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Former Contracting Officer Sentenced for Bribery Conspiracy Published: 03 April 2021 03 April 2021 Arlington, Virginia - A New Jersey woman was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for engaging in a bribery and procurement fraud scheme. According to court documents, Diane D. Sturgis, 62, of Glassboro, served as a contracting officer for in the International Broadcast Bureau, Office of Contracts, of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (the BBG) until September 2017. In that capacity, St...

One of Americas best-known conservative analysts, an insider in the Bush administration and best-selling author once was Dana from Denver.

© Photo: REUTERS/Carlo Allegri The forces of democracy should be on vigilant guard against dangerous far-right cults and political movements today as much as they were during World War II, Wayne Madsen writes. The Donald Trump administration opened the door for quirky and crazy cults to dominate political discourse in the United States. Never before in the history of the United States has a political movement combined a cult of personality – that surrounding Trump – with a crackpot politic...

Saudi Arabia is the Perfect Sandstorm Revealed by Katherine Burlake in Her Book, The Bystander From:   DENVER, COLO March 1, 2021. The kingdom is at a crossroads with the leadership in the royal family, and in danger of losing its century-long special relationship with th...

Bob Iger donated for Biden last year Iger, whose contract as the chairman of Walt Disney will end in December this year, is known to be politically ambitious. Last December, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Iger, who will turn 70 next week, is in the fray for an ambassadorial position under the Biden administration. “It appears that Bob Iger might have a future in public service after all. The Disney executive chairman, who once toyed with the idea of a 2020 presidential run, is at the to...

Americas lost voice Print this article In a talk before he was fired, Michael Pack expressed the hope that the new managers he had brought into the five networks would run them in a more objective and balanced way than in the past. By the time we talked after the inauguration, they had all been fired by Joe Biden, too. (Graeme Jennings / Washington Examiner) Michael Pack has the distinction of being the very first person fired by the Biden administration. On Inauguration ...

Opinion: Bidens facing a diplomacy deficit going back decades CNN 2/1/2021 © Scott Olson/Getty Images North America/Getty Images One of President Joe Bidens first acts in office was to request the resignation of Michael Pack as head of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which manages all US government broadcasting, including such venerable services as the Voice of America, Radio Marti, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. These networks have a nearly 80-year record of providing credibl...

How CIA Created Signal Messenger App Published: January 29, 2021 Recently, after WhatsApp threatened to change its privacy policy, people were nuged to the alternate Signal messenger app. However, serious discussion of Signal’s history, and funding sources, has been entirely absent from the puff pieces by media. This investigation reveals how CIA created the Signal app, funded by the US government to protect communications of its agents deployed for regime change. Open Whisper Systems Signal ...

Wednesday, January 20, 2021 by: News Editors Bypass censorship by sharing this link: https://www.afinalwarning.com/490167.html (Natural News) Signal — the privacy chat app favored by the world’s leading crypto experts — is trending again. In the wake of Twitter and Facebook’s MAGA Maidan Internet purge (which was followed by Facebook’s announcement that it was gonna start siphoning data off its WhatsApp property), Signal shot up to being the top downloaded messenger app on the...

By Natalie Alms   The quadrennial book containing lists of jobs filled by appointment in the executive and legislative branches known as the Plum Book came out last week, offering some details, but not a full picture, of senior level positions in the last year of the Trump administration. Officially known as the "United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions," the Plum Book lists both filled and vacant positions that may be subject to non-competitive appointments. For job seekers, i...