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May 11, 2021
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America 'in deep peril' and conflict: Socialism and Marxism vs. Constitutional freedom and liberty . . . More than 120 retired American military officials have signed an open letter warning that America has veered left under Democratic control and that the nation's survival is on the line. "Under a Democrat Congress and the Current Administration, our Country has taken a hard left turn toward Socialism and a Marxist form of
tyrannical government which must be countered now by electing congressional and presidential candidates who will always act to defend our Constitutional Republic. The survival of our Nation and its cherished freedoms, liberty, and historic values are at stake," the letter states. "We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776. The conflict is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom
and liberty." Just the News
Newt Gingrich: ‘As a historian… in my mind, there’s no question that those states were, in effect, stolen’ in 2020 . . . Although the political and media establishment insists that no “widespread’ fraud occurred in Election 2020, former U.S. House Speaker and historian Newt Gingrich has a far different opinion of what occurred in several key swing states in which then-President Trump initially built a big lead on Election Night. “I think
we learned in 2020 and earlier that we have elections that are too easy to steal,” Gingrich told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel. “In every one of the states that was really close that Trump lost, you had those kind of shenanigans, and you had state law violated in every single one of those states. In my mind, there’s no question that those states were, in effect, stolen. Business & Politics Review
Biden sees Trump rematch as real possibility . . .
Joe Biden is increasingly thinking of his possible reelection and a rematch against former President Donald Trump. “He knows it's a very real possibility,” said one longtime adviser to Biden. In an interview with Axios that aired Sunday evening, White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Biden is anticipating the possibility of running against Trump again. Klain then said that Biden is working to set up a list of accomplishments that will make it more difficult for Trump or any
other Republican to defeat him in 2024. The Hill
Trump super PAC to hold first fundraiser at Bedminster . . . A pro-Donald Trump super PAC is holding its first fundraising event on May 22 at the former president’s Bedminster golf club, according to two people familiar with the planning. The event will benefit Make America Great Again Action, a super PAC spearheaded by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Trump is expected to attend the event, which will include reception and
a dinner. The minimum price for entry is $250,000. Politico
Pentagon's new anti-extremism chief supports radical leftist views, critics charge . . . The Pentagon's point man for quashing extremism in the ranks has drawn scrutiny from critics who charge that the newly appointed official himself has expressed extremist views on American social issues. The official, Bishop Garrison, recently became a senior advisor to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, heading up the Pentagon's "diversity and inclusion"
efforts. Garrison last month also was placed in charge of Austin's freshly formed Countering Extremism Working Group [CEWG]. In a collection of posts dating from 2019, a Twitter account under Bishop Garrison's name vilified Donald Trump and his supporters as racist and championed the discredited 1619 Project. Just the News
US postal inspection arm prioritized surveilling Americans over safeguarding the mail . . . The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service is “completely out of control” and has prioritized surveilling Americans over safeguarding the mail, said Frank Albergo, president of the Postal Police Officers Association. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service allegedly spied on Americans’ social media accounts via an Internet Covert Operations
Program (iCOP). In particular, iCOP analysts monitored “right-wing Parler and Telegram accounts” ahead of planned protests and observed users on Facebook and Twitter. Washington Times
What is going on with USG? No KBG in America, please.
Biden White House demanding reporters let it approve quotes . . . White House reporters are agreeing to allow people they interview to edit their own quotes. Note here that the authors admit they themselves engaged in the practice. "If you’ve read a quote from an administration official in a newspaper or a wire story recently, there’s a good chance that the White House communications team had an opportunity to edit it first. That’s
because the Biden White House frequently demands that interviews with administration officials be conducted on grounds known colloquially as “background with quote approval,” according to five reporters who cover the White House for outlets other than Politico. White House Dossier
GOP Push Back As Biden Admin Remains Confident Despite Low Immigration Approval Rating . . . President Joe Biden’s administration is confident of its immigration policies as Republicans push back on them and a new poll shows a majority of Americans disapprove of how the border crisis is being handled. Ninety-six percent of Democrats, 62% of Independents and 23% of Republicans said they approve of Biden’s work so far, an Associated
Press–NORC poll released Monday shows. Overall, 43% of those polled approve of Biden’s handling of the immigration crisis and 54% disapprove. Among Republicans, a whopping 87% disapprove of his handling and just 11% approve. Independents largely voiced disapproval as well, with 55% disapproving and 41% approving. Despite these low approval numbers on immigration, the administration is continuing to back its policies and efforts at the border. Daily Caller
Hunter Biden and China: The mystery deepens . . . Hunter Biden went into business with a Chinese oil and gas company in 2017. He got assigned an assistant, Jiaqi Bao, who started off as, well, an assistant. Then, things became more personal. Eventually, she was providing him with opposition research to help his father’s presidential campaign, according to Daily Mail reporter Josh Boswell. White House Dossier
Collusion?
Ex-intel officials silent over previous claims about Russia's involvement in Hunter Biden laptop saga . . . The 50 former intelligence officials who signed a letter suggesting Russia was involved with the Hunter Biden laptop saga are now largely silent about why they weighed in on the story weeks before the 2020 presidential election. Despite offering no proof, Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, along with many in the media, dismissed
the October laptop story as being part of a Russian disinformation operation.The October letter, reportedly signed by 51 former intelligence officials plus nine anonymous ones, was even cited by now-President Biden in a presidential debate with former President Donald Trump. Among those to sign their name to the letter were Obama CIA Director John Brennan, Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former George W. Bush CIA Director Michael Hayden, former Obama CIA Director Leon
Panetta, and former Obama acting CIA Director Mike Morell, none of whom responded to the Washington Examiner's questions. Washington Examiner
When the intelligence apparatus views the ensuring of a single party rule as its mission, rather than the safeguarding Americans from foreign threats, totalitarianism sets in. This is what happens in dictatorships like China, Russia, and many others.
Biden criticizes police in his “Proclamation on Peace Officers Memorial Day” . . . President Biden has discovered a novel way to honor policy officers on Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week: Slamming them as racist. According to this year’s proclamation: This year, we also recognize that in many of our communities, especially Black and brown communities, there is a deep sense of distrust towards law enforcement; a distrust
that has been exacerbated by the recent deaths of several Black and brown people at the hands of law enforcement." White House Dossier
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Russian spy unit suspected of directed-energy attacks on US personnel . . . US officials suspect that a notorious Russian spy agency may be behind alleged attacks that are causing mysterious health issues among US government personnel across the world, according to three current and former
officials with direct knowledge of the discussions. Officials do not have a smoking gun linking Russia’s military intelligence unit, the GRU, to the suspected directed-energy incidents, said the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly. CIA Director William Burns is now receiving daily briefings on the investigation. The intelligence community has not reached a consensus or made a formal determination. Politico
Do your jobs, apparatchiks. Russia has been developing directed energy, i.e. counterspace, weapons for decades. Plenty of time to develop countermeasures and deterrence options, to protect Americans. Here's an unclassified DIA report, which acknowledged that “over
the last two decades, Moscow has been developing a suite of counterspace weapons capabilities” including, electronic warfare systems, directed energy weapons, cyberspace.
Space Force general: Chinese, Russian lasers, jammers threaten GPS satellites . . . China’s space weapons include missiles and killer satellites, but Beijing’s most worrying arms are lasers and electronic jammers capable of destroying or disrupting Global Positioning System navigation satellites used by the U.S.
military, the general in charge of space says. Air Force Gen. John W. Raymond, chief of space operations for the Pentagon’s new Space Force, and other Air Force officials told Congress that the U.S. military needs to move quickly to counter increasingly aggressive Chinese and Russian moves in space. Both are building weapons designed to engage in “robust jamming of GPS and communications satellites,” as well as “directed energy systems that can blind, disrupt or damage our satellites,”
Gen. Raymond testified to the House Appropriations defense subcommittee on Friday. Washington Times
Directed energy weapons (DEW) threaten not only the GPS, on which we have come to rely for many aspects of our lives. Russia's and China's DEW weapons threaten people - American servicemen and women.
'Sophisticated and well-designed': Pipeline ransomware traced to criminal enterprise . . . The Biden administration on Monday confronted another major cyberattack with apparent links to Russia while the U.S. energy industry slowly got back on its feet after a crippling assault on the Colonial Pipeline underscored deep vulnerabilities in critical American infrastructure that security experts say must be fixed. The FBI pinned the ransomware
attack, in which key data is locked or stolen and held for ransom, on the mysterious hacker group DarkSide, which believed to have headquarters in Eastern Europe, possibly Russia. White House officials were quick to stress that they believe the Colonial Pipeline was targeted by a criminal enterprise, not a government. “So far, there is no evidence based on, from our intelligence people, that Russia is involved,” the president said. White House is preparing for 'contingencies'
after ransomware assault on nation's energy supply. Washington Times
1. Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
2. USG intel "experts," please stop making silly 'woke' videos and examine Russian cyber intelligence tradecraft and Putin's information confrontation doctrine. And then make an assessment on the attribution of this cyber attack.
Chinese Military Scientists Discussed Man-Made Coronavirus Attack Years Before COVID-19 Pandemic . . . Chinese military scientists in 2015 detailed a plot to unleash a bioengineered SARS coronavirus to cause mass terror and advance the communist regime’s global political ambitions. The Chinese military scientists’ theories were detailed in a 2015 book, first reported recently by News Corp’s The Australian. The scientists advocated for the
weaponization of pathogens, including SARS coronaviruses, to “cause terror and gain political and strategic advantage” over an enemy state. The 261-page book titled “The Unnatural Origin of SARS and Genetic Weapons Based on Man-Made Viruses,” was published in February 2015 by the Military Medical Science Press, a publishing house owned by the Chinese military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Epoch Times
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FDA Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine for 12- to 15-Year-Olds . . . US health regulators have for the first time cleared a Covid-19 vaccine’s use in children, paving the way for many to be immunized before summer camps and the start of the next school year. Millions of people ages 16 years and older have taken the shot from Pfizer and partner BioNTech. The US FDA's decision Monday
widens the vaccine’s use to children as young as 12. The move comes after a study of 2,260 adolescents found the two-dose shot worked safely in that age group. Wall Street Journal
China Accused of Dumping ‘Ultra-Cheap Masks’ Into US Market . . . American medical manufacturers accused China of flooding the U.S. market with "ultra-cheap masks" and asked the world trade authorities to stop the dumping scheme.
The American Mask Manufacturers Association said that the Chinese government provides state subsidies to Chinese manufacturers, allowing them to sell personal protective equipment abroad for a "fraction of the cost." The association warned about the "dangerous reliance" on China which they said makes less reliable equipment compared with American producers. Washington Free Beacon
Tucker Carlson: Fauci let COVID pandemic happen, why isn't there a criminal investigation? . . . We can’t recommend more strongly a new piece by Nicholas Wade, who for more than 50 years has been one of the preeminent science writers in the world. Wade lays out a nearly insurmountable amount of evidence that this virus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Central China. We’ve raised this possibility from the early
days of the pandemic. But this piece all but proves it. At the time the outbreak began last fall, the Wuhan lab was conducting experiments on how to make bat viruses infectious to human beings. The experiments were funded by American tax dollars, the funding for those experiments was approved and directed by Tony Fauci in Washington. It’s hard to believe that, but it’s true, and the piece lays it out. Fox News
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Kabul attack spurs fears over fate of Afghan women as US exits . . . A horrific attack in Kabul over the weekend is underscoring fears about the fate of Afghan women and girls after U.S. troops withdraw. Bombings at a high school in western Kabul on Saturday killed at least 85 people, mostly teenage girls leaving school, and injured nearly 150 more. U.S. lawmakers and other critics had already been sounding the alarm that fragile
gains in Afghan women's rights over the past 20 years will disappear as the United States departs and the Taliban either overruns the Afghan government or makes a power-sharing deal that brings its repressive views back into the mainstream. The Hill
Eleven killed, many wounded in Russian school shooting . . . At least 11 people have been killed and many more wounded after one or more gunmen opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan, the RIA news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the emergency services ministry. Two children could be seen leaping from the third floor of the four-story School Number 175 as gunshots sounded, in a video filmed by an onlooker that was circulated by
RIA. Some Russian news agencies reporting two teenage gunmen were involved and others said a sole shooter took part. Reuters
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Job Openings Rise Despite Hiring Slowdown . . . The number of available jobs grew in April as the pace of hiring slowed, pointing to a widening gap between employers’ unfilled positions and available workers. Job postings at the end of April were 24% higher than February 2020’s pre-pandemic level. Openings at the end of March were 16% above pre-pandemic levels. The growth in available jobs came as hiring cooled to
a seasonally adjusted 266,000 in April from a gain of 770,000 the prior month, according to the Labor Department. Wall Street Journal
Pandemic unemployment benefits system is facilitating skyrocketing fraud, experts say . . . Last year's expansion of eligibility for jobless benefits to self-employed created "once in a lifetime opportunity for every scammer, fraudster and thief in the world," said identity theft expert in Indiana AG's office. Unemployment fraud continues to rise during the coronavirus pandemic, according to several state-level officials and experts on
identity theft. The experts said that the weekly federal unemployment aid that began in March of last year is a magnet for fraudsters domestic and foreign. Just the News
AAA on pipeline attack: gas price hikes, fuel shortages possible for these states . . . AAA warns gas prices could increase by 3 to 7 cents this week in response to the disruption. The national average for gas prices jumped 6 cents on the week to $2.96 and is poised to rise even higher in some areas due to Friday's cyberattack against Colonial Pipeline Co., according to the American Automobile Association. The pipeline transports
more than 100 million gallons a day, or roughly 45% of fuel consumed on the East Coast. It delivers gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and heating oil and serves U.S. military facilities. "This shutdown will have implications on both gasoline supply and prices, but the impact will vary regionally," AAA spokesperson Jeanette McGee said in a statement. Fox Business
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Vatican warns U.S. bishops about rebuking Biden, other Catholic pols . . . The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is warning U.S. bishops to deliberate carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to rebuke Roman Catholic politicians such as President Joe Biden for receiving Communion even though they support abortion rights. The strong words of caution came in a letter from Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of
the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, addressed to Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The USCCB will convene for a national meeting June 16, with plans to vote on drafting a document on the Communion issue. There is division among the bishops, with some pressing for Biden and other Catholic public figures to be excluded from Communion over their abortion stance, and other bishops warning that such a move would be
politically polarizing. Politico
Biden Admin’s New Gender Identity Policy Could Force Health Professionals to Violate Conscience . . . President Joe Biden’s new policy redefining sex puts doctors at risk, American Principles Project President Terry Schilling told The Daily Caller News Foundation Monday. The Biden administration announced Monday that it would reinterpret “sex” in the context of health care anti-discrimination laws to include “sexual orientation” and
“gender identity,” reversing a Trump administration policy that defined “sex” as gender assigned at birth. “Make no mistake,” Schilling said. “No American was being denied access to these treatments for identifying as ‘LGBTQ.’ Rather, this policy is really about forcing hospitals and medical professionals to adhere to leftist ideology regarding sexuality and gender—and in particular to provide sex-change procedures to all comers, including children.” Daily Signal
Child abuse.
Catholic Priests in Germany Bless Gay Couples, Defying Pope . . . Catholic priests across Germany are blessing same-sex couples in defiance of a recent Vatican ban on the practice, the latest effort by liberal German Catholics to build a more progressive version of their church. The blessings have been scheduled to be performed at about 100 churches and other venues in early May, many of them on Monday evening. German clergy have
performed such blessings for years, but typically in private and not in churches. Wall Street Journal
Precious.
DC woman sues the city over its ban on dancing at weddings . . . Margaret Appleby, whose wedding is scheduled for June 6, filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming that the city’s ban violates her First Amendment rights. The city allows dancing in exercise classes such as Zumba and at strip clubs, Appleby’s lawsuit notes. Appleby and her fiance repeatedly modified their wedding plans to accommodate Washington D.C.’s coronavirus
restrictions, including changing the number of people invited to comply with social distancing regulations. A majority of guests are expected to be vaccinated, according to the lawsuit, and out-of-towners are expected to comply with the city’s quarantine requirements. Daily Caller
Trump’s Most Hated Networks See ‘Profound’ Drop In Ratings . . . MSNBC and CNN experienced large drops in viewership since January, Friday’s cable news ratings showed. In January, Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show was the top-rated cable news program with an average of 4,326,000 viewers during the month. Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” came in second with an average of 3,666,000 viewers, and CNN’s Chris Cuomo was third with an average of
3,622,000 viewers. Daily Caller
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Nurse broadcasts butt injection during Zoom courtroom hearing . . . A Florida nurse inadvertently broadcasted herself giving a patient a butt injection while waiting for her virtual court hearing to begin. "Someone appears to be getting a butt injection while appearing in a virtual hearing," a Miami Herald journalist reported. A spokesman for the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office told Fox News that the woman administering the
injection was Niurka Aguero who is charged with third-degree grand theft in the case of State of Florida v. Niurka Aguero. During a waiting period prior to the case being brought before the judge, Aguero was in the middle of a procedure that involved "a male receiving an injection in the buttocks, which she appears to have inadvertently broadcast (via Zoom)." "Needless to say, it appears that everyone involved in the Zoom court call was surprised," the spokesman said. Fox News
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