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    Interesting piece from Glenn Greenwald. The outlet he co-founded, The Intercept, refused to print it unless he removed all negative references to Joe Biden. As a result, he resigned. It's a long read but well worth the time.

    He was also on Rogan this week. I enjoyed the discussion.

    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/art...biden-censored

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    That’s pretty telling coming from a left winger.
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    Everyone in the "media" is scrambling to find their niche for the post election future. With Rush's show on it's way out, a country starting to lean socialist, and the new buzzword "podcast" that turns normally thoughtful listeners into thoughtless jibbering idiots, there is a lot at stake...

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    I am almost to the point of supporting the candidate that will bring us closer to the button that initiates the reset to bring it all back.

    Problem is... I cant tell who that will be.

    You'd think the ones that would stand up and not take this shit anymore, you know...the ones that fly the Gadsden flag wear red hats and thump their chests...well....I don't hold much stock in their actually following through with the fundamental ideals our forefathers held.

    I am beginning to believe the catalyst will be a Trump win that will send everything into a hard reset.

    Going to wear a Hawaiian shirt to go vote Tuesday.
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    From the article in the link...

    Beyond that, the Journal's columnist Kimberly Strassel reviewed a stash of documents and "found correspondence corroborates and expands on emails recently published by the New York Post," including ones where Hunter was insisting that it was his connection to his father that was the greatest asset sought by the Chinese conglomerate with whom they were negotiating.

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    And again:

    These documents also demonstrate, reported the Times, "that the countries that Hunter Biden, James Biden and their associates planned to target for deals overlapped with nations where Joe Biden had previously been involved as vice president." Strassel noted that "a May 2017 'expectations' document shows Hunter receiving 20% of the equity in the venture and holding another 10% for 'the big guy'—who Mr. Bobulinski attests is Joe Biden." And the independent journalist Matt Taibbi published an article on Sunday with ample documentation suggesting that Biden's attempt to replace a Ukranian prosecutor in 2015 benefited Burisma.

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    And again:

    After that initial censorship burst from Silicon Valley, whose workforce and oligarchs have donated almost entirely to the Biden campaign, it was the nation's media outlets and former CIA and other intelligence officials who took the lead in constructing reasons why the story should be dismissed, or at least treated with scorn. As usual for the Trump era, the theme that took center stage to accomplish this goal was an unsubstantiated claim about the Kremlin responsibility for the story.

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    Mockingbird media.....

    Nothing new to see here.

    Been around sense the OSS became the CIA and it was first acknowledged in the late 60's
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    Again:

    That it is irresponsible and even unethical to mention these documents became a pervasive view in mainstream journalism. The NPR Public Editor, in an anazing statement representative of much of the prevailing media mentality, explicitly justified NPR’s refusal to cover the story on the ground that “we do not want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories . . . [or] waste the readers’ and listeners’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”

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    "Clowns In America" = CIA
    The Elites don't fear the tall nails, government possesses both the will and the means to crush those folks. What the Elites do fear (or should fear) are the quiet men and women, with low profiles, hard hearts, long memories, and detailed target folders for action as they choose.

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    Again:

    First, the claim that the material is of suspect authenticity or cannot be verified -- the excuse used on behalf of Biden by Leslie Stahl and Christiane Amanpour, among others -- is blatantly false for numerous reasons. As someone who has reported similar large archives in partnership with numerous media outlets around the world (including the Snowden archive in 2014 and the Intercept’s Brazil Archive over the last year showing corruption by high-level Bolsonaro officials), and who also covered the reporting of similar archives by other outlets (the Panama Papers, the WikiLeaks war logs of 2010 and DNC/Podesta emails of 2016), it is clear to me that the trove of documents from Hunter Biden’s emails has been verified in ways quite similar to those.

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    The Elites don't fear the tall nails, government possesses both the will and the means to crush those folks. What the Elites do fear (or should fear) are the quiet men and women, with low profiles, hard hearts, long memories, and detailed target folders for action as they choose.

    "I here repeat, & would willingly proclaim, my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule—to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, & to the perfidious, malignant, & vile Yankee race."

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    again:

    Is it remotely convincing to you that Biden would have accepted someone like Lutsenko if his motive really were to fortify anti-corruption prosecutions in Ukraine? Yet that's exactly what Biden did: he personally told Poroshenko that Lutsenko was an acceptable alternative and promptly released the $1 billion after his appointment was announced. Whatever Biden's motive was in using his power as U.S. Vice President to change the prosecutor in Ukraine, his acceptance of someone like Lutsenko strongly suggests that combatting Ukrainian corruption was not it.

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    Again:

    In sum: "it’s unquestionable that the cases against Burisma were all closed by Shokin’s successor, chosen in consultation with Joe Biden, whose son remained on the board of said company for three more years, earning upwards of $50,000 per month."

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    BOOOM:

    But the real scandal that has been proven is not the former Vice President’s misconduct but that of his supporters and allies in the U.S. media. As Taibbi’s headline put it: “With the Hunter Biden Exposé, Suppression is a Bigger Scandal Than the Actual Story.”

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    the press forming public opinion goes back WAAAAAAY beyond the the CIA.

    Who do you think started the Revolution? The Federalist Papers were.......the press. I think i remember learning in school that roughly 10% of the population were active revolutionaries. Basically 30% were "for it," 30% didn't care and 30% were from Camden.

    Where did the fire come from? Who whipped the flames at every turn? the press.

    And Watergate?
    was it a crime, yes. But many presidents have done much much worse both before and since. But Woodward and Burnstein wrote a column every day......every.....day and kept picking the scab. Until public opinion was swayed.

    The press has always been biased. They kept Roosevelt's polio secret. Why? because they agreed with him. They kept Kennedy's affairs secret. Why? Because they agreed with him.

    they too will cover up, by omission, anything that tarnishes Biden.
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    I'm referring to actually influencing the population by paying off the news outlets to run stories to push the public in the direction that the CIA handlers desire.

    To that it had not ever been done. TV and TV's in every house hold are a relatively new concept even still today.

    I agree with influencing public opinion via the press and via campaigns had been done but nothing like Operation Mocking bird.

    Even to this day you can see the so called big 3 using the same talking points on cue, because it is on cue.

    The other thing that had not been done on any sort of grand scale like today is actually having intelligence officers bringing you the news, unless you lived int the USSR.

    70% of all talking heads were, I use that term loosely, part of one of the 16 intelligence agencies. If you are ever in you are never really out! Remember Brenan kept his security clearance after Trump called for it to be revoked, because that is how the game is played. So you have so called news agents who are actually members of the deep state bureaucracy!
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    Quote Originally Posted by JABIII View Post
    Everyone in the "media" is scrambling to find their niche for the post election future. With Rush's show on it's way out, a country starting to lean socialist, and the new buzzword "podcast" that turns normally thoughtful listeners into thoughtless jibbering idiots, there is a lot at stake...
    The word "Podcast" is almost as unfortunate as a name for something than is "Hootie and the Blowfish." Joe Rogan and Adam Carolla worked hard not to call their shows podcasts (Joe Rogan Experience and The Adam Carolla Show) but the mainstream media outlets hammer that name as to diminish its gravity. The world of "podcasts" is literally the most democratized form of media ever. I mean damn, even members from here have some. MG
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    DOJ officials confirm Hunter Biden and his business associates are currently under ACTIVE criminal investigation by the FBI The investigation has been ongoing since 2019 and may include his father, Joe Biden. Where is the media?” –

    Sense we are talking about bias......I have yet to see a head line on any major news outlet.

    Holly Crap this is huge.

    A candidate running for office is under investigation and has been since 2019 for all sorts of interesting crimes.

    This needs to be known before people vote. This isn't some hoax perpetrated by one political party against the other, this is a real criminal investigation by the FBI. That never happened to Trump.

    Everything done to Tump was purely political. Even down to the so called special prosecution.

    Aint nothing special or out the ordinary here, this is old fashion gum shoe LE work.

    I just hope the politicos Like Chris Wray and the other Biden psycofants can't tap this down.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silentweapon338 View Post
    DOJ officials confirm Hunter Biden and his business associates are currently under ACTIVE criminal investigation by the FBI The investigation has been ongoing since 2019 and may include his father, Joe Biden. Where is the media?” –

    Sense we are talking about bias......I have yet to see a head line on any major news outlet.

    Holly Crap this is huge.
    A quick google search would reveal that there are many mainstream outlets that have put a story out about Hunter Biden and associates being under investigation by the DOJ.

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