This Week in the World Affairs Brief
WHY PEACE DEALS NEVER WORK IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Thousands of Israelis are marching in protest to demand another “peace deal” to bring back what’s left of the hundreds of hostages taken during the armed attack by Palestinians almost a year ago on October 7th, 2023. The expectation that any kind of lasting resolution can come from sitting down and talking is probably the biggest misnomer in the Middle East narrative today. There will never be peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, despite the vast majority of people’s desires on both sides to live their lives in peace. Why? Because the leadership of both sides is evil and their goal is to eliminate the leadership of the other side or kill them. And that can’t be easily accomplished because there is no shortage of leaders prepared to rise and take their place alongside powerful allies who aid, arm them, and promise to protect them when war flares up again. So, the vicious cycle of war continues, with intermittent “peace deals” or ceasefires that last a few years until the defeated side rearms again and recruits a new generation of hate-filled fodder for war. This week, Hamas murdered six of the hundred-plus hostages remaining, which smacks of the provocative tactics of ISIS, beheading their hostages in orange jumpsuits after saying their last goodbyes to the world on video. If they thought this was going to force Israel to agree to their outrageous demand of releasing 800 Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prison, they were mistaken. To receive a free one-time copy of the brief with options on how to subscribe, click on Request a sample on the left.
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The demonstration, held Saturday on Independence Day, was led by former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro - who said in response to Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes: "I hope that the Federal Senate puts the brakes on Alexandre de Moraes, this dictator who does more harm to Brazil than Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva himself."
There’s a massive free speech protest in Brazil today.
The media coverage:
CNN - nothing
AP - nothing
Reuters - nothing
NYT - nothing
Linda Sun, who worked for Hochul and then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was accused of being an undeclared agent for the Chinese regime while working for the politicians.
“The Justice Department seized an aircraft we allege was illegally purchased for $13 million through a shell company and smuggled out of the United States for use by Nicolas Maduro and his cronies,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
An illegal alien from Mexico, deported 16 times from the United States, has been sentenced to just one year in prison for causing a crash that killed 64-year-old Scott Miller in Conifer, Colorado.
In June, 47-year-old Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza was arrested for vehicular homicide concerning the crash that killed Miller but the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office filed only misdemeanor traffic violation charges against the illegal alien.
The superpower has been amassing huge reserves of commodities at great cost despite its economic downturn
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Hunter Biden failed to pay taxes between 2016 and 2019, a period of time during which he owed at least $1.4 million, according to Weiss. Instead of paying his taxes, Hunter Biden “spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature,” the indictment states.
That included more than $683,000 to various women and about $72,000 to fuel a drug and alcohol addiction, according to court filings.
Tuesday witnessed one of the single deadliest attacks of the two-and-a-half-year Russia-Ukraine war. A Russian ballistic missile slammed into a military academy in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, leaving more than 50 people dead and injuring scores of others.
Ukraine officials said a neighboring hospital was also struck by a second missile. Authorities by the evening (local) said at least 51 people were killed amid an ongoing search and rescue operation which involves picking carefully through rubble. The number of wounded from the attacks stands at 271.
In a move that we can't help but think looks suspiciously like war prep, two Chinese state-owned shipbuilders announced Monday plans to merge, according to a new report from Nikkei Asia.
The report says up front the merger could "help them better serve the military". Key details, such as pricing, asset handling, employee treatment, and protections for dissenting shareholders, have yet to be revealed.
On Wednesday Russia's Defense Ministry offered an unexpected explanation, saying that its forces were targeting not only Ukrainian soldiers but their foreign instructors who were leading classes at the Poltava Institute of Military Communications, which was left utterly destroyed.
In May 2023, the FBI received several anonymous tips about threats to carry out violence at an unidentified school, with the harrowing posts including photos of guns, according to a Wednesday night statement from the bureau’s Atlanta field office.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office identified Gray, then 13, as a possible suspect and interviewed him and his father.
In yet another headline you won't see from corporate media, 75% of those arrested in Midtown Manhattan in recent months for crimes like assault, robbery, and domestic violence are migrants.
A federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday alleges that a Tennessee-based media company, later identified as Tenet Media, received nearly $10 million from employees of Russian state-backed media company, Russia Today (RT), as part of "a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging." ... it's been pointed out that Lauren Chen has recently been trying to divide Donald Trump's base...
The big picture understanding is that sanctuary cities have imported millions of illegal aliens, some of which are prison gang members and have zero respect for first-world laws. Defunding the police has also been pushed nationwide by Democrat lawmakers, and with that comes the risk that local municipalities could become quickly overwhelmed.
Independent think tank Center for Immigration Studies has done the easy work for readers, outlining the cities, counties, and states with laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from ICE.
In other words, these areas have a possibility of high risk for violent crime. And in our view, these areas should be avoided for safety reasons.
The Democratic Party and Republican Party have until 5 p.m. on the first Tuesday in September to withdraw their presidential nominees from the ballot, according to guidance from the elections commission. However, the deadline for independent candidates such as Kennedy to pull their nominations is 5 p.m. on the first Tuesday in August.
“While Biden had until today at 5 p.m., Kennedy had to let the Commission know a full month before that,” the brief read. “Why the different playbook for Kennedy as opposed to Biden?”
Hochul said she requested his expulsion to send a message to CCP officials who worked with Linda Sun, who was charged as a spy Tuesday.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that at least four people died and nine were injured during a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Sept. 4.
our School Resource Officer engaged him, and the shooter quickly realized that if he did not give up, that it would end with an officer involved shooting.”
He said the shooter “gave up, got on the ground, and the deputy took him into custody.”
Ironically, in 2019, during her first presidential campaign, Kamala Harris called for taking police officers out of schools.
As a former college professor (Ph.D., history, Duke U), I sought out key witnesses. I found two who were particularly valuable. One was an older student who had just escaped to Hong Kong. She had recently gotten her history M.A. from a Beijing university. The Sunday morning of the massacre, risking her life, she started counting bodies at the square and then continued counting as she walked westward along Chang An Avenue. She counted over a thousand bodies. The other source was a British professor who had also just evacuated from China. He was not an eyewitness, but he told me what his Beijing colleague had personally witnessed from his apartment overlooking a major intersection in Beijing’s northwest quadrant—an unimaginable slaughter of thousands.
The Biden-Harris Department of Justice has threatened to sue two small towns in Wisconsin over their refusal to use electronic voting machines to cast and tabulate votes, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.
In July, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke threatened to file a lawsuit against the State of Wisconsin, the state Elections Commission and Administrator Meagan Wolfe, and the towns of Thornapple and Lawrence, as well as the towns’ clerks and boards of supervisors, because the towns allegedly did not offer voting equipment at their polling places in the April presidential primary election.
The Biden-Harris Pentagon is refusing to answer questions from Congress and the media on Democrat vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) frequent travel to China — which poses risks for members of the military and raises questions of whether or not Walz reported these trips to the Army National Guard while he was serving.
The significant list of allegations includes that she worked to advance CCP interests in sate government, and in return received huge sums of money and oversaw the facilitation of millions of dollars in transactions connected to Chinese government business interests.
Perhaps most alarming is that she's alleged to have on multiple occasions blocked the ability of representatives of the Taiwanese government from meetings with NY government officials. Her husband, Chris Hu, has also been arrested, implicated in the conspiracy.
'We have had a First Amendment right to publish these unredacted documents from the moment we legally obtained them...'
Anti-Israel sentiment in Turkey has exploded since the Gaza war kicked off ten months ago. Outrage is being directed at Washington for being Tel Aviv's biggest military backer and supporter.
Even American military personnel have been directly targeted, despite Turkey being a NATO ally and playing host to US bases, as was seen with Monday's dramatic events where on the streets of the southern city of Izmir US Navy and Marine service members were brutally assaulted, though they managed to escape to safety when local police intervened.
What by many accounts is the largest protest Israel has ever seen in its history filled the streets of Tel Aviv overnight, with more expected Monday, in the wake of Israel recovering the bodies of six Israeli hostages who were held in a Gaza tunnel.
“On April 14, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden announced that Vice President Harris would be appointed — in the words of the press — the ‘Border Czar.’ Effectively, this meant Vice President Harris would be responsible for overseeing and coordinating border security policies and operations,” the lawsuit states:
However, there has been considerable confusion on whether or not Vice President Harris was actually the Border Czar, and conversely, whether the massive failure of the Biden-Harris Administration’s immigration policies was Harris’s fault.
Two American service members were attacked by a mob of young Turkish nationalists in the western city of Izmir on Monday as a crowd of onlookers chanted anti-American slogans. The American personnel are reportedly safe, and Turkish police have arrested 15 of the assailants.
Venezuela’s attorney general’s office has requested that an arrest warrant be issued for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez over his refusal to respond to three summons to testify about an opposition website that published detailed information about the country’s disputed presidential election.
The arrest warrant request for the 75-year-old Gonzalez from the Democratic Unity Roundtable, an electronic copy of which was viewed by The Epoch Times, comes as part of a probe into his claim that he was the rightful victor of the July presidential election, in which President Nicolas Maduro was declared by officials as the winner.
Harris and President Biden sought to court union workers on Labor Day during their first joint campaign event in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Four retired military leaders slammed Democrat presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for inflating his military record and dodging a deployment to Iraq
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