If you work near the Joseph Biden administration in Washington, it's reached the point of "no news is good news." The country is broke. The Russians are winning in Ukraine, despite all efforts by the West. The EU is on the verge of levying more taxes. The BRICS will grow, and create its own unique currency to oust the dollar. Moreover, sanction measures to limit Russian oil revenues have failed. The United States is swimming in failures because of Joe Biden and George Soros.

When corporate-owned CNBC is forced to come and say the West's oil war against the Russians is a flop, you know the situation is even worse than they're letting on. NBC, part of NBCUniversal, is owned by Comcast, America's largest media conglomerate. Comcast is more or less owned by billionaire Brian L. Roberts, a Jewish boy who's brilliant at squash. The All-American squash player competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel in 2005 and took home a gold medal with the U.S. squash team. He's now known as the 'Legend of the Maccabiah.' More importantly, he's a rabid Hillary Clinton fan.

I know the frequent reader at NEO has already spliced all this information into an obvious conclusion. Yes, it's almost over, the rule of the Democrats in America and the U.S. hegemony that's milked the world dry for the last 78 years. When the core of Western propaganda output admits the truth after lying about the Russians for more than a decade. Well, a CNBC report by Sam Meridith cites the Centre for Research in Energy and Clean Air in his admission Russia's prevailed again. The independent Finnish think tank now says the Price Cap Coalition scheme is "losing traction, integrity and credibility." Russia's oil revenues have reached the highest level since November last year.

Another fantastic revelation, for those not looking at Telegram social media channels, is that the Russians have completely taken Bakhmut/Artemovsk. Ukraine's lunatic leader Zelensky claims he still has legions hiding beneath the town's ruins of 70,000. Still, video of Russian soldiers roasting marshmallows and riding around in captured American armored cars goes against his claims. Plus, The Telegraph is already talking about Mr. Putin renaming the town; once it's rebuilt, the Soviet Era name Artemovsk.

On this one, CNBC and the rest of the West's media are mostly silent. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Ukraine service (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign media agent), run by the U.S. State Department, says Zelensky's forces are hanging on, and the pesky Russians are aiming missiles at little kids and old women across the river in the southern city of Kherson. Meanwhile, the Guardian let slip a few truths that show the Ukrainians have been lying and that Western media has too. Get this.

Hunter Biden's lawyer Chris Clark on Tuesday appeared on Biden-friendly MSNBC to discuss the joke charges against Hunter with host Katy Tur.

Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges in a sweetheart deal given by his corrupt father's Justice Department after a five year investigation.

No serious person believes it took the Justice Department five years to investigate Hunter Biden's life of crimes to only charge him with two small misdemeanors.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is known for a lot of things — his "in your face" speeches, his marathon unscripted press conferences and his stoic impassiveness in the face of adversity come to mind.

One thing that doesn't jump out at the average observer is his earthy sense of humor. Long-time Putin watchers know that the Russian leader on occasion spices up his formal presentations with off-color quips which, unless one is well versed in colloquial Russian of the back-alley variety, can get missed by the casual listener.

During the June 16 discussion period of the plenary session of the 2023 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Russian leader was asked about his views on the potential use of nuclear weapons in the context of the ongoing Ukrainian conflict.

Ukraine sent one of its best brigades into combat earlier this month as part of its long-awaited counteroffensive aimed at retaking areas controlled by Russian forces.

Leading the charge near the town of Orekhov, in Zaporozhye Region, was the 47th Mechanized Brigade, armed with NATO equipment and - most importantly - employing it using the US-led bloc's combined arms doctrine and tactics. Prior to the operation, this brigade spent months at a base in Germany learning "Western know-how" in combined-arms warfare.

Helping them prepare for the fighting to come was KORA, the German-made NATO computer simulation system, designed to allow officers and non-commissioned officers to closely replicate battlefield conditions and, in doing so, better develop ideal courses of action against a designated enemy - in this case, Russia.

"I have witnessed hundreds of Director SVTCs and have never seen a direct threat like that any other time," the whistleblower asserted.

A top official with the FBI has filed a protected disclosure to the Office of the Inspector General alleging that FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told the bureau's internal critics of its Jan. 6-related cases to seek employment elsewhere and offered to personally address his subordinates' agents concerns.

In a sworn affidavit, the 15-year veteran FBI special agent alleges that, during a routine meeting in February 2021, the deputy director addressed internal concerns that the bureau had not taken the same approach to its investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as it did with the 2020 riots and protests related to the death of George Floyd.

The Pentagon has begun to monitor online tweets and comments about senior military officials in a surveillance effort that provides the U.S. Army's 'Protective Services Battalion' the authority to directly pinpoint anyone's location.

The Protective Services Battalion - the Pentagon's equivalent to the Secret Service - was initially tasked with safeguarding high-ranking military officers from "assassination, kidnapping, injury or embarrassment," however, has seen its ambit has since expanded to include monitoring social media for "negative sentiment" regarding its leaders or "direct, indirect, and veiled" threats.

An Army procurement document, dated September 1, 2022, details how the battalion uses "tools" and "misattribution" to disguise its internet presence while monitoring content on the internet, with investigators being able to combine social media data with both public and confidential information, accessible through a "universal search selector."

While appearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Special Counsel John Durham testified that in 2016 the CIA was given intel indicating that Hillary Clinton gave the green light to a plan to link former President Donald Trump with the Kremlin, only for the FBI to react by doing nothing.

"The FBI was too willing to accept and use politically funded and uncorroborated opposition research, such as the Steele dossier," Durham explained. "The FBI relied on the dossier and FISA applications, knowing there was likely material originating from a political campaign or political opponent."

The implosion of the Titan submersible submarine that went missing Sunday was known to the US Navy days ago, though the US Coast Guard only found debris of the wreckage on Thursday.

Underwater microphones, the Wall Street Journal reports, which are used to detect enemy submarines, detected the implosion. It was revealed by the Coast Guard that the Titan suffered a "catastrophic implosion."

The Navy did not name the system that was used to detect the implosion. "The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost," the Navy said in a statement.

"While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission."

That the information was not released sooner was believed by some to be a distraction from the ongoing Biden scandals surrounding bribery, FBI cover-ups, and Hunter Biden's influence peddling. It was revealed on Thursday by House GOP that Hunter Biden demanded money from China while Joe Biden was in the room with him, and told the Chinese contacts that his father was sitting there with him.

Justice Department investigators were "trying to limit" questioning related to President Biden as part of the investigation into Hunter Biden, despite objections from FBI and IRS officials, a whistleblower alleged.

The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday released testimony from two IRS whistleblowers who said officials at the Justice Department, FBI and IRS interfered with the investigation of the tax evasion case against Hunter Biden. The whistleblowers said decisions in the case seemed to be "influenced by politics."

One whistleblower, Gary Shapley Jr., who was the supervisor of the investigation at the IRS, said that "at every stage" of the probe, decisions were made that "had the effect of benefiting the subject of the investigation." He cited several examples involving apparent references to Hunter Biden's father.

Shapley pointed to text messages and emails obtained from Hunter Biden's former business partner Tony Bobulinski, which Fox News Digital first reported before the 2020 presidential election and before it was known that Hunter was under federal investigation.

In December 2020, Shapley said investigators were preparing to interview Biden business associate Rob Walker.

The Pentagon found it had overestimated the amount of funding for ammunition, missiles and other equipment it sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion due to an accounting error, a spokesperson said on Tuesday, more than double the amount previously disclosed.

The value of the accounting error was revised up from the $3 billion that was first reported by Reuters in May, the result of assigning a higher-than-warranted value on U.S. weaponry shipped to Ukraine.

Additional funding was uncovered as Pentagon officials researched the situation more thoroughly and clarified protocols for valuing equipment based on Financial Management Regulation and Department of Defense policy, Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said.

The $6.2 billion breaks down to $3.6 billion for fiscal year 2023 and $2.6 billion for fiscal year 2022, she said, adding that the errors did not impact the size of presidential drawdown authority or support for Ukraine.