Wednesday, May 5, 2021

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A Nevada Department of Transportation worker repairs damage to Highway 95 near Tonopah, Nevada, May 15, 2020. President Joe Biden's American Jobs Plan calls for investing more than $2 trillion over the next decade in upgrading the nation's roads, bridges, buildings and energy grid as part of a transition from fossil fuels to clean energy within 15 years. 
Sen. Warnock: Biden's infrastructure plan can help repair America's divisions

May 5 - When a family dispute just seems like it can't be solved, sometimes the best solution is to work on a home project together: painting the garage, upgrading the bathroom or kitchen, or finishing the basement. And in the process of building, family members also talk through their issues.

It's that analogy that Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia believes may fit the American family, too, with President Joe Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan just the big project not only to build a clean energy economy of the future, but also to repair national rifts along the way.

"What I'm saying is that the way families go to Home Depot every now and then and engage in a home improvement project, the American family could use a home improvement project," Warnock told members of Interfaith Power & Light, or IPL, during an April 28 webinar.     more
Raphael Gamaliel Warnock (born July 23, 1969) is an American pastor and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed office on January 20, 2021.[1][2]
Warnock was the senior pastor of Douglas Memorial Community Church until 2005, when he became senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He came to prominence in Georgia politics as a leading activist in the campaign to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Warnock defeated incumbent Kelly Loeffler in the runoff in Georgia's 2020–21 United States Senate special election on January 5, 2021. The same day, fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff won the runoff for Georgia's other Senate seat against Republican David Perdue.

Warnock and Ossoff are the first Democrats elected to the U.S. Senate from Georgia since Zell Miller in 2000. Warnock is the first African American to represent Georgia in the Senate and the first African-American Democrat elected to a Senate seat by a former state of the Confederacy.     from Wikipedia
Secretary of State Antony Blinken: The 60 Minutes Interview
May 3, 2021
Norah O'Donnell speaks with Secretary Blinken in a wide-ranging interview that touches on China's recent military aggression, winding down the long war in Afghanistan and the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
China built advanced anti-aircraft missiles, radar, and sensor technologies while U.S. watched Russia
U.S. soon may be limited by China’s air defenses on the Chinese mainland, on artificial islands in the South China Sea, and aboard Chinese warships.


LONDON – While experts in the West have focused on the power of advanced Russian anti-aircraft missiles, they should have been watching China, which is pulling ahead of Russia in sophisticated radar systems and sensors, says a British expert. The National Interest reports. Continue reading original article

The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:

5 May 2021 -- “I’d say we should have been paying more attention to Chinese systems alongside the Russian ones,” says Justin Bronk, a researcher at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London.

“Not because the latter aren’t still superior, but because of the threat trajectory of the former, Bronk says. "China will eventually catch up to and then surpass Russian missile and sensor technologies; and with a much more capable air force and economy than Russia.”

Bronk authored a RUSI analysis of Russian and Chinese multilayered networks of surface-to-air missiles and radar systems, and says that while Russian anti-aircraft weapons such as the SA-21 Growler are more capable than China’s HQ-9 missiles, China has more resources for developing even more advanced systems.    source from

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

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John Francis Kirby is a retired rear admiral in the United States Navy who currently serves as the Pentagon Press Secretary and Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. He previously worked as a military and diplomatic analyst for CNN from 2017 to 2021.[1] Prior to that, he served as the spokesperson for the United States Department of State from 2015 to 2017. In 2021, Kirby joined the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and concurrently as Spokesperson for the Department of Defense.    from Wikipedia


John F. Kirby was sworn in as Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs on January 20, 2021.  In this role, he advises Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks on public communications and community engagement.  He also serves as the Department’s chief spokesperson. 

Most recently, Kirby was an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a military and diplomatic analyst at CNN.  Kirby previously served at the Department of State, as the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Public Affairs from December 2015 to January 2017 and as the State Department’s spokesperson from May 2015 to January 2017. 

Prior to the State Department, Kirby served as the Pentagon Press Secretary under Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, the first uniformed officer to hold the position of chief spokesman for the Department of Defense.     more
Former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, pictured here in 2018, was tapped by Democratic President Joe Biden to lead the U.S. Department of Education's student loan program.
Former Attorney General Rich Cordray tapped by Biden administration to oversee student loans: Capitol Letter


May 4 - Get Rich quick: The Biden administration has named Ohio’s Richard Cordray to oversee student aid programs for the U.S. Department of Education. As Sabrina Eaton reports, Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general and ex-chief of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will manage student financial assistance programs authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, including grants, work-study and student loans.     quoted from

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May 4, 2021
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to attend Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore

May 4 - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will attend the Shangri-La Dialogue Asian security summit due to be held in Singapore next month, organizers said, after the annual meeting was canceled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

This year's event, which is being arranged by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is scheduled to take place from June 4–5.

"It marks the Secretary's first trip to Southeast Asia, and as well as delivering his on-the-record speech, he will also conduct bilateral and multilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit," IISS said in an emailed statement.

The Shangri-La Dialogue has typically attracted top-level military officials, diplomats, and weapons makers from around the globe since its launch in 2002.


In his first significant policy speech, Austin said this week that the United States needs to prepare for a potential future conflict bearing little resemblance to "the old wars" that have long consumed the Pentagon.
Austin called for harnessing technological advances and better integrating military operations globally to "understand faster, decide faster and act faster."

Singapore is also aiming to host the World Economic Forum's annual summit in August after it was moved from its usual home in the Swiss ski resort of Davos over virus safety fears.     source from

Monday, May 3, 2021

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Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan completed troops withdrawal from border - Border Service
The joint commission comprising representatives of defense ministries of both countries continue working, the Service noted. The situation on the border and in adjacent areas is ‘stable’ now, without incidents and shooting

May 3, BISHKEK - Bishkek and Dushanbe ended the process of withdrawing their military units from the border, the Kyrgyzstan’s Border Service says on Monday.
"The parties completed the withdrawal of extra forces and means from the state border line inward to their territories," the Service reports.

The joint commission comprising representatives of defense ministries of both countries continue working, the Service noted. The situation on the border and in adjacent areas is ‘stable’ now, without incidents and shooting.

The situation on the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan near the Golovnoy water intake facility escalated on April 28, after clashes had sparked between residents of the two countries’ border areas. On April 29, armed skirmishes between Kyrgyz and Tajik servicemen broke out. Kyrgyzstan accused Tajikistan of using mortars, machine guns and Mi-24 military helicopters. On the evening of April 29, the sides agreed to a ceasefire and the pullout of troops.     source from
US to soon launch talks with WTO to overcome COVID vaccine IP issues
These are keeping critical COVID-19 vaccines from being widely distributed globally

May 3 - The US top trade negotiator will begin talks with the World Trade Organisation on ways to overcome intellectual property issues that are keeping critically needed COVID-19 vaccines from being more widely distributed worldwide, two White House officials said Sunday.


The White House has been under pressure in recent weeks to join an effort from lawmakers at home and governments abroad to waive patent rules for the vaccines so that poorer countries can begin to produce their own generic versions of the shots to vaccinate their populations.


The  US has been criticised for focusing first on vaccinating Americans, particularly as its vaccine supply begins to outpace demand and doses approved for use elsewhere in the world but not in the US sit idle.

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai will be starting talks with the trade organisation on how we can get this vaccine more widely distributed, more widely licensed, more widely shared," said White House chief of staff Ron Klain.

Klain and national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the administration will have more to say on the matter in the coming days. 

Sullivan said the administration believes pharmaceutical companies should be supplying at scale and at cost to the entire world so that there is no barrier to everyone getting vaccinated.

Klain said the US has sent India enough of the raw materials it needs to make 20 million vaccine doses immediately. India is battling a deadly new surge in coronavirus infections and deaths.

Tai's office did not respond Sunday to an emailed request for additional detail after Klain's and Sullivan's comments. 

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is among a group of Democratic senators who are pressuring the White House on the issue, said the situation is morally objectionable. Sanders said that, when millions of lives are at stake, the drug companies must be told to allow other countries to have these intellectual property rights so that they can produce the vaccines that are desperately needed in poor countries.

There is something morally objectionable about rich countries being able to get that vaccine, and yet millions and billions of people in poor countries are unable to afford it, Sanders said.

Klain appeared on CBS' Face the Nation, Sullivan on ABC's This Week and Sanders on NBC's Meet the Press.    source from
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May 2, 2021
‘Wokening’ Military Justice
The last thing we need is more bureaucracy.

May 3 - Emboldened by President Biden’s social experimentation on our military, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) may soon succeed in her years-long quest to take away military commanders’ ability to decide whether or not to prosecute sexual assault cases. If she succeeds, it will be because two key Republicans — Texas’s Ted Cruz and Iowa’s Joni Ernst — have inexplicably decided to support her bill.

Biden has already done much to harm the military. He has revoked former President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military despite the fact that “trans” soldiers have a very high rate of psychological problems and suicides.

Biden’s appointed Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, also ordered a military stand-down — an extraordinary remedy only invoked to solve urgent, demonstrable problems — to train soldiers on “extremism.”

The basis for that stand-down was the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, in which a few veterans and active duty soldiers participated. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin carried out this order despite the fact that there was no “extremism” problem among the troops.

The training, I’m told, focuses on the dangers of right-wing extremism and ignores the Antifa/BLM riots that consumed cities and took lives last year (and continue in Portland, Oregon)...     more

Saturday, May 1, 2021

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A worker passes a Dominion Voting Systems ballot scanner during Georgia's runoff Senate elections in January in Gwinnett County outside Atlanta. Former President Donald Trump and his allies spread falsehoods about the company's role in the 2020 election, leading to a slew of defamation lawsuits.
Newsmax Issues Retraction And Apology To Dominion Employee Over Election Stories

May 1 - The far-right media outlet Newsmax, which amplified former President Donald Trump's false allegations of election rigging and widespread voter fraud, said on Friday there is no evidence that Dominion Voting Systems and one of its top employees, Eric Coomer, manipulated election results in 2020.

"Newsmax subsequently found no evidence that such allegations were true. Many of the states whose results were contested by the Trump campaign after the November 2020 election have conducted extensive recounts and audits, and each of these states certified the results as legal and final," the company said in a statement published online that will also be broadcast.

Coomer filed a defamation lawsuit against Newsmax in Colorado state court on Dec. 22. He withdrew that suit earlier Friday, ahead of Newmax's apology. Coomer's attorneys said he has reached a financial settlement, but terms of the arrangement were not disclosed.     more

Donald Trump's 'unconventional' first months out of office

Date published on Apr. 30, 2021
Never one to embrace tradition, Donald Trump's first three months out of the White House have been far from the conventional post-Oval Office retirements enjoyed by those among his 44 predecessors.

​Holding court at his namesake resort in Palm Beach's Mar-a-Lago, the 74-year-old's days are spent doing everything from plotting the next chapter of his political career to writing a post-presidential memoir and recruiting MAGA-aligned Republican primary challengers.


"He didn't play by the rules as President and he's certainly not going to as an ex-President," Newsmax CEO and longtime friend, Chris Ruddy, told CNN as one of more than a dozen Trump aides, confidants and allies who gave the publication insight into the former leader's new life.

While still bitter about his defeat in last year's presidential election, Trump has "nevertheless come to enjoy his status as a GOP kingmaker, relishing his ability to disrupt races or elevate pro-Trump figures against dissenters inside the party", the sources told CNN.     source from

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Christopher Ruddy
 (born January 28, 1965) is the CEO and majority owner[1] of Newsmax Media.

Ruddy is a confidant of Donald Trump.[1][37][38][39] While speaking with Politico, he addressed the occurrence of significant tweets from the President on Friday nights and Saturdays. Ruddy said, "He understands the news cycle. ... It's an opportunity to get out news on a Saturday, when other news organizations aren't pushing too much new. He realizes that Saturday is a free media day for him." The story described Ruddy as a Mar-a-Lago member and longtime friend of Trump's.

On June 12, 2017, Ruddy claimed that Trump met with Robert Mueller to offer him the job of FBI Director just days before it was announced that he would be appointed special counsel for the Russian investigation. Ruddy did not provide any proof of this. He also claimed in the same interview that Trump was considering terminating Mueller's position as special prosecutor. However, it was not clear if this was based on Trump's comments or the comments of his lawyer made during the previous week.   quoted from Wikipede


Christopher Ruddy, a noted journalist and entrepreneur, is CEO and president of Newsmax Media Inc., one of the nation's leading news media companies.


In 1998, Ruddy founded Newsmax, a multimedia publishing company that publishes online and offline content in the fields of news, politics, health and finance. Newsmax.com ranks consistently as one of the country's most trafficked news Web sites.

As a journalist, Ruddy previously worked at the New York Post and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.
Newsweek cover story named him as one of America's top 20 most influential news media personalities. He also studied as a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.

Ruddy sits on the Board of Directors of the Financial Publishers Association, the industry organization representing investment publications that reach 25 million Americans monthly.

​He holds a B.A. summa cum laude in history from St. John's University in New York and a master's in Public Policy from the London School of Economics.   source from
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Friday, April 30, 2021

White House News (白宮消息) | Apr. 30, 2021

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Timothy Eugene Scott (born September 19, 1965) is an American politician and businessman serving as the junior United States Senator for South Carolina since 2013. A Republican, Scott was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Nikki Haley in 2013. He retained his seat after winning a special election in 2014 and was elected to a full term in 2016.
In 2010, Scott was elected to the United States House of Representatives for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, where he served from 2011 to 2013.[1] Scott served one term (from 2009 to 2011) in the South Carolina General Assembly and served on the Charleston County council from 1996 to 2008.[2][3]
Since January 2017, Scott has been one of eleven African-Americans to have served in the U.S. Senate, and the first to serve in both chambers of Congress.[4] He is the seventh African-American to have been elected to the Senate and the fourth from the Republican Party. He is the first African-American senator from South Carolina, the first African-American senator to be elected from the southern United States since 1881 (four years after the end of the Reconstruction era), and the first African-American Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate since Edward Brooke departed in 1979.     from Wikipedia
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Apr 30, 2021
Where the syndrome first emerged: The US embassy in Havana, Cuba.
White House aware of reported mystery illness ‘attacks’


Apr. 30 - Aboard Air Force One: The White House is aware of a media report about potential incidents in the United States in 2019 and 2020 that appear similar to previous suspected “directed” radio frequency attacks that caused a mysterious illness, but could not provide or confirm any details.
The White House was working closely with various US departments and agencies and was still evaluating the situation, which included one attack near the White House, spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said.


CNN earlier on Thursday (Friday AEST) reported that American agencies were investigating two possible incidents that appeared similar to a mysterious illness known as “Havana syndrome” that impacted diplomats in Cuba and elsewhere.

One last year occurred near the White House, it said, while another one, previously reported by GQ magazine, sickened a White House official in a nearby Virginia suburb in 2019.

“The health and well being of American public services is a paramount priority for the Biden administration,” Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One. “We cannot provide or confirm specific details.”

More than 40 diplomats and spies as far back as 2016 have reported nausea, headache, dizziness and other unexplained symptoms, triggering intense speculation.

The most probable cause was “directed” radio-frequency energy, a type of radiation that includes microwaves, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded in a report last year.


In February, the US State Department said an investigation was still ongoing.     source from
One of the images leaked from the Pentagon report appears to be a pyramid-shaped object (pictured) hovering over the USS Russell 
Out of this world: UFOs buzzing US warships have been sent by PUTIN and there's 'no question about it' former senator claims
  • Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid pointed the finger at Russia over unidentified flying objects spotted by US warships
  • The UFOs were seen in images and footage leaked from a Pentagon investigation 
  • Reid has called on for a permanent UFO programme to be established following the sightings  

Apr. 30 - A former senator has blamed UFOs filmed buzzing US warships on Vladimir Putin, saying there was 'no question' that Russia was involved. 

Harry Reid has called for the US to establish a permanent UFO program following Pentagon confirmation of the authenticity of a set of images and videos showing unidentified flying objects over Navy warships off the coast of California in 2019. 

In an interview with Mysterywire.com, Reid discussed the potential origin of the mysterious flying objects, with the interviewer suggesting they may be Chinese.

'Always remember, Russia, the former Soviet Union, is run by a man who ran the KGB. They had as many as 30,000 agents at one time, KGB agents. So, Russia's involved in this, no question about it,' Reid said.
The former Senate majority leader said UFOS were 'something that cannot be ignored' and that President Joe Biden should be briefed on the matter. 

'I believe that there should be an ongoing entity, within the Pentagon would be the best place for it, whose sole job is to stay on top of the issue of UFOs,' Reid said. 

Reid's comments came after the leak of photos from a Pentagon investigation of UFOs by the UAP Task Force, which has been gathering evidence for a report for Congress that's due in June, according to Mystery Wire.  

The images, which were obtained by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, show unidentified objects flying above four US destroyers, including the USS Kidd Navy destroyer, in 2019. 

One of the images appears to be a pyramid-shaped object while others were thought to be drones or balloons; however, the Navy has listed them as unknowns. 

​In a statement, a Pentagon spokesperson told Mystery Wire: 'I can confirm that the referenced photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel. The UAPTF has included these incidents in their ongoing examinations'...     more  
In this Oct. 1, 2019, file photo spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing.
China nuclear buildup faster than expected, U.S. now believes

Apr. 30 - China’s military is advancing its nuclear arsenal and delivery systems so fast the Defense Intelligence Agency has had to move up its estimate of when Beijing will double its warhead stockpile, the general in charge of military intelligence told Congress on Thursday.

In wide-ranging testimony, DIA Director Army Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on global threats that China and Russia are actively using information warfare surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic to undermine Western governments.

The three-star general said the DIA last year estimated the People’s Liberation Army would double its stockpile of nuclear warheads, which the agency has said was in the “low 200s,” by the year 2030.

“Since then, Beijing has accelerated its nuclear expansion and is on track to exceed our previous projection,” he said. “PLA nuclear forces are expected to continue to grow with their nuclear stockpile likely to at least double in size over this decade and increase the threat to the U.S. homeland.” No new estimate of the number of warheads was made public.

Gen. Berrier said the nuclear buildup is part of a “massive military modernization” by Beijing and is being “accelerated as a deterrent,” he added.     more

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