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Ivanka Trump, Kushner distance themselves from Trump claims on election: CNN

Lexi Lonas
The Hill
Wed, 23 Jun 2021 19:44 UTC
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Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, have been distancing themselves from former President Trump's claims about the 2020 election, 12 former Trump White House and administration officials, family friends, acquaintances and members of Trump's team told CNN.

The sources noted Ivanka Trump and Kushner were not around former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago club as often as they were in the past.

"They weren't around for the usual spring and summer events at Mar-a-Lago," one clubgoer and family friend told the outlet.

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Cult

"It won't be pleasant" - Mark Carney unveils dystopian new world to combat climate 'crisis'

Peter Foster
National Post
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
Mark Carney
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Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada, is the author of Value(s): Building a Better World for All.
What Carney ultimately wants is a technocratic dictatorship justified by climate alarmism

In his book Value(s): Building a Better World for All, Mark Carney, former governor both of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, claims that western society is morally rotten, and that it has been corrupted by capitalism, which has brought about a "climate emergency" that threatens life on earth. This, he claims, requires rigid controls on personal freedom, industry and corporate funding.

Carney's views are important because he is UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance. He is also an adviser both to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the next big climate conference in Glasgow, and to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.


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Bizarro Earth

64 dead after airstrike on market in Tigray, Ethiopian army claims it was a 'successful precision strike on rebel fighters'

Jason Burke
The Guardian
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:27 UTC
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An injured resident of Togoga is carried on a stretcher to the Ayder referral hospital in Mekelle on Wednesday, a day after the deadly airstrike.
At least 64 people have been killed and 180 injured in an Ethiopian airstrike on a market in the war-torn Tigray region, according to local health officers, doctors, local residents and witnesses.

"The airstrike was in the market area, so many, many people were injured," said Mulu Atsbaha, an adviser to the Tigray regional administration on maternal and child health on Thursday.

The strike on Tuesday in Togoga also left 180 injured, Mulu added, explaining that his information had been gathered from residents of Togoga, a town 18 miles (30km) north-west of the regional capital, Mekelle, and "confirmed with local leaders".

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Chess

US investment giants buying up neighborhoods, MSM telling us we should rent - this 'new normal' spells the death of the American Dream

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:34 UTC
Blackstone Schwarzman
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Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone Group
Predatory private equity firms buying up neighborhoods only to rent homes at a premium hints at the real meaning of the World Economic Forum's "sharing economy." Americans never voted for this, but their leaders are loving it.

Owning a home is no longer feasible for Americans coming of age in the 21st century, according to Bloomberg columnist Karl Smith, who smugly suggested in an op-ed that they stop worrying about whether they can afford a house, ignore the asset-stripping investment vultures, and just embrace the depressing reality of lifelong debt peonage under the rule of those same private equity giants.

Lest there be any misunderstanding, the feudalist character of this glorious new "sharing economy" is reflected in one increasingly popular "solution" for the generation currently facing the steep uphill climb to pay off their student loans. Under this scheme, known as Student Loan Asset Backed Securities (SLABs), students are invited to essentially indenture themselves to some corporation, paying off their debts by selling off a percentage of every paycheck they subsequently receive until the balance is zero. Any questions?

Comment: Meanwhile over in China, '70% of Chinese millennials (ages 19 to 36) already own their own homes': The American Dream is Alive And Well... in China

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Pentagon linguist who passed secrets to Hezbollah sentenced to 23 years in prison

Jerry Dunleavy
Washington Examiner
Wed, 23 Jun 2021 07:16 UTC
Soleimani/Thompson
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Gen. Qasem Soleimani • Mariam Taha Thompson
A female linguist who worked for the Pentagon in Iraq was sentenced to 23 years behind bars for giving classified information to a Hezbollah-tied foreign national.

Mariam Taha Thompson was charged in May 2020 in federal court with "transmitting highly sensitive classified national defense information to a foreign national," who she believed would provide the information to Lebanese-based Hezbollah, a foreign terrorist organization tied to Iran. Court records show Thompson signed an extensive statement of facts in late January admitting to the covert plot, and she pleaded guilty in March. Thompson faced a maximum sentence of up to life imprisonment.

A 12-page FBI affidavit by Special Agent Danielle Ray said the information Thompson passed along "included classified national defense information regarding active human assets" and that by compromising the identities of these human assets, Thompson placed the lives of both the human assets and U.S. military members in "grave danger."
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NATO is completely refusing all military cooperation with Russia, despite Moscow's offer of dialogue, says Lavrov

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:38 UTC
NATO • Russian FM Sergei Lavrov
© Reuters/Yves Herman/Sputnik/Press Service of the Russian Foreign Ministry
NATO • Russian FM Sergei Lavrov
NATO is refusing to have any communication with Russia through military representatives, despite the numerous issues that are important for stability between Moscow and the transatlantic organization, like strategic arms control.

That's according to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who told the Moscow Conference on International Security on Thursday that Russia remains open to professional dialogue, including over proposals to reduce border tensions.
"NATO does not want to communicate at all through the military. Our constructive, concrete proposals aimed at reducing military danger along the line of contact between Russia and NATO have been on the table for almost two years, but there has been no answer."
Lavrov also accused NATO strategists of being "obsessed" with "Russian aggression" and noted his bemusement that the bloc has ignored President Vladimir Putin's proposals on strategic stability.

"We were surprised by the lack of a clear reaction on the part of NATO member countries," he explained, noting that President Putin had proposed banning certain classes of ground missiles from being placed in Europe.
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Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff denies military has gone 'woke'; says he 'wants to understand white rage'

Brittany Bernstein
National Review
Wed, 23 Jun 2021 03:21 UTC
Gen Mark Milley
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General Mark Milley
General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denied accusations that the military has gone "woke" on Wednesday and defended the U.S. military academy's teaching of critical race theory, saying that it is important to have some "situational understanding" of the country's history.

During testimony before the House Armed Services Committee regarding the budget request for the Department of Defense, Milley said that "on the issue of critical race theory" he believes it is "important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and widely read."

"The United States Military Academy is a university and it is important that we train and we understand. I want to understand white rage and I'm white," he added.
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Russia could drop bombs on foreign ships that ignore coast guard's warnings and cross into country's territorial waters, Moscow says

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:48 UTC
HMS Defender
© Reuters/Sergey Smolentsev
HMS Defender arrives at the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine June 18, 2021.
One day after a British destroyer violated the Russian naval border, the country's deputy foreign minister has warned that Moscow is reserving the right to use force against foreign warships that cross into its territorial waters.

Speaking on Thursday, Sergey Ryabkov said that Russia's territorial integrity will be protected by any means possible, including by military force. He told reporters:
"We can only appeal to common sense and demand respect for international law. If that doesn't help and if our colleagues don't understand, we may not only bomb on course, but also on target."
Ryabkov's threat referred to Wednesday's incident with Britain's HMS Defender, when a Russian warplane "performed a warning bombing" ahead of the ship's course to force it into international waters.

According to Russia's Ministry of Defense, the British naval ship entered the country's territorial waters at 11:52am local time and traveled 3km inside the frontier, near Cape Fiolent, in Crimea. The Ministry also said that the destroyer had been warned in advance about the use of weapons.

Britain has denied the warship was fired at and said it was traveling through Ukrainian waters.
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Supreme Court shuts down moot challenge to Trump-era 'Remain in Mexico' policy

Nicholas Rowan
Washington Examiner
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:58 UTC
Scales Justice
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The Supreme Court on Monday shut down a lawsuit challenging former President Donald Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy after President Joe Biden ended it in June.

The court in an unsigned order sent the case back to the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit with instructions to toss the case out as moot. The court yanked oral arguments for the case in February shortly after Biden announced that he planned to wind down the policy. The Justice Department at the time asked the justices to toss the case.

The case sought to invalidate Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy, which was implemented in 2019 by the Department of Homeland Security. Under it, asylum-seekers were forced to wait in Mexico until immigration courts concluded their hearings. About 68,000 people were detained in Mexico under the policy, according to the DHS.

The policy, which Trump touted as one of his major immigration victories, was frequently criticized by Democrats throughout its short life. Officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, the policy was intended to keep track of asylum-seekers fleeing political turbulence in Central American and South American countries.

The DHS in early June ended the policy with a memo claiming that it did not "adequately or sustainably enhance border management."
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Bad Guys

EU imposes sanctions on vital sectors of Belarus' industry as bloc responds to what it deems 'serious human rights violations'


RT
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:06 UTC
European Union Parliament

The European Union Parliament
The EU has announced the imposition of new economic sanctions against Belarus, in response to what it calls "serious human rights violations" and "the violent repression of civil society, democratic opposition, and journalists."

The targeted restrictions are aimed at several sectors of the country's industry, including petroleum products, potash fertilizers and tobacco products.

The EU cited last month's forced grounding of a Ryanair flight passing through Belarusian airspace as further justification for the new measures.

On May 23, a plane flying from Athens to Vilnius was grounded at Minsk Airport following a fake bomb threat. The aircraft was carrying opposition activist Roman Protasevich. As soon as the plane landed in the capital, Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega were immediately arrested and are now in a Belarusian prison.
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