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Brazil's Bolsonaro picks pastor as latest education minister

SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Friday his second pick to head the education ministry in 11 days, naming a college professor and church pastor to the post.

Milton Ribeiro, a former deputy dean of Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo who preaches at a Presbyterian church in Santos outside the metropolis, will be in charge of one of the government’s most desired jobs.

Religious groups supporting the president say the education ministry is key to boosting Christian values in Brazil and casting aside what they contend is leftist influence in the schools.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/10/brazils-bolsonaro-picks-pastor-as-latest-education/

Media Groupthink Obscures Trump's Strong 2020 Position

Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan write that it gives them no great joy to think about Trump getting a second term, but here are some things that Democrats need to consider before celebrating a Joe Biden victory. One main thing is that Trump's numbers are down by a lot less than one would expect given, well, everything, they write.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2020/07/11/media_groupthink_obscures_trumps_strong_2020_position_516816.html

Virginia State Board Unanimously Approves Removing Downtown Richmond Robert E. Lee Statue

A Virginia state review board has unanimously approved removing a statue of Robert E. Lee from downtown Richmond.

The left has been on a mission to tear down statues and monuments by holding historic figures to modern “woke” standards.

The Hill reports that “the plan still hinges on a court’s review of Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) power to remove the monument, though aides to Northam have said he’s determined to remove the statue.”

“The governor is committed to the removal of this statue,” Joe Damico, director of the Virginia Department of General Services, told the Art and Architectural Review Board on Friday. “From my perspective, as soon as the lawsuit is settled and the way is clear, we will work very quickly to remove the statue from the pedestal.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/virginia-state-board-unanimously-approves-removing-downtown-richmond-robert-e-lee-statue/

Trump confirms 2018 US cyberattack against Russia

President Donald Trump on Friday confirmed for the first time that the United States launched a cyberattack against the Russian Internet Research Agency in 2018.

The IRA, a Russian company that deploys online trolls for influence operations, was blamed by U.S. officials for meddling in both the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 midterms.

Trump confirmed the attack during a two-part interview with Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen. When asked whether the U.S. had launched an attack on the IRA, Trump responded “correct.”

The Washington Post in 2019 reported on the attack, which blocked the IRA’s internet access, but Trump had not previously confirmed U.S. involvement.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/11/trump-confirms-2018-us-cyberattack-against-russia/

Sound familiar At All

Maduro’s “New Order”

Maduro's regime seems to have devoted the month of June to advance along the lines of a new electoral ambush

General Suharto was appointed as the acting president in March 1967. The parliament confirmed him in office for five years in March 1968. This was the beginning of the “new order” that ruled Indonesia until 1998.

In 1971, he called for legislative elections, the first since the coup that brought him to power. His strategy was to take control of an institution of representation of interests-called “Golkar”-which he turned into an electoral and parliamentary instrument. Besides the productive sectors, he included the state bureaucracy and the army, the latter in a clear position of hierarchy. Thus, the new order could be defined as a civic-military regime.

https://panampost.com/hector-schamis/2020/07/11/maduros-new-order/

Former National Review Board chairman cites ‘mixed progress’ on clergy sex abuse

After eight years as chairman of the National Review Board, a lay committee that advises the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on addressing clergy sex abuse, Francesco C. Cesareo says the Catholic Church in the United States has made “some progress, but a mixed progress.”

“There’s still some work to be done going forward in order to tighten up the charter and the processes that are part of it,” Cesareo said in reference to the U.S. bishops’ 2002 Dallas Charter that instituted new norms to investigate clergy sex abuse cases.

https://osvnews.com/2020/07/09/former-national-review-board-chairman-cites-mixed-progress-on-clergy-sex-abuse/

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FBI Man at the Heart of Surveillance Abuses Is a Professor of Spying Ethics

Above, Brian J. Auten, the FBI analyst who vetted applications to spy on Carter Page, has taught a course on spying ethics at Patrick Henry College since 2010.

The unnamed FBI “Supervisory Intelligence Analyst” cited by the Justice Department's watchdog for failing to properly vet the so-called Steele dossier before it was used to justify spying on the Trump campaign teaches a class on the ethics of spying at a small Washington-area college, records show.

The senior FBI analyst, Brian J. Auten, has taught the course at Patrick Henry College since 2010, including the 11-month period in 2016 and 2017 when he and a counterintelligence team at FBI headquarters electronically monitored an adviser to the Trump campaign based on false rumors from the dossier and forged evidence.

Auten, identified by congressional sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, never confirmed the most explosive allegations in the dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, cutting a number of corners in the verification process, Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz pointed out in his December report on FBI abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

By January 2017, the lead analyst had ample evidence the dossier was bogus. Auten could not get sources who provided information to Steele to support the dossier’s allegations during interviews. And collections from the wiretaps of Trump aide Carter Page failed to reveal any confirmation of the claims. Auten even came across exculpatory evidence indicating Page was not the Russian asset the dossier alleged, but was in fact a CIA asset helping the U.S. spy on Moscow.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/07/10/fbi_man_at_heart_of_surveillance_abuses_is_a_professor_of_spying_ethics_124382.html