Bulletin N° 1123
“Surviving
Progress”
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/surviving-progress-2011/
or
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LvmAAZFxQkWl/
directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks
(1:26:32)
This
2011 Canadian documentary film is structured as a series of interviews,
interspersed with footage from all over the world. The film is said to be
"inspired by" Wright's lectures: Unlike the book, which focused on
ancient civilizations, the film focuses on the present-day impact of
civilization, including the impact of concentrated wealth. The underlying
message here is that current models and strategies of economic growth have no
practical connections with the real world. That is to say, the lack of an
ethical underpinning in modern global economic practices is directly
responsible for the overconsumption and exploitation of natural resources to
the extent that the increasingly more probable future population collapse would
take modern society right along with it.
Humanity's
ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is
actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse?
Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress inspired
Surviving Progress, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by
"progress traps" - alluring technologies and belief systems that
serve immediate needs, but ransom the future.
As
pressure on the world's resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt
nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic
progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who
have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour,
this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making
apes smarter isn't an evolutionary dead-end.
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“The
Occupation of the American Mind”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/P1uFzs2m4mqV/
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=escPZa9j8NBz3giF&v=ezNqSAIJIOI&feature=youtu.be
A
2016 film documentary, produced by Media Education Foundation, directed by
Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, and narrated by Roger
Waters
(1:24:55)
Over
the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian
territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce
backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world -- except
the United States. The Occupation of
the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception,
zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S.
Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. media culture, the film explores how the
Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israel lobby have joined
forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of
the conflict in Israel's favor. From the U.S.-based public relations campaigns
that emerged in the 1980s to today, the film provides a sweeping analysis of
Israel's decades-long battle for the hearts, minds, and tax dollars of the
American people in the face of widening international condemnation of its
increasingly right-wing policies.
The
documentary film begins with clips of the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2014, and
using experts, half of them American Jews, claims to show how the Israeli government and
pro-Israel lobby groups use their influence in the American media to shape the
views of the American people on its control of the West Bank and Gaza.
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“The
Power Principle”
by Scott Noble
The
Power Principle is a 1998 non-profit documentary movie directed by Scott Noble
and released online for free. The film makers explore how, in their view, the
US establishment promotes a culture of fear in order to secure increased
military expenses, year after year. The film claims the US government and the
military-industrial complex, together with the US media developed a powerful
propaganda machinery (inspired in good part from Nazi propaganda) in order to
scare and convince the public that US invasions like those in Dominican
Republic (1965), Grenada (1983), US support for brutal mass-killings, terror
campaigns like those in Guatemala (1954), Indonesia (1965), El Salvador (1979),
US-designed assassination plots like those in Nicaragua (1981) and in huge
parts of Latin America (Operation Condor) and support for overthrowing
democratically elected governments like those in Brazil (1964) and Chile (1973)
were needed in order to prevent the spread of communism, using mainly the
domino theory.
The
movie also points at the help provided by the Western countries to fascist
regimes in order to counter movements supporting workers rights (socialism,
communism, anarchy). The fascism is presented as an instrument in the hands of
the plutocracy for oppressing and enslaving the working class.
The
meaning of the movie's title, "The power principle" is revealed as
the Mafia principle, which is "not allowing disobedience" - in this
case not allowing the countries in the developing world to have governments
that try to improve the life of the many.
The
movie traces the roots of the US establishment (both Republican and Democrat
parties) mindset into the doctrine of Edward Bernays,
pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, who believed the
democracy is hard to handle and people are just too stupid to govern themselves
in democracy, so there is a need of an elite, public guardians who manage the
society and there is a need of public relation practitioners who would be
professionals in working for the government for managing, manipulating the
public and engineering consent.
The
film is split into three parts: "Empire", "Propaganda" and
"Apocalypse".
Part 1 – Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q0Wdk7ek7Q
(1:35:43)
Part 2 – Propaganda
https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-power-principle/
(1:35:42)
Part
3 – Apocalypse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qJE_rPvEgE
(1:11:06)
Grenoble, France
November 18, 2023
Subject: Advanced lessons in Class
Struggle: The glass half empty or half full?
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Given the multiple crises that the
ruling classes have orchestrated to save their skin from social revolution and the
radical restructuring of political economies around the world, this week we
allow events to speak eloquently for themselves.
In the 26+ items below readers
will find a meaningful challenge to the liberal capitalist ideology which has
guided us unwittingly into the mess we have now inherited, and out of which is
struggling the notion of self-determination
and industrial democracy.
By looking at what we have left
after this carnage and debacle, instead of remaining obsessed with the morose
idea of what we have lost (not the least of which were illusions in the first
place), we meet the challenge of constructing a better society, mindful of the
lessons we have learned from our cruel, expert masters -- the ruling-class owners of capital
(and would-be owners of our souls).
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
___________
Professeur honoraire
de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
“Collaborators
in genocide”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhrKozPfU2c&si=ymlleiwXQlMPVesF
with George Galloway
(1:23)
I will
never forget the nightmare on Rashid Street, says George, and neither should
the quisling politicians and journalists be allowed to forget it either
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“They Call Us Terrorists”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WfLVa1u4pk
(13:28)
Israel continues to unleash hell
upon the 22-by-5-mile concentrated area of Gaza, in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories, with relentless airstrikes and indiscriminate bombings of
hospitals, residential buildings, schools, and other civilian sites.
As
besieged Palestinians shelter and flee and die within the walls of their cage
in Gaza, Resistance forces are mobilizing to rise up against an Occupation that
has presided over lives for 75 years. Where there is occupation, there is
resistance, and numerous Palestinian resistance groups exist across the
Occupied Territories. These groups consist of occupied subjects turned freedom
fighters—those who have been directly targeted by Israel, who have witnessed
their friends and families die at the hands of occupying forces, and who have
been labeled "terrorists" for resisting their slow extermination. In Jenin, a 1km square ghetto-like refugee camp in the
occupied West Bank, and the target of numerous Israeli incursions, there are
many who have chosen the path of armed resistance, and many who felt they had
no other choice. For those who suffer under the direct oppression and daily
practices of apartheid—including the suspension of human and civil rights,
military-imposed blockades and checkpoints restricting people's movements, the
demolition of homes and killing of family members—there comes a breaking point.
Generations of Palestinians, born into Occupation and violence, do not live a
life of dignity. As they describe, under these conditions, they have nothing to
live for and nothing to lose, and they have everything to fight for. In July of
this year, before the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks and Israel's genocidal
retaliatory offensive in Gaza, The Real News Network
spoke to members of the community in Jenin refugee
camp about their lives under Occupation, the role of the Resistance there, and
the fight for freedom.
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“The Hamas Attack”: What Really
Happened on October 7?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-really-happened-october-7/5837833
by Robert Inlakesh
and Sharmine Narwani
Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed
were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own
civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’
stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in
Gaza.
*
Two weeks after the Hamas breakout assault on Israel
on 7 October, a clearer picture of what happened – who died, and who killed –
is now beginning to emerge.
Instead of the wholescale
massacre of civilians claimed by Israel, incomplete figures published by the
Hebrew newspaper Haaretz show that almost half the
Israelis killed that day were in fact combatants – soldiers or police.
In the interim, two weeks of blanket western media
reporting that Hamas allegedly killed around 1,400 Israeli civilians during its
7 October military attack has served to inflame emotions and create the climate
for Israel’s unconstrained destruction of the Gaza Strip and its civilian
population.
[Click below to Access Haaretz
article]
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“What really happened in Israel on Oct. 7? w/Max Blumenthal | The Chris Hedges Report”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gECjlpXF8
with Chris Hedges and Max Blumenthal
(41:52)
For all the sensationalism surrounding the events of Oct. 7, when Hamas broke through the Gaza fence and seized territory in the Gaza Envelope as part of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, there is still much that we do not know. The official Israeli death toll from the attack is estimated at 1,200 civilians, revised from an initial estimate of 1,400. Among this figure are several hundred civilians, which Israel says were killed by Hamas militants. Other testimony from survivors of Oct. 7 suggests an alternative explanation—that in its fervor to defeat Hamas, Israeli commanders may have willingly targeted and sacrificed Israeli soldiers and civilians in the crossfire. Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone joins The Chris Hedges Report for an in-depth look.
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“Those lies have fuelled a genocide”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlZMkgAzQmU&si=Gb5ZFzcuPCBR2SfA
with George Galloway
(2:53)
Emerging
not from the western press but from the Israeli media, and from the Israeli
public who are a switched on and Internet savvy public. And the latest
revelation is the actual footage from the Apache helicopters that were machine
gunning people and vehicles at the music festival, where people were dancing
almost within earshot of the anguish behind the wire, in the refugee camp, the
concentration camp called Gaza.
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“200 Doctors, 50 Journalists, 100 UN Staff,
4500 Kids & 10k Civilians Killed By Israel In One
Month”
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/over-200-doctors-killed-by-israel/
with Ryan Cristián
(3:38:55)
As always,
take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself,
and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling
you what the truth is, or claiming they have the answer, is likely leading you astray, for one reason or
another. Stay Vigilant!
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The Children of Palestine are Categorized by Netanyahu as “the Children of Darkness”. Gaza
is Becoming ‘A Graveyard for Children’. UNSG Guterres
https://www.globalresearch.ca/gaza-graveyard-children/5839398
by Media Lens
An authentic democracy cannot be psychopathic
because most people are not psychopaths.
Most people would not vote to kill, wound and
displace hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians for power, profit or
territorial gain. Most people do not accept the great lie of ‘pragmatism’: that
‘the anarchical society’ of
international relations mandates psychopathic violence: If ‘we’ don’t behave as
psychopaths, somebody else will.
Most people don’t believe the world can be divided between Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s‘children of light’ and ‘children of darkness’.
You don’t need to be a mystic to know that love, kindness, compassion – ‘light’ – arise naturally in all human beings allowed to live in freedom and peace.So, the Children of Light have now killed 10,022 of the Children of Darkness ... including 4,104 literal Children of Darkness, and 2,641 Women of Darkness. * Persons of Darkness still buried under the rubble not included. https://aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/
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“Letter to the Children of Gaza”
by Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges,
travels to the border of Gaza, detailing the fear and suffering experienced by
the children living there due to constant bombing and deprivation. Despite
explaining their plight for years, the reporter feels his efforts have been
largely ignored, but continues to share their stories in an attempt to stop the
violence.
Dear child.
It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness,
thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go
to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because of you.
You have
never been in a plane. You have never left Gaza. You know only the densely
packed streets and alleys. The concrete hovels.
You know only the security barriers and fences patrolled by soldiers that
surround Gaza. Planes, for you, are terrifying. Fighter jets.
Attack helicopters. Drones.
They circle above you. They drop missiles and bombs. Deafening
explosions. The ground shakes. Buildings fall. The
dead. The screams. The muffled
calls for help from beneath the rubble. It does not stop. Night and day. Trapped under the piles of
smashed concrete. Your playmates. Your schoolmates. Your neighbors. Gone in seconds. You see the chalky faces and limp bodies
when they are dug out. I am a reporter. It is my job to see this. You are a
child. You should never see this.
The stench of death. Rotting corpses
under broken concrete. You hold your breath. You cover your mouth with
cloth. You walk faster. Your neighborhood has become a graveyard. All that
was familiar is gone. You stare in amazement. You wonder where you are.
You are
afraid. Explosion after explosion. You cry. You cling
to your mother or father. You cover your ears. You see the white light of the
missile and wait for the blast. Why do they kill children? What did you do? Why
can’t anyone protect you? Will you be wounded? Will you lose a leg or an arm?
Will you go blind or be in a wheelchair? Why were you born? Was it for
something good? Or was it for this? Will you grow up? Will you be happy?
What will it be like without your friends? Who will die next? Your mother? Your father? Your brothers and sisters? Someone you know will be
injured. Soon. Someone you know will die. Soon.
At night you
lie in the dark on the cold cement floor. The phones are cut. The internet
is off. You do not know what is happening. There are flashes of
light. There are waves of blast concussions. There are screams. It
does not stop. . . . .
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“Israel's
endgame in Palestine is genocide”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42FmObIfodY&si=7NNbe4Xwpn1PMfy2
with Marc Steiner and Chris Hedges
(27:08)
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“Israel was
the midwife of Hamas”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg1k3xx_BFA
with George
Galloway
(22:28)
“We’re in a time of monsters, and the
monsters are our leaders. Israel, as the occupying beast, has no right of self-defence.”
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Worse Than Hell: Dr. Mads Gilbert Decries Israeli Military Raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4U-g9JIoQA
with Amy Goodman
(9:12)
The Israel military raid on Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering, is an "unprecedented attack on civilian society" in the "darkest time in modern history," that is being justified in the West by "a deep-rooted and frightening racism," says Dr. Mads Gilbert, who worked at Al-Shifa. "You don't do these things to people you consider equal." Dr. Gilbert is a Norwegian physician who just spent weeks in Cairo trying to enter Gaza to help his colleagues and has worked extensively in Palestine since 1981. "The civilian population of Gaza [have] done nothing wrong other than being born Palestinians in Gaza," he says. "Israeli impunity has reached a new level, and we are all sinking into that abyss of disregard for human life.”
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Israel Releases Video of Weapons Inside Al Shifa Hospital | Vantage with Palki Sharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAlI-24B9_E&si=qgogfRGBalXf4u6R
by FirstPost
(7:39)
Israel has released videos allegedly showing Hamas weapons inside the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza city. Hamas has denied using the hospital as a military base or command centre. Meanwhile, Israel's prime minister has warned that Hamas terrorists will be struck all over Gaza, hinting at a wider offensive in the south.
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INTERVIEW: The IDF is exacting revenge on a helpless people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iswixy3HAP4&si=szTesG9vMF4iPfjj
with George Galloway and Scott Ritter
“The Israel Defence Forces have brought nothing but shame on themselves throughout this entire campaign, says Scott Ritter”
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b.
“Which Countries Support Israel Around the World?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WfLVa1u4pk
(11:31)
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INTERVIEW: Lowkey
pins the Gaza rap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLHu-9XXNLk
with George
Galloway
(14:17)
This Palestinian resistance is a
right and the majority of the world sees it that way. Lowkey
takes no prisoners
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“UN Rights Chief Says Israel’s
Collective Punishment in Gaza Is a War Crime”
“Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human
Rights” by UN Geneva is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
by Jessica Corbett
United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk declared Wednesday
that “the collective punishment by Israel of Palestinian civilians amounts… to
a war crime, as does the unlawful forcible evacuation of civilians.”
Israel’s monthlong war on Gaza has killed over 10,500 Palestinians,
wounded thousands more, displaced
70% of the strip’s 2.3 million residents, and
decimated civilian infrastructure, including homes, religious buildings, and
hospitals.
Türk’s comments came after he visited the Rafah
border crossing that connects Egypt to Gaza, which he described as “the gates
to a living nightmare—a nightmare where people have been suffocating, under
persistent bombardment, mourning their families, struggling for water, for
food, for electricity and fuel.”
Long before
October 7, when a Hamas-led attack killed over 1,400 Israelis and triggered
Israel’s retaliation, Gaza was “described as the world’s biggest open-air
prison… under a 56-year occupation and a 16-year blockade by Israel,” he
highlighted.
The U.N.
rights chief also stressed that “the atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian
armed groups… were heinous, brutal, and shocking. They were war crimes—as is
the continued holding of hostages.” Israeli officials say there are about 240
hostages.
“We have
fallen off a precipice. This cannot continue,” he warned. “Even in the context
of a 56-year-old occupation, the current situation is the most dangerous in
decades, faced by people in Gaza, in Israel, in the West Bank, but also
regionally.”
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Norman
Finkelstein RESPONDS to Bernie Sanders statement OPPOSING GAZA CEASEFIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R49v3K29mM&si=6sA5-XRwcqIROGS4
with Norman Finkelstein
(40:34)
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Ukraine Proxy
War & Gaza Genocide Fatally Expose Western Hypocrisy and Moral Bankruptcy
by Information Clearing House Editors
Western
leaders and institutions have brought themselves into unprecedented disrepute
over their complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people. This is
all the more amplified by the NATO proxy war in Ukraine.
Not only is
Western complicity in war crimes exposed but also what is on display to the
whole world is the shocking double standards and hypocrisy of the Western
leaders. These people are liars, psychopaths and criminals.
What we are
witnessing is something profoundly historic: the seminal collapse of Western
images of presumed democratic and moral authority.
All across
the globe, huge public protests are mounting against the appalling slaughter of
civilians in Gaza and the West Bank by Israeli state forces. European and North
American cities, including Washington DC, London, Berlin and Paris, are seeing
millions of citizens marching in protest, not only against the Israeli state
crimes but also – equally important – the depraved culpability of their own
governments in facilitating the genocidal destruction underway of the
Palestinian people.
The popular
outrage is even being expressed by ordinary staffers, diplomats and other workers within
governments and parliaments. Protests by workers have blocked ports from
shipping Western weapons to Israel. Journalists within Western media
corporations are also denouncing the bias of
their organizations, complaining – rightly – that the compromised news coverage
is aiding and abetting the genocide.
U.S. President Joe Biden and other Western leaders are being heckled in
public for their complicity in genocide. Among the protesters are Jewish
organizations and individuals who survived the Nazi holocaust.
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“10 HUGE Gaza Lies Israel Wants You To Believe”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgAzEtnJGME&si=3kPCBEwHDp41F1iG
with Jimmy Dore
(20:38)
There’s a tremendous
amount of disinformation and number of outright lies being spread by Israeli
officials and their apologists about the assault on Gaza. Journalist and
political commentator Caitlin Johnstone has compiled what she believes are the
ten biggest lies currently circulating as a means of spreading pro-Israeli
propaganda.
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“WITHOUT
MERCY” - MOATS with George Galloway
https://www.youtube.com/live/MeZ7xiUE8ws?si=1Ku3rpgpKhd1dea2
with George Galloway, Mohamed Hijab,
and Bryce Greene
(2:08:55)
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Roger Waters
& Abby Martin on “Gaza Genocide”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNHE78Lye0
(54:39)
Legendary Pink Floyd musician Roger
Waters joins Empire Files to discuss his longtime advocacy for Palestine and
the crisis in Gaza.
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c.
“A Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran is Contemplated”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/planned-us-israeli-attack-on-iran-2/5615443
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
We stand in
Solidarity with Palestine. But we must recognize that the United
States Military and Intelligence apparatus is firmly behind Israel’s
genocide directed against the People of Palestine.
And this
must be part of the solidarity campaign, namely to Reveal the Truth regarding Washington’s insidious role, which is part of a carefully
planned military agenda directed against Palestine and the broader Middle
East. Netanyahu is a proxy, with a criminal record. He has the unbending
support of Western Europe’s “Classe politique”.
The U.S. led
War on the People of Palestine and the Middle East is a Criminal
Undertaking
Israel and
the Zionist lobby in the U.S. are NOT exerting undue influence AGAINST
U.S. Foreign Policy as outlined by numerous analysts.
Quite the opposite. The Zionist lobby is firmly
aligned with U.S. foreign policy, and Vice Versa. It targets those who
are opposed to war, who call for a cease
fire. It exerts influence in favour of the
conduct of the U.S. military agenda in support of Israel.
The US
military-intelligence establishment in coordination with powerful financial interests
is calling the shots in regards to Israel’s genocidal intent to “Wipe Palestine
off the Map”.
.
America’s
Military Doctrine: Deliberately Targeting and Killing Civilians
The targeting
of civilians and the killing of children in Gaza is modelled
on numerous US sponsored massacres of civilians (1945-2023) including the
2004 attack on Fallujah.
.
Veteran War
correspondent Felicity Arbuthnot reflected on the indescribable
barbarity of the 2004 Fallujah massacre, which
resulted in countless deaths and destruction. It was a genocide conducted by
the U.S military:
.
“The Americans invaded, chillingly: “house to house, room
to room”, raining death and destruction on the proud, ancient “City of
Mosques.”
Marines
killed so many civilians that the municipal soccer stadium had to be turned
into a graveyard …
One
correspondent wrote: “There has been nothing like the attack on Fallujah since
the Nazi invasion and occupation of much of the European continent – the
shelling and bombing of Warsaw in September 1939, the terror bombing of
Rotterdam in May 1940.”
The U.S.
is supportive of the Israeli genocide directed against the people of
Palestine. Prime Minister Netanyahu is a criminal. He is Washington’s proxy,
unreservedly endorsed and supported by the
Biden Administration as well as the U.S. Congress.
.
Zionism
constitutes the ideological underpinnings of
contemporary U.S. imperialism and its unending war against the
people of the Middle East.
.
The Zionist
“Greater Israel” dogma –as in all wars of religion since the dawn of mankind–
is there to mislead people Worldwide as to “who is really pulling the
strings”.
.
Zionism has
become a useful instrument which is embodied in U.S. military doctrine. The
“Promised Land” broadly coincides with America’s hegemonic agenda in the Middle
East, namely what the U.S. military has designated as the “New Middle East”.
.
Cui Bono:
“To Whom Does it Benefit”
There are
strategic, geopolitical and economic objectives behind Israel’s genocide
directed against the people of Palestine. “Crimes are often committed to
benefit their perpetrators”: Big Money, the Military Industrial Complex,
Corrupt Politicians…
The Genocide
is implemented by Netanyahu on behalf of the United States.
The US
military and intelligence apparatus are behind Israel’s criminal bombing and
invasion of Gaza. The unfolding Middle East War is largely directed
against Iran.
.
Iran and the
Nuclear Issue
Historical Antecedents. Using Israel As
a Means to Attacking Iran
In 2003, the
war on Iran project (Operation Theatre Iran Near
Term, TIRANNT)) was already Déjà Vu. It had been on the drawing board of
the Pentagon for more than 15 years.
Let us recall
that at the outset of Bush’s Second Term, Vice President Dick
Cheney dropped a bombshell, hinting, in no uncertain terms, that Iran was
“right at the top of the list” of the rogue enemies of America. And that Israel
would, so to speak,
“be doing the bombing for us” [paraphrase] , without US
military involvement and without us putting pressure on them “to do it”.
For further details see my article below was first published by
Global Research in May 2005, as well as PBS Interview with Z.
Brzezinski
This Dick
Cheney-style option is currently (November 2023) once more on the drawing board
of the Pentagon, namely the possibility that Israel which is already bombing
Lebanon and Syria, would be incited to wage an attack on Iran (acting on behalf
of the United States).
US Congress
Resolution (H. RES. 559) Accuses Iran of Possessing Nuclear Weapons
Careful
timing: In June 2023, the US House of Representatives adopted
Resolution (H. RES. 559) which provides a “Green Light” to wage
war on Iran.
The US House passed a resolution that allows the use of force
against Iran, intimating without a shred of evidence that Iran has Nuclear
Weapons:
Resolved, That the House of Representatives declares it is the policy
of the United States . . . .
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SAS Officer
John Letch drinks from the prosthetic leg of an Afghan amputee gunned down
during a 2009 raid at Kakarak
https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/08/patrick-lawrence-bidens-frankenstein/
by Patrick Lawrence
The new wave
of violence in Israel and Gaza now enters its second month. More than 10,000
people have been killed, The Associated Press reports, 40 percent of them
children. Where is this catastrophe going? What are the limits of Israel’s
inhumanity? Does the Biden regime, in its unforgivable support and
encouragement of this ethnic-cleansing operation, have another Frankenstein on
its hands—a monster it cannot control?
There is the
Ukraine case, a contrast as we consider this question. Volodymyr
Zelensky is pure cartoon creation—the greatest put-up
job of our century, posing as a defender of democratic freedom while running a
crypto–Nazi regime and, along with his generals and ministers, stealing
hundreds of millions of dollars. But Ukraine—weak, broke, and losing the proxy
war against Russia—is easily managed. Biden could unplug the electrodes from Zelensky’s temples any time he chose to do so. He won’t,
but he could.
It starts to
look as if Biden and his foreign policy people have lost what control they may
have had over Bibi Netanyahu and the fanatical regime
he directs. Last week Antony Blinken, on his second
trip to Israel since the Hamas assault on southern Israel October 7, asked the
Israeli prime minister to “pause”—we must not propose a ceasefire—Israel’s
daily bombing campaign up and down the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu refused the
American secretary of state more or less point blank. Ask yourself: Who was in
charge of that meeting, who was running the show? I have to say, Blinken does come over as a diplomatic pipsqueak time and
time again, as he did last summer in Beijing, when the Chinese leadership
actually scolded him before sending him home with nothing but lectures to show
for his effort.
The Biden
White House has been making sotto voce requests such as Blinken’s
for the past couple of weeks, all to very little
avail. Dim and wanting in all subtlety, even Biden, Blinken
and the rest of the regime’s national security crew are now aware that Biden’s
open-door, open-wallet support for Bibi’s frenzied
violence against Palestinians has turned into a political disaster from which
it will be difficult to recover. West Asian nations may not stand with
Palestinians to the extent one would like to see, but the old client
relationships with Washington appear to have been altered more or less
permanently.
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Israel’s
Nuclear Weapons in the Spotlight
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-nuclear-weapons-spotlight-scott-ritter/5840128
by Scott Ritter
Despite being
publicly censured, Eliyahu’s remarks have highlighted
the contentious issue of Israel’s unacknowledged nuclear weapons program.
As the war
between Israel and Hamas enters its second month, one of the top priorities of
all parties involved is to prevent the conflict from expanding regionally.
Israeli concerns over the emergence of a northern front with Hezbollah along
Israel’s border with Lebanon have prompted the US to deploy significant
military power to the eastern Mediterranean Sea as a show of force to deter
both Hezbollah and Iran from intervening. The prospect of a larger war between
Israel and Iran has also shone an uncomfortable light
on Israel’s nuclear weapons capability, and the possibility of these weapons
being used if the fighting in Gaza were to expand regionally. Both Israel and
the US have accused Iran of pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program, which
Iran vehemently denies.
Recent
comments by Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, where he alluded to the possibility that one of
Israel’s options in the war against Hamas could be to use nuclear weapons in
the Gaza Strip, thrust the reality of Israel’s unacknowledged nuclear weapons
program into the international spotlight. Eliyahu’s
comments were quickly disavowed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the heritage minister was suspended from
attending cabinet meetings.
Eliyahu, a member of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power)
party, made his comments while answering a question during a live radio
interview.
“Your
expectation is that tomorrow morning we’d drop what amounts to some kind of a
nuclear bomb on all of Gaza, flattening them, eliminating everybody there?” the
interviewer asked. “That’s one way,” Eliyahu
responded.
============
d.
Nov. 2, 2023
– “Gaza cease-fire top priority” as China assumes UNSC presidency
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202311/1301118.shtml
by Yang Sheng
China has
assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council for
November and sees promoting a cease-fire in the Israel-Palestine conflict as a
"top priority," said Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to
the UN, as the number of dead has passed 10,000 for both sides since October 7,
with 9,000 in the Gaza Strip.
"It is imperative to promote a cease-fire and halt the fighting, prevent
further civilian casualties, prevent a larger-scale humanitarian disaster and
prevent the conflict from spilling over," Ambassador Zhang Jun said during
a news briefing on the work of China's presidency of the UN Security Council on
Wednesday local time.
The latest Israel-Palestine war has quickly become the deadliest and most
destructive of the five wars fought since Hamas controlled the Gaza Strip in
2007, the AP reported. Since this conflict began, nearly 9,000 Palestinians
have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank, and 1,400
in Israel.
With Israel's ground operations continuing and the conflict further
intensifying, the death toll will keep rising.
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“As a Jew
Israel makes me sick”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjl5vYU8Fy0
with George
Galloway and Katie Halper
(1:32)
“Israel likes to claim that it makes
Jews safer. And as a Jew, I want to say that Israel does not make me safe.
Israel makes me sick, and Israel makes me less safe, because they are
committing crimes against humanity in the name of Jews.”
+
“Blades of Grass”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/10/blades-of-grass/
by Elizabeth Murray
Israelis joke
about needing to decimate each generation of Palestinian militants as
“mowing the grass,” an ugly metaphor that’s penetrated think-tanks in
Official Washington….
In early
2010, one of Washington’s most prestigious think tanks was holding a seminar on
the Middle East which included a discussion of Israel’s December 2008-January
2009 assault on Gaza which killed about 1,300 Palestinians.
When the
death toll was mentioned, one expert on the panel smiled enigmatically and
intoned: “It’s unfortunate, but every once in a while you have to mow the
lawn.”
The remark,
which likened killing hundreds of men, women and children many of them
noncombatants with trimming the grass, was greeted with a light tittering
around the room, which was filled with some of Washington’s most elite, highly
educated and well-paid Middle East experts. Not a single one objected to
the panelist’s black humor.
On the
contrary, several analysts and experts were grinning at the reference to
Israel’s strategy of mounting periodic attacks on the Palestinians to cull
each new generation of militants. Such is the nonchalance of Washington’s
policy-advising cognoscenti toward the ongoing and systematic genocide of
Gaza’s oppressed population.
The cavalier
language is symptomatic of the policymaking community’s increasingly pervasive
tendency to disregard and disparage the humanity of Palestinian victims of
Israeli attacks, which are often waged by Israel’s high-tech drones and
U.S.-supplied F-16’s. There is also a tendency to ignore or downplay Israeli
war crimes.
This
dangerously sociopathic attitude is prevalent whether cloaked in a cheap joke
or reflected in the failure by the State Department spokesman to condemn or
even acknowledge the criminality of Israel’s latest aerial and sea-based
bombardment of Palestinian civilians, at least 18 of whom have been killed in
the past 48 hours. Three Israelis also have died in retaliatory rocket fire.
After the
latest attacks, the State Department’s statement justified Israel’s bombardment
of Gaza as Israel’s “right to defend itself” against the launching of
relatively primitive rockets, mostly by radical groups, from inside Gaza.
+
Doctors in
Gaza Respond
A wounded Palestinian child getting treated at the overcrowded emergency
ward of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City following an
Israeli airstrike on Oct. 11. (Palestinian News & Information
Agency, or Wafa, for APAimages,
Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/08/doctors-in-gaza-respond/
by Julia Conley
The medical
providers called on the WHO and rights groups to hold accountable the group of
Israeli physicians who betrayed their profession by endorsing the bombing of a
hospital in Gaza.
+
Zionist think
tank publishes blueprint for Palestinian genocide
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/24/zionist-think-tank-palestinian-genocide/
by Kit Klarenberg
In a white
paper released over a week after the Hamas-led surprise attack on Israeli
military bases and kibbutzes, The Institute for
National Security and Zionist Strategy outlined “a plan for resettlement and
final rehabilitation in Egypt of the entire population of Gaza,” based on the
“unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the entire Gaza Strip” that Israel’s
latest assault on the besieged costal enclave provided.
Published in
Hebrew on the organization’s website, the paper was authored by Amir Weitman, “an investment manager and visiting researcher” at
the Institute who also leads the libertarian caucus of Israel’s ruling Likud
Party. The document began by noting that there are 10 million vacant housing
units in neighboring Egypt that could be “immediately” filled with
Palestinians. Weitman then assured readers that the
“sustainable plan…aligns well with the economic and geopolitical interests of
the State of Israel, Egypt, the USA and Saudi Arabia.”
Weitman’s ethnic cleansing proposal echoes forced transfer
plans advanced in recent days by former Israeli officials while capitalizing on
evacuation orders delivered to the entire civilian population of northern Gaza
by the Israeli military.
+
President
al-Assad: Gaza was never the issue
by President al-Assad
President Bashar al-Assad argued that the aggression against Gaza
cannot be understood in isolation from prior Zionist crimes. He urged
Arab-Islamic nations to avoid fragmented responses, emphasizing that continued
lack of comprehensive action allows Israel to execute further massacres,
leading to potential complete annihilation of Palestinians.
============
e.
“We are
Spartacus”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/john-pilger-we-are-spartacus/286237/
by John Pilger
Spartacus was
a 1960 Hollywood film based on a book written secretly by the blacklisted
novelist Howard Fast and adapted by the screenplay writer Dalton Trumbo, one of
the ‘Hollywood 10’ who were banned for their ‘un-American’ politics. It is a
parable of resistance and heroism that speaks unreservedly to our own times.
Both writers
were Communists and victims of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s House of Un-American
Activities, which, during the Cold War, destroyed the careers and often the
lives of those principled and courageous enough to stand up to homegrown
fascism in America.
“This is a
sharp time, now, a precise time …’ wrote Arthur Miller in The Crucible, ‘We
live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and
befuddled the world.”
There is one ‘precise’
provocateur now; it is clear to see for those who want to see it and foretell
its actions. It is a gang of states led by the United States whose stated
objective is ‘full spectrum dominance.’ Russia is still the hated one, and Red China is the feared one. From Washington and
London, the virulence has no limit. Israel, the colonial anachronism and
unleashed attack dog, is armed to the teeth and granted historical impunity so
that ‘we’ the West, ensure the blood and tears never dry in Palestine. British
MPs who dare call for a ceasefire in Gaza are banished, the iron door of
two-party politics closed to them by a Labour leader
who would withhold water and food from the children of Palestine.
In McCarthy’s
time, there were bolt-holes of truth. Mavericks welcomed then are heretics now;
an underground of journalism exists (such as this site) in a landscape of
mendacious conformity. Dissenting journalists have been defenestrated from the
‘mainstream’ (as the great editor David Bowman wrote); the media’s task is to
invert the truth and support the illusions of democracy, including a ‘free
press.’
Social
Democracy has shrunk to the width of a cigarette paper separating major
parties’ principal policies. Their one subscription is to a capitalist cult, neoliberalism, and an imposed poverty described by a UN
special rapporteur as ‘the immiseration
of a significant part of the British population.’
War today is
an unmoving shadow; ‘forever’ imperial wars are designated normal. Iraq, the
model, is destroyed at a cost of a million lives and three million
dispossessed. The destroyer, Blair, is personally enriched and fawned over at
his party’s conference as an electoral winner. Blair and his moral counter,
Julian Assange, live 14 miles apart, one in a Regency
mansion, the other in a cell awaiting extradition to hell.
According to
a Brown University study, since 9/11, almost six million men, women and
children have been killed by America and its acolytes in the ‘Global War on
Terror’. A monument is to be built in Washington in ‘celebration’ of this mass
murder; its committee is chaired by the former president, George W Bush,
Blair’s mentor. Afghanistan, where it started, was finally laid to waste when
President Biden shop-lifted its national bank reserves.
There have
been many Afghanistans. The forensic William Blum
devoted himself to making sense of a state terrorism that seldom spoke its
name, and so requires repetition:
“In my
lifetime, the United States has overthrown or attempted to overthrow more than
50 governments, most democracies. It has interfered in democratic elections in
30 countries. It has dropped bombs on the people of 30 countries, most of them
poor and defenseless. It has fought to suppress liberation movements in 20
countries. It has attempted to murder countless leaders.”
Perhaps I
hear some of you saying: that is enough. As the Final Solution of Gaza is
broadcast live to millions, the small faces of its victims etched in bombed
rubble, framed between TV commercials for cars and pizza, yes, that is surely
enough. How profane is that word ‘enough’?
Afghanistan
was where the West sent young men weighed down with the ritual of ‘warriors’ to
kill people and enjoy it. We know some of them enjoyed it from the evidence of
Australian SAS sociopaths, including a photograph of them drinking from an
Afghan man’s prosthetic.
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Israeli
Apache helicopters killed own soldiers, civilians on 7 October: Report
by Information Clearing House News Desk
New footage
corroborates previous reports that say the Israeli military is responsible for
many of the Israeli casualties during the first day of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
The Israeli
military has released drone footage showing hundreds of scorched and damaged
cars moved from the Nova music festival, providing further evidence that
Israeli forces likely killed many of their own during the start of Operation
Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October, RT reported on 6
November.
The Nova
festival took place near Kibbutz Beeri, only five
kilometers away from the Gaza separation wall. It was one of the first targets
hit by Palestinian resistance fighters when they broke out of Gaza, attacking
military bases and settlements from 6:30 am.
During the
attack, the Palestinian fighters managed to take some 240 Israelis captive,
including soldiers, settlers, and foreigners.
The new drone
footage shows an aerial
view of hundreds of burned and destroyed cars taken from the site of the
festival and placed in a dirt parking lot, creating a makeshift junkyard.
Israeli
rescue service Zaka claims they removed 260 bodies
from the festival site. Israel claims they were massacred by Hamas fighters and
civilian Palestinian looters who flooded across the open Gaza border fence in
the hours after the Hamas attack.
However, the
footage appears to confirm previous reports in Israeli media that Israeli
pilots flying Apache helicopters responded to the attacks by opening fire on
both Hamas fighters and Israelis.
A 15 October
report in Yedioth Ahronoth explained that the
first helicopters arrived in the Gaza Strip about an hour after the fighting
began.
+
“Are You Human Like Us?”
https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/13/are-you-human-like-us/
by Vijay Prashad
A hunger for
genocide and ethnic cleansing colours senior Israeli
officials’ statements and has influenced their conduct in this war. Talk of
civilian casualties is brushed off, and so are calls for a ceasefire.
+
Chris Hedges:
“The Horror, The Horror”
https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/11/chris-hedges-the-horror-the-horror/
by Chris Hedges
DOHA, Qatar:
I am in the studio of Al Jazeera’s Arabic service
watching a live feed from Gaza City. The Al Jazeera
reporter in northern Gaza, because of the intense Israeli shelling, was forced
to evacuate to southern Gaza. He left his camera behind. He trained it on Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical complex. It is night.
Israeli tanks fire directly towards the hospital compound. Long horizontal red
flashes. A deliberate attack on a hospital. A deliberate war crime. A deliberate
massacre of the most helpless civilians, including the very sick and infants.
Then the feed goes dead.
We sit in
front of the monitors. We are silent. We know what this means. No power. No
water. No internet. No medical supplies. Every infant in an incubator will die.
Every dialysis patient will die. Everyone in the intensive care unit will die.
Everyone who needs oxygen will die.
Everyone who needs emergency surgery will die. And what will happen to
the 50,000 people who, driven from their homes by the relentless bombing, have
taken refuge on the hospital grounds? We know the answer to that as well. Many
of them, too, will die.
There are no
words to express what we are witnessing. In the five weeks of horror this is
one of the pinnacles of horror. The indifference of Europe is bad enough. The active complicity by the United States is
unfathomable. Nothing justifies this. Nothing. And Joe
Biden will go down in history as an accomplice to genocide. May the ghosts of
the thousands of children he has participated in murdering haunt him for the
rest of his life.
Israel and
the United States are sending a chilling message to the rest of the world.
International and humanitarian law, including the Geneva Convention, are meaningless pieces of paper. They did not apply in Iraq.
They do not apply in Gaza. We will pulverize your neighborhoods and cities with
bombs and missiles. We will wantonly murder your women, children, elderly and
sick. We will set up blockades to engineer starvation and the spread of
infectious diseases. You, the “lesser breeds” of the earth, do not matter. To
us you are vermin to be extinguished. We have everything. If you try and take
any of it away from us, we will kill you. And we will never be held
accountable.
We are not
hated for our values. We are
hated because we have no values. We are
hated because rules only apply to others. Not to us. We are hated because we
have arrogated to ourselves the right to carry out indiscriminate slaughter. We
are hated because we are heartless and cruel. We are hated because we are
hypocrites, talking about protecting civilians, the rule of law and
humanitarianism while extinguishing the lives of hundreds of people in Gaza a
day, including 160 children.
+
“Holocaust 2.0, Blair and the Final, Funal Solution”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpErxRUwIKo
with George
Galloway
(19:13)
Holocaust, Hebrew Shoʾah,
Yiddish and Hebrew Ḥurban (“Destruction”), the
systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and
children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during
World War II. The Germans called this “the final solution to the Jewish
question.” The word Holocaust is derived from the Greek holokauston,
a translation of the Hebrew word ʿolah, meaning
a burnt sacrifice offered whole to God. This word was chosen because in the
ultimate manifestation of the Nazi killing program—the extermination camps—the
bodies of the victims were consumed whole in crematoria and open fires.
============
f.
“How Zionists collaborated with the Nazis, in
conversation with Tony Greenstein”
by Electronic Intifada, with Tony Greenstein
(1:19:41)
On episode
68, we speak with activist and blogger Tony
Greenstein, a veteran of the Palestine solidarity movement in the UK, about his
new book Zionism During the Holocaust:
The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State
and Nation.
With an anti-Zionist analysis, Greenstein’s book
dives into the history of the Zionist movement’s collaboration with the far
right, even including Nazi Germany, while seeking to build the state of Israel.
“You have to see Zionism as a racial project to
perpetuate the Jewish people, you can’t understand it any other way,” he tells
us. “It wasn’t to create a refuge for Jews or anything else. It was a
perpetuation of the Jewish nation-race.”
Greenstein analyzes the Zionist movement’s settlement
policy before, during and after the Nakba – the
expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians in 1947-1948 – and how Zionist leaders
“consciously ignored” the Nazi genocide against Jewish Europeans in order to
grab land in Palestine.
He says that in the early 1940s, Zionists “not only
were not bothered about the Holocaust, they actively tried to stop anyone who
wanted to provide a refuge from doing so. And that was the amazing thing. They
had a weird and incredible logic. But it was their logic.”
The Zionist logic, he adds, “was that where there are
Jews, there is anti-Semitism. Jews cause anti-Semitism, because they are living
in the countries of other people. In the words of [Israeli novelist] A.B. Yehoshua, they are guests in other people’s hotels, and of
course, they’ve outstayed their welcome.”
Transplanting Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe to
America or Britain, he explains, “would not solve the problem. It would simply
recreate anti-Semitism in another place. So you had to be cruel to be kind and
say the only place of settlement was Palestine.”
He also talks about the reasons behind Israel’s
current alignment with far-right regimes and governments.
“Israel has no hesitation in cooperating with
neo-Nazi regimes and movements. Is it any wonder? We have a Jewish Nazi party,
which is set to become the third largest in the Knesset [Israel’s parliament]
now,” he explains, in reference to the Religious
Zionism party, which looks set to win a ministerial
seat in the next government.
“If you
establish an ethno-nationalist state, what you do accords with the logic of
what the Nazis did as well. That’s the fate of ethno-nationalist states, which
is why neo-Nazis today love Israel, because really, what is there not to like
about it? As [American far-right figure] Richard Spencer says, ‘I’m a white
Zionist.’”
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Canada,
Ukraine, and Nazis
Yaroslav Hunka, center front row, with his Waffen
SS unit. Volodomyr Zelensky
and Justin Trudeau applaud him in Canada's parliament. (Image: Zero Hedge)
https://www.blackagendareport.com/canada-ukraine-and-nazis
by Margaret Kimberley
The Canadian
government turned what should have been an ordinary photo opportunity with
Ukraine's president into a political debacle when a Ukrainian Nazi
collaborator was honored in parliament. Now Canada's history of admitting
Ukrainian SS volunteers is facing new scrutiny as Russia gains the upper hand
in the proxy war with the west.
There is
something especially satisfying when one’s opponents help make a case for
something they have denied. Recently the Canadian government did just that.
Their effort to prop up the failing Ukraine proxy war instead exposed that
country’s Nazi past and present.
Ukraine has
been a divided nation ever since its founding as a
state after World War I. Its population is divided by language with Ukrainian
and Russian speakers, with some favoring its status as a Soviet republic while
others were vehemently opposed. So strong was that faction that there were many
Ukrainians who actively collaborated with German occupation forces during World
War II.
+
“Christian
Zionism part 1: Tracing the Lines of a Warmongering Heresy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlRjFBSNy1M
(55:42)
+
“How the Gaza Attacks Could Reshape
the Middle East”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeFtGz5-mDw
with Vijay Prashad
(35:44)
+
“The Meaning of ‘From The River to the Sea’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLIGkU1jrYM
with Mitch Jeserich and Vijay Prashad
(44:02)
============
g.
Armistice Day
November 11, 2023: Meanwhile, discussions on the COVID Front
“More evidence that those who
"stand with" either Israel OR Palestine are being played”
by Mark Crispin Miller
“It's getting
ever clearer that this new catastrophe is yet another psy-op,
organized to push the globalist agenda, and therefore likely to be fatal to the
people on BOTH sides, and all the rest of us. . . . . ”
+
Update On Reiner Fuellmich Via Elsa
by Celia Farber
+
UPDATE -
REINER FUELLMICH - Nov 9, 2023
by Elsa
I know you
want to know.
So here is
the update from Bittel.tv.
There was a
personal message from Reiner.
He is doing
well, is thankful for all of you for being there.
He has a TV
and has now had contact with other prisoners and knows the stories of several
of them.
Letters take
about 2 weeks to get screened. He gets only 30 a day, and is grateful for each
and every one.
There were
also messages from Roger Bittel (of bittel.tv) that
we can now make donations to a German bank account.
I (Elsa) will
get the details and send them to you as soon as I have the exact information.
For any donation, you need to specify what it is to be spent on: legal costs,
etc. Everything must go to the designated expense.
Roger also
gave details about the arrest. As the passports of Reiner and his wife had been
lost somehow, new ones had been requested, along with an extension of their
visas. This had all been done uneventfully. They were to pick them up from the
airport, as the consulate was closed. But instead of being given the papers,
they were taken into custody for not having the papers they were supposed to be
picking up. Reiner was told there were also matters relating to him in Germany.
Reiner’s wife
was eventually released, but not Reiner. He was flown first to the States and
from there to Frankfurt, where the file was opened and his attorneys were able
to see the charges against him.
Roger closed
with a thank you to everyone for being there - over 8000 people were listening
on the Telegram channel alone. He asked that we continue to keep Reiner in our
thoughts.
He hoped to
have more news for Sunday, but stressed that at a time like this, sometimes we
need to be patient.
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Russia’s
Sputnik V “Covid vaccine” is now officially useless
https://off-guardian.org/2023/10/29/russias-sputnik-v-covid-vaccine-is-now-officially-useless/
by Riley Waggaman
Russians
promised “updated” vaccine but won’t be allowed to see trial data.
Sputnik V no
longer protects against COVID-19 and will have to be replaced with an “updated”
vaccine, according to Gamaleya Center director
Alexander Gintsburg.
The
mastermind behind Russia’s flagship shot claimed in a recent interview that
Sputnik V had been effective against COVID-19 “from August 2020 until somewhere
around July 2022,” but that the experimental genetic drug—developed in
cooperation with AstraZeneca—was no match
for newer “variants”.
“Starting
from mid-summer 2022, when Omicron 1, 2 and 3 variants appeared, Sputnik V’s
efficacy dropped eight times. When Omicron 4 and 5 appeared, efficiency dropped
by a factor of 20. And when the XBB.1.5 version of Omicron (Kraken)
appeared—this was in January 2023—Sputnik V simply stopped protecting completely,” Gintsburg told Gazeta.ru.
Gintsburg boasted in
April 2021 that Sputnik V could potentially provide “indefinite” protection
against COVID-19. A month later, Gamaleya’s
director adjusted his
assessment, predicting the vaccine would be effective for 2 years.
In April
2022, Gintsburg instructed Russians
to get revaccinated every six months.
+
Bludgeoning the proles
with public health
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/bludgeoning-the-proles-with-public?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=520963&post_id=138759741&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email
by Edward Slavsquat
The terror
will continue until morale improves.
Screams of
anguish echoed through the streets of Russia after Gamaleya
Center Director Alexander Gintsburg announced last
month that his unproven genetic slurry had “stopped protecting completely”
against the Dreaded Virus. The next day, Sputnik V was interred on Red Square
in Lenin’s Masonic pyramid. Fifty million Russians waited patiently in an 80
mile-long queue so they could pay their final respects to their beloved, safe
and effective AstraZeneca goo.
But then a
miracle happened:
On November
8, Sputnik V emerged from its tomb with an efficacy of 90%! From zero to hero,
to paraphrase the latest Science
from the Gamaleya Center:
“The effectiveness of the Sputnik V
vaccine with its original antigenic composition against fatal cases of Covid infection is 90%, despite changes in the level of
protection against infection due to the emergence of new variants of
SARS-CoV-2.” This was reported to TASS by [Gamaleya
Center important person] Inna Dolzhikova, one of the
developers of Sputnik V.
So … the guy who received the Order of Alexander Nevsky for inventing Sputnik V said that
his genetic sludge was no match for New Mutations like the Double-Bad Mega
Upsilon Variant, and that Russians would have to wait patiently for an
“updated” vaccine set for release next year—but then a week later one of his
underlings reassured TASS that Sputnik V was actually still safe and effective?
+
In memory of
those who "died suddenly" in the United States and worldwide,
November 7-November 13, 2023
by Mark Crispin Miller
Athletes in
the US (2), UK (2), Czech R. (2), Romania, S. Africa, Russia, Indonesia,
Australia (2); musicians in the US, UK, Argentina (2), Austria, S. Africa, Sir
Lanka, S. Korea, Japan; & more
+
“Statement
and Testimony, COVID-19 Vax Injuries”
by Robert W Malone MD, MS
A statement
prepared for the November 13 House of Representatives Hearing
The November
13, 2023 hearings are in the can now, and video clips from these hearings are
circling the world. Unfortunately, the prepared statements were not able to be
read and entered into the testimony due to time constraints and enthusiastic
questioning by the Senator and Congresspeople
present.
Therefore,
for those who are interested in my prepared testimony statement, I have
recorded it separately and provide both the video/audio recording and the
written text below . . . .
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“How Many
People Died in the US during 2020, 2021 and 2022 because of (="From")
Covid?”
https://drreidsheftall.substack.com/p/how-many-people-died-in-the-us-during
by Reid G Sheftall, M.D.
Our government
and Johns Hopkins claimed 1.1 million
Take a close
look at this histogram . . . .
It depicts
the DEVIATION by month from the average number of deaths per 100,000 population during the time period 2015 - 2019 in Sweden for
the years 2020 and 2021.
The first
thing that struck me about this graph was that, in both 2020 and 2021, only
about one fourth of the months had deaths per 100,000 higher than the
average of 2015 to 2019.
In a PANDEMIC? You’ve got to be kidding! Then I looked at the worst
month, April of 2020. The graph shows that SWEDEN, in that month, only
experienced 26 excess deaths per one hundred thousand people.
26/100,000 =
.00026 = .026 %
In other
words, at the worst time of the pandemic, the deaths per 100,000 people went up
only 2.6 hundredths of 1 %.
That’s what
we stopped the world for.
Let’s gather
some more amazing information, this time using the entire graph. . . . .
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“DNA
Integration Risk: Moderna knows, FDA denies”
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/dna-integration-risk-moderna-knows
by Robert W Malone MD, MS
Modified-mRNA
Vaccines are Adulterated with DNA fragments, and FDA
is stonewalling
Both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech
SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are contaminated with plasmid DNA fragments which have not
been removed during the current manufacturing processes. This proven
fact has been acknowledged
by the US FDA, Health Canada, and the European Medicines Agency. In yet
another clear breach of informed consent and labeling requirements, this was
not previously disclosed to physicians, public health officials, or patients.
Furthermore, the presence of highly active promoter/enhancer DNA sequences (and
fragments) derived from the SV40 virus, present in the Pfizer/BioNTech product, was not disclosed and discussed with
either the public or to the regulatory agencies. This has also been clearly
established. Prior FDA
guidance concerning the closely related DNA vaccine technology cited the
presence of such highly active regulatory sequences as being of particular
concern due to potential insertional mutagenesis
(integration).
Despite these
facts, and contrary to both federal law (21 U.S.
Code § 351 - Adulterated drugs and devices) and
established FDA guidance (CPG Sec.
420.100 Adulteration of Drugs Under Section 501(b) and 501(c) of the Act.
*Direct Reference Seizure Authority for Adulterated Drugs Under Section 501(b)*), in
response to reporter questioning regarding this issue, the FDA has
issued a categorical denial of adulteration and risk, stating
that “no safety concerns related to the sequence of, or amount of, residual DNA
have been identified.”
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“‘Adulterated’
Covid Vaccines Should Be Pulled From The Market: Experts”
by Mary Beth Pfeiffer
New findings of
DNA in 27 vials of Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19
vaccines constitute a legitimate, indeed urgent, reason to pull the mRNA
products from the market, experts on Covid vaccine
science agreed in public comments at the Summit
for Truth & Wellness conference Saturday October 21
in Rochester, N.Y.
The presence of DNA fragments in the mRNA injections
raises the unsettling prospect that a foreign genetic material, derived from E.
coli, will enter and influence vaccinee cells in
unpredictable and harmful ways. While the possible repercussions are unclear,
such vaccine “adulteration” is itself an extraordinary breach of the
manufacturers’ duty to report all components of vaccines for regulatory review,
said members of an expert panel at the conference.
“There are grounds for immediate pulling of the
product,” Dr. Robert Malone, a virologist who worked in mRNA vaccination
development, told a packed house of about 850 attendees. “Adulteration has
always been one of the key parameters that would result in withdrawal of a
product from the market.”
The DNA revelations were posted in April on a
pre-print server in Canada. On October 19, Health Canada confirmed what
five researchers had found in every one of the tested vaccines—the
presence of previously undisclosed sequences of DNA. In an email
to Epoch
Times, Health Canada, the equivalent agency to the CDC,
acknowledged that “the sponsor [Pfizer] did not specifically identify the SV40
sequence" in preapproval documents. SV40 stands for Simian Virus 40, from
which a DNA molecule was derived for use in Pfizer’s manufacturing
process.
FDA did not
immediately respond to my request for comment. The agency did not directly
address the DNA question from journalist Mary Ann DeMasi,
after her September interview with
Phillip Buckhaults, a cancer genomics professor at
the University of South Carolina who independently replicated the
findings. Instead, the agency assured her, "FDA is confident in
the quality, safety, and effectiveness of these vaccines.”
The
conference speakers, already universally concerned about deaths, myocarditis, blood clots, fertility issues and other post-vaccine
events, detailed their concerns about the findings’
implications.
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Do You Know
What’s in a Vaccine? Chemical Ingredients
https://www.globalresearch.ca/do-you-know-what-vaccine/5839377
by Health Freedom Defense Fund
Addendum to the Childhood Vaccination
Series
Over the last few decades, the number
of chemicals added to foods and other
products has skyrocketed. Chemicals are added to “enhance flavor”, make fruits
and vegetables look fresh, extend the shelf life of packaged foods and for
other invented reasons. A cornucopia of chemicals are also found in lotions and
beauty products with the ostensible reason that these chemicals make beauty
products feel, look, and smell nice.
Along with
this increase in heavily processed foods has come increased skepticism about the necessity of inserting
chemical additives into everything we touch and taste. A
significant and growing segment of the US population are beginning to
examine the health consequences of ingesting and absorbing these chemical-laden
products.
This growing
awareness about the adverse effects of ingesting and absorbing synthetic
ingredients and the public’s understanding of the attendant health benefits of
consuming products free from synthetic chemicals has prompted consumers to seek
out organic ingredient-based items in their foods and skin lotions.
More people
are showing interest in knowing about the ingredients
in their food and striving to ‘eat clean.’ This
increased awareness is evidenced in the steady growth of the organic
food industry and trends in
the natural and organic cosmetic industry where demand
is higher than ever.
This same
level of concern has begun to seep into the public conscience regarding a
certain medical product that has mostly avoided scrutiny – the vaccine.
Having been
trained to accept that this product is a customary aspect of everyday life,
most people haven’t given much thought to what’s inside the vaccine vials.
Rarely will the vaccine ritual in the doctor’s office include a discussion
about the ingredients which are about to be injected into the patient’s body.
It’s highly likely the physicians and nurses themselves don’t know the
ingredients of each vaccine.
So what’s in
that vial? What’s coming through that needle?
A Partial
List of Ingredients . . . .
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“COVID-19
vaccines immediate onset Autoimmune Disease adverse events in VAERS”
by Darrell O. Ricke, M.S., Ph.D.
“Many front
line physicians are raising the alarm about the rising incidence of COVID
vaccine-associated autoimmune disease.
I suggest that you may wish to consider this analysis of VAERS data relating to
this issue, which has been published by Dr. Darrell O. Ricke,
M.S., Ph.D.
Among other things, Darrell is a friend and colleague, as well as being a
highly accomplished Molecular Biologist, Computational Biologist, Data
Scientist, Bioinformatics, & Computer Scientist.”
-- Robert W
Malone
Non-random patterns and enrichment patterns.
My article on
immediate onset autoimmune disease adverse events with immediate onset
following vaccination is published online here: Ricke, GTM (2023) https://doi.org/10.36922/gtm.1455
This post focuses on 30+ autoimmune
disease adverse events enriched following COVID-19 vaccinations. The VAERS data
has the following limitations: (1) only a subset of actual
adverse events are captured (estimated at 1 in 241 in the above article)
and (2) reported adverse events include background frequency adverse events. If
the adverse events are all background and the number of dose 2 shots is
slightly less than the number of dose 1 shots for COVID-19 mRNAs, then the
ratio of [dose 2/dose 1] should be less than 1.0 for autoimmune disease adverse
events other than random fluxuations. So observing
excess autoimmune disease adverse events following dose 2 shots greater than
dose 1 shots is not likely to occur by chance very often.
. . .
The Moderna
Elasomeran mRNA vaccine has 100 micrograms of mRNA
with 4 weeks between doses while the Pfizer Tozinameran
vaccine has 30 micrograms of mRNA with 3 weeks between doses. A total of 30 of
32 autoimmune adverse events for dose 2 for Pfizer Tozinameran
have ratios greater than 1.0 with 29 greater than 1.1. In comparison, the Moderna Elasomeran vaccine shows
7 with ratios greater than 1.0 and 3 greater than 1.1. This is evidence of a
non-random enrichment frequency for the majority of these autoimmune disease
adverse events and the null-hypothesis of these being background associations
should be rejected for Tozinameran.
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COVID mRNA Vaccine Injury Series:
Stillbirths Near Due Date in Normal Pregnancy
by Dr. William Makis
Pregnant
women given NO INFORMED CONSENT with COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination; 18 recent cases
of unexpected baby death - 37 more after Pfizer and Moderna
COVID-19 mRNA - 55 Stillbirths Total
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“Excess
deaths in 2023”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uOxhYyfYw4
with Dr. John
Campbell
(9:58)
+
“Cancer after vaccines with Professor
Dalgleish”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnJ5T1Enwq4
with Dr. John
Campbell and Professor Angus Dalgleish
(1:16:29)
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“Cancer reactivation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bykt4eyiDPc
with Dr. John
Campbell and Professor Angus Dalgleish
Profound new medical research from
Professor Angus Dalgleish, MD, FRCP, FRCPA, FRCPath, FMedSci
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“Steve Wozniak and C-Knight both have
strokes; Brandon Cowperthwaite has brain cancer; John
York's cancer treatment; Kel Mitchell's ‘medical
emergency’; Wynonna Judd ‘hanging on for dear life’”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Alyssa Farah
Griffin missing from "The View"; Stevante
Clark has a "mild heart attack"; Cavaliers running back Perris Jones
"carted off field after terrifying injury"
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How low can they go? Toronto Sick Kids Hospital casts children's heart attacks as NORMAL, even offering to "cure" them (with pricey gadgetry)
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/how-low-can-they-go-toronto-sick?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=138954859&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4MTI5MzM4OCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTM4OTU0ODU5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDAyNjAyMDAsImV4cCI6MTcwMjg1MjIwMCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM4MzA4NSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.6iZnJWCf1PdvDi7HZFalTqD7tcYD7hsh0VNTkw2YFEo&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email
by Mark Crispin Miller
Propaganda having been deployed to kill and cripple countless children (and adults), the murderers are now deploying even MORE of it to cover up their crime (and make MORE money doing it)
First, check out this disgusting lie, which obviously cost a lot to make, what with its high production values (2:34). . . .
Now check out this shot of the forbidden truth—a video that obviously cost much less than the abomination from Toronto; and yet it’s worth immeasurably more:
NEW RELEASE: "Shot Dead"
Deeply Personal Documentary of Family Shock, Loss, and Anger after Death by COVID-19 Vaccination
“I don’t understand how everybody is just sitting back, and letting them do this.”
November 15, 2023
Link to video is below, on Dr. McCullough’s Substack.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/new-release-shot-dead?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
(14:04)
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h.
Billionaires
are teaming up for pro-Israel, anti-Hamas media drive: Report | Media News
by Aljazeera
A billionaire
real estate tycoon in the United States is rallying support for a high-dollar
media crusade to boost Israel’s image and demonise
the Hamas armed group amid global pro-Palestinian solidarity protests.
The media campaign — called Facts for Peace — is
seeking million-dollar donations from dozens of the world’s biggest names in
media, finance and technology, according to an email seen by news website Semafor.
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Leak shows
ex-Trump ambassador to Israel threatening NYU over Palestine protests
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/11/07/leak-trump-ambassador-israel-nyu-palestine-protests/
by Alexander Rubinstein
The Grayzone has obtained a letter signed by former President
Trump’s fanatically pro-settler ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, and sent
to New York University leadership demanding the school crack down on free
speech to satisfy Israeli interests.
A letter sent
to NYU leadership claims the school is “no longer a safe space for Jewish
students” while demanding policies that would shatter free speech on campus.
The letter was signed by David Friedman, Trump’s rabidly pro-settlement
ambassador to Israel, as well as dozens of Jewish American alumni apparently
afflicted with a particularly severe version of main character syndrome.
The letter demands that NYU ramp up security for Jewish students and
add mandatory coursework on the issue of “in line with universal values,
fact-based critical thinking, and civil discourse.”
Read the
leaked letter, “A Message from the NYU Jewish community,” here.
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Israel
Lobby’s Disastrous Domination
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/13/israel-lobbys-disastrous-domination/
by Cara MariAnna
As Israel
began accelerating its bombing campaign in Gaza last month, the president of
the United States sat with Israel’s prime minister at the start of an Israeli
war cabinet meeting. Benjamin Netanyahu had phoned Joe Biden two days
previously to request what The Times of
Israel called a “solidarity
visit.”
Much has
passed since Biden’s visit to Israel. The atrocity of Israel’s indiscriminate
military campaign in Gaza is now widely recognized as constituting a genocide. Principled non–Western nations — Bolivia, Chile,
Colombia, Honduras — began last week to sever relations with Tel Aviv or recall
their ambassadors. Since then, an additional
five countries have pulled their ambassadors from
Israel including South Africa, Jordan and Turkey. The world order, as should be
obvious, has been disrupted.
But questions
remain. What does solidarity, as Biden pledges, mean when Israel is daily
committing war crimes for all the world to see? Why is
the U.S., in violation of international law and everything it claims to stand
for, aiding and abetting Israel’s agenda of ethnic cleansing in Gaza? Why,
bringing matters closer to home, is the United States
prioritizing the interests and security of Israel above its own, while
simultaneously damaging its credibility and authority abroad?
These
questions raise the subject of the role of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee. U.S. foreign policy aligns so congruently with AIPAC’s agenda that
there is little distinction between them. In effect, the U.S. lacks an
independent foreign policy that reflects its own security interests in West
Asia.
At this
critical moment of violence, human suffering and chaos, we must recognize that
AIPAC, an unelected, technically nongovernmental agency, exercises an
excessive, wholly inappropriate influence in global affairs as well as in U.S.
politics. This is very rarely mentioned in our corporate media, and we can read
this silence as a measure of the organization’s unacceptable accumulation of
power.
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i.
The October 7 Hamas Assault on Israel
https://www.globalresearch.ca/october-7-hamas-assault-israel/5840022
by Scott Ritter
There is a
truism that I often cite when discussing the various analytical approaches to
assessing the wide variety of geopolitical problems facing the world today—you
can’t solve a problem unless you first properly define it. The gist of the
argument is quite simple—any solution which has nothing to do with the problem
involved is, literally, no solution at all.
Israel has
characterized the attack carried out by Hamas on the various Israeli military
bases and militarized settlements, or Kibbutz, which in their totality
comprised an important part of the Gaza barrier system, as a massive act of terrorism,
likening it to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks against the United States.
Israel supports this characterization by citing the number of persons killed
(some 1,200, a downward revision issued by Israel after realizing that 200 of
the dead were Palestinian fighters) and detailing a wide variety of atrocities
it claims were perpetrated by Hamas, including mass rape, the beheading of
children, and the wonton murder of unarmed Israeli civilians.
The problem
with the Israeli claims is that they are demonstrably false or misleading. Nearly a third of the Israeli
casualties consisted of military, security, and police officers. Moreover, it
turns out that the number one killer of Israelis on October 7 wasn’t Hamas or
other Palestinian factions, but the Israeli military itself.
Recently
released video shows Israeli Apache helicopters indiscriminately firing on
Israeli civilians trying to flee the Supernova Sukkot
Gathering held in the open desert near Kibbutz Re’im,
the pilots unable to distinguish between the civilians and the Hamas fighters.
Many of the vehicles that the Israeli government has shown as an example of
Hamas perfidy were destroyed by the Israeli Apache helicopters.
Likewise, the
Israeli government has widely publicized what it is calling the “Re’im massacre,” citing a death toll of some 112 civilians
it claims were murdered by Hamas. However, eyewitness accounts from both
surviving Israeli civilians and military personnel involved in the fighting
show that the vast majority of those killed died from fire from Israeli
soldiers and tanks directed at buildings where the civilians were either hiding
or being held hostage by Hamas fighters.
It took two
days for the Israeli military to recapture Re’im. It
only did so after tanks fired into the civilian residences, collapsing them
onto their occupants, and often setting them ablaze, causing the bodies of
those inside to be consumed by fire. The Israeli government has publicized how
it has had to make use of the services of forensic archeologists to identify
human remains at the Kibbutz, implying that Hamas had burned the occupants’
home. But the fact is it was Israeli tanks that did the destruction and
killing.
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Netanyahu
Outlines Zionist Permanent and Total Occupation of Palestinian Lands
https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-makes-zionist-permanent-occupation-plans-clear/5840002
by Lucas Leiroz de Almeida
Israel’s
plans for the Gaza Strip are becoming increasingly clear. Zionist pro-war
propaganda relies on the narrative of a supposed “fight against Hamas” to
convince public opinion, but Israeli officials are becoming explicit in their
statements, making it clear that the
“problem” they see in the region goes beyond of Hamas, having a dissatisfaction
with the Palestinian control over that territory.
In a recent
statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hamas has
already lost territorial control of northern Gaza, adding that Zionist forces
will remain in the region after the end of hostilities. According to Netanyahu, Tel Aviv
will not allow Palestinians to teach their children to “hate Israel”, which is
why there will be Zionist forces in the Strip to “supervise” the Gazans’ attitudes.
“There is no
substitute for victory. We will eliminate Hamas and save our hostages (…) The
IDF has completed the encirclement of Gaza City. They are on the outskirts of Shifa Hospital and have killed a lot of terrorists (…)
Hamas has lost control in the north of the Gaza Strip. They have no safe place
to hide. We will not stop until the mission is completed. We are doing
everything to be worthy of their sacrifice and heroism. [Gaza] will not be a
civil authority there that educates their children to hate Israel, to kill
Israelis, or to eliminate Israel. There cannot be an authority who didn’t condemn the massacre. There will have to be
something else, but in any case [it will be under] our security control. I
stand by it and don’t intend to give up”, he said at a press conference on
November 11th.
Read more: Second Nakba: The Start of Monumental
Destruction of the Middle East?
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Israeli War
Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-war-crimes-propaganda-follow-us-blueprint/5839983
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.
S. Davies
We have both
been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and
against identical crimes committed by U.S. allies and proxies like Israel and
Saudi Arabia: illegal uses of military force to try to remove enemy governments
or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military violence
justified by claims of “terrorism”; the bombing and killing of civilians; and
the mass destruction of whole cities.
Most
Americans share a general aversion to war, but tend to accept this militarized
foreign policy because we are tragically susceptible to propaganda, the
machinery of public manipulation that works hand in hand with the machinery of
killing to justify otherwise unthinkable horrors.
This process
of “manufacturing consent” works in a number of ways. One of the most effective
forms of propaganda is silence, simply not telling us, and certainly not
showing us, what war is really doing to the people whose homes and communities
have been turned into America’s latest battlefield.
The most
devastating campaign the U.S. military has waged in recent years dropped over 100,000
bombs and missiles on Mosul in Iraq, Raqqa in Syria, and other
areas occupied by ISIS or Da’esh. An Iraqi Kurdish
intelligence report estimated that more than 40,000 civilians were killed
in Mosul, while Raqqa was even more totally destroyed.
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Palestinian Groups Ask ICC to Arrest Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for
War Crimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtBN7mVO1T8
with Amy Goodman
We speak with Palestinian human
rights lawyer Noura Erakat
about a new effort to hold Israel accountable at the International Criminal
Court over the war in Gaza, where Israel's monthlong
air and ground assault has killed more than 10,000 Palestinians. On Wednesday,
three Palestinian rights groups filed a lawsuit with the international body,
urging it to investigate Israel for the crimes of genocide and apartheid. The
petition also calls for arrest warrants to be issued for Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. International inaction against Israeli
aggression is part of "a systematic failure to hold Israel to account for
decades," as well as the "absolute double standard" applied to
war crimes committed against people of the Global South, says Erakat, who was part of a team of academics and activists
who came together to support the ICC lawsuit. "This is not just a crisis
of international legal institutions, but also a crisis of democratic — or
so-called democratic — institutions in the countries in which we live."
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j.
Video: Israel Destroys Gaza to
Control World’s Most Important Shipping Lane? The Ben Gurion
Canal Linking the Eastern Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba
with Richard Medhurst and Prof
Michel Chossudovsky
Global
Research Introduction
Incisive and
carefully documented geopolitical analysis by Richard Medhurst
pertaining to the building of the Ben Gurion Canal
linking the Eastern Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba.
The Ben Gurion Canal Project was initially a “secret” (classified)
U.S. project formulated in 1963 by the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory LLNG, a
strategic think tank (focussing on nuclear radiation)
on contract with the U.S Department of Energy. The LLNG project was
formulated in response to the nationalization of the Suez Canal in July 1956 by
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
(1956-1970). Its intent was to bypass the Suez Canal.
According to the “classified”
document prepared by the LLNG (1963) quoted by Business
Insider, July 2023, a strategic plan was envisaged:
“to blast an alternative Suez Canal through Israel using 520
nuclear bombs”.
The plan
consisted in using 520 buried nuclear explosions “to help in the
excavation process through the hills in the Negev Desert. The document was
declassified in 1993”. I have not been able to consult the “declassified”
LLNG document.
The
declassified document is acknowledged in Richard Medhurst’s
video.
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Israel-Hamas,
Ukraine-Russia and China: John Mearsheimer on why the
US is in serious trouble!
https://www.youtube.com/@CISAus
with Professor
John Mearsheimer
(37:18)
Professor John Mearsheimer
addressed an audience in Brisbane on Monday, 23 October as part of an event
with Tom Switzer and Peter Varghese. This video is John's standalone lecture,
you can find the rest of the conversation and Q&A session in PART 2 here:
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Will Lebanon
Go to War to Save Gaza?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vCAz3FPBYw
with Rania Khalek and Abby Martin
(56:16)
Rania Khalek,
host of Dispatches on BreakThrough News, joins Abby
to discuss the Gaza genoicde, the border war between
Hezbollah and Israel, and the potential for a full-blown regional war.
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“US Military has Overextended Itself”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-C-G0aBcwY&si=giFxeO4beFXMWs6o
with John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen
(1:31:50)
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“NATO's
looming war against China”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Fgsn03BiM&si=OxLIHuDC19sNxZ4t
with Michael Hudson
(29:10)
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k.
Blinken and the
Terrified Arab Foreign Ministers. “Anthony Blinken
is Angry and Overtly Upset”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/blinken-terrified-arab-foreign-ministers/5839824
by Prof. Abbas J. Ali
During his
(November 4) meeting with Arab foreign ministers in Jordan, the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was angry and overtly upset – his Arab hosts raised some questions instead
of their normal nods of submissions.
As the death
toll approached 10,000, the foreign ministers were visibly concerned with
genocide and mass atrocities in Palestine.
Their fear is
that the wholesale assaults on innocent civilians is inciting popular
resentments and is deepening discontent among their people. They requested Blinken to have mercy on them as the popular protests
eventually endanger the survivability of Washington’s Arab protectorates.
Blinken was unmoved and asserted that Washington will not
tolerate popular protest or any support for the Palestinian cause in any part
in the Arab World.
And that the
Arab governments have no choice but to obey and submit. The
fearful foreign ministers got the message that Washington would not
accept any sympathy for Palestinians. They got the impression that he fully
embraced the Israel’s plan to pacify the Palestinians with bombs, bullets, and
forever occupation.
In his
instructions, Blinken left no room for guessing where
he stood and why he was there. Arab hosts understood that he was there to
ensure submission to Israeli will and that any dissent would be dealt with
harshly and swiftly. The hosts looked at each other’s face and were asking
themselves if they would face the same fate of Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, and
Libya where destruction is everywhere and misery is widespread.
More
importantly, the foreign ministers knew that the self-appointed Avenger from Tel Aviv, Bibi Netanyahu, dictated the talking points for Blinken.
And this is where Blinken was clear more than
ever. It is Bibi’s words and instructions that
he conveys both to his hosts and to President Biden. So, when Blinken’s god stated, “There will be no ceasefire . . .[and it] should be completely removed from the lexicon,”
elite in Washington listen.
Read more: The Palestinian Story Is Much Older Than October 7
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Defying Bans
and Challenging False Narratives: Millions More Demonstrate in Solidarity with
Palestine
by Abayomi Azikiwe
For five
consecutive weeks, hundreds of thousands of people in Britain have held
demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle against the
settler-colonial regime based in Tel Aviv.
Many of the
participants are calling for a ceasefire while others want to express their
support for the Palestinians resisting the onslaught of the Israeli Defense
Forces (IDF) with the backing of the United States, Britain and other Western
European states.
On Saturday
November 11, the Metropolitan Police in London estimated the number of marchers
to be 300,000. Organizers said that the crowd was at least 500,000. This turn out was the largest since the beginning of the siege
of Gaza on October 9.
This
mobilization was coordinated by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, a broad
alliance of political and community organizations with affiliates throughout
the country. The large numbers of demonstrators every week illustrates clearly
the popular concerns over not only the situation in Gaza, it is a condemnation
of the foreign policy of Conservative Party Prime Minister Rishi
Sunak who is a staunch ally of the government of the
State of Israel.
These
demonstrations have been peaceful, and the only arrests made on November 11
were to apprehend a small group of right-wing counter-protesters who showed up
to agitate the Palestine solidarity activists. There were news stories claiming
that the pro-Israeli counter-protesters had attacked the police prompting the
arrests.
Just a few
days prior to the November 11 actions, former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman published an
opinion piece in a leading newspaper, The Times, where she seemed to urge a ban
on the demonstrations saying that the marches were pro-Palestinian mobs exuding
hatred. Braverman noted in her diatribe that November
11 was Armistice Day, the 106th anniversary of the ceasefire at the conclusion
of World War I.
The then Home
Secretary accused the police of being lenient towards the Palestine solidarity
marches. In response, the director of the police publicly rebuked Braverman and stated that there was no legal basis for
placing a ban on the marches. Organizers of the demonstrations said that the
latest mobilization coinciding with armistice day was
quite appropriate for the existing war against the Palestinian people.
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l.
The Mafia,
CIA & Jeffrey Epstein Worked TOGETHER To Traffic Minors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rhlXhvf-c
with Jimmy Dore
and Whitney Webb
(47:27)
There is much more to the Jeffrey
Epstein case than an island for sex trafficking, flight logs and a suspicious
“suicide.” As journalist Whitney Webb unravels in her two-volume “One Nation
Under Blackmail” series, ties between the CIA, organized crime, international
arms dealers and sex traffickers date back to before World War II and the
Epstein connection merely represents the latest chapter in an unbelievably
sordid, many-tentacled tale of money, sex, violence,
power and blackmail.
Jimmy and Whitney discuss the
historical connection between the military, the CIA and organized crime as well
as Epstein’s ties to Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Victoria’s Secret founder Les
Wexner, among many other miscreants and malefactors.
+
Mohammed Hijab:
‘After Gaza I can’t live in the same way anymore’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RNWoW6EXSA&si=2KDWWvpZ7nMrPzqL
with George Galloway and Mohammed Hijab
(13:00)
+
Marc Lamont
Hill Slams Former Israeli Ambassador
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDnu5385kCM
with Michael
Walker and Ash Sarkar
(8:58)
============
m.
The Militarised
University: Where Secrecy Goes to Thrive. "The Military University
Industrial Complex"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/militarised-university-where-secrecy-goes-thrive/5839999
by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
For anyone
wishing to bury secrets, especially of the unsavoury
sort, there is one forum that stands out. Call it a higher education
institution. Call it a university. Even better, capitalise
it: the University.
This is
certainly the case in Australia, where education is less a pursuit of knowledge
as the acquiring of a commodity, laid out spam for so much return. On
that vast island continent, the university, dominated by a largely
semi-literate and utterly unaccountable management, is a place where secrets
are buried, concealed with a gleeful dedication verging on mania.
In its submission to what will
hopefully become the Australian Universities Accord, the Australian Association
of University Professors (AAUP) notes the following:
“Unfortunately, university managements are increasingly disconnected from
and unaccountable to academic values and academic communities. Students,
Government and granting bodies, pay universities to deliver services according
to academic values, but academics are impeded from working in accordance with
academic values by interfering management. Further, the managers themselves do
not work in accordance with academic values.”
Those in the defence industry have taken note.
By turning such institutions of instruction into supply lines for research and
development in armaments, they can be assured of secrecy conditions the envy of
most intelligence agencies.
Consulting, viewing, gaining access to relevant agreements, documentation and
projects for reasons of public discussion is virtually impossible. These are
always seen as “commercial” and “in confidence”.
Only the overly fed and watered members of the University Politburo are
granted such access. Entry into the arcana of its
deliberations is ceremonially tolerated via Academic Board meetings or
Senatorial deliberations. Furthermore, academics throughout the university
sport a reliable, moral flabbiness that will prevent them from spilling the
beans and airing a troubled conscience, even in cases where leaking the
documentation might be possible. Middle class, mortgage-laden status anxiety is
the usual formula here, one that neuters revolutionary spirits – not that there
was much to begin with.
Across Australia’s universities, the AUKUS military initiative between
the US, UK and Australia, primarily focused on developing nuclear powered
technology for a new submarine design, has titillated the managerial wonks of
the tertiary education sector. In September, the Defence
Department announced that 4,000
additional Commonwealth supported places (CSPs) for undergraduate students
would be funded as part of its “Nuclear-Powered Submarine Student Pathways”
strategy.
Read more: Universities
and the AUKUS Military-Industrial Complex
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Touch screens
are vastly more effective than the telescreens in
"1984," because they "let" you keep YOURSELF under
surveillance every minute
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/touch-screens-are-vastly-more-effective?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=138924586&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email
by Mark Crispin Miller
The surest
way to keep us under totalitarian control has been to have us go and stay there
"willingly"
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Saturday
Night Film: “A Good American”
by Celia Farber
What Exactly
Happened At the NSA To Bill Binney And His
Outstanding Crew?
See video
here: A Good
American (1:36:14).
+
“An Open
Forum with Bill Binney”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=4sT-JGYKJrBOIWsk&v=YqSQaJfz9GY&feature=youtu.bewith
with Transcript
(1:13:43)
It was a
privilege to welcome Bill Binney to Allard Hall for
his March 14, 2019 presentation on the surveillance state, the right to
privacy, and blowing the whistle on the NSA. His unwavering fight for
transparency, government accountability, and the rule of law is an outstanding
demonstration of the values of the Allard Prize and an inspiration to many.
+
NSA
Whistleblower Tells How NSA Tracks You! w/Bill Binney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=qpeYyDkjZ6RKXPbm&v=PoeJeWfoSpQ&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(24:47)
NSA
Whistleblower Reveals Thought Process Of Exposing
Government Corruption
============
n.
The Dignity
of Human Beings and Their Personality: Neurotechnology
and The Manipulation of The Human Nervous System.
"Saving Freedom and Democracy"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/let-us-try-save-freedom-democracy/5839838
by Mojmir Babacek
Due to
advances in physical science and neurotechnology, it
is crucial to introduce in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union the
following amendments, which should then be reflected in the legislations of the
member states of the European Union. It is
unacceptable that any human being in the European Union could be deprived of
his or her dignity by manipulation of his or her nervous system and personality
by dual use neurotechnologies. Nobody will be deprived of his or her
right to life by the use of weapons based on the effects of physical fields on
the human body or nervous system to cause the death of a person by
remotely-produced heart attack (see this, pg. 250); suffocation (pg. 254); any form of cancer; diabetes;
myocardial infarction; haemorrhage in the brain;
thrombosis in the lungs, formation of blood clots (pg. 485) or any other deadly disease or
malfunction of organs produced at a distance by electromagnetic or any other
physical fields. Use of such fields to kill people will be considered, murder.
It is
prohibited, under harsh sentences, to remotely access human brains with the use
of technical means to decipher its activity and to control it for other than
medical purposes (pg. 250, 251, 256).
Depriving a
person of his or her free will with the use of dual use neurotechnologies
imposing on him or her thoughts, emotions (pg. 250),
hallucinations etc. or manipulating his or her subconscious and turning him or
her, in this way, into a toy in the hands of manipulators (pg. 321, J.F. Schapitz) will be considered to be a torture, as well as
imposing on him or her, in this way, sicknesses, illnesses, malfunction of
organs or pain, control of limbs or producing pains or burns inside, or on, his
or her body, by means of electromagnetic waves, directed energy weapons or
other, as yet unpublished, physical means discovered by quantum physics
research (for example non-local electron and photon connection (see this) or
potential fields (see this and this).
Everyone has the right to liberty and
security, including the protection of his or her body by the law from abuse of
this right by electromagnetic waves, directed energy or other physical fields
or methods discovered by quantum physics.
Everyone has
the right to the protection of his or her own personal data, including the data
contained in his or her brain. This data must not be collected from anyone for
other than medical purposes and even for those purposes it must not be done
without the informed consent of the person (see this).
Imposing
remotely thoughts to human beings by means of dual-use neurotechnologies
is strictly prohibited under harsh sentences (see this).
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The Effects
of Pulsed Microwaves And Extra Low Frequency
Electromagnetic Waves on Human Brains? Governments Routinely “Classify
Information” Pertaining to the Manipulation of the Human Nervous System
https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-governments-around-world-classify-information-about-effects-pulsed-mirowaves-extra-low-frequency-electromagnetic-waves-human-brains/5839545
by Mojmir Babacek
In the year
1962 the American scientist Allan H. Frey carried out experiments with pulsed
microwaves, which produced clicking, buzz, hissing or knocking sounds in the
heads of people at a distance of up to several thousands
yards. In his report, he also wrote that with the change of parameters he can
produce pins and needles sensation or perception of severe buffeting in the
head and claimed that this energy “could possibly be used as a tool to explore
nervous system coding… and for stimulating the nervous system without the
damage caused by electrodes“ (see this).
In other
words, Allan Frey was on the path to finding the way how to manipulate the
human nervous system at distance. This was quickly understood by the U.S.
Government. For the next two decades Frey, funded by the Office of Naval
Research and the U.S. Army, was the most active researcher on the bioeffects of microwave radiation in the country. Frey
caused rats to become docile by exposing them to radiation at an average power
level of only 50 microwatts per square centimeter. He altered specific
behaviors of rats at 8 microwatts per square centimeter. He altered the heart
rate of live frogs at 3 microwatts per square centimeter. At only 0.6
microwatts per square centimeter, he caused isolated frogs’ hearts to stop
beating by timing the microwave pulses at a precise point during the heart’s
rhythm (see this and this).
In 1975, Allan
Frey published his research on
blood-brain barrier in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
where blood-brain barrier (protecting brain from poison entering it together
with blood) of rats, illuminated by pulsed radiofrequency, allowed dye to
penetrate into their brains. His findings were confirmed by 13 different
laboratories in 6 countries and with the use of different animals.
In 2012, Allan H. Frey wrote an
article where he described how the American Brooks Air Force falsified
his experiment by selecting a contractor, who injected the dye into the
intestines instead of into the blood, and in this way made sure that
the dye will not appear in the brain. This was supposed to help the U.S. Air
Force to obtain the aproval of people to build radars
in their vicinity. According to Frey, the same Brooks Air Force Base later
tried to “discredit unclassified research in the microwave area” in order to
cover “a classified microwave-bio weapons program.”
Allan
Frey concluded: “funding for open microwave-bio research in
the United States was essentially shut down.” For that matter the general
public (in the whole world) does not know anything about the possibility to
control their brain activity at distance by the effects of pulsed microwaves on
their nervous system until now.
In March
2021, the American scientist James C. Lin wrote an article on Havana syndrome,
where he wrote that this trouble caused to American diplomats and government
agents in Cuba and elsewhere, was most probably produced by pulsed microwaves
(see this).
On December 5
2020 the U.S. Academy of sciences published
a study on Havana syndrome, where it stated:
“Overall,
directed pulsed RF (radio frequency) energy, especially in those with the
distinct early manifestations, appears to be the most plausible mechanism in
explaining these cases among those that the committee considered.”
But on March
2, 2023 the American television CNN
published an article on the report of the 7 U.S. intelligence
agencies. It said that “there is no credible evidence that a foreign adversary
has a weapon or collection device that is capable of causing the mysterious
incidents“ (Havana syndrome). In this way the U.S.
intelligence agencies tried deny the validity of the scientific report by U.S.
Academy of Science and to hide from the world general public the fact that
pulsed microwaves can be used to attack their minds.
There is a
large body of scientific experiments proving that extra low frequencies of
electromagnetic radiation can produce effects in the human nervous system. What
is common to microwaves and extra long electromagnetic waves is that both of
them carry electric and magnetic fields. The neurons are full of ions and this
electrolyte can easily function as an antenna, in which electromagnetic waves
will produce electrical currents, which are essetial
parts of nervous impulses in the brain.
At
the International Conference on Nonlinear Electrodynamics in Biological
Systems in 1983, sposored among others by the
U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Office of Naval Research, Friedeman Kaiser from the Institute of Theoretical Physics
at the University of Stuttgart lectured on effects of extra low frequencies of
electromagnetic waves on the human nervous system or “extreme high sensitivity
of certain biological systems to very weak electromagnetic signals.” He stated:
“In the brain
wave model… The external stimulus may only serve as a trigger to start an
internal response signal… The system obeys the external drive,
it oscillates with the external frequency…the slow external drive leads to an
increasing modulation of the amplitude with the external frequency.”
He called
this phenomenon “entrainment“ and suggested that
“excitations of the proposed types could possibly lead to changes in the
behavior and function of biosystems” (pg. 394). There is
no better explanation for the Friedman Kaiser’s lecture than that the ELF
electromagnetic frequencies produce electrical currents in the electrolyte
inside of the nervous tissue. In the closing speech at that conference Samuel Koslov, a leading personality of the mind control project
Pandora of the American Navy declared:
”If much of
what we have heard is indeed correct, it may be not less significant to the
nation than the prospects that faced the physics community in 1939 when the
long-time predicted fissionability of the nucleus was actually demonstrated.
You may recall the famous letter of Albert Einstein to President Roosvelt. When we’re in a position to do
so in terms of our proofs, I would propose that an analogous letter is
required” (pg. 596).
Already in
1980 John B. Alexander, former director of the U.S. Los Alamos National
Laboratory in his article in the Military Review on remote control of human
brain’s activity, wrote:
”whoever makes the first major breakthrough in this field will have a quantum lead over his opponent, an advantage similar to sole possession of nuclear weapons.”
In 2014,
Chinese scientists published the results of an experiment in which they
searched for microwave conductivity of electrolyte solutions. In the
introduction they stressed that their experiment “plays an important role in
investigating the interaction between electromagnetic waves and biological
tissues that have high water content and a significant concentration of ions.”
For their experiment they used a solution of salt. The chemical formula of salt
is NaCl. It means it contains atoms of sodium
and chloride. Ions of both of those atoms play an important role in the firing
of nerve cells. The experiment proved that this electrolyte is conductive for
microwaves up to 20 GHz frequency (see this). It is
highly reasonable to expect that if those microwaves are pulsed in the
frequencies of the frequencies of activity of neurons in the brain they will be
“entrained“ to oscillate with those frequencies.
The MCS
America organization, which fights against pollution, confirms this conclusion
in its study on Electromagnetic Fields Sensitivity. The study
states:
“The body can collect the signal and
turn it into electric currents just like the antenna of a radio set or a cell
phone. These currents are carried by ions… flowing through the living tissues
and in the blood vessels (a system of tubes full of an electrically-conducting
salty fluid that connect almost every part of the body) when these currents
impinge on cell membranes, which are normally electrically charged, they try to
vibrate in time with the current” (let us note that a neuron is a cell as
well).
The veracity of those “speculations“
or “conspiracy theories“ is confirmed by the experiment, where 20 volunteers
were exposed to the pulses of 217 Hz used in cell phone telephony and at the
recordings of their electroencephalograms evoked potentials (or simply told
electrical currents in the frequency) of 217 Hz were found (see this) or
another one, where cell phone microwaves pulsed in 11 to 15 Hz produced changes
in EEG during the sleep in 30 volunteers (see this). As well
Australian scientists found out that:
“Not only could the cell phone
signals alter a person’s behavior during the call, the effects of the disrupted
brain-wave patterns continued long after the phone was switched off (see this).”
To complete
this information it is necessary to say that the nervous system functions
digitally and nervous actions differ by frequency and number of nervous
impulses in which great number of neurons synchronize their action. In this way
the activity of the human brain can be completely controlled including the
thoughts. Robert Becker, who has been twice nominated for the Nobel prize for
his research on electric potentials in organisms published in 1985 a book “Body
Electric“, where he quoted the experiment, which was released voluntarily on
basis of Freedom of Information Act. The author of the experiment J. F. Schapitz stated:
“In this
investigation it will be shown that the spoken word of hypnotist may also be
conveyed by modulated electromagnetic energy directly into the subconscious
parts of the human brain — i. e. without employing
any technical devices for receiving or transcoding
the messages and without the person exposed to such influence having a chance
to control the information input consciously.”
In one of the
four experiments subjects should have been given a test of hundred questions,
ranging from easy to technical ones. Later, not knowing they were being
irradiated they would be subjected to information beams suggesting the answers
to the questions they had left blank, amnesia for some of their correct answers
and memory falsification of their correct answers. After 2 weeks they had to
pass the test again. The results of those experiments were never published. But
evidently already at this time the secret services were working on technologies
how to impose thoughts to human beings with the use of pulsed microwaves to
transmit into human brains human speech in ultrasound frequencies, which the
brain perceives, but the human being does not realize this since it is not
hearing the speech.
For
governments it is not difficult to pulse the cell phone signals in the brain
frequencies and in this way manipulate the thoughts of their own or foreign
citizens. The difference between pulsed microwaves and extra long
electromagnetic waves is that pulsed microwaves can be targeted on one person
(or the whole nation if cell phone signals are pulsed in brain frequencies)
while extra long electromagnetic waves, transmitted in brain frequencies, with
their length up to 300 hundred thousands kilometers
will reach brains in large areas. For sure so far the legislations around the
world (except the Chile and Brazil) do not prohibit such actions to the
governments or anybody else on human brains (for example Elon
Musk is building system of 20.000 satellites around the planet and working on neuralink research at the same time).
Neurotechnologists around the world, who do not dare to disclose the
national security information they had to sign, before starting research in the
area, are calling for creation of legislations protecting people against such
manipulations of their minds (see this).
The proposal
of such legislation presented to the European Union, signed by 11 world
organizations, you can find at the address (see this).
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Dr. Richter’s
Diabolical Experiment
https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/11/dr-richters-diabolical-experiment/
by Todd Hayen
Ever heard of
Dr. Curt Richter? Neither had I.
During the
time in the United States where nearly anything was done in the name of science
(these days, not so much, now anything is done in the name of money) Dr. Curt
Richter, a renowned physiologist and behavioral scientist, conducted his
seminal experiments on rats. He presented his most famous experiment sometime
in the mid 1950’s at Johns Hopkins University.
These tests
aimed to uncover the effects of despair and hopelessness on the survival rate of
rats.
Apparently,
the kindly scientist placed his beloved rats into buckets of water and began
timing their frantic swimming. You see, the rats believed they were going to
drown, and did whatever they could to save their pathetic lives.
They didn’t
realize that the good doctor had a gentle soul and would rescue them before
their watery demise. But he didn’t. Not at first at least. And many rats met
their maker after about 15 minutes of futile paddling.
The next
round of rats were the lucky ones, although some would say unlucky. These
pitiful fellows were observed until the indicated exhaustion time but then
plucked up out of the water in the nick of time to be daintily dried off and
set out to rest. Saved.
A miracle for sure. And oh, what a
relief.
After a brief
stint of R&R, the rats were dumped back into their buckets, which
ultimately turned out to be their watery grave after all—but not in the afore
determined 15-minute exhaustion time, but rather an impressive, and miraculous
SIXTY HOURS! Oh, wonders of wonders, how could it be that these tiny creatures
could extend the fleeting energy it took to stay alive for so long?
Hope! Hope
you say? Yes, it was hope.
They had been
rescued before, so surely, they would be rescued again! They had indubitable
faith in Dr. Curt, and knew he would, at the last minute, pluck them from sure
death. But he didn’t. No, the good doctor wanted to see how long hope would
sustain them. How long that glimmer of belief in the goodness of man could glow
in the hearts and muscles of the poorest of poor beasts.
But that
savior never came, and after about 60 hours (give or take a few minutes), they
all finally succumbed. Once the 60-hour mark was made, surely some creatures
were removed from the bucket for humanitarian reasons. But maybe
not. Teaches you to have faith, eh? Well, faith in humans at least. It
is hard to tell if rats are aware of God’s mercy. Maybe they are all sipping
margaritas in rat heaven. Who knows.
Dr. Richter
was a hero in the science world, of course. What he determined in his little
reprehensible experiment is that at least rats were capable of expending energy
to stay alive if they were led (falsely) to believe they would at some point be
saved, i.e., their efforts to stay alive could continue almost indefinitely if
they believed those efforts would pay off.
Psychologists
often cite this experiment as evidence of the power of hope. It turns out our
perspective can be incredibly powerful. When we are hopeful that our
circumstances are temporary and change is possible, we can achieve
extraordinary feats. Hope can be the factor that changes an outcome from really
bad, to really good, at least with rats.
I wonder if
Dr. Richter wanted (at least secretly) to try out his experiment on humans, but
he was not fortunate enough to be in the middle of Germany 10 years before. The
Nazis would have surely been happy to oblige.
Is that the
only thing he discovered? I don’t think so. He also discovered that if you give
a creature some slack, meaning if you stop torturing them for a moment, and
then make them think you have saved the day, you can go back to torturing them
and they will keep on taking it—happily—until they drop dead.
============
o.
“5 solidarity
actions you can take for Palestine and Israel”
https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/5-solidarity-actions-you-can-take-for-palestine-and-israel-oct-2023
The scale of
the violence and harm to civilians is unprecedented and unlike anything in
living memory. Hospitals, schools, places of worship, roads, and homes have
been decimated, and civilians have been targeted. Faith groups and human rights
agencies across the world have called on the international
community to act immediately to secure a ceasefire and work to
ensure humanitarian aid and access.
We condemn
the targeting of civilians and the taking of hostages by Hamas. We condemn
Israel's indiscriminate and disproportionate bombardment of Gaza; the
prohibition of food, water and electricity into Gaza; and their attempt to
forcibly transfer over 1 million Gazan people. In the
West Bank, all cities are on lockdown and heavily militarised.
Collective punishment of an entire population can never address the root causes
of this violence.
This escalation
must be understood in the context of 55 years of Israeli military occupation of
Palestinian land and 75 years of dispossession and oppression of the
Palestinian people. It has been proven time and time again that there can be no
military solution. Without an end to the occupation, equality, and full
dignified human rights for all, this cycle of violence will never end.
Regardless of
your background on this issue, we can all do something. Here are some urgent
actions you, your friends and your family can take today:
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From: Alan
Haber, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date:
November 4, 2023
To: To
mentors and leaders, friends and relations, WILPF, FOR, WRL, WBW, Code Pink,
Peace Action, SDS Basecamp...organizations old and
new.
“A call all
for a Call for a Civil Society Initiated Peace Meeting, for the Wars of the
World”
In Gaza,
facing the failure of the warring parties to stop the killing, and the failure
of the politicians and the United Nations Organization of States to show
significant success in diplomacy, and the catastrophe continues to unfold, by
whatever name it is called... day by day
Civil Society
should raise and amplify a collective voice to the war-makers. for
peace-making.
Basic Humanity, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the still to
be organized "second house" of the United Nations. all of us, are needed
to speak up to the masters of war. "Enough have died. Put down the gun.
Come to the table to talk. Consider:
what is needed and possible for a just peace?"
In my view,
with 75 years of Israel in my life, living in Germany in 1948, and 50 years in the Israel Palestine
peace movement since 1973, I've stayed pretty
hopeful. And now there is a
Government in Israel insistent on killing and destruction, carrying on war.. While I am far
away and have only visited 15 times, the ordinary Israelis must be perplexed
that what had seemed "normality" is no more. That "there are no
Palestinians," as my mother's school-mate Golda Meir said, and "The
old will die and the young will forget," as other founders assured, now
seem blind illusions, and the Jewish people seem being told now normality can only be restored by more agony and death
...whatever is necessary "to finish the job," eliminate Hamas at all
cost...
There seems
no recognition war is not a way to kill an idea ...whether of Islamic
Resistance or the once promised Palestine State.
The only way
out of the war is to Stop. Cease Fire and Agree to sit down
at the table and talk toward finding common ground.
There must be
a willingness to consider peace, to pause the violence
and consider another course.
The cease
fire is, of course, necessary to allow renourishment
of the people of Gaza, and the incubators to be powered.... (...how outrageous
that the Israeli government is preventing the power for the incubators of
Palestinian babies, 56 is the number I heard, or how many? remembering how the
United States faked an accusation that Sadam had done
that to Kuwaiti babies in the Desert Storm or some war...the worst of
atrocities...)
...More
though, along with the Cease Fire, pausing to let the people be nourished and
the aid convoys accelerated, the Commanders of the killing are asked, urged,
invited to come to the Peace Table offered by
Civil Society to talk.
Hear the plea
of Civil Society. Consider what peace is
possible? What are the pieces of the peace? What can be just? With what can each live, and
not? These are questions for the
world, since we are all involved. Especially though, these are the questions
for the warring parties ...the shooters and those ordering the shootings and
those providing the weapons.
.
The image of
the Peace Table is virtual, in the imagination, where
there is room at the table for everyone who has an interest. and all the ideas
and differences of ideology, religion, ethnicity, generation and history can be
aired. Table represents a decision of
the warriors to
come to sit and talk face-to-face, seeking to agree on a Peace, as fair and
just to all as possible, and a timeline of stages and consultations among the
peoples
A Civil
Society Call for Peace and a meeting at a Peace Table would uplift the voice of
the Peace-makers, addressed to War makers of all parties and their allied
politicians and merchants in dealing death. The peace message is an old one: there is another way
than war, even better for the old warriors and, best for all, and all the more
necessary because the fierce urgency of now is increasing climate imbalances
and pending calamities. Refocusing of
resources, divestments and reinvestments, are needed and attention on climate
stabilization and sustainability...survival......sanity...sanity
This war now
in the Holy Lands, and
in Ukraine, too, and Sudan, and
Congo. all
places of folly and contending arrogances
. ...preaching death and destruction as the road to dominance... all the
wars need "a way out." I'm
sure even the leaders realize this also.., winless, forever wars.
A Citizen
initiated Peace Meeting would begin with a Citizen's Statement, hopefully
drafted by some willing peace-makers who would step forward. There are many
among the women, and similar lights among the men. There is a wide circle of
spiritual progressives who could help voice a peace meeting Call.. A panel of
peace-maker advisors
from "civil society" could help facilitate a meeting,
if there were to be one... Some words are needed, or need repeating to touch and turn the heart
Civil Society
had a strong presence before the Iraq war.
To try again and aim to do better seems a good idea. "Can't
hurt. might help" as a friend once
advised. So this letter begins my own effort toward an invitation to those I know who
have been my peacemaking mentors and hope you and others will do the same and
soon a Call could be voiced.
And there are
those who know the Warrior names to whom an Invitation needs to be addressed. of Israel and Palestine each with multiple voices, and
Jordan and Egypt, and Lebanon and Syria and the Saudi and Yemeni too, and add
Iran and Iraq, Bahrain, the Emirates, and of course the United states as well.
As for
"what to talk about?" after hearing what the Peace-makers/
facilitators have to say:
Once around
the table, virtual table, the principal parties have first say.
All
outstanding questions are the open Agenda.
·
despair
·
borders
·
sovereignty
·
self determination
·
citizenships
·
local autonomies
·
rights of return
·
hospitality
·
water
·
justice
·
democracy
·
reclaiming the commons
·
international law and the criminal court
·
rebuilding
·
moral equivalents of revenge
·
redemptive actions that could ease the pain or fill
the losses
·
hostages
·
prisoners
·
trauma treatments
·
food and the
menus for the meeting.
I like the
beginning place expressed by the King Abdullah of Jordan, "Israel and
Palestine should both be free and share the land in peace from the river to the
sea."
In my own
view, witnessing what I have,
Palestine is
all of historic Palestine, from the river to the sea, and that's the way Palestoians mostly see it and Israel is all of historic
Israel, from the river to the sea, and some more too. and
that's the way a lot of Israelis see it. Nationality is a loyalty of the hearts
and nationalities can overlap and interpenetrate one another as well as be side
by side, on the land and in the person. People should be free to choose their
national citizenship or bi-nationality or multi-nationality
Peace
requires an evolution of the "Concept of the State" ...beyond the
19th Century empire minded imperial
nationality of a state flag with its army and exclusive sovereignty, to the globalized, citizen-of-the-world perspective,
in a world of multiple non-exclusive
sovereignties, ethnicities and memories, respectful of one another.
No one needs
to be displaced Hospitality and neighborliness need to be practiced. Everyone
displaced needs to be invited to come back to home.
The Right of
Return in Palestine, (United Nations Resolution 194) is, like "Land
Back" in Indigenous America, essential for the long term peace.
The old Greek
Chorus was one of Lamentation. The New need is Insistence, from every direction...
for humanity and our politics to rise above the war minded mental enclosures of
supremacy and dominance, suffocating in excesses of Materialism, Militarism,
Racism and Nationalism. Caring, Sharing,
Helping and Healing are the needs of now, and cooperation and community, with
empathy, compassion and courage as best as possible.
In my view
the objective is to effect a "Turn Toward Peace," everywhere,
(echoing 60 years later,
a 1960's initiative of that name) To end the whole war system on
all fronts. The war system has proven
itself a failure in providing either security or a wider justice and freer life
for all.
Beside the
bleeding need in the Holy Lands of Palestine and Israel, to re-rock the cradle
of civilization, to move out of the times of war, it is somehow fitting and
proper that this Gaza war become the impetus to finally somehow move to resolve
the long disputes, and remember the good that was between us..
The same
cease fire is also needed in the Ukraine for Russia and Ukraine antagonists to come
to the table to talk, giving voice to
the peace-makers all around them..
Cease fire
and come to the table to talk is the same need in all the war zones, Yemen.
Sudan, Congo, Armenia, Kurdistan,
Kosovo ... and let the peace
makers in their war zones call the masters of war warriors and their brigade
commanders to talk to their peace tables.
The regional
model of a "Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction" is a good
context. A Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone is a symbolic Declaration of a willingness by all
the states to live together without a plan or means to destroy any of the other
states and to work out differences in some diplomatic way.
There are
divisions in the religious worlds also. Islamic Resistance seems easily to violate
the Quran Sanctity of Life. Israel has fallen into an idolatry of the land and many violations
of the Jewish Law, like "Do not harm the fruit trees even in times of
war." or
do not move your neighbor's boundary post. Reformations within the faiths are
also parts of the peace.
Everyone is part of the picture in making the
peace. The relation among the parts must change... radically, from struggle for
domination to search for cooperation.
Can Civil
Society" gather itself, ourselves, sufficiently to put peace on the Table
and give the war makers a way out of their death marches, and their shame as
well. That could be their one Redemptive
Act, the put down the gun and agree to talk peace.
After a first
go around, eliciting statements from each of the parties, the peace makers
panel would consult toward another intervention, suggesting such common ground
as might be evident, and begin a second go around. and
see whether there is enough to continue.
So that is my
fantasy, imagining Civil Society "rising like a cone of white light"
out of this death upon death...the horror is enough! I keep in mind, ...a turn of heart is just an instant away...
**************************
Realistically,
a month ago, before October 7, Odile and I were
remembering The Hague Appeal for Peace in 1999, and it's coming 25th
anniversary and imagining that the peace forces and voices of now could
re-convene, as we did at The Hague in 1999, and consider again an overall
Agenda for Survival, a quarter of the way into the 21st Century.
We envisioned
this effort dovetailing with some 25th Anniversary gatherings in reflection of the Hague Appeal for Peace Agenda of 1999, and the first
international effort to abolish war in 1899. and the
increasing imperative to end the whole war system.
Perhaps the
revulsions more and more widely felt, of the Gaza war, and the Ukraine war
still, and the
families and lives destroyed, for "higher purposes", can stir
a people's voice loud enough and a heart beat deep enough to be heard actually for Peace.
A six month
time projection toward a possible May 2024 regathering
of The Hague Appeal is a more reasonable timeline. Memorial Day 2024 is Monday May 27. May 18 and 19 is the Saturday and Sunday
weekend before. Current communications
.technology could work wonders connecting us world-wide, as did the thousands
in-person in 1999
Attached are
an "End the Whole War System" leaflet offering description of the war system
and peace system, and a picture of the Peace Table that served as the opening
table of the 1999 The Hague Appeal for Peace:
I would be
glad to hear from anyone interested in any of these ideas.
Shabbat shalom,salaam
Alan Haber
Ann
Arbor,
734 657 8083
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Events -
CODEPINK - Women for Peace
https://www.codepink.org/events
by the Staff of Code Pink
============
p.
“REPORT finds Russia, Ukraine wanted
peace. US, UK, Germany pushed war”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ArmHK20ic
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(49:11)
+
“NORD STREAM: Tucker Carlson Was
RIGHT About Pipeline Explosion, WaPo Admits?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiN8jiaSj2M
by The Hill
(12:31)
+
WAR Against
NATO Not Russia | China vs. USA | BRICS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPib_bhpwJk&si=EFDRsLJ6ajMt_vHd
with Michael Hudson
(1:15:06)
+
Russia-US security agreement. Conflict on two fronts
https://www.youtube.com/live/0YtMd1g_Y80?si=AqJgePYCcHD8PBDg
with Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris, and Jeffrey Sachs
(58:51)
+
“NATO
Slaughter Air and Sea Will Live In Infamy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo9moGlNI78&si=oMpJ-6LZIOBs0swX
with George Galloway
(1:38)
+
The
Horrifying Secret Agenda of the UN and WHO: Total Enslavement of Humanity Through a "Global Health Dictatorship"
by Peter Koenig, Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger,
and Mike Adams
The official
concluding statements by the UN and WHO at the completion of the UN General
Assembly (UNGA) in New York regarding the High-level Meeting on Pandemic
Prevention, Preparedness and Response are summarized as follows:
United
Nations
The
high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response will focus
on the theme: “Creating and maintaining political momentum and solidarity for
Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response“. Plenary Segment: Statements by
Member States and members of the United Nations specialized agencies.Issued
on 20 Sept 2023.
WHO statement
on the high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response:
The World
Health Organization welcomed today’s historic commitment shown by global
leaders, at the UNGA, to strengthen the international cooperation, coordination,
governance, and investment needed to prevent a repeat of the devastating health
and socioeconomic impact caused by COVID-19, make the world better prepared for
future pandemic, and get back on track to achieving the Sustainable Development
Goals.
“The
first-ever head of state summit on pandemic prevention, preparedness and
response is a historic milestone in the urgent drive to make all people of the
world safer, and better protected from the devastating impacts of pandemics,”
said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “I welcome this
commitment by world leaders to provide the political support and direction
needed so that WHO, governments and all involved can protect people’s health
and take concrete steps towards investing in local capacities, ensuring equity
and supporting the global emergency health architecture that the world needs.”
The political
declaration, approved by Mr Dennis Francis, President
of the 78th United Nations General Assembly (2023), and the
result of negotiations under the able leadership of
Ambassadors Gilad Erdan of
Israel and Omar Hilale of Morocco, underscored the
pivotal role played by WHO as the “directing
and coordinating authority on international health,” and the need to “commit further to sustainable financing that
provides adequate and predictable funding to the WHO, which enables it to have
the resources needed to fulfil its core
functions.”Issued on 20 Sept 2023
Neither the
UN nor the WHO statement mentions the number of world leaders or heads of
state, who approved the crucial WHO documents, the severely revised (more than
90 points of revision) International
Health Regulations (IHR), including the Pandemic Treaty – which is actually no longer a treaty, as it is
planned to ram it through during the next World Health Assembly (WHA) in May
2024 – making the new IHR effective without a vote. See full interview with Dr.
Astrid Stuckelberger here.
Since there
are no official accounts from these “behind closed-door” UN / WHO meetings, we
can rely only on “hearsay”, according to which there were several member states
who abstained and others who objected to the revised IHR. Among the objectors
was apparently the Russian Federation. See this.
The Mike
Adams interview of Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger (26
September 2023) about the coming (planned) health dictatorship by the UN and
WHO juxtaposes the official UN / WHO statements.
There is
nothing constructive, nothing the world might want to look forward to that came
out of these secret meetings, debates. Secretive, like a
death cult, planning a worldwide genocide run as part of the “new” WHO / UN
Agenda.
Imagine where
the world has gone? And where the full UN Agenda 2030 is planning to take us?
With a
corrupted UN system, with a World Health Organization that is no longer looking
after the population’s health and disease, but is promoting death.
And that on a worldwide basis. All governments – more than 190
national governments, have all been coopted,
corrupted coerced and outright threatened – if they do not go along and lie to
the people who supposedly elected them, and if they do not betray the trust and
the (tax) money these people have confided in them – people’s funds that also
pay for the government bureaucrats generally generous wages.
Here are some
of the key points Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger made
during the BOMBSHELL interview. For courageously speaking out since the
beginning of the outbreak of this criminal plandemic,
Dr. Stuckelberger has been a beacon for truth. In
response, the University of Geneva cut off all her courses and deprived her of
her faculty position.
She is also
otherwise threatened and coerced, often censored – to no avail: Astrid keeps
speaking out, to spread the truth as far and widely as possible – so that
people eventually may wake up – stand up – and stop obeying. Non obedience is everyone’s right.
Here are some
of the highlights of Dr. Stuckelberger’s interview (video, 1:00:10) . . . .
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“Why is the
UN refusing to call Israel a killer?”
Palestinians
take a last look at their loved ones as a stream of casualties, several of them
children, from Israeli strikes arrive at al-Aqsa
Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah,
central Gaza, 22
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/why-un-refusing-call-israel-killer
by Maureen Clare Murphy
Obscuring
Israel’s responsibility for the deaths of thousands of Palestinians appears to
be official UN policy.
Statement
after statement from the organization’s agencies and leaders express horror
over specific attacks in Gaza and the mounting death toll, but do not mention
Israel.
UNRWA, the UN
agency for Palestine refugees, says it is “beyond devastated” that scores of
its employees in Gaza have been killed and injured. But it cannot bring itself
to say who harmed them.
+
“USA vs the World: Blockade on Cuba Opposed by 97% of Countries
at UN”
by Ben Norton
The world
voted 187 to 2 at the United Nations General Assembly for an end to the illegal
US embargo against Cuba. Only Israel supported Washington, while Ukraine
abstained.
US officials
frequently talk about the “rules-based international order”, and label other
countries as “rogue states” if Washington doesn’t like their policies.
But a look at
votes in the United Nations clearly shows that the United States consistently
opposes the will of the entire international community.
+
“UN Report
Details Rampant US Human Rights Violations at Home and Abroad”
by Marjorie Cohn
Two-thirds of
U.S. breaches of the civil and political rights covenant involve racial
discrimination.
United
Nations body has issued a damning report blasting the United States for its
rampant violations of a major human rights treaty that it ratified in 1992.
The
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) enshrines the rights
to life, to vote, and to freedom of expression and assembly; and the
prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
It forbids discrimination in the enjoyment of civil and political rights based
on race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national
or social origin, property, birth or other status (which includes sexual
orientation).
In its
blistering November 3 report, the UN Human Rights Committee — a group of 18
independent experts that monitors the implementation of the ICCPR — documented
how little the U.S. has done to challenge the systemic, wide-ranging racism
that continues to infuse every aspect of our society. Racial discrimination
permeated two-thirds of the documented U.S. violations of the human rights
treaty.
Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU’s
Human Rights Program, called the UN report “scathing.”
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q.
Yanis Varoufakis explains how big
tech is economically dominating your life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDutkVRwrt8
with Yanis Varoufakis
(1:04:10)
+
“How Government Steals From Us,
Bombshell Epstein Book & Bitcoin For Sovereignty”
by Whitney Webb
Part 1 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf978q67pQs
(1:45:53)
Part 2 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdV_c0ihXkU&t=716s
(1:34:35)
+
“What is
money and who rules the world?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IccRwqTThMU
with Yanis Varoufakis
(1:02:40)
On this episode of the podcast I
speak with Yanis Varoufakis
about the role of banks and politicians. Yanis is an economist, politician, author and Secretary-General of
MeRA25. He is perhaps best known for his role as the Greek Minister of
Finance during the Greek credit crisis. In our discussion we cover some fairly
big questions: Who really foots the bill when banks are bailed out? Who are the
winners and losers during inflation? Are those that control the means of
production still the dominant class? Why isn't the EU home to big tech giants
like facebook and amazon?
What powers do politicians really have? What might a non-exploitative and sustainable
social economy look like in practice and is there a peaceful way to get there?
+
The Shock Wave of Bankruptcies:
Dumping NYC Office Leases: Global Vacancies Hit Record High
https://www.globalresearch.ca/out-office-global-vacancies-hit-record-high/5840054
by Zero Hedge
The shockwaves from WeWork’s bankruptcy
last week continue to
reverberate around the commercial real estate market, leaving office landlords
around the world trembling with fear at the prospect of losing one of their
largest tenants.
Especially in
prime markets such as New York City, San Francisco, London and Paris, WeWork played an outsized role in the office rental market,
occupying large swaths of premium office space.
Video:
Message to the People of Israel. “Move away from American Exceptionalism”.
Shahid Bolsen
According to
Bloomberg,
“Dormant
locations in New York dominate a list of nearly 70 leases the coworking giant intends to terminate, court papers show.
The roughly 40 contracts at issue include space near Union Square and in Fulton
Center, a retail and transit facility in downtown Manhattan.”
As Statista’s Felix Richter reports, WeWork’s demise come at the worst possible time for
landlords, who are already struggling to find tenants, as many companies are
reducing their office footprint to reduce costs and adapt to the post-pandemic
world of hybrid work.
According to
real estate specialist Jones
Lang LaSalle (JLL), office vacancy rates are higher
than ever, reaching 21 percent in the U.S. and Canada in Q3 2023 and 16 percent
globally, i.e. in the 100+ markets analyzed by JLL Research. In both cases,
that’s an increase of 60 percent compared to pre-pandemic vacancy rates, which
stood at 13 and 10 percent in North America and globally in Q3 2019,
respectively.
+
“Europe Is
Over”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VatYrw0uqjU
by Novara Media
(57:37)
In his new book, ‘Technofeudalism:
What Killed Capitalism’, Yanis Varoufakis
explores how giant tech firms, both in the US and China are expanding their
control over the planet. His analysis is that, whilst material resources
certainly matter, the real battle ground is over digital real estate. Aaron sat
down with Yanis to talk about how Europe’s power has
faded, Elon Musk’s wet dreams and why the US is
really afraid of China.
+
Tucker Carlson Tonight November 14,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bqCRT2ySd0
with Tucker
Carlson and Glynn Greenwald
(39:26)
+
Stop Drinking the Political Kool-Aid,
America: Voting Will Not Save Us
by John Whitehead
We’ve got to
face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of
long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and
glamour.”
-- A Face in the Crowd (1957)
We are one
year out from the 2024 presidential election and as usual, the American people
remain eager to be persuaded that a new president in the White House can solve
the problems that plague us.
Yet what is
being staged is not an election.
It’s a con
game, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko, a swindle,
a flimflam, a gaffle, and a bamboozle, and “we the
people” are nothing more than marks, suckers, stooges, mugs, rubes, or gulls.
We’re being
duped into believing that this mockery of a choice between two candidates who
are equally unfit for office actually translates to having some say in how the
government is run.
To the
contrary, this particular con game is part of a long-running, elaborate scam to
keep the Deep State in power and leave the populace deluded, distracted and
incapable of demanding accountability, transparency and decency from the
government and its cohorts.
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r.
When Britain
Aided Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/09/when-britain-aided-israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine/
by Mark Curtis
After the
Second World War British planners were confronted by the outbreak of a Jewish
uprising in Palestine, which the U.K. had run since securing a “mandate” from
the then League of Nations in 1922.
This uprising
led to a series of momentous events that shape the present-day Middle East: the
British decision in February 1947 to withdraw from Palestine, the U.N.’s decree
in November 1947 to partition the territory, the Jewish declaration of the
state of Israel in May 1948 and the first Arab–Israeli war, in which Israeli
forces annexed much of Palestine by December of that year.
Near the end
of the Second World War, the leadership of the Yishuv,
the Jewish settler community in Palestine, headed by David Ben-Gurion, had
embarked on a campaign to push the British out of the territory.
A wave of
terrorist attacks was conducted against British forces and Palestinian Arabs,
in response to which the British declared martial law, enacted draconian
emergency regulations and undertook brutal collective punishments on local
Jewish communities.
Jewish
antagonism towards Britain was shaped partly by London’s policy on Jewish
immigration from Germany and elsewhere which, in deference to Arab objections,
Britain was now trying to restrict.
During the
last three years of the mandate, 40,000 illegal immigrants succeeded in
entering Palestine, but shiploads of Jewish refugees regarded as illegal were
intercepted at sea.
+
Illegal
Settlers’ Reign of Terror in the West Bank
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/09/illegal-settlers-reign-of-terror-in-the-west-bank/
by Peter Oborne
Peter Oborne reports from Hebron in the southern part of the
Israeli-occupied West Bank, where illegal settlers, backed by Israel’s
military, are forcing Palestinians off their land with impunity.
It is the
same story in every village in the South Hebron Hills.
Israeli
settlers are seizing livestock, wrecking water tanks, smashing solar panels,
bulldozing outbuildings and destroying the olive groves upon which Palestinian
farmers depend for their livelihood.
They arrive
unannounced armed with M16 machine guns which they are more than happy to use.
They beat up villagers with iron bars, with sticks, with fists, with the butts
of their guns.
They assault
women and the elderly.
They enter
Palestinian houses ripping out fixtures and fittings, stealing money,
destroying papers, overturning furniture.
They shoot to
kill. Many wear a military uniform.
They have
imposed a reign of terror. They are supported by Israel’s army.
Their message
to Palestinians is always the same: get out or be killed.
While the
armed settlers act with impunity, Palestinians are defenceless.
+
Zionist think
tank publishes blueprint for Palestinian genocide
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/24/zionist-think-tank-palestinian-genocide/
by Kit Klarenberg
As Israel’s
carpet bombing of Gaza entered its third week, leaving over 5000 dead and at
least one million residents displaced, a Tel Aviv-based think tank published a
blueprint for self-proclaimed Jewish state’s final solution.
In a white
paper released over a week after the Hamas-led surprise
attack on Israeli military bases and kibbutzes, The
Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy outlined “a plan for
resettlement and final rehabilitation in Egypt of the entire population of
Gaza,” based on the “unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the entire Gaza
Strip” that Israel’s latest assault on the besieged costal enclave provided.
Published in
Hebrew on the organization’s website, the paper was authored by Amir Weitman, “an investment manager and visiting researcher” at
the Institute who also leads the libertarian caucus of Israel’s ruling Likud
Party. The document began by noting that there are 10 million vacant housing
units in neighboring Egypt that could be “immediately” filled with
Palestinians. Weitman then assured readers that the
“sustainable plan…aligns well with the economic and geopolitical interests of
the State of Israel, Egypt, the USA and Saudi Arabia.”
Weitman’s ethnic cleansing proposal echoes forced transfer
plans advanced in recent days by former Israeli officials while capitalizing on
evacuation orders delivered to the entire civilian population of northern Gaza
by the Israeli military.
Flyers
dropped from Israeli warplanes, Just received this
from #Gaza. #Israel literally
asked more than 1.1 million from north and central #Gaza city to
leave towards the south. This is illegal and absurd. People of Gaza refuse to
leave. #GazaUnderAttack#StopIsraeliAggression… pic.twitter.com/pPktoEjKQJ
— Sameh Habeeb
(@Samehahabeeb) October
13, 2023
Weitman’s sinister blueprint imagined Israel purchasing these
properties at a cost of $5 – 8 billion dollars, a whopping price-tag that
reflects just 1 – 1.5 percent of Israel’s GDP.
“These sums
of money [required to cleanse Gaza] in relation to the Israeli economy, are
minimal,” Weitman posits. “Investing individual billions
of dollars to solve this difficult issue is an innovative, cheap and
sustainable solution.”
Weitman acknowledged that his plan virtually amounts to Israel
“buying the Gaza Strip,” arguing the move would be “a very worthwhile
investment” for Zionists because it would “add a lot of value over time.” He
asserted local “land conditions” in the area would provide “many” Israeli
settlers a high standard of living, therefore allowing for an expansion of
settlements in Gush Dan near the Egyptian border, giving “a tremendous impetus
to settlement in the Negev.”
In December
2021, Tel Aviv approved plans to establish four settlements in the Negev to
house 3,000 settler families.
A genocidal
war to end all wars . . . .
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An Alternative to the Suez Canal Is Central to Israel’s Genocide of the
Palestinians?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/alternative-suez-canal-central-israel-genocide-palestinians/5839476
by Yvonne Ridley
I hate
conspiracy theories and fake news. They degrade my profession as a journalist
and incite fear, hate and tribulation with the deliberate intention of causing
a public backlash. Naturally, there have been all sorts of speculation and rumour around the war in Gaza and the 7 October surprise
Hamas attack on the occupation state.
It has been
said that the attack was two years
in the planning in Gaza, a tiny patch of land
riddled with Zionist infiltrators
and spies who cajole, bribe and threaten ordinary Palestinians
to betray their comrades.
So the
question many are asking, with some justification, is why there was such a catastrophic
intelligence failure which meant that the attack caught
the Israeli military sleeping on the job. In terms of access to eavesdropping
technology and defence there is probably no
better-equipped military in the world other than in the US, and the Americans
maintain secret supply bases in the Zionist state. Israel’s Mossad
has earned itself a reputation of being among the finest intelligence gatherers
and infiltrators in the world. And yet 7 October saw Hamas fighters breach
security fences, invade a music festival and local kibbutzim, and fly in on
paragliders without a
single challenge. How did this happen?
Some of Israel’s most brutal attacks
on innocent Palestinians are made citing “national security” and Israel’s
alleged right to
defend itself. If it was
being attacked by another nation state, fair enough. But an attack by people
living under Israel’s brutal military occupation provides no such legal defence. It doesn’t exist.
A good
contact and friend of mine who watches the region’s events closely told me
simply: “Follow the money.” And that is how, after being nudged and pointed in
a variety of directions with annoyingly vague clues, I found myself pouring
over a network of paper trails that led to the National
Archives, where British secrets lie unseen for at least 30
years and in some cases much, much longer.
By the time they surface, it’s
usually far too late to do anything as the guilty have taken their secrets to
the grave, but some disclosures do explain the terrible behaviour
of governments and rogue politicians. Many of my colleagues are waiting with
bated breath for the March 2030 deadline to pass to find out how the Iraq war
came about, and if our suspicions about former British Prime Minister Tony
Blair’s role are as bad as we believe.
This particular paper chase, though,
took me to the origins of the Suez Canal, which opened with a grand ceremony on
17 November 1869, 154 years ago this month. Today, 10 per cent of the world’s
cargo ships sail through this strategic route between the Eastern Mediterranean
and the Red Sea, heading to and from the Indian Ocean and connecting Europe and
Asia.
+
“YouTube's Connections to Pro-Israel Lobby Behind Removal of Lowkey's
Infamous Song: 'Terrorist'”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/youtube-pro-israel-lobby-removal-lowkey-song-terrorist/286257/
by Kit Klarenberg
In a shocking
turn of events, YouTube has abruptly taken down the official
music video of “Terrorist?”, a chart-topping anthem by
activist rapper and MintPress News contributor Lowkey. No rationale was provided, leaving the renowned
artist and his record label, Global Faction, bewildered. Yet, when one
considers the track poses profound inquiries about the identities of genuine
“terrorists” on the global stage, particularly given the dire circumstances
surrounding Tel Aviv’s current genocidal campaign in Gaza, the motives become
painfully apparent.
“Terrorist?” was first released on Lowkey’s
groundbreaking Soundtrack to the Struggle in 2011. Back then, the US and
its global vassals were thoroughly ensconced in the “War on Terror.” That
ominous period’s devilish narrative held that a constant specter of menacing
“Islamist extremists” lurked behind every corner of Western societies. It was a
lie justifying the industrial-scale erosion of civil liberties throughout the
West and a relentless onslaught of aggressive military “interventions”
throughout West Asia and beyond.
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“Israel to ‘Vet’ US Corporate Media Embedded in Gaza”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/07/israel-to-vet-us-corporate-media-embedded-in-gaza/
by Brett Wilkins
In a TV
segment, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria
explained the submissive arrangements that his outlet and others are making
with the Israeli military.
U.S.
corporate media outlets have granted Israeli military commanders
pre-publication review rights for “all materials and footage” recorded by their
correspondents embedded with the Israel Defense Forces during the invasion of
Gaza, a precondition condemned by press freedom advocates.
“Journalists
embedded with the IDF in Gaza operate under the observation of Israeli
commanders in the field, and are not permitted to move unaccompanied within the
Gaza Strip,” Fareed Zakaria,
host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria
GPS,” explained in a segment
on Sunday.
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“Some of the
global media’s unethical coverage is facilitating genocide in Gaza”
by Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate
As
Palestinian journalists and trade unionists, we call on our fellow journalists
around the world to take action to stop the horrifying bombardment of our
people in Gaza and to adhere to the ethical principle of our profession.
The world
watches in horror as Israel attacks civilians in the occupied and besieged Gaza
Strip from the land, sea and air, killing more than 9,000, injuring more than
30,000, and leaving many others trapped under the rubble. Meanwhile,
Israel has distributed thousands of automatic weapons to extremist settlers in
the occupied West Bank, who are openly planning and executing acts of wholesale
ethnic cleansing.
These
events—and the prospect of even worse to come—have shaken us to our core,
compelling us as journalists to speak out. We remind our colleagues,
particularly those working in the Western media, about the need to adhere to
basic journalistic standards. We are distressed that some in global media has
frequently failed to meet these standards when covering the ongoing massacre in
Gaza.
Even by the
low standards set by media coverage of previous massacres in Gaza, the media
discourse surrounding recent events represents a new low for the principles of
journalistic integrity. Shorn of any pretence of objectivity or truth, some
Western media organisations have parroted Israeli
government talking points, failed to challenge or even attempt to verify blatant
misinformation and propaganda, and adopted dehumanising
and violent language about the Palestinian people.
When, for
example, the Israeli and US governments suggested—with no evidence
whatsoever—that the Palestinian Health Ministry had inflated the number of
Palestinians registered as killed in Gaza, many news agencies uncritically
adopted this talking point. By engaging in such unfounded speculation—driven by
the propaganda of the Israeli war machine—media organisations
are facilitating the mass death of Palestinians and laying the groundwork for a genocide.
As the
Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, we note that . . . .
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“TEARS OF
BLOOD”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5A45dtSrB4
with George
Galloway
(2:16:50)
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“Gaza-Israel Catastrophe — Settlers
& Wider War”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/07/gaza-israel-catastrophe-settlers-wider-war/
by Dan Steinbock
This is the
final article in a five-part series. Here is part one, two, three and four.
The war in
Gaza serves as a smokescreen to the escalation of settler expansion and
violence in the West Bank, writes Dan Steinbock.
Meanwhile, Biden’s hawks refocus on Iran. Last of a 5-part
series.
The Jewish
settlements have fostered a de facto one-state
reality in Israel, wherein Israelis have rights and Palestinians don´t.
Meanwhile, talks for a two-state solution have been
stalling since 2014. Rhetoric aside, Prime Minister Benhamin Netanyahu’s government has “engaged in actions
that annex the
West Bank and threaten the prospects for a just
and lasting resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
In the past,
periods of heightened security tension and military operations have ensured an
opportunity for settlers to establish facts on the ground. After the brutal
attack by Hamas, the alarming trend of increased settler violence has rapidly
escalated. Nothing has halted the settlers’ steady expansion since the late
1960s and the Israelis’ expansion in East Jerusalem.
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On the ground
at the largest pro-Palestine march in US history
https://therealnews.com/on-the-ground-at-the-largest-pro-palestine-march-in-us-history
by Maximillian Alvarez and Jaisal Noor
Over 100,000
people filled the streets of Washington, DC, on Nov. 4 to demand a ceasefire
and an end to US aid to Israel. TRNN was there on the ground.
The largest
pro-Palestine rally in US history took place this past Saturday, Nov. 4, in the
heart of Washington DC. As nations and human rights organizations around the
world warn that Israel is committing acts of genocide with its scorched-earth
bombing and ground invasion of Gaza, and as Israeli military and settler
violence increases in the occupied West Bank, people from all over the US
descended upon the nation’s capital to demand an immediate ceasefire, an end to
US aid to Israel, and an end to Israel’s 75-year occupation of Palestine. And
organizers of Saturday’s march, along with other international organizations,
are also calling for a
national day of action on Thursday, Nov. 9. Many
corporate media outlets have either ignored, attempted
to downplay, or misconstrued the tone and scale of the Free Palestine! National
March on Washington, but TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian
Alvarez and veteran reporter Jaisal Noor were on the ground speaking directly to organizers and
attendees about why they were marching, why it’s important, and what feels
different about this moment.
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The Zionist
Plan for the Middle East
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33220.htm
Translated
and edited by Israel Shahak
The
Association of Arab-American University Graduates finds it compelling to
inaugurate its new publication series, Special Documents, with Oded Yinon's article which
appeared in Kivunim (Directions), the journal of the
Department of Information of the World Zionist Organization. Oded Yinon is an Israeli
journalist and was formerly attached to the Foreign Ministry of Israel. To our
knowledge, this document is the most explicit, detailed and unambiguous
statement to date of the Zionist strategy in the Middle East. Furthermore, it
stands as an accurate representation of the "vision" for the entire
Middle East of the presently ruling Zionist regime of Begin, Sharon and Eitan. Its importance, hence, lies not in its historical
value but in the nightmare which it presents.
The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become
an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area
into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here
will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state. Consequently,
the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel's satellites and,
ironically, its source of moral legitimation.
“A Strategy
for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties”
By Oded Yinon
This essay
originally appeared in Hebrew in KIVUNIM
(Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14--Winter, 5742, February 1982, Editor: Yoram
Beck. Editorial Committee: Eli Eyal, Yoram Beck, Amnon Hadari, Yohanan
Manor, Elieser Schweid.
Published by the Department of
Publicity/The World Zionist Organization, Jerusalem. . . . .
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High Danger
of a Much Wider WAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBeB2Q4l_w&si=l0mtsLu61xtywdrg
by Dialogue works, with Paul
Craig Roberts
(35:53)
+
“Global Crises: An Interview”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O2XMimgSjw
with Jeffrey
Sachs and John Mearsheimer
(27:03)
+
“Norman Finkelstein on Israel Gaza —
Live on Avenue C”
https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/09/norman-finkelstein-on-israel-gaza-live-on-avenue-c/
with Colin Robinson
(1:53:45)
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s.
“The Death
Row You Don’t Want to Know:” An Inmate at San Quentin Reveals What Death Row is
Really Like
by James P. Anderson
From the date
of being arrested (March 4, 1979) in one of the most racist counties in
California (Riverside), and enduring one of what would be called by many, “a
circus trial” on December 12, 1979, I was brought to the sixth floor of North
Block, better known as the original Death Row.
I’ll never
forget the first day, laying on a slab of steel, in an
empty cell, looking out a distant window, watching the day turn to night, and
thinking about “how I had allowed myself to be played/tricked into
circumstances and conditions like this!” I had experienced a few minor
encounters of racism in my then twenty-six years of life, but the reality of
actually being on DEATH ROW was bewildering. Somewhere in the back of my mind,
I was hearing “you’ll wake up from this nightmare in a minute or two.” For
anyone that’s experienced sleep paralysis, you’ll understand existing in this
condition.
Another
unfortunate reality is that there were very few Death Row prisoners who had any
interest in the study and/or the application of law, and of the “few,” several
were bonafide informants, liars, and/or white
supremacists who couldn’t be trusted with any kind of information. In the
interest of full disclosure, within my first few months of experiencing Death
Row, as just as in the ‘free world,’ informants come in all colors and sizes.
What was
perhaps most astounding then, and continues to be true in 2023, was the
inordinate amount of “control” that some of the corrections officers here need
in order to satisfy their feeble egos, or to feel like a “REAL MAN.” It’s as
though they bring their all of their life’s disappointments, frustrations,
self-hatred and misery to the prison to release on vulnerable prisoners. It’s
similar to a prize-winning body builder challenging a “one-legged man to an
ass-kicking contest” (something that only a real coward would do).
It seems that
the majority of the public has forgotten about the case of Celeste Guap, an under-aged juvenile female with whom multiple
Oakland, CA police officers were continuously molesting for years with
impunity. This case was only brought to the public because of an officer with a
conscience who revealed the sexual abuse in his suicide note.
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t.
The “Covid Inquiry” is just more propaganda
https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/05/the-covid-inquiry-is-just-more-propaganda/
by Kit Knightly
The British
government has been holding a “Covid Inquiry” for
several weeks, they are apparently on “Module
5” now. Hours of footage livestreamed
to the handful of people who can be bothered to listen, picking apart Boris
Johnson’s Whatsapp messages.
We haven’t
mentioned it before now because…well, there’s no point.
We know what
it’s going to find, the same thing this kind of navel-gazing show trial always finds:
·
The government under-estimated
and/or overreacted.
·
There was a failure
of imagination based on bad
intelligence.
·
A lack of
accountability and oversight led to some minor abuses of power by people
who will be censured, may be forced to resign, but will definitely never face
any criminal trial.
Whatever they
eventually find “officially” happened, you can be sure
that corruption and malfeasance and personal profit played no part. Nobody ever
acted in bad faith. Everything is always a well-intentioned accident. A minor display of over-zealous incompetence.
Oh. And
here’s a scapegoat. What an idiot, right? Let’s make fun of him on Have I Got News for You
this weekend, and then next year we’ll make him a lord.
That’s what
inquiries are for. They tell stories and sell narratives. They tie up the loose
ends and weave a pretense of accountability.
They rewrite
history amid a theatrically contrived display of faux-cathartic
self-examination which, in the end, only supports the mainstream narrative.
“Oh no! The intelligence was flawed!”
“Oh no! We never wargamed
hijacked planes!”
“Oh no! We accidentally revitalized the
heroin trade!”
“Oh no! We didn’t take the virus seriously
enough at first and then we over-reacted!”
It’s always
the same, and rarely worth talking about.
The reason
I’m breaking that habit today is that I happened to see this headline…
The real Covid scandal is emerging right in
front of the inquiry’s nose
And it irritated me. Firstly, with the pettiness of the
subject, the narrowness of the focus. It’s picking gnat shit out of
pepper, as the saying goes.
But, mostly, because it’s just such a lie. The story
it’s selling is that Dominic Cummings wanted a lockdown, and he went against
the experts who fought tooth and nail against it.
This is clearly about salvaging the tarnished reputation of “the
science”, government experts and corrupt modelers so they can be redeployed in
the future without any embarrassing baggage. It’s about piling all the blame on
one disposable non-entity.
As I said, here’s a scapegoat…
The author, Fraser Nelson, tweeted it in these
words:
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Authoritarians Drunk on Power: It’s Time to Recalibrate the Government
by John Whitehead
There is
something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty
and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the
freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your
conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to
blame?”
V for Vendetta
We have
arrived at the dystopian
future depicted in the 2005 film V
for Vendetta, which is no future at all.
Set in the
year 2020, V for Vendetta (written
and produced by the Wachowskis) provides an eerie
glimpse into a parallel universe in which a government-engineered virus wreaks
havoc on the world. Capitalizing on the people’s fear, a totalitarian government
comes to power that knows all, sees all, controls everything and promises
safety and security above all.
Concentration
camps (jails, private prisons and detention facilities) have been established
to house political prisoners and others deemed to be enemies of the state.
Executions of undesirables (extremists, troublemakers and the like) are common,
while other enemies of the state are made to “disappear.” Populist uprisings
and protests are met with extreme force. The television networks are controlled
by the government with the purpose of perpetuating the regime. And most of the
population is hooked into an entertainment mode and are clueless.
With Vendetta, whose imagery borrows
heavily from Nazi Germany’s Third Reich and George Orwell’s 1984, we come full circle. The
corporate state in V conducts
mass surveillance on its citizens, helped along by closed-circuit televisions.
Also, London is under yellow-coded curfew alerts, similar to the American
government’s color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System.
Sounds
painfully familiar, doesn’t it?
As director
James McTeighe observed about the tyrannical regime
in V for Vendetta, “It really showed what can happen when
society is ruled by government, rather than the government being run as a voice
of the people. I don’t think it’s such a big leap to say things like that can
happen when leaders stop listening to the people.”
Clearly,
those we appointed to represent our interests have stopped following the
Constitution and listening to the American people.
What will it
take for the government to start listening
to the people again?
In V for Vendetta, as in my novel The Erik Blair Diaries, the subtext
is that authoritarian regimes—through a vicious cycle of manipulation,
oppression and fear-mongering—foment violence, manufacture crises, and breed
terrorists, thereby giving rise to a recurring cycle of blowback and violence.
Only when the
government itself becomes synonymous with the terrorism wreaking havoc in their
lives do the people to finally mobilize and stand up to the government’s
tyranny.
V, a bold,
charismatic freedom fighter, urges the British people to rise up and resist the
government. In Vendetta, V
the film’s masked crusader blows up the seat of government on November 5, Guy
Fawkes Day, while in Erik Blair, freedom fighters plot
to unmask the Deep State.
Acts of
desperation and outright anarchy are what happens when a parasitical government
muzzles the citizenry, fences them in, herds them, brands them, whips them into
submission, forces them to ante up the sweat of their brows while giving them
little in return, and then provides them with little to no outlet for voicing
their discontent: people get desperate, citizens lose hope, and lawful,
nonviolent resistance gives way to unlawful, violent resistance.
This way lies madness.
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The Weaponization of “Disinformation” Pseudo-experts and
Bureaucrats: How the Federal Government Partnered with Universities to Censor
Americans’ Political Speech
https://www.globalresearch.ca/weaponization-disinformation-pseudo-experts-bureaucrats-how-federal-government-partnered-universities-censor-americans-political-speech/5839376
by Committee
on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization
of the Federal Government
Global
Research, November 09, 2023
US House of Representatives 6 November 2023
Report of the Committee of the Judiciary and Select Subcommittee of the
U.S. House of Representatives
Executive Summary
Following the 2016 presidential election, a sensationalized narrative
emerged that foreign “disinformation” affected the integrity of the election.
These claims, fueled by left-wing election denialism
about the legitimacy of President Trump’s victory, sparked a new focus on the
role of social media platforms in spreading such information. “Disinformation”
think tanks and “experts,” government task forces, and university centers were
formed, all to study and combat the alleged rise in alleged mis-
and disinformation. As the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Select
Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal
Government have shown previously, these efforts to combat so-called foreign
influence and misinformation quickly mutated to include domestic—that is,
American—speech.
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“Censorship Imperils Us When We Are Forbidden to Speak. Free Thinking Dies and People Die. Propaganda Buries the
Truth”
by Christine E. Black
Censorship
imperils our cultures and our civilization. When we are prohibited from
speaking or writing without threats, shaming, or epithets meant to shut down
discussion, free thinking dies. People also die.
A censorship
industrial complex grew around Covid hysteria, which
began as a war on a virus.
New
full-blown wars, with guns, bombs, tanks, and planes, and thousands dead now
explode around us as free speech is lost in wars’ rubble, and propaganda buries
truths.
With their
money, power, and massive influence, private for-profit industries like
pharmaceutical companies, influence and capture U.S. agencies, such as the Food
and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control, that taxpayers
task with regulating products for public safety.
Because of
this capture, agencies often fail to protect public while bolstering industry
profits. Similarly, with the capture of politicians and policymakers, corporations
and contractors profit from wars, as Marine Corp Brigadier General Smedley Butler notes in his book, War is a Racket and as Dwight
D. Eisenhower warned against in his 1961 Farewell Address. Corporate and
government elites get rich from wars based on lies, such as wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan – and they sit rich now in retirement.
What truths might we uncover as we sift through wars’ rubble?
Children and young people didn’t need Covid
shots as they were at little risk from serious illness from Covid,
and some countries stopped
recommending them; the shots may even harm them.
Yet, vaccines are a main source of revenue for pediatricians. A “pandemic
of the unvaccinated” never happened though entertainers, highly paid media
figures, and politicians viciously
maligned those who waited or declined a Covid
shot.
Most people
contracted Covid anyway, whether they got multiple
shots or not. Shots did not prevent transmission. Most dying from the disease
now also had multiple shots.
Thousands of Covid vaccine-injured people have been bullied into silence
and rendered invisible.
These are all
statements we have been forbidden from making in the last few years; those who
dare to utter them have faced rancor or ridicule or worse.
See video: “Unvaccinated:
No Body is Safe Until Everybody is Safe” (11:25)
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Reality Check Radio
https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/08/audio-kit-knightly-on-reality-check-radio/
by Kit Knightly
+
The
Anti-Human Agenda – Twitter (X) Thread
https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/06/the-anti-human-agenda-twitter-x-thread/
by Off-Guardian
The following is our twitter (x)
thread, compiled on Threadreader.
They’ve
outlined their plan for the GR & it’s an insane dystopian nightmare of
enforced passivity, medical & climate tyranny.
·
15-minutecities.
·
Little or no access to wild spaces.
·
Strictly monitored & limited travel.
·
Little to no real meat or dairy.
They’re
serious…
They intend to
bring all this right to YOU, wherever or whoever you are.
Unless you’re
super-rich, this is YOUR future.
They know if
you start focusing on this too much, you will be appalled & resist.
So they need
a distraction.
And they will
do literally anything to achieve that. Try to recall this when your controlled
media, who told you to get vaxxed in 2021, are now
laying out their stalls of race hate & rage.
They were
serving an anti-human agenda then.
What do you
think they’re serving now?
And when they
tell you to look at this or that boogeyman, they assure you it is very scary
and coming to get you.
Like this…
The following
is our twitter (x) thread, compiled on Threadreader.
They’ve outlined
their plan for the GR & it’s an insane dystopian nightmare of enforced
passivity, medical & climate tyranny.
15-minute cities.
Little or no access to wild spaces.
Strictly monitored & limited travel.
Little to no real meat or dairy.
They’re
serious…
They intend
to bring all this right to YOU, wherever or whoever you are.
Unless you’re
super-rich, this is YOUR future.
They know if
you start focusing on this too much, you will be appalled & resist.
So they need
a distraction.
And they will
do literally anything to achieve that. Try to recall this when your controlled
media, who told you to get vaxxed in 2021, are now
laying out their stalls of race hate & rage.
They were
serving an anti-human agenda then.
What do you
think they’re serving now?
And when they
tell you to look at this or that boogeyman, they assure you it is very scary
and coming to get you.
Like this…
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u.
What exactly
are US special forces doing in Israel?
https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2023/11/14/what-exactly-are-us-special-forces-doing-in-israel/
by Connor Echols
(9:51)
Secrecy is
the name of the game when it comes to the Biden administration’s support for
the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
As the
Israeli military enters the second month of its operation in Gaza, questions
continue to swirl around the exact nature of U.S. support for the war, with
major potential implications for American interests in the Middle East.
The Pentagon
has been fairly transparent about its actions outside of Israel, including the
decision to move two aircraft carrier strike groups into the Middle East, among
other naval assets and missile defense systems. But two more sensitive issues
remain shrouded in mystery: What exactly are American special
forces doing in Israel? And what weapons is the U.S. now giving to the
Israel Defense Forces (IDF)?
U.S. special
operations forces are stationed in Israel and “actively helping the Israelis”
in a number of areas, among them efforts to “identify hostages, including
American hostages,” a Department of Defense official revealed last week.
The official did not share further details, but others told the New York
Times that DoD “has
dispatched several dozen commandos in recent weeks, in addition to a small team
that was in Israel on Oct. 7 conducting previously scheduled training.” Other
Western countries have also sent special operations forces “closer to Israel”
in order to help with hostage recovery and potential civilian evacuations,
according to the Times.
The Pentagon also dispatched a Marine
Corps general with substantial special operations experience to advise Israel’s
ground operations, but the general left the country prior to Tel Aviv’s ground
incursion.
One official told journalist
Spencer Ackerman that the U.S. is considering emergency “contingencies” in
which U.S. special forces would directly assist with
hostage recovery, but those plans remain hypothetical, according to the
official. The only solid evidence of “direct” U.S. involvement has been a
series of unarmed drone flights over southern Gaza that are
helping to locate hostages.
Some
eyewitnesses claim to have seen
soldiers with American flag patches on the ground in Gaza, but no news outlets
have substantiated this allegation. It’s also plausible that an
Israeli-American soldier could have been wearing such a patch without
permission from the U.S. or Israeli militaries.
As for the
identity of U.S. soldiers in Israel, a White House photo from President Joe
Biden’s October 18 visit appeared to show the
president meeting with several members of Delta Force, the Pentagon’s premier counterterror and hostage recovery unit.
It is unclear if any non-special operations U.S. military units are
currently operating in Israel. The Pentagon did not respond to a request for
comment from RS about its operations in Israel.
Increased secrecy around weapons transfers . . . .
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“Worldwide Genocide”? History of
U.S. Mass Killings of Civilians: The Monstrous Plan to Kill Palestinians Is
Fully Endorsed by Washington
https://www.globalresearch.ca/worldwide-genocide-history-of-u-s-mass-killings-of-civilians-the-monstrous-plan-to-kill-palestinians-is-fully-endorsed-by-washington/5838338
by Centre for Research on Globalization
Update. Israel’s Secret Intelligence
Memorandum
An official “secret” memorandum authored by Israel’s Ministry
of Intelligence “is recommending
the forcible and permanent transfer of the Gaza Strip’s 2.2 million Palestinian
residents to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula”, namely to a refugee camp in
Egyptian territory. There are indications of Israel-Egypt negotiations as
well as consultations with the U.S.
The 10-page
document, dated Oct. 13, 2023, bears the logo of the Intelligence Ministry … assesses three options regarding the future of the Palestinians
in the Gaza Strip … It recommends a full population transfer as its
preferred course of action. … The document, whose
authenticity was confirmed by the ministry, has been translated into English in full here on +972. See below, click here or below to access
complete document (10 pages)
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v.
Russia’s
Finance Ministry says (again) that the digital ruble will replace cash
by Riley Waggaman
Alexei Moiseev, Russia’s deputy minister of finance, is the
world’s most candid space lizard. When he announced in a
September 2021 interview that “the digital ruble is a replacement for the cash
ruble”, skeptics and haters spread hurtful rumors that Moiseev’s
refreshing and award-winning honesty had been taken out of context.
Here’s what
Mr. Moiseev told RIA Novosti two years later, on
October 30, 2023:
Essentially, [the digital ruble] is
the real currency of the 22nd or any other century, which at the end of the day
must replace cash.
He also promised that the digital
ruble would be more “convenient” than cash and non-cash transactions. Safety
and convenience are the guiding principles of the 21st century, so it’s easy to
imagine that the 22nd century will be extremely safe and outrageously
convenient.
But just to be 100% clear: Elvira Nabiullina and her devoted blog-admirers promise
that Russians will never be coerced into using digital rubles.
The gradual
transition to CBDCs will be an organic process—a naturally occurring result of
Extreme Convenience. Russians will never be prevented from using cash in
certain situations, even though this is already
happening right now, today, in 2023.
But that’s
neither here nor there. As the Bank of Russia’s universally loved chairwoman
said just
yesterday, Russians will always be allowed to decide how they
receive their salaries and pensions—that is her current “position” and it would
be rude to even consider the possibility that this position might change.
Just like it
would be uncouth to think that the Bank of Russia’s position on placing
restrictions on how digital rubles can be spent (“coloring” them) would ever
change.
All Russians understand how
convenient and voluntary the 21st and 22nd centuries will be. Just look at what
they’re saying on the
internet forums . . . .
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w.
“The Dangers
of ‘Minstrel Diplomacy’”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/08/the-dangers-of-minstrel-diplomacy/
by Wilmer J. Leon, III
Black faces
are being used by the failing empire to sell failed racist, neocolonial
militarism, writes Wilmer J. Leon.
“When you
control a man’s thinking you do not
have to worry about his actions…He will find
his own ‘proper place’ and will stay in it…
You do not
need to send him to the back door.
He will go
without being told. In fact, if there is
no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit.
His education makes it necessary….”
— Carter
G. Woodson, The Mis-Education
of the Negro
There have
been defining times in history-moments, epochs and periods that are typically
marked by notable events or particular characteristics that have changed the
world forever.
Nicolaus Copernicus’ publication of On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543, postulating
the model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center
was such a moment.
The
Industrial Revolution (1760 – 1840), was a defining period in the methods and
processes of global production that transitioned most of the world away from
hand production, towards more efficient and stable mechanical
manufacturing.
In 1957, the
Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the Earth’s first artificial
satellite, launching the “space race” that led to America landing the first
humans on the moon in 1969.
These are just
a few examples of moments in time that have changed people’s perceptions of the
world as it was known. The world-humankind, once again finds itself in
the midst of one of those epochs.
Humankind is
witnessing the fall of the Western empire. The shift is away from the unipolar world, financed by the U.S. dollar and controlled
by American military power projection and hegemony, to a new multipolar geo-political landscape.
This “new
world order” will not be controlled by American interests. It will be managed
by the cooperation of numerous countries, with a goal of establishing, “… a more
just, balanced and stable multipolar world order,
firmly opposing all types of international confrontation…”
People
naturally tend to think that a “fall” or collapse of this nature would be more
immediate, dramatic and easily recognized. To the contrary, empires tend to
collapse over time. It’s analogous to going bankrupt.
In
Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises,
Mike Campbell, a bankrupt Scottish war veteran, was asked how he went bankrupt.
Mike replied, “Two ways …Gradually and then suddenly.” When asked what brought
his bankruptcy on, Mike replied, “Friends. I had a lot of friends. False friends. Then I had creditors, too.”
Just as Mike
had “friends,” the U.S. has allies. As Mike had “creditors,” the U.S. is
trying to finance multiple wars on multiple fronts.
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“U.S. Africa
Policy”
https://www.blackagendareport.com/us-africa-policy-0
by Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
(audio, 9:34)
Margaret
Kimberley was recently a guest on the Sputnik News program Political
Misfits. In these excerpts of her remarks, she discussed
Joe Biden’s recent comments about Africa during his UN General Assembly
address, and how the US has increased its military footprint in Africa.
She also discussed Libya, and how the Obama administration’s attack on
that country led to a high death toll in recent floods.
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International Month of Action Against AFRICOM
https://www.blackagendareport.com/international-month-action-against-africom-0
by Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
(audio, 18:43)
Netfa Freeman is Co-Coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace
Africa Team. He joins us from Washington to discuss the 4th International
Month of Action Against AFRICOMwhich kicks
off with a webinar on October 1st and actions taking place throughout October.
The theme of this year’s month of action is From Niger to Haiti to Cop City,
Defeat the War Against African People.
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Why do we let
Israel and Ukraine wag the US dog?
by David C. Hendrickson
In America’s
weird empire, dependents call the shots. Soon we will be suffering the
consequences.
The alliance
system of the United States is frequently called an empire, and for good
reason. But it is a peculiar form of empire, in which the metropolitan center
seems directed and ruled by the periphery. In the classic idea of empire, rule
flowed from the top down. Not in this one.
This
inversion is nowhere more evident than in the relationship between the United
States and Israel. Biden responded to the October 7 attacks by giving Israel
total support for its aim of destroying Hamas. The same pattern is apparent in
policy toward Ukraine. For 18 months, the Biden administration did not dare to
set limits on Ukraine’s war aims, though these anticipated, absurdly, total
victory over Russia, with Vladimir Putin in the dock at the end.
These
certitudes, however, have begun to shake. Within the administration, there
seems to have been a great awakening over the last few weeks that neither
course is sustainable. The gist of recent reporting is as follows: the
Ukrainians are losing the war and have to acknowledge that fact, better now
than later. The Israelis are behaving barbarically and have got to be reined in, else our reputation in the world is ruined.
On the
Ukraine front, there were two bombshells. One was an NBC story that painted a dire
picture of the military situation and reported that U.S. and European diplomats
were telling Ukraine of the need to restrict its aims. It’s too late in the day
to hope for anything other than a stalemate, said one former administration
official: “it’s time to do a deal.”
he other was a
long essay in Time that characterized Zelensky as a messianic and fanatical figure, out of touch
with Ukraine’s worsening prospects. Corruption is even worse than alleged. The
West is scraping the bottom of the barrel for key military items. Ukraine’s
military can’t find new recruits. More appropriations from Congress, even the
$61 billion requested by the
administration, can solve none of these problems.
For 18 months, the Biden administration insisted that Ukraine’s aims were
wholly its own to determine and that the United States would support them
regardless. With Ukraine’s summer offensive having met with almost total
failure, the administration appears to be getting cold feet. This is all very
hush-hush, with “quiet” discussions reputedly going on behind the scenes. It’s
probable, indeed, that Biden’s advisers are divided. Though official policy
hasn’t changed a whit, the impetus to do so is clearly there.
The bind over Israel is yet more acute. According to widespread reports, Biden and
his advisers believe that Israel is embarked on a mad project in Gaza. They see
that the United States — having given Israel a green light, a blank check, and
tons of bombs — will be held directly responsible for the awful humanitarian
consequences. They don’t
think Israel has defined a coherent endgame. They fear
they are presiding over a moral
enormity. They see a precipitous
collapse in support from others.
Over the past month, Biden has warned the Israelis not to act out of
anger and vengeance in retaliation for October 7, advised against a ground
invasion of Gaza, and insisted that Israel seek to avoid civilian deaths as
much as possible. Use smaller
bombs, say Biden’s military advisers. Eroding support, his
administration told the
Israelis, “will have dire strategic consequences for Israel Defense Forces
operations against Hamas.” Last weekend, Secretary of State Antony Blinken went to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
with these ideas and with a request for a “humanitarian pause.” Bibi’s response: ain’t gonna
happen.
I have an idea. The United States could threaten to suspend military
shipments to Israel if it failed to agree to a ceasefire. That might make an
impression. Defying Israel, however, is something that no president since
George H.W. Bush has been willing to do. The U.S. approach over the last 30
years, as now, has been in the voice of a steadfast friend: “This is really for
your own good, but we wouldn’t dare demand it of you.”
Hug the Israelis tight and reassure them endlessly of your undying
commitment; that was the way to win an argument with them. . . . .
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Biden and Western Media Telling Outrageous Lies…
by Finian Cunningham
Despite claims
of promoting “humanitarian pauses,” the US has supplied Israel with $320
million worth of precision-guided bombs. The perceived cynical Western stance
is seen as favoring Israel, enabling a genocide against Palestinians.
In the
Western media, we are told the Israeli regime is giving short shrift to calls
from the Biden administration for “humanitarian pauses” in its “war on Hamas” –
which in reality is not a war but a mass slaughter of Palestinians.
The U.S. and
Western media report that American President Joe Biden is “concerned” about the
mounting civilian death toll after more than four weeks of Israel’s siege and
non-stop aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip, a coastal enclave equivalent to
the area of Detroit.
Biden sent
his top diplomat Antony Blinken on a tour of the
Middle East apparently in a bid to persuade Israel to allow “humanitarian
pauses” in its offensive against a
largely civilian population. Israel’s premier Benjamin Netanyahu is having none
of that as his military forces proceed with a ground invasion.
The charade being presented here by the
Western media is that Washington is somehow acting as a restraining influence. And not a very successful one. A sort of
well-meaning hapless foreign power trying to help an ally but also apprehensive
about humanitarian suffering.
That’s just utter claptrap. First off, Israel is conducting a genocide against a population of 2.3 million people, in
which resides a militant group, Hamas, that comprises 1 per cent of that
population. This is like blowing up a lake to kill the fish.
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Bibi Unmasked
“Caught On Tape: What The Netanyahu Really Thinks Of
US”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25961.htm
by Justin Raimondo
In 2001, Bibi Netanyahu paid a condolence call on a group
of Israeli settlers in the village of Ofra, widows
whose husbands had been killed in the Intifada: the videotaped conversation has
just been leaked, and broadcast by Israel’s Channel 10, and it is a blockbuster.
At one point,
Bibi is telling the widows that the Palestinians
“think they will break us,” but don’t worry, ladies, Bibi has a plan:
“To hit them. Not just one blow, but blows that are so painful
that the price will be too heavy to be borne. The price is not too heavy to be borne,
now. A broad attack on the Palestinian Authority. To
bring them to the point of being afraid that everything is collapsing…
“Woman: Wait
a moment, but then the world will say ‘how come you’re conquering again?’
“Netanyahu:
The world won’t say a thing. The world will say we’re defending.
“Woman:
Aren’t you afraid of the world, Bibi?
“Netanyahu:
Especially today, with America. I know what America is. America is something
that can easily be moved. Moved to the right direction.”
A child
speaks up, and, surprisingly articulate, avers: “They say they’re for us, but, it’s like…”
Yes, even the
children are little ideologues. Today that boy is a teenager on the verge of
adulthood, and likely a fervent supporter of Israel’s ultra-rightist government,
led by Bibi, who, back
then, quickly assured him: “They won’t get in our way.” The child, hardliner
that he was and no doubt still is, seemed doubtful: “On the other hand,” the
kid ventured, “if we do some something, then they…”
That’s when Bibi really let his hair down . . . .
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Who’s
Drinking Netanyahu’s Genocidal Amalek Kool-Aid?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/whos-drinking-netanyahus-genocidal-amalek-kool-aid/5839399
by Ariel Gold
“You must
‘remember what Amalek has done to you,” Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admonished on October 28, announcing the “second
phase,” a ground invasion, of Israel’s war in Gaza.
Amalek, in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), is a nation that ambushed the
Israelites making their way to the Promised Land. Following the attack, which
the Israelites were able to beat back, God instructed that they must never
forget and must wage an eternal war until no trace of Amalek’s
existence remains. Generations later, King Saul killed all but the Amalekite king, whose descendent,
Haman, generations after that, in the story of Purim, plotted to kill all the
Jews in Persia.
Netanyahu is
notoriously secular in his private life. But, ever the shrewd politician,
scripture is his language of choice to sell his war to Jewish supremacists in
Israel and right-wing Evangelicals in the United States.
The victims
of Hamas’ vile October 7 attack come from what is referred to as the “Gaza
envelope.” Heavy with kibbutzim (intentional collectives, traditionally based
around agriculture), its
residents are known for being secular and left-leaning.
Asked if losing his parents in Hamas’s terror attack had affected his
political views, Maoz Inon,
pleaded not for
revenge but a reassessment of basing security “on military might.”
Likewise, Yotam Kipnis,
in eulogizing
for his father, said “We will not stay silent while
the cannons roar, and we won’t forget that Dad loved peace. He wasn’t willing
to serve in the territories. Do not write my father’s name on a missile, he
wouldn’t have wanted that.”
Tom Godo, whose son lived and died in Kibbutz Kissufim, blamed
the Netanyahu administration: “The
fingers that pulled the trigger and murdered, the hands that held the knives
that stabbed and beheaded and slashed were the loyal and determined emissaries
of the accursed, messianic and corrupt government [of Israel].”
Read more: Gaza
Strikes Back. It’s Another 9/11 or Pearl Harbor but
Who Actually Did What to Whom? “This Was More Likely a False Flag Operation”
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Nov 17, 2023
“Some Good
Things Happened Today” - NewWorldNextWeek
https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw535/
with James
Corbett and James Pilato
(25:53)
Xi meets Biden at the Dynasty house
as San Fran gets cleaned out; the EU unveils its new digital ID; and some good
things happened this week, too!
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China controls summit in SF. Biden press conference disaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqrwwR5dDQI
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(27:45)
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The Electronic Intifada
https://electronicintifada.net/
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Global Research : Selected Articles - November 10, 2023
“Why Are Ukrainian POWs Joining the
Russian Military?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-why-ukrainian-pows-joining-russian-military/5839530
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Global Research : Selected Articles - November 14, 2023
“The Horror, The Horror” in Gaza. What Is the UN Good for? Where Is the
Human Rights Commission When It Is Needed?
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The Defender:
Children’s Health Defense, News & Views
Most Read
News of the Week, November 12, 2023
“Insurance
Industry Execs ‘Alarmed’ by Surge in Deaths Among
Young People — But Stop Short of Blaming COVID Shots”
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Off Guardian
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Covert Action Magazine
https://covertactionmagazine.com/
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Information
Clearing House
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
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Listen to
this master class in propaganda study, which I gave last year in Iceland (on
the radio)
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/listen-to-this-master-class-in-propaganda?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=138734071&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email
with Mark Crispin Miller
In May of
2022, I spoke at length with lawyer Arnar Þór Jónsson, about the COVID
lies, war propaganda, and the urgency—and perils—of confronting them with truth
(however painful it may be)
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Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works
https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/why-ridiculous-official-propaganda?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=298057&post_id=138945148&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email
by CJ Hopkins
OK, here’s one from the archives for you. It’s a column I wrote way back in 2017, when CounterPunch was still running my columns. I’ve pulled it out of the archives because (a) I think it’s particularly apropos, given the amount of ridiculous official propaganda we are being barraged by at the moment, (b) I am down with a nasty bug, and thus (c) I don’t have the energy to attempt to deceive you into believing that I just came up with this analysis today by rewriting what I wrote back in 2017 but replacing the references to Russiagate with references to Israel’s liquidation of Gaza.
If you’ve been following the news — which I suspect you have — you’re familiar with the ridiculous official propaganda that the State of Israel has been brazenly pumping out, which at this point has gotten so blatantly ridiculous that even the BBC has been forced to debunk it.
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“Saturday Night Film: ‘Under The Shadow Of Hermes:’ Everything You Never Knew About the US, The Civil War, The ‘Russian Revolution,’ and The True Conspiracy Nobody Mentions In Polite Society”
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/saturday-night-film-under-the-shadow?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=257742&post_id=138981315&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email
by Celia Farber
''To be a thinker is to lift every stone...
to be courageous enough to do it and to look under''
- Gilad Atzmon
I watched In The Shadow of Hermés [based on the book Under Skorpionen’s Tecken] for the first time in a private home in Sweden, in 2016. I was stunned speechless, then. I returned to it a few weeks ago, surprised to find an intact version on Twitter. I watched it again, and took notes this time.
The film, and the book, are the works of Estonian outsider historian, (previously imprisoned in Soviet occupied Estonia for criticism of communism) Jüri Lina, who got asylum in Sweden many decades ago, and lives there still.
Jüri Lina’s work will be potentially uncomfortable for any historians or writers who never thought to look for the Masonic roots of communism, socialism, and Bolshivism. These “roots” were both ideological and financial/economic—they go way back and way deep. Others who will be potentially uncomfortable are those who believe that naming Jewish individuals who became Masonic leaders of various fake revolutions is part and parcel of “anti-semitism.” That can’t be helped either.
I am not worried about this audience—you all. I’m just saying this film will prove an awful lot of history not exactly “wrong” but also not “correct,” as it lacks a driver. History books as cars with no driver.
To simplify: Those whose mantra is “It’s all the Jews!” are wrong. They would be less wrong if they said: “It’s all the Masons, and Jews have played central roles in Masonic history. But so have countless others, who are not Jewish. “
As I often say: “Look to the spirit behind.”
Incorporating the Luciferic and Illuminist can’t be avoided, if getting it right is what we are interested in.
If anybody finds fault with anything Lina reports, let us know in the comments section. One of the most educated people I know told me last week she had never heard of Lina or the things he lays out in this documentary.
Jüri Lina does not “sound” like anybody else operating in the field of history. I have a soft spot for people who don’t sound like anybody else.