The Morning Report - 7/21/21

Good morning kids. Midweek and as so many things come crashing down on the heads of the illegitimate regime - the economy, the border, societal balkanization, foreign policy disasters, you-name-it - it only makes them angrier and more strident in their obsession to stomp out anyone and anything that utters even a peep of discontent. The locus of this is the continuing haranguing about General Tso's Sicken - AKA the Chinese Coronavirus - and who gets to control the message about it. The fact that we're talking about control of speech just underscores where we are as a society. And if things continue, it's going to get a lot worse.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced last week that, due to 12 unnamed people on social media posting what the Biden administration considers to be misinformation, the White House is actively "flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation" and "helping" to "boost trusted content." Going even further, Psaki said nothing is "off the table" for using Big Tech to quiet opposing views.

Not only is the Biden [junta] effectively deputizing Facebook to be an extension of the federal government's communications office, but it also insists that if you're banned from one Big Tech site for questioning conventional wisdom, you should be banned from all of them.

This push for censorship is interesting for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the same political stripe that ridiculously cried "fascism" for four years under Donald Trump is now taking concrete steps to suppress political opposition, one of the hallmarks of true fascism. It's also interesting because information changes so rapidly, as Psaki herself admitted.

"Science evolves, information evolves," Psaki said during the same press conference in which she pledged her commitment to silencing vaccine dissidents online. If anyone should understand the reality of information evolving, it's the Biden [junta]...

. . . Today's "misinformation" is tomorrow's undeniable fact; it happens all the time, and that reality isn't lost on the Biden [junta].

What's going on here isn't really an attempt to save Americans from disease. It's a desperate attempt by the ruling class to save their own rear ends from information that threatens their ideological goals.

Democrats at the helm of the executive and legislative branches aren't looking to squash so-called misinformation because it's the only way to keep people from dying (which still wouldn't justify their authoritarianism, by the way). Biden, Psaki, and their friends in Congress and Silicon Valley are working to snuff out their opponents' speech because not only do they think it will help them politically, as it likely did in the 2020 election, but because they believe they can get away with it -- again, as they did in the 2020 election.

The author rightly describes the abject lying and censorship of the Russian collusion hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop and the fact of the Wuhan virus lab leak - all sloughed off, equivocated or otherwise buried when the real truth came out many months later, when the truth could seemingly do no harm to the junta and its henchmen.

I can't wait to see what Big Tech Brother does with this January 6th Commission or the news that the FBI - yet again - engaged in a disgusting entrapment scheme involving a plot to supposedly kidnap Michigan's answer to Imelda Marcos, Gretchen "Wretched" Whitmer; a plot that the FBI engineered on its own in order to make itself look important while holding up the poor boobs who shot their mouths off about hating the tyrant in Lansing (and rightly so) as evidence of the vast white supremacist insurrectionist movement that poses an existential threat to "our sacred democracy" (SPIT!). Psaki-psircling back, as I had posited above, when called out for their disgusting meshugas, instead of admitting guilt and demonstrating even a scintilla of humility, they lashed out.

The Biden White House seemed to be a bit rocked by the reaction to its admission of fascistic behavior -- government enlisting private industry to do its bidding -- but didn't back down.

Now it's doubled down again, and switched its targets. White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfeld isn't talking about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the others in the "disinformation dozen" anymore. They're individuals, not outlets, and many of them, including RFK Jr., were anti-vax long before COVID.

Instead of naming them or even including them or outlining the problems with what they've posted online, Bedingfeld widened the list of this White House's targets dramatically Tuesday morning:

White House comms director Kate Bedingfield says social media companies "should be held accountable" for misinformation on their platforms:

"There are conservative news outlets who are creating irresponsible content."

What are these "conservative outlets" and what content does this White House deem to be "irresponsible"? Bedingfeld intentionally doesn't say, just as the White House didn't name the "disinformation dozen." Better to cast the suspicion net as wide as possible than name anyone and give them the opportunity to rebut.

This is clearly ground prep for something. It has been a planned information op beginning with Psaki's comments last week. Bedingfeld chose to make these comments on MSNBC, to one of the least intelligent and most partisan hosts on cable, Mika Brzezinski, an avowed leftist who's unlikely to do anything other than let Bedingfeld attack the First Amendment without challenge. This is intentional. . .

. . . We can be assured that at least one objective related to this info op is on this White House's mind: the midterms . . . One thing they can do instead of a policy course correction ahead of the midterms is de-platform their critics to hobble their electoral opponents. Silence millions of Americans and make it much more difficult to move messages and voters. The Constitution and everything else that stands in their way may as well be damned. The Biden White House wants unchallenged power.

The author assumes that the midterms will not be in any way "influenced" by yet another round of lockdowns leading to election integrity dismantlement and the hand of Dao-Min Yen to tip the scales like they did in 2020. As most of us are beginning to finally enjoy more and more freedom of movement and get back to some semblance of normal life (the overthrow of our republic notwithstanding), the fear porn over the so-called delta variant is being ramped up to eleventy-leven. The problem is the muddled mixed messaging over vaccination and masking, the Biden junta announcing going door to door to coerce getting the needle and now news coming out that the vaccines are killing thousands of people. Recall a number of years back that when a vaccine either for swine flu or some other contagion was being rolled out, when the death toll reached forty - 40 as in four-zero - it was recalled immediately. With at a minimum of 11,000 deaths that we know of, this is a catastrophe. But the regime cannot back down, reverse course, admit they were wrong and attempt to move on. There is just too much at stake and by that I mean both in preserving the illusion of the Left "being on the right side of history" and more crucially, consolidating their stranglehold on power in the drive to make it permanent.

It should be noted that as of 18 months ago when China, accidentally or accidentally on purpose, unleashed this virus upon our shores, or the convenient usage of it to turn us upside down which culminated in a stolen election and the January 6th Democrat-instigated Capitol Hill Riot-stag Fire, elections and other seemingly normal political processes are an illusion. We are through a glass, and darkly. America as we had known it or imagined it ceases to exist. The most frightening aspect of the whole thing is virtually every pillar of our society and other institutions thought inviolable to corruption that instead were the most easily destroyed from within. Arguably, the driving force is the Democrat Party which in a sense is a microcosm of America lost.

An astonished [Andrew] Sullivan penned this:

Take a big step back. Observe what has happened in our discourse since around 2015. Forget CRT for a moment and ask yourself: is nothing going on here but Republican propaganda and guile? Can you not see that the Republicans may be acting, but they are also reacting -- reacting against something that is right in front of our noses?

What is it? It is, I'd argue, the sudden, rapid, stunning shift in the belief system of the American elites. It has sent the whole society into a profound cultural dislocation. It is, in essence, an ongoing moral panic against the specter of "white supremacy," which is now bizarrely regarded as an accurate description of the largest, freest, most successful multiracial democracy in human history.

Why does Sullivan's angst matter, regardless how he misconstrues the cause? Because progressivism is a failed doctrine -- or as Lenin may have said, progressivism was useful until it wasn't, just as socialism is transitional to communism. Today, we're not up against progressives gone bad, but against a new generation of elites who've been inculcated with hard left worldviews. These elites were nurtured to be this way, in many cases, coming from milieus -- families, communities, schools -- that increasingly embrace Marxist doctrine, whatever mask it wears.

This transition bodes ill for the nation, at least in the 2020s, which are shaping up to be one of the most tumultuous and momentous decades in the country's history. This hard left cohort is now waging an intensifying cold civil war against the American Experience -- against the very values and principles that justified our revolution and then the founding. Whether this cold civil war turns hot is a matter of ongoing conjecture. . .

. . . Barack Obama and his presidency were transitional, which Sullivan only partially grasps. Obama nodded at the diminishing old liberalism -- that then important enough remnant of elites and swath of voters who held to American virtues and who had a nostalgia for JFK and his clique -- the Arthur Schlesingers -- that personified the zenith of postwar liberalism.

But Obama was a harbinger, ushering in the concept of "transforming" America. The concept of transformation has nothing to do with revivifying American liberty and exceptionalism. As we witness daily, it has to do with a hard left turn, an overthrowing of America as founded. . . and not just our politics, but more critically, our culture. Who we are as a people -- the essence of the American character -- is to be erased.

What replaces that character is more familiar to the PRC's oppressed souls -- Hongkongers, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong practitioners, and still free but menaced Chinese on Taiwan. Mao and Chinese tyranny are much admired by American leftists.

The character universally approved by tyrants is pliant, subservient, obsequious. Free expression and dissent are met with persecution and, as tens of millions of killed in China, the USSR, Cuba, Cambodia, and elsewhere mutely attest to, the mass grave.

If homegrown leftist elites have their way -- heaven forefend -- why couldn't those ugly consequences unfold here? History teaches us in abundance that Marxists (and their fascist cousins) have an unslakable thirst for power and dominance. The imprisonment and deaths of the stubbornly free, disfavored peoples, and merely inconvenient -- no matter the tally -- are means to whatever a pernicious elite care to achieve.

Speaking of the imprisonment and deaths of the stubbornly free, I give you not only the hapless boobs whom the FBI set up and took down (while being clueless about the Nidal Hassans, Omar Mateens and James Hodgkinsons roaming around with impunity for decades) but now regular folks like Paul Hodgkins and of course Ashli Babbitt. Meanwhile the Democrats unofficial/official armed militant wing goon squads of Antifa and BLM, that burned, looted and murdered their way across dozens of American cities and towns last summer get off scot free and an apology for the inconvenience.

By the way, the Biden junta has just released its first Gitmo detainee. No doubt he's making room for other detainees who "represent the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War."

Feh.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The Biden [junta's] gross collusion with Big Tech to censor opposing viewpoints is not only blatant tyranny but also obvious hypocrisy."
  Democrats' Definition of "Misinformation" is Whatever Hurts Them Politically Today
  
• "Today, we're not up against progressives gone bad, but against a new generation of elites who've been inculcated with hard left worldviews."
  Progressivism's Collapse and Why it Matters
  
• "Not too late to beat Beijing. But it's too late to avoid fighting."
  China's Hitler Decade
  
• ". . . And why Republicans are complicit."
  Democrats Plot a Fiscal Apocalypse

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Glenn Greenwald: "Today, Paul Hodgkins will be the first 1/6 defendant sentenced on a felony guilty plea. He engaged no violence. His crime: entered the Capitol wearing a Trump t-shirt, held a Trump flag, took a selfie with Q Shaman. Prosecutors want 18 months in prison."
  Another Capitol Protester Takes Loyalty Oath to Joe Biden Before Obama Judge Banishes Him to Prison
  
• "These sources echo White supremacist disinformation narratives alleging that BLM protesters are trying to 'overthrow the republic' and 'harm American citizens in a Marxist coup,' as a means of delegitimizing it," the report said. (well, aiding and abetting Democrats in doing so - jjs)
  Pentagon Contractor Paid to Tackle "Extremism" Claims Searching for "The Truth About" BLM Implies White Supremacist Behavior
  
• The FBI engineered the whole thing to entrap people whose only "crime" was being dumb enough to get drunk and shoot their mouths off and, dumber still, were not of the correct political persuasion.
  FBI Allegedly Played "Larger Role" in Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Than Previously Known, According To Report
  
• Cheap, filthy slag sez: "We still don't have a step-by-step factual account of how this came to be, what led to it, what happened, what were the failures, who was involved. That's what this committee is going to try to get to. But the last person that needs to be sitting on this committee is Jim Jordan."
  Former Mike Pence Flunky: Jim Jordan on 1/6 Commission Akin to Bin Laden Lieutenant on 9/11 Commission

  THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

• "The news comes shortly after [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden's trip to Pennsylvania, where he failed to assert how accusations of cheating in the 2020 election were false."
61% Agree With Trump: "Election Reform Must Happen"
  
• ". . . standards the lawmakers have declared onerous and racist."
  Texas Dem Celebrated Volunteer Event With ID Requirements
  
• "Psaki declined to characterize the visit by the Texas lawmakers as a 'super-spreader' event for the [Chinese] coronavirus and said the White House continued to support their trip and their cause."
  White House Confirms Hiding Staff Chinese Coronavirus Cases After Texas "Fleebaggers" Visit
  
• "Psaki refused to call the Texas Democrats' trip to Washington, D.C., a 'superspreader' event when asked about it, saying, 'That is not a characterization we're making here.'" (Sandra Fluke, on the other hand. . . - jjs)
  Texas Democrats Won't Release Daily Chinese Coronavirus Numbers Anymore After 10%-Plus of Members Test Positive: Report

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Board member Elaine Tholen is accused of neglecting her duty for opting to keep schools closed for 12 months during the pandemic."
  Virginians Seek America's First School Closure-Related Recall of Board Member
  
• "Make no mistake: Texas Republicans do not support the Ku Klux Klan. The truth is far more complicated -- and more boring -- than that. I read S.B. 3, and I can positively say that it does not present the Klan as "the good guys" or ban educators from teaching that the Klan is bad.
  Did the Texas Senate Really Just Defend the Ku Klux Klan?
  
• "We started to realize, holy cow, what is this political ideology that they're trying to push onto our kids?"
  Meet Patti Hidalgo Menders, a Loudoun County Leader Fighting Crackpot Disg-Race Theory
  
• "The decision to mask and indoctrinate school children in California has been left to local school districts."
  Masking Students and Unmasking the Radical Agenda
  
• "University of Missouri professor met with teachers, helped redesign curricula."
  Missouri School District Spends $15,000 on Crackpot Disg-Race Theory Audit
  
• "Catherine Lhamon is poised to resume her efforts against due process and school discipline."
  Culture Warrior
  
• "Media moguls and teachers-turned-ideologues have underestimated how many people are willing to break the chains and engage in a modern revolution to protect our Republic."
  The CRT War on the Republic

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Gascon was elected [allegedly] in November 2020 and issued a set of special orders in December that sparked a backlash from law enforcement groups, deputy DAs in his own office, and families impacted by violent crime."
  24th City Issues Vote of "No Confidence" in L.A. County D.A. Gascon as Recall Threat Looms
  
• Michael Goodwin: "When down is up, when legal and illegal are the same and when cops are seen as the problem instead of the solution, there is no limit to how far a city can decline. Nor is there any limit to how much nonsense pols and advocates can add to the bonfire."
  Losing Battle for NYC Streets
  
• "America's finest at the FBI last week added yet another screw up to what appears to be a growing laundry list of humiliating failures."
  Federal Bureau of Incompetence: An Analysis of the FBI's Most Embarrassing Failures
  
• "Too often, first responders, such as police, fire and emergency medical service personnel become targeted for reasons that are unclear."
  Tucson Mass Shooter Arrested. Shockingly, He Isn't a White Supremacist and XiNN Didn't Post His Pic (name that melanin content - jjs)

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• He'd have a better shot at putting it in a bottle and tossing it in the ocean, but good on Rand for doing this. He's confronting this tyrannical rodent and saying things millions of us know as truth.
  Rand Paul to Send Letter to DOJ Asking for Criminal Referral Into Dr. Fausti
  
• "It is a crime to lie to Congress."
  Doctor Rand Paul and Anthony Fausti Clash on NIH Funding in Wuhan
  
• Each one is a tragedy. That aside, statistically speaking, it shows how this disease as a psychological terror weapon is the real danger.
  CDC: 335 Children 0-17 Have Died of Chinese COVID, 0.673% of All Childhood Deaths Since January 2020
  
• ". . . it's not reasonable -- and neither is needlessly stoking fear and uncertainty, which undermines the economy's recovery and the livelihoods that depend on it."
  No, Delta Doesn't Mean the Vaccinated -- Or Children -- Need to Mask Up Again
  
• Then they're all quacks. Period, end of story.
  The American Academy of Pediatrics Calls for Children to Mask Up for School This Fall
  
• "The powers that be have no confidence in the efficacy of the vaccines to protect their recipients from the virus. Why, otherwise, would they lock Boris away for ten days?"
  The Great Vaccination Farce: Twice-Vaccinated Boris Johnson Ordered to Self-Isolate
  
• "It's time to have a serious conversation about achieving herd immunity the old-fashioned way: The naturally-obtained immunity through actual infection."
  What the "Third Wave" Tells Us About Future of Chinese COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• "[Josh] Rogin's remark followed a heated exchange between the Kentucky Republican and the Biden [junta's] top medical adviser on the [Chinese] coronavirus, which saw Paul grilling Fauci over the denial that the NIH funded gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab."
  Washington Post Columnist: "Rand Paul Was Right and Fausti Was Wrong"

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Rabbi Dov Fischer: "Ben & Jerry's will no longer sell ice cream in what they call 'Occupied Palestinian Territory.'"
  Let Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield Choke on Their Jew-Hating Woke
  
• "Look, fat! Tell those lousy Shylocks to get with the program so I can get my friggin' Cherry Garcia when I'm over there twisting their arms. And I better get it wholesale, with two pair pants!"
  State Department Opposes BDS Movement Day After Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Sales Ban In Israel
  
• ". . . bringing back bad memories from Egypt."
  WATCH: Surveillance Footage Captures Woman Igniting Coptic Orthodox Church In Canada: "It's Definitely Hate"

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION

• "Grassley sent a message to AG Merrick Garland that he needs to stop politicizing the DOJ and allowing the agency to protect Hunter Biden." (go get him, Chuck! pfft - jjs)
  Grassley Blasts DOJ for Stonewalling on Hiring Ex-Partner of Hunter Biden's Lawyer

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "The investigation found that the official, who has since retired from the agency, 'had numerous contacts with members of the media between January and November 2016 in violation of FBI policy,' and accepted unauthorized gifts from media members." (I'm shocked! - jjs)
  Top FBI Official Raked in Gifts from Media During Russia Hoax Investigation
  
• "In his capacity as an informal advisor to the 2016 Trump campaign, Barrack allegedly shaped at least one speech for then-candidate Trump in ways that would benefit the UAE." (anything at all for a headline and to persecute political enemies - jjs)
  Senior Trump Official Thomas Barrack Arrested, Charged With FARA Violation

  OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "The Swalwell For Congress campaign committee spent over $500,000 in the second quarter of 2021 despite the fact that it's a non-election year, FEC reports."
  Smarmy, Degenerate Criminal Swalwell Spent Thousands of Campaign Dollars on Alcohol, Limos, Fancy Restaurants and Luxury Hotels
  
• "Qatar Foundation spends hundreds of millions of dollars per year to influence U.S. colleges."
  Fart-in-a-Phone-Booth Fang-Banger Swalwell Had Meetings With Qatari Charity Tied to Terrorist Groups

  POLITICS

• "The prescient Anti-Federalist was particularly concerned with the abuse of executive power."
  Did Cato Have Biden In Mind?
  
• "In a case of bad or worse political choices we should not exaggerate degrees of difference among woke leftists or to ascribe to them more conservative positions than they in fact hold."
  Stop Pretending "Moderate" Democrats Are Heroes
  
• "When you have a one-party state, the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats don't even try to hide their corruption -- but Elder's fighting back."
  California Makes a Clumsy Effort to Kick Larry Elder Off the Ballot
  
• "Virginia Dem takes $2.2 million from top unions after pledging to sign repeal of popular labor law."
  Terry McAuliffe Rakes in Big Labor Cash After Right to Work Flip-Flop

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• Sen Ted Cruz: "This is lunacy. It is lawless and the only reason Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are doing it is because they are captive to the extreme radical left of their party. Everyone else who believes in common sense ought to say, enough is enough, and let's not make the pandemic worse by making this crisis at the border even worse than it already is."
  Chinese COVID Soars 900% Among Illegals Caught In Rio Grande Valley: Report

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "The Biden White House seemed to be a bit rocked by the reaction to its admission of fascistic behavior -- government enlisting private industry to do its bidding -- but didn't back down. Now it's doubled down again, and switched its targets."
  [WATCH] Biden's Communications Director Just Swapped Out the "Disinformation Dozen" for "Conservative News Outlets"
  
• "Joe Biden's White House is saying the quiet part out loud now. Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted last week that, in an effort to crack down on [Chinese] COVID-19 "misinformation," the Biden [junta] has been sending Facebook lists of topics they want to be censored. They're not even trying to hide it anymore."
  One Day Soon, You'll Wake Up to Find Your Favorite Website Has Vanished
  
• "To justify its new censorship campaign, the White House used information funneled from a foreign dark-money group that tried to deplatform The Federalist."
  White Houses Relies On Foreign Dark-Money Group That Tried to Deplatform The Federalist to Justify Censorship
  
• "If the Biden [junta] expects social-media platforms to enforce that hopelessly subjective standard, it is demanding unprecedented regulation of online speech that can't possibly be reconciled with its avowed respect for freedom of expression."
  Biden's Attempt to Rope Big Tech Into Censorship is Downright Sinister
  
• "Jonathan Kanter is a former Federal Trade Commission lawyer who has long criticized Google for its market power. He runs an 'antitrust advocacy boutique,' the Kanter Law Group, which has worked for Google competitors pushing for more rigorous antitrust enforcement."
  Biden Taps Prominent Google Critic For Top DOJ Antitrust Position
  
• "It's easy to spot who scares the corporate media most. Just look at who they are piling on to destroy."
  Corporate Media Smears Conservatives Who Threaten Their Vise-Grip On What You Think
  
• Jeffrey Lord: "The newest entry in the leftist media's Game of Smears."
  The Washington Post's Hit Job on Tucker Carlson
  
• "Alan Duke, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Facebook's fact-checking partner Lead Stories, admitted a National Pulse expose into a writer's financial support for Democrat candidates led to their removal from the role of 'fact checking' political stories for the site."
  SCALP: Facebook's Fact Checker Says They Removed Staff After National Pulse Expose.
  
• "The Atlantic, ABC News, Time all saw a more than 50 percent decrease in audience size since summer 2020."
  Corporate Media Outlets Lost More Than Half Their Audiences in the Last Year
  
• "The modern dark age: The Board of Regents of the University of California (UC) on June 23, 2021 voted to end its affiliation with all Catholic hospitals if they do not agree to perform "abortions, euthanasia, assisted suicide and the direct sterilization of patients," in direct violation of their Christian religious beliefs."
  Today's Blacklisted American: Catholic Hospitals Threatened with Cancellation by University of California

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "Economist and gun rights advocate John Lott wrote the successful and breakthrough book More Guns, Less Crime in 1998, and the anti-gun Left has never forgiven him for it. . ."
  An Anti-Gun Group Concocts a Massive Hoax to Embarrass Their Pro-Gun Nemesis. Here's How That Went.

  CUBA MASS ANTI-COMMUNIST PROTESTS

• "Mayor Bowser left Black Lives Matter slogan on road in front of White House for months."
  DC Mayor Scrubs Anti-Castro Slogan From Cuban Embassy Entrance
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "The Cuba our dumb intellectuals either don't or won't know."
  Isla de la Esclavitud
  
• ". . . And turns its back on the suffering of Afro-Cuban blacks."
  BLM Supports the Cuban Regime Oppressors

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The CCP mouthpiece Global Times: "WHO chief succumbs to US-led West's pressure."
  China Rejects Proposed WHO Probe Into Chinese COVID-19 Origins
  
• "Washington seems unwilling to risk bifurcation by punishing the Communist Party." ($30 trillion, small bills, cash - jjs)
  Could China Be Held Accountable for Chinese COVID-19?
  
• "'You've got to bring this person to justice,' victim's father tells Free Beacon after Biden neglects issue at meeting with King Abdullah II."
  Biden Passes Up Chance To Press Jordan's King for Terrorist's Extradition
  
• "Now, they're spooning."
  Cruz Unloads On Biden For U.S.-German Deal Over Russian Pipeline
  
• "But how to confront the moral equivalency and anti-Semitism?"
  Israel's New Foreign Minister Wants to Reboot Ties to the EU
  
• "Weakening Israel's security and endangering Jews." (not sanguine about the new government dealing with these cockroaches either - jjs)
  Mahmoud Abbas Prepares a List of Demands on Israel

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "The detainee has been identified as Abdullatif Nasser, 50-years-old, who returned home to his native country, Morocco." (making room for January 6th "rioters" and Tucker Carlson - jjs)
  Biden Releases First Guantanamo Bay Prisoner
• "The White House says China was responsible for a March cyberattack."
  Biden Junta Won't Sanction China for Hacking U.S. Servers
  
• "Al Shabaab is linked to Al Qaeda, the terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden, and has long tried to overthrow Somalia's government and obtain political control in the nation." (wait, I thought Bin Laden was dead and GM was alive? - jjs)
  US Carries Out First Air Strike in Somalia Since Biden Installed in Oval Office

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "A prohibition on wearing any visible form of expression of political, philosophical or religious beliefs in the workplace may be justified by the employer's need to present a neutral image towards customers or to prevent social disputes."
  Top European Union Court Rules Companies May Ban Headscarves When "Neutral Image" Necessary
  
• "How jihad begets jihad." (hate to say it but local crime story, not my problem - jjs)
  Taliban Demands War Booty, Women Aged 15-45, as Sex Slaves in Captured Afghanistan

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS

• "Republican lawmakers are cautioning that the entire deal could fall apart." (somehow I doubt this - jjs)
  Infrastructure Bill Is on the Rocks
  
• "Union claims working from home will combat climate change."
  Gov't Workers Sue Connecticut to Avoid Returning to Work
  
• "How could our society be so callous to children as to make them the link to welfare payments? Do people know what it feels like to grow up in a relationally chaotic home?"
  Children Deserve To Be Born For Love, Not Welfare Payments
  
• "Ideologues stand in the way of getting help for children with severe trauma."
  The War on Foster Care

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Republicans smell blood, and the Biden [junta] knows it. If this were not true, the speech on Monday would not have happened."
  On Inflation, Biden Knows He's In Dire Straits (as if he is aware and his handlers give a shit - jjs)
  
• "Where is that army of media fact-checkers when you need them?"
  Biden Brags About "His" Economic Recovery, But Has to Lie to Do It
  
• "We've seen this phony credit-claiming before -- during the Obama regime. Facts are not on Plagiary Joe's side."
  Joe Biden is Lying About the Economy, Claiming Trump's Successes as His Own
  
• "Between increased travel, the 'worst wildfire season in a decade,' and a lack of drivers to transport fuel, more shortages are expected." (plus killing pipelines and the petrochemical industry in general - jjs)
  Jet Fuel Shortages Plague Western States Struggling To Keep Up With Tourists, Raging Fires
  
• "Starbucks cups, bottled water, leases, rental units: All these things are disposable, and that's the new capitalist way. It's the new consumerist way: own nothing and conserve nothing."
  Corporations Are Steamrolling Small Business, Buying Up Homes, and Crushing the Dream, But We Can Fight Back

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "China's 'green' supply chains use slave labor."
  Kerry: US Must End Climate "Suicide Pact" by Cooperating With Beijing
  
• "Creature comforts -- and the innovations that led to them -- are now under fire."
  The Woke War on Air Conditioning
  
• ". . . And line the pockets of government cronies."
  Democrats' Carbon Border Tax Would Lead to Higher Costs for Americans

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "This is a tiny little step of what Blue Origin is going to do."
  Blue Origin Completes Successful Launch and Landing of Crewed Mission
  
• "Capitalism in space: SpaceX yesterday successfully completed the first static fire test of the third Superheavy prototype, firing up three Raptor engines for about two seconds."
  SpaceX Completes First Static Fire Test of Superheavy Prototype 3
  
• "Now let us all pray that there are no more major failures for the next few years until the U.S. capabilities in space grow and a relatively fast mission to repair the telescope is possible."
  Hubble Returned to Science Operations

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "On Tuesday, Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady stabbed Donald Trump in the back and mocked MAGA voters during a visit to Joe Biden's White House. This is quite an about face from Brady's years of pretending to be Trump's friend." (doing his part to completely destroy the NFL; so be it - jjs)
  Five Times Tom Brady Called Trump a Friend Before Stabbing Him and His Supporters in the Back
  
• "Black Rifle Coffee's founder and CEO has spoken out and is disputing how his comments were presented by the New York Times and represented by those reacting to the article, who were led to believe that Black Rifle Coffee bashed conservatives."
  Black Rifle Coffee Did NOT Go Woke; Founder Responds to Misinformation
  
• "Does any of Wahlberg's behavior outlined here, before or since, strike you as indicative of a person capable of guilt or remorse? Let alone free of hate for blacks or immigrants or any other historically marginalized group?"
  Mark Wahlberg as Anti-Prejudice Hero is Height of Hollywood Hypocrisy
  
• "Using commercially available records of app signal data, The Pillar found that a mobile device correlated to Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill allegedly emitted signals in 2018, 2019 and 2020 from Grindr, the largest and most popular gay hookup app in the world, on almost a daily basis."
  High-Ranking Priest Resigns Over Grindr Data Linking Him to Las Vegas "Gay Bathhouse"
  
• "Not all athletes are pampered punks like LeBron and Kaepernick."
  UFC Fighters Take Down "Marxist Ideologies"

  HITHER & YON

• "Kurt Westergaard reminded us of the importance of Western religious and press liberties."
  Muhammed Cartoonist, Defender of Free Speech Dies at 86
  
• Christian Toto: "French shocker brings the gore, but it won't nudge you to the edge of your seat."
  Horror Import Kandisha Offers Fresh Take on Time-Tested Formula
  
• "Pondering Alexis de Tocqueville's dystopias."
  The Bad and the Very Bad
  
• Salena Zito: "How bourbon rose from a humble grain to embody American exceptionalism."
  "What the American Spirt Looks Like"

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