THE AMERICAN JOURNAL [2 of 3] Tue 4/18/23 • ADAM KING, DAVID HAKIMIFAR, DON HATELEY, MUDAR ZAHRAN
By Don Feder, WASH TIMES – – Saturday, May 6, 2023
Anniversaries are opportunities to put historical events in perspective.
May 16 is the 80th anniversary of the fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, where a few hundred poorly armed Jewish fighters held off 3,000 SS troops for almost a month.
Finally, the only way the Nazis could end the uprising was to burn down the ghetto block by block. More than 13,000 died, about half of them burned alive or suffocated by smoke. The survivors were taken to death camps.
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By Matthew Luxmoore and Ann M. Simmons, WSJ
In an image taken from a video released by Prigozhin Press Service last week, head of Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin in front of his troops in an unknown location. PHOTO: /PRIGOZHIN PRESS SERVICE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The leader of Russian paramilitary group Wagner said he has reversed his decision to fully withdraw from the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut after pledges from Russian military officials to provide more ammunition and operational freedom to Wagner units that he said had sustained tens of thousands of casualties.
T. Belman. Even the WSJ is delusional. They claim that it is Putin who is resisting talks whereas , til now, its been Binden.
“The approach is based on the belief that neither side has the ability to continue fighting indefinitely, and that Beijing’s willingness to play a role in international peace talks should be tested, the officials said. Still, they remain uncertain about Russia’s willingness to negotiate a cease-fire under Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
Gloss over it as they will, it is huge that they are looking to save them. Shows you how much they need an off ramp.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron meeting in China last month. PHOTO: JACQUES WITT/PRESS POOL
Some U.S. and European officials said they believe that Ukraine’s planned spring offensive could pave the way for negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow by the end of the year, and that China could help bring Russia to the table.
The willingness to encourage negotiations and seek out a role for China in talks represents a shift in Western thinking, particularly in the U.S., which has been highly skeptical of any involvement for Beijing given China’s longstanding support for Moscow. Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly expressed cautious optimism recently that Beijing could help defuse the conflict.
The old cultural imperialism was supposedly greedy corporatism like Disneyland, McDonald’s, and Starbucks sprouting up worldwide to supplant local competitors.
But these businesses spread because they appealed to free-will consumer demand abroad. They were not imposed top down.
Last February, Dr. Gal Luft, a retired Israel Defense Forces lieutenant colonel with deep intelligence ties in Washington and Beijing, was arrested as an alleged gun runner. At the time, he claimed the arrest was to stop him from revealing what he knows about the Biden crime family and FBI corruption. Now, Dr. Luft has disappeared entirely.
In the early 2000s, Luft formed a think tank called the Institute for Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) that focused on energy innovations and policy. Accordingly, from 2015 to 2018, Luft organized international energy conferences. He did this in partnership, with the China Energy Fund Committee (CEFC-USA), the non-profit arm of CEFC, China’s huge energy conglomerate that was headed by one Ye Jianming. Ye reportedly has ties to Chinese military intelligence. CEFC-USA, in turn, was headed by Patrick Ho.
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By Michael Ordman, VGNI
This week’s newsletter takes you inside many of Israel’s achievements. Israeli medical successes include the world’s smallest heart pump; a mother and daughter heart transplant; removal of painful internal human tissue by freezing; and how to live longer by maintaining a healthy inside. Israelis went inside the United Nations to show how Israel benefits the world; Israeli apartments are being strengthened inside to protect them against earthquakes; and Israeli children receive education even while inside hospitals.
Despite the new ownership and policy changes, Rabbi Yishai Fleisher, the spokesperson for the city of Hebron as well as an advisor to Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, was banned from Twitter over the weekend, without warning, and permanently according to the message he received.
LONDON — When Queen Elizabeth II’s seven-decade-long reign ended with her death at 96 last September, her son, Charles, immediately became King.
On Saturday, however, King Charles III and his wife, Queen Camilla, will be formally crowned at Westminster Abbey.
He’ll be the 40th monarch to be crowned at the abbey in a line that stretches back 900 years to William the Conqueror’s coronation on Christmas Day 1066.
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Israel National News May 5, 2023, 11:41 PM (GMT+3)
Netanyahu and LevinYonatan Sindel/Flash 90
Kan reports that senior officials in the coalition estimate that the judicial reform will no longer be promoted by the Prime Minister. According to the officials, what was decisive for Netanyahu was the political pressure from the White House, including his lack of invitation to Washington.
By Julie Kelly, AM GREATNESS 5.5.23
A federal jury on Thursday found four members of the Proud Boys guilty of seditious conspiracy and other charges in the Justice Department’s most high-profile trial related to the events of January 6, 2021.
After six days of deliberation, jurors convicted Enrique Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, and Zachary Rehl of seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. The jury deadlocked on those two counts for a fifth defendant, Dominic Pezzola. All five were found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging any duties, obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, and one count of destruction of government property.
By ASSAF ORION, MOSAIC SEPT. 6 2022
The Israeli flag flies beside a portrait of Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on May 8, 2013. MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images.
The headlines speak for themselves. Two years ago, a writer in Foreign Policy lamented that the U.S. has tried and failed to “get Israel to break up with China.” A year later, it was the editor of the Jerusalem Post who argued that Israel “has to choose” between Washington and Beijing, while the Washington Post noted that Israel’s failure to do so was “testing its relationship with the U.S.”
The Bureau of Land Management was formed out of the General Land Office, which sold and distributed public land to settlers, and the Grazing Service, which settled the range wars on the side of the farmers. Its mission under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) is “the management of the public lands and their various resource values so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the present and future needs of the American people”. Read more…
By Joan Swirsky MAY 5, 2023
Please re-read every word of the next four paragraphs and know that NOT ONE WORD of them is true! In the 1950s—and for centuries before and decades after—girls knew they were girls; boys knew they were boys and that was that.
Growing up in the 1950s, I remember distinctly that all of my high school classmates were obsessed with figuring out who they really were, males or females. Every conversation, the special clubs we formed to talk about this issue, the heated arguments we had with our parents who didn’t “get” that the children they thought were boys or girls were not at all what those dinosaurs imagined sex and gender to be, and the total lack of understanding we got from the powers-that-be, including teachers, counselors, coaches, doctors. It was truly a horrible time to be a girl or boy.
Mark Sleboda, Real Politick
As of May 5, Russia is still in control of 95% of Bakhmut.
Prigozhin spreads misinformation to induce Ukraine to continue to shift troops to Bakhmut. Yes, he will withdraw from Bakhmut but he will be replaced by Russian troops.
by Kari Donovan, REPUBLIC BRIEF May 5, 2023
Leftist corporate media is so busy throwing a temper tantrum over Kari Lake’s book and her intense rise in popularity that they may have missed that Lake’s claims of election fraud are getting the go-ahead to be scrutinized and investigated.
“In what can only be described as a perfect meeting of like minds, Winning Team Publishing, the self-described “nation’s premier conservative publishing house” that was co-founded by Donald Trump Jr., will publish the book, which sells for $29.99. The book ships on June 27, according to the company’s website,”
By Stephen Bryen, CSP May 5, 2023
There is no doubt now that Bakhmut will soon fall to the Russians. How soon? Probably a few days and no more than one week.
Ukraine says it has managed to evacuate its elite forces from the city, leaving only rearguard elements to hang on until the end. Efforts by Ukraine to provide counterattacks have not borne fruit, and all efforts have been stopped by Russian paratroopers and Wagner PMC fighters, along with generous amounts of Russian artillery.
T. Belman. I made the same argument in this article
Without 30 years of provocative, to the Russian mind threatening, behavior by the United States, the Ukraine war does not happen.
John Mearsheimer has pointed out that for well over 20 years, from the Soviet collapse in 1991 until the 2014 US supported, anti-democratic, violent coup in Kiev against a pro-Russian Ukrainian president, no one of any importance, absolutely no one, viewed Russia as a military threat to its neighbors or to Europe generally, or believed that Russia harbored revanchist impulses. Neither its behavior during this period nor its top officials’ statements suggested Russia had any designs of dominating its near abroad, let alone conquering it, much less conquering anyone else.
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