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April 8, 2021
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White House Dossier Virtual Happy Hour . . .
Please join me at our next White House Dossier Virtual Happy Hour this Friday at 6:00 pm Eastern!
Given that President Biden’s nemesis, “killer” Putin, is hitting the news again, I thought it would be appropriate to give our Cut to the News and White House Dossier readers a preview of my upcoming book, “ Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat
America,” which will be released this summer, on July 27.
We will chat about many things Russia: Putin’s motivations for Russia’s anti-American strategy, what drives Russia’s persistent cyberattacks on US government and corporate networks, the root cause of US-Russian disagreements, and why Putin authorized Russia’s intervention in our presidential elections in 2016 and 2020.
You will have an opportunity to ask questions, share views, and chat about other threats, foreign and domestic, facing our country.
A link to a video-conferencing platform will be provided at 4:00 Eastern this Friday, before the start of the White House Dossier Happy Hour.
Given the grim topic, I encourage you to stock up liberally on “refereshments.” I don’t drink vodka, but my “highly-placed sources, with direct access to intelligence,” say that Russian Stolichnaya (or Stoli) and Polish Luksusowa are the best.
Looking forward to a libation to Liberty!
Rebekah
Colorado vaccination site closes early after reactions to J & J vaccine. . . A vaccination site in Colorado closed early Wednesday after a "limited number" of people began having adverse reactions to the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, resulting in hundreds of people who waited in line for hours being sent home without receiving a shot. The site at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City,
eight miles northeast of Denver, closed around 90 minutes early at 3:30 p.m., FOX Denver 31 reported. More than 1,700 people received vaccine shots at the site Wednesday. "Following the administration of the J&J vaccine and during onsite observation, we saw a limited number of adverse reactions to the vaccine," a statement from Centra Health, which runs the site, to Fox News reads. "We followed our protocols and in an abundance of caution, made the decision – in partnership with the
state – to pause operations for the remainder of the day. Fox News
UK advises under-30s to take offer of alternative to AstraZeneca vaccine . . . The UK has abruptly changed its guidance over the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, recommending that people aged 18-29 be offered alternative jabs, in a move that could complicate Britain’s inoculation programe. The new guidance from the body that advises the UK government on vaccinations came as the European Medicines Agency said there was a link between rare blood
clots in the brain and the AstraZeneca jab. Financial Times
If you are a young and healthy person or a parent of one, I strongly recommend that you watch this Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Today" episode Vaxxed Out, before taking any COVID vaccine. I believe there's a free trial for 30 days. I
am certain you will be glad you did. (I do not have any financial or other incentive to pitch this program. I am simply a firm believer that knowledge is a person's best weapon for anything and everything.)
Surgeon warns blanket vaccination of US population could be a 'dangerous medical approach' . . . Retired surgeon and former U-Penn Medicine professor Dr. Hooman Noorchashm warned that orchestrating a blanket coronavirus vaccination for every American regardless of prior immunity or presence of risk factors could be a "dangerous medical approach." Noorchashm told Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Today" that patients shouldn't fear
asking legitimate questions about the vaccine, immunity status or the vaccine "passport" system already being deployed in places like New York. "When folks in the public health arena, talk about the vaccine efficacy. I think it’s a good bet that our science, this is American science... says to us that neutralizing antibodies and prime T cells can clear this out of your body," he said. "Now the question is, have we done enough to make sure it’s safe in everyone. Are there categories in
subset of people in whom this vaccine may actually pose some sort of risk? -- I think the answer to that is yes." "They delivered an effective vaccine. Now, the safety part of it is what they're making a mistake with: It's a mistake to be vaccinating people who have had recent or current infections." Fox News
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Trump-era grievances could get second life at Supreme Court . . . The Supreme Court's most conservative justices are signaling an interest in issues closely associated with former President Trump, from rules on social media platforms to how elections are governed. Justice Clarence Thomas this week opined on how Twitter might be more strictly regulated after it banned Trump from its platform, and predicted the court
would soon be called upon to address big tech's “highly concentrated control” of speech.
He and fellow conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch also recently made clear their hope to address whether state officials and courts have the power to make changes to election rules, after a number of states relaxed voting restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic. The
Hill
Nikki Haley Rips Kamala's Handling Of Border Crisis: ‘God Help Us If She Ever Becomes President’ . . . Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley ripped Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday over her handling of the crisis at the U.S. southern border. Haley slammed Harris, who is in charge of the White House border response, while appearing on Fox News’ “America Reports,” and said “God help us if she ever becomes president.” Host
Sandra Smith asked Haley to describe what should be done to fix the crisis. “Well, it’ll break anyone’s heart, and it’s not about coming up with a new solution, we have the solution,” Haley responded. “The Trump administration had the same migrant problem, but they fixed it. And what they did was they used tough love with our friends. Daily Caller
Texas Gov. Abbott blames Biden for alleged sexual assaults at child migrant facility . . . Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Wednesday said there were allegation of sexual assault against children at a migrant holding facility in San Antonio, blaming President Biden and his disastrous border policy. “These problems are a byproduct of President Biden’s open border policies and the lack of planning for the fallout for those disastrous policies,”
Abbott said in a press conference. “In short, this facility is a health and safety nightmare. The Biden administration is now presiding over the abuse of children,” Abbott said. White House Dossier
Ms-13 Gang Member Caught Illegally Crossing US-Mexico Border Into California: Border Patrol . . . An MS-13 gang member from El Salvador was arrested after crossing into the United States illegally, said the Border Patrol on Wednesday.
The 28-year-old El Salvadoran national, who was not named, was found at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday by an agent patrolling the mountains in the San Diego, California, border sector “when he encountered six men near the border wall,” the agency said in a news release. All six of the men, who were questioned by the agent, said they were illegally present in the United States, officials said. Epoch Times
Biden to Announce Sweeping Gun-Control Restrictions . . .
President Joe Biden will announce a series of executive actions to institute gun-control measures Thursday. Biden will pursue a policy restricting homemade firearms. He will direct his administration to find a way to regulate unfinished firearms parts the same way as functioning guns. The goal will be to require buyers of unfinished parts to go through background checks before finalizing their purchase. Biden will reportedly frame the measures as a response to recent mass shootings in
Georgia and Colorado. Homemade guns were not used in either event. There are no details on how Biden plans to regulate unfinished firearm parts, but his administration may face an uphill battle given recent court rulings against how the ATF regulates AR-15 parts. Washington Free Beacon
Biden’s Nominee To Lead ATF Pushes For Blanket Ban On Assault Rifles . . . The gun control activist who President Joe Biden is expected to nominate to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) claimed last year that members of the Branch Davidian sect shot down two helicopters during a standoff with federal agents in Waco in 1993. David Chipman, the expected nominee, posted the comments as part of a Reddit “Ask Me
Anything” event. He also called for tighter gun control measures, including restricting gun sales only to licensed gun stores and a ban on the manufacture and sale of so-called assault rifles. Biden is expected to announce Chipman’s nomination on Thursday during an event where he will lay out a series of executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence. Daily Caller
We will have a guest speaker at one of the WHD Happy Hours, probably in summer, who will talk about many things Gun Rights and Second Amendment. He is a retired fellow DOD officer and an excellent firearms instructor, with an amazing range in Culpepper, Virginia. He is also just a fun person. You will enjoy him!
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Putin, Russia test Biden with 'hybrid warfare' in Ukraine, Arctic . . . Russian President Vladimir Putin has been ramping up “hybrid warfare” operations in Ukraine and the Arctic in recent weeks in an early test of President Biden’s resolve. The build-up has proven especially alarming for Ukraine, leading President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to make a personal plea Tuesday for expedited membership in NATO to fend off the Kremlin’s pressure
campaign. U.S. military officials have separately sought to draw attention to the increased Russian military activity in the Arctic. “Without getting into specific intelligence assessments, obviously we’re monitoring it very closely,” Pentagon Spokesman Kirby said, adding that the Biden administration is “committed to protecting our U.S. national security interests in the Arctic. Washington Times
Motivated by the perception of a weak US President, Putin sees a window opportunity to execute parts of his Master Plan that targets America and the West, in order to achieve Russia's long-range strategic ambitions. We
will get a sneak preview of Vlad's "hybrid warfare" Playbook during our White House Dossier Virtual Happy Hour this Friday at 6 pm Eastern.
US Air Force Unprepared for Defence of Taiwan: War Games Analyst . . . The U.S. Air Force will struggle to maintain pressure on the Chinese military if conflict erupts around the Taiwan Strait, according to a recent war games analysis. “F-22s and F-35s operating under ideal conditions at sophisticated home bases here in the United States, have an ‘operational readiness’ rate of about 60 percent,” Joseph Siracusa, adjunct professor of the
political history of international diplomacy at Curtin University told The Epoch Times. The professor, who has worked with war gaming models during the Cold War, said recent conflict simulations revealed that the sheer distance between the U.S.’s closest airbase in Kadena, Okinawa to Taiwan would be a deciding factor if a conflict broke out. “Fighting a war almost within sight of the Chinese homeland will be a tough slog when the United States has only one land airbase within 700 miles
of the battle area,” he said. U.S. Embassy’s second-highest-ranking diplomat in Australia recently revealed that Australia and the United States were working on “contingencies” around a potential outbreak of conflict over Taiwan. Epoch Times
US military is the best warfigthing machine in the history of warfare. Despite this fact, its dependence on technology and insufficient understanding of adversaries' strategies and doctrines - largely, a result of the intelligence community's deficiencies in foreign language and culture expertise - result in our military's inability to win decisively and conclusively the "endless wars" that our political leaders initiate.
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As U.S. Economy Roars Back, Life in Many Poor Countries Gets Worse . . . Rich world is poised for strongest growth in decades, but developing world faces rising hunger, poverty and indebtedness. Powered by the U.S. and China, the global economy is set to make a stunning comeback this year from its deepest contraction since the Great Depression, economists say. For many developing countries, the pandemic still raging and poverty
deepening. The number of people living in extreme poverty, or on less than $1.90 a day, is expected to rise by as many as 39 million individuals this year after climbing by 124 million in 2020—which was the first increase since the 1990s and by far the biggest on record, the World Bank says. By the end of the decade, the United Nations warns, the number of people in extreme poverty could rise above one billion, an increase of around 250 million, due to the pandemic. Wall Street Journal
Having created this atrocious mess by spreading the CCP virus, China is now "helping" save the poor countries from the pandemic with its CCP vaccine. Brilliant.
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Biden’s Treasury Department Ignoring National Security Responsibilities . . . Former Treasury officials and finance experts are concerned the Biden administration's political maneuvering may help enable drug traffickers, dictators, and other money launderers. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen so far has put the fight against financial crimes committed by terrorists and dictators on the backburner as she pursues Biden
administration's "equity" focused agenda. In public remarks, Yellen has prioritized issues such as gender relations and the environment over the growing threat of illicit finance from both authoritarian states and terrorists. Marshall Billingslea, the former assistant secretary for terrorist financing at the Treasury Department and an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, said Yellen’s approach does not reflect the Treasury Department’s mission or the priorities of the State Department,
which has placed anti-corruption at center stage. Washington Free Beacon
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Teachers' Union Head Rips Jews in Interview on School Reopening . . . Union leader Randi Weingarten criticized Jews as "part of the ownership class" dedicated to denying opportunities to others in an interview released on Friday. Weingarten—who is herself Jewish and draws a six-figure salary as head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)—took aim at American Jews in an interview with the Jerusalem Post.
When asked about parents critical of the AFT's resistance to school reopening, Weingarten took aim squarely at Jewish critics. "American Jews are now part of the ownership class," Weingarten said. "Jews were immigrants from somewhere else. And they needed the right to have public education. And they needed power to have enough income and wealth for their families that they could put their kids through college and their kids could do better than they have done." Washington Free Beacon
Wow. White privilege, toxic masculinity. Now, Jews are part of the ownership class. Where does this class warfare by the woke radicals end? Parents should be afraid to send their children to government schools.
California forces Christian college employees to undergo gender identity training at odds with faith . . . When several Christian colleges sued to stop the Obama administration's proposed contraceptive mandate in 2013, their trade association briefly had their back. Forcing faith-based institutions to cover abortifacient drugs under the Affordable Care Act threatens "the religious liberty of all people and the entire nation," Edward
Blews, then-president of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, told the feds. When the final rule was released a few months later, however, the CCCU remains silent and on the sidelines, despite freedom of conscience being at risk. Several years later, not only the CCCU but some of its highest profile members are staying quiet about another potential infringement of their religious liberty: California's required employer training on gender identity and sexuality. Just the News
Not only the leftist extremists are forcing everyone to bake their "wedding" cake, they want us to eat it with them, shoving it down our throats.
Giuliani son Andrew getting ready to run against Cuomo for NY governor . . . How is Andrew Cuomo still governor? Where is the daily drumbeat of outrage by Democrats? Sure, some of them called for him to resign, and then, radio silence. And some, like President Biden and Vice President Harris, chickened out. He’s still there, and he wants to run for reelection, apparently. The son of Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is going to
challenge him. Andrew Giuliani, a former top aide to President Donald Trump and son of “America’s Mayor,” is “heavily considering” a bid for governor of New York in 2022, potentially setting up an epic clash between the two biggest political families in recent New York history. “I plan to run,” Giuliani told Secrets. White House Dossier
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Lady Gaga, Dom Pérignon team up for charity champagne collaboration . . . Pour it up, little monsters. Lady Gaga and Dom Pérignon have partnered for a champagne collaboration benefitting her Born This Way foundation. The “House of Gucci” star and vintage champagne brand invited fans into their “Queendom” universe on Tuesday, releasing a minute-long clip of Gaga in avant-garde outfits with a Pérignon bottle and a
glass of the rosé champagne. The Grammy winner spun around a fantastical, palatial setting to the tune of her track “Free Woman” for the campaign, tagged “Creative Freedom is Power.” 110 bottles of Gaga-approved bubbly will be sold in private sales. Fox News
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