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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: Jihad Is Over, 'Domestic Extremism' Most ‘Lethal and Persistent' Threat to U.S.
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Making Americans Your Enemies
(americanmind)The narrative is here, and it doesn’t like you very much.

In recent remarks before members of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, the chief of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency claimed that domestic extremism has become "part of the cultural mainstream."

Former DHS official and USA Today contributor Elizabeth Neumann agrees: "Far-Right Extremists went mainstream under Trump."
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Posted by: 746 || 03/20/2021 12:41 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They can't reason, only play to their own demons that they project on others. They don't stop to ask themselves, it's been 20 years and you haven't defeated the Taliban what makes you think you can alienate the main stream here and win?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/20/2021 17:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Simple questions:
1. How many weapons were seized from the January 6 crew? 2. Which types of weapons?
3. How many law-enforcement officers or innocent civilians were wounded by the January 6 crew?
4. How many of the latter were killed by law enforcement?
A: 1) zero 2) bear spray =/= weapon 3) none 4) 1

Now ask those same questions but replace "January 6 crew" with BLM outside the White House in May.
A: 1) dozens
2) guns knives rocks firebombs
3) 60 Secret Service officers wounded
4) none

Ditto for Antifa in the attacks on the Federal courthouse in Portland, except add that over a thousand arrested thugs have been released from police custody in Portland thanks to the Soros DA in that city.

At some point, these assholes have simply got to stop lying. It really has reached Goebbels proportions


Posted by: Winky Barnsmell4190 || 03/20/2021 17:32 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Medical Roundup: Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity
[Guardian] The end of humankind? It may be coming sooner than we think, thanks to hormone-disrupting chemicals that are decimating fertility at an alarming rate around the globe. A new book called Countdown, by Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, finds that sperm counts have dropped almost 60% since 1973. Following the trajectory we are on, Swan’s research suggests sperm counts could reach zero by 2045. Zero. Let that sink in. That would mean no babies. No reproduction. No more humans. Forgive me for asking: why isn’t the UN calling an emergency meeting on this right now?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/20/2021 06:35 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and I thought I was just getting old....8p
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/20/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2  10, 9, 8, 7,...ta da it's "Climate Change." Also, this applies to the declining health of Gen X and Gen Y. In fact, whatever the problem is, it's cause is Climate Change. It can't be the Orange Man as he's not in office now (said w/great sarc).
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/20/2021 8:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Meanwhile Planned Parenthood keeps on cutting and tossing.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/20/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like the plot for Celtic Empire.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/20/2021 11:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Forgive me for asking: why isn’t the UN calling an emergency meeting on this right now?

Forgiven. But not for your stupidity. "The UN": feckwit
Posted by: Spats Bucket3656 || 03/20/2021 12:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Tracks with birth control pill use and estrogen and analogues build up in the environment.

Posted by: Gomez Angolurt5530 || 03/20/2021 14:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Decrease sugars and fats, increase physical exercise, and watch testosterone levels rise — taking sperm counts up with them.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/20/2021 17:04 Comments || Top||

#8 

Jeez man, I know what its like with shrinking peanuts and harvey man hose almost disappear'n and look where its got me.
Posted by: Harvey Weinstein9231 || 03/20/2021 23:32 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
ATF agents show up at 80 percent frame owners' residences

BALTIMORE, MD –-(Ammoland.com)-The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Agents from the Baltimore Field Office have been visiting the homes of buyers of large quantities of Polymer80 frames and kits.

Five special agents and Detective EE Schwartz of the Anne Arundel County Police Department showed up at the door of one of the co-owners of 2A Builds. 2A Builds is a company that sells unfinished 80% kits at gun shows in the mid-Atlantic region of the country. They recently purchased 65 frames from U.S. Patriot Armory.

The agents wanted to search the owner’s house, and the owner agreed because he had nothing illegal. The agents didn’t find anything against the law in the home but did want to take the owner’s legally owned firearms. The owner refused then the agents said they were just going to take a finished P80, a single kit, and two MCK stabilizers. The company’s owner once again refused the request and asked the law enforcement officials to leave his home.

The ATF agents said they would wait there until they could secure a search warrant if the owner refused to turn over the items. The owner started to call an attorney, at which point the officials said they decided not to seek a warrant that day but would in the future and then left. The only contact they left him was Detective EE Schwartz’s business card (badge: 1665) of the Anne Arundel County Police Department. Before they left, the agents took pictures of all the firearms and serial numbers to run checks.

AmmoLand News has learned of two other visits by ATF agents to dealers’ homes that sell unfinished frames. Although in their case, they told the ATF agents to leave if they did not have a search warrant. The agents threatened to wait there until a judge issued a search warrant but once again left without executing a search of the properties. Both dealers purchased items from U.S. Patriot Armory.

AmmoLand discovered that U.S. Patriot Armory did not turn over any customer information to the ATF or other law enforcement agencies through our sources. It isn’t clear how the ATF received information about the customers, although everyone visited paid for the unfinished frames via credit card, and U.S. Patriot Armory uses Authorize.net.
This is why God invented money orders
Authorize.net is one of the only payment processing companies that will process firearm sales. Almost every other payment processor blocks the sale of firearms and unfinished frames. Although we have no evidence that says Authorize.net turned over customer information in this case, the company did turn over data of customers that purchased kits from other companies in the past.

More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 03/20/2021 05:43 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At some point the patriotic populists are going to have to create their own society, with separate banking, networking, educational-cultural etc institutions.

Or else pay the price of surveillance and suppression by a dystopian society.
Posted by: Phunter Protector of the Apes4297 || 03/20/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||

#2  LOL, how did my PDW end up in the picture archive?

Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/20/2021 17:10 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
The Chinese know very well with whom they're dealing
(AmericanThinker) On Thursday, during a meeting in Anchorage, China’s top diplomat and its Foreign Minister showed Secretary of State Tony Blinken (an empty suit) and national security adviser Jake Sullivan stunning disrespect. It was almost as if the Chinese knew that these are weak, self-loathing, confused men — and it turns out they did know. Tucker Carlson revealed on Friday that the Chinese have a word for Biden and the other White wokesters now in power. They call them "baizuo," and can describe their values with stunning and disdainful accuracy.

Blinken opened the meeting with a two-minute attack against China for its failure to follow global rules and norms. To his credit, he did mention "our deep concerns with actions by China, including Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber-attacks on the United States, [and] economic coercion towards our allies." However, he somehow failed to mention either COVID or the Uighurs — that his actual or negligent biological warfare and mass genocide. Hmmm.

The Chinese were not impressed. Top Diplomat Yang Jiechi, who was there with Foreign Minister Wang Yi, launched into an 18-minute long lecture against America which showed how closely the Chinese watch American news. He castigated America for an election that caused many Americans to doubt our democracy, the way Black Lives Matter highlighted human rights problems, Washington’s many alleged cyberattacks, and America’s habit of meddling in foreign affairs. It was the verbal equivalent of slapping Blinken across the face with a glove and calling him a knave and a churl.

Tucker Carlson touched upon all these things in his opening monologue on Friday night. He made it clear that America is governed by a feckless, ignorant political class and that the Chinese are miles ahead of us in understanding who we are — and, more significantly, in understand who America’s new leadership class is.

As part of that understanding, the Chinese have coined a term — "baizuo" — which roughly means "White liberal" (although it applies with equal accuracy to non-Whites such as Obama and Kamala Harris). Tucker adds that "it is definitely not a compliment." The stunner is how Chinese state media defines the term baizuo:

"There are people who only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT, and the environment, who have no sense of real problems in the real world, who only advocate for peace and equality to satisfying their own feelings of superiority, and who are so obsessed with political correctness that they tolerate backward Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism."

Other observations about baisuo as reported by Chinese state media include the fact that they "advocate inclusiveness and antidiscrimination but cannot tolerate different opinions." Baizuo’s political opinions are "so shallow that they tend to maintain social equality by embracing ideologies that run against the basic concept of equality."

As Tucker says, "Amazing!"
Posted by: 746 || 03/20/2021 14:07 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Science & Technology
Health declining in Gen X and Gen Y, national study shows
[Med Press] Recent generations show a worrying decline in health compared to their parents and grandparents when they were the same age, a new national study reveals.

Researchers found that, compared to previous generations, members of Generation X and Generation Y showed poorer physical health, higher levels of unhealthy behaviors such as alcohol use and smoking, and more depression and anxiety.

The results suggest the likelihood of higher levels of diseases and more deaths in younger generations than we have seen in the past, said Hui Zheng, lead author of the study and professor of sociology at The Ohio State University.

"The worsening health profiles we found in Gen X and Gen Y is alarming," Zheng said.

"If we don't find a way to slow this trend, we are potentially going to see an expansion of morbidity and mortality rates in the United States as these generations get older."

Zheng conducted the study with Paola Echave, a graduate student in sociology at Ohio State. The results were published online yesterday (March 18, 2021) in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/20/2021 06:57 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The 'downside' appears somewhat uncertain, but perhaps Hui Zheng can recommend some sort of vaccine ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/20/2021 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  18 hours a day in front of a computer?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/20/2021 7:31 Comments || Top||

#3  And self-esteem based on Farcebook likes and nervously awaiting the next ping on their mobile devices. Both parents having to work as they grew up probably didn't help, either.
Posted by: Clem || 03/20/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  18 hours a day in front of a computer?

Wait until we see our latest crop of anti-social paranoid hypochondriacs who have been actively discouraged from doing outside the house things.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/20/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Too little exercise and too much plastic (or bottled in plastic) food & drink. And maybe too many recreational drugs.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/20/2021 11:32 Comments || Top||

#6  What? Nothing about fluoride in the water? (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)

Isn't there something about flushing all that birth control materials into the water system sometime back?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/20/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||

#7  That and the gazillion pharmaceuticals that Americans gulp down like candy that gets pissed into the water.
Posted by: Clem || 03/20/2021 12:34 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2021-03-20
  DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: Jihad Is Over, 'Domestic Extremism' Most ‘Lethal and Persistent' Threat to U.S.
Fri 2021-03-19
  Gang Member Accused Of Murdering Police Sergeant While Out On Bond Gets Released On Bond Again
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  250 Houthis Killed in Marib, Taiz Battles as Yemen Army Makes Advances
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  ISIS beheading children in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado
Tue 2021-03-16
  Suspects accused of toppling a statue and hitting a cop on head with bottle actually indicted by Portland grand jury
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  Libyan National Army arrest ISIS commander Mohammed Mailed Mohammed
Sun 2021-03-14
  Yemeni Army Stuns Houthis in Hajjah, Prepares for Taiz Operations
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  Houthis Reject US Ceasefire Plan in Yemen
Fri 2021-03-12
  Tunisia: Calls For Govt Resignation after Attack on MPs
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  Saudi-led coalition strikes Houthi targets around Yemen capital
Wed 2021-03-10
  Security forces gun down chief of Al-Badr without any collateral damage
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  January 23rd drone attack launched on Saudi capital from Iraq, likely by Kataib Hezbollah
Mon 2021-03-08
  Arab Coalition Intercepts 2 Houthi Missiles, 12 Drones
Sun 2021-03-07
  Gov. Abbott Deploys Texas National Guard, State Troopers to Counter Biden's ‘Open Border Policies'
Sat 2021-03-06
  More ballistic missile strikes on other oil markets now in northern Syria, this time near al-Bab
Fri 2021-03-05
  VP vote needed just to get House Covid-19 bill heard on Senate Floor!


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