This Week in the World Affairs Brief

THE TRUMP HUSH MONEY TRIAL IS A FIASCO

Donald Trump’s so-called “hush money” trial has been front and center in the news for three weeks now, complete with multiple attempts by the biased Democrat judge, Juan Merchan, to silence Trump’s criticism of the proceedings through multiple fines and threats of jail time for “contempt of court.” Trump does rightfully have contempt for the way he has been put on trial for “falsification of business records,” but that kind of contempt against the Democrat’s efforts to jail him over a technicality should never have been made a crime. While I don’t believe that Trump is innocent of having multiple affairs with other women outside of marriage, that isn’t a crime (except in God’s law), and neither is paying off the women to keep them silent. But the issue of falsifying business records is only there because of the unconstitutional income tax—which is an invasion of privacy. If every big business was scrutinized for fudging business records for tax reasons, half of Wall Street would be in jail. So this is clearly selective prosecution at its worst. 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.

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  • Alex Jones’ Sensational Claims About What is Coming

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Ukraine Admits Frontlines In Kharkiv Are Collapsing

ZeroHedge

"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."

Alvin Bragg’s Office Deleted Phone Call Records of Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer

The Epoch Times

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.

Winston Marshall: Populism Is The Voice Of The Voiceless, The Real Threat To Democracy Is From The Elites

Real Clear Politics

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.

Russia Launches Surprise Offensive In Kharkiv, Aims To Extend Border 10km Deep Into Ukraine

ZeroHedge

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."

Boy Scouts Drops the Boy

Lew Rockwell

Are your children safe in the Boy Scouts? I note that “the Boy Scouts’ $2.4 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan took effect last year, allowing the organization to keep operating while compensating the more than 80,000 men who say they were sexually abused as children while scouting.”

FBI Officials Were Told to ‘Stand Down’ the Day before Jan. 6

Headline USA

Among the 107 pages of new records is a series of emails with the subject line, “Stand down. See below.” The emails are heavily redacted, and the individuals in the email thread are not identified. Only one person’s title was revealed: a supervisory intelligence analyst for the FBI’s DC office. Even the date and times of the emails are redacted, with the exception of one that was sent at 5:46 p.m. on Jan. 5, 2021.

ICE Expected To Roll Out ID Program For Illegal Immigrants This Summer

ZeroHedge

First reported in 2022, the 'Secure Docket Card' pilot program is expected to begin this summer with around 10,000 cards in a limited rollout at three or four locations in the US. The agency claims that the program is "pre-decisional" and subject to change. According to the report, Houston and Atlanta are two potential locations. Officials claim that the program will "modernize documentation provided to some noncitizens" but it will not be an official form of federal ID.

Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms

John W. Whitehead

Government agents—with or without a warrant, with or without probable cause that criminal activity is afoot, and with or without the consent of the homeowner—are now justified in mounting virtual home invasions using surveillance technology—with or without the blessing of the courts—to invade one’s home with wiretaps, thermal imaging, surveillance cameras, aerial drones, and other monitoring devices.

Ukraine Warns Nationwide Power Outages Coming Amid 'Massive' Russian Strikes

ZeroHedge

Large-scale Russian aerial strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure has become an almost daily event, but Wednesday saw a "massive" wave of Russian missiles launched on vital power grid sites, according to Ukraine authorities. Ukraine is now warning of nationwide power cuts. "Russians have launched a new massive attack on thermal and hydroelectric power plants," the state-owned Ukrenergo energy operator announced. "There may be power cuts for household and industrial consumers across Ukraine... due to new damage to the equipment of Ukrainian power plants caused by Russian strikes."

Chris Cuomo Admits Taking "Regular" Doses Of Ivermectin After Previously Saying Those Who Took It Should Be "Shamed"

ZeroHedge

He said: “I’ll tell you something else that’s gonna get you a lot of hits. I am taking … a regular dose of Ivermectin. Ivermectin was a boogeyman during COVID. That was wrong. We were given bad information about Ivermectin. The real question is, why?” Why, Chris? Perhaps its because you and Don Lemon were on-air daily providing a constant stream of misinformation about the drug?

Biden quietly remaking courts to counter rightward lurch under Trump

Washington Examiner

The pair were tied at 193 appointments each at this point in their tenures for much of April, but Biden retook the lead earlier this week when the Senate confirmed Georgia Alexakis for a district judgeship in Illinois on Wednesday, giving him 194. “I promised to have an administration that looks like America … a court that represents all the people,” Biden said on March 11 during a campaign speech in Atlanta. “Sixty-five percent of the judges I’ve appointed are women. Sixty-five percent are people of color. I’ve appointed more black women to the circuit courts than every other president in American history combined.”

Another Trump Trial Derailed: Fani-Donating Judge's Decision To Keep Her On RICO Trial Under Scrutiny By Appeals Court

ZeroHedge

One day after former President Donald Trump's classified documents trial was postponed indefinitely after we learned that the DOJ mishandled evidence in the case (with Judge Aileen M. Cannon citing a mountain of 'outstanding' pre-trial matters that would make a May 20 trial 'imprudent'), another Trump case appears to have no chance of going to trial before the 2024 election.

Democrats Join Republicans to Block Greene’s Bid to Oust Speaker Johnson

The Epoch Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) forced a vote on a motion to vacate after meeting with the speaker twice this week to discuss her grievances and demands. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) then offered a measure to table Ms. Greene’s motion to vacate. Democrats joined Republicans to approve its shelving in a 359 to 43 vote. Eleven Republicans voted to move forward with the ouster attempt.

China’s 2022 Military Spending Reaches $710 Billion, Over Triple What Beijing Announced: Report

The Epoch Times

A portion of the $711 billion spending also included military research and development expenditures, which Ms. Eaglen estimated to be $45.8 billion. However, she noted that the estimated military research and development spending could be much higher, considering the regime’s military-civil fusion (MCF) strategy, cyberespionage operations, and reliance on state-owned companies.

FBI File On Jeff Bezos' Grandfather, A DARPA Co-Founder, Has Been Destroyed

ZeroHedge

With the contents of Gise's FBI file unlikely to ever be unearthed and likely never destroyed, just inaccessible to FOIA requests or the public, other X users commented on Webb's and Greenewald's posts, pointing out how DARPA possibly created other big tech firms: " We know Facebook is a "cancelled program" out of the DOD... if you look at bill gates family you find similar stuff."

Who's Building The Most Solar Energy?

ZeroHedge

As of 2022, China’s total installed capacity stands at 393 GW, nearly double that of the EU’s 205 GW and surpassing the USA’s total of 113 GW by more than threefold in absolute terms.

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