Daily News Roundup

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VALENTINES DAY

Federer: Origin of Saint Valentine’s Day
The origin of Saint Valentine’s Day goes back to the 3rd century. At that time, the Roman Empire was being invaded by Goths. At the same time, the Plague of Cyprian, probably smallpox, broke out killing at its height 5,000 people a day. So many died that the Roman army was depleted of soldiers. Roman Emperor Claudius II needed more soldiers to fight the invading Goths. He believed that men fought better if they were not married, so he banned traditional marriage in the military. Rome was also torn from internal rivalries which . . .

Read more: https://americanminute.com/blogs/todays-american-minute/origin-of-saint-valentines-day-american-minute-with-bill-federer

NOTABLE QUOTES

Chuck Ross contributor to Washington Free Beacon: A lawyer for the Clinton campaign in early 2017 gave computer data to the CIA that was obtained from the Trump White House and Trump Tower’s computer servers through a “sensitive” government contract, according to Special Counsel John Durham

Thaddeus G. McCotter contributor to American Greatness: For while a handful of anti-government extremists scheming in a hovel in the middle of nowhere is dangerous; a plethora of pro-government extremists running the federal government and other institutions is a clear danger to our free people.

Retired Lt. General Gregory Newbold: There is only one overriding standard for military capability: lethality. Those officeholders who dilute this core truth with civil society’s often appropriate priorities (diversity, gender focus, etc.) undermine the military’s chances of success in combat. Reduced chances for success mean more casualties, which makes defeat more likely. Combat is the harshest meritocracy that exists, and nothing but ruthless adherence to this principle contributes to deterrence and combat effectiveness.

Kurt Schlichter contributor to Townhall: War is serious business and in America, it is being overseen by fatally unserious people obsessed with liberal wine women fetishes like “diversity, inclusion and equity” (DIE) instead of combat readiness. They will put the “die” in “DIE.”

Peter Schweitzer author of  Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win:  Gates has cooperated with the regime in ways that other tech titans have not. He has lent credence to the claims of the Chinese Communist Party and been rewarded with access, favors, and titles. He has done the bidding of the regime in the tech world and has apologized or made excuses for its aberrant activities. On top of all that, he has invested in companies attached to Beijing’s military-industrial complex.

Robert Spencer contributor to  Frontpage Magazine: In the most consequential appointment since the Roman emperor Caligula made his horse Incitatus a senator, Old Joe Biden’s handlers have appointed one Sam Brinton (“they/them”) to be the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy in the Department of Energy. But in our American version of late imperial decadence, Brinton is not a horse, but a dog: Brinton is also involved in “puppy play,” which apparently involves grown men putting on dog masks and behaving like animals for sexual kicks. Some people think Caligula was playing an elaborate practical joke on the Roman elites by exalting Incitatus, but the appointment of Sam Brinton is no laughing matter, and no one is more po-faced about it than the broadminded Leftists of the Biden administration. Brinton is, to put it bluntly, a pervert, and proud of it.

Phil Orenstein  contributor to Frontpage Magazine: We as a people have ceded total control to authoritarian rule. People have become fearful and frightened, and that’s when it’s easy for the totalitarian forces of government to take control of our lives. Historically, authoritarian regimes use emergencies to come to power and crush the people’s freedom and liberties. Authoritarian regimes that come to power in democracies, tend to look at voters in blocs. Instead of representing all the people, they divide the voters into separate racial and ethnic groups, vaccinated and unvaccinated blocs, gender blocs, or a “basket of deplorables.” Daily examples of discouraging words of fear and division from our leaders include President Biden saying that unvaccinated Americans are facing a winter of “severe illness and death.” New York’s Department of Health is practicing medical discrimination by race, prioritizing non-white races and Hispanic/Latino ethnicity in the distribution of Covid treatments.

Brian Robertson contributor to American Greatness: A large part of the falloff in Mass attendance and regular confession is likely permanent. If even your bishop indicates that your sacramental obligations can be dispensed with indefinitely on account of a virus—while “essential businesses” like weed shops, liquor stores, and big-box retailers remain in operation—it tends to affect people’s perception of what truly is “essential” in the practice of their faith.

Vasko Kohlmayer contributor to American Thinker: Injecting more than half of all humankind with inadequately tested, dangerous pharmaceuticals based on a never-before-tried technology while claiming that that they are “completely safe” is an unprecedented mass experiment with the gravest potential consequences.  Never before has any government, an international actor or a transnational cabal undertaken an act that would expose such a big swath of humanity to such serious danger.

Helen Smith a 25 year career Cleveland Clinic ICU nurse said in a 11/21 interview:During the first wave of Covid, doctors abruptly abandoned protocol typically administered to patients suffering from severe respiratory illness and were instructed to comply with regulations that in retrospect amount to the administration of mass murder.

Sally Zelikovsky contributor to American Thinker: This is our “let’s roll” moment. The truckers gave us this moment. Let’s not squander it because we are too busy or too scared. And we are legion. This movement is international and, unlike a worldwide Marxist movement, it’s a force for good. Truckers of the world, unite! We’re all truckers now! As for the rest of you? Truck you, you mother truckers!

Andrea Widburg contributor to American Thinker: . . . truckers can stay and face the risks, which would be courageous and possibly inspiring.  What they really are depending on is that the troops won’t turn on them.  However, as we’ve seen in Australia, Austria, Canada, and various jurisdictions across America, police do not side with the people; they side with the ones who write (as opposed to funding) their paychecks and manage their pensions.  The same may be true for the military.  Hoping for a better outcome than what happened at Tiananmen may be unduly optimistic. The best option for the truckers may be to go home and simply park their trucks.

THE GREAT GLOBAL RESET  NARRATIVE

War Room: Episode 1,633 – Female Truckers Come To The Rescue; Klaus Schwab And The Great Reset
Our guests are: USA Convoy, Joe Allen, Richard Baris
Start the video at the 14:58 minute mark:    https://rumble.com/vup9rr-episode-1633-female-truckers-come-to-the-rescue-klaus-schwab-and-the-great-.html
The second part of the Allen interview restarts at the 41:56 minute mark.

Allen: Killing Us Softly: Klaus Schwab’s “Great Narrative” For The Global Borg
Every civilization is built upon layers of mythology. In his recently published book, The Great Narrativethe founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, promotes a new global mythos based on empathy and cooperation. This is remarkable considering that five years ago, in The Fourth Industrial Revolution, he calmly explained that successful societies of the future would be “smart” termite colonies crawling with bipedal cyborgs. Then a year and a half ago, in The Great Resethe declared that the COVID-19 pandemic “represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine and reset our world,” making way for a polycentric technocracy—possibly run on a Chinese digital currency.
Read more: https://warroom.org/2022/02/11/killing-us-softly-klaus-schwabs-great-narrative-for-the-global-borg/

DURHAM INVESTIGATION

Fred T: Richard Grenell raises MAJOR point on Durham filing: Can’t SPY inside the White House without THIS group’s help
Richard Grenell spoke to Newsmax about it, and said the filing makes it clear that Hillary Clinton and cohorts paid a company to spy on Trump both during the election AND after he was in office. And not JUST Hillary: “I believe that there is no possible way that you can be spying and monitoring computers at the White House unless you have the help of the U.S. government.”
Watch the 2:44 minute interview: https://therightscoop.com/richard-grenell-raises-major-point-on-durham-filing-cant-spy-inside-the-white-house-without-this-groups-help/

Sundance: Durham Court Filing Identifies Clinton Tech Ally with Govt Provided Access to Spy on Executive Office of President Trump
CTH begins every outline of the ongoing Durham investigation with the following disclaimer:  How is John Durham going to reveal everything that is possible about the deep state Trump targeting operation, and simultaneously handle the involvement of Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann and the Special Counsel team who were specifically appointed to cover it up? The short answer is, Durham can’t. The ramifications would collapse the U.S. government; yes, all three collaborating branches. As a consequence, some of these revelations are only valuable insofar as they will be needed by historians who look upon the scattered rubble of this once great republic and seek to explain to future generations how it all went wrong. In a court filing late yesterday [Read Filing Here] special counsel John Durham dropped an explosive point into the public psyche. […]  A lot more will come out related to this singular court filing.  Hell, I’ve got about a dozen questions from just the first few pages; however, I stand by my introductory disclaimer, no-one inside government can/will be touched. All three branches of government participated in the corrupt and illegal targeting of Donald J Trump, a political outsider.  And all three branches of government have also participated in the cover-up.
Read more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/12/durham-court-filing-identifies-clinton-tech-ally-with-govt-provided-access-spy-on-executive-office-of-president-trump/

Greenfield: Spies Like Hillary
If you were to watch CNN, the former cable news network’s biggest story about Hillary Clinton is that she’s selling a $32 baseball cap with “But Her Emails Hat” stitched on it pink as a “dad hat”. Unlike Jeffrey Epstein and Vince Foster, Hillary and CNN’s credibility really did kill themselves. Compared to Uranium One, the Lincoln Bedroom, and the State Department, this lame meme may be the least offensive thing that Vince Foster’s former boss ever sold at a markup.. Outside the mainstream media echo chamber, the big story is that the latest revelation by Special Counsel John Durham exposes more of the scope of the Clinton spy operation.  […]  The Clinton spy operation always had two trajectories, a public smear campaign intended to affect the outcome of the election, and a covert coup exploiting allies in the DOJ. The latter effort continued well after the election was over and was an actual “attack on democracy”.
Clinton’s people weren’t just trying to win an election, but remove a sitting president. […]  It has been widely alleged that “Tech Executive-1” was Neustar Senior Vice President Rodney Joffe. Neustar has plenty of White House connections. Glenn Yorkdale, Neustar’s director of professional services, had worked as the White House’s Director of Security Programs for the National Security Council under the Clinton administration. Scott Deutchman, Obama’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer, had served as Deputy General Counsel at Neustar during the election and until 2018 before joining up with Google. Michael Rowny, who is . . . To understand the explosive nature of Hillary’s spy network, you need to understand Neustar.
Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/02/spies-hillary-daniel-greenfield/

Daily Wire News Service: Media Reactions To Bombshell Durham Report: Liberals ‘Just Have No Idea About Any Of This’
Mark Meadows, former Trump chief of staff: “They didn’t just spy on Donald Trump’s campaign. They spied on Donald Trump as sitting President of the United States. It was all even worse than we thought.” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL): “We were right. It was Hillary. Keep that in mind as the “powers that be” which tried to frame Trump continue their pursuits. Also remember who was telling you the TRUTH!” Benjamin Weingarten, author: “It’s infinitely worse than just the spying. It’s the conspiracy to cover up & destroy Trump that followed. There’s no justice in America if every last person involved isn’t prosecuted. Those who cry about threats to ‘democracy’ but remain silent on this have ZERO moral standing.”
Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-reactions-to-bombshell-durham-report-liberals-just-have-no-idea-about-any-of-this

Solomon: Trump demands prosecutions, reparations after explosive revelations in Durham court filing
Former President Donald Trump demanded Saturday that there be prosecutions and reparations after Special Counsel John Durham revealed in an explosive court filing that Hillary Clinton’s campaign plotted to infiltrate the Trump campaign and White House computer servers years ago to concoct false Russia collusion allegations. Durham’s latest court filing “provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia,” Trump said.
Read more:  https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/trump-demands-prosecutions-reparations-after-explosive

2020 ELECTION

Hubbard: Biden administration asks court not to release Dominion Voting Systems report
Biden administration officials at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) are urging a judge not to release a report on Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Georgia by arguing that the move would “threaten election security.” CISA has already obtained an unredacted version of the report, which was written by University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society Director J. Alex Halderman. The professor has been criticized by both Dominion and Georgia Secretary State Brad Raffensperger (R).
Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-administration-asks-court-not-release-dominion-voting-systems

JANUARY 6

Mastrangelo & F Jenkins: Footage Shows Trained, Plainclothes Group Coordinating Break-In Through Capitol Window
American Gulag obtained this footage from Tommy Tatum showing a small group of unidentified individuals working in tandem to break a window on Jan. 6th.
In this video, a black-hooded man carries an Asian woman dressed in red onto the window sill on the west side of the Capitol Building.   (video in slow motion) An individual wearing military-issued glasses, a black mask, black earmuffs, and a green military-style fleece cap checks this occurrence and is pointed out at the end of this video. The Asian woman motions to someone in the crowd and stomps her feet along with the drumbeat. Though she acts inconspicuously, she gradually kicks her foot back more aggressively. She attempts to knock out the window and fails (video below). […]  Eyewitness accounts before this video mention Antifa members working alone or in small groups to break windows. Yet this breach is unique. The triangular formation between the main actors is a common strategy in military law enforcement. Antifa members generally wear black and multiple backpacks, but this clothing is inconspicuous. The woman who assists the man with the asp wears attire similar to that issued in the Army or CIA.
Read more/Watch the 8 short videos: https://americangulag.org/footage-shows-trained-plainclothes-group-coordinating-break-in-through-capitol-window/

Hoft: MUST SEE WAR ROOM: Jan. 6 Victim Philip Anderson Joins Steve Bannon to Tell His Story on How He Nearly Died Next to Rosanne Boyland at the Hands of Capitol Police (VIDEO)
Last July, Trump supporter and activist, Philip Anderson confirmed to The Gateway Pundit that Capitol Police killed Trump protester Rosanne Boyland on January 6. Philip knows this because he was next to her when she died.  He was holding her hand.  And Philip nearly died himself. […]  This was an amazing eyewitness report that has been ignored by the fake news media because it does not fit their narrative.  A black Trump supporter was gassed with clouds of pepper spray, pushed down, and then nearly trampled to death as police officers continued to push Trump supporters on top of a pile of people outside the US Capitol.
Read more/Watch the 2 part interview: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/must-see-war-room-jan-6-victim-philip-anderson-joins-steve-bannon-tell-story-nearly-died-next-rosanne-boyland-hands-capitol-police-video/

Hoft: ANTIFA TERRORIST WITH PIPE BOMB Who Targeted Jan. 6 Patriot Event Is Released from Jail Without Posting Bond — While J-6er Jeremy Brown Is Still Held in Same Jail on Misdemeanor Charge
An Antifa member with a bomb was arrested on January 6th at a political rally in Florida. The suspect, Garrett James Smith, was seen running away before he was apprehended by police and caught with a backpack containing a pipe bomb, a gas mask, pepper spray, smoke rockets, and flammable rags. He also carried a “Direct Action” Checklist (see photos below). Smith was there to counter-protest a rally organized by Trump Supporters outside of Pinellas County Jail to demand the release of Political Prisoner Jeremy Brown, who remains in jail with no bail in Florida. Brown is a decorated U.S. Army special forces soldier.  Brown refused to agree to be an FBI informant during the Jan. 6 riots so they arrested him months later on misdemeanor trespassing charges.
Read more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/antifa-terrorist-pipe-bombs-targeted-jan-6-patriot-event-released-jail-without-posting-bond-j-6er-jeremy-brown-still-held-jail-committing-misdemeanor/

GOVERNMENT HAS  SEIZED CONTROL OF COVID HEALTH CARE

Simón: Since When Are Nurses the Enemy?
Elsewhere, I have detailed all the brave doctors who have publicly dissented from the official dogma regarding lockdownstreatments, and vaccines, based on both their clinical experience and on published research. By dissenting and by prescribing alternative treatments to their patients, and thereby saving their lives, many of these doctors have been harassed, censored, and retaliated against by the zealots threatening their jobs and their licenses. (In true Soviet fashion, one doctor was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination for her heresy). The same is true of nurses. And because they have shown great courage, and because most have been silenced, and because they deserve to be heard, I will cite the nurses’ travails. I strongly urge the reader to view the accompanying heart-rending videos of their testimonies. […]  “I have been a nurse for almost 25 years. Most of my career has been in ICU. I have never seen anything like this in my whole career,” Smith confessed. “They are not allowing doctors to do what they want to do to help the patients. Everything is being regulated by higher-ups in the hospitals.” The veteran nurse described in detail a litany of unorthodox, unhygienic and dangerous practices that were implemented within medical facilities at the start of the bio war and worsened month after month. Prior to the Covid vaccine administration, patients were not actually dying from the virus, but from medical malpractice, Smith explained.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/11/since-when-are-nurses-the-enemy

FAUCI’S VIRUS: IT’S POLITICAL

Bartow: NIH Denies Creating SARS-CoV-2, But Grant Recipient Won’t Disclose Records That Could Prove It
Anthony Fauci denies that his U.S. agency’s grant to study bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology could have led to Covid-19, but the grant recipient, EcoHealth Alliance, still has not released records of the viruses it kept at the lab. Available records reveal EcoHealth had plans to experiment on many unknown viruses, with the Chinese managing virus identification and access to the research. Fauci cannot, as he does, say definitively that his agency’s grant did not lead to SARS-CoV-2 without the full, original laboratory records for the grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/14/nih-denies-creating-sars-cov-2-but-grant-recipient-wont-disclose-records-that-could-prove-it/

Heine: Former EcoHealth Alliance Official Calls NGO a ‘CIA Front Organization,’ Calls Peter Daszak a ‘Sociopath’
A scientist who worked with Peter Daszak at the EcoHealth Alliance has sent a whistleblower complaint to Senator Gary Peters, the Chairman of the Senate Whistleblower committee, stating that he believes Daszak works with the CIA and could in fact be “a double agent working on behalf of the Chinese government.” Dr. Andrew Huff told a conservative podcaster on Thursday that he believes Daszak is a “sociopath and a pathological liar.” And in a twitter thread last month, he said he believes EcoHealth is basically “a CIA front organization.”  […]  When asked why the United States government would be involved in such risky research with the Communist Chinese, Huff explained that there were benefits for both sides. The Chicoms gained medical technology, and the United States gained intelligence.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/11/former-ecohealth-alliance-official-calls-ngo-a-cia-front-organization-calls-peter-daszak-a-sociopath/

Feinstein: Don’t Get Sick in a Blue State
In the current crisis, politics and ideology trump sanity and sound medical practice, every day.  It’s beyond sad. Here are two striking examples: 1. “Beth D” (I am intentionally changing her name) contracted a severe case of COVID delta in the fall of 2021. She was virtually unable to breathe or function.  Married with two young children, no local Massachusetts doctor or hospital would admit her or see her because she was unvaccinated.  None.  Let that sink in and register.  “Get vaccinated” was their only response.  Desperate to survive, Beth contacted an out-of-state rogue doctor who was willing to prescribe ivermectin and treat her with the full array of “unpolitically approved” medicines and methods.  Beth recovered, after callously being left close to death by a Massachusetts medical system dominated by liberal ideology instead of sane, compassionate medical practices. 2. I am unvaccinated, having chosen to reject the vaccine for all the well known reasons.  I am in my sixties, generally in excellent health, active and athletic, at pretty much my college weight.  I also have a chronic auto-immune disease (multiple sclerosis), which can flare up quite badly from time to time, causing extreme muscle/leg weakness and temporary immobility. During my recent annual physical in January 2022, my primary care physician (a liberal Jewish suburban doctor, fitting the exact stereotype one would expect) said this to me: “I can’t believe you’re not vaccinated.  What if you get sick?  What do you expect me to do for you?” I replied,
Read more at American Thinker.

BIDEN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL VACCINE MANDATES

Moore: Embalmer alarmed by mysterious blood clots in vaccinated people
Amid indications from many different sources of a dramatic rise in the sudden onset of serious illnesses following COVID-19 vaccination, a veteran embalmer is reporting that he and more than a dozen colleagues in the industry have been noticing strange blood clots in most of their cases. Richard Hirschman, with more than 20 years of experience in the funeral industry in Alabama, says that in mid-2021, he began noticing odd blood clots in arteries and lungs he had never seen before. In an interview with Steve Kirsch, Hirschman said that last month, he found that 65% of his cases exhibited the clots. He told Kirsch that every one of the 15 people in the industry with whom he has spoken has observed the same alarming trend. […]  Hirschman said that with only one exception, he hasn’t seen any cases in which the strange clots were seen in an unvaccinated person. The exception was an unvaccinated person who had received a transfusion.
Read more/Watch the 53 minute interview: https://www.wndnewscenter.org/embalmer-alarmed-by-mysterious-blood-clots-in-vaccinated-people/

(H/T GC) Davies: Natural immunity IS more powerful than vaccines, another study hints: Antibodies in un-jabbed Covid survivors are ‘stronger’ over time than in people who’ve had two shots but no infection, study claims
There has been fierce debate about whether natural or vaccine-induced protection is better throughout the pandemic, with research producing mixed results. The debate has become more complicated as time has gone on because so many people have both been exposed to the virus and had their shots.
The latest study — from Israel — followed more than 500 people who had either just caught the virus or had recently received two jabs between 2020 and 2021. Participants were tracked for up to a year and given regular blood tests measuring their antibody levels and strength of protection. While those who were vaccinated had higher levels of antibodies initially, they dropped off much sharper than in the natural infection group. After six months, the prior-infection group also had ‘stronger’ antibodies — a measure of how well they bind to Covid’s spike protein when the virus enters the body.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10499655/Antibodies-unjabbed-Covid-survivors-stronger-protection-two-doses-study-claims.html

Kohlmayer: The Global Covid Vaccination Campaign Is Courting Catastrophe
From the closing weeks of 2020 through February 1, 2022, more than sixty percent of the world’s population was injected with Covid-19 vaccines. This means that in a period of less than fourteen months more than 4.7 billion people received at least one Covid shot. Tens of millions received as many as four doses. The first clinical trial of Covid vaccines was launched in Germany on April 23, 2020 with the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine. The first country to authorize the use of the vaccine in the general population was the United Kingdom. The UK issued its authorization on December 2, 2020, and this move was quickly followed by dozens of other nations. The United States issued its emergency use authorization on December 11. This means that the massive global vaccination campaign – which quickly reached a frenzied pitch – was launched less than 8 months from the start of the clinical trials. To begin administering a vaccine to the general population within such a short trial period was wholly unprecedented in the annals of modern medicine. […] . . . for a vaccine to be justifiably declared “completely safe,” it must undergo at least five years of intensive testing in clinical trials and then several years of monitoring as it is administered in populations at large. […]  One can get a sense of just how dangerous and deadly these vaccines are from the fact that within twelve months of launching the vaccination campaign more than 1,000 articles and studies appeared in peer-reviewed scientific journals describing various side effects of these pharmaceuticals. Most of the discussed side effects are serious and deadly. They include . . .
Read more at American Thinker.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING THE U.S. MILITARY

Lt. General Gregory Newbold: A retired Marine 3-star general explains ‘critical military theory’
Many Americans, particularly our most senior politicians and military leaders, seem to have developed a form of dementia when it comes to warfare. The result is confusion or denial about the essential ingredients of a competent military force, and the costs of major power conflict. The memory loss is largely irrespective of political bent because all too many are seduced by a Hollywood-infused sense of antiseptic warfare and push-button solutions, while forgotten are the one million casualties of the Battle of the Somme in World War I, or the almost two million in the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.
This “warfare dementia” is a dangerous and potentially catastrophic malady, because the price for it could alter the success of the American experiment and most assuredly will be paid in blood. The condition is exacerbated and enabled when the most senior military leaders — those who ought to know better — defer to the idealistic judgments of those whose credentials are either nonexistent or formed entirely by ideology. The purpose of this essay is to explain the fundamental tenets of a military that will either deter potential enemies or decisively win the nation’s wars, thereby preserving our way of life. What follows are the tenets of Critical Military Theory: 1. The U.S. military has two main purposes — to  . . .
Read more: https://taskandpurpose.com/opinion/critical-military-theory/

Schlichter: Military Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) Lives Up To its Acronym
The idea that “diversity, equity, and inclusion are necessities in U.S. military” is maybe the stupidest thing ever asserted by the Biden regime, which is saying something. You sit back and look at a pronouncement like this, which was apparently written and disseminated on purpose, and you really have to marvel. If the Pentagon had reincarnated the greatest failures in all of military history to work together to come up with something so transcendently dumb that it would have made Varro, the dumbass Roman consul who decided “Yeah, Cannae is just the place to show that uppity Hannibal fellow what for – see how weak his center is!”, look like, well, Hannibal. It would be funny if this kind of unserious idiocy was not going to get scores of our troops killed. In fact, scores of our troops have already gotten killed through gross incompetence, 13 of them in Afghanistan during Operation Utter Failure. And more will die. War is serious business and in America, it is being overseen by fatally unserious people obsessed with liberal wine women fetishes like “diversity, inclusion and equity” (DIE) instead of combat readiness. They will put the “die” in “DIE.”
Read more: https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/02/14/military-diversity-inclusion-and-equity-die-lives-up-to-its-acronym-n2603214?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky1

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING FOREIGN POLICY

Durden: Zelensky Invites Biden To Visit Ukraine In “Coming Days” In Pushback Against ‘Imminent’ Invasion Fears
During their Sunday phone call Ukraine’s President Zelensky asked Biden to visit Kiev in person amid continuing White House claims that a Russian invasion is set to happen “any day” now. Saying that major Ukrainian cities are “under safe protection,” Zelensky suggested that a visit of the US president in person would stop the spread of panic and prevent escalation. “I am convinced that your visit to Kyiv in the coming days… would be a powerful signal and help stabilize the situation,” Zelensky was quoted as saying in the call. “We will stop any escalation. The Ukrainian capital, Kiev, other cities in our country – Kharkov and Lvov, Dnepr and Odessa – are under safe protection,” Zelensky told the US president. Zelensky himself and other top Kiev officials have in the past days once again been urging Washington to calm down its rhetoric. On Saturday the Ukrainian leader publicly urged the US to provide evidence or any relevant intelligence to back its claims of an “imminent” Russian invasion. That Zelensky has now gone so far as to issue a personal invitation for Biden to travel to Ukraine is clearly a move aimed at directly combatting the White House’s persistent fear-mongering and overblown predictions regarding Russia’s intent. As for the White House call readout, it was brief and scant on details, while again underscoring the path for diplomacy remains open: . . .
Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/surreal-plot-twist-ukraines-president-demands-proof-us-over-russian-invasion-claims

Sundance: It’s Official – White House Ukraine Crisis is Manufactured – Pelosi Says if Russia Doesn’t Invade Ukraine, It Proves Strength and Brilliance of Joe Biden Policy
There it is.  Whoopsie, Pelosi just gave the game away. We have been looking for this exact political construct and today we got it.  Nancy Pelosi appears on ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos to discuss current events. This was all planned in advance.  This is guaranteed to be a political pantomime. The first topic is the “Russia-Ukraine crisis,” with Stephanopoulos asking Pelosi directly if she believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is about to invade Ukraine.  Nancy Pelosi’s response [Transcript Here] tells us all we need to hear: . . .
Read more/Watch the 11 minute interview: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/13/its-official-white-house-ukraine-crisis-is-manufactured-pelosi-says-if-russia-doesnt-invade-ukraine-it-proves-strength-and-brilliance-of-joe-biden-policy/

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

Schweitzer: Bill Gates’ ‘deeply troubling’ ties to China: excerpt from ‘Red-Handed’ by Peter Schweizer
Bill Gates is one of the world’s richest men, rightly recognized as a visionary who helped build a massive technology industry. He has moved into the world of philanthropy to pursue support for some notable causes. He also has a deeply troubling relationship with the Chinese regime. […]  Even after China erected what came to be known as the “Great Firewall,” Gates still insisted that censorship was too hard to erect and would not work. In 2008, he told students at Stanford University: “I don’t see any risk in the world at large that someone will restrict free content flow on the internet,” he told them. “You cannot control the internet.” It was a bold statement that proved both inaccurate and disingenuous. At that point, Microsoft had already been helping the regime censor content for several years. […]   Gates tried to sound principled, but this simply did not conform to the realities of his participation in censorship. In 2010, he claimed . . .
Read more: https://justthenews.com/world/asia/sunbill-gates-deeply-troubling-ties-china-excerpt-red-handed-peter-schweizer

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA  REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA

VDH: Joe Biden, Alchemist?
Medieval alchemists sought to turn base metals into precious metals like gold. The more the alchemists bumped into the reality that gold was an element, the more desperately they sought to find fantastic ways to fabricate the rare element out of nothing. Joe Biden operates on the same alchemist principles. He tries to turn his record of dross into golden success. And the more he fails, the more zealously he embraces his next new fantasy. Meanwhile,  the midterm reckoning approaches. Printing money, talking up low interest rates, disincentivizing work, subsidizing inactivity, and being unprepared that a pent-up, locked down, constipated economy of the past two years would eventually break out—all that resulted in January’s 7.5 percent annualized inflation rate. Unlike Joe Biden, even a child knows that too much demand and liquidity and too few available goods and services cause prices to rise. The rate of inflation is increasing at an annualized rate not seen in 40 years. And the jump already follows a prior 2021 annual rate of 6.8 percent. The prices of gas, food, and houses—the stuff of life—are collectively rising far higher than just 7.5 percent.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/13/joe-biden-alchemist/

Richter: WHOOSH Goes the Dollar’s Purchasing Power in January as Inflation Now Infests Services
Inflation burns out of control, but the Fed is still pouring fuel on it. You can no longer just blame supply chains. This is far bigger. OK, the Fed and American consumers and wage earners have, excuse the technical jargon here, a serious-ass problem on their hands that has just gotten worse. The broadest Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) jumped by 0.6% in January from December, and by 7.5% from a year ago, the worst since February 1982, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today.
Read more: https://pricklypear.news/whoosh-goes-the-dollars-purchasing-power-in-january-as-inflation-now-infests-services/

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: ANTI-POLICE  PRO-CRIME PRO-CRIMINAL

Moran: 15 Police Officers Shot in Last 24 Hours Including 9 in Phoenix
Since the first of the year, 55 U.S. police officers have been shot in the line of duty, with five killed.  “Enough is enough!” National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President Patrick Yoes said in a statement. According to CNN, 15 officers have been wounded in the last 24 hours, including nine officers in Phoenix. The incident in Phoenix involved police responding to an emergency call of a woman who had been shot. When a police officer arrived, a man invited him inside, only to turn his gun on him and open fire. The injured officer limped away and called for backup.
Read more: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/02/12/15-police-officers-shot-in-last-24-hours-including-9-in-phoenix-n1558659

Binder: Sanctuary State: Six-Time Deported Illegal Alien Guilty of Triple Murder
Oregon has a rigid sanctuary state policy that bans public officials and law enforcement from cooperating with ICE agents — shielding criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation.
Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/13/sanctuary-state-six-time-deported-illegal-alien-guilty-of-triple-murder/

Fisher, Cavallier & Gordon: PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Advertising creative, 35, fatally stabbed in her own Manhattan apartment by homeless career criminal, 25, free on bail who sneaked in behind her: Landlord blames DA Alvin Bragg’s woke policies for her death
A 35-year-old Asian advertising creative was knifed to death by a homeless serial criminal who was free on bail – with the victim’s landlord blaming woke NYC DA Alvin Bragg’s soft-on-crime policies for the killing. Christina Yuna Lee was named as the victim of the Sunday morning stabbing in Manhattan’s Chinatown. She was a freelance advertising creative from New Jersey who has spearheaded campaigns for brands including Equinox and Google. Assamad Nash, 25, was arrested for the Sunday morning murder of Lee. Terrifying footage showed the man police say is him creep into the building behind Lee after she got out of a cab.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10509019/Woman-followed-home-night-fatally-stabbed-inside-New-York-City-apartment.html

Reyes: NYC crook with 44 prior arrests – including 16 in ONE DAY – is finally caught and charged with battering and robbing Thai model, 23, on Manhattan subway platform last November
Kevin Douglas, 40, of Queens, was arrested on Thursday after police connected him to the attack of Bew Jirajariyawetch, 23, who was waiting for a subway train in Midtown on November 22 when Douglas allegedly beat and robbed her. Surveillance footage of the incident shows a man said to be Douglas dragging the aspiring model along the northbound platform before throwing her to the ground.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10507369/NYC-man-FORTY-FOUR-prior-arrests-arrested-beating-aspiring-Thai-model-subway-platform.html

OTHER NEWS

ADI Staff: Faithful Gather In Scottsdale To Pray At Site Of Satanic Temple’s “SatanCon”
The faithful showed up on Friday to express their opposition to the Satanic Temple’s first religious convention, dubbed “SatanCon.” The three-day event began Friday and runs through Sunday in Scottsdale, Arizona. […] In the course of litigation, Scottsdale officials desperately made clear that they are, in fact, accepting and inclusive regarding Satanists. We heard you, Scottsdale, and we accepted that as an invitation to turn Scottsdale into the Happy Satanic Fun Capital of the World.” According to organizers, the event is sold out. Tickets to Friday’s Impurity Ball were sold out weeks ago. The Impurity Ball is described as a “raucous night of music, ritual, and debauchery mocking the gross and weird “Purity Balls” of evangelical origin in what will be a display of bodily autonomy, personal growth, and the joys of sinning with abandon.”
Read more: https://arizonadailyindependent.com/faithful-gather-in-scottsdale-to-pray-at-site-of-satanic-temples-satancon/

GiveSendGo HACKED… Demon Hackers Take Over GiveSendGo Website — Then Post the Personal Information of Freedom Convoy Donors Online
GiveSendGo was hacked on Sunday night during the Super Bowl. Far Left Demon Hackers Take Over GiveSendGo Website — They then posted the personal information of the Freedom Convoy donors. The Marxists will not stop until everyone is silenced.
These idiots are the online terrorists who do the dirty work of the left. Anything that is good is under attack by the satanic left.
Read more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/givesendgo-hacked-demon-hackers-take-givesendgo-website-threaten-post-personal-information-freedom-convoy-donors/

Clayson: ‘Now You Do Sound Like Hitler’: Bill Maher Slams Trudeau For Comments On The Unvaccinated
Bill Maher slammed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Friday on “Real Time” for comments the Canadian leader has made regarding the trucker convoy and the unvaccinated.
Read more/Watch the 54 second video: https://dailycaller.com/2022/02/12/bill-maher-slams-trudeau-hitler-trucker-convoy-unvaccinated/

CANADA’S DEPLORABLES

Wilson: LOL! Outdoor Mask Wearing Liberals March In Protest of “Truckers For Freedom”…Their ANGRY Signs Tell You All You Need To Know About Them [VIDEO]
While many have commended them for their efforts, a group of leftist counter protesters staged a counter protester in Ottawa today pushing back against the Freedom Convoy. The protesters signs are full of hateful invective against the protesters and Canadians who oppose the authoritarian mandates.  One sign calls the protesters racists, while another compares the protesters to Nazis, with the sign saying “My dad fought these assholes 80 years ago”. Other signs read “Anti-Vax is Eugenics”, and . . .
Watch the 1:42 minute video: https://100percentfedup.com/lol-outdoor-mask-wearing-liberals-march-in-protest-of-truckers-for-freedomtheir-angry-signs-tell-you-all-you-need-to-know-about-them-video/

Hoffmann: Oh, Canada
What we’re are seeing in Ottawa, and also in hiccups around the world, is the unraveling of the postwar oligarchy, which dressed up as a liberal-democracy. Indeed, we are observing how the accumulated costs incurred by the professional class, from fleecing and lying to its citizens, results in those same citizens arriving at the government’s doorstep, blowing their horns, and demanding justice. As the elites panic, they escalate their efforts and resort to desperate tricks, including calling the demonstrators nazis, booking every hotel room in Ottawa, interfering with donations, disrupting internet service, having officers posture for five minutes in front of the press media, threatening arrests, and even threatening military involvement because of the specter of “foreign interference.” It seems like Canada is going to war.  But the injunctions, and the municipal and provincial states of emergency have only been powerful in name, not in practice. So far, their illusions have been all hat and no rabbit. Every obstacle in the truckers’ path is circumvented, and every day that the convoy remains, the government’s incompetence is revealed, and it is humiliated on the world stage. […]  One friend of mine, who is an active officer for the Ottawa Police, has told me that the police feel scapegoated by the regime. Some of this resentment has been brewing for a while.
Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/oh-canada/

The Right Scoop: Mark Levin gives EPIC address to truck drivers, argues what’s happening in Canada must happen here!
Mark Levin gave a fantastic address to truckers on his show last night both here and in Canada, thanking them for everything they do for us and letting them know what we can’t survive without them. Listen: . . .
Read more/Listen to the 7:57 minute audio monologue: https://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-gives-epic-address-to-truck-drivers-argues-whats-happening-in-canada-must-happen-here/ 

Notheis: Canadian judge orders end to trucker bridge blockade
The injunction, approved by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, was sought by the city of Windsor and the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association. Chief Justice Geoffrey Morawetz said it would go into effect at 7 p.m., but reports from the scene indicated that the crowd was not quick to leave. The city and association argued that they were losing as much as 50 million Canadian dollars (roughly US$39 million) per day thanks to the convoy, which has blocked off the bridge since Monday, according to the BBC.  […]  “Vehicles or other property related to an offense may be seized,” police said. “Once a vehicle is seized, it may be detained and, following a conviction, possibly forfeited.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/canadian-judge-orders-end-to-trucker-bridge-blockade 

Cohen, Woodfield & Kennedy: Dramatic scenes at Ambassador Bridge as police arrest Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters blocking the border between Detroit and Windsor
Police forced the demonstrators to clear the bridge by stepping up their presence with more than 50 vehicles, including cruisers, buses and an armored car on Sunday. The number of protesters still at the bridge had dropped to around 45 from Saturday’s roughly 100-person turnout. ‘Enforcement is continuing in the demonstration area and there will be zero tolerance for illegal activity. The public should avoid the area,’ the Windsor Police Service tweeted on Sunday morning. Protesters lingered in the vicinity of the bridge after their forced removal, however, gathering on sidewalks and in parking lots of local businesses.
One small group convened at a Shell gas station with a couple of men in a pickup truck who were blasting Twisted Sister’s 1984 protest anthem, ‘We’re not going to take it.’ […]  A cop policing the thousands of Canadian flag-waving protestors joining the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa has admitted to DailyMail.com: ‘They are in control – no doubt about that.’  He spoke out as demonstrators continued to drastically outnumber the city’s entire 1,480-strong force on Sunday, with officers now reduced to standing by and watching as around 4,000 people are now part of the occupation.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10508207/Police-clear-Canadas-Freedom-Convoy-protesters-Windsor-Ambassador-Bridge-closed.html

Fred T.: WATCH LIVE: PARIS CRACKDOWN ON CONVOY, AUSTRALIA PROTEST MASSIVE, TRUCKERS BLOCKADE IN CANADA
But it’s not just the Freedom Convoy we’ve seen at the Canadian border. No, it’s spreading. Below, you will find a few live feeds from Ottawa’s ongoing massive protest. And below that, video and photos from other FREEDOM protests around the world.
Read more/Watch the videos: https://therightscoop.com/watch-live-paris-crackdown-on-convoy-australia-protest-massive-truckers-blockade-in-canada/

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