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U.S. and Iran: Five Signs of Looming Conflict

NewsWeek

The growing tensions between the United States and Iran have sparked fears of a potential military conflict. Signs indicate that both nations are preparing for a major confrontation with military build-ups, strikes, economic sanctions, shows of military force and diplomatic breakdowns.

This Gov’t Agency Is Still Spending $1,000,000,000 on DEI Despite Trump’s Order to Cut It Out

The Daily Signal

While other agencies have moved to eliminate the “illegal and immoral programs” targeted in Trump’s day-one executive order, NIH is still funding over $1.3 billion in active grants that include DEI components—from race-based hiring schemes to “anti-racist” training initiatives and diversity-first faculty pipelines. At least $441 million of those grants explicitly cite DEI in their project descriptions, according to NIH data compiled by watchdog group Do No Harm.

Trump Signs Pardon for Former Hunter Biden Business Partner

The Epoch Times

Archer was involved in several companies with Hunter Biden before being charged in a fraud scheme that targeted Native Americans and pension funds. He was convicted in 2018. The conviction was thrown out after a federal judge found that Archer did not intend to commit fraud, but a federal appeals court overturned the dismissal. The court said evidence in the case, including emails, supported the jury’s conviction.

CDC Reschedules Postponed Vaccine Meeting

The Epoch Times

The draft agenda lists all of the same topics as the agenda for the meeting that had been slated to be held in mid-February. The only addition is a 30-minute session on the epidemiology of measles and measles outbreaks.

White House Responds After Journalist Apparently Looped Into Discussions on Yemen Strike

The Epoch Times

Recounting the incident for The Atlantic, Goldberg reported that an individual he believes to have been White House national security adviser Mike Waltz added him to a group chat at 11:44 a.m. ET on March 15. At 2:29 p.m. ET on the same day, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to publicly announce the new U.S. strikes on Yemen. Goldberg wrote that the Signal user who added him to the group chat, apparently unprompted, was named “Michael Waltz.”

Cartels’ Advanced Technology a Growing Threat to US

The Epoch Times

Céspedes said the cartels have armor-plated vehicles, Kevlar vests, night vision technology, and 50-caliber sniper rifles—equipment every bit as sophisticated as that of the Mexican military. “Nowadays, it’s more like defending a small army against another small army—and there’s a lot of collateral damage,” he said of the cartels.

European Gas Prices Jump After Ukraine [or Russia] Blows Up Key Gas Pumping Station In Russia

ZeroHedge

Meanwhile, Ukraine ... accused Russia of attacking its own energy facility: the country's General Staff of the Armed Forces confirmed the Sudzha gas metering station was shelled, but said it was Russians who struck their own facility (just like Ukraine previously accused Russia of blowing up the Nord Stream), pointing to previous instances in which Russia appeared to send soldiers through a disused natural gas pipeline. In a post on Facebook, the General Staff said the accusations were "baseless," and part of a "discrediting campaign against Ukraine...The mentioned station was repeatedly shelled by the Russians themselves."

Erdogan Arrests Dozen Over Social Media Posts As Hundreds Of Thousands Protest Imamoglu Arrest

ZeroHedge

As reported yesterday, Imamoglu, who is viewed as the main rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections scheduled for 2028 was taken into custody early Wednesday, along with dozens of others, on corruption charges. Prosecutors accused Imamoglu, from the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP), of corruption and aiding a terrorist group, calling him a “criminal organization leader suspect”. He denounced the move as politically-motivated just as he was preparing to formally announce his intention to run. Late Wednesday, a local court also ordered the seizure of Imamoglu Insaat Ticaret ve Sanayi AS, the construction company where the mayor is a partner. Imamoglu said online “the will of the people cannot be silenced” as thousands gathered to protest in Istanbul.

Putin Pressures Trump To Recognize Annexed Eastern Territories Captured

ZeroHedge

Russia's privately owned Kommersant business newspaper reports that President Putin is pushing his US counterpart to grant recognition of Russia's annexation of the four territories in exchange for a pledge not to seize more land. Kommersant says that Putin is fundamentally arguing that "there’s no taking back what Russia has gained" - and that the eastern territories are now permanently part of the Russian Federation.

Zelensky Backs Trump Proposal To Halt All Strikes On Energy Facilities

ZeroHedge

Just hours prior, overnight, Ukrainian drones had targeted a Russian oil facility in Krasnodar Region, resulting in damage and a large fire at a oil tank. The one-hour phone call was described as "very good" by Trump on Truth Social. "Much of the discussion was based on the call made yesterday with President Putin in order to align both Russia and Ukraine in terms of their requests and needs," the president wrote.

Arrest Of Erdogan's Top Opponent Sends Lira Crashing To Record Low, Triggers Marketwide Trading Halt

ZeroHedge

Erdogan stunned markets when he arrested the popular mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, 54, who is also the top contender for the presidency. The detention of Imamoglu came a day after Turkish authorities revoked his university diploma in a move that could bar him from challenging Erdogan in the next presidential election. He beat Erdogan’s handpicked candidate in last year’s Istanbul mayoral race and was set on Sunday to be named the presidential candidate for the Republican People’s Party, the main opposition group known as the CHP.

Biden-Appointed LGBT Judge Blocks Trump's Military-Transgender Ban

ZeroHedge

Reyes, a Biden nominee who was heralded as the first openly lesbian and first Latina district judge in DC, said the ban was based on un-evidenced claims that people diagnosed with gender dysphoria were unfit to serve, and that “the law does not demand that the Court rubber-stamp illogical judgments based on conjecture.” Flashing her woke-leftist credentials, Reyes' included a gratuitous quote from the musical Hamilton in her 79-page opinion.

Germany Pledges Hundreds Of Millions To Syrian Regime Despite Sectarian Massacres

ZeroHedge

Reports from last week also said Jolani's radical Sunni gangs are burning fields and forests in order to smoke out Alawite families in hiding, literally hunting down the Alawite minorities. Thousands are still taking shelter at a Russian airbase on the coast, afraid to return to their homes. Apparently this genocide doesn't matter to Germany's leaders, who on Monday declared they are pledging an additional €300 million ($326 million) in aid, much of which will go to the government - though not all.

FBI Secretly Obtained Trump's Cellphone In 'Sweeping' Plot

ZeroHedge

New whistleblower disclosures revealed this week that the Justice Department and FBI pulled out all stops to throw President Donald Trump in jail after the 2020 election. The FBI made the Trump case its top priority starting in April 2022, searching Trump’s government-issued cellphone and spending $16,000 to conduct a blitz of witness interviews days later as part of a sweeping probe.

Newsom's Podcast Disaster: Why The Left Is Fuming And The Right Smells A Rat

ZeroHedge

his first two guests - TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk and former Breitbart EIC Steve Bannon - have turned the effort into a full-blown spectacle. The reaction from the left? Absolute fury. The reaction from the right? Distrust and ridicule. And from the voters? A mixed bag that could spell serious trouble for Newsom’s future ambitions.

Trump Declares Biden's Autopen-Signed Pardons "Void"

ZeroHedge

Ten days or so after the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project disclosed that nearly every document bearing former President Biden's signature during his first term had been signed by an autopen—except for one—questions arose over whether executive orders and pardons could be deemed invalid, as we noted that Biden's staff likely leveraged his rapid cognitive deterioration to sign those documents via autopen.

Musk: Feds Have "Magic Money Computers" That Issue Payments "Out Of Thin Air"

ZeroHedge

Cruz: "And you said there's something like 11 of these computers at Treasury that are sending out trillions in payments?" Musk replied that they're mostly at the Department of Treasury, and others are at the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the Department of Defense. Musk: "We've found now 14 'Magic Money Computers. They just send money out of nothing."

Behind The White House's Decision To Ignore Activist Judge, Let Plane Full Of Deported Criminals Continue To El Salvador

ZeroHedge

The Trump administration says it disregarded a judge's order to turn around two planeloads of Venezuelan criminals because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling did not apply, Axios reports, citing two senior officials - one of whom made clear that it's "Very important that people understand we are not actively defying court orders."

"Beyond Reasonable Doubt": Former MI6 Head Told Boris Johnson COVID-19 "Was Engineered In The WIV"

ZeroHedge

According to these reports, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe in 2020, the German government commissioned a secret intelligence operation under the codename of Saaremaa to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 virus, also known as SARS-CoV-2. When they concluded that a lab leak was most likely, the German Chancellery ordered that the results were to be kept hidden from the public. The UK Knew Too...

Serbia's largest-ever rally sees 325,000 protest against government

BBC

The students have been calling for full transparency and accountability over the collapse of a concrete and glass canopy at the station in Serbia's second city, which was renovated and only reopened - by Vucic - in 2022. They want the government to publish all the documentation relating to the renovation project and say they are not satisfied with the papers the authorities have released so far.

EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History: Zeldin Rolls Out 31 Groundbreaking Actions to Save Americans TRILLIONS, Slash Costs and Supercharge Job Growth

The Gateway Pundit

Reconsideration of regulations on power plants (Clean Power Plan 2.0) Reconsideration of regulations throttling the oil and gas industry (OOOO b/c) Reconsideration of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that improperly targeted coal-fired power plants (MATS) Reconsideration of mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program that imposed significant costs on the American energy supply (GHG Reporting Program)

US Warned of Caribbean Becoming 'Chinese Lake'

Newsweek

The committee identified major Chinese projects, including the development of a $3 billion deep-water port on Grand Bahama, just 55 miles from the U.S. mainland, and a $600 million investment to improve the Dominican Republic's electricity grid. According to Forbes, China is funding $2.1 billion worth of projects in Jamaica and $773 million in Suriname.

FBI Redactions on Seth Rich Index Leave No Answers

Consortium News

The F.B.I. cyber unit got involved after the D.C. police were unable to access protected files on Rich’s computer, Hersh said. So the F.B.I. “found what he’d done. He had submitted a series of documents, of emails. Some juicy emails from the DNC,” to Wikileaks, Hersh said. “He offered a sample, an extensive sample, you know I’m sure dozens of emails and said ‘I want money.’ Then later Wikileaks did get the password, he had a Dropbox, a protected Dropbox,” Hersh said. He went on:

Arrested Container Ship Captain That Hit US Tanker Is Russian National

ZeroHedge

They must have been able to detect it on the radar." Some have been fixated on the GPS jamming angle on X while Solong was on autopilot during its transit. This is because the Stena Immaculate is a high-value target for foreign adversaries, as it is part of a fleet of 10 tankers involved in a U.S. government program to supply fuel to the military.

Canadian Liberals Select Globalist Technocrat Mark Carney to Replace Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister

Breitbart

Perhaps demonstrating a lack of enthusiasm, of the approximate 400,000 Liberal Party members who registered to vote in the leadership contest, CTV reports that just 151,899 votes were actually cast. Under Canada’s parliamentary system, Carney does not automatically become prime minister but will have to wait for Trudeau to officially tender his resignation to the governor-general. After that, Carney will be invited to form a new government. This process is expected to be carried out within the next week.

Black Lives Matter Plaza Jackhammered by D.C. After Pressure from Rep. Andrew Clyde

Breitbart

The street on Black Lives Plaza, renamed from Liberty Plaza by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2020 as riots following George Floyd’s death paralyzed the city, served as a divisive partisan message during the 2020 campaign season. On March 3 Clyde reintroduced his bill to remove the message and rename the plaza – just one block from the White House – which Breitbart News reported exclusively.

Marco Rubio Cancels 83% of USAID Programs

Breitbart

The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States. In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.

US Firm Maxar Disables Satellite Photos For Ukraine

ZeroHedge

In a fresh report in Le Monde Ukrainian military expert Ievhen Dyky has described that "The total ban on intelligence sharing is effective, both directly from the US to [Ukraine], but it is also a ban on NATO allies transferring data received from the US to us." He specified that the ban "applies to all forms of intelligence."

"I Am Stunned" - SCOTUS Dissenters Rage As 'Liberals' Unfreeze $2BN USAID Foreign-Aid Payments

ZeroHedge

The dissent by Justices Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh was extremely strongly worded: Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic “No,” but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise.

Russian Iskander Cluster Strike Results In Mass Casualties At Ukrainian Base

ZeroHedge

The attack was first officially verified on Monday but it happened Saturday, involving a Russian ballistic missile strike on "an army training ground near the village of Cherkaske" outside the city of Dnipro, APF reports based on a military source. "The enemy used an Iskander-M Ballistic missile with a cluster munition," the military source said, adding that "elements of destruction were scattered over a large area." Cluster bomblets typically fall over a very large area.