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Fire

The Fire This Time

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Capitol
© Israel National NewsRed Horizon
Can't we just all get along? No, apparently. Branding everyone to the right of Woke a "terrorist" and an "insurrectionist," as is the style these days with the sore winner party, will probably not warm a whole lot of hearts and minds among the politically disenchanted. It comes with an odor of desperation, too, as if Joe Biden's consolidated Deep State is so lacking in confidence, even in victory, that it can't distinguish policy from punishment — and so the beatings will continue until morale improves.

Outside the razor-wired DC perimeter, with its bomb-proof bureaucracy, the economy is in freefall. This has not quite come to the attention of a new regime aroused over systemic racism and the pressing need to expand athletic opportunity for transsexuals. But an inferno is racing across the land like a prairie fire and the remaining American buffalo out there may be inclined to stampede before long. Can Ol' White Joe hear their distant hoofbeats from the Oval Office? Maybe not with Nancy Pelosi and AOC screaming in his ears.
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Bad Guys

'Your legacy on the line': Lincoln Project waves off scandals, video warns lawmakers to 'save America' by impeaching Trump


RT
Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:32 UTC
Trump
© Reuters/Leah MillsUS President Donald Trump
The Lincoln Project is back to targeting Donald Trump, waving off recent controversies about their own organization, and warning lawmakers to save their "legacies" and "save America" by voting to impeach the former president.

"For a moment, put aside your fear," announces the new Lincoln Project ad, which is rife with images of the US Capitol building and the riot that occurred there on January 6. The ad directly addresses lawmakers set to vote in Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which kicks off this week, telling them it will be the "most important vote" of their careers and warning that "your legacy is on the line."


Comment: The Lincoln Project has devolved into attack dogs and scam artists:
See also:

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Cardboard Box

Millions of Americans projected to remain jobless as Biden packs US labor force with foreign workers

John Binder
Breitbart
Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Welcome
© Phil Foster/KJNBiden's Welcome Mat: The threshold for disaster
Millions of Americans are projected to remain jobless for the next three to four years, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), though President Joe Biden is looking to fill American jobs with foreign workers. In a report released this month, CBO analysts said the number of jobless Americans — all of whom want full-time jobs — will not return to pre-coronavirus levels until around 2024. The CBO report states:
"As the economy expands, many people rejoin the civilian labor force who had left it during the pandemic, restoring it to its pre-pandemic size in 2022. The unemployment rate gradually declines throughout the period, and the number of people employed returns to its pre-pandemic level in 2024."
The CBO analysis projects that while the unemployment rate, which hides the number of total Americans out of the workforce, will return to an average of about four percent between 2024 and 2025. Biden, himself, admitted on camera that the U.S. would not be at "full employment" until 2031. "That's not hyperbole. That's a fact," Biden said.

Comment: The goal is to hobble America by financially castrating it's primary economic engine: the public.


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2 + 2 = 4

German ministry hired scientists to 'induce corona fear'

Judith van de Hulsbeek
Nos.nl
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 20:10 UTC
Minister Seehofer
German Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer.
At the beginning of last year, the German Ministry of the Interior worked with several scientists on a strategy to increase fear of corona, in order to foster understanding for drastic corona measures. The newspaper Die Welt reports this on the basis of a leaked email exchange.

Minister of the Interior Seehofer and the scientists involved have so far not responded. Opposition parties demand clarification.
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Attention

Man charged in US Capitol riot worked for FBI, has held top-secret security clearance since 1979: lawyer


Fox News, Associated Press
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:32 UTC
capitol protest
© GettyTrump supporters near the east front door of the US Capitol on January 6.
A man who authorities say is a leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and helped to organize a ring of other extremists and led them in the attack last month at the U.S. Capitol has held a top-secret security clearance for decades and previously worked for the FBI, his attorney said Monday.

Thomas Caldwell, who authorities believe holds a leadership role in the extremist group, worked as a section chief for the FBI from 2009 to 2010 after retiring from the Navy, his lawyer, Thomas Plofchan, wrote in a motion urging the judge to release him from jail while he awaits trial.

The defense said Caldwell, who has denied being part of the Oath Keepers, has held a top-secret security clearance since 1979, which required multiple special background investigations, according to Plofchan. Caldwell also ran a consulting firm that did classified work for the U.S. government, the lawyer said.

Comment: How unsurprising and predictable. Remember what Chuck Schumer said, "Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."

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Quenelle

Iran's spy chief says Tehran could seek nuclear arms if 'cornered' by West


Reuters
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:11 UTC
Iran's Minister of Intelligence Mahmoud Alavi
© REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/TIMA /File PhotoIran's Minister of Intelligence Mahmoud Alavi, a candidate for upcoming vote on the Assembly of Experts, speaks during a campaign gathering of candidates mainly close to the reformist camp, in Tehran February 23, 2016.
Iran's intelligence minister said persistent Western pressure could push Tehran to fight back like a "cornered cat" and seek nuclear weapons, which the Islamic Republic has for years insisted it has no intention of ever developing.

The remarks made in a television interview are a rare suggestion that Iran might have an interest in nuclear weapons, which Western nations have accused Iran of pursuing.

Iranian officials have repeatedly dismissed this charge, citing a fatwa or religious decree issued in the early 2000s by the Islamic Republic's top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that bans the development or use of nuclear arms.

The United States and the other Western powers which originally signed up to a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran appear to be at an impasse over which side should return to the accord first, making it unlikely U.S. sanctions that have crippled its economy can be quickly removed.

Comment: If the warning that Iran may pursue nuclear weaponry (if pressed to do so) isn't enough, Tehran's top military commander says they already have what they need to deliver a 'crushing response':
Iran's top general has said that world powers are "terrified" by Iran's strength and progress, adding that they must come to accept Tehran's accession as an undisputed international power or face a "crushing response."

"We are ready to confront decisively and crushingly any threat and aggression from regional and trans-regional enemies, and we will not allow anyone to make any aggression against the independence, security and territorial integrity of this holy land," Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri said in a statement on Tuesday.

Bagheri, the chief of staff of Iran's armed forces, claimed that, whether they like it or not, nations around the globe must now accept Iran's position as a world power and its emergence as the main player in the region.

"Today, the world powers are terrified by observing the geopolitical and strategic capacities, progress, and capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran," the general noted, adding that other countries can only sit and watch Iran's development.

Bagheri stated that Iran's investment in indigenous defensive technology and its own military capacity has created a situation of strategic balance whereby Tehran's enemies have had to think twice before moving against it.


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Arrow Down

Buttigieg: Officials consider negative COVID-19 test requirement on domestic flights

Justine Coleman
The Hill
Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:06 UTC
cancelled flights
© Ralph Orlowski / Reuters
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that officials are considering a requirement that passengers provide a negative COVID-19 test ahead of domestic flights, according to an interview published on Sunday.

One of President Biden's first confirmed Cabinet members told "Axios on HBO" that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is engaged in "an active conversation" on whether to implement the requirement.

"What I can tell you is it's going to be guided by data, by science, by medicine and by the input of the people who are actually going to have to carry this out," he said. "But here's the thing: The safer we can make air travel in terms of perception as well as reality, the more people are going to be ready to get back in the air."
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USA

Trump won two-thirds of election lawsuits where merits considered

Matthew Vadum
The Epoch Times
Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
first day of early voting
© Jessica McGowan/Getty ImagesVoters line up for the first day of early voting outside of the High Museum polling station in Atlanta, Georgia on Dec. 14, 2020.
The claim often repeated by the mainstream media, social-media content moderators, and fact-checkers that lawsuits filed by President Donald Trump's campaign and Republicans were universally dismissed by the courts is untrue, according to a new analysis.

The findings do not necessarily suggest that if the lawsuits had all been decided before Joe Biden was certified as the official winner of the presidential election by Congress on Jan. 7 that former President Trump would have won the hotly contested election.

Nor would they necessarily have affected many of the Electoral College votes won by Biden in the disputed battleground states. Some of the legal victories took place in states like Colorado and Iowa where the popular vote counts for the respective winners of those states -Biden in Colorado and Trump in Iowa — were not close.

Of the 22 cases that have been heard by the courts and decided on their merits, Trump and Republicans have prevailed in 15, according to citizen journalist John Droz Jr., a physicist and environmental advocate in Morehead City, N.C.

This means Trump has won two-thirds of the cases fully adjudicated by the courts.

Comment: Expect even more information to come out in the coming months about how the Dems effectively stole the presidential election and disenfranchised 10's of millions of American voters.

But just don't expect to hear much about it from the bought-and-sold and propagandizing legacy media.

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Bizarro Earth

US caught sneaking military equipment into Syria from Iraq for its illegal bases

Ilya Tsukanov
Sputnik
Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:17 UTC
army syria
© AP Photo / Hussein Malla
The Biden administration promised to reverse course on much of Trump's foreign policy, freezing troop withdrawals in Iraq and Afghanistan, while hinting US willingness to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal if Tehran returned to its commitments. In Syria, however, the new president appears to be continuing on the course set by his predecessor.

Two convoys numbering a total of 59 vehicles have made its way into Syria from two separate directions, the Syrian Arab News Agency has reported, citing local sources on the ground.
One of the convoys reportedly consisted of 45 vehicles, including refrigerators, tankers and trucks carrying military vehicles, and was said to have entered the country through the Semalka border crossing between Iraqi Kurdistan and the US-backed Kurdish-controlled region of northern Syria. Damascus considers the Semalka crossing illegal since it is outside the government's control.

Comment: See also: Video shows Israeli attack on Damascus area thwarted by Syrian air defenses - report

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Bad Guys

In first test of Biden's stance on Israel - president rolls over

Phillp Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Netanyahu denounces ICC ruling
© ScreenshotNetanyahu denounces ICC ruling that it has jurisdiction to investigate Israeli war crimes. Feb. 6, 2021.
As you know the International Criminal Court ruled Friday that it has jurisdiction to undertake an investigation of war crimes in occupied Palestinian territories, including Israeli settlements and its slaughter of civilians in Gaza. The decision has big symbolic resonance, and there's been a lot of response. I wanted to round up some of the usual suspects.

The State Department began Friday by issuing a neutral legal statement opposing the ICC's jurisdiction (responding to AP reporter Matt Lee's opening question). "We have serious concerns about the ICC's attempts to exercise its jurisdiction over Israeli personnel.... [T]he court's jurisdiction should be reserved for countries that consent to it or that are referred by the UN Security Council."

State spokesperson Ned Price went further on twitter, embracing Israel: "We will continue to uphold President Biden's strong commitment to Israel and its security, including opposing actions that seek to target Israel unfairly."

Aaron David Miller said the prompt response was telling.
The Biden Adm left no doubt about its reaction to ICC decision to probe Israeli and Palestinian war crimes. With Iran a top priority and Palestinian issue not; and facing greatest domestic challenge since FDR, Biden wisely just said no to this one.

Comment: It very much looks like, despite its best intentions, the ICC is politically outmatched by the interlocking interests between the US and Israel. It will likely take something quite different to level the playing field.

See also: ICC paves the way for the investigation of Israeli crimes

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