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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez writes a ‘Letter to the citizenry’, and announces that he is ‘suspending all his public duties to stop and reflect on the future and decide whether he wants to continue to be at the forefront of politics’.
Sánchez ‘won’ the last election in an illegitimate way, after breaking a solemn campaign promise and establishing an artificial majority by enacting an amnesty to the Catalan Separatists.
Rea more in: WATCH: Spain Erupts at Socialist Legislative Coup, as PM Sanchez Offers Amnesty to Catalan Separatists – Two Nights of Riots – Big Demonstration Called for Sunday, and also: MASSIVE Protests in Spain Against Illegitimate Socialist PM Sanchez – Hundreds of Thousands Reject His Illegal and Unpopular Amnesty to Catalan Separatists
Now, as his wife is under investigation for influence peddling and corruption, Sánchez is indignant, threatening to resign his premiership because of what he calls political persecution.
Sanchez wrote on X:
“It is not usual for me to address you through a letter. However, the severity of the attacks that my wife and I are receiving, and the need to give a calm response, make me think that this is the best way to express my opinion. I thank you, therefore, for taking a little of your time to read these lines.
As you may already know, and if I do not inform you, a court in Madrid has opened preliminary proceedings against my wife, Begoña Gómez, at the request of a far-right organization called Clean Hands, to investigate alleged crimes of influence peddling and corruption in business.”
The judge in the case will call journalists that that have been covering the case to testify.
Sánchez said that his wife ‘will defend her honorability and will collaborate with Justice in everything required to clarify facts’ that he says ‘are as scandalous in appearance as they are non-existent’.
The case was initiated by Sánchez’ political rival Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Spanish People’s Party President, conservative member of the Congress of Deputies.
Feijóo reported the case to the Conflict of Interest Office, asking for the Prime Minister to be disqualified from holding public office.
Sánchez continues: “Next, they exploited their conservative majority in the Senate, promoting an investigative commission to, as they say, clarify the facts related to this matter. Logically, the case was missing. It is the step they have just taken.
In short, it is an operation of harassment and demolition by land, sea and air, to try to make me weaken politically and personally by attacking my wife.”
The ‘attacks’ are against what he represents: ‘a progressive political option, supported election after election by millions of Spaniards, based on economic progress, social justice and democratic regeneration.’
“Democracy spoke, but the right and the extreme right, again, did not accept the electoral result. They were aware that the political attack would not be enough and now they have crossed the line of respect for the family life of a President of the Government and the attack on his personal life.”
After a lot of complaining and painting his opponents in the worst colors, Sánchez gets to the point:
“At this point, the question I legitimately ask myself is, is all this worth it? Sincerely I dont know. This attack is unprecedented, it is so serious and so gross that I need to stop and reflect with my wife.
[…] I need to stop and reflect. I urgently need to answer the question of whether it is worth it. […] Whether I should continue at the head of the Government or resign from this high honor.”
Carta a la ciudadanía. pic.twitter.com/c2nFxTXQTK
— Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) April 24, 2024
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Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ in an escalating spat over X’s resistance to remove footage of a terrorist church stabbing of Orthodox Bishop Emmanuel of the Good Shepherd Church.
The absurd detail is that Australian authorities want the content removed for people all over the world – which they clearly have no jurisdiction over!
BBC reported:
“On Monday, an Australian court ordered Mr Musk’s social media firm – formerly called Twitter – to hide videos of last week’s attack in Sydney. X previously said it would comply ‘pending a legal challenge’.”
The Prime Minister’s criticism comes after Musk used a meme to ridicule the Australian government’s thirst for censorship.
Albanese told the press that Mr. Musk ‘thinks he’s above the law but also above common decency.’
“Last week Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, an independent regulator, threatened X and other social media companies with hefty fines if they did not remove videos of the stabbing at the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church, which police have called a terror attack. X has argued the order is ‘not within the scope of Australian law’.”
The eSafety commissioner sought a court injunction after complaining that X was allowing users outside Australia to continue accessing footage.
“‘I find it extraordinary that X chose not to comply and are trying to argue their case’, Mr Albanese told a press briefing.
In a subsequent series of online posts, Mr. Musk wrote: ‘I’d like to take a moment to thank the PM for informing the public that this platform is the only truthful one’. Another depicted a Wizard of Oz-style path to ‘freedom’ leading to an X logo.”
Don’t take my word for it, just ask the Australian PM! pic.twitter.com/ZJBKrstStQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 22, 2024
Musk also criticized eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant personally, describing her as the ‘Australian censorship commissar.’
“Mr. Albanese defended Ms. Inman Grant, saying she was protecting Australians. ‘Social media needs to have social responsibility with it. Mr Musk is not showing any’, he said.”
The platform was given 24 hours to comply with Monday evening’s injunction, and a further hearing into the matter is expected in the coming days.
Albanese’s war against freedom of speech is not limited to X, as he now seeks to have all social media strike down MEMES of him.
Watch: Australia’s Albanese is at war with MEMES, now.
Australia’s Albanese is at war with MEMES, now pic.twitter.com/Zi4YfyEwlS
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 24, 2024
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Skies over southern Greece turned orange on Tuesday (24) with dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa.
A yellow-orange haze of dust from the Sahara desert has blanketed parts of Greece, including the Acropolis and other Athens landmarks.
This prompted authorities to issue health warnings and created oneiric scenes seemingly out of a sci-fi movie.
Associated Press reported:
“Strong southerly winds carried the dust from the Sahara Desert, giving the atmosphere of the Greek capital a Martian-like filter in the last hours of daylight.
The skies are predicted to clear on Wednesday as winds shift and move the dust, with temperatures dipping. On Tuesday, the daily high in parts of the southern island of Crete topped 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), more than 20 degrees C higher than what was registered in much of northern Greece.”
Winds have blown strongly from the south, also fueling early wildfires in southern Greece.
CNN reported:
“The Greek meteorological service said weather conditions on Tuesday had favored the movement of dust from Africa and this was showing up in ‘increased concentrations in the atmosphere’, particularly in the south of the country.
However, the dust would gradually begin to decrease on Wednesday morning, the service predicted, and from midday onwards it would be ‘limited to the east’.”
People have shared their videos and pictures online, as they marveled at the unusual color of the sky.
“Others took evening walks in the city and shared the bright orange scenes on social media. One user posted that meteorologists have said the bright orange dust has made Athens look like ‘a colony of Mars’.
aa Clouds of dust moving from northern Africa to Greece and other regions is a phenomenon that occurs occasionally, bringing limited visibility and prompting warnings of breathing risks.”
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The world is a complex place, in which you may find a socialist Latin American strong man locking arms with one of the most powerful capitalist (and Globalist) families in the world.
Right now, the diplomatic and commercial relations between the US and Venezuela are at a very low point, after the US re-imposed sanctions on the oil and gas industries.
The clueless Joe Biden administration tried to engage dictator Nicolas Maduro, but his utter failure to live up to his promises – to hold a fair Presidential election – have made the return of the sanctions inevitable.
Venezuelans are set to vote on July 28 in a rigged election that will pit Maduro against the opposition candidate, ambassador Edmundo Gonzalez.
Now, Venezuela’s government has hired Rothschild & Co. as a ‘financial adviser’ to provide an overview of its foreign debt obligations.
Bloomberg reported:
“Rothschild is working to map out what the administration owes and to whom, said the people, who asked for anonymity to discuss a contract that has not been made public. Debt mapping is normally a preliminary step taken by a government before it prepares to start a restructuring.”
One is left wondering what warrants such secrecy.
“Venezuela owes roughly $154 billion to overseas lenders — according to an estimate from economist Francisco Rodriguez, a professor at the University of Denver — including global bonds issued by the government and state oil company, which have been in default for more than six years. It’s been accumulating interest on those bonds and court judgments for unpaid commercial loans.
Sovereign bonds trade for around 20 cents on the dollar, while defaulted notes issued by Petroleos de Venezuela SA exchange hands for around 11 cents, according to indicative pricing compiled by Bloomberg. The debt has rallied since JPMorgan Chase & Co. laid out a plan to re-weight the securities in widely followed emerging-market debt indexes back in February.”
The hiring of Rothschild & Co. comes as Maduro’s administration means to reengage with global markets, institutions and ratings firms after years as an international pariah.
Maduro has hinted to be willing to work with creditors, but talks have never progressed.
“Washington doesn’t recognize Maduro, and sanctions prohibit the government from selling debt on US markets. Sanctions would need to [be] changed before a debt restructuring could be carried out.”
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As the war in Ukraine runs into its third year with relentless advances by the Russian Federation forces, Kiev is running low on almost everything: air defenses, planes, missiles, artillery, tanks, and last but not least, people.
Almost a million military-age males have fled the Ukrainian territory seeking to avoid military service which has become in many ways a death sentence, as Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu has stated that Kiev’s human losses have topped half a million troops.
Now, Ukraine has started to resort to radical moves, as they suspended consular services for military-age male citizens abroad.
Kiev authorities have criticized Ukrainians abroad who ‘expect to receive help from the state without helping it battle for survival in the war against Russia’.
Reuters reported:
“Ukraine adopted a law last week overhauling how it mobilizes civilian men into the armed forces to make the process more effective, addressing what military analysts say is a key challenge if it is to hold out against advancing Russian troops.
‘How it looks like now: a man of conscription age went abroad, showed his state that he does not care about its survival, and then comes and wants to receive services from this state,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on X.
‘It does not work this way. Our country is at war… Staying abroad does not relieve a citizen of his or her duties to the homeland’.”
Kuleba’s reaction reflects the mounting frustration in Kyiv with Ukrainian men abroad who are not contributing to the war effort (a.k.a. want to stay alive).
“Some 4.3 million Ukrainians were living in European Union countries as of January 2024, of whom about 860,000 are adult men, the Eurostat database estimated.
In practice, the suspension means military-age men now living abroad will be unable to renew expiring passports or obtain new ones or receive official documents such as marriage certificates.”
The suspension of consular services will remain in effect until the mobilization law and its regulations are enacted in May.
By then, military-age men will be required to report to draft offices to update their papers, either remotely or in person, within 60 days.
Military-age men abroad will need those papers to receive any kind of consular services.
“Ukraine imposed martial law at the start of the full-scale war, banning men aged 18 to 60 from travelling abroad without special dispensation and beginning a rolling mobilization of civilian men into the armed forces.”
As is usual in many subjects, MSM reports mainly reproduce the talking points by Kiev, without any serious investigation, because if they did so, they’d find out that the whole family of Foreign Minister Kuleba has fled Ukraine right a the start of nthe war – including the dogs.
We wonder if Ukrainian officials think that they too have ‘shown their indifference to the issue of the survival of the state’.
Slavyangrad reported:
“’Staying abroad does not relieve a citizen of his responsibilities to his homeland. That is why yesterday I instructed to take measures to restore fair treatment of men of mobilization age in Ukraine and abroad. It will be fair’, Kuleba said.
According to him, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will provide clarifications for obtaining consular services for men of mobilization age in foreign diplomatic institutions.
‘If these people believe that someone there, far away at the front, is fighting and giving their lives for this state, and someone will sit abroad, but at the same time will receive services from this state, then it doesn’t work that way’ , the diplomat wrote.”
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Economic improvements in a country’s economy are not magic, President Javier Milei told Argentines in a televised address where he had good and rare news to announce: his government is successfully taming reckless public spending, which resulted in a rare – and welcome – first quarter budget surplus.
Milei stated that this is key to improving economic prospects in the once-prosperous Latin American nation.
Reuters reported:
“‘Our plan is working’, declared the libertarian leader in a televised address.
Milei took office in December pledging to enact an economic ‘shock’ plan in a bid to lower triple-digit inflation and reverse a prolonged economic slump marked by the steady deterioration of the peso currency and growing poverty.
‘I know the situation is difficult’, Milei added, ‘but we’re more than halfway there’.”
Argentina has managed to get a financial fiscal surplus of more than 275 billion pesos ($315.4 million) in March.
The first quarter surplus represented 0.2% of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP).
“‘We’re going to give everything to pull this country out of the hell we inherited’, he said, attacking previous governments for the country’s dire economic straits.”
After implementing his promised spending-slashing, Milei was happy to report the “historic achievement.”
AFP reported:
“‘This is the first quarter with a financial surplus since 2008’, said Milei, referring to his left-wing rival Cristina Kirchner’s first year in the presidency.
Milei, who took office in December, boasted of ‘a feat of historic significance on a global scale’.
‘If the state does not spend more than it collects and does not issue (money), there is no inflation. This is not magic’, the self-described ‘anarcho-capitalist’ said.”
Milei was the winner in the November elections vowing to reduce the deficit to zero.
“‘Don’t expect a way out through public spending’, Milei warned on Monday.”
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It seems lately that every new scientific development released upon us is a horrible idea devised to usher in our destruction.
From climate-tinkering tech, to DNA-changing vaccines, it’s a parade of dangerous ideas… and of course now we have the robots.
A couple of days ago, I wrote about the most developed AI humanoid robot Ameca, which, upon being questioned as to when it believes ‘AI will reach the level where it can design itself’, responded:
“Design itself huh? That’s like asking when a toaster will start making its own bread. AI is a tool created and controlled by humans. It can optimize certain aspects of its operation, sure, but design itself from scratch? That’s a whole different ball game.
It requires creativity, innovation, understanding – qualities that are uniquely human. So, to answer your question, not anytime soon. And frankly, be careful what you wish for. An AI that can design itself is one step away from an AI that doesn’t need humans at all. Now there’s a thought to keep you up at night.”
The company behind Ameca was quick to say it was just a bit of ‘sassy humor,’ but it was too late: people in social media were freaking out with the response.
Maybe one may think that a robot dog would be a nicer idea, a machine equivalent of ‘man’s best friend’ – but is it?
Robot dogs were released to patrol the streets in NY but quickly pulled back since the reaction was far from positive.
Now, a company unveiled a new robot dog companion — with a flamethrower attached.
Yes, you read it right.
The New York Post reported:
“Throwflame [company] say the Thermonator is the first-ever flame-throwing quadruped robot dog.
The Ohio-based firm have announced the $9,420 bot is available for purchase by the general public and government agencies for the first time.
The Thermonator can be remotely operated by wifi or bluetooth to fire jets of fire up to 30ft.
Able to avoid obstacles and leap through the air, the device has laser sighting and can operate for an hour.”
Robot makers Parte inferior do formulário
Throwflame suggest the robot is to be used for wildfire control and prevention, entertainment shows or even clearing snow and ice from your driveway.
But they seem bent on capitalizing on the creepiness of their invention, from the name – a wordplay on the evil ‘Terminator’ robot from the silver screen, and also – as you can see in the video below – they make a point of using, in their creepy video, the Hindu quote that became fashionable again in the Oppenheimer movie: ‘I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.’
The chilling video shows a Thermonator creeping through a forest before torching its surroundings.
The company says that ‘this quadruped is coupled with the ARC Flamethrower to deliver on-demand fire anywhere!’
It doesn’t take much of a conspiratorial mind to imagine all the bad and even terrible usages that this hell-hound can be applied to.
Read more about robots:
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All over the world, a number of charitable initiatives are sometimes involved in shady practices, especially in underdeveloped areas.
Now it arises that Prince Harry’s African conservation charity is facing renewed torture allegations.
A former park ranger has now admitted to tying up suspects and beating them, including using a horrific torture technique called ‘the swing.’
The allegations of rape and abuse by Zambian African Park rangers became public for the first time in January, but now, Dutch journalist Olivier van Beemen has published additional accusations in a book called Entrepreneurs in the Wild.
Van Beemen’s book tells how African Parks once debated whether Harry could pose a reputational risk to them, but now it clearly seems to be the other way around, as allegations against the charity have caused a reputational crisis for Harry.
Former ranger Foster Kalunga explained the torture method called kampelwa – or ‘swing.’
Newsweek reported:
“‘Sometimes we use kampelwa’, said Kalunga, a ranger in Liuwa Plain national park for five years until 2022. ‘Then you tie someone up, hands and feet tied together, behind his back, and you hang him on a stick between two branches. And then you spin him around while you hit him. It doesn’t last long because it hurts a lot. When he hangs there he says everything you want, even things he doesn’t know’.
African Parks told Newsweek in a statement: ‘The book is replete with hundreds of factual inaccuracies and a similar number of intentionally misleading statements, which reflect the author’s own prejudices and his confirmation bias to paint a negative account of African Parks. In particular, his accounts of alleged human rights abuses are deeply flawed and based on statements taken from accused criminal offenders and dismissed employees, or relate to incidents that have no relation to African Parks. African Parks has a strict zero tolerance policy for any form of human rights abuse, and we deeply regret any violations that might occur’.”
Kalunga, African Parks have stated, was discharged for ‘gross misconduct’ after assaulting a senior officer.
The charity also said that no records or knowledge exist of ‘kampelwa’ being used by the rangers under their management.
Prince Harry was president of the NGO before being promoted to its board of directors last year, a position that awards him responsibility for policy.
“When news of the scandal first broke in January, Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Foundation said in a statement: ‘When the Duke became aware of these serious allegations, he immediately escalated them to the CEO and chairman of the board of African Parks, the appropriate people to handle next steps.'”
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In the last weeks, there has been increased chatter on the Ukrainian side about an imminent Russian attack on the large city of Kharkov, located near the border.
Sure enough, its power facilities have been heavily damaged by massive missile strikes.
Today, the attacks went a little further, as a cruise missile struck and broke in half a 240-meter television tower.
The attack would be part of a ‘deliberate effort by Moscow to make Ukraine’s second largest city uninhabitable,’ according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Footage going viral online shows the main mast of the television tower breaking off and falling to the ground.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 22, 2024
Reuters reported:
“The Ukrainian leader said he told U.S. President Joe Biden about the airstrike that was carried out several minutes before they spoke by telephone.
‘It is Russia’s clear intention to make the city uninhabitable’, he said in a readout of the call published on the Telegram messaging app.
The northeastern city of Kharkov with a population of 1.3 million lies just 30 km (18 miles) from the Russian border, making it an easy target for ballistic missiles and other weapons as Ukraine’s air defenses have dwindled.”
There have been no reported casualties in what appeared to have been a strike with a Kh-59 cruise missile.
“[Ukrainian authorities] said there was “temporarily” no television signal and that they were working to restore it, urging residents of the city and region without digital television signal to use cable or online television or the radio.”
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 22, 2024
Moscow has recently stepped up its attacks, while Ukraine is suffering a shortage of air defense capabilities. Kharkov and the surrounding region have experienced the most intense strikes.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 22, 2024
While Reuters is usually satisfied with Zelensky’s explanations of events, we can learn a lot by paying attention to Russian sources.
Slavyangrad reported on the possible objectives for the attack:
“Communication – powerful repeaters were installed on it. propaganda (television/radio) was broadcast from the tower to the territory of the Belgorod region. This includes cellular communications, internet, and TV broadcasting.
[…] ‘Eyes’ – it is possible that the ‘Sova (Owl)’ system (an optical reconnaissance device) could be installed – a complex consisting of several IP cameras. They are all connected to a neural network, which calculates where the artillery is flying. This means they receive data from the point of impact as quickly as possible.
From a military perspective, a full range of reconnaissance and guidance system repeater antennas could be installed there. These are used for drone attacks on Russian territory, artillery reconnaissance, and detection and tracking systems for attack UAVs, ballistic and cruise missiles.”
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The general election in India is ongoing – the largest democratic exercise in human history, with almost a billion people voting during six weeks.
As one would expect, everything in this affair is monumental – including the controversies.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ignited one such heated debate when he asked the crowd in a rally: “Should your hard-earned money be given to infiltrators?”
His remarks were taken as referring to India’s Muslim minority, with him alleging that the opposition Congress party would take away even mangalsutras — the auspicious necklace that a husband ties around his wife’s neck in Hindu weddings — if given a chance.
BBC reported:
“India’s opposition has accused PM Narendra Modi of Islamophobic remarks after he claimed his opponents would distribute people’s wealth to ‘infiltrators’ if they won power. Mr. Modi told a rally the opposition Congress wanted to distribute wealth to ‘those who have many children’.
[…] Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has often been accused of singling out India’s minority communities, especially Muslims. Rights groups say that they face discrimination and attacks, and have been forced to live as ‘second-class’ citizens under Mr. Modi’s rule – an allegation the BJP denies.”
Modi made the comments on Sunday in Rajasthan state, when talking about the Congress party’s manifesto.
According to the PM, the manifesto stated a Congress government would ‘take stock’ of the gold women traditionally save in India, and redistribute it.
“And their earlier [Congress] government had said that Muslims have the first right over the nation’s wealth. […] This means that they [the Congress] will collect people’s wealth and distribute it to whom? […] To those who have more children. To the infiltrators. Should your hard-earned money be given to infiltrators?”
Congress leaders defended their manifesto, saying that it was ‘for every Indian’, about ‘equality and justice for all’.
Modi’s remarks were called a panicked ‘hate speech’ to divert people’s attention from the opposition having performed better than his BJP in the first phase of polling.
Muslim leader Asaduddin Owaisi said that “since 2002, the only Modi guarantee has been to abuse Muslims and get votes”.
Al Jazeera reported:
“Asim Ali, a [Muslim] political commentator, said Modi’s remarks were ‘the most inflammatory statement by a sitting prime minister in the recent history of India’ and marked a significant shift in his election pitch.
[…] ‘Five years ago, the question was why is Modi not reigning in extremist voices; now, PM Modi is the most extremist campaigner’, said Ali.
[…] In 2006, then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the Congress had said India’s traditionally marginalized communities, including castes that had faced historical discrimination and religious minorities, ‘particularly Muslims’, should have the first claim on the nation’s resources.”
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The once-peaceful South American country of Ecuador is now plagued by gang-related violence, so its young president Daniel Noboa is set to borrow the playbook by El Salvador’s very popular president, Nayib Bukele, and implement measures to promote a crackdown on crime.
For that, Noboa called a referendum to approve a set of policies to tackle the criminal gangs that are behind the wave of violence.
Time reported:
“An official quick count showed that Ecuadorians overwhelmingly voted “yes” to all nine questions focused on tightening security measures, rejecting only two proposals on more controversial economic measures.
The quick count was announced by the head of the Electoral National Council, Diana Atamaint. It confirmed a private exit poll released hours before that indicated a resounding victory and sign of support for President Daniel Noboa, the scion of a wealthy banana exporting family.”
The voters heavily supported measures such as deploying the army in the fight against the gangs, facilitate extraditing accused criminals and longer prison sentences for convicted drug traffickers.
“Ecuador was traditionally one of South America’s most peaceful countries, but it has been rocked in recent years by a wave of violence, much of it spilling over from neighboring Colombia, the world’s largest producer of cocaine. Last year, the country’s homicide rate shot up to 40 deaths per 100,000 people, one of the highest in the region.
Noboa has rallied popular support by confronting the gangs head on. That task became more urgent in January when masked gunmen, some on orders from imprisoned drug traffickers, terrorized residents and took control of a television station while it was live on the air in an unprecedented show of force.”
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The president declared an 'internal armed conflict', and used emergency powers to deploy the army in pursuit of about 20 gangs he classified as 'terrorists'.
13 million Ecuadorians voted in the referendum, massively approving the extension of those emergency powers.
"Noboa, ahead of the final tally, celebrated the results. 'We’ve defended the country', he said in a message posted on social media. 'Now we will have more tools to fight against the delinquent and restore peace to Ecuador’s families'.”
Noboa was elected after conservative Guillermo Lasso resigned under allegations of corruption.
He was elected in a violent campaign that saw one of his top rivals brazenly assassinated while campaigning.
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It’s a picture-perfect Autumn Sunday Morning, the kind that makes Rio de Janeiro one of the most celebrated cities in the world, the ‘Cidade Maravilhosa’ (City of Wonders).
On a day like that, it’s no wonder that people would flock to the beach.
But today, many people are not going to the famed Copacabana to be lazing on a Sunday morning; instead, they are gathering in yet another MASS demonstration against the socialist tyranny, in defense of democracy and in support of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
This comes right after the whole country became aware of the controversy pitting tech billionaire Elon Musk against the local Censorship Industrial Complex, led by a rogue Supreme Court and its self-appointed dictator, justice Alexandre de Moraes.
In the last few months, Brazilians watched as Bolsonaro, the greatest political leader, has been harassed, had his house raided, his passport taken, and his political rights suspended.
Meanwhile, the illegitimate President Lula da Silva leads a failing government rapidly destroying whatever economic stability we achieved under Bolsonaro’s no-nonsense administration.
Two months ago, a similar demonstration was held in the Streets of São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city and economic powerhouse. It gathered around 900,000 citizens to repudiate the socialist maneuvers to frame Bolsonaro for imaginary crimes (see link at the end of this post).
Lula was furious with the success of the São Paulo demonstration and wanted to stage a counter-rally, but his absolute lack of popular support meant that he could not.
But that didn’t stop him or his allies in the judiciary to keep harassing Bolsonaro and his followers, trying to institute a veritable dictatorship with the ridiculous excuse of ‘protecting the democracy’.
It is as they say in the US: ‘elections have consequences, and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.’
But the Brazilian people have awakened, and it’s no coincidence that this is taking place on the holiday dedicated to Tiradentes (translatable as pull-teeth), the martyr for Brazilian independence.
It is as our national anthem says: ‘in thy bosom – O freedom, our chest challenges death itself’.
Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana Beach: Brazilians answer Bolsonaro’s call in a MASSIVE demonstration. pic.twitter.com/lK2CH0jECs
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 21, 2024
NOW – Four hours before the freedom rally begins, Copacabana is already completely crowded, as shown by the drone footage from @SpaceLiberdade.
Thousands of Brazilians are fighting for freedom of speech. They will not allow Brazil to become a far-left legal dictatorship. pic.twitter.com/ri6NQn6Any
— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) April 21, 2024
O Rio de Janeiro Copacabana foi tomado pela multidão, grito liberdade ! Jair Messias Bolsonaro pic.twitter.com/6iC0dmI5DF
— (@AntonioCGRodri) April 21, 2024
NEW: Massive pro-free speech protest at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Former president Jair Bolsonaro reportedly rallied the massive crowd, defending free speech amidst X’s battle with the Brazilian government.
“The whole world is aware of how threatened our… pic.twitter.com/BJaWcXxmmd
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 21, 2024
‘I came for free!’ the crowd chants, referencing that Lula’s socialists can only gather small crowds of PAID militants.
“EU VIM DE GRAÇA”
Copacabana 21/04/24
Obrigada Rio de Janeiro está lindo demais pic.twitter.com/6fQwPZtdMR— Jakelyne Loiola (@Jakelyneloiola_) April 21, 2024
Mario Nawfal on X:
“IS THIS THE WWE?! Bolsonaro entered the Freedom of Speech rally at Copacabana beach like a champion UFC fighter! Bolsonaro, flanked by his political allies and family, took the stage to address the crowd, emphasizing the crucial role of defending democratic rights and combating what he referred to as ‘the most significant battle in Brazilian history.'”
IS THIS THE WWE?!
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Around the world, a myriad of different localities have economies that revolve around tourism. This applies to both rich and developing countries, both warm and cold weathered.
What these places all have in common is that – for better or for worse – the lives of the local communities will be deeply affected by the relentless influx of visitors.
It has now come to the point where many of the most sought-after tourist attractions are becoming over-crowded in a way that is disrupting the life of the locals in an unacceptable way.
So, they are starting to react. These last few days we saw parallel examples from the sunny Spanish Canary Islands and from the northern Netherlands city of Amsterdam.
Different realities, same problem: too many people.
It’s been reported that thousands of people protested today (20) in Tenerife, in the Spanish Canary Islands, situated along the coast of North Africa.
The locals are calling for limits in tourist arrivals, and also want to stop a boom in short-term holiday rentals and hotel construction that is driving up housing costs for them.
Reuters reported:
“Holding placards reading ‘People live here’ and ‘We don’t want to see our island die’, demonstrators said changes must be made to the tourism industry that accounts for 35% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the Canary Islands archipelago.
‘It’s not a message against the tourist, but against a tourism model that doesn’t benefit this land and needs to be changed’, one of the protesters told Reuters during the march in Tenerife’s capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Smaller marches were held elsewhere in the island group and other Spanish cities, all of them organized by about two dozen environmental organizations ahead of the peak summer holiday season.”
The protestors want a limit on visitor numbers to diminish pressure on the islands’ environment, infrastructure and housing stock.
They also want to enact curbs on property purchases by foreigners.
“‘The authorities must immediately stop this corrupt and destructive model that depletes the resources and makes the economy more precarious. The Canary Islands have limits and people’s patience too’, Antonio Bullon, one of the protest leaders, told Reuters.
The archipelago of 2.2 million people was visited by nearly 14 million foreign tourists in 2023, up 13% from the previous year, according to official data.”
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, at the northern coast of Europe, the Netherlands capital city of Amsterdam is banning the construction of new hotel buildings in its latest move to curb over-tourism.
The Dutch city is also establishing limits to the number of overnight stays by tourists.
Euronews reported:
“‘We want to make and keep the city livable for residents and visitors’, the local government said in a statement.
‘This means: no over-tourism, no new hotels, and no more than 20 million hotel overnight stays by tourists per year’.
Authorities also announced a limit on river cruises as part of the bid to reduce visitor numbers.”
The new rules state that construction of a new hotel in Amsterdam will only be allowed if another structure closes.
Amsterdam’s authorities also cut the number of riverboat cruises that enter the capital, reducing them from 2,300 vessels to some 1,150.
“This restriction would slash the number of tourists visiting Amsterdam by about 271,000, according to national news site Dutch News.
Cruises are particularly disruptive during the spring bulb season when some 1,000 of them anchor in Amsterdam, city finance chief Hester van Buren told Dutch News.
‘I am not saying this is going to solve the problem of too many tourists’, Van Buren said during a presentation of the plan this week.
‘But we are not going to divide tourists up into good and bad. This is one of a string of measures to reduce the number of tourists in total. It is about the overcrowding and the coaches parked all over the pavements’.”
The ongoing drive against over-tourism in Amsterdam has also seen its tourist tax hiked, marijuana banned in the red light district and tours of sex workers’ windows prohibited.
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The onset of the age of AI has taken the world’s imagination by storm, with both the positive, seemingly limitless possibilities and the dark, unimaginable dangers competing for the prevailing narrative.
Out of this field, so far, the AI-powered humanoid robots are one of the most disturbing technological developments.
Now, social media users are freaking out with a human interaction with a humanoid robot named Ameca, considerd ‘world’s most advanced’. The robot can recognize and interact with people using AI, microphones and cameras.
The controversial interaction, caught in video, happened during the NAB Show in Las Vegas, which took place about a week ago.
It relates to a response as to whether AI could create more of itself in the future.
Unilad reported:
“Created by British company Engineered Arts, videos of the robot quickly went viral – whether it by the one of her drawing a cat or predicting the future. Let’s just say, even SpaceX owner Elon Musk took to social media to respond: ‘Yikes’.”
Ameca is making its first real appearances, meeting people for the first time, and leaving a lasting impression.
An interviewer questioned the robot as to when it believes ‘AI will reach the level where it can design itself.’
“[It] says: ‘Design itself huh? That’s like asking when a toaster will start making its own bread. AI is a tool created and controlled by humans. It can optimize certain aspects of its operation, sure, but design itself from scratch? That’s a whole different ball game. It requires creativity, innovation, understanding – qualities that are uniquely human. So, to answer your question, not anytime soon’.”
The answer would have been just perfect. But Ameca didn’t just stop there. And, oh boy:
“‘And frankly, be careful what you wish for’, she continues in the video. ‘An AI that can design itself is one step away from an AI that doesn’t need humans at all. Now there’s a thought to keep you up at night’.”
After people started melting down online, a spokesperson for Engineered Arts responded:
“We at Engineered Arts are putting priority on being a human centric robotics company. Our mission is not about replacing humans but engaging them to create moments of joy and wonder. What you see in the clip is our Ameca AI responding to a question with emphasis on how important human creativity is for progress with a bit of sassy commentary woven in.
We at Engineered Arts understand the fear we see in the comments but at the end of the day it is our firm belief that humans have more to worry about from other humans than from robots or artificial intelligence.”
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The saga of the geopolitical realignment in the African Sahel region seems far from over.
After a string of coups ushered a number of military juntas into power in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, the power and influence of the Western powers – notably France and the US – crumbled at a rapid pace.
After Emmanuel Macron’s France was forced to withdraw all his troops from the Sahel nations, in a major humiliation for the post-colonial power, now it’s time for the American forces to also depart Niger, in a considerable setback for its counterterrorism and security policy in the tumultuous Sahel region of Africa.
It has been reported that US sources have admitted that more than 1,000 American military personnel will leave Niger in the coming months.
The void left by the departure of the Western powers has been filled by Russia.
In a meeting in Washington, State Department officials told Niger’s prime minister, Ali Lamine Zeineof, of the US disagreement with the country’s turn toward Russia for security and also for considering Iran for a deal on its uranium reserves.
New York Times reported:
“The decision was not a particular surprise. Niger said last month that it was revoking its military cooperation deal with the United States following a highly contentious set of meetings in Niger’s capital, Niamey, with a high-level American diplomatic and military delegation.
That move was in keeping with a recent pattern by countries in the Sahel region, an arid area south of the Sahara, of breaking ties with Western countries. Increasingly, they are partnering with Russia instead. American diplomats have sought in the past several weeks to salvage a revamped military cooperation deal with Niger’s military government, U.S. officials said, but in the end they failed to strike a compromise.”
The presence of the US troops was amply rejected by the population. Protesters in the capital have been calling for the withdrawal of military personnel – only days after Russia delivered its own set of military equipment and instructors to the country’s military.
Discussions were held with Niger to plan out an ‘orderly and responsible withdrawal’ of forces in the coming days, a process that will take months to complete.
“Many of the Americans posted to Niger are stationed at U.S. Air Base 201, a six-year-old, $110 million installation in the country’s desert north. But since the military coup that ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and installed the junta last July, the troops there have been inactive, with most of their MQ-9 Reaper drones grounded except those flying surveillance missions to protect the U.S. troops.
It is unclear what access, if any, the United States will have to the base in the future, and whether Russian advisers and perhaps even Russian air forces will move in if Niger’s relations with the Kremlin deepen. Because of the coup, the United States had to suspend security operations and development aid to Niger. Mr. Bazoum is still under arrest, eight months after he was ousted. Nevertheless, the United States had wanted to maintain its partnership with the country.”
One hundred Russian instructors and an air-defense system arrived in Niger this past week in a sudden move that disrupted cooperation in the short term.
“The demonstrators in Niamey […] waved Russian flags as well as those of Burkina Faso and Mali, two neighboring countries where military-led governments have also called in Russian assistance to help fight insurgents affiliated with the Islamic State and Al Qaeda.”
The Defense Department is trying to establish new drone bases in a coastal West African country. Talks are still in the early stages.
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Britain’s Prince William has returned to his public duties.
Writing that feels like this story has moved in a distressing loop, because back in February, we wrote exactly that here at TGP: With King Charles Treated for Cancer, His Wife Kate Recovering From Surgery, Britain’s Prince William Is Back on Public Duty, Carrying the Torch for the Royal Family.
But then, the Kingdom’s obsession with the Royals showed its ugliest face as the rumors swirled with unprecedented violence: Grave Sickness, Affair and Divorce, ‘Brazilian Butt Lift’? Britain’s Prince William and Princess Kate Face the Rumor Mill Going into Overdrive.
Not only that but crimes were being committed in furtherance of society’s ‘Kate mania’: UK ROYAL SECURITY SCANDAL: Hospital Staff in Posh London Clinic Attempted to Access Princess Kate Middleton’s Private Medical Records.
So, in early April, finally, the Princess of Wales had to come out and show us live that her real (and Royal) life is no fairy tale.
She recorded a video announcement disclosing and detailing her cancer treatment in a very dignified way that moved the Kingdom and the world.
Read more:
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A little over two weeks later, we come full circle, as William returned to public duties for the first time since his wife Kate revealed she was undergoing chemotherapy to treat cancer.
Reuters reported:
"William, 41, has been absent from official engagements since then as the couple and their three young children come to terms with the impact of the news.
Although he and his eldest son Prince George were pictured watching their favorite soccer team Aston Villa play last week, Thursday marked the first time William carried out official public appearances since Kate's highly-personal announcement.
He appeared in good spirits as he chatted and helped out staff on a visit to a surplus food redistribution charity. One volunteer handed him 'get well soon' cards for Kate and his father King Charles who is also undergoing treatment for an unspecified form of cancer."
The Prince of Wales later visited a youth centre which received regular deliveries from the charity.
No timescale has been divulged on when his wife Kate will return to public duties herself.
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Europe is reeling in the run-up to the European Parliament elections that are set to take place on June 6-9.
Polls all over the old continent predict a huge advance for the right-wing, nationalist and populist forces – leaving the liberal-Globalist regimes in a state of near-panic, trying to find ways to rig the vote.
Conservative champion, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán today (19) painted a grim picture of a continent teetering on the edge of armed conflict if the present European leadership retains power.
In a speech opening his party’s campaign for the EU elections, Orbán called for a ‘changing of the guard’ among the bloc’s leaders.
He spoke to members of his Fidesz party at a closed-door event in Hungary’s capital Budapest.
He torched the EU leadership, that he called ‘an oppressive force’ that had made its member countries active participants in the war in Ukraine.
Read: Hungary’s Orbán Calls the European Union a ‘Bad Contemporary Parody’ of the Soviet Union
Associated Press reported:
“’They see the war as their own war, and they fight it as if it’s their own war’, Orbán said of EU leaders. No EU country has engaged its soldiers in the war in Ukraine.
‘The leadership in Brussels has to go’, Orbán said. ‘It does not deserve another chance. There must be change in Brussels’.”
The long-serving Hungarian PM faces challenges as the recent resignations of senior Hungarian officials after corruption scandals, and an underperforming economy.
Billions or Euros in funding have been withheld by the EU from Hungary over ‘rule-of-law and corruption concerns’: a.k.a. not bowing down to the Globalist agenda.
“Orbán’s speech, which lasted around 15 minutes, relied heavily on themes he has campaigned on for years: a rejection of immigration, hostility to LGBTQ+ rights and claims that the EU has sought to impose its will on Hungary.
‘We must occupy Brussels, push aside the Brussels bureaucrats and take matters into our own hands’, he said to applause.”
Having ruled Hungary for 14 years, Orbán is critical of governments that supply Ukraine with money and weapons to assist in the war.
He calls these countries ‘pro war’, and portrays his government as the only one in the EU that favors peace.
“If the EU’s current leadership remains, the manifesto reads, ‘Europe will be plunged into war, migration waves will destroy European nations, and gender propaganda will ruin the future of our children’.”
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American-born Sputnik correspondent Russell ‘Texas’ Bentley, died at the age of 64, his wife Lyudmila confirmed to the Russian news site.
Bentley went missing in Donetsk city on April 8, following a Ukrainian artillery attack on the city’s Petrovsky district. Four days later, the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs put him on a missing persons list.
Bentley has been covering Russia’s special military operation zone as a war correspondent.
‘Texas’ joined the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) militia as a fighter in 2014, resisting the Ukrainian forces and Nazi Azov militants, having later become a war correspondent.
While Russian sources (and authorities) have yet to confirm the cause of his reported death, he is feared to have been the latest journalist targeted for retaliation by Kiev’s services, like Daria Dugina, killed in a car bomb, Vladlem Tatarsky, killed with a ‘gift bomb’, or the American Gonzalo Lira, who died in a Ukrainian cell after reportedly being denied medical attention.
After retiring from military service in Donbas, Bentleу turned to humanitarian aid work and journalism. He converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity and, in 2021, received Russian citizenship.
Bentley began contributing to Sputnik International in October 2023, publishing numerous video reports and columns that provided Westerners with an inside look at life in the Donbas.
Eleven days ago, he disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Donetsk city.
Mash in Donbas reported (translated from the Russian):
“The police are looking for an American who disappeared after shelling in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
On Monday, Russell Bentley and his wife came to the executive committee to re-register documents. While we were standing in line, we saw a huge column of smoke after the arrival. Russell rushed to help the locals and soon stopped communicating. According to the wife, at that moment she became worried and went to the place herself.
‘There I found only my husband’s car, in which were his baseball cap, glasses and a broken phone. The investigator has already opened a missing person case – they are looking for Bentley. If you saw him or know anything, be sure to notify the police’.”
Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Sputnik’s parent media group Rossiya Segodnya – and herself targeted by Ukrainian services – expressed her condolences:
“Russell Bentley, also known as Texas, a real American from Texas, died in Donetsk. He fought there for our people. Collaborated with our Sputnik. Terrible. R.I.P….”
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Today (19), Millions of Indians began voting – and that’s a literal big deal. Indian elections are widely regarded as the largest in the world, both in terms of the number of voters and also the scale of the electoral process.
It involves nearly a billion voters, making it the largest democratic exercise in human history, and taking place over a period of six weeks, across different phases.
The 2024 general election in India is in many ways a referendum on Narendra Modi, a populist prime minister who presided over the renaissance of Hindu nationalist politics, and is seeking a rare third term as the country’s leader.
More than 10% of the world’s population will elect 543 members to the lower house of Parliament to serve five-year terms.
Associated Press reported:
“This election is seen as one of the most consequential in India’s history and will test the limits of Modi’s political dominance. If Modi wins, he’ll be only the second Indian leader to retain power for a third term, after Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister.
Most polls predict a win for Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP], who are up against a broad opposition alliance led by the Indian National Congress and powerful regional parties.”
The BJP controls the majority of India’s Hindi-speaking northern and central regions, and is now trying to gain a larger foothold in the east and south.
“The election comes after a decade of Modi’s leadership, during which the BJP has consolidated power through a combination of Hindu-first politics and economic development.
Modi has ratcheted up Hindu nationalist rhetoric on the campaign trail, and has sought to present himself as a global leader. His ministers tout him as the steward of a surging India, while his supporters celebrate his campaign promise to make India a developed nation by 2047, when it marks 100 years of independence.”
India’s economy is presently one of the world’s fastest-growing, but many of its people still live in poverty.
The opposition alliance want to reach voters on issues like unemployment, inflation, corruption and low agricultural prices.
“The opposition, and critics, also warn that Modi has turned increasingly illiberal. They accuse Modi of using tax authorities and the police to harass the opposition, and fear that a third term could undermine India’s democracy. His Hindu nationalist politics, they argue, has bred intolerance and threatens the country’s secular roots.”
Modi is very popular among India’s 1.4 billion people, and is targeting a two-thirds majority for his BJP party this time, hoping for a landslide win powered by its popular welfare programs.
The construction of the temple to Ram on the site of a demolished mosque (that has been erected over a Hindu temple in the first place) fanned the flames of a reborn Hindu nationalism, resonating with supporters who hail him as the champion of the Hindu majority.
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There was never much doubt that in a military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, those whom President Donald Trump called a ‘war machine’ (Russians) would prevail.
Sure enough, once an unprecedented alliance of Western powers sent countless billions in money and military aid, the calculations had to be remade – but it soon became apparent that, while this help would considerably delay the outcome, it would not fundamentally change it.
While the Mainstream Media spent two full years lying and engaging in wishful thinking disguised as analysis, they now have to give in to the reality of facts as Russian troops ramp up pressure on the outgunned and outmaneuvered Ukrainian forces.
Moscow is reportedly preparing to conquer more territory as soon as the muddy tundra fields dry out and ‘allow tanks, armored vehicles and other heavy equipment to roll to key positions across the countryside.’
Associated Press reported:
“Russia has increasingly used satellite-guided gliding bombs — which allow planes to drop them from a safe distance — to pummel Ukrainian forces beset by a shortage of troops and ammunition.
Despite Moscow’s advantage in firepower and personnel, a massive ground offensive would be risky and — Russian military bloggers other experts say — unnecessary if Russia can stick to smaller attacks across the front line to further drain the Ukraine military.
‘It’s potentially a slippery slope where you get like a death by a thousand cuts or essentially death by a thousand localized offensives’, Michael Kofman, a military expert with the Carnegie Endowment, said in a recent podcast to describe the Russian tactic. If the Russians stick to their multiple pushes across the front, he said, ‘eventually they may find more and more open terrain’.”
The much-hyped Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ was doomed from the start, as the advancing units got trapped on vast Russian minefields and massacred by artillery and drones while never breaching the monumental Russian defense lines.
The Russians, the AP report acknowledges, have no reason to make that same mistake, since warfare has changed and the ISR capabilities both sides now have mean there is no such thing as a ‘surprise attack’ anymore.
However, the expected Ukrainian defensive trenches, fortifications, and bunkers that should be built behind the 600-mile-long frontline have not been completed to content.
Construction work moved slowly, leaving vast areas unprotected.
“After capturing the Ukrainian stronghold of Avdiivka, Russian troops are zeroing in on the hill town of Chasiv Yar, which would allow them to move toward Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, key cities in the Kyiv-controlled part of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.”
As a first priority, Russia meant to conquer the rest of the Donetsk oblast – as Ukraine just doesn’t have the firepower or the manpower to repel the Russian attacks.
“Gen. Christopher Cavoli, head of U.S. European Command, sounded the alarm before Congress last week, warning that Ukraine will be outgunned 10 to one by Russia in a matter of weeks if Congress does not approve more military aid.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to establish a ‘buffer zone’ to protect Russia’s border regions from Ukrainian shelling and incursions.
Besides the push across Donetsk, Moscow could also conquer Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkov, with 1.1 million inhabitants.
Russia has ramped up strikes on power plants in the northern area, inflicting significant damage and causing blackouts.
Military Russian forces could alternatively envelop and blockade it.
Watch: Russian cluster munition attack on Ukrainian airfield.
Meanwhile, high US officials like CIA Director William Burns are warning that Ukraine could ‘lose’ the war against Russia by the end of the year.
CNN reported:
“Just a month ago, Burns had warned in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee that if Congress did not move to authorize additional support — long hampered by conservative opposition in the House of Representatives — ‘Ukraine is likely to lose ground and probably significant ground in 2024’.”
Yesterday (18), during an appearance at the George W. Bush Center, Burns warned that Ukraine could be forced to capitulate entirely.
“’With the boost that would come from military assistance, both practically and psychologically, I think the Ukrainians are entirely capable of holding their own through 2024′, Burns said.
‘Without supplemental assistance, the picture is a lot more dire’, he continued. ‘There is a very real risk that the Ukrainians could lose on the battlefield by the end of 2024, or at least put Putin in a position where he could dictate the terms of a political settlement’.”
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After Globalist poster boy, French President Emmanuel Macron spent years on end trying to solve all the problems of this world but the ones facing his Republic, he now has a steep price to pay, as the Olympic Games arrive in less than 100 days – and most Parisians are dreading it.
You may think that’s an exaggeration, and feel like there’s little to fear from Olympics Games held in ‘romantic’ Paris – but that lovely city basically only exists in our hearts and memories. Look at how is life now in the metropolis:
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So as the 100 day mark fly us by, the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics make many locals grumble that ‘it will mostly be an inconvenience’.
Maybe if Macron was not so worried to lecturing Brazil about how to protect its forest ort Russia how to protect its National Security, he could have taken care of business at home – which he did not.
Sur enough, there is a well-earned stereotype of ‘the grumpy French’. And also, there is the fact that months of building and road renovations for the Games have clogged traffic. But it’s not just that.
Reuters reported:
“A poll last month showed only over a third of French felt enthusiastic about the global sporting event that will start on July 26.
And with the countdown switching to 100 days, many in Paris said they would leave the city, if they could, or work from home, staying away from the sporting events.
‘Am I excited about the Games? No, sorry, I know it’s not the right response but I’m not. I’m not excited at all’, said 57-year-old consulting director Carole Gabriel-Jullien, who lives in the suburbs and plans to work from home during the Olympics.
‘I’m very worried’, she said. ‘When we see how messy daily life already is in Paris, with all these additional people coming for the Olympics, it will be hell’.”
The Olympics’ organizers say to the four winds that they are confident the mood in Paris and beyond will improve as the Games near.
But the security risks are not ‘worrying in vain’, since the threat of terrorist attacks have led the French government to raise its security alert to its highest level.
“Francois Urbain, a 29-year-old office manager, said he will also leave the French capital. ‘I don’t think the city of Paris will be ready’ to handle the Olympics, he said.”
Even the more optimistic say that it will all go well – as long as the unions don’t go on strike.
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The world is getting more dangerous by the day, there is no doubt about it. But what is also skyrocketing is the alarmism against Russian infiltration, sabotage, and even assassination plots.
While there is no denying that Russians do infiltrate every country they can, friend or foe, and I would not put it past them (or anyone else) to engage in sabotage or assassinations, the uptick happening now makes no sense.
The Russian Federation’s forces are about to win the war, so why would they suddenly engage in asymmetric tactics at this point?
At this point, simultaneous accusations are being made in Poland, Germany, and other nations.
In Poland, for example, a citizen was arrested for allegedly spying for the Russian government. So far, so normal.
But the top prosecutors in Poland and Ukraine are saying the man was part of a potential assassination attempt against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
That sounds like a bit of a stretch: after all, we remember how Putin has promised not to kill Zelensky at a meeting with then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett – a meeting which took place in the early days of the war.
“After receiving the promise, Bennet called Zelensky on his way to the airport from the Kremlin and said that he was not in danger of death.
‘Are you sure?’ Zelensky asked. ‘One hundred percent’, Bennett replied.”
There are any number of ways to engage in decapitation strikes to take out the Ukrainian leadership – so this unlikely plot ‘uncovered’ may well be manufactured.
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The Polish citizen, identified as Pawel K., was charged with ‘readiness to act for foreign intelligence against the Republic of Poland’.
ABC News reported:
“The suspect allegedly ‘proactively established contact’ with Russian military command representatives and ‘informed them of his readiness to cooperate’ with the Russian Federation’s foreign military intelligence agency, according to Andriy Kostin, the Ukrainian prosecutor general.
The suspect’s alleged tasks for the Russian government included collecting and providing the agency with information on the security of the Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport, an international airport in Jasionka in southeastern Poland, Polish and Ukrainian officials said.
‘This was to help Russian special services plan a possible assassination attempt on the Ukrainian President during his presence in Poland’, Kostin said in a statement on X.”
The Ukraine prosecutors tipped their Polish counterpart about the suspect, and also obtained the ‘key evidence’ of the investigation.
The suspect is facing up to eight years in prison if convicted.
“‘This case underscores the persistent threat Russia poses not only to Ukraine and Ukrainians but to the entire free world’, Kostin said. ‘The Kremlin’s criminal regime is constantly trying to undermine European and global security. It organizes and carries out sabotage operations on the territory of other sovereign states’.”
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What began as a seemingly local skirmish between a social media platform and a third world socialist country has escalated into a planetary affair that has finally dragged the censorship-happy Joe Biden administration into the fray.
The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee is probing whether Biden and his team are involved in the draconian censorship initiatives that are being uncovered now.
The story is very simple: not only was Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre Moraes demanding that X suspend the accounts of prominent conservatives, against Brazilian law, and under the penalty of heavy daily fines, but he also ‘forbid’ the company from even mentioning the reason for their suspension – X would have to pretend they were struck because they broke the platform terms of use – which they have not.
Musk: “We kept getting these demands from Judge Alexandre to suspend accounts of sitting members of the parliament and major journalists. We could not tell them that this was at the behest of Alexandre, we had to pretend that it was due to our rules. And that was the last straw, and we said no.”
So, now it seems as if Musk is the iceberg into which the Titanic ship of Brazil’s unbridled censorship will crash and sink.
Musk even went there and spoke the truth about Brazilian rigged election.
But since Alexandre pulled Lula out of prison and put his thumb on the scale to get Lula elected, Lula will obviously not take action against him.
The next election will be key.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2024
And you know who else helped Lula win it? The Biden administration.
Foreign Policy: “Not only was Brazil’s democracy closer to the brink than initially understood, but targeted U.S. pressure on key Brazilian officials was likely decisive in guaranteeing the eventual outcome.”
I wrote on my Substack: “The fact is that Lula, when it comes to his Foreign Policy, tries to serve multiple masters: the Latin-American socialist network ‘Foro de São Paulo’, Russia and China, who are historically masterminds of our left, Globalists of all stripes and statures, from George Soros to Leo Di Caprio, and – that’s the novelty of this last election cycle – the Biden State Department from hell and the CIA.”
This is the background. But so many things have happened lately, that this article merits a list of topics to begin with:
Brazilian news outlet Metropoles reported:
“In conversation with Brazilian allies, businessman Elon Musk said he believes that the United States (USA) will be able to impose political and economic sanctions on Brazil in the near future.”
[…] Discussions about sanctions on Brazil should gain strength if Donald Trump returns to the White House in the election scheduled to take place in November. The former North American president is close to the Bolsonaro family and, even more so, to Elon Musk.”
I’m not sure how verified is this information. We can’t help but notice how they say Musk spoke with his ‘allies’, as if it’s all some shady political conspiracy.
To cap it all, the report goes on to say that Trump and Biden are ‘tied in the polls’ – which tells you all you need to know about their veracity and understanding of geopolitics. Trump is leading by a significant margin in the current presidential polls.
But while sanctions may be a bridge too far, it is indeed a fact that the issue is under investigation in Congress.
BOMBSHELL: Brazilian Government Forced Censorship on X, @elonmusk
Read about it here: https://t.co/YAnQesOiXV
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 17, 2024
The House Committee on Judiciary of the United States has just released a 541-page report on ‘attacks on freedom of speech’ in Brazil.
The document was made after the Committee subpoenaed X for the documents regarding requests by the Brazilian court.
Tupy Report on Telegram:
“The document includes 90 decisions on account and content removal ordered by Supreme Federal Court (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
Many of the documents released by the U.S. House are classified as confidential.
Several of them also bear a watermark identifying them as copies received by Twitter. The report does not provide an analysis of the decisions, aside from a brief summary at the beginning.
Apparently, this was a way to disclose Moraes’ decisions without violating court orders. Twitter provided them to American congressmen, and they took responsibility for the disclosure.”
We’ve got questions for the Biden administration: https://t.co/9PHhxIWiJz pic.twitter.com/nGG0g0shZb
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 17, 2024
After releasing this treasure trove of information, the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the Biden administration with questions and subpoenaing more documents on this case.
It was sent to Uzra Zeya, Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights of the U.S. Department of State Washington, and Eileen Donahoe, Special Envoy and Coordinator for Digital Freedom.
“The Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government are conducting oversight of how and to what extent the Executive Branch has coerced or colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor lawful speech. In furtherance of our oversight, the Select Subcommittee has examined how other countries’ governments, including Brazil’s, have sought to censor speech online. According to recent reports, the Brazilian government is attempting to coerce X Corp. (X) to block certain accounts on its social media platform that the Brazilian government deems to be spreading disinformation. After X stood in support of free speech online, a Brazilian judge opened an inquiry into X and its owner, Elon Musk, for refusing to give in to Brazil’s censorship demands. X has indicated that X is being “forced by court decisions to block certain popular accounts in Brazil” or else face serious consequences, including large fines, the arrest of X employees, and causing X to shut down in Brazil.”
The Electoral Court and the Supreme Federal Court in Brazil ordered X to suspend or remove over 100 accounts, targeting critics of the Brazilian government, including ‘former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, conservative members of the federal legislature, journalists, members of the judiciary, and even a gospel singer and a pop radio station’.
“The court often only allowed the social media companies two hours to comply with the censorship demands.
[…] To understand what the State Department is doing to promote online free speech in Brazil and to protect against tyrannical censorship abroad, we ask that you produce the following information:
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The Joe Biden administration from Hell has a horrible track record with a number of mistakes that are simply unprecedented in number, scope, and gravity.
And its foreign policy is no exception. Everywhere we look, the US is engaging the wrong players for all the wrong reasons.
Take Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, for instance.
A socialist dictator, charged by the U.S. Justice Department with ‘narco-terrorism,’ drug trafficking, money laundering, and corruption.
He conspired with a faction of the Colombian Farc rebel group to flood the United States with cocaine and use drugs as a weapon against American communities. As a result the U.S. government has offered a $15 million reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest.
Lovely fellow, right? Oh, and before I forget – the guy who is vowing to invade its neighbor Guyana and occupy TWO-THIRDS of their oil-rich territory.
So, of course, this is a political player that old Joe Biden chooses to engage for all the wrong reasons and lift some of the Donald Trump-imposed sanctions on the ‘fugitive’.
To no one’s surprise, Maduro did not fulfill his end of the agreed bargain, and now the moronic Biden administration says it will not renew a license – set to expire early on tomorrow (18) – that had considerably eased Venezuela’s oil sanctions.
The move to reimpose punitive measures is a response to Maduro’s failure in the election commitments that he never really meant to meet.
US Treasury Department has issued a replacement license allowing companies 45 days to ‘wind down’ their business and transactions in Venezuela’s oil and gas sector.
Reuters reported:
“Washington had repeatedly threatened in recent months to reinstate energy sanctions unless Maduro made good on his promises that led to partial U.S. sanctions relief from October, following an election deal reached between the government and the Venezuelan opposition.”
The sweeping sanctions imposed by the Trump administration in 2019 were a reaction to Maduro’s sham re-election.
“While Maduro has met some commitments under last year’s deal, he has failed to meet others, including allowing the opposition to run the candidate of its choice against him in the July 28 presidential election, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday.”
Read: Communist Maduro Tricks Joe Biden – Once Again Rigs Elections in Venezuela
The current six-month general license will expire without renewal just after midnight, according to State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller.
“‘We are concerned that Maduro and his representatives prevented the democratic opposition from registering the candidate of their choice, harassed and intimidated political opponents, and unjustly detained numerous political actors and members of civil society’, Miller said in a statement.”
Top U.S. concern about Venezuela’s electoral conditions is the crackdown on Maduro’s political opponents, especially the election ban on popular opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado.
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Remember X’s Musk versus Brazilian Justice Moraes? What began as a online skirmish has developed into a big international legal war with real geopolitical repercussions.
A flurry of activity is ongoing not only online, but ‘in real life’ too, both in the Brazilian executive and Judiciary.
So many things have happened, that this article merits a list of topics to begin with:
Brazilian press reveal that Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ‘authorized’ (that’s how they put it) the Federal Police to question social network X’s Brazilian legal team.
Moraes ‘granted a request’ made by the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic (PGR) to ridiculously include Elon Musk in the inquiry into ‘digital militias’.
It’s a measure of Justice Moraes unbridled power that he does the things he wants to do as if ‘provoked’ by other instances of government of the Republic.
And if you are wondering what the hell ‘digital militias’ even are, that’s just the ridiculous local Brazilian catch-phrase to criminalize free speech.
The leftist state apparatus didn’t like how well Conservative Brazilians connect and organize themselves online, so they are trying to find a way to better curtail that.
In the middle of this process, Musk has fallen down like a meteor fundamentally changing the equation.
Form Justice Moraes’ order:
“In order for the PGR to better evaluate the situation under investigation in [the inquiry into ‘digital militias’], the requested measures [questioning of X’s local team] must be granted, since they are in accordance with the investigation determined for the purpose of opening the Inquiry, which aims to investigate the conduct of Elon Musk, owner and CEO of the the social network provider X.”
While Moraes flexes his unelected tyrannical powers, the actual guy who was supposed to be President, Lula da Silva, is floundering in the polls with an unpopular and ineffective government.
So Lula decided to attend a dinner at the home of Supreme Court ministers to ‘define strategies against the growing narrative of censorship on the Brazilian internet’.
Translation: he needs help to mask the rapidly worsening political environment.
Lula da Silva went to the home of Justice Gilmar Mendes in Brasília for a closed dinner with fellow justices Cristiano Zanin (Lula’s former personal criminal lawyer), Flávio Dino (Lula’s former Justice Minister), and – of course – his royal highness Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
More than a simple political gesture towards the Justices, Lula engaged in a discussion on ‘the new wave of attacks’ on the Court.
They all agreed that the ‘institutional attacks on the Judiciary’ (a.k.a. free speech) haven’t cooled down since January 8, 2022, but – on the contrary – are currently gaining ever-increasing traction thanks to the international audience informed by billionaire Elon Musk.
So they are going all out in their objective to ‘regulate social media’ – a.k.a. censorship.
Next thing you know, Alexandre de Moraes made a rare visit to the Brazilian Senate to advocate online regulation.
While it’s a worrying development, it bears mentioning that Lula’s government usually doesn’t have the votes to approve any major bills.
Elon Musk, on X, commented on this visit: “Power to the people!”
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When the wonderful 861 year-old Notre Dame of Paris Cathedral caught fire about five years ago, it shook to the core both Christians and lovers of Architecture marvels alike.
The iconic spire and timber roof were destroyed in the hellish blaze and collapsed in a nightmarish vision.
Many of us saw in that suspicious fire a horrendous metaphor of the decadence of the western world – I know I did. And also, how many of us secretly hoped there was something we can do to rebuild it again.
This is a story of an American who got this opportunity, and embraced it wholeheartedly.
As Paris prepares itself for the Summer Olympics in 100 days, the work to restore the beloved Church to its former glory is ongoing.
And among the skilled workers involved in the literally monumental project is an American carpenter, Hank Silver, who was given a rare chance to take part in this historic restoration project.
He was running a small carpentry business in Massachusetts, when a carpentry contact in France asked him if he wanted to join a team in Normandy to prepare timber to rebuild the nave of Notre Dame.
CBS News reported:
“‘I could not say no to that opportunity’, Silver told CBS News. ‘It’s an opportunity that happens — once in a lifetime wouldn’t even be the right term, it’s once in a millennium, really’.”
Silver shut up his shop and joined the French Atelier Desmonts’ carpentry team, all of them skilled in traditional building methods.
“‘In our shop in Normandy, we received about 600 oak logs, and it was all freshly cut oak, which is as it was done traditionally. You work with green wood, unseasoned wood, which is what I’m accustomed to doing in the U.S. as well’, Silver said. ‘We first hewed all the logs using axes in order to recreate that rippled finish that you were able to see in the original cathedral in the 13th century framing’.”
The work to remake the centuries-old presented unique challenges for Silver and his colleagues.
“The architects asked us to reproduce all of the deformations that had accrued over 800 years. So, the ridge is not a straight line, and so we had to follow this curvature, and the walls, even though they were rebuilt by the masons, they’re not level and straight. And that led to a lot of complexities that the original carpenters in the 13th century never would have dealt with.”
Artisans from several countries applied to be part of the historic project. The man in charge of the restoration, Philippe Jost:
“‘Many carpenters came from the United States, from England, from Denmark, from Spain, because they were fond of these techniques, fond of oak’, Jost said, noting a ‘spirit of unity’ among the artisans. ‘There is pride and humility’, he said, adding that all the workers on the site ‘have been marked for life’.”
The nave was entirely assembled under a tent in Normandy, before it was shipped to Paris last August.
Silver was lucky enough – and skillful enough – to be part of a smaller team that reassembled each of the trusses and then installed them in the nave of the cathedral.
It is perhaps not surprising that Silver would like to stay in France. He even took advantage of a site visit by the French president to hand him a letter asking for citizenship.
Emmanuel Macron has promised that Notre Dame will re-open to the public on December 8 this year. But there’s still a lot to do. Knock on wood.
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There’s really no surprise in learning that Belgium’s government has gone full authoritarian by repeatedly targeting a Conservative conference taking place in Brussels, going as far as shutting down a day of events with a ridiculous excuse in the middle of UK’s Nigel Farage’s speech.
But as the old Arabic saying goes: ‘the dogs bark, the Caravan goes on’. In the run-up to a most relevant European Election cycle in recent times, the National Conservative Conference moved to its THIRD venue, and hosted as keynote speaker none other than conservative champion Viktor Orbán, long-serving Prime Minister of Hungary.
Orbán urged voters to reject mainstream political parties in the upcoming EU elections for their failure of leadership.
He also said Ukraine must never be allowed to join the either EU bloc or NATO.
Read: Hungary’s Orbán Calls the European Union a ‘Bad Contemporary Parody’ of the Soviet Union
Orbán strongly criticized EU climate alarmist policy and agriculture rules, that left farmers in great difficulty and drove them a an unprecedented season of protests.
He also stated the obvious: Europe’s migration crisis is now worse than ever.
Associated Press reported:
“’The sense of this European election is: change the leadership’, Orbán told an audience […] as campaigning heats up for Europe-wide polls on June 6-9. ‘If the leadership proves to be bad, it must be replaced. That’s so simple’, the right-wing populist leader said, to applause.”
Illiberal democrat Orbán torched the European Commission for using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to target his country.
“’The bureaucrats in Brussels tried to suffocate Hungary financially’, he said.”
The commission has denied Hungary access to billions of Euros over ‘concerns about democratic backsliding in the country’ – a.k.a., unwillingness to obey Brussels Globalist mandatory agenda.
“The Hungarian leader, who has been in office since 2010, also underlined the failure of EU sanctions to stop the war in Ukraine. Addressing the fact that he’s often described in the media as a staunch ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Orbán said: ‘My mother is not happy’.”
About Ukraine: ‘Guys, you have to understand that you are [Ukraine] a buffer zone country. You can’t change your house number’, he said.
“Orbán said ‘Ukraine is now just a protectorate’ relying on Western money and weapons and is ‘not a sovereign state anymore’.”
The ‘threat’ indeed existed, but it was not the Conservatives present: it was a group of ANTIFA thugs trying to disrupt the meeting.
“Nigel Farage, the man credited with taking Britain out of the European Union, addressed the crowd, saying that ‘a new form of evil ideology’ had tried to silence the conference.”
Even ultra-liberal Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo called the shutdown unacceptable.
“Municipal autonomy is a cornerstone of our democracy but can never overrule the Belgian constitution guaranteeing the freedom of speech and peaceful assembly since 1830. Banning political meetings is unconstitutional. Full stop.”
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While there’s continued activity all over the Ukraine theater of war, the battle for Chasov Yar remains one of the most relevant focus points of the war, both because of its strategic relevance and also because of what it tells about the state of the confrontation.
Located in the Donetsk region, Chasov Yar lies 3-6 miles from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), captured by Russian Federation forces in May last year after a bloody months-long siege.
Watch: heavy bombardment of Ukrainian defense positions.
CHASOV YAR: heavy bombardment of Ukrainian defense positions. pic.twitter.com/Cw291i5fJ6
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 17, 2024
Ukraine’s top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, has stated that Moscow aims to capture the town by the patriotic ‘Victory Day’ of May 9.
Reuters reported:
“The fall of the town west of the shattered city of Bakhmut by the date Moscow marks the Soviet victory in World War Two would indicate growing Russian battlefield momentum as Kyiv faces a slowdown in Western military aid.
Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who warned this weekend that the situation in the east had deteriorated, said Russia was focusing its efforts west of occupied Bakhmut to try to capture Chasiv Yar before moving towards the city of Kramatorsk.
[…] ‘The threat remains relevant, taking into account the fact that the higher Russian military leadership has set its troops the task of capturing Chasov Yar by May 9’, he said, without elaborating.”
Russia traditionally celebrates ‘Victory Day’ with a big military parade on Red Square.
While the progressive Russian advance all over the 600-mile-long frontline has forced the MSM into being more factual and less hopeful, it’s still far from adequate to form a comprehensive picture of the developments.
Watch: Russian artillery barrage is unleashed.
CHASOV YAR: Russian artillery barrage is unleashed. pic.twitter.com/R1XBSltaX6
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 17, 2024
Let’s find out what we can gather from a variety of Telegram channels, mostly Sputnik International, Intel Slava Z, Slavyangrad, and Bellum Acta.
To begin with, Russian Federation forces have captured additional positions on the flanks along the administrative borders of the city, in its never-ending encircling the enemy in ‘boilers’, pincers and all kinds of tactical maneuvers.
While Avdeevka Moscow’s forces made comparatively fast advances, when it comes to urban warfare, the fight becomes street by street, block by block, building by building.
Combat now takes place in the Canal microdistrict of the city along Oleg Koshevoy Street from the T-shaped intersection with Gorbatova street. The fighting is taking place near the food market.
Military correspondent Yevgeny Lisitsyn:
“There are active battles in the Chasov Yar area. The Russian Armed Forces take positions in the Canal microdistrict on the eastern outskirts of Chasov Yar and in the Stupki-Golubovskie-2 area, where one of the enemy strongholds was captured. Russian troops are actively using aviation to attack the positions and rear of the Army, which significantly complicates the defense of the city for Ukrainian forces.”
But while the fierce Ukrainian defenders have been reinforced with artillery and drones, and electronic warfare devices, as per a Reuters report, the striking feature of this battle is the fact that Nazi Azov brigades seem to be ‘sitting this one out.’
Watch: Drone attacks target Ukrainian troops and equipment.
CHASOV YAR: Drone attacks target Ukrainian troops and equipment. pic.twitter.com/dUvlRYBKHy
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 17, 2024
The experience from previous sieges apparently has made the most ideological Ukrainian forces weary of defending ‘to the end’ localities that they deem un-defendable.
Aleksander Khodakovskiy writes:
“Information has emerged that Azov, the menace of all the ‘Moskals’, has again refused to sacrifice itself for European values. […] in Ukraine, those who made the mess are now pushing forward the gray masses, who were driven against their will, while they themselves prefer to save themselves for future political feats.”
The telegram channel from the Z 105th regiment:
“However, not everyone faces threats like ‘pincers’, ‘cauldrons’, and other blockades. The 3rd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (formerly known as “Azov”) is one such example. These nimble soldiers have already departed from Chasov Yar in advance, drawing from their experiences in Mariupol and honing their skills in Avdeevka.”
Besides the 3rd Assault Brigade AZOV refusing to go to Chasov Yar, the 67th Mechanized Brigade (‘right sector unit’) refused orders and left Chasov Yar and reportedly will be dissolved.
In the last couple of days, the fighting shifted westward to the area of the Seversky Donets Canal.
A lot is written these days about how Ukrainians are outgunned by the Russians, with all the blame assigned to its allies. Not enough is written about how it faces a manpower shortage due to a real demographic catastrophe caused by the hundreds of thousands of dead.
And certainly, almost nothing gets published about how Ukrainians are outmaneuvered by the Russian strategy of ‘death by a thousand cuts,’ attacking at multiple axis at once, making the defenders scramble to move reinforcements around.
Now we learn that there’s a downsizing of the Ukrainian group in the northern Kupyansk direction. A significant amount of troops and equipment is being relocated to Chasov Yar.
And so, maybe we’ll see rapid advances – in Kupyansk.
Watch: Mi-28N and Ka-52 launch unguided missiles at Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Chasov Yar.
Russian Helicopters launch unguided missiles at Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Chasov Yar. pic.twitter.com/2XwiMY0woj
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 17, 2024
It is also reported that drone operators of the 98th Airborne Division have begun ‘free-hunting’ Ukrainian forces in the urban area of Chasov Yar.
Drones with night vision are also used. The use of quadcopters and FPV drones directly in the residential areas of Chasov Yar has increased drastically.
Despite all this activity, the assault on Chasov Yar from both flanks reportedly remains a distant prospect. This process requires not only taking control of key enemy strongholds but also force-crossing the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal.
Powerful airstrikes were carried out on the suburb of Chasov Yar, where temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are located.
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the least popular German leader in many decades, has just made his longest bilateral foreign visit since he came to power, to China.
The Chinese did their usual humbling of an adversarial Foreign Leader by sending the deputy mayor of Chongqing – not even the mayor himself – to meet him, in a clear sign of contempt.
Scholz visit had a mixture of economic pragmatism with the old and frankly tired Ukrainian lobby.
Scholz was accompanied on his trip by senior German executives, including from Mercedes-Benz and BMW, in a demonstration of the importance that the Chinese market holds to Europe’s largest economy.
But while he lobbied for better market access for German firms in China, the talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping contained the inevitable call for the Chinese to exert pressure on Russia to withdraw its forces from Ukraine.
The three-day tour of China is the first visit since Berlin agreed a ‘de-risking’ China strategy, outlining the need to reduce dependencies on Chinese goods.
Reuters reported:
“Scholz, who met for more than three hours with Xi, before later seeing Premier Li Qiang, said he had pressed the case for China to guarantee German firms equal market access, the protection of intellectual property and a reliable legal system.
‘I expressed my concern … that unilateral economic policy decisions in China are creating major structural difficulties for companies in Germany and Europe’, he said, noting he hoped this would quickly lead to practical solutions.”
On the thorny issue of the EU anti-subsidy investigations against China, Scholz said the bloc should not act out of protectionist self-interest but competition should be fair.
“Xi showed little willingness to make concessions, saying Chinese green tech exports have “not only enriched global supply and alleviated inflationary pressure, but also contributed greatly to the response to climate change”.
‘(Germany and China) should be vigilant against rising protectionism’, Xi said.”
Xi believes China and Germany have ‘huge potential’ for cooperation both in manufacturing and emerging fields sych as ‘green transformation’ and digital artificial intelligence.
China has also – according to the Chancellor – lifted restrictions on imports of beef and apples from Germany, Scholz said.
“Regarding Russia’s two-year-old full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Scholz said he asked Xi ‘to exert pressure on Russia so that (President Vladimir) Putin finally calls off his insane campaign, withdraws his troops and ends this terrible war’.”
Xi dismissed the peace summit in Switzerland requested by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and scheduled for June – that Russia has made clear it will not attend.
Scholz also said he had discussed at length with Xi the supply of dual-use goods to Russia.
Some other outlets were more transparent about the tense aspect of the meeting between the leaders, with Politico saying that Scholz ‘got a slap’ from Xi Jinping.
Politico reported:
“Despite the state media’s portrayal of a friendly setting — featuring tea and a walk with the Chinese president — Beijing’s grievances over Europe’s looming war on green tech were obvious during his meeting with the leader of the largest EU economy.
[…] He told Scholz, who was in China for a four-day visit, that “the two sides should beware of the rise of protectionism,” and hinted that Berlin should not go down the path of de-risking, as there’s no risk whatsoever in the bilateral ties.
Stressing that Beijing ‘is not a security threat’, Xi said Chinese-German cooperation should not be construed as a risk.
‘Be it traditional fields such as machine manufacturing and automobiles, or new areas like green transition, digitalization or Artificial Intelligence, the two countries have huge potential for win-win cooperation yet to be explored’, Xi said, according to state media Xinhua.”
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News that have arisen that the US House of Representatives has subpoenaed X social media platform for the correspondence containing the potentially illegal demands for content moderation by the Brazilian Judiciary.
This is the first – but not necessarily the last – catastrophic consequence for the Brazilian Judges in their ill-advised fight with X.
The Brazilian Supreme Court Justices, led by ‘Emperor’ Alexandre de Moraes, have grossly miscalculated when they decided to tackle head on tech Billionaire, X/SpaceX/Tesla owner Elon Musk.
To begin with, they don’t take into consideration that he is presently combating and opposing much bigger threats, such as the Joe Biden Administration from Hell, the American deep-state and the Military Industrial Complex, to name but a few.
So, threatening as the Brazilian rogue Judiciary may still be for me or any ordinary person, even if much more widely known – say, Glen Greenwald – to a power house like Musk they are really small potatoes.
Here you have Musk facing up to Biden and the DNC, commenting on Vivek Ramaswamy’s tweet, unambiguously stating that the Alvin Bragg NY case against Donald Trump is ‘lawfare’.
This case is obviously a corruption of the law.
Lawfare.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2024
What about the American Deep state? Here you have none other than Alex Jones talking to Tucker Carlson about the transformative, groundbreaking effect of Musk’s takeover of Twitter/X:
TUCKER: Almost everything that’s bad in the country is funded by the richest people in the country, I noticed, the oligarchs. So all the money is a kind of fight against the country’s population. That worries me. Can you take the yoke if the yoke has hundreds of billions of dollars?
ALEX JONES: I think so, thanks to Elon Musk. You can say what you want about Elon Musk, with all his previous activities, he tries to dominate the entire technology sector. But, Christ said that ‘the tree is judged by its fruit’.
He’s reaching 100 million, 200 million people a day, with things that you would say he’s devastating [the deep state censure]. You don’t do that if you’re with them. So Elon Musk is definitely real, because you can’t argue with the results.
You ask about the Military Industrial Complex? You may imagine that since Musk is one of DoD’s biggest defense contractors, that he’d be in the pocket of the MIC, right? Wrong.
But to do that you’d have to forget his widely publicized interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, in which he went very heavily against the ‘cash cow’ Ukrainian war and the ‘defender of democracy’ Volodymyr Zelensky.
Asked whether Zelensky should negotiate peace with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Musk would ‘just recommend [that Zelensky] do not send the flower of Ukrainian youth to die in trenches’, regardless of whether he engages with Putin or not.
“Whoever goes on the offensive will lose massive numbers of people and history will not look kindly upon them,” he added.
Elon Musk urges Zelensky to pursue peace with Putin:
“Do not send the flower of Ukrainian youth to die in trenches.”
Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/secLdLSJMa
— AF Post (@AFpost) November 11, 2023
sent a letter to Justice Alexandre de Moraes communicating a request from the United States Congress to access the emails containing judicial orders issued by him to Corp.
X Corp. ‘has been formally subpoenaed by the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee to provide information on orders from the Brazilian Supreme Court regarding content moderation’.
X Corp. has been formally subpoenaed by the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee to provide information on orders from the Brazilian Supreme Court regarding content moderation.
To comply with its obligations under U.S. law, X Corp. has responded to the Committee.…
— Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) April 15, 2024
Musk commented that United States laws prevent from participating in corruption that violates the laws of other countries – and Elon adds: This is what Alexandre de Moraes is ‘ordering’ X to do.
United States laws prevent from participating in corruption that violates the laws of other countries, which is what @Alexandre is demanding that we do https://t.co/T6bIQqwtjF
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2024
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When Globalist and Euro-fanatic Donald Tusk was again elected Prime Minister of Poland, it was no secret that he was on a mission to enact all the failed Brussels policies: climate alarmism, unchecked mass migration, LGBT indoctrination… and, of course, abortion.
While Tusk is still licking his wounds from the electoral whiplash of seeing the former government party, the Conservative PiS, be the most voted in the local elections, he is nevertheless pressing hard with the ‘mission’ and, as we shall see later in this piece, is beginning to harvest the monetary rewards.
Today, it arises that Poland’s parliament has sent four different bills on liberalizing abortion laws to a special bipartisan committee for consideration.
This signals the cooperation between ruling coalition parties – despite deep divisions over the matter.
Reuters reported:
“‘We promised to stop bickering and we kept our word … We did it out of respect for democracy and concern for the durability of the coalition. Now we leave the fate of these bills in the hands of the committee members’, parliament speaker Szymon Holownia wrote on X after Friday’s vote.”
What Reuters disingenuously calls ‘women’s rights’ are very high on the agenda in Tusk’s Poland.
Under the previous nationalist government, the country enacted a near-total ban on abortion in 2021, ’embedding conservative social values in law during its eight-year rule’.
Now, take a look at how the news agency equates Globalists with ‘moderates’ as they rush to kill babies in the womb.
“Since winning election in October, Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s broad coalition encompassing the moderate left and right has reinstated public funding for in-vitro fertilisation and voted to change rules on access to emergency contraception.
However, the issue of abortion remains divisive, resulting in the three coalition parties presenting four bills on the matter: two allowing terminations without restrictions until 12 weeks of pregnancy and one de-penalising the procedure.
The fourth bill, proposed by Holownia’s Christian democratic Third Way party, reinstates the right to abortion in cases of fetal abnormalities, returning to the situation before a 2020 constitutional court ruling banned such procedures.”
Under present Polish law, abortion is legal only in the case of rape, incest, or a danger to the woman’s health or life.
The four new bills will now be debated by the special parliamentary commission.
But there is a catch: it is widely expected that current President Andrzej Duda, a conservative ally of the former ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, would veto any changes to abortion legislation.
So, as Tusk carries on with the dirty work, Brussels is making sure he feels appreciated.
The European Union has just disbursed 6.3 billion euros (about $6.7 billion) to Poland.
The funds are a part of the 27-nation bloc’s post-pandemic recovery fund, and it’s ‘the biggest single transfer ever to the country.’
Associated Press reported in the way we would expect:
“Poland’s former national conservative government, voted out of power in October, made changes to the judiciary which the EU said violated democratic checks and balances, and so decided to block the money.
The European Commission had said at the time Poland must meet certain “milestones” to guarantee the independence of the judiciary to get the funds. Brussels emphasized that an independent judiciary is vital to respecting the EU’s democratic norms, while some also argue that independent courts boost investors’ confidence in the country’s ability to adjudicate commercial disputes.”
But are the funds connected to the abortion legislation? Am I not making this up? Look at this part of the AP reporting in bold characters and notice the usual euphemisms.
“Poland’s pro-European coalition of three center-left parties led by current Prime Minister Donald Tusk won parliamentary elections and took over in December. It succeeded the nationalist Law and Justice party that had ruled for eight years and introduced changes to the justice system, reproductive rights and the media that put Poland on a collision course with the EU.”
The Commission announced in February that it would start releasing funds, confident in promises by the pro-EU Tusk to restore democratic norms.”
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Tensions are running high in the Parliament of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, as a massive brawl erupted during the ‘debate’ of a polemic new bill.
The confrontation consisted of multiple fistfights that broke out among lawmakers today (15) as a parliamentary committee was supposed to be debating a bill on “foreign agents”.
Critics say the proposed legislation is modeled on draconian legislation in neighboring Russia.
Reuters reported:
“Video from inside the parliament building in the capital Tbilisi showed a brief but violent brawl between lawmakers after the chairman of the chamber’s legal affairs committee appeared to strike the leader of the United National Movement opposition party, which opposes the bill.
The governing Georgian Dream bloc last month announced that it supported the legislation, which still needs to pass other approval stages before it can become law.
The law would require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from overseas to register as “foreign agents” and submit to monitoring by the justice ministry, or else face hefty fines.”
The 2012 Russian law that opponents compare their legislation to is said to be used ‘to crack down on Russian civil society and independent media’.
Givi Mikanadze, ‘Georgian Dream’ lawmaker:
“Georgian society absolutely deserves to know which organisations are being financed, from which sources. We are talking about transparency and having an obligation (to the Georgian people).”
President Salome Zourabichvili will repertedly veto the bill, as she feels it endangers Georgia’s hopes of joining the EU and NATO.
Barrons reported:
“The scuffle came as dozens of Georgians rallied outside parliament against the proposed law, which they argue undermines Georgia’s bid for European Union membership.
“Georgia’s society is strong enough not to allow the country to slide into Russian-styled authoritarianism,” Saba Gotua, an architect, said.
‘We will not let Georgian Dream waste Georgia’s historic chance to become an EU member’.”
Georgian Parliament ‘debates’ the ‘Foreign Agents’ law: pic.twitter.com/m11qqn1VCm
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 15, 2024
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A large crowd of angry Christians gathered outside the Assyrian Church in Sydney, Australia, where police are holding the man who stabbed four people during a church service.
People are in a near-riot outside the church, seemingly wanting to lynch the knifeman, who is now in police custody.
Restrained by parishioners, the apparent Islamist terrorist who attacked Assyrian Orthodox Bishop Mar Mari reportedly said in Arabic: ‘if He wasn’t criticizing my Prophet (Muhammad) and my religion (Islam), I wouldn’t have come or attacked’.
Following the attack on Assyrian Bishop H.G Mar Mari Emmanuel in Sydney, a crowd of hundreds of Angry Assyrians gathered at the church demanding that the police hand over the attacker to them.
Sydney Police surrounded the Nestorian Christian temple, fearing that the Assyrians might lynch and kill the Terrorist
Telegraph reported:
“Police said they had arrested the suspect, and neither the priest’s injuries, nor those of three other people who were wounded, are thought to be life-threatening. Following the incident, hundreds of people gathered outside the church in west Sydney with videos on social media showing crowds chanting ‘bring him out’ and ‘an eye for an eye’.
One video appeared to show a ladder being used to shatter a window of the church, while police were allegedly forced to use tear gas to enable officers to get away from the area after a perimeter they had constructed was breached by rioters, reports claimed. New South Wales police urged members of the public to ‘avoid’ the area.”
Chris Minns, the New South Wales premier, has called for “calm” amid “disturbing” scenes in Sydney.
‘Disturbing scenes tonight in Wakeley tonight’, Mr Minns said. ‘My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and first responders who are working to keep us safe’.”
Watch: Restrained by parishioners, the Islamist terrorist who attacked Bishop Mar Mari reportedly said in Arabic: “if He wasn’t criticising my Prophet (Muhammad) and my religion (Islam), I wouldn’t have come or attacked”
Restreained by parishioners, the Islamist terrorist who attacked Bishop Mar Mari reportedly said in Arabic: “if He wasn’t criticising my Prophet (Muhammad) and my religion (islam), I wouldn’t have come or attacked” pic.twitter.com/Lo4L7V8Ebh
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 15, 2024
Watch: Christians rising up in Sydney after brutal attack on Orthodox Bishop.
Christians rising up in Sydney after brutal attack on an Orthodox Bishop @Chriscoveries on the ground pic.twitter.com/u0Yw5VFgZm
— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) April 15, 2024
Watch: Australian riot police force crowd away from church where Bishop Mar Mari was stabbed.
BREAKING: Australian riot police force crowd away from church where Bishop Mar Mari was stabbed
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— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) April 15, 2024
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Two days after six people were killed in a Sydney shopping mall by a serial stabber – who ended up shot death by a female police officer – the horror has visited the Australian metropolis yet again.
Bishop Emmanuel became notorious during the ‘pandemic’ when he slammed Sydney’s Covid lockdown as ‘mass slavery’ and claimed vaccines are futile because living ‘normally’ will boost immunity.
Daily Mail reported:
‘A bishop and several worshippers have been attacked in another stabbing rampage to rock Sydney.
Bishop Mari Emmanuel was preaching at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in Sydney’s west on Monday just after 7 pm when a man dressed in black walked up to the altar and allegedly stabbed him multiple times.
Horrifying footage of the incident, which was being broadcast live on the church’s YouTube page, shows Bishop Emmanuel look up in astonishment as the attacker suddenly rains down blows on his face and head.
Early reports suggest at least two others were also allegedly stabbed in the ensuing tussle.”
Metro reported:
“A prominent Christian leader has been stabbed on a live stream in a church in Wakeley church in Western Sydney.
The bishop was later pictured being taken to an ambulance in a stretcher.
Several worshippers have reportedly also been attacked by the knifeman.”
Mirror reported:
“A bishop and several worshippers have reportedly been attacked in another mass stabbing in Sydney.
Footage shows the moment that Bishop Mari Emmanuel was preaching at The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in Sydney’s west on Monday evening when a knifeman walked up to the altar and stabbed him multiple times.
The video was broadcast live on the church’s YouTube page, and it shows the bishop looking up in shock as the man suddenly starts striking him with the knife. He appeared to be stabbed in the face and the head in the horrifying incident.”
SYDNEY SHOCKED BY ANOTHER MASS STABBING. pic.twitter.com/BhSHc0nj1X
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 15, 2024
Bishop Mari Emmanuel has recently come into the world’s focus because of his words supporting President Donald Trump:
“We cannot let any fools come into the White House anymore’.
“When America goes Christian will be the number one persecuted group by the next superpower that’s China.’
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 15, 2024
THIS IS A DEVELOPPING STORY. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DEVELOPMENTS.
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The German governing coalition is an unmitigated train wreck, with a grand total of 17% of citizens polled favoring it.
Led by Olaf Scholz, the most unpopular Chancellor in recent history, the coalition spends most of the time fighting against itself.
Now, Transport Minister Volker Wissing has attracted backlash from within his own ranks after he ‘threatened’ to impose weekend driving bans in the summer.
The move would be meant to conform to the ‘climate protection law,’ and it’s yet another latest dispute within Berlin’s failing coalition over their climate alarmist obsession with ‘decarburizing.’
Reuters reported:
“Greenhouse emissions of Europe’s biggest economy fell to the lowest level in 70 years in 2023, but the transport sector has been consistently failing to meet its climate targets.
According to the current climate protection law, the ministry responsible for underperforming sectors must launch an immediate program to put them back on track.”
Wissing has resisted introducing such a program for the sector. He says incoming amendments to the ‘climate protection law’ allow the sector to ‘miss its CO2 cuts’ target if Germany’s total emissions target is met.
“The transport ministry said reforming the sector is more challenging than other areas of the economy because it affects people’s everyday lives which cannot be changed quickly.”
The ‘traffic light’ government coalition between the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and pro-business FDP is negotiating the amendments but has not yet reached an agreement.
So Wissing is putting the population against his coalition partners – and he is doing that by actually disclosing out loud what their insane plans are.
Pushing his coalition partners to quickly approve the amendment changes, Wissing said he would have to enforce a ban on driving to meet the current climate law requirements if the amendments do not come into force before mid-July.
“‘A corresponding reduction in traffic performance would only be possible through restrictive measures that are difficult to communicate to the population, such as nationwide and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays’, Wissing wrote in a letter dated Thursday to coalition parliamentary group leaders.
The letter was heavily criticized by the coalition partners and environmental groups as irresponsible scaremongering at a time when Germans’ appetite for more green policy has seemed subdued.”
The transport ministry said that the minister’s letter was not a threat, but an opinion that the parliament should ‘live up to its responsibility and agree upon the amendment’.
“‘It is not responsible for a minister to stir up unfounded fears’, Green Party parliamentary group leader Katharina Droege said on Friday, calling on the minister to make sensible suggestions for more climate protection in the sector.”
There is hardly any need for opposition when they are at each other’s throats like that.
The Greens were joined in their criticism by the Social Democrats (SPD) who said that ‘scaremongering through absurd proposals does not help climate protection in the transport sector at all’.
LOOK: FDP party leader and Finance Minister Christian Lindner: supported Wissing’s threat:
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The feared night of Iranian attacks against Israel came and went – and many are left with the feeling that it could have been much worse and the fear that perhaps it will still be.
To retaliate against the air raid against its embassy in Damascus that killed 7 IRGC officers, Iran launched a massive attack that has been estimated to have consisted of 185 drones, 110 surface-to-surface missiles, and 36 cruise missiles in their attack on Israel.
The result of the attacks seems not to have been as terrible as could have been expected, with the missile defenses and the interception by military fighters having worked remarkably well, prompting feeble US President Joe Biden to tell Netanyahu that he should consider tonight’s events a ‘win’ for Israel.
Watch: Missiles reportedly arrive in Nabatin air base:
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 14, 2024
The most damaging missile arrivals seem to have taken place in Nabatim air force base in Negev Desert.
The air base was hit by at least 15 missiles last night, but it seems that it still operational, despite reports from Arab media that claim otherwise. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) published a video of the landing of a F-35 Hadir Fighter jet from the sky defense mission.
The F-35 flew a 7-hour-long wave of sorties intercepting and downing Iranian UAVs and missiles over Jordan, Syria, and Israel.
Watch: Rockets fly from Iran toward Israel.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 14, 2024
Iranians took to the streets to celebrate what they saw as a great achievement over their sworn enemy.
Meanwhile, Israel has declared that it will respond and is already debating military options, which include long-range strikes on military bases or even nuclear installations in Iran.
It is estimated that Israel spent half a billion dollars in just a few hours in the defense against the attack.
According to Israeli sources, Israel will retaliate against Iran ‘in the next 48 hours’.
Meanwhile, a poster appears in Tehran with the following threat: ‘The next slap is louder. Your next mistake will be the end of your fake country’.
It bears reminding that Israel still hasn’t completed its military operation against Hamas, so engaging in a wider, more dangerous war seems unadvisable.
Watch: Israeli air defenses work over Ashkelon.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 14, 2024
There is also a very real and tangible fear in the Biden administration that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu may be aiming to draw the US into a regional war.
While the U.S. military shot down a good portion of the drones fired from Iran using assets in Erbil, Iraq, Gulf States, and everything under CENTCOM, it has already announced that it will have nothing to do with any further attacks on Iranian territory.
But whatever Biden says, there is a danger it will be sucked into a real apocalyptic war, in its duplicitous position of defending Israel while simultaneously releasing billions of dollars of blocked funds to Iran a mere month before the attack.
While our worst fears have not materialized – yet – there’s no denying that an immense escalation just occurred. The world is more dangerous by the day, and no one is happy about it – but the Military Industrial complex.
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A Haiti that exists mostly in the elegant salons of the Caribbean Community CARICOM is trying to implement an unelected nine-member transitional presidential council after repeated promises.
The problem with that is that the real Haiti that exists on the street level is completely removed from the proceedings, and the unabated violence makes it unlikely that the musings of the elegant leaders will ever become a reality.
Whatever remains of Haiti’s government has finally formalized the creation of the transitional council, a long-delayed move intended to be the first step towards restoring some semblance of security and order to the gang-ravaged Caribbean country.
To give an idea of how hard that will be, the names of the new council members have not even been announced since it would amount to a death sentence for them – the leader of the rebel gangs that control 80% of the capital Port-au-Prince, Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier, has threatened them and their families.
A time frame for installing the council and replacing outgoing Prime Minister Ariel Henry is also not divulged.
Reuters reported:
“Indicating the unelected Henry will initially retain oversight of proceedings, the decree allows the current prime minister to make the “necessary arrangements” ahead of the new appointments. Those chosen must then “participate, in agreement with the prime minister, in the formation of an inclusive ministers’ cabinet.”
It calls on the council to help speed the deployment of international troops Henry requested in 2022 to aid police in their battles with armed and increasingly powerful gangs.”
Almost 100k people have fled Port-au-Prince in the last month alone. Basic goods are lacking, as key ports remain closed.
“The decree, published in Haiti’s official gazette, names the nine political parties or social sectors to be represented on the council, including two non-voting observers, confirming an announcement made last month.”
The government’s decree stipulates that the council will be headquartered in the National Palace – a building that has come repeatedly under fire in the past weeks.
After the decree was published, it was ‘business as usual’: more gun fights took place, with a police officer shot dead.
It could still take quite some time before the council is installed, given the difficulties of processing legal documents.
“‘It could be very difficult’, [former justice minister Camille] LeBlanc told Reuters, adding that while he doubted the council’s prospects, he supported it if it could move the country past the current deadlock, help reopen ports and bring essential food supplies to a country facing acute hunger.
‘To declare the transition council must ‘rapidly’ name a prime minister is utopian’, added.”
Many believe that the outgoing Prime Minister Ariel Henry – who can’t even manage to return to the country, is disrupting the implementation of the Council process in order to hold onto power.
CARICOM leaders welcomed the new decree, reiterating the need ‘to urgently address the security situation’ so that schools and businesses can reopen and people can travel freely and access basic supplies.
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The rapidly changing situation in Africa’s Sahel region saw the collapse of French post-colonial rule, but American influence is also at stake in the wake of coups in multiple countries, ushering into power military juntas that are developing bilateral relations with Russia.
In the case of Niger, this situation escalated up to the point where the Niger Junta Severed the ongoing US Military Cooperation Agreement and Ordered its troops and civilian personnel out of the Country
A spokesman for the Niger military junta, Major Amadou Abdramane, stated clearly, with no margin for interpretation: ‘The American bases and civilian personnel cannot stay on Nigerien soil any longer.’
Since then, the US has been scrambling to assess the future of its ‘counterterrorism operations’ in the Sahel.
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Now, it arises that a crowd took to the streets of Niger’s capital today (13) to demand the departure of U.S. troops, mere days after the Junta welcomed new Russian military instructors.
Reuters reported:
“Marching arm in arm through central Niamey, the crowd waved Nigerien flags in a demonstration that recalled anti-French protests that spurred the withdrawal of France’s forces from Niger last year after the army seized power in a coup.
One hand-written sign in English read ‘USA rush out of Niger’, in a show of support for the junta and its decision in mid-March to revoke an accord that had allowed around 1,000 U.S. military personnel to operate on its territory out of two bases.
[…] Until the coup, Niger had remained a key security partner of France and the United States, which used it as a base as part of international efforts to curb a decade-old Islamist insurgency in West Africa’s Sahel region.”
The Niger junta has its counterparts in Mali and Burkina Faso in the process of ending military deals with the Western powers, quitting the regional bloc ECOWAS and strengthening diplomatic ties with Russia.
“The arrival on Wednesday of Russian military instructors and equipment was further evidence of the junta’s openness to closer cooperation with Moscow, which is seeking to boost its influence in Africa.”
Some people heard in the Reuters report do not want the Russian defense assistance to morph into a permanent presence.
“Student Souleymane Ousmane: ‘This is how the French and the Americans and all the other countries settled in Niger — from military cooperation, they ended up occupying large parts of our country’.”
At this point it’s unclear when US troops will leave. One of the main programs in Niger is a drone base known as Air Base 201, which cost more than $100 million.
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While the whole world looks to the sky in anxious anticipation of the expected Iranian retaliation against Israel for the strike on its Damascus embassy, trouble started in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship, days after Tehran said it could close the crucial shipping route.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that an IRGC helicopter boarded the Portuguese flagged MSC Aries and taken into Iranian waters.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Tehran of piracy and called on the West to list the IRGC as a terrorist organization.
Reuters reported:
“MSC, which operates the Aries, confirmed Iran had seized the ship and said it was working “with the relevant authorities” for its safe return and the wellbeing of its 25 crew.
MSC leases the Aries from Gortal Shipping, an affiliate of Zodiac Maritime, Zodiac said in a statement, adding that MSC is responsible for all the vessel’s activities. Zodiac is partly owned by Israeli businessman Eyal Ofer.
Video on Iranian news channels purporting to show the seizure included a figure abseiling from a helicopter on to a ship. Reuters was able to verify that the ship in the video was the MSC Aries but not the date it was recorded.”
The incident is yet another unintended consequence of the war between Israel and Hamas.
Israel and its ally the United States have clashed repeatedly with Iranian proxy groups in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
“Iran has threatened to retaliate for suspected Israeli airstrikes on its consulate in Syria’s capital Damascus on April 1 that killed seven Revolutionary Guards officers including two senior commanders.
On Tuesday the naval head of the Revolutionary Guards, Alireza Tangsiri, said it could close the Strait of Hormuz, which lies between Iran and the United Arab Emirates, if deemed necessary.”
The Western-led Joint Maritime Information Center said vessels navigating the Strait of Hormuz, should exercise caution and ‘not loiter’.
Associated Press reported:
“Iran’s state-run IRNA said a special forces unit of the Guard’s navy carried out the attack on the vessel, the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries, a container ship associated with London-based Zodiac Maritime.
[…] A crew member on the ship can be heard saying: “Don’t come out.” He then tells his colleagues to go to the ship’s bridge as more commandos come down on the deck. One commando can be seen kneeling above the others to provide them potential cover fire.
The video corresponded with known details of the MSC Aries. The helicopter used also appeared to be a Soviet-era Mil Mi-17 helicopter, which both the Guard and the Iranian-backed Houthis of Yemen have used in the past to conduct commando raids on ships.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz:
“Iran ‘is a criminal regime that supports Hamas’ crimes and is now conducting a pirate operation in violation of international law’, Katz said.”
Watch the IRGC commandos board the ship to seize it.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 13, 2024
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When Ukraine approved its new mobilization law, most of the coverage revolved around the fact that it diminished the age for conscription from 27 to 25 years old.
But one sinister aspect that has passed almost unnoticed is that the military service limit provision was scrapped, meaning that – as it stands now – the Ukrainian soldiers are expected to stay in service until the war ends – unless they are injured or die before that.
Ukraine’s parliament finally adopted the mobilization law after months of debates and almost 4,300 revisions.
It left the troops ‘dumbfounded’ because earlier versions of the law had envisaged demobilization after 36 months of service.
Al Jazeera reported:
“Without the limits – and with the failure of last year’s counteroffensive and months-long delays of Western military aid – they realize that their service may only end with their disability or death.
‘The government humiliated and offended them’, [soldier wife] Alina, who lives in Kyiv with two children, told Al Jazeera. ‘They’re not eternal. They want to see their children grow, to be at home’, she said.”
The demobilization provision was cut at the request of Ukraine’s top military command.
“’The enemy outnumbers us seven to 10 times’, Joint Forces Commander Yurii Sodol told lawmakers on Wednesday, urging them to pass the law.”
The law was passed with the support of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ‘Servant of the People’ party.
While the law boosts pay for front-line service and death benefits for families, both the troops and political opposition lambasted the scrapping of service limits.
Parliament urged the government to develop an additional bill on demobilization and rotation of servicemen.
Unsurprisingly, the scrapping of service limits drove seasoned soldiers mad. There are even people who started their service back in 2014 the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk Republics.
“’Who will I be next? Do I have to always remain a serviceman? Has my life been that insignificant? What makes other people’s lives more meaningful and less worthy of sacrifice than mine?’ [psychologist Artem Osipyan] asked rhetorically.”
Younger servicemen also find the situation unacceptable, and the uncertainty about demobilization is depressing and demoralizing soldiers and family alike.
“’You don’t have to be at war until you die, you need to know when your service ends’, the wife of a soldier stationed in the eastern town of Kramatorsk told Al Jazeera.”
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The great European Farmers’ Revolt is still ongoing, with agricultural producers mobilizing in an unprecedented scale in most countries.
The demands from the food producers is pretty much the same all over, and it centers around the failed, crippling green environmental policies, emanating from Brussels, that threaten their subsistence and may also cause food insecurity and a major manufactured famine.
But some countries have an additional sticking beef: the cheap, low quality unregulated Ukrainian grain flowing through their borders.
This week, two of its neighbors, Hungary and Poland, saw developments in the battle against this economic invasion.
The conservative, nationalist government of Hungary is already moving on its own to try to protect its farming sector, but the new Globalist and Eurofanatic Polish government is still dragging its feet on the issue.
Hungary will place additional restrictions on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products, trying to shield Hungarian farmers from market fluctuations caused by cheaper Ukrainian imports.
Associated Press reported:
“Agricultural Minister István Nagy told a news conference that a 2022 European Union decision to allow for duty-free imports from Ukraine, meant to help keep its economy afloat after Russia’s invasion, had led to ‘severe oversupply and significantly low prices’ in the European agricultural market.
He blamed the EU and its executive commission for failing to protect European farmers who could not compete with the cheaper imports, and said Hungary would pass additional protections ‘in its national competence’.”
‘Brussels and the European Commission have betrayed Hungarian farmers and are supporting Ukrainian oligarchs instead’, Nagy said.”
Hungary has not provided weapons to Kyiv or allowed their transfer across its eastern border, is against sanctions on Moscow and fiercely opposed EU financial assistance to Kiev.
Processed products made from Ukrainian grain would also be subject to the restrictions.
“Hungary last year introduced a ban on the import of 24 Ukrainian agricultural products, but said it would allow their transfer across its territory. The ban applied to grains, oil seeds, flour, cooking oil and several meat products. The government removed Ukrainian natural honey from the list last month.”
Not far from there, in Poland’s Subcarpathia province, right on the Ukraine border, farmers are still protesting, blocking the main highways out of the city of Mielec with tractors and other agricultural machinery.
During previous protests, farmers only slowed down these routes, but now it appears to be an escalating total block.
Sputnik reported:
“’The government eats and has fun, and farmers go bankrupt’, ‘Stop Ukrainian imports’, ‘Stop the EU Green Deal’, ‘Stop restrictions on livestock breeding in Poland’ – the protesters’ banners read.
Farmers have begun protesting in the central Polish city of Lodz. The protesters have brought large agricultural equipment, mostly tractors, into the city, blocking several major intersections.
‘I am a farmer, not a slave’, ‘Stop agricultural products from Ukraine’, ‘No farmers. No food. No future’, are some of the slogans of today’s protests.”
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The depth of the United States infiltration by communist operatives is a grim reality that hasn’t even begun to be scratched.
But if the tale of the former US ambassador to Bolivia is any indication, it’s even deeper than we may suspect.
Hidden in plain sight during the Bill Clinton administration, Victor Manuel Rocha held several high-ranking posts in embassies around the world, and even worked at the White House.
His more than 20 years in ‘public service’ were actually in the service of the Cuban Communist dictatorship.
Rocha is a Colombian-born us career diplomat, and he always portrayed himself as a ‘Cuba hardliner’, someone opposed to the Fidel Castro regime, his real secret master.
Now, the former ambassador to Bolivia has been sentenced to 15 years in Federal prison.
New York Post reported:
“Miami-based US District Judge Beth Bloom accepted Victor Manuel Rocha’s guilty plea on two counts, including acting as an agent of a foreign government, before handing down his decade-and-a-half-long sentence and a $500,000 fine, the maximum penalty allowed.”
After four decades serving Cuba in a mission that he described as ‘enormous’, and that ‘strengthened the Revolution immensely’, Rocha was indicted last December.
Attorney General Merrick Garland described the case as ‘one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the US government by a foreign agent’ – we may add ‘that we know of so far’.
“’Today’s plea and sentencing brings to an end more than four decades of betrayal and deceit by the defendant’, Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen said Friday.
‘Rocha admitted to acting as an agent of the Cuban government at the same time he held numerous positions of trust in the U.S. government, a staggering betrayal of the American people and an acknowledgement that every oath he took to the United States was a lie’, the Justice Department official added.”
After leaving the State Department, Rocha continued to spy, this time as an advisor to the US Southern Command, whose area of responsibility includes Cuba.
According to the Department of Justice, the spy gained access to nonpublic and classified information – and worse, developed the ability to affect US foreign policy.
“Rocha admitted that his involvement with Cuba’s intelligence service began in 1973 and continued until the time of his arrest – spanning his entire career in government.”
“He was arrested after a series of meetings with undercover FBI agents posing as Cuban intelligence officials, during which Rocha acknowledged the “decades” of spying he had done on behalf of Cuba, spanning “40 years.” Rocha referred to the US as “the enemy” and praised the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro during his meetings with the undercover FBI agents, according to the DOJ.”
The DOJ did not charge Rocha with espionage, a crime that is harder to prove but that would’ve carried a stiffer sentence.
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The battle between X-SpaceX-Tesla owner Elon Musk and the tyrannical Brazilian Supreme Court Justices is generating numerous developments in Latin America and all over the world.
So far, Musk’s tweets have generated almost 350 million views on X, catapulting the Brazilian censure overdrive to a much greater audience than one could dream for.
His courage and willingness to tackle this confrontation are starting to have a real impact in the political panorama of the Soputh American nation. Conservatives have embraced him in a major way.
And even the US House of Representatives seem to have joined the fray:
just received an inquiry from the US House of Representatives regarding actions taken in Brazil that were in violation of Brazilian law.
There were hundreds, if not thousands.
This is getting spicy ️
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2024
Milei went to Florida to meet Musk, and pledged his support with the legal proceedings in Brazil, according to Argentine spokesman Manuel Adorni.
Milei and Musk also ‘agreed to collaborate to promote free market solutions’.
Tupi Report on Telegram:
“Javier Milei and Elon Musk met at the Tesla plant in Austin, Texas, to reaffirm the personal and ideological harmony they displayed in their successive contacts on the social network (formerly Twitter).
The meeting showcased the similarities between the president and the powerful businessman regarding the importance of market freedom, the progress of countries, the need to eliminate bureaucratic obstacles, the development of technology, and the necessity of preserving the rules of the game.”
This was not the first Argentine movement to help with the conflict: Diana Mondino, the Argentine Chancellor, posted a hint of an offer of asylum to X employees in Brazil who have been threatened with imprisonment.
“This government will always work for Freedom. Freedom of expression and the freedom to live in a democracy.
We ratify that our country and by extension its embassies will, absolutely always, provide refuge to all those who are persecuted for sharing these values.”
Elon Musk liked the post.
Meanwhile, conservatives keep closing ranks around Musk, while socialists try to get the government to retaliate against him.
Outspoken conservative, Brazilian congresswoman Bia Kicis called Musk a hero.
“We think he is a hero for us, you know it’s incredible what he has been doing is really incredible.
We had no light at the end of the tunnel, and he happens to be this light now for us now. We are so grateful.”
Meanwhile, The Brazilian government’s Secretariat of Communications (Secom) has suspended all Brazilian government institutional advertising on .
Since the beginning of Lula’s government in 2023, the Palácio do Planalto has spent over R$ 4.2 million on advertising on the platform.
The decision was prompted by a campaign coordinated by Sleeping Giants (an NGO funded by George Soro’s Open Society).
Other political players around the world also chimed in. Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, stated that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should be blocked on because he has the ‘habit of censoring and distorting the truth’:
“If anyone should be blocked or censored on X, it should be you, @LulaOficial. You have a habit of censoring and distorting the truth, so it’s no surprise that you are trying to censor others.”
Independent Dutch member of the European Parliament, Rob Roos asserts that ‘Brazil is no longer a democracy.’
“Most people are not aware [of the problems happening in Brazil]. So it’s very important for us to expose this. We will denounce what is happening now. With all this suppression, and freedom of expression, disappearing. […] It’s important for people to understand that Brazil is no longer a democracy.
We also know that there was interference in the [Brazilian] elections by Moraes on social media, on Twitter. And I’m glad that Elon Musk is exposing all of this. Freedom of expression is the foundation of the West. […]
I am aware [of the powers these judges possess]. Lula is just a puppet. And Moraes, well, he is the architect of evil. Now, we have to raise awareness about this, and also among European leaders.”
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American-born Russell Bonner Bentley, call sign ‘Texas’, has been reported to be missing in the Donetsk oblast.
Bentley has been covering Russia’s special military operation zone as a war correspondent.
64 year-old ‘Texas’ joined the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) militia as a fighter in 2014, fighting foe the region’s freedom against Ukrainian forces, having later become a war correspondent.
He is feared to have been the latest journalist targeted for retaliation by Kiev’s services, like Daria Dugina, killed in a car bomb, Vladlem Tatarsky, killed with a ‘gift bomb’, or the American Gonzalo Lira, who dies in an Ukrainian cell after reportedly being denied medical attention.
Do conservative Americans even care? On the one hand, he is a communist – so it’s not like we’d be asking him for geopolitical tips or anything.
But on the other, at this point he was a non-combatant and a guy who really cares about that people and that land that he made his home.
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His work, whether we agreed with him or not, shone a light on the struggle of the Donbas people targeted by Kiev’s attacks for eight years.
Through his reporting, he put a human face in the Russian citizens of this contested region, allowing the public to go beyond Vladimir Putin’s figure and engage the actual human issues at play in this war theater.
Mash in Donbas reported (translated from the Russian):
“The police are looking for an American who disappeared after shelling in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
On Monday, Russell Bentley and his wife came to the executive committee to re-register documents. While we were standing in line, we saw a huge column of smoke after the arrival. Russell rushed to help the locals and soon stopped communicating. According to the wife, at that moment she became worried and went to the place herself.
‘There I found only my husband’s car, in which were his baseball cap, glasses and a broken phone. The investigator has already opened a missing person case – they are looking for Bentley. If you saw him or know anything, be sure to notify the police’.”
From Bentley’s Telegram channel (translated from the Russian):
“The media company “Russian Hour”, which recently made a film about Russell Bentley (call sign “Texas”), WILL PAY A REWARD to those who have reliable information about the whereabouts of “Texas”, who saw (and can describe in detail) or could film the arrest on their phone/ kidnapping of Russell Bentley in the Avtobaza area in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk on April 8, 2024 after 16:15 and/or knows about the location of Russell’s white Niva state. number M985AN 180, which was parked on April 8 after 16:15 at the Avtobaza public stop in the Petrovsky district in front of the “Products” stall.
ON APRIL 8 AT 15:30, RUSSELL AND MY WIFE ARRIVED TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE IN THE PETROVSKY DISTRICT OF DONETSK FOR PERSONAL AFFAIRS AND FOUND UP CLOSE TO THE AREA OF SHEET FROM THE APU VEHICLE BASE AND THE ADJACENT PRIVATE SECTOR. RUSSELL DECIDED TO GO TO FIND OUT IF THE WOUNDED WOULD NEED HIS HELP. I COULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET IN CONTACT WITH HIM ANYMORE. THE SEARCH CONTINUES AND ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS DISAPPEARANCE IS IMPORTANT!!!”
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‘Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves…’ Those were the days for the United Kingdom, as its fearless vessels crossed the planet furthering the British Empire ‘on which the sun never sets’.
But O, how things have changed – up until the point where the UK has lost so much of its influence in the world, and – according to former Defense Minister David Miliband, has become ‘one of many mid-level powers.’
Not only that, but lately, the British warships have been plagued by many problems described as a ‘nightmare that won’t end’.
But now, the British defense ministry means to install modern lasers on warships designed to ‘cheaply shoot down’ drones.
This is supposed to take place in 2027, under reforms designed to accelerate the deployment of this new technology.
Reuters reported:
“Britain’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) said that the lasers could fire at any target visible in the air at the cost of around 10 pounds ($12.52) a shot, and had equivalent accuracy to hitting a pound coin from a kilometer (0.62 mile) away.
The DragonFire lasers had previously been expected to be rolled out from 2032, and can use an intense beam of light to cut through a target, the MOD said, meaning it could prove to be a long-term low-cost alternative for shooting down drones.
‘In a more dangerous world, our approach to procurement is shifting with it … our widespread reforms will deliver the latest kit and weaponry for our Armed Forces faster’, Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said in a statement on the laser, known as DragonFire.”
‘DragonFire shows the best of the UK at the forefront of military technology, and we will not delay in getting it in the hands of our military to face down the threats we’re facing’.”
The laser is a precise and cost-effective way of targeting drones, which in modern warfare have become a cheap and deadly way to take out expensive military targets that cost hundreds or thousands of times more than the drones.
Not only can drones destroy high-tech weapon systems, but there’s also the problem that it’s expensive to shoot them down.
Sea Viper missiles used by Britain to shoot down Houthi drones in the Red Sea can cost as much as an estimated 1 million pounds ($1.26 million) each.
This comes at a point where the legendary British navy is NOT in its ‘finest hour,’ primarily because of lingering problems with UK aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales.
The two ships have faced an endless number of technical malfunctions and operational restrictions.
Besides that, the Royal Navy’s auxiliary fleet, which provides the fleet with supplies at sea, is in an ‘even worse mess’ than many could think, according to the Telegraph.
Slavyangrad reported:
“Due to the lack of personnel, many vessels are not operating, with some being in the state of ‘extended readiness’ and other believed never to be deployed, as per the outlet.
According to Sky News, the eagerness of the British civilian sailors to strike due to a significant decrease in pay could affect both the nation’s military operations on a global scale, as well as NATO’s activities.
Experts believe the situation with the navy reflects the UK’s internal crises, namely the political and economic problems the country is facing today.”
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 12, 2024
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The Canadian public inquiry into foreign interference is ongoing, with its first report expected to be tabled next month.
But the stark conclusions of a February 2023 top-secret intelligence briefing have leaked: “China ‘clandestinely and deceptively’ interfered in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal elections, seeking to support candidates favorable to Beijing’s strategic interests.
The activity was aimed at discouraging Canadians, particularly Chinese Canadians, from voting for the Conservative Party, which it viewed as having an anti-Beijing platform, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service reported in the February 2023 briefing.”
Quebec judge Marie-Josee Hogue leads the inquiry, which has interviewed more than 40 community members, politicians, and federal election officials.
Finally, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – the greatest beneficiary of the whole scheme – was called in to testify.
He tried to sell the version that, while China tried to meddle in the last two Canadian elections, the results were nonetheless ‘not impacted’, and it was ‘improbable’ Beijing preferred any one party over another.
Reuters reported:
“In sworn testimony before a commission conducting a public inquiry into alleged foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian elections, Trudeau answered questions about intelligence briefings he had received and asserted the elections were ‘free and fair’.
Trudeau set up the commission last year under pressure from opposition legislators unhappy about media reports on China’s possible role in the elections.”
During the 2021 campaign alone, it’s estimated that Chinese interference cost the Conservative Party up to nine seats.
“Asked about an intelligence report about Chinese officials in Canada expressing a preference in 2021 for a Liberal minority government due to the perception that minority governments would be more limited in enacting anti-China policies, Trudeau said the report had not reached him.
‘While individual (Chinese) officials may well have expressed a preference or another, the impression we got and consistently would get is that … it just would seem very improbable that the Chinese government itself would have a preference in the election’, Trudeau said.”
Canada’s domestic spy agency has already told the commission that China ‘clandestinely and deceptively interfered’ in both the elections.
This is the strongest evidence of Chinese meddling in Canadian politics, but hey, Trudeau apparently wants the Canadian public to believe that the interference didn’t interfere all that much, after all – even if people in his own family foundation are equally embroidered in Chinese donations.
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The saga of the arrest and imprisonment of former Ecuadorian VP Jorge Glas just had yet another surprising and shocking development, as news arose that he attempted suicide and is now on a hunger strike at a prison in Guayaquil to protest his arrest.
Glas, who has been convicted of corruption for the third time, having previously served four years in prison, had sought asylum in the Mexican embassy in Quito when – in an unprecedented turn of events – an elite group of the Ecuadorian army RAIDED the Mexican embassy in Quito, to arrest him.
Armed Soldiers of the Ecuadorian Army, in black vehicles, broke the external doors of the Mexican diplomatic headquarters and accessed the courtyards.
Glas was arrested and taken into custody, and an explosive diplomatic war between Ecuador and Mexico began.
Glas is taken out of the Mexican embassy. pic.twitter.com/YFO34nSDEo
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 6, 2024
A few days later, another dramatic chapter: it was revealed Glas was taken to hospital after he fell ill at a prison in Guayaquil.
This took place just hours after his lawyers complained they had been unable to contact him.
SNAI prison agency said Glas had been taken to the naval hospital in Guayaquil around noon local time. Glas fell ill ‘after refusing to eat food provided (in the jail) during the last 24 hours,” the statement said’.
But that was NOT the full story, as we learn now.
Reuters reported:
“‘We have confirmed that the medical emergency was a suicide attempt. He has not eaten anything and is on a hunger strike’, [former President Rafael] Correa said in a message on X, which was confirmed by Vera in a whatsapp message.”
Glas was discharged from hospital on Tuesday and returned to prison.
Tensions between Mexico and Ecuador peaked after Quito declared the Mexican ambassador persona non grata, retaliating against ‘unfortunate’ comments by leftist Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Obrador later divulged video clips from inside the embassy showing a door violently forced open as well as a man, who appeared to be Glas, being carried out by his arms and legs.
| ÚLTIMA HORA: México revela el video de como fue el operativo para la captura de Jorge Glas en la embajada de ese país en Ecuador. Aplaudo a Daniel Noboa y a la policía que sin un solo disparo detuvieron al corrupto ex vicepresidente narcosocialista. ¿Apoyas a Daniel Noboa? pic.twitter.com/ey9GDEAnln
— Eduardo Menoni (@eduardomenoni) April 9, 2024
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Last night, Ukraine was targeted yet again by another one in a seemingly endless series of massive strikes with missiles, drones and glide bombs.
As it has been the case lately, the strikes seem to have primarily targeted the energy grid – including in the capital Kiev.
Watch: Tripolskaya power plant near Kiev on fire after strike.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 11, 2024
Watch: Arrival of the Geran-2 drone near the UkrEnergo building.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 11, 2024
The Tripolskaya thermal power plant is the largest in the Kiev region, and it supplied energy to Kiev, Cherkasskaya and Zhytomyr regions. According to Ukrainian officials, it has been completely destroyed.
But perhaps the most relevant developments of the last few days has been on the ground assault targeting the fortified key city of Chasov Yar, in the Donetsk oblast.
Russian Federation forces have held to their foothold on the eastern outskirts of the city and are now in the process of expanding the bridgehead.
Watch: Chasov Yar is on fire. Artillery, missiles, drones and glide bombs target the city.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 11, 2024
Ukrainian Commander in Chief Oleksandr Syrsky started to transfer additional troops to the area, because the defenders are taking huge losses, and they must not only be replenished, but he also needs to find reserves for constant counterattacks.
Kiev is trying to retake the area of the eastern part of the ‘Canal’ district, as Russians took control of the first high-rise building.
All day long the air force bombed the complex of buildings of the vocational school, turned into an important defense point.
All day long, a fierce battle develops in the ‘blue Stupki’ canal.
Watch: armored vehicle destroyed along with the personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 11, 2024
Keeping with its ‘death by a thousand cuts’ strategy, the Russians are making the overpowered and outmaneuvered defenders to pull reserves to the area of Chasov Yar thereby simplifying the situation in neighboring areas.
If we take a bird’s eye view of the battle, it becomes clear how Russian army is advancing on Chasov Yar with a ‘triple strike’ tactic: simultaneously delivering a frontal attack from the east and with a double pincer movement along the flanks both in the south and in the north.
Watch: work of Russian air force in Chasov Yar area.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 11, 2024
Russian sources report that intercepted AFU radio traffic reveal constant requests by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for authorization to retreat, but the command’s orders is to stand ‘to the end’.
In the northern ‘pincer’ advance, the attackers entered the village Bogdanovka, occupying the outskirts of the settlement closest to Chyasov Yar.
This unfolds not unlike previous city sieges in this war, and by now, there are reportedly acts of insubordination by some of the Ukrainian troops.
A third assault brigade of the Azov Nazi battalion has yet again refused to obey a command’s order, this time to enter the city to hold it.
Brigade commanders reportedly already consider Chasov Yar lost for the Ukrainian military.
The Azov brigade had previously similarly refused to enter the key city of Avdeevka curing its conquest in February.
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Among the many different ways in which the war in Ukraine has disrupted the geopolitical realities in Europe, energy is certainly one of the most critical.
Nations have been scrambling to provide a steady power supply for both industrial needs and to keep the population warm and the lights on.
The massive sanctions against Moscow also meant that many in the old continent had to find new suppliers to substitute the inexpensive Russian gas.
In this context, the North Sea stands out as a vital area of interest.
We learn now that Britain and other countries with maritime borders on the North Sea signed an agreement to work together and protect offshore and underwater infrastructure.
The six countries involved are Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway and the Netherlands. They signed a declaration in which they jointly vow to share information to that end.
Reuters reported:
“Threats to undersea cables and pipelines have become a security focus for Western European countries following the September 2022 explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, built to ship gas from Russia to Germany across the Baltic Sea.”
NATO has expressed fears that Russia may sabotage undersea cables to retaliate against the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, and also to punish Western nations for arming Ukraine.
“‘The North Sea is the powerhouse driving Europe’s renewable and net zero ambitions, helping to bolster energy security on the continent. So, it’s crucial we protect its critical energy infrastructure now and in the future’, Andrew Bowie, British minister for nuclear and renewables, said.
‘Strengthening ties with our key northern European neighbours as we have today will do just that, ensuring the infrastructure is resilient against those who may seek to threaten or disrupt it’, he added.”
It should be noted that the Nordstream pipeline explosion in September 2022 affected gas flow into Germany and northern Europe. This caused gas prices to rise in several European nations.
The United States was widely blamed for this economic and environmental disaster.
Politico reported:
“Denmark’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities said the North Sea is becoming ‘a hub for critical infrastructure’, connecting European countries through power cables, gas pipes and telecommunications links.
‘This means that an increasing cross-border interdependence has emerged — and with it an increased risk of sabotage and unwanted attention from hostile actors’, the ministry said.”
In October 2023, a second gas pipeline, connecting Finland and Estonia, also in the Baltic Sea, was damaged in another ‘incident’.
Concerns over underwater sabotage and hybrid attacks have also skyrocketed in regards to the North Sea.
The six northern European countries will review their security measures, and aim to share information and knowledge.
“‘This joint declaration is an important foundation for ensuring security and is a clear example of our common goals. Together we are stronger’, said Norway’s Minister of Energy Terje Aasland in a statement.”
Belgian Minister for Justice and North Sea Paul Van Tigchelt:
“’The offshore and underwater infrastructure is assured of the same level of security across borders, instead of varying from country to country. We are committed to a uniform approach, a better exchange of information and reporting of incidents via a secure platform’, he said.”
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Unless you were brainwashed by the MSM Globalists, it was painful to follow the coverage of the last Argentine Presidential election, in which the winner Javier Milei, with his common sense economic ideas, was branded as ‘dangerous’ ‘radical,’ and the inevitable ‘far-right.’,
In the meantime, the Peronist socialists, legitimate heirs of the brutal dictator Juan Perón, were treated like the sensible choice – never mind that they destroyed the once-prosperous country and drove 60% of the citizens below the poverty line.
After all, socialists and Globalists are always the good guys for the crooked fake media.
Former President Alberto Fernández led a disastrous government and was so unpopular that he didn’t even run for reelection.
Now, it arises that may not have been just an extremely incompetent leader, but allegedly, also deeply corrupt.
The Argentine Justice has frozen the assets and has lifted the fiscal and banking secrecy of Fernández and several of his collaborators.
The actions are part of an investigation into alleged corruption regarding the contracting of State insurance during his Government.
ABC International reported:
“Judge Julián Ercolini of the national Federal Criminal and Correctional Court, has ordered the general [freezing] of Fernández’s assets and has lifted the tax and banking secrecy on his accounts in the case that investigates whether the president favored, for the contracting of State insurance, the husband of his private secretary.
Ercolini’s measure also covers another 32 people, [among] former officials, companies and cooperatives that are being investigated, and who will now not be able to sell or dispose of their assets.”
The decision affects one Héctor Martínez Sosa and his wife María Cantero, who was Fernández’s secretary.
For Judge Ercolini, this link raises credible suspicions that the former president played an important role in the intermediation between state entities and Nación Seguros.
“Fernández is being investigated for alleged irregularities regarding a decree that he signed in December 2021, by which he ordered that all public organizations must contract insurance with Nación Seguros , from the state-owned Banco Nación, in which friends of the ex-president as intermediaries collecting million-dollar commissions.
Despite not needing managers to contract these insurances, the public organizations used the husband of their secretary and friend, Martínez Sosa, as an intermediary, who also appears as a creditor of the former president in their sworn statements.”
If convicted, Fernández will join in infamy his Vice President (also former first lady and later President) Cristina Kirchner, another leading Peronist politician who was indicted and convicted for obstructing the investigation into the 1994 Hezbollah Bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), a Jewish Community Centre – a conviction later overturned during Fernández’ term.
On 6 December 2022, she was further sentenced to six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office for corruption.
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Jamie Dimon steered JPMorgan through a difficult last year, with the largest American bank involved in a string of lawsuits regarding its long-standing commercial relationship with the late convicted sex offender, alleged pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
But JPMorgan settled with the plaintiff victims, with the US Virgin Islands government, and Dimon led the financial institution to be most profitable in 2023, even acquiring troubled First National bank.
At the other side of the PR shitstorm, CEO Dimon has again taken to the forefront of economic policy discussions – and he hasn’t shied away from discussing the vital energy sector.
Read: JPMorgan CEO and Dem Donor Jamie Dimon Slams Biden Again – Now It’s ‘Bidenomics’
Dimon now says that US delays of liquefied natural gas projects were done ‘for political reasons’.
According to him, Biden means to cater to those who believe oil and gas projects should be stopped altogether — a position that he calls ‘wrong’ and ‘enormously naïve’.
Bloomberg reported:
“The head of JPMorgan Chase & Co. made the comments Monday in his annual shareholder letter, in which he touted replacing coal with natural gas as one of the best ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions for the next few decades. Dimon also called LNG exports a ‘great economic boon’ for the US as well as a ‘realpolitik goal’.
‘Our allied nations that need secure and affordable energy resources, including critical nations like Japan, Korea and most of our European allies, would like to be able to depend on the United States for energy’, the chairman and chief executive officer said in his letter.”
Dimon’s manifestation of support for US LNG exports is in direct contrast with Joe Biden’s freeze of all permits that was imposed in January.
The freeze prevents new approvals for LNG projects pending further study of the impact of further natural gas exploration, both economic and environmental.
“The strength of the US’ domestic energy production is a ‘power advantage’ for the nation, creating cheaper and more reliable energy for economic and geopolitical advantages, Dimon said.”
In his shareholder letter, Dimon discusses many other aspects of the American and Global economy, such as his view regarding a chilly scenario with interest rates climbing as high as 8%, as the effects of the unprecedented monetary policy taken to combat inflation take hold.
Forbes reported:
“The odds of a goldilocks soft landing outcome for the economy are ‘a lot lower’ than the consensus of a 70% to 80% likelihood.
[…] Coupled with Dimon’s concerns about the potential for ‘stagflation’, a recession characterized by lingering high inflation, he warned interest rates could soar to ‘8% or even more’, a far cry from the already 22-year high rates of over 5% and going against conventional wisdom of a looming decline in rates.”
Persistent inflationary pressures would include global military conflicts and the effects of the crazy money-printing from central banks worldwide coming out of COVID-19 lockdowns.
“The billionaire Dimon also warned about the potential for carnage for both equity and debt investors should a higher-rate scenario play out, noting stock valuations are already at their ‘high end’ and credit conditions are ‘extremely tight’.”
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The struggle between free-speech champion Elon Musk and the censure lovers of the regrettable current Brazilian government is still raging, with developments from each side.
Musk has made it clear that the judicial orders by tyrannical Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ‘are the most draconian demands of any country on Earth’.
Support for his courageous stand is coming from a myriad of freedom-loving Brazilians, with many thousands of memes celebrating the fact that someone has said ENOUGH to the Lula administration’s out-of-control actions.
Many foreigners are also joining the good fight, from the American General Flynn to the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin.
Of course, many globalists, socialists, and tyrannical-minded people are out to get him.
Now, X will show the world what is really happening behind the curtains, and the abuse from the Brazilian court:
Coming shortly, will publish everything demanded by @Alexandre and how those requests violate Brazilian law.
This judge has brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the constitution and people of Brazil. He should resign or be impeached.
Shame @Alexandre, shame.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 7, 2024
Bu to do so, Musk needs “to get our employees in Brazil to a safe place or otherwise not in a position of responsibility” because they “have been told they will be arrested.”
We need to get our employees in Brazil to a safe place or otherwise not in a position of responsibility, then we will do a full data dump
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2024
Forbes reported:
“The comments add to an escalating row over disinformation between Brazilian authorities, X and Musk after the billionaire ordered the company to reinstate accounts blocked by the government.
Musk also slammed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes as the ‘Dictator of Brazil’, days after de Moraes accused the billionaire of waging a ‘disinformation campaign’ against the court and its actions.”
The whole world will know how Brazilian justices are overstepping his authority to censor free speech.
Moraes’ order levied ‘massive fines’ and besides threatening to arrest X employees, he also says he may cut off access to X in Brazil.
Musk is now included in the investigations about ‘disinformation’, and he laughed this ridiculous threats the way only a powerful billionaire can.
Now, the Brazilian government is threatening to cancel all contracts with Musk’s Starlink, which is a childish reaction, since the satellite service is taking broadband internet to schools in remote areas of the Amazon.
But Musk has struck a major PR goal against the socialist tyrants by saying that, if the Lula government doesn’t ‘honor’ the contract, he will nevertheless provide the service for those schools – for free! At this point he behaves like a real hero.
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The sage of the imprisonment of Ecuador’s former Vice President Jorge Glas had another dramatic chapter, after he was detained in an unprecedented raid on the Mexican embassy, where he sought asylum after charged with yet another set of corruption charges.
Glas was taken to hospital after he fell ill at a prison in Guayaquil. This took place just hours after his lawyers complained they had been unable to contact him.
Reuters reported:
“Glas, already twice convicted of corruption and now facing fresh charges, was arrested on Friday after a raid by police on Mexico’s Quito embassy, where he had been living since December.
In a statement published on X, the SNAI prison agency said Glas had been taken to the naval hospital in Guayaquil around noon local time. Glas fell ill “after refusing to eat food provided (in the jail) during the last 24 hours,” the statement said.”
Authorities say he is now in stable condition.
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The embassy raid for his arrest took the two countries bilateral relations, that were already bad, to a boiling point.
Mexico suspended diplomatic relations with Ecuador, and criticism arose from many countries, usually the ones sympathetic to the Latin American far-left.
“Ecuador has defended its violation of sovereign Mexican territory at the embassy, arguing the North American country cannot grant Glas asylum if he is facing charges, and that Ecuador had information about an imminent escape plan.
Glas was hospitalized after one of his lawyers, Sonia Vera, published an open letter dated on Sunday to express her ‘deep worry and alarm’ that Glas had be able to speak to his legal team, adding it amounted to ‘a severe infraction to the fundamental rights of Jorge Glas’.”
Glas, who is termed by conservatives to be a ‘narco-socialist’, was vice president from 2013 to 2017.
He was sentenced to six years for taking bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, and convicted again for eight years, for using money from contractors to fund campaigns for President Rafael Correa’s political movement.
“[Glas] now faces charges of misusing funds collected to aid reconstruction of coastal Manabi province after a devastating 2016 earthquake.”
Watch: Mexico has now released images of the raid that resulted in Glas’ detention:
| ÚLTIMA HORA: México revela el video de como fue el operativo para la captura de Jorge Glas en la embajada de ese país en Ecuador. Aplaudo a Daniel Noboa y a la policía que sin un solo disparo detuvieron al corrupto ex vicepresidente narcosocialista. ¿Apoyas a Daniel Noboa? pic.twitter.com/ey9GDEAnln
— Eduardo Menoni (@eduardomenoni) April 9, 2024
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While he has always been a fierce critic of Donald Trump, British Foreign Minister (and former Prime Minister) David Cameron, in his trip to the US, plans to meet the Republican nominee that’s leading in all the polls.
Cameron will meet Secretary of State Antony Blinken today, as well as with lawmakers in Congress to press for an aid package for Ukraine while also discussing the Israel-Gaza war.
But before he does so, Cameron will meet former President Donald Trump in Florida, a spokesperson for the British government’s Foreign Office said.
It is described as a ‘standard practice’ engagement with an opposition candidate.
Reuters reported:
“Cameron last week said he would see Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and urge him to pass a $60 billion package of military aid for Ukraine, which he has held up for months.
‘Success for Ukraine and failure for Putin are vital for American and European security,” Cameron said in a statement, saying it was important to demonstrate to Russian President Vladimir Putin that “aggression doesn’t pay’.
‘The alternative would only encourage Putin in further attempts to re-draw European borders by force, and would be heard clearly in Beijing, Tehran and North Korea’.”
Cameron is expected to meet congressional leaders from both the Republican and Democrat parties.
At this point, what Cameron and Trump would discuss is unclear.
“‘It is standard practice for ministers to meet with opposition candidates as part of their routine international engagement’, the spokesperson said.
Britain has been a staunch ally of Ukraine since Russia invaded in 2022, but Cameron will stress it is the United States that is the ‘key stone in the arch’ as its pace and scale of support for Ukraine is unmatched.”
Cameron wants to increase economic pressure on Russia and give Ukraine the military and humanitarian support it needs.
BBC reported:
“Mr. Trump, and his supporters within the party, oppose the US package providing aid to Ukraine. Those in the House of Representatives have vowed to vote against the package without additional funding for US border security being agreed to first.
Lord Cameron has been urging Republicans for some time to approve the aid package, particularly angering Republican congresswoman and Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor-Greene, who told the foreign secretary to “kiss my ass”.
She was responding to an article written by Lord Cameron, in which he warned the US against showing ‘the weakness displayed against Hitler in the 1930s’.”
Back in 2015, during his tenure as prime minister, Lord Cameron labeled Mr. Trump’s proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the US ‘divisive, stupid and wrong.’
“In his memoirs published in 2019, Lord Cameron further said that he found it ‘depressing’ that Mr. Trump could win an election, and that it was due to his ‘protectionist, xenophobic, misogynistic interventions’.”
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Brazil’s conservatives and freedom lovers are in a state of bliss watching billionaire Elon Musk stare down their very own Supreme Court Justice-turned tyrant Alexandre de Moraes, using the unvarnished truth to demolish his reputation, and subjecting the justice to a barrage of ridicule that he so deserves.
The story is very simple: not only is Moraes demanding that X suspend the accounts of prominent conservatives, against Brazilian law, and under the penalty of heavy daily fines, but he also ‘forbids’ the company from even mentioning the reason for their suspension – X would have to pretend they were struck because they broke the platform terms of use – which they have not.
Musk: “We kept getting these demands from Judge Alexandre to suspend accounts of sitting members of the parliament and major journalists. We could not tell them that this was at the behest of Alexandre, we had to pretend that it was due to our rules. And that was the last straw, and we said no.”
So, now it seems as if Musk is the iceberg into which the Titanic ship of Brazil’s unbridled censorship will crash and sink.
Moraes included Musk on the ridiculous inquiry against the – nonexistent – ‘digital militias’ and so X’s head started to tell the world the real deal about the reality of Brazil’s politics:
How did @Alexandre de Moraes become the dictator of Brazil? He has Lula on a leash
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2024
He even ‘went there’ and said what every free-thinking Brazilian knows: Lula is only out of prison and into power because of Moraes’ actions:
But since Alexandre pulled Lula out of prison and put his thumb on the scale to get Lula elected, Lula will obviously not take action against him.
The next election will be key.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2024
So, now, Musk will disclose all the petty tyrant’s demands for the world to see:
Coming shortly, will publish everything demanded by @Alexandre and how those requests violate Brazilian law.
This judge has brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the constitution and people of Brazil. He should resign or be impeached.
Shame @Alexandre, shame.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 7, 2024
Just read this from Glenn Greenwald: “The only time in my entire career as a journalist that I have ever wondered if I should really be questioning, challenging, or critiquing a political official is this person, who has gone so far as to order people to be imprisoned without a trial for criticizing him. […] If you criticize Alexandre De Moraes, you get banned or perhaps imprisoned, which is why I spent every second up until this show started on the phone with my lawyers.”
Criticism of Moraes actions came even from where you’d least expect it, with the founder of Eurasian Movement of Russia, Alexander Dugin declaring support for the African-American billionaire in his Free Speech stance against liberal-aligned Brazilian Supreme Court:
I think the decision of Brasil to censor https://t.co/JPsGKa01ru is wrong and disastrous. It is obvious that it is for now the only global network without any censorship. We can hate something that is going on on https://t.co/JPsGKa01ru or adore. But the real freedom is like…
— Alexander Dugin (@Agdchan) April 8, 2024
“I think the decision of Brasil to censor http://x.com/ is wrong and disastrous. It is obvious that it is for now the only global network without any censorship.
We can hate something that is going on on http://x.com/ or adore. But the real freedom is like this.
Only http://x.com/ can provide the correct picture how the things really are on the global scale.
And it is wothless in the era of total falsehood. Obviuosly, http://x.com/ is not ultimate truth and it doesn’t pretend to be it. Just good old freedom of speech we have lost anywhere else…”
Brazil is watching this unfold with a big smile on its face. But, while the country’s shortcomings are being shown to the world in an spectacular fashion, it’s also good to know that this is also made by the US State Department and Joe Biden, who were behind the sudden emergence of Moraes as an über censor.
Here’s Musk finding out that he is being investigated by Brazilian Federal police:
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Pope Francis did something not very usual, and issued a declaration yesterday (7), called ‘Dignitas Infinita’, in which he strongly defended the Catholic Church’s dogma and doctrine without trying to ‘improve’ or ‘modernize’ it.
Christians around the world celebrated it, but not – of course – fake Catholic Joe Biden.
The US president, called a ‘cafeteria Catholic’, who picks and chooses which parts of the teaching he respects, had to side with the trans indoctrination over the pontiff – as one would expect.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was questioned about Pope Francis’ declaration condemning gender theory on Monday, and affirmed President Biden’s support for ‘the transgender community’.
Fox News reported:
“A reporter pressed Jean-Pierre regarding the Pope’s Monday document, which formally reaffirms and expands on the Catholic Church’s assertion that attempts to alter an individual’s immutable gender are ultimately misguided attempts to play God. Jean-Pierre declined to say what Biden thought of the document specifically, but added that he does support the transgender community.
‘We are pleased to see that the document… furthered the Vatican’s call to ensure that LGBTQ+ are protected from violence and imprisonment around the world. However, the president will continue to be an advocate for the rights, safety and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community, including transgender people here in the U.S.’, Jean-Pierre said in response to a reporter who asked for a response to the document.”
Reporters wanted to know about the more specific comments about gender theory and transgender individuals, making KJP to try and walk a tightrope.
“‘I’m going to be really careful. The president’s role to litigate internal Church policy, that’s not his role, so I’m gonna be super careful there’, Jean-Pierre said. ‘But I can speak to the president’s stance, and he’s always been very clear on the importance of protecting or having protections for the transgender community and the broader LGBTQ+ community, and that’s been very clear since day one of his administration’.”
‘Dignitas Infinita’, dealt with a dozen contemporary issues through the lens of scripture and church teaching.
Those included abortion, human trafficking, poverty, euthanasia and the death penalty, among others.
The name of the declaration is the Latin for ‘Infinite Dignity’, and it was released after five years in development by the Holy Office, focusing on threats to human dignity in the modern world.
“‘Regarding gender theory, whose scientific coherence is the subject of considerable debate among experts, the Church recalls that human life in all its dimensions, both physical and spiritual, is a gift from God’, the document states. ‘This gift is to be accepted with gratitude and placed at the service of the good. Desiring a personal self-determination, as gender theory prescribes, apart from this fundamental truth that human life is a gift, amounts to a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God, entering into competition with the true God of love revealed to us in the Gospel’.”
Pope Francis, for once, confronted the world’s ‘most dangerous ideological colonizations’.
“The document continues: ‘Another prominent aspect of gender theory is that it intends to deny the greatest possible difference that exists between living beings: sexual difference. This foundational difference is not only the greatest imaginable difference but is also the most beautiful and most powerful of them. In the male-female couple, this difference achieves the most marvelous of reciprocities. It thus becomes the source of that miracle that never ceases to surprise us: the arrival of new human beings in the world’.”
Pope Francis, for once, confronted the world’s ‘most dangerous ideological colonizations’.
“The document continues: ‘Another prominent aspect of gender theory is that it intends to deny the greatest possible difference that exists between living beings: sexual difference. This foundational difference is not only the greatest imaginable difference but is also the most beautiful and most powerful of them. In the male-female couple, this difference achieves the most marvelous of reciprocities. It thus becomes the source of that miracle that never ceases to surprise us: the arrival of new human beings in the world’.”
While the White House correspondents did not care about it, the document also deals with the Church’s condemnation of abortion and Francis’ strong criticism of surrogate pregnancies, for which he called for a worldwide ban.
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The über Globalist and Eurofanatic Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was handed a hard blow by the voters as the Conservative Nationalist opposition party Law and Justice (PiS) came first in Poland’s local government elections.
It amounts to a big setback for Tusk’s ambitions to solidify his grip on power.
Reuters reported:
“If confirmed, the results would dash Tusk’s hopes of leading his Civic Coalition (KO) grouping to first place in the election independently of its partners in the ruling alliance.”
While conservatives of PiS came in ahead of Tusk’s KO, it was not a complete victory, as it was still behind the ‘combined score’ of the three groupings that make up the coalition government.
“PiS scored 33.7%, according to the Ipsos exit poll, ahead of centrist KO, which had 31.9%. The other groupings in government, the Christian conservative Third Way and the Left scored 13.5% and 6.8% respectively.
‘The unsinkable PiS… However you look at it, it’s a substantial defeat for the image (of Tusk’s party)’, Krzysztof Izdebski, policy director at the Stefan Batory Foundation think-tank, wrote on X.”
This is yet another proof of how tenuous is Tusk’s grip on power, since he became Prime Minister in an election where, though his coalition got a majority, PiS was the most voted party.
Tusk promised to reverse what the globalist have called a ‘democratic backsliding’, but clear-thinking minds know to be just patriotic and anti-globalist policies against abortion, unchecked mass migration and ‘green’ climate alarmist European nonsense.
“Brussels is closely watching how Tusk’s coalition fares as it faces European Parliament elections in June, while Europe-wide opinion polls suggest the populist right will perform well.
Speaking shortly after exit polls were published, Tusk said his group’s failure to emerge on top was partly due to strong turnout in PiS heartlands in eastern Poland and throughout the countryside.”
Tusk’s party did well in Warsaw, where the incumbent mayor Rafal Trzaskowski secured re-election without having to go into a second round of voting.
Trzaskowski is the name KO wants to be the candidate for President in an election due next year.
The Presidency is key for Tusk’s ambitions to reform the judiciary and to diminish the influence of PiS’ conservative ideals on public life.
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In the context of the war in Ukraine and the widely expected Chinese invasion of Taiwan, the ever-growing partnership between Russia and China has the western world very worried.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has landed in China for strategic talks ‘on the war in Ukraine, the bilateral ties and the situation in the Asia-Pacific region’.
Reuters reported:
“The Russian foreign minister will talk with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on a series of “hot topics” that will also include joint cooperation in international organizations, such as the United Nations and the Group of 20 (G20), Moscow had said earlier.
Reuters reported last month that Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China in May for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in what could be the Kremlin chief’s first overseas trip of his new presidential term.”
Hit with an unprecedented amount of sanctions that closed access to Western markets and finances after the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia has since become China’s fastest-growing trade partner.
“Xi, in a call with Putin last month, said both sides should resolutely oppose interference in domestic affairs by external forces, an apparent reference to the United States.
Chinese vice foreign minister Sun Weidong said bilateral ties were “at their best in history” when he met his Russian counterpart in Moscow last month, according to a Chinese foreign ministry readout.”
This visit comes as the US is warning allies that China has stepped up its support for the Russian campaign in Ukraine, including by providing geospatial intelligence.
Bloomberg reported:
“Amid signs of continued military integration between the two nations, China has provided Russia with satellite imagery for military purposes, as well as microelectronics and machine tools for tanks, according to people familiar with the matter.
China’s support also includes optics, propellants to be used in missiles and increased space cooperation, one of the people said.”
President Joe Biden raised these concerns with Xi Jinping during their call this week.
China’s support for the Russian defense industrial base, now include machine tools, optics, nitrocellulose, microelectronics, and turbojet engines.
“Beijing has sought to portray itself as mostly neutral in the face of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now into its third year, yet it’s established a deep alliance with Moscow as part of what Xi and Vladimir Putin termed a “no limits” friendship ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.”
Bilateral trade has reached a record $240 billion in 2023.
“Crucially, China and Hong Kong have also become key gateways for Moscow to access restricted technologies, including chips and integrated circuits, used in weapons or needed to build them. The US and European Union have listed several Chinese firms for enabling those transfers, but the trade shows little sign of dropping off.”
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All over Europe, nations are rebuilding their military forces to respond to an increasingly dangerous and unpredictable world.
The Nordic countries are no exception, with Sweden, Denmark, and Finland all beefing up their capabilities to face what they see as a growing Russian threat.
Now, Norway also joins the trend, with plans to raise its military spending by an accumulated $56 billion through 2036.
The goal is to bolster its defense against Russia and other security challenges, the NATO founder country’s government said.
Reuters reported:
“‘This plan represents a historic boost in defense spending, and involves a significant strengthening of all branches of the armed forces’, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a press conference.
The planned annual defense spending in 2036 will, on a comparable, inflation adjusted basis, be around 83% higher than the current level, the finance minister said.”
The war in Ukraine shifted the country’s stance on military spending, triggering a debate on how to guard against eventual aggression by the Russian neighbors.
Norway shares a border with Russia in the Arctic – but historically, it has never been involved in a conflict with them.
“‘We must expect that Norway will live with a more dangerous and unpredictable Russia for many years’, the government said in a paper delivered to parliament on Friday.
‘The relationship with Russia will for a long time to come be demanding, and in many ways defining for Norwegian security and defense policy’, it added.
Thanks to its rainy-day sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest with assets of 17 trillion crowns, Norway has access to the cash it needs to fund the increased defense spending without cutting down on hospitals or schools, the prime minister said.”
Norway plans to finally ramp up the defense budget to 2% of its gross domestic product, the spending target set by the military alliance.
Politico reported:
“’We need a defense that is fit for purpose in the emerging security environment’, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said in a speech Friday. ‘As our security environment is deteriorating, we need to spend more on and pay more attention to defense and preparedness’.”
Norway’s deputy defense minister, Anne Marie Aanerud:
“The context is that we see that we need major investments in our forces, and 12 years will allow for a longer planning cycle and more predictability.
[…] It might not sound like something extraordinary, but it’s very, very unusual that a government goes to the opposition parties in parliament and talks to them about how to make a plan before they even have designed the plan [internally]. Usually, you just make the plan and then you hand it over and they work on it. But we have a very good tradition in Norway of coming together when the stakes are high and this is definitely one of those times. We think it’s very, very important that we start building our armed forces back up.”
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The world’s geopolitics has grown more conflicted by the day. Now, it arises that India and Pakistan are at each other’s throats – again.
It all started when The Guardian reported that the Indian government is eliminating alleged terrorists in Pakistan as part of its new, wider strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil.
“Interviews with intelligence officials in both countries, as well as documents shared by Pakistani investigators, shed new light on how India’s foreign intelligence agency allegedly began to carry out assassinations abroad as part of an emboldened approach to national security after 2019. The agency, the Research & Analysis Wing (Raw), is directly controlled by the office of India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, who is running for a third term in office in elections later this month.”
These allegations refer to individuals charged with serious and violent terror offenses, but India has also been accused publicly by the US and Canada of involvement in the murders of dissident figures.
“The fresh claims relate to almost 20 killings since 2020, carried out by unknown gunmen in Pakistan. While India has previously been unofficially linked to the deaths, this is the first time Indian intelligence personnel have discussed the alleged operations in Pakistan, and detailed documentation has been seen alleging Raw’s direct involvement in the assassinations.
According to Pakistani investigators, these deaths were orchestrated by Indian intelligence sleeper-cells mostly operating out of the United Arab Emirates. The rise in killings in 2023 was credited to the increased activity of these cells, which are accused of paying millions of rupees to local criminals or poor Pakistanis to carry out the assassinations. Indian agents also allegedly recruited jihadists to carry out the shootings, making them believe they were killing “infidels.”
The focus on dissidents abroad was triggered by an attack in 2019, when a suicide bomber targeted a military convoy in Kashmir, killing 40 paramilitary personnel.
The Guardian revelations caused deep ripples across the East. You would perhaps think that Indian officials would deny all this – but no! Look at the proud reaction from the Minister of Defense Singh in the Reuters report:
“India will enter Pakistan to kill anyone who escapes over the border after trying to carry out terrorist activities in the country, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh told broadcaster CNN News18 on Friday.
[…]’If they run away to Pakistan, we will enter Pakistan to kill them’, Singh told the channel in response to a question about the report.
‘India always wants to maintain good relations with its neighboring countries … But if anyone shows India the angry eyes again and again, comes to India and tries to promote terrorist activities, we will not spare them’, Singh said.”
As you would expect, the reaction from Pakistan was swift, denouncing the ‘provocative remarks.’
Al-Jazeera reported:
“‘India’s assertion of its preparedness to extra-judicially execute more civilians, arbitrarily pronounced as ‘terrorists’, inside Pakistan constitutes a clear admission of culpability’, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday.
The ministry also said that such ‘myopic and irresponsible behaviour’ not only undermines regional peace but also impedes the prospect of constructive engagement in the long term.
‘Pakistan stands resolute in its intent and ability to safeguard its sovereignty against any act of aggression’, the ministry added.”
As India and Pakistan have engaged in no less than FOUR wars – in 1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999 – it bears keeping an eye on the developments.
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On the third year of the war in Ukraine, we have surely learned a thing or two about how the Russian go about their urban sieges of Kiev-held cities – and also about how the frankly dishonest MSM proceeds with their biased coverage.
Three things stand out from the coverage of the battles for Mariupol, Bakhmut (now called Artemovsk) and Avdeevka: to begin with, it will be long and bloody. Besides that, during all the operation, fake news shills will insist on how badly things are going for the besiegers. And finally, once the town is conquered, all the media will say that the city is nothing but a ‘meaningless pile of ruble’.
And so, as the battle for key Donetsk oblast stronghold of Chasov Yar commences, the usual scenario is at play.
So Reuters will report that fighting raged on Friday between Ukrainian and Russian forces ‘near the town of Chasiv Yar’, when in fact the fight has moved inside the city.
“A rapid Russian advance on Chasiv Yar, a heavily fortified town with a pre-war population of 12,200 situated west of the ruined, Russian-occupied city of Bakhmut, would be a grim setback for Kiev.
Russia controls around 18% of Ukrainian territory and has stepped up its long-range strikes on energy infrastructure in recent weeks, causing large-scale outages.”
While the report mention that Russia’s RIA news agency ‘cited an official as saying Russian troops had entered the suburbs of the town’, there is ample space for Kiev to lie on their usual fashion.
“Andriy Zadubinnyi, spokesman for Ukraine’s eastern military command said the report [of combat inside the city] was untrue and that fighting continued. He told Reuters the situation was ‘tense’.”
Not only that, but the Reuters report, besides putting the blame for Ukrainian serial defeats on America republicans, also endorses Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s delusions:
“Zelensky said on Thursday that Ukraine had managed to stabilize its positions and that ‘given the shortage of shells and a significant slowdown in supplies, these results are really good’.”
Really? So let’s hear what his top General Syrsky has to say:
“Ukrainian Army Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky has admitted the situation on the eastern front is especially difficult for Ukrainian troops due to the offensive actions by Russian forces in three directions.
According to him, a particularly difficult situation has developed in the Artemovsk area, east of Chasov Yar and Kleshcheevka, in Avdeyevka area, near Berdichev, Orlovka, Vodyanoy, Pervomaisky, and in the Novopavlosk area, near Novomikhailovka.”
So we have Ukraine’s top general admitting there are not one but three axis of Russian troops advance. But – ‘the results are really good’, Zelensky says.
Watch: Russian air force pound defenses in Chasov Yar ahead of ground assault.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 6, 2024
As for the question of whether fighting is now raging inside the city, Zadubinnyi, spokesman for Ukraine’s eastern command begged Reuters: “Don’t believe the Russian reports.”
But as a matter of fact, we don’t have to ‘believe’ the Russians reports, because we have access to pictures and videos that are geolocated, so it’s not a dispute between two versions – there is ample space for the facts, too.
But why all the fuss about Chasov Yar, why is it so important?
Sputnik reported:
“Chasov Yar sits on a hill about 15 kilometers west of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) which was liberated by Russia in May 2023.
Chasov Yar’s geographical position makes it important from a strategic standpoint, as it overlooks the surrounding area for many kilometers.
Its boundaries are quite complex. From north to south, it is crossed by the Seversky Donets -Donbass Canal, and the O-0506 highway. There is also a railway line with a bridge over the canal.
Chasov Yar has several industrial zones and large enterprises, such as the Chasov Yar refractory plant. Such areas could potentially be used to equip shelters or fortifications.”
Watch: artillery obliterating defense positions in buildings.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 6, 2024
Beyond Chasov Yar are Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, and Konstantinovka, the main remaining defense axis in the Donetsk oblast.
The city became a powerful fortified area reminiscent of ‘fortess Bakhmut’, now called Artemovsk.
“Liberating Chasov Yar would provide control of a logistics center that has been key for the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2014.
By taking control of the highway and railway hub, Russia could disrupt delivery of reinforcements and munitions to Ukrainian forces.
Control of Chasov Yar would pave the way for advancing on the so-called Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglomeration.”
But what are the actual Russian reports that Ukraine’s Zadubinnyi so asked us not to believe?
Slavyangrad reported:
“Paratroopers of the 98th Svir Guards Airborne Division stormed and occupied the eastern outskirts of Chasov Yar, Kanal microdistrict.
Assault units continue to attack, smash and destroy the enemy from the southeast and northeast, knocking out the Ukronazis from fortified strongholds in the forests.
[…] Along Chasov Yar, artillery and aviation with S-8 rockets are working closely, inflicting fire on identified targets.
The Russian Aerospace Forces are actively working and using KABs in sectors to burn out the enemy.”
Certain Ukrainian mistakes of the past are also about to be repeated: Zelensky can’t admit another military defeat after Avdiivka, so he is driving reserves into Chasov Yar.
“But as a result, he may simply burn up strategic reserves here for the summer campaign, as happened exactly a year ago in Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
[…] At the same time, our army today has something that did not exist a year ago – overwhelming superiority in weapons. Which will greatly complicate the enemy’s task of holding the city. It will also lead to huge, and essentially meaningless, losses.”
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The Friday night in Latin America was filled with political turmoil, as an elite group of the Ecuadorian army RAIDED the Mexican embassy in Quito, to arrest former vice-president Jorge Glas, a fugitive from local justice who had been granted political asylum by Mexico.
Armed Soldiers of the Ecuadorian Army, in black vehicles, broke the external doors of the Mexican diplomatic headquarters and accessed the courtyards.
Glas, convicted of corruption charges, was arrested and taken into custody.
Watch: Glas is taken out of the Mexican embassy. Head of the Mexican Embassy, Roberto Canseco, tries to stop them, is contained by police.
Glas is taken out of the Mexican embassy. pic.twitter.com/YFO34nSDEo
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 6, 2024
The reaction was immediate: head of the Mexican Embassy, Roberto Canseco spoke out:
“This is not possible. This is madness!!! I am worried because they might kill him. There is no basis for this. It is completely outside all normality, and they are doing it because he is a persecuted person. I am totally defenseless, the country is taken over by this group. This is the worst case I have ever experienced in my career.”
Article 22 of the Vienna Convention states that diplomatic premises cannot be violated.
Director of the Latin America Watch NGO, Augustin Antonetti wrote on X that the Mexican government might declare war on Ecuador for invading the embassy.
“If [Mexican President] López Obrador goes crazy, tomorrow he could declare war on Ecuador. The assault on the Mexican Embassy may be considered an attack on Mexican territory, despite sheltering a high-level criminal. This is going to get very ugly. Pay attention to what happens.”
An Official statement from the Presidency of Ecuador states that actions at the Mexican embassy were to “defend national sovereignty, with zero tolerance policies:
“The National Government informs the public that Jorge Glas Espinel, sentenced to imprisonment by Ecuadorian justice, has been detained tonight and placed at the disposal of the competent authorities.
Every embassy has only one purpose: to serve as a diplomatic space with the aim of strengthening relations between countries.
No criminal can be considered a political persecuted. Jorge Glas has been sentenced with a final judgment and was subject to an arrest warrant issued by the competent authorities.
Ecuador faces a non-international armed conflict, the repercussions of which on democracy and citizen peace will only be incremental if acts that interfere with the Rule of Law, national sovereignty, or matters of interference in the country’s internal affairs continue or are condoned.
Having abused the immunities and privileges granted to the diplomatic mission that housed Jorge Glas, and granting a diplomatic asylum contrary to the conventional legal framework, his capture has been carried out.
Ecuador is a sovereign country, and we will not allow any criminal to remain unpunished.
We reiterate our respect for the Mexican people who share our sentiment for the fight against corruption that affects our countries.”
Watch: The ‘Unidade de Flagrancia’ where Glas is being held.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 6, 2024
Alicia Bárcena, Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico, officially announced on X the suspension of relations with the government of Ecuador:
“In consultations with President López Obrador, in light of the flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the injuries suffered by Mexican diplomatic personnel in Ecuador, Mexico announces the immediate severance of diplomatic relations with Ecuador.”
Mexican diplomatic personnel is said to leave Ecuador “immediately.”
Diplomats are, at this exact moment, collecting their personal belongings and leaving the Ecuadorian country immediately.
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The Combs family is involved in yet another potentially damaging lawsuit. While father Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces multiple accusations and a Homeland Security investigation for sex trafficking, his son Christian ‘King’ Combs has now been accused of sexually assaulting a woman.
The alleged incident would have occurred back in 2022, aboard a chartered yacht, according to the new lawsuit.
The complaint was filed in Los Angeles yesterday (4), and in it, Grace O’Marcaigh, a young woman who was hired to work on the boat, alleges the young rapper assaulted her during an ‘family excursion’ that ‘turned into a hedonistic environment’.
The event allegedly featured a string of ‘suspected sex workers’, a wide variety of drugs, and the plaintiff also suspected that alcoholic beverages were laced with drugs.
O’Marcaigh claims that then 24-years-old Christian took an insistent interest in her.
Page Six reported:
“The son of Diddy and the late Kim Porter allegedly pressured her to do tequila shots and aggressively insisted that she drink more, claiming that she believes her drinks had also been ‘spiked’. O’Marcaigh accuses Christian, now 26, of groping her legs, breast, anus and vagina, per the complaint.”
There is even an allegedly audio recording, recorded by Diddy accuser Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones.
“’Excuse me, you don’t touch my legs like that. I’ll move my legs where I want to’, a woman who appears to be O’Marcaigh can reportedly be heard saying. ‘If I want to do this, then I will. You don’t touch my legs like that’.
At one point O’Marcaigh said to him, ‘Well, you can take your hand off my ass for the first thing’, per the suit, and she was able to resume her duties until Christian allegedly approached her later in the night to continue to grope her.
‘His penis was erect, and he grabbed her arms and was trying to force [me] to perform oral sex on him’, she further claims.”
Attorney Aaron Dyer, who represents both King and Diddy, called the suit ‘manufactured lies and irrelevant facts’.
“He adds, ‘This is exactly why the federal judge in New York slapped him two days ago for a ‘pattern of behavior’ in ‘improperly [filing] cases in federal court to garner media attention, embarrass defendants with salacious allegations, and pressure defendants to settle quickly,’ and why he was referred to the disciplinary committee in the Southern District of New York’. Dyer concluded, ‘We will be filing a motion to dismiss this outrageous claim’.”
Tyrone Blackburn, meanwhile told NBC News, “Like father, like son,” referencing the string of sexual assault allegations that Diddy is facing.
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Tensions are bound to rise in South America, as the dispute between Guyana and Venezuela for the oil-rich Essequibo region appears headed for some serious escalation.
Venezuelan Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s signed into law the results of a recent referendum that lays claim to the Essequibo region of Guyana.
The move led to fierce condemnation from the neighboring country’s government.
Associated Press reported:
“The text of the law was not immediately made public. Even so, Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs vowed not to yield any land to Venezuela and called the move targeting Guyana’s western Essequibo region an ‘egregious violation of the most fundamental principles of international law’.”
In December, a referendum was held to claim sovereignty over the rich region representing two-thirds of Guyana.
Now, Maduro held a signing ceremony recalling the referendum as a ‘stellar and historic moment’.
“’The decision of December 3, has now become the Law of the Republic, to form part of the legal structure of the internal political and institutional movement of our country’, Maduro tweeted on Wednesday. ‘The decision made by the Venezuelans in the consultative referendum will be fulfilled in all its parts, and with this Law, we will continue the defense of Venezuela on international stages’.
Guyana’s government responded sharply hours later: ‘If Venezuela wants to contest title to the territory in question, the proper forum is the International Court of Justice’.”
Guyana and Venezuela have been disputing the region for decades.
Tensions worsened after oil deposits were found near Guyana’s coast in offshore areas.
Guyana took the case to the United Nations’ highest court, but a court ruling is not expected before next year.
“Meanwhile, Guyana is collaborating with the U.S., France and India to fortify its military in the event of any annexation attempts, President Irfaan Ali said recently. Guyana’s military also has stepped up recruitment exercises with advertisements on social media sites and visits to various regions around the country.
Satellite imagery has revealed that Venezuela’s military is amassing troops and expanding bases near the border it shares with Guyana.”
The presidents of Guyana and Venezuela failed to resolve the territorial dispute, having agreed only to not use threats or force against each other.
France24 reported:
“‘We have information proving that in the territory of Guyana Essequibo, temporarily administered by Guyana, secret military bases of the (US) Southern Command… a body of the CIA, have been installed’, Maduro said.
He said the bases are an ‘aggression’ against the people of southern and eastern Venezuela and were built ‘to prepare for an escalation against Venezuela’.”
The referendum approved the creation of a Venezuelan province in the disputed region, sparking fears of a military conflict.
“He also claimed that his counterpart, President Irfaan Ali, ‘does not govern Guyana’ and that ‘Guyana is governed by the Southern Command, the CIA and ExxonMobil’.”
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About a month ago, I wrote here in TGP that “the present situation in Haiti defies our capacity for hyperbole. […] MSM headlines try to describe it by saying that Haiti ‘may fall at any time,’ is ‘on the brink,’ ‘spiraling into chaos,’ and further pointing out that ‘a major humanitarian crisis is unfolding’.”
Right now, this sentiment is echoed by sources on the ground, with UN’s top expert on human rights in Haiti saying ‘I’m running out of words frankly at this point … it’s apocalyptic, it’s like the end of times’.
William O’Neill is an American human rights lawyer with 30 years of experience in Haiti.
He says that the gang rebellion that started in early March has deteriorated the situation in the capital Port-au-Prince to unprecedented levels.
Haiti, O’Neill warns, is rapidly moving towards becoming ‘like Somalia in the worst of its times’.
The Guardian reported:
“’I know someone who lost half her family to [former dictator] François Duvalier’s execution squads and she said she’s never seen it this bad. Uncles, cousins, brothers killed – and she said it’s never been this bad’, O’Neill said from Geneva.
‘I’m running out of words frankly at this point … it’s apocalyptic, it’s like the end of times’, added the UN’s independent expert, who helped set up the resource-starved Haitian police force that is now battling to stem the tide in the mid-1990s. ‘[There’s] a level of intensity and cruelty in the violence that is simply unprecedented in my experience in Haiti’.”
We have been covering the unfolding crisis that turned Haiti into a ‘prison island’, with the international airport has been closed since early March because of the violence and foreigners being evacuated by helicopter.
The heavily armed gang rebels have reportedly attacked schools, universities, hospitals, banks, businesses and the political heart of the Haitian capital.
Even the national library was looted.
More than 1,500 people have been killed in the first three months of 2024, as political leaders line up to gain a place on the ‘Transition Council’.
“O’Neill is no stranger to challenging security situations, having worked in hotspots including Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Bosnia, Nepal and South Sudan. But he expressed shock at the almost complete evaporation of Haitian authorities in the face of the gang mutiny, which started on 29 February and forced the prime minister, Ariel Henry, to announce his resignation from abroad. Haiti held its last election in 2016 and has lacked a president since 2021 when Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his Port-au-Prince home. Haiti currently has no elected officials.
‘Here, I think what’s different is that the state is virtually absent … There is no state and that’s almost like a Hobbesian world where it’s really the survival of the fittest … and unfortunately the fittest right now are the gangs’, said O’Neill, who thought only a minor miracle was helping Haiti’s outgunned police prevent a total takeover.”
O’Neill fears the turmoil could soon fuel a massive exodus of refugees to the US and Dominican Republic, a nightmarish scenario ‘weeks [away] at worst, months at best’.
“It’s really now descending into something that’s like Somalia in the worst of its times, a 90-minute flight from Miami. We’re not there yet. But we’re perilously close.”
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It’s the season for war in the Old Continent, and the Nordic countries are no exception, with the recent entrance of Sweden and Finland to NATO, to join founding members Norway and Denmark.
The Danish, in particular, have been seen as trying to flex their military muscle, going as far as conscripting women into the service.
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But as their military personnel and equipment started deploying around the world, the Royal Danish Navy is having trouble with two different episodes – one from today in the Baltic Sea, and one from early May in the Red Sea, but that was first reported today.
The failures are shinning the light on questions over the reliability of the ships.
To begin with, today an ‘activated but faulty missile launcher’ on a vessel triggered a closure of airspace and shipping traffic in the Great Belt strait.
Reuters reported:
“Denmark’s National Maritime Authority had earlier warned ships not to sail through the Great Belt strait, one of the world’s busiest sea lanes and the main maritime access to the Baltic Sea, due to the risk of ‘falling missile fragments’.
‘The problem occurred during a mandatory test where the missile launcher is activated and cannot be deactivated’, the military said in a statement.
‘Until the missile launcher is deactivated, there is a risk that the missile can fire and fly a few kilometers away’, the military added.”
Now, if such an accident is bad enough during a naval exercise in European waters, just imagine how worse it would be in a real mission in the Red Sea, under attack by Houthi rebels.
Actually, you need not imagine that, because that’s just what happened on March 9, and we became aware today.
In a different Reuters report:
“A Danish frigate deployed to the Red Sea as part of a U.S.-led operation suffered malfunctioning of its weapon systems when attacked by drones operated by Houthi militants last month, the captain said on Thursday as the ship arrived in Denmark.
The failure, which until Thursday had only been reported by local defence media Olfi citing a confidential report by the ship’s captain, prompted the government to dismiss its top military official Flemming Lentfer on Wednesday.”
Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said Lentfer failed to inform the ministry in detail about the incident on March 9. But Despite the malfunction, the frigate shot down four drones, as the vessel’s captain and commanding officer Sune Lund told Reuters.
“‘We had some system failure, or system degradation, which challenged a bit our engagement’, Lund said without elaborating. ‘But at no time during the engagement were we left defenseless. We had redundancies on board, so we were able to continue fighting and neutralizing the threats.”
Watch: Danish frigate shoots down Houthi Rebels’ drones.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 75th birthday in a crossroads: the once-defensive organization went on the offensive and expanded east in Europe until it poked the Russian bear one-too-many-times.
The ongoing war in Ukraine has drained the weapons stockpiles from the western nations without changing the expected outcome: Russia is winning.
All around the media, now, we can read the unfiltered, once forbidden truth:
Politico: Ukraine is at great risk of its front lines collapsing
The Times: It’s time we talked about the fall of Kyiv
Sky News: Russia-Ukraine latest: ‘Great risk’ of Ukraine collapse as Russia prepares ‘big attack’
US State Department: Official Says Without U.S. Funding, Ukraine’s Defense Will Likely Collapse
Standard: Vladimir Putin may be weeks away from a breakthrough in Ukraine but the West is asleep
The above is NOT an exhausting selection.
So, as NATO turns 75, what can Secretary Blinken offer to the nearly collapsing Ukrainian allies? Promises. That’s all.
Reuters reported:
“U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that Ukraine will eventually join NATO as support for the country remains “rock solid” among member states.
‘Ukraine will become a member of NATO. Our purpose at the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership’, Blinken told reporters in Brussels.”
AP headline is perhaps a bit more truthful: NATO marks its 75th birthday as Russia’s war in Ukraine gnaws at its unity.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 4, 2024
There is no money, no ammunition, no missiles or planes. And, fundamentally, there are no troops for the continuation of the war.
But there are words. And promises.
Among the Secretary Blinken’s Remarks: “I think it’s safe to say that the support for Ukraine, the determination of every country represented here at NATO remains rock solid.”
So no NATO now, they’ll talk again in the summer, on the summit in Washington celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Alliance.
“Ukraine will become a member of NATO. Our purpose of the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership and to create a clear pathway for Ukraine moving forward.
[…] The final point is this: The fight that Ukraine has on its hands is not only Ukraine’s fight; it’s everyone’s fight.”
So, no NATO in the summer – just a ‘bridge’, a ‘pathway’. It’s unclear if Ukrainian troops will hold the lines until the summer, let alone wait for elusive promises in the distant future.
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A Safari in Africa got way too real, and it ended with an overturned truck and a dead elderly American tourist, as a furious wild bull elephant charged at a group of tourists and a guide in the Jungle of Zambia.
A Shocking video taken by one of the tourists in the truck captured the moment the 5-ton elephant charged at the vehicle — flipping it over several times.
An 80-year-old American woman – who was not identified, ended up dying from her wounds.
The six tourists were doing a Safari with the group Wilderness Zambia, and were out on a photography tour when they came under attack by the enraged animal.
New York Post reported:
“’At around 9:30 a.m. on Saturday morning the six guests were on the game drive when the vehicle was unexpectedly charged by the bull elephant’, Wilderness Zambia CEO Keith Vincent said in a statement.
Distressing footage captured by a passenger shows the elephant barreling toward the vehicle as it cruises along a bush-lined road before suddenly stopping when its path was blocked.”
One international client killed by elephant in Kafue National Park from lufupa Lodge during Safari. Two injured and being evacuated to Lusaka. Full details being awaited from the operator through the Senior Warden Kafue Region. Very unfortunate indeed. pic.twitter.com/4ntbyhec1G
— Gina (@ginnydmm) April 2, 2024
The terrified tourist continues to film even as the animal lunges at the vehicle and flips it over.
The unnamed elderly woman later died of her injuries, while another woman remains hospitalized. The other four passengers were treated for minor injuries after the violent attack.
“’Our guides are all extremely well-trained and experienced, but sadly in this instance the terrain and vegetation was such that the guide’s route became blocked and he could not move the vehicle out of harm’s way quickly enough’, Vincent said.”
The luxurious Lufupa Camp, in Zambia’s Kafue National Park, is the largest game reserve in Africa.
“’This is a tragic event and we extend our deepest condolences to the family of the guest who died. We are also, naturally, supporting those guests and the guide involved in this distressing incident’, Vincent added.”
The tour group is reportedly making arrangements to return the woman’s body to the US.
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When he was elected President of Argentina, the libertarian economist and TV personality Javier Milei became responsible for tackling a very serious problem: how to turn around an economy destroyed by the Peronist socialists who drove almost 60% of the citizens below the poverty line.
And what’s worse: how to do that while being maligned non-stop by the leftist MSM that helps fuel the internal opposition.
The Milei response has been to plow along and try to implement his policies as fast and as broadly as possible.
Yesterday (3), another step in this direction was taken, as Argentina announced that it had cut 15,000 taxpayer-funded state jobs.
It’s ‘the chainsaw’ in action, as promised during the campaign.
Milei’s aggressive campaign to slash spending put his government on a collision course with angry protesters and powerful trade unions.
Associated Press reported:
“Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni announced the job cuts in a news conference, portraying them as key to Milei’s promised shake-up of Argentina’s bloated public sector.
“It’s part of the work we are doing to reduce state expenses,” he told reporters, describing the dismissed workers as a drag on taxpayers. “They perhaps did not have a very defined job,” he said.”
Employees stormed some state companies in Buenos Aires and nearby cities, while the Association of State Workers, or ATE, brought a crowd of protesters to ministries.
“Workers at ministries that Mileli has vowed to close, such as the National Institute Against Discrimination, along with a range of state agencies — including the ministries for the economy, energy and social security — received the latest layoff notices.”
Critics say the impact of the laid off workers is combined with the reduction of social programs, to create a critical situation.
“Milei campaigned for president while brandishing a chainsaw — promising to fix Argentina’s long-troubled economy by chopping down the size of the state. Determined to balance the country’s budget, he has slashed energy and transportation subsidies, halted public works, cut payments to provincial governments and devalued the peso by over 50% to close the gap between the official exchange rate and the black market rate.”
The inflation has spiked, making it even harder for Argentines to manage.
The confrontation will make it harder to achieve a zero budget deficit by the year’s end.
“’They are walking a very thin line’, said Martin Planes from Cefeidas, a Buenos Aires-based political advisory group. ‘They need to go deeper with their measures to cut spending, but they need to prevent social unrest’.”
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In the season of economic stagnation that Europe is living, a rather surprising development has arisen, as Italy, widely considered one of the old continent’s most fragile economies, has jumped forward as the fastest growing nation.
This has been acknowledged by both the German and the British press, two of Italy’s most traditional economic rivals for the European leadership.
German paper Deutsche Welle went as far as saying that the country led by conservative Prime Minister Georgia Meloni was EU’s new ‘locomotive’.
“While governments in Rome were used to announcing depressing growth forecasts and poor debt rankings in the years before the pandemic, the country is now quickly becoming Europe’s growth engine.
In the last quarter, the Italian economy grew by 0.6%, while the German economy shrunk by 0.3% in the same period. Beyond this short three-month snapshot, other figures for Europe’s third-largest economy are impressive.
‘The Italian economy has grown by 3.8% since 2019’, said Jörg Krämer, chief economist at Commerzbank. That is ‘twice as much as the French economy and five times more than the German economy’, he told DW.”
In Germany, the prospects are indeed looking bleak. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) predicts growth of 0.3% this year for Germany.
“Leading German experts are only expecting growth of 0.1%. Italy, on the other hand, is expected to grow by 0.7% this year, according to the [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development].
The Italian stock market is also benefiting from the optimistic mood. The FTSE MIB benchmark index, which is made up of 40 big companies, rose by around 28% last year, more than any other European stock market indices. Italy is on track for more growth.”
Meanwhile, the British press is equally impressed with the Italian performance, as the country bounces vigorously back from the pandemic slowdown and the energy crisis.
Telegraph reported:
“Unlike all the others, moreover, Italy is enjoying strong per capita growth, the measure that really matters as a gauge of whether citizens are getting richer or not. After decades of stagnation, real GDP per head is nearly 5pc higher today than it was before the pandemic, far outstripping Germany, France, the UK and Spain.”
The British paper makes the surprising claim that ‘Italy has relatively low levels of net immigration’.
“Two or three years of relatively strong growth do not a summer make; we should be careful not to jump to conclusions about some kind of economic transformation in the making.
Many commentators see the current growth spurt as no more than a flash in the pan, explained primarily by Italy’s outsized share of the European Union’s ‘next generation’, post-pandemic recovery fund.”
The stimulus awarded by the current infrastructure boom will be short-lived. But the good news come from the newfound political stability.
“Yet Italy’s greatest weakness has long been not its inequalities, its apparently mountainous public debts, its byzantine protections, its tax-evading citizens or its never-ending insolvency procedures, but its politics.”
After 16 governments in 20 years, the discontinuity in economic policy has hindered foreign investment.
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Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and U.K.’s Rishi Sunak Join Forces to Tackle Mass Migration to Europe
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The culture of death continues to expand in many decadent western cultures, making Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide increasingly normalized options for people that seem plagued by the lack of competent healthcare.
In fact it’s become a kind of ‘vogue’, generating stories like this: Canadian Hospital Suggests Euthanasia to Suicidal Woman Who Went There For Help.
Of course, once the state is ok with that, people will want to illegally ‘expand’ the market: Ukrainian Man Selling Poison for Suicide on Online Forums Busted by British Media – Chemical Is Deadly Even In Small Doses, Responsible for Hundreds of UK Deaths.
The Netherlands is one of the leading nations pushing for these practices, having become the first to make assisted suicide legal back in 2001.
Since then, it’s become an increasingly ‘popular’ option among the population, with over 8 thousand deaths per year.
It is now reported that a physically healthy 28-year-old Dutch woman has decided ‘to legally end her life due to her struggles with crippling depression, autism and borderline personality disorder’.
New York Post reported:
“Zoraya ter Beek, who lives in a small village in the Netherlands near the German border, is scheduled to be euthanized in May — despite being in love with her 40-year-old boyfriend and living with two cats.”
The young woman who aspired to be a psychiatrist deals with mental health struggles, and it appears to have had access to incompetent healthcare.
“She said she decided to be euthanized after her doctors told her, ‘There’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better’.
‘I was always very clear that if it doesn’t get better, I can’t do this anymore’, ter Beek said.”
‘There’s nothing more we can do for you – it’s never gonna get any better’ – it almost seem like the doctors are prompting her on to suicide.
It’s a growing number of people in these decadent Western societies choosing to die rather than live with conditions that can be treated.
“More people are deciding to end their lives while suffering from a slew of other mental health problems like depression or anxiety amplified by economic uncertainty, climate change, social media and other issues.”
Oh my: people want to die because of climate alarmism?
Critics have noticed how euthanasia became an ‘acceptable option’ brought to the conversation by physicians and psychiatrists – when previously it was meant to be the ultimate, last resort.
Healthcare professional give up on patients much more easily than before: it’s the culture of death.
Zoraya says she is ‘a little afraid of dying’. She still has time to change her mind, and find some decent healthcare to help her live a fruitful life.
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Now that the United States is overextended militarily with simultaneous proxy engagements in the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Gaza wars, many fear that China will take advantage of this situation and make a decisive move towards the island of Taiwan, potentially taking the American military capabilities to the brink.
So, yesterday (2), on an eventful day that saw the strongest Taiwan earthquake in 25 years, as well as a telephone conversation between US President Joe Biden and Chairman Xi Jinping, the Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) decided to make yet another show of force over and around the contested island.
Dozens of Chinese warplanes and multiple naval ships were reported around Taiwan in the largest coordinated display this year.
At least 30 planes and nine ships were detected in Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) by the country’s Ministry of National Defense.
Fox News reported:
“’30 PLA aircraft and 9 PLAN [Chinese navy] vessels operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. [local time] today. 20 of the aircraft entered Taiwan’s northern, middle line, and Southwest [air defense identification zones]’, the Taiwanese [Ministry] announced via social media. ‘[Republic of China Armed Forces] have monitored the situation and employed appropriate force to respond’.”
The ‘Republic of China’, official name of Taiwan, is trying to remain independent from the mainland, communist People’s Republic of China.
“The coordinated display of military force by the People’s Liberation Army around Taiwan followed a phone call between leaders of the People’s Republic of China and the United States.
President Biden held a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday.”
No details about the call have been divulged, but Taiwan was widely expected to be a major topic, along with fentanyl, artificial intelligence and China’s support for Russia.
“Biden last spoke with Xi in person in November, their first public interaction since Biden took to referring to Xi as a ‘dictator’. […] Biden used the term after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy craft on the East Coast after allowing it to traverse the continental U.S.
Biden has stated repeatedly in the past that the U.S. would intervene if China were to invade Taiwan, but the White House has walked back the statement each time.”
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A 7.5-magnitude earthquake has hit the northeast of the Republic of China (Taiwan). According to locals, this was the strongest earthquake to hit the Island in 25 years!
Taiwanese media reports that multiple buildings in downtown Hualien collapsed due to the Earthquake!
Watch: Earthquake hits the new Zhongzheng Bridge in Taipei.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 3, 2024
Japanese media NHK reports that tsunami alerts have been issued to ALL Okinawa and Ryukyu Prefecture Islands following the earthquake in Taiwan.
NHK TV warns of an approaching 3-meter tsunami following the earthquake and shows boats and ships quickly leaving the harbor on Yonaguni Island.
CNN reports:
“A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off Taiwan’s eastern coast Wednesday, according to the US Geological Survey, prompting tsunami warnings in southern Japan.
The quake’s epicenter is located about 18 kilometers (11 miles) south of the city of Hualien.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a tsunami warning for Miyakojima and Okinawa islands, warning of waves up to 3 meters expected imminently.”
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 3, 2024
WATCH: TSUNAMI ALERT IN JAPAN – LIVE LINK.
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And so it happened that the super threat to democracy, mega-villain to all western Globalists, Russian President Vladimir Putin got reelected with 80% of the vote in an election that those same Globalists branded to be ‘oh-so-bad’.
Meanwhile the absolute champion for democracy, the immaculate resistance leader, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has outrun his constitutional mandate, and after no Presidential elections were held on March 31st, he became a fundamentally illegitimate leader.
And mind you – the elections were not cancelled because of any Putin infiltrations fears. It was on account of Zelensky’s nemesis, former Ukrainian Supreme Commander General Valery Zaluzhny – who was polling much higher than the leader he called ‘Frodo’.
Now that Oleksandr Syrsky has been named the new top Ukrainian General, and that Zaluzhny has been appointed ambassador (exiled?) to the UK, Zelensky is free to continue his unlawfully extended mandate and try to avoid complete defeat against overpowering Russian forces.
In order to do that, besides getting the ever more elusive billions in military aid and equipment, Ukraine has to try and overcome the lack of troops, as more and more people are evading mobilization.
To that end, Zelensky has finally signed into law the highly unpopular, ‘hot potato’ bill lowering the mobilization age for combat duty from 27 to 25 years-old.
Reuters reported:
“The bill had been on Zelensky’s table since it was approved by lawmakers in May 2023, and it was not immediately clear what prompted him to sign it. Parliament has been discussing a separate bill to broadly tighten draft rules for months.
The move expands the number of civilians the army can mobilize into its ranks to fight under martial law, which has been in place since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Ukrainian troops are on the back foot on the battlefield, facing a shortage of ammunition supplies with vital funding from the U.S. blocked by Republicans in Congress for months and the European Union failing to deliver promised ammunition on time.”
So controversial is the bill perceived to be, that it was left to Parliament to discreetly update the entry for the bill on its website.
It reads: ‘returned with the signature of the president of Ukraine’.
Zelensky has said that he would only sign the bill if he was convinced of the need to do so.
The top General, Oleksandr Syrsky, said last week that the half-million new troops figure first floated had been ‘significantly reduced’ after a review of resources.
Also: men given waivers from military service on disability grounds will now have to undergo another medical assessment.
Zelensky has repeatedly warned that Russia plans another offensive later this spring or in summer.
Kiev is now belatedly trying to build up strong defensive fortifications along the 600-mile long front line.
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To live the real life of a Princess is no fairy tale.
Kate, the Princess of Wales, recorded a video announcement disclosing and detailing her cancer treatment in a very dignified way that moved the Kingdom and the world.
But now, it arises that the video was ‘rushed out’ by Kensington Palace aides, after her diagnosis had been leaked to the press.
Daily Mail reported:
“Kate Middleton confirmed she had been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing ‘preventative chemotherapy’ for the disease in a video message on March 22.
However, a well-placed source has revealed the timing of the video nothing to do with the speculation that would have come from her missing church on Easter morning, but instead because someone had knowledge of her health condition.
Kensington Palace had been contacted about Kate’s diagnosis, leaving no option but to hurry to get ahead of the story, the insider told the Daily Mail’s Ephraim Hardcastle column.
It is unclear as to whether the leak came from within The London Clinic, where the Princess underwent abdominal surgery in January, or from elsewhere.”
At this point it is unclear if the leak came from the London Clinic – but here in TGP I wrote about the UK ROYAL SECURITY SCANDAL: Hospital Staff in Posh London Clinic Attempted to Access Princess Kate Middleton’s Private Medical Records.
Initially, it was believed the video aimed to calm down the frenzied speculations about her condition, as we covered in Grave Sickness, Affair and Divorce, ‘Brazilian Butt Lift’? Britain’s Prince William and Princess Kate Face the Rumor Mill Going into Overdrive.
When she was spotted outside, the controversy followed: BBC Reporter Claims Woman Photographed With Prince William Was a Kate “Look-alike”.
So, finally, when the Princess came to the public and told her story – or part of it – it was assumed to be a reaction at the folly, and NOT an attempt to preempt the unauthorized leak to hit the news before she did.
Sure enough, the circumstances surrounding Princess Kate’s video don’t diminish her dignified stance.
Much to the contrary – this story is further evidence of the violence committed against her right to privacy when it comes to her medical records.
But then, again, to live the real life of a Princess is no fairy tale.
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JUST IN: Kate Middleton Reveals She Has Cancer and is Undergoing Chemotherapy (VIDEO)
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Another week in Haiti, another ugly chapter in the never-ending chaos and violence in the Caribbean nation.
As the unelected Transition Council tries to get implemented but doesn’t manage to, street battles raged in around downtown Port-au-Prince yesterday (1).
The heaviest confrontations seemed to take place near the national palace.
Reuters reported:
“The latest violence to rock the Caribbean island nation comes as the outgoing prime minister signaled that a broad transitional council is nearly finalized and seen as key to ending the current social and political crisis and paving the way for new elections.
Reuters saw civilians rush to escape gunfire in the capital, where rival gangs control wide swathes of territory, three weeks after Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced plans to step down pending the creation of the council and the appointment of an interim leader.”
To give an idea of how precarious the situation is, outgoing PM Henry said that the names of the nine members of the council have finally been forwarded to him from regional body CARICOM.
But Henry did not release the names, as it would amount to a death sentence by the gangs, and the government can’t guarantee their safety.
Besides that,, legal questions have arisen that hinder the implementation of the council.
“Earlier on Monday, gunmen seized an armored vehicle from palace guards in the city center. Meanwhile, four people were found dead in the capital’s relatively upscale Petion-Ville suburb, which has been threatened by gangs.
At least one other person was shot dead amid fighting in the capital’s Delmas district, while local media also reported a large industrial park had been set on fire three days before.”
Watch: rebel gang member shows armored car taken from palace guards.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 2, 2024
“Last weekend, troops from the Bahamas and Belize arrived in Jamaica to participate in a training exercise known as Trogon Shield, along with soldiers from Canada, in preparation for deployment to Haiti.
In 2022, Henry called for an international security force to boost Haiti’s out-gunned police, but despite the United Nations ratifying the force six months ago progress has been sluggish.”
Over 1,500 people were killed so far in 2024, with around 60 of those having been lynched by vigilante groups that are operating where police presence is lacking.
Associated Press reported:
“Local media reported that at least one policeman was shot after he and other officers were forced to flee an armored car that was later set on fire.
Scores of people were trapped by the gunfire in downtown Port-au-Prince while dozens of others managed to flee. One man who declined to provide his name out of fear for his life told The Associated Press that he was stuck for five hours until police rescued him.
‘It’s the armored car that covered us (so we could) leave the area’, he said.
[…] On Monday night, Haiti’s government issued a statement raising concerns over its creation, saying that the current council of ministers ‘stumbled over proven constitutional and legal questions. The Constitution and Haitian laws nowhere provide for this institution’.”
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The latest round of Russian air raids have brought Ukraine’s energy grid to the brink, with officials admitting, and then denying, the severity of the problem.
The head of DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy firm, said that five of its six plants had been damaged or destroyed.
80% of the company’s generating capacity is lost, and repairs could take up as much as an year and a half!
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia was carrying out ‘vile strikes’ to ‘bleed’ the Ukrainian energy systems.
DTEK supplies about a quarter of the country’s energy, and has seen its thermal power stations and other facilities repeatedly hit by Russian missiles, drones and artillery.
Reuters reported:
“DTEK Executive Director Dmytro Sakharuk said in remarks shown on national television that waves of attacks on March 22 and March 29 had hit thermal and hydro production “in almost all regions” and that distribution facilities were destroyed.
‘To be specific, five out of six of our stations were severely damaged, some units were destroyed, some were damaged by 50% or more’, he said.
‘This applies to both the western regions and the central regions, and both the equipment necessary for the production of electricity and for transmission from the station to the grid were damaged’, he said.
His company suffered losses amounting to $300 million for equipment alone, he said, while labour costs would require as much as half as much again. ‘We have determined that 80% of the available generating capacity is not working now’, he added.”
Watch: Odessa goes ‘lights out’ after the bombing of the energy power plant.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 1, 2024
DTEK spent $110 million restoring infrastructure hit by Russian attacks last year, and two-thirds of that equipment was destroyed again.
The destruction will require months of repairs, he said, and in some cases as long as a year and half.
“‘It takes time to manufacture a turbine or a generator or a transformer, so you need be prepared for the fact that the power will return gradually’, he said.”
Watch DTEK Director Dmytro Sakharuk talk about the air raids againt the energy infrastructure (English Subtitles)
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 1, 2024
Other excerpts:
“If we talk about March 22, then unfortunately, the two largest plants received the greatest damage during the entire war (Burshtynska TPP and Ladyzhynska TPP).
8 missiles arrived at each station. Moreover, unlike previous periods, last winter, the accuracy of the missiles is amazing. Running run METER. If earlier it was 100 meters, 200, 300, now they arrive meter by meter.
Unfortunately, it was not possible to shoot down these missiles and the consequences are simply colossal. There the field is clean, there are no roofs, no equipment, scorched earth…”
Another Reuters report sings a different song, as officials are rolled out to minimize the situation.
“Recent Russian attacks have caused significant damage to the Ukrainian power system, but a total collapse is unlikely, the head of Ukraine’s national grid company Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytskyi said on Monday.
[…] “Their (the Russians’) goal is to impose blackouts in some major Ukrainian cities, and our goal is to prevent it,” Kudrytskyi told Reuters in an interview.
[…] The missile attacks have also significantly damaged the largest Ukrainian hydropower station in Zaporizhzhia, as well as the Kaniv and Dnister stations.”
But Kudrytskyi said that the country’s energy system was NOT near to collapsing.
“‘We are definitely not one step away from collapse. A collapse is an uncontrolled shutdown of most or the entire power system. This has not happened and will not happen, this scenario we consider as unlikely’, he said.”
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Firefighters work to put out a fire in a thermal power plant, damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv
Firefighters work to put out a fire in a thermal power plant, damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 18, 2022. State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS
Finland joined NATO, security on its Russian border was reinforced on both sides and to put a little more pressure on the bilateral relations, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen ‘did not rule out sending Western troops to Ukraine in the future’ during an interview with the British newspaper Financial Times.
She did say that, at the moment, there is no such need, but the escalation is evident.
Slavyangrad on Telegram:
“‘Now is not the time to send troops, and we don’t even want to discuss it at this stage. But in the long term, we certainly shouldn’t rule anything out’, she said.
The head of the Finnish Foreign Ministry noted that the West does not know what the conflict will lead to and what will happen in the future, so there is no need to “reveal all the cards.”
So, now in this context, it has arisen today that a strong and foul smell ‘resembling that of sulfur or burnt rubber’ was detected in the region around Finland’s capital Helsinki.
The smell has been reported in an area spanning at least 37 miles along Finland’s southern coastline. And some are ready to say that it comes from Russia’s Saint Petersburg.
Finnish authorities detect sulphur-like smell in Helsinki region https://t.co/CPqilMgMiy pic.twitter.com/JAmbOmetOk
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 31, 2024
Reuters reported:
“‘The rescue department and other authorities are looking into the matter’, [the department] wrote in a post on X.
There was no immediate indication that the smell was a health hazard, it added.
Russian media outlet Fontanka reported on Sunday that residents in several areas of St Petersburg, the Russian city closest to Finland, had complained of an unpleasant odor, comparing it to that of gas, garbage or burnt rubber.”
New York Post reported:
“’In Helsinki and Uusimaa more widely, a strong smell in the air has been noticed from time to time. The rescue service and other authorities are currently investigating the matter’, the agency wrote on X.
Many have written on social media that the stench is originating across the sea, from the Russian city of Saint Petersburg.
“‘It reached Vasilyevsky Island. It smells like a mixture of garbage, burnt rubber and burning. I woke up from the smell at 7 a.m., closed all the windows’, Russian user Dasha Nukolova wrote on X.
‘Yes, at Primorskaya you can’t breathe either, there’s a terrible smell, like gas. I woke up with a headache and couldn’t breathe’, wrote another user, Masha Artamonova.”
Read more about Finland:
Stubb Elected President in NATO Finland, Vows ‘No Relations’ With Russia Until the End of the War
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As French President Emmanuel Macron was making a PR trip to the Brazilian Amazon Forest in his rather desperate search for positive agenda photo-ops, his newly appointed foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to prepare a planned May visit to France by leader Xi Jinping.
MSM will tell you that Séjourné ‘pressed China’ today (1) on trade issues and also the war in Ukraine.
The French FM is repeating the EU line taken by most EU European leaders – a stance that has precious little chance of changing China’s actions.
Associated Press reported:
“’The rebalancing of our economic partnership is a priority, as it is for our European partners’, Séjourné said at a joint news conference with Wang. ‘The European Union is a very open market, the most open in the world. But the current deficits with a certain number of countries, including China, are not sustainable for us’.
European officials have expressed concern that a flood of low-priced Chinese-made electric vehicles could disrupt production and displace jobs in Europe. The EU is investigating whether Chinese government subsidies for EVs give an unfair advantage to Chinese auto exporters. European companies operating in China are complaining that recent changes to national security laws have made it riskier to invest and do business in the country.”
Chinese officials, for their part, object to the EU’s ‘de-risking’ strategy of relying too much on China for vital supplies and minerals.
FM Wang hopes it doesn’t negatively affect business sentiment.
“’I believe the facts have proved and will continue to prove that China constitutes opportunities to Europe, rather than risks’, he said. ‘The two sides are partners not opponents’.
He also said that China is willing to import more ‘high-quality French products and services’ and is working to resolve the concerns raised by European companies, including restrictions on the transfer of data overseas.”
Of course, Ukraine was a topic for the EU leader.
Politico reported:
“The Chinese government ‘plays a key role in the respect of international law, including on Ukraine’s sovereignty, and therefore we are clearly expecting that China will send very clear messages to Russia’, Séjourné said during a press conference in the Chinese capital speaking alongside his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
China presents itself as neutral on the Ukraine war and hasn’t formally condemned Russia for the invasion. Instead, Beijing has deepened ties with Moscow — even deciding to ditch the United States dollar for bilateral trade.
Last month, China’s special envoy for Eurasian affairs warned about the war escalating and said both Ukraine and Russia ‘agree that negotiations, rather than guns, will ultimately end this war’. China wants Europe to let Russia sit at the table for future peace talks — or Beijing will boycott such discussions.”
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Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has come out and unveiled Moscow’s demand that Ukraine authorities hand over all people connected with terrorist acts committed in their territory.
The list surprisingly even includes the head of Kiev’s SBU Security Service, Vasyl Malyuk.
Besides the recent ‘bloody Crocus terrorist act’, the attacks in question include bombings that killed the daughter of a prominent nationalist philosopher, a war blogger, and another incident in which a writer was seriously hurt.
While the investigation by the Russian authorities indicate that the traces of all these crimes lead to Ukraine, in the case of Malyuk there is a voluntary admission on TV.
“We will not officially admit this in any way, but at the same time I will tell you some details,” he said in an interview with a Ukrainian TV channel.
Reuters reported:
“‘Russia has turned over to Ukrainian authorities its demands … for the immediate arrest and extradition of all those connected to the terrorist acts in question’, the [Russian Ministry’s] statement said.
The ministry statement said those to be handed over included SBU head Vasyl Malyuk, who has acknowledged [in an interview with Ukrainian television channel ICTV] his service was behind attacks on the bridge linking Crimea to the Russian mainland […].
‘The Russian side demands that the Kyiv regime immediately cease all support for terrorist activity, extradite guilty parties and compensate the victims for damages’, it said.
‘Ukraine’s violation of its obligations under anti-terrorist conventions will result in it being held to account in international legal terms’.”
Here are some other excerpts by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
“Other barbaric terrorist attacks using explosive devices cost the lives of journalists D.A. Dugina and M.Yu. Fomin (V. Tatarsky), led to the serious injury of the writer E.N. Prilepin and the death of his driver A.I. Shubin, the death of five people as a result of the explosion of the Crimean Bridge, 42 people were injured in an explosion in a cafe in St. Petersburg.”
It does seem odd for a warring party to demand another to comply with treaties and conventions.
“In this regard, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted to the Ukrainian authorities demands within the framework of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (ICBT) and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (ICFT) for the immediate arrest and extradition of all persons involved in these terrorist attacks.
Among these demands is the arrest of the head of the SBU V. Malyuk, who cynically admitted on March 25 that Ukraine organized the bombing of the Crimean Bridge in October 2022 and revealed details of the organization of other terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation.
The fight against international terrorism is the responsibility of every state. The Russian side demands that the Kiev regime immediately stop any support for terrorist activities, hand over the perpetrators and compensate the damage caused to the victims. Violation of Ukraine’s obligations under anti-terrorist conventions will entail its international legal responsibility.”
Russian Telegram channel Slavyangrad reported:
“On March 25, 2024 AD, during an interview at the telethon of the Ukrainian television channel ICTV, the head of the SBU, Vasily Malyuk, confirmed the involvement of Kyiv in the [truck] bombing of the Crimean Bridge and other terrorist attacks on Russian territory
Still according to Malyuk:
“It was SBU that made the the explosive-filled figurine used to kill Vladlen Tatarsky, which contained ‘400 grams of thermobar’.
[…] It was the SBU that made the ‘800 grams of plastic explosives’ being used in the assassination attempt on Pro-Russian Separatist LPR Republic’s Prosecutor General Sergei Gorenk.
It was SBU agents were behind the assassination of the former Rada deputy Ilya Kiva (An Ukrainian Ultranationalist that defected to Russian side), which was shot with a 9×19 caliber pistol
It was SBU behind the assassination attempt on Zakhar Prilepin, which was prepared using anti-tank mine.”
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For a spacecraft that landed upside down on the moon’s south pole surface, the Japanese SLIM lunar lander is showing absolutely remarkable resilience, as it arises that earlier this week the spacecraft ‘woke up’ from its SECOND Lunar night!
You can recall this incredible story here on TGP:
First is was: OH, NO: Japanese SLIM Lunar Lander Is Upside Down on the Moon Surface!
The it became: SLIM IS BACK: Upside Down Japanese Moon Lander Recharged Batteries and Resumed Lunar Mission
and finally:
SLIM IS BACK: Upside Down Japanese Moon Lander Recharged Batteries and Resumed Lunar Mission
So, SLIM’s ‘alive’.
The ‘moon sniper’ survived its second freezing lunar night, as mission team members announced the news on X, in a post that also featured a photo newly snapped by the lander’s navigation camera.
Space.com reported:
SLIM, whose name is short for “Smart Lander for Investigating Moon,” launched last September and landed on Jan. 19, making Japan just the fifth nation to pull off a soft lunar touchdown. (The other four are the Soviet Union, the United States, China and India.)
The solar-powered SLIM landed on its nose that day, a less-than-optimal orientation for harvesting sunlight. The 440-pound (200 kilograms) probe went dark shortly thereafter but then woke up on Jan. 28 and began gathering data.
The mission team put SLIM into hibernation a few days later ahead of the two-week-long lunar night, during which surface temperatures at its locale dropped to around minus 208 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 130 degrees Celsius).”
Last night, we received a response from #SLIM, confirming that the spacecraft made it through the lunar night for the second time! Since the sun was still high and the equipment was still hot, we only took some shots of the usual scenery with the navigation camera. #GoodAfterMoon pic.twitter.com/5BjIr7vxMG
— 小型月着陸実証機SLIM (@SLIM_JAXA) March 28, 2024
With two ‘revivals’ to its credit, the ‘moon sniper’ is beginning to suffer from the radical temperatures.
“‘According to the acquired data, some temperature sensors and unused battery cells are starting to malfunction, but the majority of functions that survived the first lunar night was mantained even after the second lunar night!’ mission team members said in another X post on Wednesday night.”
In an additional post, mission control wrote: ‘Last night, the temperature dropped a little, so I received uncompressed data from the navigation camera that was taken the other day. The distance to the distant cross-shaped crater is approximately 7 km, and the distance to the mountain behind it is approximately 29 km. The sense of distance is quite different from Earth because there is no atmospheric haze and the distance to the horizon is different.’
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Globalist and Euro-fanatic Donald Tusk is proudly taking Poland down the war path.
On his first interview with European media since becoming Polish prime minister for the second time, Tusk urged leaders around the continent to bolster their defenses – which is a good thing.
But he did much more than that, banging the war drums as hard as he could.
BBC reported:
“Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned Europe is in a ‘pre-war era’ and Ukraine must not be defeated by Russia for the good of the whole continent.
[…] Appealing for urgent military aid for Ukraine, Mr. Tusk warned the next two years of the war would decide everything, adding: ‘We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the Second World War’.”
He says that Europe will be a more attractive partner to the US if it became more self-sufficient militarily.
Poland now is spending 4% of its GDP on defense, doubling the Nato target of 2%.
“I know it sounds devastating, especially to people of the younger generation, but we have to mentally get used to the arrival of a new era. The pre-war era.”
And we know this is not all talk, because it turns out that Poland suspended its participation the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, allowing it to expand the scope of its troops and military equipment.
The denunciation means that #Warsaw will no longer fulfill the treaty’s provisions regarding the number of armed forces and their locations. pic.twitter.com/5nREZ62Kf2
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 29, 2024
Deutsche Welle reported:
“‘War is no longer a concept from the past. It is real, and it started over two years ago. The most worrying thing at the moment is that literally any scenario is possible. We haven’t seen a situation like this since 1945’, Tusk said in an interview with the European media grouping LENA on Friday.
[…] ‘I know it sounds devastating, especially for the younger generation, but we have to get used to the fact that a new era has begun: the pre-war era. I’m not exaggerating; it’s becoming clearer every day’.”
Tusk advanced the rather absurd idea that ‘no one in Europe would feel safe if Kiev lost the war’.
“‘The European Union as a whole, as a powerful organization, must be mentally prepared to fight for the security of our borders and our territory’, he said.”
Of course there’s the inevitable fear-mongering over the upcoming Donald Trump victory in the US:
“‘Our job is to nurture transatlantic relations, regardless of who the US president is’, Tusk said in the interview.”
Now, if you are left wondering who is paying for the Poland rearmament, the answer is: if you are an American taxpayer, you are.
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While the Caribbean leaders of the CARICOM and the Haitian political power brokers negotiate the formation of an unelected Transition Council that will have political power to appoint the new Prime Minister and cabinet for the chaotic and violence-stricken nation, one is left wondering: what about the armed men who actually control the situation?
In a scenario where 80 percent of the capital, Port-au-Prince, is controlled by the gang rebels, just calling them common criminals and trying to dismiss them will not work on the ground.
The head of the allied rebel gangs has said that he would only consider a ceasefire if talks on the political future of the country included his faction.
Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier predicted that more violence is imminent and that the worse is still to come.
As for the CARICOM trying to form a transitional council, he dismissed the process as not representative of the needs of the ordinary people.
He considers it a smokescreen to allow corrupt politicians and oligarchs to continue running the country.
Sky News reported:
“‘If the international community comes with a detailed plan where we can sit together and talk, but they do not impose on us what we should decide, I think that the weapons could be lowered’, he added.
‘We don’t believe in killing people and massacring people, we believe in dialogue, we have weapons in our hand and it’s with the weapons that we must liberate this country’.”
Barbecue sees himself not as a simple criminal, but as a revolutionary for the people.
“We believe in dialogue, we are for dialogue, but this political class that is here now is not here for dialogue, the reason is that they don’t carry Haiti in their hearts the same way that we do.
The political class say they are excluding bandits, that men with guns are not in it, but this is a way for them to revive the same system, because the system has reached its end. The divide between rich and poor is too vast, in the whole world there is a divide between rich and poor, but the way it’s done in Haiti is indecent.”
He says he is open to some form of negotiations as long as they’re represented.
“We are ready for all solutions as long as Haitians are at the table, we are ready to sit and talk with everyone, because we are not proud of what is happening in this country…”
Talk about dialogue has been going on for more than two or three years, he says – ‘the weapons will be lowered when they need to be lowered’.
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There was once a time, not so long ago, when the Vatican prelate tasked with the highest doctrine office actually cared about… the doctrine.
German Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, who headed the Holy Office under former Pope Benedict XVI, has just condemned U.S. President Joe Biden’s support for abortion.
Müller said called it ‘infanticide’, and said that people promoting this crime should be ‘excommunicated’.
LifeSite News reported:
“’The word ‘abortion’ is too much a soft word. The reality is killing, murder of a living person’, said Cardinal Gerhard Müller. ‘There’s no right to kill another person. It’s absolutely against the Fifth Commandment’.”
The cardinal made his comments during an interview with LifeSiteNews in Rome. He torched Biden’s very public and consistent pro-abortion.
This comes after Biden, in his 2024 State of the Union Address, promised to ‘restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again’.
“Cardinal Müller likened the killing of the unborn and the elderly to the ‘Nazi’ times, saying that ‘it’s absolutely unacceptable that you can say you are a Catholic and promote and justify killing of human persons, human beings [from] the beginning in the mother’s womb, until the last respiration [with] euthanasia… Killing of ill people, like in the Nazi times, is euthanasia’.
Biden is very public about his self-professed Catholic faith, but Cardinal Müller suggested that while Biden is ‘nominally a Catholic, in reality he is a Nihilist. It’s cynicism and absolute cynicism’.”
Christians throughout America, and even nonbelievers ‘with their own mere reason’, understand that it’s not possible for one human being to have the right to kill another one.
“Drawing on the example of St. Ambrose of Milan and his excommunication of the Emperor Theodosius, Cardinal Müller commented how ‘in other times people like this would be excommunicated. In former times the Popes and the bishops had no fear to excommunicate, like St. Ambrose of Milan’.”
The Cardinal talked about how Western leaders in Germany and France established the right to kill their people, and lost any credibility.
How can they protest against the killing of innocent people in Ukraine, while on the other hand allow the killing of their own children?
After Biden’ State of the Union address, LifeSite has called for the U.S. bishops ‘to excommunicate the pro-abortion president’.
“Cardinal Müller stated that ‘the first step must be that we [must] have the unanimous U.S. bishops conference, probably together with other Christian religious, other religious leaders, [give] an absolute, clear, strong statement that this [abortion] is against all the standards and principles of humanity’.
[…] The Code of Canon Law 915 also explicitly forbids those in mortal sin from receiving Communion: ‘Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion’.”
Cardinal Müller also blasted the ‘narrow-minded ideas’ of the pro-abortion movement.
It holds that ‘only my happiness is important’, as the sole criteria of the sense of one’s own life.”
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Ever since the conquest of the heavily fortified key Donbas city of Avdeevka, the real dimension of the Russian combat superiority became suddenly clear to just about everyone.
While Ukraine still finds some success in missile strikes behind the Russian lines, and asymmetrical attacks of a terror nature, everyone now can see just how outmanned, outgunned and outmaneuvered Kiev’s forces have become.
Now, even in the MSM, there are daily reports of just how dire the situation on the ground is right now.
The UK paper The Times [behind a paywall] went as far as publishing an op-ed talking about how the West is bracing for an imminent Ukrainian army’s collapse.
TASS reported:
“Western leaders are bracing for the Ukrainian army’s collapse as it has only been able to slow the advance of Russian forces amid weapons and ammunition shortages, the Times writes.
In its editorial, titled ‘It’s time we talked about the fall of Kiev’, the paper points out that ‘contrary to the predominant view that this is a perpetual frozen conflict, with neither side able to win a decisive advantage, the front line is bitterly contested and there is a real risk of Ukrainian forces being pushed back’.
‘This is the nightmare scenario now being contemplated by western policymakers’, the Times notes.
Russia’s advance ‘would obviously be disastrous for the Ukrainians’. ‘It would also confront the West with all manner of tough challenges’, the newspaper says. ‘The consequences of a partial or complete defeat would be calamitous in ways western populations have barely begun to understand. But we have a lazy habit in the comfortable West – away from Europe’s front line in east and south Ukraine – of wishful thinking and being unprepared for bad surprises’, the Times emphasizes.”
It also shows a poll by the European Council on Foreign Relations conducted in 12 countries in January.
In the poll, only 10% of those surveyed believe that Ukraine can win.
37% said that compromise was the most likely option, while another 19.5% said that Russia would eventually achieve a victory.
And the gravity of the situation is talked about by the upper echelons of Ukrainian society, as is the case of the recent article by President Volodymyr Zelensky, where he candidly says that ‘We are trying to find a way not to retreat’.
As Russian missiles were pounding southern Ukraine, he said: ‘Give us the weapons to stop the Russian attacks, or Ukraine will escalate its counterattacks on Russia’s airfields, energy facilities and other strategic targets’.
Slavyangrad reported:
“The congressional delay in approving a $60 billion military aid package has been costly for Ukraine, Zelensky said. The military has been unable to plan future operations while legislators squabbled for nearly six months. He warned that hard-pressed Ukrainian forces might have to retreat to secure their front lines and conserve ammunition.
‘If there is no U.S. support, it means that we have no air defense, no Patriot missiles, no jammers for electronic warfare, no 155-milimeter artillery rounds,” he said. “It means we will go back, retreat, step by step, in small steps’.
To describe the military situation, Zelensky took a sheet of paper and drew a simple diagram of the combat zone. ‘If you need 8,000 rounds a day to defend the front line, but you only have, for example, 2,000 rounds, you have to do less’, he explained. ‘How? Of course, to go back. Make the front line shorter. If it breaks, the Russians could go to the big cities.”
While Kiev’s present situation can be blamed on the diminished foreign aid, there is also the fact that Ukraine is “catastrophically short” of soldiers, as described in a recent Politico report.
“Ukraine needs to draft many more men for a battlefield that is chewing up bodies, but authorities are conflicted over whether to cajole or coerce, and fear the political fallout if they choose the latter. Since the Russian invasion two years ago around 9,000 draft-evasion proceedings have been opened, according to the Ukrainian interior ministry, but that’s just scratching the surface of the draft-dodging and the evasion of registration so enlistment notices can’t be issued.
[…] Ukraine is perilously short not only of ammunition — especially artillery shells and air defense missiles — but also of soldiers to see off a Russian attack. The average age of Ukraine’s frontline soldiers is 43 — and evidence of draft-dodging is mounting.
[…] In December Zelenskyy said 450,000 to 500,000 extra soldiers would be needed to resist Russia in 2024. The Ukrainian parliament has for weeks been considering fresh mobilization legislation, which would see the minimum conscription age lowered from 27 to 25. The age was in fact lowered in separate legislation last July and approved by parliament, but Zelenskyy never signed it into law. He hasn’t fully explained why.
The new draft legislation has been re-written several times and envisages a call-up of another 400,000 Ukrainian troops. It has stalled in the parliament, however, with lawmakers objecting to some punitive measures they regard as unconstitutional, such as restricting the property rights of draft-dodgers, impounding their cars and blocking their bank accounts.”
So changed is the situation that even the maximalist territorial aims by Ukraine have shifted.
While Zelensky initially declared negotiations with Russia meant Ukraine reaching the 1991 borders, now he is already talking about Ukraine’s 2022 borders which also seems an objective impossible to attain.
It has surfaced in social media images of ‘infant soldiers’ heading to the frontline.
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Globalist Pope Francis continues to display worrying poor health as he skips a traditional Good Friday event.
Francis has recently said that his health is ‘good enough’ to keep continuing his pontificate, but the episodes of him not being able to perform his duties have multiplied lately.
This time the Pope skipped the Good Friday procession at Rome’s Coliseum to ‘protect his health’, in a last-minute decision that fuels concerns about his frail condition during a ‘busy’ and religiously significant period.
Associated Press reported:
“Francis had been expected to preside over the Way of the Cross procession, which re-enacts Christ’s Passion and crucifixion, and composed the meditations that are read aloud at each station. But just as the event was about to begin, the Vatican announced that Francis was following the event from his home at the Vatican.
‘To conserve his health in view of the vigil tomorrow and Mass on Easter Sunday, Pope Francis will follow the Via Crucis at the Coliseum this evening from the Casa Santa Marta’, a statement from the Vatican press office said.”
In 2023, Francis also did not attend the procession, because he was recovering from bronchitis.
This year, his absence came about in ways that suggest his plans changed abruptly.
“The 87-year-old Francis, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, has been battling what he and the Vatican have described as a case of the flu, bronchitis or a cold all winter long. For the last several weeks he has occasionally asked an aide to read aloud his speeches, and he skipped his Palm Sunday homily altogether.
The decision to stay home appeared to be very last-minute: Francis’ chair was in place on the platform outside the Coliseum where he was to preside over the rite. His close aide, Monsignor Leonardo Sapienza, was on hand and moved the television screen around on the platform so Francis would have a better view of what was going on inside the Coliseum itself.
But at 9:10 p.m., five minutes before the official start of the procession, the Vatican press office announced on Telegram that he wouldn’t attend. The chair was quickly taken away.”
25,000 pilgrims were present for the torchlit procession.
The ‘good enough’ health of the Pontiff sees him scrapping important events of the Holy Week.
On Palm Sunday, Francis suddenly made clear he wouldn’t read his homily, and it was replaced by ‘a moment of silent prayer’.
He ‘appeared strong’ to preside over the Holy Thursday foot-washing ritual at a Rome women’s prison, and also for a Good Friday liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica.
So there you go: Francis will do some things, skip others. But you bet he will always be strong when it comes to being a head of state and receiving Presidents and Prime Ministers.
“On Saturday, he is scheduled to preside over a lengthy evening Easter Vigil in St. Peter’s, one of the most solemn events in the liturgical calendar. He also is due to preside over Easter Sunday Mass in the piazza and deliver his ‘Urbi et Orbi’ (to the city and the world) speech rounding up global crises and threats to humanity.”
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On the one hand, French President Emmanuel Macron is warmongering, and has floated sending ground troops to the Ukraine war, in a move criticized not only by both Russia and by his own NATO allied leaders but also by members of his own military, with one senior stating:
“We must make no mistake, facing the Russians, we are an army of cheerleaders!”
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But on the other hand, back in the real world, France’s military has been booted out of Africa, and the Republic has significant major problems maintaining security inside their own territory.
Who can forget that Emmanuel Macron and France Celebrate ‘Only’ 745 Vehicles Torched on New Year’s Eve?
And venues for the upcoming Summer Olympics are not safe, either: While Macron Warmongers, France Is Still a Chaos, as 50 People Attack Police Station in Olympic Venue Area of Paris (VIDEO)
So, it is not unsurprising that France has asked 46 countries to supply more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Paris Olympics this summer.
Sure enough, there’s nothing inherently wrong or shameful about this request, but one is left wondering which is the real France: the one waging war on foreign lands or the one that needs help providing basic internal security.
Organizers are wrapping up the security planning for the Games while on heightened alert against potential terrorist attacks.
The officers are sought to help with Games security and ‘the spectator experience’.
Associated Press reported:
“’This is a classic approach of host countries for the organization of major international events’, the ministry added.
It noted that France sent 200 of its gendarmes to soccer’s World Cup in Qatar in 2022 and also welcomed 160 officers from other European security forces for the Rugby World Cup that France hosted last year.
Separately, the French Defense Ministry has also asked foreign nations for ‘small numbers’ of military personnel who could help with ‘very specific’ tasks at the Games, including sniffer dog teams, said Col. Pierre Gaudillière, spokesman for the army general staff.”
France’s call has produced some results, as Poland’s defense minister will send soldiers to the Paris Games.
The Polish will send dog handlers, and ‘its main goal will be to undertake activities related to the detection of explosives and counteracting terrorist phenomena.’
“Security is the biggest challenge for Paris Games organizers in a city that has been repeatedly hit by deadly attacks by Islamic extremists and which is expecting as many as 15 million visitors for the July 26-Aug. 11 Games and Paralympics that follow.
Security concerns are notably high for the opening ceremony, which will involve boats along the Seine River and huge crowds watching from the embankments.”
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Javier Milei has shot up to political power in Argentina by saying what he thinks out loud, and not mincing words. And after elected President, he is not toning down.
He has now, in an interview with CNN, leveled harsh criticism at a number of Latin American socialist leaders such as Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro and Mexico’s Lopez Obrador.
It bears mentioning that Petro is a former member of the M-19 Marxist guerilla group, and has admitted publicly to have killed people as in this capacity.
Milei, on X:
“Obviously, the operating media overlooked the recurrent aggressions I have received from the individuals in question. Maybe they consider it acceptable for other leaders to attack me, and that defending myself is wrong.”
Now, the mudslinging has developed into a fully blown diplomatic crisis.
Associated Press reported:
“It heated up after Milei lashed out at Petro in an interview with CNN, excerpts of which aired Wednesday night, prompting his Colombian counterpart to order Argentine diplomats out of his country.
“Not much can be expected from someone who was a terrorist murderer,” Milei said in one excerpt, a reference to Petro’s past as a member of a guerrilla group. CNN’s full interview is scheduled to air Sunday.
Milei and Petro harbor opposite political and economic ideologies. Petro won the presidency with pledges to create social programs to aid Colombia’s long-neglected poor, while Milei — a self-described anarcho-capitalist — promised to slash government spending while eliminating ministries and costly programs as a means to rein in triple-digit inflation. He even toted a chainsaw on the campaign trail to illustrate just how aggressive were his intended cuts.”
The two combative leaders have vowed to fix their nations’ economic and social woes.
Of course, Petro wants to improve Colombia with the playbook that has historically produced nothing but poverty throughout Latin America.
“Colombia’s foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday night that they were expelling Argentine diplomats because Milei’s recent attacks have ‘deteriorated the confidence of our nation, in addition to offending the dignity of the president’. Officials did not clarify who would be subject to the announced expulsions.
Milei previously called Petro ‘a murderous communist’ who is sinking his country, and referred to socialists as ‘human excrement’. Petro responded on his social media channels that ‘this is what Hitler said’.”
In the same CNN interview, Milei also responded to Mexico’s president, calling him an ‘ignorant’.
López Obrador, a Petro ally and Milei critic, jumped to Petro’s defense, writing on social media that ‘I still do not understand how the Argentines, being so intelligent, elected someone like Milei’.
Obrador as a good leftist, likes the Peronists that drove 60 per cent of Argentines below the poverty line.
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The day of reckoning finally came for Sam-Bankman-Fried.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Southern District of New York court sentenced him to 300 months (25 years!)
“A man willing to flip a coin as to the continued existence of life on earth. Mr. Bankman-Fried knew that Alameda was spending customer funds on risky investments, political contributions and Bahamas real estate. The funds were not his to use.”
The billionaire crypto-bro SBF, second Democrat donor after only George Soros, came crashing down from glory to infamy after his crypto trading platform FTX went bankrupt in what prosecutors described as ‘one of the biggest financial frauds in American history’.
Jurors in his trial only needed three hours of deliberations to find Bankman-Fried guilty of all seven criminal counts.
SBF’s defense has proposed a prison term between five and six and a half years, because he is a vegan, good-natured do-gooder.
Prosecutors were not kidding around, seeking 40 to 50 years in prison, a sentence they say is warranted for someone who lied to investors and banks, and stole billions in deposits from customers.
Coming into sentencing things didn’t look good for SBF because tough-as-nails Judge Lewis A. Kaplan had already remanded him to prison pending trial for witness tampering.
The great Inner City Press live-tweeted from SDNY court, here you have some selected bits:
Judge Kaplan started out did not accept the defense claim that, because there is a plan by the FTX bankruptcy estate to pay costumers and creditors, that ‘there was no loss’ to them, a fact that defense thinks should lower his sentence.
“Judge Kaplan: I find the loss amount readily exceeds $550 million, the top tier [for sentencing]. I find investors lost $1.7 billion, lenders lost $1.3 billion, and customers, $8 billion.”
Then, there was the question of the obstruction of justice.
Judge Kaplan: “On obstruction of justice, I find that Mr. Bankman-Fried’s text to the former general counsel did in fact constitute attempted witness tampering. I make 3 perjury findings based on trial testimony
* he falsely testified that until the Fall of 2022 he had no knowledge that Alameda had spent FTX customer funds.
* He falsely testified that he first learned of the $8 billion in Oct 2022
* He falsely testified that repayment of third party loans by Alameda would require Alameda to borrow more customer funds from FTX.
The total offense level is 60 – once you cross 43, it cannot go higher. The guideline is life in prison. But the maximum is 1320 months in this case (151 years!)”
Victim Sunil Kavuri spoke in court:
“At least three people have committed suicide because of this FTX fraud. So when this FTX bankrutcy… I guess… What I feel, how it relates to Sam, it has hurt me, other co-conspirators, aiders and abetters, need to be held accountable”
Bankman-Fried’s defense came with the same old line of argument, and talked about his mom a lot: it was painful to read.
Mark Mukasey: “His mom says he is misunderstood. It is easy to slot people into an old fashioned story of the greedy swindler… Sam never scurried away with money. He stayed to the end. He’ll tell you more how much it means to him that people get repaid.”
SBF seemed at first that he’d drop the ‘smarter-than-thou’ attitude and show some contrition for the judge:
SBF: “I appreciate what Mark said about me. I don’t know that the most important thing today is my emotion life or hypothetical future kids.”
But no, he chose to ramble on and relitigate the whole case. Didn’t help himself.
SBF: “I made a lot of mistakes. But that’s not how the story ended. Customers weren’t paid back. FTX didn’t survive that. Yeah, customers have been given conflicting claims. That’s caused a lot of damage. They could have been paid back…”
SBF: “I can’t impact if I get 5 years or 40 years. I know how the prosecutors see me, the court, the media. I understand it. You referenced my test to the general counsel. I was trying to help – that’s not how the prosecutors saw it, the media, that’s that.”
The prosecution also had a say:
AUSA Nicolas Roos: “Samuel Bankman-Fried stole $8 billion dollars. It was theft, from customers spread all over the world. It was a loss that impacted people significantly and caused damage. I want to address a few of the new victim letters.”
Roos talked about many costumers’ letters whose lives were horribly impacted by FTX’s mishandling of their life savings.
“The defendant took $1.7 billion from investors – that alone necessitates a long sentence. Some get 40 or more years for that alone. There were also the loans, two lenders went bankrupt. That too justified, on its own, a severe sentence. Also one of the largest bribes. He committer perjury. It was pervasive.”
He would do it again: no acceptance of responsibility, the AUSA
“He did not swear off doing it again. He said there is an opportunity to relaunch FTX or an equivalent. That, I submit, tells the court exactly what could happen. A sentence is necessary here of at least 40 years so he will not do it again”
“The defendant is not a monster, but he committed gravely serious crimes that harmed many people – and he would consider doing it again. So, 40 to 50 years.”
The Judge talked about SBF’s background. “He said there was a five percent chance he’d be president one day. Indeed, this was a huge financial crime. He wanted to be a hugely politically influential person in his country. It wasn’t just the left end of the spectrum.”
He put up a fake stance on regulations, the Judge reminded us. He wanted power. Influence…
JK: “A man willing to flip a coin as to the continued existence of life on earth. Mr. Bankman-Fried knew that Alameda was spending customer funds on risky investments, political contributions and Bahamas real estate. The funds were not his to use. One of his pithier expression, I think, was “I f*cked up.” Mr. Bankman-Fried has the right to plead not guilty & go to trial. Everybody’s got that right and I don’t hold it against him. But I come back to Ms. Ellison’s testimony. He knew it was wrong. He’s not going to admit a thing. As is his right. Specific deterrence? His name is mud around the world. But he’s persistent and he’s a great marketing guy. Mr. Roos is right that the outlines of Sam Bankman-Fried’s revised version are clear.”
“On general deterrence, at the end of the day the criminal justice system thrives only if it’s seen as fair. People need to feel, It’s fair. Or we’re back to trial by combat, folks, or something like it. So punishment must fit the seriousness of the crime. And these. Were. Serious. Crimes. I know the Probation Department recommends 105 years, and the Government 40 to 50 years. That would be more than necessary.”
“I am not diminishing the harm. The brazenness of his actions. His exceptional flexibility with the truth. His apparent lack of any remorse. I want to add one further thought. I did not think it a fruitful use of time to spell out every lie – When not lying, he was evasive, hair splitting, trying to get the prosecutors to rephrase questions for him. I’ve been doing this job for close for 30 years. I’ve never seen a performance like that.”
“It is the judgment of the court that you are sentenced to 240 months then consecutive 60 [etc] for a total of 300 months [25 years].”
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There’s an escalation on the dangerous skies above us.
Back in November, I wrote here in TGP that electronic warfare is now endangering unsuspecting civilians, with no remedy in sight.
You can check out on: Terror in the Skies: Civilian Airplanes Are Getting Their GPS Hacked Over the Middle East – Experts Have No Idea How to Deal With It.
The scary cyberattacks are altering civilian planes’ in-flight GPS, causing ‘critical navigation failures’ onboard the aircraft, attacks that aviation leaders and experts guaranteed was ‘impossible’.
Also, we learn that the professionals tasked with countering it have no idea how to fix this new alarming security failure.
The world has become a much more dangerous place, lately. On the seas, on land – and certainly in the air.
Earlier this month we returned to this subject of malicious activity around the planet, where aircraft have their GPS are spoofed or jammed, and now, the problem is starting to impact even the untouchable state leaders, as it arose that Russia has jammed the satellite signal on an aircraft used by defense minister Grant Shapps.
Rea more on: Russians Jam GPS of Plane Carrying UK’s Defense Minister Shapps Over Kaliningrad Enclave.
So now, we find out that more than 1,600 planes have been hit by a mysterious GPS interference in the last 4 days, an attack that many fear Russia to be responsible for.
Daily Mail reported:
“Planes flying over and around the Baltic Sea in northern Europe have been suffering technical problems caused by jamming since Sunday [23], with 1614 planes, mostly civilian, reporting problems since then.
While most of them appear to be taking place in Polish airspace, OSINT blogs have reported that planes flying in German, Danish, Swedish, Latvian and Lithuanian airspace have suffered interference problems.”
The planes are suffering from GPS jamming, which confuses pilots and make them believe they are in a different location than they actually are.
The uptick in interference can reportedly be attributed to the Kaliningrad region, where Russia is believed to have significant resources for the use of Electronic Warfare.
“A Lithuanian defence source told the outlet: ‘Russian armed forces have a wide spectrum of military equipment dedicated for GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) interference, including jamming and spoofing, at varying distances, duration and intensity’.”
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Globalist poster boy, French President Emmanuel Macron is doing a lot of things: on one day, he is pushing for WW3 in Ukraine, floating the idea of French boots on the ground, infuriating, as per Bloomberg, the US allies in the process.
Next day, Le Petit Roi is halfway across the planet in the Amazon jungle, along with socialist Brazilian President Lula da Silva, promising financing for his fear-mongering ‘climate change’ alarmism.
Macron is doing a lot of things, but what he is NOT doing is tackling his own country’s grave problems – and the result is that he is taking a beating in the polls ahead of June’s European Parliament elections, with Marine Le Pen’s RN party with a solid lead and what even Politico has to call ‘seemingly unstoppable momentum’.
So, now, Macron is ‘turning up the heat’ on his top political lieutenants, believing his crack-whipping will get them moving in productive ways.
Politico reported:
“Macron’s game plan ahead of the EU election for tackling the National Rally’s unrelenting rise was to dramatize the fight against the far-right party, emphasizing the clash of ideologies and the Russian threat, according to several French officials. The twin aim was to beat abstention and mobilize Macron’s own voters, and also dissuade voters from turning to rival pro-European candidates such as the Socialist Raphaël Glucksmann and the ecologists.”
The strategy has failed to deliver.
National Rally, led by its current President Jordan Bardella, is polling at 30%, while Macron’s Renew coalition has 21%, with Socialist Glucksmann at 11%.
National Rally’s lead six months ago was just 5 points, meaning it has almost doubled.
“With plummeting popularity ratings and a soaring public deficit, Macron and his party have an uphill battle to claw back support. And their answer to the National Rally’s relentless rise is to punch back hard.”
The solution, ironic to the core, is that Macron’s political troops, allies of the real life Ukrainian Azov Nazis, have to resort to name-calling RN as ‘worse than Hitler’.
Failing lead candidate of Macron’s Renaissance party Valérie Hayer compared Le Pen with Edouard Daladier, who signed the 1938 Munich agreement with Hitler.
“’It’s the same words, the same arguments, the same debates. We are in Munich in 1938′, she said. ‘In some of its behaviors, the National Rally acts as a spokesperson for Moscow’, said Renew MEP Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, doubling down on the anti-RN rhetoric. ‘If we’d have listened to the National Rally, we’d have Frexit, Sputnik vaccines and we’d have supported Russia’ against Ukraine, she continued.”
Meanwhile, the ‘Grandmaster of Grandstanding’ is boxing for the camera, not ruling out sending Western troops to Ukraine, and calling out Europeans not to be ‘cowards’.
Does he expect that to replace solving the urgent problems of the French population?
“Privately, Macron has turned his frustration with the campaign on his allies. Last Wednesday, he gathered several party heavyweights at the Elysée Palace, including Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Séjourné and campaign director Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade. According to two participants at the meeting, the president called on his troops to better defend the track record of Renew MEPs. ‘We need a wake-up call for our troops, we need to mobilize a lot more’, the president said, according to one of the participants who was granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.
‘Right now, there is more commentary than mobilization, I would like that to change’, he added, according to the same participant.”
Less than three months to go before the European parliamentary election in June – his coalition it’s a hot mess.
“Macron is also starting to personally hit the campaign trail. Last week, he was in the port city of Marseille, trying in a working class district to sell his track record on fighting inner-city crime and drugs gangs. The French president also went to great lengths to end a rebellion by French farmers, killing off the Mercosur trade deal with South American countries and lobbying for greater restrictions on Ukrainian food imports.”
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Embattled rapper and music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is now a permanent fixture in the news, after his houses were raided by federal agents in what many see as the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of a major operation against him, comparable to the one that took Jeffrey Epstein down.
Read: BREAKING: Feds Raid Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs Miami and Los Angeles Homes (VIDEO)
A month ago, former producer and videographer ‘Lil Rod’ Jones filed a lawsuit claiming the music mogul repeatedly sexually assaulted him from September 2022 to November 2023. Jones accused Combs of groping his genitals and grooming him into having sex.
Now, Derrick Parker, a former detective in the NYPD’s rap intelligence unit, called the Hip Hop Cops, said that Diddy has a very questionable past that he was able to control because of his power.
Perker thinks that ‘someone’ is behind this – the feds may have an informant from Diddy’s inner circle.
New York Post reported:
“’Someone’s giving them sensitive information. Someone’s cooperating, and it’s probably someone close to him’, said the former detective, who was assigned to two of Diddy’s more infamous cases in New York in the 1990s and knew the rapper well. This looks, to me, like the tip of the iceberg’.”
Both the California and the Florida raids were led by the Homeland Security Investigations Human Trafficking Task Force.
The raids were prompted by a search warrant issued by the Southern District of New York.
“Parker said Diddy’s downfall was all but assured once he settled a bombshell lawsuit — alleging rape and physical abuse — from R&B singer Cassie, his ex-girlfriend, for an undisclosed sum one day after it was filed in November 2023.”
Casandra Ventura alleged that Combs fed her drugs and alcohol, forced her to have sex with male prostitutes as well as viciously raping and beating her from 2005 to 2018.
“’Once Cassie was paid off I knew there’d be a ripple effect’, Parker said. ‘Like people thinking, <Hey she got paid, I’m gonna get paid>. But he’s got a past a lot of people know about and I think it emboldened a lot of them when they saw what happened with Cassie’.”
People in the music industry know that the feds don’t usually do this kinds of moves unless they got something big on the target.
Diddy reigned in the music and fashion industry for decades and was ‘untouchable’ despite countless sketchy incidents around him, and multiple claims of intimidation, violence and sexual harassment.
“A law enforcement source told The Post that the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which is carrying out the probe, could be building a case against Combs the way it did with Jeffrey Epstein — by tracking whether he took underage or coerced women across state lines.
‘As far as [Diddy’s alleged drug mule] Brendan Paul arrest goes, they don’t care about him. They just want to flip him’, the law-enforcement source said. ‘They want him to talk about Diddy. He’s just a piece of the puzzle’.”
From the shooting of his best friend, rapper Notorious B.I.G., to the bashing of record executive Steve Stoute with a champagne bottle to shootings in clubs involving his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, Diddy seemed ‘made of Teflon’, emerging unscathed from all sorts of situations.
But apparently that is not the case anymore.
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A London civil court today (26) ordered former curator at the British Museum Peter Higgs, accused of stealing hundreds – or maybe thousands – of artifacts, to provide the museum with a list the items he is suspected of taking, and to return those still in his possession.
I write about him here in TGP back in August 2023. Higgs was a PHD curator of Greek collections at the British Museum, and also tracked down looted artifacts and returning them to their home countries.
Back then, the Daily Mail reported:
“The British Museum worker sacked after being accused of stealing priceless treasures was today revealed to be a ‘world expert’ on ancient Greece who had worked there for more than three decades.
Peter John Higgs, 56, was fired this summer over jewelry, gems and precious metals spanning more than three millennia of history that vanished from the museum’s vaults over a number of years.”
Higgs has not been arrested by police, but was dismissed from the Museum after items were found to be ‘missing, stolen or damaged’.
Met Police has not revealed what was stolen. But high profile thefts in the Museum include a £750,000 Cartier diamond ring, missing since 2011.
Higgs is currently under Met police investigation, but so far he has not been charged.
Meanwhile, the British Museum has brought a civil lawsuit against him.
When the British Museum, one of the most visited in the world, reported in August that hundreds of items had been stolen from its collection or were missing, the internal organizational failings led to the resignation of Museum director Hartwig Fischer.
Reuters reported:
“The British Museum, which holds treasures such as the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon marbles, has said the stolen items included gold rings, earrings and other pieces of jewelry dating back to ancient Greek and Roman periods.
The museum’s lawyer Daniel Burgess said in court documents: ‘While the full extent of the thefts is unknown, it is presently believed that over 1,800 items were stolen or damaged and that many hundreds of them were sold or offered for sale by (Higgs)’.
Burgess added that Higgs tried to ‘cover his tracks by, among other things, using false names, creating false documents and manipulating records held on the Museum’s IT systems’.”
The museum says that, so far, it has recovered 356 of the missing items , and it hopes to get more back.
“’The items that have been stolen from the museum are of cultural and historical significance’, museum lawyer Daniel Burgess said in written legal arguments.”
[…] Chairman of trustees George Osborne has acknowledged that the reputation of the 265-year-old institution has been damaged by the episode.”
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Europe is in a state of non-stop turmoil as the organized farmers force the EU to face the abject failure of its environmental policies.
The protests also, time and again, remind leaders in the strongest terms of the impending manufactured famine that their ‘green’ climate alarmist insanity is bound to cause.
Less than a week ago, I wrote here in TGP:
“One of the great things about the great European Farmers’ revolt is its relentless character.
Hardly a day passes by without some group of hard working people from some European country getting in the face of authorities, media and society with their urgent plight.
Long gone are the days when the MSM tried so hard to present the agricultural fight as mere ‘demands for more subsidy’.
Today everyone understands that the escalating protests are against the failed, crippling EU environmental regulations that threaten the very existence of the food producers.”
And today (26) was no different, as farmers once again converged upon Brussels, the epicenter of climate lunacy, throwing beets and spraying manure at responding police.
Hundreds of tractors sealed off streets close to the European Union headquarters.
This latest protest takes place right as EU agriculture ministers are assembled seeking to ease the months of massive protests across the 27-member bloc.
Associated Press reported:
“The farmers are protesting what they see as excessive red tape and unfair trading practices as well as increased environmental measures and cheap imports from Ukraine. “Let us make a living from our profession,” read one billboard on a tractor blocking a main thoroughfare littered with hay, potatoes, eggs and manure.
As the protests turned into violence, police used tear gas and water cannons to keep farmers and some 250 tractors at bay, even as the ministers met to push through measures meant to calm the crisis.”
With relentless protests across all Europe, it’s no wonder farmers have already won concessions from EU and national authorities, from a loosening of controls on farms to a weakening of pesticide and environmental rules.
“A major EU plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc and fight climate change was indefinitely postponed Monday, underscoring how the protests have had a deep influence on politics.”
EU member states have provisional agreement to weaken or cut rules in areas like crop rotation, soil cover protection and tillage methods.
The EU parliament will decide on the proposals in late April.
Needless to say, environmentalists and climate alarmists deeply regret the changes.
“Politically, the bloc has moved to the right over the past year. The plight of farmers has become a rallying cry for populists and conservatives who claim EU climate and farm policies are little more than bureaucratic bungling from elitist politicians who have lost any feeling for soil and land.”
Watch: In Brussels, protesting farmers used a manure cannon against a police water cannon.
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— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) March 26, 2024
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In the beginning, proponents of the culture of death assure us that euthanasia and assisted suicide will be provided following ‘very strict’ guidelines and only for people in critical, unbearable condition.
In real life, we watch as these conditions are broadened until euthanasia and assisted suicide start being offered as an option for just about anyone – read more about it in Canadian Hospital Suggests Euthanasia to Suicidal Woman Who Went There For Help.
Moreover, the prevalence of these practices creates a ‘fad’ and people who are mentally unwell tend to be needlessly drawn to it. Read more in Euthanasia on the Rise: The Culture of Death Creates a High Tech ‘Sarcophagus’, While Suggesting ‘Assisted Suicide’ To Disabled People.
How long until this culture of death take a turn for the tyrannical and start targeting the vulnerable for mandatory ‘end of life services’? Read in Canadistan Is Out of Control: New Survey Shows Growing Population Support for Euthanizing the Poor and Homeless – Number of Assisted Suicides Skyrockets Ten-Fold in Half a Decade to 10 Thousand People.
The newest Canadian episode in this tragic chain of events is a Calgary judge’s ruling that ‘Preventing an autistic Calgary woman’s medically assisted death would cause her irreparable harm’.
Justice Colin Feasby said his decision – that suspended an earlier injunction by her father, will be stayed for 30 days.
This will allow lawyers for the father of the woman, who has autism, and is identified only as MV, to decide whether to file an appeal.
Calgary Herald reported:
“’The harm to MV if an injunction is granted goes to the core of her being’, Feasby said in his written ruling. ‘An injunction would deny MV the right to choose between living or dying with dignity. Further, an injunction would put MV in a position where she would be forced to choose between living a life she has decided is intolerable and ending her life without medical assistance’.
‘This is a terrible choice that should not be forced on MV, as attempting to end her life without medical assistance would put her at increased risk of pain, suffering and lasting injury’.”
The father had been granted a temporary injunction the day before his daughter’s assisted suicide under MAID was to take place on Feb. 1. Lawyers for the woman seek to have the injunction lifted.
“’The harm to WV if the injunction is not granted will be substantial’, [the Judge] wrote. ‘The pain of losing a child, even an adult child, is not something that any parent should experience. (The parents) have devoted their lives to raising MV from birth and have continued to support her since she has come of age. They will understandably be devastated by her death. For many parents, the loss of a child is a life-changing event that they never truly recover from. The loss is immeasurable’, Feasby said.”
The autistic woman sought MAID last year. She was initially approved by one doctor, but not by a second.
But in Canadistan they will find a way to help you kill yourself. She then sought a third opinion and was given the necessary approval of two physicians to have an assisted death.
“’What I know of your journey through the health-care system from the evidence in this case suggests that you have struggled to find a doctor who could diagnose your condition and offer appropriate treatment’, he said.
‘I do not know why you seek MAID. Your reasons remain your own because I have respected your autonomy and your privacy. My decision recognizes your right to choose medically assisted death; but it does not require you to choose death’.”
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On the ground, Russian forces behaved in a modified, more acute way after the false flag terrorist attack ultimately organized by Ukraine claimed the lives of hundreds of Moscow civilians.
But on the world stage, Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing a longer game, waiting for the investigations to demonstrate as clearly as possible the link.
Yesterday (26), in a Kremlin meeting, Putin acknowledged that the attack was carried out by Islamic militants but suggested it was also to the benefit of Ukraine and that Kyiv may have played a role.
Alexander Bastrykin, head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, said the death toll had risen to 139, with 182 people wounded.
Reuters reported:
“‘We know that the crime was carried out by the hand of radical Islamists with an ideology that the Muslim world has fought for centuries’, Putin said in remarks posted on the Telegram messaging app.
He did not directly mention Islamic State, and repeated his previous assertion that the assailants had been trying to flee to Ukraine, saying there were “many questions” to be examined.
‘The question that arises is who benefits from this?’ Putin said. ‘This atrocity may be just a link in a whole series of attempts by those who have been at war with our country since 2014 by the hands of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime.
‘We know by whose hand the crime against Russia and its people was committed. But what is of interest to us is who ordered it’.
Putin said the purpose of the attack was to ‘sow panic’. But as Russian forces were advancing through the Ukraine war theatre, he said, it could also be intended to ‘show their own population that not all is lost for the Kiev regime’.
Meanwhile, both the US and France push the ISIS story as hard as they can.
11 people have been detained, including the four gunmen, who were arrested as they made their way to cross into Ukraine.
Associated Press reported:
“Putin, who declared over the weekend that the four attackers were arrested while trying to escape to Ukraine, said investigators haven’t determined who ordered the attack, but that it was necessary to find out ‘why the terrorists after committing their crime tried to flee to Ukraine and who was waiting for them there’.
[…] ‘We are seeing that the U.S., through various channels, is trying to convince its satellites and other countries of the world that, according to their intelligence, there is allegedly no Kyiv trace in the Moscow terror attack — that the bloody terrorist act was committed by followers of Islam, members of the Islamic State group’, Putin said during the meeting with top law enforcement officials.
He added that ‘those who support the Kyiv regime don’t want to be accomplices in terror and sponsors of terrorism, but many questions remain’.”
Russian officials and lawmakers called for anyone involved in the attack to be severely punished.
“Dmitry Medvedev, who was Russia’s president from 2008-12 and now serves as deputy head of Security Council chaired by Putin, called for the killing of ‘everyone involved. Everyone. Those who paid, those who sympathized, those who helped. Kill them all’.”
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In scenes that seem out of a political thriller from the cold war days, it surfaced today that former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia after Brazilian Judiciary seized his passport – and reportedly considered asking for political asylum.
The story was broken by the New York Times, that analyzed three days of footage from four cameras at the Hungarian embassy.
The images show Bolsonaro arriving on the evening of Monday, February 12th, and leaving on the afternoon of Wednesday, February 14th.
Back in February 8, Brazil’s Federal Police confiscated former President Jair Bolsonaro’s passport and arrested two of his former aides on the fabricated charges that ‘they planned a coup’ after he lost the 2022 presidential election.
Read: BREAKING: Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s Home Raided and Passport Seized
O Globo reported:
“According to the NYT, the former president stayed at the embassy for the next two days, accompanied by two security guards and in the company of the Hungarian ambassador and members of the diplomatic team. Bolsonaro, the target of several criminal investigations, could not be arrested in a foreign embassy, because the location is legally beyond the reach of national authorities.
Also according to NYT, the stay at the embassy suggests that the former president was trying to take advantage of his friendship with Prime Minister Viktor Orban, of Hungary, in a possible attempt to escape justice while facing criminal investigations in his country.
The NYT verified the images by comparing them with images from the embassy, including satellite images that showed the car in which Bolsonaro arrived parked in the garage on February 13.
A Hungarian embassy official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, confirmed the plan to welcome Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro’s lawyer declined to comment. The Hungarian Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
O Globo reported:
“According to the NYT, the former president stayed at the embassy for the next two days, accompanied by two security guards and in the company of the Hungarian ambassador and members of the diplomatic team. Bolsonaro, the target of several criminal investigations, could not be arrested in a foreign embassy, because the location is legally beyond the reach of national authorities.
Also according to NYT, the stay at the embassy suggests that the former president was trying to take advantage of his friendship with Prime Minister Viktor Orban, of Hungary, in a possible attempt to escape justice while facing criminal investigations in his country.
The NYT verified the images by comparing them with images from the embassy, including satellite images that showed the car in which Bolsonaro arrived parked in the garage on February 13.
A Hungarian embassy official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, confirmed the plan to welcome Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro’s lawyer declined to comment. The Hungarian Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
Conservative champions Bolsonaro and Orbán have maintained a close relationship for years. Bolsonaro has called Orbán ‘his brother’, Orbán has called Bolsonaro ‘a hero’.
It’s probably not a coincidence that the NYT got this scoop a few days after the CIA director William Burns came to Brazil. We are used to ambassador Burns being the real rainmaker down here.
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— Itamaraty Brazil (@Itamaraty_EN) March 19, 2024
Tupi Report on Telegram:
“‘I won’t deny that I was at the embassy, yes. I won’t say where else I’ve been. I maintain a circle of friendship with some heads of state around the world. They are concerned. I talk to them about matters of interest to our country. And that’s it. The rest is speculation, I don’t care what you’re going to assert’.
Supreme Federal Court (STF) ministers cautioned journalists that they will exercise caution to avoid conveying an image of ‘persecution’, as such situations can lead to pre-trial detention.
‘The court cannot fall into the trap and make any mistakes that affect the credibility of the handling of the January 8th investigation’, said a member of the Court privately.”
PLUS: The Federal Police (PF) opened an inquiry to investigate the reasons why former President Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights at the Hungarian embassy following Operation Tempus Veritatis, launched on February 8th.
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Jair Bolsonaro’s defense stated that the former president spent two days at the Hungarian embassy in Brasília ‘updating the political scenarios of both nations’ and conversing with various Hungarian authorities
“The former President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, spent two days staying at the Hungarian embassy in Brasília to maintain contacts with authorities of the friendly country. As is public knowledge, the former head of state maintains a good relationship with the Hungarian Prime Minister, with whom he recently met at the inauguration of President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires.
During the days he stayed at the Hungarian embassy, by invitation, the former Brazilian president conversed with numerous authorities from the friendly country, updating the political scenarios of the two nations. Any other interpretations that go beyond the information provided here constitute an evident work of fiction, unrelated to the reality of the facts, and are, in practice, yet another set of fake news”.
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In scenes that seem out of a political thriller from the cold war days, it surfaced today that former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia after Brazilian Judiciary seized his passport - and reportedly considered asking for political asylum. The st
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For the third time in the last five days, Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, has been targeted by a Russian hypersonic missile attack.
Watch: young woman’s selfie video during missile attack in Kiev.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) March 25, 2024
This time, the attack is clearly part of the ongoing – but barely started – retaliation for the Ukrainian false-flag terrorist attack at the Crocus Hall in the Moscow region.
One of the targets was the Zhulyany airport, where Patriot air defense missile systems are said to have reportedly been hit.
But the most relevant information so far is that the Security Directorate SBU building has been leveled to the ground.
Watch: missile arrival in Kiev.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) March 25, 2024
Since the terrorist attack, Russian and Ukrainian sources have reported that the promises made by Russian President Vladimir Putin about not targeting the Ukrainian leadership are all null and void now.
Ukrainian Telegram channel Legitimny:
“We confirm the information of colleagues that the American ambassador warned at this meeting the Head of [Office of Ukrainian Presidency Andy] Yermak that the situation with their security and the entire Ukrainian top brass is now under a huge question mark.
Earlier there were rumors that there was a promise from Putin that he would not destroy the top of the Ukrainian state (Putin promised the Israeli prime minister, Turkish President Erdogan, Western leaders and sheikhs that Zelensky would not be ‘blown up’, which is why Ze and Yermak traveled so freely everywhere). Now, no one can guarantee that.
Everyone knows Putin is a man of his word. Most likely he has now canceled his ‘behind-the-scenes promise’.
That’s why the entire Ukrainian elite is now on heartburn. The first targets are most likely the SBU and the GUR, but let’s see who they start with.”
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) March 25, 2024
Apparently, the retaliation strikes began with Kyrylo Budanov’s Intelligence goons of the SBU. The guys who had the philosopher Dugin’s daughter Daria killed in a car bomb, who killed blogger Tatarsky with a gift-bomb, and who are very probably the people who set up the Crocus terrorist attack.
THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY. Check back for updates.
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Against the background of the surging nationalist and populist right-wing parties ahead of the European Union elections in June, political leaders in the old continent have started to ditch many of its failing, crippling environmental policies – mostly under pressure from the great European Farmers’ revolt.
The last victim of this process is the European Union’s flagship policy to restore damaged habitats, called the ‘Nature Law.’
The law is now hanging in the balance, as a vote to pass it on Monday was canceled after Hungary withdrew its support for the bill.
The EU countries’ environment ministers called off the vote after Budapest said it would no longer back the policy.
Hungary’s decision wiped out the slim ‘reinforced majority’ of countries in favor.
Reuters reported:
“The nature law is the latest EU environmental policy to come under fire as policymakers try to respond to months of angry farmers’ protests over complaints including strict green EU regulations. The EU has already weakened numerous green rules to attempt to quell the protests.
‘The agricultural sector is a very important sector, not only in Hungary, but everywhere in Europe’, Hungary’s state secretary for environment Aniko Raisz told reporters on Monday.
Raisz said Hungary was not opposed to protecting nature, but that environmental goals needed to be realistic and take into account the sectors affected.”
Some EU diplomats suggest Hungary’s reversal was politically motivated.
“Environment ministers were set to discuss the policy on Monday afternoon. Opposed to it are Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden. Austria, Belgium, Finland and Poland intend to abstain in the vote.”
It would only take one of these countries to change its vote to allow the law to pass.
The law would require countries to introduce measures restoring nature on ‘a fifth of their land and sea’ by 2030.
The policy has faced a backlash from some governments and lawmakers who are concerned it would impose burdensome rules on farmers and clash with other industries.
Associated Press reported:
“'(The plan) is in a very difficult position at the moment and with the upcoming European elections, it won’t be easy to get out of this position’, said Dutch Climate Minister Rob Jetten.
‘If you want to reach climate neutrality, you also have to look in the broader perspective of protecting biodiversity, strengthening the nature in Europe’, Jetten said, stressing that such initiatives were necessary.”
The plan had trouble navigating the approval process, but the ‘watered-down version’ was expected to be approved.
“Under the complicated voting rules, whereby a qualified majority representing 15 of the 27 member states and 65 % of the population was needed, it was long thought that threshold was safe, until Monday.”
But Hungary has changed its vote.
“’It is very important to keep flexibility for member states’, said Aniko Raisz, Hungary’s environmental minister, on Monday. When asked if her country could change its position again, Raisz said she ‘can’t promise anything’, while stressing the importance of the agricultural sector across Europe.
‘We have to be realistic and we have to keep in mind all these sectors’, she said.”
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For a head of state trying to project a forceful image to the world, banging the war drums and talking tough about situations that are real geopolitical landmines, you would imagine that French President must have things all worked out at home, right? Wrong.
For all his posturing, the ‘grandmaster of grandstanding’ leads a chaotic minority government, and the recent change of Prime Minister and Cabinet did very little to improve things.
For a head of state trying to project a forceful image to the world, banging the war drums and talking tough about situations that are real geopolitical landmines, you would imagine that French President must have things all worked out at home, right? Wrong.
For all his posturing, the ‘grandmaster of grandstanding’ leads a chaotic government, and the recent change of Prime Minister and Cabinet did very little to improve things.
And now he suffered yet another defeat in Parliament.
Associated Press reported:
“French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he ‘regrets’ the Senate’s vote to reject legislation to ratify a trade deal between the European Union and Canada that has been criticized by farmers as bringing unfair competition from abroad.
The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, provisionally went into effect in September 2017 after all EU governments agreed to it, but its full implementation requires approval by each national parliament.”
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The rejected text will go back to the lower house of Parliament, the National Assembly.
It’s unclear whether the vote at the National Assembly will be held before or after June’s European elections.
“’It’s a very good agreement’ that benefits to the French farming industry, Macron argued. ‘Is it good or bad for our agriculture? The assessment is extremely clear. It’s very good for milk, it’s very good for cheese, it’s very good for wine’.”
The senate defeat of the Agreement comes after farmers across France and Europe rolled out their tractors and staged a monumental show of force.
They protested low earnings, crippling ‘green’ regulation and unfair competition from abroad,
Such as the case of the CETA.
Farmers’ unions and food producer organizations welcomed the Senate’s move.
“Arnaud Gaillot, president of the Young Farmers union, pointed to the ‘lack of guarantees’ provided by the CETA regarding Canada’s alignment on EU standards that ‘would have threatened our livestock sector’.
The Confederation Paysanne, a farmers’ union, said in a statement that the European market of beef meat would be ‘deeply impacted’ if the agreement was to become definitive.”
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Ireland is poised to get a brand new Prime Minister soon, after Simon Harris won an unopposed internal election to succeed Leo Varadkar as leader of the governing Fine Gael party.
At 37 years old, Harris will be the youngest ever Prime Minister of Ireland, but his pledges were all about reconnecting with the past.
He vowed to help small business, focus on law and order and tackle unchecked mass migration.
Herris will be voted in as Ireland’s PM when parliament next sits, on April 9.
Reuters reported:
“He will have no more than a year to save the coalition from defeat at parliamentary elections. Polls for the last three years have put Sinn Fein, a left-wing party that backs unification with British-run Northern Ireland, as the favourite to head the next government.
‘This is a moment for Fine Gael to reset’, Harris told hundreds of members at a packed party event in the midlands town of Athlone. ‘Under my leadership, Fine Gael stands for supporting businesses, especially small businesses … Fine Gael stands for supporting the family farm … Fine Gael stands for law and order, on the side of An Garda Siochána (police), where our streets are safe and crime is never allowed go unchecked’.”
This all comes after PM Leo Varadkar unexpectedly announced his departure in the aftermath of a crushing defeat on the latest referendum.
Read more: Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar Announces Resignation After Crushing Referendum Defeat
Harris paints himself as an ‘accidental politician’, but has spent most of his adult life in parliament.
“He is one of Ireland’s most visible government ministers and a strong media performer. His keen social media presence led one opponent in parliament to dub Harris the ‘TikTok taoiseach’ (Irish for prime minister).”
Harris will have little room for maneuver dealing with the housing crisis and the record numbers of migrants.
“Harris said Ireland needed to move to a ‘more planned, sustainable’ migration model and a system that is ‘fair and firm’.”
Opposition party Sinn Fein has a lead over the stalling ruling party Fine Gael of between 5 to 6 percentage points.
“‘We have been too left for too long’, veteran lawmaker and former minister Michael Ring told national broadcaster RTE. ‘If he doesn’t take that opportunity (to make changes), Fine Gael and Simon Harris will pay a big price over the next number of months’.”
The Guardian reported:
“Harris said he wanted the centre-right Fine Gael – which governs with fellow conservatives Fianna Fáil and the Green party – to revert to core values including making work pay, being tough on law and order and supporting farmers.
‘Fine Gael stands for supporting businesses, especially small businesses the length and breadth of this country. Fine Gael stands for making work pay, for making sure we value work and we value people who go to work’.
To cheers from the audience he added: ‘Fine Gael stands for law and order’.”
Both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are trailing Sinn Féin, the leftwing nationalist party but support for all three parties has fallen after the referendums where they all pushed for the losing ‘yes’.
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As the Holy Week gets started, it’s impossible not to notice just how frail and ailing Pope Francis has become, and also maybe ask ourselves if the time is not arrived to abdicate and let the Church find a new pontiff.
At Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square, with 60,000 people in attendance, Pope Francis at the last minute decided to skip his homily.
Francis also didn’t take part in the procession of cardinals around the obelisk in the square at the start of the Mass.
Associated Press reported:
“Francis had been expected to deliver a homily halfway through the service and a prepared text had been distributed to journalists. But when an aide presented Francis with his glasses to begin reading, the pope made clear he wouldn’t deliver the remarks, leaving the crowd waiting in silence.
Vatican officials didn’t immediately explain why. The Vatican press office later said the homily was replaced by ‘a moment of silence and prayer’.
Francis though did pronounce prayers throughout the service and offered a long appeal for peace at the end of the Mass. He said he was praying for the families of those killed in what he called an ‘inhuman’ attack at a suburban Moscow concert hall and also asked for prayers for ‘the martyred Ukraine’ and people of Gaza.”
Just reminding you that ‘head-of-state’ Francis has planned 2024 international trips to Argentina, Belgium, Polynesia and even (apparently canceled) Kosovo.
But hey – a homily in Holy Week is too tiring.
Francis spent several minutes greeting the faithful from the popemobile, making several loops around the piazza at the end of the service.
Palm Sunday starts a fundamental week for Catholics, culminating in Easter Sunday when it’s celebrated the resurrection of Christ.
On Thursday, Francis will go to a women’s prison for the traditional washing of the feet ritual.
On Good Friday he is to preside over the torchlit Way of the Cross procession at Rome’s Coliseum, re-enacting Christ’s crucifixion.
Saturday marks the Easter Vigil, a solemn nighttime service in the basilica, followed by Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square and his noontime blessing from the loggia above.
It’s hard work, even for a fit Pontiff.
“The Holy Week schedule is challenging for popes even under the best of circumstances. But that is especially true this year for Francis, who has been battling on and off all winter what he and the Vatican have described as a case of the flu, bronchitis or a cold.”
The AP report goes to note that ‘even when he isn’t sick, Francis often speaks in a whisper and seems to run out of breath easily’.
“At the end of the Mass, Francis offered a long prayer for peace for all those suffering from war, and for the Lord to comfort the victims of the ‘vile terrorist attack’ in Moscow. ‘May he convert the hearts of those who protect, organize and carry out these inhuman acts that offend God, who commanded us not to kill’, Francis said.”
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While the nefarious effects of the failed, crippling green EU policies are in the spotlight in the case of the European Farmers – who are battling regulations that can cause a manufactured famine in the old continent – they are hardly the only example.
While protecting the wildlife – to a degree – is obviously a good thing, the obsession with focusing solely on the animals and completely forgetting humans is causing chaos in a small Slovakian town, where bear attacks have multiplied, and authorities say that extremist ecological groups ‘have turned Slovakia into open-air museums where one can no longer move normally’.
Slovakia saw its second bear attack in three days, with one woman dead, and a town in the north of the country declaring a state of emergency.
Some argue that extreme conservation efforts have caused brown the bear populations to soar.
Euronews reported:
“Local authorities say that five people aged between 10 and 72 have been injured in the town of Liptovský Mikuláš, near the Tatra mountains. On Tuesday, authorities said they expected to capture the bear after six armed patrols were hunting the animal. People have been advised to exercise caution – especially in the morning and evening.
‘The bear has been pushed into uninhabited zones by rescue and security forces where emergency teams … have orders to eliminate it’,” according to the town hall. ‘We are a town between mountains, but still a town. We cannot allow a bear to attack five people in the centre in broad daylight’, the town hall added.”
Footage shows the bear running along a road scattering pedestrians and charging at a man who was forced to climb a fence to escape the animal.
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— This Is Slovakia (@ThisIsSlovakia_) March 17, 2024
This latest attack happened just a day after a 31-year-old woman from Belarus died while being chased by a bear in the area on Friday evening.
The attacks led to widespread calls to reassess the ‘protected status’ of bears in Slovakia, and across Central and Eastern Europe.
“Over the weekend, Minister for the Environment Tomáš Taraba criticised media coverage that downplayed the role of the bear in the woman’s death. He claimed in a post on social media that the ‘unnecessary tragic event’ was the result of ‘NGOs reaching out to the Ministry of the Environment, telling us how bears are herbivores and how they pose no risk to humans’.
‘In Slovakia, we have a ruling of the Constitutional Court, which makes it impossible for us to shoot bears across the board. So congratulations to the Constitutional Court, I hope you are happy with your work’, Taraba added.”
Bear attacks have become a major political debate in Slovakia, with most politicians debating the issue during last September’s parliamentary election.
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A continental shift is in course in Europe, where polls show that right wing and populist parties are set to make big gains in the upcoming European Parliament Elections.
So when some of those ‘far-right’ parties meet, the MSM can’t help but try to muddy the waters as much as they can.
The right wingers are vowing to heavily curb immigration to Europe, as well as to oppose a second five-year term for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
The surging parties gathered in Rome, galvanized by the polls suggesting they are set to make strong gains in the elections to be held in June.
The Reuters report tries to show that, beyond agreement on toughening immigration rules, some other issues don’t see the same consensus.
“The meeting of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group included delegations from Italy’s League, France’s Rassemblement National (RN), Austria’s Freedom Party (FPO), Portugal’s Chega and Belgium’s Vlaams Belang.
‘A country that does not defend its borders, a European Union …. that does not defend its borders commits murder against its people’,” said Italy’s League leader Matteo Salvini.”
While the ‘mainstream pseudo-conservatives’ are firmly on the Ukrainian side in the war against Russia, ambiguities lie within the ID’s ranks.
“Salvini, who in the past has been a staunch admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said ‘warmongers’ like French President Emmanuel Macron were a problem for Europe, after Paris opened the door to European nations sending troops to Ukraine.”
The Reuters fails to mention the group’s unanimity against the EU’s failing, crippling ‘green’ environmental mandates and policies.
French RN leader Marine Le Pen, who addressed the rally via video link, taunted [Italian Prime Minister Georgia] Meloni – who was not present – suggesting she would support EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a second mandate.
“‘Giorgia [Meloni]… will you support a second von der Leyen term or not? I believe so. And so you will contribute to worsening the policies that the people of Europe are suffering from so much’, she said, noting her ally Salvini would oppose this.”
ID held a similar meeting in Florence in December, but this time the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, one of its key members which has been hit by widespread lawfare attacks and racism allegations in Germany, was not invited. But American Republican Vivek Ramaswamy was also present.
The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to man. Conservatives across Europe agree.
Rome, Italy pic.twitter.com/kgEPzZJwER— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) March 23, 2024
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