Puppet MastersS


Chess

Niger's General Abdourahamane Tchiani declares himself leader after coup

General Abdourahamane Tchiani
Niger's new strongman, General Abdourahamane Tchiani
Tchiani, the head of the Presidential Guard, has been named "president of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland", a statement said.

Appearing on state television, the general said soldiers had seized power due to the deteriorating security situation in the Sahel country.

The general said that while Niger's elected President Mohamed Bazoum had sought to convince people that "all is going well ... the harsh reality (is) a pile of dead, displaced, humiliation and frustration".

UFO 2

Dark money funding reverse-engineering of alien craft in US - whistleblower

Testify3
© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesRyan Graves (L), David Grusch (C), David Fravor (R)
House Oversight Committee
Under oath, David Grusch has repeated many of his previous claims about alien technology research...

The US government is in possession of debris from non-human craft as well as "biologicals," potentially from the pilots of the alien craft, according to the testimony of a former intelligence analyst who has turned whistleblower.

Research into the technology is paid-for through the misappropriation of public funds, David Grusch told the House oversight subcommittee for national security on Wednesday. People reporting such claims also face reprisals and personal harm.

Grusch is a veteran intelligence officer who served in the US Air Force and later became a civilian employee at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. During questioning he repeated under oath some of the explosive claims he had previously made publicly, including to media outlets NewsNation and The Debrief. The hearing focused on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), which was Grusch's line of work at the agency.

He confirmed that according to his knowledge, the US government had collected debris from crash sites of "non-human" craft over the course of decades. He was denied access to the relevant data, which led him to formally complain to the intelligence community Inspector General.

"I know the exact locations," Grusch said during the hearing, when asked about where the technology was kept.

Comment: Overspent by trillions, the Pentagon has been publicly 'unaccountable' for years.


No Entry

No way out

Pond reeds
© Robert Nunnington/Getty Images
"...you put me right smack in the middle of the Diversion Agreement that I should have no role in... and you say Your Honor, don't pay any attention to that provision not to prosecute?"
— Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika
Of course, Hunter Biden's fur-lined, gold-plated plea deal on firearm and tax charges got torn up this week by Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika, who discovered a sneakily hidden bit of legerdemain in it that would have left the First Son off-the-hook for any possible future charges such as a FARA rap for peddling his father's influence to Ukraine, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, and who knows how many other foreign governments for zillions of dollars.

One thing the legal fireworks on Wednesday seemed to indicate is that the weaponization of the DOJ does not extend to every last court in America, not even the one in the Biden family fiefdom known as Delaware. The hearing left the lead US attorney in the case, David Weiss, looking like a chump hung out to dry — trying to pretend that there were "ongoing investigations" in the case when he was actually working overtime to shut them down. It's rumored that the rascally, discarded plea deal was cooked up by alpha blobette, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco herself, the Blob's consiglieri. Nice try, Sugar, but no cigar.

Red Pill

Zakharova: US' colonies in Europe are called NATO

NATO summit
© Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesWestern leaders and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at the 2023 NATO summit in Lithuania
European nations used to be colonial overlords but now they've become colonial underlings of the US, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed.

The senior diplomat brought up Europe's colonialist past, speaking exclusively to RT on Friday on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg. Colonialism, she stated, is in the bones of Western civilization.

"For centuries the Western world formed around one simple and terrifying thought: that they are exceptional because they are strong," she said. "They have no need to justify anything, they must simply reap the benefits of aggressive exploitation of the planet. That is their collective reasoning."

The US subjugation of North America and other lands followed the same colonialist pattern, the Russian official added.

Putin

Putin: Russia prepared to seek diplomatic solution in Ukraine, NATO refuses to talk

putin
© AFP / TASS / Sergei Bobylyov
Russia is prepared to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine but Kiev and its backers in the US and NATO refuse to talk to Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

"All differences must be solved at the negotiating table," Putin told African leaders during the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg on Friday.

"The problem is that they [Ukraine] are refusing to talk to us," he insisted.

"The current Ukrainian regime is also rejecting negotiations, and announced that officially. Ukrainian President [Vladimir Zelensky] had signed a relevant decree" last autumn, Putin said.

Bad Guys

Painting a portrait of the corruption surrounding the Bidens

hunter biden court plea deal
© Jonathan Ernst/ReutersHunter Biden arrives at federal court to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to pay income taxes in Wilmington, Del., July 26, 2023.
On the menu today: Lo and behold, one of the buyers of Hunter Biden's ludicrously expensive paintings is a Democratic Party donor whom President Biden appointed to a federal government commission. Meanwhile, the president's son's lawyers get in trouble with the judge. And in light of the whole sordid mess, this is worth chewing over: Just why are so many Democrats so resistant to the idea of nominating anyone else but Joe Biden in 2024?

Hunter Biden, Corruption Artist

The publication Business Insider reported this week that Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, a Los Angeles real-estate investor and big-time Democratic Party donor, is one of the purchasers of Hunter Biden's artwork. The amount Hirsh Naftali paid isn't known, but none of the paintings by the president's son is cheap. In 2021, a gallery listed prices ranging from $75,000 to $500,000. As the New York Times gently put it, those prices were "high for a novice artist." (You can virtually tour the Hunter Biden exhibition at the Georges Bergès Gallery here.)

Bullseye

Western money keeping Ukraine alive - Orban

Orban
© Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto via Getty Images
Ukraine is not a fully sovereign country, since it depends on Western donations to fund government spending, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has argued. And it's the US that determines whether that aid will continue, he believes.

"The Americans can pull out a lot of money with all sorts of financial manipulations, but the euro is a different story, it's not suited for that," Orban said on Friday, in an interview with state broadcaster Kossuth radio.

While it is true that Ukrainians have suffered most from the hostilities, the premier added, the country's dependence means that the conflict cannot be called Ukrainian. A nation that cannot pay its expenses cedes sovereignty to donors, he stated.

"The Ukrainians have run out of strength. The only thing keeping Ukraine alive is Western money," the PM stated.

Vader

White House demanded Facebook censor vax meme, Tucker Carlson post: docs

Jeff Landry
© CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesLouisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry testifies during the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on the Missouri v. Biden case challenging the administration’s violation of the First Amendment by directing social media companies to censor and suppress Americans’ free speech on March 30
President Biden's White House aides pressured Facebook to censor a COVID-19 vaccine meme and a post by Tucker Carlson, according to files released Thursday by the House Judiciary Committee.

The world's largest social media platform pushed back and expressed concern about curbing free speech, but ultimately reduced the reach of Carlson's post by 50%, according to back-channel communications released by Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).

In an April 2021 email, Nick Clegg, Facebook's president for global affairs, wrote to colleagues that Andy Slavitt, a senior adviser to Biden who was steering COVID-19 policy, "was outraged — not too strong a word to describe his reaction — that [Facebook] did not remove this post."

The post was a meme shared by a user named Timothy McComas that featured actor Leonardo DiCaprio's character from the film "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" pointing at his TV with a beer and cigarette in hand.

Eye 2

Wait, what? RFK Jr. says Biden admin REFUSED his request for Secret Service protection in 2024 race

Robert F. Kennedy Jr secret service protection
© Lisa Lake/Getty Images for SiriusXMDemocratic Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said he was denied Secret Service protection by the Biden administration
RFK Jr. invoked the 1968 assassination of his father Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said Friday that his request for Secret Service protection as a 2024 presidential candidate was rejected by the Biden administration. In a lengthy statement posted on Twitter, the Democratic White House hopeful invoked the assassination of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, during his 1968 presidential campaign.

"Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me," Kennedy wrote.

"Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days," he wrote. "After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request."

Comment: Priorities:




Dollars

Lawsuit says Jeffrey Epstein helped JPMorgan land Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his $4B in investments as client

sergey brin google epstein jp morgan client
© WireImageGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin was referenced to JPMorgan in 2003 by Jeffrey Epstein, and the relationship grew to be one of the bank’s largest, according to new documents filed by the US Virgin Islands.
Jeffrey Epstein brought a slew of deep-pocketed clients to JPMorgan Chase — including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who became one of the bank's biggest clients with investments worth more than $4 billion, according to court papers.

A bombshell legal filing in the US Southern District of New York late Monday revealed that "Brin became a client of JPMorgan's San Francisco Private Bank in 2004" — one year after Epstein introduced Brin to Jes Staley, a former executive at JPMorgan.

"The overall Brin relationship is one of the largest in the Private Bank, of +$4BN," wrote banker Robert A. Keller in a memo, who the documents claim was introduced to Epstein by Staley.

Brin, who's also behind the single-family office Bayshore Global, also met with the CEO of JPMorgan's asset and wealth management division, Mary Erdoes, plus other JPMorgan executives and members of Bayshore, the memo filed in court states.

Comment: