On 4/4/2022 1:51 PM, George .Anthony wrote:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/times-post-hunter-biden-laptop-reckoning
This is far too long for our resident idiot's, but it's a fun
read. Lots of sex and drugs and modern social media political intrigue.
It also talks about how things work in the orange gangster's crime family.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/hunter-biden-laptop-guo-wengui-bannon-giuliani/
Exclusive: Leaked Messages Reveal the Origins of the Most Vile Hunter
Biden Smear
Fugitive Chinese tycoon and Steve Bannon ally Guo Wengui pushed out
explicit material—and lies—on the eve of the 2020 election.
DAN FRIEDMANAPRIL 7, 2022
Late in the 2020 presidential campaign, trailing in the polls, Donald
Trump and his allies worked to make a campaign issue out of a trove of
files on a laptop that his opponent’s son, Hunter Biden, had apparently abandoned at a Delaware repair shop. The effort to publicize
compromising emails, images, and videos from the device involved
prominent Trump confidants including Rudy Giuliani and Steven Bannon.
But it also featured an unexpected player: Guo Wengui, a fugitive
Chinese tycoon who was working with Bannon to build a small empire of Chinese-language media outlets, nonprofits, and other ventures.
Mother Jones obtained scores of WhatsApp audio messages Guo sent to
supporters, along with underlying material from Biden’s hard drive that Guo’s assistant distributed at his behest. Previous reports have noted
the role of Guo allies and companies in publicizing sex tapes and other material involving Hunter Biden. But the WhatsApp messages, and sources
who were involved in the effort, reveal that Guo—who has been accused in lawsuits of fraud and rape and of secretly acting as an agent for the
Chinese Communist Party—played a larger role than previously known in ensuring that explicit images and videos from the laptop appeared
online, and in spreading lies about them. (Guo has denied the
allegations made in the lawsuits against him.)
Guo stage-managed an October 2020 effort to disseminate videos and
pictures showing Hunter Biden engaged in sex acts and using drugs. After Giuliani, then President Trump’s personal lawyer, gave him material from Hunter Biden’s laptop, Guo issued detailed instructions to two WhatsApp groups that included dozens of Guo’s supporters. Guo directed these supporters to package, post, and promote hundreds of explicit images and
other material about Biden on websites Guo controlled, people involved
in the effort said.
The material Guo publicized seems to be real, but he instructed
supporters to couple it with false claims that it came from Chinese
sources, and that the Chinese government had used it to obtain leverage
over Hunter Biden and his father, Joe Biden. “We have to express…The Chinese Communist Party used these to threaten Hunter and [Joe] Biden,”
Guo told supporters in an October 24, 2020, message. (Mother Jones is
quoting English translations of messages that were originally in
Chinese. Multiple people independently verified the translations.)
People who helped Guo publish the material online said that it quickly
became clear to them that he was lying about China’s role. “They tried
to link the Biden family to the [Chinese Communist Party],” said a
person involved in the effort, who shared Guo’s WhatsApp messages with
Mother Jones and requested anonymity. “They wanted to help Trump win.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/hunter-biden-laptop-guo-wengui-bannon-giuliani/
If you keep reading it gets danker and darker. I can remember a
time when everyone was happy about the "information age" the internet
led to. I don't remember anyone mentioning that we were also entering an amazing age of misinformation. When I was living in Tucson I met a guy
who everyone called "Crazy Larry". He was proud of it, and would tell
you all about it if he thought there was a chance you hadn't already
heard this. He never met a conspiracy theory he didn't love. Now this
sort of person is so common that it isn't worth mentioning.
https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/Information-Age#:~:text=The%20Information%20Age%20is%20the,current%20era%20in%20human%20civilization.
"The Information Age is the idea that access to and the control of
information is the defining characteristic of this current era in human civilization."
TB
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