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US Intelligence Claims Iran May Attempt to Assassinate Trump and other Officials as Revenge for Solemani

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An intelligence report suggests that Iran could be plotting to assassinate former President Donald Trump and/or other top former United States officials in an act of revenge for the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimanidurring the former president’s administration.

As per Yahoo News:

 

“According to the intelligence report, Iran has identified former President Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and other officials as ‘priority targets’ for their role in overseeing the January 2020 US drone strike that killed Soleimani as he visited Iraq. Iran has long openly made bombastic threats to take revenge for Soleimani’s death, but the new report offers further confirmation that US officials are taking the threats seriously,”

“The intelligence report, which is marked as unclassified but as ‘for official use only,’ was widely distributed inside the government and to law enforcement agencies nationwide,”

“Since January 2021, Tehran has publicly expressed a willingness to conduct lethal operations inside the United States and has consistently identified former President Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, and former CENTCOM Commander General Kenneth McKenzie as among its priority targets for retribution,”

 

“Iran would probably view the killing or prosecution of a US official it considers equivalent in rank and stature to Soleimani or responsible for his death as successful retaliatory actions,” the assessment adds.

This report warns that Iran is “waging a multipronged campaign” in an attempt to avenge Soleimani’s death, this includes “threats of lethal action, international legal maneuvering, and the issuance of Iranian arrest warrants and sanctions.”

In January, Iran’s supreme leader shared an animated video that appears to show a robot calling in a drone strike to assassinate Trump on his golf course at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

The animated video was part of a contest to mark Jan. 3, 2020, killing of Soleimani. Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi demanded action against Trump.

“If not, I’m telling all American leaders, don’t doubt that the hand of revenge will come out of the sleeves of the ummah,” Raisi said.

Special Counsel John Durham Requests 30 New Subpoenas in Danchenko Trial

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John Durham has officially requested that a federal court send out 30 subpoenas for testimony in the approaching trial against research analyst Igor Danchenko. Danchenko is the alleged primary source of the now-debunked “Steele dossier”, an opposition research report designed to attack former President Donald Trump. 

The MSM was quick to label John Durham’s investigation a “failure” after Michael Sussman was found not guilty in a Washington DC court. The media rushed to call the verdict a “significant blow.” However, many onlookers, including former federal prosecutor and public defender Kash Patel, held little hope for an honest trial in the District of Columbia. Patel went so far as to call the verdict a “miscarriage of justice”.

Despite the establishment media’s attempts to make the Sussman verdict ring out as indicative of how Durham’s future endeavors will go, much was learned and put on the record, including the testimony of Robby Mook, the political strategist for the Clinton Campaign, who claimed that Hillary “agreed” to leak allegations that the Trump Organization had a secret communications channel with Russia’s Alfa Bank.

The Danchenko trial will be tried in a different Jurisdiction in Northern Virginia, where Patel claims the jury pool will be “dramatically different”.

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Durhams Team said in a June 13 filing that “It is respectfully requested that the Clerk of said Court issue subpoenas as indicated below for appearance of said Court in Alexandria, Virginia … to testify on behalf of the United States” on Oct. 11.

The Judge who will be presiding over this case is U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush back in the late 2000s.

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US District Judge Anthony Trenga

Danchenko has pleaded “not guilty” to the charge of lying to the FBI. The Special Counsel alleges that Danchenko made at least five false statements to the FBI in regards to information he provided to Christopher Steele, the former UK spy who was employed by an opposition research company at the behest of Perkins Coie, the law firm working for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

 

Durham’s indictment indicates that Danchenko’s alleged fabrications “were material to the FBI because… the FBI’s investigation of the Trump Campaign relied” on the dossier to obtain secretive warrants to spy on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

“The FBI ultimately devoted substantial resources attempting to investigate and corroborate the allegations contained in” the dossier, including whether Danchenko’s sub-sources were reliable, the indictment states. The dossier and information provided by Danchenko “played a role in the FBI’s investigative decisions and in sworn representations that the FBI made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court throughout the relevant time period,” according to last year’s complaint.

The Steele dossier, a collection of memos that Christopher Steele compiled, claimed that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to ensure a victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. Trump has categorically denied these allegations, suggesting they’re part of an ongoing Democrat-created narrative specifically designed to attack his credibility.

Over the years, many of the allegations from the dossier were proven to be false, leading to criminal, congressional, and even inspector general investigations into the origins of the Steele dossier.

John Durham has said that Danchenko completely made up a conversation that he claimed was the source of some of the more sordid claims contained in the memos. The phony dossier also alleged that Russian intelligence officials were blackmailing Trump, something the former president has also denied.

Igor Danchenko is now the third individual to be charged by Durham and his team. As he appeared at the federal court in Alexandria last year, Danchenko’s former lawyer, Mark Schamel, issued a statement saying that his client’s work as a researcher is “above reproach.”

“For the past five years, those with an agenda have sought to expose Mr. Danchenko’s identity and tarnish his reputation while undermining U.S. National Security,” Schamel said. 

There’s been scuttlebutt and conjecture claiming that these trials aren’t so much about convictions as building a roadmap of conspiracy that may eventually lead to Clinton herself. Unlike the trial in DC, a failure to convict here will be a blow severe to morale for those who hope to see bad actors from Clinton world finally brought to some kind of justice.

Steve Bannon to Testify Before the J6 Committee This Week

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The Jan. 6th committee is set to resume hearings this Tuesday and Thursday. Tuesday’s hearing will specifically focus on “extremist groups” and their activities leading up to the event at the capitol.

Committee member Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California, told CNN:

“We are going to be connecting the dots during these hearings between these groups and those who were trying – in government circles – to overturn the election,”

The goal is to “connect the dots” between these civilian “extremist groups” and those in Trump’s circle (Bannon) who questioned the integrity of the election, something a large percent of the country is also questioning.

The committee hopes to demonstrate a clear link between Bannon and others from the Trump administration and such groups, particularly the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys. 

Former Proud Boys spokesperson Jason Van Tatenhove is expected to testify, as he claims to have knowledge of the inner workings of the organization.

Most notable will be the testimony of former Whitehouse Strategist Steven K. Bannon, who notified the committee that he was willing to testify after President Trump waived executive privilege.

Bannon had previously refused to comply with committee subpoenas and was last year charged with two counts of contempt of Congress.

Bannon’s attorney Robert Costello said in a letter to the committee: 

“President Trump has decided that it would be in the best interests of the American people to waive executive privilege for Stephen K. Bannon, to allow Mr. Bannon to comply with the subpoena issued by your Committee,”

Bannon’s testimony is yet to be scheduled. The Justice Department lawyers who are litigating Bannon’s contempt of Congress charges seem to be skeptical of Bannon’s Motives. 

DOJ lawyers said in a court filing:

“His continued failure to comply with the subpoena’s document demand while claiming he now will testify suggests his actions are little more than an attempt to change the optics of his contempt,”

Bannon had previously argued that he did not have to comply with subpoenas after Trump invoked executive privilege, but federal prosecutors say that because Bannon was a private citizen at the time of the capitol riot, such privilege did not apply.

NBC’s Panelists Wish for Donald Trump’s Death On-air “We Have No Plan for This, Except Sitting Around Hoping He Dies.”

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Last Sunday, on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, an MSNBC panelist made a rather grim statement about the former president. It would seem that at least some people would rather see Donald Trump dead than running in 2024.

During the televised discussion, the conversation shifted to whether or not the 45th President will run again in 2024 when one of the guests, Mark Leibovich, conceded that Democrats have no real plan for a Trump candidacy besides hoping that he dies.

Mark Leibovich: “Look we have no plan for this, except sitting around hoping [Trump] dies.”

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Setting the Stage? A List of Manufacturing Plants that Have Mysteriously Burned Down Around the World

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Americans are already facing brutal gas prices and runaway inflation, but now food shortages will be added to the pile, as manufacturing plants the world over are mysteriously burning down.

In 2021, Resilinc, a leading global supply chain monitoring and risk management firm that has been tracking disruptions at manufacturing plants for over a decade, was prompted to create a WarRoom to track the sudden uptick of supply chain disruptions.

The company issued 11,642 to alerts notifying its, which include today’s largest multinational organizations, about supply chain disruptions; an 88 percent increase in supply chain disruptions in a single year.

North America experienced the 5,417 supply chain disruptions, more than any other developed nation, followed by Europe which saw 2,838, and Asia, 2,128.

A grim fact remains: more factory fires occurred in 2021 than any other year in recorded history.

Nearly a quarter of the supply chain disruptions globally were attributed to manufacturing plants being set aflame, according to exclusive data compiled from Resilinc’s EventWatch monitoring database.

“Resilinc issued 1,946 Factory Fire alerts in 2021, an increase of 129 percent year-over year,” Resilinc communications director Melissa Gieringert told the Gateway Pundit.

The company attributes the sudden cause of fires to labor shortages caused by the pandemic.

“The uptick is due mostly to gaps in regulatory and process execution as well as shortage of skilled labor in warehouses. Factory fires are contributing to record breaking supply shortages. If a warehouse goes down for a month due to a factory fire the trickle-down effect is huge,” Gieringer said. ” If no one is checking that the fire sprinklers work, or if there are flammable materials – like cardboard – left on the floor because there is not enough staff available to clean up, it can turn into a bad scenario.”

“Take this example: In October 2020  a fire broke out at a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Japan; it took three days to put the fire out and when the dust settled, production lines were estimated to be down a minimum of six months,” she continued. “As a result, procurement teams – from the hi-tech to automotive sectors – were scrambling. The price of some chips went from $5 to $110 in a matter of days and ultimately cost sourcing organizations tens of millions of dollars. A risk assessment survey later revealed that the site did not have anyone checking the automatic sprinkler or fire suppression system. This fire also contributed to the current chip shortage that is significantly impacting carmakers.”

Resilinc has yet to release data showcasing the number of fires at manufacturing plants throughout 2022, but the Gateway Pundit has compiled a list documenting  the number of major fires that have erupted at food industry facilities to date in 2022:

  1. 1/2/22 Firefighters battled a fire that burned down 75 percent of Van Drunen Farms Tu Thill plant in Momence, Illinois
  2. 1/7/22 Damage to a poultry processing plant on Hamilton’s Mountain following an overnight fire in Oregon
  3. 1/8/22 Two warehouses and a cold storage were destroyed in a fire at Raw Far Creamery in Fresno, California
  4. 1/13/22 Firefighters worked for 12 hours to put a fire out at the Cargill-Nutrena plant in Lecompte, LA
  5. 1/20/22 A fire broke out at Washington Potato Food Processing Plant in Warden, Washington
  6. 1/31/22 Wiston Weaver Company, a fertilizer plant with 600 tons of ammonium nitrate inside caught on fire in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  7. 2/3/22 A massive fire swept through Wisconsin River Meats in Mauston, Wisconsin
  8. 2/3/22 At least 130 cows were killed in a fire at Percy Farm in Stowe
  9. 2/4/22 Diamond Walnut Growers, a food processing plant was set aflame and permanently shut down following the fire in Live Oak, California
  10. 2/15/22 Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas
  11. 2/15/22 Nearly a week after the fire destroyed most of the Shearer’s Foods plant in Hermiston
  12. 2/16/22 A fire had broken at Louis Dreyfus Company, the US largest soybean processing and biodiesel plant in Claypool, Indiana
  13. 2/18/22 An early morning fire tore through the milk parlor at Bess View Farm
  14. 2/19/22 Three people were injured, and one was hospitalized, after an ammonia leak at Lincoln Premium Poultry in Fremont, Nebraska
  15. 2/22/22 The Shearer’s Foods plant caught fire after a propane boiler exploded in Hermiston, Oregon
  16. 2/28/22 A smoldering pile of sulfur quickly became a raging chemical fire at Nutrien Ag Solutions
  17. 2/28/22 A man was hurt after a fire broke out at the Shadow Brook Farm and Dutch Girl Creamery
  18. 3/4/22 294,800 chickens destroyed at farm in Stoddard, Missouri
  19. 3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
  20. 3/8/22 243,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in New Castle, Delaware
  21. 3/10/22 663,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, MD
  22. 3/10/22 915,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Taylor, IA
  23. 3/14/22 The blaze at 244 Meadow Drive was discovered shortly after 5 p.m. by farm owner Wayne Hoover
  24. 3/14/22 2,750,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Jefferson, Wisconsin
  25. 3/16/22 A fire at a Walmart warehouse distribution center has cast a large plume of smoke visible throughout Indianapolis.
  26. 3/16/22 Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas
  27. 3/17/22 5,347,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Buena Vista, Iowa
  28. 3/17/22 147,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Kent, Delaware
  29. 3/18/22 315,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
  30. 3/22/22 172,000 Turkeys destroyed on farms in South Dakota
  31. 3/22/22 570,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
  32. 3/23/22 A massive fire erupted at a Pepsi Food Processing Plant in Piscataway, New Jersey
  33. 3/24/22 Fire fighters from numerous towns are battling a major fire at the McCrum potato processing facility in Belfast.
  34. 3/24/22 418,500 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
  35. 3/25/22 250,300 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Franklin, Iowa
  36. 3/26/22 311,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  37. 3/27/22 126,300 Turkeys destroyed in South Dakota
  38. 3/28/22 1,460,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Guthrie, Iowa
  39. 3/29/22 A massive fire burned 40,000 pounds of food at Maricopa Food Pantry in Maricopa, Arizona  
  40. 3/31/22 A structure fire caused significant damage to a large portion of key fresh onion packing facilities in south Texas
  41. 3/31/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Osceola, Iowa
  42. 3/31/22 5,011,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Osceola, Iowa
  43. 4/6/22 281,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
  44. 4/9/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  45. 4/9/22 208,900 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  46. 4/12/22 89,700 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
  47. 4/12/22 1,746,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Dixon, Nebraska
  48. 4/12/22 259,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Minnesota
  49. 4/13/22 Fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire
  50. 4/13/22 Plane crashes into Gem State Processing, Idaho potato and food processing plant
  51. 4/13/22 77,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  52. 4/14/22 Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California.
  53. 4/14/22 99,600 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  54. 4/15/22 1,380,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Lancaster, Minnesota
  55. 4/19/22 Azure Standard, the nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon
  56. 4/19/22 A fire broke out at Nutiren AG Solutions prompting evacuations in Leoti, Kansas
  57. 4/19/22 339,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  58. 4/19/22 58,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Montrose, Color
  59. 4/20/22 2,000,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Minnesota
  60. 4/21/22 A small plane crashed in the lot of a General Mills plant in Covington, Georgia
  61. 4/22/22 197,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  62. 4/23/22 200,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
  63. 4/24 Fire broke out around 3:45 am at General Mills manufacturing site in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  64. 4/25/22 Officials launched an investigation into the cause of a fire that broke out at Hormel Foods Facility in Suffolk, Virginia
  65. 4/25/22 1,501,200 chickens destroyed at egg farm Cache, Utah
  66. 4/26/22 307,400 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania
  67. 4/27/22 2,118,000 chickens destroyed at farm Knox, Nebraska
  68. 4/28/22 the basement of Agriway Partners was set ablaze in Kalona, Washington
  69. 4/28/22 Egg-laying facility in Iowa kills 5.3 million chickens resulting in plant firing over 200 workers
  70. 4/28/22 Allen Harim Foods processing plant killed nearly 2 million chickens in Delaware
  71. 4/28/22 110,700 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  72. 4/29/22 1,366,200 chickens destroyed at farm Weld Colorado
  73. 4/30 A soybean processing tank caught fire at the Perdue Farms plant in Chesapeake, West Virginia
  74. 4/30/22 13,800 chickens destroyed at farm Sequoia Oklahoma
  75. 5/1/22 A fire broke out at Saladinao’s food processing plant in Fresno, California
  76. 5/3/22 58,000 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  77. 5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Beadle S Dakota
  78. 5/3/22 114,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  79. 5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Lyon Minnesota
  80. 5/7/22 20,100 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  81. 5/7/22 A fire erupted at JBS meat packing plant in Green Bay, Wisconsin
  82. 5/10/22 72,300 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania
  83. 5/10/22 61,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  84. 5/10/22 35,100 Turkeys destroyed Muskegon, Michigan
  85. 5/13/22 10,500 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
  86. 5/14/22 83,400 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  87. 5/17/22 79,00 chickens destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  88. 5/18/22 7,200 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  89. 5/19/22 Train carrying limestone derailed in Jensen Beach FL
  90. 5/21/22 57,000 Turkeys were destroyed on a farm in Dakota Minnesota
  91. 5/23/22 4,000 ducks were destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  92. 5/29/22 A Saturday night fire destroyed a poultry building at Forsman Farms in Howard Lake, Minneapolis
  93. 5/31/22 3,000,000 chickens were destroyed by fire at Forsman facility in Stockholm Township, Minnesota
  94.  6/2/22 30,000 ducks were destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
  95. 6/7/22 A fire occurred Tuesday evening at the JBS meat packing plant in Green Bay.
  96. 6/8/22 Firefighters from Tangipahoa Fire District 1 respond to a fire at the Purina Feed Mill in Arcola
  97. 6/9/22 Irrigation water was canceled in California (the #1 producer of food in the US) and storage water flushed directly out to the delta.
  98. 6/9/22 Freeport LNG, one of the largest US export plants that produces liquefied natural gas was shut down following an explosion at its Texas Gulf Coast facility.
  99. 6/12/22 Largest Pork Company in the US Shuts Down California Plant Due to High Costs
  100. 6/13/22 Fire Breaks Out at Festive Foods in Belmont, Wisconsin
  101. 6/14/22 Over 10,000 head of cattle have reportedly died in the recent Kansas heat wave
  102. 6/23/22 George’s Inc.: Poultry and Prepared Foods announced it will close one of its food processing plants in Campbell County, Tennessee

Fact-checkers,  including Reuters and Snopes, insist claims that fires at processing plants are intentionally orchestrated to create supply chain shortages are conspiracy theories.

But the string of fires that continue to damage manufacturing plants across the United States appears to be a deliberate effort to sabotage food processing operations.

While Reslinc correlates the uptick in fires at manufacturing plants to a global workforce shortage, more factories have been mysteriously set aflame in the United States than any other country.