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Tulsi Gabbard asks Joe Biden: ‘Have you declared martial law?’

Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, WND

National Guard troops on duty as President Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021. (Video screenshot)

With the National Guard now expected to remain in the nation’s capital during the second impeachment trial of former President Trump through March, a former congresswoman is asking President Joe Biden if he has declared martial law.

“President @JoeBiden, have you declared martial law? Because that is what it’s starting to look and feel like. Let our troops get back home to their families,” Tulsi Gabbard tweeted on Monday.

The Democrat from Hawaii appeared on Fox News to complain how troops were “mistreated,” being forced to sleep on cement floors in garages. She said the presence of the Guard in D.C. was a massive overreaction.

“The militarization of our nation’s capital was not only unnecessary … to send that message both to the American people but to the world that somehow our nation’s capital us under attack and threat of a siege of taking over, I just don’t think that’s the message that we want to send to the American people and to the world,” she said.

Tulsi Gabbard (CNN video screenshot)

Gabbard, who was deployed to Kuwait from 2008 to 2009 as an Army Military Police platoon leader, asked, “What is it that they are trying to accomplish now by creating an enduring presence? That sounds a lot like a lot of the stuff that we’ve seen happen overseas.”

Radio host Mark Steyn, filling in for Rush Limbaugh on Monday, mocked the ongoing presence of the Guard in Washington, D.C.

“It’s impressive to look at them in the parking garage to see all these National Guardsmen in their camouflage,” Steyn said. “It’s a little bit odd in a virtually treeless city.”

Mark Steyn

“I don’t understand why they don’t have camouflage to blend in [city landscapes], such as 7-Elevens and Taco Bells.”

He said if the military were going to stay in the city, “There’s gonna be some new designs in the camouflage.”

Gabbard also urged Biden to denounce U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Barack Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan for treating half of Americans as “potential domestic terrorists.”

U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. (Video screenshot)

“Your leadership is needed now to denounce those like John Brennan & Rep Schiff who are advocating for targeting half the country as potential domestic terrorists,” Gabbard said.

“Truly unite the American people around our Constitution & the rights that are endowed to us by our Creator.”

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Jesuit Magazine Hails Abortion-Abetting Biden As a Faithful Catholic

Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Newsbusters

Jesuits used to be known as the shock troops of the Counter Reformation. Nowadays in America, they’re little more than sycophants to liberal Catholic politicians. 

The Jesuit magazine America recently published an article that touted presidential candidate Joe Biden as a practicing Catholic whose faith was a “gift.” Many of his supporters say that “Nothing was more sacred to [Mr. Biden] than his church,” among other things. Proof of Biden’s piety includes his Mass attendance and carrying a Rosary.

That may all be true, but Biden’s political and private life has seen him endorse enough anti-Catholic behavior to make a Muslim shake his head. This includes support for abortion, same sex-marriage, Obamacare in all it’s anti-religious freedom hideousness, and prosecution of nuns for following their religious beliefs. He even officiated over a gay wedding. 

But liberal Catholics believe that Biden is the greatest thing to happen to the Church and America since Doris Day. Gay agenda enthusiast Father James Martin, S.J., sounded positively giddy when he tweeted about Biden referencing a Catholic hymn in his victory speech. “The surprise “On Eagles’ Wings” reference by @JoeBiden, which made my phone buzz like crazy, made me realize: this means four years of not only a Catholic president, but an injection of #Catholic culture into our national conversation in a way probably not seen since JFK.”

He’ll inject culture, alright. Anti-Catholic culture. 

The article in America tried to portray Biden as a faithful Catholic, but it’s perfectly obvious that Biden’s actions undermine all of his fancy words. For instance, America quoted how Biden said that “Jesus Christ is the human embodiment of what God wanted us to do. Everything Jesus did was sort of consistent with what generically we were supposed to do: treat people with dignity.”

Jesus didn’t allow the killing of infants. He said “let the little children come to me,” not “let the little children be slaughtered freely.” Today’s abortion genocide that Biden is abetting is not how to treat people with dignity. 

Regarding one of his meetings with Pope Francis, Biden said “He’s the embodiment of Catholic social doctrine that I was raised with. The idea that everyone’s entitled to dignity, that the poor should be given special preference, that you have an obligation to reach out and be inclusive.”

That explains why Biden thinks caring for the poor is more important than stopping murder from happening. Also, the Church doesn’t call for Catholics to be inclusive. It calls for Catholics to love. There’s a difference between loving a homosexual and promoting same-sex marriage. 

The article included a quote from Senator Chris Coons’ (D-DE) speech at the Democratic National Convention, where he gushed that “Joe’s faith is really about our future, about a world with less suffering and more justice, where we’re better stewards of creation, where we have a more just immigration policy and where we call out and confront the original sins of this nation, the sins of slavery and racism. Joe knows these are central issues in this election. And for him, they’re rooted in faith.”

Is Coons even aware that the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement existed? And how does it make sense that Biden will help usher in a world with “better stewards of creation” if he supports the contraception mandates in Obamacare? Everybody knows contraception encourages sex without responsibility. 

Regarding his controversial stance on abortion, a practice which is not endorsed by the Church, America detailed that Biden does in fact agree that life begins at conception. But he also said “What I’m not prepared to do is impose a precise view that is borne out of my faith on other people who are equally God-fearing, equally as committed to life, equally as committed to the sanctity of life. I’m prepared to accept that the moment of conception is a human life convened. But I’m not prepared to say that to other God-fearing, non-God-fearing people.”

In other words, Biden isn’t willing to spread Catholicism to others, even though God said to “go and make disciples of all nations” in the bible. He wants to be “inclusive,” and his acceptance of abortion and same-sex marriage indicates that he is. At the same time, he doesn’t want to “impose” his religious beliefs on others. Biden wants to transform the Catholic Church into something that fits the leftist ideology he and so many others adhere to. 

Doubtless the Jesuits and America will ignore basic Catholic teaching and do everything they can to help him. 

The mobilization of the mob – including ‘deep-staters’

Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, WND

Ready or not, here they come. The ground troops of the anti-Donald Trump resistance aren’t just biding their time until Election Day for Hidin’ Joe Biden. Hell no. They’re making their direct action checklists and checking them twice. They’re training for instigating.

No matter the outcome at the ballot box, the left-wing mob is prepared to disrupt and destroy nationwide in the name of preserving “democracy.”

Four weeks ago, I exposed the pot-bangers and lawn-crashers of the Sunrise Movement. That’s the constantly morphing, full-time front group for the Sierra Club that nurtures rent-a-rioters to agitate for everything from the “Green New Deal,” to Black Lives Matter and the “defund the police” movement, to the attacks at private homes of Senate Republicans – who just delivered the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Another key social justice player, ShutDown D.C., is teaming with Sunrise Movement guerrilla warriors to mobilize students, community organizers and even federal employees to take to the streets on Nov. 3.

ShutDown D.C. anticipates that 10,000 protesters from a motley assortment of affinity groups will converge at Black Lives Matter Plaza to engage in “civil resistance” if President Trump tries to “steal the election.” A “Flying Bike Squad” is “coming together as a rapid response team,” according to organizers. If it’s anything like the skateboard squads and soup can squads who’ve used everyday items as weapons to beat Trump supporters, look for more blood to spill in the name of “peaceful protest.” Mass disruptions are planned at train stations and airports, on highways and in residential neighborhoods for at least the first full week after Election Day.

“We’ll keep it going until Trump concedes,” ShutDown D.C. threatens in its outline of a “No More Business As Usual” blockade across the country. “We could be in the streets throughout the fall and into the winter – maybe as lots of rolling waves of action or possibly as a few major tsunamis! In other parts of the country, as vote counts conclude, our focus will turn from protecting the vote counts to themselves being ungovernable.”

Here’s what has me especially concerned: The “deep state” Trump-haters are openly gearing up to do everything they can from inside the federal government to assist the resistance. ShutDown D.C. is conducting online training this week with public employees in the nation’s capital to undermine election integrity and the day-to-day work of the Trump administration. A protest guide lists the following subversive federal worker groups as key partners: Takoma Park Mobilization, Alt National Park Service, Alt Ed, AltFDA, Alternative NOAA, Alt U.S. Forest Service, AltEPA and BadHombreLands National Park Service.

The ShutDown D.C. crew is schooling its forces in intentional slowdowns to “reduce the pace” of activities they oppose ideologically and on how to participate in “nonviolent direct action protests/rallies” (which serve as cover for violent riots and assaults by Antifa and Black Lives Matter brethren). Another tactic: “Fed Flu” actions by U.S. government workers to “coordinate sick days across workforces.” More “tools in the toolbox” of “Never Trumpers” employed in federal police enforcement, research and development, the U.S. Armed forces, administrative management and political appointments:

  • Refuse orders.
  • Strike in coalition.
  • Slow-walk enforcement and gum up bureaucratic processes.
  • Publicly denounce “attacks on democracy.”
  • Leak information.
  • Publicly resign.

Are federal authorities as locked and loaded as are these shutdown infiltrators? Is the Trump administration ready to purge these infiltrators from the bowels of the federal bureaucracy before it’s too late?

I’ll repeat my warning from four weeks ago: They may look and sound like pesky, snot-nosed toddlers having harmless temper tantrums in black pajamas (and three-piece suits). But these professionally organized punks provide obstructionist boots on the ground for globalist Democratic billionaires and strategic cover for their violent Antifa and Black Lives Matter comrades. Wake up, smell the manufactured chaos and vote to put these “deep state” moles and trolls out to pasture.

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China Warns India: “If Fired Upon, Our Troops Are Prepared For War”

Filed Under: MORE NEWS, Zerohedge

China Warns India: “If Fired Upon, Our Troops Are Prepared For War”

Tyler Durden

Mon, 06/22/2020 – 14:25

Beijing has issued its formal reaction to widespread reports that the Indian Army has authorized “complete freedom of action” for its troops deployed along the China-India Line of Actual Control after the deadly June 15 skirmish which left 20 Indian soldiers dead and an unconfirmed scores of PLA troop casualties. 

The new Indian rules of engagement of course mean a much higher likelihood of more deadly border conflict, given Beijing is likely to alert its forces in kind. An editorial in Chinese state-run Global Times lays out the Chinese response, underscoring the “change” will inevitably “turn into a military conflict” which is “not what most Chinese and Indian people wish to see,” according to the editorial.

Via Defense News

“If this new approach is implemented and Indian troops shoot Chinese soldiers in the first place in future encounters, then the China-India border dispute will turn into a military conflict. This is not what most Chinese and Indian people wish to see,” it reads.

The editorial warns the potential for a dangerous end to China-India bilateral agreements for deescalation hangs in the balance. It slams what it suggests is in reality a reckless domestic opinion driven response, given the widespread outrage in India over the troop deaths last week.

The Global Times statement continues:

Although “complete freedom of action” is the Modi administration’s appeasement to the Indian army and public opinion, it is extremely irresponsible. It shows that India may be tearing up the two countries’ most important agreements, and this will seriously increase the two troops’ mutual distrust and add to the possibility of unwanted military conflicts. It is also against the consensus reached by the two sides’ foreign ministers to cool down the situation in the Galwan Valley.

We would like to warn India’s feverish nationalists not to lead New Delhi down the wrong path, and not allow India to repeat past mistakes. 

Significantly, the editorial emphasizes the PLA’s superior firepower and that if tested it will respond with overwhelming force.

“We would like to tell PLA soldiers stationed at the China-India border that they must be extra careful when fulfilling their duties, and to be well prepared for war.”

Nationalists of India need to cool down. China’s GDP is 5 times that of India, military spending is 3 times. Don’t use firearms at border. The gap of “kung fu” between the two troops is much smaller than the gap of military capability between them. Please cherish peace.

— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) June 22, 2020

GT spells out further what will happen in a ‘shots fired’ scenario: “If the Indian army fires the first shot, PLA soldiers must ensure that they have enough firepower to fight back. The most important thing is ensure their own safety and not to suffer losses in an armed skirmish triggered by the Indian side.”

The editorial concludes with the following deeply alarming statement:

“We also urge the PLA to prepare for the worst-case scenario. If the Indian army launches a border war, it must be taught a good lesson.“

Indian media reported that Indian army along the border with China had been given “complete freedom of action”, including using firearms in “extraordinary situations.” If true, this is a serious violation of agreement, & the Indian side will pay a heavy price for any such action. pic.twitter.com/ukmIZIX9Mp

— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) June 21, 2020

According to India’s new rules of engagement circulated in Indian media reports, troops will essentially be able to fire on opposing Chinese soliders if they feel under threat without consulting higher level officers or the national chain of command.

Obviously this holds the potential for more such deadly escalations as happened a week ago, considered the most severe Chinese-India clash along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in a half-century.

Indian Troops Given ‘Fire At Will’ Orders Against Chinese Troops If Threatened, Enraging Beijing

Filed Under: MORE NEWS, Zerohedge

Indian Troops Given ‘Fire At Will’ Orders Against Chinese Troops If Threatened, Enraging Beijing

Tyler Durden

Sun, 06/21/2020 – 20:15

Beijing is enraged over current widespread Indian media reports that the Indian Army has been given orders to shoot or use “complete freedom of action” in hostile engagements with Chinese PLA forces along the disputed Ladakh border region.

The reports come following last week’s major border incident with China that resulted in 20 Indian Army troops killed, and an undisclosed number of Chinese PLA casualties in the disputed Galwan Valley area of East Ladakh.

Chinese state-media Global Times editor Hu Xijin called out the reports, saying that if the new ‘rules of engagement’ are true, it’s a serious violation of prior treaties implemented for deescalation. 

Indian media reported that Indian army along the border with China had been given “complete freedom of action”, including using firearms in “extraordinary situations.” If true, this is a serious violation of agreement, & the Indian side will pay a heavy price for any such action. pic.twitter.com/ukmIZIX9Mp

— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) June 21, 2020

Indeed multiple headlines in major Indian newspapers asserted that Indian troops have been issued the new controversial orders.

The Hindustan Times for one, had this to say: 

A significant change in Rules of Engagement (ROE) by the Indian Army following the Galwan Valley skirmish that left 20 Indian soldiers dead gives “complete freedom of action” to commanders deployed along the contested Line of Actual Control (LAC) to “handle situations at the tactical level,” two senior officers said on Saturday on condition of anonymity.

The commanders will no longer be bound by restrictions on the use of firearms and will have full authority to respond to “extraordinary situations” using all resources at their disposal, said one of the officers cited above.

Essentially troops will be able to fire on opposing Chinese troops if they feel under threat without consulting higher level officers or the national chain of command.

Obviously this holds the potential for more such deadly escalations as happened a week ago, considered the most severe Chinese-India clash along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in a half-century.

June 16 satellite image showing Chinese military personnel in the Galwan Valley. Souce: 2020 Planet Labs/AFP/Getty Images

The Hindustan Times report cited another military source further, who explained: “With the changes in the ROE, there’s nothing that limits the ability of Indian commanders to take whatever action they deem necessary on the LAC. ROE have been amended to address the brutal tactics being employed by Chinese troops.”

Days after the Monday night clash, which apparently did not involve discharging of firearms, but instead brutal hand-to-hand combat that resulted in Indian soldiers succumbing to severe wounds in freezing high-altitude conditions, some almost unbelievable details emerged of the “violent face-off” in the western Himalayas.

Just days after #GalwanClash, India modifies engagement rules across LAC giving soldiers “complete freedom of action” to handle situations at the tactical level. https://t.co/6xAJ8Oqejl

— OTV (@otvnews) June 21, 2020

The Guardian reported that Indian soldiers actually “fell to their deaths” after being knocked off a narrow ridge: 

The hand-to-hand combat lasted hours, on steep, jagged terrain, with iron bars, rocks and fists. Neither side carried guns. Most of the soldiers killed in the worst fighting between India and China in 60 years lost their footing or were knocked from the narrow Himalayan ridge, plunging to their deaths.

Other international reports said that baseball bats spiked with nails and barbed wire were even used in the clash. 

Chinese PLA troops training in harsh Himalayan border area conditions, file image.

At one point it reportedly involved hundreds in close-quarter combat on dangerous, steep terrain: 

Reinforcements from the Indian side were summoned from a post about 2 miles away and eventually about 600 men were fighting with stones, iron rods and other makeshift weapons in near-total darkness for up to six hours, Indian government sources said, with most deaths on both sides occurring from soldiers falling or being knocked from mountain terrain.

At least four more Indian soldiers were said to be in critical condition. Indian media outlets cited intelligence sources claiming up to 50 Chinese soldiers may have been killed in the melee but did not present the evidence. Chinese CCTV’s widely watched evening news broadcast made no mention of the border confrontation on Tuesday.

Certainly with these numbers, now with an additional build-up of forces on each side said to number in the tens of thousands near the Galwan Valley area of East Ladakh, a new authorization of “shoot to kill” if under threat holds the potential to spark a major battle possibly leading to war between the two nuclear powers.

Last week top diplomats on both sides called for deescalation, but these latest Indian media reports, and subsequent accusations and anger out of Beijing, aren’t helping matters. 

Chinese Forces Kill 3 Indian Troops During First Deadly Border Clash In Nearly 50 Years

Filed Under: MORE NEWS, Zerohedge

Chinese Forces Kill 3 Indian Troops During First Deadly Border Clash In Nearly 50 Years

Tyler Durden

Tue, 06/16/2020 – 06:35

Following days of escalating tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, Indian Army officials confirmed that three troops – an officer and two soldiers, to be more precise – had been gunned down by Chinese forces during a “violent faceoff” in Galwan Valley in the Ladakh region, which rests along the country’s border with China on Monday night. 

A statement from the Indian Army says both sides were meeting to diffuse tensions building up on the border in the last several weeks. Other reports indicate the soldiers weren’t shot but had been killed during a rock-throwing melee reminiscent of another border incident back in May, where both sides reported injuries. 

A statement from the Indian Army says both sides were meeting to diffuse tensions building up on the border in the last several weeks. Other reports indicate the soldiers weren’t shot but had been killed in a rock-throwing melee — very similar to what happened in May along the border when both sides reported injuries. 

“The loss of lives on the Indian side includes an officer and two soldiers,” the statement said. “Senior military officials of the two sides are currently meeting at the venue to defuse the situation.”

This is the first confrontation between both sides in which soldiers have died since the mid-1970s. China also confirmed that it “suffered causalities in a border clash with India,” as the Global Times affirmed.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Tuesday that a “clash broke out” between China and India’s border defense troops in the Galwan Valley. He said, “Indian troops crossed the border for illegal activities and launched provocative attacks against Chinese personnel, and the Chinese side has lodged a strong protest and solemn representation.” 

For the last month, both sides have been beefing up their defenses along the Himalayan border.

China has been more assertive in defending its borders and territorial claims in a post-corona world. In recent months, Beijing has launched war drills in the South China Sea and flew military planes around Taiwan. 

The border clash resulted in a decline in the rupee and Indian sovereign bonds. 

Discussing the impact on local markets, Harish Agarwal, a trader with FirstRand Bank in Mumbai, told Bloomberg, the “news has rattled the market sentiment and that’s getting reflected in market moves.” 

USD/INR rises to 76.26,  though it faded to 76.08-76 immediately after the spike 

while the Indian 10 Year Benchmark climbed to 5.846%…

NIFTY 50 slid on the border clash report, though it recouped most of those losses to close in the green.

National Guard troops test positive for coronavirus amid warnings of protest spike

Filed Under: MORE NEWS, NY Post

Some D.C. National Guard troops deployed to protests in Washington have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Tuesday — as top White House Coronavirus Task Force members warned governors of a possible spike in infections tied to the nationwide demonstrations. The service members were among 1,300 D.C. National Guard members called to assist law enforcement…