Before Donald Trump’s top spy chief submitted his stunning resignation over the Iran war, he had secretly confided his plans to his closest political ally, JD Vance.
Joe Kent quit as Trump’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday in protest over the Iran war, accusing Israel of pressuring the US into a conflict he says was built on lies.
Kent, a close political ally of Vance and Tulsi Gabbard, presented his resignation letter to the Vice President 24 hours before dramatically stepping down from the administration.
‘The VP encouraged him to speak to White House chief of staff and Trump before making any final decisions,’ said a White House official. ‘The VP encouraged him to be respectful to POTUS.’
Following the meeting, Kent issued a blistering resignation that claimed Trump was tricked into striking Iran ‘due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,’ adding: ‘I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war.’
Kent accused the President of reneging on the non-interventionist principles he campaigned on.
Gabbard was present during Kent’s in-person resignation to Vance, according to the Washington Post.
It is unclear if Vance warned other members of the administration about Kent’s plan to discredit Trump’s war during his resignation.
Trump is the incompetent one on this issue. He is either a liar, a crypto Jewish Supremist, a deep pragmatist with an ace in the hole (not likely) or something else. He is still our president and I hope he handles this much better going forward. To all appearances and evidence, he has made a huge mess which will be very expensive for USA in reputation and wealth. The good side of this is many more people are becoming aware of the deep stranglehold Jewish Supremists hold on USA and the West. ABN
A preliminary military investigation has determined that the United States was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed 175 people, most of them children.
Donald Trump had previously blamed the Iranian regime for bombing a school filled with young girls with an American Tomahawk missile on February 28 during the first day of Operation Epic Fury.
The ongoing investigation determined that US forces made the mistake while launching strikes on a nearby Iranian military base, which the school building was once part of.
Officers at US Central Command decided to strike the school using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, one of the premier US intelligence agencies.
The deadly operation on Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school, which was full of children, is considered one of the most devastating US military errors in decades.
The foreign ministries of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Bahrain, the General Secretariats of the Gulf Cooperation Council for Arab States, the League of Arab States, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation express their strongest condemnation and gravest concern regarding the statements issued by the United States Ambassador to Israel, in which he indicated acceptance of Israel’s exercise of control over lands belonging to Arab countries, including the occupied West Bank.
This level of incompetence mixed with deliberate corruption is rife throughout USA. Most of it appears to be in Dem states which have drifted into woke emotionalism and concomitant corruption. The buck should have stopped at the governor’s office. At the national level, corruption is much the same, though much worse and more entrenched. All large organizations are susceptible to corruption and weak employees who dare not do the right thing. Many organizations can live a long time while burdened with parasites, but in the end, entire civilizations fall for these reasons. ABN
LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. is due to officially exit the World Health Organization on Thursday, in the face of warnings it will hit both U.S. health and global health and also in violation of a U.S. law that requires Washington to pay the U.N. health agency $260 million in fees that it owes.
President Donald Trump gave notice that the U.S. would quit the organization on the first day of his presidency in 2025, via an executive order. Under U.S. law, it has to give one-year notice and pay all outstanding fees before departure.
On Thursday, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said the WHO’s failure to contain, manage and share information had cost the U.S. trillions of dollars and the president had exercised his authority to pause the future transfer of any U.S. government funds, support, or resources to the WHO.
“The American people have paid more than enough to this organization and this economic hit is beyond a down payment on any financial obligations to the organization,” the spokesperson said by email.
Germany has a severe electricity shortage and cost problem, and it’s getting worse.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently made the admission that shutting down the German nuclear power reactors was a “severe strategic mistake.”
“To have acceptable market prices for energy production again, we would have to permanently subsidize energy prices from the federal budget,” Merz said, adding: “We can’t do this in the long run.”
“So, we are now undertaking the most expensive energy transition in the entire world,” Merz said with pronounced frustration. “I know of no other country that makes things so expensive and difficult as Germany.”
Keep in mind, Germany represents the largest contributing economy in the European Union. The German industrial sector is the backbone of the European economic model.
All of these realities paint a very tenuous picture for the economic future in Europe, when combined with a new trade relationship with the USA, increasingly cheap goods dumped into the EU by China and the EU promising to continue spending on the war effort in Ukraine against Russia.
High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say the discoveries are probably the result of contamination and false positives. One chemist called the concerns “a bombshell”.
Studies claiming to have revealed micro and nanoplastics in the brain, testes, placentas, arteries and elsewhere were reported by media across the world, including the Guardian. There is no doubt that plastic pollution of the natural world is ubiquitous, and present in the food and drink we consume and the air we breathe. But the health damage potentially caused by microplastics and the chemicals they contain is unclear, and an explosion of research has taken off in this area in recent years.
However, micro- and nanoplastic particles are tiny and at the limit of today’s analytical techniques, especially in human tissue. There is no suggestion of malpractice, but researchers told the Guardian of their concern that the race to publish results, in some cases by groups with limited analytical expertise, has led to rushed results and routine scientific checks sometimes being overlooked.
“My child underwent surgery for a throat hemangioma at Henan Provincial People’s Hospital. After the surgery, the child became vegetative, and then I discovered the child’s eyeballs were gone—they had been removed. Various departments in the hospital are altering the medical records… For profit, stealing and selling patients’ organs.”
The video details an alleged incident in Henan Province where a 9-year-old girl underwent throat surgery at a local hospital, emerged in a vegetative state, and had her eyeballs removed without consent, with hospital records reportedly altered to cover up suspected organ trafficking for profit.
The 24-second video features the girl’s mother recounting the events, hospital exterior shots, and the child in a bed with bandaged eyes, aligning with broader 2025 reports of a surge in Chinese organ harvesting claims, though this specific case lacks independent verification from major outlets.
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As with all things in China, it is impossible to prove these allegations.
This story has been appearing in social media and is believed true by many Chinese commentators.
Grok has this to say about the case: This mother’s narration describes an unverified organ trafficking claim. Officially documented facts of the case involve only medical negligence and record tampering, not organ removal.
It is widely believed in China and around the world that illegal organ harvesting is practiced in China for sale to the wealthy and elite.
In Cambodia, Scam Compounds or Scam Parks have repeatedly been accused of organ harvesting. These compounds appear to be a major reason for the Thai-Cambodia conflict raging today.
The most chilling claims against Cambodian Scam Parks involve ‘baby-farming’, where young women are kidnapped and forced to bear IVF pregnancies, so their babies’ organs can be removed and sold. It is widely believed the CCP is running these compounds. ABN
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