A Democratic congresswoman who has direct ties to Iran has launched one of the more unhinged attacks on President Donald Trump, twisting an honest-to-goodness warning into something far more nefarious. Ridiculous? Of course, it is. Surprising? Of course, it's not. Arizona Dem. Rep. Yassamin Ansari took to X to attack...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has blown the lid off a global trafficking ring with roots in Israel—and branches that stretch like tentacles into the heart of Hollywood and the dark corridors of Washington, D.C. According [...] The post Putin Exposes Israeli Child Trafficking Network Supplying Adrenochrome to Hollywood and DC appeared first on The People's Voice.

President Trump temporarily halted deportations from farms, hotels, and restaurants. As reported, he ordered ICE to concentrate on deportations in California, Illinois, and New York sanctuary cites. Obviously, it’s because that is where the biggest concentration of people here illegally can be found. He is also renewing arrests everywhere with a focus on sanctuary cities. […] The post President Resumes Arrests of Illegals at Farms, Hotels, Restaurants appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The President is trolling the Supreme Leader hard with calls for a complete surrender. I don’t see him surrendering. Trump threatened the Ayatollah, saying they know exactly where he is hiding. He called him an “easy target.” Ayatollah Khomenei has lost his closest top adviser and all his important militlary advisers. He must be devastated, […] The post President Trump Threatens the Ayatollah, Demands Unconditional Surrender appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The doctor who supplied the drug ketamine to “Friends” actor Matthew Perry ahead of his overdose death in October 2023 has taken a plea deal. Dr. Salvador Plasencia has agreed to plead guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine in federal court in Los Angeles. The deal was made in exchange for prosecutors dropping other charges against him, including three additional distribution charges and two counts of falsifying records, according to NPR. The doctor faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of at least $2 million, per the signed agreement. In the weeks after the “Friends” star died, it was revealed that Plasencia allegedly texted another doctor, Mark Chavez, saying “I wonder how much this moron will pay.” Plasencia supplied Perry with 20 vials of ketamine, equal to 2,000 mg of the drug, along with ketamine lozenges and syringes in the month before his death, the outlet noted. Dr. Plasencia’s co-defendant, Jasveen Sangha, nicknamed “The Ketamine Queen,” is one of several others scheduled for trial in August in connection with Perry’s overdose death. Sangha is the only defendant who pleaded “not guilty” and refused a plea deal. Ketamine is a medication primarily used as an anesthetic in both humans and animals. It is classified as a Schedule III controlled substance and is often used for the treatment of depression, which was Perry’s reason for using it. The 54-year-old actor had a long history of drug and alcohol abuse, which he detailed in his 2022 memoir titled “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.” The “Friends” star was found face down in his hot tub on October 28, 2023, at his home in Pacific Palisades, California. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office determined he had drowned but attributed his death to ketamine, which Perry had been taking as part of a therapy. The levels of ketamine found in his system were so high that they were close to the range that would be used for general anesthesia during surgery, The Daily Wire previously reported. “At the high levels of ketamine found in his postmortem blood specimens, the main lethal effects would be from both cardiovascular overstimulation and respiratory depression,” the report said. In his memoir, Perry wrote about his experience using ketamine. “I often thought that I was dying during that hour. Oh, I thought, this is what happens when you die. Yet I would continually sign up for this s*** because it was something different, and anything different is good,” Perry wrote. The actor wrote that the ketamine treatments made him feel like he was “hit in the head with a giant happy shovel,” but that the feeling he got from the hangovers “outweighed the shovel.”

Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump “may decide to take further action to end Iranian enrichment” as Israel takes out the radical Islamic regime’s nuclear facilities and military leaders. In a lengthy post on X, the vice president sought to address “crazy stuff on social media” regarding the fighting in the Middle East and the United States’ involvement. The United States is moving the USS Nimitz carrier strike group toward the Middle East while deploying additional tanker aircraft to the region. Israel continues to conduct airstrikes, targeting Iranian military leaders, missile launchers, and nuclear facilities, while Iran rains down missiles on Israeli cities. As questions swirl around the United States potentially getting directly involved in the conflict, Vance praised Trump for showing “remarkable restraint in keeping our military’s focus on protecting our troops and protecting our citizens.” Vance added, “He may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment. That decision ultimately belongs to the president.” A poll released on Monday showed that Trump voters overwhelmingly back the United States taking action against Iran in support of Israel. Vance, however, acknowledged that some of the president’s supporters “are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy.” “But I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue,” he added. “And having seen this up close and personal, I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American military to accomplish the American people’s goals. Whatever he does, that is his focus.” In his social media post, Vance also pointed to Trump’s consistency on opposing Iran’s push for uranium enrichment. “I’ve seen a lot of confusion over the issue of ‘civilian nuclear power’ and ‘uranium enrichment.’ These are distinct issues,” Vance wrote. “Iran could have civilian nuclear power without enrichment, but Iran rejected that. Meanwhile, they’ve enriched uranium far above the level necessary for any civilian purpose. They’ve been found in violation of their non-proliferation obligations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is hardly a rightwing organization.” “I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use. I’ve yet to see a single good argument for why Iran was justified in violating its non-proliferation obligations. I’ve yet to see a single good pushback against the IAEA’s findings,” he added. President Trump, who has backed Israel’s strikes on Iran, said early on Tuesday that he’s not interested in a ceasefire between the two enemies. Trump said he wants “a real end, not a ceasefire.” “So something that will be permanent?” a reporter asked him. “Yeah, or giving up entirely. That’s okay too,” Trump added. “A complete give-up. That’s possible.”

President Joe Biden’s USAID awarded an $800 million contract to a business operating out of a Virginia home even after it formally ruled that its key manager lacked “honesty or integrity” — a reference to the fact that, according to a May 12 guilty plea, he had secured USAID contracts through bribery for a decade. The contract was for addressing “issues affecting the root causes of irregular migration from Central America to the United States” — the work that Biden assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris, but which she never appeared to address, a Daily Wire investigation found. The Department of Justice announced Friday that Walter Barnes III, the founder of government contractor Vistant (previously known as PM Consulting Group, or PMCG) and Roderick Watson, a USAID contracting official, pleaded guilty to a bribery scheme in which Barnes and two others conspired to pay Watson $1 million in exchange for $544 million in contracts. What has not been reported is that the Biden administration continued to steer contracts to Vistant/PMCG even after it knew of the massive corruption: the migration contract, even larger than the $544 million in the indictment, and others that are still active. The $800 million contract went to a joint venture between Barnes’ company and CollaborateUp, a tiny consultancy run out of a suburban home in Falls Church, Virginia, where its CEO, Richard Crespin — who runs the company while also working at a think tank — lives. The Virginia home was the address listed on the $800 million contract. In announcing its $800 million contract, CollaborateUp said it would address the “irregular migration from Central America to the United States” by addressing “climate change.” Its website also touts its work “advancing DEIA” and combating “misinformation.” This year, it added Mark A. Green, a former Republican congressman who served as Donald Trump’s appointee to lead USAID during his first term, to its payroll as a “senior advisor,” according to its website. Vistant’s criminal scheme relied on joint ventures to exploit a DEI policy called 8(a) contracting, which lets the government award contracts with no or limited competition when the recipient is a racial minority or a small business. It formed a joint venture with a larger company —which was bribing Watson and would actually do the work — so Watson could use Barnes’ status as a black man to steer the contracts to him, rather than being obligated to go through an open competitive process. Barnes’ company ultimately received hundreds of millions of dollars, stripping his “disadvantaged” status, and the CollaborateUp joint venture reversed the maneuver, relying on CollaborateUp’s status as a small business to win a contract with limited competition, while relying on Barnes and other larger firms to actually do the work. CollaborateUp says it “co-developed” USAID’s “procurement reform” policies “alongside former Administrator Mark Green.” That means the company that USAID put in charge of contracting reform got a massive contract for itself after partnering with someone who criminally corrupted the USAID contracting process, then put a former USAID official on its payroll. The bribes by Barnes and his co-conspirators laid out in charging papers — which included cash, fake payroll payments, a country club wedding, a trip to Martha’s Vineyard, a down payment on a house, and basketball tickets — took place between 2013 and 2022. By 2023, USAID inspector general investigators knew of the corruption. On November 9, 2023, the government barred Vistant and Barnes from contracting based on “evidence of conduct indicating a lack of business honesty or integrity.” That same day, it notified the Vistant-CollaborateUp joint venture, called PMCG CollaborateUp JV LLC, that it had been chosen for the “root causes of migration” contract. A USAID contracting official believed the contract was “legally questionable” and told the contractors later that month that he was yanking it. He said that even though CollaborateUp owned 51% of the joint venture, according to the proposal, almost all the work would be done by Vistant or subcontractors. That meant CollaborateUp brought little to the table except being a middleman, while the contract’s “driving force” was banned for lack of integrity, according to civil court papers. Yet the contractors appeared to feel so entitled to nearly $1 billion in government money that they took the government to court demanding it. It asked a judge for a permanent injunction “prohibiting USAID from rescinding its award.” On June 10, 2024, Paul Young, a go-between who paid Watson to obscure the paper trail to Barnes, was indicted for his role in bringing Watson to influence “the award of USAID contracts valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.” The indictment refers to Vistant and Barnes as Company 3 and CC-3 and says, “Young began making payments from CC-3 to CC-1 [Watson].” It describes how, for example, in October 2022, CC-3 sent a down payment for Watson’s home to him through Young. Two days later, on June 12, 2024, Judge Charles F. Lettow issued “a limited injunction,” punting the decision about the $800 million contract back to USAID to reevaluate. By that time, Vistant had been removed from the list of banned contractors, though the ban on its founder, Barnes, remained. On August 22, 2024, USAID awarded the “indefinite quantity” contract of up to $800 million for “USAID Central America Regional Support Services” to PMCG CollaborateUp JV LLC. It made an initial payment of $10,000 that day. Further demonstrating that the government knew at the time that Vistant/PMCG had gotten its previous USAID contracts through bribery, one week later, prosecutors offered a plea deal to a co-conspirator of Barnes, Darryl F. Britt, that laid out the findings of a long-running investigation from USAID’s inspector general. The plea deal referred to Vistant as Company 2, and Barnes as CC-2. “Indefinite delivery” contracts are open-ended contracts that allow the government to send repeated work to a company over a period of time up to a maximum amount, meaning the government could pay PMCG CollaborateUp as much as $800 million, but could also pay less. The migration contract was terminated in February 2025 — not because Barnes was corrupt, but because the Trump administration was shuttering USAID over suspicion that graft and insider deals were common, which liberals decried as a conspiracy theory. Yet the Biden administration’s General Services Administration, which oversees government-wide contracting, also gave PMCG CollaborateUp JV LLC two contracts lasting five years each, despite the government’s knowledge that Barnes had gotten contracts through bribery. On November 6, 2024 — the day after the presidential election — GSA awarded the joint venture an indefinite delivery contract through 2029, whose cap was listed as $999,999,999,999.00. It paid $2,500 as the opening salvo. On December 19, shortly before the Biden administration left office, GSA gave it another indefinite delivery contract with similar terms. According to its GSA Price List, the company rents administrative assistants to the government for $93.68 an hour. CollaborateUp did not return a request for comment. The half-billion dollar bribery scheme is just one instance of fraud at USAID that was known about during the Biden administration, but not prosecuted until the Trump administration. Stephen Paul Edmund Sutton, a British citizen who worked for a USAID contractor, pleaded guilty on May 19 to taking kickbacks related to an electric program in Pakistan. Sutton and a co-conspirator who worked for him were in charge of giving out subcontractors to Pakistani vendors to perform work. In 2015, the pair created two companies and had the contractor pay them for forklift and crane services. Then, those companies hired Pakistanis for half the amount. Prosecutors said the agency was defrauded of $100,000. Sutton was ordered to be handed over to immigration authorities instead of jail. The Daily Wire previously revealed that USAID’s inspector general told a federal court in November that another foreign aid contracting official, Matthieu Zahui of the African Development Foundation, had steered contracts to a friend who secretly paid him personally. USAID had credible tips about Zahui for years, but didn’t take his phone until February 2024. The phone, it said, contained evidence that he was receiving wire transfers to his personal bank account from the owner of a contractor he had steered government funds to. But USAID did not ask a judge for a search warrant to conduct further investigation until November 4, the day before the election. Zahiu has not been criminally charged as of now.

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