Support for BLM Radicalism Plummets

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Support for the radicalism of the Black Lives Matter agenda surged a year ago amid the controversial deaths of several blacks at the hands of police in America. . .

But now that support is falling, according to Civiqs, an online polling company.

According to a commentary in the New York Times, “After Mr. Floyd’s death, Republicans reported much stronger support for Black Lives Matter than they had earlier in 2020. For a party often characterized by its racial insensitivity and antagonism toward racial minorities, this increase in support was striking. But perhaps even more striking is its rapid decline.”

The Post Millennial explained, “Black Lives Matter initially boasted support from individuals in both Democrat and Republican parties, until riots perpetuated by BLM and other far-left groups, were at the forefront of the destruction of U.S. cities. Property damage, arsons, looting, assaults on law enforcement officers and civilians; are only a few examples of the violence our cities endured.” . . .

“The data indicates that prior to the nation’s civil unrest, which was most prominently seen in cities like Seattle, Portland, Wisconsin, and New York, Black Lives Matter gained Republican support after the death of George Floyd. Although because of BLM’s actions, Republican support for the movement was nearly wiped clean by 2021,” it continued. (Read more from “Support for BLM Radicalism Plummets” HERE)

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Biden’s First Defense Budget Would Emphasize Taking on China

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Defense Department leadership told lawmakers Thursday the Pentagon’s first budget request under President Joe Biden will emphasize taking on China, with a proposal to increase research funding sharply.

The White House is slated to roll out its first federal spending blueprint on Friday, meaning lawmakers are still waiting to get hard numbers from the administration. Still, members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense worried the Chinese military would grow faster than the United States’s. They also made clear they see no clear direction from the Defense Department for divesting from expensive, older systems that often benefit political interests over strategic ones.

“It funds the right mix of capabilities that we need most to defend this nation now and in the future,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

Austin highlighted proposed investments in hypersonic weapons, long-range fires, artificial intelligence, microelectronics, 5G technology, cyber capabilities, shipbuilding, and nuclear modernization. (Read more from “Biden’s First Defense Budget Would Emphasize Taking on China” HERE)

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Bombshell Report: Biden Shut Down Inquiry of Wuhan Lab Link to COVID; Media Coverup: Lying Facebook Lifts Ban on Wuhan Lab Leak

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By New York Post. The Biden administration ended an inquiry into a possible connection between the origins of the novel coronavirus and a lab in Wuhan, a CNN report published Tuesday claims.

The State Department launched the previously undisclosed inquiry last fall under President Donald Trump — but the effort was shut down this spring because of “concerns about the quality of its work,” CNN reported, citing three unnamed sources.

Allies of Mike Pompeo, Trump’s secretary of state, were looking into the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic may have started in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and not in nature, CNN reported. . .

The State Department confirmed to CNN that the inquiry had stopped but said it is continuing to work with other agencies on “COVID origins issues.” (Read more from “Bombshell Report: Biden Shut Down State Department Inquiry Probing Wuhan Lab Link to COVID” HERE)

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Facebook Lifts Ban on Wuhan Lab Leak Posts amid Renewed Debate over Theory

By National Review. Facebook will no longer remove posts referencing the origination theory that COVID escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, a company spokesperson told Politico Wednesday.

This step marks a policy reversal from February, when Facebook announced it would root out what it called false and misleading health claims including those suggesting that “COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured.” The tech company maintained a list of debunked assertions during the pandemic in consultation with global health advisers.

The spokesperson commented that Facebook will no longer treat online content about the lab-leak theory as a qualifying misleading claim amid recent debate over the virus’s origins. (Read more from “Facebook Lifts Ban on Wuhan Lab Leak Posts Amid Renewed Debate Over Theory” HERE)

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Senate Bill Will Require Biden Administration to Declassify Intel on COVID-19 Origins

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The Senate approved a bill that would require the Biden administration and the director of national intelligence to declassify intelligence on the origins of COVID-19 by unanimous consent Wednesday evening.

“The American people deserve to know about the origins of COVID-19,” Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said on the Senate floor before the bill passed. “They deserve to know how this terrible pandemic that has ravaged the globe and our country, how it got started, and what China’s role was in starting it.”

He said that voters deserved to see the evidence and judge for themselves, rather than different speculation from various administration officials on where the virus may have come from. . .

In a statement before the vote, Biden said intelligence leaders were weighing two possible scenarios – that the virus either leapt to a human from contact with an infected animal or that it accidentally leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. (Read more from “Senate Bill Will Require Biden Administration to Declassify Intel on COVID-19 Origins” HERE)

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Tennessee Bans Critical Race Theory From Being Taught in Schools

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Tennessee is the latest state to ban teachers from teaching certain concepts of race and racism in public schools, where teachers risk losing valuable state funding if they violate the new measure.

Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed a measure into law Monday after it attracted some of the most impassioned debates inside the GOP-controlled General Assembly this year. He signaled his support after it cleared the Legislature, arguing that students should learn “the exceptionalism of our nation,” not things that “inherently divide” people.

“We need to make sure that our kids recognize that this country is moving toward a more perfect union, that we should teach the exceptionalism of our nation and how people can live together and work together to make a greater nation, and to not teach things that inherently divide or pit either Americans against Americans or people groups against people groups,” Lee told reporters at the time.

The legislation, which was amended several times in the final days of the legislative session, takes effect July 1. Among other things, Tennessee’s teachers can’t instruct that “an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, is inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously.” (Read more from “Tennessee Bans Critical Race Theory From Being Taught in Schools” HERE)

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U.S. Army: 50% of Females Will be Kicked Out of Military if Genderless Physical Fitness Tests Continue

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The Army is considering adding gender-specific standards to its new Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT, after early data shows nearly half of female soldiers can’t pass the test and might face being removed from service once it becomes official next year.

Service officials, including Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston, testified before a House Appropriations Committee subpanel Monday that scores may end up being separated by gender to identify the 1st, 10th, 25th and 50th percentile of soldiers.

In practice, this could mean men and women still would have to meet the same standards but would not be compared to one another. Physical fitness scores are heavily considered in promotions, especially in combat-arms jobs such as infantry and cavalry.

Army officials said one possibility would be to note the soldier’s percentile ranking in their record. For example, the record could show the soldier was in the top 10% of fitness ability among their gender across the Army. . .

The news comes shortly after Military.com obtained internal Army data showing that 44% of women are failing the ACFT, compared to 7% of men. The data suggests women get better at the test as they become more familiar. Failing to pass an official fitness test can quickly lead to a soldier being booted out of the military; at this time, ACFT scores do not count against those who take them. (Read more from “U.S. Army: 50% of Females Will be Kicked Out of Military if Genderless Physical Fitness Tests Continue” HERE)

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Amazon Reveals When Bezos Will Step Down as CEO

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced the date that he will step down from his current role with the company.

Bezos, who helms the country’s second-largest company by revenue, announced on Wednesday during Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting that he will step down on July 5 and be replaced by Andy Jassy, who currently heads Amazon Web Services.

“We chose that date because it’s sentimental for me, the day Amazon was incorporated in 1994, exactly 27 years ago,” Bezos said during the virtual gathering.

After his departure, Bezos will transition into the role of executive chairman of the Amazon board. The company announced that Bezos was leaving the chief executive position in February in its fourth-quarter financial results. It also announced at the time that Jassy, who has been with Amazon since 1997, would be replacing Bezos. (Read more from “Amazon Reveals When Bezos Will Step Down as CEO” HERE)

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County Votes To Have D.A. Probe Election Machine Foul-up

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With 2020 presidential election races in Georgia, Michigan and Arizona still under scrutiny, a new problem has developed with some of the same types of machines used in November, and officials in a Pennsylvania county now have voted for an investigation by the district attorney into the situation. . .

The Washington Examiner said the new situation is where voting machines provided by Dominion Voting Systems, which provided machines for some of the the states where results still are suspect, displayed “all ballots … as Democratic.”

Now Luzerne County’s 11-member council decided to ask for a review of the May 18 election controversy.

The Examiner said, “Councilman Walter Griffith, who proposed the resolution, claimed that many GOP and independent voters were ‘disenfranchised and concerned about the integrity of the election process’ when some left polling places agitated. The resolution, as described by the local news outlet, requests the district attorney look into Dominion’s practices and procedures as well as the election board’s actions in overseeing and maintaining the security of election equipment.”

The report said District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce conceded that a review might be appropriate. (Read more from “County Votes To Have D.A. Probe Election Machine Foul-up” HERE)

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Top Doctor Says We’ve Reached Herd Immunity for COVID

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Arguing for people who choose not to be vaccinated, a Johns Hopkins professor estimates that nearly half the country has natural immunity due to prior infection that protects them from COVID-19.

Dr. Marty Makary, in an interview Tuesday with “The Vince Coglianese Show” on WMAL in Washington, claimed the United States already has achieved the objective of herd immunity, combining the vaccinated with those who have been infected. He estimates 85% of the population is immune to the novel coronavirus.

“Please, ignore the CDC guidance,” he said, calling it the slowest “most reactionary CDC in history.”

“Live a normal life, unless you are unvaccinated and did not have the infection, in which case you need to be careful,” he said in the interview, which was spotlighted by the Daily Caller.

“We’ve got to start respecting people who choose not to get the vaccine instead of demonizing them,” Makary said. (Read more from “Top Doctor Says We’ve Reached Herd Immunity for COVID” HERE)

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Former Seattle Police Chief: Media’s Lies Made Violent Activists Look Peaceful

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Former Seattle police chief Carmen Best said on a podcast this week that the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone during Seattle’s Black Lives Matter uprising was more violent than the media depicted.

Best told Jerry Ratcliffe on his podcast “Reducing Crime” that “destructive behavior” in CHOP was not adequately documented by the media, which resulted in people thinking it was “peaceful.” She continued:

And the other thing that I found very curious during that time frame was that the destructive behavior, for whatever reason, I’m not sure if there’s a political reason or otherwise, did not get the level of publicity or media attention as … I would read stories about the peaceful protests. I go, ‘Well, part of it was peaceful.’ But I was standing 20 feet away from a hail of rocks. I was looking right at them hail down, feet from me.

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The former chief said there was a great deal of “gaslighting” by the media. National outlets often attempted to conceal the madness inside the autonomous zone. The New York Times defined it as a “homeland for racial justice” in an article with the headline “Free Food, Free Speech, and Free Police.” CNN said conservative media “grossly exaggerated” the violence in Seattle. (Read more from “Former Seattle Police Chief: Media’s Lies Made Violent Activists Look Peaceful” HERE)

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