From May 14 to 16, 2023, participants of the Munich Leaders Meeting in Tokyo focused their attention on security challenges in the Indo-Pacific and their global implications. They discussed maritime security, the impact of technology competition, matters of deterrence, nuclear security, and how to strengthen the rules-based international order. 

Just days before the G7 Hiroshima Summit, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) hosted a Munich Leaders Meeting (MLM) with the kind support of the Japanese government. For the first time, an MLM was held in Tokyo, Japan. The MSC brought together 60 senior decision-makers and experts, including government officials, think tankers, and journalists, to discuss security issues in the Indo-Pacific region. 

Special counsel David Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware appointed to lead the investigation into President Joe Biden's son, told lawmakers in closed-door testimony Tuesday that he had full authority to pursue criminal charges against Hunter Biden, according to a copy of his opening statement obtained by CBS News. 

Weiss said he voluntarily agreed to appear before the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee before the submission of his special counsel report — an unusual move — to "address misunderstandings about the scope of my authority" in the Hunter Biden criminal probe but would not divulge information that could impede the ongoing investigation. 

The Election Integrity Partnership, an online “disinformation group” created by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and operated through a network of think tanks and academic institutions, was deliberately set up to censor conservative speech during the 2020 campaign season, a report published by the House Judiciary Committee on Monday revealed. 

The group directed almost all of its censorship efforts against “true information, jokes, and political opinions” posted by conservative social media users while leaving false information posted by liberals alone, the report claimed, describing the partnership’s true goal as “censor[ing] Americans engaged in core political speech in the lead up to the 2020 election.” 

Halyna Vynokur, a clerk in a hardware store in Kyiv, was shouldering a firearm for the first time. Iryna Sychova, a purchasing manager at a department store, disassembled and reassembled the jumble of rods and springs in a Kalashnikov rifle.

They were among two dozen women who turned out in a forest near Kyiv one recent weekend for a course in firearms and urban combat, training that included shooting rifles, finding booby traps and throwing hand grenades. They were spurred by a sense of duty, they said, realizing they might some day end up on the front lines.

The US national debt has risen so high that Washington will no longer be able to print any more dollars to service it, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

He was commenting on a statement made by his US counterpart John Kirby on Wednesday, that the US has already spent 96% of the funds allocated for Ukraine since early 2022, when its long-running tensions with neighbor Russia turned to armed conflict. When a reporter suggested that Washington could just print money indefinitely unless the printing press breaks down, Peskov pointed out that there will simply be no paper left.

“I read recently that the United States spends about $200 million an hour on servicing its debt,” he said. “They will run out of paper soon,” he added.

Maria Zakharova puts Straussian Blinken in his place with his ultimatums

by Bertrand Hedouin

Yes, times have changed, not always for the better.

Russia and China are slowly but accurately occupying the Goban in the face of a Western team, those of the globalists, who still and always persevere in wanting to advance on the squares of their hobby game.

Moscow has requested an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council to address Ukraine’s strikes on the city of Donetsk, Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, announced late on Tuesday. 

Earlier in the day, Donetsk was subjected to multiple missile attacks by Kiev’s forces, which resulted in heavy damage to several critical civilian infrastructure sites. Initial reports by local officials put the number of victims of the attacks at 20. The authorities later confirmed five fatalities and said over 20 others were injured.

“We have requested an emergency open meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with today’s attacks by the Kiev regime on Donetsk,” Polyansky said in a statement on Telegram, adding that the meeting is expected to take place on Wednesday afternoon.

The Economist has published a piece pretending to answer why Israel is killing so many Palestinian children, or, as the British journal puts it, why “children are a very high proportion of the victims of war in Gaza.” The authors note that “in Ukraine, a conflict between two much bigger powers, children account for fewer than 550 of roughly 9,800 civilian fatalities over a much longer period.” Hence, they venture, “Gaza’s enormous child death toll reflects, among other things, its especially youthful demography.”

By Chris Hedges / The Real News Network

JULES LETAMBOUR INTRODUCES ANOTHER MOMENT OF HISTORY....

OUR FRIEND JULES LETAMBOUR PRESENTS NASTY BASTARDS IN WAR HISTORY: 

At the Service of the King

Soldier at sixteen, under Bayard, hero of the Italian wars, commander of the infantry in the assault on Thionville (1558), BLAISE DE MONLUC became covered with glory and somewhat full of nasty wounds… While attacking the Protestant-held town of Rabastens on 23 July 1570, he was shot in the face by an arquebus, losing his nose and most of one cheek — forcing him to wear a mask for the rest of his life. The Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ended this war on 8 August 1570.

Monluc's face wound, combined with accusations of corruption by the Bordeaux Parlement and by his opponents, especially François de Montmorency, led to his removal from office. 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza would allow Hamas to regroup and carry out further attacks.

But he added that Israel had to take "every possible measure" to prevent civilian casualties in the enclave.

It’s not a good start to any media article when the sub headline contains an editorial error, but this headline which reads “Chinese minister invited to AI summit helped create cyborg rats: Wu Zhaohui has also been decribed [sic] as man ‘whose fingerprints are all over the Uyghur genocide” indicates that the once world-renowned Daily Telegraph has entered an era of sensationalism and amateurism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U4TSCYwbM

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW....

WE KNOW THAT THE AMERICAN EMPIRE (THE BOFFINS WHO CONTROL IT, NOW BASED IN THE BOWELS OF THE PENTAGON AND IN THE OFFICES OF THE FED BANK, WHILE THE WHITE HOUSE IS ONLY THE DISINFORMATION PROPAGATION "CENTER") HAS DREAMT OF DESTROYING RUSSIA SINCE AT LEAST 1917...

THE ONLY THING THAT HAS PREVENTED THIS DESTRUCTION AND TAKE OVER OF THE HEARTLAND (RUSSIA AND CHINA) HAS BEEN THE MOIRES OF WORLD WARS, ALLIANCES AND THE SPIRIT OF THE INHABITANTS (THE RUSSIANS) PLUS SOME GOOD LUCK FOR THE RUSSIANS AND BAD LUCK FOR THE AMERICAN EMPIRE.. AS WELL, THE CHINESE HAVE SHOWN SOME RESISTANCE THAT THE AMERICANS STILL PRESENT TO US AS AGGRESSION WHEN IS IT IS NO MORE THAN A DESIRE OF COOPERATION IN PEACE.

THE EMPIRE LIES TO MAKE ITS SUBJECTS BELIEVE...