Inspector General: The U.S. Government Left More Than $7 Billion in Military Equipment to the Taliban
https://www.dodig.mil/In-the-Spotlight/Article/3129145/lead-inspector-general-for-operation-enduring-sentinel-and-operation-freedoms-s/
Poster Released for Feature Film ‘My Son Hunter’: ‘As if Hunter Biden’s Laptop Exploded’
The official poster for My Son Hunter has arrived, and as director Robert Davi (Licensed to Kill, Die Hard, The Goonies) explained to Breitbart News, “I describe this movie as if Hunter’s laptop exploded onto the screen, and this poster reflects that in an amazing way.” Utilizing bold shades of red and green, the poster’s main image seems to be the filmmakers’ reference to Hunter’s recently video release—from his infamous stay at a detox center in 2019. Around the central image, it’s not hard to see what Davi is talking about. Images upon images from the controversial life of Hunter Biden provide a unique framing where one can witness everything from drug use to his promiscuous lifestyle, partying with strippers, corrupt business dealings, Ukrainian oligarchs, CCP emissaries, as well as his seemingly close relationship with his father, now President of the United States.
My Son Hunter—Breitbart News’ foray into film distribution—was crowdfunded by producers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney of the Unreported Story Society.
“We crowdfunded My Son Hunter because this was a story that big tech and big media want to cover up,” Ann McElhinney told Breitbart. “They didn’t want the truth to ever see the light of day. But there is a hunger for truth out there. Hollywood would never make this movie. It doesn’t fit their narrative, so that’s why we had to get the American public to fund it.”
The feature length film is available for PRE-ORDER NOW and will be available for streaming and downloading on September 7 at MySonHunter. com.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/08/22/exclusive-poster-released-for-feature-film-my-son-hunter-as-if-hunter-bidens-laptop-exploded/
Rep. Adam Schiff on Mar-a-Lago raid: "I'm confident that Merrick Garland took every precaution, made every effort short of executing the search warrant to obtain those documents. […] It's a very powerful precedent. At the same time, I'm confident that it was used appropriately"
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1561849325583585282
Twitter bans seven embassies
Serbia says its embassies and a US consulate were “suspended” without explanation
Accounts of seven Serbian embassies and a consulate in the US have been “suspended” by Twitter, the foreign ministry in Belgrade said on Monday. Serbia has asked Twitter to unblock the accounts, arguing that such censorship of a pro-European democracy that upholds freedom of speech was unacceptable.
The embassies in Armenia, Ghana, Iran, Indonesia, Kuwait, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe had their accounts “suspended” on August 18, the Serbian foreign ministry said on Monday. The same happened to the consulate in Chicago, in the US state of Illinois. The suspensions happened “without any explanation or prior notice of a possible violation of the social network’s rules.”
“Without getting into Twitter’s business policies, we note that it’s unacceptable to censor diplomatic offices of a democratic state that has not been sanctioned in any way,” said Belgrade.
“Serbia is a country that is strategically committed to membership in the European Union and our political and democratic standards – including media freedoms – are adjusted to be in line with the highest European standards,” the Serbian foreign ministry said in a statement. “Therefore it is absurd that a series of our diplomatic and consular offices were censored on a social network that boasts of promoting democracy and diversity of opinion.”
Belgrade hopes the ban is “not part of an attempt to thwart or silence Serbia in its struggle for the truth,” in particular about the situation in Kosovo, the foreign ministry added.
Sixteen individuals – including 13 MPs from the ruling Progressive Party – were likewise suspended without explanation last week. Among them was Arnaud Gouillon, the French-born aid worker currently employed as head of the foreign ministry Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora. His account has since been restored.
On the day Twitter targeted Serbian accounts for suspensions, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Kosovo Albanian authorities in Brussels. The talks, mediated by the US and the EU, were supposed to resolve tensions in the breakaway province.
NATO occupied Kosovo after the 78-day war in 1999 and handed it over to ethnic Albanian separatists, who declared independence in 2008 with US support. Belgrade refuses to recognize the government in Pristina, in which it is supported by Russia, China and about half the world’s countries.
https://www.rt.com/news/561340-twitter-embassy-ban-serbia/
Pharmaceutical President and Company Guilty in Counterfeit Drug Trafficking Conspiracy
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtx/pr/pharmaceutical-president-and-company-guilty-counterfeit-drug-trafficking-conspiracy
“I Think You Are a Coward. Prove Me Wrong.” – Trump-Endorsed Kari Lake Issues New Debate Challenge To Radical Leftist Katie Hobbs, Allows Hobbs’ Consultants To Write The Questions
Where’s Katie?
Trump-Endorsed Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake posted a video on Saturday calling her radical Leftist Democrat opponent a “coward” for ducking out of the gubernatorial debate.
“It looks like my radical opponent, Katie Hobbs, is going to take a page out of Joe Biden’s playbook and campaign from her basement,” said Kari Lake in her message, slamming Hobbs and challenging her to a softball debate.
We reported months before the Republican Primary Election that Lake issued a similar message to her RINO Primary opponents who were also too scared to debate Lake, saying, “grow a spine and debate me.”
Nobody wants to debate Kari Lake because her ideas will win every time.
Lake dominated in the Primary Election, and she now faces Katie Hobbs in the November 8th General Election.
The Gateway Pundit recently reported that Katie Hobbs refuses to show up for the Citizens Clean Elections debate and defend her record of racism, support for defunding the police, abortion, open borders, and election fraud.
For 20 years, Arizona voters have had the opportunity to see their candidates participate on the statewide debate stage. But not this year if Hobbs gets her way.
Hobbs also ditched her own Democratic primary debate to avoid getting knocked out of the race early. Hobbs’ ideas are terrible, and she is terrified that she will lose if the voters see her on any debate stage.
On Saturday, Kari Lake released a new video message aimed directly at Katie Hobbs, offering a debate with hand-picked questions by the Democrats wherever and whenever they want it. There has been no response from Katie Hobbs.
Lake: It looks like my radical opponent, Katie Hobbs, is going to take a page out of Joe Biden’s playbook and campaign from her basement. Do you want to find out if she’s serious about being Governor? If she is, she will take me up on this offer.
Katie, I’m speaking directly to you. You claim to care about the people of Arizona. Prove it. Debate me. You name the time and you name the place, and to make things even easier for you I will allow you to choose the moderator. Hell, I’ll even let you write the questions. Seriously, your consultants can write every single question. ask me anything. This is your opportunity to prove to the people of Arizona that you actually have a tiny sliver of respect for them. I’m making it unbelievably easy for you. Think really hard before you turn down this chance. I don’t think you’ll do it. I think you are a coward. Prove me wrong.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/think-coward-prove-wrong-trump-endorsed-kari-lake-issues-new-debate-challenge-radical-leftist-katie-hobbs-allows-hobbs-consultants-write-questions/
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/17428860.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/sandy-hook-hoax-trial-shows-how-false-narratives-are-fed-and-spread-warns-author/
US Sanctions Do Not Affect Chinese Semiconductor Industry
The US continues to maintain an international strategy based on sanctions and coercive measures. Washington recently announced that a package of sanctions is being prepared against Beijing, focused on controlling high-tech products. The objective is to target the Chinese semiconductor industry – one of the most strategic sectors for the Asian country. However, data indicate that these measures will not work well.
The new sanctions were announced on August 12 by the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). The aim is to ban the export of technologies that could be used in the manufacture of semiconductors in China. According to the Department’s spokespeople, these technologies could be used by China for “nefarious” purposes in the military and commercial spheres – thus, “justifying” the Department’s decision.
However, many experts believe that the American plan will not work well. Considering that China is focused on manufacturing 28 nm semiconductors, the American package of measures may fail, as it is imposing specific restrictions on materials used to produce newer semiconductors, such as 7 nm and 3 nm ones – which correspond to a small fraction of the world market, and whose technology will not be affected.
“[The US export restrictions] will not have much impact on the Chinese semiconductor industry (…) These restrictions are associated with the 3 nanometer (nm) technologies while China is now producing 28nm chips for the most part, which are previous generation technologies. The fact is that the 28nm chip technology is mature and the main demand is for chips manufactured in the [28nm lithography] process. Chip manufacturers receive their main income from this product”, said Professor Thomas Canhao Xu of Beijing Normal University (BNU).
In fact, the US is betting that with such measures it will be able to stop the growth of Chinese industry and thus obstruct the technological progress of the Asian country in sufficient time for Western companies to control the advanced semiconductor market. But this thought seems to be wrong on several points.
High-tech market transitions are gradual and require time to adapt. Currently, 28nm semiconductors are considered a mature, safe and consolidated technology, which will guarantee them market hegemony until the newer products are sufficiently tested, approved and demanded. In this sense, China will continue to have a favorable position in the market and the future of its industry will fundamentally depend on how it operates the technological transition.
“Breakthrough technologies are undeniably important, but they represent only a small fraction of the entire semiconductor industry (…) The long-term effect of these restrictions on China will depend on how China develops its own industry, including equipment for the production of chips. On the horizon of 10 to 20 years, significant changes may occur in the industry and fundamentally new technologies may appear” Xu says.
https://southfront.org/us-sanctions-do-not-affect-chinese-semiconductor-industry/
Provisional Mortality Statistics
Provisional deaths data for measuring changes in patterns of mortality
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/latest-release
Biden White House facilitated DOJ's criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims: memos
"I have therefore decided not to honor the former President's 'protective' claim of privilege," acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall wrote Trump's team in May.
Long before it professed no prior knowledge of the raid on Donald Trump's estate, the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to instigate the criminal probe into alleged mishandling of documents, allowing the FBI to review evidence retrieved from Mar-a-Lago this spring and eliminating the 45th president's claims to executive privilege, according to contemporaneous government documents reviewed by Just the News.
The memos show then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ and National Archives as early as April, shortly after 15 boxes of classified and other materials were voluntarily returned to the federal historical agency from Trump's Florida home.
By May, Su conveyed to the Archives that President Joe Biden would not object to waiving his predecessor's claims to executive privilege, a decision that opened the door for DOJ to get a grand jury to issue a subpoena compelling Trump to turn over any remaining materials he possessed from his presidency.
The machinations are summarized in several memos and emails exchanged between the various agencies in spring 2022, months before the FBI took the added unprecedented step of raiding Trump's Florida compound with a court-issued search warrant.
The most complete summary was contained in a lengthy letter dated May 10 that acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall sent Trump's lawyers summarizing the White House's involvement.
"On April 11, 2022, the White House Counsel's Office — affirming a request from the Department of Justice supported by an FBI letterhead memorandum — formally transmitted a request that NARA provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes for its review within seven days, with the possibility that the FBI might request copies of specific documents following its review of the boxes," Wall wrote Trump defense attorney Evan Corcoran.
That letter revealed Biden empowered the National Archives and Records Administration to waive any claims to executive privilege that Trump might assert to block DOJ from gaining access to the documents.
"The Counsel to the President has informed me that, in light of the particular circumstances presented here, President Biden defers to my determination, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding whether or not I should uphold the former President's purported 'protective assertion of executive privilege,'" Wall wrote. "… I have therefore decided not to honor the former President's 'protective' claim of privilege."
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/biden-white-house-facilitated-dojs-criminal-probe-against-trump