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prigozhin
June 26, 2023
Jake Welch
News
World

Prigozhin’s ‘Coup’ May Be ‘Staged,’ Says Ex-CIA Analyst.

Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s march on Moscow was ‘staged’ by Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, to boost his political power and reinforce support for the conflict, argues the Russian-born, former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Rebekah Koffler.

“What has changed… in the last few hours? All of a sudden, [Prigozhin] decided to turn his troopers around and made this deal? No, this is all staged,” Koffler claims.

The mutiny was also used to “demonstrate to President Biden that, no, Russia is not a threat. Russia is actually… involved in its own domestic turmoil. But this is all a classic distraction and classic Putin.”

US intelligence agencies believe Putin was aware of the Wagner rebellion before the event began on Friday but have been confused by Putin’s lack of action and willingness to accept a deal with the Wagner chief, brokered by Aleksandr Lukashenko, the President of Belarus.

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Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's march on Moscow was 'staged' by Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, to boost his political power and reinforce support for the conflict, argues the Russian-born, former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Rebekah Koffler. show more

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June 25, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

Whopping 83% Concerned for Biden Health, 74% Say Country on Wrong Track.

An outright majority of two-thirds of Americans – 74 percent – believe that the United States is headed in the wrong direction under President Biden, according to a recently conducted NBC News survey. Only 20 percent of Americans think that “things in the nation are generally headed in the right direction.”

Before President Biden, dissatisfaction among the American public had not been higher since September 2013 under Barack Obama at 78 percent. Yet, Biden’s disapproval figures have consistently been high and worsening as more than 70 percent of Americans have believed the country is on the wrong track in all the last four quarters of his presidency.

State of Biden’s Health.

The survey also asked the 1000 registered voters whether they were concerned about “Joe Biden not having the necessary mental and physical health to be president.”

A combined 83 percent of Americans have concerns about whether Biden has the necessary mental and physical health, with 55 percent of Americans having “major concerns,” 13 percent having “moderate concerns,” and another 15 percent having “minor concerns.”

Only 17 percent of respondents told the pollsters that they have “no real concerns” about Biden’s health.

 

 

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An outright majority of two-thirds of Americans – 74 percent – believe that the United States is headed in the wrong direction under President Biden, according to a recently conducted NBC News survey. Only 20 percent of Americans think that "things in the nation are generally headed in the right direction."

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June 25, 2023
Jake Welch
News

WATCH: Trans Activists Sing ‘We’re Coming For Your Children’ at Pride Rally.

Transgender activists celebrated Pride in New York this weekend by singing ‘we’re coming for your children’ before dancing half-naked with minors present at the event.

Video footage shows hundreds of activists marching in unison at a drag march through a Manhattan Park on Friday, repeatedly singing, “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.”

This was followed by trans activists gathering at the fountain in Washington Square Park for the New York “Dyke March” on Saturday, in which participants proceeded to dance, many with their breasts exposed, and kiss one another – all of which occurred in front of children.

Pride celebrations will finish in New York on Sunday, with over 75,000 participants and roughly two million spectators, according to organizers.

WATCH:

This follows the admission by trans influencers that conservative boycotts of companies pushing Pride, including Bud Light, Target, and Ford, “are working.”

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Transgender activists celebrated Pride in New York this weekend by singing 'we're coming for your children' before dancing half-naked with minors present at the event. show more
June 25, 2023
Jake Welch
News
World

U.S. Knew of Impending Wagner Rebellion Weeks Ago.

United States (US) intelligence officials learned that Yevgeniy Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wager Group, was planning an armed uprising against Vladimir Putin as early as mid-June.

US and Western officials observed enough signals that Prigozhin was preparing a move against the Russian government, such as his amassing weapons and ammunition. However, the exact timing remained unclear until shortly before his march on Moscow on Friday.

Prigozhin was prompted by the Russian Defense Ministry’s order that every volunteer detachment – including the Wagner Group – must sign contracts with the government on June 10, officials believe, signifying a government takeover of Prigozhin’s mercenaries – an action that was considered “out of the question” to Wagner’s chief.

US intelligence agencies also believe Putin was aware that Prigozhin was conspiring against him before the march began but have been left confused by Putin’s lack of action against the uprising, as well as his willingness to broker a deal with the Wagner chief through Aleksandr Lukashenko, the President of Belarus.

Several US officials said, “they fully expected that Mr. Putin would eventually say the uprising was the result of a foreign plot.”

 

 

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United States (US) intelligence officials learned that Yevgeniy Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wager Group, was planning an armed uprising against Vladimir Putin as early as mid-June. show more
chemicals
June 24, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Health
News

3M to Pay $10.3 Billion for Polluting Drinking Water with ‘Forever Chemicals’.

The 3M Company, a major multinational headquartered in Maplewood, Minnesota, has agreed to pay out some $10.3 billion to American communities which accuse it of polluting public water supplies with perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl, commonly known as PFAS.

These “forever chemicals” have been linked to a range of health issues, including increased cancer risk, decreased fertility, hormone disruption, and developmental issues in children.

Some 4,000 states and municipalities were reportedly bringing lawsuits against 3M, which has agreed to provide funding of up to $10.3 billion to public water suppliers that have detected PFAS in drinking water over a 13-year period. The disease burden costs associated with PFAS have been estimated at “at least $5.52 billion” every year, however, plus “associated social costs of… as much as $62.6 billion.”

The multinational has stressed that the settlement is “not an admission of liability,” adding that if it the payments are “not approved by the court or certain agreed terms are not fulfilled, 3M is prepared to continue to defend itself in the litigation.”

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The 3M Company, a major multinational headquartered in Maplewood, Minnesota, has agreed to pay out some $10.3 billion to American communities which accuse it of polluting public water supplies with perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl, commonly known as PFAS. show more
wapo
June 24, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Media
News

New WaPo CEO Attended ‘Secret’ Overpopulation Meeting With Gates, Soros… and Oprah!?

Patricia Q. Stonesifer, the new CEO at The Washington Post, attended a “secret meeting” of top billionaires to discuss “how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population,” according to a number of sources including the Times of London, and NBC News.

Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Oprah Winfrey, and CNN founder Ted Turner were among the attendees of the 2009 conflab known as “the Good Club.” The meeting attendees reportedly “agreed that overpopulation was a priority,” in deference to Gates, whose foundation also spearheads the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization project.

Gates had expressed his hope the global population could be capped at 8.3 billion through “better reproductive healthcare,” a thinly disguised way of describing mass, targeted abortion campaigns. The Microsoft man has since poured vast sums of money into the International Planned Parenthood Federation through his foundation, and condemned the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Stonesifer – newly in at the Washington Post – has a myriad of connections to the globalist ruling class. She helped to launch MSNBC as a Microsoft executive in the 1990s, helped to found the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and even employed Joe Biden’s niece.

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Patricia Q. Stonesifer, the new CEO at The Washington Post, attended a "secret meeting" of top billionaires to discuss "how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world's population," according to a number of sources including the Times of London, and NBC News. show more
transgender
June 24, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

America’s First Trans Lawmaker Arrested Over Child Sex Abuse.

Stacie Marie Laughton, who became America’s first transgender lawmaker when he was elected to New Hampshire’s House of Representatives in 2012, has been arrested on four felony counts of distributing child sex abuse imagery.

The Democrat is no stranger to law enforcement, having twice resigned from politics after arrests for offenses including fraud, stalking, and bomb threats.

Laughton was hailed as an LGBT role model when he was elected, with the media describing how his election in New Hampshire “not only made history in the state, but for the broader trans movement as [he] became the first out trans person ever elected to a seat in a state legislature.”

Laughton said he hoped the “LGBT community” would be “inspired” by him. But he was not in the state house for long, resigning over previous credit card felonies, and later imprisoned for leveling a bomb threat at a hospital, which he blamed on mental illness.

Despite this backdrop, he was approved to run as a local official in 2019, with the Democrats getting him reelected to the state house a year after that. Shortly after, his political career began to unravel once again, this time for arrests related to giving police false information and stalking.

Laughton waived his arraignment on Friday.

 

 

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Stacie Marie Laughton, who became America's first transgender lawmaker when he was elected to New Hampshire's House of Representatives in 2012, has been arrested on four felony counts of distributing child sex abuse imagery. show more
US-UK
June 24, 2023
Jack Montgomery
NatSec
News

US-UK Relations Sour as Biden Backs Socialist Climate Activist for NATO Chief, Over UK Defence Secretary.

Joe Biden has further damaged British-American relations by blocking British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace’s bid to become Secretary-General of NATO. He instead tacitly supporting Denmark’s socialist prime minister – but later dropped her.

Wallace, a British Army veteran who has led the Ministry of Defence (MoD), was supported for the NATO leadership in several Central European countries for his advocacy on behalf of Ukraine. Germany and France, which unlike Britain do not meet their NATO spending obligations, favored Mette Frederiksen, a Social Democrat with no military background whose native Denmark also fails to meet NATO spending obligations. Biden initially backed Frederiksen.

“We’re supposed to be their closest ally. And this is what we get,” a British government source said. “It is what it is… but it is bad for UK-U.S. relations,” they added. “They’ve done the UK a bad turn with their preference for this Danish lady.”

Biden ultimately withdrew his support for Frederiksen after she failed to impress him on a trip to Washington – but he did not revert to Wallace afterward, instead suggesting current NATO chief  Jens Stoltenberg put off retiring for 12 months. With this final betrayal, Wallace publicly conceded his promotion was “not going to happen”.

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Joe Biden has further damaged British-American relations by blocking British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace's bid to become Secretary-General of NATO. He instead tacitly supporting Denmark's socialist prime minister – but later dropped her. show more
June 23, 2023
Breaking
NatSec
News

Wagner’s Russia ‘Coup’ Appears to Stall.

Russian government officials demanded Friday that the country’s mercenary Wagner Group stand down and return to their barracks having begun to march to Moscow at the behest of their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

By Saturday afternoon Eastern time, this order appears to have been fulfilled, with reports suggesting group leader Prigozhin had returned his Moscow-advancing convoys to their respective bases.

Prigozhin — who insisted Friday that his actions were a “March for justice” rather than a political coup — has been at loggerheads with Russia’s political and military leadership for months, criticizing not just the strategy in Ukraine, but also the enrichment of Russia’s elite at a cost of many lives on both sides.

On Friday evening, Russian Joint Forces Deputy Commander General Sergey Surovikin demanded Wagner Group stop their “rebellion” against Moscow, and detain their leader.

By Saturday morning, reports suggested that Wagner had occupied the Russian city of Rostov — a critical hub for Russian activity in Ukraine, and were progressing to Moscow.

By Saturday afternoon it appeared the “coup” had stalled, with Prigozhin ordering his Wagner forces to return to their bases.

This story is developing.

 

 

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Russian government officials demanded Friday that the country’s mercenary Wagner Group stand down and return to their barracks having begun to march to Moscow at the behest of their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. show more
desantis
June 23, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

As Congressman, DeSantis Would Call Trump ‘An Idiot.’

The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, called Donald Trump ‘an idiot’ before relying on the former President to get him elected as the Governor of Florida in 2018, according to a feature piece published on Ron and his wife Jill “Casey” DeSantis.

During his unremarkable, five-year stint as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives between 2013 and 2018, DeSantis would spend his time talking to his staff about “the Constitution, baseball, and golf.”

The only times DeSantis joked around with his former staffers were apparently at Trump’s expense: “The one thing they joked about, the former staffer said, was Trump.”

“Ron always said this guy was just an idiot.”

Despite this, Governor DeSantis went on to beg for Trump’s endorsement in the run-up to the Florida gubernatorial election in November 2018, meeting the former President “with tears in his eyes” before asking for “a favor.”

The full feature, which has been described as a “hit piece” by Ron DeSantis’s staffers, can be read here. The campaign, nor the Governor, have denied the allegations.

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The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, called Donald Trump 'an idiot' before relying on the former President to get him elected as the Governor of Florida in 2018, according to a feature piece published on Ron and his wife Jill "Casey" DeSantis. show more