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September 2, 2021
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DIA leads on lab leak theory . . . The 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community remain divided on how the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic originated, but the Defense Intelligence Agency is the most forward-leaning among the spy services in asserting that the virus most likely began inside a Chinese laboratory, according to U.S. intelligence sources. The unclassified version of the intelligence assessment ordered
by President Biden three months ago on the virus’ origin was made public last week. The public assessment is a hodgepodge of statements that critics of American intelligence call a “two-handed” analysis. On the one hand, the agencies said the virus may have come from a Chinese laboratory, such as the Wuhan Institute of Virology, that was engaged in dangerous bat coronavirus alterations near the first outbreak. On the other hand, the analysts working under the Office of the Director
of National Intelligence say the virus likely emanated from an animal spillover that made the jump to humans and triggered the pandemic, which has cost millions of lives and billions of dollars in economic losses. The 1½-page summary of unclassified “key findings” states that four unidentified U.S. intelligence agencies and the ODNI-led National Intelligence Council have “low confidence” that the outbreak originated from an animal with a virus. Washington Times
DIA analysts actually know what they are talking about. They are part of the National Center for Medical Intelligence, located at Ft. Detrick in Frederick, MD. Fort Detrick is (was) the center of US Army's bioweapons research program. Naturally, DIA is in charge of intel on foreign bioweapons programs. Unlike the DNI weenies, DIA officers have the background in medical intel and bioweapons.
DNI is the most politicized organization within the IC because they have close ties with the White House. I so much wish politicians just got out of the way and let intel analysts and ops guys (and gals) do their job.
RNC report shows the way forward on election integrity . . . Last week the Republican National Committee released its election integrity report, an exhaustive, 24-page document created in consultation with 30 experts and steeped in extensive research. It’s the latest example of how the GOP is taking unprecedented steps to promote election integrity and restore voter confidence while ensuring voting remains accessible and easy to all eligible
voters. The report recognized the difficulty of administering an election during a pandemic but found that Democrats used COVID-19 to weaken ballot security by enacting sweeping, last-minute alterations to the election process across the country in 2020. Many of these changes were made by courts who disregarded long-standing laws, by Democrat governors who abused their emergency powers, and by officials such as secretaries of state who ignored laws duly passed by their legislatures. Some
public officials used the pandemic as a pretense to expand mail voting and eliminate key absentee voting safeguards such as restrictions on ballot harvesting and ID and witness requirements. Regardless of who they supported in 2020, all Americans have the right to be confident that their ballot was accurately recorded and their vote matters. Faith in our electoral process is the foundation of our republic. Washington Times
I just got my appointment, for Friday, to be interviewed for the role of a volunteer election officer in Fairfax County, VA. I recommend everyone who is in a position to do it, please consider volunteering as an election officer in your respective areas. You also get paid some for the day.
Evidence mounts that Biden manufactured weeks-long false narrative on Afghanistan . . . The long saga of the Russia collusion scandal — during which law enforcement, media, political operatives and intelligence assets manufactured a two-year illusion of a Trump-Russia conspiracy that did not exist — raised questions about a new era of political warfare in which false realities could be foisted upon the American public. The
bungled, bloody U.S. exit from Afghanistan now has some fearing the Biden administration practiced deception by omission and commission to create a two-month false narrative that misled Congress and the American public by making the situation in and around Kabul look better than it was. Two powerful pieces of evidence emerged this week that strongly suggest the Afghan exit wasn't just a case of incompetence but rather an intentional effort to use PR lipstick to disguise a Biden plan that
was secretly willing to accept chaos and stranded Americans as a possible outcome to avoid further military casualties during the exit. Just the News
Soviet Playbook: Soviet government always manufactured false realities on the Russian people, to ensure total control. Those who expressed dissenting views were punished severely. Now US apparatchiks have figured out to borrow the Soviet Playbook and use it on their fellow Americans.
Trump was impeached over a phone call, but Biden’s call with Ghani a ‘private conversation’ . . . President Biden told Afghan former President Ghani to lie to Americans and the world about how things were going in Afghanistan. But this, you see, was a private conversation. Let’s not talk about it. Donald Trump’s conversations with foreign leaders were PUBLIC conversations. White House Dossier
McConnell: Biden is not going to be impeached . . . Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday that President Joe Biden would not be impeached over his withdrawal from Afghanistan because both the House and Senate are Democrat-controlled. “The president is not going to be removed from office,” McConnell said during an event in Pikeville, Kentucky. “Its a Democratic house, a narrowly Democratic Senate, that’s not going
to happen.” McConnell also insisted that the best way certain “behaviors get adjusted in this country is at the ballot box,” signaling that voters who are upset with Biden’s leadership should take to the polls. White House Dossier
Supreme Court Declines to Block Restrictive Texas Abortion Law . . . A divided Supreme Court late on Wednesday allowed the nation’s toughest restrictions on abortions to take effect, declining to block a new Texas law that bars the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy. The court’s nighttime order, which rejected an emergency request by clinics and abortion-rights advocates, marks a turning point in the legal battle over abortion
rights and comes the day the Texas ban went into force. While not a final ruling on the measure’s constitutionality, the court’s action validates, at least temporarily, a novel attempt by Texas lawmakers to insulate antiabortion legislation from court challenge. The unsigned order came on a 5-4 vote, with most of the conservative justices in the majority WSJ
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Republicans Blame Pentagon Planner Colin Kahl for Bungled Afghanistan Strategy . . . Pentagon strategy chief Colin Kahl is in the hot seat over his role in the Biden administration's bungled Afghanistan withdrawal, four months after Senate Republicans unanimously opposed his nomination and warned that his appointment would be disastrous for national defense policy. Kahl, the civilian head of policy planning at the Department of Defense
and third highest ranking department official, has been a key player in planning for the Afghanistan withdrawal and the day-to-day policy decisions on the ground. Republican foreign policy leaders say Kahl is the behind-the-scenes player largely responsible for the botched evacuation of Afghanistan and decision to leave Americans stranded in the country. Washington Free Beacon
Defense Department holding 20,000 evacuated Afghans in U.S., 43,000 more overseas . . . The U.S. is holding about 20,000 Afghan evacuees on American soil, the Pentagon said Wednesday, with tens of thousands more reportedly at overseas U.S. military bases hoping for eventual entry. Afghans in the U.S. are spread across eight military bases, Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Wednesday. Another 23,000
are being held at bases in four European countries, and 20,000 more are in other countries, generally in the Middle East. Many of those are likely headed for the U.S., too. The bases here have capacity to hold about 30,000 people, but the military has been told to expand that to 50,000, the White House said. Washington Times
Far-right extremist groups planning to attend September rally at Capitol: AP . . . Far-right extremist groups including members of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers reportedly are planning to attend a rally at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., later this month. Citing three sources who requested anonymity, the AP reported the rally goers intend to demand "justice" for hundreds of people incarcerated on a variety of charges for breaching the Capitol
on Jan. 6 in protest of the 2020 presidential election results. Police have been discussing whether to again put up a large fence around the Capitol, much like the one that remained months following the Jan. 6 riot in which pro-Trump supporters, among them individuals who were part of such far-right extremist groups, stormed the Capitol to disrupt Congress's official Electoral College vote. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said that police were monitoring the Sept. 18 event and “planning
accordingly.” The Hill
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Taliban’s Promises of Tolerance in Afghanistan Often Don’t Match Reality . . . From executions of rivals to restrictions on women’s rights, the new Taliban look a lot like the old Taliban. Around the country, the Taliban already are showing signs that they are unwilling to tolerate cultural or political expressions that conflict with their fundamentalist beliefs. Many Afghans, conscious of the violent regime the Taliban
operated in the late 1990s, fear the worst has yet to come. In Daykundi province west of Kabul, shortly after their arrival two weeks ago, the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, resulting in the closure of all girls’ schools, said Hamza Ulfat, an activist from the area. The Taliban there also banned women from leaving home without a male relative, even forbidding them from washing clothes in the river.In the absence of a government or formally announced rules under
the new regime in Kabul, Taliban fighters in the provinces appear to be acting largely based on their own personal interpretation of what constitutes appropriate behavior. WSJ
Shocking. Only Washington "experts" could not have predicted that. What other norms of behavior would Taliban terrorist be adhering to - American?! And why?
Biden vows to resist ‘Russian aggression’ in Ukraine . . . Joe Biden sought to reassure Ukraine of Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to its sovereignty and opposition to “Russian aggression” at a White House meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky. The talks on Wednesday came amid rising tensions between Washington and Kyiv over the US approach to Russia, with Ukrainian officials concerned the White House had become too
accommodating towards the Kremlin. Biden's move to strike a deal with Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, ending its opposition to the Nordstream 2 pipeline, which bypasses Ukraine to deliver Russian gas to Europe, raised concerns in Kyiv. FT
Secretary Austin Refocuses On China Following End Of War In Afghanistan . . . Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declared Wednesday that U.S. leadership must direct a “new focus” toward the China threat now that America has fully withdrawn forces from Afghanistan. Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley addressed the public on the end of the Afghanistan war at a Wednesday press briefing. Austin praised the weeks-long effort to evacuate
through the Kabul airport, an effort which ultimately left more than 100 Americans stranded in the country along with tens of thousands of Afghan allies and refugees. Austin thanked Americans who gave their lives over the 20-year U.S. deployment in Afghanistan, but said the U.S. military must look toward new threats. “As one mission ends, others must go on,” Austin said, adding that U.S. diplomats will be taking over efforts to ensure stability in Afghanistan. Daily Caller
Another security threat to America that Washington "experts" have mishandled big time.
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WHO tracking new 'mu' coronavirus variant . . . The World Health Organization is monitoring another coronavirus variant, one that could be more resistant to vaccines. The agency added the mu variant to its list of "variants of interest" on Monday. The mu variant “has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape,” the WHO said in its weekly bulletin. Mu was first identified in
Colombia in January of this year. It has spread to 39 countries, including the United States. Over 2,000 cases of COVID-19 involving mu have been identified in the U.S., although in the last month it has accounted for only 0.3% of new cases. Washington Examiner
Now that China and other adversaries have figured out that they can have Washington elites doing their job of shutting down America for them, these viruses will keep coming.
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1 in 5 Medicaid payments improper, and these lawmakers want to know why . . . Improper payments by Medicaid – a federal-state health insurance program for the poor – surpass the number of improper payments for all other federal programs, and a group of lawmakers is pushing for more information. Republican members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee wrote Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure seeking answers for the improper payments that have spanned multiple administrations. The waste in Medicaid is not a Biden administration problem. In the fiscal year 2020, a total of $86 billion – or 21% of all Medicaid payments – were improper, according to CMS data. That’s up from fiscal year 2020 when Medicaid made $57 billion in improper payments, or14.9 percent.The Government Accountability Office has categorized Medicaid as a "high risk" program
and has said Medicaid has made a significant share of the improper payments to ineligible medical providers that included those with suspended medical licenses. Fox Business
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Joe Rogan gets COVID-19 after urging listeners not to get the vaccine . . . Podcast host Joe Rogan — who has openly criticized the need for COVID-19 vaccines — has been diagnosed with the coronavirus. The 54-year-old announcer revealed he contracted the coronavirus in a recent social media post. “I GOT COVID. My apologies, but we have to move the Nashville show to Sunday, October 24. Much love to you all,” he wrote alongside a video
of himself explaining his situation. The medicine Rogan said he took was “monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak, prednisone, everything. I also got an NAD drip and a vitamin drip and I did that three days in a row. Here we are on Wednesday, and I feel great.” New York Post
Cash for Criminals: San Francisco Will Pay Residents to Stop Shooting People . . . San Francisco is launching The Dream Keeper Fellowship, which will pay 10 individuals who are at high risk of being on either end of a shooting $300 each month to not shoot each other.
Yes, San Francisco is paying people not to shoot one another. President Obama created the cash-for-clunkers program to get people to buy more efficient vehicles and now San Francisco leaders are bringing the city by the bay a pay-for-peace program that will provide income to individuals prone to shoot someone as long as they don't pull the trigger. Setting up something of a hostage situation between the city of San Francisco and its criminal class, monthly bribes will be provided to
individuals the city thinks are otherwise likely to pop a cap in a fellow San Franciscan. Townhall
At least a couple of friends of mine told me they no longer read the news. It makes them too upset, feeling helpless. I am now beginning to see why.
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Biden Drone Strikes White House After Vowing To Kill Those Responsible For American Military Deaths In Kabul . . . President Joe Biden has finally stepped up delivering harsh remarks regarding those responsible for the deaths of our troops in Kabul. The President has authorized deadly force to deal with all who caused this tragedy. “We will not rest until those responsible for this senseless, avoidable crisis in Kabul
have been removed from this Earth,” said a forceful Biden. “We will unleash everything within our military’s arsenal to stop those who allowed this to happen!”
Unbeknownst to Biden at that very moment, a US military drone was activated and given the White House as its target. Before Biden could finish his speech he was pulled away urgently and briefed on what he’d just done. “Aw c’mon man! I said kill the terrorists. Not us! What’s the deal, man?” said Biden. “I’m sorry sir, but unfortunately you said to kill those responsible, Mr. President,” said General Milley. “The drones are quite literal, sir. There’s nothing we can do.” At
publishing time, Biden had tried to give the drones new orders to kill those who wish to harm our country, but the drone’s path remained unaltered. Babylon Bee
Watch the Big Tech de-platform Babylon Bee for writing something that many Americans think.
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