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June 17, 2021
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‘Whole of Society Approach’ to Fighting Political Opponents . . . Attorney General Merrick Garland called for a “whole of society approach” to fighting domestic terrorism in a speech Tuesday, going along with the administration’s national strategy for stamping out violent extremism. “We need not only a whole of government approach but a whole of society approach,” Garland said after praising members of the public for submitting more than
100,000 pieces of digital media to help the FBI investigate in the aftermath of January 6. “We must not only bring our federal resources to bear,” he continued. “We must adopt a broader societal response to tackle the problem’s deeper roots.” This is the type of language we’ve come to expect from autocrats in failed states. It is chilling to hear our nation’s top law enforcement officer go after his opponents so brazenly and promising to use the vast resources of the federal government
to do so. We don’t have to wait for the feds to abuse their powers. It is already happening. Patriot Post
Scary stuff. Sovietesque.
Newt Gingrich: Virtually all the heads of government laughed at Biden . . . In Europe, President Joe Biden was worrying Europeans with his obvious mental deficiencies. Biden offered to work with the Russians three times in helping Libyans, when he meant to say Syrians. To make his cognitive confusion even clearer, he followed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in introducing the President of South Africa as though Johnson had ignored
him. Gingrich360
POTUS's cognitive decline has become a national security risk.
Trump rails against Biden's 'good day for Russia' summit with Putin . . . Former President Donald J. Trump told host Sean Hannity, in an exclusive interview, that he is upset that Biden didn't score any wins during the summit, while in his view, Putin and Russia dominated the day. The former president highlighted the fact Biden stood by his decision to assent to the NordStream II pipeline's completion while canceling a Canadian-American
pipeline project.
He said Russia will receive an undue windfall from oil sales to Germany while Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to underpay her own dues to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which balance will instead continue to be subsidized by the United States. "We gave a very big stage to Russia, and we got nothing. "I think it was a good day for Russia. I don't think we got anything out of it." Fox News
Biden frustrates death penalty opponents with Supreme Court request . . . Opponents of capital punishment are expressing frustration with the Biden administration’s request this week that the Supreme Court reinstate the death penalty against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Critics see the Department of Justice (DOJ) move as inconsistent with President Biden’s calls on the campaign trail to eliminate capital
punishment. Outright repeal of the federal death penalty would require legislation, which is unlikely to clear the current Congress given the deep partisan divide. But advocates say Biden could take steps on his own to curtail executions carried out by the federal government and are renewing calls for him to do just that. The Hill
Biden gave Putin list of 16 critical infrastructure entities 'off limits' to cyberattacks . . . President Biden told reporters Wednesday he gave President Vladimir Putin a list of 16 critical infrastructure entities that are "off limits" to a Russian cyberattack. Those entities include energy, water, health care, emergency, chemical, nuclear, communications, government, defense, food, commercial facilities, IT, transportation, dams,
manufacturing and financial services. Putin, for his part, denied any involvement in a recent spate of cyberattacks that have hit major industries across the U.S. "In terms of the red line you laid down is military response an option for a ransomware attack?" a reporter asked. Biden abruptly tried to end the shorter-than-expected conference. "No, we didn't talk about military response," he said when pressed again. Fox Business
Whoopty doo. Drawing "red lines" after the opponent already has crossed them is like giving IV fluids to a dead person.
Justice Department deletes Trump-era decisions limiting asylum claims . . . The Justice Department on Wednesday expanded the types of cases that can qualify for asylum, revoking two Trump-era decisions that had restricted claims based on domestic violence or gang activity in migrants’ home countries.
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision could reopen the door to more cases that involved people fleeing their own families or local communities. The Trump administration had argued it was returning to the original intent of the asylum system that envisioned people fleeing actual government persecution, rather than gang violence or domestic abuse claims that are common in most countries. But immigrant-rights advocates say the asylum system had been able to accommodate those claims
for some years before Mr. Trump, and can do so again. Washington Times
Congressional Black Caucus backs Ilhan Omar . . . The Congressional Black Caucus backed Rep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday, more than a week after the Minnesota Democrat tweeted incendiary comments that Democrats and Republicans have said equated the U.S. and Israel with Hamas and the Taliban.
“Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is a valued Member of the Congressional Black Caucus Family, she represents a strong voice on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs,” a CBC statement said. “We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,” Omar tweeted on June 7. Politico
Since Ilhan Omar feels so oppressed in America, maybe she should ask for an asylum, back in Somalia? Just a thought.
Tensions grow between liberals and centrists on infrastructure . . . Centrist Democrats led by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and progressives led by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are at loggerheads over how to move President Biden’s ambitious infrastructure agenda. Manchin fired a shot at liberal colleagues Wednesday when he declared he will not commit to supporting a reconciliation package that progressives
want to pack with their ambitious priorities. The Hill
Georgia audit documents expose significant election failures in state's largest county . . . Records suggest more than 100 batches of absentee ballots in Fulton County could be missing. Some experts see "election tabulation malpractice" as state officials seek to remove county's top election supervisors. Documents that Georgia's largest county submitted to state officials as part of a post-election audit highlight significant
irregularities in the Atlanta area during last November's voting, ranging from identical vote tallies repeated multiple times to large batches of absentee ballots that appear to be missing from the official ballot-scanning records.
The problems in predominantly Democratic Fulton County potentially impact thousands of ballots in a presidential race that Joe Biden was certified as winning statewide by fewer than 12,000 votes. Just the News
Embattled Environmental Activist Takes Center Stage in Bid to Cancel Pipeline . . . Months after court documents showed that a leading environmental activist defended an employee accused of pedophilia, the group she leads is taking center stage in a fresh battle against a Minnesota pipeline. The effort has attracted leading Democratic lawmakers and other environmentalist groups that have not blanched at working hand in hand with Winona
LaDuke as the embattled activist faces an ongoing lawsuit over her handling of an alleged pedophilia scandal. Washington Free Beacon
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DeSantis Is Sending Florida Law Enforcement To The Southern Border . . . Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that Florida will send law enforcement to secure the southern border. “Today, we’re here to announce that the state of Florida is answering the call,” DeSantis said. “Florida is going to support Texas and Arizona. We believe that securing the Southern Border is important for our country, but specifically we
believe it will benefit the people of Florida to be able to get this under control. Where the federal government has failed, the states are stepping up and doing our best to fill the void.” Daily Caller
White House tried to deny Biden indicated he could trust Putin . . . The White House Wednesday denied that President Biden indicated he could trust President Putin. The TV pooler at the event said Biden was very clear: “I asked Biden if they can trust each other, and followed with Mr. President do you trust him. He looked me in the eye and nodded affirmatively.” White House Dossier
Biden-Putin summit: Who won and who lost? Experts offer key takeaways . . . Despite the deeply strained U.S.-Russia relationship, both leaders claimed to have a "positive" dialogue during the widely anticipated summit in Geneva. As for declaring winners and losers of the summit, some experts think Biden may have played his cards too early, leaving him in a weakened negotiating position before the summit began. Retired Gen. Jack
Keane, former vice chief of staff for the U.S. Army, told Fox News: "I think they both got out of it what they wanted. Putin, . . . got more out of it than he expected given the major concessions that were made prior to the summit, and that he was able to deny and deflect the major issues." Rebekah Koffler, former Defense Intelligence Agency officer told Fox News that Biden extending the Start II treaty and eliminating Nord Stream 2 sanctions before the summit left him without anything
to negotiate on. Biden, Koffler said, "pretty much has given out the store to the Russians. He had no negotiating leverage." Fox News
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G-7 leaders back Taiwan for first time . . . A statement of support by the G-7 leaders at their summit this week set off the Chinese government, which responded with stepped-up vitriol and provocative military flights in response to strong language in the group’s final communique. “We reiterate the importance of maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific, which is inclusive and based on the rule of law,” the summit statement said. “We
underscore the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and encourage the peaceful resolution of cross-Strait issues.” It was the first time the Group of Seven voiced support for Taiwan, the island-state 100 miles off the southern Chinese coast that Beijing regards as a breakaway province. Washington
Times
Banks, airlines in Australia, US report tech outages; some blame service provider: reports . . . Several major banks, airlines and other businesses in Australia and the U.S. experienced website outages and other problems overnight. Some of the problems were believed linked to trouble with security software that is designed to mitigate so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In a denial-of-service attack, a perpetrator
attempts to overload or disrupt a company’s services by flooding it with requests. Fox Business
Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cyber criminal crackdown . . . Ukrainian police have arrested members of a notorious ransomware gang that recently targeted American universities, as pressure mounts on global law enforcement to crack down on cyber criminals. The Ukraine National Police said in a statement on Wednesday that it had worked with Interpol and the US and South Korean authorities to charge six members of the
Ukraine-based Cl0p hacker group, which it claimed had inflicted half a billion dollars in damages on victims based in the US and South Korea. The move marks the first time that a national law enforcement agency has carried out mass arrests of a ransomware gang, adding to pressure on other countries to follow suit. Russia, a hub for ransomware gangs, has been blamed for harboring cyber criminals by failing to prosecute or extradite them. Financial Times
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NSTR . . . Nothing significant to report on the CCP virus today. Other than the fact that President Trump said it came from the Lab.
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Obamacare’s Side Effects: Higher Costs, Lower Choices . . . One of the main goals of Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, was to make individual insurance cheaper and more accessible for Americans. The health care law imposed new mandates and regulations on the market for individual insurance, and the data indicates these reforms did exactly the opposite of the goal: In nearly all states, conditions in
the individual market have worsened dramatically. Choices in health insurance decreased as the number of insurers participating in the individual market fell, while insurance premiums increased more than 50% nationally. The results of Obamacare not only have been less choice and competition, but higher premiums for Americans. Daily
Signal
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‘Revolutionizing a culture’: How critical race theory grew from law school thesis to K-12 trend . . . Middle school students in Buffalo, New York, were assigned to read an essay as part of the district’s “emancipation curriculum” this year that “the United States was founded as a racist society.”
As homework, they were to read an essay stating that “all White people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism.”
Eleventh-graders in Seattle Public Schools will be taught critical race theory as part of a program inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Central to the theory is the idea that U.S. laws and institutions are inherently racist and that Whites still oppress Blacks and other people of color more than 150 years after the end of slavery and decades after advances of the civil rights movement.
This school of thought is spreading rapidly through American classrooms, workplaces and government offices. Washington Times
US Drops Lawsuit Against Former Trump Adviser Bolton’s Book . . . U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday agreed to drop a lawsuit against John Bolton, who worked in former President Donald Trump’s administration. A court filing in USA v. Bolton said that prosecutors agreed to the dismissal of the lawsuit, as did lawyers for Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser. The Trump administration in June 2020 sued Bolton, attempting to stop
the publication of a book he penned. Officials asserted the book contained classified information that would compromise national security if allowed to be published without a government review.
Prosecutors also have dropped a grand jury investigation that was related to the book, a lawyer representing Bolton said. Epoch Times
Victoria's Secret says goodbye to Angels in attempt to redefine 'sexy' . . . Victoria's Secret has done away with their world-famous Angels supermodels. The lingerie and comfort wear company has said goodbye to the models, who have for years, famously strutted down the runway wearing over-the-top ensembles featuring feathers and rhinestones that weighed in at nearly 30 pounds. In their place, Victoria's Secret has launched a campaign
with high-profile women known for their accomplishments rather than their figures. Soccer star Megan Rapinoe, freestyle skier Eileen Gu, model and advocate Paloma Essler, actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas, transgender model Valentina Sampaio, model and South Sudanese refugee Adut Akech and photographer Amanda de Cadenet are among those to spearhead the campaign. Fox News
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Biden Gets No Pudding Cup Today As Punishment For Taking A Question . . . GENEVA—President Biden was very bad today, as he took an unscripted question from an unapproved reporter which is against the rules. He then gave a nonsensical answer and yelled at the reporter, making him and everyone else look bad. As a result, he will not be given his evening pudding cup before bed. "The big guy needs to learn that this
behavior will not be tolerated," said Biden's handler and aide Kelly Clayton, R.N. "When he behaves badly, he needs to know we'll have a firm hand and take away his privileges!"
"Bad Biden! Don't talk to that reporter! No!" "What? you can't take my chocolatey chocolate pudding cup!" whined Biden "I'm a senator, you disrespectful pony soldier!" Biden then collapsed on the floor and made a pouty face. Aides also confirmed he will be sent upstairs for bathtime and be sent straight to bed without a story. Administration staff expressed hope that Biden will learn his lesson and behave better tomorrow with a little more sleep. Babylon Bee
Might be not satire. ;-)
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