‘Zelensky Regime’ Incapable of Negotiating – Moscow
Ukraine has repeatedly shown that it is untrustworthy when it comes to peace negotiations, despite Russia’s numerous attempts to resolve the conflict with Kiev diplomatically, Moscow’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has said.
In an interview with RIA Novosti on Monday, the diplomat noted that Moscow has consistently expressed readiness for dialogue, stressing that these initiatives are not just “statements of a declarative nature.”
“In April 2022, our negotiators initialed the Istanbul Agreements. They were also signed by the heads of the Ukrainian delegation,” Nebenzia recalled, referring to the peace deal almost concluded between Russia and Ukraine in the early stages of the conflict.
Under the conditions of the deal brokered by Türkiye, which Kiev later abandoned, allegedly under British pressure, Ukraine would commit to neutrality in exchange for international security guarantees.
According to Nebenzia, a quick peace settlement did not sit well with “Kiev’s Anglo-Saxon sponsors,” so they did everything to prevent it.
“Everyone saw the interview with the leader of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovnaya Rada, David Arakhamia, who headed the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul,” Nebenzia continued. “He directly said that everything was ready, but [then UK Prime Minister] Boris Johnson came and said that it was necessary to continue to fight,” the diplomat added, claiming that the story of Johnson’s “voyage” to Ukraine is well known.
“The only logical conclusion that we made as a result is that the Zelensky regime is incapable of negotiations,” he stressed.Read more NYT publishes alleged draft of failed Russia-Ukraine peace deal
Nebenzia also pointed out that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky last year signed a decree formally banning any talks with the current Russian leadership, further questioning the possibility of reaching an agreement without a dialogue.
“Such blatant inconsistency is the hallmark of Kiev’s entire foreign policy,” he argued.
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled that the Kremlin is ready to start negotiations as soon as Kiev withdraws its forces from the four regions which joined Russia after referendums in 2022.
The proposal was flatly rejected by Kiev and its Western backers, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who dismissed it as “not serious.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba acknowledged on Sunday that Kiev will eventually have to sit at the negotiating table with Russia, but only after it has reinforced its bargaining position. His comments came at the conclusion of a Western-backed ‘peace conference’ in Switzerland, where over a dozen participants declined to sign the final communique.
‘Polish Women will be Molested on Polish Streets’ – Politicians Issue Warnings as Migration Crisis Grows
A number of Polish politicians are issuing warnings as more and more migrants appear on Polish streets, especially when neighboring countries like Germany are dealing with record levels of migrant crime, including an unprecedented number of gang rapes and violent assaults.
In a strong call to action, Mariusz Błaszczak, former minister of national defense and member of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, emphasized the need for decisive measures to combat illegal immigration in Poland, criticizing the current left-liberal government’s lack of effective responses.
“Very disturbing reports are coming from Białowieża. Residents report groups of illegal migrants, primarily young men, who have been receiving aid from an organization that has been obstructing the military and Border Guard for years. Meanwhile, in western Poland, there are increasing reports of migrants being pushed across the border from Germany,” Błaszczak posted on the social platform X.
Bardzo niepokojące doniesienia z Białowieży. Mieszkańcy alarmują o gromadzeniu się nielegalnych migrantów, głównie młodych mężczyzn, którzy korzystają z pomocy jednej z organizacji od lat utrudniającej służbę żołnierzy i funkcjonariuszy Straży Granicznej. Z kolei na zachodzie…
— Mariusz Błaszczak (@mblaszczak) June 15, 2024
“Does anyone still have control over this situation? The government needs to wake up from its lethargy before it’s too late. The fight against illegal migration requires decisive action, not empty declarations. Get to work!” he appealed to the ruling coalition.
A profile focused on security issues, “Service in Action,” highlighted the situation in the village of Czerlonka near Białowieża in the Podlasie region. According to their post on X, “Almost every day, for most of the day, migrants who have illegally crossed the border linger at the bus stop. People are afraid to go out in the evenings, and because the bus stop is constantly occupied, children are afraid to stand there to catch their school bus.”
Zgłosiła się do nas radna sołecka i sołtys Czerlonki w gm. Białowieża, poprosiła nas o pomoc w nagłośnieniu tematu, bo nikt im nie chce pomóc.
— Służby w akcji ? (@Sluzby_w_akcji) June 15, 2024
Praktycznie codziennie, przez większość dnia na przystanku przesiadują imigranci, którym udało się nielegalnie przedostać przez granicę.… pic.twitter.com/cAmZWSzW5x
According to local authorities in Białowieża, this situation is the result of actions by organizations helping illegal migrants, such as the Podlasie Volunteer Humanitarian Service (Podlasie OPH). They allegedly distribute a WhatsApp number among migrant groups, leading to the bus stop — about 5 kilometers from the border — becoming a gathering point where migrants fill out power of attorney documents and asylum applications. There, they wait for hours for the Border Guard, which has virtually become a taxi service to the center.
Moreover, Janusz Kowalski, a member of the Sovereign Poland party, raised the alarm about groups of illegal migrants on the streets of the city of Białystok.
“This is not funny. This is the future that Donald Tusk, Rafał Trzaskowski, and Szymon Hołownia are preparing for Poles. Polish women will be molested on Polish streets. After dark, Poles will be afraid to go outside. Crime will increase. Attacks with machetes will become common. It has begun,” posted Kowalski.
To nie jest śmieszne. Taką przyszłość szykują Polakom Donald Tusk, Rafał Trzaskowski i Szymon Hołownia. Polskie kobiety będą molestowane na polskich ulicach. Po zmroku Polacy będą bali wyjść na zewnątrz. Wzrośnie przestępczość. Ataki z maczetami staną się powszechne. Zaczęło się. pic.twitter.com/oNzDN7z1tA
— Janusz Kowalski ?? (@JKowalski_posel) June 15, 2024
To nie jest śmieszne. Taką przyszłość szykują Polakom Donald Tusk, Rafał Trzaskowski i Szymon Hołownia. Polskie kobiety będą molestowane na polskich ulicach. Po zmroku Polacy będą bali wyjść na zewnątrz. Wzrośnie przestępczość. Ataki z maczetami staną się powszechne. Zaczęło się. pic.twitter.com/oNzDN7z1tA
— Janusz Kowalski ?? (@JKowalski_posel) June 15, 2024
Illegal migrants are becoming a concern not only at the eastern border but also at the western frontier of Poland. On Friday, a German police car reportedly crossed the border at the village of Osinów Dolny and left a family of immigrants from the Middle East on the Polish side. According to a reader of Dziennik.pl, two adults and three children got out of the parked police vehicle, approached passersby, and headed toward a major discount store. Local police soon arrived and Border Guards were informed.
Local media have been unable to determine whether the arrival of the German police was coordinated with Polish authorities or was an isolated incident.
Federal Judge Blocks Biden Title IX Guidance Redefining ‘Sex Discrimination’ for LGBTQIAAP2S+ Agenda
(LifeSiteNews) — U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor blocked a Biden administration guidance on forcing widespread recognition and accommodation of LGBT ideology on public education by redefining federal nondiscrimination language, siding with Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal challenge to the rule change.
In 2021, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) under President Joe Biden issued a guidance to educators that its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) interprets Title IX, the longstanding set of rules against sex discrimination in public education, to also cover “sexual orientation and gender identity,” and will “fully enforce” this interpretation “in education programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the Department.”
In February, the DOE submitted to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget a finalized Title IX rule, later published in April, that expands the federal government’s prohibition against “discrimination” to now include under its umbrella “discrimination based on sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.” Critics have warned it has broad ramifications for sex-specific restrooms, lockers, and athletic programs, speech and conscience rights, and more.
Several states, including Texas, sued the administration over the matter, and now O’Connor has ruled that with its 2021 guidance the DOE “engaged in unlawful agency action taken in excess of (its) authority, while failing to adhere to the appropriate notice and comments requirements when doing so,” going beyond a reminder of educators’ existing legal duties into “impos(ing) new duties” that could not be legitimately imposed without going through a proper regulatory review process.
“If Congress cannot yet decide whether or not it wants to expand Title IX’s reach, there is zero reason to believe the Department may do so,” O’Connor wrote. He found that the guidance would “functionally rewrite” Title IX and “shockingly transforms American education and usurps a major question from Congress,” which is “not how our democratic system functions.”
While not directly addressing the new formal rule, the decision is expected to bolster the legal case against it as well, leading Paxton to hail it as a “major victory.”
“Joe Biden’s unlawful effort to weaponize Title IX for his extremist agenda has been stopped in its tracks,” Paxton said. “Threatening to withhold education funding by forcing states to accept ‘transgender’ policies that put women in danger was plainly illegal. Texas has prevailed on behalf of the entire Nation.”
The Biden administration’s rationale flies in the face of both the plain statutory meaning of “sex” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the clear legislative intent of the lawmakers who drafted and passed it, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) senior counsel John Bursch argued. “There is little dispute that, in 1964, the term ‘sex’ was publicly understood, as it is now, to mean biological sex: male and female. After all, the term ‘gender identity’ wasn’t even part of the American lexicon at the time. Its first use was at a European medical conference in 1963. And no semblance of it appeared in federal law until 1990.”
The indoctrination of children with left-wing ideology on sexuality and other left-wing agenda items has long been a major concern in American public schools, from libraries to athletic and restroom policy to drag events to classroom materials to even socially “transitioning” troubled children without parental input. Many schools have also displayed hostility to the rights and employment of individual teachers who refuse to go along with such agendas, regardless of their treatment of or rapport with gender-confused students.
Despite evidence that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms to impressionable young people, including from the Biden administration’s own Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Biden administration has given uncompromising support to all major aspects of the LGBT movement, including reopening the military to recruits afflicted with gender dysphoria, promoting gender ideology within the military (including “diversity” and drag events on military bases), holding White House events to “affirm transgender kids,” condemning state laws against underage transitions as “close to sinful,” promoting underage transitions (potentially at taxpayer expense) as a “best practice,” and trying to force federally funded schools to let males into female athletic competitions and restrooms.
UK Singer Rod Stewart Booed By German Fans After Displaying His Support For Ukraine
British singer Sir Rod Stewart was booed by his own fans after he made a public display of his support for Ukraine, even saluting images of president Zelensky, during a concert in Germany. Wearing the […]
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Japan Still Pushing Globalist Insect-Eating Fad Despite Continued Population Decline
(LifeSiteNews) — It is already a well-established fact that Japan is suffering from a rapidly declining population, with 2023 marking the 13th consecutive year of population decrease for the country.
Despite this trend, for years, the Japanese government and several private entities, such as Tokyo-based startup Semitama as well as food technology company Gryllus Co., have been encouraging Japanese citizens to consume insects, alluding to the country’s declining agricultural output and tradition of entomophagy, or insect eating, that most Japanese today do not practice on a daily basis, save for a minority like Shoichi Uchiyama, one of Japan’s most notable insect enthusiasts.
Arguably, entomophagy entered the limelight more prominently in Japan following the publication of a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN) in 2013 that alleged that people should consume insects as they are reportedly efficient at transforming food into protein and could be a solution to the purported food security concerns.
After the globalist European Union (EU) in 2018 claimed that whole insects and their ingredients were “novel foods,” giving their official stamp of approval that insects should be regarded as food, Japanese companies such as TAKEO Inc., (2014), BugMo(2018) and Bugsfarm (2018) launched new businesses that manufactured insect-based products and promoted them in various ways. Promoting pre-packaged insect snacks made in ways that downplayed the original ingredients (insects) in the snacks was one such tactic. An example of such insect snacks would be the cricket senbei (rice cracker) products found in outlets belonging to Japanese retailer Mujirushi Ryōhin, or Muji for short.
“Unlike in the Western countries where insect food is primarily viewed as a healthy and sustainable alternative, Japanese consumers tend to value novel, fun and thrilling experiences of eating insects, which you want to share with friends and on social media,” Ryota Mitsuhashi, the CTO of TAKEO Inc. and a founding member of the Edible Insects Science Research Association, told Forbes in 2020.
TAKEO Inc., a business which sells an assortment of dried and packaged bugs and even has a specialty cafe called Take-Noko selling beetles, crickets, worms, tarantulas and scorpions, revealed that it had entered a capital partnership with frozen food giant Nichirei Corp in 2022, citing the “role insects could play in the future of food security.”
Having caught the bug for insect eating (pun intended), Komatsushima’s West Komatsushima High School in Japan’s Tokushima Prefecture tried to promote insect eating by serving pumpkin croquettes with cricket powder used instead of ground meat. In turn, Japanese mainstream media outlets like Kyodo News were quick to citestudents who eventually gave the insect croquettes a good rating despite showing initial hesitancy.
“I don’t like looking at bugs, but surprisingly, it tasted good,” Kyodo News quoted student Keisuke Inoue as saying. “I couldn’t tell it contained insects,” Inoue added.
Likewise, Kazuki Shimizu, who runs a YouTube channel promoting insect-based cooking and is a self-proclaimed insect food lover, told The Japan Times in 2021:
When the perception toward eating insects changes, I want to share that moment with as many people as I can.
Unfortunately for Shimizu, consuming insects continues to be perceived negativelyamong many Japanese consumers, just like their Western counterparts. For instance, when Komatsushima’s West Komatsushima High School decided to make cricket powder as a permanent ingredient in school lunches, parents and others online began to lambast the school for allegedly “forcing” students to eat insect-based foods. Undoubtedly, the school, emboldened by the apparent approval of its students in its cricket-based pumpkin croquette experiment, had crossed the line.
Even Kyodo News ran an article in March 2024 this year admitting the various challenges insect businesses faced in Japan, citing “soaring prices of ingredients and continuing resistance among consumers to making insects part of their diet.” The same 2024 Kyodo News article quoted Gryllus as saying that some people remain opposed to the idea of eating crickets:
‘Complaints have poured in by phone, and it is making the situation really tough for us,’ a spokesperson for Gryllus said.
Also, the article elaborated that Indetail, a startup involved in the cricket food business in Sapporo, Japan was ordered by the local district court to begin bankruptcy proceedings.
As per the Sapporo branch of credit research firm Teikoku Databank Ltd., sales of Indetail’s cricket products did not materialize, “causing a deterioration in financing for the operator” and a situation whereby “total liabilities exceeded 200 million yen, including from its group companies,” Kyodo News reported.
Indeed, insect-based food products in Japan, including insect snacks, are not exactly cheap either, further deterring potential consumers already reluctant to eat insects due to existing negative perceptions on it.
For example, a 2022 Euronews article on Japanese insect food products sold in vending machines stated that “deep-fried insects, including crickets and grasshoppers” “sprinkled with salt” and “chocolate flavored” cost between “1,000 to 2,600 yen, or between €6 and €19”.
Another 2022 article by SoraNews24 reported that a do-it-yourself (DIY) cricket ramen (Japanese noodle dish) from the Antcicada company that supposedly contains a hundred crickets with each serving cost “2,200 yen (US$16).”
In contrast, Japanese consumers can get steaks, beef on rice (Japanese gyudon), and beef burgers (with real meat) at cheaper prices than these insect-based foods. What is more, Japan, as an island nation, has been blessed by a wide variety of seafood as alternatives to meat.
Independent Japanese journalist Masako Ganaha, notable for getting rebuffed in 2023 by World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab when trying to interview him in Davos, told “Health Ranger” Mike Adams that Japan’s sovereignty, culture and people are presently under attack by the same globalists trying to destroy the United States.
Undeniably, Japan is as vulnerable as other countries like the United States when it comes to the top-down diktats from globalists and climate czars on the so-called “need” to eat bugs. That being said, the populations of Japan and many Western countries are not “growing,” unlike what Chef Joseph Yoon, an Edible Foods Ambassador for Brooklyn Bugs to create insect-based recipes, claimed on “Let Them Eat Bugs:
‘How can we sustainably feed the growing population around the world? And it doesn’t suggest that we want to get rid of anything. How do we add something to our diets and maybe look towards the past for solutions for the future? They’re incredibly nutritious. They’re sustainable, but most importantly, they can be prepared absolutely deliciously,’ Yoon claimed at that time.
Evidently, Yoon, and many others of his ilk, are not in sync with the reality of struggling Japanese food businesses due to reduced consumer spending and a graying population.
Perhaps it would do Yoon some good to actually visit Japan to have a look at the millions of uninhabited houses in the country owing to population decline before spewing his views on demographic trends.
US Government Will Pay $500 Million for New Oral and Nasal Vaccines for COVID-19
The US government has committed $500 million towards the development of new oral and nasal vaccines for COVID-19.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) announced the funding boost on Thursday, which will pay for mid-stage trials as part of Project NextGen, a $5 billion project led by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop new COVID vaccines and therapeutics.
Over $450 million was awarded to Vaxart for a study to evaluate its oral COVID vaccine, and Castlevax and Cyanvac were awarded $34 million and $40 million respectively for their intranasal vaccines.
Each vaccine will be tested in trials involving 10,000 volunteers. The safety and efficacy of the new vaccines will be compared to existing FDA-licensed vaccines.
“Currently approved Covid-19 vaccines are administered intramuscularly and, while extremely effective, are limited in their capacity to induce a robust immune response in mucosal areas such as the mouth, nose and gut, where the SARS-CoV-2 virus first enters the body,” the HHS said.
Project NextGen was launched last May by the HHS as a successor to Operation Warp Speed, which produced the first generation of vaccines and therapeutics during the pandemic. Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been paid out to biotech and pharma companies.
The Project has a fraction of the funding of Operation Warp Speed and the government will not be committed to bulk purchases of any vaccines or therapeutics that are successfully developed.
“As the virus continues to evolve, we need new tools that keep pace with those changes,” said Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dawn O’Connell, in a statement announcing the Project, last year.
“Project NextGen combines the research and development expertise at HHS with the lessons we have learned about the virus throughout the pandemic—strengthening our preparedness for whatever comes next.”
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