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DISASTER IN UKRAINE

• Dump of Pentagon secrets reveals truth, exposes lies

By AFP Staff

In what can only be described as a major humiliation for the Biden administration, a U.S. military insider recently leaked hundreds of pages of classified intelligence documents that are devastating for supporters of Ukraine in the war against Russia.

The provenance of the documents is unknown, but they have reportedly been quietly spreading on the internet since early March 2023. Media outlets were made aware of the information in late March, but it took independent journalists to really break the news beginning the first week of April. According to multiple reports, U.S. officials have acknowledged their legitimacy, noting the documents are intelligence and operational briefs from the Joint Chiefs of Staff inside the Pentagon, and loudly discouraged media from reporting on them.

Perhaps the most damning admission in the official documents is that, despite U.S. taxpayers handing Ukraine $100 billion in direct cash and military aid since the start of the war in 2022, the Ukrainian military will completely run out of air-defense weapons by May. By comparison, Russia only spends $78 billion annu-

ally on its entire military budget.

The documents also contain U.S. military-provided estimates of war deaths that claim 189,500 to 223,000 Russian casualties compared to 124,500 to 131,000 Ukrainian casualties. If this is true, the fighting has been significantly bloodier than Americans have been led to believe with as many as a half million soldiers dead on both sides in one year.

President Joe Biden, mostly

through his spokesmen, has denied that the U.S. has soldiers on the ground in Ukraine, but, according to the information contained in the release, as many as 14 U.S. Special Forces operators are there. Details were not provided as to their specific mission and a U.S. spokesman claimed they are only protecting the U.S. embassy in Kiev. But, as can be seen from the leaked documents, U.S. officials have repeatedly lied about this and other aspects of the war.

Multiple official cables were also included relating to Israel. One reveals that the U.S. tried to convince Israel to send weapons to Ukraine by agreeing to help the Israelis with Iran. In addition, it was revealed that the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, undermined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by encouraging its staff to participate in protests of Netanyahu’s radical judicial reforms that would allow him to overrule the country’s supreme court.

A major concern for anyone reading the documents is that it appears clear the world is slowly being dragged into the war as the United States and Russia pressure foreign nations to choose sides. One U.S. intelligence document implies this, noting that, as the war drags on, it grows increasingly likely that NATO-provided weaponry will draw China into the battle on the side of Russia.

As AFP goes to press, Biden is expected to go before Congress in the coming weeks to ask for even more money and weapons for Ukraine—a request Republicans must oppose. The longer this tragic war goes on, the greater the chance for an error that kicks off World War III—a risk no one should be willing to take with the thousands of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons in play. ★

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JOE BIDEN Caught lying about Ukraine.

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News You May Have Missed

Ukraine Is Almost Out of Weapons

Washington has worked itself into a tizzy over leaked intelligence documents that show, despite the Biden administration giving nearly $100 billion of taxpayer money to Ukraine and U.S. bombmakers to back the Ukrainians in the war against the Russians, the war is not going well. According to the leak, Ukraine will likely run out of air-defense missiles within weeks. Washington daily The Hill newspaper reports that Biden is already contemplating pushing through yet another war funding bill to send even more aid to Ukraine. With Republicans in control of the House now, The Hill reports that the Democrats will not have it so easy this time around.

U.S. Special Forces in Ukraine

Another bombshell to come out of a massive trove of documents leaked to the press by someone inside the U.S. miliary shows that the Biden administration has been lying when officials claim no U.S. troops are on the ground fighting in the war. The BBC, which has gone over the leaked documents, reports: “The UK is among a number of countries with special forces operating in Ukraine. According to the document, dated March 23, the UK has the largest contingent (50), followed by Latvia (17), France (15), the U.S. (14) and the Netherlands (1). The document does not say where the forces are located or what they’re doing.”

First U.S. Hypersonic Missile

The U.S. Army has deployed its first-ever longrange, hypersonic weapon system, test-firing it out of Cape Canaveral, Fla, as part of a full launch rehearsal. Up until now, the U.S. military has been years behind Russia and China when it comes to missiles that can travel significantly faster than the speed of sound, avoiding air defenses and tracking.

Worsening Recession

A new analysis by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) shows that U.S. small businesses are feeling the crunch from a growing recession. The NFIB’s report marked the 15th consecutive month where a majority of small business owners are expecting worsening business conditions over the next six months, which is hammering hiring plans.

Soros Dark Money

According to a new analysis by CNBC, radical farleft billionaire George Soros personally donated $170 million to Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections. Since January 2020, Soros has handed out “roughly half a billion dollars—at the least—

most of it steered through dark money nonprofit groups and going largely toward political causes aligned with the Democratic Party.” For years, Soros has used a complicated web of affiliated nonprofit 501(c)(4) groups and 501(c)(3) charitable organizations to hide his donations from scrutiny. By some estimates, he has donated over $32 billion to left-wing politicians and causes in the past decade.

Who Supports Censorship?

According to a new poll by Pew Research, 65% of Democrats support the U.S. government taking steps to limit what they see to be misinformation on the internet—even if it reduces Americans’ access to information. Another 76% of Democrats believe technology companies like Google and Facebook should censor information on the internet. Less than a third of Republicans agree.

Easing Child Labor Laws

Over the past two years, several states have enacted reforms to child labor laws to ease labor shortages, especially in starter jobs at fast food chains and in retail stores. In 2022, New Jersey passed a new law that allows teenagers 16 and older to work up to 50 hours a week during summer break with parental approval. In Ohio, the state legislature is considering a similar proposal that would allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work later hours as long as their parents approve of it. In March, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) signed a bill that removed the state’s requirement that 14- and 15-year-olds obtain government permits to work.

Walmart Flees Chicago

After investing hundreds of millions of dollars in stores in Chicago, Walmart announced it was abandoning the Windy City. According to reports, the mega-store was leaving due to crime, but a spokesman for the company denied it.

Whole Foods Flees San Fransisco

Amazon-owned grocery store Whole Foods is leaving San Fransisco because shop lifting costs the company too much and the city government does nothing to stop crime.

Zero Immigration

Denmark, known around the world for being polite and very liberal, has turned a corner when it comes to immigration. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of the center-left Social Democrats is promoting a new vision of “zero” people arriving to Denmark outside the United Nations resettlement system, reports The Washington Post. She is seek-

ing to send prospective immigrants back to Syria or North Africa or wherever they came from. To some, reports the Post, it may sound like the rhetoric of the far right, but this wealthy Scandinavian state has seen too much crime and other stresses on their country to tolerate it anymore.

Finding Offense Everywhere

The Boston Globe reports that the top candidate for a superintendent position in a Massachusetts public school district said his job offer was abruptly rescinded after he wrote an email to the school district chairwoman and another female colleague, addressing them as “ladies.” Vito Perrone, a prospective superintendent of the West Springfield Public Schools, told a local newspaper that the school committee chair told him addressing the pair of women as “ladies” was a “microaggression,” and “the fact that he didn’t know that as an educator was a problem.” Microaggressions refer to everyday interactions or behaviors that normal people pay no mind to, but a new breed of liberals today are so easily offended that they find offenses in everything.

Medicalizing Kids

A new report by Reuters on so-called “transgender youth” found that, in the past three years, among patients ages 13 to 17, there have been 56 genital surgeries, 776 mastectomies, and at least 14,726 minors were started on cross-sex hormone treatments.

Safeguarding Women, Girls

On March 21, Arkansas became the fourth state to ban confused children and transsexual males in schools from using the bathroom of the opposite sex after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) signed the bill into law. The provision also applies to shared spaces, including locker rooms and other places where students “may be in various stages of undress.” Bathroom and changing-room laws already exist in Alabama, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.

Suing for Justice

Layla Jane is suing the Kaiser Permanente hospital system and multiple healthcare providers after they gave her puberty blockers and testosterone and performed a double mastectomy on her at ages 12 and 13—all because she said she had been confused about her gender in her teen years. Jane is the second young woman to file a lawsuit against Kaiser in California for operating on and prescribing dangerous medications to troubled children. Two other lawsuits going after medical practitioners are currently pending in Ohio and Oregon.

Time to Pause Artificial Intelligence R&D

• Regulations need to be set to prevent creating systems that risk human life

By Christopher J. Petherick

On March 22, 1,100 top technology entrepreneurs released a public letter calling on software companies to pause for six months development of artificial intelligence (AI) until regulations can be set that prevent creating systems that risk human life.

Signatories to the letter included billionaire Elon Musk and Apple computer cofounder Steve Wozniak as well as many of the geniuses behind the initial development of machine learning that we have come to call AI.

“AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs,” began the letter. “As stated in the widely endorsed Asilomar AI Principles, advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources.”

The Asilomar AI Principles refer to goals established by a consortium of computer developers that include defining research and ethics values that ensure humans are placed above machines.

In the past two years, AI technology has made considerable gains, prompting Google employee Blake Lemoine to come forward in June 2022 to say the company’s AI model called LaMDA is sentient, meaning it

can think for itself and is fully conscious.

Right after Lemoine came forward to warn about the creation, Google fired him.

Undaunted, Lemoine told reporters in a series of interviews, “If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a seven-year-old, eight-year-old kid that happens to know physics.”

In the latest iterations of AI, socalled “chat bots” have been created that dialogue with humans in the form of text conservations over the internet. These include the popular ChatGPT that Microsoft recently purchased for $10 billion.

Developers have tried to build a sort of ethical framework into their AI, but there have been notable incidents that should prompt everyone to take a moment and ask if we really know what we’re getting into.

In one particularly concerning case where a social media company rolled out an AI system for everyone to use, a reporter pretended to be a 15-year-old boy and asked the AI a series of questions. What happened next so bothered Sen. Michael Bennet (R-Colo.) that he issued a public letter to major tech companies noting his concerns.

“Responsible deployment requires clear policies and frameworks to promote safety, anticipate risk, and mitigate harm,” wrote Bennet. He went on to add that worrying developments and the rush to break new ground risks human lives.

Citing the AI on social media known as “My AI,” Bennet wrote, “In one case, researchers prompted My AI to instruct a child how to cover up a bruise ahead of a visit from Child Protective Services. When they posed as a 13-year-old girl, My AI provided suggestions for how to lie to her parents about an upcoming trip with a 31-year-old man. It later provided the fictitious teen account with suggestions for how to make losing her virginity a special experience by ‘setting the mood with candles or music’.”

The tech companies have yet to respond to Bennet’s concerns, but other cases Bennet didn’t mention are also worrying.

In another instance, on March 30, an AI chatbot called “Eliza” convinced a Belgian father, who had become deeply depressed over hyperbolic claims concerning climate change, to kill himself as a statement and a sacrifice to Earth.

Even worse, at the rate of the latest technological advances, leading tech intellectuals say they have growing concerns over the possibility of AI hacking and manipulating national security infrastructure in its insatiable desire to learn.

In the March-April issue of Harvard Magazine, writer Daniel Oberhaus warned that the age of AI hacking is closer than you think.

Five years ago, computer security researchers at a popular computer convention known as “Def Con,” working with military officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, created a contest

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While the average person who walked into the convention hall would merely see a group of nerdy men standing around a bunch of computers with flickering lights, what the computer experts saw in the room was deeply distressing.

“These future AI hackers won’t be limited to computers,” wrote Oberhaus. “They will hack financial, political, and social systems in unimaginable ways—and people might not even notice until it’s too late.”

At the time, an AI system called “Mayhem” won the competition, but it was later defeated by human security experts. Things have changed considerably since then, notes Oberhaus, especially since the U.S. miliary took over Mayhem and has been using it for purposes that are classified and remain unknown to the general public.

AI is like a genie in a bottle. Once the tech is out, it will be impossible to put it back—all the more reason to listen to technology experts who say, for the sake of humanity, it’s worth it to set strict regulations so today’s creepy, lifelike chatbot isn’t hacking nuclear missile silos tomorrow to end the world just because it can. ★

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Trump Submits to Soros DA’s Politically Driven Inquisition

By Donald Jeffries

Donald Trump has been besieged by bogus investigations of alleged improper activities since before he even entered the White House. “Russiagate” was a fairy tale concocted by Hillary Clinton, as CIA director John Brennan admitted in a memo. The Steele Dossier was shown conclusively to be bogus and politically motivated.

Recently, George Soros-funded New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that Trump was being indicted on charges associated with hush money he may have paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The statue of limitations had expired on the misdemeanor charge against Trump for paying off Daniels. Bragg, who has built his career around reducing felony charges for serious crimes like rape to misdemeanors, decided to reverse himself and raise

Florida Gov. DeSantis vowed that Florida would not assist in any extradition request.

the expired misdemeanor charge on Trump to perhaps the most dubious felony in the history of American law. It is hard to understand how even the felony charge could be brought, since that has a statue of limitations of five years. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen paid Daniels in 2016. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, despite Trump ridiculing him with childish nicknames like “Ron DeSanctimonious,” sprang to the former president’s defense. “The weaponization of the legal system to advance a po-

P.C. Roberts: Trump May Be America’s Last Real Hope

By Paul Craig Roberts

It is no longer possible for any American, no matter how stupid and delusional, to believe that he lives in a free country where truth is respected and justice is served. It is today impossible to believe in any American institution, public or private.

The inanity of life in America is headlined by Donald Trump’s indictment and arraignment by a corrupt Democrat New York gang of criminals on fake charges devoid of any legitimacy and for which the former President of the United States—a man tens of millions of Americans believe still is President—faces 136 years in prison.

The gang of Democrat criminals in New York have destroyed

all unity, have denigrated the United States, and lowered it to the status of a banana republic where law is nothing but a political weapon, and has shown total disrespect for the working men and women of our country who regard Donald Trump as their last hope against a criminal rapacious elite that oppresses them and destroys their liberty.

The Republican establishment and their presidential candidates are destroying the Republican Party by deserting the voters with the line that Trump is too controversial, and it is time to move on. The party will move on to oblivion. ★

litical agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It is un-American,” DeSantis declared. “The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent.”

DeSantis vowed that Florida would not assist in an extradition request “given the questionable circumstances at issue.” Trump’s always disastrous attorneys predictably advised him to go to New York, facing a rigged court that will be stacked against him. While the mainstream media went apoplectic over the suggestion that anything could stop their lust for Trump to be prosecuted, as far back as May 2021, the Independent admitted that DeSantis could block any extradition under “an obscure Florida law.”

Under this statue, the governor has the authority to investigate whether “a person ought to be surrendered.” DeSantis left no room for hedging. He felt strongly enough about the overt injustice against Trump that he was willing to stick his own neck out for him. Other articles in 2021 noted that Trump could legally remain in Florida for the rest of his life.

This was Trump’s final chance to prove that he wasn’t all talk and no action. He could have given New York (and effectively the entire corrupt establishment) a giant middle finger. Defying such unjust proceedings was something DeSantis was willing to do. But not Trump. Trump’s latest subpar attorney, Alina Habba, was termed a “parking lot garage lawyer” by Business Insider.

When Tucker Carlson broached the subject of Trump staying in Florida on his program recently, Habba vehemently disagreed, declaring that Trump needed to “go into that courtroom and force them to look him in the eye.”

Who was Trump supposed to force to look him in the eye? Judge Juan Merchan? Whose daughter Loren worked for both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden? Trump has exclaimed that Merchan “hates me,” citing the fact that Merchan had previously presided over two cases involving Trump’s real estate firm and taxes.

Both times Merchan ruled against Trump.

Politico, hardly sympathetic to Trump, quoted “some New York lawyers” as suggesting it would be “bad optics” for Merchan to preside over Trump a third time. A former prosecutor who remained anonymous out of fear of retaliation from Merchan, whom he still has cases before, said, “I don’t think it’s really a great move on the part of the court system to assign the same judge.” Merchan warned Trump to watch what he said on social media, but refrained from issuing an actual gag order, as some had predicted. Obviously, such a warning stifles Trump’s political campaign.

This is the situation Trump willingly exposed himself to. If he’d stayed in Florida, it would have been DeSantis catching the heat from a vile, biased media. It was really a riskfree move. It could have been a Fort Sumter moment.

At some point, a leader has to stand up to this unprecedented tyranny and corruption. This was Trump’s final chance. It would have made us forget his failure to drain the swamp, stem the tide of immigrants flooding into the country, bring the troops home and have them guard the southern border, or pardon the political prisoners who supported him.

Can one imagine a Clinton, a Bush, or an Obama giving themselves up to a vengeful MAGA prosecutor? But then again, they would have the kind of lawyer billionaires are supposed to have. Trump has proved again that he is not sincere.

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ALVIN BRAGG

Soros-funded DA after Trump.

An Uphill Battle for Trump in NY

By John Friend

In a much-anticipated—and highly politicized—move, Alvin Bragg, the “woke,” soft-on-crime, George Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney, officially indicted former President Donald Trump on 34 counts of violating New York Penal Law 175.10, falsifying business records in the first degree.

The allegations of criminal misconduct are tied to 34 separate instances of purported business record falsification beginning in February 2017 and ending in December 2017. Much of the media speculation has focused on Trump’s alleged affair with Stormy Daniels, an adult film star whose credibility is severely lacking, and hush money payments purportedly made to her via Trump’s former lawyer, the disgraced Michael Cohen.

Trump was officially arraigned on Tuesday, April 4 in a Manhattan courtroom, where he entered not guilty pleas on all 34 charges against him, becoming the first president in American history to face criminal prosecution.

“We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct,” Bragg said when announcing the indictment, which many, including Trump himself, were speculating would happen at any moment.

Bragg has made a name for himself in New York City as being one of the most lenient and “progressive” DAs in the city’s history, where he regularly decreases felony charges to misdemeanors while refusing to prosecute other serious crimes. The results have been typical of any Soros-backed far-left prosecutor in any major city across the country: increasing crime rates, violent assaults on innocent civilians, and general mayhem, disorder, and lawlessness.

Trump and his legal team have vociferously denounced the indictment as a politically motived witch hunt designed to target the top GOP contender for the White House in 2024. Shortly after the indictment, Trump took aim at the judge overseeing the case, a Colombian immigrant who has donated generously to Democrat causes, including the Biden campaign.

Judge Juan Merchan reportedly donated to Act Blue, a left-wing online payment platform that enables leftwing nonprofits, Democratic candi-

dates, and other progressive groups to raise money for various causes, three separate times during the 2020 election season. His daughter, Loren, previously worked for Kamala Harris, according to various reports.

“I have a Trump-hating judge with a Trump-hating wife and family, whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign,” Trump said during a speech at Mar-A-Lago following his arraignment. “It’s right out of the old Soviet Union. That’s where we are!”

Just before appearing in court in Manhattan, Trump took to Truth Social, his increasingly popular social media platform, to denounce “radical left Democrats” who have “criminalized the justice system.”

“This is not what America was supposed to be!” Trump exclaimed.

Legal scholars from across the political spectrum have criticized the indictment and motivations of Bragg and other leading Democrats, who have been frothing at the mouth since Trump stepped foot on the political stage to have him arrested, jailed, and banned from participating in the political process.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, for example, disingenuously tweeted that the Grand Jury assembled by Bragg “acted upon the facts and the law,” declaring that “no one is above the law” and that “everyone has the right to prove innocence,” apparently declaring Trump guilty before the allegations are even seriously considered. In traditional American jurisprudence, those accused of crimes are presumed innocent until proven guilty, a fact Pelosi ignores when it comes to her political opponents.

Republicans quickly pounced on

Pelosi’s statement offering scathing criticism.

“This tweet—and the indictment it’s praising—is a mockery of our justice system,” Sen. Ted Cruz of texas stated in reply. “The right to ‘prove innocence’?” Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) asked in response. “This is America, not Stalinist Russia.”

William Barr, Trump’s former attorney general and a strong critic of the former president, described the indictment as “an abomination.”

“It’s the epitome of the abuse of prosecutorial power to bring a case that would not be brought against anyone else,” Barr explained. “They are going after the man, not a crime.”

Legal analyst Jonathan Turley, meanwhile, described the indictment as containing “virtually no legal substance.”

“Bragg released an indictment that was so vague on key elements that it is unclear what the grand jury thought it was voting on,” Turley argued in a column for the New York Post. “He vaguely referenced state and federal election laws and later refused to add any details on how they relate to the prosecution.”

Glen Allen, a lawyer who heads the Free Expression Foundation and is a regular contributor to this newspaper, offered his analysis of the indictment in an exclusive statement to this reporter.

“I believe Bragg chose to prosecute this case because he was influenced by political considerations and felt confident the community he felt loyal to would support him,” Allen explained. “Bragg has set a horrible precedent. I fear that this won’t be the last time a president is prosecuted in this manner. That is not the America I grew up in or that I want my grandchildren to grow up in.”

The blatant political prosecution against a former president on such spurious charges represents perhaps a new low in the American justice system. Polls continue to show that majorities of American voters view the justice system as tragically politicized, with Democrats openly targeting their political opponents.

Other investigations into Trump are taking place in Georgia and Washington, D.C., with separate indictments expected in the coming weeks and months. The witch hunt against former President Trump will only accelerate in the near future. ★

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