By Peloni

Mercouris had an interview with former US Diplomat, Chas Freeman, mostly on the Ukraine war and Russia and China on which Freeman offers a very informative conversation.  He was the Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the early 90’s, and was involved in the US Foreign Service for about 30yrs til the mid 90’s.  I recalled Freeman from the notoriety around his appointment to the National Intelligence Council during Obama’s first term, a nomination for which he failed to be confirmed before withdrawing due to the marked controversy which was raised during the election season.  He blamed the Likud and their American allies for having scuttled his nomination, but the truth is that it was his own pronounced pro-Saudi and his anti-Israel positions which led to the opposition to his nomination.  In any event, there is not a great deal of discussion in the interview on the Middle East outside of the Saudi’s relations with China and Russia,  and notably only a single swipe at Israel.  I have to admit that I nearly did not watch the interview due to my recollections of and dislike for Freeman, but I am quite pleased that I did.  Here is the link:

New World Order w/ Ambassador Chas Freeman, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen

TFI GLOBAL

BY David Mark, ISRAEL UNWIRED

Despite what the Biden administration wants the public to believe, Russia has made up for its early challenges in its invasion of Ukraine and has essentially taken control over all strategically important areas.
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BYD’s $11,400 electrical vehicle, Huawei’s progress in enterprise resource planning software hurt Tesla & Cisco

By David Goldman, ASIA TIMES APRIL 22, 2023

A brand new electric car for $11,700? The Seagull impresses NASDAQ, sending Tesla shares down. Photo: Move Electric

Two of the worst-performing US tech stocks this week – Cisco and Tesla – have something in common: Both ran into a buzz-saw of Chinese competition. At the New York opening April 21, Telsa had lost more than 12% during the week and Cisco more than 8.1%.

Tesla’s Chinese competitor BYD announced an $11,400 electrical vehicle, a challenge to Tesla’s lowest-cost offering at about $33,000.

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By Maurice Hirsch, Adv., PMW | Apr 27, 2023

While the Palestinian Authority continues to hide its finances from the international community, a recent statement by PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh again demonstrates the clear effectiveness of Israel’s Anti-Pay-for-Slay law and the pressure being put on the PA by the international community.

The PA government recently approved its 2023 budget. Presenting the budget to the cabinet, Shtayyeh explained that the budget included a deficit of US$610 million. While acknowledging that the PA’s terror reward payments are causing financial damage to the PA, Shtayyeh clarified that the PA has no intention to abolish the payments:

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Why Republicans Cannot Win; Monitor Tech Manipulations, Make Findings Public

by Robert Epstein, GATESTONE  •  April 30, 2023

• [T]ech companies… can flip elections any and all ways they please without anyone knowing.
• When you monitor, you can catch them in their shenanigans, and you can get them to back down. We got Google to back down by exposing some of the manipulations that they were engaging in in the presidential election.
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By Robert Spencer, PJ MEDIA APRIL 29, 2023

Fox’s firing of the most-watched host on cable news, Tucker Carlson, is still roiling Leftists and patriots alike, but now Carlson himself has said that it didn’t actually happen at all. In a text message to the news analysis site 19FortyFive, Carlson said flatly: “I’m still employed by Fox.” This doesn’t mean, however, that all is forgiven and that his show will be back on the air Monday. On the contrary, it could hinder Carlson’s plans to take his truth-telling elsewhere.
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By Wolf Howling, AM THINKER

Image: Wrecking ball generated by DALL-E.

With their decision to take Tucker Carlson’s show off the air, Fox News’s Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch have failed to account for media and political dynamics that have, over a period of years, shifted under their feet. The Murdochs’ decision will inevitably prove catastrophic for Fox News and will likely be an inflection point that marks a wholesale change to a media landscape that, to paraphrase Matt Taibbi, has calcified in progressive concrete.

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Demands include the right to a civilian nuclear program, defensive ties, and the end of US criticism of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

Israel National News      Apr 30, 2023, 7:20 AM (GMT+3)

Saudi Crown Prince fist bumps Biden upon his arrival in JeddahBandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS

Despite the recent rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Washington is examining Riyadh’s demands for a potential normalization with Israel, an American official told Israel Hayom.

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By Ted Belman

From this

to this 8 years later.

For the whole story go to Remember Octomom? See Her Today

T. Belman, Gen Burnham, the current leader of Sudan participated in the normalization agreement with Israel. The opposition was against it. So the fate of this power struggle has implications for Israel. Burnham paid $335 million in reparations to the US for “for victims of the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the USS Cole in 2000,”

Some suggest that the CIA is involved with the destabilization.

A power struggle between generals has killed hundreds and trapped millions

By Nicholas Bariyo and Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ April 29, 2023

Smoke rose over Khartoum as rival forces battled in Sudan’s capital in mid-April. PHOTO: MARWAN ALI/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Redacted with Clayton Morris

By Kash Patel and Jan Jekielek, EPOCH TIMES

VIDEO

Former acting CIA director Michael Morell was recently asked under oath about the origins of the intel letter discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story as possible Russian disinformation.

He testified under oath that a call from now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken “triggered” the creation of the letter, which was signed by 51 current and former members of the intelligence community.

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By Zachary Stieber, EPOCH TIMES    April 28, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., founder of the non-profit Children’s Health Defense, in Los Angeles, Calif. on Feb. 6, 2023. (York Du/The Epoch Times)

ABC News cut off a presidential candidate when he started talking about COVID-19 vaccines, raising concerns about censorship.

Robert Kennedy Jr., who recently announced his presidential run as a Democrat, sat down with ABC News for a lengthy interview released on April 27.

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Islamists keep trying to turn blasphemy into a hate crime.

April 28, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield 1 Comment

An instructor was fired at Hamline for showing images of Mohammed in art class. A Persian instructor is being investigated at San Francisco State for doing the same thing. Those are both examples of Islamist student associations trying to turn blasphemy into a hate crime. But there’s an older example of that which is the claim that any desecration of the koran, an Islamic text that calls for the mass murder, enslavement and rape of non-Muslims, is a hate crime and endangers Muslims. The latest example of this took place at Wayne State U.

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By Monica Showalter, AM THINKER

This week Joe Biden touted a laundry list of immigration carrots and sticks intended to disincentivize illegal immigration at the southern border now that he’s lifting the sparsely enforced Title 42 restrictions on May 11.

They were mostly carrots. The New York Times called them a “new back door on immigration,” and explained that its permissiveness went well beyond the lawful congressional parameters for the admission of immigrants.
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China has proposed a massive $58 billion railroad project that will link western China with Pakistan, further reducing Western trade dependence.

By Roy Francis , OAN    Friday, April 28, 2023

The railroad is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which is China’s global infrastructure development strategy adopted in 2013 that includes investing in more than 150 countries, and international organizations.

The state-owned China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co Ltd analysts examined and approved the proposal, despite its heavy price tag. According to the proposal’s assessment board, the 1,860-mile rail line comes with the potential to “reshape trade and geopolitics across the Eurasian Continent.”

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by Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, EMET   April 27, 2023

The profound brutality that Syrian President Bashar Assad exhibited toward demonstrators during the 12 years since the eruption of the Arab Spring led him to be shunned by most of his Arab neighbors. Arab efforts to reintegrate Assad’s Syria back into the fold of Arab states have gained significant momentum for several years and are getting closer to fulfillment. All major U.S. Arab allies, with Qatar’s notable exception, have been steadily moving away from the U.S. stance and toward acceptance of Assad’s victory in the civil war.

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_{The puppet masters and puppet regime defeat democracy.}

by Daniel Greenfield, FPM April 9, 2023 

(JNS) In the early days of March, a small crowd of leftists gathered outside the U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv holding up signs reading, “Biden help!” and “Biden, Blinken, Our democracy is sinking.”

A speaker at the rally appealed to Biden to “save us from ourselves.”

The consulate rally was held under the banner of “Defend Israeli Democracy,” which had organized international protests against democratic judicial reform that would have restored checks and balances. International rallies, including one in Berlin which featured women dressed as the “handmaids” from the TV show and signs accusing Israel of “fascism” and being an “apartheid state,” were not speaking to Israelis, but to the international anti-Israel left.

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T. Belman. Satanovsky says that Russian -Israel relations are good. Russia doesn’t stop Israel from bombing Iranian Assets in Syria and keeps Iran from entering a 70 km strip of land at the Syrian Border with Israel. He plays down the Israeli help to Ukraine as being very minor. This part of the discussion starts at 30 minutes.

Russia, like China, believes in non-interference in internal affairs of other countries whereas the US believes in interfering.

A few years ago, I, together with Alex Maistrovoy, wrote

• RUSSIA AND THE NEW ME -Part IV: Can Russia be induced to use its UN veto to protect Israel
• Contemplating, a US-Russia Alliance

We are joined by Evgeny Satanovsky, a Russian economist, professor and orientalist, one of the leading experts in the field of politics and economics of Israel, as well as other countries of the Middle East. He is the founder and president of the Middle East Institute. From 2001 to 2004, he served as the President of the Russian Jewish Congress.