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  • ‘Crime of the Century’: New Research Paper Raises Horrifying Possibility Covid Patients Were ‘Euthanized’

    A new research paper in pre-print circulation at the open access journal Medical & Clinical Research raises the horrifying possibility that certain Covid-19 patients were euthanized during the pandemic.

    The research paper has not been peer-reviewed; but it does provide data and documentation that is leading to pointed accusations directed at the National Heath Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom that doctors pursued a deliberate policy of euthanizing certain Covid-19 patients, particularly those patients struggling with pulmonary-respiratory issues.

    Excess Deaths in the United Kingdom: Midazolam and Euthanasia in the COVID-19 Pandemic explores the stark lagged correlation between patient injections of the palliative sedative midazolam in certain regions of the United Kingdom and Covid-19 excess mortality rates.

    The most striking dataset compares the monthly U.K. England excess deaths with monthly midazolam injections. Reported excess deaths follow upon injections by one month.

    “Clearly, Midazolam injections and excess deaths in England are highly correlated, but not synchronously, because medication generally does not have instantaneous impact and also reporting of dosages used and registration of deaths may lag,” the author Wilson Sy of Investment Analytics notes. “Shifting the time series for Midazolam injections one-month forward, very high correlation is seen in Figure 10.”

    “The very high correlation (coefficient 91 percent) between excess deaths lagged one month after Midazolam injections is largely due to the first two enormous spikes to early 2021. From April 2021 onwards to May 2023, the same correlation dropped to 59 percent, but still statistically significant with p-value at 0.0007. The misclassification of COVID deaths, possibly deliberate, also led to their high correlation with Midazolam injections as seen Figure 11,” the author adds.

    The author critically notes that the U.K. health service opened up the potential of abuse of palliative care policies for Covid-19 patients.

    New guidelines were rapidly developed in early 2020 by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for managing COVID-19 symptoms, including those at the end-of-life [22]. The rapidly developed new guidelines effectively opened the door to implement a policy of euthanasia in UK during the pandemic: “NICE has developed these recommendations in direct response to the rapidly evolving situation and so could not follow the standard process for guidance development. The guideline has been developed using the interim process and methods for developing rapid guidelines on COVID-19.

    The pharmacological measures for managing breathlessness during the Covid-19 outbreak included the administration of morphine and midazolam.

    As the research paper notes, “Table 5 of the NICE rapid guidelines on treatments in the last days and last hours of life for managing breathlessness for adult patients include”:
    • Opioid: Morphine sulfate 10 mg over 24 hours via a syringe driver, increasing stepwise to morphine sulfate 30 mg over 24 hours as required.
    • Benzodiazepine if required in addition to opioid: Midazolam 10 mg over 24 hours via the syringe driver, increasing stepwise to midazolam 60 mg over 24 hours as required.

    Morphine and midazolam as a tandem drug therapy has been controversial due to reports of abuse for palliative care and for lethal injections of convicted felons.

    For example, during Hurricane Katrina in the United States in 2005, Dr. Anna Maria Pou, a cancer surgeon on the faculty of Louisiana State University School of Medicine, was accused of abusing morphine and midazolam to euthanize patients. At least 34 patients died at Memorial Medical Center under suspect conditions; however, a grand jury refused to indict Dr. Pou and four of her medical colleagues, the New England Journal of Medicine reported.

    In 2022, the New York Times reported on the use of midazolam for lethal injections of prisoners.

    The first full trial on Oklahoma’s use of midazolam played out this week, in a state where a prisoner vomited and shook for several minutes after he was injected with the sedative during an October execution. In the case before Judge Stephen P. Friot of the U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City, a group of prisoners on death row argued that the mix of drugs that awaits them in that state has the potential to cause so much pain as to be “constitutionally intolerable.”

    The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the use of midazolam in a 2015 ruling in the same Oklahoma case, but the current trial has allowed for additional expert testimony and presentations of detailed research about the real-world use of the drug in execution chambers.

    The Mayo Clinic has probed the ethics of administering midazolam for end-of-life care and explains its popularity and prevalence in palliative treatment.

    Most centers use a midazolam-based regimen for PS because of the drug’s short half-life, relatively benign adverse effects, ease of intravenous or subcutaneous administration, and generally good efficacy.5,9–11 Other programs that use primarily barbiturates, either alone or in combination with other agents, have also reported good results.12–14 Our institution (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN) supports the use of ketamine or propofol in patients whose condition is refractory to opioids and midazolam. 

    Importantly, the author of the new research paper attempts to draw on statistical regional analysis of the United Kingdom to further elucidate whether correlations are a ghost of understandable hospital practices during a pandemic; a reflection of widespread Covid-19 vaccinations; or played an underlying causal role in excess mortality rates.

    “Note that all regional subpopulations have consistently positive correlations, avoiding Simpson’s Paradox and suggesting the absence of signicant confounding factors in the statistical relationships. That is, even though the mathematical details of the regressions may differ quantitatively (due to other minor confounding factors), the firm conclusion prevails that Midazolam injections have significant causal impact on excess deaths in England,” Sy claims.

    But the critical question is raised whether the use of midazolam overlapped entirely with patients who were bound to die regardless or whether the drug played a causal factor in producing more deaths.

    “About 28,000 care home residents died in April 2020 across England, which represented about one third or 33.5 percent of all deaths in England. As there were about 375,000 care home residents (three quarters elderly, some with dementia, and the rest disabled) in an English population of 65 million, the mortality rates for that month were 7.5 percent and 0.128 percent respectively, implying an April 2020 death rate in care homes about sixty times (X60) that of the national average.,” Sy adds. “Many of the UK elderly with comorbidities or terminal illnesses have died with euthanasia in care homes, and not from COVID-19 due to few cases of infections early in 2020.”

    This provocative claim is a challenge to the widespread conclusion that Covid-19 was of particular lethality to the elderly population. Sy, however, is attempting to raise the issue of medical malpractice and unethical guidelines, such as the abuse of palliative care and blanket Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders as exacerbating factors that contributed to drive up Covid death rates.

    The research paper then attempts to tease out by comparison between U.K. England and Australia whether vaccination or euthanasia are major contributing factors to high excess mortality rates, particularly in the absence of a viral pandemic that has become endemic, since the majority of human beings have acquired immunity.

    Vaccination had no significant statistical correlation with UK deaths with a five-month time lag or with any other time lag. Unlike in Australia, this lack of consistent correlation, suggests that COVID vaccination has no statistically provable impact on UK deaths: COVID deaths, non-COVID deaths or excess deaths. This lack of statistical evidence does not mean that vaccination may not be a primary cause which was likely masked by the causal proximity of euthanasia with Midazolam. Given the Australian research which proved “vaccination kills” [1], it is highly probable that the sustained elevation of the levels of UK excess deaths was not due to natural causes, but due to vaccination. However, for the epidemiology of the confounded situation in the UK, other approaches and methods are needed to establish the relationship between vaccination and excess deaths.

    The research paper thus raises alarming questions that provoked a former Member of Parliament to ask if this was the “crime of the century.”

    “If the data is correct, the only conclusion is that tens of thousands of elderly English were murdered with an injection of the end of life drug Midazolam,” remarked former MP Craig Kelly. “These deaths were then falsely blamed on Covid, which was the basis of the public fear campaigns used to justify the lockdowns and mass mandated injections of the public (including children) with an experimental medical intervention that had zero long term safety data. And along the way, a small group pushing the need for mass mandated injections made billions.”

    This is certainly a premature assessment of the role of midzolam in exacerbating high excess mortality rates during and after the Covid pandemic. However, the research is suggestive of the role that alleged hospital malpractice — including the use of respirators, blanket DNR orders, social isolation, drugs like remdesevir, and abuse of palliative drugs like midzolam — played a major role in driving up excess mortality rates, in addition to questions about data malfeasance and fraud, and of course, Covid vaccines.



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  • Ala. mom allegedly ran son over with her car after making him walk home from school as punishment

    BOAZ, Ala. (TCD) — A 27-year-old mother and a 53-year-old woman were arrested after the mother allegedly told her son to walk home from school because he got in trouble, then ran him over.

    According to AL.com, on Feb. 9, Sarai James and a 53-year-old woman went to pick up her son from school and found out from the principal that James’ 7-year-old son got in trouble that day. While on their way back from school, James allegedly told her son to get out and walk the rest of the eight blocks home.

    The boy reportedly attempted to grab the door handle, but James drove off. In the process, the 7-year-old reportedly fell under the car and was run over by one of the rear tires.

    WAAY-TV reports an ambulance transported the victim to University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, where he was treated for minor abrasions.

    Boaz Police Chief Michael Abercrombie reportedly said in a statement, “It was a miracle he was not hurt worse than what he could have been.”

    Marshall County Jail records show James was booked on a charge of child abuse and posted bond a few days later. The 53-year-old who was also in the car was arrested for misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child.

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    • Boaz mother charged with child abuse after allegedly running over her own child – WAAY
    • Marshall County Jail inmate information

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  • New Survey Places Biden Among Greatest Presidents of All-Time, Ranks Donald Trump Dead Last

    In another indication of the partisan bent of modern academia, a recent survey of scholars on the American presidency, performed at two U.S. universities and subsequently published, is gaining attention for its questionable and controversial results.

    The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey, led by Brandon Rottinghaus of the University of Houston and Justin S. Vaughn of Coastal Carolina University, surveyed experts at the American Political Science Association, as well as scholars who had recently published peer-reviewed academic research on the U.S. presidency.

    The survey has current President Joe Biden as the 14th greatest president in American history. His predecessor, President Donald J. Trump, is ranked dead last.

    Biden was ranked ahead of Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Ulysses S. Grant. Former President Barack Obama was placed seventh, up eight points from last year’s survey.

    Trump scored the survey’s lowest ranking of 45, trailing James Buchanan at 44th, Andrew Johnson at 43rd, Franklin Pierce at 42nd, and William Henry Harrison at 41st.

    Abraham Lincoln was selected by the scholars as America’s best president.

    The poll also ranked respondents’ party and ideological differences, but the surveyors claimed it did not “tend to make a major difference overall.”

    However, there was a clear party divide in the ranks for Obama and Biden, with Democrats putting them 6th and 13th on average, while Republicans placed them 15th and 30th, respectively.

    The presidential rankings are notable for their lack of objective measurement for Americans’ quality of life under a given president, and appear to be ranked according to how a president’s ideological disposition matches those of typically left-wing political scholars.

    The Biden presidency and the Trump presidency represent a major political litmus test for the ability of scholars to assess elected leaders based on objective merits.

    Donald Trump’s economy, up until the moment state governors began locking down under the Covid pandemic, was one of the best in modern history.

    As Atlantic scholar Derek Thompson summarized in August 2019:

    • Jobs have grown for 106 consecutive months, the longest streak on record.
    • At 121 months, this is the longest bull market in American history.
    • The unemployment rate has been at 4 percent or less for 16 consecutive months, the longest such streak in 50 years.
    • Inequality remains a crucial problem, but wages are now growing the fastest among the lowest-wage industries, thanks to state-by-state increases in the minimum wage and the effects of low unemployment.
    • The University of Michigan’s consumer-sentiment index, which peaked at 112 in 1999, has hovered above 90 for more than four years, something that hasn’t happened since the 1990s.
    • Latino unemployment has fallen to its lowest rate on record.
    • Black unemployment, too, has fallen to its lowest rate on record, and, as the investor and Bloomberg columnist Conor Sen points out, the unemployment rate for black teenagers, which peaked at 48.9 percent in 2010, has plunged to yet another record low in 2019.

    The United States was also kept out of foreign wars, which were sparse on Donald Trump’s watch. The Trump presidency brokered peace deals in the Middle East and successfully promoted deterrence through a ‘peace through strength’ approach.

    In addition, the 45th president secured the southern border, preventing the human catastrophe and widespread national disruption of a full-blown border crisis.

    The Biden presidency has witnessed a massive spike in inflation, a surge in energy prices, rampant spending fraught with waste and corruption, reckless brinksmanship and foreign interventionism, and a border crisis that has exploded out-of-control.

    Biden’s presidency has been one of the most chaotic and controversial in American history.

    • The Department of Justice on his watch has politically prosecuted a former president, raising major questions about corrupt weaponization of the agency.
    • Biden’s family has been thoroughly exposed as having participated in multiple foreign influence peddling schemes with the aiding and abetting of Joe Biden.
    • His administration has pursued unconstitutional censorship and surveillance of the American people.

    It has been a disaster for the rule of law and for the social contract with the federal government as stipulated by the U.S. Constitution.

    The quality of life for the vast majority of Americans was much better under the Trump presidency than the Biden presidency. The Trump presidency gets zero credit from scholars for it, while they give Joe Biden maximum credit for simply being a Democratic president.

    Academia is broken. This presidential survey is yet another example of how modern scholars are completely out-of-touch with the interests of the American people.

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  • Harvard Economist Needed ‘Armed Guard’ After Publishing Study Finding No Racial Bias In Police Shootings

    Harvard economics Professor Roland Fryer needed armed security with him to go out in public after he published a study finding no evidence of racial bias in officer-involved shootings, he said in an interview with The Free Press founder Bari Weiss.

    Fryer, a top economist who became the youngest tenured black professor in Harvard’s history at just 30 years old, published a study in 2016 showing there was “no racial differences in officer involved-shootings.” After he published the study, “all hell broke loose,” Fryer told Weiss, noting people “lose their mind when they don’t like the result.”

    “I lived under police protection for about 30 to 40 days,” he said during the interview. “I had a seven-day-old daughter at the time…I was going to the grocery store to get diapers with an armed guard.”

    Fryer told Weiss he initially became interested in the topic after the shooting of Michael Brown and some other “early viral videos of police violence.” He said he was “surprised” by the result because he expected to find evidence of bias.

    After the study was complete, Fryer said he hired eight additional freshmen to redo the study but came up with the same result.

    “On the most extreme use of force – officer involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account,” Fryer’s study found.

    Colleagues warned him not to publish it because it would “ruin” his career, Fryer said.

    “It was posted for four minutes when I got my first email, ‘This is full of sh*t. Doesn’t make any sense,” he said, recalling the first reaction after publication.

    In 2019, Fryer was placed on a two-year leave after facing allegations of sexual harassment. Claudine Gay, who was Harvard’s dean at the time, said in a letter to the economics department that he had “exhibited a pattern of behavior that failed to meet expectations of conduct within our community.”

    “Do you believe in karma?” Weiss asked.

    Gay resigned from her position as Harvard’s president early January after facing scrutiny over her response to antisemitism on campus and plagiarism allegations.

    “I hear it’s a motherfu-ker,” Fryer responded.



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  • Supreme Court is About to Put ‘Stake in the Heart’ of Jack Smith’s Case Against Trump

    The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to out a “stake in the heart” of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against Donald Trump, according to respected legal experts.

    Legal analyst Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at George Washington University, told CNN on Saturday that if the Supreme Court finds in favor of the defendant, it will be a significant victory for President Trump and make things more difficult for the special counsel.

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    “There’s a centrally important case in the Supreme Court where the Court’s going to decide whether the core of Jack Smith’s charges involving obstruction of justice are consistent with Constitution and the law or not,” he told CNN. “If they throw those out, that’s going to be a stake in the heart of the Jack Smith case. It won’t prevent it, but it’ll make it much harder to pursue.”

    Rosen also explained how the timing of Smith’s case against Trump could be disrupted.

    “The Jack Smith timing depends on, first, what the Supreme Court does—is it going to rehear immunity or just uphold the D.C. circuit?” Rosen said. “But then next month there’s a centrally important case in the Supreme court where the court’s going to decide whether the core of Jack Smith’s charges involving obstruction of justice are consistent with the Constitution and the law or not.”

    The CNN legal analyst also noted that if the Supreme Court justices “side with Fischer, it would also call into question the use of the law against other Jan. 6 defendants—including Trump.”

    The case is called Joseph W. Fischer v. United States, and it pertains to the argued misapplication of 18 U.S.C. § 1512, obstruction of an official proceeding, to January 6 cases.

    Fritz Ulrich, a lawyer for defendant Fischer, told Newsweek that he will “argue for a narrow construction of Section 1512(c)(2) consistent with its language and Congress’ expressed purpose in enacting it.”

    “As far as the effect on the other January 6 cases that have a Section 1512(c)(2) count, nothing will happen at the argument that would affect them,” Ulrich said. “But we may be able to discern how some of the justices view the statutory language at issue.”

    Earlier in February, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) joined 23 other senators in urging the Supreme Court to overturn the Biden administration’s legal tactic of utilizing the law to target Jan. 6 defendants, including Fischer.

    “The Biden administration’s pursuit of its political opponents must be stopped,” the Arkansas Republican said in a statement. “Their strained interpretation of the law would criminalize vast swaths of everyday political conduct and violate the First Amendment—Congress never granted, and no administration should have the power to lock up political opponents for 20 years for merely trying to ‘influence’ Congress.”

    Last Monday, the Supreme Court scheduled arguments for April 16 in the case involving Joseph Fischer, who was arrested on January 6, 2021.

    The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on April 16 the a challenge to the Department of Justice’s interpretation of the “obstruction of an official proceeding” charge that both Fischer and President Trump are facing.

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  • Snoop Dogg’s Brother Dies Unexpectedly at Age 44

    Snoop Dogg has suffered a second heart-wrenching family tragedy within the space of a year.

    The popular rapper lost his brother Bing Worthington earlier this week at the relatively young age of 44.

    “@badabing33 always made us laugh 💙🙏🏾😢 u bac with moms,” Snoop Dogg said in an Instagram video. On a photo of Worthington with their mother Beverly Tate, who died in 2021 he wrote, “@badabing33 back wit momma.”

    The California rapper, 52, is going through a terrible time in his personal life after his 24-year-old daughter Cori Broadus suffered a “severe stroke” earlier this year.

    “She’s doing a little bit better,” the rapper, 52, told People in January. Cori, Snoop Dogg’s 24-year-old daughter with wife Shante Broadus, also provided an update last month.

    “They took me off heaprin tonight (blood thinner) & most likely can go home tomorrow,” she captioned an Instagram story sent from her hospital bed.

    Following his death, several of Snoop’s friends expressed their genuine condolences on social media.

    “Stay strong big bro,” Tyrese Gibson commented on Snoop’s tribute to Bing. “I’m sorry this happened….. Prayers love and light to you and your family.”

    “Sorry for all your Loss Brother, ” said Tamar Braxton.

    Bing Worthington was not just Snoop Dogg’s brother, he was a prominent player in the music industry, having worked closely with Snoop as a roadie before becoming his tour manager, the Daily Caller reported.

    “Worthington moved to Canada and opened up a music studio and production company as part of a merger between his organization, Dogg Records, and the infamous Canadian hip hop label, Urban Heat Legends, according to TMZ,” DC reported, adding, “Snoop Dogg did not indicate what led to his brother’s death.”

    After making a music video with a representation of Donald Trump dressed as a clown being assassinated, the rapper appears to have changed his tune about the former president.

    “Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me,” Snoop told the Sunday Times
    in January. “He has done only great things for me. He pardoned Michael Harris.”

    “I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.”



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  • Ex-YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s Son Dies Suddenly at 19

    The family of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has experienced a devastating loss.

    The businesswoman’s son, Marco Troper, was discovered dead at the University of California, Berkeley, on February 13. He was nineteen.

    A university spokeswoman informed NBC News that a student living in a student housing complex was discovered unconscious that day, and that first responders from the Berkeley Fire Department performed life-saving efforts before declaring him dead. There were no evidence of foul play, and the death was being investigated, according to the spokeswoman.

    Marco’s grandma, Esther Wojcicki, confirmed the student’s identification.

    “Tragedy hit my family yesterday. My beloved grandson Marco Troper, age 19 passed away yesterday,” she wrote on Facebook on Feb. 14. “Our family is devastated beyond comprehension.”

    Marco, she added, “was the most kind, loving, smart, fun and beautiful human being” who had just begun his second semester of his freshman year at UC Berkeley. She noted he majored in math and “was truly loving it.”

    “He had a strong community of friends from his dorm at Stern Hall and his fraternity Zeta Psi and was thriving academically. At home, he would tell us endless stories of his life and friends at Berkeley,” she continued. “Marco’s life was cut too short. And we are all devastated, thinking about all the opportunities and life experiences that he will miss and we will miss together. Marco, we all love you and miss you more than you will ever know.”

    Campus police at UC Berkeley said that there were no evidence of foul play.

    Adam Ratliff, a UC Berkeley spokesman, said counselors set up “healing spaces” for students to deal with the victim’s tragic death.

    Wojcicki, who presently works as a senior advisor for Google and its parent company Alphabet, has yet to speak publicly on her son’s death.

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  • Bombshell Report: Joe Biden was ‘Central Element’ of Brother’s Foreign Influence-Peddling to Middle East

    It has been a constant refrain among defenders of President Joe Biden that his family benefiting from foreign influence-peddling abroad took place without his knowledge and participation.

    A new report from Politico, as establishment a publication as one can find, shatters that already precarious defense.

    While the president’s defenders have often pointed to Joe Biden’s involvement in the troubled affairs of his son Hunter Biden as illustrating a case of a father’s love, rather than the aiding and abetting of illicit activity that compromises national security, the new report involves a different and often-overlooked person in the Biden corruption scandal: The president’s brother, James Biden.

    The Politico report comes ahead of an expected interview of James Biden on Feb. 21. The critical implication of the report is the “central” involvement of Joe Biden in his brother’s scheme to profit off a troubled medical conglomerate, now bankrupt, called Americore.

    As the layers of activity that occurred in and around Americore are peeled back in a federal prosecution in Pennsylvania, a bankruptcy court in Kentucky, and tense witness interviews on Capitol Hill, a POLITICO investigation renders the most detailed picture to date of the ways in which Joe Biden’s relatives leveraged his public stature to advance a private business venture.

    The investigation — based on public records, court filings, dozens of interviews and hundreds of exclusively obtained internal documents — reveals that Jim Biden’s role at Americore was larger than previously reported: In some internal documents and investor materials his name is included among its top handful of leaders. He also helped the company seal regulatory approval to acquire the Pennsylvania hospital and personally fired Americore’s chief financial officer, according to the emails obtained by POLITICO.

    Documents obtained by Politico show that there was extensive participation by Joe Biden and his family’s inner circle in Americore, which is under federal investigation for allegedly fraudulent operations.

    This Americore involvement included Jim Biden, his wife Sara, his son Jamie, Hunter Biden, and Joe Biden himself.

    The investigation also reveals that Joe Biden’s name and inner circle were more involved with the company than has been understood: In addition to the accounts provided by former executives, investor materials described Jim Biden as an adviser to his older brother. And on top of Joe Biden’s own previously reported encounter with the firm’s CEO, at least three of Joe Biden’s relatives did work with Americore. They include Jim Biden’s wife, Sara, and his son, Jamie. The president’s son, Hunter Biden also met with its CEO, and his personal doctor — current White House physician Kevin O’Connor — joined a meeting with Jim Biden and the president of a hospital being acquired by Americore, according to a former executive and emails obtained by POLITICO.

    The most damning paragraphs of Politico’s report indicate that Joe Biden’s name was a “central element” of Jim Biden’s pitch to potential partners and investors.

    While the extent to which Joe Biden’s relatives have invoked their ties to him to advance their business careers has been a subject of ongoing controversy, the documents obtained by POLITICO demonstrate that Joe Biden was a central element of Jim Biden’s pitch to potential partners and investors during this period.

    None of these Biden family members would answer specific questions related to Americore. The White House did not respond to detailed requests for comment.

    This is relevant in the context of a “$200,000 direct payment from James and Sara Biden to Joe Biden in the form of a personal check,” released by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) in October.

    “In 2018, James Biden received $600,000 in loans from, Americore—a financially distressed and failing rural hospital operator,” press release stated. “According to bankruptcy court documents, James Biden received these loans ‘based upon representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections’.”

    “On March 1, 2018, Americore wired a $200,000 loan into James and Sara Biden’s personal bank account – not their business bank account,” the statement added. “On the same day, James Biden wrote a $200,000 check from this same personal bank account to Joe Biden.”

    As reported by the Associated Press, James Biden’s lawyer has provided a now dubious defense for his client’s invocation of his brother Joe Biden in his business affairs.

    “A lawyer for James Biden said at the time that there was no justification for the subpoena because the committee had already reviewed private bank records and transactions between the two brothers,” the AP reported. “The committee found records of two loans that were made when Joe Biden was not in office or a candidate for president.”

    “There is nothing more to those transactions, and there is nothing wrong with them,” lawyer Paul Fishman said in a statement in November. “And Jim Biden has never involved his brother in his business dealings.”

    This now appears to be patently false. Republicans are now pointing to the federal proceedings against Americore as yet more evidence of “influence peddling” by Biden’s family in their business dealings, particularly with foreign actors.

    As noted by Politico’s report, James Biden heavily relied on reference to his brother, a former senator and former vice president at the time, to court Middle Eastern investors.

    Jim Biden spoke of plans to give his brother equity in Americore, according to one former Americore executive, and install him on its board, according to a second. He also said that if Americore could find a winning business model for rural health care, his brother could promote the company in a future presidential campaign, a third former executive told POLITICO. All were granted anonymity to discuss a company mired in legal and political controversy

    In order to fund Americore’s expansion, Jim Biden offered to secure capital from investors in the Middle East, according to the emails and executives. When the expected money did not arrive, it aggravated Americore’s preexisting financial issues. The company collapsed, leaving behind unpaid bills and neglected patients.

    The human wreckage resulting from the Biden family’s exploitation of Joe Biden’s political connections for financial gain is a critical aspect of the story. Americore’s malfeasance not only lined the pockets of Biden family members, but it also devastated families that relied on the now-defunct medical provider to care for their loved ones in times of need.

    Biden family corruption thus is not only a grave matter of national security, but it is also one of personal family tragedy for many Americans who were exposed to their unethical and potentially illegal activities.

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  • Woman clings to hood of speeding car to save stolen dog: Man sentenced for rescue dog’s brutal death – TCDPOD

    This Week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A viral video of a woman clinging onto the hood of a speeding car prompts a police investigation for a stolen French bulldog. Plus, a man sentenced for the fatal kidnapping of a dog from a rescue shelter.

    Luis Bolaños joins host Ana Garcia, with guests Ali Zacharias, and Brittany Vizcarra of Paw Works.

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  • Blood-covered man arrested for allegedly beating, fatally stabbing victim at San Diego motel

    SAN DIEGO (TCD) — Law enforcement officials arrested a 35-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 38-year-old victim at a motel last week.

    On Friday, Feb. 9, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department responded to a disconnected call in the 1600 block of South Mission Road. According to KUSI-TV, deputies arrived at the Econo Lodge Inn & Suites, where they found Douglas Hardy suffering from stab wounds and pronounced him dead at the scene.

    The Medical Examiner’s Office determined the victim died of blunt force trauma, and his death was ruled a homicide.

    A witness reportedly described seeing a man with blood-covered clothing fleeing the scene on foot.

    Detectives identified Brian Zielinski as the primary suspect in their investigation. Following a foot pursuit, officials arrested Zielinski and booked him into the San Diego Central Jail on a charge of first-degree murder.

    The motel residents were evacuated from the premises during the incident. The investigation is ongoing.

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