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Former DNI says Dem law firm Perkins Coie 'subject to indictment' in Durham probe

Jon Dougherty
Conservative Brief
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
John Ratcliffe
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Sunday accused a leading Democratic lawmaker of intentionally peddling a false narrative against then-President Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 election to sway the outcome while adding that a noted Democrat-aligned law firm could also be guilty of a criminal "conspiracy" during the 2016 election cycle.

In an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, Ratcliffe, a former U.S. Representative from Texas who left Congress to serve as DNI during the latter portion of Trump's term, pointed a finger at House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) as well as the entire Perkins Coie law firm, the latter of which could eventually be indicted by special counsel John Durham, he said.


Comment: The Dem's extreme corruption is all coming out. Question is, what crazy actions will they, and large swathes of the intelligence community aligned with them - do to distract, deflect and derail this process from serving any kind of semblance of justice? Very little seems to be off the table when its clear that Washington is guided by a high level of malevolence and greed for power and more power.

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Dollar

Twitter reconsiders Elon Musk's takeover bid after $46.5 billion in financing secured

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Sun, 24 Apr 2022 02:49 UTC
Musk
© Susan Walsh/APElon Musk
Twitter is reportedly re-examining SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk's $43 billion offer to buy the Big Tech company after he revealed that he has now secured $46.5 billion for the potential buyout.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Twitter had been ready to reject the offer, but will take a new look at it after the business magnate revealed his filing with the SEC showing that he has lined up financing for the offer.

The financing includes $22.5 billion which will come from his own equities.

People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that the revelation makes it more likely for Twitter to seek to negative the offer with Musk.

"The situation is fast-moving and it is still far from guaranteed Twitter will do so," The Wall Street Journal noted.

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Eagle

Former intelligence officials, citing Russia, say Big Tech monopoly power is vital to national security

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
Big Tech
(l) An illustration of the CIA logo (Getty Images); (r) An illustration shows the logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed on a mobile phone and a laptop screen. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)
When the U.S. security state announces that Big Tech's centralized censorship power must be preserved, we should ask what this reveals about whom this regime serves.

A group of former intelligence and national security officials on Monday issued a jointly signed letter warning that pending legislative attempts to restrict or break up the power of Big Tech monopolies — Facebook, Google, and Amazon — would jeopardize national security because, they argue, their centralized censorship power is crucial to advancing U.S. foreign policy. The majority of this letter is devoted to repeatedly invoking the grave threat allegedly posed to the U.S. by Russia as illustrated by the invasion of Ukraine, and it repeatedly points to the dangers of Putin and the Kremlin to justify the need to preserve Big Tech's power in its maximalist form. Any attempts to restrict Big Tech's monopolistic power would therefore undermine the U.S. fight against Moscow.

While one of their central claims is that Big Tech monopoly power is necessary to combat (i.e., censor) "foreign disinformation," several of these officials are themselves leading disinformation agents: many were the same former intelligence officials who signed the now-infamous-and-debunked pre-election letter fraudulently claiming that the authentic Hunter Biden emails had the "hallmarks" of Russia disinformation (former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Obama CIA Director Michael Morrell, former Obama CIA/Pentagon chief Leon Panetta). Others who signed this new letter have strong financial ties to the Big Tech corporations whose power they are defending in the name of national security (Morrell, Panetta, former Bush National Security Adviser Fran Townsend).

Comment: For the rest of this article subscribe to Glenn Greenwald's substack page here.

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Snakes in Suits

Australia's Defence Minister claims China could 'launch chemical attack on capital city'


News.com.au
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:14 UTC
Peter Dutton
Mr Dutton said he wants a peaceful relationship with China as he makes baseless allegations against Beijing.
Australia's Defence Minister has doubled down on concerns China is a growing threat, claiming the nation could mount a chemical attack in the next four years.

Peter Dutton made the extraordinary admission during a wide-ranging interview with News Corp Australia. He claimed his fears over China's military strength and strategic position were echoed by defence chiefs across the country.


Comment: These are indeed threats to the West because they could thwart their failing attempts to subjugate much of the planet.


Comment: We can expect the demonisation of China to worsen as the West's death grip on the world slips: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Bad Guys

'Stop Russia now' propaganda campaign gets underway in EU, Poland gifts $1.6 billion worth of weapons to Ukraine & admits sanctions aren't working


RT
Sat, 23 Apr 2022 17:11 UTC
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
© Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesPolish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks at a press event in Otwock, Poland, April 2, 2022.
Poland has launched a campaign called 'Stop Russia now!' to "remind" other European Union members about the situation in Ukraine and convince them to introduce tougher sanctions against Moscow, its Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Saturday. The effort will feature mobile billboards displaying photos from Ukrainian cities that will be sent to various locations.


Comment: Apparently the mainstream media onslaught is not enough.


Morawiecki has also said he would himself travel to EU capitals to remind decision makers "what is happening in Ukraine." The campaign, which will also include social media posts, according to the prime minister, "has to contribute decisively to ensuring that Europe is not a Europe of indifference, helplessness, that it is not a Europe of defeat," he has added. Nations in western and southern Europe are willing to return to "normality" too "soon," Morawiecki has said, adding that the campaign is aimed at "awakening the conscience" of the bloc.


Comment: The real reason Morawiecki is touring Europe is to whip up hysteria and call for more billions, weapons, and sanctions, in the war on Russia.


Photos placed on the mobile billboards by the Polish authorities juxtapose the devastation of Ukrainian cities against peaceful life in Europe. Every billboard also has a slogan reading "Stop Russia now!" A separate billboard says that "blood oil fuels Russia's genocide of Ukraine."

Comment: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: UK Govt Now Says Russia Might Win in Ukraine After All



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Wolf

Retired Canadian lieutenant-general under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct is now fighting in Ukraine's military

David Pugliese
Ottawa Citizen
Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:54 UTC
Trevor Cadieu
© Ed Kaiser /PostmediaThe Canadian Forces National Investigation Service is investigating retired Canadian Forces lieutenant general Trevor Cadieu for sexual misconduct.
A retired Canadian Forces lieutenant-general under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct is now in Ukraine.

Trevor Cadieu left the Canadian military on April 5, according to the Department of National Defence. He travelled to Ukraine shortly after with the intention to volunteer for that country's military which is battling a Russian invasion, multiple defence sources confirmed to this newspaper.

The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service which is investigating Cadieu originally had difficulty contacting the retired lieutenant-general but has since established communication with him.

Comment: Is it any surprise that Canada, with it's continuing totalitarian clampdown under guise of the contrived coronavirus crisis, would endorse such occurrences as this?

Also check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: Political Psychopathy Goes Mainstream, Linked to Crimes Against Humanity



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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: UK Govt Now Says Russia Might Win in Ukraine After All


Sott.net
Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
russia putin ukraine newsreal
© Sott.net
In an unexpected shift from the unified Western narrative that Russia is losing badly and will soon be driven out, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week became the first Western leader to concede Vladimir Putin could 'win the war' in Ukraine, and that it could last until the end of next year.

This revelation is shocking to those who believe the Western media's war propaganda, but unsurprising to skeptics. This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall contrast shifting British and Western expectations with the unchanged Russian ones, noting the recent capture of Mariupol and the Russian military's 'land bridge' to Crimea.

Meanwhile, in a development that was blacked out by Western media, Russian envoys reported to the UN last week details about a global complex of American bio-labs that ring Russia and China for the purpose of unleashing ethnic-specific weapons - something that perhaps explains China's extreme lockdowns in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

'Back home', EUrocrats continue threatening to place embargoes on Russian oil and gas by year's end, a development that will effectively de-industrialize Europe and impoverish tens of millions of people, while in the US major food distribution facilities are mysteriously burning to the ground.

Is this all to 'get Putin'? To 'save the planet'? Is this the result of feckless ideology run amuck, or is there an element of wilfull destruction behind it all?


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Blue Pill

How much are we prepared to sacrifice to help the US win a propaganda war against Putin?

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com
Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
Putin
© UnknownRussian President Vladimir Putin
There's a very important question that we all need to be asking ourselves at this point in history, and that question is as follows: How much are we as a society willing to sacrifice so that the US government can win a propaganda war against Vladimir Putin?

Let me explain.

One severely under-discussed aspect of the latest round of escalations in Silicon Valley censorship which began at the start of the Ukraine war is the fact that it's an entirely unprecedented order of censorship protocol. While it might look similar to all the other waves of social media purges and new categories of banned content that we've been experiencing since it became mainstream doctrine after the 2016 US election that tech platforms need to strictly regulate online speech, the justifications for it have taken a drastic deviation from established patterns.

What sets this new censorship escalation apart from its predecessors is that this time nobody's pretending that it's being done in the interests of the people.

Comment: Just like the political aftermath of 9/11, the West has been hard at work to recalibrate the thoughts, habits and reasonings of the citizens.

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Attention

Pentagon's biological warfare built on war crimes of fascist Japan and Nazi Germany

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture
Sun, 24 Apr 2022 19:27 UTC
US Biolabs
© Public Domain
Russia and China have lobbied the UN Security Council for an independent investigation into dozens of laboratories that were being run by the Pentagon in Ukraine up until Moscow launched its military intervention in February.

Russia has published classified documents showing that the Pentagon was engaged in developing biological weapons of mass destruction. Washington has disputed the Russian and Chinese concerns as "disinformation", claiming that the laboratories were conducting biomedical defense studies into diseases.

Why then was U.S. State Department official Victoria Nuland worried that Russian forces could acquire samples from the labs if they were for innocent biomedical research? Why were the laboratories ordered by the Ukrainian government to immediately destroy samples when Russian troops invaded Ukraine?

Even imminent U.S. experts on biowarfare have concurred with the Russian and Chinese positions that the involvement of the Pentagon in Ukraine implies a sinister purpose that deserves at least impartial investigation.

Adding to the concerns is the direct involvement of Fort Detrick personnel and infrastructure with the Ukrainian facilities in recent years. If we reflect on the World War Two origins of Fort Detrick and how it effectively collaborated with Japanese and Nazi scientists for developing U.S. biological weapons that nefarious historical background undergirds present Russian and Chinese apprehensions.

Following World War Two, Japanese and German war criminals were saved from the gallows by the political intervention of the United States. The immunity deals were made in order to give the U.S. an advantage over the Soviet Union in an anticipated arms race for supremacy in biological and chemical warfare.
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Dollar

Biden says US spending billions to make military vehicles 'climate friendly'

Brooke Singman
Yahoo Sports
Fri, 22 Apr 2022 06:16 UTC
Tanks Biden
© Salon/Getty ImagesJoe Biden • Members of the US Army 1st Division 9th Regiment 1st Battalion
President Biden on Friday said his administration is working to make "every vehicle" in the United States military "climate-friendly."

The president, delivering Earth Day remarks from Seward Park in Seattle, Washington, discussed his administration's efforts to address climate change, and called on Congress to take action. Biden quipped:
"One of the things I found out as President of the United States, I get to spend a lot of that money. We're going to start the process where every vehicle in the United States military, every vehicle, is going to be climate-friendly — every vehicle — I mean it. We're spending billions of dollars to do it."
The president said the transition is "going to matter."

Biden, last month, announced his $5.8 trillion budget proposal for 2023, which he said called for one of the "largest investments in our national security in history," including funding to ensure the U.S. military "remains the best-prepared, best-trained, best-equipped military in the world."

The budget proposes $773 billion for the Department of Defense.

Comment: Kill offs: The people and the economy. Rescues: War vehicles and the climate.

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