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2020-10-16 Home Front: Politix
Twitter Down: Social Network Suffers Widespread Technical Problems
[VARIETY] UPDATED: Twitter users reported broad problems accessing the service Thursday afternoon across the U.S., Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and other parts of the world, with the technical issues lasting for more than two hours.

According to DownDetector.com, reports of problems with Twitter began to spike just after 5:30 p.m. ET, and soared to over 53,000 complaints by 5:58 p.m. Those began to taper off about 20 minutes later.

In an update posted at 8:14 p.m. ET, Twitter’s communications team wrote, "The recent issue was caused by an inadvertent change we made to our internal systems. Twitter should be working for everyone within the next few hours."

Did the FBI Sit on a Computer Containing Evidence of Hunter Sex Tape and Biden Burisma Corruption?
[PJMEDIA] What about the part where the FBI had possession of this information back in December? Why didn’t the FBI come forward with this evidence about Hunter Biden’s emails, which appear to show collusion and influence-trading? Isn’t that something they should have told the president or members of Congress? Was the FBI deliberately covering it up? If the good citizen who came forward and alerted the FBI of the contents of the laptop had not made a copy of the information, it would still be under FBI lock and key. But the computer repairman did make a copy and sent it to Rudy Giuliani. If true, it’s a stunning indictment of the FBI that an American citizen—who alerted them to alleged multiple crimes involving a guy with the last name Biden—knew not to trust them and made other arrangements should they try to cover it up (which, apparently, they did).


The New Yorker's Hunter Biden Whitewash Looks Awful In Retrospect
[THEFEDERALIST] It is almost as if the New Yorker prepared for this moment.

In early July of 2019, just more than two months after former Vice President Joe Biden kicked off his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, the magazine published a more than 10,000 word piece attempting to whitewash misconduct by the candidate’s troubled son, Hunter.

The article chronicled Hunter Biden’s upbringing, a senator’s son as a sympathetic figure who has struggled with heartbreak and addiction while, unlike many children of prominent politicians, still had to work part-time jobs in college to make ends meet. Most striking about the New Yorker essay however, was its explicit attempts to get ahead of a news cycle prophesied by the eventual Democratic nominee’s son himself.

Here is the fourth paragraph of the feature-length profile:


Donald J. Trump and some of his allies, in their eagerness to undermine Biden’s candidacy, and possibly to deflect attention from their own ethical lapses, have gone to extreme lengths, promoting, without evidence, the dubious narrative that Biden used the office of the Vice President to advance and protect his son’s interests.

Later, the piece continued to forecast what the next few months would look like, which would also ultimately feature Democrats going nuclear – all the way to a six-month impeachment trial while the coronavirus brewed overseas – to deter any real investigation of Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings. Democrats would even charge a Senate investigation launched in 2017 by Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Chuck Grassley of Iowa as Russian interference, a favorite and increasingly familiar line of attack based on nothing more than a political motivation to merely link “Russia” with “Republican” in the same sentence. After all, a considerable population remains absolutely convinced that the president sits in the Oval Office operating as a Russian agent as a consequence of a four-year media campaign to legitimize the Democratic conspiracy.

“Through weeks of conversations, [Hunter] became increasingly open about his setbacks, aware that many of the stories that he told me would otherwise emerge, likely in a distorted form, in Breitbart or on ‘Hannity,'” the New Yorker piece read.

Obama conference call leaked to Burisma: Biden emails
[NYPOST] The Obama administration let a Democratic p.r. company that worked for Ukrainian energy firm Burisma take part in a conference call about an upcoming visit to Ukraine by then-Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
, emails obtained by The Post show.

An associate at Blue Star Strategies then emailed a memo with minutes of the conference call hosted by the White House to a top Burisma executive, Vadym Pozharskyi, as well as to Joe Biden’s son Hunter and Hunter’s business partner, Devon Archer, both of whom sat on Burisma’s board.

The trip, in December 2015, turned out to be the one during which Biden later bragged about forcing Ukrainian officials to fire a state prosecutor who was investigating Burisma by threatening to withhold a $1 billion US loan guarantee.

The memo, sent shortly after the Dec. 2, 2015, call, also “outlined the trip’s agenda and addressed several questions regarding US policy toward Ukraine.”

Blue Star has said it began working for Burisma and contacting Ukrainian officials on its behalf in November 2015, and an email shows that on Nov. 18, 2015, Pozharskyi sent the Blue Star contract to Hunter Biden, Archer and Eric Schwerin, president of the Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm.
Posted by Fred 2020-10-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top

#1 good
Posted by Chris 2020-10-16 00:51||   2020-10-16 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Without evidence = with a mountain of evidence: documented and admissible at trial

debunked conspiracy theory = undeniable material facts
Posted by Neville Guelph6861 2020-10-16 01:07||   2020-10-16 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Twitter: Oh dear we have technical problems - not our fault we can't show all those [obviously false] anti-Biden thingies. No, really.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-10-16 09:45||   2020-10-16 09:45|| Front Page Top

#4 If you were going to hack them, what better time than when everyone on there says they have been hacked?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-10-16 11:16||   2020-10-16 11:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Wasn't me - swear!
Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-10-16 16:34||   2020-10-16 16:34|| Front Page Top

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