Famous Hoaxes

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I believe the assertion—that Biden got 81 million votes—is the BIGGEST HOAX ever perpetrated on the American people.  Sadly, it’s not the first, nor will it be the last hoax the public will fall for.  Throughout history, we’ve had some doozies!

The War of the Worlds

Orson Welles didn’t mean to mastermind one of the greatest hoaxes in history. Mass hysteria was simply a byproduct of a high-quality radio play in an era where world war loomed, the space race was in its early stages, and most people got news and entertainment from their receivers. According to History.com, the October 30, 1938, broadcast began at 8 p.m. with an introduction presenting the Mercury Theater’s update of H.G. Wells’ science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, but unfortunately, many people were listening to a popular ventriloquist on another station until 8:12 and therefore missed the disclaimer. Welles take on Wells’ Martian invasion tale started with a weather report and a concert live from the Hotel Park Plaza before news alerts about explosions on Mars, a meteor crashing into a New Jersey farm, and eventually aliens with tentacles, heat rays, and poisonous gas broke in. Terrified announcers were then saying cylinders had landed in Chicago and St. Louis, 7,000 National Guardsmen had been wiped out, and that people were fleeing.

Only the panic part turned out to be real as potentially a million listeners thought Earth was under attack. People crowded the highways, armed themselves, begged police for gas masks, requested their power be shut off so the aliens wouldn’t see them, and were treated for shock at hospitals. A woman ran into an Indianapolis church during evening service to proclaim, “New York has been destroyed. It’s the end of the world. Prepare to die!” When CBS got wind of hysteria IRL, Welles went on the air as himself to remind listeners that it was fiction. The FCC investigation found no wrongdoing but networks agreed to be more cautious regarding programming going forward. The attention scored Welles a Hollywood contract, which enabled him to write, direct, and star in his 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane.

The Shed at Dulwich

For just six short months in 2017, The Shed at Dulwich, where patrons ordered entrees by mood, became the highest-ranked restaurant in London on TripAdvisor and the hardest reservation in town to get. Calls and emails poured in begging to be squeezed in for birthday dinners, romantic dates, and media coverage. All were ignored or told to call back as they were booked solid for more than half a year. Except that was a lie. The reason they couldn’t score a table was actually because the business was bogus. It was an experiment in algorithm manipulation and buzz creation by freelance writer Oobah Butler, who had been paid in the past by owners to review their restaurants positively without ever stepping foot inside on the site. To turn the South London garden shed he resides in into a fake fine dining experience, he bought a burner phone and a domain, created a website with soft-focus pictures of delicious-looking dishes made with ingredients you wouldn’t want to eat (paint, bleach tablets, shaving cream, the heel of his foot), and drummed up interest by providing minimum details, making it an appointment-only establishment, lying about it being full, and soliciting friends to write glowing reviews. According to The Washington Post, people contacted him looking for work and companies sent him free samples of their food products. He opened The Shed for one night and served canned soup—and some diners still asked to come again. Butler outed himself in an article and video for Vice a month after hitting the top spot and TripAdvisor removed the listing. 

The Cardiff Giant

This gentle giant remains one of 19th-century America’s most legendary hoaxes. Gideon Emmons and Henry Nichols unearthed a ten-foot petrified “man” on October 16, 1869, while digging a well on the New York farm owned by William Newell. Word spread about the discovery and Newell put up a tent and started charging a quarter (and then 50¢ as business boomed) to take a peek at the ground Goliath. Hundreds of curious onlookers and amateur archaeologists made the pilgrimage, many believing it was an ancestor of the Onondaga people and some claiming it was proof of the giants mentioned in The Bible—even after most professionals like Yale paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh said it a fake. The “mummy” was eventually sold to a group of businessmen who sent him on tour. Greatest showman PT Barnum offered to buy it for $50,000, and when they declined to sell, he made a plaster knockoff and arranged for it to be shown in a New York City museum. By December, Binghamton cigar salesman George Hull admitted this was a stone-cold swindle. He’d commissioned a German stone cutter in Chicago to carve it out of a block of gypsum he’d bought in Iowa before he and his cousin Newell buried the 2,990-pound statue. While it was a get-rich-quick scheme, Hull, an atheist, was also trying to prove a point about what he considered silly religious stories and how science could disprove most of them. Even after the hoax was revealed, the Cardiff Giant still made appearances and money. According to Archaeology.org, he showed up at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo and was sold in 1947 to the Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, where he’s on display today.

Michael Jordan is dead

In February 2015, an article published on the Cronica MX website said that former Chicago Bull Michael Jordan had gone to that big basketball court in the sky after suffering a heart attack while he slept. It even quoted his wife, Yvette Prieto. They also posted a video clip designed to resemble a breaking news segment on YouTube with footage of a tearful ESPN reporter Rich Eisen saying goodbye. According to Snopes.com, the footage was real but recycled from a NFL Game Day episode from a month earlier when Eisen had learned that his longtime co-worker and friend Stuart Scott had lost his battle with cancer. It recirculates every once in a while, always trying to lure fans to click through to a spammy site or to provide their personal information. The same story was used again in 2017, this time by a site called Viral Mugshot, according to Inquisitr.com. Despite it containing the same spelling and grammar errors, it went viral on social media until debunking sites and news agencies reported it as fake news. And Jordan isn’t the only celebrity targeted by pranksters and hackers. If you believed everything you read on stars’ sites, fake Twitter accounts, or items reported by newspapers erroneously, many of your favorites would have been gone long before their time, including: former President Barack Obama (assassinated while campaigning in an Iowa restaurant), Will Ferrell (died in a 2006 paragliding accident), Nick Jonas (heart attack after a lap dance in a Dallas strip club), Justin Bieber (suicide twice, nightclub shooting, and an overdose), and, of course, Mikey from the Life cereal commercials (a deadly combo of Pop Rocks and soda made his stomach explode).  

 Piltdown Man

Since Charles Darwin released his evolution theories in 1859, scientists have been on the lookout for proof of the missing link—a phase between full ape and full man—and in 1912, Englishman Charles Dawson announced he’d found it in a gravel pit in Piltdown. He used the fossils to build a skull model with a human-sized brain and an ape-like jaw and England declared itself the real birthplace of modern humanity. But other scientists immediately took issue, mostly because it didn’t match other fossils found around the world including the Australopithecines one dug up in South Africa. In 1915, Dawson doubled down and claimed he retrieved a second similar fossil, which was enough evidence for many average Joes. The hoax was not revealed until 1953 when British scientists used new technology to date the Piltdown pair. They deduced that the remains were only 500 years old, not the 1 million years old needed to be the link. They also took a bite out of his claim by discovering that the jaw was from an orangutan whose teeth had been filed to resemble human wear patterns and that the bones had been stained to match each other. Most people involved were dead by the 1950s so the prank plotter was never identified. One whodunit theory, according to the BBC: The doer was none other than Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He lived near the pit and was a member of Dawson’s archaeological society. The motive was revenge for being constantly mocked by scientists for his belief in spiritualism.

The Cock Lane Ghost

Even royals can fall prey to paranormal pranks, according to The Daily Mail. In 1762, Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, visited a home on Cock Lane in London that was said to be haunted by Scratching Fanny, a woman who had died of smallpox in the rented house after her loan shark lover William Kent had lent their landlord money with a high interest rate. Kent took the landlord Richard Parsons to court over the loan and won. Strange noises that sounded like a cat scratching a chair were reported at the property around this time, and Parsons and his daughter Elizabeth, who the noises actually emanated from, claimed the ghost was Fanny. To prove it, they held séances regularly, which were written up in the newspaper and drew religious leaders, the prince, the mayor, and so many other onlookers that the street became impassable. At the time, people widely believed that a person would return from the great beyond to warn the living or seek revenge, so they quickly accepted that it was Fanny communicating via a system of knocks that Parsons and a preacher developed. During one such communing, the “ghost” accused Kent of poisoning her and requested he be hanged. To clear his name, Kent and two doctors who had tended to Fanny on her deathbed attended a séance, and again Fanny declared he was her killer. But during a later gathering, Dr. Samuel Johnson witnessed Elizabeth creeping from the bed where she was during encounters to pick up a piece of wood that she used to knock. She’d usually hidden the branch in her clothes. Parsons was trying to frame Kent after losing the case, but it was he who ended up behind bars for two years. (His wife also got a year in prison.)

The Hurricane Harvey freeway shark

Between social media sites and the 24-hour news cycle, it is impossible not to be bombarded with insane photos of daring rescues and heartbreaking destruction following any natural disaster these days. Hurricane Harvey hitting Houston in 2017 was no exception, with one image in particular proving you can’t always believe what you see. Twitter user @Jeggit posted a startling shot of a shark swimming in the floodwater that filled a Houston highway. It appeared to have been taken from the driver’s seat of a stalled car. It was retweeted almost 84,000 times and liked by 141,733 users fairly quickly. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Fox News host Jesse Watters was also fooled by the photo, even mentioning it during his show The Five. He later apologized for the mix-up on his Twitter account once Politifact tracked the doctored photo back to 2011. It appears to have first been circulated after Hurricane Irene struck Puerto Rico and posted on imgur.com. In 2012, social media users posted it saying it was taken in New Jersey during Sandy. It is believed that whoever created this fishy photo took the shark from an image that ran in Africa Geographic in 2005.

Hitler’s fake diaries

In 1979, Der Stern Magazine reporter Gerd Heidemann met with Nazi memorabilia collector Fritz Stiefel, who claimed to have a diary penned by Adolf Hitler. Stiefel said it’d been recovered from a 1945 crash of a plane transporting Hitler’s personal effects. (Records indicated the crash was real and that a chest was also recovered likely containing other journals.) After a couple of handwriting experts authenticated the script, more volumes turned up through Konrad Fischer, who’d procured them from an East German General who was planning to smuggle them out of Germany in pianos, according to the UnMuseum.org. Heidemann convinced his outlet to pony up 9.9 million marks (almost $4 million) for 60 diaries. The magazine knew it could make their money back and then some from reprints. In April 1983, Stern broke the story and then Newsweek and London’s Sunday Times ran excerpts.

Historians immediately balked, as Hitler loathed writing and there had been no indication from those close to him that he’d kept notes. Also, the content sparked skepticism as they portrayed Hitler as having little knowledge of concentration camps and wanting to deport, not exterminate, Jews. After many experts questioned the handwriting, the West German Federal Archives ran more tests. They concluded that the paper, ink, and glue were manufactured after the war had ended and Hitler had died. Heidemann, who always maintained he wasn’t in on it but had inflated the asking price and skimmed money off the top, was fired. Fischer turned out to be Konrad Kujau, a criminal specializing in forgery. He faked memorabilia first and worked his way up to whole documents and paintings. (In fact, a quarter of the works that were featured in the 1983 book Adolf Hitler: The Unknown Artist were done by Kujau.) Both Kujau and Heidemann were sentenced to almost five years in prison. Most of the money was never retrieved. While Heidemann was a pariah after serving, The Guardian reports that Kujau made regular appearances on talk shows and became a minor celebrity.

Balloon Boy

On October 15, 2009, the nation could not take its eyes off the non-stop news coverage of a homemade silver helium-filled balloon that looked like a UFO floating around the Colorado skies. After releasing it from Fort Collins, Richard and Mayumi Heene called 911 to report that their six-year-old son Falcon was trapped aboard. National Guard helicopters and local police followed the blimp, which topped out at 7,000 feet, for 90 minutes and 50 miles until it landed 15 miles from the Denver airport. Falcon was not inside, but as some had seen something fall from the balloon, a land search ensued. That too turned up nothing. Several hours later he came out from hiding in the attic at home. When interviewed on air by Wolf Blitzer, the kid slipped and said his father had told him they were doing it to get a reality show. The first responders didn’t like their time or money wasted and the Heenes were arrested for the hoax. According to CNN, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department tallied the cost to be at least $47,000. In addition, the FAA imposed an $11,000 fine because airport traffic was delayed because the balloon had flown and landed close to it. The case’s judge decided it was “clearly a planned event done for the purpose of making money” and that it was “exploitation of the children, exploitation of the media, exploitation of the emotions of the people.” Both parents were sentenced to jail, four years probation, and more than 100 hours of community service and agreed to pay restitution of $36,016. On the five-year anniversary, USA Today found the family living in Florida and the sons had started a heavy metal band. One of their CDs has a song called “Balloon Boy No Hoax.”

Russian royal or insane Polish factory worker?

The 1918 grisly basement execution of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children aged 13 to 22 in the dead of night by bullet and bayonets by Bolshevik revolutionaries is hardly the stuff of fairy tales. Which is likely why so many people wanted to desperately believe the rumors that the youngest daughter, Anastasia Romanov, had escaped. The mystery and hope were fueled by the fact that no bodies had been found. Women popped up all over the world claiming to be her, the most believable of which was Anna Anderson, according to Refinery29. She had tried to kill herself by jumping off a Berlin bridge two years later and landed in an asylum for two years. She was the right age, had scars on her body, and a Russian accent. Some relatives and former Romanov friends and servants confirmed her identity while others denounced it. The murders had become common knowledge and Soviet counterintelligence did nothing to quell survival rumors. Her tale inspired multiple books, tabloid fodder, an Ingrid Bergman classic, an animated film, a stage musical, and an Amazon Prime TV series.

After leaving the hospital, Anderson bounced around Europe, staying with distant relatives and wealthy supporters, but she was usually uncooperative, even malicious, when people tried to prove or disprove her identity. She also knew things the late royal would have known, which is how the son of a doctor who was killed with the family became her most ardent defender. Together they hired an attorney to try to get legal recognition of her title and access to the Tsar’s estate. The case lasted 32 years, the longest in German history, and ended without any conclusions. During the investigation, her detractors posited that she was Franziska Schanzkowska, a Polish worker who disappeared after being declared insane after being injured in a factory explosion shortly before the incident at the bridge. Anderson died in 1984. Seven years later, five skeletons were found in a forest near the town where the family was executed and DNA testing identified them as Romanovs. With two bodies still missing, people argued she had been telling the truth all along. But that did not last long, as they tested their DNA against an intestinal sample from a prior Anderson surgery. No match. In 2007, the final two bodies were found at a different gravesite.

Source: https://www.rd.com/list/famous-hoaxes-almost-fooled/

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  1. Morning All!
    we’re sitting at 10* currently…brrrrr
    but I saw the stars as I came into the great room (through the skylights), so hopefully we’ll get to see some sunshine today!

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    1. Loved this open! I remember the balloon boy story – I followed that one. 32 here this morning and very humid – it looks like we did get some freezing rain during the night – there is a layer on top of the snow.

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  9. Seneca Scott’s assessment of the MLK statue:
    By now, I’m sure you’ve seen it. The new Boston sculpture “honoring” Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, looks more like a pair of hands hugging a beefy penis than a special moment shared by the iconic couple. Created by the organization Embrace Boston, the sculpture has inspired mad jokes on Twitter, and rightly so. But for my family, it’s rather insulting. You see, Coretta was my first cousin, my grandfather’s niece, and the daughter of my great uncle Obediah Scott.

    Martin married up. Coretta came from a distinguished family, with a significant legacy in her own right. There is a reason she kept the Scott name. We were a black family that owned land, lots of it. Martin knew what he was doing when he pursued her, signaling intentions to marry from the outset. After his assassination, Coretta created a legacy of her own, fighting for health-care workers and against Apartheid in South Africa.

    Ten million dollars were wasted to create a masturbatory metal homage to my legendary family members—one of the all-time greatest American families. Still, the Boston debacle could be a blessing in disguise, by exposing the insidiousness of astroturfed woke movements that have come to dominate black America: How could anyone fail to see that this was a major dick move (pun intended) that brings very few, if any, tangible benefits to struggling black families?

    “Consider this our Declaration of Interdependence,” declares the Embrace Boston website. What does that even mean? Black families in America who need help don’t care for more woke slogans. They need jobs that pay the bills and keep up with food and energy costs that are rising faster than ever before for most of us. Building expensive, stupid new statues with no faces on them—and tearing down others for no good reason—are part of the same performative altruism and purity pageants that are mainstays of the woke left.

    So now Boston has a big bronze penis statue that’s supposed to represent black love at its purest and most devotional. This is no accident. The woke algorithm is racist and classist. Therefore, its programming will always produce things that harm black and poor people. This sculpture is an especially egregious example of the woke machine’s callousness and vanity. Hopefully, it will show more black people that these progressives just aren’t in this for our benefit.

    https://compactmag.com/article/a-masturbatory-homage-to-my-family

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  10. hmmmm…I’m having a me too moment with this…

    Rach
    January 16, 2023 6:19 am

    So, according to the internet people…

    Soros can’t attend the opening of the WEF conference at Davos due to a scheduling conflict. And Schwab can’t attend due to a health issue.

    I am suspicious. But I don’t know what to expect…
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    Krypton123
    Krypton123
    January 16, 2023 6:36 am
    Reply to Rach

    That is suspicious

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    1. Whoa! That is suspicious! Soros not attending due to a “scheduling conflict?” Oh, hell, no – no way on this earth would a minor scheduling conflict keep him away. Maybe ole Klaus got something stuck up his keister and he can’t get it out!

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  14. Ironic isn’t it?
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    “A “brewery in Texas canceled an event featuring Rittenhouse because the venue claimed the event doesn’t reflect its values. Southern Star Brewing Company in Conroe, Texas, canceled the “Rally Against Censorship” featuring Rittenhouse on January 26.

    The brewery said: “Southern star brewery is an apolitical organization. But we feel that this event doesn’t reflect our own values and we could not in good faith continue to rent our space for the event on 1/26.”

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  16. LOL

    SunnyFlower5
    SunnyFlower5
    January 16, 2023 8:19 am

    How many homes in Joe Biden’s home town in Delaware rent for $50,000.00 A MONTH???
    I’ll go out on a limb and say the answer is ZERO!
    Definitely not a kick back, the 10% for the big guy, or another form of fraud folks. I’m sure it’s as legit as all of Hunter’s other dealings!

    https://truthsocial.com/users/DonaldJTrumpJr/statuses/109696439703940423

    That’s the most expensive home I could find for rent currently on Compass in Wilmington. $4500 a month. You’re telling me that “humble public servant” Joe’s house is worth 11 times more than this and it’s not a scam??? C’mon
    man! compass

    https://truthsocial.com/users/DonaldJTrumpJr/statuses/109696519020624075
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    SunnyFlower5
    January 16, 2023 8:21 am
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    As a Real Estate guy I am truly amazed that I missed the arbitrage opportunity in Delaware real estate where annual rental income could almost equal the entire value of the property. If this is consistent folks every should be buying. It’s almost like it’s too good to be true?

    https://truthsocial.com/users/DonaldJTrumpJr/statuses/109696698869822346

    The next question a so called ‘journalist’ should ask Joe Biden should be: ‘Have you ever collected rent from your son Hunter and if so how much did you collect?’ Of course, none of the media will actually ask this question which proves they are not in fact journalists.

    https://truthsocial.com/users/DonaldJTrumpJr/statuses/109698846125919283

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    1. I would like to add a caveat to that. Amongst the “rich and famous,” generally, this level of property is not put on public rental sites. These “arrangements” are made behind the scenes, privately.

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        1. I have no idea what the house is like…..what is the retail value? How many square feet? Bedrooms? Land? etc., etc., etc. Above all else – who OWNS that property? That’s the critical question, IMO. Whose name is on the deed?

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          1. that’s the $64,000 question…hunter claimed he did on some form…
            then later claimed he paid his Dad rent…
            the whole family are pathological liars

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  17. clarion
    clarion
    January 16, 2023 8:35 am

    Maybe we need to demand to see the Biden’s taxes, to straighten this all out.

    Oh Joe…. JOE!
    You know that rather-outsized rent payment Hunter was making for your house? Yeah, the $600,000? Uh, THAT IS TAXABLE INCOME so….. was this in your taxes you allegedly released? Or…. did Hunter lie (another possible crime) or did YOU dodge taxes? @POTUS

    — Unvexxed. I’m your Huckleberry 😋 (@tickerguy) January 16, 2023

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  21. “Epic fail: Kirsch vs. the “debunkers” on the CDC data hiding accusations — The CDC never told the American people about all the safety signals triggered in VAERS. Yet the “misinformation debunkers” all refuse to call the CDC out for concealing the safety data. Is that OK?”

    Steve Kirsch
    8 hr ago

    EXCERPT: “Executive summary — I sent an email asking the leading anti-vax debunkers to join me in calling out the corruption at the CDC for not disclosing any of the safety signals that triggered in VAERS. “Are you going to speak out or remain silent?” Instead of criticizing the CDC (which would have been the right thing to do), they tried to debunk my article. This led to an epic fail in plain sight that can easily be verified by anyone.

    So if you had any doubts about whether these people are champions of truth and science (like they claim to be), this article will make it crystal clear: all of these people are about supporting the government narrative and trying to discredit anyone who challenges the narrative. They are NOT about exposing the truth.

    I will examine each one of their responses below so you can see just how deceitful these people are. All the evidence you need to determine who is telling you the truth is hiding in plain sight and it’s all from the CDC itself!
    ————–
    Summary:

    1. The CDC is always supposed to notify the public when a safety signal is triggered. They completely failed to do so when it triggered in VAERS for stroke and for death and for hundreds of other signals. Yet they did notify us for stroke in VSD; even though they found nothing, they reported the signal. Why didn’t they do the same for the VAERS signals? They knew the signals triggered and said nothing.

    2. They lied to the American people. They said “Neither Pfizer and BioNTech nor the CDC or FDA have observed similar findings across numerous other monitoring systems in the U.S.” That’s an outright lie since stroke triggered in VAERS, not just in VSD. It triggered for COVID19 vaccines and they never did a separate signal detection on the bivalent booster (it was all lumped together). At a minimum, they should have said they never broke out the booster in the signal calculations, but that the signal did trigger for ischemic stroke in VAERS for the COVID vaccines.

    3. The debunkers give us no answers to either of these points. They don’t even seem to realize how corrupt the CDC is. They seem to have no problem with the CDC hiding the safety signals in VAERS.

    My rating: Epic fail to debunk any of the key points in my article.”

    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/epic-fail-kirsch-vs-the-debunkers

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  26. bflyjesusgrl 🍊 😎MEGA MAGA GAME ON😎
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    Coyote
    January 16, 2023 10:46

    Bannon’s finally catching up to us. MAL raid was done in advance as part of cover up to soften blow on Creepy scandal. Dirty up Trump was a side bonus. The assistant WH Counsel, Dana Remus, announced leaving in July, went to Covington and Burling in Oct, then hired by Creepy Joe. SHE is the one who found the classified docs at the Penn Center in Nov (supposedly). At $2500/hr, WHAT WAS SHE DOING ROOTING AROUND IN CREEPY’S FILES????

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  27. “The Biden Docs and WEF Plan for World Domination/Destruction”

    Tom Renz
    38 min ago

    EXCERPT: “The 2020 election was one of the most contentious (and fraudulent) in American history. Trump and Biden were battling hard and Trump successfully found and shared immense amounts of, what turned out to be accurate information, about everything from Hunter’s laptop from hell, to the Russia collusion hoax, to every other sort of malfeasance imaginable. The media and their WEF handlers have spent nearly 3 years successfully covering up the greatest fraud in world history, COVID & the “vaccines”, but we are now to believe that the documents Biden stole years ago, while he was VP, are only now being discovered? Worse, that the same people that covered up COVID death-jabs couldn’t do a better job covering up these old documents?

    Call me a conspiracy theorist, but big tech and the mainstream press hid and continue to hide everything on the deathjabs, CBDC, the food crisis, the energy crisis, and the 9 trillion other Biden crimes but a quick Google search provides dozens of stories about this? The NY Post has provided a write-up on this that can be found here and is easy to find on a Google search? The fact that you can find ANYTHING on this in a Google search is evidence enough that there is more going on behind the scenes than we know.

    Something about this stinks. I just cannot believe that this is a legitimate find by BIDEN’S PERSONAL lawyers, possibly working for Biden, that ended up being disclosed and reported on. Lawyers representing a President don’t find something like this and suddenly put it out where it blows up in the press like this. Legal duties to disclose aside, these guys would have done everything possible to do what they had a legal or ethical duty to do while providing the most cover possible for Biden.

    While I do not see evidence either way pointing to Biden being aware of what is happening (anywhere) it certainly seems possible that the WEF/CCP people running the Whitehouse have decided Biden will need to go. Ultimately I do not know what the game is here but I don’t believe this is a natural thing and do believe the patriots and non-RINO GOP should be careful.”

    https://tomrenz.substack.com/p/the-biden-docs-and-wef-plan-for-world

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  34. this is an interesting strategy…LOL

    trapper
    January 16, 2023 11:07 am

    Republicans should be shouting “DECLASSIFY” from the rooftops and at every press conference and TV interview.

    The democrats are highly intelligent and tricky, but they are still dumb, lacking common sense.  The reason their elaborate Wiley Coyote plans seldom work is because they are too cute by half and there always seems to be a glaring flaw that they are blind to.

    In this episode of Democrat Plans Gone Sideways, Trump as President had the power to declassify anything he wanted to at the time he took it home, and did, but Biden as VP did not have that power when HE took documents home. However, Biden IS President now, and he can declassify anything he wants to, current or past. Kennedy assassination documents, 9/11 records, the U Penn Biden Center documents, and the box of whatnot from the trunk of the Corvette, Biden can declassify it all, right now, this morning. 

    If Biden’s VP documents are just innocuous stuff for a future autobiography, declassify it and let’s see it. But of course he won’t. We should then demand “why not?” We know why not.

    DECLASSIFY

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  39. CA proposes $5 MILLION per eligible black person and TOTAL debt relief as “reparations”…
    FTA
    San Francisco’s reparations committee has proposed paying each Black longtime resident $5 million and granting total debt forgiveness due to the decades of “systematic repression” faced by the local Black community.

    The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which advises the city on developing a plan for reparations for Black residents, released its draft report last month to address reparations – not for slavery, since California was not technically a slave state, but “to address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.”

    “While neither San Francisco, nor California, formally adopted the institution of chattel slavery, the tenets of segregation, white supremacy and systematic repression and exclusion of Black people were codified through legal and extralegal actions, social codes, and judicial enforcement,” the draft states.

    The draft plan includes a long list of financial recommendations for Black San Francisco residents, including a one-time, lump sum payment of $5 million to each eligible individual.

    “A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population for the decades of harms that they have experienced, and will redress the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by City policy,” the draft states.

    To be eligible for the program, the applicant must be 18 years old and have identified as Black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years. They must also prove at least two of eight additional criteria, choosing from a list that includes, “Born in San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 and has proof of residency in San Francisco for at least 13 years,” and/or, “Personally, or the direct descendant of someone, incarcerated by the failed War on Drugs.”

    The plan also calls on the city to supplement lower-income recipients’ income to reflect the Area Median Income (AMI), about $97,000, annually for at least 250 years. 

    “Racial disparities across all metrics have led to a significant racial wealth gap in the City of San Francisco,” it argues. “By elevating income to match AMI, Black people can better afford housing and achieve a better quality of life.”

    The plan also seeks to establish “a comprehensive debt forgiveness program” that clears each eligible person’s student and housing loans, credit card debt, etc.

    “Black households are more likely to hold costlier, riskier debt, and are more likely to have outstanding student loan debt,” the draft explains. “When this is combined with lower household incomes, it can create an inescapable cycle of debt. Eliminating this debt gives Black households an opportunity to build wealth.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-frans-reparations-committee-proposes-5-million-each-longtime-black-resident-total-debt-forgiveness

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  40. From that thread:

    “COVID-19 DRUGMAKERS PRESSURED TWITTER TO CENSOR ACTIVISTS PUSHING FOR GENERIC VACCINE — The social media pressure campaign was just a part of the pharmaceutical industry’s successful lobbying blitz to retain patents — and make record profits.”
    Lee Fang
    January 16 2023, 9:30 a.m.
    EXCERPT: “IN MID-DECEMBER 2020, Nina Morschhaeuser, a lobbyist for Twitter in Europe, emailed colleagues with a dire warning. The drugmaker BioNTech, along with the German government, had contacted her with news of an imminent “campaign targeting the pharmaceutical companies developing the COVID-19 vaccine,” she wrote.

    “The authorities are warning about ‘serious consequences’ of the action, i.e. posts and a flood of comments ‘that may violate TOS’ as well as the ‘takeover of user accounts’ are to be expected,” wrote Morschhaeuser. “Especially the personal accounts of the management of the vaccine manufacturers are said to be targeted. Accordingly, fake accounts could also be set up.”

    The campaign they were concerned about was the launch of an international push to force the drug industry to share the intellectual property and patents associated with coronavirus vaccine development. Making the patents available, in turn, would allow countries across the world to swiftly manufacture generic vaccines and other low-cost therapeutics to deal with the ongoing pandemic.

    Morschhaeuser, while alerting several site integrity and safety teams at Twitter, forwarded on an email from BioNTech spokesperson Jasmina Alatovic, who asked Twitter to “hide” activist tweets targeting her company’s account over a period of two days.

    Morschhaeuser flagged the corporate accounts of Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, and AstraZeneca for her colleagues to monitor and shield from activists. Morschhaeuser also asked colleagues to monitor the hashtags #PeoplesVaccine and #JoinCTAP, a reference to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Technology Access Pool, a program promoted by developing countries to accelerate the development of vaccines through the equitable sharing of research and manufacturing capacity. She noted that the group Global Justice Now was spearheading the action with an online sign-up form.”

    https://theintercept.com/2023/01/16/twitter-covid-vaccine-pharma/

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  41. “Damaged Immune Systems, Pandemic of the Vaxed: “These Shots Have Clearly Made Things Worse” — “This is the greatest public health disaster in the history of the world.”

    The Vigilant Fox
    14 min ago (Originally Published on DailyClout)

    EXCERPT: “We’ve been told, since the outset of COVID-19, that the way out of this is vaccination. U.S. President Joe Biden told us, “You’re not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” but when it became obvious that the vaccinated were also getting infected, the excuse shifted to “How long has it been since your latest booster shot?” Apologetic excuse after apologetic excuse later, the data is out — and now it’s clear — “The vaccinations have made it worse,” declared Dr. Charles Hoffe.

    Dr. Charles Hoffe is a doctor physician in Lytton, BC, Canada — and has worked as a rural family physician and emergency room physician for more than 30 years. After witnessing severe COVID-19 vaccine injuries in his own practice, he quickly became an outspoken critic of the experimental injections.

    And, it seems, a critic for good reason, as the results of the Cleveland Clinic study upended the whole premise of getting vaccinated — that is — reducing your chance of getting COVID-19. On the Y axis is the cumulative incidence of COVID-19 vaccination, and on the X axis is the number of days since the study start date. The black line is 0 doses (unvaccinated), the red line is one dose, the green line is two doses (fully vaccinated), the blue line is three doses, and the orange-yellow line is greater than three doses.”

    https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/damaged-immune-systems-pandemic-of

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  43. clarion
    January 16, 2023 12:57 pm

    Rep Mike Gallagher has become the second GOP member of the WEF delegation to pull out of Davos, following The Dossier’s reporting. Both he and Sen James Risch withdrew after receiving blowback.

    Neither Gallagher nor Risch have opened up about why they’re suddenly no longer attending, after accepting invites to go to Davos and speak there.

    Good for them for changing course, but we also deserve an explanation.

    — Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) January 16, 2023

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  44. Some beautiful birds…

    The Secretary bird

    The secretary bird is an iconic African bird that’s found in the grasslands, savannas, and even shrublands in sub-Saharan Africa. They are large birds that impress with their size, and stand out from the crowd with their incredible resilience and focus. They are easily recognized by their extremely long legs and crown of thin black feathers at the back of their head, which stand up like a halo.

    Long-Tailed Tit

    Adorable, active little bird with a minute stubby bill. Distinctive: tiny and fluffy with attractive pinkish, black, and white plumage and very long tail. Some plumage variation across range; adults in northern parts of range have white head without broad black eyebrows and whiter underparts, while those further south are darker. Juveniles (seen in summer–early autumn) have brown head sides; become like adult by winter. Often travels in groups, at times joining with flocks of other tits and small woodland birds. High-pitched, fussy calls add to restless demeanor. Inhabits wooded and forested habitats, parks, gardens, and hedges in farmland; sometimes visits bird feeders.

    Malaysian Large Frogmouth and baby

    Sizeable nightbird with deep black eyes and wispy pale whiskers above its eyes that give it the appearance of a distinguished professor. Warm, pale, brown overall with bright white spots on the wings. Despite its size, this lowland rainforest giant can be cryptic and difficult to find; roosts under cover by day and hunts from a perch by night. Favors undisturbed primary forest, but also occasionally in disturbed areas. Song is a mellow rolling tremolo; calls include barks and screeches.

    The Harpy Eagle

    The harpy eagle is a neotropical species of eagle and is also called the American harpy eagle to distinguish it from the Papuan eagle. It is the largest and most powerful raptor found throughout its range, and among the largest extant species of eagles in the world. It usually inhabits tropical lowland rainforests in the upper (emergent) canopy layer. In Brazil, the harpy eagle is also known as royal-hawk.

    Dracula Parrot

    Pesquet’s parrot is a large parrot with a total length of approximately 18 in and a weight of 24–28 oz. Its plumage is black, with greyish scaling to the chest, and a red belly, upper tail coverts and wing-panels. The adult male has a red spot behind the eye, which is not seen in the adult female. Compared to most other parrots it appears unusually small-headed, in part due to the bare black facial skin and the relatively long, hooked bill. This rather vulture-like profile is the reason behind its alternative common name.

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  47. hmmmmmmmm

    clarion
    January 16, 2023 2:45 pm

    The Biden Scam Unravels

    Karl Denninger

    So let’s see the records on those two S-Corps that the Bidens declared and paid taxes on during that year.  Is the rental income from Hunter in there, and if so, how does the S-Corp, which I remind as a corporation must keep formal books of account and not lie in any material respect account for income from an asset it does not own?

    If the rental income isn’t in those two S-Corps then either it never existed or Joe and Jill ripped off the government and committed tax fraud on the $600,000 paid by Hunter to Joe that is not declared anywhere in their state or federal tax returns.

    In any event someone is hiding something in there. Whether this is more confabulation of a drug-addled Hunter or was disclosure of “10% for the big guy” kicked back to his father under the table and either improperly buried in an S-Corp “profit” that never owned the asset in question and thus can’t do that or Joe and Jill got $600,000 worth of undeclared income and didn’t pay taxes on it is now the question that demands an answer. After all tax cheating in that sort of size is serious business, felony-level serious, and is one of the few plausible explanations for what those documents disclose.

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247876

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  48. long, but relevant article about the “lazy American” lie
    entire article
    Throughout history, power-seeking charlatans have relied heavily upon negative archetypes as a way to demonize anyone blocking their path to ascendancy. Those seeking to flood this country with foreign nationals as a way to acquire political and financial influence today are no different. They have clearly identified their enemy in this quest, and it is the American citizen.

    Reasonable people often wonder why the United States, a nation of more than 300 million people with a tradition of upward mobility, needs to import so many foreigners to fill a limited number of jobs. Without hesitation, the answer from the anti-borders movement is always that foreign nationals are needed because they will “do jobs that Americans just won’t do.”

    This promotion of the “lazy American” stereotype is not only insulting to American citizens, but also reveals what the elites fighting immigration enforcement really think of those they want to bring here.

    In September of last year, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was holding court for the media and said, “We have a shortage of workers in our country, and you see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying, ‘Why are you shipping these immigrants up north? We need them to pick the crops down here.’”

    Wait, haven’t we been told endlessly by people like Pelosi that foreign nationals who come here are future valedictorians endowed with the “spark of divinity?” Apparently that was just a façade, as Pelosi and Big Agriculture see indigent foreigners as a lucrative source of cheap, exploitable labor.

    In reality, rather than doing jobs Americans just won’t do, foreign workers are frequently the reason U.S. citizens are getting fired from their jobs. Employers tend to view hiring compliant foreign workers as a labor cost reduction move. A group of black Americans along the Mississippi Delta recently settled lawsuits against two large farm companies who replaced them with South African foreign workers who arrived on H-2A visas. There was no shortage of American farm workers in this case, only employers looking to import cheaper labor to strengthen their bottom line.

    Under the H-2A visa program, U.S. farms can import an unlimited number of foreign workers annually, which serves to displace American workers from their jobs. Employers’ use of the H-2A visa has increased more than 1,500 percent in the last 25 years, with more than 258,000 foreign workers coming here in 2021. A decade earlier, there were fewer than 60,000 H-2A visas issued per year.

    And some employers just hire illegal aliens under the table. In 2019, Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a raid on a Koch Foods plant in Mississippi, arresting hundreds of illegal alien workers in the process. After Koch conducted a job fair to replace the workers—and required documents to prove legal status—more than 200 local residents showed up and submitted applications. 

    When confronted with these facts, immigration activists on the Left say that protecting American farm jobs will result in skyrocketing prices for fruits and vegetables. A study by the Economic Policy Institute in 2020, however, found that a 40 percent increase in farm worker pay would raise the annual cost of agricultural produce just $25 per household.  

    While agribusiness has long relied on both H-2A visa recipients and illegal aliens for a steady supply of low-cost workers, the seductiveness of cheap labor to employers has infected myriad other fields. Construction and service industry jobs are now virtually out of reach to lower-skilled American workers, who find themselves undesirable to employers because they seek a living wage that immigrants often do not require.

    Anti-borders advocates are rank hypocrites when they say enforcement of immigration laws is cruel. A nation with no borders is cruel in multiple ways. It is cruel to illegal aliens, who find themselves victims of wage exploitation, often forced to live in overcrowded, substandard housing. 

    It is also cruel to American citizens on the lower end of the wage-and-skills scale who see their communities becoming more dangerous, their job prospects reduced, and their social services overwhelmed. 

    Finally, it is cruel to the migrant children these policies allegedly protect, as these children are mere pawns in a lucrative black market that moves aliens across the border and enriches those who profit from a broken system.

    Incidents such as the black farm workers’ lawsuit and the Koch job fair expose the lie pushed by Pelosi and her fellow travelers that unchecked numbers of immigrants are needed to fill jobs American citizens and legal residents will not do. Such falsehoods are pushed by cynical politicians and lobbyists for corporate farming giants, both of whom will profit from them. They should not get a pass for slandering the hardworking Americans who have built and maintained this great nation. 

    https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/11/the-lazy-american-stereotype-is-an-anti-borders-tactic/

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