Pentagon To Activate Transgender Military Ban After Judge Removes Block

A federal judge removed a bar on President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military Thursday as litigation in the case moves forward.

U.S. District Judge George Russell ruled Thursday that an injunction should not stand, reversing his earlier decision, CNN reported. A final decision on the case, however, has not been reached.

Persons diagnosed with gender dysphoria who have undergone hormone therapy or gender reassignment surgery cannot enlist in the military under the ban, CBS News reported. Those who have been diagnosed but have not gone through treatments are still eligible, and transgender personnel currently serving will not be barred from continuing to serve.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is “pleased this procedural hurdle has been cleared,” according to a statement, CNN reported.

“The Department of Defense will be able to implement personnel policies it determined necessary to best defend our nation as litigation continues,” DOJ spokeswoman Kelly Laco told CNN.

The Pentagon will issue “further guidance, which will be forthcoming in the near future,” according to Pentagon spokeswoman Jessica Maxwell, CNN reported.

The ruling is “deeply disappointing for our clients and for transgender service members across the nation,” ACLU attorney Joshua Block said in a statement. “We will continue to fight against this discriminatory policy and the Trump administration’s attacks on transgender people.”

The ruling comes after Judge Marsha Pechman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington granted a preliminary injunction in December 2017, blocking Trump’s ban. (RELATED: Pentagon To Allow Transgender Recruits)

Trump first announced the ban in June 2017.

“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow … Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump tweeted.

The case is still pending in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Pentagon will not be able to fully implement the ban until a decision is reached.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/08/pentagon-transgender-ban/

Who Is Saikat Chakrabarti? And Why We Should Be Very Concerned (AOC's Chief of Staff)

Excerpted from article, https://theclosetontheright.com/the-dangerous-reality-behind-aoc/

Alright, let’s start from the beginning. Chakrabarti is a native Fort Worth, Texas and graduated from Harvard with a degree in Computer Science.

After graduation, he spent eight years in Silicon Valley working for various companies. He co-founded the wireframe building site Mockingbird.com and went on to help build the payment processing site, Stripe.com.

Once again, for a fascist-loving socialist, he sure does act like a capitalist. Between Mockingbird and Stripe, Chakrabarti is a self-made millionaire.

According to an interview in IndiaAbroad.com, he became disillusioned with society after graduating from Harvard and earning millions. Ummm, ok.

It was then he decided to leave the tech sector and go to work for the Bernie Sanders campaign.

"You have to create the society you want to create and that is done through politics."-Saikrat Chakrabarti

Evidently, this society he wants to create involves breadlines and political oppression. Per Chakrabarti, Sanders didn’t have all the “right answers,” but he was talking about the “right problems.” During his time with the Sanders campaign, he learned how to harness the power of volunteers among many other things.

It was also here that he met his future business partners/activists, Alexandra Rojas, and Corbin Trent.

After Bernie’s loss to Hillary in the primaries, the team went on to form PACs Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress.

While Chakrabarti appears to be an ambitious and creative progressive activist on the surface, in reality, he’s positioning himself to influence politics for years to come.

The Reality

By helping AOC land her seat in the House of Representatives, Chakrabarti landed himself on the Politico Power Player list of 2019. The interviews with Saikat reveal a lot about his plans, and himself.

He’s creative, cunning and using the one progressive he managed to get elected as a face for his long-term plans.

"When you shoot for big stuff, you stay true to the movement, you fight unapologetically on the inside, that is a very, very powerful way to pass the radical solutions that are necessary to face the radical problems that you have."- Saikat Chakrabarti

Keyword: RADICAL

First, he set up Brand New Congress to issue a sort of “casting call” to communities all over America with the intent of finding and then backing as many radical progressives as he could enlist. This was how he found gaffe-prone Ocasio-Cortez.

(See graphic in article for 'how it works')

I’ll give it to this guy, this is smart. Really smart. Chakrabarti founded and controls two major PACs with one simple goal: Pack the Government with Radicals like AOC.

Based on this alone, it’s clear that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t the brains behind her operation.

Here’s Why He’s Dangerous

Initially, when I started researching Chakrabarti I asked myself, “Why doesn’t he run for Congress himself?”

If we look at his goals, strategy and action plan; it becomes very clear.

Running on his own ticket would divert his attention away from mass producing candidates to challenge moderate Democrat incumbents.

If he loses his election, he loses his power.

AOC and other candidates make up for his shortcomings in relatability, social media presence, and personality. (Sorry, dude. No one wants to watch you cut vegetables in your kitchen while you rant about climate change)

If a candidate loses their election, he can move on to another one.

By helping and funding candidates win a seat in Congress, he has a clear path to Congress as well.

Even if AOC loses her next election, his process is repeatable every election cycle.

By structuring his PACs in the way he’s done, he’s essentially setting himself up to have a very long, very powerful career working behind the curtain to influence policies in Washington, DC.

Think about it, within the span of four years, Chakrabarti has propelled himself from campaign organizer to Chief of Staff. All he had to do was find someone to be the face of his grand plan.

Let’s be honest, if you peel back the slimy layers of the swamp, the power players aren’t the ones messing with their dentures nonstop. Nope, the real power players are the ones behind the scenes, advising on policy decisions, buying votes and playing a game by their own set of rules.

Granted, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is still dangerous. People are listening to, and supporting the message she is parroting, but she is merely a vessel.

Don’t be fooled, America. If they want you to look here, it’s because something else is going on over there.

Wasteful Spending in Midst of $22 Trillion National Debt—Mariachi Training, Soviet Wine Study

In the midst of a mind-boggling $22 trillion national debt the U.S. government wastes large sums of taxpayer money on questionable programs like a mariachi apprenticeship and a California professor’s study on Soviet wines. Multi-million-dollar projects to help military veterans have also failed miserably and the funds have mysteriously vanished. The pervasive government waste is documented in a new report (Federal Fumbles) issued this week by a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma who has published similar documents in the last three years. “This year’s volume focuses heavily on government inefficiency and wastes of time as well as federal tax dollars,” the senator, James Lankford, says in a statement. “The federal government should work for the taxpayers and spend your tax dollars wisely.”

Blowing north of $700,000 on a Mariachi Master Apprentice program clearly does not meet that criteria. Created in 2000, the mariachi program is based in the southern California city of San Fernando with the help of a famous mariachi leader named Señor Natividad Cano. According to the city’s website the mariachi master apprentice project unites young students with musicians to study the popular and traditional Mexican art form. “Through the study of culturally-relevant musical traditions, young people are discovering a sense of pride in the heritage of their families and developing positive self-identities,” the website states. “As young folk artists, they contribute to the underserved communities they live in by preserving and disseminating the traditional arts. The results are important because our youth are provided the skill-sets and real-life experiences needed for success as future leaders and also allows them to develop a better understanding and respect for all people within our culturally diverse society.”

American taxpayers also doled out $50,400 for a California professor’s study of Soviet wine. The cash flowed through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to a teacher at Sonoma State University who examined how Russia used its wine industry to befriend Europe. Perhaps this crucial study should have been funded by the booming wine industry and not U.S. taxpayers. The global wine market was valued at an astounding $302 billion in 2017, according to a research firm, and is expected to generate revenue of about $424 billion by the end of 2023. The thriving industry certainly doesn’t need public funds to conduct a study.

Lankford’s report also includes a section on the federal hiring process and a costly special retirement supplement and automatic pay increase. Federal agencies take an average of 106 days to hire new employees, a lengthy process that often scares off new talent. A special retirement supplement for federal workers that retire before they’re eligible for Social Security benefits costs around $18.7 billion over 10 years and the senator would like to get rid of it. He would also like to change the current automatic pay and step increase for federal employees to a merit-based system similar to the private sector.

The waste documented in Federal Fumbles in nothing new and includes a tiny snippet of the bigger picture. Over the years Judicial Watch has written about similar congressional reports documenting the government’s manic spending spree. In 2015 Lankford’s report was nearly twice as long and listed all sorts of outrageous government allocations for things like studying bugs’ reactions to artificial light, a weight-loss program for truck drivers and a federal agency’s multi-million-dollar social media account. A similar document titled “Wastebook,” listed nearly $30 billion in senseless projects, including a $390,000 global warming cartoon series, $379 million to promote Obamacare and $65 million in Hurricane Sandy “emergency” funds on television ads. Years earlier, the “Wastebook” listed about $6.5 billion in controversial projects like a $10 million remake of a popular American kids show for Pakistan, $35 million for political party conventions and a $550,000 documentary about how rock music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2019/03/wasteful-spending-in-midst-of-22-trillion-national-debt-mariachi-training-soviet-wine-study/

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If notable, then suggest topic title is something akin to: Saikat Chakrabarti - Plan to Pack the Government with Radicals like AOC

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I posted the story last night, wasn't made notable. I also posted the video of humorous video of AOC as hypocrite, which is unrelated to this topic.

Perhaps I missed the items which you mention as past notables.