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Pelosi's 'conversations' with Sgt. at Arms on Natl. Guard presence factored into 'blender of decision making' that led to riot

Henry Rodgers
Daily Caller
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:47 UTC
Pelosi
© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Former Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving recalled to House Admin how previous discussions with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her office factored in to his "blender of decision making," according to three sources with direct knowledge of Irving's talk with House Admin.

Pelosi's office had previously impressed upon Irving that the National Guard was to remain off Capitol Grounds, Irving allegedly told House Admin. The discussions, which centered around "optics," allegedly occurred in the months prior to the Jan. 6 riot, during a time when deployment of federal resources for civil unrest was unpopular with Democrats and many members of Congress.

The three sources who confirmed the discussion to the Daily Caller did so under the condition of anonymity, citing the fear of putting a chill on further witnesses to how the security situation unfolded Jan. 6. The discussion, if accurate, raises questions as to what role Pelosi's office had in the security failures that resulted in the resignations of both Irving and former Chief of Capitol Police Steven Sund.

Comment: The Capitol Riot autopsy has begun.

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Donald Trump, Jr.: Working class Americans will foot the bill for Joe Biden's mass immigration

John BInder
Breitbart
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Boyle/Trump Jr./Guilfoyle
© ScreenshotCPAC: Matt Boyle interviews Donald Trump, Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle
Donald Trump Jr. says it is working class Americans, those earning the least in the economy, who will be forced to foot the bill for President Joe Biden's mass immigration agenda.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News's Washington Political Editor Matt Boyle, Trump Jr. said that President Trump "had it right" on immigration when he sought to reduce overall immigration levels to tighten the United States labor market and drive up wages.

Biden, in contrast, is flooding the U.S. labor market with cheap, often illegal, foreign labor that will have a disparate impact on the nation's working poor and working class — those at the bottom end of the labor market.
"The plans that Joe Biden is putting forth, it's creating a flood into this country. What is that going to do to the lowest income earners? When you have a flood of illegals coming in here, who's going to pay for all of their free health insurance and all the other freebies that the Biden administration wants to give them? Who's that going to impact the most?"

"It's probably not going to be guys like me. It's the lowest income earners who for the first time in modern history under Donald Trump actually saw real wage gains."

Comment: Biden is cutting sustainability for the American working class. Economic projections in 4 years? 8 years? The reality may be purposefully obscured but the math won't lie.

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Top Secret

Media completely ignore American secret agent's trial for terrorism in Venezuela

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Spy stuff
© Venezuelan Foreign MinistryItems found on Heath at the time of his arrest according to Venezuelan authorities.
Unless you read the local Venezuelan press, you are unlikely to know that an American secret agent is currently standing trial in Venezuela on charges of terrorism and weapons trafficking.

Matthew John Heath was arrested in September outside Amuay and Cardon oil refineries in possession of a submachine gun, a grenade launcher, C4 explosives, a satellite phone and bricks of $20 bills. The Venezuelan government also alleges that he was found carrying a small coin or badge that CIA employees use to prove their identity to one another without raising suspicions. On Wednesday, Heath pled not guilty to all charges.

Situated in Falcon state in the west of the country, the Amuay and Cardon facilities are the largest refineries in the oil-rich nation, considered an enemy of the United States since it elected socialist president Hugo Chavez in 1998. The facilities have been the site of controversy before: in 2012, a fire at the plants killed 55 people; after conducting hundreds of interviews with experts and witnesses and carrying out over 200 inspections and technical tests, the Venezuelan government claimed that the evidence of sabotage was "overwhelming."
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Biden's border policies under scrutiny


OAN
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 02:39 UTC
Immigrants/Biden
© UnknownImmigrants • President Joe Biden
As Trump-era policies protecting America's borders have been undone by the new administration, illegal immigrants are being held in facilities illegally.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed these laws are really more like guidelines.
"The objective is to move kids, unaccompanied minors as quickly as possible under 72 hours to these HHS fund sponsored facilities, which is the one where we've been referring to in Texas. Some, unfortunately, did stay four days, five days or longer, but the objective is to move them as quickly as possible to the HHS sponsored facilities."
Psaki added the options for non-citizens seeking asylum were slim to none.

"We can quickly transfer them from CBP to these HHS run facilities. That's one option, or we can put them with families and sponsors without any vetting."

Authorities detained roughly 6,000 children last month, and they project 9,000 more arrests in February.

Comment: It is hard to see any upside to Biden's free-for-all policies. The job of the government is to keep 'the balance' of the country steady as it tweaks this and that or introduces new legislation. It must constantly weigh and manage the consequences to its citizens as well as consider their input. There is no indication this administration has any concept of how to do this. Instead it shoots from the hip with all Americans in its cross-hairs.

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Mars trip 'can only be understood through black Americans,' as NASA renames HQ building; update Project Artemis


RT
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 23:44 UTC
SPACEX module
© Futurism/Elon MuskRound trip to Mars
The US space agency has renamed its DC headquarters after NASA's first black female engineer Mary Jackson, celebrating with a poem about "going to Mars" even as the agency delayed a planned return to the Moon.

Long merely called 'NASA Headquarters', the Washington, DC building was officially renamed in honor of Jackson on Friday. She became the space agency's first black female engineer in 1958, seven years after joining its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).

Comment: Predictably Congress and Spaced-cadet Biden thumbed down a Trump-enthused project in keeping with it's mandate to erase any and all progress of the last four years.

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Briefcase

'Lift sanctions first': Iran rejects EU & US offer to hold direct talks on reviving 2015 nuclear deal


RT
Sun, 28 Feb 2021 20:09 UTC
Zarif
© Bria Webb/ReutersIranian FM Javad Zarif
Iran won't take part in an informal meeting with the EU and US on ways to restore the nuclear deal, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said, citing recent US actions. It said sanctions must first be lifted before any talks can begin.

"Considering the recent actions and statements by the US and three European powers, Iran does not consider this the time to hold an informal meeting with these countries, which was proposed by the EU foreign policy chief," Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said, as quoted by local media.

Comment:

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Blackbox

FBI still doesn't know what caused officer Sicknick's death at Capitol riot


RT
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 19:34 UTC
sicknick funeral
© Reuters /Alex BrandonA hearse leaves the Capitol with the cremated remains of US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, in Washington, DC, February 3, 2021.
Seven weeks on from the Capitol riot, police say a toxicology report on the officer who was allegedly killed isn't done, raising questions over whether investigators are sitting on facts that don't fit a murder-mayhem narrative.

The medical examiner's report on Officer Brian Sicknick's death following the January 6 riot hasn't been completed, as toxicology results are still pending, the Capitol Police Department said on Friday in a statement. More than 50 days after the Capitol attack - and even as other aspects of the "insurrection" investigation race move ahead - the department offered no explanation for delays in determining what substances may have been in Sicknick's bloodstream.

"Officer Sicknick's family has asked for privacy during this difficult time and that the spreading of misinformation stop regarding the cause of his death," the department said.

Police gave no indication of the types of misinformation they were citing. However, CNN and other mainstream media outlets have falsely reported that Sicknick was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher. It took until nearly four weeks after the riot for CNN to say - without correcting any of its previous coverage - that medical examiners found no sign of blunt force trauma. It turned out that Sicknick collapsed in his division office hours after the riot ended, reportedly from a stroke, and died in hospital the following night.
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Acting Capitol chief acknowledges police were unprepared for mob

Rebecca Beitsch and Cristina Marcos
The Hill
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:23 UTC
capitol police chief
© Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images
Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman made her first public appearance before frustrated lawmakers Thursday in a heated hearing where she acknowledged that the police force was unprepared for the violent mob on Jan. 6 and that its protocols broke down.

Pittman was joined by acting House Sergeant-at-Arms Timothy Blodgett in the hearing before a House Appropriations subcommittee, during which members from both parties frequently alleged that Capitol security forces were doing more to protect their jobs than to explain how they could better respond to a similar attack in the future.

Pittman said the Capitol Police incident command protocols were "not adhered to as they should have" when a large mob breached the Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from counting the Electoral College votes.

And while Pittman acknowledged that new security measures like the tall fencing around the Capitol are "not popular," she said that they will have to remain while Congress continues to face security threats.

Pittman revealed that some of the militia groups involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection have threatened to "blow up the Capitol" and "kill as many members as possible" when President Biden delivers a joint address to Congress. The address has yet to be scheduled.

Comment: The insurrection that wasn't. Weeks later, we still don't know what exactly happened at the Capitol. Probably never will. Too many careers to protect.

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Great Reset: WEF hails 'quieter' lockdown cities, ignores business collapse

Kurt Zindulka
Breitbart
Sun, 28 Feb 2021 18:11 UTC
Klaus Schwab
Klaus Schwab
The World Economic Forum (WEF) faced a barrage of criticism before deleting a social media video which praised coronavirus lockdowns for "quietly improving cities around the world".

In the video, the WEF said that as a result of people using less public transport and factories closing down during the lockdown, noise and air pollution fell in cities throughout the world. The video also celebrated the ability of scientists to discover earthquakes due to the low level of seismic noise on the planet as populations were locked in their homes.

The WEF, which the primary body pushing Klaus Schwab's idea of a so-called 'Great Reset' of the global economic order, was widely ridiculed for the post. One of these speaking out was former Brexit Party MEP, now Editorial Director of Unlocked, Martin Daubney, who was among the first to flag the video before it was taken down. Daubney later reposted the video, further exposing the WEF to criticism.

Comment: Scorn and ridicule were quickly heaped on the WEF's self-congratulatory statement.
The tone-deaf tweet - coming amid millions of Covid-19 deaths and countless lives and businesses being destroyed by lockdowns - was quickly ratioed by Twitter users. The WEF's comments and linked article about the historic quietness brought on by lockdowns leading to better detection of small earthquakes were lost on most observers, who focused instead on the group's apparent affection for a dystopian, depopulated world.

Podcast host Dave Rubin made the WEF's tweet an answer to a question: "Siri, does evil really exist, and if so, can you show me in video form?"

UK professional wrestler Jemma Palmer pointed out the video's anti-human tone. "So humans having a life is bad for the planet, but not having a life is bad for humans," she said. "I'm all for doing less to the planet, but not at the expense of not living."


Canadian taxpayer-advocacy activist Kris Sims said the WEF is "reveling in a year's worth of human misery. This open misanthropy is very illuminating if nothing else. My planet includes happy, busy, healthy, prosperous humans." Irish author Melanie Murphy agreed, saying, "Yeah, it was so quiet I could actually hear all the devastation. Nothing to celebrate about a beehive without any bees."


Conspiracy theorists, however, were back at it on Friday, suggesting that the lockdowns were just a table-setter for shutting down economies in the name of fighting climate change.

The WEF, in a rare show of self-awareness, deleted the tweet, but the damage was already done.
On Saturday, the organization deleted the tweet, accepting that coronavirus-induced lockdowns were not actually "quietly improving cities." Still, it insisted that the restrictions have been "an important part of the public health response to Covid-19."


The concession tweet, however, has received an equally poor reception.


The new tweet's message was targeted too, as the actual effect of lockdowns on halting the spread of the coronavirus remains a highly debated issue.


The whole gaffe left a huge dent in the reputation of the globalist group, many users argued, and its damage control efforts were not making the situation any better.


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Black Cat

So presidential: CNN gushes over Biden attack on Syria as love affair with airstrikes continues


RT
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:59 UTC
biden attack syria damage
© Reuters / Maxar TechnologiesA satellite image shows destroyed buildings after airstrikes in Syria, February 26, 2021
Joe Biden's Syrian airstrikes were hailed by CNN as a masterstroke of diplomacy, delivered with "a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer." Strangely enough, it sang the same song when Donald Trump launched his own strikes.

Delivered on Thursday by two F-15 fighter jets, Biden's airstrikes knocked out several facilities the Pentagon says were used by Iranian-backed militias in Syria. The Pentagon described the strikes as "defensive" in nature, and as a response to rocket attacks on US and coalition troops in Iraq. A militia spokesman said one fighter was killed and several wounded.

Comment: Not all the media feels obliged to sing Biden's praises.

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