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Missing Titanic sub projected to run out of oxygen just after 7 a.m. . . . The missing Titanic-bound submersible containing five crew members will run out of breathable air by 7:08 a.m. ET Thursday, the US Coast Guard has projected. The vessel, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, vanished Sunday morning in the waters off Newfoundland and officials on Monday said the submersible has a 96-hour supply of “emergency” oxygen. A Coast Guard spokesperson told NBC News on Wednesday that the Titan’s oxygen reserve is expected to run dry Thursday morning. NY Post

Earlier this week, The New York Times revealed an unprecedented attempt by Moscow to pursue Aleksandr Poteyev, a former high-ranking Russian intelligence officer turned informant for the CIA who was living in Miami. Fox News

What to watch as 2024 GOP hopefuls converge at Faith and Freedom Coalition event . . . Republican 2024 presidential candidates will share the stage for the first time this weekend at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual gathering of conservatives in Washington, D.C. Former President Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and others will be attending the Road to Majority Conference, which is being held on the heels of Trump’s federal indictment and Hunter Biden’s plea deal. The Hill

DeSantis seeks to wrestle border issue from Trump with second visit . . . Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) will make his first visit to the Texas border next week, a move GOP political consultants said has a deeper meaning than just a photo-op. The 2024 Republican presidential hopeful is slated to stop in Eagle Pass, Texas, an extremely remote 30,000-person town in south-central Texas that in 2021 and 2022 was the epicenter of the border crisis. It is his second trip to the border, adding to an Arizona visit earlier in June, which will surpass the number of visits that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have made in office. Washington Examiner

The Far-Right Group That Could Be Key to DeSantis' Success . . .  Florida Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis this month called in to a forum featuring dozens of conservative state lawmakers from around the country to share his vision for the United States. The call, organized and led by the State Freedom Caucus Network, was the first in a series of forums the organization had planned to offer their members—some of the most conservative Republican lawmakers in the nation—a direct conduit to the people who one day hoped to become the leaders of the modern GOP. Newsweek

DeSantis makes gains against Trump in GOP primary: poll . . . Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) appears to be making gains against former President Trump in the crowded Republican presidential primary, according to an Emerson College national poll released on Thursday.  Trump still leads the field with 59 percent support among Republican primary voters, while DeSantis trails at 21 percent. However, the former president’s support is down three points from 62 percent in the last Emerson College poll in April, while DeSantis is up five points from 16 percent. Former Vice President Mike Pence came in third place at six percent support. No other Republican candidate reached five percent support, according to the survey. The Hill

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From the CIA to the White House? Former GOP Rep. Will Hurd launches 2024 campaign for president . . . Former GOP Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, a former CIA clandestine officer, is jumping into the race for the White House. Hurd, who was the only Black Republican in the House during his tenure in Congress from 2015 to 2021, officially declared his candidacy on CBS in an interview Thursday. He also filed Federal Election Commission paperwork to run. "This is a decision that my wife and I decided to do because we live in complicated times and we need common sense," Hurd told CBS. Hurd listed top issues as China, inflation, education and artificial intelligence. Fox News

Hunter Biden’s plea deal is proof Democrats are ‘The Untouchables’ in Joe’s America . . . To express disappointment in the results of the Hunter Biden probe is to admit you ever believed it was an actual and honest investigation. Shame on you, sucker. Santa Claus is more real than the integrity of the FBI and Justice Department under Joe Biden. Friend and family discounts have never been so obvious — and odious. For the other side of the coin, see the FBI’s tracking of parents who dared to criticize progressive school boards, and agents who were willing to carry out an armed visit to the home of an anti-abortion protester. Traditional Catholics also were singled out for undercover surveillance. NY Post

Georgia won't update Dominion voting machines before 2024, despite cybersecurity expert warnings . . .  The Georgia secretary of state's office is relying on a report commissioned by Dominion regarding the company's voting machines.Georgia is delaying a software update for its Dominion voting machines until after the 2024 presidential election, despite cybersecurity experts warning of  vulnerabilities. A nearly 2-year-old report was finally made public last week and showed Dominion voting machines had significant vulnerabilities, which led the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to issue a public advisory last year based on the findings. Just the News

Chaos erupts on House floor after Adam Schiff censured for ‘misleading American public’ over Trump-Russia . . . Bedlam broke out on the House floor Wednesday night after the lower chamber voted along party lines to censure Rep. Adam Schiff for amplifying claims that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia. Democrats surrounded House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after the vote, crowding near the dais and chanting “shame” and “Santos” as he attempted to read the resolution. “I have all night,” McCarthy said as he tried to ask for Schiff to present himself so he could be censured.

McCarthy’s repeated gavel bangs did little to stop the jeering, which lasted for roughly five minutes before Democratic members allowed the House speaker to speak. NY Post

Russia: US and UK ‘fully dragged into conflict’ if Crimea bombed . . . Russia has accused Ukraine of planning to attack annexed Crimea with long-range United States and British missiles and warned it would retaliate if that happened. Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu told a meeting of military officials on Tuesday that Moscow possesses information that Ukraine plans to strike Crimea with US-supplied HIMARS long-range rocket systems and British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles. “The use of these missiles outside the zone of our special military operation would mean that the United States and Britain would be fully dragged into the conflict and would entail immediate strikes on decision-making centres in Ukraine,” Shoigu said.. Al Jazeera

Retaking Crimea has been President Zelensky's objective throughout the conflict. It's Kiev's definition of victory. Russia -- both the state and the Russian people -- view Crimea as Russian territory that erroneously fell into Ukraine's hands, in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR. 

Ukraine strikes bridge to Crimea, say Russian-appointed officials . . . Ukrainian missiles struck the Chonhar road bridge connecting Crimea with Russian-held parts of the southern Kherson region overnight, forcing traffic to be diverted to a different route, Russian-appointed officials said on Thursday.

The so-called "gate to Crimea", known by Russians with a different spelling as the Chongar Bridge, is one of a handful of links between Crimea - which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014 - and mainland Ukraine. Reuters

Ukraine Could Free Crimea by End of Summer: Ex-U.S. General . . . Ukrainian troops—if sufficiently supported with expanded Western military aid—can break through Russian lines and reach the occupied Crimean Peninsula by the end of the summer, the former commander of the U.S. Army in Europe Ben Hodges has told Newsweek. Amid concerns about the slow pace and mounting losses of Ukraine's nascent counteroffensive in the south and east of the country launched early in June, Hodges called on President Joe Biden's administration to underscore its commitment to Ukrainian victory by providing advanced weapons like the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System—colloquially known as the ATACMS—so far denied Kyiv for fear of provoking Russian retaliation.

Briefed Hodges on Russian doctrine/strategy and Putin's intentions multiple times, including in the run up to Putin's invasion of Crimea. No one at NATO or EUCOM lifted a finger to develop a counter-strategy to deter Putin and contain Russia. The bureaucrats at Obama's Pentagon came up every possible excuse why Putin wouldn't dare to do what I was telling them he would do, what Putin he had said and written himself he was planning to do. Biden gave Putin a green light in 2021 to invade Ukraine. Now Biden is looking for a magic bullet to solve the conflict as thousands of Slavic men are being slaughtered. Typical Washington incompetence, of strategic proportions.

Have Chemical Weapons been Used in Ukraine? . . . Recent reports suggest that Russia has made limited use of riot control agent as a weapon during its war against Ukraine. If true, what might explain this particular use – and what are the prospects of more widescale deployment of chemical weapons by Moscow?

On 2 May 2023, state-controlled Channel 1 reported that Russia has used riot control agent (RCA) as a method of warfare, thus contravening the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Is this the thin end of a wedge, or does it merely represent localised attempts to break a stalemate? RUSI

Renowned Russian Academic Karaganov: 'We Will Use God's [Nuclear] Weapon... If We Do Not Do This, Not Only Russia Can Die, But Most Likely All Of Human Civilization Will Cease To Exist' . . . On June 13, 2023, renowned Russian academic Prof. Sergey Karaganov, honorary chairman of Russia's Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, published an article in the Russian media outlet, Profile, titled "A Difficult But Necessary Decision." In the article, Karaganov stressed that more than 75 years of relative peace have made Western people forget the horrors of war and stop fearing nuclear weapons. Consequently, their instinct for self-preservation has weakened. "Therefore, it is necessary to arouse the instinct of self-preservation that the West has lost and convince it that its attempts to wear Russia out by arming Ukrainians are counterproductive for the West itself. We will have to make nuclear deterrence a convincing argument again by lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons set unacceptably high, and by rapidly but prudently moving up the deterrence-escalation ladder," Karaganov said. MEMRI

US B-1 Bombers Land in Sweden for First Time . . . A pair U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers kicked off a historic deployment this week, touching down in Sweden on June 19. “The deployment marks yet another sign of strengthened ties between the U.S. and the Nordic nation—even as its bid to join NATO is still in question. The two B-1B Lancers from the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, landed at Luleå Kallax Airbase, Sweden. The aircraft are in Europe as part of a four-plane Bomber Task Force rotation based out of RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Air & Space Forces

Terrorist financier released under First Step Act, says he 'would be proud' to fund terrorists again . . . A convicted terrorist financier serving a 30-year sentence in U.S. federal prison was recently released under the First Step Act after serving only 23 years, and said he "would be proud" to send money again to the same terrorist organization he was convicted of providing support to. Mohamad Youssef Hammoud, a Lebanese national who illegally immigrated to the U.S. in 1992, was convicted in 2002 of providing material support to Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based militant group that the State Department designates a terrorist organization, among a number of other charges. Hammoud was initially sentenced to 155 years in prison, but the punishment was later vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court. He was re-sentenced to 30 years in 2011. Fox News

Russian Court Rejects Appeal to Release Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich . . . A Russian court upheld the extended detention of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter deemed by the U.S. to be wrongfully held, ordering that he remain in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison until at least Aug. 30. Wall Street Journal

Do not go to Russia now if you are a US citizen or especially a permanent resident of Russian or former Soviet origin. Keep a super low profile if you have to go.

Why Biden Can't Pry India Away from Russia . . . While the White House seeks to isolate Russia over its war in Ukraine, New Delhi remains steadfast in its commitment to a deep-rooted relationship with Moscow. Although tensions continue to simmer between India and China, with whom Russia has cultivated increasingly close relations, New Delhi counts on its unique dynamic with Moscow to realize its interests and serve as a buffer to Beijing. Former Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao explained that "a good part of India's strategy to deal with a belligerent Beijing runs through Washington." At the same time, she argued, "it also runs through Moscow." "I think China is being given quite a free hand in in Asia and Eurasia," Rao, who also previously served as ambassador to the U.S., China and Sri Lanka, said during a discussion hosted by the Defense Priorities think tank, "especially with the deteriorating situation in Ukraine, and a very boxed-in Russia." Newsweek

The Price of Making Friends With Modi . . . here is what Americans need to know about Mr. Modi’s India. Armed with a sharp-edged doctrine of Hindu nationalism, Mr. Modi has presided over the nation’s broadest assault on democracy, civil society and minority rights in at least 40 years. He has delivered prosperity and national pride to some, and authoritarianism and repression of many others that should disturb us all. Since Mr. Modi took power in 2014, India’s once-proud claim to being a free democratic society has collapsed on many fronts. Of the 180 nations surveyed in the 2023 World Press Freedom Index, India sits at 161, a scant three places above Russia. NYT

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Oil falls with interest rate hikes and inventories in focus . . . Oil futures fell on Thursday, with trader concern over bearish impact from interest rate hikes countered by potentially bullish U.S. oil inventory data after preliminary figures showed a fall in stocks. Brent futures dropped by $1.69, or 2.2%, to $75.43 a barrel by 1109 GMT and U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down $1.63, or 2.3%, at $70.90. The benchmarks erased gains from the previous session, during which U.S. corn and soybean prices raced to multi-month highs, raising expectations that crop shortfalls could lower biofuels blending and increase oil demand. Reuters

Disney chief diversity officer departs after years of progressive controversies dog company . . . Walt Disney Company Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Latondra Newton will be leaving her position. "I'm writing to share the news that Latondra Newton has decided to leave The Walt Disney Company to pursue other endeavors," an employee value proposition and chief human resources officer said in an internal company note obtained by FOX Business. "Latondra has led the company’s strategic diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, including partnering with stakeholders across the enterprise to amplify stories of the world by people around the world." Fox Business
 

Diversity and inclusion as long as your views align with the leftist radicals.

MUST WATCH: James O'Keefe exposes BlackRock . . .  Recruiter Who “Decides People’s Fate” Spills Info on Company’s World Impact. “It’s not who the president is- it’s who’s controlling the wallet of the president.” “You got $10K? You can buy a senator".  “War is real f***ing good for business” #BlackRockExposed. Twitter

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Growing Snapchat 'sextortion' schemes target young boys, expert warns . . . A former Snapchat employee says "sextortion" schemes, which are becoming increasingly common on social media platforms, can have a "severe" impact on minors using those apps. The FBI defines sextortion as a "serious crime" in which perpetrators threaten to expose a victim's sensitive or private information — including nude photos — in exchange for money or more sexually explicit material. "The potential harm, especially as it relates to minors, is severe," the former employee, who spoke on the condition on anonymity to protect his career, said. " … We've seen thousands of reports this year. But … the ratio of reported to not reported is pretty high. Probably less than 5% of this is actually reported." The issue began popping up more frequently on Snapchat beginning in 2021, he said. Fox News

The Trillion-Gallon Question: What if California’s Dams Fail? . . . On the morning of Feb. 7, 2017, two electricians were working on a warning siren near the spillway of Oroville Dam, 60 miles north of Sacramento, when they heard an explosion. As they watched, a giant plume of water rose over their heads, and chunks of concrete began flying down the hillside toward the Feather River. The dam’s spillway, a concrete channel capable of moving millions of gallons of water out of the reservoir in seconds, was disintegrating in front of them. If it had to be taken out of service, a serious rainstorm, like the one that had been falling on Northern California for days, could cause the dam — the tallest in the United States — to fail. Kory Honea, the sheriff of Butte County, which includes the dam and the town it is named for, first heard that something was wrong from Dino Corbin, a local radio personality, who called him at his office: “Are you aware there’s a hole in the spillway?” NYT

Tucker Carlson Ep. 5  . . . As in most of the developing world, it's safer to be the president's son than his opponent. Tucker on Twitter

Is the Hunter Biden deal political? . . . Does the deal have anything to do with the Trump incitements? Alan Dershowitz on Twitter

Greta Thunberg’s Beginning of the End of the World Prediction Was for Today, June 21st . . . We had five years to stop using fossil fuels to prevent wiping out “all of humanity” from June 21st 2018, Greta Thunberg claimed in a now-deleted Tweet.

Today is the anniversary of a doomsday prediction made by Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg when she was just 15 years old June 21st 2018, stating the human race had five years to end fossil fuels or face certain death. She wrote then:

A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years. While these alarming, but later forgotten warnings with very definite and certain sounding timescales are a major part of green propaganda, this particular instance has taken on a life of its own due to the Streisand Effect, given as the deadline date approached Thunberg was caught having deleted the claim. Breitbart

What the adults have done to Greta is child abuse.