National and international media news & headlines compiled by CLG

Germany ‘considers conscripting all 18-year-olds’ amid fears of all-out NATO war with Russia as Putin’s forces advance in Ukraine –German defense minister said he was ‘convinced’ Germany ‘needs conscription’ | 12 May 2024 | Germany could bring back conscription for all 18-year-olds amid fears out an all-out NATO war with Russia, leaked military plans reveal. Military planners are discussing three potential plans, two of which involve a compulsory military year for all men once they turn 18. It is understood that officials are in the final stages of discussions with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius expected to go public with official plans next month, The Sunday Telegraph reported. Mr. Pistorius, during a trip to Washington last week, said he was “convinced” that Germany “needs a form of military conscription.” He also previously described the country’s decision to suspend compulsory military service in 2011 as a “mistake.”

Macron reiterates his intentions to send French troops to Ukraine | 11 May 2024 | French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed that he does not exclude the possibility of sending the French military to Ukraine if this is necessary to protect the country’s national interests and security. He stated this in an interview published in the Saturday edition of the Le Figaro newspaper. Macron stressed that France is a peaceful country, and he hopes that it will not have to engage in hostilities… The French President also expressed his readiness to use military measures if the actions of other countries threaten French interests or security. “We have to say to our rivals: ‘If you go too far, if you threaten our interests, our security, then I won’t rule out sending in the military.'”

Ukraine using British weapons for terror attacks – Moscow –London is supporting Kiev in an attempt to boost its role in NATO, a high-ranking Russian diplomat has said | 11 May 2024 | Ukrainian forces are actively using weapons supplied by Britain to carry out terrorist attacks against Russian regions, Foreign Ministry official Sergey Belyaev has said. London remains one of the largest donors of weaponry to Kiev, providing 7.1 billion pounds (8.9 billion) in assistance since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Belyaev, who heads the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Second European Department, said in an interview with TASS news agency, published on Saturday. “UK-supplied weapons are being actively used by the Ukrainian military in terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure and the civilian population of Donbass, as well as other Russian regions,” he stated.

U.S. announces $400 million military aid package for Ukraine | 10 May 2024 | The U.S. announced on Friday a new 400 million military aid package to Ukraine. The package includes weapons Ukraine has been asking for, including Patriot missile system munitions, High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMAR) systems and ammunition, Stinger anti-air missiles, 155mm artillery rounds, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs), among other equipment. The announcement marks the second Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package since Joe Biden signed a long-delayed national security supplemental securing 60 billion in funding for Ukraine. Last month, just moments after Biden signed the legislation, the U.S. announced a 1 billion PDA package to Ukraine. And just two days later, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced a historic 6 billion long-term investment package to purchase new equipment for Ukraine.

Ukrainian government warns citizens of possible full mobilization –Defense Ministry spokesman Dmitry Lazutkin declares end of “peaceful life” | 11 Mat 2024 | The entire Ukrainian society would need to make sacrifices and forget about their peaceful lives to defeat such an enemy as Russia, Defense Ministry spokesman Dmitry Lazutkin has argued. Kiev is overhauling its military service system to boost conscription numbers following a series of setbacks in its conflict with Moscow, with harsh reforms set to come into force next week. “Globally speaking, starting on May 18, when the mobilization law comes into force, first of all, the approach to this war will change,” Lazutkin told Espresso TV on Saturday. “Because this situation, when some people are fighting at the front lines, while others are living their quiet lives, is obviously coming to an end.”

Russian Armed Forces liberate five villages in Kharkov Region | 11 May 2024 | Five villages were liberated over the past 24 hours during the Russian army offensive in Kharkov Region, and another one in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said on May 11. According to the Defense Ministry, Borisovka, Ogurtsovo, Pletenyovka, Pylnaya and Strelechya were liberated so far. In addition, the village of Keramik in the DPR was liberated. “The enemy’s losses for the day amounted to up to 170 fighters,” the ministry said in a statement. The Ukrainian armed units also suffered losses in equipment – three armored vehicles, four cars, Vampire MLRS, eight artillery pieces and two Buk missile system were destroyed.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman: People of Donbass made the right choice 10 years ago | 11 May 2024 | The people of Donbass made the right choice in the referendum and defended it in battle, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel on May 11. She congratulated the residents of Donbass on the 10th anniversary of the referendum on the creation of people’s republics. “Ten years have passed, and today it is obvious to everyone that the people of Donbass made the right choice then, defended it in battle, without finding help and protection from international organizations, whose mandate includes functions to protect peace and security in Europe,” Zakharova said. It was on May 11, 2014, that the long and difficult road of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics home to Russia began, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman recalled.

Blinken affirms preliminary report saying Israel violated humanitarian law in Gaza: ‘Reasonable to assess’ | 12 May 2024 | Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said he agrees with the preliminary State Department report that declared it is “reasonable to assess” Israel violated international humanitarian law in Gaza. “Given the totality of what we’ve seen in terms of civilian suffering; in terms of children, women, men caught in the crossfire of Hamas’s making – who have been killed and injured, it’s reasonable to assess that in a number of instances, Israel has not acted in a manner that’s consistent with international humanitarian law,” Blinken told CBS’s Face the Nation. “Our assessments will be ongoing,’ he added, stressing that the department hasn’t yet drawn “definitive conclusions.”

70 people in Colorado monitored for bird flu due to potential exposure after FDA said H5N1 could trigger pandemic –The dairy farm workers are being monitored in Colorado as of May 6 –It comes as a top official said the FDA is gearing up for a bird flu pandemic | 10 May 2024 | Roughly 70 Americans in Colorado are being monitored for bird flu due to potential exposure. The dairy farm workers will be tested for the virus if they show any symptoms, though this has not been the case so far, local health officials said. Details about their ages, gender and conditions have not been revealed, but they all worked on a farm in the northeastern part of the state. Only one person so far – a farmer in Texas – has tested positive for H5N1 virus this outbreak, but the CDC fears many more could be infected and not coming forward. It comes as the FDA’s top official revealed the agency is gearing up for a bird flu pandemic in people that could kill one in four of those it infects.

Bird flu strain found in U.S. cows flown to UK lab for testing –Virus sent to high-security facility so that experts can examine the potential risks to people and livestock | 11 May 2024 | Avian flu typically spreads by infecting wild birds and moving along migration routes, but the virus currently running rampant in the U.S. is about to be transported across the Atlantic by plane. This category A pathogen, which is now spreading among cows in the U.S., is being sent to a high-security laboratory in the UK so that experts can better understand the potential risks to people and livestock. “It’s due to be shipped any day now,” said Dr Ashley Banyard, a virologist at the UK’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha) lab in Weybridge, Surrey, last week. “I saw the packaging instructions in my email this morning.” …The U.S. outbreak has sparked alarm because it is the first time bird flu has been detected in a cow, and it is not clear how it got there.

FDA says it’s preparing for a bird flu pandemic in people that could kill one in four Americans –Dr. Robert Califf said the FDA was drawing up plans for a major outbreak | 10 May 2024 | The FDA is gearing up for a bird flu pandemic in people that could kill one in four of those it infects, the agency’s top official has revealed. Dr. Robert Califf told a Senate Committee that officials were drawing up plans to roll out tests, antiviral drugs, and vaccines in the event the virus jumps to humans. But he emphasized the risk of it spreading to people was still low, with only one person infected so far – a farm worker in Texas in March. “This virus, like all viruses, is mutating,” he told the policymakers. “We need to continue to prepare for the possibility that it might jump to humans. [The] real worry is that it will jump to the human lungs where, when that has happened in other parts of the world… the mortality rate has been 25 percent.”

Same company running hospitals where seniors died allegedly took out life insurance policies on patients, redeemed them in after their deaths | 6 May 2024 | An elaborate senior scam is coming to light that implicates Apollo Global Management for committing insurance fraud on the backs of deceased elderly folks. A new lawsuit alleges that Apollo took out illegal life insurance policies on seniors through a complex web of shell trusts…which managed about 20 billion worth of stranger-affiliated policies. “In short, Apollo has been carrying out a widespread fraudulent human life wagering conspiracy designed to not only hide its involvement, but to create the false appearance that the policies it owns are somehow legitimate,” the lawsuit states… “In this way, the senior citizens have no idea who owns a policy on their life, and who wants them dead,” the suit further states.

Fauci Ignored Early Reports of Vaccine Injuries, Emails Reveal | 7 May 2024 | Dr. Anthony Fauci knew COVID-19 vaccines were causing serious injuries within days of the vaccines’ rollout in December 2020, according to documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense (CHD). However, he didn’t respond to emails from people who described their injuries and asked for help – and he didn’t warn the public. The 300-page tranche of documents released on April 21 relates to correspondence between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and people who contacted the agency about adverse events they experienced after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. CHD requested the documents via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in November 2022. On April 12, 2023, CHD sued the NIH to obtain the records after the NIH failed to respond to the FOIA request. As part of an October 2023 settlement, the NIH agreed to produce up to 7,500 pages of documents at a rate of 300 per month. This month’s documents reveal that at least one vaccine-injured individual attempted to contact Fauci directly by email as early as Dec. 27, 2020.

‘People Were Dying Within Hours From the Shots,’ Warns Hospital Whistleblower –Revelations like this are the reason why many refer to the Covid vaccinations as “lethal injections.” | 8 May 2024 | Medical coder, auditor, educator, and manager, Zowe Smith, blew the whistle on medical mass murder related to the Covid death shot. “I could see timestamps and the timestamps were like, very short periods of time, so when you said early on in the show that patients were dying within a few hours,” she said. “It doesn’t even feel good to be vindicated about being right, I kind of wish that I wasn’t right, I wish that so many people didn’t have to die.”

GOP bill adding citizenship question to 2030 census passes House without a single Democrat | 8 May 2024 | The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday evening to add a citizenship question to the next U.S. census, with zero Democrats voting in favor. “If you are an illegal immigrant, you should not be represented in the U.S. Congress,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told Fox News Digital after the vote. The legislation is called the Equal Representation Act, led by Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C. In addition to including a question on citizenship status on the census, the bill would also exclude non-citizens from the population count when factoring how many lawmakers in the House of Representatives each state gets, as well as the number of electors for all 50 states. It passed along party lines with 206 Republicans in favor and 202 Democrats against.

Fulton County 2020 election problems, now confirmed, challenge media fact-checkers | 10 May 2024 | Media fact-checks have asserted that the 2020 presidential election in Georgia didn’t have serious irregularities. But more evidence regarding Fulton County’s handling of ballots and signature verification appear to challenge those claims. Numerous issues have been documented regarding the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, specifically in Fulton County. The media repeatedly “fact-checked” these irregularities, despite confirmation of the issues by election officials. Georgia election officials have recently confirmed issues that occurred in Fulton County amid the November 2020 election… The Georgia State Election Board said on Tuesday that they found Fulton County had likely scanned more than 3,000 ballots twice during the 2020 presidential election recount, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

New revelations in Florida documents trial put Trump on offense against ‘deranged’ special counsel | 5 May 2024 | Former President Trump is calling for Special Counsel Jack Smith’s arrest after the prosecutors handling the 45th president’s classified documents case admitted seized documents are no longer in their original order and sequence. “Now, Deranged Jack has admitted in a filing in front of Judge Cannon to what I have been saying happened since the Illegal RAID on my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida – That he and his team committed blatant Evidence Tampering by mishandling the very Boxes they used as a pretext to bring this Fake Case,” Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday. “These deeply Illegal actions by the Politicized ‘Persecutors’ mandate that this whole Witch Hunt be DROPPED IMMEDIATELY. END THE ‘BOXES HOAXES.’ MAGA2024!” “ARREST DERANGED JACK SMITH. HE IS A CRIMINAL!” Trump added in a follow-up post. Prosecutors admitted in a court filing on Friday that “there are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans.”

Trump says DOJ indicted Rep. Cuellar over border critiques of Biden: ‘Take him out!’ | 6 May 2024 | Former President Donald Trump claimed over the weekend that the Justice Department indicted Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar over his criticism of President Biden’s handling of the ongoing border crisis. “Biden just Indicted Henry Cuellar because the Respected Democrat Congressman wouldn’t play Crooked Joe’s Open Border game,” Trump, 77, asserted on Truth Social Sunday night. “He was for Border Control, so they said, ‘Let’s use the FBI and DOJ to take him out!’ ‘This is the way they operate,” the former president claimed. “They’re a bunch of D.C. Thugs, and at some point they will be paying a very big price for what they have done to our Country. CROOKED JOE BIDEN IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!”

Trump blasts Biden as ‘total moron’ before historic crowd of 100K at NJ rally | 11 May 2024 | Donald Trump recited all his greatest hits at a massive Saturday evening rally in Wildwood, New Jersey — but managed to avoid violating his court-imposed gag order by focusing on Joe Biden, whom he called a “total moron” and blamed for his web of legal troubles. Trump railed about inflation, offshore windmills, electric cars, the press and Chris Christie. But unsurprisingly, it was Biden who drew his most intense vitriol. “You could take the 10 worst presidents in the history of our country, and add them up…and they haven’t done the damage to our country that this total moron has done,” Trump, 77, said to a cheering crowd of tens of thousands. The crowd — which Wildwood officials estimated was between 80,000 and 100,000, a record for a Garden State political rally — cheered wildly throughout the long, but controlled speech.

Teen suspended for using term ‘illegal aliens’ sues his North Carolina high school | 10 May 2024 | A 16-year-old North Carolina student has sued his high school for suspending him after he used the term “illegal aliens” in a question about an assignment. Christian McGhee, who received a three-day suspension for using the phrase last month at Central Davidson High School in Lexington, has accused the school of violating his First Amendment rights in the lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday. “Aside from the obvious fact that his words had nothing to do with race, his speech was protected under the First Amendment: he asked his teacher a question that was factual and nonthreatening, and officials could not have reasonably forecast that his question would cause substantial School disruption,” the suit said.