Trump's lethal aid to Ukraine
Despite leftist media claiming Trump has praised Putin to a fault, Trump reminded the crowd he gave lethal aid to Ukraine.
"I gave Ukraine the Javelins that everyone is now talking about and millions of dollars of other military equipment—the Obama administration gave them blankets," Trump said.
"Reporters asked me if I thought President Putin was smart; I said, 'Of course, he's smart – to which I was greeted with, 'ah, that's such a terrible thing to say.'"
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Trump: Putin outsmarts Biden
Trump added he is saying Putin is merely outsmarting Biden, our "dumb" leaders, and other world leaders.
"NATO nations and indeed the world, as he looks over what's happening strategically with no repercussions or threats whatsoever," Trump continued. "They're not so smart. They're looking the opposite of smart: 'If you take over Ukraine, we're going to sanction you.'
"They say, 'sanction? Well, that's a pretty weak statement.' Putin is saying, 'oh, they're going to sanction me; they sanctioned me for the last 25 years – you mean I can take over all the country, and they're gonna sanction me. You mean they're not going to blow us to pieces?'"
"The problem is not that Putin is smart, which of course he is, but that our leaders are dumb — they so far allowed him to get away with this travesty and assault on humanity.
"Putin is playing Biden like a drum, and it is not a pretty thing to watch, and it would have been so easy for me to stop this travesty from happening."
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Trump: Biden has turned stability into anarchy, security into catastrophe
"A
major war in Europe may very well erupt; that's how they start, exactly what's
happening today – this is how they start," Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday in
Orlando, Florida. "Joe Biden has turned calm into chaos, competence into
incompetence, stability into anarchy, and security into catastrophe.
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Trump: The Russia-Ukraine war would never have happened if he were re-elected
"The
Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling; it's an outrage and an atrocity that
should never have been allowed to occur, it never would have occurred.
"We
are praying for the proud people of Ukraine. God bless them all."
Trump
took direct aim at his predecessors for allowing Russia's Vladimir Putin to
invade other countries.
"As
everyone understands, this horrific disaster would never have happened if our
election was not rigged, and if I was the president," Trump continued.
"Very simple: It wouldn't have happened. Under Bush, Russia invaded
Georgia. Under Obama, Russia took Crimea. Under Biden, Russia invaded Ukraine.
"I
stand as the only president of the 21st century on whose watch Russia did not
invade another country."
Using a World War II phrase as Russia is testing NATO in Europe, former President Donald Trump said the "sleeping giant" conservative MAGA movement has awoken.
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Trump: Communists and socialists are attacking the U.S.
Trump
also took aim at Democrats.
"Socialist
globalists, Marxists, and communists who are attacking our civilization have no
idea of the sleeping giant they have awoken," Trump said.
"We
are a sleeping giant. They cannot even begin to imagine the brave and righteous
spirit they've unleashed in men and women."
Trump
began with a stark message for Democrats before the 2022 midterms.
"The
radical left is exposed, they're weak, and their pathetic policies of been out
there long enough now that we don't want them – we will never take him,"
Trump told the crowd. "We are bringing back our country and we are
bringing back our freedom."
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Trump praises Zelenskyy
Trump
called Democrats the worst opponent he has faced, while praising Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"The
worst are the politicians," Trump said. "The toughest are the
politicians. The meanest are the politicians. And the biggest lying scum are
the politicians – like Adam 'shifty' Schiff. Where do you meet people like
this?
"He
actually made up a story about my phone call with the president of Ukraine,
who, by the way, is a brave man; he's hanging in."
Trump
praised the office of the presidency, while rebuking President Joe Biden for
embarrassing the U.S. on the world stage.
"This
year we're being vividly reminded how fragile and precious that heritage really
is," Trump said. "I never knew how important being president
was."
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Trump laments loss of U.S. self-confidence under Biden
U.S.
self-confidence is lost under Biden, Trump lamented.
"You
could take the five worst presidents in American history and put them together
and they would not have done the damage that Joe Biden is administration has
done in just a very short 13 months," Trump continued. "And no matter
how you look at it, our country has totally lost its self-confidence, lost its
self confidence. We, as a country, have no confidence anymore.
"But
we will get it back and we'll get it back stronger than ever before."
Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping made economic and strategic connections that are ultimately feeding Russia's invasion into Ukraine and helping Putin's increasingly isolated economy lean on China to subsist, according to Far East expert Gordon Chang.
"Just a few hours before the Olympics started, China and Russia announced their oil and gas deals — $117.5 billion," Chang told Sunday's "The Cats Roundtable" on WABC 770 AM-N.Y. "Also, in the last few days they announced a coal deal — 100 million metric tons of Russian coal for China. China is financing the Russian push on Ukraine.
"It's not just the petroleum and commodity dollars; it's also providing access to an alternate financial system," Chang added to host John Catsimatidis.
Also, China has lifted restrictions on the importing of Russian wheat, which "further helps Russia finance its invasion of Ukraine," Chang told Sunday's "Wake Up America" on Newsmax.
"Although it might have some second thoughts about what it is doing, it is still supporting the Russians to the hilt," Chang told host Carl Higbie.
Beijing had designs on taking Taiwan, but seeing this Russian invasion "not be successful" has Beijing perhaps looking to "distance itself from Russia," Chang added to Higbie.
"Because if this invasion fails, then it puts Beijing in a very bad light," he said, noting NATO allies activating its response force is signaling to China that similar actions will be taken if it made a move on Taiwan.
Still, Xi's position on Taiwan has not changed, save for perhaps "timing," Chang added to Higbie.
Ultimately, Chang told Catsimatidis, the Biden administration has been too soft on both China and Russia to date, two countries President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden have had close ties to.
"We know that China (CCP) is supporting Russia," Chang said. "So the question is: Are we going to go after China for backfilling sanctions that we will impose on Russia? I'm not sure that the Biden administration will move in time. It will repeat a mistake."
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Russian TV uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to sell Putin's war
Reporter : Robert Mackey, The Intercept / https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/russian-tv-uses-tucker-carlson-tulsi-gabbard-sell-putins-war/
In the hours since Russia launched its military assault on
Ukraine, the news on Russian state television has been dominated
by official statements and reports from war correspondents. But in the days
leading up to the attack, as the state broadcaster worked to tarnish Ukraine
and cast American criticism of President Vladimir Putin as hysterical, its
producers borrowed heavily from another source: Fox News.
At least four times this week, Russian news
reports have featured translated clips of Tucker Carlson or his guest Tulsi
Gabbard, a former Democratic U.S. representative, attacking the Biden
administration.
What is more, one report broadcast on Russian television’s
main channel Sunday did more than just quote Carlson: It developed
and sharpened a political attack on a prominent Democratic senator that Carlson
had just hinted at.
At 8 pm on Sunday, a primetime review of the
week’s news presented by Dmitry Kiselev, a bombastic Putin favorite,
featured remarks from the opening monologue of Carlson’s February 17 show,
in which the American commentator trashed Ukraine’s government.
“These people are so ghoulish,” Carlson said
of U.S. officials who provided military aid to Ukraine. “Of course they’re
promoting war,” Carlson continued, as his comments were translated into
Russian, “not to maintain the democracy that is Ukraine. Ukraine is not a
democracy. It has never been a democracy in its history, and it’s not now. It’s
a client state of the Biden administration.”
The Russian broadcast cut away from
Carlson’s monologue at this point to show Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s
appearance at the United Nations that day. But that exactly echoed the next
part of the original Fox News broadcast, which also showed Blinken on screen as
Carlson mocked his warning that Russia might stage a false flag attack and
blame it on Ukraine as a pretext for war.
An hour later, the evening news program on
Russia’s main state television channel used a longer excerpt from the same
Carlson monologue and shaped its own report to amplify the Fox News host’s
attack on a Democrat. In the original Fox News broadcast, Carlson had suggested
that Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
who worked to arm Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles, was only doing
so because of donations from American defense contractors like Raytheon.
Before quoting Carlson’s comments, the Russian report noted that Blumenthal had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in
campaign donations from Raytheon and referred to Blumenthal’s false claim that
he had served in Vietnam. The Russian broadcast then cut to a part of Carlson’s program in which he showed viewers
video of Blumenthal telling MSNBC about the need to supply Javelin missiles to
Ukraine. Carlson was then shown laughing at Blumenthal. “So that guy, who lied
about his own war service, is pretty excited at the thought of Ukrainians
fighting and dying in the streets,” Carlson scoffed.
After cutting away from Carlson, the Russian
correspondent noted that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump
had also received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions
from Raytheon.
On Wednesday night, just hours before Putin
ordered the attack on Ukraine to begin, two excerpts from Carlson’s most recent
program were featured in Russian state television’s 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. news
broadcasts.
Carlson had started his show Tuesday night
with a sarcastic monologue in
which he told viewers, “Democrats in Washington have told you it’s your
patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin. It’s not a suggestion. It’s a mandate.
Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason. Many Americans have obeyed this
directive. They now dutifully hate Vladimir Putin. Maybe you’re one of them.
Hating Putin has become the central purpose of America’s foreign policy. It’s
the main thing that we talk about. Entire cable channels are now devoted to it.
Very soon, that hatred of Vladimir Putin could bring the United States into a
conflict in Eastern Europe.”
Carlson’s comments were so welcome in Moscow
that an excerpt from that rant with Russian subtitles was quickly produced by
the Russian-language service of RT, the government-funded network formerly
known as Russia Today.
During the 8 pm news bulletin on Russian state television
Wednesday, as Russians tried to make sense of what was about to happen, a dubbed version of Carlson’s monologue was offered to them as an explanation.
An hour later, Russian television’s main evening news
program featured another clip of Carlson’s show from the previous
night, an excerpt from his discussion of possible economic sanctions on Russia
with Gabbard, who is now a frequent Fox guest and was given a prime speaking slot at
the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend.
Like Carlson, Gabbard sought to blame the
U.S. and NATO for supposedly provoking Putin’s attack on Ukraine and suggested
that Americans would suffer from higher energy prices if Russia was sanctioned
for invading Ukraine.
“These sanctions don’t work,” Gabbard told Carlson in an
exchange screened for Russians. “What we do know is that they will increase
suffering and hardship for the American people. And this is whole problem with
the Biden administration: They are so focused on how do we punish Putin that
they don’t care and are not focused on what is actually in the best interests
of the American people.”
Russian officials have not been shy about
pointing out that fuel prices are likely to spike in Europe and the United
States if sanctions are imposed on its vast oil and gas industry. State
television reports from Washington on the crisis have repeatedly included close
shots of high gas prices and suggested that they could go higher.
On Thursday, after Russia launched its
military assault on Ukraine, Gabbard posted the video of her comments about
sanctions on Twitter and suggested, without evidence, that doing anything to
press Putin to stop the invasion of Ukraine could lead to a nuclear war.
Gabbard returned to Carlson’s show Thursday night. During
her appearance, she blamed Biden for not preventing the war, which she
said he could have done by giving in to Putin’s demand to rule out the
possibility of Ukraine ever joining NATO.
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Germany to send anti-tank weapons, missiles to Ukraine in major policy reversal
Reporter : Allen Zhong, The Epoch Times PREMIUM
Germany will provide anti-tank weapons and surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Saturday.
“The Russian attack marks a turning point. It is our duty to do our best to help Ukraine defend against the invading army of Putin. That’s why we’re supplying 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger missiles to our friends in Ukraine,” he wrote in a Twitter post.
This is a major reversal of Berlin’s longstanding policy of banning weapon exports to battle zones.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed Germany’s change of stance, “Keep it up, Chancellor Olaf Scholz! Anti-war coalition in action!”
Berlin Saturday authorized NATO partners the Netherlands and Estonia to deliver German-made weapons to Ukraine.
The batch of weapons included 400 RPGs from the Netherlands and old GDR howitzers from Estonia.
Germany has a long-standing policy of not exporting weapons to war zones, rooted partly in its bloody 20th-century history and resulting pacifism. Countries aiming to pass on German weapons exports need to apply for approval in Berlin first.
Scholz had repeatedly referred to this policy in recent weeks when refusing to deliver weapons to Ukraine.
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Trump : Big mistake for Biden to shut down China Initiative
Reporter : Mimi Nguyen Ly, The Epoch Times PREMIUM
The recent move by the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to terminate the China Initiative is a “big mistake,” former President Donald Trump said at a Feb. 26 press conference prior to his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Trump also issued remarks on the current situation in Ukraine during the press conference.
The DOJ announced on 23 February that it was ending the China Initiative program, which was spearheading an unprecedented crackdown against economic espionage, trade theft, and technology transfer by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against the United States. The program was launched in 2018 by the Trump administration.
“I’m surprised to see that. I don’t think we should be doing that. … I think it’s a big mistake,” Trump said of the DOJ’s decision to terminate the program, in response to a question from Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek. “China, as you know, is a very big player, but it can be a very dangerous player in so many different ways.”
DOJ Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen told a press briefing on Feb. 23 that the China Initiative was designed as a coherent approach to the challenges posed by the CCP and was “driven by genuine national security concerns.”
Under the initiative, the FBI was conducting roughly 1,000 investigations by February 2020 across 56 regional offices into China’s attempted theft of trade secrets, FBI Director Christopher Wray said at the time. China has also been implicated in about 80 percent of all economic espionage charges brought forward by the DOJ, and the country is connected to 60 percent of all trade-secret theft cases. The initiative has led to dozens of prosecutions since its inception, according to the DOJ’s 2021 year-end report.
However there have been growing concerns from the civil rights community that the program was fielding “a narrative of intolerance and bias,” Olsen said. He also said the academic and scientific community had raised concerns over the department’s prosecutions of certain fraud cases involving research grants, alleging that the prosecutions could ultimately “lead to a chilling atmosphere for scientists and scholars” and threaten academic research and economic development in the long term.
As such, the program will be replaced by a broader, new approach to tackle threats “from a range of hostile nation-states,” and the DOJ “will continue to prioritize” threats from the CCP, Olsen said.
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Reporter : Lawrence Dollimore, Daily Mail
More than 400 Russian mercenaries have been flown in from Africa to assassinate Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, it was revealed last night.
A private militia known as the Wagner Group allegedly has orders from Vladimir Putin to take out Zelenskyy - and 23 other government figures - to allow Moscow to take over its eastern European neighbour.
According to the Times, the army-for-hire, run by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin - a close ally of the Russian president who is often dubbed "Putin's chef" - was flown in five weeks ago and is being offered a huge sum for the mission.
It prompted Kiev to declare a 36-hour "hard" curfew, ordering everyone indoors so that soldiers could sweep the streets for Russian saboteurs.
Citizens were warned that they risked being "liquidated" if they were spotted outside during the curfew hours, as they may be assumed to be the enemy.
A source with knowledge of the Wagner Group's activities told the Times that between 2,000 and 4,000 mercenaries had actually arrived in Ukraine in January, but with different missions.
Some were sent to the rebel-held regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in the east of the country - while the 400 tasked with taking out Zelenskyy headed to Kiev from Belarus.
The group are said to be tracking Zelenskyy and his colleagues via their mobile phones - claiming to know where they are at all times.
Another source claimed the killers-for-hire have been told to put on the brakes while Putin holds "peace talks" with Zelenskyy this week.
But they have allegedly been informed that the Russian leader has no desire to reach a deal, branding the meeting on the Belarus border as "smoke and mirrors."
News of their assassination plans has not seemed to faze Zelensky, who admitted he was "target number one" during an address to the nation, telling them Russian special forces were hunting him.
When the US offered to extract him, he told President Joe Biden, "I need ammunition, not a ride."
Wagner has conducted covert operations across Africa and the Middle East, including in Syria, and they have most recently been on the ground in Ukraine to guide Russian tanks to the capital.
General Sir Richard Barrons, a former commander of Joint Forces Command, said: 'They are very effective because they are hard to pin down.
"They can appear from the shadows, do very violent things and then disappear again, without it being obvious who was responsible. They are not directly linked to the Russian government and therefore they are plausibly deniable."
Sources told the Times the militia were briefed about Putin's plans on Ukraine back in December, long before the Russian army was told.
Soldiers and generals were feared to oppose the invasion plans, and several have been executed for doing so, claimed the mercenaries.
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Will the United States send troops to defend Taiwan? Ma Ying-jeou changed his answer: The chance is very small
Reporter : Huang Weiquan / news.tvbs.com.tw/politics/1727047
Ukraine and Russia are at war. Former President Ma Ying-jeou said bluntly in an interview on 27 February 2022that the United States will sell weapons to Taiwan but will not send troops to help defense. Under further questioning by the media today, Ma Ying-jeou changed his answer, saying that the United States would sell weapons and provide intelligence, "but the chance of sending troops is very small."
Ma Ying-jeou bowed to the monument at 228 Peace Park in the morning of 28 February 2022, and changed his tune for the statement that "the United States will not send troops to defend Taiwan" during an interview. He said that the opportunity for the United States to send troops is very small. In handling cross-strait affairs, we still have to go the way of "avoiding war and seeking peace."
He said, "To avoid war, we must seek peace with the other side, so that we can truly achieve peace and happiness."
Blue Committee Jiang Wanan believes that Russia is an aggressor but Hong Xiuzhu, former chairman of the Kuomintang, said, "The invader and the victim should not be defined by us." In this regard, Ma Ying-jeou replied that the reasons for this war are very complicated. The most important thing is that there are no winners in war and no losers in peace. Both sides should work hard to seek peace. This is what should be done.
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Take Ukraine’s resistance to aggression as an example, Tsai Ing-wen: Unity is the only way to face challenges
Reporter : Fang Bingchao / news.tvbs.com.tw/politics/1727074
28 February marks the 75th anniversary of the February 28th Incident. President Tsai Ing-wen attended the central commemorative ceremony held at Keelung Civic Square. In addition to expressing that transitional justice will enter the next new milestone, she also expressed her views on the current international situation.
Tsai Ing-wen also said that the Ukrainian people are uniting and fighting against aggression. No matter what challenges they face, democracy is the Republic of China's only option, and unity is the Republic of China's only method. In pursuit of unity, the Republic of China must remember the road Taiwanese have traveled, and always remind ourselves that today's democracy in Taiwan is absolutely not for granted.
In her speech, Tsai Ing-wen said that the Keelung Port was the place where the army landed. On 8 March, 75 years ago, after the army cracked down on Keelung, the Qingxiang crackdown that spread throughout Taiwan began the next day. According to estimates, in March of that year from the 8th to the 16th, more than 2,000 people in Keelung suffered, including local gentry, students and labourers.
Many people lost their lives at a young age, so she can understand that for Keelung people, the 228 anniversary is actually on 8 March. She can understand why people in Keelung actively fought for the truth of 28 February as early as 30 years ago.
Turning the topic, Tsai Ing-wen pointed out that the transformational justice project requires the government and the people, as well as the elderly and young people to work together one by one, and Taiwan's transformational justice project is about to move towards the next new milestone.
In May 2022, the transfer promotion will submit a summary report and complete the phased work. It will show how the persecution system that violated human rights in the authoritarian period worked, how Taiwanese society can implement transitional justice and deepen democracy, and put forward specific suggestions.
After the transfer promotion has completed the investigation and planning tasks, the level will be raised, and the Executive Yuan will take up the responsibility of execution.
A few days ago, Executive President Su Zhenchang announced that a paper to promote the transformation of justice will be established in the Government Yuan, and he will personally serve as the convener.
To set up the Human Rights and Transformational Justice Division, it is necessary to lead all ministries and committees to implement the concept and thinking of transformational justice into administrative thinking.
Tsai Ing-wen also mentioned that pursuing unity does not mean forgetting the past, "We must remember the road we have traveled and remind ourselves at all times that Taiwan's democracy today is absolutely not for granted, so that we can cherish the present moment, unite with each other, and protect the hard-won democracy, freedom and human rights together."
She said that adhering to the path of transformational justice and democratic values is not a smooth path. For this reason, she would like to thank the seniors, family members and civil organizations of the many victims for their long-term supervision of the government and their understanding, support and advice. A country that reflects on history and reflects on its mistakes must also be a country that is strong and resilient and can uphold democracy.
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The Washington Post reported that a U.S. government official revealed that Belarus will join Russia in the invasion of Ukraine, and it will take action as soon as 28 February
The official said, "Obviously, the Minsk authorities are now an extension of the Russian Kremlin." Earlier, Ukraine media Kyiv Independent quoted multiple sources as saying that Belarus was about to send troops at 5 am on 28 February. Let the Belarusian paratroopers take the first Ilyushin-76 (IL-76) transport aircraft and advance to Ukraine to fight. It makes all walks of life quite worried that the war may further expand.
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The United States follows up with Germany and approves the provision of "Stinger missiles" to Ukraine
The White House has approved the direct supply of "Stinger missiles" to Ukraine. U.S. government officials revealed that although the exact time is not clear, logistics and delivery are currently being arranged.
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The EU has increased sanctions on the first foreign military supply and airspace over Russia
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stressed, "For the first time, the EU has purchased and delivered weapons and other equipment and provided the country under attack. She also announced that she would close EU airspace to Russia, prohibiting Russian-owned, registered and controlled aircraft from landing, taking off or flying over EU territory."
In addition, the EU will ban Russian state-owned media companies, such as Russia Today (RT), Sputnik and their affiliates, from spreading fake news to justify the authorities’ war, and from spreading the seeds of division in the EU.
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Lancet Study: Rare Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (RMIS) detected in vaccinated young
Reporter : Naveen Anthrappully, The Epoch Times PREMIUM
Some vaccinated youngsters in the 12–20 age group have reported a hyper-inflammatory condition where the body’s immune system goes into overdrive and shows symptoms of fever and systemic inflammation involving multiple organ systems, according to a study published Tuesday (22 February 2022).
There were a total of 5,973 cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) reported to the MIS-C national surveillance system of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) between 14 May 2020 and 30 November 2021.
MIS-C usually manifests two to six weeks after inoculation and is characterized by severe illness that requires hospitalization.
The authors of the peer-reviewed Lancet study looked into data between 14 December 2020, and 31 August 2021, and “identified 21 individuals with MIS-C after COVID-19 vaccination.”
Those 21 individuals were aged between 12 and 20 years old, with 13 individuals male and eight female. Eleven of them developed MIS-C after receiving the first dose of the vaccine, with the remaining 10 developing the illness after taking the second dose.
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Five killed as resistance fighters attack Magway police station "used as training camp" for Pyu Saw Htee recruits
Reporter : Maung Shwe Wah, Myanmar Now / https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/five-killed-as-resistance-fighters-attack-magway-police-station-used-as-training-camp-for-pyu
A coalition of three People’s Defence Force (PDF) groups on
Wednesday attacked a police station in Magway Region where junta forces have
reportedly been training members of the Pyu Saw Htee militia, killing five.
The coalition said the head of the Yae Pyar police station was
among those killed during the raid at the village of the same name, which is in
Pauk Township. Two PDF fighters were severely wounded in the 45 minute-long
firefight, the groups said.
The PDF groups behind the attack were from Pauk, Myaing and
Yesagyo townships. The station is located 12 miles east of Pauk’s urban centre.
Wai Gyi, the leader of the Yesagyo PDF, said there were over 20
police officers at the station during the attack. Some fled without fighting
back while others returned fire, he said.
“Some of them started running the moment we started shooting,”
he told Myanmar Now. “We didn’t go after the ones trying to flee. Some others
started fleeing after the station chief got shot though.”
“The station chief was outside when we started shooting. We shot
him dead when his car entered the gate,” he added.
A spokesperson for the Pauk PDF said the fighters refrained from
burning down the police station to avoid collateral damage.
“The station is surrounded by civilian houses. The house next
door and the station are only divided by a single fence. We didn’t want the
civilian houses to be affected, so we decided not to torch the station,” he
said.
Yae Pyar village is located along the Pakokku-Mindat road and
has around 300 houses.
A video published on social media by the PDF groups showed the
resistance fighters opening fire at the station chief’s car as it entered the
station compound. The chief’s driver was also killed in the attack, the PDF
groups said.
The injured resistance fighters were from the Yesagyo PDF, they
said.
The resistance fighters retreated when junta soldiers arrived at
the scene, according to Wai Gyi. “We have enough skills to handle the battles,”
he said. “We just need more weapons and ammunition.”
Junta forces have been using the police station to give military
training to people from the nearby village of Kokkosu who signed up to join Pyu
Saw Htee, a guerrilla group called the Anonymous Special Task Force said
earlier this month.
Since late January, Pyu Saw Htee members in Pauk have terrorised
and torched more than 20 villages. They also reportedly shot a man dead after he tried to get them
to stop their rampage.
Also late last month, a coalition of PDF groups attacked the Lin Ka Daw Police Station in
Magway’s Myaing Township before burning it down and seizing weapons and
ammunition. The groups briefly detained 13 family members of the police
officers who fled.
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The
signing ceremony was witnessed by Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and
high-ranking dignitaries of Vietnam and Singapore, business representatives of
the two countries and representatives of SOVICO Group, Vietjet and CAI.
The
signing marks the first time that a private corporation and an airline in
Vietnam collaborate with an international airport group to develop aviation
services and facilities. The parties will cooperate in the research and
development of projects at airports in Vietnam, which include green,
sustainable and smart infrastructure development projects.
Mr.
Eugene Gan, CEO of CAI, said, “We believe that our expertise and geographical
experience in managing airports around the world will add value to Vietjet and
related partners in raising development and management standards to optimize
airport-related operations; hence promoting economic development, boosting
connectivity in Vietnam and in the region. Our approaches always prioritize
sustainability with close attention to the global ecosystem and surrounding
catchment."
Dr.
Nguyen Thanh Hung, Vietjet Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, said, “Through the partnership with an industry expert such as Changi Airports
International, we seek to contribute to the development and improvement of
aviation services standards in Vietnam and in the region. The partnership
further expresses our commitment to economic development goals, especially in
aviation and sustainable development. The signing is significantly crucial in
the context that the two countries are gradually opening up in a post-pandemic
environment, creating more motivation for Vietjet to further expand its flight
network in Vietnam and international markets.”
With
years of airport management and development knowledge, CAI is implementing a
broad range of collaborations to play a part in elevating standards of airports
globally.
Accompanying
Vietjet, Sovico Group has always been a pioneer for aviation development in
Vietnam and in the region by forging international collaborations that develop
aviation facilities, bringing benefits to the industry in Vietnam as well as
residents and tourists domestically and internationally.
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Scholar: The CCP controls the political sway of various countries through organ transplantation
Image : Overseas Falun Gong practitioners held a large rally and march, calling for an end to the CCP's live organ harvesting. (Epoch Times)
He further explained that the Green Gold Program refers to the fact that the CCP provides a large number of illegal organs in China to political and business celebrities from various countries with health problems for transplantation. Many people will take risks when they cannot or have to wait for a long time to obtain organs locally in China to transplant organs.
Since 2000, China's "organ transplant industry" has suddenly flourished. Different from countries in the world who have to log in transparently and wait for many years to exchange organs, it usually takes only one or two weeks to exchange organs in China, and the organs are of high quality and fresh. Patients from all over the world who came to China for transplant operations flocked.
According to the investigation report released by WOIPFG on 20 July 2020, from 1 January to 16 July 2020, through hundreds of phone calls, it was found that even during the covid epidemic, the transplant business in hospitals across mainland China has not stopped, and the waiting time of patients for organ transplants has not significantly increased.
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Illegal organs become a threat of the CCP
The opacity of organ transplantation in China has now become the CCP’s foreign united front method. Yu Zongji said that this kind of green gold grasping handle generally has two forms. One is that people are in urgent need of organ transplants. They use money and connections to find intermediaries to help connect them, and go to Chinese hospitals to exchange organs, but after the exchange, the relevant personal information will also be grasped. In particular, people with high social and economic status will use it as a threat whenever the CCP needs it in the future, and then they will obediently accept the CCP’s orders like a puppet.
He said that the other is that the CCP takes the initiative to contact the parties through channels by grasping the physical conditions of specific individuals, high-level party and government officials, corporate consortia, etc., claiming that the CCP can help obtain the required organs without any legal or responsibility. and leaks.
Yu Zongji said that many political leaders, high-level officials and people in financial groups know that in order to prolong their lives for a few years, they know that organs must be obtained from other people. It is a matter of anger and grievance, which is extremely contrary to morality and human relations, so the parties generally keep their mouths shut.
He said that the lethality and influence of this set of green gold is very large, far surpassing that of blue gold and yellow, and it can be said that it has been tried and tested. Taiwanese people should be especially vigilant and do not fall into the trap of the CCP.
In the early years, the CCP insisted that organs were donated by citizens. Until March 2006, two journalists from mainland China who went by the pseudonym Pete and a hospital staff member who went by the pseudonym Annie came forward to expose in the United States that these organs came from organs that had been harvested alive such as Falun Gong practitioners.
So far, when faced with doubts about the source of the organs, the CCP changed its tune and claimed that the organs came from criminally executed prisoners, but refuted that there were no ideological prisoners or political prisoners, and firmly denied that the organs came from Falun Gong practitioners, and refused any independent investigation.
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The number of organ transplants in China reaches 100,000 per year
David Kilgour, the former director of Canada's Asia-Pacific Department and human rights lawyer David Matas, who have long been concerned about the CCP's live organ harvesting issue, found that statistics on the number of beds in the organ transplant department, operating rooms, organ transplant team manpower, and According to various hospital websites, the actual number of organ transplants in China is estimated to be as high as 60,000 to 100,000 per year.
Moreover, there is more and more information showing that the source of organs in China has gradually expanded from Falun Gong practitioners to other persecuted groups, including Uyghurs, Tibetans, underground churches, and other persecuted human rights groups and deceived young people. There is also a steady stream of news about the black market sale of organs.
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The Russian-Israeli billionaire is believed to have flown into the eastern European country ahead of crunch talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials later today.
The businessman has come under pressure to speak out following the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's forces.
A spokesman for the soccer club revealed that the businessman has been "trying to help" in brokering a peace deal.
"I can confirm that Roman Abramovich was contacted by the Ukrainian side for support in achieving a peaceful resolution, and that he has been trying to help ever since," a Chelsea spokesman said.
"Considering what is at stake, we would ask for your understanding as to why we have not commented on neither the situation as such nor his involvement.'"
According to the Jerusalem Post, Mr Abramovich is already in Belarus, where delegations from Russia and Ukraine are today set to meet on the border town of Gomel.
Ukraine's Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Kornichuk told the news site he would not comment specifically on Abramovich's involvement in the talks.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked the European Union to start an emergency procedure "to bring Ukraine into the European Union", adding that "our goal is to be with all Europeans and have the same equality with them."
As of 11 pm of 28 February 2022 Singapore time, Ukrainian media released news that the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations have just ended but Russia's TASS News Agency, citing sources, reported that talks were still ongoing.
Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, said that during the talks Ukraine demanded the withdrawal of all Russian troops, including from Crimea and Donbass region.
The talks have ended in a stalemate as the Russian delegation disagree with the Russian Occupation withdrawals from Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk.
According to Daily Mail, a second round of talks aimed at ending Russia's attack on Ukraine is set to take place after the first meeting ended without resolution.
The first set of talks ended with the Ukrainian delegation slamming Russia's destructive processes.
A member of the Ukrainian delegation today said the discussions, which took five hours, were difficult and the Russian side was biased.
Russian officials, meanwhile, said: 'We have identified certain points from which we can predict general positions.'
Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky earlier admitted he was not confident of a positive resolution, adding that he owed it to his people to at least try and engage.
A new round of talks is now set to take place in the coming days, according to an aide to Russia's president Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Medinsky said, "Another round of talks was agreed to.
"Mykhailo Podolyak, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, gave few details except to say that the talks, held near the Ukraine-Belarus border, were focused on a possible cease-fire and that a second round could take place 'in the near future."
"The next meeting will take place in the coming days on the Polish-Belarusian border, there is an agreement to that effect," Medinsky said.
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