Mark Brzezinski | Aug. 5, 2021

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Black Sea Becoming Dangerous Confrontation Zone Because of NATO Drills, Russian Diplomat Says

​The Black Sea is turning into a zone of dangerous military confrontation, as NATO exercises in the region provoke new conflicts, Russian Foreign Ministry's Fourth European Department Director Yuri Pilipson said.

Aug. 5 - "Unfortunately, we have to admit that the Black Sea is turning from a region of peace and good-neighborliness into a zone of dangerous military confrontation. It is absolutely obvious that such kind of drills provoke conflicts instead of preventing them," Pilipson said, asked how the Sea Breeze-2021 exercise affects security in the Black Sea region.

Russia will continue to take measures to ensure national security with the help of diplomatic and other instruments, the official assured.

We have repeatedly warned that the escalation of military-political tensions directly at our borders carries a confrontational charge," Pilipson added.

Sea Breeze-2021 military exercise took place in the Black Sea from June 28-July 10. Ukraine, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Latvia were among the key participants. The drills involved 40 warships, motors boats and auxiliary vessels, 30 units of aviation equipment and over 100 units of armoured vehicles and vehicles.     source from

Mark Francis Brzezinski (born April 7, 1965) is an American lawyer who served as the United States Ambassador to Sweden from 2011 to 2015. In August 2021, he was nominated to be the United States Ambassador to Poland, pending Senate confirmation.

Early life and education

Brzezinski is the son of Emilie Benes Brzezinski and Polish-born former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the grandson of Polish diplomat Tadeusz Brzeziński. His mother is the grandniece of former Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš. His sister is Mika Brzezinski, co-host of the morning talk show Morning Joe, and his brother is military expert Ian Brzezinski. He is also first cousin of author Matthew Brzezinski.

Brzezinski graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts in government, earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School, and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Oxford University. He also earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland.     from Wikipedia

Biden Picks Diplomat With Polish Ties To Manage Key NATO Relationship

President Joe Biden picked Mark Brzezinski, a Democraticaligned foreign policy official with ties to Poland, as his ambassador to the European country regarded as a key Western bulwark against Russia.

​Aug. 5 - President Joe Biden picked Mark Brzezinski, a Democratic-aligned foreign policy official with ties to Poland, as his ambassador to the European country regarded as a key Western bulwark against Russia.

​Biden has been eager to strengthen partnerships in Europe to counter both Russia’s and China’s assertive posture given cool relations between Washington and those countries. Poland and the United States are both members of the NATO military alliance.

The White House announced the pick on Wednesday.

Brzezinski, who speaks Polish, served as former President Barack Obama’s ambassador to Sweden, when Biden was vice president. He was also on the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton...     more

Navy chooses Saab to design missile tracker illuminator in upgrade of MK 57 surface-to-air missile system

The tracking illuminator computer-operated fire-control system acquires targets, generates orders, and fires missiles when targets come into range.


Aug. 5 - ​U.S. Navy shipboard electronics experts needed a tracker-illuminator to upgrade the Raytheon MK 57 NATO Seasparrow surface-to-air missile system aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships. They found their solution from Saab Inc. in East Syracuse, N.Y.

​Officials of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington announced a potential $104.8 million contract to Saab on Tuesday for the MK 9 Tracker Illuminator System (TIS) Replacement Continuous Wave Tracking Illuminator (CWTI) development and production effort...     more

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Gene Sperling | Aug. 3, 2021

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Gene Sperling, who leads the oversight for distributing funds from President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package, speaks during the daily White House press briefing Monday, as White House press secretary Jen Psaki looks on.

​White House Calls On States To Do More After Federal Eviction Ban Expires

Aug. 2 - The White House on Monday urged state and local governments to step up to prevent evictions, after a federal moratorium expired over the weekend.

Democratic allies have called on the Biden administration to extend the federal pause on evictions, but the White House maintains that its hands are tied by a June Supreme Court ruling.

Gene Sperling, a White House adviser, told reporters Monday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — which initially established the moratorium as a result of the coronavirus pandemic — had not found the legal authority to further extend the eviction measure.

​"Given the rising urgency of the spread of the delta variant, the president has asked all of us, including the CDC, to do everything in our power, to look for every potential legal authority we can have to prevent evictions," Sperling said...     more

Eugene B. Sperling (born December 24, 1958) is an American economist who was director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.[1] He is the only person to serve as national economic advisor under two presidents.[2] Outside of government, he founded the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution in 2002.[3]

In February 2021, as the nomination of Neera Tanden for OMB director faced opposition, Sperling was considered to be one of the leading contenders to assume the top position.[4][5]
He authored Economic Dignity, which was released on May 5, 2020.     quoted from

Expiration of eviction moratorium leaves White House and congressional Democrats scrambling

Aug. 3 - White House officials on Monday described a behind-the-scenes scramble over the weekend to locate any legal avenue for the administration to continue barring evictions.

The effort ultimately came up short, the officials said, leaving millions of renters in the lurch and exposing a rare divide with Democratic members of Congress.

​"I don't think this means this President is going to give up," said Gene Sperling, the White House official responsible for managing coronavirus relief efforts, during an afternoon briefing. "I think he's going to keep looking, keep pushing."
Still, Sperling and other White House officials made clear that even after renewed examination, the President's authority to continue banning evictions was limited. Instead, the White House said it was working to prevent a major housing crisis by calling on states to accelerate rental assistance payments and pass their own laws banning evictions...     more

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美媒：病毒溯源或可追至德堡 美删关键信息欲隐瞒什么？20210802 |《今日关注》CCTV中文国际
Aug 3, 2021

RA compelling case for COVID’s lab leak origin

Aug. 3 - ...Then on Oct. 18, 2019, athletes from around the world arrived in Wuhan for the Military World Games. A Luxembourg participant described Wuhan as a “ghost town” while there. He found it odd officials took his temperature when he arrived at the airport.

A Canadian athlete reported the city “was in lockdown” — in October 2019. He recounted he and 60 of his colleagues became sick 12 days after they arrived.

Athletes from Italy, Brazil, Sweden, and France also complained of COVID-like symptoms while in Wuhan. Each of these countries has since documented COVID-19 cases in their country before the outbreak became public in January 2020. In short, the Military World Games in Wuhan appears to have been the world’s first superspreader event.

February 2020, Chinese nationals with connections to WIV were reaching out to Western sympathizers, looking for allies in their effort to cover up COVID-19’s true origin. According to emails obtained by Republican staff, EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak became a leading collaborator with the Chinese government, acting as the mastermind behind a letter to The Lancet signed by 27 scientists, condemning “conspiracy theories suggesting COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”

This letter was then used to suppress and silence voices in the U.S. media that suggested WIV might have been the source of the virus. In one email, Daszak even thanked National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci for going on television and “publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 ... not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

​Despite best efforts of the Chinese Communist Party, Dr. Daszak, and Dr. Fauci, the truth about the origins of COVID-19 is finally coming out...     quoted from

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Aug 3, 2021
U.S. sees 100,000 new Covid cases in a single day, more companies adding vaccine or testing requirements, and new warnings for unvaccinated pregnant women.
00:00 Intro 01:50 Covid Surge 05:52 Return To Office Delay 07:36 Pregnancy & Vaccinations 10:14 Taliban War Crimes 11:04 Stranded Passengers & Airline Complaints

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Bob Menendez | July 31, 2021

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Video of anti-government protestors in San Antonio de los Baños 
​How Does Breaking News Break in Cuba?

Jul 31 - ...​Those videos and others like them went viral, prompting the Cuban government to cut internet access a day after the protests began.

The official version of events broadcast in Cuba showed the arrival of President Miguel Díaz-Canel to San Antonio de los Baños in Artemias province. The president called the protesters "confused,” blamed the worsening of the crisis on the U.S. government embargo, and said discordant voices had no place in the state media.

Some of the online profiles of people who initially uploaded video from the protests have disappeared, says Rodríguez. The original video with the first Facebook Live from San Antonio is no longer on social media. He says he is unable to find some of the first videos that were published by Yoan de la Cruz and Samantha Regalado.

Sources contacted by VOA report there is pressure from Cuban authorities to remove any mention of support for the protesters from social media platforms, and some pressure to persuade residents’ relatives abroad to do the same...     quoted from

Thousands of Cubans continue to take to streets to push for global action – Jul 17, 2021

U.S. Treasury sets new sanctions against Cuba as Biden meets with Cuban-Americans

Jul 30 - The Biden administration announced new sanctions on Friday against Cuba’s national revolutionary police and its top two officials as the U.S. looks to increase pressure on the communist government following this month’s protests on the island.

The Police Nacional Revolcionaria and the agency’s director and deputy director, Oscar Callejas Valcarce and Eddie Sierra Arias, were targeted in the latest sanctions announced by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. The police are part of Cuba’s interior ministry, which was already the subject of a blanket designation by the Trump administration back in January.

“We hear the cries of freedom coming from the island. The United States is taking concerted action to bolster the cause of the Cuban people,” President Joe Biden said at the start of a White House meeting with Cuban Americans not long after Treasury announced the sanctions.     source from

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Robert Menendez (/mɛˈnɛndɛz/; born January 1, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2006.[1] A member of the Democratic Party, he was first appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Jon Corzine, and chaired the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 2013 to 2015, and again since 2021.

​In 1974, at the age of 20, Menendez was elected to the Union City School District's Board of Education. He received degrees from Saint Peter's University and Rutgers Law School. In 1986, he was elected mayor of Union City. In 1988, while continuing to serve as mayor, he was elected to represent the state's 33rd district in the General Assembly of New Jersey and, within three years, moved to the New Jersey State Senate, upon winning the March 1991 special election for the 33rd Senate district. The next year, Menendez won a seat in the House of Representatives and represented New Jersey's 13th congressional district for six two-year terms, from 1993 to 2006. In January 2006, he was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jon Corzine (who had been elected governor of New Jersey), and was elected to a full six-year term in November; he was reelected in 2012 and 2018.

In 2015, Menendez was indicted on federal corruption charges, which were dropped in 2018. The United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics "severely admonished" him.

Foreign affairs
Menendez spearheaded a nonbinding resolution in July 2018 "warning President Trump not to let the Russian government question diplomats and other officials". The resolution states the United States "should refuse to make available any current or former diplomat, civil servant, political appointee, law enforcement official or member of the Armed Forces of the United States for questioning by the government of Vladimir Putin". It passed 98–0...     from Wikipedia

‘Trror’: Crackdown After Protests in Cuba Sends a Chilling Message

​In a remarkable act of defiance, thousands of Cubans took to the streets two weeks ago and chanted “We’re not afraid!” Many are now terrified.

Jul 27 - The courage many Cubans showed when they poured into the streets two weeks ago — chanting “Down with the dictatorship!” and “We are not afraid!” — has curdled into fear for many.

Hundreds have been detained, advocates say, and an untold number are still being held. The police have staked out the homes of activists. And among government critics, there is a widespread sense that the crackdown is far from over.

Maykel González, an independent journalist taken into custody after the July 11 protests, has ventured out of his home rarely in recent days, frightened by the surveillance and harassment that other protesters are enduring.

“At any moment they could show up at my door,” said Mr. González, 37. “It’s a fear that’s with me from the moment I wake up”...      more

Related Articles:

Cubans Denounce ‘Misery’ in Biggest Protests in Decades
July 11, 2021

‘Everyone Has a Tipping Point’: Hunger Fuels Cuba’s Protests
July 12, 2021

‘The Spark Has Been Lit’: Cuban Dissidents Feel Emboldened Despite Crackdown
July 13, 2021

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