Roundup
It’s one of those days when there’s too much news for me to do it justice without resorting to a roundup. So here it
(1) The content of some of the Bidens’ most disturbing email exchanges.
(2) I’ve been waiting for the release of Shelby Steele’s documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” Amazon initially refused to stream it on its website, but it finally has relented, and it’s available here. The film was already available on Vimeo, here. The promo line is “When Truth Becomes a Lie & When a Lie Becomes Truth.” Oh yes, we know about that.
(3) The FBI gets coy about the Biden laptop:
Tuesday, the FBI Assistant Director Jill C. Tyson sent a letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
In the letter, Tyson said the agency had “nothing to add” to Director of National Intelligence Ratcliffe’s statement dispelling Russian involvement in the “discovery” of Hunter Biden‘s laptop.
Ratcliffe has already stated that it’s not Russian disinformation. So if the FBI has “nothing to add” to that, one can conclude it’s not Russian disinformation, but apparently the FBI doesn’t want to hurt Biden by saying that unequivocally and clearly. The FBI is of course the same institution that, in order to hurt Trump, relied for years on a document that it knew was Russian disinformation.
(4) shipwreckedcrew at Redstate discusses a “smoking gun” email about Burisma and influence peddling:
Newly revealed evidence taken from Hunter Biden’s laptop, in the form of an email dated November 2, 2015, from Vadym Pozharskyi to Devon Archer and Hunter Biden at their Rosemont Seneca Partners email addresses shows, unequivocally, that Burisma’s purpose in placing them both on the Board of Directors, and hiring Blue Star Strategies, a Washington DC PR firm, in November 2015, was to influence United States and Ukrainian government policies for the benefit of Burisma and its exiled owner.
Please read the whole thing.
(5) You may notice I haven’t talked much about the polls lately. That’s because I find polls almost meaningless these days for forecasting the election. They also conflict and change so often that I just think it’s become a waste of time to pay all that much attention. Not to mention that the possibility of widespread voting fraud may render them moot.
I’ve written here about how the FBI “point shaved” the entire Hillary investigation. They didn’t try their best to investigate that criminal.
I think much of what Joe did for the countries that bribed him is that he failed in striking a deal in the best interests of the US. But he tried his best!
Burisma is way different. He forced the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor because he was investigating Burisma. And then there was the quid pro quo: Fire the guy or don’t get the $1b in US aid. That’s an official act.
Joe Biden is the biggest traitor since Benedict Arnold. There’s no doubt about this. He sold us out for bitcoin.
Looking back at the election of 1948 may prove enlightening. I recently read A.J. Baime’s book, “Dewey Defeats Truman,” not going into it looking for anything connecting to now, but the parallels to how the current situation seems to be developing are quite striking.
Of all the polls I have seen this one from yesterday would win the most-hard-to-believe award.
Political Polls @PpollingNumbers
Pennsylvania @Rasmussen_Poll:
Already Voted (31%)
Biden 78
Trump 19
This is unrelated to the content of the post, but generally when I come here, I start typing the url and google autocompletes it, no problem. Today it didn’t give me the option, only suggesting some Hyundai website. I wonder if others have had this issue. With all the media shenanigans lately, nothing seems out of the realm of possible. (though it is possible that my cookies got cleaned out)
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss “What Killed Michael Brown” (and Shelby Steele more generally) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mNfxayyNfk
McWhorter offers that he’s coming to think that the ’60s era of urban renewal (demolishing black “slums” for shiny new planned projects) was a mistake and black people would have been better off without it. Or, the way I paraphrase it, to quote the title of another black author’s book about black people: “Stop Helping Us”.
Over the past few cycles these polls have proven to be almost as accurate as my predictions, which is to say, not even close. 🙂
Pollsters know how and where to ask, to get the results the client wants.
So very very sad: “voting fraud may render them moot.”
I’m pretty sure there’s lots of voter fraud.
Andy’s “already voted” 78 vs 19 makes me glad I already voted Trump.
Tho, CA (from Slovakia), so unlikely to matter much.
MS Edge, the newer Microsoft browser (to replace Internet Explorer) works fine with tnew … getting me here. Plus my copy of Chrome also works fine. On a Win10 box.
When “the FBI” speaks, most frequently there’s no name. Glad to see Asst. Tyson doing the talking, er, almost non-talking. “Nothing to add”.
Like, why was Tyson sitting on this info for a year? Or, if not her, who? Right now I think Wray should be fired.
Tho I can imagine Dems claiming Trump wanted to withhold the info until a surprise in Oct 2020 (now!). And I can even imagine that being true – tho the comp repair guy giving Rudy the info makes this much less likely.
Hello, funsize. Is it possible that your browser has a setting by which it does automated housekeeping along those lines?
steve, it’s almost pointless to try sometimes 🙂
Cornhead,
Slight correction; Its not that the FBI didn’t try their best to investigate Hillary. It’s that they did try their best, to get her off scot free.
And Joe tried his best to get the best deal for the countries that bribed him because the better the deal for them, the better Joe’s cut would be.
But you’re right about Joe only being exceeded in his treason by Benedict Arnold.
Andy,
Apparently they’re counting on enough voters being unable to do simple arithmetic.
steve+walsh,
The new key to accuracy is to conclude the opposite of whatever the pollsters are promoting. As SCOTTtheBADGER points out, it’s their client who determines the desired result and up to the pollster to deliver the goods.
Tom Grey,
I think we all know why Tyson was sitting on this info for a year…
“I find polls almost meaningless these days”
Me too. You can find one to suit your fancy. But there’s no way to know.
Or, perhaps there IS someone who could peer into the data and make the correct conclusion. I am not that guy and also I would have no idea who that guy is.
Joe Biden is the biggest traitor since Benedict Arnold. There’s no doubt about this. He sold us out for bitcoin.
Cornhead: Which of course reminds me of a song, an old Scottish one, based on a poem by the immortal Robert Burns:
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I would, or I had seen the day
That treason thus could sell us
My auld gray head had lain in clay
Wi’ Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour
I’ll make this declaration
We were bought and sold for English gold:
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
–Steeleye Span, “Parcel of Rogues in a Nation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF36FZyxt0g
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In the late 1690s a group of Scottish investors lost their shirts in an ill-advised attempt to colonize Panama(!) and bribed some members of the Scottish Parliament to pass a bill that indirectly would reimburse their losses in entirety to the tune of around fifty million pounds in today’s currency.
The bill was the Act of Union with England which turned out in the long run to be a boon to Scotland, but one can understand the Scots’ sense of betrayal at the time.
Especially given that the Scots had just suffered the “Seven Ill Years” in which 5-15% of population died of starvation! What one learns reading history.
Anyway. You can following the trail, starting here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Such_a_Parcel_of_Rogues_in_a_Nation
It’s one of Steeleye Span’s best and most chilling songs — a cappella except for a haunting deep drum beat plus a strings outro.
Breitbart is reporting that a former Biden associate confirms the emails, the corruption and that “Mr. Big” is Joe Biden.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/21/bombshell-statement-biden-insider-claims-he-was-recipient-of-the-email-says-he-witnessed-joe-hunter-discussing-deals/
It will be interesting to see how this is addressed at the debate. The Dems obviously think this is hurting Biden, or else he wouldn’t have come out of his bunker to call it a smear. I wonder if Trump will bring up Bitcoin as my guess is much of the payoffs have been in cryptocurrency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_I3Rp1CQak
To Huxley: And the Scotch-Irish in American present day respond. Tyler Childress “Is this the start of a long violent history”… or “tucking our tails as we try to abide”?
For those speaking of polls and their relevance, check out the latest revelations from the Biden laptop regarding Frank Luntz.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=390909
Funsize, my browser behaved oddly also. It wasn’t just that autocomplete failed to direct me here as it used to do. Usually I’d get to this site if I typed in anything close or if I typed in the old name. Not this time. Quite different now. Until I typed it exactly, with the word “the” my browser did not show this blog site in the search results.
Funsize said “This is unrelated to the content of the post, but generally when I come here, I start typing the url and google autocompletes it, no problem. Today it didn’t give me the option,…”
The key word to your problem is “google”. Stop using it as your search engine. Chrome is a Google browser. I recommend switching to Firefox for the browser and duckduckgo as the search engine. Not perfect but hopefully keeps some of the Google tentacles out of your system.
Better get out the pop corn. As your entire life paradigm goes pop.
But you’re right about Joe only being exceeded in his treason by Benedict Arnold.
You’re not aware about the info dump concerning ex Prez Hussein, Seal Team Six termination hit, and false Bin Laden hit payment of ransom to Iran?
Poor Free Mason Benedict is going to get exceeded often in the NOW.
Here is the witness’ statement. Persuasive on its face. The “traitor” comments above are no exaggeration if this is legit. I got this from a comment at JustOneMinute blog. No link but presumably it’ll be in the news.
FULL STATEMENT: My name is Tony Bobulinski. The facts set forth below are true and accurate; they are not any form of domestic or foreign disinformation. Any suggestion to the contrary is false and offensive. I am the recipient of the email published seven days ago by the New York Post which showed a copy to Hunter Biden and Rob Walker. That email is genuine.
This afternoon I received a request from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs and the Senate Committee on Finance requesting all documents relating to my business affairs with the Biden family as well as various foreign entities and individuals. I have extensive relevant records and communications and I intend to produce those items to both Committees in the immediate future.
I am the grandson of a 37 year Army Intelligence officer, the son of a 20+ year career Naval Officer and the brother of a 28 year career Naval Flight Officer. I myself served our country for 4 years and left the Navy as LT Bobulinski. I held a high level security clearance and was an instructor and then CTO for Naval Nuclear Power Training Command. I take great pride in the time my family and I served this country. I am also not a political person. What few campaign contributions I have made in my life were to Democrats.
If the media and big tech companies had done their jobs over the past several weeks I would be irrelevant in this story. Given my long standing service and devotion to this great country, I could no longer allow my family’s name to be associated or tied to Russian disinformation or implied lies and false narratives dominating the media right now.
After leaving the military I became an institutional investor investing extensively around the world and on every continent. I have traveled to over 50 countries. I believe, hands down, we live in the greatest country in the world.
What I am outlining is fact. I know it is fact because I lived it. I am the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings which was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family. I was brought into the company to be the CEO by James Gilliar and Hunter Biden. The reference to “the Big Guy” in the much publicized May 13, 2017 email is in fact a reference to Joe Biden. The other “JB” referenced in that email is Jim Biden, Joe’s brother.
Hunter Biden called his dad ‘the Big Guy’ or ‘my Chairman,’ and frequently referenced asking him for his sign-off or advice on various potential deals that we were discussing. I’ve seen Vice President Biden saying he never talked to Hunter about his business. I’ve seen firsthand that that’s not true, because it wasn’t just Hunter’s business, they said they were putting the Biden family name and its legacy on the line.
I realized the Chinese were not really focused on a healthy financial ROI. They were looking at this as a political or influence investment. Once I realized that Hunter wanted to use the company as his personal piggy bank by just taking money out of it as soon as it came from the Chinese, I took steps to prevent that from happening.
The Johnson Report connected some dots in a way that shocked me — it made me realize the Bidens had gone behind my back and gotten paid millions of dollars by the Chinese, even though they told me they hadn’t and wouldn’t do that to their partners.
I would ask the Biden family to address the American people and outline the facts so I can go back to being irrelevant — and so I am not put in a position to have to answer those questions for them.
I don’t have a political ax to grind; I just saw behind the Biden curtain and I grew concerned with what I saw. The Biden family aggressively leveraged the Biden family name to make millions of dollars from foreign entities even though some were from communist controlled China.
God Bless America!!!!
Background:
https://nypost.com/2020/10/22/hunter-biz-partner-confirms-e-mail-details-joe-bidens-push-to-make-millions-from-china/
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way … ” Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities,” page 1, paragraph 1.
We live in remarkable times, and juxtaposed positive and negative events–events indicative of progress and indicative of instability, of decadence, and of regression–read like the accelerating roll call of troubling and ominous events you see at the head of each chapter in some thriller or science fiction novel.
A day or two ago–in a first of it’s kind scientific achievement–a NASA probe launched several years ago touched down on the asteroid Bennu, was able to extract a surface sample, and is now returning that sample to Earth for analysis.
At the same time this was happening, all the powerful Leftist institutions and forces that Gramsci’s “Long March Through the Institutions/Culture” has succeeded in creating here in the U.S. are acting in concert to try to attain sole political power; a Revolution.
Meanwhile, recent archaeological evidence has been found indicating that human beings have not been in the Americas only since 12,000 or 13,000 years ago and the Clovis culture–as had been the accepted date–but as early as 135,000 thousand years ago.
What developments might have been made—what civilizations or even multiple civilizations might have arisen in the Americas–between 135,000 years ago and the Younger Dryas of 13,000 years ago when–the evidence is now accumulating–a comet slammed into the Northern ice cap, and produced a world-wide catastrophe.
Real, devastating, and abrupt climate change, including a massive flood of water from melted ice that killed off an enormous percentage of all life in North America and on this planet; floods which scoured the surface of this planet, the memory of which traumatic, cataclysmic event and flood the writings of ancient civilizations, the Bible, and many of the folk memories and legends around the world remember, speak of, and commemorate.
Thus, if such a civilization or civilizations did develop–and perhaps one of them an advanced one at that–all the physical evidence for it’s existence was pretty certainly destroyed, scraped off the face of our planet. (Although, if such a civilization managed to make it off the planet, we might eventually find such evidence of their existence elsewhere in our solar system.)
Some of the people, knowledge, and techniques from such a civilization or civilizations may have survived, though, as Gobekli Tepe and other newly discovered sites in Anatolia and, later, the civilization and accomplishments of ancient Egypt might attest to.
Then, you have the recent use of jungle penetrating LIDAR, which clearly shows the ground surface and any structures built on it—used so far to survey just 800 square miles in Northern Guatemala–which has revealed that, rather than just a few, small, isolated Mayan city state settlements with their pyramids and ball courts scattered here and there, there actually existed—buried under the jungle—what appear to be enormous, complex, and interconnected settlements; an estimated 60,000 buildings, roads, holding ponds, fortifications, and supporting structures which would have been capable of supporting–not a couple of million as former estimates had it–but an estimated population in that region of 10 to 15 million people, and that’s just Northern Guatemala.
Thus, it looks as if our conception of ourselves, of our civilizations, and of our history on this planet must be adjusted to one that is much fuller, richer, and more complex, extends back much further in time, and is far different than we were told it was, and believed.
We may have once been far different, or far greater than we know.
Oh, yes, we live in remarkable times.
Bobulinski: a name that has come out of nowhere and will soon dominate the discourse. Of course he wants precisely NOT to be the center of attention and maybe, after enough scrutiny of his background, motives, access to “real facts,” he will regain some kind of private life. But for now? Crazy town.
More popcorn, please.
Polls that we the public hear about are there to shape opinion and provide a candidate favorable PR. But the internal polls are accurate and up to date and those all favor Trump.
Last night, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe held a press conference to let Americans know that the Russians and the Iranians have interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election with Iran being behind the obviously faked “Proud Boys” emails that targeted registered Democrats with threats of harm.
Russian interference has not yet materialized in any quantitative way, but DNI Ratcliffe said both Iran and Russia have obtained voter data and may use it. He advised, “This data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion, sow chaos, and undermine your confidence in American democracy.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-russia-iran-obtained-voter-data-election-interference/story?id=73750385
A WIN for voter integrity and a LOSS for leftist voting activists
https://yellowhammernews.com/supreme-court-again-stops-activist-judge-from-unilaterally-allowing-alabama-curbside-voting/
Snow on Pine,
I’ve been keeping up with the news the day past few years, regarding the Pre/Post Clovis stuff.
Remarkably stuff happening and it’s instructive to see just how resistant to evidence the entrenched archaeologists were. As resistant as ideologies of any kind in any field can be to evidence that questions their ideals and narrative. The narrative always starts with some form of belief in ideologically superiority.
Sorry.
Make that “…as early as 135,000 years ago…”
I can only imagine the amount of coordinated, careful planning and scheming all the “fact checkers” are doing right now in preparation to refuting and invalidating anything Trump says tonight about the laptop, Hunter Biden, Ukraine, or China at every media outlet (save the NY Post) tomorrow.
My guess is that anything, even the smallest scintilla of information, that Trump says at the debate that can’t be 100% backed up will be held up as a lie to repudiate everything else he has to say.
Neo:
Want to avert your eyes, M’Lady?
Our scamps, The Ray’s, having whipped
the massive payroll NY Pinstripers in the division series, then the Astros in the ALCS…are now 1 to 1 in the David & Goliath World Series with our (My baseball nutcase wife & baseball lover me.) Vast Payroll former team, The Dodgers.
We voted for Trump before we headed to The Great Smoky Mtns. of western N.Carolina from our 14-yr refuge from the Peoples Bats**t Lefty Republic of Los Angeles to Winter Park, Florida. Aaaahhhhh…. Now back to W.P. and gonna skip the cringe provoking debate tonight and bury my eyes in Baldacci’s, “One Good Deed”. Tomorrow, World Series Game 3.
Please, God, guide our Great Country back from the edge of Left Catastrophy Strangulation a week from Tuesday.
There, Neo, is my aversion to current reality. Highly recommended!!
GO, RAYS!!!!
You may notice I haven’t talked much about the polls lately. That’s because I find polls almost meaningless these days for forecasting the election.
Thats because, as in the last election, they are being used as a source of influence, NOT a source of measurement/information/status.
It is well known that if people know X about a poll, many of them will change or be influenced to be on the ‘winning’ side… so at some point, polls became a manipulation tool of influence
I greatly despair about the American future.
I pray The Donald will be able tonight to keep a reasoned, lawyerly approach to the now-obvious but little reported Biden corruption and treason, despite the anti-Trump bias of the “moderator”.
huxley I love seeleye span… from back in the day when cosplay didnt exist, and we were idiots running around fighting with swords and liveplay at pensic war… but alas, the people who didnt get it didnt get that for a young man in his late teens, it was a bawdy place of ale, fun fighting, play acting, and lots and lots o women… oh yes… lots of them… ah, evenings singing tunes and playing drench the wench… those days are very fond memories of good clean dirty fun with very willing adult thinking romantic peoples when i was a pagan lad and became a priest (Gardnerian)… i was pagan and proud, heathen and happy… but so many died… gwydion pendderwen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwydion_Pendderwen was a friend and died… and Slater ran the magical childe in nyc… my partner and priestess (Deborah Lipp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Lipp ) was later the wife of Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bonewits … who died… Elrond of Carrillion was a close friend, i helped build his forge… i found out from some youths in union square one night he passed on of cancer… Lady susan passed on too… but i know not when or how to this day… i suspect her partners are gone… joseph pappas… and bruce waugh… and the afternoons i spent making armor at pog o mahons place (name means kiss my ass in celtic)…
oh, the stories i could tell…
the secrets that i know..
so sad i am one of the few left, and so far disconnected i have heard from no one in over 30 years… 🙁
Gwydions music is online and on youtube
Pendderwen also served for a time as a court bard to the West Kingdom of the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Isaacs books are interesting… if your into that stuff..
he was a member of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS)
I have long left it behind..
we also loved Tulls Songs from the Wood..
now i am sad… 🙁
none would probably want to know or hear from me
we have all moved on in many ways and paths
ArtflDgr: SteeleyeSpan was a special band for me and my college friends back in the 70s. Along with Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, and Pentangle. They seemed to be singing from a world where I wanted to live.
Roger Zelazny’s “Amber” books as well.
Alas, most of my group has since split up, fallen out or died too.
As a fan of Fairport Convention in the Sandy Denny period, I saw Steeleye Span as an imitator and didn’t pay much attention to them until, out of curiosity, I picked up a rather beat-up used copy of their compilation, Original Masters, sometime in the mid-1980s. It soon turned into one of my all-time favorite albums, and caused me to seek out the albums from which its tracks were selected. What a great body of work.
Mac: “Original Masters” was a great compilation! Hit most of the sweet spots of Steeleye’s music for me.
The group seemed to lose their way somewhere in the 80s and I got off the bus. I can see from their Amazon page they have put out a fair number of albums since. Maybe I’ll give some of the new stuff a listen.
That’s been my reaction to their later stuff, too, but then I haven’t heard that much of it, so that may not be fair.
Has anyone see a Biden ad on tv that wasn’t a lie? I haven’t seen an honest one yet. I know that political ads are going to hedge and exaggerate, etc. but these ads are just extraordinary in their dishonesty. Like Obama talking about Obamacare. Or Benghazi. Or the Iran deal. Or climate change. Or his stimulus. Or Fast and Furious. Or the Dems at the Kavanaugh hearing. Or Russia collusion.
Surprise, it is October.
Also, october is not over.
Snow, it will soon come to pass that people will see Ymar’s revelations and apocalypse as more accurate than their public indoctrination histories.
The cycle of civilization is that previous ancients had better or equivalent tech, and they destroyed themselves. So we see now today with the new Atlantis, USA.
Enjoy the Season Finale. It is darkest before the dawn. I know I will.