Arab rioters stone buses en route to Western Wall

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-704375

Arab rioters threw stones at three Egged buses that were en route to the Western Wall on Sunday morning, Israeli media reported.

The buses, with windows smashed, continued their journey until they could stop at a safe place. The attack took place near Lions' Gate as tensions are still high between other rioters and police at the Temple Mount

The truth behind Joe Biden's GHOST handshake may not be that 'demented' at all

 https://meaww.com/joe-biden-ghost-handshake-demented-truth

Meanwhile, Biden also bizarrely claimed that he used to be a "full professor" at the University of Pennsylvania. "I've been at a lot of university campuses, matter of fact for four years, I was a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania," he told the audience. It's worth noting that the university named Biden as the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor, the first to hold the position, in 2017. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Delaware Democrat did not teach regular classes and only made about a dozen public appearances on the campus for notable events. Nonetheless, he collected full paychecks in 2017, 2018, and early 2019. In fact, Biden reportedly minted almost $1 million from the university despite his vague role and teaching no regular classes.

Fact check: No, Biden didn't shake hands with thin air; wasn't confused [see full clip]

 https://www.ibtimes.co.in/fact-check-no-biden-didnt-shake-hands-thin-air-wasnt-confused-see-full-clip-847509

Looking at the full video, which was live-streamed by WFMY News 2 on YouTube, gives more clarity. If you fast forward to the end of the video, it becomes clear that Biden wasn't shaking hands with thin air. In fact, he was gesturing at the people on the right and eventually behind him who were cheering. He even gestures toward the crowd on the left side of the dais, but it is covered by a mic stand.

How did Russian oligarchs get their wealth?

 https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-704153

Instead of benefiting the people, Russia’s resources are confiscated by the rich oligarchs, in return for two ‘favors’: blind unqualified support of the despot Putin, and a rumored slice of the wealth for Putin himself. This is Kleptopia.

True, in the US, Jeff Bezos, with a net worth of $200 billion, makes Abramovich and Khodorkovsky seem like paupers. But Bezos is a tycoon, not an oligarch. He founded and built Amazon and remains its executive board chairman.

Tycoons create value. Oligarchs steal it and capture economic rent through political favors.

Redemption from Egypt by G-d or angel?

 It is a clear message in the Haggada that the redemption was done by G-d and not an angel - but that seems to be contradicted by the Torah

Bamidbar (20:16) And when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and has brought us out of Egypt; and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border;)

Rashi (Bamidbar 20:16) A MESSENGER (or an angel) — This was Moses; 

Rabeinu Bachye (Bamidbar 20:16), “He dispatched an angel, etc.” A supernatural being, not an emissary such as Moses (Ibn Ezra).   It is also possible to see in the word מלאך a reference by Moses to himself (Rashi) as we find in Chagai 1,13: ויאמר חגי מלאך ה', “and Chagai, the Lord’s messenger said to the people.” In the eyes of the people Moses enjoyed the status of an angel in that he was so totally devoid of preoccupation with matters pertaining to the body. We have proof that this is how the people had viewed him as at the time when they thought he would not come back from Mount Sinai they said: “this man Moses who has taken us out of Egypt we do not know what happened to him.” Apparently, until Moses’ failure to return on time the thought that Moses could be an ordinary mortal had not occurred to them (compare Exodus 32,1)..

Why Jared Kushner’s Saudi Arabian money is impossible to defend

 https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jared-kushners-saudi-arabian-money-impossible-defend-rcna24102

Either way, this appears awfully corrupt.

At this point, if you’ve shared my missive with your weird uncle who consumes conservative media all day, he’s probably already sent you a furious email that reads in part, “What about Hunter Biden? If we’re worried about presidential family members engaging in shady deals with foreign governments, why focus on this and not President Joe Biden’s son and his international efforts?”

On the surface, this may seem like a fair question, but just below the surface, there’s a problem: Hunter Biden never worked at any level in any presidential administration. He didn’t steer his father’s foreign policies toward any country. His role in U.S. foreign policy was, is, and has been literally non-existent.

Kushner, on the other hand, was Trump's right-hand man in the White House, taking a special interest in U.S. policy in the Middle East.

‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/14/the-lunacy-is-getting-more-intense-how-birds-arent-real-took-on-the-conspiracy-theorists

It’s the most perfect, playful distillation of where we are in relation to the media landscape we’ve built but can’t control, and which only half of us can find our way around. It’s a made-up conspiracy theory that is just realistic enough, as conspiracies go, to convince QAnon supporters that birds aren’t real, but has just enough satirical flags that generation Z recognises immediately what is going on. It’s a conspiracy-within-a-conspiracy, a little aneurysm of reality and mockery in the bloodstream of the mad pizzagate-style theories that animate the “alt-right”.

McCarthy faces grumbles from right over Biden impeachment remarks

 https://thehill.com/news/house/3266811-mccarthy-faces-grumbles-from-right-over-biden-impeachment-remarks/

Seventeen House Republicans have introduced or co-sponsored resolutions to impeach Biden, four of which are led by Greene. Several others have publicly called for impeachment, with Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) doing so at a Trump rally over the weekend.

Rabbinical court fines female divorce refuser despite her ultimately approving move

 https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/04/13/rabbinical-court-fines-female-divorce-refuser-despite-her-ultimately-approving-move/

The Jerusalem Rabbinical Court recently ordered a woman who refused to divorce her cancer-stricken husband despite his pleas for three years to pay a fine of hundreds of thousands of shekels.

Although details of the case have not been made public, this is likely the first incident of a rabbinical court fining a female divorce refuser. The court first ordered the woman to pay a weekly 1,250 shekel (around $400) fine eight months ago until she agreed to a divorce.

Communications Minister: Kosher phone lines to be barred from blocking non-kosher content

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/325862

Despite multiple efforts made by representatives of the haredi community, Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel has decided to cancel a central feature of kosher phone lines, barring them from blocking access to content that the haredi community finds reprehensible. Access for those under the age of 18 will be partially restricted, Ministry sources say, although details are not forthcoming.

Intensive efforts have been made by haredi representatives, including Hassidic leaders, over the past months to persuade Hendel to relent, but Hendel has rebuffed all approaches. Key among those organizations pressuring the government to ban the kosher phone lines from restricting access to certain numbers have been those representing LGBT issues.

Why does NYC still honor two French Nazi collaborators? - opinion

 https://stgdesktopcore.jpost.com/opinion/article-704113?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation

Petain and Laval, incidentally, are not the only World War II villains to be glorified in the United States. The Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is named for Wernher von Braun, who, prior to reinventing himself as a key architect of the American space program in the 1950s and 1960s, was a Nazi major who lethally exploited inmates at the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp to manufacture the Third Reich’s V-2 ballistic missiles. A large bust of von Braun stands prominently outside NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, also in Huntsville. My father, who was imprisoned at Dora for several months, said that conditions there were worse than he experienced at Auschwitz.

ISIS terrorist believed responsible for string of murders

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/325863

In a joint operation, Israel Police and Shabak agents have arrested a terrorist from Hebron who is suspected of having murdered Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri in their Jerusalem home in 2019, and who is also being linked to an attempt to murder a young girl in the capital's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood. The terrorist is also believed to be responsible for last month's attack on two foreigners in Jerusalem's Arnona neighborhood.

In 2019, police received a report of a couple found murdered in their home in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, a "seamline" area where many nationalist crimes have been committed in the past. Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri had been cruelly murdered, their throats slit. On the previous day, a young girl had been attacked and wounded with a knife in the same neighborhood, and police suspected the attacks were connected.

An investigation was opened but no arrests were made, and then last month, two Moldovan citizens were attacked with a knife in their Jerusalem apartment. Ivan Tarnowski had been killed and his friend was injured. This time, police found evidence that significantly advanced their investigation, and just hours after the murder, Wassim Assayed, a 34-year-old PA Arab from Hebron was arrested in northern Jerusalem, while attempting to cross the separation fence and flee into PA-controlled territory.

Women eating children

Sefer Chasidim (411) There are women who are suspected of eating children either because they are forced or because they are witches. It should be publically announced that anyone hurting a child will have their teeth ground down on the stones surrounding the well or be killed/

Laura Ingraham Says Donald Trump's Endorsement of Dr. Oz is a 'Mistake'

 https://www.newsweek.com/laura-ingraham-donald-trump-dr-mehmet-oz-david-mccormick-endorsement-1697516

Representative Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican, blamed Trump's staff for the endorsement." This is happening because Trump's surrounded himself by staff who are on McConnell's payroll & hostile to the MAGA agenda. Everybody telling Trump who to endorse in primaries works for The Swamp," he wrote. "They played him. Again."

Pioneering Orthodox sex therapist accused of harassment

 https://forward.com/news/485421/bat-sheva-marcus-jofa-sexual-harassment/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_4067165

Multiple claims of harassment have emerged against a pioneering figure of women’s empowerment from former employees of the organization she helped found.

Bat Sheva Marcus, a renowned sex therapist who was the president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, was accused in scathing Facebook posts this week by a former executive director of the group who said Marcus bullied her, made sexually inappropriate comments and, unsolicited, once gave her a sex toy.

‘Father unknown’: A dread biblical status leads to modern problems

https://www.timesofisrael.com/father-unknown-a-dread-biblical-status-leads-to-modern-problems/

Last week, the Israel Democracy Institute think tank, the Center for Women’s Justice and an organization that represents mamzers, the Dim’at Ha’ashukim Forum (in English the “tear of the oppressed”), organized a first-of-its-kind conference to discuss the mamzer issue in general and the 300-day rule in particular, bringing together experts in Jewish and secular law, activists, and researchers in the field of religion and state.

Jared Kushner may have an ethics problem – to the tune of $90m

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/15/jared-kushner-cadre-corruption-ethics-foreign-funding

A whistleblower has alleged that Kushner’s business interests are among the reasons career White House personnel security officers recommended that neither he nor his similarly conflicted wife, Ivanka Trump, be given a security clearance – a recommendation President Trump ignored.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner made millions in Washington. But at what cost?

 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-made-millions-washington-what-cost-ncna1257795

First things first: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump should never have been allowed to work in the White House. Anti-nepotism rules exist for a reason, namely so that unqualified relatives of the president are not given jobs in the most important office in the world.

Kushner, the son of a now-pardoned felon and real estate magnate, came to the White House from his previous position as an executive in the family business, often playing the role of slumlord. Yet, he was tasked with solving everything from the opioid crisis to modernizing the federal government to criminal justice reform to Middle East peace to the coronavirus pandemic. He solved almost nothing, but he did reportedly help secure a pardon for his father.

Kushner Companies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushner_Companies

In 2017, Nicole Kushner Meyer joined her brother Josh in Kushner Companies, serving as a principal.[32] Meyer was criticized for mentioning her brother's White House position during investor presentations she gave in China when soliciting $150 million for 1 Journal Square in Jersey City, causing her to cancel the rest of her roadshow appearances.[33] In another dispute involving 1 Journal Square, the company is attempting to get $113,659 from the city to cover legal expenses.[34]

According to Bloomberg, the company is facing[when?] an increasingly "distressed situation". Over the last few years, family members have sought substantial overseas investment to deal with "troubled finances".[35]

In the 2010s, developers such as the Kushner Companies widely used the EB-5 visa to fuel a "high-end US residential boom".[36] In May 2017, Trump renewed the visa program in his first major piece of legislation.[37] That September, the United States Attorney's office subpoenaed the Kushner Companies over the use of the EB-5 visa program to fund developments.[38]

In December 2017, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York subpoenaed Deutsche Bank records pertaining to Kushner Companies.[39] The New York Times reported in May 2019 that anti-money laundering specialists in the bank detected what appeared to be suspicious transactions involving entities controlled by Donald Trump and Jared Kushner, for which they recommended filing suspicious activity reports with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Treasury Department, but bank executives rejected the recommendations. One specialist noted money moving from Kushner Companies to Russian individuals and flagged it in part because of the bank's previous involvement in a Russian money laundering scheme.[40][41]

In 2020, ProPublica and WNYC reported that Kushner Companies received "a near-record sum" from government-backed lender Freddie Mac. The $786 million in loans helped Kushner Companies purchase thousands of apartments in Maryland and Virginia and appeared to come with "unusually good terms," raising conflict of interest questions due to Jared Kushner's role as Senior Advisor to the President of the United States. [42]

Timeline on Jared Kushner, Qatar, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House Policy

 https://www.justsecurity.org/69094/timeline-on-jared-kushner-qatar-666-fifth-avenue-and-white-house-policy/

When the Kushner Companies purchased 666 Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan in early 2007 for a record-breaking price of $1.8 billion, it was supposed to be a center of their real estate portfolio. Instead, the Kushners have struggled to cover their debt on the troubled building since shortly after its purchase on the eve of the financial crisis. As Jared Kushner’s father-in-law, Donald J. Trump, was running for President, the Kushners were pitching Qatari investors to help bail out the building. And just weeks after his father Charles reportedly failed to reach a deal with Qatar’s minister of finance, Jared Kushner, in his capacity as a senior adviser to President Trump, reportedly played a central role in supporting a blockade of Qatar by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Kushner never disclosed his meeting with Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the blockade to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the time. Later, a financial company tied to Qatar brokered an especially valuable deal to rescue the Kushner Companies’ property at 666 Fifth Avenue.

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'They Made Me More Dangerous': Frank James Blames NY Mayor for Breakdown

 https://www.newsweek.com/they-made-me-more-dangerous-frank-james-blames-ny-mayor-breakdown-1697466

A 62-year-old who uploaded dozens of videos on YouTube, criticizing New York's mayor as violent crimes in the subway continued to increase, has been identified as a person of interest in the Brooklyn subway shooting.

New York authorities are actively searching for Frank R. James as a "person of interest" in connection to the shooting. James' social media presence warned of the dangers lurking in New York's subways and how the state's mental health programs have contributed to the uptick in crimes.

JARED KUSHNER’S REAL-ESTATE FIRM SOUGHT MONEY DIRECTLY FROM QATAR GOVERNMENT WEEKS BEFORE BLOCKADE

 https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/jared-kushner-real-estate-qatar-blockade/

The failure to broker the deal would be followed only a month later by a Middle Eastern diplomatic row in which Jared Kushner provided critical support to Qatar’s neighbors. Led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a group of Middle Eastern countries, with Kushner’s backing, led a diplomatic assault that culminated in a blockade of Qatar. Kushner, according to reports at the time, subsequently undermined efforts by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to bring an end to the standoff.

The news of Kushner Companies’ direct pitch to the Qatari government puts a Wednesday report from the Washington Post into broader context. U.S. intelligence services, the paper reported, had determined that officials in four countries — the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel, and Mexico — had been privately discussing how to use Jared Kushner’s real-estate investments as a way to gain leverage over him in order to influence official U.S. policy.

Jared Kushner’s hidden genius? To make terrible decisions – yet keep failing upwards

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/04/jared-kushners-hidden-genius-to-make-terrible-decisions-yet-keep-failing-upwards

That’s not Kushner’s only victory. While he might have the charisma of a soggy tissue, Mr Ivanka Trump seems to have a knack for failing upwards. In 2007, for example, a 26-year-old Kushner urged his family’s real estate company to pay a then-record $1.8bn to purchase 666 Fifth Avenue, a skyscraper in Manhattan. This turned out to be a terrible decision. It might have had devastating financial consequences for the Kushner family had it not been for a sudden stroke of luck: in 2018, in the middle of Trump’s presidency, a Canadian asset-management company, Brookfield Asset Management, agreed to take a 99-year lease on the building, paying a huge amount of rent upfront. Funnily enough, the Qatar Investment Authority was a major investor in Brookfield and, at the time, Kushner was backing a blockade on the Gulf kingdom. This was all a complete coincidence, and there was no intention of persuading Kushner to reverse his support for the blockade, Qatar has stressed. And, to be fair, the blockade wasn’t lifted until this year. Still, if Kushner keeps running into coincidences like that one imagines his investment firm will do very well indeed.

How the Kushner Family’s Real Estate Fumble May Entangle Trump’s White House

 https://fortune.com/2017/09/02/jared-kushner-5th-avenue-conflict-donald-trump/

Within two years, the global financial crisis had sent New York rents into a tailspin. While Kushner representatives downplay the risk, an exhaustive new report by Bloomberg details how the purchase has since become an albatross. Jared Kushner stepped away from the family business to become a senior adviser to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump, and foreign money may be crucial to salvaging the Kushner investment, raising concerns that Jared Kushner could mix his family’s business with the nation’s.

JARED KUSHNER CEMENTS HIS STATUS AS THE WORLD’S WORST REAL-ESTATE DEVELOPER

 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/jared-kushner-worlds-worst-real-estate-developer

The most obvious example of Kushner‘s incompetence, of course, remains his decision to buy 666 5th Avenue, on the eve of the financial crisis, for what was then a record-setting $1.8 billion, putting down a mere $50 million and borrowing the rest. The $1.2 billion loan—of which the Kushner family holds about half, having sold off chunks of the property—is due in February 2019; attempts to shore up cash have ultimately been rebuffed by everyone from the richest man in France, to Israeli insurance companies and banks, to South Korea’s sovereign-wealth fund, to China’s Anbang Insurance Group and the Qataris. And, somehow, the deal continues to look worse and worse by the day. Per Bloomberg:

The Turning of the Tide: The Kashrut Tale of the Swordfish

 https://www.academia.edu/25400259/The_Turning_of_the_Tide_The_Kashrut_Tale_of_the_Swordfish?email_work_card=title

Based on the ruling of the renowned Sephardic posek, the Knesset haGedolah, Rabbi Chaim ben Yisrael Benvenisti (1603-73),1 who permitted “the fish with the sword,” halakhic decisors over three hundred of the last three hundred and fifty years, repeatedly and uniformly permitted some types of “swordfish.” The first time this was seriously challenged seems to have been by Rabbi Moshe David Tendler, Ph.D., in America in the 1950s. For reasons explored in this paper, his challenge was phenomenally successful. No one growing up Orthodox in the United States during the last forty years would have dreamed of considering the swordfish kosher. Indeed, currently, in every kosher fish list belonging to an Orthodox kashrut organization in America, the swordfish is categorized as non-kosher.2

Saudis Give Billions to Jared Kushner; Turkey Suspends Trial of Saudis Accused of Killing Khashoggi

Report Of Massive Saudi Payout To Kushner Raises New Questions About Trump Admin Policies

How Jared Kushner And The Trump Admin Traded U.S. Foreign Policy For $2 Billion

Looking at Jared Kushner’s Saudi deal| Dan Abrams Live

Jared Kushner gets $2B Saudi investment, drawing Hunter Biden comparisons

 https://nypost.com/2022/04/11/jared-kushner-gets-2b-saudi-arabia-investment-drawing-hunter-biden-comparisons/

Former first son-in-law Jared Kushner received a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund — with expected annual management fees of $25 million — according to a new report, drawing comparisons to first son Hunter Biden’s overseas business ventures.

Gee, Wonder Why Mohammed Bin Salman Personally Intervened to Give Jared Kushner $2 Billion

 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jared-kushner-saudi-arabia-investment-mohammad-bin-salman-1335649/

The news of bin Salman overruling objections of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund’s advisers to send $2 billion to Kushner’s firm comes as Trump and other right-wing shit-stirrers have decided to once again the kick the tires on the idea that Hunter Biden received $3.5 million from the widow of the former mayor of Moscow. Trump tried to press Biden on the payment in the debates ahead of the 2020 election, and brought it up again last month when he asked Vladimir Putin to provide information on the transaction — despite the fact that Putin is murdering civilians by the thousand as he directs Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a U.S. ally.

The only problem is that there’s no evidence this actually happened. Senate Republicans released a report before the 2020 election that alleged Yelena Baturina sent the sum to a Biden-connected firm called Rosemont Seneca Thornton in 2014. Trump tried to make hay out of the report’s findings, but The Washington Post recently dug into what the report said beyond its headline-worthy summary, and found that it does not actually claim that Biden received the money. The Post found no evidence Biden had anything to do with the transaction.

Suspect at large after 10 shot at Brooklyn subway station

https://daastorah.disqus.com/admin/moderate/pending

At least 16 people were injured in a Brooklyn subway shooting this morning, according to officials, with 10 suffering gunshot wounds and five people in critical but stable condition.

New York's governor said there is an "active shooter situation" in the city as the suspect is still on the loose.

There are no active explosive devices at the scene, according to the NYPD. The FDNY reported earlier that “several undetonated devices” were found.

Jared Kushner Saudi Revelations Compared to Hunter Biden Laptop

 https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-saudi-revelations-compared-hunter-biden-laptop-1696779

As news emerged that Jared Kushner—Donald Trump's son-in-law and former senior adviser—received a $2 billion investment from a fund led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman not long after leaving the White House, many on Twitter have raised their eyebrows

But if Hunter Biden's laptop story got so much media attention and sparked such vocal outrage among Trump supporters, the same indignation and the same scrutiny should be applied to Kushner's dealings with the Saudi crown prince, social media users say.

Rabbi Kaplan - Pesach Event 2022 - "Bittersweet"

JÜDISCH-UKRAINISCHER OLIGARCH LEITET IKG- FLÜCHTLINGSOPERATION, VERDÄCHTIGER IN MILLIARDENHÖHE UKRAINE - RUSSISCHE GELDWÄSCHEVORWÜRFE

 

Der ukrainische Millionär Maxim Slutski, der kürzlich von der IKG ernannt wurde, um das ukrainische Flüchtlingsprogramm in Wien zu koordinieren, ist eine mutmaßliche Verbindung in einem Milliarden-Dollar-Geldwäscheprogramm, das auf Putins gestürzten Marionettenpräsidenten Viktor Janukowitsch zurückzuführen ist.

Fragen ranken sich weiterhin um den Verbleib von Milliarden von Dollar, die aus dem ukrainischen Haushalt geplündert und vom ehemaligen ukrainischen Präsidenten Viktor Janukowitsch und seinen Kumpanen aus dem Land geschleust wurden. Während er am 25. Januar 2019 von einem ukrainischen Gericht wegen Hochverrats verurteilt und in Abwesenheit zu 13 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt wurde, muss das Rätsel, wie der vom Kreml unterstützte Politiker schätzungsweise 40 bis 70 Milliarden Dollar an Steuergeldern einfach "verschwinden" ließ, noch gelöst werden. Hier steht, wie die gestürzte Regierung der Ukraine mit 40 Milliarden Dollar davonkam (buzzfeednews.com) davon

Nach Janukowitschs feiger Flucht nach Russland im Jahr 2013 brach eine Gruppe von Journalisten in den leeren Präsidentenpalast ein, ein weitläufiges Landgut mit dem, was als "absurder Luxus" bezeichnet wurde, darunter ein Golfplatz, eine Vintage-Auto-Sammlung und ein privater Zoo, in dem seine berühmten Sträuße untergebracht waren.

Dort gruben sie Unmengen von Finanzunterlagen aus, die enthüllten, wie Janukowitsch und seine Spitzenbeamten Millionen von Dollar aus der Staatskasse in Offshore-Häfen versenkten. Die vernichtenden Beweise wurden vom ukrainischen Staatsanwalt beschlagnahmt, der eine Untersuchung einleitete. Privatdetektiven gelang es jedoch, Zugang zu Teilen des Materials zu erhalten und entdeckten, dass Janukowitsch auch riesige Summen über Briefkastenfirmen in ganz Europa wäschte.

Eines der aufgedeckten Unternehmen war die A.M. Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Frankfurt am Main), eine im September 2006 gegründete gewerbliche Immobilienverwaltungsgesellschaft unter der Firmennummer HRB 77967.

Laut Open Source wird das Unternehmen vom ehemaligen Ukrainer Maxim Slutski geleitet, der in Wien, Österreich, lebt. Maxim Slutski war mit Tina Schlesinger, der Schwester von Michael Schlesinger, verheiratet. Das Paar ließ sich 2009 scheiden.

Es wird berichtet, dass Janukowitschs Mitarbeiter ein ausgeklügeltes Netz von Unternehmen aufgebaut haben, die mit Rückkaufkreditprogrammen handeln. Das Diagramm, das von den Ermittlern unten erstellt wurde, zeigt Slutski, seine zweite Frau Yuliya (geb. Kaplan) und Yuliyas Schwester Olena Gyellyer, angeblich in eine verworrene Operation verwickelt, die direkt zu dem Verbrecher führte, der Victor Janukowitsch an der Basis versteckte (rot eingekreist).

Im Wesentlichen ist die Art und Weise, wie das Netzwerk funktioniert, dass Unternehmen (A) X Geldbetrag von Unternehmen (B) leiht. Das Kreditgeberunternehmen (B) verkauft die Schulden dann an das Unternehmen (C). Schließlich werden die Schulden vom ursprünglichen Kreditnehmer oder von einem anderen Unternehmen unter seiner Kontrolle zurückerworben. Auf diese Weise wird die Schuld aufgelöst, da es unwahrscheinlich ist, dass Unternehmen (A) die Schuld jemals gegen sich selbst durchsetzen wird. Die wahren Zahlen der Unternehmenskonten werden dadurch verzerrt. Während Unternehmen A weiterhin Einnahmen aus der Kreditinvestition generieren kann, vermeidet es die Einkommensteuer, da das Darlehen und seine Rückzahlung in den Bilanzen als Verlust ausgewiesen werden.

Im Jahr 2008 soll Slutskis Unternehmen ein Darlehen in Höhe von 2 Millionen US-Dollar von zwei zypriotischen Frontfirmen, Dardo Trading Ltd und Jenifex Participation Limited, mit Sitz in Nikosia (gelb eingekreist), erhalten haben. Die Nutznießer dieser Unternehmen sind Yulia Shchukina und Vladislav Kravets (blau eingekreist), beide ukrainische Staatsbürger und laut Quellen in Strafverfolgungsbehörden auch bekannte Banker. Zwischen 2012 und 2018 sollen Shchukina und Kravets die Schulden an Maxi Services Ltd (grün eingekreist) weiterverkauft haben.

Es wird dann berichtet, dass die zwischengeschalteten Unternehmen, New Thornhill Trading Inc. und Margolex Limited (violett eingekreist), Maxi-Dienstleistungen (grün) von den Schulden entlastet und entlang der Kette "weiterverkauft" haben.

Laut der Untersuchung verkaufte Margolex (lila) die Schulden schließlich an ELIZATEN MANAGEMENT (orange), überraschenderweise ein in Schottland registriertes Unternehmen.

 Interessanterweise ist die Gründerin von Elizaten Management eine Olena Gyellyer, geborene Kaplan, Schwester von Yulia Kaplan, der oben genannten Frau von Maxim Slutski.

 Nachdem die Kette der Transaktionen erschöpft war, kehrte die ursprüngliche Schuld an Slutski zurück, um sie entweder zurückzuzahlen oder abzuschreiben.

Im Jahr 2020 floh Slutski mit seiner Familie nach London nach einem angeblichen Entführungsversuch (Drei Ukrainer beschuldigen den Richter Emelyanov bei einem Entführungsversuch in Deutschland - World News (24-my.info) in Wien. Dort wohnte er in diesem luxuriösen 3,1-Millionen-Pfund-Haus in Hampstead.

Seitdem hat er sich in Wien wieder fest etabliert, wo er eine herausragende Rolle innerhalb der IKG und des Lauder Chabad spielt, angeführt von Rabbi Jacob Biderman. Als ehemaliger ukrainischer Flüchtling wurde Slutski ausgewählt, um alle Aktivitäten im Zusammenhang mit dem Zustrom von Flüchtlingen zu koordinieren, die derzeit aus ihrer belagerten Heimat fliehen, und arrangierte zu ihren Ehren eine extravagante Party über Purim.

Während es philanthropisch erscheint, gibt es eine bittere Ironie um ukrainische Flüchtlinge, die die Wohltätigkeiten erhalten, die möglicherweise auf das Geld des Steuerzahlers zurückgeführt werden könnten, das ihnen in erster Instanz gestohlen wurde.

Gegenüber dem dysfunktionalen Strafverfolgungssystem der Ukraine müssen Janukowitschs Mitarbeiter noch vor Gericht gestellt werden. Was Janukowitsch selbst betrifft, so soll er unter Putins Schutz in Russland leben. Putins brutale Angriffe auf ukrainische Zivilisten sind, wie Experten sagen, ein Versuch, Selenskyjs Regierung zu destabilisieren und Janukowitsch wieder als pro-russische Marionette zu etablieren.

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Israeli study: 4th COVID shot halves death risk among severe patients over 60

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-study-4th-covid-shot-halves-death-risk-among-severe-patients-over-60/

A new Israeli study strengthens evidence that getting fourth shots of the coronavirus vaccine curtailed deaths in Israel, showing that the Pfizer boosters halved the chances of death from COVID among severe hospitalized patients over age 60.

The study by Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, also found that fourth shots halve the odds that a patient will need ventilation.

“In short, they appear to significantly reduce the two worst outcomes — death and ventilation,” Dr. Tal Brosh, who led the comparison of outcomes among three-shot receipts and four-shot recipients, told The Times of Israel.

The Ukraine War is a blow to Trumpism

 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-703562

The War on Truth is about the big picture, about governmental lies about major governmental ploys which are spread by hordes of liars for hire who could not be deployed before the emergence of the Internet, the smartphone, and the social network.

Israeli MK quits coalition over chametz argument with health minister

 https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/israeli-mk-quits-coalition-over-chametz-argument-with-health-minister-15wjKDKIPVJm4URdVl4lrI

The governing coalition of Israel has lost its majority in the Knesset after conservative MK Idit Silman, resigned from her role.

Backbencher Silman resigned from the governing coalition currently led by Prime minister Naftali Bennett citing her belief that a “national, Jewish and Zionist government" should be leading Israel.

Silman has joined the opposition Likud party, currently led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This defection comes after Silman criticised health minister Nitzan Horowitz, a member of the Meretz party, for lifting a ban on chametz in hospitals during Pesach to comply with an Israeli Supreme Court ruling that

No convictions in Michigan governor kidnap plot; 2 men acquitted, 2 face new trial

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/08/verdict-gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-plot/9512571002/

The historic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot trial ended with no convictions Friday, delivering a blow to the government as it failed to convince a jury that four men were domestic terrorists determined to harm the governor because of her COVID-19 restrictions.

The jury acquitted Daniel Harris on all four counts, and Brandon Caserta was acquitted on the one count of kidnapping conspiracy — so both men are free to go.

The jury deadlocked on charges against Adam Fox and Barry Croft, so a mistrial was declared for those defendants.

The U.S. Attorneys office in Grand Rapids said it will retry the men, and that it is "obviously" disappointed in the outcome of the case.

Trump Jr. Accused of 'Treason' After Pre-Jan. 6 Texts to Meadows Revealed

 https://www.newsweek.com/trump-jr-accused-treason-after-pre-january-6-texts-meadows-revealed-1696577

While votes for the 2020 election were being counted, Trump Jr. texted then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows laying out a strategy to keep President Donald Trump in power by throwing out election results of key swing states, CNN reported Friday. The disclosed texts shed further light on recent revelations of Trump and his inner circle's efforts to block the certification of the 2020 election.

"It's very simple," Trump Jr. texted to Meadows on November 5, according to CNN. "We have multiple paths We control them all."

The texts between Trump's eldest son and the top White House aide describe a course of action to keep the president in power: prevent swing states from certifying their results through lawsuits and demanding recounts. After casting doubt on the election's legitimacy, GOP-controlled Legislatures could assemble pro-Trump slates for the Electoral College, according to CNN.

GEICO cancels Linda Sarsour’s speaking arrangement

 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-703580

Sarsour most recently made the news in mid-2021 with her comments on the Surfside building collapse in Miami, in which she approvingly replied to a tweet that read “I really don’t understand the IDF’s involvement in rescue attempts of people tragically crushed under buildings in Miami. Their expertise is crushing buildings with people in them, not rescuing them.”

No, Tucker Carlson Didn’t Ask if Dead Bodies of Ukrainian Civilians Were ‘Staged’

 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tucker-carlson-ukraine-bodies-staged/

While Tucker Carlson has often hedged his language about Russian President Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine, the Fox News host did not pose a question casting doubt on the reality of Russian atrocities, despite its being attributed to him in a recent viral tweet.

Suspected child molester indicted by Jerusalem DA

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/flashes/573615

 The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office filed an indictment in the city district court against Shmuel Weinberg (23), a resident of Kiryat Gat, after he abducted a 10-year-old minor and committed sexual offenses with him about two weeks ago in Beit Shemesh.

New study shows antibody levels not predictive of protection against COVID infection

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/325403

A study recently conducted by researchers from Bar-Ilan University and Ziv Hospital in Tzfat has revealed fascinating findings regarding the significance of antibody levels for protection against infection with COVID-19.

The study, which was published in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal, followed almost a thousand healthcare workers from Ziv Hospital over an eleven-month period and tested their levels of antibodies against COVID at six different points along the way, from their first dose of COVID vaccine through their first booster shot (the third shot in total).

The study’s authors observed that healthcare workers who contracted COVID before the trial commenced were about half as likely to be reinfected as healthcare workers who received two doses of vaccine were to contract COVID, demonstrating significant natural immunity.

Bar Mitzva for twins - who isn't invited?

 With the twins up coming bar mitzva one would have expected that Beth would have been invited but it hasn't happened yet. Oversight?