Reader’s Links for April 13th, 2023

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52 Replies to “Reader’s Links for April 13th, 2023”

  2. 6:39 Canadian students reject CCP mass-line effort to corrupt young minds with drag queen nonsense:

    • Yes counter it. Less than 1% should never be allowed to dictate what the other 99% believe. Stand strong, stand up against the sick clowns. Nothing about this is normal. Teachers, board members, principals supporting this rot, should be fired.

      • Civil disobedience
        Refusal to obey a law as a result of moral objections, especially through passive resistance.

        A form of social protest involving the active but non-violent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands, of an established authority, because they are considered to be morally wrong or detrimental.

        Just a way of saying NO, enough is enough.

  3. Arizona Representative Liz Harris EXPELLED From AZ House – Led Major Canvassing Effort in State After 2020 Election
    By Brian Lupo Apr. 13, 2023 9:30 am56 Comments
    TruthGettrGab

    Arizona State Representative Liz Harris was expelled Wednesday from the Arizona legislature by a two-thirds majority in the GOP-led House based on a 9-page report from the House Ethics Committee. An “evidentiary hearing” on Tuesday concluded that Harris knew, or was at least aware, that in a joint hearing on February 23, 2023, witness Jacqueline Breger would make accusations that would accuse elected officials and other Arizona officials of taking bribes from the Sinaloa drug cartel, as well as money laundering accusations.

    The basis for much of the evidence submitted in the hearing against Harris was text message screenshots that were “left anonymously on the House Majority General Counsel’s desk in an envelope.” The Chairman though deemed these anonymous text message screenshots as sufficient to subvert Chandler, Arizona voters by expelling Harris based heavily on this ‘evidence’ “despite the unusual circumstances under which the Committee received the evidence.

    The Ethics Committee goes as far as referring to the evidence as “a series of screenshots of an apparent text-message conversation between Representative Harris, Breger, and

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/arizona-representative-liz-harris-expelled-from-az-house-using-anonymous-screen-shots-as-main-evidence/

  4. MAJOR NEWS: The Gateway Pundit Wins Historic First Amendment Lawsuit, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Agrees to Settlement
    By Jim Hoft Apr. 13, 2023 8:45 am161 Comments

    The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved a historic settlement with The Gateway Pundit on Wednesday. Maricopa County officials signed off on a major First Amendment lawsuit and settlement with TGP Communications, LLC, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit news website.

    Yvonne Wingett Sanchez from the Washington Post broke the news publicly on Tuesday afternoon.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/major-news-the-gateway-pundit-wins-historic-first-amendment-lawsuit-maricopa-county-board-of-supervisors-agrees-to-settlement/

  5. Jim Jordan Subpoenas FTC Because It “Harassed” Twitter After Elon’s Takeover – “Abuse” Of Authority
    By ProTrumpNews Staff Apr. 13, 2023 9:45 am19 Comments

    The GOP is taking action.

    House Judiciary Chair GOP Rep. Jim Jordan subpoenaed the FTC over their actions against Twitter.

    In a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan Jordan said, “The committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) abuse of its statutory authorities in investigating Twitter.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/jim-jordan-subpoenas-ftc-because-it-harassed-twitter-after-elons-takeover-abuse-of-authority/

  6. Fed expects banking crisis to cause a recession this year, minutes show

    WASHINGTON – Fallout from the U.S. banking crisis is likely to tilt the economy into recession later this year, according to Federal Reserve documents released Wednesday.

    Minutes from the March meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee included a presentation from staff members on potential repercussions from the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and other tumult in the financial sector that began in early March.

    Though Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr said the banking sector “is sound and resilient,” staff economists said the economy will take a hit.

    “Given their assessment of the potential economic effects of the recent banking-sector developments, the staff’s projection at the time of the March meeting included a mild recession starting later this year, with a recovery over the subsequent two years,” the meeting summary said.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/12/fed-expects-banking-crisis-to-cause-a-recession-this-year-minutes-show.html

  8. What China’s rare earth metal ban means for the West
    If Beijing fulfils its threat, Europe and the US will need to diversify their supply
    BY PHILIP PILKINGTON

    America should prepare for more expensive rare earth metals. Credit: Getty
    China is threatening an export ban on rare earth metals in response to Washington’s recent decision to impose restrictions on exports of high-end semiconductors to Beijing. This is not the first time that China has mooted such a ban, with rumours circulating since at least 2019 as well as formal threats in 2021.

    If such a ban came into effect it could, in theory at least, be quite damaging. Rare earth metals are needed to produce the magnets that are used in everything from wind turbines to hard disk drives to electric vehicles. Everything from a smartphone to a Tesla has a substantial need for these elements, while US military technology is also dependent on them, with the F35 fighter jet requiring 417kg of rare earth metals

    https://unherd.com/thepost/what-chinas-rare-earth-metal-ban-means-for-the-west/

  11. Israel: Rumors of war in a world transformed
    Surveying how much has changed.

    On 9 April 2023, Israeli Arabist scholar and former intelligence officer Mordechai Kedar published an article recounting information recently received from an associate he describes as a source he has “known for years – an expatriate from the Middle East, a supporter of Israel, who lives in Europe and is in continuous contact with people in Iran and Iraq.”

    The article is in the outlet Makor Rishon (“Firsthand Source”), owned by Israel Hayom. The information outlined by Kedar is from his source’s “assessment that Iran is planning to launch a combined attack on Israel in the foreseeable future that will include all the forces at its

    https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/israel-rumors-of-war-in-a-world-transformed/#more-8047

  14. WaPo – Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says

    THE DISCORD LEAKS | The online group that received hundreds of pages of classified material included foreigners, members tell The Post

    The man behind a massive leak of U.S. government secrets that has exposed spying on allies, revealed the grim prospects for Ukraine’s war with Russia and ignited diplomatic fires for the White House is a young, charismatic gun enthusiast who shared highly classified documents with a group of far-flung acquaintances searching for companionship amid the isolation of the pandemic.

    United by their mutual love of guns, military gear and God, the group of roughly two dozen — mostly men and boys — formed an invitation-only clubhouse in 2020 on Discord, an online platform popular with gamers. But they paid little attention last year when the man some call “OG” posted a message laden with strange acronyms and jargon. The words were unfamiliar, and few people read the long note, one of the members explained. But he revered OG, the elder leader of their tiny tribe, who claimed to know secrets that the government withheld from ordinary people.

    The young member read OG’s message closely, and the hundreds more that he said followed on a regular basis for months. They were, he recalled, what appeared to be near-verbatim transcripts of classified intelligence documents that OG indicated he had brought home from his job on a “military base,” which the member declined to identify. OG claimed he spent at least some of his day inside a secure facility that prohibited cellphones and other electronic devices, which could be used to document the secret information housed on government computer networks or spooling out from printers. He annotated some of the hand-typed documents, the member said, translating arcane intel-speak for the uninitiated, such as explaining that “NOFORN” meant the information in the document was so sensitive it must not be shared with foreign nationals.

    OG told the group he toiled for hours writing up the classified documents to share with his companions in the Discord server he controlled. The gathering spot had been a pandemic refuge, particularly for teen gamers locked in their houses and cut off from their real-world friends. The members swapped memes, offensive jokes and idle chitchat. They watched movies together, joked around and prayed. But OG also lectured them about world affairs and secretive government operations. He wanted to “keep us in the loop,” the member said, and seemed to think that his insider knowledge would offer the others protection from the troubled world around them.

    “He’s a smart person. He knew what he was doing when he posted these documents, of course. These weren’t accidental leaks of any kind,” the member said.

    The transcribed documents OG posted traversed a range of sensitive subjects that only people who had undergone months-long background checks would be authorized to see. There were top-secret reports about the whereabouts and movements of high-ranking political leaders and tactical updates on military forces, the member said. Geopolitical analysis. Insights into foreign governments’ efforts to interfere with elections. “If you could think it, it was in those documents.”

    In those initial posts, OG had given his fellow members a small sip of the torrent of secrets that was to come. When rendering hundreds of classified files by hand proved too tiresome, he began posting hundreds of photos of documents themselves, an astonishing cache of secrets that has been steadily spilling into public view over the past week, disrupting U.S. foreign policy and aggravating America’s allies.

    This account of how detailed intelligence documents intended for an exclusive circle of military leaders and government decision-makers found their way into and then out of OG’s closed community is based in part on several lengthy interviews with the Discord group member, who spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity.

    He is under 18 and was a young teenager when he met OG. The Post obtained consent from the member’s mother to speak to him and to record his remarks on video. He asked that his voice not be obscured.

    His account was corroborated by a second member who read many of the same classified documents shared by OG, and who also spoke on the condition of anonymity. Both members said they know OG’s real name as well as the state where he lives and works but declined to share that information while the FBI is hunting for the source of the leaks. The investigation is in its early stages, and the Pentagon has set up its own internal review led by a senior official.

    “An interagency effort has been stood up, focused on assessing the impact these photographed documents could have on U.S. national security and on our Allies and partners,” Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said in a statement.

    Discord said in a statement that it is cooperating with law enforcement and has declined to comment further.

    The Post also reviewed approximately 300 photos of classified documents, most of which have not been made public; some of the text documents OG is said to have written out; an audio recording of a man the two group members identified as OG speaking to his companions; and chat records and photographs that show OG communicating with them on the Discord server.

    The young member was impressed by OG’s seemingly prophetic ability to forecast major events before they became headline news, things “only someone with this kind of high clearance” would know. He was by his own account enthralled with OG, who he said was in his early to mid-20s.

    “He’s fit. He’s strong. He’s armed. He’s trained. Just about everything you can expect out of some sort of crazy movie,” the member said.

    In a video seen by The Post, the man who the member said is OG stands at a shooting range, wearing safety glasses and ear coverings and holding a large rifle. He yells a series of racial and antisemitic slurs into the camera, then fires several rounds at a target.

    The member seemed drawn to OG’s bravado and his skill with weapons. He felt a certain kinship with a man he described as “like an uncle” and, on another occasion, as a father figure.

    “I was one of the very few people in the server that was able to understand that these [documents] were legitimate,” the member said, setting himself apart from the others who mostly ignored OG’s posts.

    “It felt like I was on top of Mount Everest,” he said. “I felt like I was above everyone else to some degree and that … I knew stuff that they didn’t.”

    ‘A tightknit family’

    The member met OG about four years ago, on a different server for fans of Oxide, a popular YouTuber who streams videos about guns, body armor and military hardware. He said a group of avid members found the server too crowded and wanted a quieter place to talk about video game tactics, so they broke off into their own, small group.

    More like-minded Oxide fans joined the private Discord server, which came to be named “Thug Shaker Central,” and whose membership OG would effectively control as the administrator.

    “We all grew very close to each other, like a tightknit family,” the member said. “We depended on each other.” He said that other members, and OG especially, counseled him during bouts of depression and helped to steady him emotionally. “There was no lack of love for each other.”

    OG was the undisputed leader. The member described him as “strict.” He enforced a “pecking order” and expected the others to read closely the classified information he had shared. When their attention waned, he got angry.

    Late last year, a peeved OG fired off a message to all the members of the server. He had spent nearly an hour every day writing up “these long and drawn-out posts in which he’d often add annotations and explanations for stuff that we normal citizens would not understand,” the member said. His would-be pupils were more interested in YouTube videos about battle gear.

    “He got upset, and he said on multiple occasions, if you guys aren’t going to interact with them, I’m going to stop sending them.”

    That’s when OG changed tactics. Rather than spend his time copying documents by keyboard, he took photographs of the genuine articles and dropped them in the server. These were more vivid and arresting documents than the plain text renderings. Some featured detailed charts of battlefield conditions in Ukraine and highly classified satellite images of the aftermath of Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian electrical facilities. Others sketched the potential trajectory of North Korean ballistic nuclear missiles that could reach the United States. Another featured photographs of the Chinese spy balloon that floated across the country in February, snapped from eye-level, probably by a U-2 spy plane, along with a diagram of the balloon and the surveillance technology attached to it.

    OG shared several documents a week, beginning late last year. Posting pictures to the server took less time. But it also exposed OG to greater risk. In the background of some images, they could see items and furniture that they recognized from the room where OG spoke to them via video on the Discord channel — the kind of clues that could prove useful for federal investigators.

    The dramatic and yet nonchalant presentation also reminded the group that OG could lay his hands on some of the most closely guarded intelligence in the U.S. government. “If you had classified documents, you’d want to flex at least a little bit, like hey, I’m the big guy,” the member said. “There is a little bit of showing off to friends, but as well as wanting to keep us informed.”

    In a sense, OG had created a virtual mirror image of the secretive facility where he spent his working hours. Inside the Discord server, he was the ultimate arbiter of secrecy, and he allowed his companions to read truths that “normal citizens” could not.

    A breach of secrecy
    The photographs of printed secret documents now seen by millions may offer clues to the federal agents searching for OG. Reality Winner, who leaked secret National Security Agency documents to the news website the Intercept in 2017, was compromised by secret markings on printouts that helped narrow the search. OG’s documents look to have been printed on ordinary paper and were creased after having been folded in four. Sometimes, the photographs OG took of the documents appeared to have been taken over a bed. Items such as Gorilla Glue, a scope manual and nail clippers appeared in the margins. Other previously unreported images reviewed by The Post showed printed documents lying on top of a glowing red keyboard.

    The breadth of the military and intelligence reports was extensive. For months, OG regularly uploaded page after page of classified U.S. assessments, offering a window into how deeply American intelligence had penetrated the Russian military, showing that Egypt had planned to sell Russia tens of thousands of rockets and suggesting that Russian mercenaries had approached Turkey, a NATO ally, to buy weapons to fight against Ukraine.

    At least one of the documents appeared to have been printed from Intellipedia, a data-sharing system that intelligence agencies use to collaborate and post reports and articles.

    The documents were another lesson for younger members in how OG thought the world really worked. The member said OG wasn’t hostile to the U.S. government, and he insisted that he was not working on behalf of any country’s interests. “He is not a Russian operative. He is not a Ukrainian operative,” the member said. The room on the server where he posted the documents was called “bear-vs-pig,” meant to be a snide jab at Russia and Ukraine, and an indication that OG took no sides in the conflict.

    But OG had a dark view of the government. The young member said he spoke of the United States, and particularly law enforcement and the intelligence community, as a sinister force that sought to suppress its citizens and keep them in the dark. He ranted about “government overreach.”

    OG told his online companions that the government hid horrible truths from the public. He claimed, according to the members, that the government knew in advance that a white supremacist intended to go on a shooting rampage at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022. The attack left 10 dead, all of them Black, and wounded three more. OG said federal law enforcement officials let the killings proceed so they could argue for increased funding, a baseless notion that the member said he believes and considers an example of OG’s penetrating insights about the depth of government corruption.

    OG’s group itself had a dark side. The Discord server’s eventual name, Thug Shaker Central, was a racist allusion, and signaled to members that they were free to hurl epithets and crude jokes. The young member expressed some regret for their behavior but seemed to shrug off the offensive remarks as a clumsy attempt at humor.

    It was not “a fascist recruiting server,” he told The Post.

    One thing the members were not supposed to do was talk about the secrets OG had shared with them, including the classified documents.

    “Most people in the server were smart enough as to kind of realize that … they shouldn’t be posted anywhere else,” the member said. And yet, the group contained foreign citizens — including from Russia and Ukraine, the members said — a defiance of the NOFORN warning printed across the top of so many documents OG shared.

    The member estimated that the server hosted people from Europe, Asia and South America. “Just about every walk of life.” Of the roughly 25 active members who had access to the bear-vs-pig channel, about half were located overseas, the member said. The ones who seemed most interested in the classified material claimed to be from mostly “Eastern Bloc and those post-Soviet countries,” he said. “The Ukrainians had interest as well,” which the member chalked up to interest in the war ravaging their homeland.

    For years, U.S. counterintelligence officials have eyed gaming platforms as a magnet for spies. Russian intelligence operatives have been suspected of befriending gamers who they believe work for intelligence agencies and encouraging them to divulge classified information, a senior U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.

    It’s not clear whether any of those efforts have been successful. But if foreign operatives finagled an invitation to OG’s server, they would have been free to view the documents and make copies of them, as some members did.

    The server sprouts a leak

    All winter, OG uploaded documents to the server. No one talked about sharing them elsewhere. Then, unbeknown to the group, on Feb. 28, another teenage user from the Thug Shaker Central server began posting several dozen photographs showing classified documents on another Discord server affiliated with the YouTuber “wow_mao.” Some of the documents offered detailed assessments of Ukraine’s defense capabilities and showed how far U.S. intelligence could see into Russia’s military command.

    On March 4, 10 documents appeared on “Minecraft Earth Map,” a Discord server focused on the popular video game. A user operating the account that posted the smaller tranche of images told The Post they obtained them on wow_mao.

    Secret and top-secret documents were now available to thousands of Discord users, but the leak wouldn’t come to the attention of U.S. authorities for another month. Meanwhile, OG stopped sharing images in the middle of March. On April 5, classified documents assessing the war in Ukraine were posted on Russian Telegram channels and the message board platform 4chan, and began migrating to Twitter. One image, showing a March 1 Ukraine status update, had been crudely doctored to inflate the number of Ukrainian casualties and downplay those on the Russian side.

    The next day, shortly before the New York Times first reported on the leak, OG came into the server “frantic, which is unusual for him,” the member said.

    “He said something had happened, and he prayed to God that this event would not happen. … But now it’s in God’s hands.”

    Not a whistleblower

    For all OG’s disdain for the federal government, the member said there was no indication that he was acting in what he thought was the public interest by exposing official secrets. The classified documents were intended only to benefit his online family, the member said.

    “I would definitely not call him a whistleblower. I would not call OG a whistleblower in the slightest,” he said, resisting comparisons to Edward Snowden, who shared classified documents about government surveillance with journalists.

    Remarkably, the member said he has been in touch with OG in the past few days, even as an FBI manhunt is underway and the Pentagon launches its own inquiry into the leaks. After shuttering the Thug Shaker Central server, OG moved the community to another server to communicate with his online family.

    He “seemed very confused and lost as to what to do,” the member said. “He’s fully aware of what’s happening and what the consequences may be. He’s just not sure on how to go about solving this situation. … He seems pretty distraught about it.”

    In his final message to his companions, OG admonished them to “keep low and delete any information that could possibly relate to him,” the member said. That included any copies of the classified documents OG had shared.

    When it dawned on them that OG was in grave peril and intended to disappear, the members of Thug Shaker Central “full-on sobbed and cried,” the young member said. “It is like losing a family member.”

    In hours of interviews, he continued to express admiration and loyalty to a man who may have endangered his young followers by allowing them to see and possess classified information, exposing them to potential federal crimes.

    “I figured he would not be putting us in any sort of harm’s way,” the member said.

    The exposure of the documents has severed friendships and cut him off from the man who buoyed his confidence and made him feel safe. The member said that the stress of the loss, coupled with the enormity of the leaks, has left him worried and sleepless.

    Now he says he believes that the world should see the secrets OG passed along to a tiny group. He argued that the public deserves to know how intelligence agencies spend their tax dollars, and was particularly outraged that the documents show U.S. surveillance of foreign allies.

    But what the young man regarded as a revelation will come as no surprise to the countries whose officials the U.S. has been monitoring for decades. While rarely discussed, and embarrassing for Washington when exposed, it’s widely understood that the U.S. intelligence community monitors many friendly governments, just as foreign allies try to do the same.

    Thousands of military personnel and government employees around OG’s age, working entry-to-low-level positions, could plausibly have access to classified documents like the ones he allegedly shared, according to U.S. officials and experts who have seen the documents reported in the media. Despite what his young followers thought, OG would have had no special knowledge compared with his peers. He possessed no special power to predict events. Rather, he appears to have persuaded some highly impressionable teenagers that he’s a modern-day gamer meets Jason Bourne.

    The member said he’s confident the authorities will find OG. But when they do, he won’t be charged. Instead, he believes, OG will be imprisoned without due process at Guantánamo Bay or disappeared to a “black site,” if he’s not “assassinated” for what he knows.

    The member, as well as the OG follower who corroborated his account, found no fault in their leader’s actions and instead said they blame the teen who posted the documents on the wow_mao server for wrecking their community.

    “Maybe we should have had better opsec,” the member said, harnessing the jargon of military and intelligence personnel for “operations security.”

    He said he will not divulge OG’s identity or location to law enforcement until he is captured or can flee the United States. “I think I might be detained eventually. … I think there might be a short investigation on how I knew this guy, and they’ll try to get something out of me. They might try to threaten me with prison time if I don’t reveal their identity.”

    To date, no federal law enforcement officials have contacted the young group member. Asked why he was prepared to help OG even at the risk of his own freedom, the young man replied without hesitation: “He was my best friend.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/
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    WaPo- Biden says leak investigation is ‘getting close,’ downplays consequences

    President Biden said Thursday that an investigation into the leak of a massive trove of classified U.S. military documents is “getting close” to a resolution and downplayed the fallout from secrets that have exposed U.S. spying on allies and revealed the grim prospects for Ukraine’s war with Russia, among other things.

    “There is a full-blown investigation going on, as you know, with the intelligence community and the Justice Department, and they’re getting close,” Biden told reporters in Dublin, where he is on a trip that has included stops in Ireland and Northern Ireland, when asked if he could provide an update on the investigation.

    Biden did not elaborate on the status of the investigation beyond that, saying he was not in a position to do so.

    The Post reported Wednesday that the man behind the leak is a gun enthusiast in his early to mid-20s who shared highly classified documents on Discord, an online platform popular with gamers, with a group of far-flung acquaintances searching for companionship amid the isolation of the pandemic. A friend said that he worked on a military base.

    Asked about his concern about the magnitude of the leaks, Biden downplayed the consequences.

    “I’m not concerned about the leak because — I’m concerned that it happened, but there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that is of great consequence,” Biden said.

    For several days, Biden has ignored questions shouted at him by reporters about the leaked documents. His comments Thursday came during a brief give-and-take with reporters as he walked with Irish President Michael D. Higgins outside the Irish presidential residence.

    Earlier Thursday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to say whether the Biden administration knew as much about the identity of the leaker as The Post did.

    “I’m just not going to comment on that, on the Post story,” she told reporters.

    The top-secret documents appear to be at least partly from the Pentagon and many seem to have been prepared for senior military officials.

    The documents reveal profound concerns about the war’s trajectory and Kyiv’s capacity to wage a successful offensive against Russian forces. According to a Defense Intelligence Agency assessment among the leaked documents, “Negotiations to end the conflict are unlikely during 2023.”

    The files include summaries of human intelligence on high-level conversations between world leaders, as well as information about advanced satellite technology the United States uses to spy. They also include intelligence on both allies and adversaries, including Iran and North Korea, as well as Britain, Canada, South Korea and Israel.

    In addition to the Justice Department investigation, officials in several countries said they were assessing the damage from the leaks.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/13/biden-leak-investigation-getting-close/

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    ABC – Military base worker leaked secret government documents on Discord, new report claims

    • DAILY MAIL – REVEALED: Intelligence officer in Massachusetts Air National Guard, 21, and leader of online gaming chat room ‘Thug Shaker Central’ is identified as leaker of top secret Pentagon files in bombshell report

      A 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard has been identified as the alleged leaker of top secret Pentagon documents.

      Jack Teixeira, the leader of the Thug Shaker Central online private chat group, was named by the New York Times as the man behind one of the biggest national security breaches in the last decade.

      […]He described him as ‘a young, charismatic man who loves nature, God, shooting guns and racing cars.’

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11969873/Identity-man-responsible-Pentagon-secret-documents-leak.html

      NYT – New Leaked Documents Show Broad Infighting Among Russian Officials

      The additional documents also suggest the breach of American intelligence agencies could contain far more material than previously believed.

      The depth of the infighting inside the Russian government appears broader and deeper than previously understood, judging from a newly discovered cache of classified intelligence documents that has been leaked online.

      The additional documents, which did not surface in a 53-page set that came to wide public attention online last week, paint a picture of the Russian government feuding over the count of the dead and wounded in the Ukraine war, with the domestic intelligence agency accusing the military of obscuring the scale of casualties that Russia has suffered.

      The new batch, which contains 27 pages, reinforces how deeply American spy agencies have penetrated nearly every aspect of the Russian intelligence apparatus and military command structure. It also shows that the breach of American intelligence agencies could contain far more material than previously understood.

      In one document, American intelligence officials say that Russia’s main domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., has “accused” the country’s Defense Ministry “of obfuscating Russian casualties in Ukraine.” The finding highlights “the continuing reluctance of military officials to convey bad news up the chain of command,” they say.

      The entry, dated Feb. 28 in a document with a series of updates about the war in Ukraine and other global hot spots, appears to be based on electronic intercepts collected by American intelligence agencies.

      Each disclosure of classified documents has the potential to reveal additional methods and means of intelligence gathering. The documents do not appear to contain much, if any, information from human sources, suggesting the original leaker may not have had access to that more highly classified material. Instead, much of the material is labeled as coming from communications intercepts.

      Taken together, the documents underscore several of the overarching reasons why, many analysts believe, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has failed to secure a military victory in Ukraine after more than 13 months of war.

      Among them: infighting and finger-pointing among Russian agencies responsible for different aspects of the war, including the F.S.B. and the Defense Ministry. The leaked entry about the casualty numbers provides little context for the intelligence officials’ finding, but it reports that the F.S.B. is questioning the Defense Ministry’s own casualty count in discussions within the Russian government.

      F.S.B. officials, the document says, contend that the ministry’s toll did not include the dead and wounded among the Russian National Guard, the Wagner mercenary force or fighters fielded by Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of the southern Russian republic of Chechnya. The sundry fighting forces that the Kremlin has deployed in Ukraine have sometimes acted at cross purposes, further complicating Russia’s military effort.

      The F.S.B. “calculated the actual number of Russians wounded and killed in action was closer to 110,000,” the document says.

      The document does not specify the casualty figures that the Defense Ministry is circulating within the government. The last time that the ministry publicly disclosed a death toll was in September, when the defense minister, Sergei K. Shoigu, said that 5,937 Russian troops had been killed since the war started.

      American officials have previously estimated Russian losses at about 200,000 soldiers. Another leaked document reports the Russians had suffered 189,500 to 223,000 casualties as of February, including up to 43,000 killed in action, compared with 124,500 to 131,000 Ukrainian casualties, with up to 17,500 killed in action.

      The new documents also provide fresh details about a very public dispute in February in which Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the business mogul who runs the Wagner force, accused Russian military officials of withholding urgently needed ammunition from his fighters. Mr. Putin attempted to resolve the dispute personally by calling Mr. Prigozhin and Mr. Shoigu into a meeting believed to have taken place on Feb. 22, one document reports.

      “The meeting almost certainly concerned, at least in part, Prigozhin’s public accusations and resulting tension with Shoygu,” the document says, using an alternative transliteration of the minister’s name.

      The new documents were shared in photos, and some are missing pages. Those shown in full include material from the National Security Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Pentagon’s Joint Staff intelligence directorate.

      The material provided to The New York Times was posted on one of the Discord servers where the first set of Pentagon intelligence documents eventually appeared. U.S. officials have said those documents were authentic but cautioned that some had been altered. The documents may also contain outdated or inaccurate information.

      The Times described the new batch of documents to multiple U.S. officials. While the officials did not dispute the information, they said they could not, and would not, independently verify the documents.

      One slide that appears to have been produced by the military’s Joint Staff and dated Feb. 23 concludes that Russia has failed to disrupt the massive flow of Western arms and equipment into Ukraine since the start of the war, and asserts that the Kremlin’s battered military will not be able to change that anytime soon.

      “During the next 6 months, Russia’s economic challenges and degraded conventional capabilities very likely will further impede its efforts, creating a mostly permissive environment for continued lethal aid deliveries,” the document said.

      The new material also includes a six-page document dated Feb. 23 from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence called “the Watch Report.”

      Rather than finished intelligence conclusions, the Watch Report compiles various accounts that have come into intelligence agencies in the hours before it is distributed, some of them from single sources, often without in-depth context.

      Government officials reading the Watch Report know that some of the materials will be proven correct, but other information, in time, will be shown to be incomplete, according to former officials.

      For example, the Watch Report says Russian foreign intelligence “reported” that China had approved giving lethal aid to Russia, citing a communications intercept. It is not clear from the document if the Chinese had told the Russians they were sending the aid, or if the Russians were spying on the Chinese.

      On March 3, a few days after the Watch Report document circulated within the U.S. government, NBC News reported, and The Times confirmed, that what the U.S. had learned about the plan to obtain lethal aid from China was “gleaned from Russian officials.”

      But a senior administration official cautioned on Wednesday that weeks later, there is no indication that China has decided to give lethal aid to Russia, which suggests at the very least that Russian intelligence about Chinese intentions may be flawed.

      https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/europe/russia-intelligence-leaks.html

    • CNN – Audio obtained by Washington Post claims to be from friend of Pentagon leaker

    • VOA – Latest in Ukraine: Kyiv Remains Intent on Reclaiming Crimea

      Ukraine remains adamant in its demand that Russia withdraw its troops from all its occupied lands, including the Crimean Peninsula that Moscow illegally annexed in 2014.

      Human Rights Watch accused Russian forces who occupied Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson from March until November 2022 of running a “torture center.”

      U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met Wednesday with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at the Pentagon to discuss U.S. support for Ukraine.

      Ukraine said Thursday it is intent in its demand that Russia withdraw its troops from Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, as well as other territory in eastern Ukraine that Russia claimed last year.

      Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, via video, told the first Black Sea Security Conference in Bucharest, Romania, that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now in its 14th month, is “a bleeding wound in the middle of Europe,” but that all internationally recognized borders of Ukraine must be honored.

      “We are united by U.N. Charter principles and the shared conviction that Crimea is Ukraine and it will return under Ukraine’s control,” Kuleba said.

      “Every time you hear anyone from any corner of the world saying that Crimea is somehow special and should not be returned to Ukraine, as any other part of our territory, you have to know one thing: Ukraine categorically disagrees with these statements,” he told representatives of 50 countries attending the conference in the Romanian capital.

      https://www.voanews.com/a/latest-in-ukraine-kyiv-remains-intent-on-reclaiming-crimea-/7048845.html

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      NEWSWEEK – Russians Flee Crimea, Abandon Property Ahead of Kyiv’s Counteroffensive

      Thousands of Russians are fleeing Crimea and abandoning their properties amid concern an expected spring counteroffensive by Ukraine may target the Black Sea peninsula,
      a Ukrainian official has said.

      In February, a Ukrainian official said that his country was preparing “assault brigades” to take back its occupied territories, including Crimea. Many fear that such a move would be a red line for Russia, which may prompt Putin to use his country’s nuclear capabilities to defend the territory.

      […]Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to take back Crimea, saying during a televised address on August 29 that Ukraine’s military had “kept the goal” of recapturing Crimea since it was annexed.

      […]Last week, Aleksey Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, published what he called “12 steps for the de-occupation of Crimea,” which includes dismantling the Kerch bridge and forcing all Russian citizens who “came to reside on the Crimean Peninsula after February 2014” to leave.

      https://www.newsweek.com/russians-flee-crimea-ukraine-counteroffensive-1793992

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      yahoo – Ukraine stands firm on Crimea, wants Russia out of all areas

      Ukraine’s foreign minister said Thursday his country won’t budge from its demand that Russia withdraw its forces from Crimea, as well as from other parts of Ukraine that Moscow illegally annexed more recently, for the war to end.

      Calling the conflict in Ukraine “a bleeding wound in the middle of Europe,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said all his country’s territory must be treated equally in dealing with the Kremlin after its full-scale invasion more than 13 months ago.

      “We are united by U.N. charter principles and the shared conviction that Crimea is Ukraine and it will return under Ukraine’s control,” Kuleba said, speaking by video link to a gathering in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.

      “Every time you hear anyone from any corner of the world saying that Crimea is somehow special and should not be returned to Ukraine, as any other part of our territory, you have to know one thing: Ukraine categorically disagrees with these statements,” he said at the Black Sea Security Conference.

      Russia took over Crimea in 2014, and during the current war has expanded its presence there. Occasional acts of sabotage and other attacks against Russian military and other facilities on the peninsula have occurred since, with the Kremlin blaming Ukraine. The Kyiv government hasn’t claimed responsibility for the attacks but welcomes efforts to repel the Russian presence there.

      The Kremlin wants Kyiv to acknowledge Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea and also recognize September’s annexation of the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia.

      Ukraine has rejected those demands and won’t hold talks with Russia until Moscow’s troops pull back from all occupied territories.

      Though there is no sign of possible peace negotiations, the two countries have sporadically exchanged prisoners of war and have engaged in a wartime deal for the export of Ukrainian grain and Russian grain and fertilizers. The grain deal has helped ease concerns about the global food supply, especially to countries in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia where many are already struggling with hunger.

      The agreement, which the U.N. and Turkey brokered last July, is delicate, however, and Moscow has repeatedly threatened to end it.

      In the latest dispute, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that no discussion about extending the Black Sea grain deal beyond May 18 would take place until progress was made towards resolving what it called “five systemic problems” that have resulted from sanctions on Russia over the war.

      It said in a statement those issues were: reconnecting the state-owned Russian Agricultural Bank to the SWIFT international banking system; resuming supplies to Russia of agricultural machinery, spare parts and services; lifting restrictions on insurance and reinsurance and the ban on access to ports; restoring the operation of the Tolyatti-Odesa ammonia pipeline; and unblocking foreign assets and accounts of Russian companies related to the production and transportation of food and fertilizers.

      Russia agreed last month to extend the grain deal for 60 days — instead of the 120 days set under a previous extension — to send a warning to the West.

      On the battlefield, military analysts say, an anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive in coming months could aim at the land corridor between Russia and Crimea, hoping to split Russia’s forces in two.

      That would be a daunting military challenge. Satellite images show the Kremlin’s forces are digging extensive trench systems between mainland Ukraine and the Black Sea peninsula.

      The fighting in recent months has become a war of attrition, with neither side able to gain momentum over the winter and often resorting to long-range bombardment.

      At least four civilians were killed and 11 were wounded in the latest Russian barrages that continued to hit civilian infrastructure, Ukraine’s presidential office said Thursday.

      The Ukrainian military said Russian forces over the previous 24 hours launched 32 airstrikes, two missile strikes and 40 attacks from multiple rocket launchers.

      https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ukraine-stands-firm-crimea-wants-184245966.html

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      europravda – Analysts say Ukraine counter-offensive ‘unlikely’ unless more combat vehicles supplied

    • NYT – Here’s what we know about the leader of the online group where secret documents were leaked.

      Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested on Thursday.

      The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.

      The National Guardsman, whose name is Jack Teixeira, oversaw a private online group called Thug Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.

      On Thursday afternoon, about a half-dozen F.B.I. agents pushed into a residence in North Dighton, Mass. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland later said in a short statement that Airman Teixeira had been arrested “without incident.”

      Federal investigators had been searching for days for the person who leaked the top secret documents online.

      Starting months ago, one of the users uploaded hundreds of pages of intelligence briefings into the small chat group, lecturing its members, who had bonded during the isolation of the pandemic, on the importance of staying abreast of world events.

      The Times spoke with four members of Thug Shaker Central, one of whom said he had known the person who leaked for at least three years, had met him in person and referred to him as the O.G. The friends described him as older than most of the group members, who were in their teens, and the undisputed leader. One of the friends said the O.G. had access to intelligence documents through his job.

      While the gaming friends would not identify the group’s leader by name, a trail of digital evidence compiled by The Times leads to Airman Teixeira.

      The Times has been able to link Airman Teixeira to other members of Thug Shaker Central through his online gaming profile and other records. Details of the interior of Airman Teixeira’s childhood home — posted on social media in family photographs — also match details on the margins of some of the photographs of the leaked secret documents.

      The Times has also established, through social media posts and military records, that Airman Teixeira is enlisted in the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. Posts on the unit’s official Facebook page congratulated Airman Teixeira and colleagues for being promoted to airman first class in July.

      On Thursday, President Biden said the United States was “getting close” to finding answers about the leak.

      “There’s a full-blown investigation going on, as you know, with the intelligence community and the Justice Department, and they’re getting close,” Mr. Biden told reporters on a visit to Dublin.

      It was not immediately clear if a young Air National Guardsman in his position could have had access to such highly sensitive briefings. Officials within the U.S. government with security clearance often receive such documents through daily emails, one official told The Times, and those emails might then be automatically forwarded to other people.

      Airman Teixeira’s mother, Dawn, speaking outside her home in Massachusetts on Thursday, confirmed that her son was a member of the Air National Guard and said he had recently been working overnight shifts at a base on Cape Cod. In the past few days, he had changed his phone number, she said.

      Later, someone who appeared to be Airman Teixeira drove onto the property in a red pickup truck.

      When Times reporters approached the house again, the truck was parked in the driveway. Airman Teixeira’s mother and a man were standing outside in the driveway.

      When asked if Airman Teixeira was there and willing to speak, the man said: “He needs to get an attorney if things are flowing the way they are going right now. The feds will be around soon, I’m sure.”

      Members of Thug Shaker Central who spoke to The Times said that the documents they discussed online were meant to be purely informative. While many pertained to the war in Ukraine, the members said they took no side in the conflict.

      The documents, they said, started to get wider attention only when one of the teenage members of the group took a few dozen of them and posted them to a public online forum. From there they were picked up by Russian-language Telegram channels and then The Times, which first reported on them.

      The person who leaked, they said, was no whistle-blower, and the secret documents were never meant to leave their small corner of the internet.

      “This guy was a Christian, antiwar, just wanted to inform some of his friends about what’s going on,” said one of the person’s friends from the community, a 17-year-old recent high school graduate. “We have some people in our group who are in Ukraine. We like fighting games; we like war games.”

      https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leaker-identity.html

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      the gateway pundit – Leaker of Ukraine Classified Documents Reportedly Arrested – An Air National Guardsman – NY Times Arrived at House Before the Feds

      […]Now moments ago, the NY Times reports that they were at the house of the leaker but they were waiting on the Feds to come and arrest him.

      HotAir reported that the NYT was at the home of the alleged leaker before the feds were:

      […]
      This whole story is lunacy. Who can even trust a thing our mainstream media reports today?

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/leaker-of-ukraine-classified-documents-reportedly-arrested-nytimes-arrived-at-house-before-the-feds/

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      CNN – Retired Lt. Gen. says Pentagon leak suspects are not ‘mastermind criminals’

  16. (Richard: The CCP knows they have gotten as much out of Joe as they can. They are now expending him to create turmoil in the US so they can invade Taiwan. They are also telling their other assets in DC to keep providing what the CCP wants or be extended.)

    CHINA COUGHS UP THE DOCUMENTS: Releases Proof of MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of Payments from China Firm er assets to Hunter Biden – And They’re Just Getting Started!
    By Jim Hoft Apr. 13, 2023 10:15 am286 Comments

    As The Gateway Pundit has reported – the connections and business dealings between Communist China and the Biden Crime Family are numerous.

    Colorado Attorney Kevin Evans says the Biden Department of Justice is hiding hundreds of documents on gifts Joe and Hunter Biden received from China.

    Evans sued the DOJ in March after he said the agency failed to comply with his Freedom of Information Act request for records about the overseas business relationships of Joe Biden’s son and brother James Biden.

    The Gateway Pundit reported on the giant diamond gifted to Hunter Biden from Ye Jianming, then the chairman of CEFC China Energy Company. The Gateway Pundit reported in October 2020 that this diamond was estimated to be worth $80,000. Hunter claimed it was worth $10,000.

    The diamond in police custody was listed as 3.1 carats.

    The evidence against Hunter and Joe Biden that is already public is voluminous. It’s not clear what they are still hiding.

    Much of the evidence against the Biden Crime Family was discovered in Hunter Biden’s laptop that the FBI hid from investigators and now claims is lost somewhere after they retrieved it in 2019.

    Earlier this week John Solomon reported that China is starting to release documents to Senate Republicans on dealings with the Biden Crime Family.

    China is starting to cough up the documents!

    They want the Biden Regime to know who is boss.

    It appears the American president is compromised.

    Via Just the News.

    Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson says the Chinese-American financial institution Cathay Bank has given Senate Republicans records showing millions of dollars going from Chinese companies to President Biden’s son Hunter Biden.

    Republicans and others started raising concerns during President Biden’s successful 2020 White House campaign, if not earlier, that Hunter Biden used the family name and influence while his father was vice president to make millions in overseas business deals, which also could have compromised U.S. national security.

    Johnson told The Washington Times the records show the Biden family involved with the now-defunct CEFC China Energy, which had connections to the Chinese Communist Party.

    The firm reportedly gave $1 million to Hudson West III, which was a joint venture owned by Hunter Biden and Gongwen Dong, a business associate of CEFC’s founder and chairman, Ye Jianming, according to the bank records.

    “In my mind,” said Johnson, “it’s the Chinese government telling Joe Biden, ‘We got the goods on you, buddy. And we’re willing to dish it up.’”

    After years of the Deep State, their liberal mainstream lackeys, and the Democrat Party of making up stories about President Trump having ties with Russia, it now appears we now have a US President who is owned by Communist China.

    Watch the liberal fake news media COMPLETELY cover up this new evidence!

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/china-coughs-up-the-documents-releases-proof-of-millions-of-dollars-of-payments-from-china-firm-to-hunter-biden-and-theyre-just-getting-started/

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    GOP Senator: CCP Sent Message To Biden By Having Bank In China Share Hunter’s Bank Records
    By ProTrumpNews Staff Apr. 13, 2023 11:05 am161 Comments

    GOP Senator Ron Johnson thinks China just sent a message to Joe Biden.

    Johnson said, “In my mind, it’s the Chinese government telling Joe Biden, we got the goods on you, buddy. And we’re willing to dish it up.”

    These comments come after Cathay Bank, which has offices in China, voluntarily handed over bank records that were requested by Senator Johnson and Senator Charles E. Grassley.

    The records include those of Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and his brother James Biden.

    Every American bank denied the request.

    Cathay Bank denied the allegation from Johnson but said, “the bank intends to continue to cooperate with the committee.”

    Just The News reported:

    Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson says the Chinese-American financial institution Cathay Bank has given Senate Republicans records showing millions of dollars going from Chinese companies to President Biden’s son Hunter Biden.

    “In my mind,” said Johnson, “it’s the Chinese government telling Joe Biden, ‘We got the goods on you, buddy. And we’re willing to dish it up.’”

    The records provided by the bank also include those from the president’s brother, James Biden.

    Cathay Bank has offices in Los Angeles and China.

    Johnson said the records show the Biden family was involved with now-defunct CEFC China Energy – China Energy had connections to the Chinese Communist Party.

    The Washington Times reported:

    The records the bank handed over showed deep financial ties between the president’s son and brother and the now-defunct CEFC China Energy, which had ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The energy giant wired $1 million to Hudson West III, a joint venture owned by Hunter Biden and Gongwen Dong, a business associate of CEFC’s founder and chairman, Ye Jianming.

    A second Chinese energy company, Northern International Capital Holdings, which is associated with the communist-backed CEFC, wired $5 million to Hudson West III, the Cathay Bank records show. The money sent from the two companies funded a $4.8 million wire transfer from Hudson West III to Hunter Biden’s companies Owasco P.C. and Owasco LLC, and Lion Hall Group, owned by the president’s brother James Biden.

    The Cathay records show Owasco P.C. sent 20 wire transfers totaling nearly $1.4 million to the Lion Hall Group. Hudson West III paid Hunter Biden a $500,000 retainer fee plus $100,000 per month. James Biden was paid $65,000 per month.

    The transactions were made from August 2017 through October 2018, after Mr. Biden left the Obama White House. At that time, Mr. Biden was considered a top contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

    Is the Biden family corruption finally coming out?

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/gop-senator-ccp-sent-message-to-biden-by-having-bank-in-china-voluntarily-share-hunters-bank-records/

  18. (Richard: I know I posted this before but I want to comment on what JE said.

    First when you read this analysis remember the articles about the CCP releasing the bank records on Hunters bribes from business dealings with China. China released the records to create chaos in the US and give them a better chance to conquer Taiwan. But it also opens up more opportunity for China as the play the Game of Thrones against Russia and Iran. A weakened US won’t be able to play in the game until we have had a chance to rebuild our military and our economy.

    Second remember the predictions of a depression/S> recession this year. This economic crash will affect every nation, the economic slowdown will affect what Russia, China and Iran have the money to pay for.

    Third remember the predictions of a coordinated multifront attack on Israel. This is to buy time for Iran to sprint to a nuclear test.

    The big question is will the economic crash come before or after China moves on Taiwan. In fact depending on how weak the Chinese economy is it may determine if there is an attack.

    Fourth pay attention to what JE says about the Great Power games that will be played around the world. These games will require a new paradigm with an emphasis on “He may be an SOB, but he is our SOB.” We will have to change the paradigm from good guys and bad guys to us versos several different thems.)

    Israel: Rumors of war in a world transformed
    Surveying how much has changed.

    On 9 April 2023, Israeli Arabist scholar and former intelligence officer Mordechai Kedar published an article recounting information recently received from an associate he describes as a source he has “known for years – an expatriate from the Middle East, a supporter of Israel, who lives in Europe and is in continuous contact with people in Iran and Iraq.”

    The article is in the outlet Makor Rishon (“Firsthand Source”), owned by Israel Hayom. The information outlined by Kedar is from his source’s “assessment that Iran is planning to launch a combined attack on Israel in the foreseeable future that will

    https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/israel-rumors-of-war-in-a-world-transformed/#more-8047

  19. Incapacitated Pilots + Dying Athletes
    childrenshealthdefense – April 13, 2023
    https://rumble.com/v2hz0c0-incapacitated-pilots-dying-athletes.html

    ” Young pilot Phil Thomas died suddenly – at least 3 pilot deaths, 7 pilot incapacitations in past month – 4 flight attendants became ill on Delta flight, passengers dying in-flight, this is not normal!” Dr. William Makes MD – April 13, 2023
    https://makismd.substack.com/p/young-pilot-phil-thomas-died-suddenly