https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1919879890238591374
This may be the video related.
Reporter says "You said that the Houthis are backing down. We're seeing conflicting reports that the Houthis are continuing to attack Israel in support of Gaza. Does that change the equation?"
Trump says "I don't know about that but I do know that they want nothing to do with us."
The other information that I am inferring is that Ansarallah is possibly still going to attack commercial ships traveling to Israeli ports. Ansarallah had previously declared a trade blockade on Israel and more recently an air blockade. Ansarallah is agreeing specifically not to attack the US military, except for self defense.
What I wonder is how the US military will respond if Ansarallah again attacks a commercial ship bound for Israel. Is the US saying that it will no longer protect commercial ships? Or is Trump setting up a trick scenario where the US will reopen attacks on Yemen when Ansarallah continues their blockade on Israel?
"No Israeli ship will reach any port until the siege is lifted and the aggression on Gaza ends"
That quote is saying that Ansarallah is not agreeing to stop attacks on Israeli-related ships. It is different from Ansarallah agreeing to stop attacking US military.
Trump in the press conference says that there was no official communications with Ansarallah. He said that he believed that Ansarallah made a statement that they would stop attacking the US if the US stopped attacking them. I think Trump is doing a strong arm and hoping they play along.
A statement from Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, says the US halt of “aggression” against Yemen will be evaluated. "Trump's announcement of a halt to America's aggression against Yemen will be evaluated on the ground first. It is a victory that separates American support for the temporary entity from a failure for Netanyahu, and he must resign."
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti says "As for our attacks on the US, they fall within the context of the right to self-defense. If it halts its attacks on us, we will halt our attacks on it. This position also applies to Britain."
https://xcancel.com/TheMediaOfficee/status/1919810922052215208
I think the important distinction is that Ansarallah is agreeing to not attack US Military. They are still open to attacking ships linked to Israel as long as Israel continues the genocide in Gaza.
related post https://hexbear.net/post/4776212
China is responding to the videos that the CIA posted on twitter on May 1. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conference had been closed since April 30 for Labor Day holiday break.
China had previously criticized the CIA for attempting to recruit Chinese official on October 28 2024. The CIA had posted a powerpoint slideshow encouraging Chinese Officials to become spies for the US. The more recent 2 videos are live action propaganda films, which depict Chinese officials as living luxurious lives.
October 28 2024 https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xw/fyrbt/lxjzh/202412/t20241217_11495678.html
Global Times: The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Western countries believe that China is conducting espionage activities on an “unprecedented scale” to undermine rival states and bolster the country’s economy and that Western spy agencies are unable to contain Beijing’s activity. Does China have a response to that?
Lin Jian: I don’t know what factual basis this report has. For some time, a very few Western media outlets have been peddling disinformation on so-called espionage activities by China, but they presented no facts or evidence apart from some assumptions and speculations. Yet, I noted that the CIA recently posted on social media instructions in Chinese on how to contact it online, in an attempt to lure Chinese personnel to be their informant. This seriously infringes on China’s national interest. China strongly protests this. We will resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotage activities by anti-China forces outside China and defend national sovereignty, security and development interest.
The CIA has long been using all kinds of despicable methods to steal other countries’ secrets, interfere in their internal affairs and commit subversion. The US has never stopped its espionage activities against China. It has also long been conducting massive surveillance and secret theft against its allies. The US on the one hand blatantly carries out spying activities worldwide, yet on the other makes unwarranted accusation of spying threat against other countries. This is a clear misrepresentation of the facts.
The US needs to immediately correct its wrongdoing, stop its tricks of framing others, and stop creating more chaos and turbulence in the world.
I'm interpreting this to be a "mask off" moment. It was a very obvious mask. Israel clearly always wanted to settle in Gaza. Israel was saying things such as "Israel has a right to defend itself" and claiming that they were only targeting Hamas.
The reason that they are probably going mask off now is because Israel has blocked food to Gaza for the last 65-ish days. Israel is using starvation as a weapon. They are making the calculation that mass starvation has created the opportunity to permanently occupy Gaza and expel all of the Gaza population.
In videos of Netanyahu speaking in Hebrew, he speaks about relocating the Palestinian population.
H.R. 867—a bill that would punish Americans for supporting boycotts of Israel—has been removed from this week’s US House of Representatives schedule.
https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1919195123360948346
related to this https://hexbear.net/post/4804836
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/fb10dbcf3834fce14f199cd9469822d1.kcmsf
This is the article posted by DPRK. It has 6 photos of Kim inspecting a tank. KCNA.kp is an official website hosted in DPRK. The website posts new articles usually at 6-7 PM Eastern Time Zone.
I check it almost every day and post when they are interesting to me, which I guess is sort of arbitrary.
Thought this photo was pretty neat. It shows all the builders of their new warship standing beside it, to show the size.
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/4d748e6942ec6d3f92dde50df616ad6e.kcmsf
This article shows photos of testing the new missile system on their massive new warship.
Another interesting this is that the KCNA website actually runs on RedStarOS. If you inspect the website's HTTP header in your browser, it tells you that kcna.kp runs on "Server: Apache/2.4.25 (RedStar4.0) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips PHP/5.6.2".
This might be the most "orphan-crushing machine" article that I've ever read. At a time when the people of Gaza are on the brink of mass starvation. The latest Israel blockade on Gaza aid started on March 2, over 2 months ago. It says that the Vatican has given aid to Gaza in the past through an organization called Caritas Jerusalem. The pope giving his old car to Gaza seems cartoonish, at a peak moment in the genocide. It feels symbolic at best.
It's exactly like one of the articles which says like "6 year old sells lemonade to pay for their cancer treatment". It leaves you asking the question, "Why are we ignoring who created this situation? Why are they not being held accountable?"
For sale: chemo mug, never smashed. 
Ground-breaking Ceremony for Building Motor Bridge Linking DPRK and Russia Borders Held
Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- The construction of the motor bridge linking the DPRK and Russia borders began while practical measures have been positively taken to strengthen bilateral exchange and cooperation under the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries of the DPRK and Russia.
The construction of the motor bridge serves as a significant occasion in adding fresh dynamics to the development of the friendly relations between the two countries as it provides a substantial guarantee for laying down and reinforcing the important infrastructure for economic cooperation and for vitalizing the bilateral cooperation including travel of persons, tourism and circulation of commodities in a many-sided way.
A ground-breaking ceremony took place simultaneously in Rason Municipality, a border city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Khasan, a border city of the Russian Federation, on April 30 amid deep interests and expectation of the governments and peoples of the two countries of the DPRK and Russia.
The national flags of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation were fluttering at the flagstaffs in the DPRK-Russia Friendship House, the venue of the DPRK side.
Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Mikhail Mishustin, prime minister of the Russian Federation, attended the ceremony in Pyongyang and Moscow via video-conferencing.
Present at the ceremony were Jong Myong Su, vice-premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, Yun Jong Ho, minister of External Economic Relations and chairman of the DPRK side of the DPRK-Russia Inter-governmental Committee for Cooperation in Trade, Economy, Science and Technology, Kim Kyong Jun, minister of Land and Environment Protection, Sin Chang Il, chairman of the Rason Municipal People's Committee, Kim Jong Gyu, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, officials concerned, builders and working people in Rason Municipality.
Also on hand were Alexandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, Oleg Kosheev, consul general of the Russian Federation in Chongjin, and members of the embassy and consulate.
The national anthems of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation were played.
Mikhail Mishustin, prime minister of the Russian Federation, made a congratulatory speech.
He said that the construction of the motor bridge linking Russia and DPRK borders serves as a significant occasion showing the common will to strengthen the friendly and good-neighborly relations between the two countries and to develop cooperation between the regions.
Comrade Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, and Comrade Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, concluded a treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, thus developing the Russia-DPRK relations onto a new high stage and providing conditions to start the joint work that is mutually beneficial, he stressed.
He affirmed that the motor bridge linking Russia and DPRK borders which contributes to the expansion of bilateral trade and economic cooperation would be a symbol of peace and friendship between the Russian Federation and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made a congratulatory speech.
He extended warm congratulations on behalf of the DPRK government to the builders and friends of the two countries who made sincere efforts to successfully ensure the start of the construction of the bridge to be handed down forever as a historic monument to the DPRK-Russia friendship, true to the strategic plan of Comrade Kim Jong Un and Comrade Vladimir Putin.
He said that after the historic DPRK-Russia Pyongyang summit, bilateral exchange and cooperation have been further vigorously expanded and developed in all fields and the joint plans conducive to the promotion of the well-being of the peoples of the two countries have been carried on.
He stressed that the construction of the motor bridge would contribute to laying an eternal foundation for the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries that put on a track of new comprehensive development.
Construction equipment went into the work at the bridge construction sites of both sides according to the instructions given by the heads of the governments of the two countries.
In the concluding speeches, the heads of the governments of the two countries expressed belief that the motor bridge linking the borders would be successfully built as a monumental edifice to be brilliantly recorded in another golden letters in the history of the DPRK-Russia relations.
Then a commemorative monument to the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the DPRK-Russia border motor bridge was unveiled.
Inscribed in the monument were the national emblems of the two countries and the letters "Commemoration of Starting the Construction of DPRK-Russia Border Motor Bridge April 30, 2025" in Korean and Russian.
That day the DPRK leading officials who took part in the ground-breaking event had a talk with leading officials of the Russian government who visited the DPRK-Russia Friendship House.
Present there were Jong Myong Su, vice-premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, Yun Jong Ho, minister of External Economic Relations and chairman of the DPRK side to the DPRK-Russia Inter-governmental Committee for Cooperation in Trade, Economy, Science and Technology, Kim Kyong Jun, minister of Land and Environment Protection, Sin Chang Il, chairman of the Rason Municipal People's Committee, Kim Jong Gyu, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Sin Hong Chol, DPRK ambassador to Russia, Jo Sok Chol, DPRK consul general in Vladivostok, and Yuri Trutnev, deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation and concurrently presidential envoy to the Far East Federal Region, Alexandr Kozlov, minister of Natural Resources and Ecology and chairman of the Russian side to the DPRK-Russia Inter-governmental Committee for Cooperation in Trade, Economy, Science and Technology, Roman Starovoyt, minister of Transport, Aleksei Chekunkov, minister of Development of the Far East and Arctic, Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of the Maritime Territory Administration, Alexandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, and Oleg Kosheev, consul general of the Russian Federation in Chongjin.
Discussed at the talk in detail were the practical issues for completing within the fixed date the construction of the DPRK-Russia border motor bridge which is of substantial and important significance in dynamically promoting the many-sided exchange and economic ties and development between the DPRK and Russia. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2025.05.01.)
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/82d0df4deb0670b97e75efd3a916fc6c.kcmsf
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1917375813177037212
This is the image that Trump is talking about. Trump insists that the letters are not photoshopped.
Video transcript
Trump: Wait a minute, he had “MS-13” on his knuckles tattooed!
Moran: He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way, but let’s move on.
Trump: Wait a minute. Hey, Terry. Terry. Terry. Don’t do that.
Moran: He did not have the letter “MS-13.”
Trump: It says “MS-13.”
Moran: That was photoshopped.
Trump: That was photoshopped? Terry, you can’t do that. They’ve given you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you’re doing the interview. I picked you because, frankly, I had never heard of you, but that’s okay. But I picked you, Terry, but you’re not being very nice. He had “MS-13” tattooed. Terry. Terry. Do you want me to show you the picture?
Moran: I saw the picture.
Trump: And you think it was photoshopped? Well, don’t photoshop it, go look at his hand. He had “MS-13.”
Moran: He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I’m not an expert on them.
https://xcancel.com/MFA_China/status/1917069881142612278
This version of the video has English audio. There is a another version of the video with Chinese audio.
This gist of the video is that China will not concede to US pressure because when you give a bully an inch, then they will take a mile. The video says "all bullies are paper tigers".
The video is only 2 minutes, worth watching.
https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1916889129771577847 (7 tweet thread)
https://archive.is/knnOU haaretz article
On Friday, Trump had claimed that he spoke with Xi over the phone.
https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/fyrbt/lxjzh/202504/t20250428_11606273.html
Phoenix TV: It was reported that President Trump said at a TIME interview on April 22 that President Xi Jinping “has called.” What is China’s comment? Is there ongoing talks between China and the U.S.?
Guo Jiakun: As far as I know, there have not been any calls between the two presidents recently.
Let me make it clear one more time that China and the U.S. are not engaged in any consultation or negotiation on tariffs.
AFP: The U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a television interview on Sunday suggested that China might be denying ongoing talks between the U.S. and China on tariffs because China is “playing to a different audience,” but that there’s a path forward. So would the Foreign Ministry like to respond to Mr. Bessent’s assessment of the situation?
Guo Jiakun: China’s position on the tariff war is abundantly clear. Tariff and trade wars have no winners. If a negotiated solution is truly what the U.S. wants, it should stop threatening and blackmailing China, and seek dialogue based on equality, respect and mutual benefit.
AFP: Can the Foreign Ministry share any details about Wang Yi’s trip to Brazil for the BRICS meeting, including any deals that he hopes to land with other countries on how to respond to tariff tensions?
Guo Jiakun: China previously shared Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s attendance at the Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs / International Relations and other relevant meetings. Readouts on Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s activities in Brazil will be released in due course. Please stay tuned.
I don't like playing word games. I'm just trying to post things that I think are interesting. The word"middle east" is a word that I inserted for context.
The exact Trump quote was "The plan we haven't talked about but we're not planning on stopping in Israel but we will be doing it at some point but not for this trip". If I just posted this quote, you wouldn't know what it meant.