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8th Annual Fake News Show

Aaaaaaand now, from the subterranean depths of a conspiracy realist’s worst fever dream come to life, it’s the 8th Annual Fake News Awards.

What crimes against humanity did the mockingbird repeaters of the dinosaur media manage to whitewash last year? And what disgusting dissembler of deceptive disinformation will walk away with the biggest dishonor of them all, the Fakest Story of the Year? Will the world get a more despicable liar than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu?

Find out in this year’s Fake News Awards! Coming at you from the sunny climate of Japan with James Corbett on The Corbett Report.

O’Reilly: Data Favors Trump

Bill O’Reilly predicts that based on hard data, not wishful thinking or emotion, Donald J. Trump will defeat Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s presidential election.

O’Reilly says his decision was persuaded by a Wall Street Journal report–verified by No Spin News–that Republican registration in this political cycle is through the roof, with massive gains in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada. He further points to the folks who are risking their money on the election, where the gambling odds favor Trump 63% to 36%.

O’Reilly gives more analysis, plus welcomes pollster Robert Cahaly to the No Spin News to analyze the current state polling.

Iran’s Interfering With Election

U.S. intelligence confirms a report that a foreign enemy is actively interfering in the 2024 Presidential election, attempting to ensure that Donald J. Trump does not regain the White House.

Official ACLJ says the Wall Street Journal reports that Iran has been working,  spying and infiltrating to get involved in disrupting the campaign through online personas and propaganda mills to spread disinformation. More with host Logan Sekulow.

J.D. Vance Is Trump’s VP Pick

President Trump ended the mounting drama over who will join him on the 2024 GOP Presidential ticket by naming Ohio junior senator J.D. Vance as his running mate.

The announcement came on Monday during Day 1 of the Republican National Convention in which Trump officially secured his party’s nomination. Trump released his choice on Truth Social, writing, “After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator JD Vance of the Great State of Ohio.”

Vance, a former Never Trumper who hails from the Cincinnati suburb of Middletown, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2023. He came into national prominence in 2016 with the publication of his best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Legend, the story of his family’s Appalachian values.

The Wall Street Journal‘s Molly Ball breaks down how Vance got the nomination and what it means for the future of the GOP.

China’s Property Crisis

China’s monumental property crisis is expected to worsen, as sales of new homes plummet and developers scramble to find funds to complete projects.

Meanwhile, Wall Street Journal China Bureau Chief Jonathan Cheng recently visited an abandoned ghost town in Shenyang City, built by the Greenland Group, to explain how China’s real estate slump has become a major headache for the government.

What Cheng found, for starters, was an unoccupied site of 100 luxurious homes built in the style of European mansions. “And this particular compound is one of just many all across China–abandoned, empty, a headache for China’s policy makers,” he said. And the fact that real estate giant Evergrande was recently forced to liquidate because more than 50 developers have defaulted on their debt in recent years spells doom for the Chinese economy. Here’s Cheng’s report.

Who Owns The News?

Who actually owns the news? Unfortunately, but not unsurprisingly, many mainstream journalists believe that they do and therein lies much mischief.

Stephen Green says a case in point is Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker, who told a WEF Davos Retreat audience, “Not that long ago we owned the news, we were the gatekeepers and we owned the facts, as well.” She emphasized that if it appeared in the Wall Street Journal or The New York Times, it was a fact.

Says Bill Whittle, “I think the most interesting thing about this is the sheer hubris to say we use to own the facts, just the sheer, unadulterated arrogance of that.” Green and Whittle are joined by “Right Angle” colleague Scott Ott to share their thoughts.

Bill Gates’ Secret Russian Honey

The Wall Street Journal broke big news Sunday, explaining how Jeffrey Epstein tried to blackmail the billionaire Bill Gates for carrying out an extramarital affair with a young Russian expatriate, Mila Antonova.

Gates had met Antonova in 2010 at a bridge tournament where she was pushing her ideas of a new non-profit company that would promote bridge for youngsters. He apparently began a sexual affair with her while he was still married to Melinda Gates. At the time, Antonova was in her early twenties while Bill Gates was in his mid 50s.

It’s not clear yet how long the affair lasted, or whether Gates donated money to her charity. But he apparently did introduce her to Epstein and encourage him to make such  donations.  While it doesn’t appear Epstein took the bait, he apparently did pay some of Antonova’s college tuition fees. Gates also might have introduced her to Warren Buffett, as Buffett attended the same 2010 bridge tournament where Gates met her.

We already knew Gates was never a saint. He maintained a long extramarital affair with a Microsoft employee, an affair that lasted more than a decade, while he served as CEO of that company. Here’s a video from IgniteNYC, where Antonova explains why she finds bridge a powerful mind game.

She notes how Mae West loved bridge, although she misspells West’s name as “May West.” It was West who quipped, “Bridge is like sex. If you don’t have a good partner, you better have a good hand.”

Epstein’s Billionaire Buddies

Why are we suddenly finding so much more about Jeffrey Epstein’s associates? Why has the Wall Street Journal begun to break key aspects of the story?

Whitney Webb, author of the new two-volume book One Nation Under Blackmail, believes the revelations are meant to distract from even more damaging news of Epstein’s close association with Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin as well as Disney CEO Michael Ovitz.

Here, Webb  is interviewed by Clayton Morris on Redacted. She discusses both of those two figures and explains more about Epstein’s involvement with Disney, via Bran Ferren. Ferren had worked with Ken Russell on the sci-fi movie Altered States, and later formed Associates & Ferren, which did visual effects for Little Shop of Horrors. She also touches upon Microsoft’s Bill Gates, as well as his associates Nathan Myhrvold, formerly Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer, and Linda Stone, both of whom maintained relationships with Epstein.

Hoffman Behind Trump Suit

Trump lawsuit funder Reid Hoffman, who says he cares about survivors of abuse, visited Epstein’s Island after Epstein was convicted on charges of raping underage teens. Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Hoffman visited Epstein’s Little St. James Island in the Caribbean and also made plans to stay at Epstein’s New York City townhouse, back in 2014.

Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, commands a fortune of some $2 billion, so much he hardly needs to be spreading the sheets at his friends’ houses.

Now we learn that Hoffman contributed the funding to enable E. Jean Carroll, a former Elle Magazine advice columnist, to sue former President Donald Trump. She brought battery and defamation charges relating to a supposed rape that occurred in a New York department store dressing room nearly 30 years ago. It’s so long ago, that Carroll can’t even remember if the alleged incident happened in late 1995 or early 1996. Here’s more from Robert Gouveia.

 

 

 

Epstein Met With CIA Director!

An appointment calendar published by the Wall Street Journal shows convicted pedophile and child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein met with a plethora of political and business leaders, including several meetings with William Burns, the current director of the CIA in the Joe Biden administration.

Others who reportedly conferred with Epstein: Henry Kissinger, professor Noam Chomsky, Bard College President Leon Botstein and Kathryn Ruemmler, President Barack Obama’s White House counsel and later a top lawyer for the Goldman Sachs Group.

Burns, the CIA director, met with Epstein while serving as deputy director of the State Department during the Obama administration. A spokeswomen for William Burns claims he did not know of Epstein’s criminal record, but merely wanted his advice on working outside the government. We find that defense frankly laughable. With his CIA connections, Burns should well have known Epstein’s history and acted accordingly by not meeting the pervert.

None of these individuals are listed in Epstein’s now-public “black book” of contacts and acquaintances. The Wall Street Journal found they had appointments with Epstein, but could not always confirm those appointments actually led to meetings. Here’s more from Luke Rudowski at We Are Change.

Here is a more detailed summary of the Wall Street Journal article from Jordan Sather. He says the article “is the start of the floodgates opening.” Not only are we introduced to new players surrounding Epstein, but also we can begin to confirm patterns from his previous acquaintances and understand more about how he operated.

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