Bulletin
N° 1125
“The
Illusionist”
https://www.namasha.com/v/ek5FWALY/The_Illusionist_2010_Full_Movie
by Sylvain Chomet,
based on the work of Jacques Tati
(1:19:40)
The Illusionist
(French: L'Illusionniste) is a 2010 animated film written and
directed by Sylvain Chomet. The film is based on an
unproduced script written by French mime, director and actor Jacques Tati in 1956. Controversy surrounds Tati's
motivation for the script, which was written as a personal letter to his
estranged eldest daughter, Helga Marie-Jeanne Schiel,
in collaboration with his long-term writing partner Henri Marquet.
In 1959 Paris, an out-of-work
illusionist packs his belongings, including an ill-tempered rabbit, and moves
to London. Unable to compete with modern entertainment, such as rock and roll,
he plies his trade at smaller gatherings in bars, cafés, and parties. He
accepts the invitation of a drunken party patron to visit a remote Scottish
island, where he entertains the locals. Staying in a room above the pub, he
meets a girl, Alice, who is captivated by his illusions and kindness, including
a gift of red shoes.
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“The Fall Of Minneapolis”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/N3KotfBLiDim/
Produced by
Liz Collii; written and directed by Dr. JC Chaix
(1:42:28)
Events So
Horrendous, You Wonder If An Entire City Can Become Possessed.
The
Fall of Minneapolis, is both
depressing and redemptive; Hard to watch, yet one of the finest documentaries
I’ve seen in a very long time. Finally a documentary that does not feel like propaganda or
ego-driven esoterica. Where
you can connect to the people speaking, emotionally as well as factually.
Where things are clear, and everything is in the film
for a reason, but the reason is never to manipulate you. . . .
It opens with
a lengthy segment in which you see the entire footage from several cameras of
“George Floyd’s” arrest, detainment, and transfer to an ambulance.
There is
absolutely no excessive cruelty, no apparent venomous, racist, murderous spirit
afoot, nothing except four police officers trying to get a very tall, muscular
man to enter and remain in a police car after he is arrested for using counterfeit
money. He’s cuffed but fighting wildly, screaming, seeming to be having
paranoid hallucinations; It’s all incredibly sad, even before they burn down
Minneapolis.
It will blow
your mind to hear the true facts about all this, and to see the incredibly
sinister backdrop, and cast of phony, preening globalist whores in positions of
MN who made sure the police were destroyed, along with the city.
December 10, 2023
Grenoble, France
Subject:
Class Struggle spirals once again out into the domain of psy-ops,
promoting mass fear and genocide.
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Incorporated
into communication theory are the rules of logical thinking which stipulate
that legitimate propositions must be well defined and “falsifiable”– which is
to say provable of being either true or false. While dialectical materialism
offers an alternative procedure to positivist logic as a method of reasoning,
the two methods are not mutually exclusive. Instead, they complement one
another to produce deeper understanding of the world and the events which have
produced the present phenomena under study.
If
the methods of formal logic and dialectical materialism are essential tools to escape the clutches of
superstition and mass hysteria, equally essential is the scientific practice of
postulating theories that can be accepted
or rejected according to findings after a rigorous examination by the above
methods.
Two
predominant theories today which are useful in examining current events are: 1)
Social Darwinism, i.e. “the survival of the fittest” theory, and 2) the Marxist
theory of “historical materialism”. The
former is the straight forward proposition that “might makes right” in the
amoral struggle of survival, that the strongest always prevail; the latter
simply postulates that “material conditions influence ideas MORE THAN ideas
influence material conditions”.
Like
all scientific examinations there is a tautological aspect in both the
positivist and the dialectical materialist methods of inquiry, where we find
the conclusion embedded in the question. The “discovery” we are looking for often
comes as no surprise, and a heavy dose of skepticism is recommended to
reinforce our immune system and reduce our susceptibility to contagious
enthusiasms which might have fatal consequences.
The
“material conditions” that have an indelible influence on ideas include conflicts
of social-class interest, which presuppose the material reality of men, women,
and children capable of recognizing and rationally pursuing their own class-interests which are governed by
the conditions in which they live, and ultimately by their social class relationships, as opposed to interests derived from a "fase consciouness", or "le désir desiré par le corps plein sans organ" (i.e. the objectives of advertising and propaganda campaigns "normally" pursued by corporate interests), as formulated by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guatarri in their groundbreaking book, l'Anti-Oedipe (1972). For more on this research, we invite readers to visit our past : Ceimsa Bulletins N°386, N°752 and N°803.
Our present
use of abstractions is justified by the thoroughness of the answers it produces. Collective
identities, other than social-class interest - such as national identity, ethnic identity,
religious identity, gender identity, etc., etc... - are undeniably political forces which
cannot be ignored, but taken separately each one of these sets of cultural
ideas can serve to distort an understanding of how we got to where we are, and
what it will take to improve our lives at present and in the future. Here we
are encouraged to exam our complete history, the unfolding of events and
constraints which has coughed us up onto this continent of contradictions. The
theory of historical materialism requires that we examine the “fundamental
contradictions” in social class relationships from the past and come up with a
collective understanding of how new ideas are born from new material relationships.
Class
struggle involves psychological manipulations, and while people who have
discovered they have been manipulated and understandably resent that they were duped,
a wider understanding is that everybody has been manipulated in one manner or another. One
historical example of the practice of dialectical materialism is stated by
Lenin - an expert on the subject - who is reported to have once commented, to
the effect : The best way to destroy an opposition is
to lead it.
We
are living in a carnivalesque
house of mirrors, where nothing is what it appears to be. By returning to the
fundamentals of analysis, using methods of both formal logic and dialectical
materialism, we might observe that throughout recorded time the ruling classes
have sought control over their military, their police, their ideological
institutions such as schools, religious doctrines, the production sites and
market places for commodities and services, as well as over intellectual and
artistic production. Usually that which was beneficial for the ruling class,
during any period of history, was promoted while all that was perceived as
detrimental to their collective class interests was suppressed in one way or
another. This does not exclude the many Pyrrhic victories throughout history, where the alternative was revolution – “the world upside-down!”
This
general pattern of behavior can be seen repeatedly across generations and
across geographical space, differing only with the specificity of the moment
and its context. Conflicts of class interest are universal; how they are
resolved in particular circumstances can differ greatly, however, depending on
the larger contexts in which confrontation occurs.
The
paranoid clutching onto power when you are bankrupt is the material for satire
and ridicule. It is the venal path to collective suicide, both imaginary and
real . . . .
The 21+ items below are articles
and essays selected this week from the critical Anglophone alternative social
media which serve to demonstrate the depth of the crisis we are now entering
and the various off-ramps which the ruling class facilitates to prevent
grassroots movements from uniting to challenge their political and economic
power. Meanwhile it is increasingly felt among a growing segment of populations
that the world is over-ripe for revolution, while agent provocateurs continue to ply their trade to provoke
“pre-mature revolutions”, ending in suicidal revolts (both imaginary and real) that
spur the further development of repressive technology and feed the repressive
military-media-medical-congressional-surveillance industrial complex as a
whole.
Sincerely,
Francis
McCollum Feeley
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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
a.
“Look Up! Wake Up, People! You Are Being ‘Suicided in Warp Speed’”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/look-up-wake-up-people-you-being-suicided-warp-speed/5802139
by Peter Koenig
Don’t
look up lest you could see what nobody wants you to see – namely the Big-Big Lie. As time goes on and
Agenda 2030, alias The WEF’s Great
Reset progresses, the asteroid approaching Mother Earth is ever moving
closer, is an ever greater risk for the destruction of our planet. Its ever more obvious. And we all feel it – we feel the heat
of the approaching meteor.
Yet, we are afraid to look up. We are
even told there is a comet approaching that could destroy us all. We are
scared, but we don’t look up to see the ever-growing enormity. Because if we would, we would have to take measures to stop the
meteor from hitting our planet.
It would “disturb” our comfort; we would
have to stand up, we would have to act in unison to muster the strength to
bring about a change in the direction of the asteroid, to save our planet.
We seem to be scared out of our minds –
so much so, that we’d prefer the ostrich-behavior, looking down, even
sticking our heads in the sand – not to see the obvious.
Literally, the
destruction of our lives. The longer we wait the lesser our
chances to deviate the “colossal monster” approaching us. We know it, deep down, our innermost intuition tells us that there is
something mighty wrong with what is approaching.
Doing nothing is like committing
suicide. Because the warning signals have been there and here and everywhere –
for years, not just since January 2020, when the meteor was first sighted and
officially registered.
Cognitive dissonance and FEAR, yes,
repeated FEAR, is their greatest instrument of intimidation.
They don’t hide the comet. But it’s up
to us to look up and see it, to do whatever it takes to swerving its trajectory
away from our Mother Earth. We can do it – we can still do it.
This call for attention, for looking up,
is not meant to spread more fear. Quite the contrary.
By seeing your enemy, by looking him in
the eye, you gain strength and lose fear. By doing this collectively, as a
solidarity unit of humans – facing the lies and stepping finally away from the
lies that have swallowed our lives for decades, for centuries, probably for at
least the last 2000 years – then we will be able to breathe fresh air. New Energy.
“Don’t
Look Up”
Don’t Look Up is the title of a 2021 released movie about a
comet that approaches Mother Earth threatening to destroy her.
The
comet is a metaphor for the horrendously forceful corporate finance-digital
power engineered covid and climate change crises
about to destroy Mother Earth. The movie is yet another warning.
It
tells us: Do look up! Look the Monster
right into its expressionless, cold killer-face.
That’s
a step WE have to take in order to stop it. And we can stop it.
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“Conspiracy Theory (1997) - Film,
Literature and the New World Order”
with James Corbett
(59:49)
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“The Belmarsh Tribunal D.C
(January 20, 2023):The Case of Julian Assange”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QqpYATupw
with Amy Goodman and
Srecko Horvat
(2:27:02)
On
January 20, 2023, Democracy Now! livestreamed
the Belmarsh Tribunal from Washington, D.C. This
event featured expert testimony from journalists, whistleblowers, lawyers,
publishers and parliamentarians on assaults to press freedom and the First
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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LIVE: “DC Belmarsh Tribunal for Assange”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/06/watch-dc-belmarsh-tribunal-for-assange/
with Ryan Grim and
Amy Goodman
from the National Press Club
in Washington D.C. on Saturday Dec 9 at 2pm EST – 7pm GMT, the Belmarsh Tribunal for imprisoned journalist Julian Assange.
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“Sustainable surveillance”
by
Edward
Slavsquat
A
centralized hub for storing and processing data from all video surveillance
systems in Russia's urban areas will help Moscow identify unipolar
faces.
For
every 100 Russians there are 0.8 CCTV cameras keeping the Russian Federation
safe and effective, according
to Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development. Of course, it would be better if
there were 100 CCTV cameras for every 0.8 Russians but Rome wasn’t built in a
day.
It’s
one thing to have a bunch of friendly cameras pointed at everyone—a good thing,
don’t get me wrong. But it’s quite another thing to be able to hook all these
cameras up to a Multipolar Safety Hive that will keep
everyone safe for centuries to come. And that’s why the Russian government’s
plan to connect the country’s CCTV cameras to a conveniently centralized safety
center is a no-brainer:
The
Ministry of Digital Development proposes to include in the national project
“Data Economy” an initiative that involves the creation of a national platform
for storing and processing information from all urban video surveillance
systems in the Russian Federation. […]
But
what prompted this ambitious safety plan? The Ministry of Digital Development
was reportedly displeased by the fact that only half of the CCTV cameras
installed across Russia using state funds were connected to regional systems.
Even more troubling: Regional authorities don’t have access to face-data from
private cameras. “Private” and safety cannot coexist!
To
rectify these problems, the ministry wants to create a national platform that
can tap into preexisting face-surveillance hubs operated at the regional level.
If your camera is located in an urban area, participation in this
centralization scheme will be mandatory. (Thank you for your cooperation.)
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“The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect or, Why idiots continue to trust the media when they are demonstrably wrong about everything”
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=725827&post_id=139678148&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email
by James Corbett
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"Trauma Nation"
https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/09/trauma-nation/
by Todd Hayen
We now are all suffering from acute trauma, in a trauma nation. I would venture to say in a trauma world, but I am not certain of conditions in countries such as India, Indonesia, much of the Middle East or the like. I do think the trauma I am speaking of is present in most of Europe, the UK, North America, Israel, Australia and probably in many other places. Anywhere the vaccine rollout occurred, as well as anywhere that experienced lockdowns, social distancing, school closures, etc. That leaves few places trauma-free.
What is trauma? The Oxford Dictionary defines it as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. If this is accurate then my only response is “duh”—of course we have all been traumatized. There is no doubt that we have all experienced a deeply distressing and disturbing experience. Many experiences, in fact, over many, many years.
But have we all experienced these traumas? And have all of us experienced the same number of traumatic events, and have we all responded the same way to them? No, of course not. We are all individual human beings, and the traumas are also varied, and each has a unique impact. Let me present this idea in rather broad strokes. First, I will divide us all into two groups that each have roughly similar ideas and beliefs. You know where I am going with this, so without further ado, here they are: Sheep and Shrews. (Click on the link if you are not familiar with my sheep/shrew terminology.)
I do not think I need to spend time defining these two groups. There are of course outliers in addition to the main group—those who are quasi-sheep, those who are quasi-shrews, and those who really don’t fit into either group. But just for simplicity’s sake let’s say there are only two groups—and you and I belong in one or the other.
I will start with these two distinctions in order to say that each of these groups experience the trauma that has come to all of us in different ways. The sheep for the most part experience this trauma internally. They don’t really know what is happening. They may say, “oh my, Covid was horrible, the pandemic really affected me.” But they are only describing the fake version of the crises—the ridiculous infection rate, the ubiquitous fear of death, the ventilators, the hospitals, the lockdowns, the fake drugs, the social distancing, the masks. Vaccines coming on the scene were not part of the sheep trauma, they were actually the savior that descended from heaven to save the hoards from sure destruction. Now, for sheep, the trauma is largely over—the external fake one at least. The internal one is really just starting, but they still don’t know it.
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“Isolated Putin”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYAiHXDk3RA&si=FPDz2XipMEtlGDiy
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(20 :49)
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b.
Kissinger (1923-2023)
For one hundred years he lived among his follow
humans on this planet, and before he died he participated in the murder of
millions of them while pursuing his career in corporate America. He died very
wealthy – a “Realist,” and a lonely misanthrope.
“Tariq Ali buries Henry Kissinger”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhLxdahNedg&si=4urRBxxt7VoVCnZw
with Tariq Ali
(2:40)
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“Henry Kissinger and His Legacy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVefJ_mApDc&si=OsWdfdBU29e64rvg
with Ray McGovern
(47:54)
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“Henry Kissinger, preserving empire and power”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbGmpDnlryg&si=B8Wl9FUhzY0tcvS4
with Greg Grandin
(47:27)
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“Case Against Henry
Kissinger: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Kissinger”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZMVONyCpV4&si=IiSKo3cc4bgp6_68
with Reed Brody
(20:51)
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“Henry Kissinger and the Moral Bankruptcy of U.S. Elites”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BMdMWBXRw&si=lsK_CdbPB-qoG9Ms
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(47:27)
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“Meet Henry Kissinger” (2009)
with James Corbett
(46:10)
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“Putin mourns death of ‘extraordinary and wise’
Henry Kissinger”
"I will undoubtedly retain the fondest memory
of him" Putin wrote in a message expressing his condolences to Kissinger's
wife
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“Remembering Kissinger’s Victims”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/06/remembering-kissingers-victims/
by Joe Bader
Historian
Greg Grandin, in his 2015 biography of Henry
Kissinger, estimated that Kissinger’s policies
were responsible for 3-to-4 million deaths around the world — from Vietnam to
Pakistan, to Indonesia, to Chile, to southern Africa, to the Middle East.
Grandin’s damning indictment
against the former U.S. national security adviser and secretary of state is
powerful and overwhelming.
But large numbers like 3 to 4 million mask the very
real pain, terror and tragedy suffered by those individuals and their families.
Look at the cases of Charles Horman, Frank Teruggi and Ronni Moffit.
All three were Americans killed by the Chilean
military junta backed by Kissinger and Nixon that overthrew the
democratically-elected socialist government of Salvador Allende.
[Related: Kissinger as Nixon’s ‘Messenger Boy’]
Horman and Teruggi
were journalists in Chile in 1973 when the coup happened. They were taken to
the infamous National Stadium in Santiago where they were executed along with
thousands of Chileans. Their story was painfully yet meaningfully represented
in the 1982 film Missing
with Jack Lemon and Sissy Spacek.
See also: Kissinger and Me
Ronni Moffit
was a researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., who
was riding in a car with her husband Michael Moffit
and the former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier in
Sheridan Circle, Washington, when their car exploded.
It was determined that a bomb was planted by agents
of the Chilean secret police most likely under orders from junta leader General
Augusto Pinochet.
The record indicates that Kissinger told Pinochet in
a phone conversation in June of 1976 that his
regime was a victim of leftist propaganda on human rights:
“In the United States as you know we are sympathetic
with what you are trying to do here. We want to help, not undermine you. You
did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende.”
A few months later, Moffit
and Letelier were murdered. Letelier’s
lower torso was blown away and his legs were severed. Moffit’s
larynx and carotid artery were slashed by a piece of shrapnel and she drowned
in her own blood.
Most Americans today don’t know about these murders
or the names of the three victims mentioned above. After all, it was almost 50
years ago and people have become inured to the many atrocities committed at
home and abroad since then.
The death of Henry Kissinger allows us to remember
that his 3 to 4 million victims are not just amorphous entities but individuals
who had names, families, lives, hopes and dreams. They did not deserve to die
miserable deaths.
My wish would be that anyone who praises Kissinger
or cites his “accomplishments” must also acknowledge his victims and know some
of their names.
In particular, American media figures, politicians
and prognosticators should know who Horman, Teruggi, and Moffit were, how
they died, and who was responsible for their deaths. Their families, friends,
and descendants certainly know and deserve to have their pain and loss
acknowledged.
Kissinger never had to answer for his crimes or face
his victims’ families. There is nothing we can do about this now that he is
dead. But we can at least insure that his crimes and misdeeds are never
forgotten.
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c.
Economic Update: “American's Self Image VS Reality”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQhmKIgxoF8
with Richard Wolff
(29:14)
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“Israel-Palestine War: The Big Picture”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-palestine-war-where-aiming/5841807
with Peter Koenig
(55:32)
Some
“experts” say with full conviction Hamas is winning this war.
They
base it on Hamas having achieved a ceasefire which they consider is
already a “win”. And then they said getting Israel to accept a 2-day extension
is a further sign of Hamas upper-hand.
That
is just wishful thinking. An illusion at best. It
would be desirable. But, with Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) armed to the teeth
with western — mostly US — state-of-the-art weapons, plus top secret
service advice from Mossad, CIA and UK’s MI6
(Military Intelligence, section six), such ideas are way detached from reality.
Background
First, in this, like in most other wars, there is no
winner. There are only losers.
Second, instead of dividing the world in pro or con
the one or the other warrying party, the typical
“divide to conquer” propaganda, we should all vouch for PEACE.
Having said this, it is undeniable that Palestine
has lived through some kind of a “Holocaust” for the last 75 years, since the
creation of Israel in 1948 – sponsored by the UK, in connivance with the then
brand-new UN, backed by the US.
The UN, created in 1945, had only 51 member
countries, and was then already under full control of the “top winner” of WWII,
the USA.
The Israeli crackdown on Palestine became even more
severe when, on June 5, 1967, Israel launched an attack against Egyptian forces
in response to Egypt’s closing of the Suez Canal for Israeli shipping. Jordan
and Syria joined the conflict.
By June 11, Israel defeated all three and occupied
the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the
Golan Heights. The United States pressed for a ceasefire to prevent the risk of
a Soviet intervention. See this.
This was the beginning of Palestine’s – especially
Gaza’s – colonization.
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“‘The Horror! The Horror!’, Revisited in Palestine”
https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2023/12/02/the-horror-the-horror-revisited-in-palestine/
by Pepe
Escobar
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In Pictures: ‘Hell on Earth’ in Gaza
https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2023/12/02/in-pictures-hell-on-earth-in-gaza/
by Al Jazeera
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'Israel' massacres hundreds in residential areas across
Gaza Strip
by Al Mayadeen
Israel' has renewed its targeting of
civilians in residential areas, killing more than 100 people in the Jabalia refugee camp in one go.
The
President of the Islamic University, Dr. Soufian Tayeh, and his family were among those murdered in cold
blood, according to our correspondent. Mohammad Farjallah,
a photojournalist,
was also martyred in a strike in a northern area of the Gaza Strip.
Being
underequipped and under the threat of Israeli targeting, the Palestinian Civil
Defense is still unable to retrieve the bodies of martyrs still trapped under
the rubble.
On
his part, the Director of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Khalil al-Duqran, told Al Mayadeen that the hospital has exceeded its capacity,
as the number of wounded people surpassed the number of hospital beds available
at the facility. He confirmed that the hospital is suffering from extreme
shortages in medical supplies and fuel.
"We
previously urged the world to transfer all injured individuals abroad and to
open the Rafah border crossing for the entry of medical supplies," however, al-Duqran's
pleas fell on deaf ears, while the world idly watches as "Israel"
massacres Gazans.
On
its part, the Palestinian Civil Defense reported the martyrdom of 20
Palestinians after Israeli bombs hit a residential building in Hay al-Zaytun, in Gaza City.
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“Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks tops 15,200”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231202-gaza-death-toll-from-israeli-attacks-tops-15200/
by MEM
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“Mass Assassination Factory, Israel Using AI to
Generate Targets in Gaza, Increasing Civilian Toll”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7znz0eNFE
with Amy Goodman and Yuval Abraham
(18:05)
We look at a new report that reveals how Israel is
using artificial intelligence to draw up targets in its military assault of
Gaza. The report's author, journalist Yuval Abraham, has found that the IDF's
increasing use of AI is partly a response to previous operations in Gaza when
Israel quickly ran out of military targets, causing it to loosen its
constraints on attacks that could kill civilians. In other words, the
"civilian devastation that is happening right now in Gaza" is the
result of a "war policy that has a very loose interpretation of what a
military target is." This targeting of private homes and residences to
kill alleged combatants means that "when a child is killed in Gaza, it's because
somebody made a decision it was worth it." It has turned the Israeli
military into a "mass assassination factory," with a "total
disregard for Palestinian civil life," continues Abraham, who also notes
that, as an Israeli journalist, his reporting is still subject to military
censors. We also discuss another recent report revealing that Israel may have
received intelligence about Hamas's planned attack more than a year in advance
of October 7, but ignored it.
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“Russia Gives Israel A FINAL WARNING - Stop The
Attack Now!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTXy1VXPxxY
by Douglas Macgregor, with surveilScott Ritter
((31:38)
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d.
“The 100 year war
on Palestine” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ55JmOlSdg
with Chris Hedges and Rashid Khalidi
(1:01:10)
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“Will the Israelis
perpetrate a clandestine 9/11-style terrorist attack in the US?”
by Jad Melki
The
second intifada, which started in September 2000, prompted unprecedented
awareness of the Palestine liberation cause, especially in the US and Europe. I
was a student back then at Kent State University—a university historically
known for its activism and powerful protests, particularly the anti-Vietnam war
demonstration in the 1960s and 1970s. It just happened that the same year the
university commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Kent State
University massacre, where the US
soldiers shot and killed four students and wounded nine others in an attempt to
dispel a major anti-war demonstration.
The spirit of activism was so palpable that
year. I could clearly feel the shift in solidarity and support in favor of the
Palestinian cause on US campuses, thanks to the many Arab-American student
groups that were established across American universities, but also due to the
brutality of the Israeli occupation and its genocidal tendencies. A peak
watershed moment that swung the pendulum in Palestine’s favor and exposed
Zionist lies and brutality was the killing of Muhamad al
Durra. The short video of 12-year-old Muhamad
and his father crouching behind a small barrier, pleading for help, while
Israeli snipers kept shooting at them, became the icon of the second intifada.
The video “went viral” at a time when social media did not exist yet. It was
the dawn of the internet and hard to predict that 23 years later, social media
will show thousands of Muhamad Al-Durras
being killed in cold-blood by the Israeli apartheid regime.
The Zionist movement in the West was so
terrified from this sudden uptick in solidarity with Palestine on US campuses
that the Israeli allocated millions of dollars in the past two decades to
monitor University faculty, intimidate students, and target both with false
“anti-Semitic” accusations and other fabrications. Dozens of groups, with
direct ties to Israeli intelligence and its US lobbying arm AIPAC, were
established for that particular purpose, including Camera on Campus, Canary
Mission, and the Israel
on Campus Coalition. These groups illegally spy on US citizens and
target any pro-Palestine students and faculty, especially the pro-Palestine
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Their goal was to
avoid another wave of solidarity similar to the one triggered by the second
intifada.
And although the small pro-Palestine
liberation wave in 2000 quickly subsided, it was not due to the pro-Israeli
campus spy groups. It took a much bigger event.
Exactly one year after the second intifada,
the September 11 terrorist attacks happened, and overnight much of the
pro-Palestine sympathy and solidarity evaporated or was subordinated by the
overwhelming news of the attacks by Al-Qaeda, an extremist group that was
originally created, funded and supported by the CIA and the Saudi regime to
fight the Russians in Afghanistan. It had nothing to do with Palestinians nor
with Iraqis, but the US used it as a pretext to
destroy Iraq—based on the weapons of mass destruction lie and other baseless
fabrications. The Israelis too used 9/11 as a pretext to continue their ethnic
cleansing of Palestinians, build more illegal settlements, steal more land, and
imprison more Palestinians.
Today, again, the Israeli genocidal apartheid
regime is losing the media narrative on an unprecedented global scale, and
millions of Westerners are becoming aware of the 75-year-old injustice
Palestinians have faced under the brutal Israeli occupation. All the Israeli
lies and propaganda are not helping its case or hiding its crimes. People
worldwide are becoming more educated about this historic injustice. The
Israelis are running out of tricks, and all their millions of dollars invested
in spying campus groups and lobbying pollical arms
that fund thousands of US and European politicians’ election campaigns are
falling flat on their faces. Even their attempt to fund a US politician with 20-million dollars to run
against the outspoken Palestinian-American congresswoman Rashida Tlaib backfired, and the
bribe was turned down by senate candidate Hill Harper, in a rare honorable
stance in US politics, which is notoriously influenced by donations from
lobbying and special interest groups.
Even the historically pro-Israeli mainstream
Western media were not able to counter the deluge of images disseminated on
social media that has exposed the Israeli war on hospitals, bakeries, schools,
and children in Gaza. But I have no doubt the Israelis will do something about
this. It will be big, evil and murderous, designed to attract massive media
attention and counter the enormous wave of pro-Palestine solidarity in the US—the country that has spent over 130 billion dollars of its taxpayer
money to sustain this racist apartheid regime, money that could have gone to
maintaining the crumbling US infrastructure or to support the declining
education and healthcare systems in that country.
I am concerned that the Israeli Mossad will secretly conjure up a terrorist attack in the
US or another Western country, at the scale of the 9/11 attacks, or even worse,
in order to distract from their genocidal crimes in Palestine and in an attempt
to win back the media narrative.
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“Netanyahu will commit genocide to protect his
political career”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fagxN_8o26A&si=DS7PVq76Wpc_WT0H
by Dan Cohen
(9:11)
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“The death rattle
of American domination”
https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2023/12/02/the-death-rattle-of-american-domination/
by Roqayah Chams
Palestinians
are agents of history in “Israel’s” war of attrition, and they are refusing to
abide by their occupier’s terms.
============
e.
“‘We Are All Palestinians’”: COP28 Activists Demand
Ceasefire in Gaza, Defying Protest Restrictions”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9ThcHwgptw&si=LfPVu1ld4TbV47kb
with Amy Goodman
(11:18)
Despite
strict limits on protest in the United Arab Emirates, as well as United Nations
rules at the climate conference known as COP28 now underway in Dubai, over 100
people demonstrated on the sidelines of the summit Sunday in solidarity with
Palestine to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. Some held banners with watermelons
painted on them, a known symbol of the Palestinian movement, to circumvent a
ban on Palestinian flags. Protesters were barred from chanting phrases like
“from the river to the sea” and “Free Palestine” and were not permitted to say
“Gaza,” “Palestine” and “Israel” or name any other nation. Several still did so
in defiance. Democracy Now! is broadcasting from COP28
this week, and we feature voices from the protest.
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“The weapons Israel tests on Palestinians will be
used against all of us”
https://therealnews.com/the-weapons-israel-tests-on-palestinians-will-be-used-against-all-of-us
by Chris Hedges
(53:37)
As
Antony Loewenstein explains, Palestine has been a
testing ground for repressive technologies exported around the world, from spy
software to killer drones.
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“Russia Warns Israel: ‘Cease Fire Now or Else!’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWRY8HW7yXM
(10:54)
Amid the Israel-Hamas war, a big
question looms large: What will happen, especially to women and children who
find themselves in the middle of all this chaos?
This
fight has not just caught the eye of countries all around the world, but it's
also making leaders take a stand – either in support or against – in a
situation where politics and doing what's right clash. As this battle rages on,
leaders from different parts of the world are speaking up and showing where
they stand, making clear their opinions on an issue that's loaded with history
and a whole bunch of different aspects. But not everyone is taking sides; some
countries are choosing to stay neutral, which shows how tricky it is to deal
with situations like these. One leader who's had something to say about this is
Russia's President, Vladimir Putin. What he thinks adds an interesting twist to
the ongoing talks about the Israel-Hamas issue. Being a big shot on the world
stage, Putin's take on the Israel-Hamas conflict carries weight.
His expression of worry adds to the seriousness of the situation and the
possible far-reaching effects. As the entire world grapples with the
complexities of this challenging situation, the significance of dialogue and
seeking peaceful solutions becomes increasingly apparent. Can these
conversations and efforts for peace truly prevent a further downward spiral and
safeguard those most vulnerable in the midst of this turmoil?
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“GENOCIDE 2.0 - MOATS with George Galloway”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJT81B_efcE
with George Galloway
(2:12:30)
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“NO DIRECTION HOME”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9iGhOmT17U
with Jackson Hinkle
(2:11:18)
·
05:35 Introduction #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide
·
06:55 MOATS Monologue #Palestine #Gaza
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35:30 Max Blumenthal on #Palestine #Gaza #Biden
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1:05:40 Haz Al-Din on #Venezuela #Guyana #Ukraine #Palestine
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1:31:58 Dan Cohen on #Gaza #Palestine #Netanyahu #IDF #Israel
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Follow Max Blumenthal on X: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
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Follow Dan Cohen on X: https://x.com/dancohen3000 and https://www.uncaptured.media
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“On the Path to Self-Destruction”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnHABuFsysI
with Col. Karen Kwiatkowski
(1:21:00)
Ltc.
(ret.) Karen U. Kwiatkowski is a retired U.S. Air Force officer whose
assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and various roles for
the National Security Agency. After retiring, she became a noted critic of the
U.S. involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is known for her insider essays
denouncing a corrupting political influence on military intelligence,
especially leading up to the 2003 Iraq. In 2012, she challenged incumbent Bob Goodlatt in the Republican primary for Virginia’s 6th
district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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“Biden White House diplomacy backfire.
Tracking the USS Eisenhower”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcncGekgCI0
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(22:38)
============
f.
“The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy and the Truth About the ‘Day of Infamy’”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/pearl-harbor-conspiracy-truth-about-day-infamy/5842584
by Dr. Gary G. Kohls
A congressional
commission investigated the surprise attack and determined that there was a
failure of the command structure at Pearl Harbor, and heads
rolled, despite the protestations from the commanders, who pleaded total
ignorance of foreknowledge of the attack. The families of the accused and
de-frocked naval officers refused to believe the conclusions of the commission.
And then,
decades later, what really happened at
Pearl Harbor was revealed, when secret Naval documents
were finally released through the Freedom of Information Act. At that time,
investigative journalists and historians discovered that the blame for the
devastating sneak attack should have been directed much higher up in the chain
of command, in fact, all the way to the White House. Historian Robert B.
Stinnett’s book, entitled Day Of Deceit: The Truth
About FDR and Pearl Harbor supports alternative conclusions.
In an essay
published in 2000 on LewRockwell.com, Stinnett says in his concluding remarks:
“ …my research of U.S. naval records shows that not
only were [commanding officers] Kimmel and Short cut off from the Japanese
communications intelligence pipeline, so were the American people. It is a
cover-up that has lasted for nearly 59 years.
“Immediately
after December 7, 1941, military communications documents that disclose
American foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor disaster were locked in U.S. Navy
vaults away from the prying eyes of congressional investigators, historians,
and authors. Though the Freedom of Information Act freed the foreknowledge
documents from the secretive vaults to the sunlight of the National Archives in
1995, a cottage industry continues to cover up America’s foreknowledge of Pearl
Harbor.” The entire essay can be read here.
+
“NATO is an empty shell. Ukraine & Israel as
vehicles for a big war”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XSaj4WLjULzL/
with Scott Ritter
(47:50)
+
“German cops go ballistic on pro-Palestine
protestors. Fascism returns? »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBm8haZOJY4&si=RXxJR7HTX3axD0pr
by Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt, Dan Avram, and Arne Büttner
(11:56)
Israel's
war on Gaza has unleashed a torrent of worldwide denunciation. Many western
governments are cranking up repression of pro-Palestine activists in response.
In Europe, Germany has set a grim bar in brutalizing protestors and violating
their civil liberties. The Real News reports from Berlin's largely Arab and
Muslim Sonnenallee neighborhood.
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“The White
House’s Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws”
by John & Nisha Whitehead
“We are rapidly
entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all
times; where there are no secrets from government.”
--William O. Douglas, dissenting
in Osborn v. United States (1966)
The
government wants us to believe that we have nothing to fear from its mass
spying programs as long as we’ve done nothing wrong.
Don’t
believe it.
It
doesn’t matter whether you obey every law. The government’s definition of a
“bad” guy is extraordinarily broad, and it results in the warrantless
surveillance of innocent, law-abiding Americans on a staggering scale.
For
instance, it was recently revealed that the White House, relying on a set of
privacy loopholes, has been sidestepping the Fourth Amendment by paying
AT&T to allow federal, state, and local law enforcement to access—without a
warrant—the phone records of Americans who are not suspected of
a crime.
This
goes way beyond the NSA’s metadata collection program.
Operated
during the Obama, Trump and now the Biden presidencies, this secret dragnet surveillance program (formerly known as Hemisphere and now
dubbed Data Analytical Services) uses its association with the White House to
sidestep a vast array of privacy and transparency laws.
According
to Senator Ron Wyden, Hemisphere has been operating without any oversight for
more than a decade under the guise of cracking down on drug traffickers.
This
is how the government routinely breaks the law and gets away with it: in the
so-called name of national security.
More
than a trillion domestic phone records are mined through
this mass surveillance program every
year, warrantlessly targeting not only those
suspected of criminal activity but anyone with
whom they might have contact, including spouses, children, parents, and
friends.
It’s
not just law enforcement agencies investigating drug crimes who
are using Hemisphere to sidestep the Fourth Amendment, either. Those who have
received training on the program reportedly include postal workers, prison officials, highway
patrol officers, border cops, and the National Guard.
It’s
a program ripe for abuse, and you can bet it’s getting
abused.
Surveillance,
digital stalking and the data mining of the American people—weapons of
compliance and control in the government’s hands—haven’t made America any
safer, and they certainly aren’t helping to preserve our freedoms.
Indeed,
America will never be safe as long as the U.S. government is allowed to shred
the Constitution.
The
Fourth Amendment was intended to serve as a protective forcefield
around our persons, our property, our activities, our communications and our
movements. It keeps the government out of our private business except in
certain, extenuating circumstances.
Those
extenuating circumstances are spelled out clearly: government officials must
have probable cause that criminal activity is afoot (a higher legal standard
than “reasonable suspicion”), which is required by the Constitution before any
government official can search an individual or his property.
Unfortunately,
all three branches of government—the legislatures, courts and executive offices—have
given the police state all kinds of leeway when it comes to sidestepping the
Fourth Amendment.
As
a result, on a daily basis, Americans are already being made to relinquish the
most intimate details of who we are—our biological
makeup, our genetic blueprints, and our biometrics (facial characteristics and
structure, fingerprints, iris scans, etc.)—in order to clear the nearly
insurmountable hurdle that increasingly defines life in the United States: we
are now guilty until proven innocent.
Warrantless,
dragnet surveillance is the manifestation of a lawless government that has gone
rogue in its determination to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, the
Constitution be damned.
Dragnet surveillance. Geofencing. Fusion centers. Smart devices. Behavioral threat assessments. Terror watch lists. Facial recognition. Snitch tip lines. Biometric
scanners. Pre-crime. DNA
databases. Data mining. Precognitive
technology. Contact tracing apps.
What
these add up to is a world in which, on any given day, the average person is
now monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in
more than 20 different ways by both government and corporate eyes and ears.
This
creepy new era of government/corporate spying—in which we’re being listened to,
watched, tracked, followed, mapped, bought, sold and targeted every second of
every day—has been made possible by a global army of techno-tyrants, electronic
eavesdroppers, robotic snoops and digital Peeping Toms.
+
“Economic Changes
in the World”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWDUNnvoT4s
with Jeffrey Sachs,
Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen
(1:41:08)
============
g.
“GENOCIDE 2.0” - MOATS ep. 296
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJT81B_efcE
with George Galloway
(2:12:30)
+
“Dan Cohen on the
Israeli Genocide of Gaza”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzNM3-lVzTk
by The Community Church of Boston, with Dan Cohen
(1:27:11)
+
“Israeli October 7 posterchild
was killed by Israeli tank, eyewitnesses reveal”
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/11/25/israels-october-7-propaganda-tank-eyewitnesses/
by Max Blumenthal
Eyewitnesses
to the October 7 hostage standoff in Kibbutz Be’eri
have exposed Israel for misleading the world about the killings of 12-year-old Liel Hetzroni, her family and her
neighbors.
Update: A video
transcript of Yasmin Porat’s
testimony translated by David Sheen for
Electronic Intifada follows this article.
In
a desperate bid for international sympathy, the Israeli government has sought
to stir outrage over the killing of a 12-year-old girl during the Hamas-led
attack on southern Israel on October 7.
“This
little girl’s body was burned so badly that it took forensic archeologists more
than six weeks to identify her,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry declared on its
official Twitter/X account. “All that remains of 12 year old Liel Hetzroni is ash and bone
fragments. May her memory be a blessing.”
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“10
Questions About Gaza”(Parts 1 & 2)
https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/05/10-questions-about-gaza-part-1/
and
https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/06/10-questions-about-gaza-part-2/
by Simon Elmer
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
W. H. Auden
Here
are ten questions everyone should try to answer before adding their
unconditional or qualified support to the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza,
and which UK politicians, journalists and Zionists have refused even to ask,
let alone to answer.
This
article is my attempt to answer them.
1.
What is a Jew?
Their
barbaric acts are acts of evil. There are not two sides to these events. There
is no question of balance. I stand with Israel. We stand with Israel. The
United Kingdom stands with Israel against this terrorism today, tomorrow, and
always.”
Rishi Sunak, UK Prime Minister (9 October, 2023) . . . .
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INTERVIEW: “We’re going to die on our land”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ctVksneS74
with George Galloway
and Arab Barghouthi
(10:57)
The
two-state solution is dead, when 98% of Israelis think it’s
ok to kill women and children says Arab Barghouthi.
============
h.
“Bloodbaths Change The World - 9/11”(Parts 1 & 2)
https://voicefromrussia.ch/en/bloodbaths-change-the-world-part-1/
and
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bloodbaths-change-world-911
by Peter Hanseler
Introduction
Israel
dominates the global media to an almost unseen extent. Only almost, because one
event 22 years ago surpassed everything else in terms of media hype: 9/11. What
both events have in common is that politicians and the media ruthlessly exploit
people’s shock to achieve their goals or to generate clicks and thus rake in
money. Most articles have one thing in common: they are based on emotions. We
write about geopolitics. Geopolitical analyses must be based on facts. If the
basis is emotionally charged, the analysis is worthless, regularly leads to
false results and gives culprits and masterminds tools to work with, which they
should not have under any circumstances.
In
this second part of our series, we discuss this and more based on the most
publicized terrorist attack of the 21st century.
In Part 1,
we established that President Truman lied through the teeth not only to his own
people but to the entire world by dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki not as claimed to save hundreds of thousands of American soldiers’
lives, but to show the world and Stalin who would be the master of the house
after World War 2.
For
this marketing stunt, Truman cold-bloodedly sacrificed 200,000 Japanese, most
of them civilians. His own people were emotionally well prepared for this
atrocity. Since the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the American
government and the media poisoned the soul of the Americans with the most
vicious racist propaganda. This hate speech against everything Japanese allowed
the American state, among other things, to put hundreds of thousands of American citizens with
Japanese roots into concentration camps:
American citizens, mind you.
Everyone
should therefore be aware, even today, that the so-called “fundamental
constitutional rights”, which seem beyond reproach, rights that a constitution
grants to its citizens, have no more value than a membership in a tennis club:
they can be taken away at any time. This happened and still happens after 1945.
In
1945, the majority of us were not yet born. However, our generation was swept
away by an event in September 2001 that changed the world forever.
We
will highlight four aspects in this article: First, what life was like before 9/11,
using my own personal memories and perceptions as an example. Second, we
highlight social changes that 9/11 brought us. Third, we discuss the
geopolitical consequences.
Finally,
in the third part, which will be published shortly, we will highlight a few
facts that make you doubt that the attack happened as claimed.
Life
before 9/11
+
“Israel-Hamas war updates: Communications cut amid
southern Gaza offensive”
by Edna Mohamed, Farah Najjar and Urooba Jamal
Follow the latest on the Israeli war on
Gaza, and the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict, on our new live page, here.
The
number of displaced Palestinians arriving at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis continues to increase. To see images and read
testimonies, see our photo gallery here.
Israel
has told Palestinians to evacuate parts of southern Gaza as it continues to
bombard the area, but civilians have virtually nowhere to go. Read our
explainer here.
Fact or fiction? Israeli maps and AI do not save Palestinian lives,
writes Professor Marc Owen Jones. Read more about why he believes so in this opinion piece.
+
“Isreal Nightmare! Iran
Finally Launched Horrifying Ai Drones That Shocked Israel”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq0sguZEk8g
by Geopolitics TV
(11:44)
Have
you ever stopped to wonder about a world where the skies aren't ruled by human
pilots but rather by super-smart machines? Well, that's exactly what's got
everyone talking lately. Iran has just revealed that they've launched these
super-advanced drones powered by artificial intelligence, and it's making
waves, especially in Israel. Now, here's the big question on everyone's minds:
Are we on the brink of a major change in how wars are fought, where smart
machines do most of the heavy lifting? Let's break it down a bit. These drones
aren't your usual ones; they're super smart, like, sci-fi movie smart. And the
big deal here is not just about technology; it's about how it could shake up
things in Israel and beyond. Imagine robots flying around, making decisions,
and patrolling the skies. It's like something out of a futuristic movie, but
it's happening right now. So, as we dive into what's going on, we need to
unravel what this means for the stability of Israel, the right and wrong of it
all, and even how wars might look in the future. The
introduction of these advanced AI drones is a real game-changer, prompting us
to ponder some significant questions. It's got us all pausing and wondering:
how does this whole artificial intelligence thing fit into the messy,
real-world business of countries not getting along?
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A Discussion on Palestine and Israel on the
Revolutionary Blackout Network
(14:33)
============
i.
“The Fed Pauses: What Comes Next?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-pauses-what-comes-next
by Michael Lebowitz
After
hiking rates by 5.25% since March 2022, the Fed is in a wait-and-see period,
commonly deemed a pause. Since the Fed started hiking rates, inflation has
declined meaningfully but remains moderately above the Fed’s 2% target. The
economy continues to thrive, fueled by a strong labor market.
Despite
the good news, a dark cloud lingers on the horizon. The Fed’s primary fear is
that the lag effect of prior rate hikes has yet to impact the economy fully.
They desire a soft landing, implying little economic degradation. But a much
stronger downturn can’t be ruled out in their minds or ours. Given the odd
juxtaposition between strong economic growth and recession fears, a Fed pause
is the most likely action.
+
“Economic Update: The U.S. Military Machine &
What It Costs”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh99KphKz7Y&si=ScZoQKWKdm_HH_Se
with Richard Wolff
and Norman Solomon
(29:30)
+
“The Pentagon Fails
Its Audit Again—and Again and Again and Again and Again and Again”
by Lindsay Koshgarian
The Pentagon repeated its history of audit
failure for the sixth consecutive year, unable to account for $1.9 trillion of
its $3.8 trillion in assets. Despite the failures, Congress continues to
increase Pentagon spending every year. Since the first failed audit in 2018,
Congress approved approximately $3.9 trillion in Pentagon spending, with
billions flowing unaccounted for.
+
“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”
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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j.
“BOMBSHELL Censorship Report Reveals Efforts To Prevent ‘ANOTHER 2016’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfGrAiZbE9s
by Michael Shellenberger
Journalist and C.B.R. Chair in Politics,
Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin Michael Shellenberger weighs in on his latest reporting on an
"anti-disinformation group" called Cyber Threat Intelligence League.
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“This Was 'The Most Alarming Thing' Discovered In The Twitter Files”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNj_asppG98
with Matt Taibbi
(5:17)
At today's House Weaponization
of the Federal Government hearing (Dec. 1), Rep. Elise Stefanik
(R-NY) questioned Matt Taibbi about the Twitter
Files.
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COP28: The Globalist Agenda Has Never Been More
Obvious
https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/04/cop28-the-globalist-agenda-has-never-been-more-obvious/
by Kit Knightly
As
of this morning, we are four days into the two-week climate change summit in
Dubai.
Yes,
as we can all note for the thousandth time, literal fleets of private jets have
descended on the desert so that bankers and billionaires can talk about making
sure we don’t drive anymore or eat too much cheese.
What’s on the agenda? Globalism – and it’s never
been more obvious.
President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva essentially
said as much:
The planet is fed up with unfulfilled climate
agreements. Governments cannot escape their responsibilities. No country will
solve its problems alone. We are all obliged to act together beyond our
borders,”
Thursday’s opening remarks were predictably
doom-laden, with His Royal Highness Charles III and UN Secretary-General António Guterres falling into a
traditional good cop/bad cop hustle.
Charlie warned that we are embarking on a “vast, frightening experiment”,
asking “how dangerous are we actually
prepared to make our world?”
While Tony offered just the barest, thinnest slice
of hope to world leaders:
It is not too late […] You
can prevent planetary crash and burn. We have the technologies to avoid the
worst of climate chaos – if we act now.”
The rest of the two weeks will doubtless be
committed to lobbyists, bankers, royals and politicians deciding exactly how
they are going to “act”. Or, more accurately, how they are
going to sell their pre-agreed actions to their cattle-like populations.
They are literally telling us their plans, all we have to do is listen.
For example, Friday and Saturday were given over to
the “World Climate Action Summit”, at which over 170 world leaders pledged
support for Agenda 2030.
The COP28 website proudly boasts about it:
On 1 and 2 December, 176 world leaders gathered for
the World Climate Action Summit (WCAS), signaling a new era of climate action
on the road to 2030.
That would be 176 global leaders out of roughly 195
countries, so they have over 90 per cent of the world covered.
Among the agreements and pledges signed at the
summit so far is the “Emirates
Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate
Action”. Which, according to the BBC,
pledges to:
take aim at planet-warming
food”
We’ve all played this game long enough to know what
that means, haven’t we?
It means no more meat and dairy, and a lot more bugs
and GMO soy cubes.
They never say that, of course. In fact, they never
mention any specific foods or practices at all [you can read the whole
declaration here].
Instead, they just use phrases like “orient policies [to] reduce greenhouse gas
emissions”, or “shifting from
higher greenhouse gas-emitting practices to more sustainable production and
consumption approaches”
Maintaining plausible deniability via vague language
is part of the dance, but anyone paying attention knows exactly what they are
talking about.
It doesn’t stop there. World leaders have also
agreed to establish a “loss
and damage fund”, a 430 million dollar resource for developing countries that need to
“recover” after being “damaged” by climate change.
Ajay Banga, head of noted
charitable organisation the World Bank, is all
in favour of the idea and will be
supporting the plan by agreeing to “pause” debt
repayments from any government impacted by climate change.
We know how this works, we saw the same thing in the IHR
amendments following Covid – it’s a bribe pool. One that serves to both further the narrative of climate change and
instruct policy in the third world. Any developing nation’s government
that wants a slice of that pie will have to publicly talk about all the
negative impacts climate change has on their country.
At the same time, to get the money, they will almost
certainly have to agree to “adopt
climate-friendly policies” and/or submit their climate policies to an “independent panel of experts”
appointed by the UN.
Right on cue, the President of Kenya has already
spoken up:
In eastern Africa, catastrophic flooding has
followed the most severe drought the region has seen in over 40 years…A
tendency to ignore Africa’s developmental and industrial needs is no longer a
tenable position…Turning Africa into a green powerhouse is not just essential
for the continent, it is also vital for global industrialisation
and decarbonisation.”
…you can almost see the dollar signs in his eyes.
Alongside the food pledge and loss fund, we have the
Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge, which aims to increase
reliance on “green energy”. Over 120 countries signed
that one.
And then there’s the Global Methane Pledge, which
has been signed by 155
governments as well as 50 oil
companies.
These companies represent around half the world’s
oil production, and just want to help the planet, they
have no financial stake in this situation at all.
There’s the smaller Declaration
on Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace, which was signed by only 70 countries (and 39
NGOs). That one emphasizes the link between war and carbon emissions and
aims to “boost financial support for
climate resilience in war-torn and fragile settings”, whatever that
means in real terms I’m not sure.
And, of course, 124 countries (including the EU and
China) have signed the inevitable ‘Declaration
on Climate and Health’.
It is funded to the tune of 1 BILLION dollars from
donors such as the Rockefeller Foundation, and supposedly aims to:
better leverage synergies at the
intersection of climate change and health to improve the efficiency and effectiveness
of finance flows.”
…which might be the worst sentence anyone has ever
written.
I’ve written about the agenda behind linking climate
change to public health enough for one lifetime. You can read a deeper analysis
of the topic here, here and here…and here and here and here.
All this is going to culminate in what they call the
“Global
Stocktake”. Essentially this is a mid-term report for the
Paris Agreements, which can be “leveraged
to accelerate ambition in their next round of climate action plans due in 2025”.
Whatever “leveraged
to accelerate ambition” turns out to mean, you can be sure all of the
attending governments will happily comply.
That includes every government in NATO, the European
Union and BRICS by the way.
That includes the USA and China. That includes Russia and Ukraine.
That includes Israel…and Palestine.
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An inconvenient truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psYkKH3I0O4
with Drs. John Campbell and Claire Craig
(6:23)
Have you ever felt the covid
story did not entirely add up? Expired contains multiple eye-opening
revelations about covid with compelling evidence that
provides a coherent, sober and clear explanation that better fits the data we
have so far. Meticulous research by pathologist Dr Clare Craig sheds light on
the largely overlooked evidence of airborne virus transmission, examining
twelve related beliefs on spread, lockdowns, asymptomatic infections, and
masks. In addition, Expired champions the importance of Western ethical
principles, damaged by pandemic actions and calls for their restoration. The covid debate has proved incredibly polarising.
One side believed every intervention was saving lives, while the other emphasised the harms caused. Biased modelling
based on a worst-case scenario led to fearful assumptions presented as fact. By
dint of sheer repetition these ‘facts’ became unquestionable. Those scientists
who dared to question were proclaimed dangerous. Welcome to Cloud-Covid-Land. Let’s bring back nuance. It’s time to return to
reality."
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k.
“Seventeen Covid Pandemic
Lies We’ve Been Told”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/seventeen-pandemic-lies-weve-been-told/5836606
by Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null
Looking back over the past three
years and ten months since the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan, the
world has been on a roller coaster ride torn between competing and warring
scenarios about what took place, how and why.
For those who promulgated the
official narratives composed by the World Health Organization and governmental
health ministries, medical dissenters constituted an “infodemic”
of misinformation that criticized the institutional authority and scientific
evidence embodied in the official policies that were supposed to protect public
health.
On the other side of the fence,
dissenting medical voices observed a potential “plandemic”—a
pre-planned and orchestrated effort to take full advantage of a viral outbreak
in order to serve ulterior motives and goals.
Aside from the
“infodemic versus plandemic”
debate, what is now certain is that much
of what our federal health officials and their mainstream media mouthpieces
told us during these three-plus years was patently false and untrue.
In fact, in retrospect, it was more of stream of ad
hoc beliefs and wishful thinking instead of an public
health strategy based upon hard scientific facts.
Therefore, we are listing many of the most egregious
errors, and more likely intentional lies, that the American people have been
indoctrinated into believing with a brief analysis and the evidence to lay these
pandemic mythologies to rest:
1.
Lockdown of COVID-19 Positive Individuals and Social Distancing Will Curtail
the Pandemic . . . .
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The case for
COVID vaccine world-wide genocide: A critical examination of the evidence and
the call for a public hearing.
|
1. “‘Vaccination’” is the greatest
evil in the history of humanity, as these new studies variously PROVE by Marc Crispin Miller This IS a global Holocaust, and there is NO denying it; so
we can't let "our free press," OR our governments, ignore, belittle
or distort this overwhelming evidence. All these studies are significant; but
the first two here under “New Zealand” are especially important,
so—please—share this compilation far and wide.…. |
2.
"Winston Smith" arrested by New Zealand police
(UPDATED)
by Mark
Crispin Miller
While some started questioning his data (as ALL scientific
data should be questioned), New Zealand's police have moved abruptly, and
dramatically, against the whistle-blower, along with someone else
3 déc. 2023
UPDATE: Igor Chudov has updated
his post, having revised his initial “skeptical” opinion (scroll down).
Liz Gunn reports that the police descended on the homes of
both the whistle-blower himself, and someone else
involved with publicizing his testimony:
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Bombshell Video: The “COVID Pandemic” Was the Result
of Extensive Media Propaganda: "Nobody Is Safe, BE AFRAID!"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-pandemic-was-entirely-product-propaganda-nobody-safe/5820225
by Matt Orfalea,
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, and Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Outstanding video production by Matt Orfalea.
From
the outset in January 2020 we have been accused by the mainstream media of “spreading disinformation”.
Who
was spreading “fake news”?
Who
was behind the fear campaign? Amply documented, there never was
a Covid-19 pandemic.
“Least we forget how intensely we were
lied to by the government, medical, and media establishments, watch this
11-minute collection of celebrities, medical officials, media, and politicians
blaming the “COVID Threat” on the unvaccinated. (Dr. Paul Craig Roberts)
***
“Let us be under no illusions, the Covid Jab is not only “experimental”, it’s a Big Pharma “killer vaccine”. The mainstream media has
indulged in systematic propaganda with a view to sustaining The Big Lie.
We are living the most serious crisis in
World history: An unprecedented crime against humanity applied
Worldwide. More than 14
billion doses of the mRNA vaccine have been marketed and distributed
to a World population of 8 billion people.
When the
Lie Becomes The Truth. There is no moving Backwards” (Prof.
Michel Chossudovsky)
VIDEO
by Matt Orfaleo: Mainstream Media Propaganda to
the n-th degree:
(11:24)
On
the nature of the pandemic and what the mainstream media has failed to report
see the following:
Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A
Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid, By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 14, 2023
The Covid
“Killer Vaccine”. People Are
Dying All Over the World. It’s A Criminal Undertaking, By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 24, 2023
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“The WHO Confirms that the Covid-19 PCR Test is Flawed: Estimates of ‘Positive Cases’ are Meaningless. Both
the Lockdown and the “Vaccine” Have No Scientific Basis”
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Author’s
Note and Update
The World has been in a state of crisis
for more than three years despite the fact that the WHO and the CDC (with the
usual innuendos) have unequivocally confirmed that the RT-PCR test
used to justify every single policy mandate including lockdowns, social
distancing, the mask, confinement of the labor force, closure of economic
activity, etc. is flawed and invalid.
The same applies to the rollout of
the mRNA Vaccine in December 2020.
This article was first published on
March 21, 2021 focussing on the WHO’s
Mea Culpa dated January 20, 2021.
The WHO advisory was then followed
a few months later by the bombshell decision of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (July
21, 2021) to withdraw the PCR test as a valid method for
detecting and identifying SARS-CoV-2.
As of December, 31 2021, the
PCR test is longer considered valid by the CDC in the U.S.
For more details see
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l.
Establishment Blames YOU For The World Wide
Immigration Crisis!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DigngmInQDc
with Jimmy Dore and Neil
Oliver
(1958)
Scottish
political commentator Neil Oliver issued another of his signature blistering
verbal assaults on the elite global interests seeking to divide everyday people
and have us attacking one another rather than the rich and powerful who should
be the target of our ire. This time Oliver was responding to efforts to paint
Irish citizens who reacted with anger to violent crimes committed by immigrants
in their community as “far-right.” Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger
discuss how Oliver’s commentary aligns with The Jimmy Dore Show’s repeated
refrain about not blaming your neighbor for problems caused by the
establishment and the powerful.
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Is Ireland really sticking its neck out for Gaza?
Ireland’s Micheál Martin told Benjamin Netanyahu that Ireland is not
hostile to Israel during a recent visit. (Israeli
government photo)
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/ireland-really-sticking-its-neck-out-gaza
by David Cronin
The people of Gaza can “go to Ireland or
deserts,” an Israeli government minister has said over the past
few days.
As
a proud Dubliner, I’d like to believe that Amichai Eliyahu, the minister in question, did not choose Ireland
at random when he expressed that genocidal wish – a wish accompanied by a now
infamous warning
that using nuclear weapons is an option in the current war.
Hopefully,
Eliyahu is rattled by the outpourings of solidarity toward Palestinians displayed by ordinary Irish
folk.
It
should be emphasized that the solidarity comes from the streetsl.
Contrary to impressions, the Dublin government has actually adopted quite a
weak stance.
Yes,
Ireland has been among the European Union states most critical of Israel. But
given that the common EU position was to depict the horrors Israel inflicts on
Gaza as defensive,
a minor deviation from it is hardly worthy of celebration.
Proof
of the gulf between elite and grassroots opinion could be seen a few days ago.
Protests
in various Irish towns have demanded
the expulsion of Dana Erlich, Israel’s ambassador to
the country. Rather than expelling her, Fianna Fáil – the largest party in Ireland’s ruling coalition – invited Erlich to its annual conference last weekend.
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“Ben Gurion Canal: US
Supports Israel’s Gaza War Over A Trade Route”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ben-gurion-canal-us-supports-israels-gaza-war-trade-route/286355/
with Robert Inlakesh
(3:54)
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“Does Hamas Use Human Shields? The Evidence”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/hamas-uses-human-shields-the-evidence/286346/
with Robert Inlakesh
(5:37)
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“A Blunt Message for Israel”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/29/a-blunt-message-for-israel/
with Samuel Moncada, Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.N., addressing the
General Assembly on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023.
(6:15)
This is a rare example of a very direct message
delivered by one government to another at the United Nations.
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“Gaza Divides the World”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/08/patrick-lawrence-gaza-divides-the-world/
by Patrick Lawrence
As
the crisis unfolds, the brute exercise of power by the U.S. and Israel has
catalyzed world reactions. A significant transformation in global diplomacy is
underway.
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“Immortal
Technique on Gaza, the Hip-Hop Industry and More . . .”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/immortal-technique-gaza-hip-hop-industry/286417/
by Alan Macleod
(audio, 55:54)
It is now two months since Hamas’
surprise attack and Israel’s brutal response, and there are few signs that the
slaughter will let up any time soon. The violence has captured the world’s
attention and become the top story across the globe.
Unsurprisingly,
then, the entertainment world has taken sides too. In the wake of the October 7
assault, more than 700 celebrities signed an open letter pledging support to
the government of Israel. On the other hand, the hip-hop community has
displayed solidarity with Gaza, with over 600 artists joining the Musicians for
Palestine movement.
Joining
MintCast host Alan MacLeod today to talk about Gaza
and the music industry is Immortal Technique. Immortal Technique is an independent
rapper and activist widely regarded as one of his generation’s
most respected and gifted artists. He has used his platforms on social media to
constantly speak out about the situation and educate his huge audience about
colonialism, capitalism and imperialism. You can follow him on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
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m.
“Released Palestinians reveal horrors in Israeli
prisons”
by Tamara Nassar
As Palestinian teens and women were
liberated in a groundbreaking prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and
Israel, chilling accounts emerged of dire conditions in Israeli prisons.
Detainees
gave testimonies on how Israeli prison authorities subjected them to food
deprivation, medical negligence, regular beatings and menacing threats aimed at
them and their families.
Despite
many of the prisoners being released from different prisons across historic
Palestine with no way of communicating with one another prior to their release,
their accounts have been consistent.
For
seven consecutive days starting 24 November, prisoners were exchanged between
Hamas and Israel as part of a temporary truce which was extended twice but
collapsed on 1 December as Israel resumed massacring Palestinians in Gaza.
A
total of 240 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel as part of this deal
– including
107 children, 65 teens 18 and older and 68 women.
The
vast majority of Palestinians released had never been charged with a crime, and
most had been in Israeli detention for less than one year, The New York Times reported.
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“How Israel starved a sick child of oxygen”
Amublance crews have been targeted during
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Atia Darwish APA
images
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-starved-sick-child-oxygen/42476
by Sewar Elejla
Al-Nasr pediatric hospital in northern
Gaza is among the medical institutions which Israel has attacked over the past
two months.
As
well as taking care of patients, the hospital became a shelter for displaced
people in the early stages of the current war.
A
few weeks after the war began, al-Nasr hospital was
subjected to heavy shelling. Shrapnel flew toward medical staff and the
displaced.
Staff
could not give adequate treatment to the wounded. Transferring patients to al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital, was “kind of impossible,” Soher, a doctor at al-Nasr hospital, said.
“There
was a fear that ambulances would be targeted.”
Around
midnight on 6 November, the laundry department at al-Nasr hospital was hit by
an Israeli airstrike.
“My
heart dropped,” Soher said. “It was unimaginable – a
hospital bombed directly.”
“I
looked out the window,” she added. “Suddenly, the courtyard was full of dust.
You could hear screams echoing everywhere. And the alarm barely stopped.”
Soher’s
own family was taking refuge in the hospital at the time, as their home had
been targeted. “The women were in a room, while the men were in a tent in the
courtyard.”
Following
the airstrike, Soher tried to locate her relatives.
“I
quickly put on my white coat, covered my head and went straight down to check
if any of them were injured,” she said. “I found my father, grabbed his hand
and asked about everybody. He reassured me that they were fine.”
Once
she had seen her dad, Soher, a fellow doctor and a
nurse ran towards the emergency department. Reaching it involved running
through the courtyard, which was under continuous shelling.
The
scene at the emergency department was harrowing.
“I
saw a decapitated female body and doctors trying to revive her sister nearby. I
had to wrap a child’s wound with gauze despite how it needed stitches. There
was no choice. A girl with an amputated arm and a woman with shrapnel in the
chest needed a transfer to al-Shifa but it was
impossible. All of this happened amid a communications blackout with no way to
reach anyone, including ambulances.”
Despite
the shelling, some families did succeed in calling ambulances from the
neighboring Rantisi children’s hospital. Eventually,
some wounded people were brought to al-Shifa.
Terrified
. . . .
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In
memory of Dr. Refaat Alareer
https://electronicintifada.net/content/memory-dr-refaat-alareer/42466
by The Electronic Intifada
We
express our shock, anger and deep sadness at the murder by Israeli occupation
forces of our friend and colleague Dr. Refaat Alareer in an airstrike in Gaza City on 6 December.
Refaat was killed along with his brother,
sister and four of her children when his sister’s home was attacked. Refaat and his family
members are now among more than 17,000 Palestinians killed in Israel’s
ongoing genocide.
We
express our deep condolences to Refaat’s wife, Nusayba, and their children and other surviving family
members, to all his students and former students of whom he was so proud, and
to everyone who loved him.
Refaat
and his family had already been displaced within Gaza several times after his
home was bombed
in October.
A
proud son of Gaza City’s Shujaiya district, Refaat was a professor of English literature at the Islamic
University of Gaza.
He
was a co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, a project launched in Gaza after Israel’s 2014 attack, to mentor and support
young writers in the besieged territory to tell their stories to
the world.
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“Why are colleges "civil" to Israel?”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-are-colleges-civil-israel/38176
by Rod Such
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“Spyware exposé lets Israel off the hook”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/spyware-expose-lets-israel-hook/38161
by Refaat
Alareer
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket
Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud,
Henry Holt and Co. (2023)
The
TV host Rachel Maddow describes Pegasus and the story it tells as
“freaking compelling stuff.”
Maddow
writes – in the book’s introduction – that “it’s an edge-of-your seat
procedural about the heroes who found this dragon and then set out to slay it.”
Authored
by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud from the
investigative journalism group Forbidden Stories, Pegasus is the outcome of a probe initiated by the leak of
50,000 possible surveillance targets.
The
investigation aimed to uncover the unlawful usage of Pegasus spyware against
noncriminal figures, including human rights activists and journalists. Pegasus
was developed by the Israeli company NSO – the initials of Niv,
Shalev and Omri, its
founders’ first names.
The
book’s authors do a fine job providing readers with an insider’s perspective of
the events during the investigation.
The
Pegasus investigation team was led by Forbidden Stories and Amnesty
International’s Security Lab and involved a partnership with 17 media
organizations worldwide to reach out to journalists and gather evidence of
Pegasus attacks.
The
book documents the tremendous efforts by Amnesty’s cybersecurity
specialists, Claudio Guarnieri and Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, to design
the security protocols that kept the investigation under wraps until publication
and develop the forensic tool used to trace Pegasus in infected mobile phones.
Pegasus
raises ethical worries around licensing the spyware to clients with poor human
rights records and highlights the cases of journalists who have been abused by
their governments, such as Omar Radi (from Morocco), Khadija Ismayilova (from
Azerbaijan), and “the golden get” – as Dana Priest from The Washington Post described it – the case of Jamal Khashoggi and evidence
implicating Pegasus in his murder.
The
style of Pegasus is mostly
anecdotal or exploratory, which allows for engaging storytelling. The personal
connections to the story are emphasized.
Without
doubt, the book can appeal to a broader audience beyond technology experts,
given that the authors avoid technical jargon and explain complex concepts in a
way that is easy to understand.
Pegasus is a tool for hacking and monitoring smartphones, compromising individuals, groups, and even
entire governments. It can turn a
device that we carry in our pockets or handbags every day into a spy.
The
use of the spyware was initially reported
in 2016. Over time, it has become more technically sophisticated with advanced features
that enable it to infect phones without any action required from the target.
Rachel
Maddow outlines in the book’s introduction the
enormous amount of information that Pegasus can steal: “That includes all text
and voice communications to and from the phone, location data, photos and
videos, notes, browsing history, even turning on the camera and the microphone
of the device while the user has no idea it’s happening.
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“Buying Israel's weapons is a bigger EU priority
than aiding Palestinians”
Ursula von der Leyen stresses her devotion
to the arms industry. (European Defence Agency)
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/buying-israels-weapons-bigger-eu-priority-aiding-palestinians
by David Cronin
Spare
us the sham heroics of Samantha Power.
With
a depressing sense of inevitability, the USAID boss flew
to Egypt this week. The plane taking her was supposedly full of aid for Gaza’s
displaced people.
With
all that generosity, we are supposed to forget that the US is abetting
genocide. Israel is committing a holocaust with American weapons.
Ursula
von der Leyen is playing a
similar game.
She
is constantly pointing
to the European Union’s “humanitarian assistance” for Palestinians, while
stressing her full solidarity
for Israel.
As
we enter a season of goodwill, what could be kinder than giving a few tents to
people whose homes have been destroyed with the EU’s encouragement?
============
n.
“Israel Reopens Gaza Slaughterhouse”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/04/chris-hedges-israel-reopens-gaza-slaughterhouse/
by Chris Hedges
The skies over
Gaza are filled — after a seven-day truce — with projectiles of death. Warplanes. Attack helicopters. Drones. Artillery shells. Tank shells. Mortars. Bombs. Missiles. Gaza is a
cacophony of explosions and forlorn screams and cries for help beneath
collapsed buildings. Fear, once again, is coiling itself around every heart in
the Gazan concentration camp.
By
Friday evening, 184 Palestinians — including three journalists and two doctors
— had been killed by
Israeli air strikes in the north, south and central Gaza, and at least 589 injured,
according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Most of them are women and
children.
Israel
will not be deterred. It plans to finish the job, to obliterate what is left in
the north of Gaza and decimate what remains in the south, to render Gaza uninhabitable,
to see its 2.3 million people driven out in a massive campaign of ethnic
cleansing via starvation, terror, slaughter and infectious diseases.
The
aid convoys, which brought in token amounts of food and medicine — the first
batch was shrouds and coronavirus tests according to
the director of al-Najjar hospital — have been halted.
No
one, least of all President Joe Biden, plans to intervene to stop the genocide.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel last week, and while calling for Israel to protect civilians, refused to
set conditions that would disrupt the $3.8 billion Israel receives in
annual military assistance or the $14.3 billion supplemental aid package.
The world will watch passively, muttering useless bromides about more surgical strikes, while Israel spins its roulette wheel of death. By the time Israel is done, the 1948 Nakba
, where Palestinians were massacred in dozens of villages and 750,000 were ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias, will look like a quaint relic of a more civilized era.Nothing
is off limits. Hospitals. Mosques. Churches. Homes. Apartment blocks. Refugee camps. Schools. Universities. Media offices. Banks. Sewer systems. Telecommunications infrastructure. Water treatment plants. Libraries. Wheat mills. Bakeries. Markets. Entire neighborhoods. Israel’s intent is to destroy Gaza’s infrastructure and daily kill or wound
hundreds of Palestinians.
Gaza
is to become a wasteland, a dead zone that will be incapable of sustaining life.
+
“The Gaza War, ‘Big Money’ and the Insidious Role of
the World Economic Forum”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/gaza-war-role-world-economic-forum/5842590
by Ernst Wolff
After
a temporary lull in the fighting in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government’s
war against Hamas resumed in full force on 4 December. Under the pretext of
eradicating the “terrorist threat: once and for all, the Israeli army is once
again showing no consideration for the Palestinian civilian population.
It
is now clear to any unbiased observer that this is no longer a matter of
defense, but of targeted destruction – a destruction in which thousands of
innocent victims, including countless children, are willingly accepted.
Why?
What and, above all, who is behind this monstrous inhumanity?
Some
background events that are largely withheld from the general public by the
mainstream media, but which may also be decisive for the future development of
the conflict, could shed light on this.
Natural
Gas Discoveries Off Gaza
+
“New Catastrophic Plight in Gaza: Israel’s Attacks
Leave More Than 5,000 Palestinians Disabled”
by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
More
than 5,000 Palestinians have become disabled since 7 October due to Israel’s
ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and the
Disabilities Representative Persons Network (DRPN) said in a joint statement
issued Thursday.
Israel’s air and artillery strikes and forced
eviction policy have had catastrophic effects on people with disabilities in
the Gaza Strip, including increased risk of death, difficulties evading attacks,
and difficulties meeting basic needs.
The
Euro-Med Monitor team’s preliminary statistics indicate that over 40,000 Gaza
Strip residents have been injured during Israel’s attacks. The human rights
group noted that at least 5,000 of these individuals have disabilities that put
their lives in danger because of the dire lack of access to medical care and
the collapse of the health system.
Significantly,
prior to 7 October, over 130,000 people in the Gaza Strip were already
disabled. The majority of these people suffered their disabling injuries during
one or more of the frequent Israeli military operations on the Strip, which
began more than 20 years ago. Due to Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza since
2006, they endured extremely difficult living conditions due to a lack of
assistive devices such as wheelchairs, crutches, and artificial limbs, as well
as inadequate rehabilitation programmes.
According
to Euro-Med Monitor and the DRPN, disabled people were subjected to numerous
grave violations that affected different aspects of their rights, and their
suffering has only intensified during the frequent ongoing Israeli attacks.
People
with disabilities have distinct needs that remain unmet in the wake of Israel’s
deadly attacks, posing a serious risk to their lives and exacerbating their
suffering by contributing to the decline of their physical and mental health.
People
with mobility impairments—especially those who have lower limb
paralysis—struggle the most, because they depend on medical supplies on a daily
basis to perform even the most basic tasks.
Those
with disabilities including quadriplegia and muscular dystrophy require
electricity to operate respiratory devices, clinical air mattresses, and food
grinding devices for clinical nutrition. These needs cannot be met, however, as
Israel has been cutting off fuel and electricity supplies to the Strip.
Palestinians
with various disabilities are unable to evacuate areas safely and quickly
enough to save themselves in the wake of intense
Israeli attacks. This is particularly true for those who are physically
disabled and unable to move around on their own, as well as those who have
mental, visual, or hearing impairments and are unable to hear or understand
what is going on around them.
Power and Internet outages present additional difficulties for disabled people seeking to access important information that may help them determine where, when, and how to flee to a safe shelter, as everyone tries to survive on their own during the initial lead-up to and aftermath of a strike, leaving people with disabilities behind.
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The Nakba 2.0: Issa Amro's Insider Account of Israeli Torture in Hebron
https://www.mintpressnews.com/nakba-2-0-issa-amro-insider-account-israel-torture-hebron/286278/
with Mnar Adley, Alan Macleod, and
Issa Amro
(50:51)
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Coming
back to his house on October 7, world-renowned activist Issa Amro was dragged away by 15 armed Israelis, blindfolded,
gagged, and cuffed so tightly he now needs an operation on his hands. The
settlers and soldiers kept him imprisoned for days, beating and torturing him,
constantly simulating his execution.
Speaking with MintPress
News, Amro told the story of what life is like for
Palestinians living in the West Bank city of Hebron. “In my city where I live now, since October 7,
there is a curfew,” he told Mnar Adley
and Alan MacLeod.
But
this curfew is far more restrictive than others. Palestinian families – those
who have not already fled the genocidal Israeli violence – are given only six
hours a week to leave their homes. They are not even allowed out into their own
yards. This means that school has stopped, work has ended, and life is on
pause.
In
those six hours, Palestinian families must buy all their food, pick up
essentials such as medicine and conduct any social activities. But being
outside is dangerous, as they have to pass though multiple checkpoints with
armed guards and AI smart shooters pointing guns at them. Violence from
vigilante settler groups is also a danger.
“It’s
scary to walk alone between armed soldiers and armed settlers, all of them
pointing their guns at you. Then, when you come back, it takes them five to ten
minutes to search every person,” Amro said, revealing
that the guards wanted to go so far as to cut open his potatoes and tomatoes to
check for “weapons.”
“It’s
a kind of jail” right now, Amro said, although he
notes that being in jail is considerably safer than being a Palestinian in
Hebron right now.
Issa
Amro is an activist and the co-founder of the
grassroots group Youth Against Settlements. He has led
campaigns of non-violent civil disobedience against apartheid and Israeli
occupation and has been recognized and given awards by international
organizations, including the United Nations. He joins MintPress
to chronicle recent Israeli attempts to force Palestinians from their homes and
their ancestral land.
============
o.
by Julia Conley
Naomi Klein, the
writer and activist, has led calls for supporters of a permanent cease-fire in
Gaza to stay focused on Israel’s mass killing of civilians and to resist the
“smoke and mirrors” of Congressional hearings this week that sought to distract
from Israel’s “genocidal violence.”
“The
distraction machine is in overdrive,” said Klein on social media after more
than a day of reaction to the presidents of three top universities being hauled
before Congress on Wednesday to testify at a House hearing titled “Holding
Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism.”
Republican
members including Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) demanded to know
whether the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University,
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) would discipline students
for “calling for the genocide of Jews.”
+
“The Official Story of Oct 7”
Hamas is a
Terror Organization protest in front of the BBC offices in London on Oct. 18. (Nizzan Cohen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/08/caitlin-johnstone-the-official-story-of-oct-7/
by Caitlin Johnstone
The official
story is that on Oct. 7, thousands of evil Hamas terrorists broke out of their
walled-in enclave and killed approximately 1,200 Israelis for no reason other
than because they were evil and wanted to kill Jews.
Nothing
was done by the Israeli government to provoke
this attack, and nothing of
any relevance happened prior to this date.
The
attack was as undefended as could possibly be; Israeli defense forces did not
respond for nine hours
despite having received ample warning that an attack was coming for months, from both their own intelligence services and from Egyptian intelligence.
No
attempt was made to warn the Nova music festival of an impending attack despite
Israeli security forces being aware the day before that an attack was coming, resulting in hundreds of
deaths and captured hostages.
The
attack was met with so little resistance that Hamas themselves were
reportedly surprised by how many
Israelis they were able to capture and kill, their surprise perhaps due to the
fact that they’d spent two years training right out in the open less than a mile from the border for an air, sea
and land attack using motorized paragliders, drones
and motorboats. This is all perfectly normal and not suspicious at all.
Also
not at all suspicious is that 100 percent of the 1,200 Israeli deaths on Oct. 7
are being attributed to Hamas despite Israeli media
and eyewitness testimony reporting that the IDF was firing indiscriminately into areas full of Israelis.
The
burned bodies you see in photos of the Oct. 7 devastation were with absolute
certainty burned by Hamas, despite the Israeli government’s acknowledgement
that it had previously misidentified hundreds of dead Hamas fighters as Israeli
because they’d been so badly burned by IDF fire that their corpses were
unrecognizable.
(The
official story of Oct. 7 also previously included narratives about beheaded
babies, babies cooked in ovens and babies ripped from the wombs of pregnant
mothers, and you were an evil, Jew-hating Holocaust denier if you doubted them,
but those narratives have since been walked back and are no longer part of the official story, so
belief in them is now optional.)
+
Peddling Propaganda About al-Shifa
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/01/peddling-propaganda-about-al-shifa/
by Gareth Porter
Gareth
Porter begins his dissection of a U.S. journalist’s unequivocal backing of
Israel’s justification for closing down Gaza’s largest hospital with a simple
test: Who is the source?
The argument over the Israeli accusation that Hamas
used Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital as a shield for its
military effort against the Israel Defense Forces has continued, even as the
headlines have shifted to the Israel-Hamas prisoner swap.
On
Nov. 23, well-known author and online journalist Fred Kaplan weighed in
forcefully in favor of the Israeli charge.
In
a post on “X,” Kaplan, who writes a weekly column on defense and foreign
affairs for Slate magazine,
posted a comment supporting the conclusion of an article in the Israeli daily Haaretz unequivocally supporting the IDF’s
position.
Kaplan’s
post declared, “Clear evidence in Ha’aretz (which
is often critical of Israel govt), that Hamas used
tunnels under Al-Shifa hospital as a command
center.”
With
that, Kaplan defended the IDF’s justification for closing down Gaza’s largest
hospital while carrying out a war designed to destroy vast areas of the world’s
most densely populated urban enclave. That hard-line view does not stand up to
closer scrutiny.
The
Haaretz
article in question fails to provide a convincing case for the Israeli
government’s claim that Hamas was using the tunnel under al-Shifa
Hospital as command center, and therefore that the hospital was being used as a
‘human shield.” Instead it merely shows that the article’s author, Janiv Kubovich, military
correspondent for Haaretz,
reflects the IDF view of the conflict on the Haaretz staff.
Daniel
Hagari in March 2023. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit,
Wikipedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Kubovich
does not cite a single piece of evidence for Hamas’ culpability in using the
hospital for military purposes that did not come directly from the military
spokesman.
The
reporter recommended by Kaplan with such high confidence relied completely on
the most self-interested sources imaginable on the issue — the IDF’s leading
propagandist. It is a source lacking in any independent judgment.
The
IDF’s position on Gaza’s hospitals, as articulated by its chief spokesperson,
Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, has been extremely rigid
and unyielding, in line with the Israeli policy aim of imposing maximum human
costs not only on Hamas but on the entire civilian population of Gaza.
That
policy requires that all the hospitals must be shut down,
and the society be systematically deprived of food and fuel and put under
military pressure.
First
Rantisi Hospital, Then al-Shifa
============
p.
“Just Like 9/11? Suspicious Israeli Stock Market
Activity Hints at Foreknowledge of October 7 Attack”
by Kit Klarenberg
Hearkening back to the days preceding
the 9/11 attacks, suspicious stock market activity suggests that someone with
prior knowledge of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood sought to
capitalize on the events on October 7.
A
new academic study has made a shocking and highly controversial
finding. Suspicious Israeli stock market activity in the days preceding
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7 indicates that a
particular party had foreknowledge of the impending attack and used that
information to directly profit from the panic that ensued.
The
paper, authored by Robert J. Jackson Jr. of New York University School of
Law and Joshua Mitts of New York University School of Law, concludes that based
on a “significant spike” in short selling of listed Israeli companies, persons
unknown were aware of the operation was impending, and sought to profit
illicitly. Short selling – or shorting – allows traders to bet a stock will
perform poorly and reap rewards if they’re correct.
Shorting
is a relatively rare practice compared to traditional trading and with good
reason. Losses can be vast if forecast poor performance doesn’t materialize,
and many investment advisors warn against engaging in the practice under any circumstances.
Strikingly though, the academics found shorting of Israeli companies in days
immediately before October 7 “far exceeded short selling that occurred during
numerous other periods of crisis, including the recession following the
financial crisis, the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, and the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The
pair argue this activity may reflect attempts by Hamas
operatives to profit from, if not outright finance, their forthcoming attack,
an allegation eagerly taken up by Hebrew newspaper Haaretz.
Meanwhile, Israeli finance rag Globes attacked the study, claiming “huge errors” by its authors in
overestimating the profits of individuals who shorted Israeli stocks. The pair
mistakenly quoted returns in agorot, a denomination
of Israeli currency, as shekels – in pennies as dollars in U.S. terms – leading
them to inflate investor returns by a magnitude of 100.
Yet,
the outlet acknowledged a “consistent rise in short trading balances on
[Israeli] shares prior to the outbreak of the war.” Moreover, the Israeli
government has taken the paper’s findings so seriously that an official
investigation has been launched to ascertain the truth. As we shall see, there is
good reason to believe that if someone sought to enrich themselves due to
foreknowledge of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,
it is unlikely they were connected to Hamas.
The
paper notes numerous historical precedents for such activity, which “occurs in
gaps in U.S. and international enforcement of legal prohibitions on informed
trading.” Research on “profitable trading on the basis of information about
coming military conflict” is an underdeveloped academic field. Such lack of
oversight and scrutiny around shorting by Western regulators and watchdogs may
explain who profited this time and why.
============
q.
News from
Underground by Mark Crispin Miller
“The killing of George Floyd was a gigantic lie that actually killed Minneapolis, while helping keep
us all at one another's throats”
This powerful documentary demands that we all take a
deeper look into that propaganda masterpiece (along with all the others that
have put us where we are today)
+
“Mark
Sheppard has SIX "massive heart attacks"; Billy Bean "battling
cancer"; Kelly Ripa, Craig Melvin, Savannah
Guthrie absent from TV; Michael B. Jordan's odd car crash; Lil Wayne's swollen
face”
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGwHxtlNKjXCMrKtVLkpNHQTRQ
by Mark Crispin Miller
+
“In memory of those who "died suddenly" in
the United States and worldwide, November 28-December 4, 2023”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Musicians in Canada, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay,
Ireland, Netherlands (2), Germany, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, China,
Malaysia; teachers in US, Canada, Italy; nurses in US (2), Brazil, Italy (2);
more
+
“Pope Francis and Stephen Colbert are still sick; TV
judge Frank Caprio has pancreatic cancer; Rep. Glenn
Thompson (R-PA) has prostate cancer; Ken Hudson Campbell ("Home
Alone") has tumor in his mouth”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Jesse Montana, friend of reality TV star Ariana Madix, has a brain tumor; "Former Fox 5 reporter [San
Diego] battles rare cancer"
+
“If those ‘green’ billionaires are so afraid of
‘global warming,’ why do they still own huge oceanside
estates?”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Just as they took OFF their masks when (they
thought) nobody was looking, so do their private planes and seaside mansions
show that what they SAY and what they DO are two entirely different things
+
“In memory of those who ‘died suddenly’ in the
United States and worldwide, November 28-December 4, 2023”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Musicians in Canada, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay,
Ireland, Netherlands (2), Germany, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, China,
Malaysia; teachers in US, Canada, Italy; nurses in US (2), Brazil, Italy (2);
more
============
r.
“Guyana and Venezuela: The Crisis of Imperialism
Currently Unfolding on South America's Caribbean Coast”
by Tamanisha
John
Despite
the reality of US intervention causing inhumane conditions in the region,
Venezuela’s push for the annexation of Guyana’s Essequibo region prioritizes
its own political objectives, heightening tensions with the US and leaving the
Guyanese people without a say in their own fate.
This
week Venezuela will hold a referendum on annexing Guyana’s Essequibo region,
claiming that it wants to rescue those Guyanese in Essequibo “mired in misery,
in abandonment.” While Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro speaks to a real concern impacting the Guyanese
people – the external capture of governance in the country by ExxonMobil and US
Southern Command (Westervelt 2023) – Maduro’s statement shows a real disregard for Guyana and
Guyanese people while amplifying a rightist tendency in Venezuelan politics
that historically aimed to cement Venezuelan nationalism under the guise of
anti-communist security objectives. Maduro is not
standing with Guyanese workers or Amerindian peoples in Essequibo. In fact,
Venezuela has not consulted these communities in its annexation push at all
(Clash! Collective 2023). No amount of “left”
proselytizing by Venezuela changes this fact.
Given
the reliance of Guyana, and the Caribbean region more generally, on the West
for both security objectives, goals, and funding – it should not come as a
shock that Venezuela’s referendum alongside these broadcasts by Maduro have been interpreted by Guyana as aggressive –
heightening security tensions between both countries. Venezuela’s actions,
Guyanese Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo
notes, makes his incumbent PPP/C party more welcoming towards the establishment
of foreign military bases in Guyana to “protect Guyana’s national interest” (France
24, 2023).
Whereas
many Western headlines attribute Venezuela’s annexation claims on Guyana to Maduro’s failings as leader, and headlines in Guyana
attribute Venezuela’s annexation claims today on the oil find by Exxon – I
reject all claims that solely attribute Maduro’s
stance towards Guyana on the internal domestic political calculations that he
is making in Venezuela. Venezuela’s domestic situation was already negatively
impacted prior to Maduro gaining power, given Western
sanctions and attempts to undergird the Venezuelan economy. Headlines in
Guyana are more accurate noting the change in Maduro’s
position post oil. However these headlines tend to downplay the role of
ExxonMobil in Guyana’s offshore oil discovery and the subsequent security
calculations that Venezuela has had to make from 2013 to the present since that
discovery. ExxonMobil is not a neutral actor in the region; it belongs to a
state that has tried to institute regime change in Venezuela for decades. It is
this latter point, I contend, that is pushing Venezuela’s annexation
pronouncements.
============
s.
“Video shows Washington cops corner man parked in his
driveway—for a traffic stop
by Taya
Graham and Stephen Janis
(13:16)
A
911 call about donuts left a Bellingham man trapped in his own driveway by
local police, who kept looking for new reasons to question him.
+
“Videos
like this which starkly illuminate Israel’s genocidal
slaughter of children in Gaza...”
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1732464035050762704
by Max Blumenthal
(1:35)
+
“‘Team B and the Jerusalem Conference: How Israel
Helped Craft Modern-Day ‘Terrorism’”
by Kit Klarenberg
Since Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza
began, Zionist officials, pundits, journalists, and their Western opposite
numbers have endlessly invoked the sinister specter of “terrorism” to justify
the industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians. It is because of “terrorism,”
twice-failed U.S. Presidential candidate and unconvicted
war
criminal Hillary Clinton representatively wrote for The
Atlantic on November 14 that “Hamas must be permanently
erased.” Destroyed hospitals and schools and civilians killed en masse are
reasonable “collateral damage.” Such is the unparalleled evil of “terrorists.”
Yet,
the relentless stream of heart-rending clips documenting the Israeli Occupation
Force (IOF) Holocaust deluging social media feeds the world over, and the
ever-ratcheting child death toll has compelled countless citizens to ask, “If Hamas are terrorists, then what are
Zionists?” It is surely no coincidence YouTube recently yanked the official video of a groundbreaking track by
renowned rapper and MintPress News contributor Lowkey, “Terrorist?” posing this precise question.
“Terrorist?”
was released in 2011, at the height of the U.S. Empire’s “War on Terror.” Then,
the purported global threat of “terrorism” was exploited throughout the West to
savage civil liberties at home and wage relentless illegal military
“interventions” abroad. Mainstream usage of the term precipitously plummeted thereafter. It is only now regaining popular currency due to
the Gaza genocide.
This
is no accident. As we shall see, Israel – and specifically its veteran leader,
Benjamin Netanyahu – was fundamental to concocting the mainstream conception of
“terrorism,” explicitly to delegitimize anti-imperial struggles while
validating Western state violence directed at oppressed peoples across the
Global South. The impact of this informational assault can be felt in every
corner of the world today – not least Gaza.
In
fact, one might reasonably conclude the specific foundations of Nakba 2.0, which is unfolding in grisly real-time right
now, were laid decades ago as a result of the connivances of Netanyahu, the
international Zionist lobby, and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. What
follows is the little-known history of how “terrorism” came to be. A majority
of the world’s population – the Palestinian people in particular – live with
the mephitic consequences every day.
+
“Grinning Israeli War Vets Admit To R@ping & Murdering Palestinians
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/KtbxLvHXDGWBwxvLzcNqpKqfdSNfNGDQmL
with Jimmy Dore
(8:19)
A
widely forgotten — or perhaps a better term would be “ignored” — episode in the
history of Israel’s founding is the “Nakba” when thousands
of Palestinians were forcibly driven from their homes. A short clip from a
documentary about the Nakba has been making the
rounds on social media in which Israeli veterans of the fighting describe the
horrific war crimes they committed and for which they never faced any
consequences. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger talk to The Dive host
Jackson Hinkle about the stunning and appalling admissions coming from the
elderly men, many of whom smile as they detail the atrocities they committed.
+
“Dying to Be Free: Releasing Palestinian Captives is
Not a Numbers Game”
by Ramzy Baroud
There is a reason why Palestinians are
keen on releasing their prisoners, despite the heavy price they continue to pay
for their freedom.
It
may seem rational to ask the question: what is the point of releasing a few
Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons if the price of doing so is the death of over 15,000 Palestinians in Gaza?
Even
if all Palestinian prisoners – numbering about 7,000 – are released, they would not even
amount to 30 percent of the total number of Palestinian dead and missing so far
in the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Strip.
The
logic may sound even more puzzling when we consider that, between October 7 and
November 28, Israel detained
over 3,290 Palestinians in the West Bank and Occupied East Jerusalem.
Namely,
the number of Palestinian women and children detainees released –
following several prisoner swaps between Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli
army in the period between November 24 and November 30 – is insignificant
compared to those who were detained during the same period.
But
mathematical equations are irrelevant in liberation wars. If we resort to this
kind of logic, then perhaps it is more rational for colonized nations and
oppressed groups not to resist in the first place because doing so could
multiply the harm inflicted upon them by their colonizers and oppressors.
While
Israelis see their captives, whether civilians or military, held in Gaza in
terms of numbers, Palestinians approach the issue from an entirely different
perspective.
All
Palestinians are captives, according to the reality on the ground, because all
Palestinians are victims of Israeli colonialism, military occupation and apartheid. The difference between being a prisoner in
Megiddo, Ofer, or Ramleh
prison, for example, and being a prisoner in an isolated, walled-off
Palestinian town under Israeli military Occupation in Area C in the West Bank
is rather technical.
True,
those in Megiddo are subjected to more violence and torture. They are denied proper food, medicine, and the
freedom to move about. But how is that fundamentally different from the
incarceration of 2.3 million people living in Gaza now?
Some
would even argue that living in Gaza during a time of genocide is more
confining and far less safe than being a political prisoner in Israel under
‘normal’ circumstances.
So
clearly, the issue is not related to numbers but to power relations.
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t.
“Meet
George Soros” (2010)
with James Corbett
(51:23)
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“The Schizotocracy, or:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The New Normal
Reich”
by JC Hopkins
Well,
2023 is almost in the books, and things couldn’t be going better for the New
Normal Reich. It’s been a long, strange seven years, but we’re finally back to
the Global War on Terror, which, as you may recall, was abruptly preempted
in 2016 by the War on Populism,
which, as you may recall, was abruptly preempted in 2020 by the Apocalyptic Pandemic, which, as you may recall, was what ushered The New Normal Reich into being and brought us full-circle.
Anyway,
here we are, back in The Global War on Terror, or the War on Horror, or The War on Whatever … Islamic terrorism, Russia, Trump, disinformation,
racism, hate speech, conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism, anti-vaxxerism, transphobians,
Communists, cultural Marxists, radical wokesters, the
Cult of Musk, neo-Covidians, Zionazis,
climate-change deniers, decapitated baby rapers … it
doesn’t really matter. Pick an enemy and join the
Roman Orgy of Hatred!
The
schizotocracy couldn’t care less which side of
whatever you think you are on.
Yes,
that’s right, “the schizotocracy.” I’ve coined a new
name for the supranational network of global corporations, nominally-sovereign
governments, non-governmental governing entities, media conglomerates,
oligarchs, etc., that comprise the global-capitalist system that is driving the
course of events in our time. I’ve coined this new name for those of my readers
who suffer apoplectic seizures whenever I write about “global capitalism” (or “GloboCap,” as I sometimes jokingly call it) and its
predictable evolution into “The New Normal Reich.”
I’ll
tell you about the “schizotocracy,” but, first,
here’s an excerpt from an essay I wrote about that predictable evolution back
in 2017 …
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“Beware the ‘Autism Friendly City’”
https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/02/beware-the-autism-friendly-city/
by Sinéad
Murphy
On 6th November, Dublin launched its
Autism Friendly City plan in a bid to become the world’s most
autism friendly capital city.
‘It’s
a really exciting day,’ Dublin’s Lord Mayor said. ‘I do hope where Dublin leads, the rest of the country can follow also
because it’s so, so important that we are inclusive and, at the moment, we
still have a long way to go.’
Sixteen
years ago, the French collective The Invisible Committee predicted that imperial expansion in the
twenty-first century would rely on bringing into the fold those previously on
the edges of Western societies: women, children and minorities.
‘Consumer society,’ they wrote, ‘now
seeks out its best supporters from among the marginalized elements of
traditional society.’
The
Invisible Committee summarized this latest phase of empire as ‘YoungGirl-ism’ – the strategic championing of young people,
of women and of those disadvantaged by disability, illness, or ethnicity.
Though
the aim of YoungGirl-ism is to bring the general
population under a new kind of control, societies’ focus on cherishing
previously marginal cohorts has the look of emancipation and progress. For this
reason, The Invisible Committee explained, women, children and minorities ‘find themselves raised to the rank of ideal
regulators of the integration of the Imperial citizenry.’
If
the theory of the YoungGirl was unsettling at the
time of its publication, its prescience is now borne out, as versions of the
mechanism it describes dominate the societal breakdown that is the objective of
government policies worldwide.
YoungGirl-ism
has too many aspects to summarize here. Let it suffice to suggest the
following:
·
That the drive
to nurture our children continues to license a level of surveillance of people
and censorship of the materials to which they have access that ought to be
anathema in any society purporting to be free, and that the messaging of the
general population by government, corporations and legacy media has become so
simplistic as to constitute a widespread infantilization.
·
That the rage to
acknowledge and be sensitive to women’s experiences supports the ongoing
emotionalizing of work and of public debate and increases institutional control
over human reproduction.
·
That centralised solicitousness for those characterised
as ‘vulnerable’ has excused a degree of micro-management of our lives hitherto
unimaginable and is the ongoing rationale for biochemical interference with the
healthy population including children and the unborn.
·
And that the
promotion of all forms of sexual expression and identification has robbed us of
our most fundamental designators, making us a stranger in our mother tongue
which regularly denounces us as bigots.
The
Invisible Committee proposed their theory of the YoungGirl
as what they called ‘a vision machine.’ There is no doubt that familiarity with
its structure sheds much light on what might otherwise pass as disparate and
well-meaning social and political enterprises.
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u.
George
Galloway Archives – December 5, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/@GeorgeGallowayOfficial
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Al Jazeera English Archives – December 6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
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Global Research:
Selected Articles:
“5G and the Irradiation of Dogs, Cats and Birds; Peace
Coalition Floods US Senate with Demands Ceasefire in Gaza in Day of Action . .
. .”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-5g-irradiation-dogs-cats-birds/5842468
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Children’s
Health Defense , CHD .TV – December 9, 2023
“The
Great Taking: Do Central Banks have a system in place to take everything from
everyone?” “The Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race”