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Brick Wall

Supreme Court cancels border wall, asylum policy hearings after Biden shifts plans

Border wall
© UnknownWorkers on the US-Mexico border wall
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to cancel upcoming hearings challenging President Trump's border wall and asylum policies after the Biden administration signaled its plans to reverse course on each.

President Biden on his first day in office suspended construction of the border wall pending a review of its legality. The next day the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) suspended Trump's "remain in Mexico" policy, which blocked migrants from crossing the border to apply for asylum.

The order places the cases in abeyance, essentially pausing litigation while the Biden administration reviews the legality of each policy and develops their own.

The border wall case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Sierra Club and others and challenges $2.5 billion in Department of Defense spending that was diverted to complete construction. The administration wrote to the court Monday:
"The President has directed the Executive Branch to undertake an assessment of 'the legality of the funding and contracting methods used to construct the wall'. It would therefore be appropriate for the court to hold further proceedings in this case in abeyance to allow for the completion of the process that the president has directed."

Comment: Biden's plan: Tear down the US/Mexico border wall, but surround the US Capitol with barbed wire fencing.

See also:
Fence at Capitol blocks DC government from enacting new laws


Handcuffs

Aung San Suu Kyi could face two years in jail over 'illegal' walkie-talkies

Aung San Suu Kyi
© National Democratic InstituteAung San Suu Kyi, former defacto leader of Myanmar government
Myanmar police have charged ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi with possession of illegally-imported walkie-talkies, which could result in a two-year prison sentence, as a civil disobedience campaign grew against the military's coup.

A document from a police station in the capital, Naypyitaw, said military officers who searched Aung San Suu Kyi's residence had found handheld radios that were imported illegally and used without permission by her bodyguards. The charges, confirmed by members of her party, appear to carry a maximum prison sentence of two years.

A state newspaper also reported that the new military government would investigate what it has described as fraud in November's election, in which its proxy party was heavily defeated by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD). The ousted president, Win Myint, is meanwhile to be charged for allegedly breaching coronavirus laws by meeting people on the campaign trail.

The moves are likely to fuel already simmering anger towards the military. In one of the first organised acts of defiance against the army since Monday's coup, health workers in 70 hospitals and medical departments in Naypyidaw, Yangon and other towns and cities said they would not work under the military regime, accusing the generals of placing their own priorities above those of ordinary people during the pandemic. Doctors are instead treating patients in their homes and at charity health clinics. Kyaw, a surgeon at West Yangon general hospital who has resigned from the government hospital where he worked said:
"We refuse to obey any order from the illegitimate military regime who demonstrated they do not have any regards for our poor patients. They will not stop this movement until the elected government is restored. I am upset about being apart from the patients, but I have no regrets, knowing that I did my best to help fight the pandemic."

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Wolf

Amazon CEO Bezos replaced by Andy Jassy, head of AWS group that deplatformed Parler

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Jeff Bezos (L) Andy Jassy (R)
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is stepping down and being replaced by the head of Amazon Web Services, which deplatformed Parler.

Bezos became the world's second-richest man building Amazon from a small online bookseller into one of the world's most valuable companies. He will transition to the role of executive chair during the third quarter of 2021, Deadline reported.

Andy Jassy, who has led the company's Amazon Web Services (AWS) division, will reportedly take over as the company's CEO. AWS is the division of Amazon that canceled services to the free-speech site Parler following the Jan. 6 riot in the U.S. Capitol building. That effectively removed Parler from the internet.

Comment: Profits above principles. Is anyone surprised?


Arrow Up

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine in demand following Lancet study confirming 91% efficacy, Pfizer & AstraZeneca suffer production problems

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© Sputnik / Alexey KudenkoFILE PHOTO.
Clinical trial data published in The Lancet medical journal this week shows the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine works for more than nine in 10 people, making it among the most efficacious jabs available.


Comment: Reports appear to confirm that it is the most efficacious vaccine available for the relatively harmless coronavirus:

The formula has been at the center of a fierce information war, with a number of commentators casting aspersions on the evidence that underpinned Russia's decision to urgently register it in August last year. However, it appears that the final word on subject lies with the scientists who published their results on Tuesday.

Comment: See also: The Inanity of RNA Vaccines For COVID-19

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #34: Covid By Numbers


Star of David

Flashback Report says Israel planned atomic detonation in Sinai Desert if Six Day War went wrong

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© David Rubinger/Government Press OfficeAn Egyptian transport burning after a direct hit from an Israeli tank during the Six Day War, June 5, 1967.
New York Times, quoting newly released interview, says the display of nuclear strength was a 'doomsday' scenario not needed after IDF victory

One the eve of the Six Day War, with the country surrounded by enemies and unsure of its future, Israel developed a "doomsday" plan to detonate an atomic bomb in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as a warning to the Arabs, The New York Times reported Saturday.

The report was based on an interview conducted by leading Israeli nuclear scholar Avner Cohen with retired IDF brigadier general Itzhak Yaakov, who reportedly oversaw the plan.

"It's the last secret of the 1967 war," Cohen told the paper.

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Bullseye

German Left Party's Sahra Wagenknecht slams 'self-righteous, intolerant left,' warns against 'extreme division' like in US

Wagenknecht
© Reuters / Stefanie LoosSahra Wagenknecht speaks during a news conference in Berlin.
Germany could end up divided like the US if the country's left won't stop with moralizing and attempts to suppress any opposing opinions, Sahra Wagenknecht, former Left Party leader, said in a harsh attack on her own allies.

The "increasing intolerance" of the German liberals may have catastrophic consequences for the country, Wagenknecht warned in an interview with Die Welt. Branding anybody with a different stance, "a Nazi who should be 'canceled'" was no way to go, she added.

"This is a typical approach of the left-liberal milieu: anyone, who is in favor of restricting immigration, is a racist; anyone, who criticizes CO2 taxes, is a climate change denier; and anyone, who doesn't think that schools, restaurants and gyms should be closed, is a 'Covidiot,'" she said.

Comment: Indeed, the left are increasingly the pawns and pushers of the encroaching pseudo-reality: Also check out SOTT radio's:


TV

Ukraine's President Zelenskiy bans three more opposition TV stations considering them to be 'pro-Russian'

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TV channels 112 Ukraine, NewsOne und ZIK went off air on Tuesday night
Ukraine's pro-Western president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has signed decrees banning pro-Russian media outlets. The broadcasters had their licences revoked and are set to stay off the air for the next five years.

Three pro-Russian TV channels have gone off the air in Kyiv after pro-Western President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a Ukrainian security council decree imposing sanctions for five years on eight media and TV companies.

The Kyiv stations affected were ZIK, NewsOne, and 112 Ukraine.

Their broadcasts were only available Tuesday night via the video hosting platform YouTube, reported the Russian news agency TASS.

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Wolf

Yellen calls meeting with Fed, SEC to decree GameStop investors' fate

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© Reuters / Leah MillisJanet Yellen is shown speaking to reporters on December 1 in Delaware, after being chosen by President-elect Joe Biden as Treasury secretary nominee.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen plans to meet with top federal financial agencies to discuss and evaluate the Democratic administration's response to Redditors' ongoing hedge fund shorting game using GameStop and other infamously unpopular stock.

In the meeting scheduled for as early as Thursday, the former chair of the Federal Reserve hopes to collaborate with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve, the New York Federal Reserve, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to assess potential actions to combat the stock frenzy that occurred over the last week as well as potential surges in precious metal prices.

"Secretary Yellen believes the integrity of markets is important and has asked for a discussion of recent volatility in financial markets and whether recent activities are consistent with investor protection and fair and efficient markets," the department said in a statement.

Comment: It's not likely to end well for the Reddit Rebellion. Janet Yellen has been one of Big Money's staunchest supporters for decades.


Propaganda

Florida gov. DeSantis is fed up with big tech — now he's unveiled a way to fight back

DeSantis
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis threw down against Big Tech interference in U.S. elections in an animated speech at the Florida State Capitol on Tuesday.
"It's high time that we step up to the plate to ensure the protection of the people and their rights," the governor said.
"The governor announced a new legislative effort to crack down on Big Tech, intending to limit social media companies' ability to sell user information to advertisers for a profit and taking action to protect social media users amid accusations that Facebook and Twitter engage in censorship of certain viewpoints or information," the Blaze reported.

Comment: In the last decade, social media and Big tech companies have become a very powerful tool in the hands of the psychopathic elites. They use them to collect personal information, track people's movement and activity, promote lies upon people so they can accept them as a new and "progressive" normal, censorship and propaganda.

They became so powerful that they openly censored and blocked former US President Donald Trump on Social media, and they remained untouchable for justice.


Stormtrooper

Best of the Web: Regime intends to keep thousands of soldiers in Washington DC for months to come - Perhaps even permanently

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DC Green Zone
As the National Guard's deployment to the Capitol enters its second month with no solid end yet in sight, GOP lawmakers are questioning whether thousands are uniformed troops are still needed to protect the Capitol.

On Wednesday, Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton penned an op-ed for Fox News stating that the National Guard troops still in Washington should leave the Capitol grounds as soon as possible, despite Defense Department and local law enforcement plans.

"I'm aware of no specific, credible threat reporting... that justifies this continued troop presence," wrote Cotton, a former soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Thus, I believe the rest of these soldiers should also go home to their families and civilian jobs."

Cotton went on to say, "The lesson of the Capitol riot is not that we should quarter a standing army at the Capitol just in case, but rather that our security measures should be calibrated to the actual threats."

Cotton's op/ed came on the same day that 11 GOP House members requested a briefing from acting Army Secretary John Whitley on any ongoing threats to the Capitol as well as an explanation for why the National Guard troops were still in Washington, according to Defense News.

Comment: Ms. Pittman - brand new on the job after DC bosses fired the previous guy for the January 6th riot - wouldn't have suggested a permanent military presence in the American capital without supportive signals from on high...