By Thomas Lifson

The surest way to convince people that they ought to pay attention to something is to tell them they shouldn’t be allowed to see it. About a century ago, when Boston had a municipal movie censor, producers vied to be “banned in Boston” as a way of convincing the public to flock to their flicks.  This century’s version of the same lesson is called “the Streisand effect,” after the singer drew attention to her lavish seaside estate in California by attempting to suppress aerial pictures taken of it.

Nobody ever said Joe Biden was a quick learner.

The Biden campaign has already badly blundered in its handling of the scandal unearthed when a computer repair store took legal ownership of a MacBook left with it more than 90 days and discovered thousands of emails as well as images and videos, some of them pornographic, showing Hunter Biden.  The store owner turned the laptop over to the FBI late last year, which has taken no public action and, out of frustration with the story being buried, released a copy of the hard drive to Rudy Giuliani, through an intermediary.

From Rudy to the New York Post, the story is finally becoming public through stories yesterday and today in the Gotham tabloid with a national following online.  Twitter has gone full Pravda, censoring distribution of yesterday’s story, adding a “banned in cyberspace” label to a tale of a Ukrainian official of Bursima thanking Hunter for arranging a meeting his father, the vice president.  Joe Biden had previously adamantly denied that he knew anything about his son’s business dealings.  Today’s Post story is just breaking but cannot be distributed via Twitter because the Post’s account is suspended, as well as that of the White House press secretary.  Its revelations are very damaging to the Bidens:

Hunter Biden pursued lucrative deals involving China’s largest private energy company — including one that he said would be “interesting for me and my family,” emails obtained by The Post show.

One email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017, with the subject line “Expectations,” included details of “remuneration packages” for six people involved in an unspecified business venture.

Biden was identified as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC,” an apparent reference to the former Shanghai-based conglomerate CEFC China Energy Co.

His pay was pegged at “850” and the email also noted that “Hunter has some office expectations he will elaborate.”

In addition, the email outlined a “provisional agreement” under which 80 percent of the “equity,” or shares in the new company, would be split equally among four people whose initials correspond to the sender and three recipients, with “H” apparently referring to Biden.

The deal also listed “10 Jim” and “10 held by H for the big guy?”

Neither Jim nor the “big guy” was identified further.

Who, other than the V.P., could be the “big guy”?

The campaign has not contested the authenticity of the emails. Given the claim that there are pictures of Hunter smoking crack and having sex with an unidentified female (apparently not his baby mama former stripper), contesting the authenticity could well lead to release of those pictures.  But the campaign stupidly tried to get tricky with a “non-denial denial,” claiming that the meeting with the Burisma official was not on Biden’s official schedule.  As if shady meetings on a pay-for-play basis would ever be officially noted.

And as Peter Schweizer’s investigation showed, on the dates when the meeting could have taken place, there was ample time for other meetings.  Moreover, there are other instances of Biden’s meetings not being noted on his official schedule. Mark Levin aptly drew comparison to the most damning feature of President Nixon’s handling of his own Watergate scandal:

The Alphabet networks followed the lead of Twitter and had not one second of coverage of the scandal on their evening newscasts yesterday.  Facebook has taken a slightly less thorough approach to censorship by allowing posts but limiting their distribution, what was called during the Watergate scandal the “modified limited hangout” strategy.  (It backfired then.)

Tonight, ABC will host a town hall discussion with ex-V.P. Biden that will serve as a test of its integrity.  Will it try to pretend that the scandal is a non-event?  George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton administration official, has his reputation on the line.  Meanwhile, on NBC, President Trump is certain to hammer the scandal in a town hall broadcast at the same time.   

Last night in Des Moines, President Trump was adamant on the scandal:

Perhaps the most explosive element of the scandal is yet to break wide open.  Via RedState:

Rudy Giuliani took to YouTube to lay out the case for a new accusation:

That Joe Biden was receiving half of Hunter’s contracts.

Guiliani presents a text message, allegedly from Hunter Biden to Naomi Biden, his daughter.   In the text, Hunter says that he has been paying for everything for 30 years and it has been tough, but that he won’t take 50% of her salary as “Pop” did.

“I love you all but I don’t receive any respect and that’s fine I guess. Works for you apparently. I hope you all can do what I did, and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years.  It’s really hard but don’t worry, unlike Pop,  I won’t make you give me half your salary.”

Also in the video, Biden describes contracts that his brother James, who was woefully unqualified, received simply because of his association with Biden as Vice President. Biden also allegedly used his influence to help James’ wife, Sara.

If these texts are accurate and mean what they seem to mean at first look, then Hunter was acting as a bagman for bribes paid to his father.

It doesn’t get any more scandalous than a drug-addicted, skank-banging adult child acting a bagman for a vice president who is his father.

Unless, that is, the president of the United States is also involved.

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In a strong-worded seven-part Twitter entry, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas singles out “right-wing extremism” as the greatest danger that his country is currently facing, but the way Germany records hate crime data is so misleading that it calls into question the veracity of Maas’ claims. 

His tweets come at the first anniversary of the Halle synagogue attack in which two people have been killed. In his tweet, Maas writes:

‘…There is now a right-wing extremist crime every 24 minutes in Germany. These are not isolated cases, but bitter right-wing extremist reality in Germany.

Right-wing terror has structures. It has networks. Right-wing terror is the greatest threat to our country. The perpetrators do not act alone…

Right-wing terror is globalized. Extremists feel strong because they find like-minded people in the darkest corners of the Internet, at demos and also in parliaments…

It is up to the state to ensure that everyone who lives here is protected. For this we need security services that are at the forefront in the fight against right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism…’

Maas refers to ‘right-wing’ extremism or terrorism exactly eight times in his tweets. It is worth pointing out that Maas’ is not using the term ‘far-right’, instead he associates a mainstream political ideology with violence and destruction.

On such solemn occasions, leaders are undoubtedly expected to condemn all forms of extremism, but Maas’ decision to single out the word ‘right-wing’ in his post raises suspicions that the primary goal was not to honor the victims, but instead appeared to be chance to exploit the occasion for political ends. 

The fact that Maas is able to identify right-wing extremism as the main threat to German national security points to the obsolete and wholly inadequate way criminal statistics are collected by the German police. The laws dating back to times when the only threat to identity groups and minorities originated from home-grown neo-Nazi or skinhead groups mislabels all anti-Semitic incidents as far-right by default.

Furthermore, in Germany all crimes against minority or ethnic groups where the perpetrators are not identified are automatically logged as ‘far-right’. This is how, among others, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer could make the astonishing but undoubtedly false claim that in 2018 far-right groups were responsible for about 90 percent of the 1.800 anti-Semitic incidents in Germany.

The wording of the above legislation has conveniently been left untouched by German lawmakers and is regularly used by the media to conceal news and statistics pointing at rampant anti-Semitism among migrants from Islamic cultures. For instance, the infamous Al-Quds demonstration in June 2019 held in Berlin, where symbols of Palestinian terrorist groups were openly brandished and extremely offensive anti-Jewish slogans were chanted by pro-Palestinian protesters was also labelled deceptively as a ‘far-right’ demonstration by the media and authorities.

Both Maas’ and Seehoffer’s observations are in stark contrast with extremism statistics of other European countries, such as the Netherlands where reportedly 70 percent of anti-Semitic incidents are perpetrated by Muslim attackers. In Sweden, Muslim attacks against Jews are rampant, leading Jews to flee cities like Malmö. 

According to another survey, Jewish victims of such attacks in Germany have said that in 57 percent of cases, the attacker was either of a Middle-Eastern appearance or have belonged to a far-left group, while only in 20 percent of cases did they claim that the perpetrators belonged to a far-right group. Even the German justice system seems to be affected by this distortion. An example for this is the Wuppertal synagogue arson in 2014, where the courts have refused to classify the attack by the three convicted Palestinians as anti-Semitic.

Even in rare instances where an attack is positively identified by authorities as one motivated by Islamic radicalism, the discussion of such incidents is in most cases politicized and fingers are pointed at critics who are not willing to conform to the government-advocated narrative. For instance, the 2016 Berlin Christmas market truck attack, perpetrated by failed Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri is currently being used to discredit Hans-Georg Maaßen, former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, who has been a vocal critic of the German government’s active refusal to discuss links between their immigration policies and Islamist terrorism.

Despite Maas’ claim that right-wing extremism is the biggest threat in Germany, Islamic terror is arguably the bigger threat despite Muslims making up a relatively small part of Germany’s population. Data from the German Federal Public Prosecutor (GBA) for 2019 that 400 of the total of 663 terrorist proceedings were related to Islamic terrorism, representing 60.3 percent of all cases, a finding that was also similar to previous years. The GBA data also demonstrated that Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis make up a significant number of terrorist suspects from the overall total. 

The desperate rhetoric by which the political right is blamed for the rise of extremism, anti-Semitism and crime in the country is increasingly viewed as a diversion from the fact that every such attack points back directly to policy decisions made by the Merkel government. As is detectable from Maas’ tweets themselves, the German government is fighting to regain its shaky grip on a country that is irrevocably drifting away from its control.

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US giant tech companies Facebook and Twitter banned an exposé by the New York Post of Joe Biden’s son Hunter selling access to his father. They locked the accounts of all who had shared it, including members of the White House.To make matters worse, Joe Biden had pressured government officials in Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was investigating the corrupt dealings of Hunter’s company Burisma. Incriminating emails were found on his laptop computer. It also contains a 12-minute video showing Hunter smoking crack.

President Donald Trump responded with the release of a new advertisment alluding to the New York Post’s revelation of the Bidens’ corrupt dealings in the Ukraine.

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On December 6, a migrant with Lebanese, Turkish and German citizenship beat a 49-year-old family man to death in Augsburg in a harmless brawl. Six of his cronies watched. For a long time the judiciary saw no reason to hold him in custody, and higher courts finally released all of them.German media reports indicate that the question of whether or not the victim was surrounded by the perpetrators at the time of his killing would have some essential meaning.This is another case where an encounter with a “group of young men” ended fatally. The German judiciary once again showed the outraged population what it is capable of doing in such cases: Show remarkable leniency.They don’t want to disturb the poor perpetrators, after all, the manslaughterer claims to have been only 17 years old when he committed his crime.The “quarrel” was allegedly triggered by one of the “men’s group” trying to scrounge a cigarette. That this was perhaps only a pretext to live out a desire to beat up people does not seem logical to the German media. The popular fireman was on his way home from a Christmas market with his wife and friends. It should have been his last visit to a Christmas market.After a successful search using video images, the public prosecutor’s office showed little interest in arresting the perpetrators. As the pressure from the public grew, the “group of men” was taken into custody. But defence lawyers and the Constitutional Court made arrangements to ensure that the migrants were quickly released.If one reads the reports in the German media, this is not conducive to blood pressure. For example, “the public prosecutor’s office and the criminal investigation department did not do well” – because they demanded imprisonment for the perpetrators. The defence lawyer is allowed to make a dramatic statement: The accusation of manslaughter would have been “completely intolerable”. The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe made sure that the accomplices could remain at liberty until the trial. The proceedings against three of them were dropped immediately.The trial is scheduled to last eight days. Obviously in Germany it is very important to judge whether you were killed by a migrant with a hard fist punch or whether you were surrounded by your cronies during the killing. This is also emphasised in German media reports. Graciously, however, the perpetrator admits to having carried out the blow against the family man and fireman.The trial is scheduled to last eight days. Obviously in Germany it is very important to judge whether you were killed by a migrant with a hard fist punch or whether you were surrounded by your cronies during the killing. This is also emphasised in German media reports. Graciously, however, the perpetrator admits to having carried out the blow against the family man and fireman. The opposite would certainly have been difficult to prove, as he is recorded on surveillance videos. A verdict is expected in early November.It will be interesting to see whether it is still considered an accident that the 47-year-old has fallen into the fist of the Lebanese boxer heroes. His cronies are said to have beaten and broken the zygomatic bone of a companion of the killed man. This was probably not so bad, as long as he was not surrounded. Being beaten by seven migrant thugs probably hurts less if it is done exclusively from the front. By the way, German criminal law does not make such distinctions. But that is probably not so important for the zeitgeist and German journalism.

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Hungary and Poland, two legitimate democracies, are now the targets of blackmail from the European Union over their stance on migration and LGBT issues, warned French philosopher and writer Éric Zemmour said on Wednesday on French news channel CNews. 

Zemmour also believes that the Hungarian and Polish concepts of democracy might be different from the one generally accepted in the Western world, but they are no less viable.

“It is very simple. There are two democracy concepts — the traditional one is that of Lincoln, ‘of the people, by the people, for the people,'” Zemmour said. “And there is the concept of the constitutional state. It says that all the actions of the power must be authorized and controlled by a judge… Hungary and Poland have a noble conception of democracy, not a conception based on the power of judges. They don’t want the multiculturalism the EU wants to impose on them.”

Zemmour said that while the first idea of democracy “for the people” is a fundamental concept, while the second is of a procedural nature, and while former French President François de Gaulle said the Supreme Court is the “people”, he was in fact saying what today’s technocratic concept of democracy actually is, which equates to giving all the power to the judges. On the other hand, Maximilien Robespierre, one of the key figures of the French Revolution, said he would like to see the dreadful word “jurisprudence” disappear from the French language, according to Zemmour. 

“Orbán and the Poles have very noble precedents: their democracy concept is not a sub-democracy or an inferior democracy… I also think that if we have to mention a crisis of democracy in the past 20 years, that it because we have abandoned the authentic popular concept of democracy for cold, procedural, judicial concept that gives all the power to the judges,” said Zemmour.

“I find it absolutely lamentable what France, the [European] Commission and Germany are doing to Hungary and Poland,” he said. “The Hungarians and the Poles have the right to organize themselves as they want. It is extraordinary to see that the Commission and the major European countries want to impose concepts of state, democracy, law and morale and criticize Poland for refusing to be dominated by the LGBT lobby.”

Zemmour believess that much of the reason for the EU’s pursuit of the two countries is tied to their stance on migration and their conservative viewpoints on LGBT issues. 

“The European Commission and France are blackmailing them because these two nations do not want migrants, nor will they submit to the LGBT lobby,” said Zemmour. “I think that Hungary and Poland will not give in on migrants and the demands of the European Commission. They don’t want the multicultural society that the Commission and France want to impose on them.”

Zemmour said by the same token Hungary is being criticized for not wanting to take in tens of thousands of migrants. Both Hungary and Poland have recently been the targets of rule of law hearings, with prominent EU officials and politicians threatening to cut EU funding if the two countries do not comply with EU demands, including on LGBT issues. 

“These peoples have the right to organize themselves as they want to,” Zemmour said. “So what is democracy? Is it obeying the concepts of the Brussels’ Commission, which are quite respectable, but one should also be able to question them. I for one contest them, just as Orbán and Poland do.”

“Should we have the right to contest or is it that we have to submit to them, as the former Eastern Europe had to submit to the Soviet Union?” he asked.

He said the Commission’s drive to link EU funding to rule of law requirements is nothing but “economic blackmail”.

Zemmour, who is Jewish, has grown increasingly popular in France for his conservative views on migration and culture, including for his recent calls to deport unaccompanied minors, and his warning that mass migration to Europe is a crime that would end in “bloodshed”. French President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly increasingly worried about the record viewership numbers Zemmour is gaining on the CNews program, with Zemmour now being targeted by an ethics committee, which will determine if he is appearing on the program too often. 

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A French woman who recorded and uploaded non-graphic footage of a foreign man sexually assaulting her on a train, has accused Facebook of censoring the video post, saying that the social media giant has prevented the sex offender from being exposed. The victim also urged the French government to begin protecting the country’s female population.

During the disturbing video recording, the female victim can be seen sitting facing a foreign man who’s sitting in the chair opposite of her. At first, the recording shows the man — who’s sitting slouched over in the chair — touching his genitals as he looks at the woman. He then mutters a few unintelligible words before he unzips his jeans, grabs the victim’s leg, and attempts to remove her shoe.

Repeatedly, the victim commands the man to stop assaulting her as she attempts to push his hands away from her leg. The video, which she also posted to Twitter, was given a “sensitive material” tag, meaning users have to click to view it. 

She tagged the French National Railway Company (SNCF) in her two video posts, writing, “TER train 17491 / September 26, Marseille Saint Charles — Nice. A jerk assaulted me and touched himself in front of me. Compartment train, empty, no controller anywhere. He assaulted two other girls after me.” 

She explains the assault in a post on Facebook:

“A ‘[mentally] unbalanced’ (that’s how they say it now, right?) attacked me and touched himself in front of me in a compartment train in an empty car. 

I don’t publish this video cheerfully, I know this probably won’t work and that he will never be found, but I just want to point out a real and daily problem. It’s really not good to be a woman right now!

Luckily, when I got out of the train a man defended me and literally pushed him into the wall. A thousand thanks to him. So good to see him crumble in front of a man, a real one.

Sweet France…. take care of you girls.

PS: for the simple-minded who wonder why I didn’t change places…. What do I do when the train is empty and there’s no one around? Move to another compartment and play hide-and-seek at the risk of making it even crazier than it already is?”

Not long after the victim posted the video along with her statement to Facebook, where she tagged President Emmanuel Macron, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, and the French National Railway Company (SNCF), the video was flagged and censored by Facebook for violating the Community Standards for Sexual Acts.

Following the censorship of her post, the victim again took to Facebook, writing: “Visibly denouncing the truth and the daily attacks on women in France in 2020 goes against the standards of Facebook. What a nice message of encouragement to crazy people and perverts! ‘Go on, assault, rape, kill, everything is allowed in France, but don’t forget to wear a mask…!”

The SNCF actually responded to the woman on Twitter, although with her video flagged as sensitive material on the platform, it has limited reach. 

The SNCF wrote, “We thank you for this report and sincerely regret the situation you were confronted with. Please know that we take this type of situation very seriously, the well-being & safety of our travelers being our priorities.”

As of this report it’s still unclear whether French authorities are investigating the public sexual assault.

The issue of sexual assault and harassment of women in France has been in the news lately. At the end of September, a woman was punched in the face by a group of youths in Strasbourg for wearing a skirt, with her case garnering national headlines after she posted a video of her injuries to social media. The case highlighted the worsening problem of sexual harassment and sexual assault in France. 

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By Monica Showalter

Joe Biden’s corrupt, debauched, coke-addled son Hunter has been found to have sold access to his dad’s office for tens of thousands of dollars. That’s the obvious conclusion from a trove of emails with his name on them, showing him driving a hard bargain his his pay to play game, making sure he got paid up front. And Vice President Joe Biden, who’s now running for president? He’s been caught red handed, lying to us about not knowing a thing.

Because sure enough an abandoned computer has turned up, according to theNew York Post, loaded with Hunter’s emails, showing him promising to give corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs access to Joe for a price.

According to the Post:

The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.

“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email reads.

An earlier email from May 2014 also shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma’s No. 3 exec, asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf.

The blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim that he’s “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings” — is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer.

The emails were discovered in a way that was about par for Hunter’s character: Hunter apparently turned in his Apple MacBook Pro in to a repair shop in 2019, and then ran out on his tab, not bothering to pick the computer up after the technicians did the work, leaving the store in hock. The store owner tried to contact him, got ghosted, and then poked around, finding all kinds of evidence of political and personal sleaze on the device. Then he turned the matter over to the lawmen, but kept a copy of a hard drive, which the Post obtained.

Speaking of sleaze, there was also this:

Other material extracted from the computer includes a raunchy, 12-minute video that appears to show Hunter, who’s admitted struggling with addiction problems, smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified woman, as well as numerous other sexually explicit images.

Which rather suggests that the Russians or any number of bad actors might just have copies of the same, known in their world as Kompromat. That would allow them to squeeze Hunter, and quite possibly old Joe for whatever they wanted, just to keep the scuzzy reality from getting out.

Joe Biden, though, is the one who ought to be on the hottest of the hot seats: He’s insisted for years that his son Hunter “did nothing wrong” and in any case, he never discussed business with Shakedown Junior, who often accompanied his dad on his foreign travels, following him around almost as if he black bag was outstretched. 

The Post has that angle in this separate article here:

In the email, Hunter Biden wrote to Archer, “We need to ask for long term agreement and across the board participation. This is a huge step for us that could easily become very complicated. And if we are not protected financially regardless of the outcome we could find ourselves frozen out of a lot of current and future opportunities.

“The contract should begin now- not after the upcoming visit of my guy.

“That should include a retainer in the range of 25k p/m w/ additional fees where appropriate for more in depth work to go to BSF for our protection. Complete separate from our respective deals re board participation.”

And it turns out Joe knew all about it, as the Post reporting describes.

Which would also explain why Biden gets so touchy whenever the matter is brought up. The last person who brought it up directly with him was called: ‘Hey, fat!’ and challenged to a push-up contest.

Why this one should be let go, just as the coup attempt against President Trump has been allowed to go, and the pay to play corruption at the Clinton Foundation is quite a guess. But at some point this has to stop, and Hunter appears to be as good a place as any. Hunter sold the U.S. down the river for his own personal profit. And the Mister Big protecting him was none other than Joe Biden. It’s time to roll this raw corruption up, starting with exposing Joe’s lies and forcing to answer some questions.

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