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Mind-blowing. In 2014, VP Biden attacked corrupt developer in Romania who owned land around US embassy. In 2015, Hunter goes to work for the corrupt developer, lobbies US ambassador to pressure Romanians to drop case, then proposes to settle case by cutting in his China client 😳 Image
This appears to have been a straight-up mob-style shakedown by the Biden family done under the auspices of Obama foreign policy and in a way the directly jeopardized US national security.
The lawyers for Hunter’s corrupt developer client first threatened to jeopardize the land upon which the embassy sat, and then proposed a deal whereby prosecutors dropped the case in exchange for the corrupt developer selling nearly half his stake to a state-owned Chinese energy company, that was also Hunter’s client.Image
Wait wait it gets worse:

— “The deal was among several projects [!] in different parts of the world for which the joint venture discussed seeking [Chinese state owned] CEFC investment.”

— Hunter “Biden was involved in discussions about the structure of the joint venture, as well as the proposed purchase of the Bucharest land and the legal defense of Mr. Popoviciu.”Image
This means that the Biden family’s shakedown strategy was truly global and pursued hand-in-glove with the Chinese. Here’s background on their grift from the reporter who wrote one of the best books on the topic:
Shortly after this, the CIA and FBI created the Russia collusion hoax to frame Trump, in part to distract from the Clinton influence peddling scheme, and in part to hurt Trump.

This newly unearthed scandal raises the question of whether another goal was to distract from the Biden influence peddling scheme.

Either way it’s clear is that the Obama administration housed two separate sprawling influence peddling operations, covered them up, and accused Trump of doing what Clinton and Biden were plainly and flagrantly guilty of.

What continues to amaze me is just how many people knew about or participated in one or more of those corruption scandals, which were occurring more or less in plain sight, underscoring the essential role of the IC and media in running information operations to focus public attention on non-evidence of Russia collusion to distract from the obvious real world corruption that voters were growing increasing concerned over.
We sometimes think of Hillary and Biden's corruption as separate from the Russia Collusion hoax, but the full context reveals something even more sinister. Hillary as Sec of State approved uranium imports from Russia in exchange for $500k for her husband, ostensibly for a speech, and millions more for their foundation, from oligarchs linked to Putin. Biden worked, or promised to work, various regulatory, legal, and diplomatic levers for Chinese oligarchs, directly controlled by the state, through his son. All of this was already getting publicity and alarming voters, as the Clinton campaign team realized in late 2015. And so a Clinton aide, who worked at CIA intermediary organization, proposed a psyop to protect her corruption onto Trump. Then, the CIA and FBI spied upon and entrapped Trump aides to get surveillance warrants to create a disinformation campaign suggesting Trump was colluding with the Russians to steal the election.
The IC-led disinformation effort never stopped. In 2020, the FBI and its intermediary organization, Aspen Institute, orchestrated an elaborate disinformation campaign to brainwash journalists and social media executives about the Hunter Biden laptop.

The result was the now-famous IC and media effort to frame the laptop as a result of Russian misinformation. That included the strenuous efforts by "former" FBI officials inside of Facebook and Twitter to censor the story, which we would never have known about had @elonmusk opened up the files to @mtaibbi and @bariweiss who invited me in to the project.

I saw the emails relating to the Aspen Institute information operation and realized that there was more to the story than anyone knew. At the time, I knew very little about either the Russia collusion hoax or the vast influence-peddling operations of Clinton and Biden. Understanding them helped it all make much more sense.

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Oct 8
Fifty-five percent of people on the Left justify the murder of Trump, five times more liberals than conservatives defend political violence, and not a single high-profile Democrat has called for @jonesjay to drop out. The Left truly can not make its intentions any clearer. Image
The person whose legacy is most being destroyed by this is @BarackObama . He must demand that @jonesjay step down. Now. And he should take extraordinary efforts to demand the Left back down from its utterly crazed support for violence. This building should not open until he does that.Image
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Sep 28
Good god. The Swiss people just approved digital IDs. Australia implemented them in Dec. UK last week. In all 3 nations, deep state-allied politicians are behind them. This is a digital ID/censorship emergency. Please share and reply below with info about other nations. Image
The deep state swamp creatures know that digital IDs are unpopular and so they are trying to rush them through before anyone realizes what they are doing. The good news is that the more people learn about them the more alarmed they become.

Polling in Switzerland showed 60% backed digital IDs which both houses in parliament had already approved. The final vote was just 50.4%. It almost lost. I hope the Swiss people are carefully scrutinizing the vote count.

Same dynamic in UK. Opposition to digital IDs is low and will rise. Digital IDs can and must be killed.

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From a Swiss source: "Palantir and Mercator sponsored the Yes Campaign. Palantir is a member of Digital Switzerland, alongside other tech companies. Digital Switzerland lobbied for the E-ID/digital ID in Switzerland in this vote.Image
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Sep 27
The man behind the digital ID push is Larry Ellison, owner of Oracle, CBS, CNN, and, soon, TikTok. He wants data centralization and total surveillance. "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly watching & recording everything that's going on." Terrifying.
This article in the left-wing UK magazine @NewStatesman details how Ellison bankrolled Starmer's Digital ID push.

This is not a partisan issue. Freedom lovers on the Left and Right should both aggressivley oppose digital totalitarianism.

Ellison: We need to unify all of the national data. Put it into a database where it's easily consumable by the AI model, and then ask whatever question you like.

Blair: So you're really through the use of this, you're revolutionizing the way government works, right? The services it provides, the way that it operates.

Why bother having democracy at all? Why not just let Ellison and WEF and AI run things? What could possibly go wrong?
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Sep 27
And after the government combines your personal, banking, and voting data under a single digital ID, it will add social media and vaccine information. Same with Real ID in the US. The Censorship Industrial Complex was dress rehearsal for digital ID.
Stop your creepy totalitarianism @sundarpichai @Google Image
@sundarpichai @Google UK opposition vs support of digital IDs is 45 to 42.

Opponents should be able to drive that opposition number up significantly.

It is absolutely essential that the UK kill two-tier @Keir_Starmer plan for digital IDs before they metastasize across the West. Image
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Sep 24
The idea that our rights are natural is Christian Nationalist misinformation, say the media and Democrats. But it's not. It's right there in the Declaration of Independence. Behind the Left's dehumanization of conservatives is an ignorant denial of America's spiritual foundation.
To his credit, Senator @timkaine reversed his position on natural rights a few days after the hearing. “Of course, I embrace the view, expressed so clearly in the Declaration of Independence authored by Virginian Thomas Jefferson, that all people are endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

I accept the Senator Kaine's change of mind, but he misrepresents the hearing by saying "Of course..."

Nobody who watches Kaine pedantically lecture State Department official Riley Barnes and walk away thinking Kaine agrees with the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence.

Notably, Kaine placed his oped describing his change of mind on natural rights at Fox where no MSNBC viewer is at any risk of reading it.

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@timkaine According to the New Atheists the New Atheists failed like all scientism fails. They couldn't explain reality or deliver a positive vision or affirmative program. Their entire project rests on really dumb assumptions about reality and nature.

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Sep 23
Finally! Google admits 1) that the Biden White House demanded censorship of legal content, and 2) that the European censorship law (DSA) could require it and other tech companies "to remove lawful content" both "within and outside of" the EU. The US must stand up to EU censors!
Had the above letter from Google, and the below letter from Meta, been sent before the Supreme Court received filings on Missouri v. Biden, the ruling may have gone the other way, as they demonstrate direct White House bullying of tech firms to censor legal content. Image
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We need @realDonaldTrump to stand strong against EU censorship.

No trade deal is worth undermining the First Amendment.

The EU's @vonderleyen @EmmanuelMacron @_FriedrichMerz are eager to not only censor their own citizens but Americans and the world.

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