The term whistleblower is thought to originate from Victorian England, where, when a crime was committed, the policemen would blow a whistle while chasing the criminals to alert the public of the crime. Today, much like those historic figures, modern whistleblowers who spot misconduct “blow the whistle” and alert the public of the threat. The whistleblower acts as an early warning signal and defense mechanism of the common good.[1]

BY Ashley Gjovik

In my [Marc A. Thiessen's] last column, I listed the 10 best things President Biden did in his first year in office. Here are the 10 worst (winnowing this list down to just 10 entries was extremely difficult):

You remember that fancy of Plato's, of a man who had grown to maturity in some dark distance, and was brought on a sudden into the upper air to see the sun rise. What would his wonder be, his rapt astonishment at the sight we daily witness with indifference! With the free open sense of a child, yet with the ripe faculty of a man, his whole heart would be kindled by that sight, he would discern it well to be Godlike, his soul would fall down in worship before it. 

FROM CARLYLE (1795-1881)

HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP (1841)

Tucker Carlson is out as primetime host on Fox News, this despite consistently pulling in a larger audience than any other cable news show. And one other area Carlson truly stood out is in giving a platform to voices on the left who would criticize the US proxy war against Russia, decry sanctions against Venezuela and call out government lies about chemical attacks in Syria.

Guest host Aaron Maté and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger talk to special guest Jimmy Dore about the comparative dearth of critical voices on issues like Ukraine, Syria and Venezuela in the “liberal” news channels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOcgEf1W_Ss

The future of the Black Sea Initiative, possible prisoner exchanges between Washington and Moscow, and the prospects for preventing the Third World War were among the topics Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed on Tuesday while speaking with reporters at the UN in New York.

“You suspected I would not speak Russian, right?” Lavrov told reporters, in English, at the very start of the hour-long press conference, before switching to his mother tongue in accordance with protocol.

The ‘grain deal’ is just half the story

For the preservation of peace, freedom and prosperity, one thing is needed: liberation of Europe from the USA, Werner Rügemer writes.

After the founding chancellor of the U.S.-enforced separate state of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer, and the chancellor of reunification, Helmut Kohl, now on April 17, 2023 Angela Merkel has been awarded the highest honor of the German state: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit. Only chancellors of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) are honored in this way. Social Democratic chancellors such as Willy Brandt are considered dissenters: they may not be honored.

Contribution to the “national interest of the U.S.”

The Australian government has released the declassified version of its highly anticipated 2023 Defence Strategic Review (DSR), and the war propagandists are delighted.

US President Joe Biden has formally announced his 2024 re-election bid, a move that had been widely expected for months. The announcement comes despite opinion polls showing that most voters, including a majority of fellow Democrats, did not want the 80-year-old to seek a second term.

In a video statement released on Tuesday, Biden touted his new campaign as a fight for democracy in the US. He said his pledge to fight “for the soul of America,” which was the core message of his 2020 run, remains valid.

“The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer,” Biden said in the address. “I know what I want the answer to be and I think you do too. This is not a time to be complacent. That’s why I’m running for re-election.”

As an important member of the U.S. plan to "block chip technology from China", Samsung Electronics has had great success.

Now the feng shui turns, when China's domestic chips are rising strongly, Samsung is ushering in a critical blow.

Recently, Samsung announced its financial report for the first quarter of 2023. Its profit plummeted by 96%, from 14.12 trillion won in the same period last year to 600 billion won, which was worse than the financial crisis in 2008.

In this regard, even the South Korean media couldn't stand it anymore, and used "shame" to evaluate this incident. From unlimited scenery to plummeting profits, why did Samsung develop like this?

"China Focus" is a YouTube channel created to provide current events and pop culture headlines from China.

WHEN JOE BIDEN WAS IN FULL compos mentis MODE, HE WAS A DANGEROUS GUY. HE WAS VICIOUS AND DUPLICITOUS. NOW, A DUMB SHADOW OF AN OLD DERANGED SENILE KOOK IN A RETIREMENT VILLAGE (THE WHITE HOUSE), ONE CAN SEE HE IS ONLY A CARDBOARD FIGURE PLACED LIKE A FIGUREHEAD OF A SINKING SHIP. 

THE IMAGE ABOVE COMES FROM OUR EXPOSURE OF JOE BIDEN BEING PROUD OF HAVING MADE YOUR LIFE A DESTINATION FOR STATE SPYING. THE PATRIOT ACT IS A DISGRACE...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired Monday’s session of the UN Security Council, dedicated to “effective multilateralism.” In his opening remarks, he outlined the nature of the current conflict, which he said was really between the UN Charter and the “rules-based order” of the collective West.

Lavrov also noted that the US had effectively denied visas to his accredited media pool, a move to which Moscow has vowed to respond in such a way “to make Americans remember that things should not be done in such a fashion.”

Crisis of the world order

ACT THREE, SCENE TWO OF JULIUS CAESAR BY SHAKESPEARE.... WHO SAID WHAT? SHOULD WE REFER TO THE MOVIE MADE IN 1953, THE FAMOUS WORDS COME FROM ANTHONY (BLINKEN?)....

Marc Antony:

Gentle Romans. Gentle Romans, hear me. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious. If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Caesar answered it. 

WE FIND WAYS TO DISTORT REALITY BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW — AND WE DREAM... WE CREATE SCIENTIFIC ILLUSIONS AS WELL, SOME ARE WELL-EVIDENCED, SOME ARE IFFY... AND INCOMPLETE.

WE NOW KNOW OFFICIALLY THAT BLINKEN CONSPIRED WITH MORELL TO DECEIVE ALL OF US ON THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY.... THIS SHOULD BE FRONT PAGE NEWS, BECAUSE THE TRUTH WOULD HAVE PROVEN THAT JOE BIDEN IS A CROOK. BUT DO YOU THINK THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA PICKS IT UP? NOT A PEEP AT THE ABC (AUSTRALIA)....

NOT A PEEP AT THE SMH THAT GOES ON TO SHOW US "UNCLE RUPE"....

Fifteen years ago, Rupert Murdoch gave the Boyer lectures on Australia’s national broadcaster. The lectures, which have been delivered every year since 1959, invite a prominent Australian to stimulate thought, discussion and debate across the nation by examining key issues and values.

One of the most significant defence documents since World War II will outline how Australia should rapidly acquire new long-range strike capability to deter rising threats from China, while also addressing challenges such as climate change and American isolationism.