This Week in the World Affairs Brief
MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL CONTINUES DESPITE BIDEN CLAIM
Joe Biden appears to be trying to play both sides. On one hand he is pretending to pacify the crowds of pro-Palestinian protestors that are demanding the US cut off military aid to Israel to force another ceasefire with Hamas. In response to the high number of civilian casualties in Southern Gaza, the Biden administration claimed it will withhold some arms shipments to Israel. Ostensibly this was meant to force Israel to back off of its announced full onslaught of Rafah—the last stronghold of Hamas on the border with Egypt. On the other hand, we learn that only part of the military aid on hold is a shipment of the largest bombs: 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs. All other military assistance to Israel including the $15 billion in recently approved aid is expected to go forward. Intelligence sources in the Middle East confirm that military aid isn’t really being cut off. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is under fire by two of his cabinet members over his refusal to allow the Palestinian Authority to come back in and govern Gaza in the aftermath of the war (if it ever ends). Hardliners want Gaza to remain in the control of Israel via military occupation, and “softliners” want the Palestinian Authority to run Gaza again. To receive a free one-time sample of the Brief, along with options on how to subscribe, click on Request a Sample on the left.
Also:
- Ukraine’s Kharkiv Under Russian Attack
- The Non-conspiratorial View of How China Became a Threat
- Trump Lawsuits Keep Him Tied Up in Courts
The shipment was supposed to consist of 1,800 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bombs and 1,700 500-pound (225-kilogram) bombs, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, with the focus of U.S. concern being the larger explosives and how they could be used in a dense urban setting. More than 1 million civilians are sheltering in Rafah after evacuating other parts of Gaza amid Israel’s war on Hamas, which came after the militant group’s deadly attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
Denys wants to know what happened to Ukraine’s defences.
“There was no first line of defence. We saw it. The Russians just walked in. They just walked in, without any mined fields” he says.
According to Mezha's findings based on open-source data, contracts were signed with companies that appear to be fictitious. Tens of millions of hryvnias were transferred to a private entrepreneur whose owner, Ihor Chaus, has a criminal record for stealing a bottle of whiskey from a supermarket and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service, said the anti-graft activist.
Newly released testimony from former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins confirms that Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx did not base the pandemic-era six-foot social distancing rule on science, and instead were making things up as they went along.
‘We kind of got cancelled because no one wanted to talk about the potential that there was a problem from the vaccines,’ Dr. Robert Redfield said.
A Pfizer whistleblower has just leaked an internal email to the public to show that the pharmaceutical company provided employees with Covid shots that were “separate and distinct” from the injections that were rolled out for the general population.
The email suggests that high-level Pfizer employees were offered Covid shots from a batch that was reserved for a chosen few.
These doses were somehow different from the injections given to the general public.
Cohen was grilled by Trump attorney Todd Blanche about a pivotal phone call that connected Trump to allegations that he approved reimbursements to pay porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. In one exchange, Blanche accused Cohen of lying about speaking with Trump on the phone in October 2016 to reassure his boss that he was handling the payment to Daniels.
Blanche then confronted Cohen with text messages that contradicted the lie - revealing that Cohen in fact spoke with Trump's bodyguard, Keith Schiller.
In her book Silent Invasion, Dr. Deborah Birx, the former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, admits how much of a lie the entire affair was. Birx knew when they asked for 15 days to stop the spread that it wasn’t the truth and it was only “a start.” She also asked for an extension without an ounce of science to support her request.
They conned Donald Trump. They were doctors and scientists. He wasn’t, and they let him know it, so he listened to them. Of course, it got much worse under Biden, who acted like a king.
‘They are doing this intentionally to keep him here and keep him off the campaign trail, and I think everybody in the country can see that for what it is.’
President-elect José Mulino vows to close the infamous Darién Gap route to hundreds of thousands of migrants heading to the United States.
In the most recent chapter of the ongoing migrant caravan, the state government of Oaxaca provided the migrants with several buses and trucks to move them north to Puebla. Government officials also provided the migrants with a state sporting arena for them to rest before continuing their journey. According to Mexico’s La Jornada, authorities provided the migrants with ten buses and five pickups to continue their journey.
African illegals at a New York City Council meeting have complained that the free food and housing provided to them by the taxpayer is not good enough.
On Tuesday, over 1,300 illegal aliens from Africa descended on New York City Hall after being falsely promised work visas and green cards.
The illegals lined up outside of New York City Hall, with many in Islamic garb swarming the sidewalk.
It’s unlikely to pass the Senate, which Democrats control by a slim margin, and the White House already put out a statement opposing the bill.
Republicans are optimistic about taking control of the Senate in 2025 as the party seeks to pick up vulnerable Democratic seats.
A forensic expert testified under oath about massive voter fraud in Pennsylvania
Undercover video shows election officials apparently discussing ways to destroy and fabricate evidence
All natural, except …
In 2014, a class action lawsuit against Whole Foods surfaced, alleging deceptive labeling, specifically for the “all-natural” brands. Many of them actually contained chemical preservatives, artificial coloring, artificial flavorings, and other artificial ingredients.
One of the products mentioned was the company’s own 365 Everyday Value brand cola, which sported the “all-natural” label despite containing a laundry list of artificial ingredients.
Slovakia’s populist prime minister Robert Fico has been shot, according to breaking news reports, after which he was rushed to the hospital and appears to be alive according to early reports. But some reports have listed his condition as "very serious" and that he had to be airlifted.
According to emerging details in The Associated Press, Fico "was injured in a shooting and taken to hospital. The incident took place in the town of Handlova, some 150 kilometers northeast of the capital, according to the news television station TA3."
Russia has been using an “artillery bubble” as a tool to protect ground forces as they push an advance. Meaning, troops will only attack as far as the artillery can reach. Artillery is vital to a large scale offensive. Coincidentally, Russia doubled its importation of explosive materials commonly used for artillery in the past several months. They are now reportedly producing triple the amount of artillery that NATO is providing to Ukraine.
Mainstream analysts claim the push towards Kharkiv move might be a feint, allowing Russia to increase the size of its buffer zone. They continue to assert that Russia doesn’t have the forces necessary for a major offensive. I would say it depends on how weak Ukraine’s defensive lines actually are. Russia has been consistently using large scale Pincer movements to envelop defensive positions and destroy them.
In the past two weeks alone Russia has gained considerable ground. Russian troops recently made confirmed advances northwest of Svatove (Luhansk Oblast), near Avdiivka (Donetsk Oblast), in Robotyne (Zaporizhzhya Oblast), and in east (left) bank Kherson Oblast, U.S.-based think tank Institute for the Study of War reported on May 6th. The reason for this is relatively simple – Ukraine lacks the manpower to effectively establish defense in-depth. All the reports coming from the front support this theory.
Following several weeks of stepped-up Russian aerial attacks which have pummeled Ukraine's energy and electrical grid, state power operator Ukrenergo on Tuesday announced that rolling emergency blackouts have gone into effect across the country.
It comes amid a drop in temperatures which has served to further strain the grid
“They left us no choice,” Brianne Dressen, a preschool teacher in Utah, told The Epoch Times in an email.
Ms. Dressen has paid tens of thousands of dollars to drugs to treat the nervous system disorder and other issues she’s experiencing, according to the complaint, filed in federal court in her home state.
After a weekend of the strongest solar storms to rock the planet in years, producing aurora across Europe, the United States, and as far as New Zealand, there is news the sun just burped its largest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25, according to space weather website Solarham.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has for the first time explained the rationale behind this week's major cabinet reshuffling, which for the first time of the Ukraine operation saw Sergey Shoigu removed as defense minister (and 'promoted' to head of the national security council), and former minister for economic development Andrey Belousov moved into the defense chief spot. He described the decision as due to the dramatic rise in the defense budget and military spending.
‘Ultimately, the goal of these instruments isn’t to protect public health,’ states a letter in opposition from 22 state attorneys general.
"The first line of fortifications and mines simply did not exist."
Describing what happened when Russian ground troops, backed by airstrikes and artillery, simply walked through the border area on Friday, he wrote: "The enemy freely entered the grey zone along the entire cordon line, which in principle should not have been grey!
"In two years, there should have been concrete fortifications... on the Ukrainian border!"
This confirms a prior Associated Press observation which stated that "Ukraine’s lack of adequate defensive lines has helped Russia make significant military gains, and constant enemy fire hinders building."
Trump attorney asked about roughly three pages worth of records that the attorney claimed Mr. Bragg’s office had deleted. The fact that prosecutors submitted the call records into evidence but didn’t tell the Trump defense team that some of them had been deleted raises questions about the integrity of the proceedings, according to Trump attorneys, and others.
“Insanity! How on earth is this not a felony committed by Bragg and his minions? It sure would be if team Trump did it,” the former president’s eldest son, Don Trump Jr., said in a post on X.
Mr. Trump Jr. was presumably referring to the fact that evidence tampering is a class E felony in the state of New York.
As of December 2021, China accounted for 383,935 acres of the 40 million acres of U.S. agricultural land owned by foreign investors, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Bill and Melinda, they divorced in 2021 after a 27-year marriage....Melinda ends her goodbye letter by saying she'll explain more about her new philanthropic efforts at a later date.
I'm actually rather surprised that our esteemed opposition, Congressman Pelosi, is on that side of the motion. I thought the left was supposed to be anti-elite. I thought the left was supposed to be anti-establishment today, particularly in America, the globalist left have become the establishment. I suppose for Miss Pelosi to have taken this side of the motion, she'd be arguing herself out of a job.
Following several more cross-border attacks from Ukraine, including direct drone hits on Russian oil facilities over the past 48 hours, Russian forces have launched a surprise ground offensive which seeks to break through front lines in the northeastern Kharkiv border region on Friday.
"Russia launched a new wave of counteroffensive actions... Ukraine met them there with our troops, brigades, and artillery," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed of the new action in a briefing. "Now there is a fierce battle underway."
The Israeli war cabinet voted unanimously on Monday to continue the attack on Hamas’s last stronghold in Rafah — while also sending diplomats to Cairo, Egypt in an effort to explore whether Hamas is really interested in ceasefire.
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