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© Brendan SMIALOWSKI/AFPUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (L) shakes hands with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) prior to their talks in Kyiv, on May 15, 2024.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken admitted during his visit to Kiev this week that the situation in Ukraine has deteriorated. This is mainly due to the Russian offensive in Kharkov Region. He promised not to leave Ukraine without support, promising that the next batches of Western weapons would soon - in particular air defense systems. He also reiterated that Ukraine's future membership in NATO is still on the table and that Russia must pay for the country's reconstruction.
Blinken's arrival was unexpected, and it betrayed the critical stage currently reached in the conflict. The US is urging Kiev to carry out an effective mobilization, and seems to hope society will reorganize itself in some way. By the way, this is the most important question: what do Ukrainians themselves think they should do next, and how do they want things to be? But let us continue.
'West's governments need war' warns Martin Armstrong 'because their debts are no longer sustainable'
Martin Armstrong
Those of Martin Armstrong are not just "predictions", as his reflections are based on the compendium of precise mathematical formulas and analytical skills. We interviewed him to try to understand the current geopolitical context.
From the crisis of Western democracies to the birth of the BRICS front, to arrive at profound reflections on the risk of a military conflict on a global scale, Armstrong interprets real-time data thanks to his diachronic "vision" and a decades-long effort of research and analysis . Armstrong's work allows us to connect knowledge of the past to critical factors of the present time. For all these reasons, Armstrong's analyzes are precious for understanding the present and orienting ourselves towards a future that appears full of unknowns and pitfalls.
Best of the Web: NIH official finally admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan โ after years of denials
© Jack Gruber-USA TODAYNational Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak
At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China in the months and years before the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Dr. Tabak," asked Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, "did NIH fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through [Manhattan-based nonprofit] EcoHealth [Alliance]?"
"It depends on your definition of gain-of-function research," Tabak answered. "If you're speaking about the generic term, yes, we did."
© Getty Images / Sefa KaracanSigns for Russia's international news agency 'RIA Novosti' and 'Rossiya Segodnaya' seen at the 2018 St Petersburg International Economic Forum in St Petersburg, Russia, May 24, 2018
EU ambassadors have agreed to place three Russian news outlets under sanctions, a move that would effectively ban them across the bloc. Moscow has threatened to take "retaliatory measures" against Western journalists in Russia.
The decision affects Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti, the newspapers Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Izvestia, and Voice of Europe, a Czech news site accused by officials in Brussels and Prague of spreading pro-Russian "propaganda," EU Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova announced on Wednesday.
Comment: The EU bloc is so called, because it blocs both this and that, in the name of protecting freedom, democracy, rule of law, western values, transparency and equality. Cutting up the mental space of Europeans in this way, has a parallel in psychiatry and it is called lobotomy. Sure every analogy has limitations, and this is certainly no exception, but it is still revealing for the state of the EU to read what the the Wiki says on this topic:
A lobotomy (from Greek ฮปฮฟฮฒฯฯ (lobos) 'lobe', and ฯฮฟฮผฮฎ (tomฤ) 'cut, slice') or leucotomy is a discredited form of neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorder or neurological disorder (e.g. epilepsy, depression) that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex.[2] The surgery causes most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain, to be severed.Before it is too late, here are some links to these probably soon to be off-limits pages for EU citizens:
RIA Novosti
Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Izvestia
Voice of Europe
Previously sanctioned was Sputnik and RT.
The way these rules are administered probably vary, but as the saying goes, let sleeping dogs lie. In other words if you live in an EU country and can access blocked pages, don't tell.
© UNRWA ScreenshotEmpty streets in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip as families continue to flee in search of safety, May 14, 2024
Unless you are the victim of a moral narrow-mindedness (and there seems to be an epidemic of this defect nowadays), it should be obvious to you that Israel has descended into barbarism.
Why barbarism? Because in Israel, cruel, murderous, and otherwise criminal behavior has become state policy. Let's review the signs of this meltdown:
โ Establishing an apartheid state to satisfy a racist ideological doctrine.
โ Committing "probable" genocide in Gaza.
โ Committing mass executions at, among other places, Gaza hospitals.
โ Issuing orders to shoot unarmed Palestinian civilians.
โ Torture and murder of Palestinian detainees.
โ Inducing an artificial famine in Gaza.
โ Blocking humanitarian aid.
โ Systematic destruction of most of the infrastructure needed to sustain human life in the Gaza Strip.
โ Committing increasing numbers of pogroms against Palestinian villages and towns on the West Bank.
All of this is documented in the reports of credible human rights organizations (including Israel's own), United Nations agencies, as well as in the decisions of the International Court of Justice. Face it, this is not a matter of opinion or perspective โ be it President Joe Biden's or anyone else's. It is a matter of (often televised) fact.
© Francis Chung/PoliticoSpecial Counsel Robert Hur
The White House counsel's office notified House GOP investigators of the move hours before Republicans were expected to recommend holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over the audio. Rather than changing the GOP's plan, the privilege assertion sparked a wave of outrage from Republicans, who are moving forward with their planned contempt vote.
Hur's description of his interviews with Biden โ laid out in a 345-page report released in February โ fueled a firestorm over the president's memory and mental fitness. In that report, Hur said Biden could potentially defend himself in court, if charges were recommended, by appealing to jurors as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." Biden pushed back with a fiery news conference defending his acuity.
© Russian Federation Council/SputnikAndrey Belousov addresses the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security โข Moscow, Russia
At the same time, Belousov is a longstanding member of the Russian political elite who has held important government positions for the past 20 years. In these years, he has demonstrated his professionalism and his unique vision of Russia's future.
To help get a better idea of who Andrey Belousov is, RT has compiled a selection of quotes from the new defense minister's recent speeches and interviews.
Comment: No 'Belousov' for the US...look what happened to JFK.
© Falco"Found 'em"
"If the government can suspend your rights anytime it deems something is a crisis, you don't have rights. You have permissions."While our country sleepwalks through the deadly aftermath of the evil Covid-19 operation, the World Health Organization (WHO) puts the final touches on a nice bit of fuckery called its Pandemic Treaty on International Health Regulations (IHR) or "One Health" initiative, a Globalist power grab disguised in the saintly white robes of public health medicine. The agreement, to be finalized at the end of this month, will cede what's left of your liberty to this unelected bureaucracy for the sake of global "equity and inclusivity," meaning more lockdowns, constant surveillance, forced "vaccinations," restrictions on medications, and censorship of anyone who voices a contrary opinion of these actions.
โ "Pismo" on "X"
Sound familiar? Yeah, it's Covid-19 all over again, a second crack at controlling everything you do and every choice you might make by a cabal of governments and corporations, in other words, an international gang of fascists. The WHO is an agency of the United Nations, run out of Switzerland. You might recall this is the same place where the World Economic Forum (the WEF, a.k.a. "Davos") has its headquarters. For years, the WEF has been issuing blueprints for a techno-fascist global regime under which, they state baldly, "you will own nothing and be happy." (And eat bugs.)
Martin Neumaier of Germany licks public toilets of railway station. โ X
The Free Democratic Party (FDP) candidate for the district of Ostalb was seen putting his face inside the toilet and also licking toiletries including a brush present there, according to Times Now.
He also shared disturbing and explicit videos of himself doing sexual acts online.
In one clip, Neumaier was seen singing the Nazi-era German national anthem along with "m*********** rectally with a s** toy." Moreover, several videos of him have surfaced on social media and gone viral.
Comment: This comes just a month after a municipal Councillor, and head of youth and children's services, in Spain was forced to resign after footage emerged showing him eating his own excrement for sexual gratification.
Comment: It looks like the PTB wants the war in Ukraine still to go on, perhaps until the last Ukrainian, and maybe even longer after that since the mercenaries from all over the West are fighting there. They need war and they don't care about human suffering, loss, and pain. Psychos in power don't understand that.
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