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In defense of the US-Israel relationship, some 330 members of the House of Representatives - roughly three-quarters of its membership - signed a letter sent on Thursday to the chair and ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, which regulates public spending.
The letter - whose signatories are split fairly evenly between Democrats and Republicans - comes less than a week after Representative Betty McCollum (D-Minnesota) and 15 Democrat co-sponsors proposed a bill that looks to place conditions on US aid in an effort to seek accountability for Israeli treatment of Palestinians.
"In recent years, relations between Russia and the United States have actually shifted from rivalry to confrontation, essentially returning to the Cold War era," Medvedev, who now serves as the deputy chairman of the country's Security Council, wrote in an article for news agency RIA Novosti on Friday.
"Sanctions pressure, threats, confrontation, defense of one's selfish interests - all of this is plunging the world into a state of permanent instability," he added.
In particular, Medvedev noted what he called an "organized campaign of harassment against Russia," such as Washington's opposition to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and the US attitude towards Ukraine.
The EU is proposing to regulate AI and facial recognition in the interest of privacy, while pushing ahead with an intrusive scheme that would strongarm citizens into disclosing private medical data through digital certificates.
This week, when logging into the French government's TousAntiCovid smartphone application - a one-stop shop for everything Covid-19 related, including the latest statistics, news and self-certification forms to be out and about after the 7pm curfew - French citizens discovered a new feature had been quietly added: "My wallet: Your test certificates will be available here," it reads.
The addition is detailed in the app as an "experiment in progress, only on some flights to Corsica" via Air France and Air Corsica - both of which are controlled in part by the French government through a 29% stake in Air France-KLM, making the state the company's single largest shareholder.
Senior Lebanese political analyst and editor-in-chief of the Al-Binaa newspaper, Nasser Qandil, says the entire Axis of Resistance is now on war alert and prepared to respond by 'openly' targeting deep inside Israel amid rising tensions between Tel Aviv and Tehran.
In a recent interview on Al Mayadeen, Qandil, who has close relations with Hezbollah, declared that the US now has to choose between either committing to an agreement over Iran's nuclear program and reining in Tel Aviv or a war scenario in which the Axis of Resistance will openly target Israel.
The 'Axis of Resistance' broadly refers to a strategic anti-Israel/anti-US imperialist alliance composed of, but not limited to, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi, Yemen's Ansarullah, and various Palestinian armed factions.
Source: Al Mayadeen (YouTube)
Date: April 14, 2021
Comment: See also:
- Alarms go off near Israel's nuclear reactor amid reports of explosions & missile defense system being activated
- Israel won't end Syria operations until Iran leaves, Defence Minister says
- New War Brewing: US, Israel Take Dangerous Steps
- Stop with the theatrics: Lavrov responds to Netanyahu's claim of Iran allegedly aiming to attack Israel
- America's domestic political turmoil is making world unstable & fueling conflicts with its main adversaries - Iran, China & Russia

Activists hold signs as they take part in a rally in support of DC statehood near the US Capitol in Washington, DC, March 22, 2021.
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted on Thursday to pass HR. 51, a bill that would see the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, become the 51st US State and the newest state admitted to the union since Hawaii in 1959. The bill passed on a party-lines vote of 216-208.
Some activists in the District of Columbia have pushed for statehood for a long time, but their cause was generally regarded as a fringe one, especially as the US Constitution requires that the nation's capital be located in a federal district, under the direct control of Congress and separate from any other state. To get around this, HR. 51 proposes shrinking the federal district to a tiny sliver of land encompassing the White House, Supreme Court and Capitol.
In a speech to the International Institute of Finance, Yellen insisted that the U.S. must take an ambitious approach to fighting climate change through the economy despite the challenges of measuring and curbing the economic and financial risks it poses.
Republicans and advocates for the oil and gas industry have ripped Yellen and several other financial regulators for laying out plans to account for the financial and economic risks of climate change. Critics argue that holding banks and companies to strict climate-related standards is unfair given the uncertainty surrounding climate risk and a threat to fossil fuel producers.
Comment: See also:
- Biden hikes cost of carbon, easing path for new climate rules
- Greta Thunberg slams Joe Biden for ignoring 'the science' on climate change
- Dictatorship by executive order: Biden signs even more EOs on 'existential' climate threat, Obamacare, abortion
- Biden climate czar Kerry admits zero emissions in US wouldn't make difference in climate change
- Dear Leader gets to 'work': Biden signs orders on pandemic, climate, immigration
- Plagiarism charge hits Biden climate change plan
- Creepy Joe Biden claims that he 'started the climate change movement' - gets mocked on Twitter
Dr. Mamuka Tsereteli and James Carafano have a new plan for defeating Russia for good. Now get this, in America, we have institutions like The Heritage Foundation that fund supposed research to perpetuate wars. No, really. The latest report of the foundation "Putin Threatens Ukraine — Here's the Danger and What US, Allies Should Do About It" is a blueprint for continuing friction between west and east. Let's examine the three takeaways Heritage Foundation puts forward.
According to Tsereteli and Carafano, Putin is about to attack Ukraine. These well-paid foreign policy geniuses say a military buildup inside Russian territory, which was in response to threats from Kyiv, proves beyond a doubt the dastardly Putin is about to overrun Russia's neighbor. To quote the report, "Putin plans to use Russian forces in a full-blown military engagement with that country [Ukraine]." Well, let's find out why Russia's president alerted his military.
On the other hand, there is a relentless drive by western countries, foremost Europe and the US to vaccinate-vaccinate-vaccinate - and this with a substance that is not even qualifying as a vaccine, namely a new type of what's also called "gene-therapy", a mRNA-type injection which will affect the human genome and most likely the human ADN. mRNA stands for messenger ribonucleuc acid.
The best-known pharma-manufacturers of these mRNA-type substances, falsely called vaccines, include Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson and Johnson (J & J) and a few other inoculations from the Bill Gates created GAVI Alliance, or the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, also called the Vaccine Alliance. They are located in Geneva, next door to WHO.
Comment: Actually Johnson and Johnson's vaccine is not one of the mRNA-type.
The Transparency International report slammed the VIP lane which gave high priority to companies referred by MPs, peers and top mandarins.
There appears to be "systemic bias towards those with connections to the party of government in Westminster", the study found.
Comment: Some of those very same people in power claiming that there's a 'deadly pandemic' occurring, stand to make a profit from one occurring - or at least from people believing that one is:
- Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes
- UK's Health Sec Hancock & sister own shares in NHS supplier, deny conflict of interest
- Profiteering & cronyism: UK gov spent £122 MILLION on dodgy contract for PPE hospital gowns that it never used
- Ireland paid millions for faulty ventilators that it never used
It is designed to allow the Biden administration to deprive American citizens and organizations of their rights and property by arbitrarily linking those persons to real, imagined, or vaguely defined activities of the Russian government.
The Biden administration unilaterally makes the determination and requires neither criminal acts nor intent. The punishment is blocking assets and a prohibition on any dealing with the accused person. Spouses and adult children of individuals found guilty by accusation under this EO are punished, too.
The EO was preceded by some distracting maneuvers, both diplomatic (hostile rhetoric toward Russia) and military (sending naval ships toward the Black Sea and recalling them back, as if dealing with Russian threats). Thus, many people assumed that the EO was directed at Russia, and completely missed the fact that it is directed at dissent here, at home.
Over the past four years, the Democrat Party, Fake News, and Big Tech have been frequently portraying their opponents as Russian trolls or Russian misinformation operators. The Russian collusion narrative, initially invented to overthrow the Trump administration, has been used to smear many conservative movements. Now this effort has been crowned by an Executive Order.
Comment: Unconscionable!!! Russia has been made the excuse to go after Americans. Does Biden even know what he signed? This is downright shameful!














Comment: No one paying attention to where the loyalties of our congress critters actually lie is surprised.