[Washington Examiner] A longtime CIA veteran who signed the infamous letter baselessly asserting Russian involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop saga said he was proud to have played his part in influencing the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden — before backtracking and claiming he was being sarcastic when he became embroiled in a Twitter spat with Donald Trump's ex-intelligence chief.
John Sipher retired in 2014 after a 28-year career in the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, and he is one of the dozens of former intelligence officials who claimed the laptop story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
Sipher, a longtime defender of Christopher Steele's discredited dossier, is now a co-founder of Spycraft Entertainment and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Despite offering no proof, Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, along with many in the media, dismissed the laptop story as being a Russian disinformation operation.
The letter hedged a bit at various times, noting that "we do not have evidence of Russian involvement." But, it said, "our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case." The letter argued that "if we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election" and expressed "our view that the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue."
After the New York Post published emails belonging to his son, then-candidate Biden called the laptop story "garbage" and part of a "Russian plan" during an October 2020 debate with then-President Donald Trump. He was referring to the Politico report about the letter in an article titled "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say."
The title was misleading because the letter never directly called it Russian "disinformation," but Sipher himself shared the story.
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It would be interesting to see the emails used to organize the letters. Maybe they just used smoke signals or met for discussion in an online CandyCrush forum.
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I’d like to sarcastically read Sipjer’s obit tomorrow.
[Babylon Bee] In a show of penitence for the insensitive joke told during the Oscars, Chris Rock offered to smooth things over with Will Smith by sleeping with his wife.
"My client feels incredible remorse for the violently inconsiderate jab aimed at Jada Pinkett Smith’s debilitating medical condition," said Rock’s publicist, "As such, Chris generously proposes making amends by making love."
Friends of the Smiths expressed surprise that Will’s initial reaction was to reject the comedian’s coital olive branch, knowing the cuckold really had no say in the matter. However, after learning he was at risk of losing his precious Oscar award, Smith expressed full support for the peace offering, again mistakenly assuming his decision would in any way influence his wife’s escapades.
Jada Pinkett Smith expressed overwhelming support for the comedian’s generous offer to reconcile and make things right and promised to pen him into her busy schedule of sleeping with other men
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Slapstick: 1 a device made of two flat pieces of wood fastened at one end so as to make a loud noise when used by an actor to strike a person
2 a style of humour involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props (cf. "slap stick", above)
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Me, I want better quality of events at the Oscars.
I want Sean 'p' Diddy whatsit to gun down George Clooney accidentally while aiming sideways at Ice Cube. I want Wesley Snipes to rush at the Rock with a machete and get smacked into a coma. I want vin deisel to be attacked by Chris Tucker on PCP and Jordan Peele to be hit by a stray bullet meant for Tom Cruise. I want Priyanka Chopra's dress to be torn and her face clawed out by Tessa Thompson. Gimme an Oscar night to remember. Gimme the truth.
[Moonbattery] If you use the Neighbors app to report a crime to the police, be sure not to include a description of the perp. That would be racist, except in the relatively rare occasions when the criminal is white.
Here’s what happened when Sarah Corriher attempted to report a white woman getting throttled by a member of a race higher up on the Cultural Marxist totem pole: She comes across like Jordan Peterson, well-spoken and cutting through the BS with every word. Be sure to hit the link and watch her video.
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[MEMRI.ORG] In response to reports that the Biden administration is considering removing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations as part of its efforts to renew the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... (the JCPOA), articles in the Saudi press attacked the administration, calling this an absurd move and a crime that will threaten global security. The writers claimed that the Biden administration, like the B.O. regime before it, is eager to sign a nuclear agreement with Iran in order to extricate it from its plight, even if this comes at the expense of America's Arab allies. The IRGC. they argued, which controls Iran, is the spearhead of regional and global terror, and also operates other organizations, like the Lebanese Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... and the Shi'ite militias in Iraq. Therefore, removing it from the terror list is an unprecedented act of supporting terror and a "plot" that crosses every red line, which changes the power-balance in the region and places the Arab states, and the world on the lam, in direct danger.
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[American Thinker] Today, unquestionably serious cardiovascular, thrombotic and neurologic adverse events related to the vaccine have occurred around the world. The FDA’s own vaccine adverse event tracking system (the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System or VAERS) shows substantial and serious risks from the vaccine, even though the FDA only collects an estimated 10% of all adverse events.
Still, federal agencies and manufacturers aren’t officially warning the American public about these risks, despite having been privy to this information for almost a whole year. Why? Because it would counter the narrative that taking endless vaccines and boosters is your patriotic duty.
It’s pretty clear today there are both safety and efficacy problems with vaccines and boosters. Because all of the FDA’s 18,000-plus employees had access to the same drug safety data we have, one must ask:
Where is the updated Covid-19 labeling reflecting the latest safety and efficacy findings in VAERS?
Where are the FDA "Dear Doctor" letters giving updated safety guidance?
Where are the "Dear Pharmacist" letters to pharmacists who are still daily administering thousands of boosters to kids and other young healthy people?
Why isn’t the FDA recommending follow-up symptom tracking to avoid further inflammatory neurologic/thrombotic/cardiovascular tragedies instead of its proposal to extend the dosing interval and cross fingers that it would mitigate risk (as there is no concrete clinical evidence that it will do anything?
Why is the FDA ignoring internal drug safety epidemiologists who have stated during official FDA presentations that it only takes a single, well-documented adverse event to justify a safety signal investigation and warning to the American public of the risk?
Why isn’t the FDA demanding studies addressing genotoxicity, teratogenicity, oncogenicity, the potential for reduced fertility in men and women, the clinical effects of spike proteins in donated blood, and the bioaccumulation of vaccine in women’s ovaries? Why isn’t the agency convening and dedicating a Data Safety Monitoring Board to surveil all these post-marketing effects and others?
Are Americans expected to believe that the $6.5 billion-per-year taxpayer-funded FDA lacks adequate funding to address all these public health issues?
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Liars. They fucking lied about everything. "Flatten the curve," "finished by fall," "dead end" pseudo-vaccine that is NOT safe and NOT effective.
They lied about "BLM." They lied about "temporary" inflation. They lied and are still lying about Putin and Ukraine, and they're pushing us toward nuclear war and global famine. God damn these bastards
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We should least of all be surprised. A government that spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars per year murdering the unborn is capable of doing nearly anything.
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Bruce Willis???? “ A 52yo male developed sudden-onset reading difficulty and aphasia 7d after the second dose of an mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine”
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Bruce Willis?
FROM THE VAERS DATABASE as of 3-18-2022:
Cases for 60-70 year old males where
Symptom = 'Aphasia' and
1) All vaccines, vaccination date = 2019: 12 total cases
2) Pfizer mRNA vaccine alone, since 2021: 340 total cases
Bruce Willis is 67 and developed aphasia after being vaccinated. Could it just be a coincidence? Maybe, but how did Willis’ doctors rule out the vaccine being causal?
We aren’t told this. Why not?
340 cases of aphasia vs. 12 for his age group… a factor of 28 higher reporting rate for the COVID vaccines.
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Prior to the COVID vaccines, there were many reports of acute aphasia apparently resulting from acute COVID-19 infections, at least one of which was apparently improved by use of one of the monoclonal antibodies used for COVID treatment. Many speculations in medical literature can also be found re: COVID causing or worsening dementia such as Alzheimer's.
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There was buzz last year that Willis was having issues on productions dating back to 2020 when the busy former “Pulp Fiction” star was making a string of mostly B action movies with titles such as “American Siege,” “Survive the Game,” “Cosmic Sin” and “Hard Kill.
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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." —Walter Scott, Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field (standard text dated 1833)
"I want the truth!" "You can’t handle the truth!" —Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) and Col. Nathan R. Jessup (Jack Nicholson), A Few Good Men (1992).
It is probably fair to say that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the most demonized man on the planet right now.More so than Kim Jong-Un, even when North Korea’s psychotic tyrant is having family members killed and conducting sadistic public executions. These range from firing squads with family members forced to watch, to anti-aircraft missiles that blow the condemned to bloody pieces in front of thousands of traumatized people.
Real crimes against humanity never get attention from our lying corporate media because North Korea has nothing GloboCorp wants. Maybe this is true of Yemen as well....
Casual brutalities aside, I find it amazing how many people seem able to get inside Vladimir Putin’s head. I’ve heard each of the following:
"We need to understand Russia's actual conduct," says a retired Air Force officer, a lawyer by training who has been involved in approving targets for U.S. fights in Iraq and Afghanistan. The officer currently works as an analyst with a large military contractor advising the Pentagon and was granted anonymity in order to speak candidly.
"If we merely convince ourselves that Russia is bombing indiscriminately, or [that] it is failing to inflict more harm because its personnel are not up to the task or because it is technically inept, then we are not seeing the real conflict." In the analyst's view, though the war has led to unprecedented destruction in the south and east, the Russian military has actually been showing restraint in its long-range attacks.
As of the past weekend, in 24 days of conflict, Russia has flown some 1,400 strike sorties and delivered almost 1,000 missiles (by contrast, the United States flew more sorties and delivered more weapons IN THE FIRST DAY of the 2003 Iraq war).
The vast majority of the airstrikes are over the battlefield, with Russian aircraft providing "close air support" to ground forces. The remainder—less than 20 percent, according to U.S. experts—has been aimed at military airfields, barracks and supporting depots.
A proportion of those strikes have damaged and destroyed civilian structures and killed and injured innocent civilians, but the level of death and destruction is low compared to Russia's capacity.
"I know it's hard ... to swallow that the carnage and destruction could be much worse than it is," says the DIA analyst. "But that's what the facts show. This suggests to me, at least, that Putin is not intentionally attacking civilians, that perhaps he is mindful that he needs to limit damage in order to leave an out for negotiations."
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Of course. If Putin was willing to crater Ukraine just to get at the leadership, Zelensky would be a red daub somewhere in the rubble. And there's nothing NATO could do about it without getting Americans killed. Granted, Biden could even go that far, but then the deepState would take out Biden before that. Russia is fully prepared either way. So any pulling back of hostility or dial down from the Kremlin means they're genuinely not interested in creating misery for everyone, just for certain people. Zelensky is making civs fight under threat of being branded traitors. Not only civs but anyone he can find. Enlisting free radicals, mercs, anyone to protect his presidency. This is real criminal behaviour.
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Zelensky is making civs fight under threat of being branded traitors. Not only civs but anyone he can find. Enlisting free radicals, mercs, anyone to protect his presidency. This is real criminal behaviour.
Yes it is. Zelensky more than anyone is responsible for this war. Why did he suddenly change his time last year and start declaring absurd goals like "taking back Crimea" and joining Nato?
Who goaded Zelensky to begin taunting the Bear in 2021? He didn't behave that way during Trump's time. Quite opposite actually
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Who goaded Zelensky to begin taunting the Bear in 2021?
The same people who staged the Maidan coup in 2014 and kicked over the hornet's nest in Libya. The Biden foreign policy team is full of Obama retreads, including Nuland and Sullivan
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Zelensky is making civs fight under threat of being branded traitors. Enlisting free radicals, mercs, anyone to protect his presidency.
Hollywood should have given Zelensky an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. A kleptocratic shit-stirring Loki impersonating a patriot
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#2 They're lying. The propaganda campaign is ridiculous. Putin's been restrained.
This article -- which is not from "USAA" by the way but from the dissident website USSA -- shows all the ways the propaganda operates. It's really breathtaking how the "lying corporate media" have ignored salient facts and either memoryholed or simply blocked out everything Putin has said.
The linked article reviews these point by point. It's amazing how sane and rational the Russian case actually is -- you would never know it from all the BS that's been spread by our left wing globalists and kleptocrats.
How many Americans or Euros know that the US pushed the Kiev regime to rip up the Minsk II Treaty? To demand Nato accession? That Zelensky was demanding nukes and openly declaring his intention to seize Russia's most important naval base?
How many know that for 8 years the Kiev regime installed through a US coup d'etat has been waging war on and terrorizing Russians who live in the eastern regions of the country?
Do Americans even know that Putin repeatedly warned the US that these actions were intolerable and represented a real and present danger to Russian security?
[They] hid in schools, covered themselves with civilians, bombed the drama theater from the inside , hid along Kronshtadskaya Street, hid in kindergartens, bombed the maternity hospital while operations were taking place there . It was very scary,” Ustinova says.
I wouldn't put it past the Ukranian paramils to bomb Ukranians for the benefit of the BBCs and Daily Mails. Or false flag and shit. If Putin will not kill enough civs, someone has to right?
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...come on, the Taliban got away with it for 20 years. If it works, someone else can follow the script, right. And what does the Taliban get for doing it? What they wanted and having the useful idiots give them aid in the billions.
There are no good guys only the lesser of evils. See - supplying Stalin in WW2
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The war started in May 2014. It's been going on without a break for 8 years. The precipitating cause was a new regime in Kyiv brought to power by a US-aided coup. There's extensive documentary evidence implicating American officials (Nuland, Pyatt) in that coup.
There's also tonnes of evidence that Obama administration and former Clinton administration officials colluded with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington to spread lies and disinformation about what was actually happening in Kyiv and in the eastern regions where the war was raging.
The Russians and many US foreign policy experts have been consistently warning the West for many years that these provocative and reckless actions by American operatives would eventually push Russia to protect its vital national interests on its southwestern border. Just like the US would if China were provoking a Mexican puppet regime to demand the return of Texas, use paramilitaries to kill Americans on our southwestern border and build up a hostile military with China's help and encouragement.
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The next thing I expect to hear from these obnoxious claques is that it was the Ukrainians who invaded Russia exactly when the Russian army had forces on the border for exercises, and unfairly used modern weapons to attack the long convoys of Russian armor that entered into Ukraine in response to that invasion. Notoriously corrupt governments are supposed to have weapons systems that are disassembled and don't work, or use bad logistic practices to destroy their own forces. Don't the Ukrainians know enough to steal from their army enough to make it a laughing stock?
The Russians at least know enough to follow the American example and screw up everything they touch. Ukraine used to be pretty good at screwing up. Didn't Zelensky know how?
And none of you guys mention the wonderful opportunities all those refugees have gotten to travel abroad like they were on vacation. They should be thanking Putin for that, and for the opportunity to escape from Zelensky's brutal tyranny.
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I guess orders went out to fluff this article in particular.
(The press didn't demonize Putin -- he did that himself.)
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[They] hid in schools, covered themselves with civilians, bombed the drama theater from the inside , hid along Kronshtadskaya Street, hid in kindergartens, bombed the maternity hospital while operations were taking place there . It was very scary,” Ustinova says.
I wouldn't put it past the Ukranian paramils to bomb Ukranians for the benefit of the BBCs and Daily Mails. Or false flag and shit.
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I wouldn't either, Dron66046. The Daily Mail are making money hand over fist with all the sensational lies and bullshit they're vomiting up every day.
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Do Americans even know that Putin repeatedly warned the US...
who is this Putin guy everyone keeps talking about?
OK, OK, more seriously, Putin has been clear about what he considers a red line as far as NATO goes. I wonder if the reason the US did not believe him was because none of our politicians actually mean what they say, much less have the stones to act on it.
Example: Biden saying Putin cannot remain in power
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When you start with the assumption of a false flag and "reason" from there, what it tells me is you assume the side you support is likely to commit atrocities and are desperate to plant doubt.
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[FoxNews] It is evident Biden is intent on allowing the crisis to continue
When it comes to border security, the Biden administration isn’t satisfied with just opening the floodgates -- causing the single largest illegal immigration crisis in our history.
Now Biden is going a step further by seeming to remove the gates entirely.
DHS is set to implement a new rule substantially changing the role of asylum officers of the U.S. Citizens and Immigration Service (USCIS). Instead of simply determining credible fear which allows a claimant to appear before a judge, under the new rule asylum officers will now have the same authority as a judge. Secretary Mayorkas said: "Through this rule, we are building a more functional and sensible asylum system to ensure that individuals who are eligible will receive protection more swiftly, while those who are not eligible will be rapidly removed."
While on the surface this might seem like a good idea for border security, it is not. In fact, and if statistics hold true, it will do the exact opposite. It will make the problem worse – much worse. It is a Trojan Horse.
In the asylum process there are two equally important components, USCIS and immigration judges.
USCIS is responsible for the intake and processing of asylum claims as well as making an initial determination as to the credibility of a person’s fear about returning to their country of origin. The judiciary reviews all pertinent evidence, hears the case by allowing the claimant to prove the claim, and makes a final determination based upon the law.
By removing immigration judges, the Administration is putting complete authority in the hands of a single department, DHS, with no review by the Department of Justice.
It also requires that these attitudes be reflected in national policies because nation-states are, and will continue to be, the essential building blocks of any world order
Notice that two of the writers are probably Indian imports to America. Hindus. Products of one of the most opportunist, self-serving, shortsighted and corrupt societies on earth. Unfortunately you can trust an Indian only so far as you can put him back on a plane.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Babylon Bee] In a show of penitence for the insensitive joke told during the Oscars, Chris Rock offered to smooth things over with Will Smith by sleeping with his wife.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
We should least of all be surprised. A government that spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars per year murdering the unborn is capable of doing nearly anything. 
