1:51 am  #3


Re: Always using Russia as a shield

Now in some of these planned attacks, they're using nazi flags in the process.  I agree with the writer of this article, it seems weird that the flag would be so meticulously displayed.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/05/23/false-flag-suspicion-surrounds-white-house-u-haul-attack-n1697414?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&bcid=ac8fe51c54b3a1cc68c5502932751fd95db46682c77236be6b7753dae1326f41&recip=27066585


A government which robs Peter to
pay Paul can always depend on
the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
     Thread Starter
 

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