[ZERO] As regular ZeroHedge readers know, the New York Post was excommunicated from social media shortly before the 2020 US election by Big Tech for reporting on shady international business dealings by the Biden family - particularly in Ukraine and China, contained within a trove of emails, text messages, photographs and financial documents that were on a laptop Hunter abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in April 2019.
Covering for the Bidens to help him win the 2020 election, people like Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) insisted it was Russian propaganda, and outlets which reported on the laptop were smeared as conspiracy theorists.
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Put on your tin foil hats, folks. Wild ass conspiracy theory follows:
Did the CCP pay Biden to start a war with Russia?
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Could be with the Mid-Terms nearing, the MSM want to re-establish some NEWS credibility and rebuild Viewership? As I am willing to bet a large number of Liberals are pissed off for being used and lied to, to manipulate them.
Thus allowing them to push Fake NEWS ALERTS for the Mid-terms. Which by all reports, the LSD Politicians will get their A$$es handed to them. Opening up a number of congressional / DOJ inquiries in the 2020 election and special deals now not being addressed.
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[Institute for Family Studies] The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has already claimed thousands of lives, military and civilian. It is the largest conflict within Europe since World War II, and the first conventional war in Europe to be fought since the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s. While the present conflict has many causes, some of the factors leading to war are linked to population and demography. Arguments and beliefs about population and demography have been marshaled by both sides to justify various political claims, and demography and social science research can inform expectations about the war. The war will itself alter the demographic trajectory of Ukraine and other countries in the area.
An interesting discussion that gets deeper into the topic than we have here thus far, with graphs. A taste:
So what are some relevant population trends in Ukraine and Russia? Here, birth rates are vitally important. Both Russia and Ukraine have low fertility rates, but in recent years, Russia has implemented pro-natal policies that have helped the country avoid extreme fertility declines. In Ukraine on the other hand, a relative lack of family-supportive policies alongside the economic depression and insecurity of war and political upheaval over the last 10-15 years have led to birth rates plummeting to barely over 1 child per woman. For all Ukraine statistics here, I have reconstructed demographic data for the territory actually controlled by Ukraine in each year, accounting for territorial losses.
In other words, the Ukrainian population will shrink by about half over the course of the next generation or two, whereas Russia’s would shrink by just 25%, assuming there is no migration.
Since the fall of communism, Russia has also benefitted from high in-migration from former Soviet countries in Central Asia as migrants from poorer areas move to Russia for work, and ethnic Russians dispersed by the Soviet regime return to Russia. Ukraine, with lower incomes, less of a Soviet-era diaspora, and easier access to Europe, had net out-migration. In recent years, these trends began to reverse, but Ukraine’s high outflows still left it with a sharply falling population.
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That brings us to some testimony from the FBI's assistant director for cyber-security, who told Congress's Rep. Matt Gaetz that he had no idea where Hunter Biden's laptop, entrusted to FBI custody, actually is.
Something dreadful will happen that will plunge Joe Biden into mental paralysis and voluntary medical retirement from office. Sympathy for the former president and Dr. Jill will be overwhelming. Flags will be lowered, Federal offices closed. The Hunter Biden laptop will once again go missing.
The Russians will be blamed. Trump will be investigated.
Does anyone think we'll ever see the real person(s) to blame and not some selected Patsy later given a commercial world $$6 figure do nothing company job?
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So the head of cyber security has nothing to do with criminal investigations. He should know nothing about it, just like the head of HR or the head of facilities. Its like asking the head of IT at Ford the compression ratios of a new Focus. Not his lane. Now the FBI is a mess, but this guy was not the guy to ask that question of.
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#7: One would think the FBI would've first thought to verify the authenticity of the laptop's origin before doing a criminal investigation. That would make the cyber security guy the appropriate person to question. He should have some familiarity with it, at least?
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Frank, You are correct that he might possibly have visibility and granting the politics of it all he should. Cyber security is not really about that. They are about defending the US cyber systems. But if I was him I would have answered it a lot differently. "I don't know" draws blood.
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He said he had "no idea" and that's BS. Even if he doesn't know precisely who has possession, he sure as hell does have an "idea". Of course, Meadows did not press that point from what I saw.
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How did they lose the laptop? Simple. Put it on a shelf in a storage room and forget about it.
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The smug answer of "That is an accurate statement" is about as direct an FU as can be given in public speech. Public indifference to oversight is the hallmark of the protected SES, Deep State minion who KNOWS he and his agency is immune to consequences.
[RollCall] Comments on Ukraine, the economy stir concern.
It’s been another bad week for the president, as White House staffers, and Biden himself on Monday, tried to clean up a string of troubling gaffes made during his crucial trip to meet with NATO leaders as the Ukraine war continued to rage.
There’s living in a bubble, and then there’s living in an alternate universe.
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Seems that Biden is the first retarded president of the USA, which explain a lot...
KAMALA HARRIS: "For Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way its impact has been the pandemic...we will assist Jamaica in Covid recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential."
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Kamala Harris: A Vice President And A Wordsmith
10 Thought-Provoking Quotes from Kamala Harris
1 "It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day."
2 "I am here, standing here on the northern flank, on the eastern flank, talking about what we have in terms of the eastern flank."
3 "Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, that's wrong."
4 "We have the ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been, and then to make the possible actually happen."
5 "We are announcing today also that we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to I believe what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health but also of the economy."
6 "I have a motto: I drink- I eat and drink 'no' for breakfast."
7 "Do not come. Do not come."
Before you do?
8 "Talking about the significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of the passage of time, so when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time."
9 "This virus, it has no eyes, and yet it knows exactly how we see each other and how we treat each other."
[NYPOST] It’s crunch time for state budget negotiations, with all manner of nonsense obscuring the No. 1 issue: the urgent need for major fixes to the no-bail law and other botched criminal-justice "reforms." As we’ve said before, a late budget — even weeks late — is better than one that doesn’t do the job.
If they don’t do the right fixes now, after two previous tries, it’ll take a voter revolution to force their hand.
Even Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 10-point criminal-justice plan may not do enough. As former Queens prosecutor Jim Quinn noted for The Post, it overfocuses on gun-related crimes, ignoring violent mostly peaceful perps who use knives or other weapons.
New York judges must get the power the other 49 states allow: to order jail for perps they deem dangerous or at high risk of reoffending, all the way down to serial shoplifters. Unless a gun is involved, Hochul’s "fix" doesn’t allow jail pending trial for those charged with attempted murder, rape, robbery, burglary, first-, second- and third-degree assault, grand larceny, stalking or drug sales, among hundreds of other offenses.
Part of the problem, clearly, is that the gov doesn’t want to offend politicians by saying they botched it big-time. Thus, she "defended" her plan with a Daily News column that pretends it was purely the pandemic that caused the two-year crime wave.
Bull: While progressive "anti-law-enforcement" has pushed up crime all across the country, New York needs to focus on the mistakes that did the damage here.
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[19fortyfive] Joe Biden is Cutting a Nuclear-Capable Cruise Missile Intended to Deter Russian Nuclear Threats to NATO — Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to rattle his nuclear saber loudly. In the run-up to his invasion of Ukraine, he ordered his nuclear weapons on "special alert status" and has since threatened more than once to use them.
As a result, Moscow’s arsenal of over 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons is now in the spotlight. Policymakers and experts take to the national media daily to debate the likelihood that Russia will use them against Ukraine or even NATO. Compared to a month ago, the nation is much better informed about Russia’s nuclear doctrine of "escalate-to-deescalate," by which Moscow reserves the option to use one of these low-yield, battlefield nuclear weapons during a conflict in Europe to compel the enemy to back down.
What is President Biden’s response to all this? Incredibly, he has opted to eliminate a program that would deliver a nuclear missile designed to deter Russia from exercising that very option. If we're going to start WW III, why do this?
In 2018, the Trump administration proposed developing a nuclear-armed, sea-launched cruise missile to discourage our adversaries from using their tactical nukes. Earlier this year, Congress appropriated over $5 million for this program.
Monday the Biden administration abruptly canceled the program, offering no justification for the action.
The danger is that while Russia possesses thousands of these tactical nuclear weapons, the U.S. has only about 100 of them stationed in Europe. The disparity is even more acute in the Indo-Pacific, where China deploys hundreds of nuclear-capable missiles that can strike U.S. bases and allies in the region, and the United States deploys zero.
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...This nice gentleman should have a cup of chamomile tea and relax.
The danger is that while Russia possesses thousands of these tactical nuclear weapons, the U.S. has only about 100 of them stationed in Europe.
True. And another few hundred on Tridents, Virginias, and Los Angeles class subs. And we haven't counted the UK and France's weapons yet. Plus I'd be willing to bet that at least half - and maybe more - are pointed at those nice Chinese people. We won't get into what percentage of the Russian weapons won't work; that percentage of the Allied weapons is MUCH higher.
In 2018, the Trump administration proposed developing a nuclear-armed, sea-launched cruise missile to discourage our adversaries from using their tactical nukes. Earlier this year, Congress appropriated over $5 million for this program.
Reality check: $5MUSD wouldn't buy the paint samples for the missile mockups. It's my understanding that in this case, we kind of need to send two cheers to the Biden administration - that money, pocket change though it may be, is being diverted to things we need now, not things we may get 8-10 years down the road.
It's like the cancelled F-35 purchases: looks bad on the surface, but those birds are being diverted to the out-of-the-blue German buy, and the Canadians suddenly decided that yeah, maybe we need to buy the -35s we were going to buy ten years go. The Lockheed production line is finite; and the German aircraft are needed now.
Mike
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Why Did Biden Cancel The Navy's New Nuclear Cruise Missile?
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