Liberty Tree

Just know everyone does not feel that way. You have a lot of support.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

I know and very grateful for that!!..

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Pathetic we have a President and administration who won't even call this out and threaten these colleges with pulled funds and or taxing the endowments they receive. What do you expect from a bunch that can't even admit there's only two genders.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

This is all predicted in Bible prophecy. Just sayen.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

FBI director has been sounding alarm on ‘heightened threat environment’: Is America listening?

FBI Director Christopher Wray has warned lawmakers that the threat of terrorism has risen to a whole other level since Oct. 7
Whether it’s terrorism, China, or an insecure border, the U.S. faces a litany of threats both internally and internationally, according to the FBI.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has repeatedly warned of a "heightened threat environment," and has pleaded with lawmakers to take each one seriously.
Connecting all of these disparate threats is the FBI’s ability to adequately address them. At a House Appropriations Subcommittee earlier this month, Wray said the FBI’s fiscal year 2024 budget was around $500 million below what the bureau needed to sustain its 2023 efforts.
Wray said the budget shortfall "could not have come at a worse time" given that the U.S., according to the bureau, is in a "heightened threat environment."

"As I look back over my career in law enforcement, I would be hard-pressed to think of a time where so many threats to public safety and national security were so elevated all at once, but that is the case as I sit here today," Wray told House lawmakers.
His comments came days before the House passed a $95 billion aid package in military aid for Ukraine and Israel.
"After Oct. 7 is when we went to a whole other level."
— FBI Director Christopher Wray
Here is an assessment from the FBI Director of some of the top threats the U.S. faces in the coming months and years.

CHINA
Of all the threats the U.S. faces, the FBI has signaled that China far outweighs them all. According to Wray, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has built up a vast cybersecurity and counterintelligence apparatus devoted to theft of intellectual property and criminality.
Wray spoke about the threat posed by China during a summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats at Vanderbilt University last week.
China’s hacking program, Wray said, was larger than that of every other major nation combined – and that’s only magnified by the PRC’s military and growing use of artificial intelligence.
"You could close your eyes and pull an industry or sector out of a hat and, chances are, Beijing has targeted it."
— FBI Director Christopher Wray
To give a sense of the scope of the PRC’s operations, Wray said that even if the bureau’s top cyber agents and cyber intelligence analysts were focused solely on China – and not on ransomware, Iran, or Russia – "Chinese hackers would still (conservatively) outnumber FBI cyber personnel by at least 50 to 1."
He said Beijing has hit just about every American industry – whether it be biotech, aviation, AI, health, or agriculture – to steal U.S. intellectual property.
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"You could close your eyes and pull an industry or sector out of a hat and, chances are, Beijing has targeted it," Wray said. "The PRC is engaged in the largest and most sophisticated theft of intellectual property and expertise in the history of the world, leveraging its most powerful weapons, starting with cyber."
Wray previously told lawmakers that there has been far too little public focus on the fact that PRC hackers are targeting the U.S.’ critical infrastructure "in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities."
China’s malign efforts, Wray said, are driven largely by the Chinese Communist Party’s "aspirations to wealth and power," as it seeks to seize economic development in the areas most critical to tomorrow’s economy.
Compounding these threats is China’s long-term goal to retake Taiwan. Per Wray, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence last year assessed that Beijing was building out its capability to deter U.S. intervention in a potential crisis between China and Taiwan by 2027.
Wray warned in January that the PRC had "circled" the year 2027 on its calendar and will "be on us before you know it."
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"I do want the American people to know that we cannot afford to sleep on this danger.
As a government and a society, we’ve got to remain vigilant and actively defend against the threat that Beijing poses," Wray said in January. "Otherwise, China has shown it will make us pay."
At that same hearing, Wray called China’s "multi-pronged assault" on our national and economic security "the defining threat of our generation."

BORDER
Securing the border remains a top issue for American voters, particularly amid the rise of suspects on the terrorist watch list as well as the proliferation of deadly fentanyl into communities nationwide.
Wray told lawmakers at a House Appropriations Subcommittee on April 11 that the bureau continues to see drug cartels pushing "fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into every corner of the country."
"Let’s not forget that it didn’t take a big number of people on 9/11 to kill 3,000 people."
— FBI Director Christopher Wray
He noted at Vanderbilt University last week that many of fentanyl’s precursor chemicals that end up in our communities "are coming out of China."
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in December, Wray said the bureau had seized enough fentanyl to kill 270 million people.
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"That’s about 80% of all Americans," Wray said.
"We’re also focused on other threats that emanate from the border and impact communities all over the country, things like violent gangs and human traffickers."
At the same hearing, Wray said terrorists' ability to "exploit any port of entry, including our Southwest border, is a source of concern."
"There’s a lot of discussion about numbers – and numbers are important – but let’s not forget that it didn’t take a big number of people on 9/11 to kill 3,000 people," he said, noting that the bureau has seen an increase in "suspected terrorists attempting to cross (the border) over the last five years."
Asked by Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., in December whether the U.S. was seeing the largest terrorist threat since 9/11, Wray said the threat was "higher than it’s been in a long, long time."

"I see blinking lights everywhere I turn," Wray told Graham.
TERRORISM
Wray said earlier this month that the U.S. was at a "heightened threat level" of terrorism even before Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants stormed into Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostages.
"After Oct. 7 is when we went to a whole other level," Wray told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on April 11.
Wray said the FBI has seen a "rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorist organizations calling for attacks on us."

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This includes Hezbollah in Lebanon praising Hamas and threatening to attack U.S. interests in the region. It includes Al Qaeda issuing its most "specific call for an attack" on the U.S. in the past half-decade.
AQAP, which is Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as well as ISIS have called for jihadists to attack Americans and Jewish communities in the U.S. In Afghanistan, home to Al Qaeda and ISIS-K, the U.S. has lost some of its intelligence-gathering capabilities following the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S.
Wray also pointed to the growth of other terrorist groups in Africa like Al Shabab – the best-funded branch of Al Qaeda – as well ISIS’s attempt to "free some very dangerous fighters" in Syria.
Wray said these terrorist groups typically don’t see eye to eye but are united in one thing: calling for attacks on the U.S.
"When organizations like Al Qaeda, like ISIS, express an intent to conduct attacks against us, it is something we need to take very seriously," Wray said. "And so, that’s part of why I’ve highlighted this as a heightened threat."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-director-sounding-alarm-heightened-threat-environment-is-america-listening

Wonttakeitanymore

And running again! This is the Soviet Union

pegw

You were bullied in school, so was I.
Don't worry, the whole campus protests for Palestinian rights will go away in less than a month. Unfortunately, they will still be starving.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

They should thank hamas for starvation...

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

You are absolutely right Liberty Tree. PR has a lot of support here on OPP from both sides. We may disagree on almost everything political here but She is a Good Lady and a true patriot IMO.

dbirch

I don't think they want to vote for him they just don't want Trump to win.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

Anti-Semitism has always been swirling just below the surface of Progressvism. The reasons, I think, is that if you want to replace the Old World Order with the New World Order, the oldest order in the West is Judaism. Hence, Judaism much be desroyed.

Jewish merchants in the Hoods have always been resented and that has been exploited by odious demagogues such as Al Sharpton. Yet, the Jewish bloc has been one of the most reliably Democratic in this country.

At the same time, Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard & Jewish scholars have been bulwarks of tradition. But then you have political leaders like Chuckles Schumer, Adam Schiff, etc. It defies reason.

Tomtractor51

I don't know a Democrat that is not a idiot

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Pretty much. Some Blue dogs, but they’re an endangered species.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Thank you, Aggie!..

dbirch

Each side needs to quit making threats and just get 'er done. Our kids can't read and teachers haven't been taught how to teach. They should already been taxed on their endowments. They know there are only two genders just doing this to keep us upset so they can continue to fail this nation and it's people.