MILO AND THE GRAY SQUIRREL

Squirrel swims across pool to escape from a dog  

 The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) 

There are many stories of how the common gray squirrel has outwitted those of us who love to feed our backyard birds and fool the engineers who design bird feeders.   After many years of observation of wild and domestic critters I can agree with those who laud the “smarts” of the gray and also say that all too often we humans underestimate the mental abilities of  so called “dumb animals“. The fact is that if we observe them long and closely enough, we find that many of them are “thinking” much like we do. Perhaps some do some mental gyrations even better than we do. 

Like many of us these days confined by the fear of Covid, my wife and I have been able to spend more time bird watching.   Lately our back yard nature observations have revealed to us a  particularly smart gray squirrel ( Sciurus carolinensis)  which has been finding ingenious ways to get to the seeds and nuts offered (only) to our avian visitors in backyard bird feeder. 

After rapid disappearance of a good half pound of  bird food I thought I had figured outing  a way to frustrate this fellow  ( I assume he this one is a male). But then I saw him testing and then avoiding the Vaseline smeared pole topped with the bird feeder and instead climbing up a near by bush.  From there this smart  guy made a leap to the the curved arm of the pole (no Vaseline there) and hanging only by his hind feet and stretching across the void,  he could reach the feeder, poke his fore leg- terminating in a paw that looks much like a human hand — through the feeder and grasp a “handful”  of super expensive “fruit and nut” wild bird feed. 

“Did you see that guy?” I called over to my wife looking through  the window,  over the edge of her morning coffee cup at the four legged marauder.

“He’s the one”, she murmured, “that one  with the white tipped tail, he jumps onto the top of the feeder and tips it over” she said, adding. “But he’s nice enough to clean up whatever he spills“.

“All he got this time was a paw full,” I said watching as the fluffy gray boldly jumped from the feeder to the top of our wooden picnic table just twenty feet from our glass slider door.  

Just beyond the table, across a short stretch of brick patio the light from the morning  sun glimmered off the water of our in-ground pool. Our sicurid raider seemed to be very content with himself as he sat breakfasting comfortably on our food and on our poolside table. 

There, he perched himself upright on his haunches, his tail curled upward like an umbrella over his head and began nibbling at the goodies in his front paws. His big fluffy tail with its white tip twitched rhythmically, apparently in response to the enjoyment and satisfaction of his stolen meal. (By the way the genus name Sicurus  is a derived from this critter’s  long tail —Gr “urus” = tail, and “sica” = shade— or “an animal which can use its tail for shade”.) 

Though the human observers of this scene could be somewhat amused, it was otherwise  for the canine observer.   This canine observer was our five-year old Jack Russel terrier.  Milo stood stark still staring though the glass at his nemesis and frequent furry quarry.  The Jack Russel’s bobbed  white tail was held rigidly upright and it vibrated with his intense excitement .  

Milo stared at his quarry and whined  in anticipation as  he focused on the one pound little furry beast perched on the table where even Milo was forbidden to perch . 

As a practiced and eager squirrel.chaser, though so far over his five summers always an unsuccessful one, he begged for his masters to open the door and permit him to give chase.

Not as amused with this squirrel’s behavior as was my wife(and being responsible for refilling and repairing the bird feeders),  I slowly and silently slid the door ajar  and let the eager, panting Jack Russell race from the room like a bull leaving the bucking chute at a rodeo bull riding contest. 

In immediate hot pursuit, Milo raced across the deck and  leaped down the deck stairway.  He landed close to the picnic table,  but the squirrel was faster.  At the sound  of the door opening and the frantic clawing sounds of Milo’s claws scraping  on the deck the one pound gray bird/food-robber, leaped from the table just feet from the pool edge.

Here our sicurid marauder proved just how smart and adaptable he was.  In a very small fraction of a second the tiny but complex brain of this critter must have had to calculate that at this point in the chase, the much larger dog behind him was too close and too fast  for him to escape to the any near tree or large bush. That escape route —up a tree- his usual escape strategy was not available.  The closest tree was on the far side of the pool, but that was a good 25 feet across a six foot deep watery barrier  with a good eight inch climb out  the pool water over the bull nosed brick coping of the pool edge.  

To catch the squirrel Milo would have to race around one or the other  side of the 40 foot long pool to get to that location.   But for the bushy tailed marauder that was the only safe route of escape. 

Our gray with the white tipped tail jumped right into the pool and beating the water to a bubbly froth  swam the distance across in what I estimate was no more than two seconds,  Then without hesitation the squirrel somehow jumped upward to grasped the coarse brick coping and leaped soaking wet out of the pool  over the coping on the far side.  

The dripping wet squirrel was well up the nearest tree when Milo, growling and barking in frustration, reached the streak of water-stained brick where the wet squirrel had tracked across the brick patio. 

I added a new note to my nature observations.  I added a codicil to the Sicurus chapter: “squirrels can swim very well”. They can think even better.  It took some quick mental calculations to determine that taking a short unlikely and probably his first ever swim was the best route for escape.  Yet he calculated that unlikely route was the best and safest snd he made the decision in only a very small fraction of a second. 

WILL PANDEMIC BECOME ENDEMIC? WILL COVID GO AWAY?

WILL CORONA VIRUS GO AWAY?  

NO UNWITTINGLY WE HAVE DESIGNED OUR MODERN WORLD FOR NEAR IDEAL DISEASE TRANSMISSION 

The truth of the matter is over the last seventy years or so we have unwittingly created  a world that is an ideal setting  for generation and transmission of deadly pathogens and recurrent pandemics. 

The world population is now over 7 billion.  Our planet is for the first time in into long history massively overpopulated with a single species —-Homo sapiens.  Our species is now the most common large animal on earth,  with more Individua

A than than any other large animal wild or domestic. Though the Norway rat and an insect— ants—beats us out in sheer numbers. 

This too numerous human species of ours  are found most concentrated in densely packed urban enclaves.  These cities melding together into megalopolises  where tens of millions of people live cheek by jowl. Here their life ways are characterized by necessary and economically efficient dense packing. The denizens of these places are forced to work and live in close proximity to others.  They are crammed into subway cars, elevators, and huddle together in closed spaces to shop, eat, drink and (sometimes) be merry.  Their entertainment venues are even more densely packed crowded theaters and concert halls.  

Escape from the crowded cities for “vacation” is accomplished by packing themselves off into other tight spaces.  Most commonly travelers are arranged  sardine like, into airplanes where for hours on end they are forced to  breath and rebreathe the air of some hundreds of other passengers from all walks of life and all stages of disease transmission. Others jam crowded tour ships built like floating cities where they live eat and freely spread germs to each other, then disembark en masse each day in so called “tourist destinations” which are other densely populated port cities where they disperse  and disseminate disease vectors or become infected themselves. 

Sexual activity is credited as the most effective means of germ transmission. Early societies were quick to control this act, not for social or sexual dominance as some would have it, but for survival of the tribe or clan from deadly pathogens.   Tribes which adopted these practices tended to survive  others passed into extinction and obscurity. Today promiscuity is rampant in our overpopulated world. Traditional restraints on the most intimate of interpersonal practices have been abandoned for sexual perversions, rampant promiscuity and desperate experimentation.  Modern sexual practices of the western world would make the debased Roman emperor Nero blush with embarrassment,  then wonder why he hadn’t thought of that perversion himself. 

We have abandoned traditional  small family farms and animal husbandry enterprises for factory farms where we grow mono crops subject more subject to plant disease outbreak and we house thousands of upon thousands of domestic food animals in horrible conditions of close confinement.  These places are breeding grounds for pathogens which once introduced can spread like a wild fire through the entire confined population and often can jump to human hosts to cause pandemics. 

In less advanced, but recently more affluent nations, ancient food gathering and wildlife exploitation practices have not died out with new  modern sources of food,  but continue to be practiced.  In these places exploitation of dwindling wildlife—wild  birds,  small mammals, reptiles, and  marine organisms formerly used as food and ancient medical remedies continue unabated.  These wild animals are kept alive  in inhumane and unclean confinement until purchased and slaughtered .  It is here again where again humans play into the hands of disease organisms which are programmed to exploit opportunities of confinement to disperse and reproduce or evolve into other more deadly forms. .  It is in these on going and unrestrained  circumstances—that new human pathogens arise from those which had only formerly been transmitted among a wild population. 

So it is clear we have unwittingly created a world for the betterment and wide transmission of deadly pathogens.  Our modern  society has created conditions to generate the “perfect storm” fir recurrent deadly pandemics which even our great science and technology can not completely quell or keep up with new or novel pathogens which arise so rapidly.  

The ancients, thousands of years ago in the Fertile Crescent  of the Middle East were faced with similar  threats of disease. Those tribes and races of man which survived were those which adopted certain social, dietary, and sexual practices in response to the disease threat which lserved to limit exposure. avoid contamination and limit disease mortality .These sexual, social and dietary practices operated for thousands of years successfully in some cases until modern times. 

Modern society seems to believe that we have overcome these threats from the natural world. We pridefull believe that science and progressive thought will protect us moderns and we now to thumb our noses at Mother Nature laws of evolution and disease transmission.  

The  Covid 19 pandemic is just the most recent and deadly in a spate of  recent pathogen outbreaks. The organisms we face are pre programmed to exploit host animals (humans) in congested, crowded and enclosed spaces. Circumstances and places in which modern humans are now forced to inhabit. We now live in a world well adapted for germ transmission so we can expect continued plagues from these ubiquitous evolving and unnumbered disease organisms.  If we fail to recognize our wayward course in this world we live in which is governed by the forces of nature and in which we are only one of a myriad of other species subject to disease  we will continue to suffer the consequences of our behavior.     

Humans have survived as a species because they were able to change and adapt to new conditions.  They evolved socio-dietary-sexual practices in response to the existential threat of disease perhaps thousands of years ago.  

Perhaps it is time in this of COVID-19 that we finally accept the challenge from the natural world of which we are an integral and dependent part and adapt to its rules and conditions rather than hubristically  ignoring Mother Nature. 

 

Biden Wins In Tainted Election Has No Mandate

Joe Biden has won. But in a tainted election with the connivance and collusion of the mass media, the Chinese and their Covid virus, massive amounts of money from powerful elites  and the corrupt election practices of several key states which gave him only the slimmest  (suspicious) margin of victory.   

His party lost seats in the House. Latinos and Blacks went for Trump in record numbers The Senate remains in GOP hands.    The Supreme Court is more conservative than in the last 50 years  Thre was no “blue wave”.   Joe remains at the head of a constituency of the fringe far left, populated by the BLM movement, radical feminists, the LBGT xyz community,  socialists,  and other malcontents.  

 God help him.

 He faces powerful forces on his left and right, a pandemic, a faltering economy in the fragile early stages of recovery and a nation as divided and angry as it was in pre Civil War in 1860. He has little chance of success. 

Joe sold himself as a unifier and  “not Donald Trump” and nothing more. He has no legitimate mandate. 

But Joe does have a choice. He could be a great transformative president who will bring peace and unity, or a Carter-style disaster who will be swept out and replaced by a more tactful, traditional but true Trumpian Republican in 2024.  

To be that transformer Jie must uncover an inner source of great courage and force of character   Both of which have been in little evidence in his stealth and “basement” campaign.  

Yes he can be that great unifier,  by simply coming to terms with what was apparent to all in this last lingering election-the fact that fully half of this nation are traditionalists with needs and aspirations. These are  the vast, nationally ubiquitous,  conservative, family oriented, hard working, god fearing, gun toting, life-affirming, bible loving, race and gender neutral. law and order abiding, white, black, Hispanic, Asian folk who love this nation, love freedom, economic opportunity and dearly want to see it prosper.   His acknowledgement and support of the legitimacy of these massive numbers of  American citizens, their culture and values, (termed “irredeemables” and worse by his supporters,) would go a long way to healing the nation’s wounds.   

His politicians empty campaign words of “unity” would then become real .   But that would mean alienating the powerful radical forces on the extreme left he has made  a Faustian bargain with,  and which this election has demonstrated  is so unpopular with so many American voters.  

Does Joe have it?  Or is he only another hack politician living high for fifty years on the taxpayers dime seeking a new and softer bed in the White House and even bigger more lucrative “deals” and emoluments for his family and the infamous Hunter?

Joe has a choice.  

Let’s all pray that he finds that inner courage.   

Glen Greenwald Can’t Publish Biden Scandal Story -Resigns

 Glen Greenwald Resigns From Intercept 

About six years ago I discovered “The Intercept” and the journalist on the left whom I considered one of the very few,  maybe the only, real journalist remaining  in that progressive (left) part of the journalistic spectrum.

Glen was to me  “the best investigative journalist” of his time and place.  He never disappointed me. 

Glen co-founded “the Intercept” with two other journalists.  His agreement with them may have included boilerplate language found in such contracts which state that  editors are permitted to “edit” author’s  work and submitted work can not be published elsewhere.  

Apparently, the recent revelations (theTony  Bobulinski  documents and witness statements) about candidate Joe Biden’s history of working for himself and the Biden family in China, Ukraine and elsewhere to sell influence and access, while in office on the taxpayers dime drawing the salary of a VPOTUS attracted the attention of Glen Greenwald.  The Bobulinski revelations were  too much of a story for honest journalist Glen Greenwald to ignore.     

Unlike the entire USA media world (aside from Fox News and the NY Post and a few others )US media have  studiously ignored or sat on this story of corruption in high places by a candidate who seems in some polls likely to be our next president.  

Glen apparently wrote a piece on the scandal swirling around Joe and the Biden family self-enrichment schemes to take huge sums of “pay to play” money from Chinese and Ukrainian oligarchs seeking influence on Washington. . But Glen’s “editor partners” at the Intercept were unwilling to publish it as written, and were fearful of breaking  the great gray wall of silence erected by the media industry to protect this candidate from embarrassing, unethical revelations or answering probing questions.  Instead these “journos” some of whom may have become an  “accessory after the fact” (an accomplice to crime) by  conspiring with Biden to hide his corrupt past. For the “fake news” media no stories which could in any way advantage President Trump can ever be published.  This is America? 

Glen tried to publish,  but was stymied by the legal constraints of his contract. But instead of submission to censorship, he courageously resigned. Kudos Glen. I wish him great success in any future ventures. 

I sought out the Intercept for the article documenting Glen’s departure   In this piece the purveyors of fake fake news, “the editors”, slime Mr Greewald as posing as a victim, characterizing him as  a juvenile, throwing a tantrum,  etc. They attempt to smear an honest journalist, as they hide a real news story that real journalists would be eager to put their name to,  as they perform the responsible duty of a legitimate Fourth Estate —to truthfully inform the people.  

Below see excerpt from: the 10.29-2020 article in the Intercept, Glen Greenwsld Resigns” . 

“The narrative Glenn presents about his departure is teeming with distortions and inaccuracies — all of them designed to make him appear as a victim, rather than a grown person throwing a tantrum. It would take too long to point them all out here, but we intend to correct the record in time. For now, it is important to make clear that our goal in editing his work was to ensure that it would be accurate and fair. While he accuses us of political bias, it was he who was attempting to recycle the dubious claims of a political campaign — the Trump campaign — and launder them as journalism.”!

This above l is what goes for journalism today but is more representative of the propaganda sheets of East Germany during the Cold War years. This episode is a microcosm of  the sad state of our nation’s media co-conspirators with corrupt politicians. 

THE BIDEN “COSA NOSTRA”

 The story that the left is trying to submerge and bury is the Hunter Biden Abandoned Laptop Scandal.  Drug addled Robert (Hunter) Biden abandoned a laptop filled with compromising photographs, and emails that reveal the inner working s of the Biden Family Cosa Nostra. (Italian: Cosa= “thing”, NOSTRA  “our.“  Thus:  “our thing”)  These  data  prove that Joe not only knew about his son’s deals but that he was actually involved in or directed them.  Since 2017 ( when Joe suspiciously strong armed the Ukrainians to fire the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma Holdings a gas company where his son held a lucrative board seat) Joe  has been repeating the big lie that he “never spoke to his son about Hunter’s business deals and had no knowledge of them.”  The laptop proves that Joe lied over and over again.  

 The abandoned laptop now in the hands of the FBI reveals that the Biden’s had their “own thing” and that Joe was the head (“Big Guy“)  of this family business involved in selling access to illicitly influence government policy.  

The  Biden family  “business” in which Joe’s brothers, his sister and son(s)  were all involved, operated by using  Joes’s name and elected position to leverage emoluments ( in the form of fees, no-show jobs, lucrative  positions on corporate boards, cash, gifts, and other forms of self-enrichment )  from willing and eager foreign corporations and individuals ready  to pay  to gain access to top tier politicians like Joe so as to influence legislation ad policy in Washington .  This is nothing new.   corrupt politicians have been doing this since the days of the Roman Empire.  Most recently Bill and Hillary were masters at.selling influence and  in “pay to play” schemes. Hillary was heavily  involved stuffing the coffers of the Clinton Global Initiative with cash while  serving with Biden as Obama’s Secretary of State (thus, her need for her own now infamous secret mail server). Joe probably learned a few tricks from Clinton during these years.  The  Clinton Global Initiative’s real function was as a slush fund for the Clintons and HRC’s 2016 election fund.  The Bidens were not as smart or as corrupt as Bill and Hillary.  But with 47 years in DC even dummies learn how to swindle the public.  And for the “family” headed with a professional politician  there  was enough time and foreign funds to share and to raise all of the Biden family fortunes. 

Circumstances dramatically  improved Biden family “business opportunities”, especially while Joe served for eight years as Obama’s VP and “point man” in China, Ukraine and elsewhere.  Based on new evidence from an actual witness and business partner of  Hunter Biden we know more lurid details.  Not only was Joe informed of Hunter’s business deals but he was a silent partner who demanded a 10% skim off the top profits.  In addition to his ten percent “rake off “ he further stipulated his name was to be scrupulously kept out of any “deals”.  This served the groups business interests in that Joe could continue to play the mythic  role of “working-class guy, commuter politician“ and thus get reelected on a regular basis and keep the  ” family thing business” going. 

But even a Gambino crime family would have to “go to the mattresses” when a family‘s  son falls prey to drugs and other illegal habits and causes an evidence-stuffed laptop to wind up in the hands of the FBI.  

 But sadly the USA “media, government, intelligence, industrial complex“  have circled  the wagons to ignore the whole lurid story. 

STEALTH CANDIDATE BIDEN HOODWINKS ELECTORATE

 Joe Biden is the Democrat stealth candidate.  Stealth candidates misinform the electorate and thus  have no mandate to govern.  In a democracy they are the political “con men (women), an abomination.

In our system of Constitutional representative, government the people, the citizenry, the legitimate voters  are the source of the power to govern. They elect those they want to represent them. Each election should be a sacrosanct event of the transfer of power from one administration to the next  in which it is only the people, the “demos” of the Greek word  “demokratia,” who are the source of the mandate to govern.  

Only the people can transfer the right to govern to their candidate. But an essential  corollary of this right is that the “demos” also have a right and a duty to know the platform, plans and. details of the candidates.  They have a Constitutional right  to information about the candidates.. 

A stealth candidate (“candidate furtif”) is one who knowingly and purposely conceals his or her positions or plans, or purposely misrepresents them.  Most often this is  because their actual plans are so unpopular that if revealed the likelihood of their election would be compromised.  Such a candidate nullifies the underlying basis of the election. The victor in such an election has no valid mandate to govern.

What is also clear is the need for a robust unbiased,  fact-based Fourth Estate which functions to honestly inform the citizenry regarding  the nature of all the candidates and their platforms. Sadly, in this, our mass media have failed us.  

The politicized modern mass media and social media in the Trump era have an agenda of their own.  They ignore the sacred will of the people, and instead have turned toward  positing the view of a few elites. They have embraced the idea of a super intelligent, “scientific”, better-informed elite oligarchy ( oligo = the few).  The “few” in government, academia and the media who have  self-established their own elite status believe that they—the few—know what is best for the more than 320 million of their compatriots.   In doing so they abandon our most elemental  laws, precepts, and precedents embodied in our Constituion.  These so called “journalists”, rather than functioning to inform the electorate,  instead conspire with the stealth candidate to submerge, conceal and misrepresent the candidate’s agenda  and formal platform.  In 2020, Joe Biden has become the most recent example of the  “stealth candidate”.

What is Biden and his campaign hiding?  

Biden’s campaign is both literally and virtually buried away in his dark, dank Delaware basement.  Biden is an old man. He is hiding his own physical frailty and mental decline. But far worse than that, he is concealing and misrepresenting his far left social, economic and domestic agenda.  A platform he has agreed to to gain the nomination in a new far left Democrat party.  He is welcome to present this agenda to the voters,  as there are some who support such a platform. Instead he says ”they don’t deserve to know”.  So he remains a silent con man hoodwinking the electorate  .  His candidacy is a dishonest one. Even if he were to win,  he would have no valid mandate to govern because he has so thoroughly misrepresented himself to the voter. 

We still have time for Biden to come clean and for the journalists to ask candidate Biden some hard questions.  Make him an honest candidate,  who,  if he wins, can actually have a valid mandate to govern. . 

MEDIA: HIDE CRIME IN LAPTOP CASE: ACCESSORY AFTER FACT

 The MS Media: Accessory After the Fact In Biden Case?

Accessory After the Fact

While merely failing to report a crime is one thing, helping to conceal a crime is another. A person can generally be charged with accessory after the fact, or aiding and abetting, if he or she wasn't actually present during the commission of a crime, but took actions to conceal the crime or help the perpetrators avoid capture.

The recent revelations regarding the Hunter Biden laptop embrolglio  angers me. Crimes have been revealed  that should be exposed and investigated,  But forces within our nation  conspire to hide or submerge these.  In this case it is clear that the politicized  media and social media are conspiring with Democrats to aid and abet criminal activity.  They should be charged  as accessories after the fact. 

Several months ago a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden,former VP Joe Biden’s son, was dropped off at a computer shop in Delaware for repairs after it was damaged.  The owner, Hunter Biden, failed to collect  the instrument after signing  an agreement which stipulated that failure to collect and pay the repair costs would result in forfeiture of the laptop to the shop owner. 

After months went by, the shop owner—by this time the formal owner of the abandoned computer—inspected the hard drive and content of the instrument  in an attempt to locate the owner and perhaps get paid for his services.  What he found was  evidence in the form of imagery and e-mails indicating  probable criminal activity.  Fearful that he may become an accessory to a crime ( aiding and abetting a criminal activity) he called in the FBI and presented  the instrument to that organization.  He took the precaution to copy the contents of the hard drive to protect himself. 

That hard drive eventually came to the attention of the NY Post ( oldest and third or fourth largest newspaper in circulation) which reported last week ( Wednesday Oct 14, 2020) that besides incriminating pictures of the former owner, (Hunter Biden) there were incriminating emails. These reveal that Hunter, while on the board of  Burisma Holding Co. (a Ukrainian natural gas firm) introduced his father, VP Joe Biden, to a chief executive (Vladimir Pozharsyi) of that firm with the apparent intention of influencing or encouraging favorable action from the White House in regard to Burisma and its dealings with the USA.    

Pozharskyi’s email thanks Hunter for the introduction to his father and the opportunity for time spent with the VP.  The document (dated April 17, 2015) is evidence of a possible troubling act of collusion between father and son to use government position for personal gain.   

The email is of interest because it occurs just about one year before VP Joe Biden  (at the time “ point man”  for President Obama in Ukraine)  infamously called for the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma for illegal activities  (where Hunter was on the Board earning an exorbitant fee).  Was this act the payoff for Hunter’s job?

At the time,  Biden bragged on TV that he threatened the Ukraine President to withhold  a billion dollar US loan, unless the offending prosecutor was fired within the next six hours—the time of Biden’s planned departure from Ukraine. Biden proudly stated  that the man was  fired and in return he released the loan money.  

The VP  didn’t reveal at that time that Burisma was paying Hunter Biden some $80,000 per month to sit on the board of the Burisma gas company in Ukraine, a nation in which Hunter  had no knowledge and an industry in which he had no expedience.  Hunter  was simply being paid for his connections to the White House.  During the Obama years a “pay for play” operation was rampant in both the Clinton-run State Department, and now it seems as well, in Biden’s VP office.  Famously, Biden denied any knowledge of Hunter’s compromising  position when questioned about the firing of the prosecutor. Biden’s reply has always been, “the firing had nothing to do with Hunter”, adding somewhat unbelievably: “I never spoke with my son about his business dealings”.

Now we know, as a result of the abandoned laptop, Biden lied.  Biden is not the lovable “ old uncle Joe”,  an act  he has spent 47 years in DC polishing and perfecting portraying for re-election. His  record instead reveals more of a typical corrupt  professional “pol” in the worst sense of the word. A lecher, a plagiarist, a master of self emolument by  “pay for play.”   Biden is the head of a family, in which his sister, his brother and his two sons were all well schooled and proficient  at using the Biden name to sell access to the .”regular guy“ Senator who rode the commuter train home each day, but who   ( in Hunter’s now exposed emails) was really the “big guy” who skimmed 10% off the top of all of Hunter’s deals. 

But Biden’s connivance and malfeasance is totally ignored by the press.  Biden is the benefactor of the main stream media’s abandonment of its critical role  of acting as members of the  “Fourth Estate” — journalists- who function to expose such acts.  Sadly, in our time the media are in cahoots with the perpetrators, rather than eager to expose them. In the Trump era they function as co-conspirators as they aid and abet the criminals by ignoring and helping to hide criminal activity.

After the NY Post broke the story, all other MSM remained silent, either failing to report the story at all or claiming it was a Russian hoax.   Tech giants Twitter and Facebook actually blocked accounts of those who attempted to retweet or pass on the NY Post piece.  The social media giants even went to the extreme of actually blocking the accounts of the NY Post and government officials as well. What about our First Amendment?  

In our system of jurisprudence, those who aid or abet a criminal act can be charged with being an accessory after the fact.  I suggest here that the media and social media are hiding aiding and and abetting criminal  acts of the Biden family.   Certain editors, reporters and publications which knowingly hold the incriminating stories and fail to report them are acting like the dozens of witnesses in the infamous 1964, New York, Kitty Genoese slaying who stared out of their windows, ignoring the violence they heard below but doing nothing to report or aid the screaming victim. Those folks were held culpable for failure to report a crime.  But gave no aid to the criminal.   Can these publishers and journalists today who actually conspire with a criminal to avoid detection be considered  accessories after the fact?  They are intentionally concealing a crime and aiding a criminal to avoid prosecution. 

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