The FBI is at it Again! One Month After FBI Took Possession of Hunter Laptop, NY Times Reported Burisma “Hacked” by Russians to Embarrass Bidens

The FBI is at it again!

The New York Post on Wednesday dropped an October surprise on Joe Biden when they began releasing damning emails found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.

The New York Post reported that a laptop computer abandoned at a Delaware repair shop contains emails between Hunter Biden and various foreign actors offering him money to have access to his VP daddy Joe.

According to The Post, the computer repair shop owner contacted the FBI and gave them Hunter Biden’s laptop in December of 2019.

Shortly after the FBI took possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop, the New York Times (presumably a leak from the IC) ran a story claiming the Russians hacked Burisma searching for “potentially embarrassing material on the Bidens.”

The New York Times offered zero forensic proof Burisma was hacked — they cited a Democrat security firm in Silicon Valley.

The New York Times in January reported that Russian hackers from the military unit known as the GRU “successfully” targeted Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas company that Hunter Biden was paid millions of dollars for as a board member.

“The attacks were successful,” according to a Silicon Valley security firm told The Times.

The Times claimed that the hackers were searching for potentially embarrassing material against Joe and Hunter Biden.

“The hacking attempts against Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company on whose board Hunter Biden served, began in early November, as talk of the Bidens, Ukraine and impeachment was dominating the news in the United States. It is not yet clear what the hackers found, or precisely what they were searching for. But the experts say the timing and scale of the attacks suggest that the Russians could be searching for potentially embarrassing material on the Bidens.”

“The Russian attacks on Burisma appear to be running parallel to an effort by Russian spies in Ukraine to dig up information in the analog world that could embarrass the Bidens,”

Brief timeline of events:

April 2019: A drunk Hunter Biden stumbles into a Delaware computer repair shop and drops off his MacBook Pro damaged by water

June 2019: Computer repair shop owner takes legal ownership of Hunter Biden’s MacBook Pro after several failed attempts to reach Hunter and contacts Senator Mike Lee’s office

October 2019: Hunter Biden resigns from Burisma Holdings

December 2019: FBI takes possession of Hunter Biden’s MacBook Pro (as Democrats launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump)

January 2020: New York Times publishes absurd “Burisma hacked by Russians” story (presumably a leak from the IC) in order to run cover for the Bidens knowing the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop would be leaked.

Rudy Giuliani said the computer repair shop owner made copies of Hunter Biden’s hard drive and gave them to a couple of his friends just in case he was killed.

In an effort to continue the ridiculous “Russian disinformation ” narrative, the New York Times just reported that three weeks ago, people familiar with knowledge of the GRU hack of Burisma, after picking up intel “chatter” that stolen Burisma emails would be leaked in a forthcoming “October surprise.”

What a joke!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/fbi-one-month-fbi-took-possession-hunter-laptop-ny-times-reported-burisma-hacked-russians-embarrass-bidens/

Trump Campaign: 11 Questions The Media Must Ask Joe Biden About Hunter Biden ‘Selling Access’

Tim Murtaugh, the spokesperson for President Donald Trump’s campaign, said Sunday that the news media should ask Democratic rival Joe Biden “red, flashing, glaring” questions about allegations about his son, Hunter Biden, “selling access.”

Murtaugh noted that the Biden campaign had not denied the substance of reports that Hunter Biden had arranged meetings between his business partners in Ukraine and China and with then-Vice President Biden.

The reports have been based on emails purportedly discovered on a laptop abandoned at a repair shop in Delaware, and subsequently reported by the New York Post and others; and emails shared independently with Breitbart News by one of Hunter Biden’s former partners.

Biden is reported to have met with an adviser to the corrupt Ukrainian energy company, Burisma; and with executives from the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC), including Chinese billionaires and Chinese Communist Party loyalists.

The Biden campaign “does not dispute the authenticity of these emails nor do they dispute that the laptops these emails came from” belonged to Hunter Biden, Murtaugh said.

He argued that the emails showed that Joe Biden lied when he said: “I have never discussed, with my son or my brother or with anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses. Period.”

Murtaugh added that Biden had not denied any of the allegations.

Just so we’re clear on what has happened here:

Three days ago, Fox News reported that Joe Biden was identified as a FINANCIAL BENEFICIARY in a deal worked out between Hunter and a Chinese energy company tied to the communist government.

And his campaign hasn’t denied it.

— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) October 18, 2020

“The lone exception is to say that no such meeting [with Burisma] appeared on Joe Biden’s official schedule at the time. This explanation is a joke, and it’s embarrassing to the Biden campaign that this is the best they can do.”

He noted that the Biden campaign had told Politico that it could not rule out that such a meeting might have taken place. And he noted a report in Fox News about emails that discussed 10% of one deal being set aside for someone called the “big guy.”

Murtaugh also noted that the one time a mainstream media reporter asked Biden about the allegations, Biden attacked him.

I asked Joe Biden: What is your response to the NYPost story about your son, sir?

He called it a “smear campaign” and then went after me. “I know you’d ask it. I have no response, it’s another smear campaign, right up your alley, those are the questions you always ask.” pic.twitter.com/Eo6VD4TqxD

— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) October 17, 2020

Nevertheless, Murtaugh argued, journalists covering the Biden campaign had a duty to ask him the following questions:

1 Did Hunter drop off this laptop at that repair show in Delaware?

2 Does the laptop belong to Hunter Biden?

3 Why would a grand jury subpoena the laptop [which was seized by the FBI for a grand jury]?

4 Are the emails authentic?

5 Have you ever met any of Hunter Biden’s foreign business partners?

6 What did you talk about with Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s business partner and fellow Bursima board member, when you played golf [as captured in a photo revealed last year]?

7 Did you meet with Vadym Pozharskyi, the Bursima executive, in that meeting [in 2015], as described in the emails?

8 Can you explain the 10% stake n the Chinese energy company described as being specially for you, as worked out by Hunter and his business partners?

9 Is Hunter Biden holding money for you?

10 Do you make Hunter give him half of his income [as alleged by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, based on a text message purportedly found on the laptop]?

11 Are you, as a candidate for President of the United States, compromised by the Chinese?

Murtaugh added that efforts by Facebook and Twitter, the “Silicon Valley mafia,” to “squelch” the story had “backfired on them, because it made it a much bigger story.”

He said that if the moderator in the third debate did not bring up the issue, President Trump would likely do so.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/18/trump-campaign-11-questions-the-media-must-ask-joe-biden-hunter-buden-selling-access/

University of Northern Iowa bans pro-life club, labels it a ‘hate group’

University of Northern Iowa Student Government engages in viewpoint discrimination against fellow students, school’s Supreme Court backs them up

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, October 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The student government at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) has rejected the request for approval of a UNI Students for Life group.

The rejection came after a long and charged discussion in which the members attacked the views of fellow pro-life students, including calling them a “hate group,” and this week the public university’s student body’s Supreme Court joined in that effort to block the pro-life group.

BREAKING: University of Northern Iowa Student Government Denies Pro-Life Group, Labels it "Hate Group"@StudentsforLife pic.twitter.com/8rbTXHXhnW

— YAF (@yaf) October 9, 2020

A video released by Young America’s Foundation shows UNI students complaining over Zoom that the pro-life club “engages in hate speech.”

“We cannot support diversity and be complicit in its destruction at the same time,” one student says.

“Approving this bill [to allow the pro-life club] is the same thing as approving a white supremacist group that’s trying [to] make an organization on campus,” another adds. “You’re basically saying you support them to violate women [sic] rights. And, like, um, I’m sorry but I don’t want a group on campus that’s gonna, like, when I – just an example – if I’m pregnant, they’re gonna try to force me not to abort my child.”

“I would argue that not all opinions are equal. There are opinions, and then there are opinions that get people killed, in many cases,” said another student without a hint of irony. “There’s really no middle ground here.”

Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins said that legal counsel had been contacted on behalf of the group as the appeal process continues, now headed to the university president.

“Despite the school’s own rules that viewpoint discrimination is not acceptable, student government leaders attacked fellow students for their pro-life views and denied a request for a new club based on their personal support of abortion,” noted Hawkins. University of Northern Iowa student leader Sophia Schuster has been advocating for a Students for Life club this school year and appealed the NISG’s decision to the school’s Supreme Court this week, which ruled against the pro-life students.

“I wasn’t really surprised by how NISG (Northern Iowa Student Government) reacted because I know abortion is a controversial topic, but I was shocked by how they allowed their emotions and personal opinions to influence their decision,” said Schuster. “Students for Life met all of requirements for being approved set forth by UNI, but they completely ignored that fact. I think they have overstepped their role and tried to use their power to silence us just because they disagree. This is a direct attack on free speech and of due process of law and an example of abandoning standards that they claim to hold.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/university-of-northern-iowa-bans-pro-life-club-labels-it-a-hate-group?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard

Whose Great Reset? The Fight for Our Future – Technocracy vs. the Republic

People living in the western world are in the greatest fight for the future of pluralist and republican forms of governance since the rise and fall of fascism 75 years ago. As then, society had to be built up from a war. Today’s war has been an economic war of the oligarchs against the republic, and it increasingly appears that the coronavirus pandemic is being used, on the political end, as a massive coup against pluralist society. We are being confronted with this ‘great reset’, alluding to post-war construction. But for a whole generation people have already been living under an ever-increasing austerity regimen. This is a regimen that can only be explained as some toxic combination of the systemic inevitabilities of a consumer-driven society on the foundation of planned obsolescence, and the never-ending greed and lust for power which defines whole sections of the sociopathic oligarchy.

Recently we saw UK PM Boris Johnson stand in front of a ‘Build Back Better’ sign, speaking to the need for a ‘great reset’. ‘Build Back Better’ happens to be Joe Biden’s campaign slogan, which raises many other questions for another time. But, to what extent are the handlers who manage ‘Joe Biden’, and those managing ‘Boris Johnson’ working the same script?

The more pertinent question is to ask: in whose interest is this ‘great reset’ being carried out? Certainly it cannot be left to those who have built their careers upon the theory and practice of austerity. Certainly it cannot be left to those who have built their careers as puppets of a morally decaying oligarchy.

What Johnson calls the ‘Great Reset’, Biden calls the ‘Biden Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution & Environmental Justice’. Certainly the coming economy cannot be left to Boris Johnson or Joe Biden.

How is it that now Boris Johnson speaks publicly of a ‘great reset’, whereas just months ago when those outside the ruling media paradigm used this phrase, it was censured by corporate Atlanticist media as being conspiratorial in nature? This is an excellent question posed by Neil Clark.

And so we have by now all read numerous articles in the official press talking about how economic life after coronavirus will never be the same as it was before. Atlanticist press has even run numerous opinion articles talking about how this may cut against globalization – a fair point, and one which many thinking people by and large agree with.

Yet they have set aside any substantive discussion about what exists in lieu of globalization, and what the economy looks like in various parts of the world if it is not globalized. We have consistently spoken of multipolarity, a term that in decades past was utilized frequently in western vectors, in the sphere of geopolitics and international relations. Now there is some strange ban on the term, and so we are now bereft of a language with which to have an honest discussion about the post-globalization paradigm.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/18/whose-great-reset-fight-for-our-future-technocracy-vs-republic/

'The Joe meeting happened, the emails are correct and Joe took 10% of equity': Bannon says EVERYTHING reported in Hunter laptop scandal is true and reveals how lawyer for Biden's son tried to get hard drive back - proving 'it's no Russian intel op'

Steve Bannon said Sunday everything found on Hunter Biden's lap top is true

'Joe Biden has lied about this for years,' the former White House strategist said

He also revealed that Hunter Biden's lawyer tried desperately to get the hard drive back after it was left at a lap top repair shop with his water damaged Mac

Bannon also revealed Sunday that if Trump fails to win a second White House term he will run again in 2024

'You're not going to see the end of Donald Trump,' he said

Bannon was recently arrested for federal money-laundering

Steve Bannon said Sunday everything that has come to light from Hunter Biden's hard drive is true as he paints Joe Biden as a 'stone cold liar' after revelations show deep financial ties between the Biden's and Chinese Communist Party.

'Joe Biden has lied about this for years,' Bannon told Sky News in an interview Sunday.

'What Fox did, which was very interesting on that issue but also on the Chinese – they actually went to the people on the emails and contacted them. What was so stunning is that they reported last night that one, the guys on the emails said absolutely the meetings happened. This is not off of some Russia intelligence operation. That emails correct, the meanings correct and, by the way, that 10 per cent of the equity is Joe Biden's,' Bannon said.

The former White House strategist for President Donald Trump said Hunter's lawyer tried to email the repair shop to get the laptop back and has since then contacted Bannon and his team to retrieve the sensitive hard drive.

'Hunter Biden's lawyer has come to us both with phone calls and with emails saying, 'hey, I've got to get the hard drive back',' Bannon said.

'This is not some Russian intelligence operation; they admit it's their hard drive,' he continued in proving the validity of the information found on the laptop. 'We have the emails from the Lawyer, if we need to release them, we'll release them.'

Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, is calling on FBI Director Christopher Wray to confirm or deny details regarding the hard drive.

In a letter to Wray, which was obtained by Fox News Sunday, Johnson says that a whistleblower contacted the committee on September 24.

He said they claimed to possess a laptop that Hunter left at his business, and that he had turned it over to the FBI.

Johnson noted in his letter that his staff immediately asked the FBI to confirm certain details to better validate the claim, but the bureau said they would not comment on any of the information.

Trump weighed in on Hunter's emails on Twitter Sunday, and gave his Democratic rival a new nickname: '10% Joe.'

'Hunter Biden's laptop is a disaster for the entire Biden family, but especially for his father, Joe. It is now a proven fact, and cannot be denied, that all of that info is the REAL DEAL,' Trump tweeted. 'That makes it impossible for '50%, or 10%' Joe, to ever assume the office of the President!'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8852685/The-meeting-happened-Joe-took-10-equity-Bannon-says-Hunters-laptop-TRUE.html

Exaggerations And Misinformation: Air Losses In Nagorno-Karabakh Battle

Since the beginning of the battle in the disputed region Nagorno-Karabakh on September 27, Armenia and Azerbaijan have made false claims about the air losses of each other.

The Ministry of Defense of Armenia claims that its Air Defense Force has, thus far, shot down 188 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 16 helicopters and 21 fighter jets over Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia’s airspace.

On the other side, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan claimed that its Air Defense Force had shot down 8 UAVs and 2 fighters jets, both were allegedly Su-25s .

The real numbers of air losses during Nagorno-Karabakh battle appear to be far smaller than those provided by both Armenia and Azerbaijan.

According to Lost Armour, the verified aerial losses of the Azerbaijani side are:

An unidentified UAV was shot down over Nagorno-Karabakh on September 28;

An An-2 aircraft was shot down over Nagorno-Karabakh on September 29;

https://southfront.org/exaggerations-and-misinformation-air-losses-in-nagorno-karabakh-battle/

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Wild plan to turn North Queensland into a separate state

First WA wanted out of the federation with their “WAexit” plan, now another radical plan to redraw Australia’s map is gathering up a head of steam.

First Western Australia wanted out of the federation with their “WAexit” plan, now it looks like another plan to re-draw the map of Australia is gathering up a major head of steam.

With a proposed title of the “Reef State”, the idea is to give “North Queensland” the powers to make its own laws and split the current Sunshine State in two.

The wild plan is a major policy platform for Queensland’s newest party — North Queensland First — which was set up just was set up just 12 months ago by member for Whitsunday, Jason Costigan.

He told news.com.au he used be ridiculed by his former Liberal National Party colleagues when they’d go for beers outside Brisbane’s Parliament House and he’d bring up the idea of North Queensland going out on its own.

However, Mr Costigan believes that if his plan to have a referendum on the split by 2020 ever makes it, he’ll be the one having the last laugh.

The breakaway is not a new idea — Mr Costigan claims it has been touted by some from as far back as 1865 — but he reckons northern Queenslanders have finally had enough of being told what to do by their southern neighbours.

He says they want to be able to “shoot crocodiles and burn coal” without being lectured to by the city-dwellers in Brisbane.

He reckons North Queenslander are also getting a raw deal.

“People up here aren’t stupid, they know we’re getting the crumbs when it comes to infrastructure and funding — despite us having a $70 billion economy and a population of around one million people” he said.

https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/news/wild-plan-to-turn-north-queensland-into-a-separate-state/news-story/22e57225cd38da4f60ac2f2e726c3f60

NWO pushing to carve up Australia

Westpac, mint, hundreds of Australians ensnared in global tax evasion probe

Westpac Banking Corporation, the Perth Mint and hundreds of Australian citizens have been caught up in a global tax evasion probe into a Puerto Rican bank co-owned by a flamboyant American millionaire.

Euro Pacific Bank, fronted by US financier and celebrity business commentator Peter Schiff, has been proscribed as a “top tier” organised crime threat to Australia because of its suspected use by Australian and international organised crime syndicates.

International enforcement sources have confirmed that Euro Pacific is the target of Operation Atlantis, a sweeping international tax probe by the “J5”, a taskforce made up of the tax chiefs of Australia, the US, UK, the Netherlands and Canada that was set up after the Panama Papers leak.

Australia’s deputy tax commissioner, Will Day, said about 100 Australians were being investigated and could be jailed for evading tax after simultaneous raids around the world on January 24 in what he described as an “unprecedented” joint probe.

Euro Pacific’s designation as an Australian Priority Organisation Target means police suspect Euro Pacific poses a grave organised crime threat to Australia. It is the most serious classification by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.

Mr Schiff, who denies all wrongdoing, confirmed he had been visited by US tax authorities working in partnership with Australian authorities on January 24.

“We've complied with all sorts of requests for information," he said. "We somehow got caught up in whatever's going on, but there are no valid allegations against the bank. I can tell you there is no tax evasion going on at the bank. The bank is not facilitating anything.”

But the revelations, uncovered in an investigation by The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, 60 Minutes and The New York Times, will send a shudder through the global banking world because Euro Pacific has relationships with major financial institutions who facilitate transactions for its 13,000 global customers.

Euro Pacific marketing materials list the bank’s existing or previous financial partners as Westpac and the West Australian government-owned Perth Mint, raising the possibility that the Australian institutions have facilitated the activities of organised criminals or tax evaders.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/westpac-mint-hundreds-of-australians-ensnared-in-global-tax-evasion-probe-20201015-p565la.html

Pan-Continental Operation Busts Money Launderers for Europe’s Cybercriminals

Police in several European countries arrested 20 suspects in an operation to bust one of Europe’s largest criminal networks, the QQAAZZ money laundering ring, which served the continent's most prominent cybercriminals, Europol said Thursday in a statement.

QQAAZZ is believed to have laundered tens of millions of stolen Euros through a variety of corporate and personal bank accounts.

“The QQAAZZ members secured these bank accounts by using both legitimate and fraudulent Polish and Bulgarian identification documents to create and register dozens of shell companies which conducted no legitimate business activity,” Europol said.

The group then advertised itself as a “global, complicit bank drops service” on Russian sites frequented by cybercriminals, where some of the worlds most notable cybercriminal families, like Dridex, Trickbot and GozNym, acquired their services.

Law enforcement agencies of 16 countries were involved in the operation, during which “some 40 house searches were carried out in Latvia, Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy.”

However, the focus was on Latvia, where the bulk of the searches took place.

The United States, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Spain initiated criminal proceedings against those arrested, according to Europol.

“Cybercriminals are constantly exploring new possibilities to abuse technology and financial frameworks to victimise millions of users in a moment from anywhere in the world,” said Edvardas Šileris, head of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre.

Cybercrime has been a particular threat amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic. The new world of widespread remote working has opened up novel vulnerabilities and therefore possibilities for malware and ransomware attacks as criminals, like much of the rest of the world, are also working from home.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13266-pan-continental-operation-busts-money-launderers-for-europe-s-cybercriminals

Police Dismantle Largest Illegal Cigarette Factory in the Netherlands

Dutch authorities raided an illegal tobacco factory in the south of Utrecht and arrested 13 people, mostly from Eastern Europe, while confiscating 3.6 million cigarettes and several dozen metric tons of tobacco, cigarette papers, filters and glue, Europol said in a statement on Tuesday.

The operation prevented the tax loss to the Dutch state revenue for some €6 million (US$7.04 million), as the value of the seized goods was estimated.

The factory was one of the largest in the Netherlands and was unique as it was a one-stop-shop, containing both processing and production, according to Europol.

“In general, illegally processing and producing tobacco is dispersed across multiple facilities so criminals can spread the risk,” Europol said. “In this case, the entire production cycle took place in one factory.”

Dutch authorities estimated that the machinery in the warehouse could potentially produce more than one million cigarettes per day, but hadn’t been used to full production capacity, and had only produced 18 million in the last several months.

Cigarette smuggling is one of the largest illegal trades and black markets in Europe. Often produced where labor and materials are cheap, they are then smuggled and sold in countries where cigarette prices are bloated by high taxes and tariffs.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13265-police-dismantle-largest-illegal-cigarette-factory-in-the-netherlands

Outside Of Tech, There Has Been Zero EPS Growth In The Past 12 Years

By now every professional trader, veteran 16-year-old Robinhooder and mere daytrading amateur - and certainly every value investor left - has seen some version of the following chart, which shows the unprecedented underperformance of value stocks compared to growth.

Analysts have tried hard to explain this divergence, with two main reasons emerging as the cause:

1. The secular decline in bond yields and inflation expectations has boosted the value of longer-duration Growth companies (while hitting Value companies most atrisk of deflation).

As Goldman's Peter Oppenheimer chimes in, the global secular decline in bonds yields started at the peak of inflation in the 1980s and has resulted in remarkable returns in bond markets ever since then. However, it is the declines since the start of this century, in the aftermath of the technology bubble, and even more so after the financial crisis of 2008 - when the Fed launched ZIRP and QE - that have had the most dramatic impact on factor leadership within equities. Indeed, it may be hard to imagine now, but on the eve of the financial crisis in 2008, 10-year Treasury yields and Bund yields were around 4%. Many people at the time thought that these yields were too low. Everyone knows what has happened since then: Bund yields hit a record low of -0.9% and 25% of global debt having a negative yield. As the next chart shows, this has also resulted in global bond yields tumbling to their lowest levels in history, going back to the 1300s.

1. A secular decline in long-term growth expectations, together with greater uncertainty about growth.

Long-term growth expectations have collapsed since the financial crisis both for trend GDP growth and for long-term profit growth: the Goldman chart below shows the long slowdown in consensus real GDP growth 6-10 years forward in all major regions (inverse to the furious accumulation of global debt). And with lower inflation, revenue growth has also slowed materially in the US and Europe, and has approached the kind of growth rates that Japan has experienced over the past couple of decades. Slower growth means that companies that are perceived to be able to achieve growth are considered more valuable, and all the more so given the collapse in the risk free rate.

The market has rewarded growth appropriately: the next chart shows the P/Es of US and European companies in different bands of expected future sales growth. While this tends to be upward sloping (investors are prepared to pay more for higher growth), it has become steeper now than we have tended to see on average in the past. In other words, investors are paying (much) more now for higher expected growth, especially safe top-line growth. Or, as Goldman puts, it, the scarcity of growth means that investors are prepared to pay a big premium for stable secure growth in the few areas that offer it.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/outside-tech-there-has-been-zero-eps-growth-past-12-years

UKC News: UK Gov’t Corona Deception, Inside Hunter Biden Email Scandal

As the government continues to promote its ‘Second Wave’ theory – insisting that the country is in the midst of a deadly pandemic (despite fact that the data doesn’t spell crisis right now) Boris Johnson is now ordering ‘local lockdowns’ all over the country. The US is now in the heat of the Presidential election, and Trump seems to have pulled off another ‘October Surprise,’ as Hunter Biden email scandal erupts throwing Democrats and Bidens into ‘media lockdown’ on this story. All this and much more.

UKC News co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen bring you the end of week news round-up. Watch:

https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/10/16/ukc-news-uk-govt-corona-deception-inside-hunter-biden-email-scandal/

U.N. Condemns Nigeria’s Plans to Castrate Rapists and Execute Pedophiles

Plans by Nigeria to castrate rapists and execute pedophiles have been condemned as “draconian” by a furious Michelle Bachelet, the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state signed a law two months ago saying men convicted of rape would be subjected to surgical castration – with those found guilty of raping a child under the age of 14 would be executed, as Breitbart News reported.

Now Bachelet, the former President of Chile, has expressed her anger at the proposal.

“Tempting as it may be to impose draconian punishments on those who carry out such monstrous acts, we must not allow ourselves to commit further violations,” she said.

UN Human Rights Chief @mbachelet stands in solidarity and outrage with survivors of #rape, and those demanding justice. Tempting as it may be to impose draconian punishment, she urges we shift the focus on justice and reparation for the victim 👉 https://t.co/yuDdJC7EW0 pic.twitter.com/I0PAptrLCF

— UN Human Rights (@UNHumanRights) October 15, 2020

In a statement regarding the adoption of the law in Nigeria, Bachelet said the main argument made for instituting the death penalty is to deter rape. She argued that the belief punishment prevents sexual assaults is wrong.

The human rights chief said “the certainty of punishment, rather than its severity, deters crime.”

“Penalties like surgical castration and bilateral salpingectomy will not resolve any of the barriers to accessing justice, nor will it serve a preventive role,” Bachelet argued.

“Surgical castration and salpingectomy violate the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under international human rights law.”

During recent periods of lockdown, the number of reported rape cases in Nigeria rose dramatically.

From March to July, Nigeria documented 717 rape cases and 7,170 unreported rapes across the country. For comparison, Nigeria’s Bureau of Statistics said that over 2,200 cases of rape and indecent assault were reported for 2017.

Despite the recent spike in rape cases, Nigeria has long suffered from high rates of sexual violence. “One in four girls and ten percent of boys have been victims of sexual violence” in Nigeria, UNICEF reported.

The legislature in Nigeria called for "chopping off the genitals" of convicted rapists on Wednesday amid a surge in rapes nationwide. https://t.co/IOfaP2W920

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 17, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2020/10/18/u-n-condemns-nigerias-plans-to-castrate-rapists-and-execute-pedophiles/

RNC's Ronna McDaniel spars with ABC host over QAnon question

'It has absolutely nothing to do with this election,' the RNC chairwoman said

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel sparred with ABC's George Stephanopoulos after he accused her of refusing to condemn the conspiracy theory QAnon.

I knew you were going to ask me that question because it's something that voters are not even thinking about," McDaniel said on "This Week." "It's a fringe group. It's not part of our party. The vice president said I dismiss it out of hand. The president said you know what, I don't know anything about this group."

"It has absolutely nothing to do with this election," McDaniel continued. "Antifa is burning down cities right now. … This is crazy, George. The American people are worrying about the stimulus package [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi is holding up."

QAnon is a conspiracy theory centered on the baseless belief that President Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies in the “deep state” and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals.

QAnon supporters refer to “The Storm” often, which is a reference to an October 2017 meeting between Trump and military leaders during which Trump said, “the calm before the storm.” During the so-called “storm,” thousands of deep state operatives and top Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and President Obama, will allegedly be rounded up and sent to Guantanamo Bay, the theory states.

McDaniel's uncle, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, criticized Trump after the president said he knew "nothing" about QAnon during Thursday's NBC town hall.

"I know nothing about it. I do know they are very much against pedophilia. They fight it very hard but I know nothing about it," Trump said.

"The President's unwillingness to denounce an absurd and dangerous conspiracy theory last night continues an alarming pattern: politicians and parties refuse to forcefully and convincingly repudiate groups like antifa, white [supremacists], and conspiracy peddlers," Romney said in a statement on Friday.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rnc-trump-town-hall-qanon-abc-denounce