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  • Russian Agent & 10 Other Members of Procurement Network for Russian Military & Intelligence...

    10/04/2012 12:13:15 AM PDT · by Cindy · 13 replies
    NOTE The following text is a quote: www.fbi.gov/houston/press-releases/2012/russian-agent-and-10-other-members-of-procurement-network-for-russian-military-and-intelligence-operating-in-the-u.s.-and-russia-indicted-in-new-york Russian Agent and 10 Other Members of Procurement Network for Russian Military and Intelligence Operating in the U.S. and Russia Indicted in New York Defendants Also Include Texas- and Russia-Based Corporations; 165 Persons and Companies ‘Designated’ by Commerce Department U.S. Attorney’s Office October 03, 2012 BROOKLYN, NY—An indictment was unsealed today in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging 11 members of a Russian military procurement network operating in the United States and Russia, as well as a Texas-based export company and a Russia-based procurement firm, with illegally...
  • HUGE! Oversight Chair James Comer and Rep Anna Paulina Luna Call on Treasury Secretary Bessent to Freeze ALL ASSETS of Code Pink Billionaire Funder Neville Singham

    09/16/2025 6:56:46 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 21 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | September 16, 2025 | Jim Hᴏft
    The co-founder of Code Pink is married to Neville Roy Singham who provides funding to communist and far-left leftist groups and efforts. Singham reportedly funded the recent anti-ICE protests across the US. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, the chairwoman of the Taskforce on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, called on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to freeze all assets of Neville Singham, the billionaire funder of the communist Code Pink organization, ANSWER Coalition, National Students for Justice in Palestine and several other anti-American leftist organizations. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) posted the news on a...
  • Germany: Police officers injured in protests against ban on leftist website

    01/26/2020 9:02:11 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 16 replies
    Deutsche Welle ^ | 01.26.2020 | kp/mm (AFP, dpa)
    Thirteen police officers sustained minor injuries in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Saturday when protesters pelted them with stones and fireworks during a demonstration against the banning of a leftist website. Eleven officers were attacked with stones and glass bottles and two sustained injuries from fireworks. The protest began peacefully in front of the Federal Administrative Courthouse in the largest city in Saxony, where a lawsuit against the ban is due to be heard later this week. […] Around 1,600 people, according to police figures, had gathered for the demonstration in Leipzig to protest a ban of the...
  • Why JPMorgan paid off Jeffrey Epstein after 2008 financial crisis

    09/12/2025 2:08:53 PM PDT · by Libloather · 6 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/12/25 | 9/12/25
    The 2007 implosion of two Bear Stearns hedge funds that invested in risky mortgage bonds led to the wider crash of the financial system, and as it turns out years later, a fairly sizable and eyebrow raising settlement paid by mega bank JPMorgan to the convicted pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The hedge funds went belly-up in the summer of 2007, the first public casualty of the smoldering financial crisis that would take down Bear, then Lehman Brothers, and were it not for a government bailout, the entire financial system in 2008. After Bear’s collapse, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, at the...
  • Yes, Tucker, There Is a US Security Interest in Ukraine

    02/25/2022 2:47:18 AM PST · by Kaslin · 120 replies
    American Thinker.com ^ | February 25, 2022 | Sally Zelikovsky
    In an ideal world, maybe we could ignore what's happening in Ukraine but we have to see the world as it is, not how we want it to be: Russia is calling and wants its Ukraine back. I generally appreciate Tucker Carlson, but every time he discusses Ukraine and Russia, I bristle — especially when he contends that America has no interest in Ukraine. I know some of you might agree with Carlson, but you can be a solid conservative who is just as war-weary as the next guy and still see a security interest in Ukraine without being a...
  • Chinese Ambassador Slams President Trump’s Pro-Life Policies at UN

    09/01/2025 2:12:52 PM PDT · by Morgana · 14 replies
    Life News ^ | August 29, 2025 | Steven Ertelt
    A sharp exchange between the United States and China erupted at the United Nations this week, as China’s ambassador criticized President Donald Trump’s pro-life policies, particularly his decision to defund the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The confrontation highlighted deepening tensions over global abortion policies and the U.S. commitment to halting taxpayer funding for organizations linked to abortion. During a recent UN meeting, China’s ambassador accused the Trump administration of undermining women’s health by withdrawing financial support from UNFPA, an agency long criticized by pro-life advocates for its ties to China’s population control programs. “The U.S. is obstructing critical health...
  • Workers overcook nuclear warheads at Y-12

    08/16/2008 4:10:14 PM PDT · by SmithL · 18 replies · 146+ views
    Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 8/16/8 | Frank Munger
    Report shows items misidentified, oven temperature too high - OAK RIDGE - A federal spokesman confirmed that Oak Ridge workers overcooked some nuclear warhead components during a drying process to such an extent that the parts could no longer be "used as intended." Beyond that, the government isn't saying much.The incident at the Y-12 National Security Complex was revealed in a June 20 report by staff of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.The timing was about a month after the Oak Ridge plant received approval to restart production work on W76 warheads, which had been delayed for more than a...
  • Meet Herb Sandler: The Mysterious Leftist Billionaire Responsible for Bankrolling the Lawfare Superstructure

    08/28/2025 6:18:00 PM PDT · by bitt · 15 replies
    https://www.breitbart.com/ ^ | 26 Aug 2025 | Alexander Marlow
    While researching Breaking the Law: Exposing the Weaponization of America’s Legal System Against Donald Trump, I uncovered a list of billionaire “philanthropists” who were using their immense wealth to fund the lawfare superstructure. Some are familiar to this audience, like George Soros and Reid Hoffman, but others are likely unknown to you. I summarize some key findings here. One name that was new to me prior to beginning work on Breaking the Law was Herb Sandler. (Sandler and Soros collaborate, as I explain below.) I did a long interview with Dr. Michael Savage for his podcast, which just appeared on...
  • Obama Exposed: Full Richard Porter Interview

    08/26/2025 7:40:38 AM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 4 replies
    Well expectations were sky high when he held a massive outdoor rally in November of 2008 at the Chicago lakefront. But Obama took things in the exact opposite direction. The economy did stabilize but only for the already successful. Obama became the DIVIDER IN CHIEF.
  • Sinking to new lows

    06/26/2010 9:17:51 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 28 replies · 1+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 6/26/2010 | Dane Schiller
    Drug traffickers are spending $1 million a pop to build boats that look like submarines and can carry 4 tons of cocaine for 2,000 miles without refueling. Nicknamed "narco subs," they're made to sneak loads up from South America to Mexico, where the drugs are offloaded and taken overland into the United States. "It is a semi-submersible coffin," said Jay Bergman, Andean regional director for the Drug Enforcement Administration. "You batten down the hatches and you are doing everything to not be detected sailing in the middle of the ocean." At least 13 of the craft have been stopped and...
  • How Believers in the Paranormal Birthed the Pentagon’s New Hunt for UFOs

    03/08/2022 6:58:42 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 15 replies
    In Oregon, a man said his health deteriorated after a glowing blue orb passed through his body. A family in California reported strange lights and a gray figure with spindly legs in their orchard. A werewolf-like creature allegedly prowled around homes in suburban Virginia. All three incidents were probed as part of a secret Pentagon program investigating UFOs. The program, contracted by the Defense Intelligence Agency, plumbed the connection between the flying objects and the paranormal for two years, according to the men who ran it. It was the beginning of a years-long effort by UFO advocates that eventually led...
  • TNK-BP CEO Summoned To Appear Before Russia Prosecutors-Report

    07/26/2008 1:34:32 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 3 replies · 213+ views
    Excerpt - MOSCOW (AFP)--British-Russian oil company TNK-BP chief executive, Robert Dudley, has been summoned to appear before Russian prosecutors on Monday to explain "violations" of labor laws by his company, Interfax news agency reported Saturday. Dudley "temporarily" left Russia this week, the company said Thursday, saying he would run the company from outside the country. ~ snip ~
  • FBI, DOJ, Caught Lying about Oklahoma City Bombing Footage, Pics of Security Cameras on Murrah Building Highlight 30 Years of Courtroom Lies

    08/19/2025 7:11:19 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 71 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | August 19, 2025 | Staff
    Federal officials, in public and in federal courtrooms, are lying about the existence of video footage from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Utah Attorney Jesse Trentadue believes his brother was interrogated and tortured to death in August 1995 because federal authorities mistakenly thought he was “John Doe #2” in the Oklahoma City Bombing. For the past 30 years, Trentadue has filed 7 major federal FOIA lawsuits seeking documents and evidence, and has already obtained 2 million documents. Trentadue doggedly pursues the many lies federal authorities have told over the years about the bombing, and the illegal federal program “PATCON” that...
  • John Durham Ignores Role of U.S., U.K., and Australian Intelligence Operatives in Setting the Stage for Crossfire Hurricane

    05/22/2023 7:43:23 AM PDT · by bitt · 23 replies
    gateway pundit ^ | 5/22/2022 | larry johnson
    Failed Prosecutor John Durham’s report on the Hillary Clinton campaign plot to convince the American electorate and U.S. allies that Donald Trump was a stooge of Russia totally ignores the role that intelligence operatives from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Israel played in helping set the stage to provide the FBI with the pretext of predication for launching its now discredited Crossfire Hurricane investigation of the Trump Campaign. Let me take you back to an article I wrote in May 2019. John Durham and his team failed to address any of the issues and leads I raised:...
  • Taliban End Chinese Oil Field Contract in Afghanistan

    08/01/2025 10:58:46 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    The Diplomat ^ | August 01, 2025 | Patrick Yeager
    The move to develop the Amu Darya field aligns with the Taliban’s goal of self-sufficiency, but can the cash-strapped regime go it alone?In late July, Afghanistan’s Taliban-run government decided to pursue unilateral development of the Amu Darya oil field, at least for the time being. It seems unlikely the cash-strapped regime will be able to maximize the potential of the oil field without foreign investment, but it will still be able to collect millions of dollars in revenue by going it alone. The move aligns with the Taliban’s oft stated goal of self-sufficiency. However, international investors may be troubled by...
  • Police accused of cover-up in immigrant attack ("Hate crime")

    12/15/2009 7:49:08 PM PST · by Born Conservative · 6 replies · 685+ views
    The Times-Tribune (Scranton PA) ^ | 12/15/09 | MICHAEL RUBINKAM and KATHY MATHESON (Associated Press)
    The Shenandoah police chief and two officers under his command are charged with orchestrating a cover-up in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant by altering evidence or lying to the FBI in a hate crimes case against two popular football players. The former Shenandoah High School athletes, 19-year-old Derrick Donchak and 18-year-old Brandon Piekarsky, have now been charged with a federal hate crime, accused of beating Luis Ramirez in a park on a night in July 2008 as they headed home from a party, the Justice Department said Tuesday in Washington. State prosecutors who tried unsuccessfully to win ethnic...
  • Strains grow over strategy to rein in Iran (Cheney vs Condi+Euros)

    06/04/2007 2:53:06 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 25 replies · 935+ views
    FT ^ | 06/04/07 | Daniel Dombeyin London andStephen Fidler
    Strains grow over strategy to rein in Iran By Daniel Dombeyin London andStephen Fidler in Singapore Published: June 4 2007 03:00 | Last updated: June 4 2007 03:00 The international strategy to deal with Iran's nuclear programme is coming under increasing strain, diplomats and officials acknowledge. Consensus is fraying among the big powers that have fashioned the current policy of imposing limited United Nations sanctions to persuade Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment - which can produce both nuclear fuel and weapons grade material - while offering the prospect of better relations if it complies. The Bush administration is caught between...
  • Could Panic Of '08 Have Been Averted?

    09/10/2010 6:25:48 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 25 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | September 10, 2010 | ROBERT J. SAMUELSON
    It's been two years since Lehman Bros. failed (Sept. 15, 2008) and we still can't conclusively answer this question: What if the government had saved Lehman? Its bankruptcy was pivotal. Until then, deteriorating housing and mortgage markets had triggered what seemed a serious — but not unprecedented — recession. Once Lehman failed, the economy went into a frenzied free fall. It's hard not to wonder whether some of the ensuing turmoil could have been avoided. Consider what happened after Lehman: • Credit tightened. Banks wouldn't lend to each other, except at exorbitant interest rates. Rates on high-quality corporate bonds went...
  • Paulson: Crazy Putin Pushed China To Dump Fannie Bonds And Crush The U.S. Financial System

    01/29/2010 3:22:36 PM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 35 replies · 1,606+ views
    Business Insider ^ | 01/29/10 | Vincent Fernando
    Paulson: Crazy Putin Pushed China To Dump Fannie Bonds And Crush The U.S. Financial System Vincent Fernando | Jan. 29, 2010, 9:59 AM | 3,478 | comment 32 Tags: Economy, Markets, China, Credit Crisis, Politics Some scary details have emerged from Hank Paulson's memoirs. Allegedly, it appears Russia may have tried to conspire with China in a bid to collapse the U.S. financial system. They were hoping to sell Fannie and Freddie bonds during a time when the U.S. economy was on the ropes. This happened back around the Beijing Olympics, when the U.S. was supporting Georgia against Russia in...
  • Could Russiagate Bombshell Upend the Virginia Governor’s Race?

    08/02/2025 7:43:34 AM PDT · by Don@VB · 41 replies
    AMAC ^ | 7/24/25 | Sarah Katherine Sisk
    (Excerpts, suggest reading entire article) Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is facing off against former Democrat Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger in Virginia’s closely watched 2025 gubernatorial race. While Spanberger appears to have the edge in the race so far, recent shocking revelations about the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative – “Russiagate” – could create some uncomfortable questions for Spanberger and perhaps give Sears an opportunity to portray her opponent as a dishonest, untrustworthy career bureaucrat. Before she was elected to Congress in 2018, Spanberger was a CIA operative. She has leaned heavily on that experience in her campaign, repeatedly describing...