The House of Representatives is debating what would, if implemented, amount to an act of war: a naval blockade by China.

The proposed change to the next US defense budget was proposed by Texas Republican Ronny Jackson, the Epoch Times reported, and is among 800 other amendments approved by the House Armed Services Committee.
Jackson’s proposal concerns a “Pentagon study of a naval oil blockade of China” and, according to the author, amounts to neither aggression nor war.

However, not all congressmen agree with Jackson. “I can guarantee you that we would consider it very provocative if China published a plan to blockade the United States tomorrow.” said Democrat Adam Smith of Washington, quoted by The Epoch Times.

However, there seem to be many hawks in the House of Representatives who have no problem debating a war with China.

A Republican official, Marl Alford, said it’s time the United States stopped worrying about whether talks of war with China would anger China.
“China is openly talking about being ready to invade Taiwan by 2027, maybe 2025,” Alford said, according to the Epoch Times. “We have to think about this strategically and that should include energy and what we should do to curb supplies to China.”

Some have pointed out that the Pentagon is already considering a naval blockade of China, but the findings of the study proposed by Congressman Jackson and approved by the Defense Committee are best discussed behind closed doors.

Others have pointed out that nobody in Congress wants war with China.

“The narrative is that there are people in the US, even in Congress, who are trying to provoke a war with China. “None of us want a war with China,” said Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton.

Discussing a measure like the naval blockade in the House of Representatives is inappropriate on several levels: First, it is purely a provocation to China, a country with which the United States, at least not currently, is at war. So it’s a technical issue that should probably be discussed behind closed doors, both because it’s military and because it’s foolish to inform the opponent in advance. All speeches too subtle for politics.

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Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, returned to the country today after completing an international trip that took him to the Vatican, Italy, Serbia and France .

In Paris, the Cuban head of state attended the summit for a new global financial pact, representing the Group of 77 plus China, the presidency highlighted on Twitter.

“President @DiazCanelB is already at home after visiting the Vatican, Italy, Serbia and France. In the latter country, he took part in the summit for a new world financial pact as a representative of the group of 77 plus China.”

Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa; the Organizing Secretary of the Central Committee of the PCC, Roberto Morales Ojeda, and the Prime Minister Manuel Marrero.

“At Havana’s José Martí International Airport, they received the President @DiazCanelB, the Vice-President @SalvadorValdesM, the Organizing Secretary of the Party’s Central Committee @DrRobertoMOjeda, and the Prime Minister @MMarreroCruz.”

The June 20-24 international tour included Italy, the Holy See, Serbia and France.

The Cuban head of state held meetings with the most important authorities in these countries, including a private audience with Pope Francis, the supreme pope of the Catholic Church.

The Cuban delegation included Politburo member and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, several deputy ministers of this department and First Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade and Foreign Investments Ana Teresita González Fraga.

Díaz-Canel meets solidarity friends and Cuban residents

Miguel Diaz-CanelPresident of Cuba, met in Paris, France with friends in solidarity with his country, compatriots living in the European nation, and figures in politics, culture and the arts.

As reported by the Presidency on Twitter, the meeting took place at the Cuban Embassy in Paris, at the end of a visit to that city by a delegation from the island to attend the summit convened by French President Emmanuel Macron for a new global financial pact.

The communication highlights that one of the participants in the exchange was the Cuban poet Nancy Morejón, winner of the National Prize for Literature (2001), recently a victim of the culture war against the revolution and invited to France as godmother of the first film festival in Cuba, in the city of Vitry -sur-Seine, which runs until tomorrow June 24.

“There was no lack of affection between Cubans and friends of #Cuba, expressions of solidarity, determination to fight against #HastaLaVictoriaSiempre and very good vibes with excellent music performed by Cuban artist Lester Chío,” Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Anayansi Rodríguez tweeted about meeting. , who is part of the island’s delegation visiting France.

Díaz-Canel arrived in Paris this Wednesday and will speak at the summit this Thursday for a new world financial pact as president of the Group of 77 plus China, a condition Cuba will meet in 2023.

In his speech, the Cuban President expressed that the worst consequences of the current international economic and financial order, which is deeply unfair, undemocratic, speculative and exclusive, hit developing countries harder.

The visit of the Cuban representation in France concludes a European tour that began this Monday, June 19, and included high-level exchanges in Italy, Vatican City and Serbia.

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The power struggle between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Yevgeny Prigozhin ended with a deal after Wagner mercenaries marched on Moscow. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said late Saturday night that Prigozhin would go to Belarus and the charges against him would be dropped. Wrestlers in his Wagner group would also not be prosecuted. He has “the president’s word” as a guarantee for free withdrawal.

Furthermore, according to the Kremlin spokesman, some of the mercenaries will be given a contract to serve in the Russian armed forces. According to his own statements, the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko persuaded Prigozhin to give up his uprising. Lukashenko volunteered to be a mediator because he had known Prigozhin personally for about 20 years, Peskov said. Prigozhin himself did not directly comment on this.

Shortly before, the mercenary chief had announced that he would prevent his units from advancing on the Russian capital, Moscow. “Our columns are heading back to the fields in the opposite direction,” he said in a voice message published by his press service on Telegram. So far, “not a drop of our fighters’ blood” has been spilled, Prigozhin said. “Now is the time when blood can be shed.” That’s why it’s time to flip the columns.

Group left Rostov

It was unclear at first whether, in addition to impunity, other concessions were being made or at least promised to Prigozhin to prevent his troops from advancing on Moscow. He was long considered a Putin confidant, an untouchable figure in the Russian power structure, until the Kremlin chief called him a “traitor” on Saturday morning – and thus publicly dismissed him. It is also questionable what will become of the foreign missions of Wagner’s army in the future, which represented Russian interests with armed force until the end, especially in Africa.

Wagner’s troops gave up their positions in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, which they held until early Sunday morning (local time). To applause from the civilian population, the first vehicles with mercenaries first left the Russian Southern Military Command headquarters – which they had occupied only hours before – before tanks and combat vehicles later left the city center. According to official information, all roadblocks on access roads around Moscow were lifted on Sunday morning.

The months-long power struggle between Prigozhin and the leadership of the Russian army escalated on Saturday night. The 62-year-old accused Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu of ordering an attack on a military camp by Wagner’s troops, thus risking the death of a “large number” of fighters. The notorious mercenary unit fought alongside regular Russian troops in Moscow’s war of aggression against Ukraine, most notably playing a major role in the capture of the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. However, there has been a dispute over competence and ammunition supplies for months.

After the alleged attack on the Wagner camp, which the Ministry of Defense in Moscow immediately denied, Prigozhin announced a “march of justice” to punish those responsible. On Saturday, his troops occupied military installations in Rostov-on-Don for the first time. Later it became known that other units marched towards Moscow. According to Prigozhin, the heads of his units were recently only about 200 kilometers from the Russian capital.

Monday non-working day in Moscow

Even after the bloody power struggle has been averted, Monday in Moscow will remain a day off in the Russian capital, as advertised. A spokeswoman for Mayor Sergei Sobyanin confirmed late on Sunday, at the request of the Ria-Novosti agency, that the decision he had taken was still valid.

In the early hours of the uprising by mercenaries from Wagner’s notorious private army, Sobyanin declared Monday a day off in Moscow for security reasons on Saturday morning and urged citizens to stay indoors. Later, Wagner’s chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, ordered his troops to retreat to their camps. Prigozhin himself will go to Belarus, the Kremlin announced.

According to the Russian leadership, the progress of the war against Ukraine was not influenced by the Prigozhin uprising. The situation has no effect on the course of the “special military operation” – as the Kremlin calls the war of aggression, said Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Nor is he aware that the president’s attitude toward Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has changed. Prigozhin accused Minister and Chief of Staff Valeri Gerasimov of incompetence and blamed the two for the many setbacks and high losses in the war. (apa)

Four other victims also contacted the police to report a 24yearold boy.

Only one of the victims claimed to have lost R$30,000. (Photo: Archives/CG News)

A 55yearold app driver went to the police to file an alleged false investment scam report. He, who prefers not to be named, lost R$30,000 and even sued a city guard for his involvement in the plan. The case is under investigation. The alleged scammer is said to be a 24yearold boy.

For the Campo Grande News, the victim explained that he sought out the boy to make an investment after the city guard asked him to pay R$10,000 in his name and another R$20,000 in his wife’s name about two years ago. And the promise would be that the amount would be deposited into the app driver’s account with the earnings, which never happened.

In November 2022, he then went to the civil police and filed a complaint for embezzlement. In addition, he even denounced the city guard at the institution’s internal affairs bureau, claiming that he was involved in the coup.

In addition to the app driver, four other people would have fallen victim to the same scam. The youngest was registered in January this year. According to the incident report, the 46yearold man, a truck driver, went to the 7th Civil Police Station on the 25th of the month.

According to the man, he signed an investment agreement with the alleged scammer dated July 8, 2022, in which he transferred R$50,000 to the boy and in a second agreement on the same day spent another R$70 thousand. Stocks that are expected to yield 4% or 8% interest monthly. The deal would expire on January 9, 2023.

The victim told police that she had received R$6,136 on September 27 last year, but after that there was no transfer and the boy stopped answering her calls, as did the insurance company CPM Investimentos responsible for the crime be through investments.

In addition to the two drivers, a woman, whose age and name were not disclosed, also reported the boy to the scam. In the report, she claims that she was in a relationship for nine months. During their time together, she transferred BRL117,500 for an investment in the exchange to be made with CPM, part of which was returned after six months.

However, she would have found out that the boy had posed as a federal highway cop and ended the relationship. A while later the woman asked him about the contract and he set up a meeting where some investment apps screens were shown showing the amounts blocked so he would not make the payments.

The boy would then have offered his car as payment if the deal hadn’t gone through. However, when the contract expired, the victim went in search of the suspect, who claimed the vehicle was financed and could not pass it on as payment and that he did not have the money to pay. Then he stopped responding to his exgirlfriend’s messages.

She also claims that to mitigate the damage, the author suggested that she issue a credit card in her name and route it through an alleged accomplice’s machine. This transaction was disputed by them and the amount withheld and then passed on to the woman, but she did not accept this.

In the same year, another person reported the boy to the police. This time the victim invested BRL 40,000 and received no payment from the defendant for four months.

O Campo Grande News Contacting the appointed city guard involved in the scheme, he claimed that he had four contracts with the boy, one for himself and the other for his wife and two children, and that he even paid the amounts for about one Year received, but then the problems began.

According to him, the allegation of involvement is not continued because he only reported the boy to the driver. He also claims that he has already been heard by the Home Office about the complaint, but does not understand why he was named as responsible.

“I also work as a locksmith. He knew the investment was risky. I filed a defamation complaint against him. Even in the church I attend, he blamed me. I also have contracts and amounts to receive with the boy,” he said.

The owner of the Sesdes (Municipal Secretariat for Security and Social Defense), Anderson Gonzaga, explained that the applicant contacted the GCM Ombudsman and lodged the complaint and that the case was referred to the Department of Internal Affairs for factfinding.

The alleged scammer was also wanted in the report, but all the phones we had access to were listed as not present. CPM Investimentos was also contacted using a number available on the internet, however the number also did not appear to exist.

As all victims pointed out, the boy had an office in Jardim Monte Líbano, but they could never be looked after by him. CPM Investimentos is a company from Sumaré (SP) and collects several complaints on the Reclame Aqui portal that the company has disappeared and has not paid the invested amounts to customers.