FBI Seizes Handwritten Notes From Biden’s Time as VP From Rehoboth Beach House; Biden Spox Refuses to Answer Questions on Search

The FBI searched Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware home Wednesday morning for more classified documents.

According to Biden’s lawyer Bob Bauer, the Rehoboth Beach was searched earlier this month by private lawyers and no classified documents were discovered.

The FBI conducted a separate search on Wednesday from 8:30 am to noon and found no documents with classified markings.

The agents took handwritten notes that appear to be from Biden’s time as Vice President.

“The DOJ’s planned search of the President’s Rehoboth residences, conducted in coordination and cooperation with the President’s attorneys, has concluded. The search was conducted from 8:30 AM to noon. No documents with classified markings were found. Consistent with the process in Wilmington, the DOJ took for further review some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as Vice President,” Biden’s personal lawyer Bob Bauer said in a statement.

Biden’s spokesman Ian Sams on Wednesday refused to answer if the FBI searched any other locations for classified documents.

Ian Sams claimed Joe Biden has been transparent from the beginning even though it took leaks to the media for the American people to find out about the FBI searches.

CBS’s Ed O’Keefe asked Ian Sams why it took so long for the FBI to search Biden’s Rehoboth Beach house.

Recall, Joe Biden traveled to his Rehoboth Beach house a couple weekends ago where he huddled with several aides.

What was Joe Biden doing there? Was he rummaging through boxes looking for classified documents ahead of the FBI raid?

“Why did it take so long for the search of the Rehoboth Beach residence to occur, and who today from the WH, if anyone, was there?” the CBS reporter asked Ian Sams.

“That’s a good question, so we’ve been working directly with the Justice Department from the very beginning,” Ian Sams said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/fbi-seizes-handwritten-notes-bidens-time-vp-rehoboth-beach-house-biden-spox-refuses-answer-questions-search-video/

Philadelphia Eagles offensive guard indicted on rape, kidnapping charges days before Super Bowl

Sills was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Eagles in 2022.

Philadelphia Eagles offensive guard Matthew Sills was indicted on rape and kidnapping charges days before his team is scheduled to play in the Super Bowl, the Ohio Attorney General's office announced Wednesday.

Sills, 25, is accused of kidnapping and raping a girl in December 2019 in Guernsey County, Ohio, where his hometown of Byesville is located. A grand jury issued the indictment in the case, which is being prosecuted by the Attorney General's Office Special Prosecutions Section

"Sills engaged in sexual activity that was not consensual and held a victim against her will. The crime was immediately reported, and the Guernsey County Sheriff’s Office conducted a detailed investigation," Attorney General Dave Yost's office stated.

Sills is scheduled to appear Feb. 16 in Guernsey County Common Pleas Court.

He was signed last year by the Eagles as an undrafted free agent.

The Eagles are scheduled to appear in the Super Bowl on Feb. 12 against the Kansas City Chiefs.

https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/philadelphia-eagles-offensive-guard-indicted-rape-and-kidnapping-charges-days-super

Chinese Communist Party-linked companies are purchasing U.S. military academies, congressman warns

New York Military Academy, Trump's alma mater, has an Army JROTC program and an entire promotional webpage in Chinese.

Companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party are purchasing U.S. military academies with officer training programs across the country, warns Florida GOP Rep. Michael Waltz.

"It’s incredibly concerning that there are American private schools owned by companies with strong ties to the Chinese Communist Party," said Waltz, a member of the House Armed Services Committee and a Green Beret.

He sent a letter Tuesday demanding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin survey all JROTC programs at private schools to determine whether they are owned by a subsidiary of a foreign company.

"From Florida to New York, there is clear evidence that the ownership of these schools are linked to our greatest adversary and it’s ridiculous that we are developing potential future military leaders through JROTC programs where the CCP could be shaping school curriculum and activities," he said.

New York Military Academy, former President Donald Trump's alma mater, located a few miles north of West Point, has an Army JROTC program and an entire promotional webpage in Chinese.

It was purchased in 2015 by the Chinese-owned nonprofit Research Center on Natural Conservation Inc., which has a Zero-Star rating on CharityNavigator.org and is funded by Fang Holdings Ltd, Waltz also says.

Billionaire Mo Tianquan controls Fang Holdings and has been a delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference organized by the Chinese Communist Party.

Florida Preparatory Academy, in Melbourne, Fla., has an Air Force JROTC program and was purchased in 2017 by Newopen USA, a subsidiary of the Chongqing, China-based Newopen Group. The company's chairman Zhou Dengguang has met with the Secretary General of the CCP-sponsored Chinese Entrepreneurs Association, Waltz also said.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/chinese-communist-party-linked-companies-are-purchasing-us-military-academies

CDC Aware Of Reports Of 'Debilitating Illnesses' After COVID-19 Vaccination: Official

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials are aware of reports of long-lasting problems following COVID-19 vaccination, an official recently disclosed.

“With respect to reports of people experiencing debilitating illnesses, we are aware of these reports of people experiencing long-lasting health problems following COVID vaccination,” Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office, said on Jan. 26.

“In some cases, the clinical presentation of people suffering these health problems is variable and no specific medical cause for the symptoms have been found,” Shimabukuro added. “We understand that illness is disruptive and stressful, especially under those circumstances. And we acknowledge these health problems have substantially impacted the quality of life for people and have also affected those around them. And we hope for improvement and recovery, and we will continue to monitor the safety of these vaccines and work with partners to try to better understand these types of adverse events.”

Shimabukuro was speaking during a Jan. 26 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) meeting that discussed COVID-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness.

Dr. Hayley Gans, a pediatrics professor at Stanford University Medical Center, had asked how federal authorities were tracking problems that have cropped up after vaccination and might not be “amenable” to rapid cycle analysis, or one way of monitoring vaccine safety.

Shimabukuro noted that any person, including health care workers, can submit reports of adverse events to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which the CDC manages, “and we accept all those reports without judging the clinical seriousness or how plausible the adverse event may be with respect to causation.” Other systems also monitor safety beyond the rapid analysis, he added.

“We take vaccine safety very seriously,” Shimabukuro said.

Shimabukuro’s comments are unusual among federal officials, who have been reluctant to connect adverse events with the COVID-19 vaccines.

Brianne Dressen, who was injured by AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, said that the response was welcome but wondered whether it was enough.

“This was an unprecedented move but also was a carefully worded response. Instead of a little whisper in an FDA meeting, this really needs to be communicated to the medical community,” Dressen, co-founder of the support group React19, told The Epoch Times in an email. “They have said these very words to us privately so it’s good they are finally leaning in the right direction to start the conversation publicly, but is it too little too late?”

“Injured Americans have been begging these agencies for acknowledgement for over two years. This small utterance should have happened long ago. By now we should be openly discussing and researching these Covid vaccine reactions,” she added.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cdc-aware-reports-debilitating-illnesses-after-covid-19-vaccination-official

Analysis of the Australian Electoral Commission’s 2022 donations data dump has revealed ‘dark money’ comprised up to 40% of major political party revenue. Liberals were the worst offenders.

Dark Money reached a record-breaking $119 million in 2022, according to an analysis by the Australian Democracy Network of the AECs latest data dump.

Dark money is defined as money with no identifiable source which has flowed to a political party or campaigner.

Not all political parties claimed the same amount of dark money, with over half (55%) of the Liberal party’s $105 million having no identifiable source.

The Greens were second, with 46% of their $22 million having no source, followed by the Nationals at 37% of the $11.5 million they made in 2022.

Labor best on transparency

Labor had the lowest percentage of dark money at 27% of all the major parties, perhaps due to a large amount of union funding the party receives.

In the past two decades, over $2 billion in undeclared income has flowed to political parties.

The major players aren’t the only ones hiding their earnings, Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie had revealed no sources from her half million dollars in funding.

According to shareholder advocate and Crikey founder Stephen Mayne, “Jacqui Lambie is normally good on disclosure but the source of her 446k in receipts in 2021-22 remains completely dark. Not one name revealed.”

“This means she was only supported by donors who contributed less than $14,500” says Mayne. Although the other explanation might be that a large donor has split multiple donations beneath the disclosure threshold to conceal their payments. Such are the oft-criticised flaws of Australia’s political donations regime.

Additionally, Mayne found the Liberal National Party of Queensland’s disclosure to be lacking “There is no National Party in QLD so the LNP return is always an interesting read. Pathetic level of disclosure with $10m+ being dark in 2021-22 as they only detail $3.97m of the $14.4m they received. Pokies billionaire Bruce Mathieson gave 50k”.

Saffron Zomer, the Executive Director of Australian Democracy Network who conducted the analysis says that the amount of dark money flowing through the political system should be a concern for voters:

Dark money erodes public trust in our democracy, and it’s an easy problem to fix. The public deserves to know who bankrolls elections and political parties, and we call on the Government to improve political donation transparency before the next election.

CEO of Transparency International Clancy Moore said the overwhelming presence of dark money in political donations is one of the drivers of Australia’s poor score in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index – released yesterday.

Every year, the major parties line their pockets with millions of dollars in donations under the cover of darkness with no transparency as to the source of this ‘dark money’. This cabal of secrecy creates an uneven playing field and has a corrupting influence on our democracy.

https://michaelwest.com.au/dark-money-australian-donations-2022/

Billionaire Zelensky-Backer & Ex-Minister Among Ukrainian Officials Targeted In More Anti-Corruption Raids

In yet another case of curious timing, given it comes a day after the US Treasury issued a (dubious) statement saying US authorities have found no evidence of misuse of the billions in US aid funds flowing into Ukraine, Wednesday has witnessed more anti-corruption raids on a number of prominent government-linked figures.

Among the homes raided by Ukraine’s security agency, the SBU, included that of the former interior minister Arsen Avakov, as well as one of the the country's richest men with ties to Zelensky, Ihor Kolomoisky.

In Kolomoisky's case, state security services released photos of the Ukrainian billionaire's home being searched. The probe is reportedly related to massive embezzlement and fraud cases centering on Ukraine's two largest oil firms.

"In a statement that made no mention of the tycoon, the economic security bureau said it had exposed large-scale embezzlement schemes and tax evasion worth 40bn hyrivnia ($1bn; £880m) by the former management of Ukraine's two biggest oil firms, Ukranafta and Ukrtatnafta," BBC reports.

Kolomoisky had already long been under US sanctions over "significant corruption" allegations during his time as governor of the wider Dnipropetrovsk region in 2014.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/billionaire-zelensky-backer-ex-minister-among-ukrainian-officials-targeted-more-anti

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1620890314428014592

REPORTER: "[How many classified documents] have been found at the President's residences and offices?"

KJP: "I would refer you to the White House Counsel's Office."

REPORTER: "[They] just declined to comment on that."

KJP: "Well, there you go. You got your answer."

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1620877901813133312

White House Cuts Audio as Biden Stares Blankly, Ignores Reporters Shouting Questions About Classified Documents Scandal

Netanyahu offers himself as Russia-Ukraine mediator

The Israeli leader told CNN that he’s open to brokering a peace deal between Moscow and Kiev if asked to step in

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested that he might be willing to mediate peace negotiations to help resolve the Russia-Ukraine crisis – if US President Joe Biden’s administration doesn’t object.

“If asked by all relevant parties, I’ll certainly consider it, but I’m not pushing myself in,” Netanyahu said on Tuesday in a CNN interview. “I’ve been around long enough to know that there has to be a ripe time and the ripe circumstances. If they arise, I’ll certainly consider it.”

Netanyahu returned to power as Israeli leader in late December, starting his sixth term as prime minister after completing his latest political comeback. He told CNN host Jake Tapper that he was asked to serve as a mediator in the early stages of the Russia-Ukraine conflict last year, but he didn’t consider the offer because he wasn’t prime minister at the time. He declined to say who asked him to mediate between Kiev and Moscow.

https://www.rt.com/news/570823-netanyahu-offers-to-mediate-russia-ukraine/

Huge decline in abortions in Russia – minister

The number of procedures has more than halved over the past decade, according to the country’s health minister

Abortion numbers in Russia have fallen significantly over the past decade, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko has said. The official made the remarks on Wednesday during a meeting between government ministers and senators with Russia’s upper chamber, the Federation Council.

“Looking at the past decade, the [abortions] figure has more than halved,” Murashko stated.

The minister explained that the reduction in numbers was driven by pre-abortion counseling services. Last year, more than 44,000 women in Russia gave up the idea of having the procedure after receiving psychological and social help, Murashko noted. According to Russia’s most recent demographic doctrine, adopted back in 2021, the authorities are aiming to provide counseling to at least 80% of women who are considering abortions.

The head of Russia’s Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, praised the progress which has been made. “Of course, we need to move forward in this regard. First of all, to provide medical and psychological assistance to women, which, of course, contributes to a significant reduction in abortions,” said the official.

Matvienko also credited the efforts of private humanitarian organizations, as well as the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in contributing to the downward abortion trend.

“Perhaps no less important is the fact that the standpoint of society itself has changed: more and more citizens are believing that abortion is unacceptable,” she noted.

https://www.rt.com/russia/570824-abortions-decline-health-minister/

https://www.rt.com/russia/570824-abortions-decline-health-minister/