News Update

 

Across America

Unanimous Senate to Biden: Declassify the intel report on COVID lab-leak probe — HotAir

Karma Hits Atlanta Councilman Who Voted to Defund Police – His Car Is Stolen — RedState

Medicare Expansion: A Gift to the Relatively Wealthy — Sally Pipes, Newsmax

Lionel Trilling’s Warning: The left increasingly reduces a complex world to black and white — City Journal

What Homelessness And Climate Change Have In Common — Power Line

LA Times Publishes Unconvincing Defence of Lockdowns and Gets Ratioed on Twitter — Lockdown Sceptics

Economics

Contra Emotional Alarmism, ‘Global Warming’ Doesn’t Threaten Las Vegas — John Tamny, RealClearMarkets

There’s No Conflict Between Profit and ‘Social Responsibility’ — Mises Wire

The Paternalist Instincts of a Central Planner — American Institute for Economic Research

Satire

Dr. Fauci Gets In Heated Debate With Seventeen Previous Versions Of Himself — Babylon Bee

John Cena Apologizes To China For Using Cars Instead Of Rickshaws In New Fast & Furious Film — Glorious American

Netflix releases new documentary on January 6 riot ‘AOC: Defending the Capitol’ — Genesius Times

ICYMI

Welcome To Joe Biden’s Police State

Those Dirty Electric Vehicles And A Bolt Of Green Hypocrisy

The Population Dud: Paul Ehrlich, Call Your Office

The Jan. 6 Commission – Just Another Democratic Propaganda Tool

On Election Fraud, The Media Are Repeating Their Wuhan Lab-Leak Fiasco

Alarm went off and door left open at building holding Georgia ballots: report

ewsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson tweeted on Saturday that she was told that an alarm went off at the facility where ballots were being stored, and that the building was open.

"Scoop: Attorney dealing with Fulton County GA on audit of more than 145k ballots from 2020 election tells me that alarm went off today at secure building where ballots were kept. The building was found left wide open & unattended," Robinson tweeted on Saturday.

On Sunday she posted a photo that the attorney supplied of the open door.

This is a picture is that the attorney provided of the door left open at the supposedly secure building were the ballots are being kept. pic.twitter.com/jfqJ2zkdtt— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) May 30, 2021

 

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/alarm-said-have-gone-and-door-left-open-building-holding-georgia-ballots 

Founder Of BLM Saint Paul Quits After Learning 'Ugly Truth' That They Don't Care About Black People

The founder of Black Lives Matter in Saint Paul, Minnesota resigned from the organization after discovering an "Ugly truth."

Rashad Turner, the founder of BLM in Saint Paul, resigned after a little over one year, as he realized that the leftist organization had "Little concern for rebuilding black families." He continued, "My mother wasn't able to take care of me, so I was raised by my grandparents. They told me that if I was going to change my life for the better, education was the answer. So, I worked hard in school. I got into Hamline University, and earned a college degree, the first in my family. Then I went on to earn a master's in education from St. Mary's University of Minnesota. I am living proof that no matter your start in life, quality education is a pathway to success," said Turner.

"In 2015 I was a founder of Black Lives Matter in St. Paul. I believed the organization stood for exactly what the name implies, black lives do matter," explained Turner.

"However, after a year on the inside, I learned they have little concern for rebuilding black families, and they cared even less about improving the quality of education for students in Minneapolis."

"That was made clear when they publicly denounced charter schools, alongside the teachers' union. I was an insider in Black Lives Matter, and I learned the ugly truth: the moratorium on charter schools does not support rebuilding the black family, but it does create barriers to a better education for black children," revealed Turner in a video titled The Truth Revealed about BLM. "But I didn't quit working to improve black lives, and access to a great education," Turner continued.

Lesbian "Trained Marxist" Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors had also resigned from her position as executive director of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation following a scandal in which she was exposed over a hypocritical mansion-buying spree, as National File reported.

The only defense Cullors has mounted for her mansion collection is that her luxury homes are "In direct support of black people," without elaborating further.
 

https://nationalfile.com/founder-of-blm-saint-paul-quits-after-learning-ugly-truth-that-they-dont-care-about-black-people/ 

Biden hired Rosemont Seneca employee to private VP office

Anne Marie Person, 34, left Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca Partners in 2014 to join the veep's staff - and stayed in close contact with her former bosses, keeping them apprised of visiting dignitaries and official events they might have interest in, according to the emails.

Hunter Biden secured meetings with top state-linked Chinese companies while repping Rosemont during trips to Beijing while his dad was veep, and one Rosemont affiliate allegedly received a mysterious $3.5 million payment from the wife of a Russian mayor, according to a Senate report.

The revelation of Person's hiring, and close ties to Hunter Biden and Rosemont Seneca, come from emails contained in the hard drive of a laptop Hunter abandoned at a Delaware repair shop, the existence of which was first revealed by The Post.

"I am very excited to have Anne Marie Person working here with me in the West Wing!! I think all of you know her from her work with Rosemont Seneca," wrote then-Vice President Biden's assistant, Kathy Chung, in a May 27, 2014 email to Beau, Hunter and Jim Biden and other members of the Biden clan.

Person, who served as a general assistant at Rosemont, appeared on emails with Hunter Biden and other Rosemont execs from at least 2009 until February 2014.

In 2017 Hunter Biden requested a set of Rosemont Seneca office keys for a man named Gongwen Dong, according to the emails.

Dong has been identified in reports as the head of a Hong Kong investment firm, and was described by Hunter as an "Emissary" for Ye Jianming, founder of Chinese energy giant CEFC. Rosemont Seneca Thornton, another company linked to Hunter Biden, has also been accused of getting a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, Russia's richest woman and the widow of Moscow's famously corrupt former mayor Yury Luzhkov, according to a Senate report.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/29/biden-hired-rosemont-seneca-employee-to-private-vp-office/ 

Observer at Windham, NH 'Audit' Identifies Auditors Backdating Voting Machines and Performing Additional Suspicious Actions

Observers of the audit in Winham, New Hampshire have identified numerous actions by the audit team that are very suspect.

We reported two days ago that the three auditors selected for the Windham audit are conflicted with connections to Pelosi and Schumer.

Then earlier today we reported that in addition to conflicts and independence issues the audit has a bizarre audit plan that undermines the audit as well.

Now we can report that there is evidence that the auditors in the Windham audit have backdated the election system parameters in the midst of the audit.

The forensic audit in Windham, New Hampshire is over, but the momentum to keep it alive is just getting started.

Todd, a financial auditor and founder of NH Voter Integrity Group, reported that activity on a computer with firmware software on it would be listed on an internal audit report.

Upon seeing the machine's audit report, Todd realized that was not true, and the memory card does not need to be deleted, as Hursti insisted.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/breaking-observers-windham-nh-audit-identify-auditors-backdating-voting-machines-audit-performing-additional-suspicious-actions/ 

Georgia Judge Postpones Ballot Examination After County Files Motion to Dismiss

A judge in Georgia told parties in an election integrity case on May 27 that a previously scheduled meeting at a ballot storage warehouse was canceled after officials filed a flurry of motions in the case.

Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero said a May 28 meeting was no longer taking place because of motions filed by Fulton County, the county's Board of Registration and Elections, and the county's clerk of Superior and Magistrate Courts, a spokesperson for the court confirmed to The Epoch Times.

County officials argued that the complaint filed by voters should be dismissed because the petitioners failed to serve, or even attempt to serve, the county.

Amero granted the petitioners' request to unseal the mailed ballots and said they could go to where they were stored in order to observe county workers create higher resolution images of the ballots.

During the hearing, lawyers for the county urged the judge not to grant access to the ballots.

"From day one, I have encouraged Georgians with concerns about the election in their counties to pursue those claims through legal avenues. Fulton County has a long standing history of election mismanagement that has understandably weakened voters' faith in its system. Allowing this audit provides another layer of transparency and citizen engagement," he told The Epoch Times in an email.

Democrat Fulton County Commission Chairman Robb Pitts criticized the attempt to examine the ballots.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/georgia-judge-postpones-election-ballot-examination-after-county-files-motion-to-dismiss_3833447.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge 

Oregon Is Proof That Leftist Politics Ultimately Lead To Tyranny And Decay

What kind of abysmal social and economic conditions would make at least five separate counties of US voters want to flee a state to join the borders of another state? Well, all it takes is a cult of insane Marxists running the entire state into the ground from the safety of their metropolitan communes while demanding that people submit their undying fealty to the draconian medical mandates of an elitist minority.

It's not just the economic decline that's the issue in Oregon, it's also the rampant suppression of individual rights through medical tyranny, along with the special government treatment of Marxist extremist groups like Antifa and BLM. Thousands of businesses have closed in the state because of pointless lockdowns which did NOTHING to stop the natural spread of Covid, and the businesses that tried to defy the mandates in order to survive were harassed or threatened with fines by state health officials and OSHA. At the same time, local politicians have barely lifted a finger to stop leftist civil unrest.

Of course, Oregon is not the only blue state setting the standard for tyranny.

Most leftist dominated states are pushing similar measures.

On top of that, numerous counties of Virginia are considering leaving the state to join West Virginia, just as multiple counties in Eastern Oregon are trying to join with Idaho.

In Blue States across the nation incremental totalitarianism is being implemented, but Oregon is clearly leading the charge in my opinion.

The proof is in the actions of blue states vs red states.

https://alt-market.us/oregon-is-proof-that-leftist-politics-ultimately-lead-to-tyranny-and-decay/ 

Dubious Journalism: Major Outlet Admits Anti-Trump Bias Impacted Reports on COVID Origins

What's more, The Washington Post's "Fact-checker" Glenn Kessler openly admits that the establishment media's anti-Trump bias may have been behind their knee-jerk rejection of the theory, which the former president famously promoted.

Kessler excuses himself and his colleagues from doing their due diligence by saying that the lab leak theory "Often got mixed up with speculation that the virus was deliberately created as a bioweapon," which he finds preposterous.

Did the virus escape accidentally from the Wuhan lab - which was tied to the Chinese military - or was it intentionally released?

Kessler finally gets around to the real reason the media was so quick to dismiss the lab leak theory: former President Donald Trump.

Yes: 1%. No: 99%. He writes: "The Trump administration also sought to highlight the lab scenario but generally could only point to vague intelligence. The Trump administration's messaging was often accompanied by anti-Chinese rhetoric that made it easier for skeptics to ignore its claims."

Later in January, the Daily Mail and The Washington Times both published articles making the connection between the virus and the Wuhan lab.

According to Kessler, it was China's "Lack of transparency" and "Renewed attention to the activities of the Wuhan lab" that finally opened people's eyes to the possibility that the virus may have leaked from a lab where scientists just so happened to be studying it.

https://www.westernjournal.com/dubious-journalism-major-outlet-admits-anti-trump-bias-impacted-reports-covid-origins/ 

Abrams escalates fight against GOP Georgia election changes

Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams is targeting safeguards in the state's new election integrity law that restrict photographing a voter's ballot touch screen and limit the ability to relay ongoing vote tallies.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who oversees state elections, criticized the lawsuit, saying, "The Stacey Abrams-funded Coalition for Good Governance was one of the main spreaders of disinformation about voting machines, now they are doing the same thing with SB 202. We look forward to defeating another frivolous lawsuit." The Republican-led state legislature included the rules to prevent voting-buying in which the touch screen could be photographed to show how the person voted to collect payment.

Same-day vote tabulating would tell political candidates how many votes they need to win.

Georgia is one of the battleground states President Trump lost on Nov. 3 and then alleged widespread voting fraud, evidence for which has not materialized.

The four: - Observing a voter so closely that the monitor can see for whom the elector is voting.

"The oversized Dominion BMD touchscreen displays voter selections in such a way that they are clearly discernible to a person with normal vision who has a line of sight to the screen from any distance at which other people are likely to be located within a polling place," the complaint states.

Any registered voter can request one without giving a reason for not voting in person.
 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/28/stacey-abrams-escalates-fight-against-gop-georgia-/ 

Biden sued for withholding border crisis documentation

The American Center for Law and Justice has sued the administration of President Biden for refusing to answer Freedom of Information Act questions about the crisis it has allowed to develop at the southern border.

The organization said, "The Biden standard when it comes to the challenges it faces seems to be 'ignore it until it goes away.'".

"We've received no cooperation. At first, the Biden team acknowledged receipt of our FOIA and asked for an additional 10 days to comply, citing a heavy volume of FOIA requests coming in - we don't doubt it - but that was the last we heard. Our FOIA was sent on April 7th, and it certainly seems they have no intention of working with us of their own volition. By the time they did try to send a noncompliant reply, it was too little too late. We had already filed our lawsuit."

In the ACLJ report, Jordan Sekulow explained, "It seems like the Biden administration had barely moved into the White House when migrants began surging our southern border in droves. It shouldn't be surprising, of course, as President Biden halted construction on President Trump's wall and promised to reverse the Trump administration's immigration policies - the ones that were working - essentially flinging open the doors and saying, 'Come on in.' And they have been, in unprecedented numbers."

Should Biden be sued for withholding border crisis documentation?

Still, Biden officials refuse to admit that it is a crisis.

The ACLJ said, "Now a federal judge will force the president's team to cooperate with our records demands. The crisis at the border is real, it is happening right now; and if President Biden does not take swift, serious action to stop it now, it might soon be too late."

https://www.wnd.com/2021/05/biden-sued-withholding-border-crisis-documentation/ 

The Obama Team's Delusional Account of the Russia Hoax

Overlooked in Edward-Isaac Dovere's much-discussed new book on the 2020 election, Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump, released May 25, is his credulous account of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Relying heavily on Barack Obama's key national security people, Dovere seems unaware that they have used him to launder their wretched history.

Dovere is either unfamiliar with or fully indifferent to the serious research that has gone into debunking the Russia collusion hoax, a hoax orchestrated in large part by Dovere's sources.

To his credit, if true, McConnell told Brennan that "The report seemed as if it might just be an effort by the CIA to undermine Trump." As Dovere sees it, McConnell's resistance was incomprehensible.

What the reader gets instead is MSNBC-grade fiction: "Reid blames Comey directly for the lack of more action from the FBI, accusing him of letting his Republican leanings get in the way of his duty of investigating Trump." Dovere is either unfamiliar with or fully indifferent to the serious research that has gone into debunking the Russia collusion hoax, a hoax orchestrated in large part by Dovere's sources.

These sources - Rice and Brennan most obviously - have used Dovere to create their own counter-mythology.

The American media did not job quite nicely, especially with scoundrels like Brennan and Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper spreading anti-Trump disinformation from their respective perches at NBC and CNN. In his book Hate Inc., renegade Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi writes a line that should be posted on the wall in every newsroom: "Being on any team is a bad look for the press, but being on team FBI/CIA is an atrocity, Trump or no Trump." Dovere, alas, seems to be on that same team.

https://spectator.org/russia-hoax-obama/