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Pelosi blames border crisis on Trump and climate change

Paul Sacca
Blaze Media
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

Democrats are scrambling following the massive surge of illegal immigrants and unaccompanied minors at the United States southern border. In the past week, there have been eye-opening reports about President Joe Biden's migrant facilities, including children purportedly going days without showers or sunlight, populations at the detainment centers "akin to jail" at 729%, minors being denied access to communication to family members, and immigration lawyers being denied access to facilities.

The border crisis became so overwhelming that on Saturday, the Biden administration announced it was sending the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the border to assist with the record number of unaccompanied minors attempting to enter the U.S.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) acknowledged on Sunday that there is a "humanitarian challenge" at the border, but blamed former President Donald Trump and climate change for the overflow of illegal immigration.

"The facts of these, there are more children, about 600, 700 more children, unaccompanied children coming over the border," Pelosi said on ABC News' This Week. "This is a humanitarian challenge to all of us."

Pelosi then pivoted to blaming Trump for the surge in illegal immigrants.

Comment: The Dems have NO EXCUSE (except Trump).

Liberal media misquoted Trump in notorious phone call with Georgia investigator

Daniel Chaitin
Washington Examiner
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 08:51 UTC

Early media accounts of a phone call between former President Donald Trump and a top Georgia investigator contained false quotes, prompting at least one major media outlet to issue a correction.

The Wall Street Journal first published audio last week of the roughly six-minute call on Dec. 23 between Trump and Frances Watson, the chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State's office, in which Trump urged her to look for fraud in mail-in ballots in Fulton County, where much of Atlanta is located.

Indeed, Trump can be heard telling Watson, who was in the middle of conducting an audit of voting results in Cobb County, that he won the 2020 election and that she would be "praised" when the "right answer comes out." He also insisted "something bad happened."

Biden planning first major tax hike in almost 30 years

Joseph Choi
The HIll
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 07:33 UTC

President Biden is reportedly planning the first major hike in federal taxes in almost 30 years to fund the economic program set to follow the recently approved $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package. Unidentified sources told Bloomberg that the increases will reflect the promises Biden made during his 2020 campaign.

The planned increases reportedly include:

Raising the corporate tax from 21 percent to 28 percent;

Increasing the income tax rate on people making more than $400,000;

Expanding the estate tax;

Paring back tax preferences on pass-through businesses such as limited-liability companies; and

Setting up a higher capital gains tax rate for individuals making at least $1 million.

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.

As Bloomberg notes, an independent analysis of the Biden campaign's tax plan conducted by the Tax Policy Center found that it would raise around $2.1 trillion over 10 years.

Comment: Note it said 'the first' tax hike... Here are perhaps the next demands to look forward to:

EU launches legal action over UK plan to extend Brexit grace period

Lisa O'Carroll
The Guardian
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:26 UTC

© Reuters/Yves Herman
British PM Boris Johnson and Past European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker who said, "Brexit is a too-long story that has to be brought to an end!"

The EU has formally launched legal action against the UK, alleging that Boris Johnson has broken international law over Brexit implementation in Northern Ireland. It is the second time in six months that Brussels has launched infringement proceedings against the UK over Brexit, following last year's threat by the British prime minister to override part of the withdrawal agreement through the internal market bill. Ultimately the action could see a case held at the European court of justice and lead to financial penalties and trade sanctions.

The EU has accused the UK of breaching the good faith provisions in the withdrawal agreement after its unilateral decision two weeks ago to delay implementation of part of the Northern Ireland protocol relating to checks on goods shipped from Great Britain to the region. The formal notice of legal action was issued with an accompanying letter from the European commission vice-president, Maroš Šefčovič, to the new Brexit minister David Frost. It calls on the UK to "rectify and refrain from putting into practice" its decision on 3 March to extend grace periods for checks on supermarket goods crossing the Irish Sea.

An EU official said: "The UK must stop acting unilaterally and stop violating the rules it has signed up to."

RT launches Covid-19 Freedom Index - Has the pandemic turned your government into totalitarians?

RT
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:49 UTC

Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths are falling in many countries - but some governments have been in no rush to return liberties and rights to their citizens. They must be held to account.

Covid Freedom Index

Even as billions are set to acquire immunity to the virus in 2021 - either through vaccination or antibodies gained following a course of the illness - there has been little letup in crisis rhetoric, with those in power often advocating restrictive measures that go far beyond flattening any kind of curve. New regulations are set to be in place for years, if not permanently, unless there is significant accountability and pushback.

Our new Covid-19 Freedom Index will track the world's leading economies, and major territories within them, to see if they are restricting their citizens, either by limiting basic rights, such as freedom of movement, essential functions, like the ability to go to school or operate a business, or freedom from technological surveillance.

The index has its own limitations that we freely acknowledge. Any such ranking is subjective by its conception, whatever scientific veneer is given by formulas and tables. Nonetheless, to minimize bias, we have tried to break down our index into easily quantifiable and weighted criteria, and rigorously source each piece of information from official publications, where possible.

More US troops in Afghanistan than publicly announced, NY Times reports

Phillip Walter Wellman
Stars and Stripes
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:29 UTC

© Joel Pfiester/U.S. Air Force
A Special Forces soldier secures the perimeter at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan in February 2020.

The United States has about 1,000 more troops serving in Afghanistan than it has publicly acknowledged, a New York Times report said.

The number of American service members in the country was officially reduced to 2,500 in the final days of the Trump administration — the lowest level since the start of the war — but the number actually dropped to around 3,500, the newspaper reported Sunday.

The discrepancy is the result of some special operations forces being "off the books" and some temporary and transitioning units being in theater, the report said. It cited unnamed American, European and Afghan officials.

Comment:

Irish Scientists Overseeing Covid Response: "Go After People, Not Institutions - People Hurt Faster Than Institutions"

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:31 UTC

Ireland's 'Zero Covid' experts, citing notorious US political radical Saul Alinsky, want to 'crush, control, and chase' the virus out of Ireland...

As we've all been told (ad nauseum) since the pandemic began, Covid policies are informed by "the science" and the scientists who proffer those policies to governments, who then impose them on the population. A distinction should, however, always be made between science and scientists. The former is a process, the latter are ordinary people with their own biases, agendas and, sometimes, disturbing psychological profiles, as we shall see.

With its current total lockdown set to enter a fourth month, and no end in sight, Ireland stands out as the nation whose government has implemented the most draconian response on the planet to SARS-CoV-2 - certainly in Europe.

While the Irish government has its own scientific advisory group on this virus ('NPHET' - National Public Health Emergency Team), most public statements on SARS-CoV-2 and the need for lockdowns have been made by a group called 'ISAG' - Independent Scientific Advisory Group. Founded in June 2020 by Dr. Anthony Staines, Professor of Health Systems at Dublin College University, Gerry Killeen of University College Cork, and Tomás Ryan, associate Professor at the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, ISAG claims to be "independent of government" while it actively and successfully lobbies government ministers to push ISAG's policies. Other notable group members include Northern Irish public health physician Gabriel Scally, and Irish doctor Sam McConkey.

'Obey!' - Biden outlines post-pandemic dystopia in "dark & hopeless" first address

Zerohedge
Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

President Joe Biden delivered his first prime-time address last night since the beginning of his 'unity' reign.

However, out of the gate, he took a shot at his predecessor, seemingly blaming Trump for the spread of COVID-19.

"A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked," Biden said, apparently forgetting that he called then-President Trump xenophobic for quickly imposing a ban on travel into the United States.

Such assertions were to be expected, but as LibertyNation's Graham Noble warns, one sentence from Biden's speech should terrify Americans:

"We will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinated."

Not the CDC, not the science, but the government will tell you what you can and cannot do if you're not willing to be Big Pharma's guinea pigs. And that message was clear as the rest of the speech was basically variation of the theme:

"please, please, please, get vaccinated because it is your duty as Americans,"

Fauci torched for backtracking '6 feet': Based on the science? 'Think again'

Yael Halon
Fox News
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 22:46 UTC

Researchers say there is evidence to support CDC easing guidelines from six to three feet in classrooms.

Dr. Anthony Fauci backed a new study that recommends reducing coronavirus-related physical distancing guidelines for in-person learning from six-feet to three in the classroom.

The Biden medical adviser was asked about a new Massachusetts study that found "no significant difference in coronavirus spreading" between 6 feet of physical distancing versus a reduced 3 feet in a Sunday appearance on CNN's "State of the Union."

Comment: The distancing regulations are completely fabricated. They'll change them when it's convenient to do so. Need to change the distance from 6 feet to 3 feet? Here's some science that says that's OK. Want to increase it to 20 feet? Here's some other science. Keep on dancing, monkeys.

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London mayor savaged for plan to cut numbers of 'white men' in science and engineering

RT
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:32 UTC

© Reuters / Toby Melville
Sadiq Khan arrives to participate in a rally to support his re-election campaign in London, Britain, March 3, 2020.

Mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants fewer white men working in science and engineering. His plan to "fix" the situation has sparked a furious backlash online.

"There's no good reason why 65% of people working in science and engineering should be white men," Khan tweeted on Saturday, citing figures from the British Science Association. Khan went on to claim that "inequality costs people's futures & the economy billions," but reassured voters that "we're working on fixing it."

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Puppet Masters

Pelosi blames border crisis on Trump and climate change

Liberal media misquoted Trump in notorious phone call with Georgia investigator

Biden planning first major tax hike in almost 30 years

EU launches legal action over UK plan to extend Brexit grace period

RT launches Covid-19 Freedom Index - Has the pandemic turned your government into totalitarians?

More US troops in Afghanistan than publicly announced, NY Times reports

Irish Scientists Overseeing Covid Response: "Go After People, Not Institutions - People Hurt Faster Than Institutions"

'Obey!' - Biden outlines post-pandemic dystopia in "dark & hopeless" first address

Fauci torched for backtracking '6 feet': Based on the science? 'Think again'

London mayor savaged for plan to cut numbers of 'white men' in science and engineering

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