Breaking News

Southern District Judge Cannon has set August 14, 2023 as the start date for a two-week jury trial in former President Donald Trump's classified documents case. Good to see it happen so soon.

What about Hunter Biden?

Breaking News

Hunter Biden has been charged with failing to pay federal income tax and illegally possessing a weapon. He has agreed to plead guilty and will likely not face jail time if he behaves.

Time is running out.

U.S. Department of Defense

DOD Assists Coast Guard in Submersible Search

Defense Department aircraft have been made available in the search for a submersible that disappeared in the North Atlantic Ocean, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said.

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NYTimes

The U.S. Coast Guard said the “underwater noises” were being investigated. 

Billionaires

It don't look good in the Atlantic.

A debris field was discovered within the search area by an ROV [remotely operated vehicle] near the Titanic, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday. Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information.

Is this ironic? The wife of Stockton Rush, the OceanGate chief executive who was piloting the submersible  is a grand-grand ... daughter of two first-class passengers who died when the Titanic went down.

Much attention and many resources are being used to rescue the explorers, juxtapose that with the continuing toll the Mediterranean is taken on migrants desperate to reach Europe. So far, just this year, over 400 migrants have died. The horrific shipwreck of an impossibly crowded boat just a few days ago has gotten headlines. Hundreds died.

Then there is this, Billionaire to the Rescue!

www.superyachttimes.com

93m Mayan Queen IV superyacht rescues over 100 migrants from sinking boat in Greece

Over 100 migrants were rescued by the superyacht Mayan Queen IV after a fishing vessel capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Greece.

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Dead Dead Dead

US Navy detected the sound of an implosion when the sub first lost contact days ago but that was not definitive. It did help locating the wreck which confirmed that the vessel imploded killing everyone aboard instantly, probably leaving no identifiable remains.

Reports of recent knocking noises are deemed unrelated to the vessel.

Putin Putsch

Wagner mercenary are in an armed uprising and have now taken several key military sites in Russia. Putin calls it an armed rebellion.

While many wish Putin gone, Prigozhin is not someone to wish for. To start, how to pronounce the name? Then there are all those letters. I had to copy/paste them here to get it right. His mercenaries are brutal. He frames it as a way to oust military leadership that caused the loss of 100,000 troops ... actually gave that number. Many he recruited from prisons.  Go figure.

To others the timing of this is very suspicious, the operation is actually a false flag to take attention away from .... Hunter Biden!  and the latest whistleblowers revelations and Pres Biden's failed rescue of the submersible. 

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Well, that didn't last long, kinda disappointing but maybe for the better.  It does seem rather strange that Prigozhin would capitulate like that and that anyone would trust Putin to let it all pass.

“My intelligence analysis suggests, Eric, that this is a classic false flag operation that’s been orchestrated by Putin and Prigozhin,” Fox security expert Koffler told the cable news host, to make Biden think Russia is no threat. 

I rather doubt that would be the reason if there is an ulterior motive.

Surely you were aware that aspects of this were in play:

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-reactions-to-chaos-in-russia-we-have-to-look-each-other-deep-in-the-eyes-in-nato-a-5d352a5e-8467-482b-a62c-d3e03128935e#ref=rss

Leaving a lot unsaid about 'encouraging regimeS to change'.

The last couple attempt there was with Gorbachev and that ended confidence in him. We'll see what this did to Putin.