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NYC is no longer an 'anarchist jurisdiction' as Biden repeals Trump order

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:58 UTC
Biden
© Doug Mills/Getty ImagesUS President Joe Biden
President Biden on Wednesday repealed former President Donald Trump's September memo that instructed the federal bureaucracy to consider pulling funding from "anarchist jurisdictions" including New York City, Portland and Seattle.

The Trump order, first reported by The Post, was implemented by the White House Office of Management and Budget and leaned on the Justice Department determining that the cites either tolerated rising violent crime or allowed violent protests.

Biden's decision to revoke the order came in a list of Trump actions that he repealed through a single executive order. Other repealed Trump actions include a memo that promoted classical architecture for use in federal buildings.

The Biden order says:
"heads of executive departments and agencies shall promptly consider taking steps to rescind any orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies, or portions thereof, implementing or enforcing the Presidential actions identified."
The impact of the designation was potentially severe. New York City gets about $7 billion in annual federal aid. New York made the list for cutting $1 billion from the NYPD budget amid a near-tripling of shootings in July and August.
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Israel: Satellite images show secretive nuclear facility undergoing major revamp


Middle East Eye
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:28 UTC
Dimona facility
© Planet LabsIsrael's 'secret' nuclear site near Damona
A secretive nuclear facility at the centre of Israel's undeclared atomic weapons programme is undergoing what appears to be its biggest construction phase in decades, satellite photos analysed by the Associated Press (AP) have revealed.

A dig around the size of a football field and likely several stories deep now sits just meters from the aging reactor at the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Centre near the city of Dimona.

The facility is already home to decades-old underground laboratories that reprocess the reactor's spent rods to obtain weapons-grade plutonium for Israel's nuclear bomb programme, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Thursday.

What the construction is for, however, remains unclear. The Israeli government did not respond to detailed questions from AP about the work.

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Amid 'political repression,' Ukraine becoming American 'colony' in Europe, says sanctioned opposition leader Medvedchuk

Gabriel Gavin
RT
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:52 UTC
Viktor Medvedchuk
Viktor Medvedchuk, MP and chairman of Opposition Platform — For Life, in conversation with RT.
A few weeks ago, Viktor Medvedchuk was celebrating as his party, Ukraine's largest opposition bloc, topped a nationwide opinion poll. Now, he's facing charges of funding terrorism that could land him behind bars for over a decade.

In an exclusive interview with RT, the MP and chairman of Opposition Platform — For Life, which advocates better ties with Moscow, insisted that the allegations were a tool of political persecution.

According to him, they are part of a wider pattern of repression linked to Kiev's recent moves to shut down Russian-language media that has been critical of President Volodymyr Zelensky's government. The embattled administration has seen its approval ratings nosedive amid worsening economic woes and a chaotic response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Bernie Sanders slams Israel for sending COVID vaccines abroad while Palestinians 'still waiting'

Ben Samuels
Haaretz
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:37 UTC
bernie sanders
© Credit: Anna Moneymaker / POOL / AFPChairman Sen. Bernie Sanders testifies during a Senate Committee on the Budget hearing, February 2021
U.S. senator says Israel responsible for health of Palestinians under its control, 'outrageous' for Netanayhu 'to reward his foreign allies'

Senator Bernie Sanders slammed the Israeli government for distributing COVID-19 vaccines to countries with which it has bolstered relations in recent years before sending vaccines to Palestinians.

"As the occupying power, Israel is responsible for the health of all the people under its control," Sanders tweeted. "It is outrageous that Netanyahu would use spare vaccines to reward his foreign allies while so many Palestinians in the occupied territories are still waiting."

Comment: Ironically, Israel may be doing the Palestinians a small, unintended favor. The results of Israel's vaccination program have been disturbing.

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Uhh: After shuttering TV stations, Kiev now 'bans' Telegram channels, even though providers can't actually pull it off


RT
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:53 UTC
telegram messenger app
© Kirill Kallinikov / SputnikTelegram messenger service on a monitor screen
A Ukrainian judge has ordered four major news channels on the Telegram messaging service to be blocked across the country, just weeks after the government banned a series of opposition-owned broadcasters and online news sites.

On Wednesday, the local Strana outlet reported it had received confirmation from a source in the SBU security agency, Kiev's successor to the Soviet-era KGB, that a district court in Kharkov had ordered the ban on the popular news feeds. Among them are Legitimnyy, Gossip Girl, Resident and Kartel, all operating in the Russian-language, which is reportedly spoken at home by at least one in three Ukrainians and understood by almost everyone in the country.

Comment: One might wonder about the technological proficiency of those advising President Zelensky. Even the Russian are stymied by Telegram.

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Thousands rally behind Armenia's PM after he accuses army of coup attempt

Nvard Hovhannisyan
Reuters
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:40 UTC
Pashinyan
© Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin viaFILE PHOTO: Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan speaks during a news conference following a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev to discuss the implementation of the ceasefire over Nagorno-Karabakh reached on November 9 and measures to solve problems in the region, in Moscow, Russia January 11, 2021.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan condemned what he said was an attempted coup after the army demanded he quit on Thursday, and told a rally of thousands of supporters that only the people could decide his future.

The army's demand, in a written statement, plunged the impoverished former Soviet republic of less than 3 million into a new political crisis, just months after ethnic Armenian forces lost a war and territory to Azerbaijan.

Russia, which is traditionally a close ally and has a military base in Armenia, said it was alarmed by events. Moscow called it a domestic matter that Armenia should resolve peacefully and within the constitution.

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Outrage as US admits $1.7 trillion F-35 program a FAILURE


RT
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 23:51 UTC
F-35
© US Air Force/Capt. Kip SumnerA F-35 Lightning II performs at an air show in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 22, 2020.
A tacit admission by the US Air Force that the F-35 has failed its main mission has triggered an outpouring of outrage from Americans who think the stealth fighter's gargantuan budget could have been better spent on other things.

Frustration with Lockheed Martin's fifth-generation stealth jet flooded Twitter on Wednesday, after Forbes magazine published a story about how USAF commissioning a study into a new, cheaper and lighter fighter amounts to "a tacit admission that the F-35 has failed."


Comment: Lockheed isn't phased, it just signed a massive defense deal with Saudi Arabia.


"We could have used this cash to cancel student loans for every person in America," lamented the liberal watchdog Public Citizen, pointing to the F-35 program's estimated $1.7 trillion lifetime cost.

Comment: It says a lot about the state of nations when the US wastes trillions of dollars it doesn't have on equipment that doesn't work meanwhile Russia's defense technology is leagues ahead (it also works) and for a fraction of the cost.

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Texas Sheriff: 'It's absolutely true' Biden is releasing illegals into U.S. without COVID tests

Matt Couch
The DC Patriot
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 07:59 UTC
Tucker Carlson ScreenShot
The Sheriff of Jackson Country in Texas is firing shots at the Biden Administration this week, and he's hammering them for releasing illegals into the state without Covid tests.

Monday night on Tucker Carlson he said that it was "absolutely true" that the Biden Administration was releasing illegals into the state without testing.

It's absolutely true," Louderback said. "It's even, if I can continue, Tucker, the memo, the memo that I received this last week, it's essentially a defund the ICE by memo, by a memorandum that was sent out by David Borkowski on Jan. 20 or 21. So this is a particularly devastating document for Texans and Americans here in the United States. The message really has been sent, when I read it first and looked at it, it's a message to the world, you can come here illegally, you could commit crimes here against Americans and remain here illegally."

Comment: The whole Corona madness has been cruelly used and exaggerated by different powerful interest groups for their own agendas. How long this madness will last probably depends on how much normal people's lives will deteriorate because of all these inhuman, illogical, tyrannical, and harmful measures and policies that are promoted by the PTB.

Like in The Wizard of Oz, we can go back "home" anytime we like. We just have to finish the unpleasant journey, so we can learn that we already have the power to change the tyranny and create a better place to live.

See the full interview of Tucker Carlson with Jackson County Sheriff A.J. Louderback.



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Manchin flexes muscle in 50-50 Senate

Alexander Bolton
The Hill
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:00 UTC
sen. joe manchin
Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is the most pivotal vote in the evenly divided Senate, and his power could spark prolonged intraparty feuds among Democrats.

Concerned about simmering friction, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday strongly urged his Democratic caucus to unify around a pending $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.

Manchin appears to have derailed President Biden's nominee to head the White House budget office, Neera Tanden, by announcing last week that he would vote against her because of sharp criticisms she leveled on Twitter against Senate colleagues. In a 50-50 Senate, Tanden now needs the backing of at least one Republican, and perhaps more, which appears unlikely.

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The Ukraine's many ticking time bombs

The Saker
Unz Review
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Ukraine delusions reality
While the Ukraine has mostly been out of the news, there were bigger stories out there, things have gone disastrously wrong under "Ze" (Zelenskii) and the Ukraine is now looking at several time bombs which could explode at any minute. Here is a partial list of problems which the Ze administration will have to deal with in 2021: (in no particular order)
  1. The strengthening of the internal opposition to Ze's rule
  2. The COVID pandemic, the vaccine scandal and the crumbling Ukrainian infrastructure
  3. The crackdown on free speech
  4. The persecution of opponents inside and even outside the Ukraine
  5. The (limited) rise of (putatively pro-Russian) OPZZh party
  6. The sharp rise in European rhetoric against Russia which the Ze admin will want to match and cater to
  7. The hardening of the positions of the LDNR
  8. A further increase in US/NATO saber rattling and provocations
  9. The regime in Kiev openly planning for a war against Russia

Comment: And to think that Ukraine would probably have never reached this level of dysfunction if the US hadn't helped implement the Maidan color revolution of 2014.

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