A US government report on children's health cited "totally fabricated" studies to back up its findings, academics wrongly listed as the authors of those studies have said.
First released on 22 May, the report detailed causes of a "chronic disease crisis" among children in the US. An amended version was issued on 29 May after digital outlet NOTUS found it had used seven non-existent sources.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said there were "formatting issues" and the report would be updated, but it did "not negate the substance of the report".
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has promoted debunked claims that vaccines cause autism, leads the department behind the report.
[BBC London on May 30, confirmed by NY Times and DPA]
Calligraphy: The Terrorist Abandoned the Way of His Soul.
One of the Israeli embassy employees killed in Washington, Yaron Lischinsky, had both, an Israeli Diplomatic Passport and German citizenship, said media reports referring to German diplomatic sources.
Yaron Lischinsky was no ordinary diplomat. Born in Nuremberg, Bavaria / Germany, he moved to Israel at 16, embracing Jerusalem as his home while maintaining ties to his birthplace.
He was also a founding member of the DIG Youth Forum and promoted exchange between young Israelis and Germans said Volker Beck, President of the German-Israeli Society (DIG). Lischinsky spoke fluent German.
According to information from the Evangelical Press Service (epd), Lischinsky attended the Heinrich Schliemann High School in Fürth for a time.
In an X post, Shoval Ronen said that he taught Lischinsky at the Argaman Institute in Jerusalem, a Conservative Jewish Highschool of State Leadership, saying he was "a Christian, a great lover of Israel, who immigrated to Israel, served in the army, and decided to dedicate his life to the State of Israel and Zionism."
After working for Israel's Ministry of the Interior, Lischinsky came to Washington DC in 2022 and worked as a researcher on Middle Eastern & North African affairs at the Israeli Embassy. His work for the embassy included maintaining contact with foreign diplomatic delegations & NGOs, as well as organising delegation visits to Washington for different Israeli government units.
Ron Prosor, Israel's current ambassador to Germany, said he knew him from Israel's (Institute for Diplomatic Formation).
Sarah Milgrim, Lischinsky's girlfriend and second victim of the shooting, were just leaving the Reception for Jewish Diplomats of the Jewish committee (AJC) at the Jewish Museum together with two other participants, when Elias Rodriguez, a leftist activist & supporter of Palestine from Chicago, approached the group and emptied the magazine of his weapon (21 balls) on his victims. After that, he moved into the Jewish Museum where he asked for calling the police and alleged he was the perpetrator. Rodriguez leaves a 'manifest'.
[Source: Different Western Media including 'Jüdische Allgemeine']
تكشّفت تفاصيل جديدة حول مقتل اثنين من موظفي السفارة الإسرائيلية بالولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، في إطلاق نار قرب المتحف اليهودي وسط العاصمة واشنطن.
وأفاد شهود عيان بأن المشتبه فيه بإطلاق النار، وهو إلياس رودريغيز (30 عاماً) من شيكاغو، انتظر وصول الشرطة لمدة عشر دقائق بعد الحادث ولم يفر من موقعه.
وقالت شاهدة عيان لقناة سي إن إن، إنها بعد إطلاق النار اقترب من المشتبه فيه، وسألته عما إذا كان بخير قبل أن تعلم أنه مرتكب الحادث.
ودخل المشتبه فيه إلى المتحف اليهودي بعد إطلاق النار، حيث انتظر وصول الشرطة، وفقاً لشهود عيان متعددين.
وقالت شاهدة عيان: «ذهبتُ إليه وسألته إن كان بخير، فتمتم مراراً وتكراراً قائلاً: «اتصل بالشرطة»، ثم قال إنه بخير. ثم سألته إن كان قد أُصيب برصاصة، فأجاب بالنفي».
Follow-up: "The Gulf"
New details have emerged about the deaths of two Israeli embassy employees in the United States, who were shot near the Jewish Museum in the center of Washington, D.C.
Eyewitnesses reported that the perpetrator in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez (30 years old) from Chicago, waited for the police to arrive for ten minutes after the incident and did not flee the scene.
A witness told CNN that after the shooting, she approached the suspect and asked him if he was okay before she realized he was the perpetrator.
The suspect entered the Jewish Museum after the shooting, where he waited for the police to arrive, according to multiple eyewitnesses.
An eyewitness said, "I went to him and asked him if he was okay, and he kept mumbling over and over again, saying, 'Call the police,' and then he said he was fine." Then I asked him if he had been shot, and he said no."
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وأفاد بأن إطلاق النار وقع بالقرب من مكتب التحقيقات الفيدرالي في واشنطن، وأن ضباط شرطة المكتب استجابوا على الفور وقدموا المساعدة بعد الهجوم.
ووقع الحادث بالقرب من المتحف اليهودي في العاصمة، الأربعاء، في نفس الليلة التي كانت اللجنة اليهودية الأمريكية تعقد فيها حدثاً للمهنيين الشباب.
وُصف حفل استقبال الدبلوماسيين الشباب، الذي نفدت تذاكره بالكامل، بأنه فعالية «تجمع المهنيين الشباب اليهود (22-45 عاماً) والسلك الدبلوماسي».
The FBI Deputy Director said that the suspect is being questioned by Washington D.C. police in cooperation with the FBI's joint counter-terrorism teams.
He said that the shooting occurred near the FBI office in Washington, and that FBI police officers responded immediately and provided assistance after the attack.
The incident occurred near the Jewish Museum in the capital on Wednesday [May 21], the same night the American Jewish Committee was hosting an event for young professionals.
The sold-out reception for young diplomats was described as an event "bringing together young Jewish professionals (22-45 years old) and the diplomatic corps."
Charles Kushner, a real estate mogul and the father of President Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law, was confirmed Monday, May 19, by the Senate to serve as the U.S. ambassador to France despite felony convictions that were wiped away by presidential pardon.
[Quoted from Politico]
Headline: The Felix Klein Case - Schrödinger's Federal Commissioner
Germany's anti-Semitism commissioner is no longer tenable after his statements in favour of Trump's plannings for the Gaza strip and ethnic cleansing. While contradicting official German policy on Palestine in an interview, he is violating his duties as a federal official on behalf of the government. However, the German Federal Government is still using a trick to avoid necessary consequences, declaring an official statement as 'private opinion'.
[nd - aktuell.de, Germany 07-03-2025]
إدانات دولية وأممية بعد توسيع الاحتلال عدوانه الوحشي على قطاع غزة
وفي عام 2023الماضي، طلبت الحكومة الإسرائيلية شراء آلاف القذائف للدبابات، إلى جانب طلبات الحصول على أسلحة إضافية، لكن برلين لم تتخذ قرارا بعد بشأن البيع.
وفي ما يتعلق أيضا بتصدير المعدات الأمنية الدفاعية، فقد تم تسجيل انخفاض كبير هذا العام، ففي عام 2023، بلغ حجم هذه الصادرات أكثر من 300 مليون يورو، بينما انخفض في عام 2024 إلى 14 مليونا فقط. بسبب الحرب.
وفقا لـ"يديعوت أحرنوت"، فقد "كان عام 2023 عاما غير عادي من حيث حجم الصادرات الدفاعية من ألمانيا إلى إسرائيل"، ويأتي انخفاض الصادرات العسكرية من ألمانيا إلى إسرائيل على خلفية الضغوط الدولية على إسرائيل، لتجنب إيذاء المدنيين الأبرياء في الحرب في غزة.
International and UN condemnations after the expansion of the occupation's brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip
In 2023, the Israeli government requested the purchase of thousands of tank shells, along with requests for additional weapons, but Berlin has not yet made a decision on the sale.
Regarding the export of defense security equipment, there has also been a significant decline this year. In 2023, the volume of these exports was more than 300 million euros, while in 2024 it dropped to just 14 million due to the war.
According to [Israel's] Yedioth Ahronoth, "2023 was an unusual year in terms of the volume of defense exports from Germany to Israel." The decline in military exports from Germany to Israel comes amid international pressure on Israel to avoid harming innocent civilians in the war in Gaza.
[arabi21 on May 24]
Latest on May 25: German Foreign Minister Wadepuhl, member of the only recently formed centrist government, delivered a statement that followed what 'arabi21' quoted as a 'new stance on Israel'.
In November 2024, an Iranian hacker group published documents they allegedly earned from hacking Israeli government networks and private accounts of Israeli politicians. Some pro-Iranian source later republished a choice of documents on X before they were deleted, saying: "Take what you could use ...". Among them was an email allegedly sent from Israel's ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, to Israel's office at the United Nations in New York. That document, if it was genuine, should prove illegal activity of some "Jewish brigade" in Germany. As I rather like to avoid being involved in any illegal activity whatsoever myself, I just publish that X post without further comment for good-willing readers.
Today, May 13, China's leader Xi JinPing opened the Sino - Latin American Summit in Beijing, in the presence of high-ranking representatives from South & Central America like Lula da Silva, the Brazilian President. It's all about countering US tariff policies that are disturbing global trade.
Last UPDATE: May 10
- Ceasefire declared by both sides
- Opposing views of military gains
" May the world's best weapon system dominate the global export markets !"
On May 7, India's air raid on nine 'terrorist' targets in Pakistan was reported by Indian media as having succeeded without own losses. A Chinese source near to the Pakistani military, however, underlined the downing of three Indian Rafale fighters and two other military jets on the Indian side.
Only one day later, another Chinese source on the X platform came with deeper knowledge about Chinese support of the Pakistani forces. It becomes clear that there is more behind the regional conflict between two nuclear powers.
Related Chinese opinion published on X on May 8, 2025:
Pakistan's foreign minister said that the Rafale [planes] were indeed shot down by [Chinese] J-10C, and that they could have shot down 15, but they refrained from doing so because they were concerned that India would suffer too much damage. So they just shot down three [of them].
This air combat victory is of great significance to the CCP [Chinese Communists Party], as the military's modernization has progressed rapidly over the years, but the real-world effectiveness of its weapons remains unknown. This victory should provide a real-world test of its effectiveness.
The radar and PL-15 missiles on the CCP's J-10 aircraft are no longer inferior to those in the world.The issue is that this is still the export model of the CCP, while they [already] have the fifth-generation J-20 and J-35 at hand.
The world landscape should be assessed based on this reality in the future.
For example, when we speak about Taiwan.
Additional information on May 9:
U.S. officials confirmed that Pakistan used a Chinese-made J-10 fighter jet to shoot down at least two Indian military aircraft on the 7th, marking an important milestone for China's advanced fighter jets. The producer of J-10, AVIC Aircraft, continued to open high at 5.8% on May 9, rising more than 30% in two days, with the stock price reaching a new high since November last year. On May 8, AVIC Aircraft released an announcement stating that the cumulative deviation of the closing price of the company's stock from the previous trading day's closing price over the past two trading days exceeded 30%, which is considered an abnormal fluctuation in stock trading.
Other Chinese stock market military industries, which are highly sensitive to geopolitical tensions, have continued to rise recently, with the CSI Defense Index rising 0.3% on Friday, after a four-day streak of gains.
Latest news on May 10:
The alleged downing locations of Indian fighter jets inside Indian territory
as reported by Pakistani Defence and distributed by some Chinese patriot.
Another Chinese language source came with the following information on May 9:
According to the Indian Defense Research Network, India has found the third wreckage of the Chinese PL-15E beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile, with almost all key components intact. This wreckage was found in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, and is significant because it contains key components such as the propulsion system, data link, inertial reference unit, and the guidance head of the missile.
Unlike the guidance head and nearly complete missile wreckage found earlier, this wreckage is well-preserved due to its different location.
During his first time in office, president Trump already declared his intention to get back from China the jobs they "stole" from the US. Now, in his second term he feels strong enough to trigger a war on tariffs to create jobs for the American nuts who voted for him, hoping for a well-paid job that would not require too much brains. He therefore follows a binary strategy:
- First, he surrounded himself with inadequate advisors like Musk or Robert Kennedy jr and launched an incredible attack on the education system of the US, all that to make his followers believe: "I am one of you, like nobody else !", and to shrug off the white-collar guys with their Harvard exam.
- Second, he started his blackmail campaign of raising trade tariffs that are targeting each and every nation, but especially China, to get anything he wants from them. His real intention is to get back the "American Dream" that once had been sold to poor Chinese workers by prospering US enterprises in an outsourcing campaign serving their shareholder value.
Now that these people, whose parents barely survived the Cultural Revolution, successfully made something great of their new opportunities under a less restrictive economic policy, Trump and his accomplices are grabbing at their new "Chinese Dream" of getting a fair outcome from hard work. And this time it's no longer about the manufacturing of cheap plastic parts for the US market, but as well about the production of quality steel, fine cars and cell phones.
The breeding-ground of Trump's MAGA movement.
The new Chinese tariffs for computer chips are distinguishing between those companies whose wafer production is located in China or Taiwan and those who produce their wafers in the USA. US based wafer manufacturers are already experiencing a significant loss in their shareholder value. [Reuters on April 11]
Breaking UPDATE included on April 4 / 5
about US tariffs & global repercussions:
US president Trump is still addicted to penalty tariffs to be imposed on foreign nations competing with the US in any economic field whatsoever, boasting their immediate coming into effect as a 'Day of Liberation' for America. Early repercussions of such tariffs serve him as a proof that he can get anywhere only by pressuring long-standing partners in trade and politics. He might soon find out how wrong he is ....
On April 5, protests took off across the USA and Europe to oppose the Trump agenda of imposing global tariffs while playing down the consequences that have already triggered a plunge on the stock markets with an outlook on rising consumer prices for US citizens. The following timeline, published by The Guardian only some minutes ago, is indicating a developing story .....
Here is what happened on April 4, the BLACK FRIDAY for global economy:
The penalties announced by Trump on Wednesday [April 2] triggered a plunge in world financial markets and drew condemnation from other leaders reckoning with the end of a decades-long era of trade liberalization.
But there were conflicting messages from the White House about whether the tariffs were meant to be permanent or were a tactic to win concessions, with Trump saying they "give us great power to negotiate."
The U.S. tariffs would amount to the highest trade barriers in more than a century: a 10% baseline tariff on all imports and higher targeted duties on some of the country's biggest trading partners.
That could jack up the price for U.S. shoppers of everything from cannabis to running shoes to Apple's iPhone. A high-end iPhone [produced in China] could cost nearly $2,300 if Apple passes the costs on to consumers, based on projections from Rosenblatt Securities.
[Reuters on April 4]
Some nations involved, however, already released their plans for countermeasures:
China immediately reacted with 34% tariffs on US products including soy beans and which would specially harm farmers in the Middle Western states of the USA, a region inhabited by typical Trump followers. Further measures should include export restrictions for rare earth metals, badly needed in US manufacturing of electronic devices. Furthermore, China will call the World Trade Organization WTO.
In Germany voices are demanding to impose new taxes on US software giants who are up to now earning lots of money without being forced to pay into the German tax system. At the time of cost-intensive plannings for a badly needed improvement of vital infrastructure, such taxes could flood some additional money into the German treasury.
[German Radio News on April 4]
CNBC Reporter: Trump is Steering the Titanic Towards the Iceberg
[MSNBC on April 5]
At the same time, Trump and his henchman Elon Musk suffered a backset in Wisconsin where latest elections ensured a liberal majority in the State Supreme Court. It didn't even help that Musk offered payments to voters and supporters of Trump's favourite candidate ranging from 100 - 1.000.000 US $. However, buying votes should constitute an illegal interference in any democratic election. Some day, the Trump administration will have to pay the price for it ....
