Hunter Biden Has Agreed to Plead Guilty to Multiple Criminal Charges – Update: Two Misdemeanors and One Gun Charge – A Slap on the Wrist

Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to multiple criminal charges according to CNN. The investigation into Hunter Biden has lasted five years.

CNN broke the story minutes ago:

“John, this five year long investigation now coming to head. We have learned from new court filings at the US. District Court here in Wilmington, Delaware, that Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to multiple criminal charges. I’m going to walk you through this. One of these charges involves these are two counts of failing to file tax returns in a timely fashion. Those are misdemeanors. He’s also going to plead guilty to a charge of a firearm offense. This is the possession of a firearm while you are addicted to a controlled substance. Now, the firearm offense is going to be diverted. And what that means is that if he meets certain conditions, that charge will go away. This will be over a set period of time. Otherwise, it’s the tax misdemeanor charges that he has been charged with.”

Here is the letter from US Attorney David Weiss on Hunter’s criminal charges.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/breaking-hunter-biden-has-agreed-plead-guilty-multiple/

Andrew Tate charged

The controversial influencer is accused of coercing seven victims into pornographic acts

Romanian authorities have charged social-media celebrity Andrew Tate with rape, human trafficking, and forming an organized crime group. Tate was charged along with his brother and two Romanian women, whom prosecutors claim helped him use violence and coercion to build a lucrative pornography business.

Police arrested Tate, his brother Tristan and the two women at their Bucharest home in December. The Tate brothers, who have dual citizenship of the US and UK, were imprisoned until March, when they were moved to house arrest.

Prosecutors with Romania’s anti-racketeering DIICOT unit announced the charges against Tate and his associates on Tuesday. The four are accused of forming an organized crime group in early 2021 and of exploiting seven victims “through acts of physical violence and psychological coercion.” Tate is accused of two counts of rape.

According to a press release from DIICOT, the Tate brothers courted the seven women with declarations of love and promises of relationships before taking them to Bucharest and forcing them to perform pornographic acts for the group’s camgirl business. Aside from physical and psychological violence, the women were allegedly forced into debt to keep them working.

One of the victims was allegedly raped twice by Tate last year, DIICOT claimed. In a recent interview with the BBC, Tate claimed that the alleged rape victim has since attempted to withdraw her accusation.

In a post to Twitter on Tuesday, Tristan Tate did not deny that the brothers ran a camgirl operation but claimed that the studio had been closed for four years by the time the alleged offenses took place.

A former champion kickboxer, Tate became a prominent social-media figure after he appeared on the British reality show ‘Big Brother’ in 2016. Tate maintained a brash and abrasive persona on social media, boasting about his wealth and encouraging his young male followers to pay for courses in which he promised to help them overcome their lack of success with money and women.

Over the past year, Tate began railing against the politics of the Western world, which he referred to as “the Matrix,” and he has claimed that his attacks on the military-industrial complex, anti-white racism, and coronavirus vaccines made him a target for Western authorities.

Tate’s trial is not expected to start immediately, and the two brothers will remain under house arrest. Under Romanian law, trafficking of adults carries a prison sentence of up to ten years.

https://www.rt.com/news/578356-andrew-tate-charged-rape/

Beijing Plans a New Training Facility in Cuba, Raising Prospect of Chinese Troops on America’s Doorstep

Biden administration scrambles to forestall China’s ambitions in the Caribbean

China and Cuba are negotiating to establish a new joint military training facility on the island, sparking alarm in Washington that it could lead to the stationing of Chinese troops and other security and intelligence operations just 100 miles off Florida’s coast, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Discussions for the facility on Cuba’s northern coast are at an advanced stage but not concluded, U.S. intelligence reports suggest. The Biden administration has contacted Cuban officials to try to forestall the deal, seeking to tap in to what it thinks might be Cuban concerns about ceding sovereignty. Beijing’s effort to establish a military training facility in Cuba hasn’t been previously reported.

The White House declined to comment.

The heightened anxiety in Washington over China’s ambitions in the Caribbean and Latin America comes as the administration is seeking to tamp down broader tensions with Beijing that have been stoked by a host of other issues, including U.S. support for Taiwan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was on a high-profile visit to China these past few days, meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The trip appeared to halt a downward spiral in relations. But Blinken failed to secure China’s agreement to a U.S. proposal that the two countries resume military-to-military communications to avoid misunderstandings. He also raised U.S. concerns about Chinese intelligence activities in Cuba, according to a State Department statement.

U.S. officials said reference to the proposed new training facility in Cuba is contained in highly classified new U.S. intelligence, which they described as convincing but fragmentary. It is being interpreted with different levels of alarm among policy makers and intelligence analysts.

The Wall Street Journal reported on June 8 that China and Cuba had reached an agreement in principle for a new eavesdropping site in Cuba; the White House characterized that reporting as inaccurate but didn’t elaborate. Two days later, the White House declassified intelligence to confirm publicly that Chinese intelligence collection facilities have existed in Cuba since at least 2019.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/beijing-plans-a-new-training-facility-in-cuba-raising-prospect-of-chinese-troops-on-americas-doorstep-e17fd5d1?st=2l1lcm21id8nvnn&mod=e2tw

Bankers, Royals, Politicians and Businessmen in His Web of Contacts – Musk Reacts To Recent Documents

An internal investigation by JPMorgan Chase, undertaken in 2019, after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested, reveals the disturbing reach of his influence peddling and helps explain why the bank ‘ignored the evidence of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and traded victims’ public safety for its own profits’, as per the US Virgin Island’s new judicial filing.

The 22-page report, included in the lawsuit in Federal Court against JPMorgan, reveals multiple instances of the convicted pedophile acting to steer business the bank’s way, even arranging for meetings between a top bank executive (and personal friend) Jes Staley, and members of the UK government at that time, such as chancellor Alistair Darling, and business secretary Peter Mandelson.

Financial Times reported:

“In January 2010, just months after he was released from jail having served a sentence for sex crimes, Epstein wrote to Staley: ‘I’ve set up you and peter to meet in davos with darling’, a reference to the World Economic Forum that was taking place in Switzerland.

A few days later, Staley wrote to Epstein that he saw ‘Peter last night. Darling in 20 minutes. Will talk again with Peter this AM’.”

Those meeting had a very practical objective: JPMorgan Chase had interest in the non-North American units of Sempra Commodities by Royal Bank of Scotland. Sure enough, only months later, the bank bought the business for $1.7bn.

There we can see why the firm would be willing to put up with potential reputational damage of having Epstein as a client: he brought big, valuable businesses to the bank.

In 2010, Epstein advanced a business opportunity connected to currently embattled Prince Andrew, of a company “looking for a $200mn working capital line”.

“In 2009, according to the report, Epstein emailed Staley: “Ask Andrew about [the] island, tell him about your boat plans”, an apparent reference to Little St James, Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.

[…] ‘Jeffrey Epstein connected JPMorgan Chase’s executives with some of the world’s most high-profile and wealthy individuals’, said a spokesperson for the USVI attorney-general.”

The bank investigation also showed how close Jes Staley was to Epstein. Epstein was even trying to help Staley’s daughter entering Columbia University, in New York.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/more-than-just-sex-trafficking-epstein-influence-peddling/

BRAVE NEW WORLD: Elitist Media Doctor and COVID Vaccine Promoter Peter Hotez Says Science Should Not Be Debated – Then Plays Victim

Dr. Peter Hotez is making headlines this week for refusing to debate author and attorney Robert Kennedy, Jr. on the effectiveness of the COVID19 vaccines.

Rather than accept the challenge Hotez has lashed out at Robert Kennedy Jr. and Joe Rogan who has invited RFK Jr. on his show several times.

Hotez is unwilling to defend his record or the “science” behind the COVID vaccines.

On Sunday night Hotez actually said, “Science is not something that is typically debated.”

Hotez demands you respect him but he is too lazy to defend his theories against attorney Robert Kennedy, Jr. According to Hotez – “science” should not be challenged.

Hotez is a flake. Kennedy would tear him apart.

That’s a fact.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/brave-new-world-elitist-media-doctor-covid-vaccine/

Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery.

https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1671157621120962562

EU preparing $55 billion bailout for Kiev – Bloomberg

Western taxpayers’ money will be used to pay for Ukrainian pensions and the wages of government employees

The European Commission wants member states to cough up €50 billion ($55 billion) to bankroll the Ukrainian government, so it can pay wages and pensions, and commence reconstruction projects, sources cited by Bloomberg have said.

The terms of the proposed bailout are subject to change pending an official announcement on Tuesday, the outlet reported on Tuesday. The package will be financed by direct contributions from member states, as opposed to borrowing from the market.

The aid will be provided in the form of grants, concessional loans and guarantees rather than some “burdensome reconstruction instrument,” the outlet said, adding that the money would be provided between 2024 and 2027.

The Ukrainian budget has been receiving cash injections from Western sponsors to keep it running. Washington and its allies have pledged to help Kiev “for as long as it takes” to defeat Russia, including through the provision of non-military support.

The US alone provided $26.4 billion in budgetary aid between January 2022 and February 2023, according to the Council on Foreign Relations think tank. The aid package announced by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on February 24 was worth $9.9 billion.

Critics of the policy have claimed Ukraine has a lengthy record of grafting and argued that the money could have been spent by Western nations at home to solve their own immediate problems. Bloomberg sources suggested that the EU funding would be made conditional on Kiev delivering reforms “to improve the rule of law and address corruption.”

According to Reuters, the European Commission is set to publish a report this week about Kiev’s effort, which will state that it has met two of the seven conditions to start membership negotiations. The milestones reportedly relate to judicial reform and media regulation.

https://www.rt.com/news/578337-ukraine-aid-eu-bloomberg/

Judge Sets August 14 Trial Date For Trump Documents Case

US District Judge Aileen Cannon set an initial trial date of August in Florida on Donald Trump's federal charges of willful retention of classified government records and obstruction of justice, according to a court order on Tuesday.

The Justice Department's special counsel in the case, Jack Smith, promised a speedy trial after a 37-count indictment charging Trump with willfully retaining classified government records and obstructing justice. But the complexities of handling highly classified evidence, the degree to which Trump's legal team challenges the government's pre-trial motions, and the way the judge manages the schedule could all lead to a trial that is anything but swift, legal experts claim.

The latest order came after a U.S. judge on Monday ordered Trump's defense lawyers not to release evidence in the classified documents case to the media or the public, according to a court filing.

The order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart also put strict conditions on Trump's access to the materials.

Trump was arraigned in Miami federal court last Tuesday, during which he pleaded not guilty to charges he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-sets-august-14-trial-date-trump-documents-case

Surprise Shakeup At Alibaba As CEO Steps Down, Moves To Cloud Unit

After a surprise managerial shakeup, Alibaba shares fell in premarket trading in New York. Eight-year veteran CEO and Chairman Daniel Zhang sent a memo to staff on Tuesday explaining his departure. This comes after Zhang unveiled the splitting of Alibaba into six separate units in what was called the "most significant" overhaul of the Chinese e-commerce company in its quarter-century existence. Analysts say the move will support the firm's restructuring, while some must see growth before they can regain confidence amid a growth slowdown in a post-Covid era.

Zhang, 51, will relinquish the top job at one of China's leading technology conglomerates come September. He will remain CEO of the cloud computing business as it pushes towards a spin-off and future public listing. Alibaba announced plans to spin off its cloud division in May.

Executive Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai, a longtime friend of co-founder Jack Ma, will succeed Zhang. The reshuffle is a move to put Ma's trusted team back at the helm of the technology company valued at $240 billion.

Zhang's unexpected departure comes months after the company announced it would split into six independently run entities:

Cloud Intelligence Group

Taobao Tmall Commerce Group

Cainiao Smart Logistics

Local Services Group

Global Digital Commerce Group

Digital Media and Entertainment Group

In the internal memo that Zhang sent to staff, which CNBC has obtained, he stated:

"Cloud Intelligence Group is now full speed ahead on its spin-off plans and we are approaching a crucial stage of the process, so it is the right time for me to dedicate my full attention and time to the business."

He also said:

"From a corporate governance perspective, we also need clear separation between the board and management team as Cloud Intelligence Group proceeds down the path to becoming an independent public company. It would be inappropriate for me to continue serving as Chairman and CEO of both companies at the same time during the spin-off process."

During premarket trading, BABA shares in New York were down 2% on the surprise shakeup. Shares are back to 2016 levels, plunging 80% since late 2020, primarily due to Beijing's crackdown on tech. Shares have yet to rally from depressed levels as the e-commerce giant hemorrhages market share and struggles to revive growth after the world's second-largest economy reopened earlier this year.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/surprise-shakeup-alibaba-ceo-steps-down-moves-cloud-unit

McCain, Romney Donor Leads DeSantis Fundraiser in Silicon Valley.

Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis’s Silicon Valley Peninsula fundraiser was hosted by John Hamilton, a real estate investor who has donated tens of thousands to RINOs and former presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and John McCain.

According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Hamilton contributed over $25,000 to McCain in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. He contributed $18,000 alone in August while also making three smaller donations of $2,300 across that year, with one of those going to the McCain fund. Not once does he appear to have donated to Trump, or anti-establishment candidates, with recent contributions going to Kristi Noem, Kevin McCarthy, and Mitch McConnell.

Hamilton also donated a total of $27,500 to Romney for the latter’s 2012 presidential campaign, making a large individual donation of $20,000 in April, as well as three further donations of $2,500.

The DeSantis fundraiser was held at Hamilton’s own home on Monday afternoon. Earlier in the day, the Florida Governor held another fundraiser at the Del Paso Country Club, for which he struggled to find more than one sponsor. Tickets for the event cost upwards of $3,3oo.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/20/mccain-romney-donor-leads-desantis-fundraiser-in-silicon-valley/

Serial Rapist Cop Gets Off with a Wrist Slap as Taxpayers Forced to Pay His Victims

“[The settlement] was obviously a lot lower than I think is the correct number because there's not a number for rape.”

Once again, in a case that illustrates the clear injustice in our system, Louisville Metro taxpayers are forced to cough up $275,000 to compensate for the heinous actions of one of their former police officers, Pablo Cano. This serial rapist admitted to nonconsensual sex with five women between 2015 and 2017, a series of vile acts committed while he was supposed to be protecting and serving the community.

Back in June 2017, the first lawsuit claiming sexual assault was lodged against Cano, after he allegedly followed a woman home and raped her. Upon the revelation, the Louisville Metro Police Department placed him on administrative leave during their investigation. However, this predator had the audacity to simply resign from his post in September 2017. Astonishingly, news coverage of Cano's monstrous deeds led even more women to step forward, accusing him of sexual abuse - approximately ten, including his former girlfriends.

Among the victims, Jane Doe IV courageously revealed that Cano forced himself on her during a traffic stop, with the incident partially caught on his body camera. Sadly, these brave women felt they had to settle, hoping to avoid reliving their trauma through a court ordeal. The irony is that it is the city and, by extension, the taxpayers, who are financially accountable for Cano's crimes.

Attorney Shannon Fauver, who represented the victims, emphasized that the settlement fails to compensate for the torment inflicted by Cano and the city's abysmal response. The settlement divided up amounts to $50,000 each for four victims, while Jane Doe IV received $75,000.

“[The settlement] was obviously a lot lower than I think is the correct number because there's not a number for rape,” Fauver said. “But at any point, the judges could have decided that the city was not financially responsible, and then [the women] would have gotten nothing.”

As TFTP reported at the time, the first complaint was made public in 2017 when it was revealed that a woman filed a report claiming she had been raped by Cano, twice.

The woman claimed she first met Cano at a city park, and then he showed up at her house weeks later and raped her. After the rape, he came back the next day and did it again. He was allegedly in uniform the first time, and then in plain clothes the next day when he came to rape her again, but had a gun at the time of the crime.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/serial-rapist-cop-gets-off-with-a-wrist-slap-as-taxpayers-forced-to-pay-his-victims

Election Interference: YouTube Censors Jordan Peterson Interview of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

YouTube has taken down a video interview by Jordan Peterson of Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., prompting accusations that the Google-owned platform is once again seeking to manipulate national politics and interfere in a presidential election in the U.S.

The interview took place on the Jordan B. Peterson podcast, and is over an hour and a half long. It can still be watched in full on Twitter, whose owner, Elon Musk, hosted the Democrat candidate for a Spaces interview earlier this month.

“Now YouTube has taken upon itself to actively interfere with a presidential election campaign,” said Jordan Peterson after news of the censorship broke.

RFK Jr. also spoke out, calling for public pressure to address the platform’s actions.

“Do you really need Big Tech censors to decide what you should hear? Or would you prefer to be treated as a competent adult who can listen to various viewpoints and come to his or her own conclusions?”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/06/20/election-interference-youtube-censors-jordan-peterson-interview-of-robert-f-kennedy-jr/

Merrick Garland Conveniently Making ‘Surprise’ Overseas Visit When Hunter Biden Charges Drop

Attorney General Merrick Garland is apparently unavailable to comment on the agreement the Department of Justice reached with Hunter Biden on Tuesday because Garland is out of the country on a “surprise” visit to the Hague.

Garland made an unannounced stop at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday to meet with its top prosecutor, Karim Khan, but the ICC provided no details about the meeting. The United States is not a party to the ICC, but the meeting represents another step in a gradual warming of relations between the two.

The meeting occurred just a day before the DOJ reached a deal with Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, on charges related to tax evasion and gun crimes. He agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanors for failing to pay federal taxes in 2017 and 2018, and is entering a pretrial diversion agreement for illegally possessing a gun in 2017.

Garland has not publicly commented on the charges and it is unclear if he plans to do so.

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. sanctioned top officials at the ICC after the court accused American troops of committing war crimes. Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the court a “broken and corrupt institution.”

The Biden administration lifted those sanctions, and has applauded the ICC’s work prosecuting war crimes committed by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/20/merrick-garland-icc-the-hague-hunter-biden-charged/

Hunter Biden Plea Deal Excludes Alleged Biden $10M ‘Bribery’ Scheme

Hunter Biden’s plea deal with United States Attorney David Weiss appears to exclude the alleged Biden $10 million “bribery” scheme an FBI informant documented and that Weiss reportedly obtained from former Attorney General William Barr.

Hunter Biden on Tuesday agreed to plead guilty to two federal tax violation charges and one violation of gun laws, per reports Tuesday morning.

The decision of whether to ultimately charge Hunter Biden was up to Donald Trump-appointed United States Attorney David Weiss. In March, Attorney General Merrick Garland said he would personally have to authorize any potential charges against Hunter Biden.

But notably, the plea deal with Weiss appears to exclude any charges related to the alleged Biden “bribery” scheme in which Hunter and President Joe Biden accepted $5 million each from a Ukrainian energy company executive, Mykola Zlochevsky, according to an FBI informant file reviewed by the House Oversight Committee.

In June, Barr said the informant file was sent to Weiss during the Trump administration. At the time, Weiss had an ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden.

“It was sent to Delaware for further investigation,” Barr told the Federalist.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Tuesday ripped the Justice Department for appearing to ignore the bribery scandal.

“If the DOJ thinks this dismisses the $5 million alleged bribery scheme or the years of reported Biden family corruption, they are mistaken,” she posted on Twitter.

According to recent polling, 83 percent of voters believe the FBI should make public its informant file that alleges Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky. In addition, a majority of voters believe Joe Biden took the $5 million bribe.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/20/hunter-biden-plea-deal-excludes-alleged-biden-10m-bribery-scheme/

Pentagon spying on social media, getting exact locations, to protect top officers from ‘negative sentiment,’ ’embarrassment,’ report says

Documents show the U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion utilizes technology to monitor social media, protecting top Pentagon officials from online “threats” and “negative sentiment.”

The U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion, a Pentagon division similar to the Secret Service, is responsible for the protection of top U.S. military leaders. According to Army records obtained by The Intercept, the U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion protects both current and former miliary officers from threats such as injury, kidnapping, assassination and embarrassment.

The Intercept recently reported that a procurement document from last September expanded the U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion’s duty to include the identification of “negative sentiment” and the monitoring of “direct, indirect, and veiled” threats to U.S. military officials on social media.

“There may be legally valid reasons to intrude on someone’s privacy by searching for, collecting, and analyzing publicly available information, particularly when it pertains to serious crimes and terrorist threats,” Privacy International Program Director Ilia Siatitsa told The Intercept. “However, expressing ‘positive or negative sentiment towards a senior high-risk individual’ cannot be deemed sufficient grounds for government agencies to conduct surveillance operations, even going as far as ‘pinpointing exact locations’ of individuals.”

Siatitsa said the ability of individuals to vocalize opinions, criticisms, assumptions, and value judgments regarding public officials is a “quintessential part” of democracy.

The procurement document explains that monitoring social media is a requirement of the Protective Services Field Office and Protective Intelligence Brach in order to provide “global protective services” for officials with the Department of Defense. The document also outlines how the U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion is tasked with mitigating “online threats” and identifying “positive or negative sentiment relating specifically to our senior high-risk personnel.”

Also included in the procurement document is a description of how software would be utilized to create “a reliable social media threat mitigation service.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/06/pentagon-spying-on-social-media-getting-exact-locations-to-protect-top-officers-from-negative-sentiment-embarrassment-report-says/

IMF Managing Director: “We Are Working Hard On A Global CBDC”

“If we are to be successful, CBDCs could not be fragmented national propositions.”

During a presentation at a conference in Morocco, Kristalina Georgievahe the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that the global body is “working hard on the concept of a global CBDC platform.”

Georgieva declared that Central Bank Digital Currencies need to be interoperable between countries, noting “If we are to be successful, CBDCs could not be fragmented national propositions.”

“To have transactions more efficient and fairer, we need systems that connect countries,” Georgieva continued, adding “In other words, we need interoperability.”

The IMF MD argued that global digital currencies would “give more people access to financial services and bring the cost down,” adding that “CBDCs can provide for more resilient and efficient payment systems,” and “can be a cheaper way, and a quicker way, to do cross-border payments, to pass remittances… and also simplify other transfers.”

Some have warned that a digital global currency in the hands of globalist entities could usher in a hyper-centralized techno-Communist dystopia, allowing all purchases to be tracked and even linked to a social credit score system.

Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki recently cautioned that CBDCs would open the door for an unprecedented level of surveillance of Americans.

“In essence, it replicates George Orwell’s dystopian society depicted in 1984. Big Brother will be constantly monitoring our financial activity, and this is precisely the problem with central bank digital currency,” he added.

“As an individual, I become nervous at the thought of this. I do not want them to monitor my every transaction or be privy to my spending habits. It is a violation of my privacy, and they have no business knowing how I choose to allocate my resources,” the author warned.

Reflecting such concerns, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) recently introduced a bill that would ban the Federal Reserve from introducing CBDCs, as well as forcing the Fed to remain transparent with Congress on its research into the issue.

https://www.activistpost.com/2023/06/imf-managing-director-we-are-working-hard-on-a-global-cbdc.html

Belarusian Coup Plotters Train in Poland

The training was organized by Bypol, a group of former officers from Belarusian security services

A group of Belarusian exiles is receiving training in Poland to prepare for a day when they return to Belarus to take on the government of President Alexander Lukashenko, The Times reported on Sunday.

The Times spoke with Belarusians who were training in a field behind a business park in Poznan, Poland. The training was organized by Bypol, a group of former officers from Belarusian security services that was formed after the 2020 presidential election in Belarus and the protests that followed.

The elections saw Lukashenko win another term, but the results were rejected by opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and her supporters, who say the vote was rigged. The US and the EU also rejected the results and increased sanctions on Belarus, pushing Lukashenko closer to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Tsikhanouskaya fled Belarus and is currently based in Lithuania. The exiled opposition has taken credit for attacks inside Belarus since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including a blast that hit a Russian spy plane, although Discord leaks show the US believes rogue agents of the Ukrainian SBU were responsible.

The training session for exiled Belarusians is the first of its kind in Poznan, but Aliaksandr Azarau, the leader of Bypol, said other groups have been training in Poland for months with recruits numbering in the hundreds. Last year, Azarau claimed that 200,000 people signed up to support Bypol’s “victory plan,” including 5,000 who are willing to conduct sabotage operations.

In comments to the Times, Tsikhanouskaya suggested the exiled Belarusians were waiting for their moment. “We’re in safe mode, like a computer, our main task is to protect people and keep them where they are,” she said.

The US has backed Tsikhanouskaya since she fled Belarus. Tsikhanouskaya visited Washington last year and said after meeting with US officials that she was ensured of the US’s “full support.”

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/06/19/belarusian-coup-plotters-train-in-poland/

Ex-China central bank deputy head arrested for suspected bribery

A FORMER deputy governor of China’s central bank, Fan Yifei, has been arrested for suspected bribery, China’s top prosecutor said on Tuesday (Jun 20).

Fan, 59, is the highest-ranking official at the People’s Bank of China to be arrested under President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft drive in the past decade, in a campaign aimed at weeding out corrupt officials in the financial sector.

The Supreme People’s Procuratorate said in its statement it would prosecute Fan and the case was under further investigation.

Reuters was not able to contact Fan for comment.

Fan was expelled from the Communist Party and removed from his post this month for serious violations of discipline and the law, state media reported.

The top anti-corruption watchdog said he had taken advantage of his position to make profits for others in loan financing and illegally accepting property, state media said. REUTERS

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/ex-china-central-bank-deputy-head-arrested-suspected-bribery

Morocco cancels next month’s Negev Forum over Israeli settlement announcements

Second ministerial meeting was supposed to take place in July after several delays; US official says West Bank expansion moves also ‘taint’ Saudi normalization effort

Morocco has decided to cancel plans to host the second ministerial gathering of the Negev Forum in response to a pair of Israeli moves to significantly expand its settlements in the West Bank, a US and an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.

The gathering of foreign ministers from Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt and the US was originally slated to take place in March but has been delayed several times amid escalating tensions between Israelis and Palestinians as well as discomfort among Arab participants over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new hardline government.

Over the past week, Rabat had agreed to finally hold the meeting next month. A date had not been finalized but it was “pretty locked up” for taking place in mid-July, the US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/morocco-cancels-next-months-negev-forum-over-israeli-settlement-announcements/

Mayo Clinic Suspends Medicine Prof Who Said ‘Testosterone Improves Athletic Performance’

“proved problematic in the media and the LGBTQI+ community at Mayo Clinic”

Mayo Clinic professor suspended after saying testosterone improves athletic performance

A Mayo Clinic College of Medicine professor was recently suspended — and remains under the threat of termination — after he told a news outlet his stance on trans-athletes in women’s sports and plasma treatments for COVID-19.

Administrators suspended Professor Michael Joyner without pay for a week, citing his “use of idiomatic language” and comments he made in a June 2022 New York Times article as justification for the disciplinary actions, according to a March 5 disciplinary letter that recently came to light.

The memo also told him to refrain from speaking to the media unless given permission.

The college expressed that Dr. Joyner’s opinions “proved problematic in the media and the LGBTQI+ community at Mayo Clinic,” according to a letter Joyner received from the college, which was recently published by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

In June 2022, Joyner told the Times that, when it comes to telling the difference between biological males and females, “you see the divergence immediately as the testosterone surges into the boys,” he said. “There are dramatic differences in performances.”

The “idiomatic language” the college could be referring to comes later in the New York Times article when Joyner stated “there are social aspects to sport, but physiology and biology underpin it… testosterone is the 800-pound gorilla.”

Inside Higher Ed reported this interview prompted headlines featuring Joyner’s statements such as “Doctors confirm trans swimmer Lia Thomas DOES have an unfair advantage even after taking testosterone suppressants” and “Doctors Verify the ‘Scientific Evidence’ Proves Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas’ Unfair Advantage Over Females.”

More recently, in January, Joyner spoke to CNN about the benefits of convalescent plasma as a treatment for immune-compromised individuals who contract COVID-19 and expressed his frustration with the government and other medical professionals who discount plasma as an effective course of treatment.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/mayo-clinic-suspends-medicine-prof-who-said-testosterone-improves-athletic-performance/

Judicial Watch Sues Homeland Security for Records Tied to Election Censorship Collusion

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency failed to comply with an October 27, 2022, FOIA request for:

1. All emails, direct messages, task management alerts, or other records of communication related to the work of the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) sent via the Atlassian Jira platform between any official or employee of the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency and any member, officer, employee, or representative of any of the following:

The Election Integrity Partnership

The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public

Stanford University’s Internet Observatory

The Center for Internet Security

The Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing & Analysis Center

The National Association of Secretaries of State

The National Association of State Election Directors

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The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Laboratory

Any social media company

1. All memoranda of understanding, guidelines, or similar records related to the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency’s use of the Atlassian Jira platform for work related to the Election Integrity Partnership.

Jira is a software application developed by the Australian company Atlassian. The Atlassian websitestates: “Jira helps teams plan, assign, track, report, and manage work. It brings teams together for everything from agile software development, customer support, start-ups, and enterprises.”

https://www.judicialwatch.org/election-censorship-collusion/

Kyiv: The time has come for Netanyahu to visit Ukraine

The head of the Zelensky administration called for Netanyahu to visit Ukraine and for the Israeli government to condemn Putin's remarks on Zelensky’s Jewish heritage.

Israel should allow Ukraine to use its defensive weapons against Iran-made drones, Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, said Tuesday.

“No country other than Israel has the capabilities Ukraine needs to defend itself,” he told Israeli reporters in a briefing. “This equipment will be used in Ukraine against Iranian weapons.”

Ukraine knows that it shares an enemy with Israel – Iran, and “we don’t understand why the government and Israeli politicians don’t understand this,” Yermak said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should “express his support for Ukraine,” he said, adding that he expects him to visit Ukraine.

Israel was “the most neutral among countries that have good relations with Ukraine,” Yermak said.

“As a person with a Jewish father, I cannot understand why Israel is not reacting,” he added.

https://www.jpost.com/international/internationalrussia-ukraine-war/article-746969

Homeland Security deputy secretary retires from agency

A major portion of Tien's work at Homeland Security was Operation Allies Refuge and Operation Allies Welcome, both of which focused on Afghan refugees after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Homeland Security Deputy Secretary John Tien on Tuesday announced his retirement from the agency, making him the latest top Biden official to leave the administration.

"I thank Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas for having the confidence in me to support my nomination to President Biden and even more so, to empower and enable me to 'co-lead' the Department with him," Tien told Homeland Security employees.

Tien had served 24 years in the U.S. Army before he retired in 2011. He worked for the Obama administration and became the deputy secretary of Homeland Security in June 2021.

A major portion of Tien's work at Homeland Security was Operation Allies Refuge and Operation Allies Welcome, both of which focused on Afghan refugees after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

While at Homeland Security, Tien "coordinated interagency efforts in support of international pre-screening operations in Operation Allies Refuge; led interagency policy development in Operation Allies Welcome [and] created innovative programs to disrupt and dismantle international criminal organizations involved in fentanyl and human smuggling," among other things, Mayorkas said.

Tien plans on returning to live with his family in Atlanta, as he has been living in D.C. for the past two years. He will formally leave the agency on July 20.

As of May 26, the Biden administration's turnover rate for top officials was 52%, according to the Brookings Institute, a D.C. think tank.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/homeland-security-deputy-secretary-retires-agency

‘Wink, wink’: Bongino shares leaked audio of Biden telling ex-Ukrainian leader not to worry about FBI

Conservative political commentator Dan Bongino is blowing up the Internet playing President Biden on tape allegedly assuring former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that he shouldn’t worry about the FBI looking into corruption in Ukraine.

One Twitter user retweeted a segment of Bongino’s show pointing out Biden’s purported involvement in corrupt dealings with Ukraine, “Here’s corrupt, compromised, criminal biden ON TAPE trying to cover up his corruption in Ukraine.”

“Poroshenko is the Ukrainian president whom Biden extorted. Onyshchenko works for him. Right after Trump won in 2016, a Poroshenko aide, that’s Onyshchenko, offered to give DOJ incriminating evidence about Biden’s calls with Poroshenko. Which we’ll play in a second. As fate would have it, the aide’s info went to Andrew Weissmann who probably buried it all,” Bongino railed on his show.

He then said it was almost like Weissmann wanted it to go away, snarking, “So good we have a Department of Justice in this country, isn’t it?”

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/06/19/wink-wink-bongino-shares-leaked-audio-of-biden-telling-ex-ukrainian-leader-not-to-worry-about-fbi-1369956/

Elon Musk recommends Jim Caviezel’s movie on child trafficking be streamed on Twitter

'Sound of Freedom,' to be released on July 4, is based on the life of Tim Ballard, a former CIA agent who founded Operation Underground Railroad in 2013 to root out trafficking efforts across the world.

Twitter owner Elon Musk has encouraged Angel Studios to stream Sound of Freedom, its upcoming movie about child trafficking starring Jim Caviezel, on the platform.

“I recommend putting it on this platform for free for a brief period or just asking people to subscribe to support (we would not keep any funds),” Musk tweeted Tuesday night.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/elon-musk-recommends-jim-caviezels-movie-on-child-trafficking-be-streamed-on-twitter/

Mel Gibson Helped Dismantle an International Pedophile Ring.

Mel Gibson provided “valuable intelligence” on a pedophile ring preying on children in Ukraine, according to Operation Underground Railroad.

Rumors Gibson was making a “docu-series on the $34 billion global child sex trafficking market involving countries like Ukraine” went viral following an unsourced tweet from Leading Report.

Writer Katherine Brodsky later reported these claims were false, but cited Operation Underground Railroad president Tim Ballard, who revealed Gibson made a vital contribution to the fight against child sex trafficking.

“Mel is a personal hero of mine and called me back in 2022 with valuable intelligence regarding children who were rumored to be vulnerable to human traffickers in Ukraine,” Ballard said.

“Using that intelligence, we went to Ukraine, where Operation Underground Railroad, Aerial Recovery Group, and The Nazarene Fund were successful in beginning the process of dismantling a dangerous international pedophile ring,” he added.

The flurry of interest around the alleged Gibson documentary comes as an enormous pedophile network operating largely unhindered on Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram has been exposed.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/19/mel-gibson-helped-dismantle-an-international-pedophile-ring/

BlackRock, JP Morgan set up 'reconstruction bank' for Ukraine

BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase are reportedly aiding the Ukrainian government in setting up a reconstruction bank that could see rebuilding projects being heavily invested in by private entities. The Financial Times noted that it would cost Ukraine roughly $411 billion to rebuild their country amid the onslaught of attacks by Russia, but the cost is continuing to increase.

The Ukraine Development Fund is still in the early stages of setting up the reconstruction bank, but potential investors will get an inside preview of how things will look during a London conference that is set to take place this week.

With the steep cost to rebuild, the Ukrainian government reached out to BlackRock in November to see if there was a conceivable way of attracting investments. JPMorgan was soon added in February. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed last month that he was working with the two financial institutions and consultants at McKinsey, per the report.

Philipp Hildebrand, BlackRock vice-chair, said: “So many of today’s long-term challenges are best addressed through blended finance and this is one. You need these vehicles to mobilise capital at scale.”

Though BlackRock and JPMorgan are offering their services, they will likely have the first look at potential investments in the Eastern European country. The report noted that the current development has only deepened JPMorgan’s relationship with its long-standing client, Ukraine. The financial institution has helped Ukraine raise more than $25 billion in sovereign debt since 2010, and it led in the country’s $20 billion debt reconstruction in 2022.

BlackRock has claimed that Ukraine needs a “development finance bank” that would provide the country with infrastructure, climate, and agriculture opportunities. This will apparently make them more attractive to other long-term investors. JPMorgan was added to the venture due to its debt expertise.

Stefan Weiler, JPMorgan’s head of debt capital markets in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, said: “The fund is being set up to also give public and private sector investors the opportunity to invest into specific projects and sectors.”

“There will be different sectoral funds that the fund identified as priorities for Ukraine. That aim is to maximise capital participation.”

However, it does not appear that Ukraine is expected to receive such investments until the end of the conflict with Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with the African Union, revealed that Ukraine had allegedly signed a treaty in the spring of 2022. But the country went back on it after Russia had agreed to the terms.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/84913/blackrock-jp-morgan-set-up-reconstruction-bank-for.html

John Kerry Declares War on US Farmers: Gov’t Farm Confiscations ‘Not Off The Table’

This will not end until there is mass nonviolent noncompliance with an illegitimate Federal government, the UN, WEF, CFR, CIA, FBI, IRS, WHO, Rockefeller and Gates “nonprofits,” et al., and the various One World Government apparatchiks like John Kerry.

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“Biden’s” “climate” henchman is directly linked to Klaus Schwab’s WEF, the Fabian Society, UN, WHO, CFR, et al. and has been tapped on his shoulder to escalate their eugenics operation. fear-mongering.

The answer to malnutrition for these technocommunist psychotics is ever more malnutrition in the form of chitin-rich toxic bugs:

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/84907/john-kerry-declares-war-on-us-farmers-govt-farm-confiscations-not-off-the.html

CIA Memo 1967: CIA Coined and Weaponized the Label “Conspiracy Theory”

In 1967 The CIA released a dispatch that coined the label “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracy theorists” to attack anyone who challenged the official narrative from the Warren Commission. It’s interesting to note that the document is labelled “psych”, for psychological operations or disinformation. It’s also marked “CS copy” at the bottom, meaning “Clandestine Services” Unit.

This document was requested and released to The New York Times in 1976 via The Freedom of Information Act. Below is the CIA dispatch. Read it for yourself.

CIA Dispatch: Weaponizing “conspiracy theorist” label Page#1

https://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-memo-1967-cia-coined-weaponized-label-conspiracy-theory/5822801

Israel Set to Bring 10,000 Indian Labourers for Jobs Traditionally Held by Palestinians

Influx of Indian workers to Israel would be tangible sign of cooperation with New Delhi filtering down to daily Israeli life

Israel is set to bring 10,000 workers from India to staff jobs in construction and nursing industries, in a sign of deepening economic and political cooperation with New Delhi, according to multiple Hebrew language news sites.

Reports say workers will arrive in stages, with 2,500 filling jobs in both construction and nursing. The final agreement for labour is still being worked out between Israeli and Indian officials.

“We expect the agreements to be approved shortly, and we will soon be able to start setting up the necessary mechanisms to employ skilled labour in a proper and supervised manner,” a spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Population and Immigration said.

The talks come on the heels of Foreign Minister Eli Cohen’s visit to India in early May where he signed an agreement with his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, to bring some 42,000 Indian foreign workers to Israel, with 34,000 earmarked for construction and 8,000 in elder care.

Israeli officials reportedly toured workplace training centres in India in March ahead of the talks. Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority described the Indian workers as diligent, experienced and fluent in English.

Israel and India have been forging closer ties for years. In January, India’s Adani Group acquired a 70 percent stake in the now privatised Haifa Port, for $1.2bn. The two are also part of US efforts to deepen security and economic cooperation with the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Washington is promoting a plan for a vast infrastructure network that would connect Gulf and Arab countries to India via rail and shipping lanes. President Joe Biden’s top national security advisor met with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and officials from India and the UAE to discuss the plan this month.

But the influx of Indian workers to Israel would be one of the most tangible signs of cooperation with New Delhi filtering down to daily life in Israel.

Roughly 100,000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza work legally in Israel, with the bulk of those jobs in the construction sector. They often face hazardous working conditions and exploitation. Almost half of the West Bank workers are forced to pay around 2,500 shekels ($746) a month to brokers to secure work permits.

Meanwhile, Palestinian citizens of Israel have also faced discrimination for their political actions. In 2021, when Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories were swept by mass protests, hundreds of workers were fired by Israeli employers for participating in a general strike.

Israel also regularly uses the issuing of work permits to exert influence and control over the Palestinian economy, experts say.

Indian officials have pointed to Israel’s policies as a model for their control of Kashmir, where New Delhi has been accused of conducting a mass eviction drive against Muslims to alter the disputed valley’s demographics.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-set-bring-10000-indian-labourers-jobs-traditionally-held-by-palestinians/5822816

Biden’s policy on China is now outright appeasement

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the White House claim to be pleased by his trip to Beijing: President Xi Jinping actually met with him and agreed to continue talking.

Thing is, it seems China will only deign to keep talking as long as Washington keeps appeasing it with actual concessions.

Blinken didn’t even get his central ask, restoring military-to-military communication channels that Beijing cut last year but the Bidenites paint as the best way to avoid stumbling into a war.

(Indeed, the Chinese Communists still won’t even meet with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.)

Crucially, Washington had to bribe Beijing to even get this meeting: It has played down Beijing’s intensifying intelligence-gathering (the Cuba spy base, the spy balloon, China’s “secret police” stations inside our country) and is delaying the declassifying of intelligence on COVID’s origins.

It’s also stalling planned restrictions on investment in China linked to its defense industry and on export of US semiconductor tech that could boost Beijing’s military.

Does the White House need to continue holding off on all this to keep the talks going?

Remember, Blinken was set to go to Beijing in February before the spy-balloon incident (which the administration tried to keep from the US public!) forced him to cancel.

Why did Washington need to do anything to grease the skids to get the trip back on?

Worse, during the visit, Blinken gave Beijing a free pass on the balloon, too: “That chapter should be closed,” he said.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/bidens-policy-on-china-is-now-outright-appeasement/

Belarus to introduce chemical castration of pedophiles

Proposed changes to the criminal code envisage compulsory treatment of child molesters, the General Prosecutor’s Office says

https://www.rt.com/russia/578293-belarus-chemical-castration-pedophile/

Did The FBI Prevent Delaware Agents From Investigating Biden Bribery Allegations?

Sen. Chuck Grassley implied the FBI may have defined the scope of its Hunter Biden investigation so narrowly, bribery allegations couldn’t be probed.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, rarely asks a question to which he doesn’t know the answer. When the question concerns the politicization and weaponization of the FBI, you can bet some damning information rests behind his query.

So when Grassley asked on Thursday whether bribery was within the parameters of Delaware’s investigation into Hunter Biden, it likely means the FBI defined the scope of the federal investigation into the president’s son so narrowly that agents lacked the authority to properly probe a “highly credible” confidential human source’s reporting implicating the Biden family. Specifically, the CHS reported that Hunter and Joe Biden each received $5 million in bribes from the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma.

The Iowa senator posed his question last Thursday during the executive business meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee. After several exchanges between Republican members of the Judiciary Committee and Democrat Chair Dick Durbin over the question of what, if anything, the FBI had done to investigate the bribery alleged in the CHS’s FD-1023 report, Grassley interjected this query:

“In regard to U.S. Attorney Weiss, do we know if his job follows up on bribery, or is it just this tax stuff that we’ve been reading about? If it doesn’t include bribery, then he can’t do anything about investigating.”

And with those two sentences, Grassley revealed the initial answer Americans need to assess whether the DOJ and FBI sabotaged a criminal probe into the Biden family.

As Crossfire Hurricane and related sub-investigations established, when the FBI opens a full investigation, the “Electronic Communication” identifies the underlying suspected criminal offense. In the case of the investigation into the Trump campaign and connected individuals, Peter Strzok identified the Foreign Agents Registration Act as the relevant criminal statute. Further, the controlling Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide, or DIOG, stresses that “it is particularly important clearly to identify and document the law enforcement or national security basis of the Full Investigation.”

What law enforcement basis did the FBI identify in launching an investigation into Hunter Biden? Did the Electronic Communication list only tax offenses? Or maybe also money laundering?

The crime identified in the EC will determine the course of the investigation, and unless the FBI updated the basis for the investigation, agents will only undertake investigative techniques likely to uncover evidence relevant to the stated offense. Thus, Grassley questioned whether bribery was within the scope of the investigation being handled by U.S. Attorney David Weiss because if not, it is unlikely the allegations in the FD-1023 received any scrutiny.

Relatedly, congressional oversight committees should inquire whether, after Attorney General William Barr sent Delaware the FD-1023’s reporting of the alleged bribes to Hunter and Joe Biden, agents opened an assessment for bribery or considered bribery within the scope of the already-predicated investigation into Hunter Biden. If not, and if the FBI had defined the scope of the already-launched full investigation of Hunter Biden narrowly, agents’ hands would be tied. They could not conduct even the most rudimentary of investigative techniques to probe the CHS’s reporting.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/20/did-the-fbi-prevent-delaware-agents-from-investigating-biden-bribery-allegations/

81% of foreign components of Russian missiles are manufactured in United States

Russia uses electronic components manufactured in the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Japan to produce missiles, but the United States accounts for 81% of such microelectronics.

Source: a new document of the Yermak-McFaul sanctions group, which was obtained by LIGA.net

Details: According to the Yermak-McFaul group, the Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles contain at least 53 types of electronic components (microchips, chips, etc.) manufactured by foreign companies.

In particular, these are components of such companies as STMicroelectronics (Switzerland), Vicor (USA), XILINX (USA), Intel Corporation (USA), Texas Instruments (USA), ZILOG (USA), Maxim Integrated (USA) and Cypress Semiconductor (USA).

At least 45 types of foreign-made electronic components are used to produce 3M-14 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles.

9M723 ballistic missiles and 9M728/9M729 cruise missiles from the Iskander systems are equipped with at least 15 and 32 types of foreign electronic components, respectively.

As part of the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missiles, at least 48 foreign components are used.

And in the Russian Tornado-S rocket, particularly in the warhead, a chip manufactured by the world-famous American company Intel was found.

Most of Russia's foreign electronic component base for missile production is made in the United States (81%).

The second-largest share after the United States is in electronic components manufactured in Switzerland (8%). Germany and Japan each have 3.5%.

Background:

Earlier, Andrii Yermak, the Head of the Office of the President, reported that about 50 components in the Kh-101 missile, which was used by the Russians to attack a residential building in Kryvyi Rih on 13 June, and was made in Russia in April 2023, are mainly microelectronics produced in the countries of the free world and delivered to the Russian Federation in various ways.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/19/7407471/

Ep. 5 As in most of the developing world, it's safer to be the president's son than his opponent.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1671226703992201216