FBI Director Wray leads diversity training with White House official with famed pentagram tattooBureau offers credit to watch monkeypox coordinator, known for showing off pentagram tattoo and leather harness in the shape of Satanic symbol.

Updated: June 6, 2023 - 11:40pm

Two years after the FBI allegedly pulled a mandatory "sexual orientation and gender identity" course amid negative reviews from employees, the bureau incentivized employees to attend its Pride Month event – featuring a White House official known for his pentagram tattoo and pentagram-shaped leather harness – by offering credit toward mandatory training.

FBI whistleblower Steve Friend, who resigned from the bureau this year amid months of unpaid leave for a security clearance review he deemed retaliatory, posted a screenshot of a bureau-wide email dated June 1 that invited all FBI employees to attend the June 6 event, in person or virtually.

It's sponsored by the FBI's Office of Diversity and Inclusion and led by Director Chris Wray, according to the screenshot. The speaker is the deputy coordinator for national monkeypox responseDemetre Daskalakis, who will discuss "the importance of LGBT+ [sic] visibility in the government and health care industry." The White House confirmed to Just the News that Daskalakis was the speaker.

Conservatives were quick to note upon Daskalakis' appointment in August that he repeatedly shows off symbols associated with Satanism in personal and professional capacities.

He wore the leather harness in a photo exposing his chest, with its tattoo, for New York City's 2021 pride parade. Daskalakis wore the same outfit in a cover profile of "the CDC's unconventional new HIV czar" for HIV Plus Magazine in February 2021.

Billed by the FBI as a "national expert" on LGBT+ health issues whose clinical practice focuses on care for "underserved" members of that community, Daskalakis routinely appears shirtless – and occasionally, pants-less – on his Instagram profile.

He told Politico he's not a Satanist and that his voluminous "thirst trap" photosare just to show off the work he put into his tattoos and exercise. Daskalakis also has a Jesus tattoo on his stomach.

Friend told Just the News he was informed by an employee at the event Tuesday thatWray gave Daskalakis a "certificate of appreciation" and that the White House official deemed the word monkeypox "racist." The World Health Organization shortened the term to "mpox" last fall for the same reason….

The FBI appears much less eager than Daskalakis to show off its body of work. Just the News could not find a website for its 10-year-old Office of Diversity and Inclusion or a link to the webcast.

An FBI diversity jobs page briefly mentions the work of the office but focuses on "diversity agent recruitment" events, "diversity advisory committees" such as LGBT-focused Bureau Equality that employees can join and "employee resource groups" that also serve employees by race, sex and sexual orientation.

The page lists Scott McMillion as its "former" chief diversity officer, a position created two years ago. But he's still listed as the current CDO on the FBI's leadership page. A former FBI special agent blasted the DACs and ERGs as "gratuitous DEI efforts," in a recent New York Post column.

Friend initially told Just the News he expected the video to remain saved on the bureau's internal servers, since it qualifies as training credit and that he was hoping to obtain clips from his sources. Hours after the event ended it was not available on demand, Friend said he learned.

A previous FBI stab atmandatory diversity training, in spring 2021, got such a bad reception the bureau stopped requiring it within two months, according to fellow FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin, known for revealing the intelligence product that portrayed some Roman Catholics as radical extremists worthy of investigation.

The sexual orientation and gender identity training received "incredibly significant amounts of negative feedback" in the FBI's five-star rating system and comment forms for employee feedback, Seraphin told Just the News. He refused to take the training, expecting to get a "wrist slap," but nothing happened to him or others who resisted, he said.

Seraphin shared with Just the News a 56-page scanned rendering of the online course, which he said was hosted on unclassified FBI servers at the time. It was also sponsored by the diversity office and created "with assistance" from Bureau Equality. The Daily Caller reported some of the content in December…

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/fbis-chris-wray-leads-diversity-training-kinky-white-house-official

Feds Arrest ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Actor Jay Johnston Over Jan. 6 Capitol Siege; Faces Obstruction & Other Charges

Dominic Patten

Wed, June 7, 2023 at 4:04 PM EDT·2 min read

Jay Johnston was arrested today in Los Angeles for his participation in the January 6 insurrection and attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The benched Bob’s Burgers actor surrendered to the FBI at its field office Wednesday, a day after the Justice Department issued warrant for him (read it here). Johnston is expected to appear in federal court later today.

Part of a “group assault,” according to other court documents, Johnston has been charged with obstruction of law enforcement performing their duties, as well as misdemeanors of entering a restricted area, and hampering the conduct of government business (read it here).

Sought by the FBI since March 2021, the involvement of the man who voiced Jimmy Pesto in dozens of episodes of the Fox animated series wasn’t exactly breaking news. An alum of Mr. Show with Bob and David, Better Call Saul and The Sarah Silverman Program, Johnston was sidelined from Bob’s Burgers back in December 2021 for his role among the Donald Trump supporting MAGA mob who stormed the Capitol that day over two years ago.

As they have with literally thousands of suspects, the feds put out photos of Johnston not long after the January 6 attack:

The #FBI is still seeking information on people who took part in the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. If you know this individual, visit https://t.co/iL7sD5efWD. Refer to photo 247 in your tip. pic.twitter.com/CetMHzU190

— FBI (@FBI) March 4, 2021

As the screenshot heavy documents make clear, the circulation of the images of Johnston got a pretty quick response:

On or about March 8, 2021, an attorney contacted the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center (“NTOC”) and stated that s/he represented JAY JAMES JOHNSTON, who was the individual pictured in publicly disseminated photographs 247-AFO.

The FBI has interviewed three current or former associates of JOHNSTON, all of whom identified JOHNSTON as the individual in the above photographs of 247-AFO. One of these associates provided the FBI with a text message in which JOHNSTON acknowledged being at the Capitol on January 6, stating “The news has presented it as an attack. It actually wasn’t. Thought it kind of turned into that. It was a mess. Got maced and tear gassed and I found it quite untastic.”

Records from United Airlines show that JOHNSTON had a round-trip flight reservation from Los Angeles, California to Washington, D.C. departing on January 4, 2021 and returning on January 7, 2021.

Over 1,023 January 6 rioters have been arrested so far, with nearly 280 behind bars of of the about 490 sentenced.

https://news.yahoo.com/feds-arrest-bob-burgers-jay-200400466.html

Oregon Attorney General and Treasurer investigating Fox corporation board

(Faux fucked themselves by paying that settlement, now every lefty has a reason to sue them or penalize them and put them out of business. They only did this to fuck with Trump, this might be a boomerang)

Probe focus on whether board breached its fiduciary duties by allowing Fox News to broadcast false claims that Dominion and Smartmatic rigged the 2020 presidential election.

Updated: June 6, 2023 - 11:22pm

(The Center Square) - Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum started an investigation into a possible stockholder derivative action against the board of directors of Fox Corporation, the corporate parent of Fox News, for a possible breach of fiduciary duty.

Rosenblum is investigating this on behalf of the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (OPERF); the fund invests in Fox.

“Treasurer Read and I believe that Fox’s board of directors breached its fiduciary duties by allowing Fox News to broadcast false claims that Dominion and Smartmatic rigged the 2020 presidential election,” Rosenblum said in the release. “We hope to hold the board accountable and protect the long-term value of Oregon’s investment in Fox Corp.”

The Oregon Department of Justice and Treasury investigation will consider leading a lawsuit against Fox’s management on behalf of the company’s harmed investors, including Oregon’s public employees.

The investigation will determine if the state thinks the board of directors of Fox should be held accountable for the $787.5 million incurred by Fox to settle its Dominion defamation claim and other legal costs incurred due to defamation from Fox News.

“We invest for Oregon’s public servants, and we aim to hold Fox’s board of directors, including Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, accountable for their decisions,” Treasurer Tobias Read said in the release. “Investigating Fox’s books and records is a necessary and significant step in fulfilling our obligation to our beneficiaries.”

As the Department of Justice's office points out, Fox News had broadcasts after the 2020 presidential election that falsely claimed Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines had been manipulated to rig the election against then-President Donald Trump. The lawsuit revealed the claims were made, even though senior executives and on-air anchors at Fox News knew the claims were false.

Although the Dominion lawsuit has been settled, the Smartmatic litigation is still ongoing.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/oregon-attorney-general-and-treasurer-investigating-fox-corporation

7 Jun, 2023 21:14

Zelensky ‘shocked’ at cold shoulder from UN

The Ukrainian president has accused the organization of ignoring Kiev’s pleas in the wake of the Kakhovka dam catastrophe

Ukrainian President VladimirZelensky has blasted the UN as well as the Red Cross for alleged inactionamid the flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam. He also insisted that Ukraine does not stand to gain anything militarily from the presumed act of sabotage that Kiev and Moscow are blaming on each other.

In an interview with Germany’s BILD media outlet on Wednesday, Zelensky said that even though the disaster has been going on for many hours now,the UN and the Red Cross “are not there.” The Ukrainian head of state stressed that the two organizations are supposed to be the first ones “to save human lives.”

“We have received no response [to our requests for help]. I am shocked,” he added.

According to Zelensky, both organizations have essentially washed their hands of the situation. (So Zelensky thought they could get away with a terrorist act and have the UN clean it up, so he won’t pay for it, and say “see I was the only one trying to get UN help for them, so we didn’t blow it up”)

The Ukrainian president also dismissed claims that the destruction of the dam had given his military an advantage. Whether it has ended up worse off as a result is “hard to tell,” Zelensky told reporters.

He went on to emphasize that the hydroelectric power plant is presently held by Russian forces, so that Kiev cannot back up its accusations against Moscow with material evidence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in turn, blamed the “barbaric act” on Ukraine and its Western backers. Earlier, Moscow strongly denied that its troops had blown up the dam.

In his statement on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the destruction of the dam as a “monumental humanitarian, economic and ecological catastrophe.”

He stopped short of apportioning the blame, noting that the “United Nations has no access to independent information on the circumstances” that led to the incident.

Guterres also said that theUN “and humanitarian partners are rushing support in coordination with the Government of Ukraine” to the affected areas.

The Red Cross, for its part, said in a tweet on Wednesday that its “colleagues from Red Cross Ukraine are working around the clock to assist and evacuate communitiesaffected by the flooding after the destruction of the Nova Kakhokva dam.”

The aid group added that it is looking at ways it “can best support the humanitarian response.”

The Kakhovka dam was partially ruptured on Tuesday morning, causing flooding in multiple towns and villages along the path of the Dnieper River.

https://www.rt.com/russia/577668-zelensky-criticizes-un-kakhovka-dam/