Think mirror
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/19/trump-christian-right-conference-faith-and-freedom
After riding up an escalator, attendees at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s annual Road to Majority conference met with a registration sign slapped with two additional labels: “Trump: Take America Back, 2024” and “Trump Store, Vendor Exhibits”.
Beside it was a T-shirt that said: “Jesus is my savior. Trump is my president.”
This, along with a plethora of “Make America great again” (Maga) hats, made clear that the Christian right’s unlikely faith in Trump has not been shaken. For many he is a martyr who may yet rise again.
The vendor display turned out to be quite modest at what, despite liberation from face masks and physical distancing, was a relatively low energy event. Interviews with a dozen attendees found a widespread conviction that the 2020 election was stolen, support for tougher voting restrictions and a reluctance to condemn Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January.
Trump, who turned 75 this week and resumes campaign rallies next Saturday in Ohio, has hinted that he might run for president again in 2024. Many who attended the Road to Majority conference pledged to support him if he does, although few wanted Pence to be his running mate again.
https://us.cnn.com/2021/06/19/politics/veterans-affairs-gender-confirmation-surgery/index.html
First on CNN: Biden administration moves to make gender confirmation surgery available through Veteran Affairs health care system
(CNN)Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough is moving to make gender confirmation surgery available to transgender veterans through Veterans Affairs health care coverage, according to a VA department spokesperson.
McDonough will announce the move at a Pride event at the Orlando Vet Center in Florida later on Saturday, according to the spokesperson.
"We are taking the first necessary steps to expand VA's care to include gender confirmation surgery – thus allowing transgender vets to go through the full gender confirmation process with VA by their side," McDonough's prepared remarks state. CNN obtained a copy of the speech.
Everyone wants a wall
https://belsat.eu/en/news/19-06-2021-wall-may-appear-between-belarus-and-lithuania/
The situation on the Belarusian border is still uncontrolled. This year, the flow of illegal migrants to Western Europe has increased fivefold through Lithuania alone. The Lithuanian authorities have even begun to consider erecting a fence on the border to strengthen the defense.
Civilian authorities have not yet supported such a proposal by the Interior Ministry, but a discussion is on. The investigation will begin. According to the Lithuanian secret services, this flow of migrants is an international operation organized by the Belarusian authorities.
“People from third countries have been crossing our border illegally for several weeks now. We have information that Belarusian officials are involved in the organized transportation of people to our border. Intelligence agencies are figuring this out. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania also appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office to launch an investigation.”
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said Belarus delivers Syrians and Iraqis from Istanbul and Baghdad to its territory using the national tour operator Tsentrkurort. And so-called “tourists” are taken to the border from Minsk. Is it a coincidence that such trafficking began after Alyaksandr Lukashenka promised to weaken control over drug trafficking and illegal migration at the western border?
In 2019, Belarusian colleagues failed to catch 46 so-called illegals, in 2020 – 81. This year, in six months, 397 people have crossed the border to the Lithuanian side. If we go at this pace, at the end of the year, we will have 800.
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/dark-past-iran-new-president-ebrahim-raisi/
Ebrahim Raisi sat on Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s ‘death committee’
Each vote doesn’t count, of course. The regime makes sure of that. Iran ‘manages’ its elections. This year, 600 people registered as candidates. That was cut to seven. The unelected Guardian Council, which consists of 12 ‘jurists’ (clerics), is responsible for ensuring all candidates are compatible with ‘Islamic values’.
What this means is that it can disqualify pretty much anyone it doesn’t like. The real reasons the council generally disqualifies people are almost invariably to do with politics rather than religion.
By clearing the way for Raisi to win, the Supreme Leader’s coterie did two things: one, they ensured their man took control of the presidency; and two: they sent a message to the Iranian people and to the world.
This is because even by the regime’s pathological standards, Raisi is a hardliner. In July 1988, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s first Supreme Leader issued an order (some argue it was even a fatwa — a religious ruling) ordering the execution of imprisoned opponents.
It was the beginning of what turned out to be the biggest massacre of political prisoners since World War Two. Charged with carrying out the executions was a ‘four-man commission’ later known as the ‘death committee’ — prominent among whom was Raisi.
The executions went on for five months — thousands were killed (some estimates are as high as 30,000). Most of the victims were members of the Iranian opposition group the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), or the Mujahedin-e-Khalq. To this day the regime denies the massacres took place.
https://worldcrunch.com/what-the-world/french-church-installs-covid-compliant-automatic-holy-water-dispenser
The pandemic has radically changed the way we manage hygiene in public spaces. Some new things are added, like hand sanitizer distributors at the entrance of shops; some are taken away, like holy water from the decorative font of your local church. But what if the former concept were applied to the latter?
In Rennes, in western France, Notre-Dame-en-Saint-Melaine Church invested in some sacred innovation: a holy water automatic distributor. According to French newspaper Ouest-France, the device works just like any disinfectant distributor, with a religious twist: when a believer puts their hand under the machine, a sensor detects it and delivers a few drops of holy water.
KEK
https://ifex.org/japan-foreign-journalists-to-be-tracked-by-gps-at-tokyo-olympics/
The president of the Tokyo Olympics, Seiko Hashimoto, announced on June 8 that international journalists will be tracked by GPS while they are in Japan. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the Olympic Organising Committee’s (OOC) complete disregard for privacy.
The OOC has implemented this GPS monitoring system as a means of maintaining safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. If journalists do not comply with the tracking regime, their Olympic access passes will be revoked.
Before a board meeting to discuss the Games, Hashimoto said, “To make sure that people don’t go to places other than the places where they are registered to go, we will use GPS to strictly manage their behaviour.”
The GPS monitoring will be conducted through tracking the phones of media personnel and Olympic organisers will be instructing them to keep the positioning function on and save the data. This data will be provided to organisers if required.
Wierd, Col. Green
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/06/19/army-investigating-death-of-colonel-found-unresponsive-fort-leavenworth.html
Col. Scott Green, the director of the Army’s Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was found unresponsive in his office on Tuesday, and pronounced dead.
Army Criminal Investigation Command special agents are investigating his death, according to a statement on the CGSS Facebook page.
Green, 49, had been in his current position since July of 2019.
The CGSS Facebook post included the following biographical details on Green's Army career.
A native of South Dakota, Green began his Army career in 1994 after completing an ROTC program at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota.
As a career infantry officer, Green served in numerous leadership positions, including company command in the 75th Ranger Regiment, and command of a Brigade Combat Team (Airborne). He served for 27 years. He was a highly decorated combat veteran with multiple tours that included a combat parachute jump. His awards include the prestigious Army’s Legion of Merit and multiple Bronze Star Medals including one for valor.
Panic in PA
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=122722
“Key Pennsylvania state senator backs Arizona-style election audit”
The Pennsylvania state senator in charge of a key election committee is backing an audit of the November presidential contest similar to Arizona’s partisan ballot review, four days after former President Donald Trump called him out and claimed he was dragging his feet.
Despite two audits and assurances from every level of government that the election was free of widespread fraud, Sen. David Argall (R., Schuylkill) told Spotlight PA he does not see the “damage in doing it one more time to try to answer the concerns that people have.”
But such an effort, particularly if advanced by just one political party, will be sure to attract criticism and come with critical questions, including how much it would cost, who would pay for it, and why it would be any more trustworthy than the widely accepted audits already completed.
Kamala is Joes lapdog, maybe a warning no-one is safe from Joes reach. Even those closest
kek
Clown In Action with BS as initials