Ukrainian Foreign Minister Travels to China to Discuss the Road to Peace
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will travel to Beijing later this week to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The trip will be Kuleba’s first visit to China since the invasion of Ukraine, and its purpose is to develop bilateral relations as well as to discuss ways to end the war by reaching a “sustainable and just” settlement with Russia.
“The main topic of the discussion will be the search for ways to stop the Russian aggression and China’s possible role in achieving a sustainable and just peace,” Ukraine’s foreign ministry said in its last-minute press release on Monday, July 22nd. Kuleba’s trip will take place in the following days, between July 23-25th.
Relations between Beijing and Kyiv have deteriorated rapidly following the Russian invasion in February 2022, as both Ukraine and the West have been consistently accusing China of covertly helping the Russian war effort by supplying it with sanctioned “dual-use” items that can be used as military equipment.
Just weeks ago, President Zelensky criticized Beijing again for “sabotaging” his efforts toward ending the war by boycotting the most recent “peace conference” in Switzerland in protest of the fact that Kyiv didn’t invite Moscow.
Nonetheless, it seems Ukraine’s attitudes are slowly changing toward what peace might look like and how to achieve it. Zelensky recently announced that he is now ready to invite representatives of the Kremlin to the next peace summit which would ideally take place before the end of the year. Kuleba’s trip to Beijing, therefore, no doubt serves as a preparation for those later talks as China is seen as possibly the most effective mediator if the Western powers finally decide to view it as a partner in negotiations.
This was also one of the main conclusions of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who ended his “peace mission” early last week after meeting leaders on both sides of the conflict to gauge what conditions need to be achieved for a possible ceasefire agreement to avoid further unnecessary bloodshed and the future risk of global escalation.
Since then, Orbán has been the subject of constant criticism from Brussels, and EU officials scrambled to find ways to boycott the Council’s current Hungarian presidency and further isolate the Orbán government for what they called an “appeasement mission” to Moscow and Beijing.
Yet, Kyiv appears to be slowly taking steps similar to what Budapest has been recommending all along. PM Orbán’s very first concrete proposal for achieving a ceasefire agreement, as outlined in his 10-point ‘peace plan’ sent to Brussels and all the EU capitals following his mission, was “the initiative to conduct high-level political talks with China on the modalities of the next peace conference.”
Budapest’s other main suggestions were to reopen diplomatic ties with Russia while maintaining the current dialogue with Ukraine and to launch a coordinated political campaign to reclaim the Global South’s “appreciation” that the West has lost due to its position toward the war in Ukraine.
Orbán’s suggestions, however, were only met with criticism from Brussels. European Council President Charles Michel was quick to discard the document before telling Orbán that he has “no role” representing the European Union on the international stage (something that he never claimed to do) and that the EU will stand by Ukraine “as long as it takes” for it to win the war and reclaim its lost territories.
It seems that at least Ukraine is listening. Today Beijing, tomorrow maybe Moscow. Step-by-step towards a “sustainable and just peace.”
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Many Processed Foods Contain Potentially Toxic Substances Not Listed on Ingredient Labels
You are probably familiar with many of the no-no ingredients in processed foods that are to be avoided at all costs (i.e., synthetic dyes and preservatives), but what about the “invisible” additives that are hiding in foods unlabeled?
Known as “processing aids,” these hidden additives are not labeled because technically they are not part of the food product itself, but are rather residues left over from the food production process.
Common processing aids include additives that “soak and wash” certain ingredients, “filter” beverages like wine and juice to make them appear clearer, and improve the texture of bread products to make them softer and more elastic, among other uses.
“During the production process, these aids are consumed, transformed, or removed, rendering them virtually undetectable in the final product,” warns Flora Zhao from The Epoch Times about the hidden presence of processing aids in processed foods.
In fruit juice, for example, some manufacturers will add enzymes to the juice extraction to produce yields upwards of 90 percent of the fruit’s weight. When heated for a few hours in juice, enzymes like pectinase and amylase liquefy the final product by breaking down cellulase and polysaccharides such as pectin, and more juice and sugars.
“These enzymes improve the flow of the juice in processing containers and enhance its sweetness,” Zhao explains. “They are consumed and transformed during processing, ultimately not appearing on the ingredient label.”
Another processed food containing hidden processing aids is “lactose-free” milk, which contains added lactase to counter the damage caused by pasteurization. Raw milk contains natural enzymes that break down lactose but pasteurized milk does not, which is why many people cannot drink it due to “lactose intolerance.”
“Additionally, applying palm wax to baking molds aids in easy cake release,” Zhao says. “Bottled sauces often have nitrogen added during bottling to displace oxygen, preventing oxidation and product spoilage.”
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Processing aids aren’t necessarily safe for consumption
So, what exactly are processing aids in official terms? They go by names like clarifying agents, clouding agents, catalysts, flocculants, filter acids and crystallization inhibitors. Their purposes are many, but suffice it to say that processing aids maximize shelf life and ultimately profits for food corporations.
Martin Bucknavage, a senior food safety specialist at Penn State University‘s Department of Food Science, says there are no risks involved with consuming hidden processing aids in foods, but food process engineer Tim Bowser from Oklahoma State University‘s Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center says otherwise.
“There [are] risks in all processes,” Bowser warns. “There [are] definitely potential side effects and negative aspects that need to be looked into.”
The silver lining in all this is that, according to Bowser, food producers are unlikely to use processing aids for deception and adulteration purposes because of the way they function.
“They do not have that ability to cheat,” Bowser says. “The residuals would be too low to detect.”
On the flip side, detection technology is always advancing, so there could come a time when processing aids are able to be detected at the parts per billion (ppb) or even parts per trillion (ppt) level.
Beer is another food product that often contains hidden processing aids, even in places like Germany where they are prohibited. Diatomaceous earth, which is used to filter alcohol and beverages in general, is believed to sometimes be contaminated with arsenic, which could explain why German beers are seeing a gradual increase in its concentration in the final product.
“The use of certain processing aids can increase levels of contaminants in beverages,” a spokesperson from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed.
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Moscow Warns of Retaliation Over US Missile Deployment in Germany
Moscow has officially warned that it will leave all options on the table in response to the planned deployment of U.S. nuclear-capable Tomahawk and hypersonic missiles in Germany.
Former DoD analyst Karen Kwiatkowski explains why Washington’s decision is so dangerous and why the Biden administration is proceeding anyway.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters on Thursday that U.S. plans to deploy long-range cruise and hypersonic missiles in the heart of Europe may prompt a tit-for-tat response from Russia.
The senior Russian diplomat emphasized that the Kaliningrad region, expected to be targeted by the U.S. long-range missiles from Germany, will continue to have its security guaranteed if and when the American weapons are deployed.
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“If the representatives of the German government consider it justified to start some kind of escalatory measures under the pretext of what [capabilities] we have in this particular region, we will react in terms of compensatory measures in a way we deem to be most acceptable,” Ryabkov said.
Earlier in the day, German media published an interview with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, in which he suggested that Berlin’s agreement to host the American long-range weapons was “nothing more than countering the threat from Russia in connection with the deployment of Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad region.”
Pistorius assured that the current U.S. plans bear no resemblance to the original 1980s Euromissile crisis, which brought the planet to the brink of a world-ending nuclear war in 1983, accompanied by the largest popular mass protests in modern European history.
Three million people in Western Europe and two million more elsewhere, protested the U.S. deployment of Pershing II ballistic and nuclear cruise missiles in the fall of 1983.
“There is no doubt a domestic stimulus impact that the administration hopes to leverage – plus a Biden administration sense of urgency as they and much of NATO recognize that U.S. NATO policy could be rapidly reversed under a Trump administration,” Kwiatkowski explained.
Deployment of Tomahawk and hypersonic missiles to increase nuclear tensions
Just as the 1980s Euromissile crisis dramatically increased nuclear tensions by moving strike systems to within a few minutes’ flight time of Moscow, which meant that Soviet officials would have only moments to identify, analyze and respond to a possible enemy attack, Kwiatkowski expects the planned 2026 deployment to raise the specter of an irreversible nuclear escalation in a similar manner.
The deployment will heighten regional tensions “not only between NATO and its target adversaries, but also between the people in Europe and their own governments and the European Parliament,” she said.
The fears in Moscow during the Euromissile crisis were not mere paranoia.
In November 1983, the Soviet military put its nuclear forces on hair-trigger alert in preparation to respond to NATO aggression after the alliance kicked off its Able Archer war games, which simulated an all-out attack on the USSR. NATO did not recognize the seriousness of the nuclear danger caused by its provocations until many years later.
If the U.S. proceeds with the missile deployment two years from now as planned, it is uncertain what kinds of security crises such a step could foster, especially in light of the Western alliance’s 1,000 km eastward advance toward the Russian border through NATO expansion, the ongoing, highly dangerous and escalatory proxy war in Ukraine and Pentagon scheming with its so-called Prompt Global Strike (Conventional Prompt Strike) initiative.
This initiative envisions a massed conventional missile attack against strategic adversaries to decapitate their leadership and eliminate as much of their nuclear potential as possible – a concept far more dangerous than anything conceived during the Cold War.
The Soviet Union and the United States signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987 to eliminate land-based nuclear weapons platforms in the 500-5,000 km range, with the agreement designed to reduce nuclear risks in Europe.
Washington pulled out of that agreement in 2019 and immediately resumed the testing and development of a new range of long-range ground-launched missiles.
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Top Canadian Intelligence Official Called Critics of Gender Ideology a ‘Violent Threat’ in 2023 Report
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The new head of Canada’s intelligence agency before becoming interim leader authored a report that suggested parents and those opposed to extreme gender ideology are people with “extreme” views who pose potential domestic security threats.
The public report released in 2023 titled “Mission Focused: Confronting the Threat Environment” was led by Vanessa Lloyd, who is now serving as the head of Canada’s Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Lloyd took over from David Vigneault, who resigned as CSIS head a few weeks ago.
The CSIS report claimed that those opposed to gender ideology, which includes the so-called gender transitioning of minors, are part of a movement that would grow in the coming years.
“CSIS assesses that the violent threat posed by the anti-gender movement is almost certain to continue over the coming year,” a portion of the report reads.
The report then stated that “violent actors” may be “inspired by the University of Waterloo attack to carry out their own extreme violence against the 2SLGBTQIA+ community or against other targets they view as representing the gender ideology agenda.”
The “attack” mentioned in the CSIS report was done by former University of Waterloo student Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, who entered the gender studies class in June 2023 and then stabbed two students and a professor. Villalba-Aleman was charged with attempted murder and 11 offenses in total. The Crown asked to prosecute him as a terrorist.
According to the CSIS report, “exposure to entities espousing anti-gender extremist rhetoric could inspire and encourage serious violence against the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, or against those who are viewed as supporters of pro-gender ideology policies and events.”
The CSIS report did not look at violence directed at those who have publicly opposed radical gender ideology, such as teenage activist Josh Alexander.
CSIS before has signaled that it was closely looking at the activities of groups, including parents opposed to extreme gender ideology.
As reported by LifeSiteNews in May, a CSIS report claimed that Canadians who are opposed to extreme forms of LGBT gender ideology, which includes those who simply believe that one can be only a man or a woman, form the “anti-gender movement” that it claims could pose an ongoing “violent threat” during the coming year.
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People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier blasted news of the CSIS report, saying it shows “all our institutions have been hijacked by the woke far left, even the secret service!”
Bernier, who has repeatedly spoken out against radical gender ideology, also took a shot at Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre for being relatively silent on the issue,
“Poilievre has barely said three words about gender ideology,” Bernier wrote on X.
“He’s afraid to tackle this issue. Half of his caucus are openly supporting it. Nothing will change when he becomes pm.”
Before forming the PPC, Bernier was a top member of the Conservative Party, even serving as a cabinet minister under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
As for Poilievre, it has only been recently he has voiced support for a ban on puberty blockers for minors as well as Alberta’s ban on “transitioning” kids.
According to the CSIS, the so-called “anti-gender movement” is an Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism (IMVE) movement, which are groups it says pose a “significant threat to Canada’s national security”
CSIS noted that people in the “anti-gender movement” are homophobic and transphobic.
The agency also took a shot at people’s religious beliefs by saying that “religious interpretations, conspiracy theories, or a generalized fear of sociocultural change” are factors in people with “anti-gender movement” tendencies.
Those who espouse gender theory claim that one’s gender is not indicative of their biological sex, which is male or female, and that one can be any gender from myriad ones on a list that keeps growing all the time.
As per the teachings of the Catholic Church and as it is stated in the Bible, God created only male and female. Also, it is a scientifically backed biological fact that humans are either born a man or a woman.
The federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has gone all in on embracing and supporting radical transgender ideology, including the so-called “transitioning” of minors, while at the same time introducing laws that on the surface appear to be about helping children.
Under Trudeau, the federal government has given millions of taxpayer money to fund LGBT groups and aggressively pushes a pro-LGBT agenda. His 2024 budget includes $150 million to promote ‘2SLGBTQI+’ ideology at home and abroad.
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Germany: 11-year-old Moroccan Participates in Over 70 Burglaries, Leads Youth Gang
Following more than 70 burglaries, an 11-year-old Moroccan migrant who leads a youth gang is supposed to be moved to a secure facility. He arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied minor just last November, but has already struck terror in Hamburg and the surrounding communities with a huge number of break-ins and burglaries.
Police finally apprehended him last Thursday in the midst of a burglary spree in Norderstedt in Schleswig-Holstein, but due to his age, he cannot be held criminally liable, according to Bild newspaper.
Compounding the issue is that the far-left red-green Senate does not permit “secure” facilities within the state, but due to his extreme criminality, the boy cannot be allowed to operate freely in the standard youth migrant centers. That means he has to be transferred to another federal state, where he will then be placed in a more secure facility.
“A child who knows they cannot be prosecuted and acts cheekily and defiantly should face a clear response from the constitutional state,” Thomas Jungfer, the regional chairman of the German Police Union, criticized the government’s policy while speaking with Bild.
The boy was not acting alone, and despite his young age, was leading a group of migrant youths, including a 16-year-old Tunisian accomplice, who was also arrested, according to police.
Both youths were staying at a children’s and youth emergency shelter in Hamburg, which is notorious for requiring constant police intervention. Since the beginning of 2024, police have already responded 280 times to the location, and data from the location shows 101 assaults, 29 drug abuse cases, 30 attacks on staff members, 42 threats of violence, and 35 property damage cases.
The facility serves as Hamburg social services’ only crisis facility for minors, but it is dangerously understaffed and overcrowded, with 120 children for 102 places. While 12 positions remain open, four employees are on long-term sick leave and three others reportedly show signs of “burnout.”
Responding to a request for comment in 2023, the Hamburg Social Service stated that there are simply too many asylum seekers coming to run the facility in an efficient and safe manner, which means many are sent to other third-party providers.
“Today, 20 percent of all care cases are handled by independent providers in decentralized settings,” a spokesperson stated.
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