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July 1, 2021
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Democrats seek perpetual coronavirus control . . . President Biden’s White House has taken a look at the delta variant of the coronavirus, given a listen to the World Health Organization’s latest advice and summarily concluded: More people will die — “you know it’s going to happen,” he said. This is the Democrats’ way of paving the path toward perpetual lockdowns. Here’s what you need to know, from the lips of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, no less: “Viruses constantly change through mutation.” In other words: Keep your heads, people. This is the normal process of viruses — all viruses. Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, put it well on Twitter: “Don’t let the fear mongers win. New public England study of delta variant shows 44 deaths out of 53,822 (0.8%) in unvaccinated group. Hmmm.” The takeaway? Cooler heads mean liberty stands a chance of surviving. ANALYSIS/OPINION. By Cheryl
Chumley. Washington Times
Delta variant ignites new mask debate . . . Health officials are grappling with how to prevent potential COVID-19 outbreaks from the delta variant that is spreading rapidly across the U.S. Concern over the highly transmissible delta strain prompted Los Angeles County this week to recommend that all people wear masks indoors, even if they're vaccinated. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also encouraged fully vaccinated people to
continue using masks. The Hill
Kamala Harris’ office is a den of dissension, disorganization, and misery . . . Chaos prevails in the office of the woman who could be the leader of the free world at any moment. Her campaign was also poorly run. But Joe Biden picked her anyway. Harris’ team is experiencing low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust among aides and senior officials. Much of the frustration internally is directed at Tina Flournoy,
Harris’ chief of staff, a veteran of Democratic politics who began working for her earlier this year. In interviews, 22 current and former vice presidential aides, administration officials and associates of Harris and Biden described a tense and at times dour office atmosphere. White House
Dossier
Psaki can’t name any Republicans who actually want to defund the police . . . White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki used a deceptive ploy Tuesday to allege Republicans want to defund the police because they didn’t support a massive spending package the including police funding. Wednesday, she got called on it. Psaki was questioned over comments she made alleging Republicans want to “defund the police,” but she was unable to name a
single GOP member who supported the controversial line. White House Dossier
DeSantis feuds with Trump over Florida rally amid search for survivors in Surfside . . . Former President Donald Trump is rejecting pleas from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to postpone a campaign-style rally this weekend some 200 miles from the Miami suburb where an international search-and-rescue mission is excavating bodies from the site of a collapsed seaside condominium. DeSantis’s office has "made a direct plea” to the former president’s
team, calling on it to postpone the Saturday event in Sarasota. One Florida Republican bluntly said Trump and his team need to “read the room.” Washington Examiner
Trump rally in Alabama canceled by local officials . . . So they scheduled Donald Trump and didn’t think it would be a political event? And what’s wrong with having a political event? An event featuring former President Donald Trump as the keynote speaker that was being planned for this Saturday at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park was nixed after park commissioners became wary. “After the request was made, then there was
contact with the Republican Party, they contacted us and then it became apparent that it was going to be a partisan political event, rather than just a patriotic event planned for that evening,” commission chairman Bill Tunnell. White House Dossier
Updated Vote Counts Give Adams Narrow Lead Following Tuesday’s Debacle . . . New York City’s updated results for its mayoral primary show former NYPD officer Eric Adams with a slim lead over former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia a day after the city’s Board of Elections mistakenly counted approximately 135,000 invalid ballots. The results were identical to Tuesday’s unofficial ones, with Adams at 51.1% and Garcia at 48.9%.
Tuesday was the first election in the city’s history to use ranked choice voting, and its initial tally included incorrect preliminary vote counts before the board withdrew them hours later. Adams, who was the frontrunner in the campaign’s final days, leads Garcia by 14,755 votes, while Maya Wiley finished third after totaling just 347 shy of second. His lead, however, is not guaranteed, since New York City is waiting until July 6 to count approximately 125,000 absentee ballots that could
decide who will likely be its next mayor. Daily Caller
Majority of New Yorkers Say Gov. Andrew Cuomo Shouldn’t Run Again . . . As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gears up to campaign for a fourth term, a poll released Thursday found more than 60% of voters surveyed would rather see the Democratic executive resign immediately or not run for office again. A Siena College Research Institute poll of 809 voters between June 22 and June 29 found that 39% of respondents said Mr. Cuomo should finish out
his term but not run again as investigators review sexual-harassment allegations by current and former aides. Mr. Cuomo has denied wrongdoing. Twenty-three percent of voters surveyed said the governor should resign immediately, while 33% said he should run for re-election, the poll showed. Wall Street Journal
New York Assembly Will Issue Subpoenas in Cuomo Impeachment Probe . . . The New York Assembly’s Judiciary Committee will soon issue subpoenas as part of its impeachment investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a member of the committee said on Wednesday. The announcement was made by state assemblyman Charles Lavine, a Democrat who chairs the body’s Judiciary Committee, who has been named as the head of the panel conducting the impeachment
investigation. At the end of a meeting in Albany, he said the committee will issue subpoenas to compel documents and sworn statements from witnesses to corroborate existing evidence. “The purpose of this process is to both gather substantive evidence, as well as to assess the credibility and corroborate information learned during interviews,” Lavine said. Epoch Times
McCarthy tasks House Intelligence Republicans to investigate NSA . . . House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy directed Republicans on the Intelligence Committee to investigate the National Security Agency over concerns of "politicization." There has been a "disturbing trend" at the agency, the California Republican said Wednesday, following the Biden administration's move to sideline Michael Ellis, a top NSA lawyer picked by former
President Donald Trump, extending to this week when Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed he was being spied on by the NSA. Washington Examiner
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Trump urges Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley to resign . . . Former President Donald Trump is calling on Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to resign. The 45th president made his case in a tweemail on Wednesday, echoing experts from a book claiming Milley clashed with Trump over the handling of the racial justice protests last summer and a viral moment last week when the general defended the teaching of critical race
theory in military institutions during a hearing. "Gen. Milley ought to resign, and be replaced with someone who is actually willing to defend our Military from the Leftist Radicals who hate our Country and our Flag," Trump said. Washington Examiner
Foreign Student Visa Holder Tried To Leave US With Sensitive Military Intel . . . Law enforcement officials identified a foreign national in the United States on a student visa who attempted to leave the country while carrying sensitive military intelligence. During the week of June 12, the individual tried to leave the United States with photographs and data from a defense-related research laboratory, according to the confidential
document. There was no mention of whether the suspected spy was arrested or is being held in detention, but law enforcement is sure of one thing: The person was in the United States on a Student and Exchange Visitor Program visa. Washington Free Beacon
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China’s Xi warns Taiwan on independence, sends message to West . . . President Xi Jinping on Thursday marked his Communist Party’s 100th anniversary from Tiananmen Square and struck a bellicose tone, reconfirming China’s ‘historic mission’ to control Taiwan while warning other countries not to interfere. Bloomberg reported that Xi said that no foreign forces will ever "coerce and enslave us." "Whoever attempts to
do that, will surely break their heads on the steel Great Wall built with the blood and flesh of 1.4 billion of Chinese people," he said. Fox News
US and Japan conduct war games amid rising China-Taiwan tensions . . . The US and Japan have been conducting war games and joint military exercises in the event of a conflict with China over Taiwan, amid escalating concerns over the Chinese military’s assertive activity. US and Japanese military officials began serious planning for a possible conflict in the final year of the Trump administration, according to six people who requested
anonymity. The activity includes top-secret tabletop war games and joint exercises in the South China and East China seas. Financial Times
Russia’s Putin Challenges U.S. Leadership, Asserts Military Might . . . Russian President Vladimir Putin challenged U.S. leadership in world affairs on Wednesday, arguing that an era of U.S. hegemony has come to an end as he touted Moscow’s growing military strength and increasingly assertive foreign policy.
Mr. Putin spoke during an annual event at which he answers questions from ordinary Russians. The remarks come two weeks after a summit with President Biden in Geneva where the two leaders sought to ease tensions but achieved little tangible progress. Wall Street Journal
Putin: The West knows it can't win war with Russia . . . Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that an incident involving a British destroyer in the Black Sea was US-British 'provocation.' He expressed certainty that it couldn't have triggered a global conflict even if Russia had sunk the warship because the West knows it can't win such a war. The tough statement appeared to indicate his resolve to raise the stakes
should a similar incident happen again. Fox News
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Sen. Ron Johnson hosts mother of a 13-year old victim of COVID vaccine . . . Stephanie de Garay
who spoke on behalf of her daughter at a press conference hosted by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) on June 28, revealed that her daughter suffers severe side effects after participating in the trial as a way to help end the pandemic. Johnson held a news conference to allow people from across the country who’ve experienced severe adverse reactions following a COVID-19 vaccine to share their stories after being “repeatedly ignored” by medical professionals and federal health
authorities. About 18 hours after the second doze of Pfizer vaccine, de Garay's daughter - who was a happy and healthy straight-A student - developed “severe muscle/nerve pain, painful electrical shocks down her neck and spine which caused her to walk hunched over, severe chest pain that felt like her heart was being pulled out, numbness and swelling in her vaccine arm (left), her fingers and toes turned white and were ice cold to the touch, the pain in her toes was so bad she walked
on her heels, severe abdominal pain (especially on [the] lower right side), and a fever of 101.4." Over the next two-and-a-half months, the 13-year old girl developed more symptoms, including not being able to walk; unable to feel below her waist; memory loss; loss of bladder control; the inability to swallow food and liquids, thus requiring a nasogastric feeding tube; and fainting or seizing 10 or more times per day. “All these symptoms are still here today, according to her
mother. Epoch Times
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Flag-snubbing US Olympian, sponsored by 'defund the police' advocates . . . Gwen Berry, the U.S. Olympic hammer thrower who sparked outrage by turning away from the American flag during the national anthem, is sponsored by Color of Change, a left-wing group that advocates for defunding the police. Color of Change, which has sponsored Berry since last September and is funding her through the end of the year, applauded
her "leadership" on Tuesday amid the ongoing backlash. Fox News
Iconic American Magazine Fails To Disclose CCP Funding in Latest Print Edition . . . Time magazine failed to disclose Chinese government funding for content published in its most recent print edition. The magazine's June 21-28 double issue included an insert from China Daily, a media outlet controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Disclosures on the insert label it as an advertisement from China Daily in Beijing and note that additional
"information is on file with the DOJ, Washington DC." Chinese government funding for China Daily is not mentioned. China Daily registers with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, a law aimed at tracking foreign government influence. Washington Free Beacon
Trump escapes criminal tax evasion, CFO nabbed as low hanging fruit . . . For the past five years, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has been investigating The Trump Organization, Donald Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., for alleged tax fraud. The inquiry produced 3 million pages of documents based on 100 subpoenas. Vance even created a task force of accountants and lawyers to make a possible indictment of the former president and his sons
the office’s top priority. The result of this effort will be disclosed Thursday in what appears to be a case that falls significantly short of prosecutors’ initial grandiose visions. Vance’s office plans to charge the Trump Organization’s Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, and the organization itself with fraud over perks Weisselberg received that were not counted as income, and thus, allegedly criminally evaded taxes. Fox Business
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Supreme Court pass on transgender case frustrates conservatives . . . The Supreme Court took a pass Monday on a legal challenge over shared restrooms for transgender students at a Virginia high school, fueling frustration among right-tilting court-watchers eager for the conservative majority to resolve the intensifying legal clash over gender identity. The court’s denial of certiorari allowed the lower court ruling to stand in favor of
Gavin Grimm, a transgender male — a biological female identifying as a male — who sued the Gloucester County School Board for barring him from using the boys’ restroom, marking the third time the high court has refused to take up transgender access to public school facilities. Washington Times
Dems’ Shameful Legacy of Spying on Journalists . . . Fox New host Tucker Carlson is making the explosive claim that the Biden administration’s NSA is spying on him. Biden is continuing the same policies of his former boss, President Barack Obama. Carlson explained that the show had heard from a “whistleblower from within the U.S. government” who informed him and producers that the NSA is “monitoring our electronic
communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.”“The whistleblower, who is in a position to know, repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails,” he added. “There’s no other possible source for that information, period.” Carlson believes “the NSA captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons.” Patriot Post
‘I won’t be pathologized for being White’: Man resigns, shreds school district over ‘white privilege’ training . . . An after-school coordinator at a New Hampshire elementary school has gone viral for resigning over the school’s embrace of anti-white critical race theory propaganda. In a public resignation letter released Monday on Twitter, former Northwest Elementary after-school program coordinator Daniel Concannon, 40, accused his
school district of having endorsed the “dehumanization and hatred of White people, as evidenced by their dissemination of the imbecilic ‘White Privilege’ curriculum.” In the letter, he purposefully referred to the Manchester School District as “The Frankfurt School.” It was a reference to the school responsible for creating contemporary Marxism, which is believed to be at the root of CRT. Business & Politics Review
Big Tech cracks down on Robert Malone, mRNA vaccine pioneer who warns about their risks . . . A scientist who credits himself as the inventor of mRNA vaccines, and has warned that they carry risks downplayed in the COVID-19 pandemic, said this week that LinkedIn "shut down" his personal account without explanation. Robert Malone tweeted Wednesday that his historic professional record "has been erased completely and arbitrarily
without warning or explanation." He has a 10-15 year old account and 6,000 followers. Just the News
Former SECDEF Donald Rumsfeld Dies . . . Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld died Wednesday at age 88, his family announced. “History may remember him for his extraordinary accomplishments over six decades of public service, but for those who knew him best and whose lives were forever changed as a result, we will remember his unwavering love for his wife Joyce, his family and friends, and the integrity he brought to a life
dedicated to country,” the Rumsfeld family said in a statement. Daily Caller
Dozens dead, hundreds hospitalized amid heat wave . . . The historic heat wave lingering over the Pacific Northwest since Friday has led to dozens of deaths and hundreds of hospitalizations in both the U.S. and Canada. Excessive heat warnings are still in effect for eastern Washington and Oregon, along with portions of northern and western Ohio, according to the National Weather Service. At least 45 people have died in Portland,
Ore., alone, a local medical examiner said Wednesday. The Hill
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The 2020 Election Was The Fairest Election Of All Time . . . Everyone knows the 2020 election was literally the most secure and fair presidential election—like, ever. Here is the undeniable evidence:
1. Literally everyone says so: Duh. The 2020 election couldn't have been rigged because all the people who are cool and smart and not weird say so. Do you want to look like a weirdo? Ew.
2. Journalists were fair and balanced in assessing the qualities of moderate, kind, decent Joe Biden, and of his opponent Hitler!
3. Mail-in votes were handled by USPS—the most reliable, trustworthy company on the planet.
4. Vote counters in Philadelphia and Detroit spent many years practicing how to count before election night.
5. The Democrats have never done anything wrong, ever.
6. New York didn't just accidentally count 138,000 ballots, a bizarrely familiar number: Science has clearly shown that voter fraud is completely impossible and would never happen here, especially in New York City where they're really good at elections.
7. The election turned out exactly how your late great, great grandfather would have wanted: This was verified by his vote in the 2020 election.
8. The Democrat candidate won, which is perhaps the most important sign of a fair and impartial election: The evil, fascist dictator was voted out of office. Anything that was done to achieve this was fair, right? Now shut up about the election, you insurrectionist! Babylon
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