“Imagine if Russia, using a Russian satellite, fired cluster munitions on a Florida beach…The American military should defend its own country”

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Kremlin issues warning over ‘barbaric’ Crimea attack –U.S. involvement in the deadly Ukrainian cluster munition strike on a crowded beach in Russia’s Sevastopol will have consequences, Dmitry Peskov has said | 24 June 2024 | Moscow “understands perfectly well” who is behind Sunday’s deadly strike on the city of Sevastopol in Russia’s Crimea, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said, vowing Russian retaliation. The Ukrainian attack carried out with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles killed at least four people, among them two children, and injured more than 150, according to local officials. Four missiles were intercepted by air defenses, while a fifth deviated from its trajectory and detonated its cluster warhead over the busy Black Sea beach. As a result, the falling fragments of cluster munitions led to numerous civilian casualties, the Russian Defense Ministry stated on Sunday.”We see…an absolutely barbaric missile attack in Crimea. We understand perfectly well who is behind this…who is aiming these absolutely technically complex missiles at the targets,” Peskov told reporters during a press briefing on Monday. “You should ask my colleagues in Europe, and above all in Washington, ask the press secretaries there why their governments are killing Russian children. Just ask them this question,” Peskov told the journalists in attendance.

U.S. lawmaker condemns attack on Crimea –The American military should defend its own country, Marjorie Taylor Greene has said | 24 June 2024 | The American military should not be involved in helping Ukraine to target Russian civilians, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has said in response to the deadly ATACMS strike on a Sevastopol beach. A volley of ATACMS missiles, provided by the U.S. to Ukraine, targeted Crimea on Sunday. Cluster munitions from one of the missiles struck a busy beach near Sevastopol, killing five civilians and injuring over 150, including children. “This should not be happening,” Greene posted on X. “Imagine if Russia, using a Russian satellite, fired cluster munitions on a Florida beach.” “The only border our American military should be defending is our own border,” the Georgia Republican added. Greene was quoting a report that showed a U.S. Global Hawk military drone circling around in the Black Sea during the Ukrainian attack, appearing to help Kiev’s forces with using the U.S.-supplied missiles.

Ukraine kills civilians in Crimea with U.S.-supplied missiles – Russian MOD | 23 June 2024 | The Ukrainian military launched several U.S.-made ATACMS long-range missiles armed with highly controversial cluster munitions on Russia’s Crimea on Sunday, resulting in numerous civilian casualties, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said. The strike was first reported by Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev. He said that the attack killed at least three people, including two children. The death toll later rose to four. According to Russia’s Health Ministry, 124 people were injured, including 27 children. The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed the Ukrainian attack, which it said took place at around noon local time. Officials said that the shelling involved five ATACMS missiles, four of which were destroyed mid-air. The remaining one, however, was damaged by air defenses, veered off course and detonated over the city of Sevastopol. As a result, the falling fragments of cluster munitions led to numerous civilian casualties, the statement read.  

Senate Democrats Put ‘Draft Women’ Clause in National Defense Authorization Act | 24 June 2024 | Senate Democrats have added a provision to a yearly defense bill that would require women to sign up for the draft, prompting opposition from Republicans. The yearly bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, authorizes the fiscal year budget for the Pentagon, but it also authorizes policies and programs at the Pentagon. The House and Senate each pass a version that gets meshed together into one. This year, Democrats — who control the Senate and the committee drafting the defense bill — included a provision in their version that would require women to register for the draft, according to The Hill. The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Roger Wicker (MS), said he will try to strip it out of the bill.

Ex-CDC Chief Warns of High-Mortality Bird Flu Pandemic Caused by Gain of Function Research | 17 June 2024 | Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield has expressed concerns over a potential avian influenza pandemic caused by reckless gain-of-function research. Redfield stressed he is “less concerned” by the possibility of bird flu jumping between species than he is by an out-of-control manmade virus. “I’m much more concerned that this will happen in the laboratory, through gain of function research. I can create this virus literally in weeks to months by using gain of function research,” Redfield warned. “I know exactly what amino acids I have to change, because in 2012, against my recommendation, the scientists that did these experiments actually published them. So the recipe for how to make bird flu highly infectious for humans is already out there. All you have to do is look at it.” Dr. Redfield highlighted the high mortality associated with bird flu when it infects humans, estimating a fatality rate between 25 percent and 50 percent.

Feds try to delay release of non-public COVID vaccine safety data until at least 2026 –Biden administration seeks 18-month stay before processing Just the News open records request, America First Legal calls delay request “shocking.” | 20 June 2024 | The Biden regime is seeking to delay until at least 2026 the release of COVID-19 vaccine safety data that has been kept outside the government’s normal adverse events reporting system. The Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services asked U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton this week to issue an 18-month stay that keeps them from having to release the Food and Drug Administration’s data to Just the News under the Freedom of Information Act. The federal agencies alleged “exceptional circumstances” exist to necessitate the delay in compliance with the open records law because the FDA is stretched thin by numerous other requests for public information related to the pandemic.  

Amazon Created List of Do-Not-Promote ‘Anti-Vax’ Books at Behest of Biden Regime, Documents Reveal –Corrupt regime engaging in repeated unconstitutional acts –Biden’s National Security Agency could add books to the list after the initial 43, according to an email | 21 June 2024 | Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan (R) posted to X on Friday, explaining House Judiciary Committee Republicans and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government obtained internal Amazon documents revealing the company essentially took orders from the Biden administration in March 2021. Company emails show “criticism from the Biden administration” was “the impetus” for Amazon creating a new list of do-not-promote (DNP) books under the “anti-vax” label. Since the email stated the matter “should be handled urgently,” Amazon quickly placed 43 books onto its DNP list. One email even says the Biden administration’s National Security Agency could add books to the list after the initial 43.

Biden DHS documents suggested Trump supporters, military and religious people are likely violent terror threats | 22 June 2024 | A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) advisory board suggested that supporters of former President Donald Trump — as well as those who served in the military or are religious — have a greater possibility of posing domestic terrorism risks, according to internal files obtained by America First Legal (AFL). Named the “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group,” the now-disbanded board was created in September 2023 to provide DHS with “expert” analysis on subjects like terrorism and the trafficking of certain controlled substances like fentanyl. The panel, according to the conservative legal nonprofit’s findings, included former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan, both of whom signed onto an October 2020 letter falsely dismissing Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as Russian disinformation. The documents revealed that the board suggested “supporters of the former president” accounted for “most of the Domestic Terrorism threat” in the U.S.

Revealed: Biden DHS Scheme to Spy on Trump Supporters and Label Them ‘Domestic Terrorism Threats’ Ahead of 2024 Election | 21 June 2024 | America First Legal (AFL) released Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents on Friday obtained via the group’s lawsuit with Ambassador [and also former acting director of the United States National Intelligence] Ric Grenell against the Biden DHS. The documents are internal files from the “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group,” which deems military members, religious Americans, and Donald Trump supporters as people who are likely to commit domestic terror attacks. AFL founder Stephen Miller wrote on X, “We obtained internal intel docs as a result of our successful lawsuit against DHS. They reveal a shocking Biden plan to mobilize government power against Trump supporters ahead of the election.” The federal government claimed, “being in the military” or being “religious” are “indicators of extremists and terrorism,” adding, “we should be worried about these” people.

Legal expert says gag order in Trump case is ‘untethered’ to ‘rationale’ after court order –John Gotti, Lucky Luciano ‘weren’t silenced the way former President Trump was,’ another expert says | 19 June 2024 | A New York appeals court on Tuesday kept in place a gag order on former President Trump, who asked the court to lift the ban on his speech after the recent guilty verdict in his unprecedented criminal trial. Now that the trial has concluded and the former president and presumptive GOP nominee in the 2024 presidential election awaits sentencing next month, a legal expert says the gag order, which Judge Juan Merhcan has refused to lift, is “untethered from any compelling rationale.” “You have a local New York judge effectively limiting what the leading presidential candidate can say in the months leading up to an election,” Jonathan Turley, practicing defense attorney and law professor, told Fox News Digital. “The continuation of the gag order seems untethered from any compelling rationale, particularly in light of the election,” he said.

Joe Biden’s 2022 Vow to Use Constitution to Block Trump Sparked Eruption of Lawfare Linked to White House | 10 June 2024 | Joe Biden vowed in November 2022 to pursue measures beyond the ballot box to prevent former President Donald Trump’s reelection. That sensational pledge preceded an eruption of extraordinary legal assaults on Trump, with one pivotal date emerging that undercuts Biden’s denial of White House involvement. That day, November 18, 2022, the significance of which is previously unreported, has emerged as a catalyst in the startling timeline of events unleashing lawfare against Trump in jurisdictions across the country. Three events took place on November 18 either at or with the knowledge and involvement of the White House that directly led to a remarkable escalation of the lawfare launched against Trump… The significance of the three events alone and the timeline that followed strongly suggest a coordination of efforts by the Biden White House, which resulted in Trump being charged in Manhattan, Florida, D.C., and Atlanta.

Grenades intercepted at Pittsburgh International Airport – TSA | 20 June 2024 | Two passengers were busted at the Pittsburgh International Airport on Wednesday when they tried to bring a smoke grenade and an inert explosives grenade aboard their respective flights, according to the TSA. TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said agents first came across a man who thought he could pass the security checkpoint while carrying a hand grenade in his bags. Farbstein flagged another incident an hour later, where a customer was carrying an active M18 smoke grenade in their carry-on bag.

Hundreds of migrants from ISIS hotbed country have crossed U.S. border under Biden | 20 June 2024 | The number of migrants flocking to the U.S.-Mexico border from a country known as a hotbed of ISIS [I-CIA-SIS] recruitment has skyrocketed under Joe Biden. More than 1,500 migrants from Tajikistan are known to have crossed the border between October 2020 and May 2024, according to leaked border dated obtained by The Post. At least 500 Tajiks have been caught so far this year… The small Central Asian country, which borders both China and Afghanistan, has become a major source of terrorists for ISIS and Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), an extreme offshoot of the Islamic State militant group.

Illegal migrant accused of murdering Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, held on $10 million bond | 24 June 2024 | The Venezuelan migrant who is accused of murdering 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray and then cutting off the ankle monitor he was given when he was released into the US was ordered held on 10 million bond on Monday. Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, crossed the southern border illegally at El Paso, Texas, just last month, The Post first reported last week, citing sources. Pena Ramos and another Venezuelan migrant who crossed illegally, Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, are charged with capital murder for Jocelyn’s death.

Migrant charged with murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was released into U.S. just weeks ago | 20 June 2024 | Police in Houston have arrested two migrants from Venezuela for the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was lured away from home and then strangled and dumped in a bayou. One of the suspects crossed the border illegally less than a month before the shocking murder and was released into the U.S. after claiming he was afraid for his life if he was sent back to his home country, sources told The Post. Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, were charged Thursday with capital murder. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources said Pena Ramos crossed into El Paso, Texas, on May 28. He was released soon after his interaction with border agents.