Biden’s ‘America last’ agenda . . . Analysis/ Opinion. Twenty years after 9/11, a plague from China rampages across our homeland. To date, COVID-19 has killed over 230 times more Americans than did those terrorist attacks. Yet our government, led entirely by President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress, refuses to confront China over its involvement in killing so many Americans. Democrats remain shockingly uncurious about the origin of the virus. Instead, they direct all their rage at American citizens. “Anti-vaxxers!” they cry. Government bureaucrats, power-drunk doctors, and the screaming weenies in the American press wring their hands over so-called “vaccine-hesitancy.” Washington Times

 

 

 

 

 

Amid Afghan Refugee Influx, DC Govt Warns of Dangers of Online Extremism . . . Refugees fleeing the Biden-induced human rights catastrophe in Afghanistan are streaming into Washington, D.C., and flowing into the area's hospitals amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the district's emergency management agency has issued a stern warning about the threat of online extremism. The District of Columbia's Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency warned law enforcement officials earlier this week that "extremist rhetoric has risen online following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan." According to an intelligence assessment obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the agency assessed that "the increase in extremist rhetoric may presage targeted violence against Afghan refugees." The evidence cited to support that assessment, however, was rather scant—just a handful of examples from "known online forums," such as 4Chan, Free Republic, BitChute, and the official QAnon Telegram channel. Washington Free Beacon

 

Ex-CIA analyst: Anti-Trump officials politicized intelligence, undermined U.S. security . . . U.S. intelligence officials waged a politicized campaign to undermine President Trump and his administration, and the politicization undermined American security, according to John A. Gentry, a former CIA analyst. Former high-ranking intelligence officials were frequently used by sitting intelligence officials, to leak damaging information. Many “formers” directly or indirectly helped elect current President Biden and defeat Mr. Trump in the 2020 election. “Current and former U.S. intelligence officers in unprecedentedly large numbers politicized intelligence in their opposition to candidate and then President Donald Trump,” Mr. Gentry stated in an article in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Washington Times

 

 

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says all out-war with Russia is possible: report . . . Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not rule out the possibility that tension between Kiev and Moscow could eventually boil over and lead to an all-out war with Russia a scenario that he called "the worst thing," a report said. Zelenskyy was at the Yalta European Strategy summit in Kiev on Friday when he was asked about the possibility. "This is the worst thing that there can be, but unfortunately there is such a possibility," he said, pointing out that he seeks a substantive meeting with Russian President Vladamir Putin. Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula back in 2014 and has supported a separatist insurgency in Donbas. Putin said last month that it was becoming evident that Kiev is no longer interested in a peaceful settlement to the conflict. Fox News. 

 

 

Russia and Belarus start a joint military exercise that is rattling European neighbors . . . The two countries started the Zapad-2021 military exercises on Thursday. Belarus has said 13,000 troops may be directly involved although Russia has claimed the exercises will involve up to 200,000 troops, which would make them among the largest in history. The drill, held every four years, has alarmed Belarus and Russia’s EU and Nato-member neighbours, who are depicted as lightly fictionalized adversaries in the exercise.. Moscow is prepared to add to the $1.5bn it lent Minsk last year, according to Russia’s finance minister Anton Siluanov, while Lukashenko said Belarus would soon buy a big consignment of Russian military equipment — possibly including its state of the art S-400 anti-aircraft system. Financial Times

 

 

 

 

The Flu Is Expected to Make a Comeback This Year . . . The coming flu season is on track to be much worse than the last cycle, according to health experts, who fear an influx of cases could further strain hospitals already overwhelmed by the Delta surge. The season could also strike earlier and more severely than usual, doctors and researchers said, because many people haven’t been able to build up their natural immune defenses while working from home and avoiding strangers. “The worst case scenario is a real twindemic” of Covid-19 and flu cases, said William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Several factors are behind the expectations for a potentially difficult flu season. Wall Street Journal

American Express engages in 'reverse discrimination' against White people . . . Five current and former employees at American Express – speaking on condition of anonymity – told FOX Business that the credit card company singles out Black people for promotion in a practice that former employees described as reverse discrimination against White people. The employees, none of whom were in human resources, did not present internal documents to demonstrate an official policy, but they said they witnessed a worrisome trend that raises questions about racial discrimination in promotion. One former employee said they quit because the critical race theory trainings and the apparent promotion of employees due to skin color sent the message that White employees could not expect to even be considered for promotion. American Express denied this accusation in a statement. The ex-employee said efforts to advance in the company were futile. Fox News

 

Rise in black jobless rate sets back US progress on labour market parity . . . Black workers are struggling to find jobs in the US despite evidence of plentiful openings, with ranks of unemployed on the increase last month even as they fell among other demographic groups. The gap has forced economists to ask if progress that African-American workers made in the hot labour market before the Covid-19 crisis will outlast the pandemic — or whether historical disparities will persist. In August the unemployment rate for black Americans ticked up to 8.8 per cent even as the same measure for US workers overall declined to 5.2 per cent, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week. Financial Times

 

Google’s ‘Antiracism’ Training Says America Is Inherently Racist . . . Recently leaked documents from a whistleblower inside Google show that the tech giant’s employees are being subjected to “antiracism” training that uses a blatant Critical Race Theory framework. The training program uses materials and features videos from several prominent CRT proponents and “antiracism” activists and is replete with typical CRT concepts like “intersectionality,” “white privilege,” and “systemic racism.” A “White Supremacy Pyramid” is included in the training materials, which “advances the idea that conservative commentator Ben Shapiro represents a foundation of ‘white supremacy’ and that Donald Trump is moving society on a path toward ‘mass murder’ and ‘genocide.’” Patriot Post