PN >>18606239, >>18606919 The Senate blocked an amendment that would create an inspector general to oversee the more than $110 billion in aid granted to Ukraine

Based on these notables, and the article below was McCaul lying to congress since the Senate voted down an Inspector General for Ukraine?Why is Deloitte and Touche doing it instead of the federal government? The Pentagon and USAID has so much fraud and theft they lose trillions,why not appoint an Independent Inspector General? McCaul is a war hawk, he hates Russia and lies constantly, what was the reason Senate rejected it? Too many involved in the money laundering? Something stinks when our Senate doesn’t want to know where the Ukraine money is going. Plus I don’t believe most of the money is used by our military

From RT article

McCaul is a staunch supporter of arming Ukraine, and insisted that his oversight of the aid is not intended “to undermine or question the importance of support” for Kiev, but to let American taxpayers know how their money was being spent.

The witnesses at Wednesday’s hearing on “oversight, transparency, and accountability of Ukraine assistance” included theacting or permanent inspectors-general at the Pentagon, the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

The trio was featured in a Wall Street Journal report last month aboutAmerican auditorsgoing into Ukraine to ensure the weapons, equipment and cash are not “diverted” for unintended use. They told McCaul on Wednesday that, so far, there haven’t been any “substantiated” instances of diverting US aid.

“Every dollar counts,” said McCaul, arguing the oversight would promote the efficiency and effectiveness of Ukraine funding, in service of US interests. He also noted that the multinational consulting companyDeloitte is working with the Ukrainian governmentto verify the expenditure of US cash sent to prop up Kiev’s state budget.

“I don’t think the US has ever been engaged in anything quite like this,” McCaul said later in the hearing, referring to the “pipeline” of NATO weapons headed to Ukraine through Poland.

https://www.rt.com/news/573814-congress-ukraine-aid-deloitte/

30 Mar, 2023 02:47

US spy found dead in Pentagon parking lot

The cause of the counterintelligence officer’s death remains a mystery

The US military has identified the serviceman found dead in a vehicle near the Pentagon earlier this month, revealinghe was a senior intelligence specialist working in the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The army officer was named asMaster Sgt. Juan Paulo Ferrer Bordador,42, who was discovered in his car in the Pentagon’s north parking lot following a welfare check on March 14, Army officials said on Wednesday. While an emergency crew responded soon after the officer was spotted, he was already dead by the time they arrived.

Since 2021, Bordador served as the noncommissioned officer leading theJoint Chiefs’ Technical Surveillance Countermeasure program– a team which works to identify and thwart attempted espionage by foreign states.

The cause of Bordador’s death is not yet known and few other details have been released, but the Army said it would continue to investigate.

Born in the Philippines and later emigrating to the US, Bordador began his military career in 2004 as a counterintelligence agent with the Pentagon’s Force Protection Agency, and was promoted to master sergeant last May, according to an obituary published online. His time in the military took him to a long list of countries, including Japan, Germany, South Korea, Russia, Israel, Canada, Belgium, France and Iraq, where he was deployed for one year beginning in 2010.

The Joint Staff is made up of all six branches of the military and isheaded up by Chairman Mark Milley, the highest-ranking officer in the US armed forces and a senior military advisor to the president, defense secretary and National Security Council.

C’mon man this ridiculous they can’t find a cause of death. Do he get the jab?

https://www.rt.com/news/573836-us-spy-found-dead/

30 Mar, 2023 10:10

(Unbelievably)Kiev demands cut of Western 'war profits' – Politico

Ukraine’s energy minister has said the conflict with Russia has allowed oil and gas majors to rake in record revenues

Major oil companies have made record profits as a result of the conflict in Ukraine and should pay to rebuild the country’s war-torn infrastructure, Ukrainian Minister of Energy German Galushchenko said on Wednesday in an interview with Politico.

According to Galushchenko, oil and gas majors have generated windfall profits of more than $200 billion due to wild swings in global energy prices, andshould transfer some of those funds to Ukraine.

Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the past year in response to Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine have sent energy prices soaring.

In 2022, oil majors Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and TotalEnergies posted a combined profit of $196.3 billion, marking an all-time high for the industry.

“I think it would be fair to sharethis money with Ukraine. I mean, to help us to restore, to rebuild the energy sector,” Galushchenko said on a visit to Brussels, adding that the record profits had been achieved purely because of the conflict in his country.

According to the latest assessment by the Ukrainian government, the World Bank, the European Commission, and the UN, the estimated cost of the country’s reconstruction and recovery will be over $400 billion.

The Ukrainian energy minister also called on the West to take further steps to plug sanctions loopholes that allow Russian energy producers to continue exports.

https://www.rt.com/business/573845-kiev-demands-western-war-profits/

30 Mar, 2023 10:44

‘Woe to you, have fear,’ senior Orthodox bishop tells Zelensky

The Ukrainian president is responsible for a religious crackdown in his country, Metropolitan Pavel has said

A senior bishop in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) has issued a strongly-worded rebuke to President Vladimir Zelensky over his role in a crackdown that is gripping the country’s largest religious denomination.

“I am telling you, Mr President, and your entire pack, thatour tears will not fall to the ground, but on your head,” Metropolitan Pavel said in a video address on Wednesday.

“You think today that after taking power on our backs, [based] on our wishes, you can treat us like that. Our Lord will not forgive this action, neither to you nor to your family,” the bishop warned.

Pavel heads the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the largest Orthodox monastery in the country, established some 970 years ago. The Ukrainian ministry of culture denied the UOC a renewal of tenancy in the property, meaning that some220 monksliving there would be “kicked out to the streets,” as Pavel described it. The eviction deadline comes this week.

The bishop blasted the president forrefusing to meet senior UOC clericsto discuss the situation. This was particularly hypocritical, he remarked, considering that, as a presidential candidate, Zelensky had sought and received the blessing to run for office from Metropolitan Onufry, the Church leader.

“You have failed to stop the culture minister, who is possessed by hateful malice and devilish fury. This means he is acting with your permission; Woe to you, have fear,” the bishop said.

The minister, Aleksandr Tkachenko, has said that UOC monks could stay at Lavra if they agreed to defect to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), a rival schismatic organization backed by Kiev.

The OCU received recognition as a legitimate church in 2019 from the Constantinople Patriarchate, causing a major schism among the Orthodox faithful of the world. Metropolitan Pavel has also accused Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople of having given impetus to the crackdown with this move.

“Woe and shame on you, so-called patriarch [Bartholomew], because everything done today is done with your ill-fated and evil blessing,” he said.

The bishop also likened the current detractors of the UOC to the Bolshevik and communist leaders, who'd cracked down on all religions when they were in power. He expressed faith that his church will survive the new period of suppression, just like it had the previous one.

“You’ll disappear like dew in the sun, because all who take up the sword will perish by the sword,” he said, quoting in the same sentence from the Ukrainian national anthem and from the Gospels.

(More often, woe is tied to sin and rebellion against God, and the resulting judgments are referred to as “woes.” In Matthew 23, Jesus pronounces seven “woes” on the hypocrites of His day; in Revelation, a group ofGod’s final judgments on mankindare called the three “woes.”)

https://www.rt.com/russia/573853-orthodox-bishop-blasts-zelensky/

Russia will win this war!

30 Mar, 2023 11:52

Kremlin comments on WSJ correspondent arrest

Russia’s FSB caught Evan Gershkovich “red-handed,” Putin’s spokesman has claimed

Wall Street Journal (WSJ) correspondent Evan Gershkovich wascaught “red-handed” trying to obtain Russian state secrets, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has claimed. The journalist was detained by the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the city of Ekaterinburg on Thursday.

Speaking to journalists via conference call, Peskov was asked to comment on the arrest of the American citizen and whether Russia will cooperate with US security services on the issue. The spokesperson stated that he does not know the full details of the case and that the matter remains in the hands of the FSB.

However, Peskov claimed that as far as he was aware, Gershkovich had been caught in the act oftrying to collect intelligence about a defense facility, in violation of Russian laws on state secrets. The correspondent, who covers news from Russia, Ukraine, and the former USSR, could face between10 and 20 yearsin prison if charged with espionage.

Although Gershkovich had obtained the necessary journalistic credentials from the Foreign Ministry to work in Russia, the FSB alleges that he “acted in the interest of the US government” when he was caught during “an attempt to receive” classified intelligence.

Asked if the incident could provoke a response from US authorities regarding Russian journalists working in America, Peskov said that Moscow hopes no such retaliation will follow because “we are not talking about allegations here. He was caught in the act.”

The WSJ has reacted to the incident by stating that it is “deeply concerned for the safety of Mr Gershkovich.”

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said that the issue of potentially exchanging the WSJ journalist in a swap deal has not been raised.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed that whatever Gershkovich was doing when he was detained by the FSB,it had “nothing to do with journalism.” She argued that the status of correspondent had previously been used as cover by other Western nationals attempting to obtain classified Russian intelligence.

https://www.rt.com/russia/573860-kremlin-wall-street-journal-arrest/

30 Mar, 2023 11:22

Swiss bank helping rich Americans dodge taxes – Senate

Credit Suisse violated its own 2014 plea agreement, US lawmakers have claimed

Swiss bank Credit Suisse is complicit in an ongoing scheme by wealthy Americans to evade taxes, despite an earlier commitment to a crackdown, the US Senate Finance Committee claimed on Wednesday.

Credit Suisse pleaded guilty in 2014 to criminal charges for helping rich US clients hide assets in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes. As part of the plea agreement, the bank pledged to crack down on tax dodgers.

However, according to the results of atwo-year investigationby the committee, the bank failed to comply.

The probe claims to have uncovered “major violations of that plea agreement, including a previously unknown, ongoing and potentially criminal conspiracy involving thefailure to disclose nearly $100 millionin secret offshore accountsbelonging to a single familyof American taxpayers.” (Bidan family?)

According to the report, the total amount concealed in violation of the 2014 plea agreement ismore than $700 million.

“Credit Suisse got a discount on the penalty it faced in 2014 for enabling tax evasion because bank executives swore up and down they’d get out of the business of defrauding the United States. This investigation shows Credit Suisse did not make good on that promise,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden.

Credit Suisse had to be rescued by the Swiss government earlier this month following multibillion-dollar losses, among other issues. The bank was purchased by rival UBS for about $3.25 billion.

https://www.rt.com/business/573799-credit-suisse-tax-evasion-usa/

What is the RESTRICT Act and why is it bad?

The RESTRICT Act is legislation authored by @MarkWarner and @SenJohnThune targeting TikTok. It's goal is to review TikTok and it's national security threats. However, it does much more. 1/x

2) The “TicTok ban” legislation (SB686), which is a fraudulent auspice for total internet control by the intelligence community, comes from within bipartisan legislation spearheaded by the aligned interests of Senator Warner, the SSCI and DHS.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text?s=1&r=15

3) None of this is accidental, and the legislative branch is walking into the creation of an online control mechanism that has nothing whatsoever to do with banning TikTok.

4) Preceding the Restrict Act, on March 2, 2023, the people in control of the Joe Biden administration officially announced that government control of internet content was now officially a part of the national security apparatus.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/02/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-national-cybersecurity-strategy/

5) If you have followed the history of how the Fourth Branch of Government has been created, you will immediately recognize the intent of this new framework.

6) The “National Cybersecurity Strategy” aligns with, supports, and works in concert with a total U.S. surveillance system, where definitions of information are then applied to “cybersecurity” and communication vectors.

7) This policy is both a surveillance system and an information filtration prism where the government will decide what is information, disinformation, misinformation and malinformation, then act upon it.

8) Now put the March 2nd announcement, the executive branch fiat, together with Senate Bill 686 “The Restrict Act” also known as the bipartisan bill to empower the executive branch to shut down TikTok.

9) If you read SB 686 what you discover is that congress is giving the Comm Dept & Office of Director of National Intelligence the power to shut down internet content they view as against their interests. The definitions of interests? Outlined here👇:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/02/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-national-cybersecurity-strategy/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1641107818550812674.html

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Says He Has No Regrets on Afghanistan, Admits No One Has Been Held Accountable

Kristina Wong29 Mar 2023

U.S. House Armed Services Committee

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told House lawmakers during a hearing Wednesday he has “no regrets” on the disastrous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.

House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel Chair Jim Banks (R-IN) asked Austin, “Do you have regrets about the withdrawal from Afghanistan?”

Austin said, “I support the president’s decision.”

Banks asked again, “Do you have regrets about the withdrawal or how the withdrawal occurred from Afghanistan that cost the lives of 13 of our service members?”

“I don’t have any regrets,” he said.

Banks then asked Austin if there has been any accountability for anyone within the Department of Defense for the “deadly, botched, and embarrassing” withdrawal.

Austin responded, “Our troops evacuated 124,000 people off that airfield.” (Unvetted people and lots if terrorists)

Banks pressed, “Has anyone been held accountable? If a Navy captain grounded a ship, what happens immediately?”

“Typically that captain is removed,” Austin admitted.

“That captain is removed,” Banks echoed. “Has anyone been held accountable for what happened in Afghanistan?”

Austin said, “To my knowledge, no.”

Banks concluded: “No, you don’t regret it. No one’s ever been held accountable. Mr. Chairman, this is why this Republican majority must provide the accountability that this administration wants to sweep under the rug with what happened in Afghanistan.”

(Can this guy be given a court martial and tried for treason, if so and he ends up on RRN, that would be great)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/29/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-says-he-has-no-regrets-afghanistan-admits-no-one-has-been-held-accountable/

WI anons make sure everyone you know and they know to vote for Kelly, do not let the George Soros person win. April 4th, no excuses, a must win. Spread the word

https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1640686805560307713?s=20

Kek, Kyle brings up an impossibility, she got more votes than Kari Lake

https://twitter.com/KyleSeraphin/status/1640917713085419520?s=20