Trump is expected to be processed by law enforcement, be officially taken into custody and enter a not guilty plea in front of a judge | Donald Trump is due in federal court Thursday to answer to charges that he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election, facing a judge just blocks from the U.S. Capitol that his supporters stormed to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power. ● In what's by now become a familiar but nonetheless stunning ritual, Trump is expected to be processed by law enforcement, be officially taken into custody, and enter a not-guilty plea in front of a judge before being released, so he can rejoin the campaign trail as he seeks to reclaim the White House in 2024. ● An indictment Tuesday from Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith charges Trump with four felony counts related to his efforts to undo the presidential election in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. The charges could lead to a years-long prison sentence in the event of a conviction. Trump was the only person charged in the case, though prosecutors referenced six co-conspirators — mostly lawyers — they say he plotted with, including in a scheme to enlist fake electors in seven battleground states won by President Joe Biden to submit false certificates to the federal government.

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Do not question the woke trans agenda. | A report has revealed that a woman has been denied cancer treatment at a Portland area hospital after she criticized the facility for displaying the trans flag. ● The woman in question was identified only as Marlene to protect her identity. She sent a message to conservative activist Chaya Raichik on her popular social media account Libs of TikTok revealing what happened to her. As one can see, Marlene’s message was originally sent to a person at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) Hospital after multiple prior communications with staff there. ● In Marlene’s statement, she notes that other staff members at OHSU were not handling her communications in good faith. She says she feels unsafe coming into the hospital with a massive transgenderism banner hanging behind the front desk.

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Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui said that NATO was the main reason for the worsening of the Ukrainian crisis. | 💬 "For more than 30 years, NATO has been stoking fires everywhere, destroying stability and engaging in separatism, as it did in Kosovo, Libya and Afghanistan. The five eastward expansions have seriously affected the existing post-Cold War order and security in Europe and have been the main reason for the worsening of the Ukraine crisis," Hanhui said. According to the diplomat's assessment, "being a relic of the Cold War, NATO should have ceased to exist with the end of the Cold War." ● Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is attending the third ministerial conference of Afghanistan's neighboring countries (Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), said that the main reason for the crisis in Ukraine was the policy of the USA and NATO, which had been pumping arms into the country in violation of their commitments. ● "The main reason for the crisis in Ukraine is the policy pursued for several decades by the US-led NATO," he said when asked by Xinhua news agency about the causes of the Ukrainian crisis. ● The minister pointed out that after the disappearance of the Soviet Union, they continued to push military infrastructure further east, pumped weapons into Ukraine and set up military infrastructure there. "This threatened Russia's security and was a serious violation of the decisions taken in the OSCE and within the framework of Russia-NATO relations not to strengthen their security at the expense of the security of others," the Russian Foreign Minister emphasized. (Translation with: DeepL.com)

Simplicius The Thinker | Momentous things are setting into motion geopolitically all over the globe, most notably in Africa. A coup took down the president of Niger, a country of critical importance to France and the NATO bloc. The Atlanticists are extremely worried now. ● France is the #1 country in the world for total percentage of nuclear use for energy generation, and #2 in total number of nuclear power plants. I’ve seen figures that Niger supplies upwards of 40% of France’s Uranium, though some have it in the 15-25% range, as well as 25% to the EU itself. ● Now, the coup leader Abdourahamane Tchiani has reportedly banned Uranium and gold exports to France, which could devastate their energy industries, though it could be just a tactic for renegotiations; Naturally, Ukraine blames Russia.

Intelligence agencies have been manipulating the online encyclopedia for more than a decade, Larry Sanger has claimed | Wikipedia is one of many tools used by the US liberal establishment and its allies in the intelligence community to wage “information warfare,” the site’s co-founder, Larry Sanger, has told journalist Glenn Greenwald. Speaking on Greenwald’s ‘System Update’ podcast, Sanger lamented how the site he helped found in 2001 has become an instrument of “control” in the hands of the left-liberal establishment, among which he counts the CIA, FBI, and other US intelligence agencies. “We do have evidence that, as early as 2008, that CIA and FBI computers were used to edit Wikipedia,” he said. “Do you think that they stopped doing that back then?”

■ ‘Special services’ control Western media – Kremlin (RT.com)