Becker Brief: Morning Report for 2-22-23
World War 3 ahead? Chinese and Russian leaders meet up, Ohio train derailment fallout, a new 2024 presidential contender, J6 tapes hysteria and more!
Welcome to the first installment of the Becker Brief, a daily rundown of the hottest and most important news you can find.
WORLD WAR 3 AHEAD?
Top Republican says 'all options must be on the table' after Russia pulls out of nuclear treaty
Russia pulled out of the New START treaty on Tuesday
"All options must be on the table including deploying additional nuclear forces and increasing the readiness of our nuclear triad," House Armed Services Committee chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) said. "We must also accelerate efforts to modernize our nuclear systems, and I again call on the President to abandon his plans to weaken our deterrent such as canceling the Nuclear Sea Launched Cruise Missile."
China’s Xi Jinping Plans Russia Visit as Putin Wages War in Ukraine
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is preparing to visit Moscow for a summit with Russia’s president in the coming months, according to people familiar with the plan, as Vladimir Putin wages war in Ukraine and portrays himself as a standard-bearer against a U.S.-led global order.
Putin meets top Chinese diplomat Wang in the Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi in the Kremlin, television pictures show.5
DiscloseTV: “China-Russia relations are strong and will withstand changes in the international environment, says China's top diplomat Wang Yi during his visit to Moscow today.”
Russian ICBM test failed while Biden was in Ukraine: report
Russia tested an intercontinental ballistic missile Monday while President Biden was in Ukraine that appears to have failed, according to a report.
The test was of a nuclear-capable heavy SARMAT missile, dubbed Satan II by NATO, and classified as a “superweapon” by the head of Russia’s aerospace research agency.
Trump Issues Dire New Warning; “World War 3 Has Never Been Closer Than It Is Right Now”
“One of the reasons I was the only president in generations who didn’t start a war is that I was the only president who rejected the catastrophic advice of many of Washington’s generals, bureaucrats, and the so-called diplomats who only know how to get us into conflict, but they don’t know how to get us out.”
Jack Posobeic: “Trump just publicly confirmed the US State Dept was behind the Maidan Uprising in Ukraine”
Biden on NATO: "Russia knows it as well. An attack against one is an attack against all."
Rogan O’Handley on Lindsey Graham: “These are the words of a soulless warmonger who thinks Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are disposable as long as American defense contractors can keep making billions in weapons sales”
DISASTERS ACROSS AMERICA
Trump to visit East Palestine, donate water, supplies amid Biden's 'failed' response: adviser
Former President Trump will travel to East Palestine, Ohio Wednesday and is set to donate thousands of gallons of cleaning supplies and more than a dozen pallets of water to the community…
EPA to require Norfolk Southern to clean up chemicals after Ohio train derailment
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ordering Norfolk Southern to clean up and pay for the cleanup costs after one of its trains derailed and spilled chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.
The legally binding order will require the company to identify and clean up contaminated soil and water, reimburse the EPA for the cleaning that it is doing and attend public meetings at the agency’s request, according to a press release from the agency.
Pete Buttigieg slams Norfolk Southern amid criticism over his response to Ohio train derailment
Embattled Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sent a scathing letter to Norfolk Southern on Sunday, accusing the railway company whose train derailed in Ohio earlier this month of putting profits above safety. Buttigieg’s three-page letter to the company came as he faces calls for impeachment or his resignation over his handling of the devastating Feb. 3 derailment of the freight train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine.
Jennie Taer at the Daily Caller: “I asked Secretary Buttigieg about the crisis in East Palestine and I guess he didn’t like that so he took a pic of me. Im just doing my job, sir”
2024 RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE
A Wealthy ‘Anti-Woke’ Activist Joins the 2024 Presidential Field
Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, has made a name for himself in right-wing circles by opposing corporate efforts to advance political, social and environmental causes.
2024 announcement from @VivekGRamaswamy: Today I’m launching not just a political campaign, but a cultural movement to revive American national identity itself.
Campaign ad from @VivekGRamswamy: “We’ve celebrated our “diversity” so much that we forgot all the ways we’re really the same as Americans, bound by ideals that united a divided, headstrong group of people 250 years ago. I believe deep in my bones those ideals still exist. I’m running for President to revive them.”
Ron DeSantis begins three-city tour: “Americans are fleeing cities governed by leftist politicians as violent crime has surged due to woke, anti-police policies. NYC, Philadelphia and Chicago should follow Florida’s lead and reject soft-on-crime policies.”
BIG TECH TITANS
Elon Musk promises open source Twitter algorithm: “Prepare to be disappointed at first when our algorithm is made open source next week, but it will improve rapidly!”
Biden executive order for 'woke' artificial intelligence called 'social cancer'
President Biden signed an executive order on Thursday that critics warn will allow for the creation of woke artificial intelligence (AI) that "promotes racial division and discrimination." The order directs all federal agencies to establish a yearly "equity action plan" aimed at helping "underserved communities."
DiscloseTV: “Unsecured DoD sever was spilling terabytes of internal U.S. military emails to the open internet for the past two weeks.”
Sensitive US military emails spill online: A government cloud email server was connected to the internet without a password
The exposed server was hosted on Microsoft’s Azure government cloud for Department of Defense customers, which uses servers that are physically separated from other commercial customers and as such can be used to share sensitive but unclassified government data
COVIDIOCY
Why is the state giving your health data to political consultants?
“We have your information in our system,” Newsom said. The Mercury News reported that he was “referring to the millions of vaccination records in the California Public Department of Health’s confidential, digital Immunization Information System.”
The state “maintains a confidential registry of all vaccine recipients,” CalMatters reported, noting the governor’s assurance that the names of the winners would be kept confidential unless the individuals volunteered to have their information released.
But the confidentiality of the information in the state’s vaccine registry has a big loophole in it through which the confidential data is flowing to a political consulting firm called Street Level Strategy, LLC.
Laura Powell on Twitter: “I just received a phone call from an actual human at the CDPH, who knew my name and vaccination status. She wanted to know if weekdays or weekends would be better to schedule an appointment to get jabbed.”
NYC reportedly sells nearly $225M worth of COVID supplies for just $500K
City officials auctioned off nearly $225 million worth of surplus COVID-19 medical equipment and safety gear for just $500,000 — or a paltry 0.2 cents on the dollar, according to a stunning report.
J6 TAPES HYSTERIA
Top Democrats Panic Over Imminent Release Of January 6th Tapes
House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries is losing it over the imminent release of the tapes.
Newly Released J6 Footage Shows 'Non-Uniformed' Officers, Police Urging Pro-Trump Protesters to Go to the Capitol
GLOBALIST WATCH
Give digital IDs to all, urge Tony Blair and William Hague
Everyone in Britain should be given a digital ID incorporating their passport, driving licence, tax records, qualifications and right to work as the cornerstone of a “technology revolution”, Sir Tony Blair and Lord Hague of Richmond say today.
IN OTHER NEWS
“A man who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during the Kenosha riots in 2020 has filed a lawsuit against Rittenhouse and Wisconsin police and officials”…
TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME CONTINUES…
Jury in Georgia Trump Inquiry Recommended Multiple Indictments, Forewoman Says
A special grand jury that investigated election interference by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies in Georgia recommended indictments for multiple people on a range of charges in its final report, most of which remains sealed, the forewoman of the jury said on Tuesday.
BREAKING: @CNN interview with Foreperson Juror Emily Kohrs in Trump GA Grand Jury says "there will be no surprises" in indictments if you've been following. Also more than 12 people recommended for charges.
Swalwell’s next attack on Trump: Kicking him out of the US Capitol
Swalwell, D-Calif., is the sole co-sponsor of a new Democratic resolution that says Trump and several of his top aides should be permanently banished from the Capitol because of their attempt to "undermine and overturn the 2020 presidential election."
Excellent brief covering a wide range of issues and news. Thanks
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