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Emails reveal Biden security officials sought advice from left-wing censorship activists

Imran Ahmed Center for Countering Digital Hate
© (Screenshot / YouTube / Phil in the Blanks)Imran Ahmed, Founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate
Biden administration officials, including the co-chair of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) ill-fated Disinformation Governance Board, communicated with a foreign NGO that pushes online censorship, newly released emails show.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is a United Kingdom-based nonprofit with U.S. tax-exempt status that has called to ban people, including independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., from social media for espousing purportedly dangerous views. CCDH head of policy Eva Hartshorn-Sanders communicated with DHS Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy and Plans Robert Silvers in March 2022 regarding her organization's recent research and invited him to a CCDH event, according to emails obtained by the America First Legal Foundation.

Truck

Biden finalizes crackdown on gas cars, forcing more than half of new car sales to be electric by 2030

Regan  Biden
© Getty ImagesPresident Biden, left, and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan.
The Biden administration has finalized a slate of highly-anticipated environmental regulations curbing gas-powered vehicle tailpipe emissions as part of its broader efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat global warming.

In a joint announcement Wednesday, the White House and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the most aggressive multi-pollutant emission standards ever finalized. While the regulations target gas-powered vehicles, they are explicitly designed to push wider nationwide adoption of electric vehicles (EV) and, according to officials, are expected to ensure nearly 70% of all new car sales are zero-emissions within a few years.

"President Biden is investing in America, in our workers, and in the unions that built our middle class and established the U.S. auto sector as a leader in the world," White House national climate adviser Ali Zaidi said in a statement. "The President's agenda is working."


Comment: This is a PR statement, not a statement of fact.


"With transportation as the largest source of U.S. climate emissions, these strongest-ever pollution standards for cars solidify America's leadership in building a clean transportation future and creating good-paying American jobs, all while advancing President Biden's historic climate agenda," added EPA administrator Michael Regan.

Putin

Washington lives in denial over Putin's victory while gaming its own elections

Joe Biden
© Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesUS President Joe Biden.
America's legacy media and political ruling class have thrown a predictably massive hissy fit over last weekend's Russian election, insisting that President Vladimir Putin's landslide victory was "preordained" and "stage-managed."

Every protest and anti-Putin statement before, during, and after the election was amplified. Every allegation of misconduct was reported with zero scrutiny or skepticism. Washington and its allies decried the results, arguing that the vote wasn't free or fair. UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron went so far as to call it "illegal."

The pearl-clutching over Russia's vote was the most intense I've ever seen over a foreign election. It was so inordinate, in fact, that it reminded me of the nonstop media coverage last month after Russian political activist Alexey Navalny died in a Siberian penal colony. The same media that showed no concern over the death of US journalist Gonzalo Lira in a Ukrainian jail - after he had been tortured, at American taxpayer expense, for daring to criticize the Kiev regime - huffed and puffed for weeks about the death of a Russian citizen in a Russian prison.

Lost in all the hysteria over Putin's victory is the fact that most of the Russian people like their president. The incumbent won over 87% of the votes, and as even CNN begrudgingly acknowledged before the election, a poll last month showed that Putin had an 86% approval rating. That compares with a 9% approval rating for Navalny, the great Western hope for destabilizing Russia, in a January 2023 poll. And by the way, it also compares with US President Joe Biden's approval rating of around 38%.

Attention

Columbo investigates the Crocus City Hall shooting

Columbo
© The Reading Junkie / An American tourist in Russia
Oh Mr. Blinken, so sorry to intrude, I know you're a very busy man, I just have to tie up some loose ends. It's probably nothing, but you know me and my loose ends. They just bother me like an itch that needs to be scratched. My wife pokes fun at me about it all the time...
Blinken Idiot and Columbo
© The Reading Junkie / An American tourist in Russia
-Oh, just one more thing, Mr. Blinken sir.

-What now, Columbo?

-Oh, it's probably nothing. But two hours after the attack your office blamed ISIS-K.

-Yes and that was correct. Even ISIS said it. And the shooters were Tajik. What is your point?

-Yes sir, but ISIS only took credit, they did not say which branch. How could you possibly know they were Tajiks from ISIS-K before even the Russians knew?

Typewriter

Best of the Web: How the Western media helped build the case for genocide in Gaza

gaza city ruins bombing wasteland
© UNRWAIsrael has reduced Gaza to a wasteland.
The past five months have been clarifying. What was supposed to be hidden has been thrust into the light. What was supposed to be obscured has come sharply into focus.

Liberal democracy is not what it seems.

It has always defined itself in contrast to what it says it is not. Where other regimes are savage, it is humanitarian. Where others are authoritarian, it is open and tolerant. Where others are criminal, it is law-abiding. When others are belligerent, it seeks peace. Or so the manuals of liberal democracy argue.

But how to keep the faith when the world's leading liberal democracies - invariably referred to as "the West" - are complicit in the crime of crimes: genocide?

Cult

Terrorist attack in Moscow — who is really responsible?

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© AFP via Getty ImagesEmergency services vehicles are seen outside the burning Crocus City Hall concert hall following the shooting incident in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on March 22, 2024.
On the "Usual Suspects" list we have Ukraine and we have ISIS. A good case can be made for both. I am posting three videos — some of it is repetitive — that discusses the attack and the very odd behavior of the Biden Administration. Let's go through the chronology of events.

On March 7 US Embassy Moscow issued the following alert:
The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours.
What you need to understand is that this warning was not issued at the discretion of the embassy. This was approved in Washington, DC at Main State and would have required some intelligence that was deemed somewhat specific and "credible." When I was doing this job at State Counter Terrorism in 1990, this was in the aftermath of the bombing of Pan, 103. It was widely believed in the public that state department, and the CIA had information in advance about the terrorist bombing of that plane, and warned our person out not to get on board. That was not true but it did raise the issue of when, and how to warn the public about a potential threat. We came up with a system that required specific and credible intelligence. The more specific and credible the intelligence, the less need to warn the public. Consider, for example, that if we knew a terrorist attack was going to be carried out on Friday at a public concert hall by a particular group, we would be able to alert appropriate authorities and take precautions to intercept the attack without alarming the public.

Cruise Missle

Ukraine reports large-scale power outages across the country after Russian airstrikes

the Dnieper Hydro Power Plant Zaporozhye Region
© Ukraine Prosecutor Office/Telegramthe Dnieper Hydro Power Plant in the Kiev-controlled part of Zaporozhye Region was damaged in a massive Russian airstrike March 22, 2024
One attack severely damaged the Dnieper Hydro Power Plant in the Kiev-controlled part of Zaporozhye Region, local officials say

The Russian military has launched a powerful wave of air and missile strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure overnight, officials in Kiev have claimed. The Defense Ministry in Moscow has yet to comment on the assertions.

Reports on the ground described it as the most powerful attack for many months. One Russian missile strike targeted the Dnieper Hydro Power Plant (HPP) in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporozhye, according to Ukrhydroenergo. The company stated that the facility had been hit and that a fire was raging at the site.

Comment: Looks like Russia is finally taken the gloves off. Notice though, the strikes are aimed at crippling military infrastructure, as Ukraine moves most of its armaments by electric train. An though this strikes will impose hardships on the common people, they've been made at the start of the warmer season, as oppose to the dead of a Ukrainian winter.


Russian Flag

Only Hypocrites Call Putin's Victory a Fraud

Vladimir Putin
© Photo: Public domain
Any president who serves the interests of the majority of his people and protects the nation from foreign interference will naturally be chosen to remain in power.

The main Western newspapers already had articles prepared in advance about Putin's victory in the Russian elections. With the confirmation of this victory, they just took them out of the drawer and published the barbarities that we already know.

"Orchestrated election", accuses the New York Times. The Washington Post calls the election a "farce." CNN, of "stage-managed election devoid of credible opposition". BBC and The Guardian present the allegations of Golos, an NGO accused by the Russian government of being a "foreign agent" due to its links with European organizations.

This NGO says the elections were not clean because "a significant proportion of Russian society was not represented by any presidential candidate."

But participation in these elections was the highest in Russian history, with 77.44% turnout among voters eligible to vote. This means that less than 23% of voters did not vote.

Comment: Much work awaits the Russian President during his coming term, considering that Russia is at war - Kremlin, Russia now in 'state of war' due to West's entry into Ukraine conflict - Peskov and West wants war with Russia - Dutch journalist to RT

See also:
Putin addresses nation after election: Result proves Russia is 'one big tight-knot family'
'People Are The Power in Russia' Says Putin as he Wins Fifth Term With Record 87% of Votes


USA

Biden's suspension of LNG exports challenged by 16 states

gas tanker ship
© Getty Images / IMAGO/Jens KoehlerFILE
Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other US states challenged the Biden administration's suspension of new licenses to export natural gas via ocean-going tankers.

A lawsuit filed against President Joe Biden and the US Department of Energy in Louisiana federal court on Thursday asks a judge to overturn the temporary pause. The action supported by 16 state attorneys general, argues the administration runs counter to Congressional intent and decades of policy.

"The ban will drive billions of dollars in investment away from Texas, hinder our ability to maximize revenue for public schools, force Texas producers to flare excess natural gas instead of taking it to market, and annihilate critical jobs," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in a statement.


Comment: Considering the challenges that Texas poses to the deep state's agenda, that's at least part of the reason they're doing it.


Comment: It seems that another reason for the restriction of exports is to further cripple Europe's economy, which is now heavily reliant on US LNG: US reconsidering its gas exports, threatening critical deliveries to LNG dependent Europe - CNN


Black Magic

EU to bypass treaty ban on buying lethal weapons for Ukraine, 'most significant shift in policy since start of war' - FT

drone operator Ukraine
© AFP / Sergey BobokA Ukrainian operator uses a drone equipped with a metal detector to clear mines in Kharkov Region, Ukraine, October 1, 2023. Brussels proposes 'legal task force' to explore ways to use the common budget for defence. EU member states agreed in 2022 to finance weapons shipments to Ukraine, but only through a multilateral fund set up outside the EU budget.
Brussels is actively exploring how to work around an EU treaty clause prohibiting arms purchases from the union's budget, as it steps up efforts to increase financing for defence and Ukraine.

The European Commission, the bloc's executive, has proposed that a legal task force revisit a crucial provision — known as Article 41(2) — that stops the EU common budget from funding "operations having military or defence implications", according to four people familiar with the discussions.

Any move to use the budget to purchase lethal weapons would mark the most significant shift in Brussels' defence policy since the start of the war against Ukraine.


Comment: As the terrorist attack in Russia demonstrates, an escalation has evidently been in the making.