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Today I have this piece by reporter Gevorg Mirzayan. Whom I don't usually read, because he really ticked me off during the "Summer of Riots" in the U.S. Where some of his anti-BLM pieces verged on outright racism and showed that did not understand the American racial/caste system at all. (Not that I'm defending BLM, but some of the stuff he wrote at the time really was racist.) Anyhow, things have changed since then in Russian mainstream thinking. Now black people are the good guys, well at least African-Africans, if not necessarily African-Americans. The real Africans, as Russians have discovered, are pretty nice people overall and don't hate Russia. Thank goodness the Russian Empire never tried to colonize Africa! Modern Russians should thank their stars for this historical fact, because it gives them a clean conscience, and a nice clean slate to work with, while duking it out on the Ukrainian battlefield against the White European hordes.

This past Friday, as readers probably know, several African nations (including South Africa, Senegal, Zambia, Comoro Islands, and Egypt) sent a delegation of top-level officials to Kiev, and then to St. Petersburg Russia. The agenda was to discuss a 10-point peace plan which these leaders had taken time out of their busy schedule to draft. Why would they bother when they live so far away? Westie propaganda channels like CNN and Sky News say it's because the Africans are greedy for Ukrainian grain. That's just silly and racist. The real reason is because they wanted to at least try to do something to help.

Unfortunately, after putting in all that work and organizing these meetings, these guys had to endure Zelensky's cold and unbearing attitude, as he rejected their plan and all their great ideas without even bothering to read what they wrote.

The delegation was headed by the democratically-elected President of South Africa, Cyrill Ramaphosa. Ramaphosa is a member of a Bantu tribe who went from rags to riches. In his busy career he has worked both sides of the class divide, both as a Trade Union leader as well as a wealthy businessman; which only proves that Marxism is an idea and not a personality. Ramaphosa also serves as the head of the powerful African National Congress and has pretty much gathered all the reins of power into his hands. I should mention that he is widely criticized for his poor handling of the economy. When they came to power, the ANC inherited a first-world nation with all the trimmings. Now you have a country that can't even keep the lights on, according to what I have been reading. Oh well, what can you do. In any case, say what you will about him, Ramaphosa is clearly a very powerful man and important international figure. You would expect that he would be treated with respect wherever he goes.

But no... His delegation were insulted and denigrated even before they arrived in Kiev. Landing in Warsaw, Poland in two planes (one for the leaders, the other for their security detail), the latter was forced to sit on the tarmac for 2 days, and the armed security not allowed to exit the plane. Why did the Poles treat these guys like prisoners? Because the Africans had brought with them 12 containers of weapons, as needed to defend their leaders. But who can blame them? They were about to enter a war zone, after all. They couldn't trust Zelensky further than they could throw him; and for all they knew, they might have to bust their way out of that hellhole in the end.

No, the Poles would not budge: the weapons, security detail and also accompanying journalists were not allowed to continue with the trip. Hence, the African political leaders were forced to continue the rest of their trip (via train to Kiev) without their usual security and weapons. They must have felt like being naked. Fortunately, nothing bad happened to them. However the African press was indignant; accused the Poles of racism; and also noting that the Poles are contemptuous of South Africa (and BRICS countries in general) because of the latter's friendly relations with Russia.

Ukraine is ready to trade the organs of its people for Western military assistance, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday.

The diplomat said the Kiev regime is rapidly turning the country into a global hub of human organ trafficking.

"The Kiev regime is ready to pay anything for the military assistance it gets. It's now even come to the human organs of its citizens. A time will probably come when Ukraine will understand the true reason why its pretend US and European friends cared about it. But that won't be soon enough. Still, better later than never," she said.

"They literally took a knife to the country, but it will be too late to complain. The patient has already signed consent for surgery. The relevant international organizations, with an art worthy of a better cause, are ignoring these obvious and criminal phenomena," Zakharova said.

The diplomat said Western countries are the main beneficiaries of illicit transplantation practices in Ukraine.

"The scenario has been rehearsed in Yugoslavia. All organs that were removed from the people, who were killed then, went to cater to the needs of Westerners," she said.

Ukrainian drones have attempted to strike the Druzhba pipeline that delivers Russian oil to several European countries, Bryansk Region governor Alexander Bogomaz has said. He added that the attack was thwarted by Russian air defenses.

On his Telegram channel on Saturday, Bogomaz wrote: "Last night, air defense units of the Russian armed forces... repelled the Ukrainian military's attack on the oil-pumping station 'Druzhba'." According to the official, a total of three UAVs were brought down.

Last month, the Washington Post claimed, citing leaked Pentagon documents, that back in February Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had suggested to Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko that Kiev "should just blow up the [Druzhba] pipeline," which pumps oil to Hungary and other states.

According to the report, Zelensky described the destruction of "Hungarian [Prime Minister] Viktor Orban's industry" as one of his goals.

Former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore argued on MSNBC Tuesday that "prosecutorial misconduct" could derail Donald Trump's federal trial. Parlatore claimed to a highly skeptical panel that he was in the room and witnessed misconduct during the grand jury proceedings.

"What are the issues that you think would lead to this case never going to trial?" Andrew Weissmann asked during an MSNBC panel.

"The biggest issue, of course, Andy, is prosecutorial misconduct," Parlatore said, before laying out his accusations against the federal prosecutors. "This is a case where you have prosecutors who have consistently demonstrated lack of ethics and willingness to lie to federal judges in sealed proceedings. Willingness to, in the grand jury, openly suggest to the jurors that they may take the invocation of constitutional rights as evidence of guilt. Willingness to meet with an attorney for one of the witnesses and suggest that his application for a judgeship is something that should be considered and is a reason to convince his client to change his mind. "

A skeptical Weissmann interjected to ask how Parlatore knew of the alleged misconduct since grand juries usually operate in secret.

"Because I was in the room," Parlatore said. "It happened right in front of me."

A high-ranking Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commander has told Newsweek that Israel is concerned over the risks of weapons provided by the United States and other Western nations to Ukraine ending up in the hands of Israel's foes in the Middle East, including Iran.

With experts too backing these worries, the situation could mark yet another chapter in a long legacy of U.S. arms shipments being diverted, empowering adversaries of both Israel and the U.S. in another restive region, while the focus of Western governments is on the volatile conflict playing out in Eastern Europe.

The Israeli commander, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic, said the diversion of weapons, such as the Javelin shoulder-fired anti-tank missile system, was being monitored from paramilitary forces operating on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war.

The Israeli commander said pro-Russian formations were motivated to transfer captured U.S.-supplied weapons due to the close defense relationship between Moscow and Tehran, while pro-Ukrainian elements were largely motivated by money to smuggle arms. The commander said the primary route was via the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, and argued that the situation was "very dangerous" due to two primary concerns for Israel.

The Russian government is starting the process of unilaterally withdrawing from a series of international bodies, including the World Trade Organization and the World Health Organization, the Russian Duma's Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy said on Tuesday.

"We have work to revise our international obligations, treaties that today bring no benefit, but instead directly harm our country. The Foreign Ministry sent a list of such agreements to the State Duma," Tolstoy said. "Together with the Federation Council, we plan to analyze them and to propose to withdraw," he added.

Tolstoy singled out the international trade and health organizations, saying that "the next step is to withdraw from the WTO and the WHO, which have neglected all obligations towards our country."

European WHO member countries voted on May 10 in favor of a resolution that forces the WHO to decide on the potential relocation of its European non-communicable diseases office out of Moscow as well as the temporary suspension of regional meetings in Russia. The resolution was slammed by Russia's Deputy Health Minister Andrey Plutnitsky who described it as a "gross violation of the constitution of the WHO."

On Thursday, Tucker Carlson dropped his fourth episode of Tucker on Twitter, digging into the recent claim by a now-resigned Fox News producer that President Joe Biden is a "wannabe dictator." Carlson explored the allegation, and he basically proved its veracity.

"Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested," the chyron stated on Tuesday night as the network split the screen between President Trump delivering remarks at Bedminster and Biden in Washington.

Biden's DOJ had arrested and arraigned Trump on 37 charges stemming from Trump's retention of classified documents after vacating the Oval Office in Janaury 2021. Biden has his own massive trove of classified documents, but apparently no one at the "independent" DOJ has even questioned that.

They're really going for it. The regime wants to knock the electorate's favorite to become the next president of the US out of the race. Last week's indictment of Donald Trump in a Florida court for '37 charges of mishandling top secret government documents' are patently trumped-up charges intended to negatively impact his re-election bid - perhaps by rendering his candidacy 'invalid'.

Meanwhile, the Anglo-American 'Ukrainian counter-offensive' attempt to break through Russian military fortifications across southern Ukraine is not going well. In fact, it's being obliterated, along with thousands more hapless Ukrainian men.

The war could have been avoided: Putin revealed to an African peace delegation this week the text of a peace treaty signed by both Russia and Ukraine in April 2022, which Ukraine reneged on after British PM Boris Johnson 'suddenly appeared' in Kiev and effectively ordered Zelensky NOT to accept Moscow's terms.


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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen maintained her position that Crimea is Russian, claiming that Crimea's inhabitants freely voted for the referendum to validate the attachment to Russia in a Wednesday parliamentary hearing.

Le Pen was heard by the National Assembly's committee of enquiry into foreign interference on Wednesday for over three hours, with many MPs asking the far-right leader where she stands on the Crimea question.

Le Pen reaffirmed her earlier statements where she recognised the annexation of Ukraine by Russia. "Crimea was Russian for two centuries. It was Ukrainian for 60 years, given by a dictator on a whim," she said.

"As an absolute defender of the referendum, I considered that, freely, the inhabitants of Crimea had expressed themselves by voting to be attached to Russia," Le Pen added.

"I have no difficulty in saying this [...] especially as I went to Crimea, and I could see that they felt much more deeply attached to Russia than to Ukraine," she concluded on this point, noting that "no refugees" had left the region following the referendum.

South African presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya has accused Reuters of peddling lies, after the news agency claimed that a Russian missile strike sent his delegation running for a bunker in Kiev. It was not the first time Ukrainian authorities sounded air raid sirens when foreign leaders arrived in the city.

Magwenya arrived in Kiev on Friday with President Cyril Ramaphosa, who along with five other African leaders met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to promote a negotiated end to the conflict with Russia. According to Reuters, air raid sirens and explosions were heard in the city, and the group was whisked to a shelter underneath a hotel.

Ukrainian officials seized on the opportunity to accuse Russia of undermining the peace mission. "Russian missiles are a message to Africa: Russia wants more war, not peace," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba wrote on Twitter. "Whenever a high-ranking foreign delegation visits Ukraine, Russia greets it with a missile attack on our peaceful cities," said Andrey Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential staff.

However, no sirens or explosions were actually heard, Magwenya said. "We didn't hear any explosions," he tweeted. "Instead, we saw people going on about their day leisurely. Everything seems normal from what we have experienced thus far."