Fiona Hill, a Russia expert who served on the National Security Council under former President Trump, said billionaire Elon Musk was “transmitting a message” for Russian President Vladimir Putin when he tweeted out a proposal to end the war earlier this month.
Hill told Politico in an interview published Monday that before Musk tweeted out his so-called peace proposal earlier this month, he made a similar statement at a September event in Aspen, Colo., suggesting the Crimean Peninsula remain in Russian hands.
Musk also said then that control over the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions should be negotiated because Crimea would need water supplies from those regions, Hill noted.
“The reference to water is so specific that this clearly is a message from Putin,” she said.
Hill served as senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council from 2017 to 2019 and is now a senior fellow at Brookings.
She explained to Politico that Putin “often uses various trusted intermediaries including all kinds of businesspeople.”
“I had intermediaries sent to discuss things with me while I was in government,” she told Politico. “This is a classic Putin play. It’s just fascinating, of course, that it’s Elon Musk in this instance, because obviously Elon Musk has a huge Twitter following.”
Earlier this month, Musk tweeted out a poll asking his more than 100 million followers to weigh in on his peace proposal, which drew the rebuke of Ukrainian officials and U.S. lawmakers after the billionaire suggested Ukraine give up the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
He also suggested new elections be held under United Nations supervision in four recently annexed eastern regions: Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
Ukraine has vowed to reclaim all of the illegally annexed territory.
Musk’s poll ended with 59 percent of users against and 40 percent in support with more than 2 million respondents.
Ian Bremmer, the president and founder of political consulting firm Eurasia Group, said last week that Musk told him he had spoken to Putin and knew what Russia’s red lines were. Musk replied that “nobody should trust Bremmer.”
“I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space,” Musk said in another tweet.
Last week, CNN reported that Musk has been floating the peace proposal at conferences for weeks, citing sources familiar with the matter, who also alleged Musk may have been in contact with the Kremlin.
The SpaceX and Tesla CEO also drew headlines last week when he threatened to pull his Starlink satellites, which are providing internet service to embattled Ukraine, out of the country because of the high cost. Musk later backed off from the idea and is reportedly discussing ongoing funding with the Pentagon.
Hill argued that Musk is merely a pawn in Putin’s game, noting that the billionaire is extremely popular in Russia.
“He’s got a longstanding reputation in Russia through Tesla, the SpaceX space programs and also through Starlink. He’s one of the most popular men in opinion polls in Russia,” she said.
“Putin plays the egos of big men, gives them a sense that they can play a role. But in reality, they’re just direct transmitters of messages from Vladimir Putin,” she added.
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Graham: Trump Could Make GOP Bigger and Stronger, or He Could Destroy It
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he thinks former President Donald Trump could make the Republican Party “bigger” and “stronger,” or lead the party to its destruction.
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Manchin Says He’ll Continue to Back $11 Minimum Wage Hike
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Sunday that he will continue to push for the federal minimum wage to be increased to $11 as part of the CCP virus stimulus package, down from the $15 per hour minimum proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). The federal minimum wage must be “above the poverty guideline,” Manchin said in […]
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Cuomo to Sign Bill Stripping His Emergency COVID-19 Powers
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that he will sign a bill to limit his emergency powers as calls for his resignation continue to intensify over the state’s CCP virus response and mounting sexual harassment allegations against him. “I’m signing today the legislature’s emergency powers bill, and I’m going to implement it today with […]
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Updates on CCP Virus: Michigan Makes Vaccines Available to the Homeless
People who are homeless will have access to COVID-19 vaccines in Michigan starting Monday. Local health officials say it’s a critical step in curbing infections and making sure vulnerable populations have access. “Our vulnerable populations are high priority for us right now,” Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail said, according to the Lansing State Journal. […]
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Dynamite Explosions at Army Base in Equatorial Guinea Kill at Least 15
MALABO—A series of large explosions at a military base that killed at least 15 people in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday were the result of negligence related to the use of dynamite, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said. Another 500 people were injured in the blasts that rocked the city of Bata. In a statement carried on […]
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South Korea to Boost Funding for US Troops Under New Accord: State Department
WASHINGTON—South Korea will increase its contribution to the cost of U.S. forces stationed in the country under an agreement reached with the United States, the State Department said on Sunday. The agreement reflects the Biden administration’s “commitment to reinvigorating and modernizing our democratic alliances around the word to advance our shared security and prosperity,” a […]
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Key Players in Trial of Ex-Officer Charged in George Floyd’s Death
MINNEAPOLIS—Jury selection begins Monday for a former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death. Derek Chauvin’s trial, which is expected to last weeks, will be overseen by an experienced judge and argued by skilled attorneys on both sides. It will be streamed online for the world to see because the […]
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Etna Keeps Up Its Spectacular Explosions; Ash Rains on Towns
ROME—A particularly spectacular blast from Italy’s Mount Etna volcano belched out a towering cloud of ash and lava stone Sunday onto Sicilian villages, the latest in a series of explosions since mid-February. Italy’s national geophysics and volcanology institute INGV said the powerful explosion at 2 a.m. was the 10th such big blast since Feb. 16, […]
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Trump Sends Legal Notices to RNC, NRCC, NRSC to Stop Using His Name and Likeness
President Donald Trump sent cease-and-desist letters demanding that Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) stop using his name and likeness, a Trump adviser told The Epoch Times. In a speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando last Sunday, Trump instructed supporters to […]
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Yemen’s Houthis Fire Missiles, Drones at Saudi Oil Facilities
SANAA—Yemen’s Houthi forces fired drones and missiles at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry on Sunday, attacking a Saudi Aramco facility at Ras Tanura in an assault the kingdom said was aimed at the security and stability of global energy supply. Announcing the attacks, the Houthis also said they attacked military targets in the […]
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US Will Do What’s Necessary to Defend Itself After Attack in Iraq, Austin Says
WASHINGTON—The United States will do what it sees as necessary to defend its interests after a rocket attack last week against Iraq’s Ain al-Sada airbase, which hosts American, coalition, and Iraqi forces, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Sunday. Speaking on ABC’s “This Week” program, Austin said the United States is urging Iraq to […]
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Adverse Incident Reports Show 966 Deaths Following Vaccination for COVID-19 (Epoch Times)
According to the Epoch Times, there have been 966 reported deaths as of one month ago. February 9, 2021 is the last data given on adverse effects of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
The 966 deaths represent 5 percent of the total number of adverse events reports. Of those who died, 86, (8.9 percent) died on the same day they got the shot. An additional 129, (13.4 percent) died within one day. An additional 97 died within 2 days, and 61 within 3 days.
A total of 514 (53.2 percent) died within a week. 173 died within 7-13 days. 106 within 14-20 days.
85 percent of deaths occurred in individuals over 60; below 60 there were five deaths among those aged 20-29; 8 aged 30-39; 20 aged 40-49; and 57 aged 50-59.
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For the full article and comparison to the flu vaccine, please visit The Epoch Times.
The Nation Speaks (March 6): Guardian Angel Seeks to Save NYC | Perfect Storm at Border | GA Tackles Election Reform
In this episode of The Nation Speaks, we sit down with Curtis Sliwa, founder of the NYC Guardian Angels, to talk about his mayoral run.
We take a look at the border crisis with Sheriff Mark Dannels from Cochise, Arizona and Derek Maltz, former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division.
Finally, Georgia Republicans are tackling election reform. Georgia GOP Chairman candidate Jason M. Shepherd, and DeKalb GOP Chairwoman candidate Marci McCarthy tell us how they’re demanding change.
Texas Launches Operation to Counter Growing Crisis at Southern Border
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott launched a program on March 6 that will deploy state National Guard troops and personnel from other agencies to respond to the burgeoning crisis at the southern border. Abbott says Operation Lone Star, in collaboration with the state’s Department of Public Safety, will deploy air, ground, marine, and tactical border security assets to prevent Mexican criminal organizations from smuggling drugs and people into Texas. “Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans,” Abbott said in a statement to media outlets on March 6. “We will surge the resources and law enforcement personnel needed to confront this crisis.” The announcement comes as the number of illegal crossings at the southern border continues its steady rise since October of last year. The number of encounters at the southwest border …
Bannon’s War Room | Saturday Edition Hour 1 | Recorded March 6, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 52 Seconds
“He never gets credit for that at all by the foreign policy elite,” Bannon said. “He was ahead of the existential threat to this country and the world.” Our guests are: Dr. Peter Navarro, Rudy Giuliani.
Bannon’s War Room | Saturday Edition Hour 2 | Recorded March 6, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 17 Seconds
“the populist movement gets stronger by the day.” “And if anyone’s tested positive for globalism, populism is the vaccine,” he said. Our guests are: Dr. Peter Navarro, Dr. Yan, Dave Ramaswamy.
March 5, 2021 | Nightly News Rebroadcast | Video: 55 Minutes 16 Seconds
The Senate continues to debate amendments to the massive pandemic relief bill, Texas lawmakers introduce a bill to counter social media censoring, and Trump supporters in New York City unfurl a massive flag.
Naomi Wolf: We’ve Reached ‘Step Ten’ of the 10 Steps to Fascism
In 2008, I wrote a book, “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.” In it I warned, based on my study of closing democracies in 20th century history, that America needed to beware of an all-too-possible slide into totalitarianism.
I warned that would-be tyrants, whether they are on the left or the right, always use a map to close down democracies, and that they always take the same ten steps.
Whether they “Invoke an External and Internal Threat” or “Develop a Paramilitary Force” or “Restrict the Press” or the final step, “Subvert the Rule of Law, these steps are always recognizable — and they always work to crush democracies and establish tyrannies. At the time that I wrote the book, the “global threat” of terrorism was the specter that powers invoked in order to attack our freedoms.
The book was widely read and discussed, both at the time of its publication and over the last 12 years. Periodically over the last decade, people would ask me when and if we had reached “Step Ten.”
We — my brave publisher, Chelsea Green, and I — are releasing videos of me reading the first and last chapters (see videos below) of “The End of America” now, in 2021, for free. And I am calling the sequel to this book, which I am now writing, “Step Ten” — because as of March of last year, we have indeed, I am so sad to say, arrived at and begun to inhabit “Step Ten” of the 10 steps to fascism.
Though in 2008, I did not explicitly foresee that a medical pandemic would be the vehicle for moving the entire globe into “Step Ten,” I have at various points warned of the dangers of medical crises as vehicles that tyranny can exploit to justify suppressions of civil rights.
Today, a much-hyped medical crisis has taken on the role of being used as a pretext to strip us all of core freedoms, that fears of terrorism did not, despite 20 years of effort, ultimately achieve. . .
As the Insurrection Narrative Crumbles, Democrats Cling to it More Desperately Than Ever
Twice in the last six weeks, warnings were issued about imminent, grave threats to public safety posed by the same type of right-wing extremists who rioted at the Capitol on January 6. And both times, these warnings ushered in severe security measures only to prove utterly baseless.
First we had the hysteria over the violence we were told was likely to occur at numerous state capitols on Inauguration Day. “Law enforcement and state officials are on high alert for potentially violent protests in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, with some state capitols boarded up and others temporarily closed ahead of Wednesday’s ceremony,” announced CNN. In an even scarier formulation, NPR intoned that “the FBI is warning of protests and potential violence in all 50 state capitals ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.”
The resulting clampdowns were as extreme as the dire warnings. Washington, D.C. was militarized more than at any point since the 9/11 attack. The military was highly visible on the streets. And, described The Washington Post, “state capitols nationwide locked down, with windows boarded up, National Guard troops deployed and states of emergency preemptively declared as authorities braced for potential violence Sunday mimicking the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump rioters.” All of this, said the paper, “reflected the anxious state of the country ahead of planned demonstrations.”
But none of that happened — not even close. The Washington Post acknowledged three weeks later:
Despite warnings of violent plots around Inauguration Day, only a smattering of right-wing protesters appeared at the nation’s statehouses. In Tallahassee, just five armed men wearing the garb of the boogaloo movement — a loose collection of anti-government groups that say the country is heading for civil war — showed up. Police and National Guard personnel mostly ignored them.
All over the country it was the same story. “But at the moment that Biden was taking the oath of office in Washington, the total number of protesters on the Capitol grounds in Topeka stood at five — two men supporting Trump and two men and a boy ridin’ with Biden,” reported The Wichita Eagle (“With Kansas Capitol in lockdown mode, Inauguration Day protest fizzles). “The protests fizzled out after not many people showed up,” reported the local Florida affiliate in Tallahassee. “The large security efforts dwarfed the protests that materialized by Wednesday evening,” said CNN, as “state capitols and other cities remained largely calm.”
Indeed, the only politically-motivated violence on Inauguration Day was carried out by Antifa and anarchist groups in Portland and Seattle, which caused some minor property damage as part of anti-Biden protests while they “scuffled with police.” CNN, which spent a full week excitedly hyping the likely violence coming to state capitols by right-wing Trump supporters, was forced to acknowledge in its article about their non-existence that “one exception was Portland, where left-wing protesters damaged the Democratic Party of Oregon building during one of several planned demonstrations.”. . . Read More
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded March 5, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 54 Seconds
“It was also Wolf, it was also Whitmer, it was also Newsom,” he said. “Andrew Cuomo is just the most brazen example of this.”
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded March 5, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 30 Seconds
Mainstream America “has no idea” how bad it is, says Leigh Brown. “It doesn’t even feel like America. You see it in real life, it’s terrifying.” Our guests are: Amanda Milius, Leigh Brown, Richard Baris, Bianca Gracia, Beatrix Von Storch.
Bannon’s War Room | Evening Edition | Recorded March 5, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 59 Seconds
“Human trafficking, sex trafficking…honestly Steve, I’m looking at this as a treasonous act of our government,” Mendoza said. Our guests are: Mike McCormick, Ben Bergquam, Mary Ann Mendoza, Boris Epshteyn, Lucia DeClerck.
March 4, 2021 | Nightly News Rebroadcast | Video: 51 Minutes 24 Seconds
Security ramps up at the Capitol after intel reports of a supposed plot by violent extremists, Election Fraud in Mississippi, 1,600 arrests are made in a single Texas border sector, and a Veterans Affairs update reveals hundreds of thousands of veterans are recovering from the virus.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded March 4, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 50 Seconds
“This is an absolute travesty,” says Stephen K. Bannon. “156 years ago when Abraham Lincoln gave the greatest speech in American political history…his second inaugural…and today we have the political theater, the theater of the absurd.” Our guests are: Michael Patrick Leahy, Rosemary Jenks.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded March 4, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 45 Seconds
“That’s not socialism,” Beattie said. “That’s an oligarchy. That’s what we have now.” Our guests are: Darren Beattie, Phill Kline.
Bannon’s War Room | Evening Edition | Recorded March 4, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 59 Seconds
“Not to make light of it, but this is the largest Biden rally I‘ve seen,” reports Ben Bergquam. Our guests are: Ben Bergquam, Boris Epshteyn, Dr. Peter Navarro, Natalie Winters.
March 3, 2021 | Nightly News Rebroadcast | Video: 52 Minutes 58 Seconds
New testimony explains the delay behind the Jan. 6 National Guard deployment, Arizona’s attorney general argues his state’s election laws should be upheld, and more than 100 illegal immigrants released into Texas have tested positive for the virus in the last week.
Green Run Update: Engineers Repair Valve for Mid-March Hot Fire Test
Engineers have successfully repaired a liquid oxygen valve on the Space Launch System rocket’s core stage with subsequent checks confirming the valve to be operating properly. The team plans to power up the core stage for remaining functional checks later this week before moving forward with final preparations for a hot fire test in mid-March at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. NASA anticipates setting a target date for the hot fire next week.
For more information about SLS Green Run, visit https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogram/greenrun
March 2, 2021 | Nightly News Rebroadcast | Video: 52 Minutes 58 Seconds
Texas’s governor announces he will fully reopen the state and get rid of mask mandates, President Joe Biden and Mexico’s president hold their first meeting, and bipartisan calls for New York’s governor to resign are growing.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded March 3, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 46 Seconds
“As long as this audit is honest…I believe it’s going to show what we’ve been talking about,” he said. “All kinds of voting irregularities and voting fraud. It happened.” Our guests are: Eric Greitens, Lauren Boebert, Boris Epshteyn, Steve Cortes.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded March 3, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 46 Seconds
“This is not going to be fast,” says Finchem. “But it is going to be thorough. This needs to be above reproach.” Our guests are: Eric Greitens, Rabbi Ilan Feldman, Phil Wong, Matthew Tyrmand, Mark Finchem.
Bannon’s War Room | Evening Edition | Recorded March 3, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 59 Seconds
“That was disgraceful,” Navarro said. “That’s the worst lying politician sack of you know what I’ve ever seen.” Our guests are: Dr. Peter Navarro, Phill Kline, Todd Wood, Matt Palumbo.
Biden’s Protection of Murderous Saudi Despots Shows the Hidden Reality of U.S. Foreign Policy
A staple of mainstream U.S. discourse is that the United States opposes tyranny and despotism and supports freedom and democracy around the world. Embracing murderous despots is somethi…
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded March 2, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 51 Seconds
FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony that reveals “they don’t have their lies together” on the death of Capitol Hill police officer Brian Sicknick. Our guests are: Cpt. Maureen Bannon, John Fredericks, Rosemary Jenks, Dr. Peter Navarro, Natalie Winters.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded March 2, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 55 Seconds
Pryor reacts to the dismantling of the hard work of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by the Biden regime. Our guests are: Cpt. Maureen Bannon, Pam Pryor, Jeff Brain.
Bannon’s War Room | Evening Edition | Recorded March 2, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 59 Seconds
War Room hosts a special on the global rise of anti-Semitism. Rabbi Aryeh Spero begins with a prayer for the nation, and explains the new and more dangerous form of anti-Semitism coming from the left. Our guests are: Rabbi Spero, Ellie Cohanim, Dr. Saad, Dov Hikind, Rabbi Hirshy.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded March 1, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 48 Seconds
Doug Collins says President Trump’s speech “drove the media crazy,” because “he gave a speech that the media actually has to deal with.” Our guests are: Herschel Walker, John Fredericks, Doug Collins, Jason Jones.