Heavily Armed Militants Storm Pakistan's China-Operated Gwadar Port, 7 Dead

A rare terror attack has unfolded at Pakistan's strategic port city of Gwadar on Wednesday, which is crucial to the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). A group of heavily armed militants stormed the complex and engaged in a lengthy firefight with security forces.

Pakistan authorities identified the attackers as Baloch separatists, which had also been armed with bombs. At least seven of the militants were shot dead by security forces. The port has for more than the past decade been run by the China Overseas Port Holding Company.

There are unconfirmed reports that a soldier may have died in the attack. "Attackers carried out many blasts," government official Saeed Ahmed Umrani announced in the aftermath.

Few details have been given about how precisely the attack unfolded, but regional media has indicated that "Majeed Brigade of the proscribed Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for the attack." The group said it targeted Pakistan intelligence offices. A heavy police and military presence responded to the port as gunfire was still ringing out.

This southwestern region of the Pakistani province of Balochistan (also the name of a region which extends into Iran and Afghanistan) has been focus of heavy investment from China, and despite Balochistan being well-known for its natural resources including minerals, gas, and coal - the local population remains in severe poverty.

Ethnic separatist and radical Islamic terrorist organizations have for years waged a long-running insurgency against the government and its foreign partners, accusing Islamabad of exploiting the population of the region.

These groups have especially sought to target infrastructure and projects of the CPEC, seeing in it further confirmation that the Pakistan government is stealing from locals and enriching itself off foreign investments.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/heavily-armed-militants-storm-pakistans-china-operated-gwadar-port-7-dead

Chaos Breaks Out As Hunter Biden Ex-Biz Partners Testify

https://youtu.be/01VzCG8xBfE

Struggling Intel Awarded $20 Billion In Chip Incentives For US Plants

Over the past decade, Nvidia has surpassed Intel to become the most valuable semiconductor company in the United States. Intel has encountered significant setbacks in launching new chips and in its ambitious turnaround plan.

However, there is good news: The White House announced Wednesday morning that the US Department of Commerce has reached a "preliminary agreement" with Intel to provide upwards of $8.5 billion in grants and as much as $11 billion in loans under the CHIPS and Science Act to expand semiconductor factories in the US.

The Biden administration's announcement is not a surprise, mainly because Intel has struggled for several years in its turnaround plan. The funding will significantly expand the construction of Intel chip factories in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon.

According to the Commerce Department, Intel plans to use investment tax credits from the Treasury Department to cover a quarter of capital expenditures.

Shares of Intel trading in premarket in New York rose as much as 4% on the news. Compared with Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, Intel has been a serious laggard over the last five years

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/struggling-intel-awarded-20-billion-chip-incentives-us-plants

EU poised to destroy international law – Kremlin

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has warned the bloc against diverting the earnings from Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine

A proposal by the EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, to use the profits from Russia’s frozen central bank assets to fund Ukraine will erode international law and irrevocably tarnish the bloc’s image globally, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Borrell said on Wednesday that he had proposed to the EU using 90% of the revenues generated by the Russian assets to procure arms for Ukraine, which has repeatedly complained about shortages of ammunition and weapons. According to the diplomat’s plan, the remaining 10% would be transferred to the EU budget to be used to support Kiev’s defense industry.

AP reported that Borrell’s plan has garnered the support of most EU foreign ministers. The issue is scheduled to be discussed at a summit in Brussels later this week.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Peskov warned the EU that the move would entail disastrous consequences. “This is another statement in the spirit of moving towards the destruction of the legal foundations of European and international law,” the spokesman said.

He further suggested that EU policymakers are well aware of the “damage such decisions can do to their economy and their image” and that such moves would cast serious doubt on their commitment to the principle of asset immunity.

Another factor the EU should take into consideration, Peskov continued, is that the individuals and states that rubber-stamp this decision “will be subject to legal prosecution for many decades to come.”

Shortly after the start of the Ukraine conflict, Western countries imposed unprecedented sanctions on Moscow and blocked around $300 billion in assets belonging to Russia’s central bank. More than €200 billion ($217 billion) of these funds are held in the EU. According to Eurostat, the reserves frozen in the EU generated €4.4 billion ($4.8 billion) in interest income in 2023 alone.

In recent months, some Western officials have spoken in favor of outright seizing the Russian funds and transferring them to Ukraine. However, many experts and policymakers have admitted that this would be extremely difficult given the lack of legal grounds for such a drastic move.

Russian officials have repeatedly denounced the blocking of the funds as “theft.” In December, Peskov warned that any potential seizure would not be left without a response, signaling that Moscow had already compiled a list of Western assets that could be expropriated in a possible tit-for-tat action.

https://www.rt.com/russia/594568-eu-russian-assets-destroy-law/

Executive Director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport in Arkansas Shot in Head by Federal Agents After Allegedly Opening Fire

Bryan Malinowski, the executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, was shot in the head by federal agents on Tuesday following a firefight at his residence in west Little Rock.

Early Tuesday morning, around 6 am, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents arrived at the 53-year-old’s home to serve a warrant when they were met with gunfire from within the house, Daily Mail reported.

Arkansas State Police have confirmed that Malinowski was the individual who fired on the agents, prompting them to return fire.

The specifics of the warrant and the reasons behind the ATF’s involvement at Malinowski’s residence are still under wraps, as authorities have refrained from commenting further due to the ongoing investigation.

Despite being critically injured, Malinowski received immediate medical attention on the scene before being transported to a local hospital. His current condition remains undisclosed as of Wednesday.

However, a source close to the situation disclosed to Arkansas Times that Malinowski had been shot in the head during the shootout and has been placed on life support.

“Today’s incident saddens us, and we pray for everyone involved,” Airport Commission Chairman Bill Walker told Fox News. “As the chairman of the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission, I have named Tom Clarke, the airport’s deputy executive director, as acting executive director. The airport’s day-to-day operations continue as normal.”

Daily Mail reported:

According to his biography on the airport’s website, Malinowski has worked in the airline industry for more than 30 years.

He previously worked in leadership roles at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, El Paso International Airport in Texas and Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania.

Malinowski joined Clinton National in 2008 as director of properties, planning and development before being promoted to deputy director in 2009. He took over as executive director in 2019.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/executive-director-bill-hillary-clinton-airport-arkansas-shot/

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar Announces Resignation After Crushing Referendum Defeat

Among a continental shift to the right, that sees populist and conservative parties making big gains all through Europe, the ‘progressive center’ (a.k.a. Liberal/Globalist) has suffered another severe blow.

Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar will step down as party leader immediately, and resign as taoiseach as soon as his Fine Gael [party] successor is selected.

The unexpected exit sent shockwaves through the political system, and raises expectations of an early election.

Politico reported:

“One part of leadership is knowing when the time has come to pass on the baton to somebody else, and then having the courage to do it. That time is now. […] After careful consideration and some soul searching, I believe that a new Taoiseach and a new leader will be better placed than me to achieve that. To renew and strengthen the team, to focus our message and policies, to drive implementation. And after seven years in office, I don’t feel I’m the best person for that job anymore.”

Varadkar’s announcement comes just days after he suffered a ‘two-wallop political defeat’ at the Referendum, when voters widely rejected his proposed changes expanding the definition of family in the Constitution to recognize ‘durable relationships’ – such as cohabiting couples and their children – and replacing the language around ‘women in the home’ with language recognizing care within families.

Varadkar was the youngest-ever Irish leader, the first biracial and first openly gay prime minister – all good liberal credentials.

BBC reported:

“Announcing his resignation, Mr Varadkar described leading his country as ‘the most fulfilling time of my life’.

[…] Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle ‘O’Neill said it was ‘time for an election’ in the Republic of Ireland.

‘Now is not a time for the rearranging of the deck chairs’, the Sinn Féin vice president said.

She described Fine Gael’s time in power as ’13 years of failure’.”

To translate Varadkar’s legacy: he is proud that he ‘made the country a more equal and more modern place’ when it comes to the rights of children [gender ‘transitions’], the LGBT community, equality for women and their bodily autonomy [abortions].

Same old Globalist demonic playbook.

Slán [goodbye], Varadkar!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/irish-prime-minister-leo-varadkar-announces-resignation-after/

Elon Musk: FBI Portal on Twitter “Auto-Deleted All Communications” After Two Weeks – To Likely Hide Government’s Involvement in Censoring Speech

Elon Musk: And this is coming from multiple parts of the government, from the State Department, the FBI, Homeland Security, from really many parts of the government. It wasn’t just one arm of the government. There was this FBI portal that auto-deleted all communications after two weeks. So we actually don’t know what was said there. In fact, this strike me as a FOIA violation, freedom of Information act violation, because you shouldn’t be able to delete, orderly delete things after two weeks.

There’s a little known agency in the State Department called the Global Engagement Center, which most people have never heard of, but they might have been the single worst offender because they demanded the suspension of, at one point, over 250,000 accounts, which I think all Twitter largely complied with. But the suspension demands were so broad that they accidentally demanded a suspension of a journalist on CNN and an elected Canadian politician. It was just an incredibly broad sweep.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/elon-musk-fbi-portal-twitter-auto-deleted-all/

Top Leader of Colombian Criminal Gang and Interpol’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Cited and Released — Arrested Again Two Months Later

A Venezuelan national who is one of Interpol’s most wanted fugitives and ranks among Colombia’s most wanted cartel members was arrested in New Braunfels, Texas last week.

Aderbis Segundo Pirela, 29, a high-ranking leader of the notorious Los Satanás gang operating out of Bogotá, Colombia, faces multiple charges, including homicide, extortion, and drug trafficking.

“[Pirela’s] role within these organizations was to distribute pamphlets, collect extortion and when they did not pay it, he obviously threatened or made an attack against the victims or their relatives,” said Leonor Merchán Lopera, sectional director of the Bogotá Prosecutor’s Office per KENS5.

“The brazenness of this criminal had no limits, as it was evident that being in the migratory zone, on the border of Mexico and the United States, he continued to extort the merchants of Bogota,” said General José Daniel Gualdrón, commander of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/top-leader-colombian-criminal-gang-interpols-top-10/

Favoritism, cover-ups reveal culture of corruption in US Capitol Police leadership

Policy violations that ordinarily would lead to firings instead resulted in promotions for officers responsible for protecting top congressional leadership.

Corruption is endemic at the highest levels of the United States Capitol Police, especially among the special agents and officers who serve in the department’s dignitary protection detail, a Blaze Media investigation has found.

Internal discipline reports show a pattern of officers failing upward. Proven instances of fraud, forgery, theft, perjury, and drunk driving on duty going back to the late 1990s led to promotions rather than dismissals and prosecutions, discipline reports obtained by Blaze Media show.

High-ranking USCP officials, including a present-day deputy chief and an assistant chief, were implicated and faced discipline and possible termination in a fraudulent overtime pay scheme that defrauded the government of tens of thousands of dollars, according to documents obtained by Blaze Media and a former Capitol Police sergeant. A lieutenant involved in the scam left the Capitol Police and now works for the U.S. Senate sergeant at arms.

Suspensions for felonies

National Journal first reported on the overtime scheme in July 2014 but did not name the officers involved.

The National Journal story relied in part on the account of Rhoda Henderson, a retired USCP sergeant and whistleblower. In an exclusive interview with Blaze Media, Henderson confirmed that the officers involved were current USCP Assistant Chief Sean Gallagher, current Deputy Chief John Erickson, and Wendy Colmore, who is now director of central operations for the U.S. Senate sergeant at arms.

Gallagher was a captain with the dignitary protection detail and the alleged “ringleader” at the time of the payroll scheme, while Erickson and Colmore were both lieutenants under Gallagher’s command.

Henderson told Blaze Media that the scheme lasted “for at least a year,” and while she wasn’t involved in the crime’s audit, the three officers stole well in excess of $10,000 from the USCP. She also explained that USCP authorities first doubted her story until she was able to produce the paper trail of the scheme.

Blaze Media inquired whether there had ever been any follow-up to this story from any other D.C. media. Henderson explained that her interview with National Journal reporter Bill House was the only other time she had been contacted by a journalist before now.

Henderson reiterated to Blaze Media that her disappointment with the USCP’s leadership in how they handled these “felonies” — crimes for which the three officers should have been “terminated” — was her reason for speaking to National Journal, adding, “They look out for each other, the higher rank you go.” She said, “To me, it’s always been, ‘I’ll cover up your sins if you cover up mine.’”

https://www.theblaze.com/columns/analysis/favoritism-cover-ups-reveal-culture-of-corruption-in-us-capitol-police-leadership

Hearing Goes Off The Rails As Former Hunter Biden Business Partner Calls Two Dem Reps ‘Liars’

The House Oversight Committee hearing went off the rails Wednesday as Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski accused Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin and Dan Goldman of lying.

Bobulinski said Raskin and Goldman will “continue to lie” to protect the Biden family, leading Raskin to interrupt him mid-sentence.

“Rep. Dan Goldman and Jamie Raskin, both lawyers, and Mr. Goldman, a former prosector with the SDNY from New York, will continue to lie today in this hearing and then go straight to the media to tell more lies,” Bobulinski said. “Hunter Biden’s defense attorney, Abbe Lowell, weaponizes letters to Congress to try to smear my name —”

“Mr. Chairman,” Raskin interrupted.

“The cold hard facts,” Bobulinski continued.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/20/hearing-tony-bobulinski-jamie-raskin-dan-goldman-hunter-biden/

Pope Francis denounces ‘anti-vaxxers,’ calls COVID jab refusal an ‘almost suicidal act of denial’

https://citizenwatchreport.com/pope-francis-denounces-anti-vaxxers-calls-covid-jab-refusal-an-almost-suicidal-act-of-denial/

Trump Files SCOTUS Brief Claiming Former Presidents Immune To Prosecution For Acts While In Office

On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump filed a brief to support his claim that former presidents should be immune to criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.

On August 1, 2023, in Washington, D.C., Trump was charged in a four-count indictment as a result of his actions challenging the election results and interfering with the sequence set forth in the Constitution for the transfer of power from one President to the next,” the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in early February. “Former President Trump moved to dismiss the indictment and the district court denied his motion. Today, we affirm the denial. For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. But any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as President no longer protects him against this prosecution.”

The brief filed with the Supreme Court by Trump noted that from 1789 to 2023, no former, or current, President has ever faced criminal charges for his official acts, adding, “The President cannot function, and the Presidency itself cannot retain its vital independence, if the President faces criminal prosecution for official acts once he leaves office.” The brief argued that a president’s “personal vulnerability,” to such prosecution would affect his decisions as president.

“A denial of criminal immunity would incapacitate every future President with de facto blackmail and extortion while in office, and condemn him to years of post-office trauma at the hands of political opponents. The threat of future prosecution and imprisonment would become a political cudgel to influence the most sensitive and controversial Presidential decisions, taking away the strength, authority, and decisiveness of the Presidency,” the brief contended.

The brief noted that in the landmark case Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court held that a President’s official acts “can never be examinable by the courts,” adding, “Continuing Marbury’s tradition, this Court held in 1982 that the courts cannot hold a former President personally liable ‘for acts within the outer perimeter of his official responsibility.’”

“The Court should restore the tradition from Marbury to Fitzgerald—unbroken until last year— and neutralize one of the greatest threats to the President’s separate power, a bedrock of our Republic, in our Nation’s history. The Court should uphold the President’s immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts,” the brief stated.

https://www.womensystems.com/2024/03/trump-files-scotus-brief-claiming.html

Biden Reassures Netanyahu He’s Not Trying To Undermine Him

Netanyahu reaffirmed his plan to invade Rafah following a call with President Biden on Monday

President Biden reassured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wasn’t trying to undermine him politically by criticizing the Israeli government, Axios reported on Tuesday.

Biden gave Netanyahu the assurance during a phone call on Monday, which came after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Netanyahu was an “obstacle to peace” and called for new Israeli elections. Biden said Schumer gave a “good speech.”

Sources told Axios that Netanyahu complained about Schumer’s speech and Biden’s approval of it, prompting Biden to say he was not looking to undermine the Israeli leader or intervene in Israel’s domestic politics.

Biden and other Democrats in the US have tried to distance themselves from the Netanyahu government while also supporting Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians and the starvation siege on Gaza. But the criticism has not amounted to a policy change as the US continues to provide Israel with unconditional military aid.

Biden and Netanyahu also agreed during the call that Israel will send a delegation to Washington to discuss its plans to invade Rafah, the Gaza city on the Egyptian border that’s packed with 1.5 million Palestinians. US officials have been cautioning against a full-scale invasion, and are suggesting a more limited operation.

According to the White House, Biden expressed to Netanyahu his “deep concerns about the prospect of Israel conducting a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than one million displaced civilians are currently seeking shelter after fleeing fighting in the north. ” But Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he brushed aside Biden’s concerns and reaffirmed that he’s planning to attack the city.

“I made it as clear as possible to the president that we are determined to complete the elimination of these battalions in Rafah, and there is no way to do this without a ground incursion,” Netanyahu told members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

Netanyahu said Israel was under “international pressure” but said Israel was “rejecting in order to achieve the goals of the war.” US intelligence b

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/19/biden-reassures-netanyahu-hes-not-trying-to-undermine-him/

Blinken Acknowledges Starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, Blames Hamas

Blinken said, “According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That’s the first time an entire population has been so classified.”

Still, Blinken placed blame on Hamas for the famine while suggesting Israel could do more to help civilians. “We continue to face a horrific humanitarian situation for children, for women, for men in Gaza. In the first instance, of course, this is something brought about by Hamas, by its actions on October 7th and by its actions ever since,” the diplomat said. “This could have, as I’ve said repeatedly, been over many months ago if Hamas had put down its arms, stopped hiding behind civilians, and released the hostages.”

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/blinken-acknowledges-starvation-of-palestinians-in-gaza-blames-hamas/

Report: Israel’s Eilat Port Laying Off Half Its Staff, Seeing ‘Zero’ Ships Thanks to Houthis

Managers of the port of Eilat, Israel, reportedly announced plans this week to lay off half of their staff in response to the dramatic plunge in shipping traffic at the port in the past four months, the result of a campaign by Yemeni Houthi jihadists to attack commercial ships transiting in and around the Red Sea.

Gideon Golber, the CEO of Eilat Port, told the news outlet the Media Line in an interview published on Tuesday that the port is seeing “zero” ships on a monthly basis, halting all revenues and severely hurting the city’s economy.

The Houthi terrorists, who control the Yemeni capital of Sana’a and formally refer to themselves as “Ansar Allah,” declared war on the state of Israel in October in solidarity with Hamas. While Hamas is a Sunni terrorist organization and the Houthis are Shi’ite Muslims, both are believed to receive generous financial support from Iran, the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism. On October 7, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, engaging in door-to-door attacks on residential communities in which they committed gang rape, torture, infanticide, killed an estimated 1,200 people, abducted over 200 others, and filmed themselves desecrating the corpses of their victims.

In support of these actions, the Houthis launched a campaign in late 2023 to disrupt commercial shipping in and around Yemen. Houthis have used drones and missiles to bomb 73 ships, according to a tally by Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi on March 14. While the terrorists insist they are only targeting ships with ties to Israel and its allies, the United States and United Kingdom, in reality they have attacked multiple ships with no material affiliation with those countries. Some ships the Houthis have targeted, on the contrary, have ties to rogue states allied with them, such as Russia, China, and Iran.

The attacks have dramatically disrupted global shipping, sending insurance rates skyrocketing and forcing ships to reroute away from the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and take the longer and more expensive route around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

The initial objective the Houthis claimed for their campaign was the destruction of the Israeli economy. While they have since admitted their ultimate goal is the destruction of America and the free world generally, the reports from Eilat suggest the Houthis are succeeding in creating ruptures between Israel and global commerce.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/20/report-israels-eilat-port-laying-off-half-its-staff-seeing-zero-ships-thanks-to-houthis/

It's Journalistic Malpractice To Say Gazans Are Starving Without Saying Israel Is Starving Them

The mass media are printing some amazingly depraved headlines about a new UN-backed report on starvation in Gaza from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, who says half the enclave’s population is now at the highest-possible threat level for starvation.

The New York Times has a real corker out titled “Famine Is Projected for Northern Gaza, Experts Say”, subtitled “A global authority on food security said that in the coming months, as many as 1.1 million people in Gaza could face the severest levels of hunger.”

A casual news consumer could get multiple paragraphs into this article assuming that people in a place called Gaza are suffering from some kind of famine caused by natural events, like a drought or something. Not until paragraph four would they encounter the word “Israeli”, and not until paragraph five would they encounter the line “Israeli’s bombardment and a near-total blockade.”

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-journalistic-malpractice-to-say?utm_source=post-email-title

French Units In Ukraine Will Be 'Priority' Target, Warns Russia

Russian intelligence has alleged that France is preparing a military contingent of 2,000 troops to be deployed on the ground in Ukraine. The claim was made by Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin on Tuesday, and was quickly picked up in international headlines, also given it is rare for him to make statements like this.

"The current leadership of the country [France] does not care about the deaths of ordinary French people or about the concerns of the generals," Naryshkin said as translated in TASS. "According to information coming to the Russian SVR, a contingent to be sent to Ukraine is already being prepared. Initially, it will include around 2,000 troops."

The Russian intelligence chief further said the French military "fears that such a large military unit cannot be transferred and stationed in Ukraine unnoticed."

"It will thus become a legitimate priority target for attacks by the Russian armed forces. This means that it will suffer the fate of all the French who have ever come to the Russian world with a sword," Naryshkin emphasized. The past months have seen instances where Moscow claimed its forces took out French mercenaries in Kharkiv, but neither the Ukraine nor France ever verified this. Russia is now saying it will target foreign troops in Ukraine as a "priority".

He didn't elaborate further or offer anything in the way of verification or proof, but it comes after French President Emmanuel Macron sparked fierce debate in Europe last month by telling allies they shouldn't rule out sending Western troops to Ukraine. "Nothing should be excluded," Macron had said. "We will do everything that we must so that Russia does not win."

While most Western allies have voiced their rejection of a scenario of sending NATO forces to Ukraine, officials have been urging more rapid production of weapons. Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni is the latest to say that deploying Western ground troops to Ukraine must "be avoided at any cost" in Tuesday remarks.

On Monday European Council President Charles Michel called for Europe to shift to a "war economy" mode in response to Russia's war in Ukraine. "If we do not get the EU’s response right and do not give Ukraine enough support to stop Russia, we are next. We must therefore be defense-ready and shift to a ‘war economy’ mode," Michel stated in an op-ed published in European newspapers and the Euractiv website.

According to details of the latest efforts to free up more EU funds for Ukraine:

He [Michel] urged countries to facilitate investments in defense — including by considering changing the mandate of the EU lending arm, the European Investment Bank, to allow it to support Europe’s defense industry.

EU countries approved an agreement on Monday to increase the EU’s support for Ukraine’s armed forces by 5 billion euros ($5.4 billion) — amid warnings that Kyiv’s forces need more resources to hold the line against a larger Russian army as a $60 billion US aid package for Ukraine is being held up by Congress.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell hailed the hasty cash injection by saying, "With the fund, we will continue to support Ukraine defend itself from Russia's war of aggression with whatever it takes and for as long as we need to." But on the battlefield things continue to look very bad for Ukraine…

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-units-ukraine-will-be-priority-target-warns-russia

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-units-ukraine-will-be-priority-target-warns-russia

Robert F. Kennedy: 'Hamas to blame for Gaza war, any country would act like Israel'

Kennedy said that each previous ceasefire "has been used by Hamas to rearm, to rebuild and then launch another surprise attack. So what would be different this time?"

Independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr offered staunch support for Israel in a Reuters interview, calling it a "moral nation" that was justly responding to Hamas provocations with its attacks on Gaza and questioning the need for a six-week ceasefire backed by President Joe Biden.

Biden has also been a vocal defender of Israel since the October 7 attack by Hamas, but he has recently pressured it to stem the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and accelerate a six-week ceasefire for hostage releases and aid delivery.

Asked if he supported a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, Kennedy told Reuters: "I don't even know what that means right now."

Kenndy support for Israel's self-defense

Kennedy said that each previous ceasefire "has been used by Hamas to rearm, to rebuild and then launch another surprise attack. So what would be different this time?"

Kennedy, 70, spoke to Reuters in a wide-ranging interview on Monday from his office at his Spanish-style home in Los Angeles, hidden by tropical plants and hedges.

Support for Israel has become a political wedge issue inside the Democratic Party, as the death toll in Gaza tops 30,000 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to push an assault into Rafah.

The planned policy proposals

Kennedy's policy proposals, including a pledge to make homeownership easier and crack down on corporate subsidies, have gained some traction among US voters unenthusiastic about Biden, a Democrat, or his Republican rival Donald Trump in the presidential election.

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-792946

Every side in US politics bow to a foreign country! JOKE!

Jared Kushner: Gaza's 'Waterfront Property Could Be Very Valuable,' Europe Should Take in Refugees

Former Trump advisor Jared Kushner said Gaza's "waterfront property" could be "very valuable" in an interview at Harvard and suggested that Europe should be taking in the refugees from Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign.

https://youtu.be/kXuPItE2_UQ

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