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June 2, 2021
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Intel Community Warns Biden of Terror Threat at Mexican Border . . . Intelligence officials told the White House in a classified briefing that individuals with ties to terrorist groups may be illegally crossing the southern border, contradicting claims by Democrats that the immigration crisis does not constitute a national security threat. Immigrants with connections to Islamic terrorist groups have begun taking advantage of what one
senior Customs and Border Protection official called "a porous border." In April, border patrol officers arrested two Yemeni nationals on a terrorist watch list. National security officials have pledged to assist officers in counterterrorism operations at the U.S.-Mexico border to help the strapped agency handle the influx of threats, according to a memo reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon
DHS officially ends 'Remain in Mexico' policy . . . Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday officially nixed the Trump policy that allowed illegal immigrants to be pushed back across the southwestern border into Mexico immediately, a tactic that helped solve the previous border surge. Even though the Biden team is facing a new surge at the border, Mr. Mayorkas said the policy won’t be needed anymore. He said the program,
officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, showed “mixed effectiveness” over its lifespan and "any benefits of maintaining or now modifying MPP are far outweighed by the benefits of terminating the program.” Washington Times
Joe Biden’s sad future for America . . . President Biden is predicting that his own policies will lead to a miserable economic future for America. The Wall Street Journal reports that the President’s economists are predicting the return of “secular stagnation.” The Biden budget says we’re likely to stagnate again after the Keynesian spending flood of 2021 and 2022—though at even lower growth rates than the slow-growth Obama years. The
White House predicts a two-year growth boom of 5.2% in 2021 and 4.3% in 2022, as the country returns to normal after the pandemic and record amounts of government spending flood the economy to goose consumer demand. But the White House says growth will sink to 2.2% in 2023, and then average below 1.9% for the next eight years . . .
The White House is essentially conceding that all of its unprecedented monetary and fiscal stimulus really is living for today with little regard for the future. It implicitly concedes that the growth it spurs now will have to be paid back later in the form of higher taxes or tighter monetary policy, which might reduce growth. This is the definition of a “sugar high.” White House Dossier
Biden uses Memorial Day speech to advance his political agenda . . . President Biden kept using the word “unity” in his remarks at Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day. But as usual, by unity, the left means unity behind its own agenda. Which Biden stated and takes for granted that it is correct. First, some class warfare: "The soul of America is animated by the perennial battle between our worst instincts — which we’ve seen of late — and
our better angels. Between “Me first” and “We the People.” Between greed and generosity, cruelty and kindness, captivity and freedom. . . . The lives of billions, from antiquity to our own hour, have been shaped by the battle between aspirations of the many and the greed of the few." White House
Dossier
The greed of the few must be checked and wealth redistributed. These “greedy few” are known by others as “risk takers” and “job creators.” But their companies, they didn’t build that, as Barack Obama said.
Biden unveils plan for racial equity at Tulsa Race Massacre centennial . . . President Biden on Tuesday traveled to Tulsa, Okla., to meet with the survivors of the city’s 1921 race massacre, unveiling a broad plan to drive racial equity throughout the country while holding up the city’s past as evidence of the pervasive effects of racism. The president spent a significant portion of his speech giving a historical recounting of the events
of 100 years ago in Tulsa and announced plans to expand and target federal purchasing power to benefit more minority-owned businesses. His administration will also submit in the coming days multiple rules that strengthen anti-discrimination housing measures rolled back during the Trump administration. The Hill
Biden’s Obeisance to Left-Wing Ideology Threatens Public Health . . . The Biden administration’s adherence to progressive extremism is harming public safety. On May 5, the administration jeopardized the country’s future health when it declared it would ignore the intellectual property rights of the companies that created COVID-19 vaccines. Typically, when a company develops a product, it owns the rights associated with that product.
Pursuant to the World Trade Organization agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, foreign governments cannot copy the product or pass it off as their own. In fact, member nations must grant patent owners the exclusive right to create and sell their products, and they must protect the “recipe” used to create patented vaccines. But the Biden administration has said it will not protect those rights for the companies that created the COVID-19 vaccines. It chose
to waive the companies’ intellectual property rights, essentially allowing other countries to learn how to make the vaccines themselves. The consequences of the administration’s reckless actions will be devastating to American health (to say nothing of the jobs lost). Analysis. Daily
Signal
Kamala Harris gets a new job! . . . Having eliminated the “root causes” of the illegal immigration crisis, Vice President Harris has now been put in charge of voting rights by a grateful President Biden. Fox News reports that President Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House effort to bolster voting rights, adding to a growing list of responsibilities she’s in charge of, including addressing the “root
causes” of migration in Central America and expanding access to broadband. Harris and the Biden administration have pointed to “root causes” such as violence, poverty and climate in Central America for unusually high migration numbers, while Republicans have pointed to a rollback of Trump-era immigration policies. White House
Dossier
Kamala Harris’ Team Reportedly Panicked After Biden Gave Her Immigration Assignment . . . Staffers to Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly panicked after President Joe Biden placed her in charge of the administration’s response to the immigration crisis. The staffers were concerned with political blowback associated with the assignment, CNN reported Tuesday. Harris has not visited the United States’ southern border, nor has she held a
press conference since Biden placed her in charge. She is, however, scheduled to meet with the presidents of Mexico and Guatemala to address the “root causes” of migration to the United States. Daily Caller
Fried to challenge Crist for Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination, right to face DeSantis . . . Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, the only Democrat to hold statewide office, announced Tuesday she was entering the race to unseat Republican incumbent Gov. Ron DeSantis in November 2022. Fried, 43, was a student-body president at the University of Florida, an assistant public defender, a foreclosure defense attorney and a
prominent lobbyist for the marijuana industry before running for state agriculture commissioner in 2018. Just the News
J.D. Vance, author of 'Hillbilly Elegy,' poised for Senate run, crusade against 'woke' America . . . Author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance is preparing to run for a Senate seat in Ohio because, he says, conservatives need to stop buckling to Democrats and “woke” business leaders. Conservatives haven’t lost just Congress and the White House. Liberals gained nearly all the levers of power in the U.S., including Wall Street, Big Tech, academia
and the media, Mr. Vance said. “The challenge confronting American conservatives is that we have lost every major powerful institution in the country except for maybe churches and religious institutions, which, of course, are weaker now than they’ve ever been,” Mr. Vance said recently on the “Federalist Radio Hour.” “We’ve lost big business. We’ve lost finance. We’ve lost the culture.” Washington Times
Texas Dems Walk Out on Voter Integrity . . . As the Texas legislature neared the end of its session and was poised to pass a new voting integrity bill, SB 7, Democrat lawmakers snuck out of the building, preventing the quorum required for voting on legislation. Democrats justified pulling the political stunt by falsely charging that the new voter integrity bill is an effort to suppress minority voting. However, as with the charges leveled
against Georgia’s voter integrity law, the Texas bill is anything but suppressive. Instead, it works to close potential windows for fraud.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “The 67-page bill would roll back Covid-19 innovations like Harris County’s drive-through voting and 24-hour voting. Those options were used disproportionately last year by black and Hispanic residents. But when did emergency procedures amid a 100-year pandemic suddenly become the new baseline? It’s hardly crazy to think polling-place shenanigans might be more likely at 3 a.m.” Patriot Post
2020 election fallout continues: Plan to end absentee ballot curing advances in Wisconsin . . . Wisconsin lawmakers are moving to stop election workers across the state from fixing mistakes on absentee ballots. The Assembly's Committee on Campaigns and Elections on Wednesday advanced a plan, Assembly Bill 198, that would clarify that only voters or their witnesses can correct a mistake on an absentee ballot. "Because [absentee
voting] is a privilege, there's got to be some responsibility that the voter has to exercise that privilege," said Rep. Donna Rozar (R-Marshfield). Republican lawmakers say absentee ballot curing, the technical term for fixing mistakes on ballots, is one of the areas of concern from the November 2020 election. Just the News
Condoleezza Rice: Trump 'touched the nerve' of people who felt 'diminished by elites' . . . Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that former President Donald Trump was able to rise to the presidency without ever holding public office because he was able to speak directly to people who felt “left out by globalization” and “diminished by elites.” Ms. Rice, a professor at Stanford University who served as secretary of state under the George W. Bush
administration, said on that she preferred to analyze the previous administration through an academic lens. “What really struck me . . . is the conditions that produced a populist leader who had never been in government before was something I think that a lot of us had not paid much attention to, frankly,” she said. Washington Times
RNC warns it will advise presidential candidates against future debates if panel doesn't make changes . . . Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel Tuesday warned she may advise future presidential candidates against joining debates hosted by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) unless the group makes significant changes. The letter from McDaniel follows a flood of criticism from former President Trump in the 2020 race
complaining that format adjustments to health guidance during the coronavirus pandemic were unfair. McDaniel laid out a slate of changes she believes must be made and threatened that Republicans will be advised to boycott CPD-hosted debates if they are not. The Hill
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JBS cyberattack: Most meat processing plants to be operational by Wednesday . . . JBS USA CEO Andre Nogueira said Tuesday that he expects the "vast majority" of the company’s processing facilities to be operational within the next day following a cyberattack that forced the world’s largest meat producer to shut down all of its US beef plants. Officials from JBS and its subsidiary Pilgrim’s said they have made
"significant progress" in their efforts to resolve the ransomware attack. Fox News
Biden won’t cancel Putin summit over meat company hack: White House . . . President Biden won’t scrap his summit this month with Russian President Vladimir Putin in response to suspected Russian cybercriminals disrupting work at a major US meat producer, the White House says. JBS Foods, the world’s largest meat supplier, was crippled by a cyberattack just weeks after hackers suspected of residing in Russia attacked the Colonial Pipeline,
causing US gas prices to surge as stations across the Southeast ran dry. “We do not regard, as you can imagine, this meeting with the Russian president as a reward, right? We regard it as a vital part of defending America’s interests. President Biden is meeting with Vladimir Putin because of our country’s differences, not in spite of them,” White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. New York Post
JBS cyber hack latest escalation of Russia-based aggression ahead of Biden-Putin summit: experts . . . Experts say Putin is making show of strength ahead of Geneva meeting, while US has yet to say Russia's government was involved. Russia-based cyberattacks have targeted U.S. interests in recent months, which experts say is directly related to the upcoming U.S.-Russia summit.
The latest ransomware assault this week shut down the U.S.-based meat plants of the world’s largest meatpacker JBS. Former CIA Moscow station chief Daniel Hoffman said these attacks are occurring as a show of force in the lead-up to the June 16 summit. The Biden administration declined to condemn Putin, Russia's president, after the Colonial pipeline attack and stressed that the U.S. does not believe Russia's government was involved. Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA) intelligence officer for Russia and author of the upcoming "Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America," told Fox News the use of criminal gangs is a common tactic by the Kremlin. "The U.S. security apparatus has falsely been imagining that certain things are achievable with Russia, and every single president has tried the so-called ‘reset’ and failed," she said. "Because Russia does not view itself as a friend." Fox News
Chinese Military Firms Challenge Pentagon to Reverse Trump’s Investment Ban . . . A Chinese smartphone maker won a key legal victory against the U.S. government this spring, which is expected to embolden more Chinese companies with military ties to challenge a Trump-era ban that prohibited U.S. investors from investing in their firms. The Department of Defense in May officially removed China’s Xiaomi, the world’s third-largest smartphone
vendor, from its investment blacklist. Xiaomi was among the 44 companies labeled as “Communist Chinese military companies” (CCMCs) by the Pentagon. The Defense Department under the Trump administration had designated the company as having ties to China’s military on Jan. 14. In response, Xiaomi filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government in the District Court for the District of Columbia, calling its placement “unlawful and unconstitutional.” Epoch Times
Devin Nunes aide and dossier-debunker targeted by impostor account on Twitter . . . Someone is impersonating Trump dossier-buster Kash Patel on Twitter, whose gatekeepers are rejecting the real Mr. Patel‘s repeated pleas to cancel @KASHPatel_ and its unflattering tweets. Followers of the account are reading that the former House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigator and close aide to Rep. Devin Nunes, California
Republican, is backing political candidates, knocking Anthony Fauci and providing an insider’s government history of COVID-19.
He is not. To Mr. Patel, the fake account is more evidence of Twitter’s bias against conservatives, who allege the Silicon Valley platform censors their tweets and removes thousands of their followers. Washington Times
Twitter's anti-conservative bias aside, Twitter's negligence is a national security issue. Imagine if hackers, enabled by a foreign power, were to impersonate POTUS or a major US military commander on Twitter? A crazy tweet by a Biden-impersonator -- such as a warning about an impending nuclear strike on the homeland or a cyber attack on the power grid -- could surely result in chaos, destabilizing the country.
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Steep drop in Natanz nuclear production may be Mossad chief Cohen’s parting shot . . . The nuclear watchdog reported a substantial drop in production at Natanz, Iran’s main nuclear enrichment site on Monday, June 1, at the same time as a farewell event was taking place in Tel Aviv to mark Yossi Cohen’s departure from 28 years as a member of the Mossad spy agency and the last five as its director. The International
Atomic Energy Agency’s disclosure represented a fitting parting gift to his country from an official reputedly charged with orchestrating a covert campaign against Iran’s nuclear program. Speaking on Monday at the event in his honor, alongside PM Netanyahu, Cohen said without offering specifics: “We acted constantly to gather intelligence and uncover secrets and undermine Iran’s self-confidence and arrogance.” The prime minister said: “One thing I admire in the organization and you,
Yossi, in particular, is the constant readiness to take the initiative and seize the bull by the horns, the bull meaning Iran. “I can’t reveal everything we are doing to counter the ayatollahs regime’s threat to annihilate us. Better to leave affairs of the covert world in the shadows.” DEBKAfile
Iran's largest warship catches fire, sinks in Gulf of Oman . . . The Iranian navy's largest warship caught fire and sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman. The support warship Kharg sank under unclear circumstances near the Iranian port of Jask, about 790 miles southeast of Tehran, semiofficial news agencies reported. Firefighters tried to contain the blaze, which ignited around 2:25 a.m., but efforts to save the Kharg – named after the
island that serves as the main oil terminal for Iran – were unsuccessful, according to the Fars and Tasnim news agencies. Iranian officials have yet to say what caused the blaze. Fox News
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Washington Post issues correction on 2020 report on Tom Cotton, lab-leak theory . . . The Washington Post has issued a correction on its 2020 report on Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and the lab-leak theory he had discussed in the media. The newspaper revised a February 2020 story with the original headline "Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked" as top public health experts have begun taking a
more serious look at the origins of the coronavirus. The new headline of the story reads "Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed." The Hill
US Researcher With Ties To Wuhan Lab Thanked Fauci In April 2020 For Dispelling Lab Leak Theory ‘Myths’ . . . The leader of a nonprofit group with close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology personally thanked Dr. Anthony Fauci in April 2020 for publicly rejecting the notion that the lab could be connected to the release of COVID-19. EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak’s April 18, 2020, email to Fauci was part of a 3,200-page
batch of Fauci’s emails obtained by BuzzFeed News on Tuesday through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. A large portion of Daszak’s email to Fauci was redacted with a FOIA exemption indicating the text could reasonably be expected to interfere with law enforcement proceedings. Daily Caller
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Pentagon Requests Blowout Budget To Fight ‘Climate Crisis’ And ‘Extremism’ Among Troops . . . The Pentagon’s budget request for fiscal year 2022 totals $715 billion, and among the Defense Department’s stated priorities are fighting the “climate crisis” and “extremism” in America’s armed forces.
The funding requested the Pentagon under Biden continues a trend set under Trump who ballooned the military budget from just $582 billion requested by the Obama administration in 2017. The newest 2022 budget request increases the budget by $11 billion in comparison to 2021. Daily Caller
When you have a climate and extremism crisis on your hands, who cares about prioritizing such trivial things as our nuclear deterrent, ability to counter Russia's and China's spacewarfare capabilities, and ways to secure our weapons systems from cyber attacks?
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BLM activist accused of molesting over 60 immigrant children . . . Tay Anderson, a noted Black Lives Matter activist and former Denver school board member, was forced to step down from his position after it was made public that he was being investigated for allegedly molesting a large number of students. Denver Public Schools confirmed that they knew about the allegations and that the Denver Police Department is also privy to the
information. This came after Mary-Katherine Brooks Fleming, mother to three children, testified before the House Judiciary Committee that there was “a sexual predator targeting DPS children” during a hearing on legislation that would make it easier to sue businesses that hired child sexual abusers. Business & Politics Review
Google Diversity Head Said Jews Have ‘Insatiable Appetite for War’ . . . Google’s head of diversity strategy said in a 2007 blog post that Jews have an "insatiable appetite for war" and an "insensitivity to the suffering [of] others." The comments were part of a longer meditation from Kamau Bobb, now head of diversity strategy at Google, that also slammed Israel’s military actions in Gaza and Lebanon that same year. Bobb was at the time a
research associate in technology at Georgia Tech, according to his LinkedIn. The post is likely to cast a new light on Google’s diversity strategy in the wake of demands from a group of employees that the company cancel its business contracts in Israel and publicly condemn Israel’s military defense operations in Gaza. Washington Free
Beacon
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Ten Books Every Woke Parent Should Read To Their Kids At Bedtime . . .
1. Communist Manifesto (Illustrated Kids Edition): This beloved classic by Karl Marx has been rewritten for young audiences! Follow your friend Karl as he teaches your child everything from seizing the means of production to throwing your enemies in the gulag!
2. The Very Gay Caterpillar: Follow the beloved central character as he goes through 7 same-sex partners in 7 days! This is normal and should be celebrated.
3. Are You My Birthing Person?: The classic-yet-problematic Are You My Mother? has been updated with more inclusive language.
4. The brilliant peer-reviewed paper “The Psychology of BDSM Fat Studies In a Trans-Intersectional Context: a Survey Study into the Relationships of Trauma and Attachment Style”: riveting and essential reading for children of all ages.
5. 'Men Can Have Periods' pop-up book: If your child throws up while you read it to them, remind them that they are a bigot.
16. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad USA. Babylon Bee
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