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EXCLUSIVE: Biden-Harris’ Interior Department Directs Public To Use Terrorist Sympathizers As ‘Resource’

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The Department of Interior (DOI) is directing members of the public to the website of a radical activist group that voices support for terrorist sympathizers and condones violence against the United States and Israel.

“The global majority will rise up. Empire will pay for its crimes,” Janene Yazzie, NDN Collective’s director of policy and advocacy wrote in a Sept. 30 Instagram story in response to video footage of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. The NDN Collective, a South Dakota-based nonprofit that frequently marches in support of Hamas and Hezbollah, is listed under the DOI’s environmental justice webpage as an “engagement resource.”

“These links provide crucial information that can help improve understanding of environmental justice issues, build capacity to effectively participate in local decision-making opportunities, and transform communities,” the DOI wrote in its endorsement of the NDN Collective and other groups listed on the environmental justice resources webpage.

Senior Republican lawmakers expressed outrage over DOI Secretary Deb Haaland’s continued indulgence of pro-Hamas radicalism in response to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s findings that the Agency is giving a platform to an activist group that engages in anti-Israel advocacy.

“The Biden-Harris administration has not done enough to support our allies and fight terrorism,” Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee told the DCNF in a statement. “I have pressed Secretary Haaland to protect our federal lands and assets from terrorist sympathizers here at home, but instead her department is promoting them.”

“After witnessing the aftermath of the desecration of the American flag, hateful rhetoric emblazoned on historic monuments, assault on police officers, and more during the violent protests on DOI land near the Capitol this summer, it’s no surprise DOI is continuing to entertain pro-Hamas and anti-Israel activism,” Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman of Arkansas, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, wrote in a statement to the DCNF. “These despicable groups should be called out for the terrorists they support, not given a platform by extremists in the federal government.”

Barrasso sharply criticized Haaland over her failure to take decisive action against pro-Hamas rioters from defiling government property and assaulting U.S. Park Police (USPP) on DOI land in Washington, D.C. in an incident that occurred near the White House on June 8.

“I question whether political sympathy with the agitators influenced your department’s response to these acts of violence and vandalism,” Barrasso wrote in a June 13 letter to Haaland. “Your lack of meaningful action or public condemnation only serves to embolden these agitators. Your failure to act decisively jeopardizes the safety of federal personnel and diminishes public trust in DOI’s ability to uphold the rule of law.”

Barrasso wrote a follow-up letter to Haaland in August following the USPP’s failure to prevent the desecration of government property and the burning of American flags outside of Union Station during the address of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Congress on July 24.

Haaland has yet to denounce the actions of pro-Hamas protesters nor condemn the rising tide of antisemitism in the United States fueled in part by anti-Israel activist groups like the NDN Collective. A report by the Washington Free Beacon found that Haaland’s daughter is employed by an activist group known as the Pueblo Action Alliance that praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. The Pueblo Action Alliance continues to engage in anti-Israel advocacy.

The relationship between the NDN Collective and the DOI, including Haaland, extends beyond the agency’s decision to give a platform to the activist group’s radical ideas.

Haaland spoke at an NDN Collective watch party held on her behalf the day the Senate confirmed her to lead the DOI on Feb. 23, 2021.

According to open-source information obtained by the DCNF, members of the NDN Collective have held meetings with DOI officials at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. on at least three occasions since Haaland’s appointment to lead the DOI. The DOI did not respond to the DCNF’s inquiry about whether Haaland joined these meetings.

In the months preceding and following the DOI’s meetings with the NDN Collective, the activist group continued to push anti-Israel advocacy.

On March 31, 2022, the NDN Collective published a manifesto on Palestine that denied Israel and the United States’ right to exist and urged “resistance against colonialism and zionism.”

Several months later, members of the NDN Collective met with DOI officials in addition to White House staff and Capitol Hill offices during a visit to Washington, D.C. in July 2022. “We are here to hold these systems accountable and to bring voice to our struggle, to share what we are fighting to protect, as well as the future we are working towards,” Nick Tilsen, CEO of the NDN Collective, wrote in a press release commemorating the visit.

Tilsen is currently facing felony charges over allegedly assaulting a police officer during an altercation in June 2022. The NDN Collective also advocates for defunding the police and the U.S. military.

The NDN Collective returned to the nation’s capital in November 2023 to meet with DOI officials, including director of the USPP, Charles “Chuck” Sams. During that visit, members of NDN Collective stood outside Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan holding “Natives for Palestine” signs and met with Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri. House Republicans have strongly condemned Rep. Tlaib and Rep. Bush for promoting antisemitism and condoning the actions of pro-Hamas sympathizers.

On Oct. 19, 2023, the NDN Collective released a statement claiming “settler colonialism is at the root of the violence in Gaza” following Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

On Dec. 25, 2023, the NDN Collective called on Israel to free all Hamas terrorists in Israeli prisons. The activist group has remained largely silent on the subject of innocent Israeli and American hostages taken captive by Hamas into Gaza during the Oct. 7 attacks.

The NDN Collective also deployed “tactical media units” to at least five pro-Hamas student encampments, including those at Columbia University and Harvard University, in April and May of this year.

“The graphic videos of police and zionist violence upon the warriors at the encampments are difficult to watch but serve as a spotlight to illuminate the carnage happening right now across the country,” the NDN Collective, wrote in a May 7 blog post. “Zionism, settler-colonialism, and the US are losing the narrative battle.”

This September, an NDN Collective delegation returned to Washington, D.C. to meet with DOI officials, the White House, other federal agencies and more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers’ offices.

“Unraveling the complex colonial web that surrounds all of us requires multi pronged resistance efforts,” Eva Cardenas, NDN Collective’s director of organizing, wrote in a press release marking the visit. “We will continue to resist by any means necessary.”

The following week, the NDN Collective participated in a pro-Hezbollah march in New York City on Sept. 24 where participants chanted “From Gaza to Beirut, All our martyrs we salute.”

The DOI and the NDN Collective did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment on this story.

The NDN Collective came under congressional scrutiny in July from Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, who discovered that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) selected the radical activist group to help disburse $100 million taxpayer dollars to “community-based organizations” as part of the Inflation Reduction Act’s $3 billion Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants provision.

“In our oversight of the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, we’ve found over and over again that the law is quietly bankrolling extremist groups like the NDN Collective that openly advocate for anti-American, anti-police, and anti-Semitic causes, which have nothing to do with protecting the environment,” Capito said in a press release accompanying a committee oversight report on the NDN Collective’s anti-Israel activism.

The EPA did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment whether the Agency has obligated these two awards.

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Most I N C O M P E T E N T Cabinet in U.S. History?

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On April 1st, 2021 (April Fools Day) Joseph Robinett Biden Jr. tweeted,

April Fools’ Day, or All Fools’ Day, is an annual custom on April 1st consisting of “practical jokes” and “hoaxes.”

Little did anyone realize that this single Biden tweet was both a joke and a hoax fostered upon the the American people.

On April 29th, 2021 the White House stated in its FACT SHEET: 100 Days In, Biden-⁠Harris Administration Makes History with Presidential Appointees the following,

Today, the White House Office of Presidential Personnel is releasing new data about the historic number and diversity of presidential appointees hired by Day 100 of the Biden-Harris Administration.

Since Biden’s inauguration we have learned the following about Biden’s “diverse” cabinet:

  • Attorney General Merrick Garland. AG Garland has spied on the American people, designated parents who speak out about what their children are taught in public schools as “domestic terrorists”, over ruled the FBI and ordered a raid on the private residence of President Donald J. Trump, worked with social media platforms to censor Americans. House Resolution 743 — 117th Congress (2021-2022) stated, “On October 4, 2021, the Department of Justice released a memorandum from Attorney General Garland promising to announce a series of measures designed to address the alleged rise in criminal conduct toward school personnel, including opening dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting. Attorney General Garland’s memo made no mention of the statutory authority or authorities the Department would use to address those threats…Attorney General Garland has failed to faithfully uphold his oath and has by his actions, validated the belief of many Americans that the Department of Justice has been transformed into an unstoppable, partisan, Federal weapon used to officially punish political opponents. In an October 4, 2021, memorandum, Attorney General Garland announced that the Department of Justice would address alleged criminal conduct of lawful First Amendment activities objecting, among other things, to the teaching of “equity”, “inclusion”, and “critical race theory” concepts in public school districts.” Read  the full text of HR 743 — 117th Congress (2021-2022).
  • Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. On February 1, 2023 Congressman Andy Biggs filed a resolution to impeach Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” According to USA Today, “Biggs listed as examples Mayorkas’ opposition to continue building the border fence, which had been a priority of former President Donald Trump, and opposition to keeping the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program. Biggs also criticized Mayorkas for slowing down Title 42, a pandemic-era border health rule that allows the government to quickly deport people here illegally because of the COVID-19 health emergency.” Mayorkas “started immediately emasculating the very, very strong policies of the previous (Trump) administration,” Biggs said.
  • Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. In a New York Times op-ed published on Monday (27 Feb 2023) while she visited the nation, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claimed American taxpayers have a “moral duty” to defend Ukraine’s eastern border from invasion by giving aid to the nation. Yellen said the American support “is motivated, first and foremost, by a moral duty to come to the aid of a people under attack.” So far, American lawmakers have so far earmarked more than $110 billion of moral duty from taxpayers to defend the border against a Russian invasion. “Our work is not over. In fact, it is more vital than ever that we continue supporting the Ukrainians,” she continued. “Ukraine’s military resistance depends on a government that can function effectively, as well as a stable economy that can help finance defense efforts over the long term. By fortifying the ‘home front,’ our economic assistance is helping make possible Ukraine’s stalwart frontline defense against Russia.”
  • Secretary of Defense Defense Lloyd Austin. The Stars and Stripes reported on October 6, 2022, “Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday directed senior defense leaders to begin changing the names of military bases and assets honoring the Confederacy, bringing the Pentagon in line with recommendations issued by a congressional commission. Austin said he agreed with the findings of the Naming Commission, a group convened by Congress to purge the military of commemorative references to the Confederacy, and is committed to implementing the renaming plan as soon as possible.” On 23 Feb 2023 on NPR’s All Things Considered, woke Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin responded to questions on what would constitute a victory in the Ukraine-Russia war by stating that “Ukraine’s going to decide what victory’s going to look like.” Asked how this war ends, Austin responded, “I think, again, we’re going to focus on what’s in front of us right now and put them in the best possible position to continue to be successful. And I think that will lead us to Ukraine being in a — again, a good place, whether or not the fighting continues or whether or not they decide to go to the negotiating table.”
  • Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Michele Gama Sosa opinion editor for the Daily Caller asked Is Pete Buttigieg The Most Incompetent Transportation Secretary In History? Sosa on January 12, 2023 wrote, “Things just keep getting worse for Pete Buttigieg. After Southwest Airlines ruined many Americans’ holiday plans with mass cancelations, now a “glitch” is causing hundreds of flights to be canceled again.”  Trending Politics, on March 3, 2023 reported, “On Thursday, authorities announced that Patrick Wojahn, the mayor of College Park, Maryland, had been arrested on numerous charges of suspected child p*rnography and had subsequently resigned from his position. The Prince George’s County Police Department reported that Wojahn, 47, was accused of 56 counts of alleged child p*rnography, including 40 counts of possessing child exploitative material and 16 counts of distributing child exploitative material. According to the Washington Blade, Wojhan was mentored by Pete Buttigieg. The article was written in 2019 and goes into depth about the relationship the two political figures had. During his Council elections and his first run as a mayoral candidate, Wojahn knew he had no choice but to run as an openly gay man because of his media prominence with the marriage equality lawsuit. But being elected as an out gay mayor landed him a fortuitous mentor…The two continued to talk over the phone and Buttigieg explained the conference to him and what would take place at the meeting. Later, they would both attend a White House reception during the Obama administration where Dave and Chasten (Buttigieg) would meet as well. Wojahn said, “I actually met Mayor Pete Buttigieg shortly after I was elected mayor in 2015, I went to the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Winter Meeting in D.C. in January and he was assigned to be my buddy.”
  • FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director William Burns and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. in a column titled TWITTER FILES: FBI, CIA, DoD, Et al. Actively Worked With EVERY Social Media Platform to Control and Censor Speech wrote, “In this latest drop we see the FBI, CIA, DoD, State Department, Pentagon, et.al. dictating censorship to Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others. This is so vast, so deep, it’s …… the whole of the state. The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA. The government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm. We live in a surveillance state.”

The Bottom Line

Breitbart’s Charlies Spiering on wrote,

President Joe Biden boasted that his cabinet “looks like America” during his first meeting with his team on Thursday.

“This is the first in American history that the Cabinet looks like America,” Biden said as his cabinet gathered at the White House. “That’s what we promised we were going to do, and we’ve done it.”

[ … ]

Kamala Harris is the first female vice president, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is the first female Treasury Secretary, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is the first black defense secretary, and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is the first Native American cabinet secretary.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are both the first Hispanic Americans to hold their positions.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is the first Senate-confirmed openly gay cabinet secretary.

What has happened since Biden was selected president is unbelievable. Biden has based his cabinet selections on sex, race and sexual orientation, not on competence.

We have seen a war started, high gasoline prices, the cost of food sky rocket, the cost of services rising, lockdowns, mandated Covid jabs, train derailments, ship yards shut down, taxes and spending going through the roof.

Add to this the invasion of our Southern border by illegal aliens and drug cartel members who are bringing in enough fentanyl to kill every single American. Human trafficking, crime, defund the police, neuter not only our children but our law enforcement agencies and police.

QUESTION: What has this cabinet ACTUALLLY DONE for the American people?

Perhaps it is better to ask: What is this cabinet DOING TO HARM the American people EACH AND EVERY DAY?

We report. You decide if this is the most I N C O M P E T E N T Cabinet in U.S. History.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Biden May Not Hold Any Offshore Oil And Gas Leases Until The End Of His Term, Industry Group Says

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The American Petroleum Institute (API), a leading industry group, said the next offshore oil and gas lease sale likely wouldn’t come until early 2024 following the latest Biden administration update.

The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced Thursday that it would issue an updated proposed program plan for offshore lease sales by June 30. The API, though, said the announcement confirms the administration is “significantly behind” in the multi-year process required for approving a new five-year offshore plan, likely delaying lease sales until early 2024.

The Interior Department declined to comment and referred TheDCNF to DOI Secretary Deb Haaland’s testimony on Capitol Hill Thursday.

“The practical effect of this is that it is unlikely there will be offshore lease sales before the end of 2023,” said Frank Macchiarola, API’s senior vice president of policy, economics and regulatory affairs. “This is one more example of the disconnect between the administration’s political rhetoric and policy reality.”

He added that the announcement was the latest in a series of “mixed signals on energy policy” from the administration.

The current five-year offshore plan is set to expire in late June, meaning the DOI is supposed to have a finalized plan, not proposed program, by that time. The federal government is required to issue a plan outlining all proposed offshore lease sales every five years under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

“Joe Biden has been lying all along,” Steve Milloy, a former Trump administration transition official and JunkScience.com founder, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “He said that he’s doing everything he can to lower gas prices. The only way to do that is to increase production and he’s doing everything he can to reduce production.”

“The overall tone since day one has been to discourage oil and gas investment,” Milloy continued.

The first lease sale under the current plan took place on Aug. 16, 2017, 519 days after the Obama administration published its proposed program. Based on that timeline, the earliest possible lease sale under the Biden administration plan would take place in December 2023 if the DOI published a proposed program on June 30 as it promised Thursday.

But industry groups suggested the administration’s hostility toward fossil fuels would likely lead to further delays stretching into 2024.

“Interior has had 16 months to fulfill its statutory obligation to develop and maintain an offshore oil and gas leasing program and it has failed,” National Ocean Industries Association President Erik Milito said in a statement. “No other administration has failed in this way.”

In addition, Haaland blamed the Trump administration for the delays on Thursday.

“The previous Administration stopped work on the new five-year plan in 2018, so there has been a lot to do to catch up,” Haaland said during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.

However, the Obama administration issued a proposed program 411 days after issuing a draft plan in 2015. President Joe Biden has been in office 484 days by comparison.

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Navajo Nation Slams Biden Oil Drilling Ban, Says White House Violated ‘Tribal Sovereignty’

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The Navajo Nation criticized the Biden administration for banning oil and gas leasing on a large swath of New Mexico land that supported much of its community.

The tribe argued that President Joe Biden failed to properly consult it before issuing the sweeping order earlier this week. Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Monday that the federal government would review a new rule prohibiting oil and gas leasing within the 10-mile radius around the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwest New Mexico for 20 years.

Biden made the announcement during the White House Tribal Nations Summit and said the ban would “protect” the more than 200,000 acres of tribal lands covered by the rule.

“The Biden Administration bypassed previous requests to Congress for field hearings and for leaders to hear directly from our Navajo families affected in the Chaco Canyon region,” Navajo Nation Council Speaker Seth Damon said in a statement Tuesday. “It is important that the federal government consider and work with our Navajo allottees to further advance development.”

“The Administration must respect our tribal sovereignty and what the government to government relationship entails,” Damon continued.

The Navajo Nation previously opposed the ban proposed by the Biden administration, instead advocating for a 5-mile radius around the historic site, according to Damon. Fossil fuel companies return an estimated $90 million per year to Navajo mineral owners, a sum that helps support the largely low-income community, a watchdog report concluded in 2017.

“The White House is ignoring the will of the Navajo Nation, which voted overwhelmingly to support a five-mile buffer that would protect the park while enabling Navajo mineral owners to access their prime oil resources,” Kathleen Sgamma, president of the fossil fuel industry group Western Energy Alliance, said in a statement. “Oil and natural gas development is already done in a way to protect cultural resources.”

Republicans also criticized the administration’s action, noting the indirect harm it would do to Navajo families.

“In the Biden administration’s desperate attempts to appease radical environmentalists, however, they are expanding that protected perimeter to miles outside the park, jeopardizing the ability of Navajo allottees to develop their mineral rights,” House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman said in a statement.

Westerman added that the historic park is already protected.

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