Disgraced Former Democrat Senator Bob Menendez’ Wife Convicted in Bribery and Corruption Case

Nadine Menendez, wife of disgraced former Senator Bob Menendez, was found guilty on all 15 federal counts in a sweeping bribery and corruption case.

The charges against Nadine Menendez included bribery, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, and acting as a foreign agent.

“Moments ago, a unanimous jury convicted Nadine Menendez for her critical role in a corruption and foreign influence scheme involving her husband, convicted former Senator Robert Menendez. Nadine Menendez and Senator Menendez were partners in crime,” said Acting United States Attorney Matthew Podolsky.

Prosecutors detailed how she and her husband accepted lavish bribes—cash, gold bars, and a luxury Mercedes-Benz convertible—from three New Jersey businessmen in exchange for political favors.

These favors notably benefited foreign governments, including Egypt and Qatar, raising serious national security concerns.

“Over the span of five years, Nadine Menendez agreed to accept and accepted all sorts of bribes – including gold bars, cash, a Mercedes-Benz convertible, and a no-show job – all in exchange for the Senator’s corrupt official acts,” said Podolsky.

“Together, Nadine Menendez and the Senator placed their own interests and greed ahead of the interests of the citizens the Senator was elected to serve. Today’s verdict sends the clear message that the power of government officials may not be put up for sale, and that all those who facilitate corruption will be held accountable for their actions.”

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/statement-acting-united-states-attorney-matthew-podolsky-conviction-nadine-menendez

Drugged Into Oblivion: More Than 60% Of US Adults Admit That They Are Taking Pharmaceutical Drugs

Americans watch more television than anyone else in the world, and as we watch television we are constantly being bombarded by commercials from pharmaceutical companies. As I discussed in a previous article, pharmaceutical companies spend more than 15 billion dollars on television advertising each year. The reason they do this is because it works. We are the most drugged nation in the history of the world, and the pharmaceutical companies are absolutely swimming in cash.

According to polling that was conducted by KFF, a whopping 61 percent of all U.S. adults admit that they are currently taking at least one pharmaceutical drug.

That is a solid majority of the population.

And once they have you on one drug, they are much more likely to be able to get you on another.

The KFF survey found that 13 percent of U.S. adults are taking one pharmaceutical drug.

The KFF survey found that 11 percent of U.S. adults are taking two pharmaceutical drugs.

The KFF survey found that 10 percent of U.S. adults are taking three pharmaceutical drugs.

And most shocking of all, the KFF survey found that 27 percent of U.S. adults are taking at least four pharmaceutical drugs.

That means that more than a quarter of the adult population is currently on at least four prescription medications.

That is insane!

But this is where we are at as a society.

Elderly Americans are the biggest victims. One study found “that an estimated 89 percent of older adults” took at least one prescription medication within the past 12 months.

Even if you aren’t sick, the system is designed to find a reason why you should become a customer of the big pharmaceutical companies.

For example, the percentage of Americans that have been diagnosed with depression has more than tripled since 2005…

Today, new CDC data showed that nearly 18 percent of Americans had depression in 2023, an all-time high. In 2005, when Cruise’s controversial interview aired, that figure was about 5.4 percent.

At this stage, it is so easy to be diagnosed with depression.

Just act a little bit sad, and they will gladly start giving you pills.

https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/drugged-into-oblivion-more-than-60-percent-of-u-s-adults-admit-that-they-are-taking-pharmaceutical-drugs/

South Australian councils 'irresponsible' for promoting vaccine scepticism

Medical experts say motions passed by local councils in South Australia promoting vaccine scepticism are putting the community at risk.

Since the start of this year, three local councils in South Australia's Limestone Coast region — the District Council of Grant, the District Council of Robe, and the Naracoorte-Lucindale Council — have passed motions promoting scepticism about the safety of vaccines.

In addition, the Limestone Coast Local Government Association (LCLGA), made up of all the councils in the region, voted in favour of such a motion.

The motions passed by the LCLGA, Robe, and Naracoorte-Lucindale councils call on staff to write to state and federal health ministers to "ensure all vaccinations, both present and future, are tested to ensure they are free from contaminants and safe for human vaccination".

University of Queensland infectious disease physician and clinical microbiologist Professor Paul Griffin has worked on the development of 125 vaccines and malaria human challenge studies.

He said the motions imply that past vaccines had not gone through a rigorous testing process.

"We have one of the strictest regulatory environments in the world," Professor Griffin said.

"We make sure we have tested vaccines thoroughly, that they have to be safe and effective to be approved, and that they have to remain so to be continued to be used.

"We carefully assess the ingredients as well as the safety in recipients on a continual basis to make sure that remains the case."

'Scientific rigour'

A trend of local governments passing motions regarding vaccinations began in October 2024 with the Port Hedland council in Western Australia.

The motion and subsequent motions passed by other councils are based on a debunked claim mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations were contaminated with excessive DNA.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-22/irresponsible-vaccine-scepticism-in-south-australian-councils/105173698

“Smorgasbord of thousands” – Australia’s military aid to Israel revealed

Although the Australian government denies exporting weapons used in the genocide in Gaza, it supplies weapons parts. Kellie Tranter of Declassified Australia has the receipts.

The saga of Australia’s illegal ongoing supply of goods and technology that support Israel’s continuing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, if not its genocide of the Palestinian people and other war crimes, continues.

Declassified Australia has exclusively obtained the list of Australian export approvals to Israel for the 18 months following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. It provides “Goods Descriptions included in Export Declaration forms” to Israel for the period from 7 October 2023 to 29 March 2025.

The extensive list provides further evidence that Australia is in breach of its duty under Article 1 of the Genocide Convention to “undertake to prevent and punish” the crime of genocide and to employ all means reasonably available to it to prevent genocide so far as possible.

It indicates that Australia has not used its capacity to influence effectively the actions of Israeli persons likely to commit or already committing genocide, and that Australia has not, in accordance with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling, been abstaining from entering into economic or trade dealings with Israel which may entrench its unlawful presence in Occupied Palestine.

The 90-page list provided to Declassified Australia by the Department of Home Affairs under Freedom of Information laws describes a smorgasbord of thousands of goods being exported directly to Israel, from electronics and communication equipment, satellite modems, tunnelling machinery parts, public works machinery, industrial machinery and parts, agricultural equipment, seeds and fertilisers, and iron and steel through to aircraft parts, engines and airfield mounting tiles and solar lights.

Link to Exports list PDF

The list typically is terse and lacks names of suppliers or recipients and other detail so it is necessary to consider various conceded supplies in terms of their purposes and function, and from there investigate the illegal uses to which they may be put.

Declassified Australia has put a series of questions to the Defence Department (see bottom of this article) about several of these exports to Israel. Some examples of items exported raise serious questions for the Australian government.

‘T 2000 UAVL transponders’

Transponders transmit the position and altitude of aircraft and assist in identifying them on air traffic control radar. In drones, transponders provide collision avoidance and situational awareness capabilities, helping the drone maintain a safe distance from other drones or aircraft.

In 2021, Michelle Fahy, an independent writer and researcher, reported on the Brisbane company Microair Avionics manufactured transponder, T2000 UAVL, which turned up in a downed drone in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

At the time Israel was reportedly the second largest supplier of weaponry to Azerbaijan, indicating the Australian company may have exported its drone transponders to Israel.

https://michaelwest.com.au/smorgasbord-of-thousands-australias-military-aid-to-idf-in-gaza-revealed/

Freedom of Information Request - FA 25/03/01953

Goods Descriptions included in Export Declaration forms for exports to Israel for

the period from 7 October 2023 to 29 March 2025.

https://declassifiedaus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/fa-250301953-document-released-WM.pdf

Australia is funding Israel's war machine just like the US

Secret Terror Blueprints for US to ‘Help Ukraine Resist’

Newly-leaked documents reveal four military academics pitching the U.S. National Security Council a series of extreme strategies for Ukraine.

Explosive leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how a shady transatlantic collective of academics and military-intelligence operatives conceived schemes which would lead to the U.S. “helping Ukraine resist” and to prolonging the proxy war “by virtually any means short of American and NATO forces deploying to Ukraine or attacking Russia.”

The operatives assembled their war plans immediately in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and delivered them directly to the highest-ranking relevant U.S. National Security Council official in the Biden administration.

Proposed operations ranged from covert military options to jihadist-style psychological operations against Russian civilians, with the authors insisting, “we need to take a page from ISIS’ playbook.”

ISIS was not the only militant outfit upheld as a model for Ukraine’s military. The intelligence cabal also proposed modernizing improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, like those staged by Iraqi insurgents against occupying U.S. troops, for a potential stay-behind guerrilla army in Russia, which would attack rail lines, power plants and other civilian targets.

Many of the cabal’s recommendations were subsequently enacted by the Biden administration, dangerously escalating the conflict and repeatedly crossing Russia’s clearly-stated red lines.

Included among the proposals were providing extensive training to “Ukrainian expatriates” in using Javelin and Stinger missiles, enabling “cyberattacks on Russia by ‘patriotic hackers’ with deniability,” and flooding Kiev with “unmanned combat air vehicles.”

It was also foreseen that “replacement fighter aircraft” would be provided by “many sources,” and that “non-Ukrainian volunteer pilots and ground crews” would be recruited to fight air battles in the manner of the Flying Tigers, a World War II-era force composed of American Air Force pilots, which was formed in April 1941 to help the Chinese oppose Japan’s invasion before Washington’s formal entry into the conflict.

The document was written and cosigned by a quartet of academic armchair warriors with colorful pasts. They included historian Andrew Orr, the director of the Kansas State Institute for Military History.

His recent academic contributions include a chapter in an obscure academic volume entitled, “Who is a Soldier? Using Trans Theory to Rethink French Women’s Military Identity in World War II.”

Joining him was Ash Rossiter, assistant professor of international security at the United Arab Emirates’ Khalifa University, and described as “ex-British Army Intelligence Corps.” Also participating was Marcel Plichta, then a doctoral candidate at St. Andrews.

He’s described as a veteran of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, and his LinkedIn profile indicates he interned at NATO before working in roles with Pentagon contractors, then joined the DIA as an intelligence analyst. Along the way, Plichta claims to have “[nominated] known or suspected terrorists to the national watchlisting and screening community.”

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https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/21/secret-terror-blueprints-for-us-to-help-ukraine-resist/