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We begin with Secretary of State Blinken’s trip to the Caricom summit of the 15 Caribbean nations in Trinidad Tobago and the UN Secretary General’s visit today to Haiti as both Caricom and the UN deliberate on how to address the lawlessness in Haiti by sending an international force of police, likely from Rwanda since … Continued


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We begin with growing alarm at the possibility Europe’s largest nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhya in Ukraine, which is now at the frontline in the current counteroffensive, could be blown up by the Russian occupiers in a false flag to be blamed on Ukraine or at the very least rendered inoperable by the Russians in … Continued


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We begin with a series of unpopular rulings by the Supreme Court that ended affirmative action in college admissions, stopped President Biden from cancelling student debt and sanctified bigotry by a lying web designer who was not even in business when she said a gay couple wanted her to work for them, claiming it was … Continued


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We begin with an alarming report from the Inspector General of the Small Business Administration that finds over $200 billion from the PPP and Covid relief funds was stolen and went to fraudsters. It is likely that up to 17% of Covid relief funds ended up with scammers with additional losses of $28 billion from … Continued


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We begin with the scathing report from the Senate Homeland Security Committee titled “Planned in Plain Sight” which investigated the failures of the FBI, DHS and Capitol Police in not acting on a host of warnings of a potential violent attack on the capitol. The report out today finds that “At a fundamental level, the … Continued


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We begin with today’s 11 minute audio statement from Prigozhin followed by a 5 minute recorded TV address to the Russian people by President Putin in which he tried to drive a wedge between Prigozhin and his rank and file Wagner mercenary army promising them they could go home or sign up for the military … Continued


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We begin with Prigozhin’s march on Moscow as the head of the Wagner mercenaries turned warlord threatened the very seat of power in nuclear-armed Russia. In a direct challenge of Putin, after refusing to sign a pledge of loyalty to the Russian military and the state, Prigozhin’s mercenaries took the city of Rostov and held … Continued


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