[American Thinker] Barack Obama has used a stolen Social Security number most of his adult life. The one he uses was issued on March 28, 1977 to someone living in Connecticut, born in 1890, now long deceased. Obama was fifteen years old that day, living in Hawaii and playing on the junior varsity basketball team at Punahou. I uncovered the SSN information and include it in my memoir, The Rubbish Hauler's Wife versus Barack Obama.
Obama violated federal law by using a phony number. From the United States Code: "Identity theft laws under 18 U.S.C §1028 makes it a crime to misuse someone's identifying information, whether personal or financial. Personal identifying information can include social security numbers, driver's license number, credit card or bank account information, and PIN numbers obtained through the internet."
Obama is a felon — plain and simple. He should have a Hawaiian Social Security number like his half-sister, Maya, starting with the numbers 575 or 576. He claimed he worked at Baskin-Robbins when he was fifteen. It would have required a Social Security number. Instead, Obama has a number starting with 042, used for the exclusive use of CT residents, and which appeared on his 2009 tax return while he was president. Someone forgot to remove the number.
From 1936 until June 2011, Social Security numbers were assigned by the address on the SS-5 form used to apply for one. Under Obama, the law was changed to randomize where the applicant was living when he applied. Imagine that.
When Social Security numbers were first issued in 1936, the program was supposed to augment retirement plans. The Social Security Trust Fund was not a part of any other government program until President Jimmy Carter raided it in 1977 and combined it with the general fund. To date, the government has borrowed $2.7 trillion from the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for other government spending. That is 38% of the intra-government debt.
So — the government is stealing our retirement money (thanks to a peanut farmer and the second worst president we ever had), and in a couple of years the worst president we ever had, and a felon, will receive Social Security benefits using a contrived and illegal Social Security number.
#1
One could credibly argue that he indeed was the worst President by putting Slo-Joe in a position to assume the role. The Pedofile-in-Chief would never had ascended if it weren't for this. And Obozo continues to have an active role in "governing". My fear is that big Mike will run and we'll have our first tranny in chief. Maybe this is the origin of Slo-Joe's comment "God save the Queen"
#5
Social Security Numbers were geographically linked to residence, but I suspect at at the time of the issuance, the controversy about a Hawaii birth certificate might not have been laundered, so a phony number would have been purchased to avoid messy questions. Reasonable explanation and fits other questions from the past.
[AmericanThinker] MSM pilot fish like NYT, WaPo, CNN, and CBS signal that Biden is on his way out
It took over eight hours for the biggest of the bigfoot corporate media to decide to publicize the evidence of Biden family criminality exposed by the IRS whistleblowers. But when they did, they did it big time.
The IRS whistleblowers heard Thursday by the House Ways and Means Committee provided devastating testimony about what Kimberly Strassel of the WSJ summarized as "blocked search warrants, tip-offs to Mr. Biden's team, squelched avenues of investigation, downgraded charges, and interference by Joe Biden's appointees" protecting Hunter Biden. The details show evidence of major crimes, including this doozy: "Hunter Biden Threatened 'My Father' Could 'Hold a Grudge' in Extortive Message to Chinese Associate Revealed by Whistleblower."
What's very interesting about the media coverage by the major propaganda organs is that it took them a while to figure out what to do. In the late afternoon, Eastern Daylight Time, Hans Mahncke, who had been watching for signs of MSM coverage of this gigantic story, published this tweet about its absence:
It's been 8 hours since the Ways and Means Committee published documentary proof of a protection racket run by Joe and Hunter Biden, as well as documentary proof that Biden's DOJ obstructed law enforcement officials investigating the Bidens.
The New York Times: I.R.S. Agent Told Congress of Hunter Biden Invoking His Father in Business Deal
The Washington Post: IRS whistleblower says Justice Dept. slowed, stifled Hunter Biden case
CBS: Two IRS whistleblowers alleged sweeping misconduct in the Hunter Biden tax investigation, new transcripts show
CNN Whistleblowers say IRS recommended far more charges, including felonies, against Hunter Biden
The dam broke! Hours and hours after the story broke.
Call it a conspiracy theory if you wish, but what explains the belated timing of publication of this story among all these pilot fish propaganda organs that signal other members of the Democrats' media apparatus which stories are to receive coverage and which are not?
My guess is that the same people who decided that Joe Biden was to be the nominee to stop Bernie Sanders, who was leading in the quest for the 2020 nomination, and who engineered his triumph in South Carolina when he had been languishing in fourth place, have decided that Joe just can't be allowed to be the 2024 nominee because he will lose. And it took a few hours for this decision to be made and to be diffused to the apparat.
Posted by: NoMoreBS ||
06/24/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[15 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
#5
This is not so much of a dam breaking as a controlled demolition. I saw a picture the other day of Lisa Monaco in private conversation with Biden likely explaining the Hunter plea deal to him. When I see a blackout break simultaneously among the Obama media organs, I suspect that surveillance of Obama’s house would have shown evidence of a high level basement situation room meeting going on until midnight or later.
The media deluge is the result. They only would have done this release if they understood that the dam would not hold. The issue for them is that they don’t control Tucker or Musk. I believe that they thought that they could get the plea deal done with the same block in place that they used to keep Bobolinski’s story out of 70% of the public consciousness. I don’t think we will see Bobolinski again, but it is not likely to matter.
Unfortunately for Joe, the shelf-life on what Lisa told him the other day has expired. Obama green lighted the IRS story for regular news. That story cannot exist in the same universe with the plea deal. They are matter and anti-matter. If the plea deal goes through, this will look like Watergate soon thereafter.
Likely, all the DC elite are evaluating their positions upon the revised battlefield after the sacrifice of the Biden folks in an action equivalent to what Hancock did to the 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg. In this case, though, there is no Strong Vincent marching up on the other side of the hill. Instead, I expect to see Samantha Powers and all the Obama crowd piling into the last Huey leaving the White House.
This will be a political route. Sound of Freedom opening in the theaters will not help the hair-sniffer-in-chief. Biden’s border policy is already unpopular, the human trafficking aspect will break the RINO resistance against impeachment. Biden’s China issue has spread to Cuba and an increasing number of Americans will believe that he is compromised. Biden will shortly cooked more well done than Saint Lawrence. The only question is who is about the contingency plan. Will Kamala be the bridge all the way to January 2025? The answer resolves around whether she is willing to be a puppet in exchange for the office. I think that she will agree to the office and then try to do her own thing in office out of arrogance. Demonstrably, Obama will tolerate idiocy and incompetence, so Kamala being an embarrassing moron will not be an issue. She also does not take instructions.it will be interesting to see who the House approves as her VP.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
06/24/2023 11:13 Comments ||
Top||
#6
I'm waiting for them to repeal presidential term limits and bring back Obozo.
#7
Superb assessment above. I think they thought the Puppet Show could hold until they worked out the follow-on, probably with Brylcreem Boy. The collapse of Jojo physically and the breadth/depth of the evidence of corruption exceeded their expectations, and the economy/Ukraine/border/Woke/J6 news cycles eventually broke though the MSM suppression, in part thanks to Musk. I think Big Mike really, really, doesn't want the efforting to deliver Obama 4.0, so a patch of Kamala-lala-ding-dong is regrettably emerging. She will be far more barnacle-like and intransigent than expected, and the Presidency, such as it is, will be her ego-centric-fantasy land until 20Jan2025. The real risk to the ruling elite behind the Puppet Show is the risk of Manchin doing a Perot to their to plans for finishing "Change China Can Believe In". Even their cheating dominance will not cover for that big a split among the faithful.
#8
I'm waiting for them to repeal presidential term limits and bring back Obozo.
Only by dictatorial fiat - takes 3/4 of the state to amend the Constitution.
it will be interesting to see who the House approves as her VP
During that game, if something were to happen to the President, the Speaker of the House becomes President. I'd say that nomination would require a lot of administrative processing in the House, as in bills that die in committee due to age.
In the absence of honest media outlets, conspiracy theories will flourish.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/24/2023 12:35 Comments ||
Top||
#10
I'm still not sure that Baraq is calling the shots. Guess I never gave him credit for being that smart and energetic. I always figured somebody was pulling his strings. Somebody groomed him and cleared a path for him. I don't know who. There are plenty of suspects.
I'll be as happy as anybody to see Biden exiled to Delaware but it could be that we're all in for some turbulence. Whoever is ultimately pulling the strings is obviously evil, contemptuous of democracy and capable of doing bad things.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/24/2023 12:55 Comments ||
Top||
#11
For me the Lightbringer is the defacto face of the collective that runs the Puppet Show and the majority of the administrative organization that is the modern demokrat party. His key acolytes, Rice, Powers, ValJar, countless others are obviously aligned minions, but I do not believe he is the sole center of the policy and operational apparatus. The collective is an amalgam of professional politicians, professional minorities, Marxists, gays, unions, environmentalists, lawyers, Swamp creatures, the woke, anarchist Antifa, feminists, corporate opportunists, ego-maniacal billionaires, the MSM, and in the background, the Chinese, whose money feeds much of it. He acts as if he is the leader, may actually believe he is, others certainly think he is, but it is the red pigment that permeates all of them, that is the unifying factor. And who feeds it, the Chinese, for whom, this is the culmination of their Elite Capture Strategy to defeat the main enemy, traditional America.
#12
I believe that VJ was bringing daily instructions from Obama to the Biden Administration concerning at least domestic policy. Obama, himself, was always a tool of Soros or a collection of interests. To me, the plan always seemed to be predicated on dumping Joe for Kamala to get to the real candidate. I don’t think that the plan took into account Kamala’s unsuitability for use as a puppet. The loss of control of the House was another set back. Ford came out of the House. It will take a coalition of Democrats and RINOs to get the next VP through. I would be surprised to see McCarthy to last beyond that coalition.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
06/24/2023 15:47 Comments ||
Top||
#13
I concur Supe McCarthy's presentation is weaker than snail piss. His departure should be welcomed.
[PJ] Bud Light just ended two months of social media silence with a new online ad designed to win back boycotting customers by portraying them as "bumbling fools," according to one Twitter critic, and as "buffoon-ish whites," according to another. Once again, the famous double down.
The beer brand’s sales have plummeted almost 30% since a brief social media campaign featuring he-who-shall-not-be-named, followed by ham-fisted reversals.
The latest attempt to win back boycotters is more ham-fisted than an entire Thanos fist made entirely out of Spam.
Here’s the spot that debuted on Twitter on Thursday:
#1
Still seeing the usual Q-Lite isle stack of 24 can cases listed at $2 to $3 a case less than other beer brands. It seems to be the new sales norm now. To SETUP the Q-Lite product display to "look like" 2 or 3 cases were already taken.
#5
They haven't grasped yet that its no longer a boycott. Boycott implies they might be back some day. Uh-Uh. Basically giving it away doesn't factor in the disrespect factor.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/24/2023 12:57 Comments ||
Top||
#8
and as "buffoon-ish whites,"
I just saw the commercial at the link and note that all of the actors are Very White, which does not, as far as I am aware, reflect any community anywhere in the U.S. — except perhaps some parts of Alaska.
The media server for regnum.ru is apparently broken, so, alas you will be unable to see the referenced media by Denis Davydov
[REGNUM] From the first time, a gray-haired, lean man could not tell about his grandfather who died in August 1942: he was crying like a little one.
Mikhail Dubischak and his large relatives every year went near Rzhev to lay flowers on the grave of their soldier. In 1971, the daughter of the Red Army soldier Ivan Tsepennikov wrote a request to the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense with a request to indicate where her father died and was buried. They answered that in the village of Bakhmutovo, where his name is honestly indicated on the monument.
“And suddenly, on December 4, 2022, a call from the commander of the Pioneer detachment, Mikhail Bogdanov, that they had found our grandfather. I didn't believe it at first, I thought it was a prank. Do you understand? 40 years to go to one place - and ... ” - at this place, Mikhail Vasilyevich’s lips begin to jump, and his cousin enters the conversation for him, and his relatives vyingly show photos of the soldier on the phone.
Here he is still young, in military service - this picture was put on the coffin. But the whole family with serious faces. Already on June 22, 1941, a military commissar arrived with a photographer, the first dealt with mobilization issues, and the second attached a simple background to the fence and took pictures of everyone for a long memory. Here he is, Ivan Nikolaevich with a beard, a respectable forty-year-old man who was no longer destined to return home.
He is one of 586 fighters found around Rzhev by search parties and solemnly buried on the 82nd anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War at the military memorial cemetery. And at the same time one of the 39 identified, established by mortal medallions, documents miraculously preserved in damp clay, and even by rare awards in 1942.
Such a result is called outstanding by the search engines. During the bloody meat grinder of the Rzhev battle, where only 15 months fought for the liberation of the regional center, standard bakelite cases with a letterhead inside were no longer issued.
“A home-made medallion from a cartridge case is a fairly typical situation for Rzhev. The soldiers themselves wrote notes, put them in cartridge cases and put them in a pocket so that their relatives would know where they were. For the wife to receive a pension.
So that they remember, they don’t think that they were captured, but they know that they died for their land.
These homemade notes are read in 99% of cases. Therefore, when we find a note in a cartridge case, we rejoice: as a rule, it is not washed away with water, like a form of a regular medallion filled with a fountain pen,” explains “pioneer” commander Bogdanov. He knows how to find words that make everyone cry, but he himself manages to remain calm outwardly. Rare quality.
But by the end of the farewell ceremony, the great-granddaughters of Stepan Nogovitsyn are already calm, taking the tablet with the personal belongings of their soldier without tears. They carried the coffin to the edge of a huge pit lined with spruce branches, and somehow let go. But they have been waiting for this meeting all their lives. Tatyana Lebedyantseva says that their grandmother missed her father very much and always talked about him at family celebrations. Everyone hoped that he would return.
She didn’t wait a bit: she left in 2018, and Stepan Andriyanovich “returned” in 2022. To the granddaughters who have preserved within themselves a living feeling passed down by inheritance.
“We believe that those who wait, who live in the hope of finding their loved ones, they will wait. You have to believe,” says Tatyana, who brought photographs of the whole family to show her grandfather. He was identified just by a homemade medallion, like his comrade Stepan Tyrtsakov.
Two namesakes died together and lain together in the same funnel for 80 years. They were also buried in the same coffin, inseparable forever. And the two families of descendants, who came from different places, also seemed to become related, although not a single word was uttered.
Everything here is like in Vysotsky's song, there is not a single personal fate, "all fates are merged into a single one." The bulk of the dead are nameless, and more than a million died in these places. And everyone has a family left, a large or small clan, and the majority remembers, searches, and is already waiting for the fourth generation.
After each message about the found name in the mail and personal messages, a stream of requests begins to pour in: find ours, it's somewhere out there. This will be confirmed by any search engine that has been doing its job for a long time. And they are convinced that when relatives do not forget about their soldiers, come to see them off on their last journey or take them home, the connection between the living and the dead only grows stronger. From the next world, the warriors will thank and help, of course.
There is no way without mysticism, it is strong and proven by many cases. Even right on June 22 in Rzhev there were at least two of them.
Mirsait Shafikov, identified by the medal "For Courage", connected relatives who had long been lost and did not communicate with each other.
One family flew in from Kazakhstan, and a granddaughter from Perm. And Omsk Nikolai Prudkov, his distant relatives in Siberia, did not even remember, but she told about the Belarusian branch of the family. After the war, the elder brother of the soldier, together with his regiment, ended up in Belarus, and stayed there. And all his life he also tried to find his beloved brother, who was now met by a happy niece. She got Catherine's silver ruble as a keepsake, which the uncle evidently took from home as a talisman and kept with him.
“When a fighter really wants to return, when they are waiting for him at home, Heaven itself probably helps him, ” says Mikhail Bogdanov about one of those found. They lifted the guy, and on the edge of the excavation there were fragments of paper, which, at first glance, were fragments of a newspaper.
On the second visit, they decided to pick it up after all, after it had all been in the open air for a week. - When our colleague Sergei began to soak this "newspaper" at home, the dirt came off and exposed the calico cover from the Red Army book. On it, the fighter wrote his data with a pencil. The book itself was rotten, but the fragile cover helped to return the Red Army soldier Roman Stepanov from the missing.
Each of those who were on the wires, according to tradition, threw earth on the soldiers' coffins.
And there is also such a sign: if there is a “nominal” fighter in a new or long-unvisited place, then he begins to help his comrades return. It so happened that when Private Vasily Kosarinov was found in the Gorbovo tract, it was immediately as if an inaudible command was given. Around this point, 16 more fighters were found in a short time, and as many as seven had names. Among them was Ivan Tsepennikov, who was unfairly considered buried twenty kilometers from the place of death and returned to his grandchildren along with his comrades.
And these are just a few of the thousands of stories of the war, when thousands were burned in battle for each village. From no one do such stories sound as real as from search engines, passing everything through their hands and soul. They are most often not heard, since it is customary for us to talk about the past either pathetically or in categories of impersonal statistics. But hardly anyone could have more correctly assessed the feat and sacrifice of our soldiers, preserved their memory not only in granite slabs, but in an intangible, deep family feeling that unites millions of people who do not even know each other.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Bris Rozhin is in italics
[ColonelCassad] Nazi Germany was preparing provocations, and not only in Katyn, to accuse the USSR of mass atrocities , new archival documents about this are published by RIA Novosti. These materials are placed in the State Archive of the Recent Socio-Political History of the Smolensk Region, and the agency got acquainted with them.
We are talking about photocopies of interrogations of captured Germans - Kurt Groner and Fritz Yurashek, who were among the direct perpetrators of provocations in the Katyn Forest and near Vinnitsa in Krajina. The interrogations were carried out after the Great Patriotic War by Soviet state security agencies.
Groner was an employee of the criminal police of the Third Reich, the criminal secretary of the homicide department. Yurashek was a photographer who worked in the structure of the criminal police.
According to their testimonies, in Vinnitsa, thousands of graves of Soviet citizens shot by the Nazis during the occupation of the city were presented by the Nazis as supposedly victims of Soviet executions in 1938.
Photographs of the remains taken from the graves in Vinnitsa were selected so that they would become "a visual aid for anti-Soviet propaganda."
Moreover, the Nazis published a book "On the mass executions in Vinnitsa."
As follows from the interrogation texts, the Nazis used the same methods in the Katyn forest in the spring of 1943 to accuse the USSR of allegedly mass executions of Polish officers.
On April 13, 1943, the German Propaganda Ministry, led by Goebbels, reported that a mass grave of Polish officers allegedly shot by the NKVD had been found in the Katyn forest in the Smolensk region. After the liberation of Smolensk by the Red Army, a Soviet commission was created, which, after conducting its own investigation, concluded that the Poles in Katyn in the autumn of 1941 were killed by the German occupying troops.
Warsaw believes that the murder of Polish officers was the work of the NKVD of the USSR, Polish officials called that execution a genocide. In the USSR, a criminal case on the discovery of mass graves of the remains of Polish servicemen was opened in 1990, and in 2004 the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation closed the case due to the death of the perpetrators.
According to the point of view of a number of Russian historians, the executions in Katyn were carried out by the Nazis, and the "Katyn case" was a provocation by the secret services of the Third Reich, who wanted to split the ranks of the anti-Hitler coalition, and to Poland, through which the Red Army was supposed to reach the border of Germany, to present this as Moscow atrocities. Experts draw attention to the fact that the "Katyn case" was launched almost immediately after the USSR refused to return the lands of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus to Poland, which legally returned to the Soviet Union in November 1939.
As experts emphasize, the Soviet leadership had no motive to shoot Polish officers, because they did not pose any danger to Moscow. Moreover, in the tense situation of the late 1930s, the extrajudicial execution of Polish prisoners of war would have been a factor that contributed to further tension in the USSR’s relations with England and France, and in the future, the use of this factor as a pretext for their attack on the Soviet Union, experts say. .
Historians also point to inconsistencies in the evidence base on which Warsaw relies.As Russian experts explain, the versions of the "Katyn tragedy" are contradictory, since the bulk of the sources on those events are still classified and not put into free scientific circulation. The Russian Federation also notes that the current approach to covering the "Katyn case" does not meet the principles of objectivity and historicism, and it should be considered as one of the directions of the information and propaganda campaign to lay responsibility on the USSR for unleashing World War II.
Polish officers in Katyn in 1941 were massively shot by the Nazis, and not by employees of the NKVD of the USSR- this was testified back in 1945 at the Leningrad trial of Nazi criminals by a direct participant in the burial of the murdered Poles, later a fighter of the "special purpose" battalion, which rampaged in the Leningrad region during the Great Patriotic War, Arnaud Duret.
Experts point to the similarity of the approaches used by the Nazis in Katyn with the actions of the Kyiv regime, which organized a provocation in Bucha in the spring of 2022.
In April last year, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that all photographs and video materials published by the Kyiv regime, allegedly testifying to the "crimes" of the Russian military in the city of Bucha, Kiev region, are "another provocation." As noted in the military department, during the time this settlement was under the control of the Russian armed forces, not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions.
https://vk.com/wall-89453312_123929 - zinc
In 2023. Can't be. After all, no one guessed that this was a provocation of the Nazis, which we supported at the highest level from Gorbachev to Putin. It took the SVO in Ukraine to start revising this crap.I wonder how many more years it will take to officially recognize the guilt of Nazi Germany for the destruction of the Poles in Katyn.
Since the zero years I have been writing and will continue to write - the Poles in Katyn were shot by the Nazis. The shooting took place in the autumn of 1941. This fact is confirmed by the only court decision on Katyn. Numerous falsifications of the Katyn case carried out in the 80-90s were also established.
Laying responsibility for Nazi crimes on the USSR and Stalin in our country was part of a long campaign of demonization of the USSR, Stalin and the Soviet past. What this led to is perfectly visible and understandable now.
#2
I recall something about the pictures of the dead Polish Officers uniformly wearing winter coats which did not match the timeframe of the Russian accusations.
#3
I guess people will try to rehabilitate the reputation of Pol Pot someday as well.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
06/24/2023 11:44 Comments ||
Top||
#4
And from what I understand, the "Holodomor" was not just a Ukraine phenomenon but occurred elsewhere in the young USSR with Uncle Joe at the helm. Had to pay off those Western bankers somehow.
#6
The Holodomor dilution stuff is kind of like forcing a person to eat dog poop but making it ok by offering ketchup. Wounded Knee is Wounded Knee. The Rape of Nanking is what it is. Stalin starved a lot of people because he was a demonic horrible figure who implemented moronic policy. He targeted Ukraine and the people are justified in hating him even though he targeted other people too. He doesn’t get some kind of pass because he murdered other ethnicities as well.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
06/24/2023 14:46 Comments ||
Top||
#7
He doesn’t get some kind of pass because he murdered other ethnicities as well.
Hitler intended to wipe out all the Untermenschen — the Jews were just Proof of Concept. After all, in addition to the six million or so of those the Nazis defined as Jews (having one Jewish grandparent, regardless of whether the person so defined considered himself Jewish, Christian, atheist, or Mandalorean), they murdered some 90% of Europes gypsies, a large percentage of those Germans with mental or physical handicaps, many, many Slavs, and so forth.
#8
But the murder of Jews was a unique atrocity. It's why the Nazis are so reviled today. They built up a mass of lies about powerless people and blamed them for Europe's problems.
"Never again" doesn't refer to Gypsies. They can go build their own holocaust memorial.
#9
Haven't even read the thread (yet), but when did that stop me?
There is an old man of Manhattan,
A Pole, sole survivor of Katyn,
Whose wife was a tween
When she ran from Khatyn
Via Todt Hill, a husband to fatten
On golden potatoes au gratin.
[MAIL] The Director of National Intelligence on Friday released to Congress their long-awaited report into Intelligence Community conclusions about the origins of COVID-19, and their assessment of the 'lab leak' theory. "Squirrel!"
In March, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill to declassify intelligence on the origins of COVID-19.
The DNI's 10-page report did not provide any fresh conclusions as to the Wuhan lab, and shows the various agencies are divided as to the origin of the pandemic.
The Department of Energy, which oversees biological research labs in the U.S., concluded with 'low confidence' in February of this year that the virus most likely came from a lab in Wuhan. The FBI concluded the same with moderate confidence.
The National Intelligence Council and four other agencies disagree, saying the pandemic likely begun naturally.
The CIA, meanwhile, is on the fence and has been unable to say with certainty how it begun, given repeated blocks imposed by the Chinese authorities.
'The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting,' the report states.
#1
Notice the fog of war, "opaque" confusion regarding origins within the Intelligence Community. Notice the lack of investigatory timeline. Notice also the lack of discussion regarding the role US research agencies may have played, to include funding. Additionally, the document appears to have been classified at some level. With the full content (less classification markings) as seen here, why was it classified at all ?
Number of times Wet Markets mentioned? Zero. Number of times Chinese obfuscation and denial mentioned? Zero. Dead people mention? None.
No source references (which could actually be classified). No solid conclusions or overall assessment found. No probabilities given.
This is likely a hastily written decoy document, containing non-existent classified content, not the document or documents requested.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/24/2023 13:03 Comments ||
Top||
#6
At this point if there is a conflict in information coming from Clapper-Brennan and Alex Jones, I will go with Alex Jones every time. Don’t listen to his show. Never have, but if you lined them up, game show style, in a panel. I am going with whatever comes out of Alex Jones mouth versus the other two 100% of the time. The “intelligence community” has no credibility none of the time. If they release anything, I assume it is a Psy Op.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
06/24/2023 14:58 Comments ||
Top||
[Fortune Well] Whether it’s a morning cup of tea, a daily meditation, or a call to your closest friend, your daily habits impact your health and happiness.
While Dr. Peter Attia, author of New York Times bestseller Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, said there’s no "silver bullet" to increase one’s health span and life span, there are still a variety of longevity-linked habits that may work for you to stave off age-related disease and early mortality.
"People have so much more agency over this than they will ever believe if they don’t take the step to educate themselves on it," Attia tells Oprah Winfrey this week for a series called The Life You Want on Oprah Daily. "A lot of people think, ’Well, this is my lot in life’...It’s not the case at all."
Exercise, nutrition, sleep, and managing emotional health by engaging with others and trying new hobbies are all associated with a longer, healthier life.
For Attia, moving without distraction and staying outside is his secret sauce.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Kirill Semenov
[REGNUM] In the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, the 20th round of negotiations was held in the past days in the framework of the so-called. "Astana format" on the Syrian settlement. It was attended by delegations headed by the deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria, as well as a delegation of the Syrian opposition headed by Ahmed Toma.
The UN envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, representatives of Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon were also present at the Astana negotiation platform as observers.
This was the last meeting of the participants of the "Astana process" in the capital of Kazakhstan, as the country's leadership decided to stop holding the forum on its territory, which, by the way, was a big surprise for all participants in the event. Now the "Astana format" should decide on a new place for negotiations (previously there was a situation when the "Astana negotiations" were not held in Astana, but then the capital of Kazakhstan itself was called Nursultan).
Most likely, the reason for such a decision by the Kazakh authorities is precisely the irritation with the format from the West, which Kazakhstan either faced or decided to play ahead of the curve. Indeed, in Astana, along with others, the problems of normalizing relations between Ankara and Damascus were discussed.
As is known, the United States and EU countries are categorically against any steps aimed at reconciliation and restoration of ties between the Assad regime and its yesterday's opponents from among the states of the region. Actually, due to the rejection by the Europeans of the resumption of the membership of the SAR in the League of Arab States (LAS), the ministerial meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the EU member states and the Arab League has already been postponed.
At the same time, the current format of negotiations on the Syrian settlement will continue and may gradually transform from the "Astana troika" of guarantor countries - Russia, Turkey and Iran into the "Moscow Four" (according to the first meeting place of the foreign ministers) - Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria, where official Damascus will become a full participant in the process.
Such a format will also push Turkey and Syria to direct contacts and, as a result, to the resolution of mutual disputes, and possibly speed up the search for a compromise between them.
Actually, the whole course of the peace process will depend on whether the Turkish and Syrian Arab Republics will be able to agree among themselves, and whether it will lead to a breakthrough and a final solution to the Syrian conflict, or only to the extension of the current “freeze”.
Turkey needs guarantees
Naturally, the issue of the Turkish military presence in Syria remains a stumbling block between Ankara and Damascus.
Despite the “road map” proposed by Moscow, apparently, the necessary algorithm that could push Assad to make concessions to the opposition, and Turkey to withdraw its troops from the SAR, has not been found.
Here it should be borne in mind that the Turkish military presence in Syria is due to three key points, and without taking them into account, it is unlikely that Ankara will be able to withdraw its troops.
The first is to prevent the influx of new waves of Syrian refugees into Turkey in addition to the 4 million already on Turkish territory.
For example, if Turkey removes its troops, then the Syrian government forces will launch an offensive against Idlib. This will lead to the fact that up to 3 million Syrians can pour into Turkey from there (taking into account the fact that before the start of the civil war in the SAR, 800 thousand inhabitants lived in this region, and now there are more than 4 million). Basically, these are internally displaced persons (IDPs), one way or another fearing for their fate if they are under the control of the Syrian authorities.
The second factor is directly linked to the first and concerns Turkish investments in the Syrian infrastructure of the northern territories. This includes large-scale construction, the construction of permanent housing both for IDPs and for the future return of Syrian refugees from Turkey. In addition, these are hospitals, schools, power lines, power plants, enterprises and other infrastructure facilities, up to the functioning of branches of Turkish universities in these areas, etc.
Therefore, it is important for Ankara that all these investments continue to work for the benefit of Syrians in need, IDPs and for the return of Syrian refugees from Turkey. And this is also a matter of negotiations with the Syrian side.
Finally, the factor of Kurdish left-wing radical groups associated with the PKK banned in Turkey and patronized by the Americans is directly linked to the problem of the Turkish military presence in the SAR.
Turkey is unlikely to agree to withdraw its protective "umbrella" from the 30 km "Source of Peace" security zone in northeast Syria, as long as the United States maintains its presence in the region and supports the Kurdish forces.
Parameters of the Turkish presence in Syria
Turkish troops were deployed in Syrian Idlib based on an agreement reached at the "sixth" meeting in Astana in the fall of 2018.
Then all three guarantor countries determined the parameters for the functioning of the de-escalation zone in Idlib, and one of these conditions was the creation of observation posts of the armed forces of Russia, Turkey and Iran along its perimeter.
At the same time, Turkish checkpoints were located from the inner contour of the de-escalation zone, and Russian and Iranian from the outer.
In addition, the agreements provided that in the event of a threat to the military personnel of the guarantor countries, they could take appropriate measures to ensure the safety of their observation posts. This provision was used by Turkey to introduce new units into the Idlib de-escalation zone after the start of the operation of the Syrian government forces “Dawn of Idlib II” in early 2020.
Since that time, the Turkish presence in Idlib, originally provided for by the Astana agreements, has grown significantly (up to 8-10 thousand people).
The situation in the de-escalation zone is further aggravated by the fact that outside the refugee camps controlled by the Turkish administration and Turkish military bases, around which the pro-Turkish Syrian National Army (SNA) formations are deployed, Idlib is controlled by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group (HTS) . Solving the problem of this radical structure will also require the consolidation of efforts and flexibility on the part of Russia, Turkey and Syria.
Despite the implementation of the JMD in Ukraine, Russian aviation still continues to strike this terrorist group from time to time.
At the same time, Ankara refrains from fighting the HTS and supports both the group itself and the so-called. “Government of Salvation” (a civil administration affiliated with the HTS) indirect contacts, believing that a direct conflict with them will lead the Idlib region to destabilization and a new influx of refugees into Turkey. That is, to what the Turkish side is just trying to avoid.
In addition to Idlib, Turkish military personnel are present (but in much smaller numbers) in the zones of Turkish operations "Olive Branch", "Euphrates Shield" and "Source of Peace" in Northern Aleppo.
Turkish troops appear on this part of Syrian territory and deploy temporary observation posts. However, the purpose of this presence is joint patrolling of the border zone with the Russian military, which is provided for by the 2019 Sochi memorandum.
As for the support of the armed formations of the opposition from the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), stationed in these areas, there is no need to place Turkish troops mixed with it.
The Turkish army has every opportunity to keep a 30-kilometer strip along the Syrian border under fire control from its own territory, and in case of a threat, Turkish units can be brought here within a few hours.
Framework for consensus between Ankara and Damascus
At the same time, from the point of view of the Assad government, there is no opposition in these areas, and there are only Turkish mercenaries.
In some ways, this position is true, since the SNA exist at the expense of Turkish funding. Nevertheless, the question of the future of the SNA, as well as of the entire opposition, is much more complicated and cannot be resolved within the framework of the concept of the slogan “No to Turkish occupation!” alone.
Options for resolving the future of the Syrian opposition groups within the framework of a compromise between Ankara and Damascus seem possible.
To do this, it is necessary to choose the right formula for reconciliation between the government and the opposition, taking as a basis the agreement between the opposition factions of the Southern Front in the provinces of Daraa and Quneitra and official Damascus. Then, in 2018, government units, such as, for example, the 8th brigade of the Fifth Corps, were deployed from some of the rebel armed formations with Russian participation.
However, the problem lies in the fact that this project can be considered successful only very conditionally. If we compare the process of reconciliation in southern Syria with the same process in the Homs de-escalation zone, then there really were certain achievements here.
In Homs, no separate formations of the Syrian government forces were created from the opposition groups, and most of the leaders who signed the reconciliation agreement were eventually arrested by the Syrian security services, which, of course, undermined the credibility of the reconciliation process itself.
In the south, as already noted, units did arise that were entirely composed of former oppositionists, but here it happened rather contrary to the position of official Damascus - this decision was pushed through by the Russian side.
It is significant that official representatives of the Syrian government structures on the sidelines continue to call the 8th brigade "terrorists" and "bandits" who allegedly have nothing to do with the Syrian armed forces.
Therefore, for the groups in the north of Syria, a formula must be found that will convince Turkey that these formations will remain in one form or another within the framework of the Syrian government forces. And the “reconciliation” itself will not be an ordinary ploy to disarm the opposition forces, and their leaders to be gradually and gradually repressed.
Of course, any formula for reconciliation cannot apply to the HTS terrorists, but the so-called SNA groups could eventually be formed from the SNA groups. 6th Corps of the Syrian Armed Forces. Talks about this have been going on for a long time, but the most important thing remains - to agree on all the formalities and get the consent of Ankara, Damascus and the opposition groups themselves to this step.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ] Bud Light just ended two months of social media silence with a new online ad designed to win back boycotting customers by portraying them as "bumbling fools," according to one Twitter critic, and as "buffoon-ish whites," according to another.
[MAIL] The Director of National Intelligence on Friday released to Congress their long-awaited report into Intelligence Community conclusions about the origins of COVID-19, and their assessment of the 'lab leak' theory. 
