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Star of David

Omer Yankelevich, Israel's first female Haredi minister, quits politics citing social media smears, among other provocations

Omer Yankelevich
© Hadas Parush/Flash90Blue and White party member Omer Yankelevich at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 14, 2019.
Diaspora affairs minister announces departure from Gantz's Blue and White party, citing 'growing uneasiness' and saying she faced 'defamation campaign'; won't run in March election

Omer Yankelevich, Israel's first-ever female ultra-Orthodox minister, announced Tuesday that she was leaving Benny Gantz's Blue and White party and would not run in the upcoming March 23 Knesset elections.

Yankelevich, the Diaspora affairs minister, had been considered one of the closest allies of party leader Gantz.

But she has recently been at the center of increasing tensions within the centrist party, and ended up joining an avalanche of members departing the crumbling party, which won 14 seats in last year's election (in an alliance with Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid and Moshe Ya'alon's Telem, which won a total of 33) but is now teetering on the edge of extinction, according to recent opinion polls.

Bad Guys

No shame: Democrat lawyer Marc Elias claims FAULTY voting machines marred New York congressional race result

marc elias
© Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP, PoolLawyer and long-time Democrat operative Marc Elias
Marc Elias, the election lawyer who represented Democratic challenges to state rules throughout the 2020 election, alleged in a court filing this week that a close congressional race in upstate New York was marred by faulty voting machines.

Republicans have been vilified for making similar claims about the 2020 presidential race.

In the congressional race for New York's 22nd district, Republican Claudia Tenney currently leads incumbent Democrat Anthony Brindisi by a razor-thin margin of 125 votes. Tenney declared victory on Tuesday, though challenges continue.

In a legal filing Monday requesting a manual audit of the election, Elias, whose Perkins Coie law firm is representing Brindisi, argued that there were "substantial errors and irregularities in the conduct of the election."

Comment: Marc Elias, of Perkins Coie infamy, has a long, tawdry history as a Clinton operative:


2 + 2 = 4

Secretary of Ethnic Studies? Biden Education Dept. pick's ethnic-studies background should raise questions

Miguel Cardona
Miguel Cardona
President Biden's nomination of Miguel Cardona to be Secretary of Education was greeted with a sigh of relief from some education reformers — more for who he isn't than for who he is. He isn't a teachers' union leader. He's not a tenured radical. He isn't a vocal charter school opponent.

Cardona doesn't, in fact, have much of a paper trail. After working as an elementary school teacher and principal, he became an assistant superintendent for Connecticut's Meriden School District (which serves about 8,000 students) in 2015. He was appointed Connecticut's education commissioner in August 2019, where he served for a little over a year before being tapped for the presidential Cabinet.

But during his tenure as commissioner, Cardona was a trailblazer in one respect that merits strict scrutiny during his confirmation hearing this week: he oversaw the creation of America's first state-mandated ethnic-studies course.

The Connecticut legislature determined that all high schools must offer — though students need not necessarily take — a year-long "African-American, Black, Latino, and Puerto Rican Course of Studies." Proponents of ethnic studies claim, reasonably enough, that it is beneficial for minority students to see people of their ethnic background represented in the curriculum. Stanford University professor Thomas Dee, who authored a study showing GPA and attendance benefits from an ethnic-studies elective for San Francisco high school students, suggests that a "high quality" ethnic-studies curriculum effectively stresses "the considerable cultural assets" of minorities and their capacity to achieve.

But "ethnic studies" can also denote academic indoctrination into the political dogma of critical race theory, which holds that all whites are oppressors, that America is an inherently racist country, and that for nonwhite people to be "liberated" or for white people to be "anti-racist," we must interpret human affairs through the lens of identity politics and advocate on behalf of left-wing causes.

Comment: Doesn't look like they're going to challenge him on critical race theory:
Miguel Cardona, President Joe Biden's nominee for Education secretary, breezed through his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, winning some bipartisan support even amid an increasingly contentious national political debate over reopening schools during the pandemic.
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On Wednesday, Cardona avoided nearly any contentious exchanges during two-and-a-half-hours of questioning that was largely collegial from both sides of the aisle. His nomination appears to be on track for bipartisan support.



Bad Guys

Surprise: US should delay complete troop pullout in Afghanistan - report to Congress

US soldier
An U.S. soldier keeps watch at an Afghan National Army (ANA) base in Logar province, Afghanistan
The United States should extend the May 1 deadline for pulling all its troops from Afghanistan, and make force cuts contingent on progress in peace talks as well as by the Taliban in reducing violence and containing al Qaeda, a bipartisan report to Congress said on Wednesday.

Washington should not abandon the Afghan peace process, the report said. But conditions for its success will not be met by a May 1 deadline set in a 2020 U.S.-Taliban agreement. Withdrawing all U.S. troops then could lead to civil war, destabilizing the region and reviving the al Qaeda threat.

The United States "should not...simply hand a victory to the Taliban," said the Afghanistan Study Group report, reflecting criticism that the Trump administration conceded too much to the insurgents in a bid to end America's longest war.

Congress commissioned the group, whose co-chairs included retired Marine General Joseph Dunford, a former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, and Republican former Senator Kelly Ayotte.

Dunford told reporters the report was shared with aides to President Joe Biden, including Zalmay Khalilzad, the peace negotiator kept on from the Trump administration, who "found it helpful."

Comment: The above is a propaganda piece designed to make readers think that the US is actually justified in keeping US troops in Afghanistan; something Trump saw the utter wastefulness of.

And speaking of predictable military reversals, it doesn't end there - and actually gets even worse in Germany:
The US will halt its planned withdrawal of 12,000 troops from Germany while the Pentagon conducts a review of the Trump-era plans, the head of the US European Command said on Wednesday.

The plans have been "put on freeze" while new US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, is "in the process of conducting a very thorough review" of the policy, Air Force General Tod Wolters told reporters, without giving a timeframe for the audit.

The planned drawdown included relocating the US European Command from the city of Stuttgart to Belgium and returning the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, currently based in the German town of Vilseck, to the US.

Only 6,000 of the troops scheduled to leave Germany were set to return to the US, with some also intended for deployment to the Baltic region.

Every single one of them are on hold, and will be reexamined [so as] to have a comprehensive look at all the options, from A to Z, so you can take a strategic examination on every one of those options," Wolter added.

Then-president Donald Trump ordered the removal of some of the 34,000 US troops posted in Germany, accusing the fellow NATO member of being "very delinquent" and "making a fortune" off American soldiers.

Wolters and Trump's Defense Secretary at the time, Mark Esper, have both previously said taking US troops from Germany and posting them elsewhere would increase security in Europe.

However, a bipartisan group of American lawmakers questioned how the move would allow the US and NATO to keep up their pressure on Russia over Crimea.

The troop-change plans angered officials in Germany when they were announced last summer, including Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder, who said: "We very much regret the US government's decision."

Defense Secretary Austin has reportedly assured his German counterpart, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, that the US will liaise with Germany over similar moves in the future, according to Reuters.
Translation: "There's no way in hell we're gonna withdraw troops from Germany and loosen the pressure on Russia."


Mr. Potato

See what he did there? Richard Grenell congratulates openly gay presidential cabinet member Pete Buttigieg on his historic achievement

Pete Buttigieg
Well, it's official: Pete Buttigieg has been confirmed by the Senate as Joe Biden's transportation secretary.

This is a historic occasion, indeed!

Magnify

Erdogan's hits out at LGBT as student protests break out in Turkey

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Clashes erupted during a demonstration against Erdogan's appointment of a party loyalist to head Istanbul's exclusive Bogazici UniversityBurcin Gercek and Fulya Ozerkan in Istanbul
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday blasted the LGBT movement as incompatible with Turkey's values and compared student protesters to "terrorists", as a month of youth-driven rallies shook his rule.

More than 300 students and their supporters were detained in Istanbul and the capital Ankara in increasingly violent and politically-charged altercations with the police this week.

The protests first erupted after Erdogan named party loyalist Melih Bulu as the head of Istanbul's elite Bogazici University at the start of the year.

The appointment created a stir because students saw it as part of Erdogan's broader effort to centralise control over most facets of Turks' daily lives.

Comment: See also:


Vader

Minister says US will never attack Iran nuclear facilities; Israel may act alone

Settlement Affairs Minister Tzachi Hanegbi
© Gershon Elinson/Flash90Settlement Affairs Minister Tzachi Hanegbi in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, December 24, 2020.
Tzachi Hanegbi, a close ally of Netanyahu, says in the future there 'may be no choice' other than an Israeli strike to prevent a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic

A Likud minister close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday the US will never attack Iran's nuclear program, and Israel will have to decide whether to launch such a strike alone or come to terms with a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic.

The statement came as tensions heated in the Middle East, with Iran ramping up its nuclear program with ongoing violations of its 2015 deal with world powers, and the US and Israel issuing threats and warnings.

Some of the activity is tied to the changing of the guard at the White House. The Trump administration stepped up its pressure on Iran as its tenure drew to a close, while the Biden administration is expected to take a softer approach, despite opposition from Israel and its other regional allies.

"The United States will never attack the nuclear facilities in Iran. Israel must decide whether it will accept a nuclear Iran," Tzachi Hanegbi told the Kan public broadcaster. "Israel will be forced to act independently to remove this danger."

Comment: So US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is carrying water for Netanyahu who's been making assertions that a nuclear Iran is imminent - for the past 30 years or so. None of which bodes well for peace in the Middle East.



Evil Rays

Bill Gates calls for global alert system and 'pandemic fire squads' for post-Covid-19 world

Bill Gates
© Twitter / @BillGatesBill Gates is shown using figurines of humans on a world map to illustrate his proposed global disease alert system.
Social media users are recoiling at Bill Gates' call for a global disease alert system, questioning why a tech billionaire with no medical expertise or elected office is plotting what they fear could become a platform for tyranny.

The Microsoft co-founder, who ranks as the world's third-richest person, took to Twitter on Monday to make his pitch for a new system that he said would help prevent future pandemics. This would include "mega testing diagnostic platforms" that could test 20 percent of the population every week, Gates said in a video promoting his plans. He added that future treatments, such as monoclonal antibodies, and vaccines will be developed far faster in response to future disease outbreaks.


Attention

Biden Regime - America's first totalitarian government

Totalitarian Government
© Zerohedge
It is unavoidable. The presstitutes have white conservative American Trump supporters set up as "systemic racists," "MEGA terrorists," "enemies of democracy," and "white supremacist oppressors."

As Biden's staffing reveals, the regime is staffed with people hostile to white gentiles. The regime's "anti-domestic terrorism bill" voids the First Amendment by criminalizing dissent from controlled explanations.

I am not the only one who sees this. Here is Tulsi Gabbard, the last honest Democrat. She tells us that the Domestic-Terrorism Bill Is "a Targeting of Almost Half of the Country":
"This is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don't have to guess about where this goes or how this ends. What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile of a potential extremist, what are we talking about? Religious extremists, are we talking about Christians, evangelical Christians, what is a religious extremist? Is it somebody who is pro-life?"
Constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead sees it:
"Watch and see: we are all about to become enemies of the state."

Stop

Biden DOJ drops discrimination suit against Yale - Asian Americans now second-class citizens

Yale University
© Alamy fileYale University campus, New Haven, Connecticut.
The Justice Department notified a federal judge Wednesday that it is dropping a high-profile discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that was brought by the Trump administration.

A two-sentence filing in U.S. District Court in Connecticut gave notice of the government's "voluntary dismissal of this action."

The case marked an escalation in the Trump Justice Department's attacks on affirmative action programs that many conservatives consider illegal.

Yale said it was gratified by the decision to drop the lawsuit.

"Our admissions process has allowed Yale College to assemble an unparalleled student body, which is distinguished by its academic excellence and diversity. Yale has steadfastly maintained that its process complies fully with Supreme Court precedent, and we are confident that the Justice Department will agree," it said in a written statement.


Comment: Diversity and excellence means keeping out too many privileged Asians, apparently. These freaks are neoracist scumbags.


Filed last October, the lawsuit said a two-year investigation determined that the Ivy League college illegally discriminated against Asian American and white students in admissions. It said they were only one-tenth to one-fourth as likely to be admitted as African American applicants with comparable academic records.

Comment: With Biden in office, the U.S. has now officially become a neoracist state.