friday, 'the cw' aired 2 hours of 'dynasty.'
this coming friday is the season finale.
is it also the series' finale? could be. if it is, they only have themselves to blame.
for 2 seasons, we wanted fallon and liam together. this season started with their wedding.
and from there it was all downhill.
fallon refused to bend. she refused to put liam 1st. she tried to claim this was a feminist stand.
no, this was a selfish bitch stand.
when your husband is kidnapped and his hand broken when the kidnappers tried to cut off his finger, you take a moment after he's back to have a planned dinner with him. you don't blow him off over and over and over ... for the entire season.
they spat on the fans with that move.
and if you thought fallon was coming off like an ungrateful bitch before, the 2 hour airing made it even worse.
liam left last time i covered the show. they were going to take a break.
convinced he's hired a divorce attorney, but not convinced enough to call the attorney to make sure, she gets depressed and sleeps with her old college nemesis.
and, of course, her assistant ava saw it all. yeah, fallon slept with the man - an underling - at the office. that's also known as harassment, by the way. maybe he'll end up owning fallon's business?
so fallon then feels guilty especially when she finds out liam is not out of town - he's staying a sammy joe's hotel. they go to a couples' retreat. liam's honset. fallon has a freak out.
in liam's honset moment in therapy, he says he really hasn't been the husband fallon deserves.
that was a bunch of bulls**t, by the way. i'm sick of the faux feminism on this show. liam takes the lbame. he's been a bad husband. how?
all he's done since they got married was write 1 article. excuse me, it was an award winning article and it was an article that exposed congressional corruption that went back decades.
no, he didn't get offered a book deal. but that was a major article.
more to the point, that has nothing to do with what a spouse brings to a marriage and no feminist would ever believe that it does.
this show pretends to be pro-woman and feminist, but it's not.
so fallon can't offer her own honesty. instead, she waits until they're outside the hotel to tell liam that she needs tell him something. but she won't then. she tells him she'll tell him later.
why?
apparently, she has to tell her one-off lover 1st. i'm not joking.
she's so hideous.
and stupid because she tells ava 1st and ava calls liam and gets him to come over to the office. while fallon speaks to the man in her office - with the door open - liam comes in and hears them talking.
fallon's telling him that it's over.
they bicker but that's about it.
liam's already gone.
fallon goes back to the mansion to meet with liam who had already had his things sent over -as they agreed on the retreat - but he hasn't unpacked. why? because he heard her. they argue. she is upset that he thinks it was an affair. it was 1 time!
oh, that makes all the difference in the world, right?
what a load of nonsense.
she couldn't wait to bed that guy from college. she was lusting after him long before liam moved out. we saw her drooling over his body in the gym, long before liam moved out. we saw her flirsting with him and having drinks with him while she was blowing off liam - and the romantic dinner that he had planned and she had agreed to.
she did what she wanted. that's all fallon's ever done.
it appears the marriage is over. it may not be. there's 1 more episode this season.
but the show has really mistreated the fans this season.
what else?
dominique. jeff (her son) wants her to get a divorce from brady without (a) brady knowing and (b) to get it dated to years earlier so brady won't have a claim on her money from her successful design company. alexis comes to her and tells her she's going to tell brady the truth - that he and dom are still married. (remember, when they were trapped in the mine shaft earlier this season, they each swapped a secret. dominique told that she'd never gotten a divorce from brady all those years ago and alexis told her about having a secret daughter - amanda - that no 1 knew about.) she wanted 20% of the company or she would tell. and she needed 20% in 24 hours. if dom didn't agree, she'd tell brady and he'd get 50% of the company.
she went to jeff who was no help. and he's off his meds and crazy again. paranoid that elon musk is trying to steal his space program (michael tried to point out to jeff that musk has been interested in space flights long before jeff). jeff has to take those meds due to the poisoning adam did on him, remember?
the attorney jeff referred her to finds a woman who can put a fake date on the papers but it's going to take a bit of time.
so dom decides to trick alexis. she calls her and alexis comes over. she tells her she'll give her the 20% but 1st alexis has to learn how the business works. she's not showing her the inner room unless alexis hands over her cell phone. she can't risk losing a major write up in 'women's wear daily' because alexis leaks something. alexis hands the phone, dom opens a door and alexis starts to step in when dom pushes her in, slams the door and locks it.
she's not a cruel person, she explains. there are energy bars and bottled water in the closet with her. and a bucket. she'll let her out shortly.
she thinks she's solved it. but alexis emerges from the closet. she picked the lock - something she's learned to do as a result of various men she's been with.
so dom decides to tell brady. despite jeff not trusting him and thinking he only showed up to get dom's money, brady rips up the check she offers and tells her he just wants a chance to start over with her.
the episode ends with him telling alexis he can't believe he ripped up that check. she tells him that their plan will net them far more money - yeah, alexis was in on it all along.
kirby. what to make of her. at 1 point, michael is upset with blake (blake's going to drop out of the campaign but then crystal stops that). he can't believe blake's betrayed him. kirby tells him she has something that will help him. joseph left her an insuranace policy when he died. she hands him a book. in it, joseph documented every cover up blake ever pulled. michael takes the book but later returns it. he can't do it. this isn't how he operates or how kirby operates. she agrees and burns the book. after he leaves though? she opens a drawer and pulls out a photocopy version of the book.
amanda and adam? they continue to be at odds and amanda is out for revenge. she's working to topple him at the hospital. her 1st attempt is to cancel his anti-aging research. he calls in a favor with crystal who meets amanda for lunch. if amanda cancels that program, crystal will cancel the funding for 5 projects that the carringtons are supporting and that will probably make the hospital fire amanda.
amanda smiles but she's seething (wouldn't you be? your own step-mother blackmailing you). she agrees to leave adam's funding in place for his project.
she then requests from her own assistant every file on the 5 projects the carringtons are funding. that's when she learns that there are only 4. remember adam shut down the alzheimer's project because he stole the drug for his anti-aging program. amanda brings the doctor over that project back and worlds will collide apparently next episode.
did i leave out anything? i don't think so.
season wraps up this friday.
oh, sammy jo. he was on both episodes. didn't do much. in fact, that was a point during 1 episode where he just wanted to just watch his telenova as he sat at the front desk of his hotel.
let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to e-mails obtained by The Post.
The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the e-mail reads.
An earlier e-mail from May 2014 also shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma’s No. 3 exec, asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf.
The blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim that he’s “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings” — is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer.
The computer was dropped off at a repair shop in Biden’s home state of Delaware in April 2019, according to the store’s owner.
Other material extracted from the computer includes a raunchy, 12-minute video that appears to show Hunter, who’s admitted struggling with addiction problems, smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified woman, as well as numerous other sexually explicit images.
The press ignored the contents, Facebook and Twitter censored THE POST. If you go back to the way we covered it in October and November of last year, you'll note we refuted the claim of "hacking" over and over. And we did that because that was one of the lies being used. "We're not censoring the story, we just don't report the contents of something when it was hacked." First off, lie. Second of, it wasn't hacked nor was the laptop stolen. If I take one of my guitars in to be restrung (which I honestly do from time to time, I hate putting on new strings myself) and I don't pick it up, it's not my guitar. It's not someone's job to hold onto my guitar for six months or more. They have limited space and if I haven't paid for the work done, it's no longer mine. Hunter left his laptop to be repaired. He never paid the bill and he never picked it up. At that point, the computer repair shop owned the laptop. They were not 'hackers.' They were not thieves.
Those are basic facts and it felt like we were having to repeat that over and over here back then.
Glenn's compiled a video report of what the media did in terms of censoring the story.
He's also covered that terrain in text form:
A severe escalation of the war on a free internet and free discourse has taken place over the last twelve months. Numerous examples of brute and dangerous censorship have emerged: the destruction by Big Tech monopolies of Parler at the behest of Democratic politicians at the time that it was the most-downloaded app in the country; the banning of the sitting president from social media; and the increasingly explicit threats from elected officials in the majority party of legal and regulatory reprisals in the event that tech platforms do not censor more in accordance with their demands.
But the most severe episode of all was the joint campaign — in the weeks before the 2020 election — by the CIA, Big Tech, the liberal wing of the corporate media and the Democratic Party to censor and suppress a series of major reports about then-presidential frontrunner Joe Biden. On October 14 and then October 15, 2020, The New York Post, the nation's oldest newspaper, published two news reports on Joe Biden's activities in Ukraine and China that raised serious questions about his integrity and ethics: specifically whether he and his family were trading on his name and influence to generate profit for themselves. The Post said that the documents were obtained from a laptop left by Joe Biden's son Hunter at a repair shop.
From the start, the evidence of authenticity was overwhelming. The Post published obviously genuine photos of Hunter that were taken from the laptop. Investigations from media outlets found people who had received the emails in real-time and they compared the emails in their possession to the ones in the Post's archive, and they matched word-for-word. One of Hunter's own business associates involved in many of these deals, Tony Bobulinski, confirmed publicly and in interviews that the key emails were genuine and that they referenced Joe Biden's profit participation in one deal being pursued in China. A forensics analyst issued a report concluding the archive had all the earmarks of authenticity. Not even the Bidens denied that the emails were real: something they of course would have done if they had been forged or altered. In sum, as someone who has reported on numerous large archives similar to this one and was faced with the heavy burden of ensuring the documents were genuine before risking one's career and reputation by reporting them, it was clear early on that all the key metrics demonstrated that these documents were real.
Despite all that, former intelligence officials such as Obama's CIA Director John Brennan and his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper led a group of dozens of former spooks in issuing a public statement that disseminated an outright lie: namely, that the laptop was "Russian disinformation.” Note that this phrase contains two separate assertions: 1) the documents came from Russia and 2) they are fake ("disinformation"). The intelligence officials admitted in this letter that — in their words — “we do not know if the emails are genuine or not,” and also admitted that “we do not have evidence of Russian involvement.”
The new discussion taking place (by some, many in the media remain silent) resulted from Ben Schreckinger's new book THE BIDEN'S: INSIDE THE FIRST FAMILY'S FIFTY YEAR RISE TO POWER. He discussed the book with Krystal and Saagar on BREAKING POINTS below.
In related news, Jerry Dunleavy (WASHINGTON EXAMINER) reports:
Hunter Biden boasted of having "access to the highest level” in China, according to emails of his business contacts published on Thursday.
The alleged claim by President Joe Biden's adult son was discussed in a Jan. 28, 2015, email obtained by Business Insider from Democratic donor Sam Jauhari to Saudi business tycoon Sheikh Mohammed al-Rahbani, as the men tried to put together a plan to free Libya’s many billions in frozen funds.
“The commission has committed itself to announce the results of the elections within 24 hours,” the head of the electoral commission Jalil Adnan Khalaf said at a press conference. “Yesterday's simulations were to ensure that.”
Sinan Mahmoud (THE NATIONAL) counts 3,249 people in all seeking seats in Parliament BROOKINGS notes this is a huge drop from 2018 when 7,178 candidates ran for office. RUDAW is among those noting perceived voter apathy, "Turnout for Iraq’s October 10 parliamentary election is expected to be a record low, with a recent poll predicting just 29 percent of eligible voters will cast ballots." Human Rights Watch has identified another factor which may impact voter turnout, "People with disabilities in Iraq are facing significant obstacles to participating in upcoming parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021, due to discriminatory legislation and inaccessible polling places, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Without urgent changes, hundreds of thousands of people may not be able to vote. The 36-page report, “‘No One Represents Us’: Lack of Access to Political Participation for People with Disabilities in Iraq,” documents that Iraqi authorities have failed to secure electoral rights for Iraqis with disabilities. People with disabilities are often effectively denied their right to vote due to discriminatory legislation and inaccessible polling places and significant legislative and political obstacles to running for office." Another obstacle is getting the word out on a campaign. Political posters are being torn down throughout Iraq. Halgurd Sherwani (KURDiSTAN 24) observes, "Under Article 35 of the election law, anyone caught ripping apart or vandalizing an electoral candidate's billboard could be punished with imprisonment for at least a month but no longer than a year, Joumana Ghalad, the spokesperson for the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), told a press conference on Wednesday." And there's also the battles in getting out word of your campaign online. THE NEW ARAB reported weeks ago, "Facebook is restricting advertisements for Iraqi political parties and candidates in the run-up to the country's parliamentary elections, an official has told The New Arab's Arabic-language sister site."
THE WASHINGTON POST's Louisa Loveluck Tweeted: of how "chromic mistrust in [the] country's political class" might also lower voter turnout. Mina Aldroubi (THE NATIONAL) also notes, "Experts are predicting low turnout in October due to distrust of the country’s electoral system and believe that it will not deliver the much needed changes they were promised since 2003." Mistrust would describe the feelings of some members of The October Revolution. Mustafa Saadoun (AL-MONITOR) notes some of their leaders, at the recent Opposition Forces Gathering conference announced their intent to boycott the elections because they "lack integrity, fairness and equal opportunities." Distrust is all around. Halkawt Aziz (RUDAW) reported on how, " In Sadr City, people are disheartened after nearly two decades of empty promises from politicians."
After the election, there will be a scramble for who has dibs on the post of prime minister. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has 90 candidates in his bloc running for seats in the Parliament and one of those, Hassan Faleh, has insisted to RUDAW, "The position of the next prime minister is the least that the Sadrist movement deserves, and we are certain that we will be the largest and strongest coalition in the next stage." Others are also claiming the post should go to their bloc such as the al-Fatah Alliance -- the political wing of the Badr Organization (sometimes considered a militia, sometimes considered a terrorist group). ARAB WEEKLY reported, "Al-Fateh Alliance parliament member Naim Al-Aboudi said that Hadi al-Amiri is a frontrunner to head the next government, a position that can only be held by a Shia, according to Iraq’s power-sharing agreement." Some also insist the prime minister should be the head of the State of Law bloc, two-time prime minister and forever thug Nouri al-Maliki. Moqtada al-Sadr's supporters do not agree and have the feeling/consensus that, "Nouri al-Maliki has reached the age of political menopause and we do not consider him to be our rival because he has lost the luster that he once had so it is time for him to retire."
