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Snarlin' Joe: Biden has scolded his aides in profanity-laced outbursts

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© T.J. Kirkpatrick-Pool/Getty ImagesJoe Biden
President Joe Biden has reportedly scolded his aides in profanity-laced episodes and often demands hours of debate from policy experts before coming to a decision on issues, according to a report from The New York Times (NYT).

The NYT spoke with over two dozen current and former Biden associates regarding the president's demeanor and how he conducts business. According to the report, the interviews painted a picture "of a president with a short fuse, who is obsessed with getting the details right - sometimes to a fault."

"Mr. Biden is gripped by a sense of urgency that leaves him prone to flares of impatience, according to numerous people who regularly interact with him," the NYT wrote. "The president has said he expects to run for a second term, but aides say he understands the effect on his ability to advance his agenda if Republicans regain power in Congress next year."

Comment: Dedicated but frustrated president, or another symptom of mental deterioration?
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Info

No garden for American heroes, yes to censorship & monument destruction? Biden revokes more Trump executive orders

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© Reuters / Tom BrennerProtesters attach a chain to the statue of US President Andrew Jackson in the middle of Lafayette Park in front of the White House in an attempt to pull it down, Washington, DC, US, June 22, 2020.
US President Joe Biden has revoked a number of executive orders by his predecessor Donald Trump, including those seeking to protect monuments and combat online censorship, and the one setting up a "garden of American heroes."

The White House announced on Friday that it was revoking half a dozen of Trump's orders and amending the one aimed at placing federal bureaucrats under tighter control of elected officials.

Among the orders on the chopping block were two that would have rebuilt historic monuments that Democrats and social justice activists sought to destroy and replace, as well as establish a "National Garden of American Heroes," celebrating a range of figures from first President George Washington to civil rights activist Martin Luther King.

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Vader

Weaponizing fake news? IDF misled Western media about 'Gaza invasion' to bait a deadly trap for Hamas

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© REUTERS/Baz RatnerIsraeli troops and tanks near the border with the Gaza Strip, but not actually inside - as many outlets erroneously reported, May 14, 2021.
Israeli press has suggested that the strangely worded IDF announcement about ground troops in Gaza was deliberate, causing major outlets to report fake news - and Hamas militants to go exactly where Israeli military wanted them.

Shortly after midnight on Friday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that "air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip." This led a number of outlets - such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, AFP and NPR - to report that Israeli soldiers have actually entered the Palestinian-controlled territory, from which Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants had been launching rockets over the past week. Here's the Washington Post, for example:


Comment: You can see some of the realtime reports here: IDF chiefs to approve Gaza ground invasion plans later today - spokesman


Comment: That the IDF consistently lie to achieve their nefarious objectives, and that mainstream media outlets are complicit, knowingly and not, in their wars on Palestine and elsewhere, is fairly well documented:


Caesar

Putin: West molding Ukraine into 'anti-Russia' & West turns blind eye as crackdown on opposition makes Donbass peace impossible

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© Sputnik / Sergey IlyinRussian President Vladimir Putin
Ukraine is being manipulated by the West into a kind of anti-Russia and is becoming a serious risk for Moscow, which constantly needs to deal with issues affecting its national security, according to President Vladimir Putin.

Speaking on Friday, Putin also claimed that Ukraine's crackdown on opposition politicians means that a peaceful resolution to the unrest in Donbass is becoming increasingly unlikely.

"It is very sad, but it appears that Ukraine is slowly but surely being turned into some kind of antipode of Russia, some kind of anti-Russia," he told the country's security council, noting that their Western neighbor is being turned into a territory that constantly requires "special attention" from Moscow, "in terms of the security of Russia."

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Attention

'Vaxxed or masked' Biden tells Americans, but gets rejected as negligent or DICTATOR by both Democrats & Republicans

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© Twitter/@POTUS/screenshot
The vaccination messaging effort by US President Joe Biden's communications team ran into a wall of resistance on both sides of the political spectrum, as Democrats clung to their masks and Republicans called him a tyrant.

"The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours," the official presidential account tweeted on Thursday afternoon. It was followed up by a video of Biden in the Oval Office - his face uncovered, for once - saying "vaxxed or masked."


This followed Thursday's announcement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that fully vaccinated people could ditch the masks both outdoors and indoors in most places. Masks remain mandatory on buses, trains and planes, thanks to a Biden executive order extended through September.

Comment: Remember when Biden said it's a 'patriotic responsibility' for VACCINATED people to wear masks?


Arrow Up

The inflation monster has been unleashed

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The monster known as inflation has been unleashed upon the world and will not easily retreat into the night. This is reflected in soaring commodity and housing prices. Due to the stupid and self-serving policies of the Fed, we are about to experience a massive shift in the way we live. Bubbling up to the surface is also the recognition the Fed has played a major role in pushing inequality higher. This means that inflation is about to devour the purchasing power of our income and the savings of those that have worked hard and saved over the years.

Over the months we have watched Fed Chairman Jerome Powell time and time again cut rates and increase the Fed's balance sheet. This has hurt savers, forced investors into risky investments in search of yield, damaged the dollar, encouraged politicians to spend like drunken sailors, and increased inequality.
The greatest wealth transfer in history has already begun and the next crisis will only accelerate the process. Sadly, the same policies that dump huge money into larger businesses because it is an easier and faster way to bolster the economy give these concerns a huge advantage over their smaller competitors.

For decades the American people have watched their incomes lag behind the cost of living. To make matters worse, the official numbers of the so-called Consumer Price Index (CPI) have been rigged to understate inflation and not to reflect the true impact it was having on our lives. Want to know where the real cost of things is going, just look at the replacement cost from recent storms and natural disasters. Currently, the government understates inflation by using a formula based on the concept of a "constant level of satisfaction" that evolved during the first half of the 20th century in academia. This has skewed expectations and led many people to think inflation is not something they need to worry about.

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Bad Guys

Toshiba hacked by DarkSide, Kaspersky founder suggests CIA may be behind group's Colonial Pipeline attack

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© EPAA Toshiba business unit was hacked by DarkSide, the same group claiming responsibility for the Colonial Pipeline attack.
A Toshiba business unit said it was hacked earlier this month by the DarkSide criminal group, the same gang responsible for the attack on Colonial Pipeline, which caused widespread gas shortages and panic buying across the Southeast.

Toshiba Tec said in a statement that its European subsidiaries were hit by the cyberattack and the company's probing the extent of the impact.

It said "it is possible that some information and data may have been leaked by the criminal gang," but it hasn't confirmed that customer-related information was leaked.

Comment: ZeroHedge reports that there are clues that these hacks could actually be the work of the CIA, which would also make a lot more sense:
The operator of the ransomware group Darkside, believed to originate in Eastern Europe or Russia, has been unable to access its computer systems to conduct cyber attacks. Associates close to the hacking group said it would disband, citing international pressure from the US, said security research firm FireEye.

Recorded Future threat intelligence analyst Dmitry Smilyanets said DarkSide has lost control of its servers and lost some money it made through ransom payments.

Darksupp also reported cryptocurrency funds were withdrawn from the payment server and would be split between itself and its associates.

This sudden dispersion of the hacking group is suspicious. Who would disband a hack operation for a measly $5 million - that will barely buy a mansion in the Bay Area.

On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced his administration had been "in direct communication with Moscow about the imperative for responsible countries to take decisive action against these ransomware networks" and would "pursue a measure to disrupt their ability to operate."

Biden said, "We do not believe the Russian government was involved in this attack, but we do have strong reason to believe that the criminals who did the attack are living in Russia, that's where it came from."

But not everyone is convinced DarkSide is a legitimate hacking group but rather a cover for a rogue group of CIA hackers.

Natalya Kaspersky, the founder and former CEO of security software firm Kaspersky Lab, made an explosive suggestion in an interview with Russian state-owned domestic news agency RIA Novosti that CIA hackers were actually behind the Colonial Pipeline attack, reported RT News.

Kaspersky said the Umbrage team, which is part of the Remote Development Branch under the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence, can mask its hackers as outside ones and leave behind the "fingerprints" of the external hackers when it breaks into electronic devices.

WikiLeaks in 2017 shed light on the Umbrage team. At the time, USA Today said CIA operatives "may have been cataloging hacking methods from outside hackers, including in Russia, that would have allowed the agency to mask their identity by employing the method during espionage."

Kaspersky pointed out a list "of the countries under whose hacker groups this UMBRAGE is disguised - Russia, North Korea, China, Iran." She claimed that "therefore, it cannot be said with certainty that a hacker group carried out the attack from Russia and that it was not a provocation made themselves from there, or from some other country."


... more things that make you go hmm.

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Snakes in Suits

Lawmakers reach agreement on bipartisan January 6 commission

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© AP/Susan WalshHouse Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep Bennie Thompson (D-Miss)
The top Democrat and Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee reached an agreement Friday on legislation to establish a bipartisan 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol ahead of an expected vote next week.

The bill is focused squarely on the Jan. 6 riot, not other episodes of political violence as GOP leaders have demanded. It's unclear how much support the legislation has among Republicans who have defended former President Trump's actions surrounding the deadly rampage.

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Friday said he has not signed off on the bill. "I haven't read through it," McCarthy told reporters.

The bill would include an equal number of Democrats and Republicans, offering a chance to cap a lengthy negotiation between congressional leaders. Speaker Pelosi stated:
"It is imperative that we seek the truth of what happened on January 6 with an independent, bipartisan 9/11-type Commission to examine and report upon the facts, causes and security relating to the terrorist mob attack. Today a bipartisan agreement to form such a commission has been reached, with legislation to create it set to reach the Floor as soon as next week."



Comment: After months of priming the public with accusation, reaction, fear mongering and innuendo, the House now proposes to walk the high road and seek the 'truth'? They want legislation to validate their claims and sully the opposition.


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IDF announces Israeli ground troops now 'attacking Gaza Strip amid fears of imminent invasion

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© Mohammed Abed/AFPExplosion following Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip
May 14, 2021
Israeli ground troops have now joined the air force in attacking the Gaza Strip, the IDF has announced, causing confusion before clarifying that no soldiers have actually crossed into the Palestinian enclave yet. "IDF air and ground forces are now attacking the Gaza Strip. More details to come," the Israel Defense Forces announced on Twitter just after midnight on Friday local time.
Artillery, tanks and infantry are firing into the strip but have not crossed its boundary yet, according to a reporter with the Israeli public broadcaster Kan 11. RT's Paula Slier also reported that artillery units from Israel's Golani Brigade are "shooting into Gaza from the border, but have not crossed over."

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said shortly after the IDF announcement:
"I said that we would exact a very heavy price from Hamas. We're doing it and will continue doing it with great intensity. This is not the last word and this operation will continue as long as necessary."
Israel has bombed over 650 targets in Gaza, destroying several high-rise buildings in the densely-populated Palestinian enclave. The IDF said its strikes have killed dozens of militants, including some top Hamas commanders.

Six Israelis have been killed so far, including one IDF soldier and a six-year-old boy. Health officials in Gaza said that over 100 Palestinians, including 27 children, had fallen victim to the Israeli strikes as of Thursday, while almost 600 people were injured.

Comment: Will Israel prevail or bring down its own house of cards? What will be the global response - if anything?
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Attention

Cybersecurity tycoon Kaspersky claims CIA hackers could be behind US Colonial Pipeline attack blamed on Russian group

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© Reuters/Drone BaseColonial Pipeline's Dorsey Junction Station in Woodbine, Maryland, USA
May 10, 2021
A cyberattack that crippled fuel supplies on the East Coast of the US and sent gas prices soaring could have been an inside job conducted by American spooks, rather than foreign hackers, a prominent Russian IT expert has claimed.

After a massive systems failure caused the Colonial Pipeline to shut down, Natalya Kaspersky, the founder and former CEO of security software firm Kaspersky Lab, as well as one of Russia's wealthiest women, made the explosive suggestions in an interview with RIA Novosti on Friday. She alleges that the US' top foreign intelligence agency, the CIA, has a crack team of digital warriors who are able to masquerade as overseas hacking groups.

According to her, the group, known as UMBRAGE, is adept at hiding its online footprints. The existence of the team first came to light in a series of documents published by WikiLeaks in 2017 and subsequently picked up by American media. At the time, USA Today said that the shadowy operatives "may have been cataloguing hacking methods from outside hackers, including in Russia, that would have allowed the agency to mask their identity by employing the method during espionage."

Comment: Asked a direct question, Biden deferred assessment to the FBI:
Asked directly if he was confident Russian President Vladimir Putin was not involved, Biden emphasized that the FBI did not believe Putin was involved. Biden said he would likely discuss the attack with Putin at some point.
"We are working to try to get to the place where we have an international standard that governments knowing that criminal activities are happening in their territory, that we all move on those criminal enterprises, and I expect that is one of the topics I will be talking about with President Putin."
The Biden administration has been forced by the Colonial Pipeline and SolarWinds attacks, among other escalating cyber threats, to take immediate action to strengthen federal cybersecurity.

As part of this, Biden signed an executive order Wednesday night to take a range of actions to make it more difficult for hackers to successfully compromise federal agencies. The order requires the establishment of baseline security standards for all software sold to the government, and that IT groups doing business with the federal government report breaches.

Additionally, the administration launched a 100-day initiative in April to secure the electric sector against cyberattacks, with initiatives also planned to secure other critical sectors including the oil and gas industry.

"Private entities are in charge of their own cybersecurity," Biden said Thursday. "We know what they need, they need greater private sector investment in cybersecurity."

To further promote cybersecurity, Biden called on the Senate to vote on and approve the nominations of former National Security Agency Deputy Director Chris Inglis to serve as national cyber director at the White House, and of Jen Easterly to serve as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Additionally, he stressed the importance of passing his infrastructure package to strengthen critical systems against attacks, and for Congress to take action to help the private sector defend itself.
"I cannot dictate that the private companies do certain things relative to cybersecurity. I think it's becoming clear to everyone that we have to do more than is being done now, and the federal government can be significant value-added in having that happen."
Was this a false flag? Was it a trial run? Was Colonial Pipeline used as an excuse to leverage more control? All have been done in the past for 'other than stated reasons' counting on naive citizen and business reaction. Considering the track record, skeptics may have a point.