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-Great Cultural Revolution
Newly uncovered documents show Pentagon's plan targeting conservatives
[WND] Warning of a sudden new threat of "extremism" from the right, the Pentagon is indoctrinating military service members in a program "packed with progressive ideology and misstatements about the Constitution," according to former Department of Justice lawyer J. Christian Adams.

In a column published by PJ Media, he said the Navy, for example, in a talk titled "Extremism Stand Down," presents "misstatements of the law and warped characterizations of fellow citizens who believe in constitutional principles" as fact.

Adams said he obtained copies of all the materials.

"Throughout the services, service members have been shocked at the Biden blitz to root out ideas and people who stand in the way of the administration's transformative agenda," he wrote.

Adams said one individual in the training told him, "The military is one of the last institutions left that hasn't been radicalized by the progressives. That's why it is being targeted now."

Adams said his review of the materials "makes it clear the armed forces are to be integrated into the Biden administration's racialist agenda."

The Navy contends, he said, that if "extremist behavior" is not eliminated from the ranks, "then racism, injustice, indignity and disrespect will grow and keep us from reaching our potential."

But the materials "do not cite a single instance of racism, injustice, indignity, or disrespect."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/25/2021 03:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The military is one of the last institutions left that hasn't been radicalized by the progressives. That's why it is being targeted now."

You have to admire their thoroughness. Unlike conservatives and normal folk, the Cultural Marxists really mean it when they say "transform" and "transformative."

Time to take stock of the enemy and his strategy - a longish rant to assess his long game:

The Wokesters' "long march through the institutions" includes ALL the major institutions of this nation. Everything. Government, the family, religion, the law, security & the military. The media and all institutions affecting education culture and entertainment, commerce, banking, infrastructure, technology. And not least, healthcare institutions and even the human body and its two genders. .

This is communism, folks. Everything must be "transformed."

Not just Hollywood but also good old American sports like football. Not just the NFL but NASCAR. Not just the left-wing liberal arts colleges but all colleges. Not just the Humanities departments but Math, Engineering, and the hard sciences.

And not just the left-leaning media companies but also Wall Street and the banking industry and insurance. And tech and every other industry. And not just boardrooms but every single level of the company. And not just their marketing messages but their operations and hiring practices. And not just internal practices but the people they do business with, extend loans to, handle payments for, provide network and internet and other vital services for.

Not just stupid little city councils but also Dustrict Attorneys. Not just DAs but State Attorneys. Not just state and local government but the the federal government.

And not just the traditional left-wing bureaucracies like the EPA or HUD or EEOC and Civil Rights within Justice but EVERY bureaucracy including the FBI, the CIA and DoD.

And of course the rank and file active duty military.

EVERYTHING must be "transformed." This is what "total" in the word totalitarian refers to.

These people are Marxists -- with an American post-industrial twist. Lawfare instead of cracking heads. Extortion and Twitter shaming instead of tanks and missiles. But it's a war nonetheless.

When will we wake up and realize that these people are making war on this nation?

/rant
Posted by: Waldemar Smiter of the Geats1354 || 03/25/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#2  It is clear the left's plan was to put people in very strategic positions in some strategic governments and institutions. That way they could control policy (elections) and purge the ranks (military) to remove any threat to their power grabs. The strategy is paying off for them but might lead to bloodshed as they over-reach and leave us unprotected.
Posted by: ruprecht || 03/25/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Here's a pre-election profile of their lawfare Trotsky, Marc Elias of Perkins Coie
Posted by: Heriberto Sproing6028 || 03/25/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

#4  "Extremism" is a term initially used to label actively violent Islamic Terrorists after 9/11/2001 attacks on the US that caused thousands of deaths and destruction stateside.

The Dims in an attempt to demonize Americans who do not align with their policies and corruption have sought to apply this nasty term to those Americans. The corrupt media does as their are told and publishes that label as the Dims require them to do.

To attack Americans as if they are terrorist's militarily is the goal of the now radical left, just as Islamic Terrorists do.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 03/25/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Their bullshit and lies are so obvious.

So we're now supposed to believe that the 2020 joke of an election actually actually achieved a 0.6% invalidation rate for absentee ballots -- when the State of California has just invalidated 18.3% of signatures on the Recall Governor Newsome petition.

Right. So pro-Biden ballots have an error rate that is 1/30th the error rate of anti-Newsom ballots.

A 30:1 discrepancy. Sure.

These assholes can't even concoct remotely credible lies.
Posted by: Jeresing Hupomock1555 || 03/25/2021 12:07 Comments || Top||

#6  We used to say if it isn't close they can't cheat. Well they can, its just obvious to everyone but the brainwashed.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/25/2021 18:26 Comments || Top||


Virginia abolishes death penalty
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Not surprised, Virginia is called "Little California" or "California East", in some circles.

More West Coast follies to come, where are my pretzels and beer - roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of "fun".

Watch the murder rate shot up Chicagoland style, taxpayers on the hook to keep these murderous criminals in prison for life.
Posted by: Butch Gully3675 || 03/25/2021 7:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Enlightened self-interest on the part of the pols.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/25/2021 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  So they give the power of life and death to the sociopaths of their population. Cause you can be certain, the executions on the streets, in the homes, in the businesses and even in the schools will not stop. The state is less to be afraid of than the predators that walk among you.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/25/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  This is exactly right. A friend of mine used to say about states that "abolished" the death penalty that they hadn't really abolished it--they had just outsourced it to the private sector.
Posted by: Tom || 03/25/2021 12:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Judging by the number of folks freed on DNA evidence this is probably the right thing to do.
Posted by: ruprecht || 03/25/2021 20:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Jen Psaki tells reporters she has NEVER heard claims that Hunter Biden's company was paid $3.5 million by the wife of ex-Moscow mayor
[MAIL] White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that she was 'not familiar' with the widely reported claim that Hunter Biden received $3.5million from the wife of Moscow's former mayor.
"Hunter Biden? Never heard of him"
Psaki was speaking at her daily press briefing when she was asked by the New York Post what the payment from Elena Baturina, widow of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, was for.

'I'm not familiar with that claim. It doesn't sound like it's backed up by a lot of evidence. If you have evidence or specifics, I'm happy to discuss it further,' Psaki said.
Just like Oblahblah, she'll just learn about it from the news...except they're not discussing it either
'I'm not familiar with the report at all,' she added when asked about the report from the Senate Finance and Homeland Security committees that made the claim.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/25/2021 01:20 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  [NYP] At the Sept. 29 presidential debate in Cleveland, Trump peppered Biden with questions about the payment.

“Just out of curiosity, the mayor of Moscow’s wife gave your son $3.5 million … What did he do to deserve it?” Trump said, also noting Hunter Biden’s reported $83,000 per month job on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma while the elder Biden controlled the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.

Biden replied, “None of that is true.”

“Oh really, he didn’t get $3.5 million?” Trump said.

“It’s totally discredited — totally discredited,” Biden insisted.

“Well wait, he didn’t get $3.5 million, Joe? He got $3.5 million,” Trump said.

“That is not true,” Biden insisted.

At the second and final presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 22, Trump launched into an attack on Biden over the report.

“Joe got $3.5 million from Russia. And it came through Putin, because he was very friendly with the former mayor of Moscow and it was the mayor of Moscow’s wife. He got $3.5 million. Your family got $3.5 million and you know, someday you’re gonna have to explain — why did you get three and a half [million]?” Trump said.

After Psaki’s briefing Wednesday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) tweeted, “@PressSec heard you’re not familiar with my and @chuckgrassley report. Here is a link.”
Posted by: Frank G || 03/25/2021 7:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Why did anyone in the party press even ask the question? Managing the up coming transfer?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/25/2021 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ WND - 'Biden-Harris' now in charge of White House

Our predictions appear to be proving entirely correct.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/25/2021 7:30 Comments || Top||

#4  To be fair, there's a lot she doesn't know about.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/25/2021 7:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure

F. Zappa - 1982
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/25/2021 8:03 Comments || Top||

#6  It's a f---ing WIRE TRANSFER, you moron. Flagged by the Treasurt Department. From the billionaire ex-wife of one of Russia's most notoriously corrupt politicians, the bandit mayor of Moscow.

One of 12 total payments to Hunter's and Devon Archer's and Kerry's stepson's corrupt shell company "BAK" (Biden - Archer - Kerry, get it?), which subsequently went bankrupt after blowing through $39 million in investors' funds.

Archer was investigated by the FBI, which revealed that he told investors at a board meeting that a London real estate company owned by that same corrupt individual, Elena Baturina, was providing $200 million - yep, $200,000,000 - to him and Biden for his ridiculous sham "tablet production company with unnamed Chinese investors"and that such funds would provide him with "a major liquidity event".

In other words, the money was going into his and Biden's pockets (or up their noses).
Posted by: Sonny Clinese3622 || 03/25/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#7  And she doesn't want anybody else to hear about it either.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/25/2021 13:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Off "one line short" pile...

A pawky young lady of Yawkey
Whose talent was rockin' a talkie--
Aw, who am I kiddin'?
Her t-ts had 'em smitten...
But sharper was each than Psaki.
Posted by: Elmaising Ebboluque1499 || 03/25/2021 18:56 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ "Don't forget 'Winnipesaukee,' dear!"
Posted by: Ghost of Mom || 03/25/2021 19:00 Comments || Top||

#10  Please to meet one Raggedy Jen:
Mouth to Fearless Leader Bai-den,
Whose insolent maundering
Obscures money-laundering,
Sparing Hunter (and Big Guy) a stint in the Pen
Posted by: Fluting de Medici1967 || 03/25/2021 19:06 Comments || Top||

#11  It is good to see that Rantburg is still the go-to place for the War on Terror and Poetry. Carry on!
Posted by: SteveS || 03/25/2021 22:15 Comments || Top||

#12  "Shall we dance?" Psaki, terpsichorean,
To her psychically-challenged Proto-Corps(e)man
Did whisper, not spuriously.
Sniffed he - rather curiously -
"Pshaw! I rhapsodize not your thighs but your sweet-smelling tresses aurorean!"
Posted by: Bertie Hupeang6052 || 03/25/2021 22:52 Comments || Top||


Ilhan Omar ripped for tweet about Boulder shooting suspect's race
[NYPOST] Rep. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
is taking heat for tweeting about how "narratives" change based on a suspect’s "race or ethnicity" in wake of the Colorado massacre.

"The shooter’s race or ethnicity seems front and center when they aren’t white," Omar wrote Tuesday. "Otherwise, it’s just a mentally ill young man having a bad day.

"Narratives drive our responses to awful crimes committed against innocent people, pay attention to these responses and who is targeted," the tweet said.

The Minnesota congresswoman was referring to Boulder suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa — the Syrian-born alleged gunman who opened fire inside a King Soopers grocery store on Monday, killing 10 people.

Her post also took a swipe at the treatment of Robert Aaron Long, the white man charged with gunning down eight people — including six Asian women — at spas and massage parlors in the Atlanta area. Police later described Long as having a "really bad day" — stoking rage from critics.

Washington Free Beacon executive editor Brent Scher was quick to point out that many misidentified Alissa as being white before more details about his background emerged.
Syrian ain't white? They only look white?
Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She's ripped every day, and twice on Sundays. She also gets $174,000 per annum.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2021 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Plus the shooter is part of the Ummah.

Shame on you, Ilhan!
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/25/2021 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  BS comes in many colors, depending on who is commenting.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 03/25/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||


Poll: Dem primary for NYC mayor wide open, half of voters still undecided
[NYPOST] The June 22 Democratic primary race for mayor is still "wide open" — with half of voters still undecided, a new poll released Wednesday reveals.Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang
...Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Unlike most of the other Dem 2020 candidates, he actually did things besides politix in his adult life, which made him political poison. He worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive from 2000 to 2009. After he founded Venture for America, the Obama administration selected him in 2012 as a Champion of Change and in 2015 as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. His signature campaign policy is what he calls the Freedom Dividend, a form of Universal Basic Income for every American over 18. Yang believes UBI is a necessary response to the rapid development of automation that is leading to workforce challenges. The other two central elements of Yang's platform are Medicare for All and Human-Centered Capitalism....
is in the lead, but with support of just 16 percent of likely Democratic voters, the survey by Fontas Advisors/Core Decision Analytics found.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is in second with 10 percent backing, followed by Maya Wiley, a former top legal counsel to Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
, with 6 percent. City Comptroller Scott Stringer with 5 percent and former top Citigroup executive Ray McGuire with 4 percent.

Former top B.O. regime official Shaun Donovan, ex-city Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia and social services advocate Dianne Morales each had 2 percent of the vote.

But the biggest group is the 50 percent of voters who are still shopping for a candidate with less than three months to go.

"This race is wide open," said George Fontas, whose lobbying firm paid for the poll.

Pollster Adam Rosenblatt, president of DC-based Core Decision Analytics, said, "Though the candidates may have been campaigning for several months, our survey shows that voters are only now starting to tune in to the mayor’s race.

"With less than one hundred days until the Democratic primary, the majority of likely voters are undecided, unfamiliar with most candidates, and also largely unaware of the new ranked choice process."



Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ima thinking that NYC hasn't yet crashed hard enough for the voters to elect anyone but a deBlasio clone, No new Giuliani on the horizon.
Posted by: Jay-Dubya || 03/25/2021 9:18 Comments || Top||

#2  So de Blasio isn't running again? Or does he not chart on the poll?

Yang is a carpetbagger and said some unflattering things about NY last year. Otherwise I suspect he'd be running away with it as New Yorkers fight to prove they aren't anti-Asian (at least as far as a poll is concerned).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/25/2021 12:07 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
What could Israel's next government look like?
[JPost] - ...With 97% of the normal ballots counted, Netanyahu’s Likud won 30 seats, Yesh Atid 17, Shas 9, Blue and White 8, United Torah Judaism, Yamina, Yisrael Beytenu and Labor 7, New Hope, the Joint List and the Religious Zionist Party 6 and Meretz and Ra’am 5. There still remain some 430,000 double envelopes, which are ballots from hospitals, nursing homes, emissaries, soldiers, prisoners and special polling stations for returnees at Ben-Gurion International Airport and for the sick and quarantined from COVID-19.

The double ballots are worth some 11 seats — enough to change the outcome of the election significantly in a race so close.
Bibi got us vaccine against coronavirus. IMO, we need him as a vaccine against Biden-Harris administration.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2021 01:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You forgot to paste the URL into the Source box, g(r)omgoru, so Fred’s code reads it as Rantburg.com/NULL, of which there have been too many over the years. Hence Dupe entry.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2021 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  You beat me to it :-)
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/25/2021 1:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Sumimasen.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2021 1:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Three-way teamwork, the Rantburg way. G(r)omgoru provided the article, carefully putting the source in square brackets following the Burg stylebook, Besoeker cleaned up the title, while I provided a much-practiced explanation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2021 2:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Tinker to Evers to Chance!
Posted by: Clem || 03/25/2021 6:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Bibi got us vaccine against coronavirus. IMO, we need him as a vaccine against Biden-Harris administration.

Well, he got you through Obama and that couldn't have been easy. But watch out for Harris. That woman might even be nastier that Baraq.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/25/2021 13:17 Comments || Top||

#7  ^The female of the species (no I don't know her species - I feel for her parents)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2021 15:20 Comments || Top||



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