Good Wednesday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio just announced: Visa Restriction Policy Targeting Foreign Nationals Who Censor Americans:
"Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected… pic.twitter.com/DAx47GaqTe
…responsible for censorship of protected expression in the United States. It is unacceptable for foreign officials to issue or threaten arrest warrants on U.S. citizens or U.S. residents for social media posts on American platforms while physically present on U.S. soil. It is similarly unacceptable for foreign officials to demand that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies or engage in censorship activity that reaches beyond their authority and into the United States. We will not tolerate encroachments upon American sovereignty, especially when such encroachments undermine the exercise of our fundamental right to free speech."
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Last I checked - State is halting ALL Student Visas and is a launching a department to vet visa applicants social media posts. And it is about damn time.
[Breitbart] South Africa appears to have reversed its position on Elon Musk’s Starlink, targeting the company for alleged unauthorized access by users within the country, after appearing to invite Musk to invest there last week.
As Breitbart News reported in the wake of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the White House on May 20, South Africa appeared to relax its racial ownership requirements to allow Starlink to invest.
Musk had long said that he could not bring Starlink to South Africa because he is not black. Instead of 30% black ownership, South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi announced last Friday that the communications industry would replace black ownership with “equivalents” such as investment in local communities. That appeared to open the industry for Musk and for Starlink.
But Malatsi’s proposal, while welcomed by South African businesses and consumers, was rejected by some South African politicians, for whom so-called “Black Economic Empowerment” has become not just a sacred principle but a path to rent-seeking wealth opportunities.
Everything wrong with South Africa in one sentence — it’s all about the crab bucket.
Notably, Malatsi is a member of the Democratic Alliance, an opposition party that has traditionally opposed the larger African National Congress (ANC).
Though the DA and the ANC now serve together in a Government of National Unity (GNU), they fight frequently over policy — and it appears Malatsi’s outreach to Starlink did not have consensus support.
That is the context in which South Africa’s communications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), said Wednesday that it was investigating Starlink.
News24.com reported:
South Africa’s communications regulator is launching a probe into the illegal usage of Starlink in the country, and has threatened to lodge a complaint against Elon Musk’s SpaceX if it doesn’t like what it finds.
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The statement comes a day after Communications and Digital Technology Minister Solly Malatsi addressed his department’s parliamentary portfolio committee on the proposed policy direction he issued on the recognition of equity equivalents for communications licence applicants.
The proposed policy direction may have a significant bearing on whether Starlink will meet the BEE licensing criteria needed to acquire a communications licence – a prerequisite for operating legally in South Africa.
Though Icasa’s board is nominally politically independent, it is appointed by the government, which has been dominated by the ANC since 1994. The ANC favors a racial redistribution policy known as “transformation.”
Separately, the government has proposed new minerals legislation that would expand “transformation” as well as injecting government control into more minutiae of management in South Africa’s mining sector.
Ramaphosa appeared eager to “reset” relations with the U.S., but backed the “Kill the Boer” chant earlier this week as a “liberation chant,” days after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized it in their Oval Office meeting.
[MAIL] Lord Mandelson has squirmed on live TV when he was confronted about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Britain's new ambassador to the US did not deny he stayed at the paedophile financier's New York home in 2009 after Epstein was jailed for child sex offences.
'I'm not answering any questions about him', Lord Mandelson said in response.
Lord Mandelson was doorstepped by Sky News this week and looked uncomfortable.
Epstein affectionately referred to Lord Mandelson as ‘Petie’. A photo, thought to have been taken in 2005 or 2006, showed Lord Mandelson shopping with Epstein at a boutique in the US Virgin Islands. He appeared to be trying on a belt.
Sky reporter James Matthews asked him why he had associated with Epstein, even after he had been jailed for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Mr Matthews asked him if he had stayed with Epstein at that time.
Lord Mandelson began to walk away but the camera crew stayed with him. When pressed again he said: 'My knowledge of him is something I regret, I wish I'd never met him in the first place'.
Mr Matthews asked again: 'Why did you have an association with him? He was in jail at the time'.
Lord Mandelson said: 'Why did many people meet him? He was a prolific networker. And I wish I'd never met him in the first place'.
In March the Mail on Sunday revealed it appears Peter Mandelson could have met Jeffrey Epstein on a taxpayer-funded trip to America when the disgraced financier was under house arrest for sex offences.
Epstein’s private schedule, unearthed by The Mail on Sunday, revealed Lord Mandelson was due to have two meetings with the convicted paedophile at his £60 million New York mansion on consecutive days in March, 2010, while on a trip that cost taxpayers more than £8,000.
At the time Lord Mandelson was Business Secretary and First Secretary of State – effectively the second most powerful politician in Gordon Brown’s government as de facto deputy prime minister.
Epstein, meanwhile, was under house arrest after being sentenced in 2008 to 18 months in jail by a Florida court for procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute.
Lord Mandelson and the financier are believed to have been first introduced by Ghislaine Maxwell, who was jailed in 2022 for 20 years for helping Epstein traffic under-age girls.
During his sentence Epstein was able to go on ‘work release’ to his Florida office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He then faced a year under house arrest until July 2010.
He spent much of that year at home in Palm Beach, Florida, but could also fly to his mansion in New York and his private island in the US Virgin Islands.
[NY Post] Flashback time
The wife of a former Justice Department official gave “demonstrably false” testimony to Congress about her involvement in drafting and disseminating since-debunked dossiers about Donald Trump’s purported collusion with Russia in 2016, according to a bombshell trove of internal FBI records released Wednesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
Nellie Ohr worked for research firm Fusion GPS when it was hired in the lead-up to the 2016 election to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign’s alleged links to Russian organized crime — but later told a House panel she did not know about the DOJ’s parallel investigation into the matter.
Evidence assembled by the FBI indicates that Ohr helped compile two dossiers — including the notorious file pushed by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele — that helped launch the bureau’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
The Fusion GPS research repeated errors or included information similar to that discovered later in the Steele dossier.
Ohr also sent emails — some of which she later deleted — directly to DOJ prosecutors, not all of whom she admitted to interacting with in subsequent congressional testimony.
Ohr’s husband Bruce, then a deputy associate attorney general, received more emails as well as a thumb drive from Nellie containing Fusion GPS research that was passed on to the FBI.
The couple personally met Steele at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on July 30, 2016, and discussed allegations — later relayed to the bureau — that Trump campaign aide Carter Page had met with Russian officials and that Kremlin intelligence had the Republican candidate “over a barrel.”
While the Ohrs invoked spousal privilege before Congress on the question of whether they discussed the Trump-Russia probe, the declassified FBI files put out by Grassley reveal the bureau determined there was “little distinction” between the couple’s professional and personal lives.
“There is probable cause to believe that Bruce and Nellie did communicate with each other about their respective activity in furtherance of the Russia-collusion investigations and/or narrative,” the 43-page FBI document written in September of 2019 states.
The records were compiled in response to a criminal referral made that year by then-Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) that claimed Nellie Ohr knowingly gave false testimony about her involvement with the collusion investigation to the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees in October 2018.
The ruling opens the door for the discovery process, in which Trump’s lawyers are seeking the board’s internal deliberations in its 2018 awards to two media outlets for Russia collusion coverage.
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It ain't news until David Muir covers it!![scowl]
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https://x.com/TheAndersPaul
Eric CIAramella's Dirty Whistle
"The FBI/DOJ didn’t just just hide the Nellie Ohr Doc that showed she lied to Congress. They made it unreachable. Unsearchable. From other agents and Congress. Hidden from their own Sentinel system. Talk about losing faith in the system. Half of my frustrations come from the active measures that must have taken place by MULTIPLE people to protect those lying to Congress. This isn’t one person. This is a group and they will all go free. This looks horrible. Either our FBI is corrupt and would do anything to hurt Trump or they are so stupid they fell for the Russia narrative and went all in to protect their names from embarrassment. Or somewhere in between."
…enormous amount of power. I can't stress to you how much power he had at the White House."
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@Project_Veritas
Mr. Bernal has been described as the second Mrs. Biden’s top adviser and “work husband,” despite being accused of sexual harassment. Well done, Project Veritas!
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And there are now claims that Elizabeth Warren was giving the autopen orders. Man this gets better every day...I just hope something gets done about it.
[Project Veritas] Project Veritas today released Part One of an explosive undercover investigation revealing shocking truths about who truly controlled the Biden White House. Through covert meetings with David Hogg, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Deterrian Jones, former staffer in the Biden White House Office of Digital Strategy, Veritas uncovered a web of influence centered around Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff, Anthony Bernal, and a tight-knit inner circle.
In candid, on-camera admissions, Hogg stated, "Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff [Anthony Bernal] had an enormous amount of power," emphasizing that "the bigger issue was the inner circle that was around Biden." These revelations point to a hidden power structure that operated behind the scenes, raising questions about transparency and accountability in the Biden administration.
Deterrian Jones, who worked directly in the Biden White House, described Bernal as a "shadowy, wizard of oz-type figure" who "wielded an enormous amount of power." Jones admitted to avoiding Bernal, calling him "scary" and noting that his influence was an "open secret" among staff. These statements expose a culture of fear and unchecked authority within the administration.
No surprise there.
Other than a (LSD) outed a (LSD).
What she did was a page right out of the DNC history book from over 100 years ago.
Google: Edith Wilson
I'd only be surprised if Mrs. Biden is ever indicted for any of the 100's crimes or deaths, that resulted from her Illegal criminal puppet government operation.
Now the questions are.
Will the DNC Propaganda arm, skin and roast Hogg for doing it?
Or is the goal, to discredit the old leadership and push for younger more Liberal DNC leadership, to recapture the 18-30 y/o vote?
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What if Hogg is just a distraction? I mean, we know it wasn't Joe who was calling the shots but Tony Bernal? I still think the DNC has a group of heavy weights who were calling the shots and I'm not at all sure Bernal is a heavy weight. If anything, he was just relaying orders from the heavy weights, the politburo, if you will.
Certainly it wasn't Bernal who engineered the backroom deal in which all those 2020 Democrat presidential candidates deferred to Joe. And it couldn't have been Bernal who ordered Biden to step aside after the 2024 debate with Trump. Find out who was behind that and you'll find out who was really running the country while Biden served as a figurehead. Bernal is a squirrel.
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Have to agree, a gatekeeper not a broker. I'd think at that level he didn't take bribes, but he would accept tips.
[RedState] We got good news from Office of Management and Budget (OMB) head Russ Vought on Wednesday when he announced on Fox Business that the first bill codifying DOGE cuts would be coming next week.
The first bill will include foreign aid, USAID, and NPR, among other items. How much it will encompass in terms of money is not yet clear but those subjects could cover a lot.
That sounds like a good start. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he was eager and ready to act on the bill so they could deliver even more cuts for the American people.
But there's more coming because they're still working and finding wasteful spending, and there are some of the big items at the Pentagon.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered an important statement on X on Wednesday in which he said they'd identified an enormous amount in potential cuts.
They identified an overreliance on "management consultants and contractors." He said they likely had more contractors than they had civilian employees.
He said reviewing these contracts with DOGE, they'd identified $5 billion in savings, in addition to the $5 billion they'd already identified. So that's "$10 billion in real savings at the Department of Defense," Hegseth explained. "And we're just getting started." If they found $5 billion in two weeks, think what they could do with a little more time.
Hegseth outlined how he'd delegated Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg to work with DOGE and the services to review all their consulting contracts. They needed to be focused on financial responsibility, stewardship, and warfighters.
[GEO.TV] President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... 's administration has asked the US Supreme Court to let it deport migrants colonists to other countries without giving them any warning or chance to explain why they might be in danger.
The request is part of the president's push to speed up deportations and crack down on immigration.
The Justice Department requested that the justices lift Boston-based US District Judge Brian Murphy's nationwide injunction, which requires that migrants colonists be given the opportunity to seek legal relief from deportation before they are sent to so-called ''third countries,'' while litigation in the case continues.
The administration said in its filing that the third-country process is critical to removing migrants colonists who commit crimes, as their countries of origin are often unwilling to take them back.
''As a result, criminal aliens are often allowed to stay in the United States for years on end, victimising law-abiding Americans in the meantime,'' it told the justices.
The filing marked the administration's latest appeal to the country's highest court as it seeks greater freedom to enforce Trump's hardline immigration policies and challenge lower court decisions that have blocked them.
The administration argued that Murphy's injunction is holding up potentially thousands of deportations. It said the ruling ''disrupts sensitive diplomatic, foreign policy and national security efforts.''
In February, the Department of Homeland Security moved to determine whether people granted protection against removal to their home countries could instead be detained and sent to a third country.
Immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of migrants colonists who want to stop rapid deportation to third countries without prior notice or a chance to explain the dangers they might face.
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I still feel some procedural delay is needed, to do a background check, say 7 days.
Is the person wanted from felonies?
Does the person have family that should join them?
Was the person illegally employed by a US Business that failed to E-verify?
Does the person owe $$$$ to US Citizens that did not know the person was illegal?
(rent, car, tools, payment etc.)
Like it or not, zero day deportation could cost the private sector harm or monetary grief.
While we are at it.
How about offering repeat felony convicted US Citizens (non-murders) no jail time if they renounce US citizenship, surrender all properties, give up future claims to SSA funds, accept deportation to South America and agree never to return to any USA owned areas?
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That is a tall ask. I would say if they are already violent with warrants, yes you can. Arrests can be done without warning for the rest, but they do have to have some due process. Even if it is just a judge looking at their case and going... nope, no reason for you to be here. Bye.
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You get the rule of law when you accept the rule of law! The courts deny judicial review all the time for plantiff;s who lack "standing". How is it that an illegal entrant into our nation somehow automatically gets due process by the act of criminal entry?
Per the 5th amendment: No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
SCOTUS has said that it applies to anyone residing in the US.
Of course, due recourse IS denied to the unborn, who, although residing in the USA, are not considered persons under the law. They can be murdered at will. Such is the thinking of progressives.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
