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-Great Cultural Revolution
DHS Chief Mayorkas Strips Border Protections from U.S. Graduates
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden and his deputies at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have dropped nearly all border protections for U.S. graduates, allowing a mass rush of Indian graduates to grab jobs from Fortune 500 companies, experts and foreign workers say.

“They’ve opened up everything,” said Jay Palmer, a civil rights, human trafficking, and immigration rights activist, who works with many of the foreign visa workers who are exploited by their U.S. employers. He continued:
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Any guesses on what percentage of those "U.S. graduates" reliably vote as far left as possible every chance they get?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2022 2:28 Comments || Top||

#2  You think those 'Indian' computer engineers, et al, have lots of degrees in Gender/Women/Queer studies? Gross assumption they'd vote Commie.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2022 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  I believe Democrats really are trying to destroy America.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/21/2022 12:08 Comments || Top||

#4  bring your woke transgender COW to work day! followed by a new federal holiday hallmark cards and weddings!
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 02/21/2022 12:44 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Ottawa cops clear out last ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters after 24 days
[NYPost] Ottawa police attempted to clear out the remaining "Freedom Convoy" demonstrators on Sunday — ending a 24-day occupation of the city’s center to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

At least two people were arrested as police moved into the "logistics camp" and removed the last vehicles occupying the area, according to the Ottawa Citizen.

The convoy of trucks had caused traffic backups in the city for weeks.

A total of 191 protesters were arrested and 57 vehicles were towed since police began forcefully removing them on Friday.

The camp, located in a city parking lot on Coventry Road, amassed roughly 100 vehicles. Across the street, several tents had been erected for meetings and meals, as well as a trailer with heated toilets and two saunas, the paper reported.

Officials are now concerned that protesters, many of them truckers, will regroup outside of the capital and come back, shutting the city down again.

"We are trying to keep tabs on those that are leaving and potentially massing to come back," Ottawa police chief Steve Bell said at a presser on Sunday.

On Sunday, Ottawa police said businesses should feel comfortable reopening following the weeks-long demonstration.

Bell said Ottawans can expect a heavy police presence in the area in the coming days. He told news hounds at a press briefing on Sunday that his department has a long road ahead in restoring the public’s trust of his department.

Most of those arrested were slapped with mischief charges, and dozens of vehicles had been towed, including all those blocking one of Ottawa’s major streets, authorities said.

Alberta to challenge use of Emergencies Act after asking for federal help to deal with Coutts protest

[Globe&Mail] Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said this weekend that he will launch a legal challenge against the federal government’s "unnecessary and disproportionate" use of the Emergencies Act to dismantle protests against COVID-19 measures — just two weeks after the Alberta government quietly asked Ottawa for help dealing with demonstrators at the Coutts border crossing to the United States.

In a Twitter video posted Saturday, Mr. Kenney said that "invocation of the Emergencies Act is an unnecessary and disproportionate measure that can violate civil liberties, invades provincial jurisdiction and creates a very dangerous precedent for the future." He specifically cited the removal of protesters from Coutts by Alberta RCMP officers last week as evidence that "provincial law-enforcement authorities are able to deal with illegal road blockades."





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Posted by: trailing wife || 02/21/2022 00:29 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You know they've always had a issue with Ottawa, now they'll run with it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2022 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Libya gave up its nuclear program. The Ukraine gave up its nukes. See what has happened to them.

Australians, New Zealanders, and Canadians gave up their arms. See what happened to them.

This is the reason for the 2d Amendment. Period. The founders never trusted a large standing army for the nation's protect and security. They had just removed the King's army and did not want another instrument of government to threaten what they had created.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2022 12:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Is there a meaningful difference?
Putin | Trudeau
freezes bank accounts of
opposition politician Navalny | anti-mandate Protesters
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/21/2022 23:24 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Brandon Extends National COVID 'Emergency'
[Epoch Times]Herd immunity my ice cream cone!
President Joe Biden said the U.S. national emergency that was declared in early 2020 due to COVID-19 will be extended beyond March 1, citing what he called a "risk to the public health and safety."

In a letter released on the White House website, Biden told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that "there remains a need to continue this national emergency."

"The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause significant risk to the public health and safety of the Nation. More than 900,000 people in this Nation have perished from the disease, and it is essential to continue to combat and respond to COVID-19 with the full capacity and capability of the Federal Government," he wrote, adding that his office has "determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared" almost two years ago.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the beginging of the "Canada Crackdown" In the USA
Posted by: 746 || 02/21/2022 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Fortunately, we still have enough 'federalism' that the states (and the people) can ignore a lot of the lust for power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2022 7:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Another 'gimme' welfare program.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/21/2022 12:31 Comments || Top||

#4  More than 900000 people in this Nation have perished from the disease

Shameless. Wretched, fvcking lies, repeated by American Pravda.

They're not even bothering to address what his own CDC chief admitted and what we've all known from Day One: the real number of 'from' not 'with' COVID deaths is a tiny fraction of their reported number. Walensky admitted that "the overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities."

Which means the real number of from-COVID deaths in the US through January 2022 is likely not more than 180k, max, and probably around 100k.

Annualized, this equates to a nasty flu season. Again, the CDC itself admits what everyone with an even basic understanding of hospital coding techniques saw from the beginning: this flu bug has only and ever been a threat to the elderly, the obese, and diabetics.

The authorities royally fvcked up in suppressing the rest of us -- most egregiously, in destroying our children -- and now, rather than admit their mistakes and gross incompetence, they're actually doubling down.

We're now firmly in Soviet territory. Official lies, blatant, obvious, for no other reason than to extend control over us proles.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/21/2022 12:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Only numbers that really matter are "how many more people died since the advent of COVID than would statistically have been expected to die in that timeframe?" "How many more people have had adverse reactions to any vaccine in the time since the COVID vaxxes became available?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2022 13:05 Comments || Top||

#6  extend control over us proles

I can't speak for how they are doing with other people elsewhere, but here in Florida I have never tested positive, never gotten a booster (probably never will unless it's a matter of not being interned in a DHS camp) don't wear a mask anywhere at all and am never asked for documents related to COVID measures.

So, other than f*cking up the economy across the board, they arent controlling me any more than they were in fall 2019.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2022 13:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Don't worry Joe. I'll hurry to get right on ignoring your stupid ass and "orders" as fast as I can.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/21/2022 13:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Even more retarded: the latest strain is even less of a threat than the earlier strains. Delta's cases = about 48m. Delta's actual, 'with' not 'from' death toll -- Walensky definition ie ~10-20% of reported = about 100k.

That's a case fatality rate of about 0.2%.

The CFR for omicron is even lower: Omicron cases since November. 24, 2021 = 30m. Reported deaths 125k ie actual, 'with' not 'from' death toll for omicron = ~20k.

So the case fatality rate for omicron = 0.07%.

Put them together and you have what our best biostaticuans calculate is an actual CFR for COVID of about 0.15%.

IOW, seasonal flu. And for this we have seen our democratic Republic destroyed, our country trashed. SHAME
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/21/2022 13:38 Comments || Top||

#9  I think they will find most of us have been inoculated, just not in the way they were hoping for.

Let the games begin!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2022 13:40 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Pinkerton: Joke of the Day: ‘Vulnerable' Senate Dems Propose Cutting Gas Tax
[Breitbart] Here’s an actual headline good for some laughs: “Vulnerable Senate Dems try to run as tax-cutters.” That howler of a header appeared this week in Politico.

As the publication explained, four Democratic senators all up for re-election in 2022— Mark Kelly of Arizona, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, and Raphael Warnock of Georgia—are now in favor of suspending the federal gasoline tax, which is 18.4 cents a gallon.

Politico added slyly, “It’s no coincidence that the Democrats most involved in the new push hail from the toughest battlegrounds.” And the article further added that in light of the failure of big-ticket legislative items such as Build Back Better, Democrats are “racing to cobble together an agenda that convinces voters that the party is responding to their biggest concern: rising costs.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:



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Mon 2022-02-21
  Stray Nigeria airstrike kills 7 children in Niger
Sun 2022-02-20
  AQAP confirms two of their turbans airstruck
Sat 2022-02-19
  Nigerian Army Kills Top Boko Haram Commander, Others
Fri 2022-02-18
  Iraqi army seizes 36 artifacts in an ISIS tunnel in Nineveh
Thu 2022-02-17
  Arab Coalition conducts 17 targeted strikes against Houthis in Marib, Hajjah
Wed 2022-02-16
  Philippine Police: Hamas Plot to Attack Foreigners Uncovered
Tue 2022-02-15
  Syrian Migrant Stabbed By Vienna Woman He Was Trying To Rape
Mon 2022-02-14
  Putin explains his views on war with the west
Sun 2022-02-13
  Waukesha parade 'killer' Darrell Brooks Jr. pleads not guilty to 77 charges including six counts of homicide
Sat 2022-02-12
  French 'Freedom Convoy' protesting virus rules move toward Paris, police preposition to stop them
Fri 2022-02-11
  ISIS to choose Iraqi jihadi successor of al-Qurayshi, analysts
Thu 2022-02-10
  French court sentences jihadist man of Yazidi origin to 12 years in prison
Wed 2022-02-09
  Russia has no reason to attack Ukraine says Ukrainian MP
Tue 2022-02-08
  Canadian Government Getting Very Upset Over Freedom Truckers, Declare State Of Emergency
Mon 2022-02-07
  Ukraine crisis: Macron says a deal to avoid war is within reach


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