Under the banner of “build back better” after Iranian attacks, Israel is advancing a plan that could force citizens to sell their homes to the state if they reject urban renewal plans.
Missile damage is being used as cover for a land grab.
Linda Sun, the former aide to Gov. Hochul and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo accused of working as a Chinese agent, also schemed to steer $35 million in state contracts to two PPE vendors run by a cousin and her husband at the height of the COVID pandemic, according to new court filings.
Sun, 41, and her husband, Chris Hu, 40, were hit with the new allegations in a superseding indictment filed in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday.
Sun, who was working as Cuomo’s deputy chief diversity officer in 2020, was coordinating an effort to buy personal protective equipment and ventilators from China at the start of the pandemic, when the U.S. was grappling with PPE shortages.
The Chinese government recommended several vendors, and Sun falsely added two companies to that list of recommendations, one run by a second cousin, the other by Hu, according to the indictment.
For the sake of urgency I’m going to talk in direct and bold terms about the targeting of Tulsi Gabbard. The IC system is attempting to remove her as a disruptive influence by using Iran as a wedge to get her out, but the issue they have with Director Gabbard has nothing to do with Iran.
CTH approaches this after being very concerned about Tulsi Gabbard’s ability. Not because of intent, but rather we doubted her understanding of the scope of the IC opposition aligned against an effective Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman Tom Cotton, the disassembled National Intelligence Council and a host of Intelligence Community embeds would like to see Gabbard removed. DC wants to see her removed because the traditional role of the DNI has been a willfully blind tool of the Intelligence Community; Gabbard is not that.
In the past few weeks, ever since she began intercepting the ICIG issues and using her own personnel to monitor the IC network, she has been targeted with several direct smear campaigns. It is obvious the targeting is coming from inside the intelligence apparatus, and perhaps even the orbit around/under CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
Tulsi Gabbard is rumored to be in Donald Trump‘s ‘line of fire’ as she has been sidelined ahead of a much-anticipated intelligence briefing to Congress to detail Trump’s recent strikes on Iran‘s nuclear facilities.
Now, the spy chief will be absent on Thursday as Trump officials offer Congress evidence of how successful the strikes were. Trump has angrily insisted CNN and The New York Times were wrong in saying they had minimal effect.
Gabbard was originally supposed to join members of Trump’s inner circle – CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – in the briefing.
A person familiar with Gabbard’s schedule told the Associated Press said she was originally going to attend but no longer.
‘The media is turning this into something it’s not,’ a senior Trump administration official told The Washington Post, adding that Ratcliffe will represent the intelligence community.
This piece is interesting enough to post, but consider the source and wait for the outcome. A deeper take is the Deep State has been trying to get rid of Gabbard in earnest for a few weeks. It’s very possible the DS leaked the preliminary report, which seems insignificant but has been blown into a big deal by, probably, none other than the DS and its media operatives. ABN
This video provides a glimpse of Iran’s weaponry and how it has been used against Israel. During the current ceasefire, it is a sure thing that both Israel and Iran will rearm. Whether they continue fighting or not, this video shows that Iran does have serious military capabilities. Is it in their interests to keep fighting? I doubt it. My understanding is Iran is going to allow a GCC-led coalition to become the region’s collective hegemon. The world is on the verge of becoming 100X wealthier due to tech improvements. All players in this and other conflicts must reassess their reasons to keep fighting old battles. Sometimes the smartest military option is do nothing. ABN
UPDATE: This talk provides good information about the US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities and the consequences therefrom. To me, it seems clear Trump made the right move by taking out Iran’s main threat. Israel has no reason to keep fighting and neither does Iran. The deeper story that now the Gulf Cooperation Council and other countries in the region will form a collective hegemony over the Middle East should become more apparent in the weeks to come. We should see signs of this happening and signs that the Gaza slaughter will slow down, if not stop altogether. Trump played a strong Kill-Or-Be-Killed (KOBK) move which apparently killed few if any people, while destroying Iran’s main threat. In this sense, Iran was ‘killed’. Overall, at the same time it looks like Israel’s Jewish Supremist fantasy of a ‘Greater Israel’ becoming the regional hegemon has also been ‘killed’. Trump killed two birds with one stone. ABN
Karmelo Anthony, the teen who has admitted to stabbing and killing a fellow high school athlete at a track meet in Texas, has been indicted by a grand jury with first-degree murder.
Fricso, Texas police have said the incident stemmed from Metcalf asking Anthony to leave his team tent since he didn’t go to the same school.
Anthony, 17 at the time of the killing and now 18, was arrested shortly after and charged by police with first degree murder in a case that has drawn national attention over race and privilege.
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog group revealed even more damage from the US airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites after taking a closer look — including possible chemical contamination at one facility.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said Tuesday that the latest satellite images from the Fordow and Natanz facilities showed additional damage, beyond what the agency found in the first-pass review of the sites.
At Fordow, the mountain fortress just south of Tehran, officials identified additional strikes at the road leading up to the facility, as well as one of the entrances.
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