'the mainstream media is captured and corrupted...increased excess deaths go unexplained and no one is talking about them, no one is reporting them - it's a cover-up and it's happening before our very eyes...'

The internet was and still is abuzz about Prigozhin's complete meltdown. The NAFO crowd was reacting like it was the end of Putin and Moscow was being sacked. The fake news was never ending. The Russophiles spun everything harder than a Trumpanzee into a game of 4D chess where the whole thing was just a psyop. A psyop with no obvious gains. There was no attack on Wagner and no coup, just a theatrical jar shaker who fell on his face. There was an open spaz out by a delusional neurotic rich guy losing his toy. The crusty old Jewish oligarch for one did not create Wagner, and was a not a military planner. He never served in the military and has no military experience despite always wearing a uniform.

He was a weak but wealthy old man trying desperately to hold onto power. At the end of June Wagner units were being absorbed into different Russian military outfits. This was too much for the gremlin. He had been at odds with the Russian defense ministry for many months. He fancied himself the real commander who "knew better" than the suits in Moscow. But he was also a suit, a chef, well not even that, he owned catering companies. His role in Wagner was essentially his wealth. He was a businessman, not a military man. He was not planning the tactics on the ground, the commanders were. It does not matter how many videos he posted of himself staring at and drawing lines on a giant table map, on telegram.

On 30th November 2021 I was apprehended and detained at Heathrow Terminal 3 under Schedule 3 Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 by two plain clothed police officers. I was interrogated for six hours (the maximum time you can be detained). My bags were searched by a team of uniformed police officers. All material was downloaded from my mobile phone.

As I was (I believe) the first in what would be a series of detentions of UK citizens - journalists or individuals with views that challenge UK foreign policy - there was no precedent for me to rely on to help me navigate procedure. I was told if I did not surrender my mobile phone, passwords etc I would be arrested. I was told I had no choice but to give DNA, fingerprints and have my photo taken as if I were a suspected criminal.

The questions I was asked related to my work in Syria and especially my work on exposing the UK FCDO-incubated White Helmet organisation embedded exclusively with illegal armed groups dominated by Al Qaeda since their establishment in 2013 in Turkey and Jordan - by a former British Military Intelligence Officer, James Le Mesurier.

Israeli officials have shown "blatant disregard of moral boundaries," Kiev's embassy in Tel Aviv claims...

Ukraine's Embassy in Tel Aviv has lashed out at Israel, accusing the country of providing insufficient support to Kiev amid the conflict with Moscow, and bolstering ties with Russia instead.

In a statement posted on Facebook on Sunday, the Ukrainian mission noted "with regret that the current Israeli government has chosen the path of close cooperation with Russia." There has been "complete inaction in providing Ukraine with defensive assistance over the past one-and-a-half years" on the part of the Jewish state, the statement read.

The embassy accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of making "entirely fictional and speculative assumptions" in order to justify inaction by his government.

In an interview last week, Netanyahu argued that Israel cannot provide arms to Kiev because of Russia's involvement in Syria, amid concerns that those weapons could eventually end up in the hands of Iran.

The European Union will provide Ukraine with 50 billion euros ($54.58 billion) in aid for 2024-27, the bloc's president said on Tuesday, ahead of a gathering in London to secure short-term financing and money to rebuild the nation from Russia's war.

Ukraine is seeking up to $40 billion for the first part of a "Green Marshall Plan" for reconstruction from the London conference starting on Wednesday. The World Bank estimates its needs at more than $400 billion over a decade, three times Ukraine's GDP.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the aim was to "provide predictable finance to Ukraine on its EU path, together with global partners and the private sector."

In a symbolic move, the EU granted Ukraine formal membership candidate status last year. Sources said the EU will say in a report this week that Ukraine has met two out of seven conditions for formal accession talks to begin. It will also highlight progress made despite the invasion in February, 2022.

Late last month the office of the United Nation's Secretary General published a policy document on aims for the future of the internet.

A follow-up to the 2021 report "Our Common Agenda", the new report's title says it all really, "A Global Digital Compact". That's the goal, international legislation that would seek to control and enforce the use of digital technology.

The proposed clauses promote everything you'd expect them to promote.

Digital identities linked with financial access:

"Digital IDs linked with bank or mobile money accounts can improve the delivery of social protection coverage and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries. Digital technologies may help to reduce leakage, errors and costs in the design of social protection programmes."

Environmental or climate change-based social credit systems:

"Sensors and monitors connected to the Internet of things, cloud-based data platforms, blockchain-enabled tracking systems and digital product passports unlock new capabilities for the measurement and tracking of environmental and social impacts across value chains."

RT breaks down how the private military company's attempted rebellion unfolded

The Wagner private military company led by Evgeny Prigozhin launched an insurrection in Russia that began on Friday evening and lasted through Saturday.

The armed contractors managed to seize an army headquarters in the southern part of the country.

However, they failed to rally other units and eventually aborted their advance towards Moscow after a deal was reached with the authorities.

The agreement, which includes an amnesty for Prigozhin, was brokered by Belarusian leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Score half a point for Donald Trump.

It turns out he was on to something with his claim the 2020 election was rigged, though not in the way he thinks.

The dirty deed didn't happen in offices in Arizona or Georgia, where Republicans supposedly were banished while Democrats counted duffel bags full of late-arriving votes.

Nor did Trump lose because computers were wired to rob him of victory.

Instead, the cheating that likely denied Trump a second term was very close to home.

In fact, it was an inside job.

In the 1997 Disney animated musical fantasy film, Hercules, there is a particularly catchy number, Zero to Hero, which describes the rise of the star of the film from a clumsy boy into a strong and capable man. In the span of less than 24 hours, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the public face of the Wagner Group, a Russian private military contractor with shadowy ties to Russian military intelligence, has flipped the script of this ashes to diamonds tale, transforming an organization that had, through virtue of its impressive battlefield performance, become a legendary symbol of Russian patriotism and strength, into a discredited band of disgruntled traitors seeking the violent overthrow of the constitutional government of Russian on behalf of nations who seek the strategic defeat and ultimate destruction of Russia.

If Disney were to write a song about Prigozhin and Wagner today, it would be called Hero to Zero.

Let there be no doubt in anyone's mind — Yevgeny Prigozhin has become a witting agent of Ukraine and the intelligence services of the collective West. And while there may be those within Wagner who have been unwittingly drawn into this act of high treason through deception and subterfuge, in the aftermath of Russian President Vladimir Putin's address to the Russian nation on June 24, and Yevgeny Prigozhin's impolitic reply, there can be no doubt that there are only two sides in this struggle — the side of constitutional legitimacy, and the side of unconstitutional treason and sedition. Anyone who continues to participate in Prigozhin's coup has aligned themselves on the wrong side of the law and have themselves become outlaws.

Some lawmakers allege that the virus was created out of so-called gain-of-function genetic engineering research at Wuhan, and that Beijing had covered up evidence to show it was a man-made disease.

The head of US intelligence said Friday that there was no evidence that the Covid-19 virus was created in the Chinese government's Wuhan research lab.

In a declassified report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said they had no information backing recent claims that three scientists at the lab were some of the very first infected with Covid-19 and may have created the virus themselves.