Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper has shared in his soon-to-be-published memoirs that in 2020, concerned with increasing drug flows across the southern border, US President Donald Trump considered striking Mexican cartels by launching missiles at their drug laboratories, the New York Times reported on Thursday. “They don’t have control …
Read More »Ukraine-backed radicals considered assassinating RT editor-in-chief – Moscow
A neo-Nazi group that was allegedly instructed by Kiev to kill TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov had several other targets, including RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan, according to video footage released by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). Amid the ongoing Russian military offensive in Ukraine aimed at the “denazification” of the country, …
Read More »Arrest warrants considered acceptable ID to fly
Citizens and US permanent residents seeking to fly need to show a federally issued ‘real ID’ with a matching photo at airports, but people who are in the country illegally are allowed to use their arrest warrants as an alternative, according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The agency confirmed …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Now it’s been proved it considered assassinating or kidnapping Julian Assange, how is the CIA still a thing?
These plans were reportedly made in coordination with the Trump White House as then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo and then-Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel raged over WikiLeaks’ 2017 Vault 7 release which revealed that the CIA had lost control of an enormous digital arsenal of hacking tools. These included tools which enabled the …
Read More »Leaked docs show DARPA considered funding $14mn project to infect Chinese bats with altered coronaviruses in 2018 – reports
Some 18 months before the first Covid cases appeared, the three-and-a-half year study had planned to release skin-penetrating particles containing “novel chimeric spike proteins” from bat coronaviruses into bat caves in China’s Yunnan province. The goal was to study and prevent transmission to humans. The proposal, titled ‘Project Defuse’, was …
Read More »Classified UK military docs found at BUS STOP considered what Russia’s ‘welcome party’ might be for Crimea naval incursion – media
The 50-page dossier, containing classified information about the HMS Defender’s journey through the Black Sea, was reportedly discovered in a “soggy heap” behind a Kent bus stop on Tuesday morning. The person who discovered the documents contacted the BBC upon realizing their sensitive nature. The dossier includes emails and PowerPoint …
Read More »Kneeling on person’s neck considered ‘deadly’ force, longest serving Minneapolis PD officer testifies in Chauvin trial
Zimmerman called Chauvin’s decision to kneel on Floyd’s neck for upwards of eight minutes “totally unnecessary” and “uncalled for.” During the trial of the fired officer on Friday, the lieutenant roundly condemned the defendant’s actions. He said that “once a person is cuffed, the threat level goes down all the …
Read More »In the Council of Europe has considered the petition of the Russians on the legal expertise of amendments to the Constitution
And sent it for examination to the Venice Commission In the Council of Europe has considered the petition of the Russians on the legal expertise of amendments to the Constitution In the Council of Europe has today considered the petition of the Russians about the need for legal review of …
Read More »Sands considered the possibility of a repetition of the 90s “a condensation of paints”
Official Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called hysterical manifestations of fears that in the epidemic of coronavirus in Russia will repeat the 90-ies. It is quoted by TASS on Monday, April 13. “Just to exaggerate is not necessary, although it requires more attention. Fear has big eyes” — said Peskov, assessing …
Read More »Poll: Almost 40% of Russians considered the economic situation in Russia bad
More than a third (36%) of Russians said “bad” economic situation in the country and only 8% of citizens think it is good. These are the results of poll of Fund “Public opinion” (FOM). At the same time, the study showed, almost half (49%) of respondents believe that the economic …
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