SPEAKER JOHNSON: You refer in error to “the Biblical admonition to stand with Israel.” Genesis supersedes the mistaken notion of divinely authorized violence. The blood of Abel in Gaza cries out to God. We are called to be our brother’s keeper, not killer.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/mike-johnson-ukraine-israel/2024/04/18/id/1161592/
Does yesterday’s mini-attack on Iran mean Israel is trimming its sails amid US warnings not to escalate? Have Biden/Blinken no shame admitting that the $ “for Ukraine and Israel” goes directly to what Pope Francis calls the “blood-soaked arms makers” here?
FROM SAVANT TO SYCOPHANT: CIA’s Burns, 7/7/23: “Ukraine is a strategic failure for Russia; its military weaknesses laid bare.” 4/18/24: “Ukraine may lose this year, WITHOUT SUPPLEMENTAL ASSISTANCE.” Tell it straight, Bill: Ukraine loses w/ or w/out more $.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-director-william-burns-speaks-on-ukraine-aid-china-middle-east/
Could the Russians Seize Congress, asks Patrick Lawrence:
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/16/patrick-lawrence-could-the-russians-seize-congress/
Lawrence saw through Russia-gate from the very start:
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/04/18/dnc-gate-patrick-lawrence-saw-through-it-from-the-start/
Warning: Top Russ-gate pundit Michael Isikoff playing ‘come-back kid’, thanks to SpyTalk’s Jeff Stein.
https://www.spytalk.co/p/report-from-warsaw-russian-plots?r=2hta&triedRedirect=true
Iran’s weekend drone & missile demo attack on Israel is a watershed event; shows Tehran no longer deterred by Israel/US. Will Biden’s admonition dissuade Israel from escalating still further? Precedent would say, Hell no. BUT this is entirely new ball game.
Home Run at UN Security Council: Sam Adams Awardee https://samadamsaward.ch
Karen Kwiatkowski on Arms to Ukraine, Barrier to Peace: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q/k1qspphmqc (min 11:18 – 22:10). Karen is courageous whistleblower featured in Rob Reiner’s “Shock and Awe”. Text
https://karenkwiatkowski.substack.com/p/a-word-to-the-unsc
Watched Bishop Tom Gumbleton funeral just before my chat with Nima. Pomp and Circumstance – Circumstance? the GENOCIDE enabled by a Catholic president – not a word by clergy; no shouts “CEASEFIRE NOW!” from the sheeple. Nima indulges me (min 25:25 – 35:35)
CUI BONO $60B more “for Ukraine”? WAR PROFITEERS – NOT Ukraine. Sen. Tuberville unconvinced Ukraine in NATO is good idea: “If you were Russian would you want that?” It appeared that automaton Austin had never been asked that before; offered stale bromides.
ForMin Lavrov arrives in Beijing right after the US’s winsome, grandmotherly, matryoshka-like Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen yellin’ orders to China to change its economic policy. Lavrov gets to meet Xi. The Duran asks good questions – on Ukraine, too.
“Whoever lies FIRST, wins.” How explain the US instant denial that Ukraine responsible for the March 22 terrorist act in Moscow? As a top US official admitted to US lying about Russia deliberately downing PASSENGER plane KAL-007, “the key is to lie first.”