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#012 Jack Posobiec | The Roseanne Barr Podcast
Aug 31, 2023
In this enlightening episode, Roseanne is joined by political activist and provocateur Jack Posobiec. You will hear insights on what REALLY happened on January 6th, Roseanne's firing from ABC, and the plan by globalists to destroy America with communism. Roseanne and Jack break it all down and discuss how we can save America in the 2024 election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXZNhOf7yVQ
Top Russian rocket scientist who had previously assisted foreign colleagues at NASA dies from poisoning after two-week fight for life
UPDATED: 05:16 EDT, 31 August 2023
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A Moscow newspaper reported the cause of poisoning was inedible mushrooms
A top Russian rocket scientist who had previously assisted foreign colleagues at NASA has died from poisoning after a two-week illness, it was reported today.
Professor Vitaly Melnikov, 77, who had headed the Department of Rocket and Space Systems at RSC Energia, Moscow's leading spacecraft manufacturer, had been battling a sudden and grave illness before his death.
The source of his poisoning was inedible mushrooms, Moskovsky Komsomolets, a Moscow newspaper reported.
Doctors were unable to save Melnikov after battling the 'severe poisoning' for more than two weeks. The circumstances in which he allegedly became poisoned were not revealed.
This is just the latest death of a high-profile Russian due to reported poisonings.
Russia has witnessed a spate of mysterious or suspicious deaths in the past two years since Vladimir Putin started preparing for his war in Ukraine.
Melnikov had worked as chief researcher at TsNIIMASH, a division of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.
He was the author of 291 scientific articles, and was regarded among the most imminent space scientists.
He cooperated with foreign colleagues on a number of ventures, including at NASA. Russia's space operations have maintained cooperation with other countries despite the war in Ukraine. Most recently a Russian astronaut set off with an American and two others in a Space X and NASA launch last week.
Latterly, Melnikov was a professor at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.
The recent poisoning comes days after the mysterious death of a top military general, once close to Putin, who was keeper of the secrets about the construction of the Russian leader's Black Sea Palace.
General Gennady Lopyrev, 69, suddenly became ill - gasping for breath - and was told by doctors he had previously undiagnosed leukaemia.
Suspicions arose that he was poisoned after it emerged that the general was eligible for parole.
Lopyrev was jailed for ten years in 2017 by a military court accused of bribe-taking and illegal possession of ammunition. He maintained his innocence of the charges.
Last month it emerged that a Russian opposition politician who spoke out against the war in Ukraine was poisoned with a highly toxic substance.
Elvira Vikhareva, 32, an outspoken critic of the Kremlin, shared tests with Russia's Sota news channel that showed she had traces of potassium dichromate in her blood.
Miss Vikhareva said she began feeling unwell in November last year, with symptoms including hair loss, muscle spasms and severe stomach pains that lasted until February 2023.
It also follows a series of poisonings targeting Moscow's critics in recent years - the most prominent being Russia's de facto opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who almost died after FSB agents smeared his underwear with novichock in August 2020.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12464851/Top-Russian-rocket-scientist-poisoned.html
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EXCLUSIVE: Ron DeSantis $50 million super PAC CLOSES after donors were spooked by 'rookie s*** mistakes'
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Strategist John Thomas secured $50million in donations for 'Ron to the Rescue'
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But the group will shut down after donors had second thoughts on the campaign after basic errors
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The DeSantis campaign called it 'welcome news' that the 'scam PAC' is no longer operating
A super PAC set up to back Ron DeSantis with $50 million is closing as donors backed out - while its founder said the Florida governor's campaign was guilty of 'rookie s**t' mistakes and he will now back Donald Trump.
John Thomas, a Republican strategist known as the 'Billy the Kid of Political Battles' set up 'Ron to the Rescue' in November and had secured financial commitments from mega-wealthy donors.
But he said the donors began having second thoughts after the botched DeSantis campaign launch on Twitter Spaces in May.
It appeared to be the latest blow for DeSantis after a tree fell on the Governor's Mansion in Tallahassee during Hurricane Idalia on Wednesday. His wife Casey DeSantis and their three children were home at the time but no one was injured.
But the DeSantis team has said for almost a year that Thomas' PAC was using his name and likeness without his permission and could be considered a 'scam.'
The Twitter Spaces debacle saw DeSantis being interviewed by Elon Musk on the social media platform but the feed repeatedly cut out, allowing opponents to portray the DeSantis campaign as incompetent.
'We were hoping to do like a formal TV campaign of air support when DeSantis officially launched,' Thomas told DailyMail.com in an interview. 'But the problem with that is with the Twitter Spaces blunder, like almost from the get-go, all of our major donors said, 'let's just see how this plays out.'
'There is one singular important thing every national presidential candidate must do on their launch day, which is provide video to give to the television stations to project optically what your vision is for the future,' he added.
Thomas described other incidents, including posting internal documents on the internet, and agreeing to debate California governor Gavin Newsom as 'rookie s**t' errors.
Before the Twitter Spaces launch, the strategist, who has worked on races in 49 states, had a swath of donors who wanted to put up 'seven- and eight-figure support' for DeSantis.
The PAC only ended up spending around $20,000 on grassroots efforts to drum up support for the governor.
'There was never any moment that gave donors any encouragement, like 'well now is the time.'' So everything just kind of dried up,' said Thomas.
DeSantis campaign communications director Andrew Romeo called it 'welcome news' that Thomas' 'scam PAC' is no longer operating.
'We've made clear from the beginning that this was a scam PAC looking to grift off Ron DeSantis and it comes as welcome news they are no longer attempting to fleece our donors,' Romeo told DailyMail.com.
'Ron DeSantis outraised both Biden and Trump last quarter, and we look forward to continuing our fundraising success as we capitalize on his strong debate performance and momentum in the early states.'
In November 2022, legal counsel for DeSantis had warned about the PAC, saying it was creating 'confusion' among supporters and not actually in direct contact with the governor's leadership.
Never Back Down, the main super PAC backing DeSantis, raised $130 million in the second quarter of this year. At the end of June it had $96.8 million still to spend, according to election fundraising filings.
Earlier this month, one of DeSantis' biggest donors - hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow - announced he would not donate any more than the $20 million he had already given to the Florida governor, unless he adopted a more moderate approach.
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Bigelow particularly criticized the six-week abortion ban DeSantis signed in Florida.
Thomas said he and his donor network are now in the process of figuring out how to help raise money for former president Trump in his campaign.
Campaigns have to report their latest fundraising figures by the end of September.
'We're going to see after the reporting period of September 30 how Trump's cash on hand is and then we're going to try to determine where we can fill in gaps, if it's needed,' said Thomas
Thomas was an early supporter of Trump in 2016 and 2020. But wanting Republicans to 'win' more than anything, he jumped ship and founded 'Ron to the Rescue' after Republicans' lackluster showing in the midterms in November 2022.
'When Trump launched his campaign really early, it was kind of fizzling out. There really wasn't much enthusiasm wrapped around it. It was weird, in the sense of like, wow, this former party leader is just not getting a lot of attention,' said Thomas.
'And DeSantis missed, we think, the announcement window when voters were going to be receptive to a change.'
He added that Trump 'has demonstrated a level of campaign savvy and discipline that I didn't see from him in 2020 that I didn't see from them in 2016.'
He said the 'singular smartest thing' the Trump campaign had done was put over $20 million in ad dollars attacking DeSantis before the governor could even launch his own race.
Alternatively, DeSantis made a fatal mistake by waiting to launch until May of this year.
'It ended up defining DeSantis,' said Thomas.
When DeSantis did launch, he opted to do so online, losing a valuable opportunity to put out visuals to voters across the country, said Thomas.
The next mistake Thomas and his donors thought DeSantis made was 'not having a core message other than he's Trump light.'
'The message of 'Trump without the drama' isn't resonating,' he said. 'The Republican electorate calls that having a spine.'
Thomas ran through a number of other frustrations that ultimately led him to throw in the towel on raising money for DeSantis - like posting internal super PAC memos on the internet.
'It's not unusual for a super PAC that wants to or campaign that wants to, like, legally provide information to a campaign or vice versa, to use the internet, but it's called a private link,' he said.
That incident allowed Ramaswamy to knock DeSantis as a 'super PAC puppet in the debate' and claim he'd been bought out by big donors. DeSantis, in turn, could not use the strategies from his PAC's memo since they had already gone public.
As for debating Newsom on Fox News, 'it feels like a junior varsity competition,' according to Thomas.
'Accepting a debate with a governor who's not a candidate is belittling and beneath the dignity of Ron DeSantis, who's supposed to be a top tier candidate,' he said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12465943/Ron-DeSantis-50-million-super-PAC-CLOSES-donors-spooked-rookie-s-mistakes.html
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