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June 18, 2021
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White House ‘Domestic Extremism’ Report Puts Target On Democrats’ Political Opponents . . . The Biden administration just released a “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.” It calls for abuses of state power to combine elements of totalitarian government with social and cultural engineering. It is such an obvious attempt to try to crush political dissent, you wonder if they thought no one was paying attention. If you aren’t, you
need to be, because this is marching orders for a whole-of-government approach to crushing Democrats’ political enemies. They are banking on the natural instinct of most Americans to oppose terrorism by branding some constitutionally protected practices “domestic terror.”
This ensures the democrats' control of the state security apparatus is not in jeopardy from un-Woke folks. They think they have the legal right and even a moral requirement to conduct a political and ideological purge. This is the most blatant plan to move past the Constitution an elected government in this country has ever proposed. We must not let this stand. The Federalist
Terrifying. There appears to be a well thought-out, planned and organized strategy to subvert the country. Who, the heck, is driving all this?
Biden Justice Department goes after state transgender laws affecting youths . . . One of these laws bans giving chemicals to youths to change their sex. Biden thinks that’s discrimination.
The Justice Department argued in court filings Thursday that GOP-backed laws related to the rights of transgender youth in West Virginia and Arkansas are unconstitutional, setting up a likely legal clash in the coming months. Federal attorneys asserted in a statement of interest filing that a West Virginia law banning transgender youth athletes from participating in women’s sports was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX of Education Amendments of 1972. The
Justice Department argued the law should be overturned. The Justice Department made a similar argument in a statement of interest on a lawsuit related to a law in Arkansas, which banned “gender-affirming care” such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender youth. “Prohibiting medically necessary care in the manner proscribed by Act 626 amounts to intentional discrimination against transgender minors on the basis of sex,” the DOJ said. White House Dossier
Not only the state encourages child abuse by pushing "chemical castration" and surgical mutilation on children, the government also is making it illegal for the parents to step in and protect their kids from this atrocious form of child exploitation.
Supreme Court unanimously sides with Catholic adoption agency that turned away same-sex couples . . . The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that the city of Philadelphia ran afoul of religious protections when it cut ties with a Catholic adoption agency over its refusal to place foster children with same-sex couples. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for six members of the court, said that Philadelphia violated the First
Amendment’s Free Exercise clause by rebuffing the Catholic Social Services (CSS) agency. “CSS seeks only an accommodation that will allow it to continue serving the children of Philadelphia in a manner consistent with its religious beliefs; it does not seek to impose those beliefs on anyone else," Roberts wrote. All nine justices agreed with the judgment. The Hill
Yess.
IRS Denies Tax Exemption to Religious Group Because Prayer, Bible Reading Boost the GOP . . . An IRS official denied tax-exempt status to a Texas group that encourages church members to pray for state and national leaders, regardless of their party affiliation, because it benefits “the private interests of the [Republican] Party.” “You do not qualify as an organization described in IRS Section 501(c)(3). You engage in prohibited
political campaign intervention,” wrote Stephen A. Martin, director of the IRS Office of Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements, in a May 18 letter (pdf) to Christians Engaged, the Garland, Texas-based prayer group recognized by Texas officials as tax-exempt. “You are also not operated exclusively for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of Section 501 (c)(3), because you operate for a substantial non-exempt private purpose and for the private interests of the D
party.” The “D party” is a reference to the Republican Party, according to a novel “legend” that Martin provided at the top of his letter to the Texas group. Epoch Times
Pelosi should punish Omar, rabbis say; inaction signals Democrats tolerate anti-Jewish hate . . . More than 200 rabbis have joined the call to oust Rep. Ilhan Omar from her seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, telling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that her lack of response demonstrates the Democratic Party’s tolerance of hatred against Jewish people. The rabbis leveled the charge in a letter this week to Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat,
after she failed to take action against Ms. Omar for equating the U.S. and Israel with Hamas and the Taliban. “Without anything resembling a forceful response from the Democratic Party, tolerance of anti-Jewish hatred has proliferated,” wrote the rabbis who are members of the Coalition for Jewish Values. Washington
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Biden's 'off-limits' list for Russian cyberattacks criticized as 'green light' to target everything else . . . President Biden's list of 16 key infrastructure entities that are "off-limits" to Russian cyberattacks has effectively given the Russians a green light to target everything not on that list without facing serious repercussions, national security experts and senior Republicans tell Fox News. Biden told
reporters Wednesday he gave President Vladimir Putin a list of 16 critical infrastructure entities that are "off limits" to a Russian cyberattack: "I talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack — period — by cyber or any other means. I gave them a list, if I’m not mistaken — I don't have it in front of me — 16 specific entities; 16 defined as critical infrastructure under U.S. policy, from the energy sector to our water systems." Fox News
What a naive and incompetent individual. At this point, Joe Biden is a national security risk.
Biden starts to call Putin 'President Trump' at press conference . . . President Biden raised eyebrows with an odd gaffe during his press conference following a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he appeared to mistakenly use the name of his own predecessor when discussing the Russian leader. Biden spoke after Putin gave a separate press conference, and was reflecting on what he said about the Arctic. "I caught
part of President, uh, Tru-- uh, Putin's press conference, and he talked about the need for us to have some kind of modus operandi where the Arctic was in fact a free zone," Biden said.
Joe must have thought that Putin and Trump have "colluded" into a single person.
GOP lawmakers, led by ex-White House doc, ask Biden to take cognitive test . . . More than a dozen Republican House members, led by former White House doctor Ronny Jackson, asked President Biden Thursday to undergo a cognitive test and release the results “so the American people know the full mental and intellectual health of their President.” “The American people should have absolute confidence in their President,” reads the letter to
Biden in part. “They deserve to know that he or she can perform the duties of Head of State and Commander in Chief. They deserve full transparency on the mental capabilities of their highest elected leader.” New York Post
Biden gives Putin a pair of Massachusetts-made aviators . . . Russian President Vladimir Putin took a little of piece of Massachusetts with him after his meeting with President Biden this week. The U.S. president gave his Russian counterpart a pair of custom aviator sunglasses manufactured by Randolph Engineering, based in Randolph just south of Boston, according to the White House. The gift was the company’s Concorde teardrop
aviators, in 23-karat gold finish with 57mm polarized American gray lenses, the company posted on its blog. Washington Times
What a nice guy.
Unvaccinated West Point cadets face growing and severe retaliation, sources say . . . The push for coronavirus vaccinations at the U.S. Military Academy began once the first shots became available back in January – but even as the inoculation rate rises and deaths and new cases both fall, the families of unvaccinated cadets say they are facing increasing pressure, coercion, and even threats to get the jab. West Point does not have a
vaccine mandate, nor does the military as a whole. Still, there are only about three dozen unvaccinated cadets at West Point, which accommodates more than 4,500 students. The unvaccinated few, many of whom say they have gained natural immunity from catching the virus earlier, face stricter quarantines and other restrictions. Fox
News
Russian Nuclear Submarines ‘On Par’ With US, Top General Says . . . Gen. Glen VanHerck, the head of U.S. Northern Command and the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command, told lawmakers that Moscow’s continued buildup of nuclear submarines will be a "persistent" threat to America in the years ahead. "Russia just fielded their second Sev-class submarine, which is on par with ours," VanHerck said. "Within a five-year
period or so, they'll have eight to nine of those submarines, which will be a persistent proximate threat off of our east and west coasts that we haven't had ever in the past." " Washington Free Beacon
Milley downplays report of 1,900 lost or stolen military firearms . . .The U.S. military’s top general on Thursday downplayed a recent Associated Press report that found at least 1,900 military firearms had gone missing or stolen over the past decade, claiming the real figure was “much less.” “That's not to say it's zero, but it's much less. So, I need to square the balance here. I owe you a firm answer,” he added. The extensive AP report
found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms — including rifles, handguns, machine guns, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, mortars and shotguns — were lost or stolen across the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force. Daily Caller
Smuggling Illegal Aliens Around Border Patrol Is Booming Business for Drivers . . . Social media platforms, encrypted messaging apps, and Google map pin drops are being utilized to move thousands of illegal aliens around Border Patrol checkpoints and eventually to large U.S. cities. In Texas, drivers are being recruited on social media—lured by the promise of quick cash—to haul illegal aliens to San Antonio, Houston, Austin, or Dallas.
One U.S. citizen-driver told The Epoch Times he was promised $1,000 per person for the seven Guatemalans he was moving from Kinney County to San Antonio. Epoch Times
McCloskey’s Agree To Forfeit Guns, Plead Guilty To Misdemeanors . . . Mark and Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges and agreed to forfeit the specific guns that they brandished on their property. Mark pleaded guilty to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and received a $750 fine. His wife, Patricia, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was fined $2,000. While the couple has to forfeit the guns used
in the incident, they can continue to own firearms. A spokesperson for McCloskey’s senate campaign told the Daily Caller the state was supposedly adamant about the couple giving up their guns. Daily Caller
The government is defunding the police, letting scores of criminals into the country, and inciting violence with a racially-charged rhetoric - all this while disarming the law-abiding citizens and actually penalizing them for exercising their right to self-defense, and arming themselves with private security details. What a brilliant strategy by the government nomenklatura.
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Presidential frontrunner Ebrahim Rais would bolster Iran’s anti-West hard line . . . Iran’s presidential election today has raised more alarm signals in the West and Israel because the ultra-radical, anti-West Ebrahim Rais, 60, is practically assured of winning after his path was smoothed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This successor of the diplomatically accessible Hassan Rouhani promises would be a far
tougher nuclear negotiator than heretofore, as well as an instigator of greater repression at home. Rais would prefer to eschew all contact with the United States (“Big Satan”) – except that he is pragmatic enough to see that engaging the big powers over a nuclear deal is the only way to get rid of sanctions. His pathway to victory in the presidential election was cleared by the disqualification of 600 other candidates, leaving only six. Four share Rais’ extremist views, and only two are
either “moderates” (in foreign relations) or “reformists” (more liberal on social freedoms). DEBKAfile
Top Israeli military official warns about renewed fighting with Hamas . . . The Israel Defense Forces chief of staff held a meeting with top military officials on Thursday and told them to prepare for new fighting with Hamas as tensions have remained high since a cease-fire halted a conflict last month. The IDF took to Twitter to announce the second night of airstrikes in response to arson balloons that were launched from Gaza. The
military said it struck military compounds and a rocket-launch site that belonged to Hamas. Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi, who is set to visit Washington this weekend, held the briefing with top military brass and warned them to prepare for a fight. Fox News
Taliban advance as Pentagon chiefs warn of potential Al Qaeda resurgence in Afghanistan . . . As Taliban forces continue to gain footholds in Afghanistan, the Pentagon's two top leaders said Thursday that within two years an international extremist militant group may regenerate there with enough strength to threaten the American homeland. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley gave the
assessments while appearing June 17 before the Senate Appropriations Committee in Washington, D.C. SECDEF Austin said that "it would take possibly two years" for Al Qaeda "to develop the capability" to rebound in Afghanistan. Just the News
E.U. Recommends Opening to Americans to Rescue the Summer . . . The European Union recommended on Friday that its member states lift the ban on nonessential travel for visitors from the United States, a move sure to be welcomed by Americans eager to travel to the continent after more than a year of tight restrictions. The recommendation is nonbinding, and each member state can decide what regulations, including quarantines, to impose on
visitors. Americans have been mainly banned from Europe as the United States grappled with one of the highest caseloads in the world. New York Times
China Considers Lifting All Childbirth Restrictions by 2025 . . . Chinese officials are drawing up plans to further loosen birth restrictions and transition toward policies that explicitly encourage childbirth, according to people familiar with the matter, reflecting increased urgency in Beijing as economic growth slows and China’s population mix skews older. Policy makers are discussing the possibility of fully doing away with birth
restrictions by 2025, the end of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s current five-year economic plan, according to one of the people. The party said late last month that it would allow all couples to have as many as three children, weeks after a once-in-a-decade census showed China, the world’s most populous nation, on the cusp of a historic downturn in its population. Wall Street Journal
Watch out.
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Scientists: Yeah, We Dismissed COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory for Totally Unscientific Reasons, Because of Trump . . . Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists implored the public to trust and abide by their expert opinions. Those who questioned their judgment were denounced as ignorant rubes. By their own admission, however, these expert opinions weren't based on science at all but, rather, on a partisan dislike of
Republicans and former president Donald Trump. Yahoo! News reports that many scientists have finally acknowledged that the so-called lab leak theory (regarding the origin of COVID-19) deserves to be taken seriously and investigated further. It's a rather infuriating development, given the sanctimonious fashion in which numerous scientists, journalists, and Democratic politicians rejected it as a racist "conspiracy theory." Washington Free Beacon
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US Reliance on Russian Oil Surges to Record High Amid Tensions . . . Russian oil imports have set a new record in the United States despite the strained relationship between Washington and Moscow. Industry experts believe the Biden administration’s climate policies will make the country more dependent on foreign oil producers. The United States imported record levels of crude oil from Russia in March and is expected to continue importing
at high levels in coming months, according to the Western Energy Alliance, a trade association that represents 200 independent natural gas and oil producers in the United States. Epoch Times
Nice work, Joe.
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Father’s Day: Fatherless, America’s Top Domestic Problem . . .A powerful new documentary called “The Streets Were My Father” features three Chicago men, two Hispanics and one black, who grew up without fathers. All three did hard time for serious offenses, including murder. The film, with no narrator, just lets the men talk. None blames “systemic racism.” All concede they made bad choices, but choices nonetheless. All talked
about the pain they felt growing up without a father figure to instruct, scold, guide, motivate, and instill confidence and direction. I highly recommend it. In former President Barack Obama’s first book, “Dreams From My Father,” he talked about the hole in his soul, having last seen his father, briefly, when Obama was 10: There was only one problem: My father was missing. He had left paradise [Hawaii], and nothing that my mother or grandparents told me could obviate that single,
unassailable fact. Their stories didn’t tell me why he had left. They couldn’t describe what it might have been like had he stayed. Daily Signal
A Parent-Led Rebellion Against Critical Race Theory Is Storming School Boards Across The Country . . . A parent-led rebellion against Critical Race Theory is storming school boards across the country and demanding accountability for what is being taught to American children. At least 165 local and national groups have formed to combat Critical Race Theory (CRT) instruction in schools across the U.S., an NBC analysis found. Many of these
groups were founded by parents appalled to discover what was being taught to their children. Their advocacy has launched small town CRT debates onto the national stage, spurring far-left activists and establishment media outlets to accuse conservatives of ignorance and in some cases, racism. Daily Caller
Texas Firearms Bill Revives Gun-Rights Strategy Rejected by U.S. Courts in Past . . . Texas is renewing a strategy that seeks to circumvent federal gun-control laws, one that lawmakers hope makes its way to the Supreme Court to test longstanding doctrine on gun regulation. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gathered with Republican lawmakers at the Alamo Thursday to ceremonially sign several gun-related bills passed during the recent legislative
session, including one making the open carry of handguns without a license legal, and another allowing state residents to buy Texas-made gun silencers without a federal license. While the open carry bill drew national attention, the less-noticed silencer bill revives a strategy to avoid federal regulation of guns, a strategy that federal courts have blocked in other states. Gun-rights advocates think they have a better shot now because of the addition of three conservative justices
appointed by former Republican President Donald Trump. Wall Street Journal
Hunter Biden was banned from Chateau Marmont for 'drug use' . . . Hunter Biden was banned from the legendary celebrity hangout Chateau Marmont because of "drug use," and the then-soon-to-be first son had to send someone to retrieve his personal belongings still on the property, according to texts from his laptop.
The Sunset Boulevard hotel is home to Academy Awards after-parties and has been a favorite of stars from actors Jean Harlow to Elizabeth Taylor to Leonardo DiCaprio. But Chateau Marmont also has a dark side: Actor John Belushi died there from a heroin overdose in 1982, and later, singer Rick James overdosed there, too, but was brought back to life. All of this is chronicled in a book, The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art and Scandals at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont. Washington Examiner
SpaceX launches GPS satellite aboard reused rocket for US Space Force . . . "We have liftoff! The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the latest GPS III satellite has launched!" the Space Force Space and Missiles Systems Center said, retweeting SpaceX's Twitter video of the moment. Deployment of the Lockheed Martin-built satellite was confirmed more than an hour and a half later. It is expected to maneuver into a 12,550-mile-high orbit,
according to Spaceflight Now, and join the current constellation of satellites. The U.S, military plans to launch a total of 10 upgraded GPS satellites to replace some older ones already in space. The next-generation satellites will include "new technology and advanced capabilities" and meet the "needs of the military to mitigate threats" to GPS infrastructure, according to Lockheed Martin.
This is great news that Elon Musk's SpaceX is coming through with its robust space launch capability. Believe it or not, the United States, for years, was dependent on Russia for certain space launches, such as manned space and the launches of some military satellites - courtesy of the USG stupidity, as always. (Probably the same idiots who had Kaspersky "anti-virus" software developed by the "former" KGB office, installed on US government systems). Thanks to
Elon Musk, this space launch dependency has declined. Go capitalism.
I am thinking, my next book might be about the idiocy of USG bureaucrats who undermine US security by their incompetent decisions. What do you all think?
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Bear tears up car, leaves beer cans unopened after getting trapped inside vehicle in Colorado . . . A case of beer in the back seat may have been the enticement for a bear that got itself trapped inside a car in Douglas County, Colorado, for at least an hour on Tuesday. A Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer and a sheriff’s deputy eventually managed to safely remove the animal. "He was just doing what they do, which
is just kind of pinballing around in there, trying to figure his way out," District Wildlife Manager Casey Westbrook told the station. The bear had reportedly gotten into the unlocked car and couldn’t figure out how to get out. The animal shredded part of a door and the ceiling of the car, according to FOX 31. The case of beer also got slightly banged up but none of the cans appeared to have been opened. Fox News
Well, the bear preferred a Modelo, that's all.
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