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I write about politics, education, economics, morality and philosophy.

Joe and Hunter Biden money trail to Russia, China, and Ukraine (video)

According to the Government Accountability Institute and a book by Peter Schweizer, Hunter Biden has received:

$4 Million from Russia. 

$5 Million from Ukraine.

$31 Million from China (CCP).

According to Hunter’s verified laptop 10% for the “Big Guy.” Biden’s influence peddling has been known long before the discovery of Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Direct link to the video above – https://rumble.com/vvuus0-red-handed-peter-schweizer-on-how-biden-mcconnell-and-pelosi-sold-out-to-th.html

Famed law professor Jonathan Turley comments that the Biden’s have a long history of influence pedaling: 

NYT Mea Culpa: Hunter Biden Laptop Story True. 51 Intel Experts Claims of “Russian Disinformation” Were Lies.

UPDATE – Lying CIA officer brags about how CIA disinformation cost Trump the election.

It has finally happened. The New York Times has admitted what we all knew was true.  Even though FBI experts said it was authentic, the corporate media pushed the Russian disinformation lie to help Biden get elected, as well as 51 CIA and other intelligence officers which shows that the “intelligence community” has been manipulating elections, likely for sometime.

President Kennedy wanted to destroy the CIA. His life being taken from us likely saved the agency. The American people may finally understand why he found this to be so important.

The 51 intelligence officers refuse to apologize. You can see the list of them HERE. The fact that the CIA went this far to sway an election speaks volumes of how big the problems in the intelligence community are and how corrupt it has been allowed to become. It seems the this corruption has been with the blessing of and in partnership with the Democratic Party. 
The blessing also involved Big Tech. Things the intelligence community wants censored gets banned by Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and more. The New York Post, the oldest newspaper in the country, was banned from Twitter until they removed their tweets reporting the story.  The CIA’s long relationship with Hollywood is well known and has been well reported

Most of the corporate media echoed the “Russian conspiracy” lie.

We don’t believe that NYT is actually having a change of heart with statements in their editorial slamming cancel culture and the chilling affect media smear campaigns have on free speech. We believe that the polling on Biden and Harris is so bad, and with the domestic and foreign policy disasters coming one after another, Democrats have concluded that Joe has to go. Short term pain for long term gain. 

The New York Post has a good follow up to this story HERE. As does the Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine,  

Of course CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC have completely ignored the New York Times mea culpa verifying Hunter Biden’s laptop emails.

There quite the list of commentary on this story, but if you only have time to watch one or two see Jesse Watters below followed by the Epoch Times’ analysis with Roman Balmakov:

Latest Democrat idiocy: Latino’s who vote Republican are white nationalists! (video)

You can’t make this stuff up. In their latest attempt to stoke division and the Marxist binary narrative that there are only two groups of people, the oppressors and the oppressed, far left “news site” Axios claims that Hispanics who support Republicans are “white nationalists.”

Anti-communist Latino’s from Cuba and Venezuela are getting quite a laugh.

Dinesh D’Souza has some fun with this: 

Ron DeSantis Goes Nuclear: Does the Constitution Apply to Joe Biden? (video)

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis destroys yet another pinhead reporter peddling a false narrative:

Jesse Watters: A look at some high-profile instances where corporate media lied to us

Jesse Watters: A look at some high-profile instances where corporate media lied to us:
 

How we are being manipulated into war with Russia by the Democrats (video) – UPDATED!

Senator Obama in Kiev, Ukraine being shown a tray of weaponized Anthrax. Source : Andrew Weber with the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (shown right). One of the labs corporate media, “fact-checkers” and the Biden Administration claimed do not exist.

NOTE: Please see the updated part I and II sections below!

We are being manipulated into war with Russia. This is not a conspiracy theory or even a stretch. When the facts are laid out this becomes obvious. 

Democrats have been dangling NATO membership in front of Ukraine like a cookie.  Putin warned that Russia will not have it. Strategically it is akin to Russia putting missiles in Cuba. We wouldn’t stand  for it. NATO membership comes with certain strategic offensive military capability that Russia does not want on its long border with Ukraine.

While dangling the NATO cookie, Obama refused to help Ukraine with lethal defensive weapons. Obama’s green nonsense raised global energy prices giving Putin a huge cashflow increase as Russia is a top exporter of oil and natural gas. Emboldened with a fat wallet, Putin invaded the Crimea Province of Ukraine. 

When President Trump took  office he authorized defensive weapon shipments to Ukraine, but pauses delivery of the weapons until he can get assurances from new Ukrainian President Zelensky that he will do more to fight the overwhelming corruption in his country. We do not want our defensive weapons and other aid being sold on the black market.

Zelensky, a comedian and actor from the poorest country in Europe has a net worth of almost $600 million which is something to keep in mind. 

Democrats called Trump’s pause in military aid an impeachable offense, but when Biden got in office he immediately stopped all defensive weapons to Ukraine, which somehow isn’t an impeachable offense.

Biden authorized the Russian oil pipeline NordStream II so that Western Europe can get addicted Russian oil. Green groups in Europe, along with pressure from the Obama and Biden administrations, have seen resounding success in getting Europe to shut down it’s own oil and gas production as well as shutting down several nuclear power plants. This allows Putin to use energy to drive a wedge between Europe and the Unites States. 

Putin has been funding these green groups – LINK.

Trump tried to stop all of thisLINK

On top of that, instead of shutting down the old Soviet era bioweapons labs. The Unites States has been expanding that researchLINK.

It is unlikely that Russian Intelligence did not know about these labs. 

Biden, upon taking office, put in place policies that drove up global energy costs, thus giving Putin a huge influx of cash to pay for his invasion, all while Ukraine is kept largely defenseless. 

Almost very call to give Ukraine the defensive weapons it needs at the time of this writing  has been denied by the Biden Administration save for a small shipment and Javelin and Stinger missiles. The excuse is that “providing better weapons would escalate and provoke Putin.”  It seems that the provoking is has already been done. Weakness amounted to further provocation.

Is there anything more the Democrats could have done to tempt Putin to invade? 

Anyone who mentions these facts is accused of being a treasonous Putin lover by the same people who did all they could to encourage Russia to invade in the first place. Such over the top rhetoric and the poor quality of the lies claiming that there are no biolabs give away what has now become obvious.

Lara Logan is the best war/national security correspondent in the world: 

UPDATE  I- 

Remember how we said that we are being manipulated into war and Putin was incentivized at every turn by the West to invade? Biden had his phone call with CCP Leader Xi Ping and was told: 

“Let he who tied the bell on the tiger’s neck take it off.”

UPDATE II – 

April 23, 2022. Ambassador Marie Yovanovich was one of the fake “Ukrainian phone call” conspirators who lied to get support for the second Trump impeachment. When under oath she admitted that she did not know the things that she was claiming to the media.  

US backed Biolabs in Ukraine story is not a hoax. Here is the evidence. UPDATED – Tulsi Gabbard Responds

UPDATE June 10, 2022 – After denying the labs exist and lying about them for months, the Department of Defense has admitted that the labs are there….but now they are expecting us to believe a new story, including the guile of accusing other countries of spreading misinformation about them. 

Senator Obama in Kiev, Ukraine being shown a tray of weaponized Anthrax. Source : Andrew Weber with the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (shown right). This is one of the biolabs corporate media, “fact-checkers” and the Biden Administration claimed do not exist.

UPDATE – Tulsi Gabbard:

UPDATE II – Independent Journalist Ivory Hecker finds an American PR video putting a positive spin about US built biolabs (that don’t exist) but they admit they are “storing dangerous biological pathogens created in the Soviet Union”  – but after all these years why not destroy them?

Below is another video from the US Cooperative Threat Reduction Program about a US Built biolab in Georgia (bordering Russia). On one hand they say they are working on food and animal health research and later in the video they say they have extremely dangerous pathogens on site.

What is the US Department of Defense doing funding food and animal health research? Hmmm.  Are you buying this? Like we don’t have food and animal health in our own country?

“Food and animal health research” and we need to maintain Soviet bioweapons to do that? And we simply MUST do it just a short drive from the border of an enemy nuclear super power.

Keep in mind that just a few weeks ago our own government, the “fact checkers” and the corporate media said that these labs do not exist.

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The Nunn-Lugar Act of 1991 was designed to secure and dismantle Soviet era nuclear/biological/chemical warfare programs. The act created the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (CTRP) to accomplish this goal.

Specifically, according to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation their mission is: 

1 – Dismantle Former Soviet Union (FSU)’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and associated infrastructure.

2 – Consolidate and secure FSU WMD and related technology and materials.

3 – Increase transparency and encourage higher standards of conduct in adherence to nuclear agreements and nonproliferation activity.

4 – Support defense and military cooperation with the objective of preventing proliferation.

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Somehow, sometime, some way, that mission was changed into preserving and continuing that research while maintaining weaponized agents and biologicals. 

They did this in Ukraine, one of the most corrupt and dangerous places in the world to maintain such biologicals agents. The shear stupidity of what the United States government has been caught doing is breathtaking. After the global COVID pandemic such a lab could endanger the entire world. 

These labs are not a conspiracy theory. Rather, evidence of these labs was not difficult to find even on some of our own government web sites. 

Robert Pope, the former head of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program spoke to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Pope claims that while they have weaponized strains frozen in these labs, they are not biological weapons programs, they are there to study the strains terrorists or foreign countries might use. 

You see the problem with such logic. They are maintaining bioweapons strains, just not for the purpose of bioweapons use, but they are still weaponized strains, in one of the most corrupt places in the world, which happens to border a nuclear super power. What could go wrong?

Report from the Journal on Geopolitics and International Relations on US backed biolabs in Ukraine – LINK

Lara Logan is likely the best war and national security journalist in the world: 

Becker News has more of these government documents HERE.

The New York Times revealed the existence of these labs in 2001 describing how the US is skirting international treaties banning such research: 

Washington Post: U.S. to Aid Ukraine in Countering Bioweapons:

Really, 2005 and still not cleaned up yet? So much for the labs being a conspiracy theory. 

The first tip off that the Biden Administration was lying to us was the poor quality of the lies they were telling. First, the story was that these labs don’t exist.

But Victoria Nuland, the State Department Ukraine Czar, was asked in under oath testimony in front of the Senate if Ukraine had biological and chemical weapons. Nuland ignored the question and answered a different question, which indicates that the answer to Senator Rubio’s question is “yes.” Nuland’s answer was a bombshell. See below:

Nuland’s bombshell admission that “Ukraine has biological research facilities” that are dangerous enough to warrant concern that they could fall into Russian hands.

Then the story changed. The labs exist, but they are old Soviet Era labs that we are helping to clean up.

The Soviet Union collapsed 30 years ago, the labs still are not cleaned up yet? 

Then the story changed to, Well no, the clean up started in 2005 in accordance with the Nunn-Lugar Act.

Okay, so in 17 years you could not clean up the labs, and the research that is STILL onsite is so bad, according to Victoria Nuland, that we fear that the Russians will get a hold of it. If it was Soviet era should they not have it already?

The story from the Biden Administration keeps changing depending on who you ask.

Glenn Greenwald’s detailed report on the Ukrainian biolabs is HERE

Andrew Weber with the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program:

China as well as Russia are demanding answers. China wants to know why the United States is not allowing UN weapons inspectors to inspect these labs:

MORE UPDATES – 

https://web.archive.org/web/20110522081423/http://www.bioprepwatch.com/news/213421-biolab-opens-in-ukraine

A list of biolabs around the world from the National Institute of Health includes labs in Ukraine – LINK

Biden Brazenly Lying About Domestic Energy Production, Inflation…

Biden’s ever changing story on inflation.

Inflation is Transitory!

Inflation is Good

Inflation is because of the “pandemic!” Trump had a pandemic too and when he was in charge it wasn’t like this. 

Inflation and gas prices are because of corporate greed! They won’t drill! 

Today it’s Inflation because of Putin!

The Biden Administration is all for more foreign oil and natural gas, just not ours.

Biden’s Whopper: It’s Simply Not True That My Admin Or Policies Are Holding Back Domestic Energy Production:

The oil leases aren’t being used is a red herring. Here is what Jenn Psaki is not telling you

1 – Just because an oil lease exists does not mean there is oil that can be obtained there affordably.

2 – The lease is not a license to drill, it is a license to explore. There is long permitting process on each step to actually get to where they can drill if oil is there. 

3 – Green groups, many of which are funded by Vladimir Putin, sue in court every step of the process to stop it. They pick Democrat judges who are all to happy to slap injunctions on the oil companies until the company can appeal to a court that actually follow the law. 

4 – The Biden Administration has the power to block these permits at will and has done so, not on all leases, but on leases where they know there are oil reserves.

UPDATE – 

Tucker Carlson should recognize the difference between defensive weapons for Ukraine vs NATO strategic weapons (video)

Tucker Carlson is half right.

Tucker is not differentiating between defensive tactical weapons and strategic offensive weapons. That difference is very important. Defensive weapons including fighters with small tactical missiles are fine. Ukraine, bordering Russia or not, has every right and a moral obligation to defend itself.

We support defensive weapons for Ukraine and always have. There is an important difference between being defensively strong, as weakness invites trouble, and being proactive and a threat to the national security of a major nuclear power.

That said Ukraine being a member of NATO is a genuine threat to Russian national security and should not be allowed to happen. NATO membership often means offensive strategic weapon deployments.  

Democrats need to stop dangling the NATO cookie in front of Ukraine. It was a deliberate and stupid provocation and now Ukraine is paying the price. In our view, the provocation was so foolish that the provocation seems deliberate. We are being manipulated. Tulsi Gabbard agrees:

Editorial: President Zelensky Needs Reverse Course on Outrageous Propaganda

So far, Ukraine has put out more effective false propaganda than Putin, but the more over the top claims are creating a credibility problem.

Ghost of Ukraine – a lie.

12 Guards on an Island…. well still alive.

Nuclear plant hit! Radiation rising! – False. The damage was superficial.

Miss Ukraine taking up arms to fight – the photo was an airsoft gun.

Putin should not have invaded – period. Ukraine has every right and a moral obligation to defend itself. That said it is in Ukraine’s best interests that President Zelensky should knock off the Soviet style propaganda. It is already starting to catch up with him. Zelensky cannot afford a crisis in credibility right now. When people realize they are being lied to the good will Zelensky now enjoys will dry up really fast and it is already starting to happen.

If Russia goes full shock and awe the world will see it as the Russian Army is largely an artillery force. So far, Putin – considering Russia’s full military capability – has shown restraint. Its bad to be sure and Russian solders are not professional by Western standards. There has obviously been some indiscriminate shelling by the Russians, but considering their genuine artillery capability the damage is far, while significant, does not reflect what Russia is capable of.

Speaking of lies, part of the impeachment was that Trump paused military aid to Ukraine until he could get assurance that they are taking honest steps to fight corruption – somehow Democrats viewed that as a crime. BUT IT WAS BIDEN who cut off defensive weapons to Ukraine in the first days he took office.

Why Leftists in NATO and Biden Encouraged Putin to Invade Ukraine – UPDATED


We take no pleasure in writing this editorial. I told you so’s can bring a certain satisfaction, but not when it involves the deaths of innocents brought on by a war that was avoidable. 

These are the lessons learned. 

1Energy Policy Matters

While we agree that Ukraine should not be a NATO member, much of Western Europe, especially Germany, has been overly influenced by Putin because they get about half of their oil and fuel from Russia.  Trump was making progress on reversing this. 

They could have bought that oil from the United States, but Democrat’s like Biden have always tanked domestic oil production using executive regulatory powers. In a year under Biden we went from a top oil exporter to an oil importer. 

When Biden was shutting down our pipelines, he reversed Trump’s ban on the Russian Nord Stream oil pipeline in exchange for nothing, except maybe the millions the wife of the Moscow mayor sent Hunter Biden.

The Biden administration brings in nearly 600,000 barrels of oil from Russia every day.

Biden’s war on our domestic energy production is paying for Putin’s war with your money

2Idiotic NATO Policy is Destabilizing

Putin’s original complaint and threat to invade Ukraine is that he did not want a NATO member state on his border and did not want American strategic weapons on his border.  This is Putin’s only legitimate complaint. 

We threatened WWIII when Russia put missiles in Cuba. Having strategic weapons on your border is destabilizing. 

3Top Democrats Using Corruption to Bilk Ukraine

The Unites States backed the 2014 coup in Ukraine and as a result our State Department, ran by Hillary Clinton, used it to line her pockets as did the Biden’s and that is just the tip of the corruption iceberg.  

A well known example of such corruption is Viktor Pinchuk, a wealthy Eastern European oligarch who was given control of a Ukrainian state run energy company . Pinchuk in turn was a top contributor to the Clinton Foundation and was responsible for sending Hunter Biden’s “firm” $86,000 per month for doing nothing.

The video below shows Biden bragging about how he got a special prosecutor fired for investigating the corruption involving his son. 

Pinchuk is also a founder of “The Atlantic Council” which has peppered American politicians with money ever since. 

Polls showing that Trump and the Republicans will be swept into office in the coming 2024 elections means Ukrainian corruption is certain to be revisited. If Putin sweeps away the current Ukrainian government it is likely that the evidence gets swept out with them.

Such corruption allows Putin to make a case against the current government in Ukraine as well as make false allegations that some are willing to believe because “well the government is corrupt anyways.”

4Failing to Learn the Lessons of History

Shortly before WWII Hitler wanted a way to bypass the defenses that the Czech’s put on their German border. Hitler sent in thugs to harass ethnic Germans who lived near the border and make the case that the Czech government was harassing Germans.

This created sympathy for his plans to annex Czech border areas known as the “Sudetenland.” A key player in appeasing Hitler’s plans to take so much of Czechoslovakia was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. 

Putin literally calls the current government in Ukraine a Nazi regime.
When Putin engaged in these tactics there should have been aggressive international condemnation, especially from the Germans.  Putin was able to get away with this because in WWII many Ukrainians sided with the German invaders, which is not a big surprise after Stalin tried to genocide Ukrainians via starvation. Stalin literally confiscated their food. There are still pro-NAZI groups in Ukraine. They are small but get press because controversy sells. 

President Obama sent Ukraine blankets and military food rations when they were invaded the first time to take Crimea province. 

President Trump sent Ukraine Javelin mobile anti-tank missiles and STINGER mobile anti-aircraft missiles. 

After the invasion started Biden offered to evacuate President Zelensky from Ukraine. Zelensky refused saying “We need ammunition, not a ride.” After being globally humiliated the Biden administration has announced that they will be sending more Javelin and STINGER missiles.

Still, the Biden will not stand up to the eco-alarmists in his own party to increase domestic energy production to help our allies get a break from Russian oil. 

5Don’t Give Up Your Nukes

Ukraine had nuclear weapons. The international community including Russia signed an agreement stating that if Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons their borders would be respected and they would be protected. All sides of that agreement violated it. Unilateral disarmament rarely works out well. Poland and Hungary need to nuke up now. (Note: We realize that we are in the minority in this view /shrug.)

6Democrats’ Bogus Impeachments Against Trump on Russia Hoax and Ukraine Hoax  

When President Zelensky was elected in Ukraine on an anti corruption platform President Trump offered his assistance as there are many ties to American politics in that corruption. Joe Biden, John Kerry, Mitt Romney and Nancy Pelosi all have sons taking money from Ukrainian companies whose owners were donating to the Clinton Foundation. 

Corruption in Ukraine have been so bad that Ukraine has actually gotten poorer in recent years in spite of having great natural resources.

The bogus impeachments over Trump/Russia and Trump/Ukraine prevented the Unites States form doing more to help Ukraine clean up its act. Putin has mentioned this corruption  in his speeches as one of the reasons he is “liberating” the country.

Ric Grenell, Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, Tom Fitton, Steven Miller, and Greg Kelly all explain how Biden/NATO created these problems and this was completely avoidable:

UPDATE IBiolabs.

UPDATE II – Joe Rogan and Dave Smith on why Russia invaded:

Justin Trudeau turns Canada into a police state. Journalists arrested, horses trampling the elderly and disabled (video)

Several of Canada’s provinces have repealed the mandates and condemned Trudeau.

Just like Palpatine, after Trudeau promised that his new “emergency powers” would be temporary his administration announced that much will remain permanent.

Of course Joe Biden’s State Department refuses to comment.

Johns Hopkins Study: Lock-Downs that Destroyed Economy, Small Business, Schools, Suicide Rates, “Had No Positive Impact” (Video)

The Amish who went to to church and ate communally, as well as cities who did not lock-down, had virtually the same outcomes as cities that locked down.  Government officials, mostly Democrats, who used the virus as a power grab, to pick winners and losers were donors were deemed “essential” and those who didn’t were shut down, were wrong. 

According to the most recent data, all but the best medical masks had virtually no effect. This makes sense because if the virus escaped a level four containment lab it seems foolish to believe that a piece of cloth could stop it.

The poke did not stop the spread of the virus. All it did was provide some seasonal protection against the worst symptoms much like a traditional flu shot. We find it difficult to believe that Pfizer and the lock down Democrats at the NIH and CDC did not know this from the beginning.

Why would a poke, that is much like a flu shot, not behave like a flue shot? Perhaps this is why the NiH and Pfizer are in court fighting the release of the documents regarding the testing of the poke, which belong to the American people. 

Those who proved allergic to the poke had side effects from being sick to being killed from blood clots, myocarditis and pericarditis….with no legal recourse, and found themselves attacked and/or banned by far left social media for daring to report it. 

Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson:

It seems this man from almost two years ago was right:

Minneapolis Police Shoot Black Man on “No Knock” Warrant (video). Textbook Example of Bad Policing.

“No Knock” warrants should be incredibly rare because so much can go wrong. People are killed by police when police enter the wrong address, they kill innocent bystanders in the house and in the case below legalized summary execution. 

In general we are very supportive of the police and that said we have consistently supported police reforms such as de-escalation training. 

Unfortunately the idea of “black man with a gun” conjures up a worst case scenario in the heads off too many police that leads to premature/excessive force – such as the black man who was looking a BB gun at a Wal-Mart and someone called 911 saying there was “a black man with a gun”. The police gunned him down from a distance on site. 

In the case below the man was disturbed from a dead sleep. In such a case any reasonable person would believe that their home is being broken into and would arm themselves which is then used as a pretext by the SWAT team to kill the suspect. A setup. This is why evil people make “SWATting” calls.

We watch the video below and are forced to ask how this scenario was not intentional. How is this not premeditated murder. 

The man in the apartment, Amir Locke, has the gun pointed at the ground with his finger extended OFF the trigger until he can assess the threat. Locke is doing exactly as any firearms instructor would train someone to do and is gunned down anyways. 

Locke was not named on the search warrant, had no criminal record and had a valid gun permit. 

We understand that police work is confusing and there are many times where they should get the benefit of the doubt. This is not one of those times. This shooting is not justified. 

Minneapolis again…..

Most “Crisis” Democrats Constantly Talk About Don’t Show Up in Polling of Americans (video)

It is like they are living in an alternate universe. 

The are many problems facing America. Crime gone mad, Democrats prosecutors simply refusing to so their job, corruption, ineffective government, failed public schools, inflation, Americans and allies abandoned in Afghanistan, the droning of innocent families, 200,000 people a month crossing our Southern border and more.

But Democrats are talking about the border integrity of Ukraine, the patriarchy, “democracy” – while doing all they can to rig the voting system to help incumbents, how parents are domestic terrorists and other silliness. 

George Orwell called this “the pansy left” meaning that they try to make it appear like they are solving “problems” to distract from the fact they are doing nothing about genuine problems. 

They wreck stuff and then ignore it.