Bulletin
N° 1127
RIP John Pilger
"Real
Journalists Are Agents of People."
by Celia Farber
(51:03)
See also: “The World Has Lost John Pilger”
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“What They Said: Dr. Peter McCullough”
by Celia Farber
"Any time a
bio-pharmaceutical product remains on the market, despite excess mortality, and
mounting and mounting evidence suggesting greater and greater deaths are
accumulating with each and every day that the COVID-19 vaccines are left on the
market, that does qualify as mass negligent homicide for all of those who are
responsible for manufacturing the vaccines, distributing them, administering
them, and then promoting them; each and every person that ever encouraged,
pressured, coerced, or threatened reprisal for one of these COVID-19 vaccines
is complicit in a crime against humanity. And that crime is mass negligent
homicide!"
-- Dr. Peter McCullough (Source Video)
Article by Harold Saive, at News Paradigm, here.
January 4, 2024
Grenoble,
France
Subject:
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
We are living
in a historical conjuncture where the international class of millionaires and
billionaires are more visible than ever before, and their well-publicized corporate
interests are aimed against the interests of ordinary people. An ontological
crisis has crystallized around the obstacle to “Solidarity” – whether it
represents some form of
“esprit de corps” or instead is focused on “class consciousness,”
which must be premised on an understanding of the actual social conflicts that
exist between warring social class interests, on the one hand, and on a
knowledge of the nature of this struggle to overcome the obstacles which inhibit
our collective class emancipation, on the other.
The cultural
hegemony of the ruling class – with the indispensible aid of armies, police, schools,
churches, clinics, courts, and media; i.e. the hierarchies of the military and
police, the teachers, priests and pastors, the doctors and lawyers, etc. etc. –
all combine to create a mental fog through which we are not intended to perceive
our true interests, beyond the “get-along-go-along” status quo with which we identify
so strongly.
Today, we are
confronted with a revolution from above - echoes of the 1930s - which is no
more than another preemptive strike by a segment of the ruling class to disarm
us and if possible erase us from the face of the earth – the world has become
Gaza and property values are falling along with the demographic declines, all
of which guarantee good capitalist investments with future profits for the
owners of corporate capital in the “New World Order”.
The 25+ items below reflect the class struggle that
is now upon us and the slow awakening to the fact that class interests rule all
of us – whether it is our own true interests or the corporate interests of the
owners of capital. We find in the articles and essays below the many reactive responses to the oppression
around us; but also, if we look, we find proactive
attempts to seize power from the
traditional rulers and actually aim to take control over our lives with a form
of self-government. This can only be done collectively - from the bottom up - with
class-conscious citizens who are no longer under the influence of ruling-class
culture and the technocrats that manage it. It’s the school of hard knocks, but
it offers a degree of Clear Thinking, with a little help from our friends
(among whom are many of the authors below).
Please
continue reading . . . .
Sincerely,
Francis
McCollum Feeley
___________
Professeur
honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien
Directeur des Researches
Université de
Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The
University of California-San Diego
a.
“Henry
Kissinger and Bill Gates: The ‘Secret Agenda’ of the So-called Elite and the
COVID mRNA Vaccine. ‘Reducing World Population’?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/reflections-secret-agenda-elite-role-us-citizens/5709112
by Dr. Rudolf Hänsel
Important and
timely article, first published on April 10, 2020. The
late Henry Kissinger has played a key role in the formulation of the
“Depopulation Agenda”
“The
International” is the world-renowned battle song of the socialist labor
movement. The English version of the original French text reads:
“Wake up,
damned of this earth, who are still forced to starve! (…) Army of slaves, wake
up! (…) Peoples, hear the signals! To the final battle! There is no supreme
being, no God, no emperor or tribune to save us. To put us out of our misery,
that is something we can only do ourselves.”
This call was
made to the international labor movement after the violent suppression of the
Paris Commune in May 1871. It was not issued to the ruling “Elite” of the
exploiters and oppressors.
However, it
is precisely this so-called elite that seems to be
blowing to the last battle today, in that it is seeking to reduce the
population (depopulation) by means of a compulsory “mass protective
vaccination”. The pathogenic or even deadly composition of this vaccine,
which will also contain Nano-chips to control
humanity, has certainly already been mixed in the world’s secret
laboratories.
Even the
active euthanasia of elderly and sick fellow citizens by means of strong
sleeping pills and opiates has already set these dark figures on their way.
Likewise a worldwide redistribution of general wealth from the bottom to
the top, from the poor to the super rich. Should we citizens of this world,
remembering these plans of the cabal, not recall to whom the call for the final
battle was actually made?
Two of these
“world citizens” who are involved in such sinister plans are the former US
Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger and the
wealthy US entrepreneur and patron of the arts Bill Gates.
More than 50
years ago, Kissinger was Secretary of State, head of the US National Security
Council and author of an important US foreign policy document:
“According to the [Kissinger]
memorandum, depopulation should be “the highest priority in US foreign policy
towards the Third World”, (…) because “the US economy needs large and growing
amounts of raw materials from overseas, especially from the less developed
countries” (Eggert, W. (2003).
In an opinion
piece for the
“Wall Street Journal”, Kissinger called for
“a first step to develop ‘new techniques and technologies for
infection control and appropriate vaccines for large populations’. (…) In a second step, the focus
should now be on ‘healing the wounds of the global economy’. (quoted in RT Deutsch)
The citizens
of the world should therefore – whether they want to or not – be vaccinated
and, in addition, it should be checked whether they have complied with this vaccination
obligation.
In the RT
(Deutsch article just mentioned), Nobel Peace Prize winner Kissinger is also
referred to as a war criminal because, as the architect of the US aggression
against Vietnam and other covert CIA secret operations, he is responsible for
the death of millions of people.
Vaccination
Kissinger and
the The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation seem to
agree on the question of “mass protection vaccination”. On March 31, 2020, the “Washington
Post” published an opinion article by Gates in which he
describes his vision to vaccinate people around the world:
“To bring the
disease to an end, we’ll need a safe and effective vaccine. If we do everything
right, we could have one in less
than 18 months — about the fastest a vaccine
has ever been developed.
But creating a vaccine is only half the battle. To protect
Americans and people around the world, we’ll need to manufacture billions of
doses. (Without a vaccine, developing countries are at even greater risk than
wealthy ones, because it’s even harder for them to do physical distancing and
shutdowns.)
We can start now by building the facilities where these
vaccines will be made. Because many of the top candidates are made using unique
equipment, we’ll have to build facilities for each of them, knowing that some
won’t get used. Private companies can’t take that kind of risk, but the federal
government can. It’s a great sign that the administration made deals this week
with at least two companies to prepare for vaccine manufacturing. I hope more
deals will follow.
In 2015, I urged world leaders in a
TED talk to prepare for a pandemic the same way they
prepare for war — by running simulations to find the cracks in the system.
As we’ve seen this year, we have a long way to go. But I still believe that if
we make the right decisions now, informed by science, data and the experience
of medical professionals, we can save lives and get the country back to work.
Is the
vaccination program related to the objective of reducing world population?
In this context,
let us recall Kant’s Enlightenment motto “Sapere aude!”: “Have the courage to use your
own intellect!”
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“James
Corbett Redpills New Zealand”
https://www.corbettreport.com/realitycheckradio-redpill/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
(48:44)
The Corbett Report beams in from Japan to
talk about COP28 (Conference of the Parties) which was recently held in Dubai.
James Corbett and Paul Brennen discuss the globalist
influencers there who are driving policy and events.
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“Excess Deaths in 2023”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7vTqEmlkvw&si=miAIrsbKkLcEf18Y
with Dr. John Campbell
(21:03)
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b.
“The Death of
Science”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us4N4KL7VkI
with Dr. John Campbell and Professor Angus Dalgleish
(1:13:31)
Get your copy
of The Death of Science, https://gazellebookservices.co.uk/pro... Also by Professor
Dalgleish, The Origin of the Virus: The hidden truths
behind the microbe that killed millions of people, https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/185457106...
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“COVID-19 Vaccines: Proof of Lethality. Over One Thousand Scientific
Studies”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-vaccines-scientific-proof-lethality/5767711
by SUN
Over One
Thousand Scientific Studies Prove That the COVID-19 Vaccines Are Dangerous, and
All Those Pushing This Agenda Are Committing the Indictable Crime of Gross
Misconduct in Public Office.
Just over 12
months from deployment of the COVID 19 emergency use experimental vaccines,
scientific studies in the thousands, and reports of criminal complaints
of assault and murder from the illegal, unlawful use of biochemical poisons
made to police forces around the country, verify an assault on an unsuspecting
UK population. Irrefutable science shows that the COVID 19 vaccine is not safe
and not effective in limiting transmission or infection from the SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus pathogens.
The “safe and
effective” false propaganda, put out by public officials who now are continuing
to push this vaccine, is a clear breach of duty. A public office holder is subject
to, and aware of, a duty to prevent death or serious injury that arises only by
virtue of the functions of the public office.
Many have breached that duty and, in doing so, are
recklessly causing a risk of death or serious injury, by carrying on regardless
of the now-confirmed dangers associated with COVID 19 injections. Some of these
risks are blood clotting, myocarditis, pericarditis, thrombosis, thrombocytopenia, anaphylaxis,
Bell’s palsy, Guillain-Barre, cancer including
deaths, etc.
All of these are confirmed in the following
science-and-government-gathered data from the UK Health and Security agency on
COVID 19 regarding vaccine damage.
The term “vaccine” was changed recently to incorporate
this illegal, unlawful medical experiment to facilitate usage of mRNA
technology that is demonstrably not a vaccine, and which contains biologically
toxic nano-metamaterials associated with 5G urban
data gathering capability.
Metal nanoparticulates are known
in science to be genotoxic—a poison that can also
cause sterilization. The dangers posed to the victims in the near term from
this medical battery are now known. However, the long term lethality of this
weapon is not as yet realized due to the debilitating effects it has on the
immune system, causing Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome(AIDS).
The Medicines and Healthcare (products) Regulatory Agency
(MHRA) had prior warning of the expected large numbers of adverse reactions
before the deployment—confirming the premeditated nature of the crime and
public conduct offences then and now.
1.
Cerebral venous thrombosis after COVID-19 vaccination
in the UK: a multicentre cohort study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01608-1/
2.
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia
with disseminated intravascular coagulation and death after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19
vaccination: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1052305721003414
3.
Fatal cerebral hemorrhage after COVID-19 vaccine: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33928772/
4.
Myocarditis after mRNA
vaccination against SARS-CoV-2, a case series: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666602221000409
5.
Three cases of acute venous thromboembolism
in women after vaccination against COVID-19: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213333X21003929
6.
Acute thrombosis of the coronary tree after
vaccination against COVID-19: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1936879821003988
7.
US case reports of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
with thrombocytopenia after vaccination with Ad26.COV2.S (against covid-19),
March 2 to April 21, 2020: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33929487/
8.
Portal vein thrombosis associated with ChAdOx1
nCov-19 vaccine: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(21)00197-7/
9.
Management of cerebral and splanchnic
vein thrombosis associated with thrombocytopenia in subjects previously
vaccinated with Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca): position
statement of the Italian Society for the Study of Hemostasis
and Thrombosis (SISET): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33871350/
10. Vaccine-induced
immune immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia and cerebral
venous sinus thrombosis after vaccination with COVID-19; a systematic review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022510X21003014
… continued to 1011
Read more: 57 Top Scientists and Doctors Release Shocking Study on COVID
Vaccines and Demand Immediate Stop to All Vaccinations
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“Uncovering
the Corona Narrative: Was Everything Carefully Planned?”
by Ernst Wolff
Why were
worldwide measures taken which have caused one disaster after another and
pushed humanity deeper towards the abyss instead of lifting them out of their
misery.
This text was originally published in German in August 2021.
.
First
published by Global Research on January 3, 2022
***
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said “Nothing happens accidentally in politics.
And when something happens, you can bet on it that it was exactly planned that
way.”
.
When one
looks at what has happened in the last year and a half, these words are
especially alarming.
After
studying this topic in detail for 18 months, I must say that there is an impressive number of signs and indications, pointing
in exactly in that direction. It’s this, and the consequences thereof that I
want to talk about today.
The current
situation we find ourselves in is unique in the history of mankind. Never
before has the whole world been thrown under the rule of this type of coercive
regime as we are experiencing now. And never have so many measures been taken
which at first glance appears so unintelligible, partly so nonsensical, and in
many cases, so contradictory.
This is about
the most serious health crisis in living memory, but the measures being used
against this have not improved the situation, but continuously made things
worse. Every doctor today can confirm the health condition of people, the
majority of people, is worse than before the crisis.
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“Before the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Corona Virus ‘Vaccines’. Nuremberg Code, Crimes against
humanity, War Crimes and Crimes of Aggression”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/before-international-criminal-court/5765815
by Hannah Rose, Dr. Mike Yeadon, Piers Corbyn,
and et al.
Treaty of Rome Statute, Art. 15.1 and 53
International
Criminal Court
Office of the Prosecutor
Communications
Post Office Box 19519
2500 CM The Hague
The Netherlands
EMAIL: otp.informationdesk@icc-cpi.int
Subject of
complaint:
·
Violations of the Nuremberg Code
·
Violation of Article 6 of the Rome Statute
·
Violation of Article 7 of the Rome Statute
·
Violation of Article 8 of the Rome Statute
·
Violation of Article 8 bis3 of the Rome Statute
Based on the
extensive claims and enclosed documentation, we charge those responsible for
numerous violations of the Nuremberg Code, crimes against humanity, war crimes
and crimes of aggression in the United Kingdom, but not limited to individuals
in these countries.
Perpetrators:
Prime
Minister for the United Kingdom BORIS JOHNSON, Chief Medical Officer for
England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government CHRISTOPHER WHITTY,
(former) Secretary of State for Health and Social Care MATTHEW HANCOCK,
(current) Secretary of State for Health and Social Care SAJID JAVID, Chief
Executive ofMedicines and Healthcare products
Regulatory Agency (MHRA) JUNE RAINE, Director-General of the World Health Organisation TEDROS ADANHOM GHEBREYESUS, Co-chair of the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation WILLIAM GATES III and Co-chair of theBill and Melinda Gates Foundation MELINDA GATES,
Chairman and Chief executive officer of Pfizer ALBERT BOURLA, Chief Executive
Officer of AstraZeneca STEPHANE BANCEL, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna PASCAL SORIOT, Chief Executive of Johnson and
Johnson ALEX GORSKY, President of the Rockefeller Foundation DR RAJIV SHAH,
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) DR
ANTHONY FAUCI, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum KLAUS
SCHWAB, President of EcoHealth Alliance DR PETER
DASZACK
Victim(s):
THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
Applicants:
·
Hannah Rose – Lawyer and human rights activist
·
Dr Mike Yeadon – Qualified life science researcher
with a degree in biochemistry in toxicology, and a research-based PhD in
respiratory pharmacology, former Vice President and Chief Scientist of allergy
and respiratory research at Pfizer
·
Piers Corbyn –
Astrophysicist and activist
·
Mark Sexton – Retired Police officer
·
John O’Looney – Funeral
Director and activist
·
Johnny McStay – Activist
·
Louise Shotbolt – Nurse and
human rights activist
Legal
representation and election of domicile
The
applicants will be represented for the purposes of this procedure by Hannah
Rose
Email: hannahroses111@hotmail.com
============
c.
“How Israel
Could Be STOPPED By South Africa - Its Overwhelming Genocide Case Explained”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=SrKUuFyanK_yojAE&v=UtXY_sQurcs&feature=youtu.be
with Owen Jones
(33 :38)
South Africa has filed a case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, accusing it of genocide in Gaza. The 84 page document offers an absolutely terrifying and overwhelming. Here I go through that document - and why it is one of the most important things written in our time, and why everyone needs to know what it says - before it's too late.
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“Stakes Raised As Government Of South Africa Levels 80 Page Document Accusing Israel Of Genocidal Intent in ICJ: The Case Detailed”
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/stakes-raised-as-government-of-south?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=257742&post_id=140354779&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email
by Celia Farber
Interview With Lawyer Daniel Machover, Whose Parents Were Israeli Citizens Who Opposed Events In Palestine, Left After Six Day War; Israel Accuses South Africa Of "Advocating For The Devil."
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“Spanish
minister vows to bring Netanyahu to International Criminal Court”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UWmR0teX0-w?si=71AJ5VXj5LlbKYhl
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“The Lawyer Prosecuting the West and Israel”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCvVsKdds_Y&si=3TyV26iAwio9V74Q
by The Thinking Muslim with Tayab Ali
(1:07:34)
This
interview was recorded a few hours before South Africa initiated its ICJ case -
the Genocide Convention is discussed in detail here. When we consider the
disgraceful actions of the Israeli state, it becomes evident that they operate
in a system of impunity. From the very early days of this slaughter, the diplomatic,
economic and military cover provided by the West has unleashed a genocidal war
machine intent on ethnically cleansing Gaza and removing its indigenous people,
the Palestinians, from their ancestral home. In an act of perverse precision,
the Israeli war machine decimated Gaza’s archival buildings – as a symbol of
its desire to erase Palestinian history. But what, if anything, can we do about
this? My guest today, Tayab Ali, is a lawyer specialising in criminal trials. He is a partner at the
legal firm Bindmans. He has been described as “an
irresistible force – he’s fearless.” He is rated as a Super Lawyer by Thompson
Reuters and recognised in Civil Liberties by The Legal 500. He has represented clients in the Supreme
Court and European Court of Human Rights and at international political and
legal institutions, including the United Nations, the International Criminal
Court and the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights.
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“Taking
Western leaders to court for Gaza War”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjQEK2RK0k0
by Middle East Eye with Tayab Ali
Can Western
leaders be held to account for their role in the Gaza war? This week on The Big
Picture Podcast, we sit down with one lawyer determined to do just that, and
who has already put many of them on public notice. Tayab
Ali is Solicitor Advocate, a partner at the London Law firm Bindmans
LLP and the director of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians
(ICJP). For years, Ali fought to bring Israeli politicians before British
courts on charges of war crimes. These included former Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak. In 2009, he successfully applied for UK court to issue an arrest
warrant for Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni following the brutal Operation Cast Lead, which
killed more than 1000 Palestinians in Gaza. In 2011 the British government
controversially issued diplomatic protection for Livni
to allow her to visit London on a speaking tour. Following the Hamas attack on
October 7 which led to Israel’s war in Gaza, killing more than 18,000 people
including 7000 children, Ali and his team published a public letter to British
politicians, informing them of their intent to prosecute any lawmakers “aiding
and abetting war crimes in Gaza”. They’re also supporting groups mounting a
case at the High Court against the UK government over its arms exports to
Israel.
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INTERVIEW:
“Educated to be stupid”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1UjnqA2sk&si=WyVbHwbM8qR9RbNW
with George Galloway and Miko Peled
(23:25)
When your
entire existence is justified by a lie you have to keep updating it, says
author Miko Peled about
Israel’s biblical claim to Palestine
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Majority of
Israeli Jews ‘support the removal of Palestinians from Gaza’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgFfaCADEBg&si=nJI0zE2iaaVy920z
by Al Jazeera
(12:37)
Antony Loewenstein, an Australian-German freelance investigative
journalist and author, says that even before October 7, the majority of
Israeli-Jewish citizens favoured the relocation of
Palestinians from Gaza. “Israeli-Jewish society has been radicalised,”
Loewenstein said. “There was a poll just this week
that found 70-80 percent of Israeli Jews support the idea of finding somewhere
else for Palestinians in Gaza to be removed. Israel claims that this is somehow
voluntary, which is nonsense. “Gaza is being made uninhabitable deliberately
and therefore there are many other countries that are potentially being forced
or strong-armed or offered other deals … to take in Palestinians.” Bribing
other countries to take in Palestinians has been a decades-old policy of
Israel, the author said. “As soon as the 1967 war happened there was a
convening of the Israeli cabinet and there was a serious discussion at the
highest levels to find ways to remove what they regarded as ‘excess Arabs’ that
would dilute – in their view – the Jewish population,” he said. “It’s never
really worked. Virtually no Palestinians wanted to leave, and no other nations
have been bribed enough. But the plan has always been there and that has
accelerated since October 7.”
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Israeli
Dissidents EXPOSE Genocidal Language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxzcKiSuJQw&si=tad0u6Nqd0KrjvS1
with Owen Jones
(7:19)
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“‘Axis of
Resistance’: Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis Challenge U.S.
& Israeli Power in Middle East”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3jia9cMpNI$
by Democracy
Now!
(22:41)
We look at how Israel's war on Gaza
has inflamed tensions in the Middle East and threatens
to pull other countries into the fighting, including the United States. The
Pentagon says it has intercepted a number of drones and missiles launched by
Yemen's Houthi forces — known as Ansar
Allah — in the Red Sea aimed at disrupting international shipping, with the
group vowing to continue the attacks on ships in solidarity with Palestinians
in Gaza. The U.S. and Israel have also exchanged fire with groups in Lebanon,
Iraq and Syria, and violence continues to increase in the occupied West Bank.
The growth of forces openly fighting against Israel and the U.S. is a major
development in the Middle East that most Western commentators do not fully
understand, says Rami Khouri,
a veteran Palestinian American journalist and a senior public policy fellow at
the American University of Beirut. This "axis of resistance" is
largely motivated by outrage over the treatment of Palestinians, he says. "The U.S. and Israel at some point need to acknowledge that
the Palestinian people have rights that are equal to the Israeli people."
============
d.
“Sacrificing for the Greater Good”
https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/30/sacrificing-for-the-greater-good/
by Todd Hayen
I think many
people believe that our society has gotten so complex, with so many people, and
so much need for consumption of natural resources in order to be comfortable,
that what the government is forcing on us now is required to survive.
This includes
all the control, restrictions, forced vaccines, lockdowns, censorship of free
speech, 15-minute cities, and a myriad of other restrictions and mandates. This
belief is inanely stupid, but stupid is as stupid does. What can ‘ya say?
Hey, I’m
really tired of pussy footing around all this garbage. I’m now calling a spade
a spade and forgetting about being polite or politically correct. These people
who believe this charade are destroying our lives, as well as destroying
humanity itself.
I don’t wish
harm to them (well, to the perpetrators I wish justice) but I am done trying to
be nice about all this. Hear me, you damn SHEEP! Step up to
the plate and do what your God-given brain was designed to do. Stop slobbering
at the feet of mommy medicine and daddy dictator and take your life back.
Enough is enough.
Whew. I’m
glad I got that out.
I’ve been
reading a lot of Patrick
Wood lately, check him out if you haven’t already. I seem
to be a bit slow to the draw with this stuff and often am the last to discover
something that most of you have known about for decades.
Wood pulls us way up for the bird’s eye view of all of this, which is
very helpful for me in order to get a better perspective. Of course, I’ve known
about the effort at global centrist government from the Klaus Schwab
perspective but wasn’t really aware of the beginnings of all of this with the Trilateral
Commission founded by our dear friend David
Rockefeller and his buddies Zbigniew Brzezinski and
Jimmy Carter (who woulda thunk?)
in the ‘70s. And of course, quite a bit was going on even before that date. The
UN’s utopian/dystopian Sustainable
Development goals, which include the smart city
initiatives, Agenda 21, and the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development, was not
something I was even aware of until relatively recently (2022 or so).
What is clear, in a broad general way, is the underlying carrot/stick approach
to all of this. The carrot has been dangling around for decades, and we are
just now beginning to get a teeny piece of the stick. Really
good shrews (which I am not, my nose is clearly
not long enough) knew what was going on since day one. Short nosed shrews, like
me, need a bit of the stick to start to really figure it out. Sheep apparently
need to be whacked silly before they will even notice. And the serious whacking
has not yet begun.
Wood speaks
of Antony
Sutton, an early very long nosed shrew, who came up with
“Sutton’s Paradox” (actually Wood may have come up with the adage that fits
Sutton’s work and views). “The degree
of personal response is inversely proportional to the length of time to
personal pain.” This should be renamed, “The Sheep’s Credo.” The sheep
are feeling very little of the stick these current days.
All of this
looks absolutely wonderful to them. They are first told of the planet dying due
to climate change (and of course, we are all at fault), they are clearly aware
of poverty, racism, human rights and women rights violations around the world,
and of course the dangers of disease, viruses, and pandemics. Then they are
told their GloboCap organizations such as the UN, the
WEF, and the WHO are out there to keep them safe and happy.
Just look at
the 17
Sustainable Development goals. Who would
argue that these are wonderful targets for a better world? End poverty, end
hunger, foster gender equality, clean water for everyone—you would have to be a
pretty cold not to agree the world would be a better place if these goals were
achieved. What a nice fat juicy carrot. The first sign of the stick is
realizing these carrot goals are a bit too wonderful. Sounds a trifle utopian
to me, eh? And we all know, at least those of us with a brain aged older than
10 in its mental capacity—utopia = dystopia.
So, what’s the problem? If you have
an idealistic sort of mind, why not pursue these lofty objectives? First of
all, the folks heading up all of this have brains older than a 10-year-old.
They know this is all bunk. They know it is carrot material, and the whole
point is to get all of us “7-year-old
mental equivalents” to come on board with it and bleat out, “tell me, tell me, what can
I do to help? Tell me what I need to do, please, please, please, I want all of these things too!”
The answer? You tell me.
You’ve heard it, “minimize your carbon
footprint, buy electric cars, eat bugs, don’t travel so much, live in smart
cities, take vaccines we don’t know dick about, recycle, pack it up and die, or
commit suicide…” On and on and on. And that is
just the beginning.
The problem here is first the
unrealistic goals, that should be the first clue. But
even if the goals were realistic, it is the manner in which all this is being
carried out that presents the bigger problem. The goals are a ruse, a carrot,
because the real goal is at the very least to create a central, unelected,
unrepresentative, technocratic world government that will ultimately control
every single aspect of our lives—including creating a synthetic body. And not
to our benefit either, it will be a world created just for a very small elite
group that is in control of every minutiae of life on the planet. This is only
the beginning and can get pretty weird if you delve into all this, as I know
many of you have. I’m not telling you the half of it. And as you descend into
this rabbit hole you will start to feel you are in a very macabre science
fiction horror film. Yes, it is that bad. It is nearly unimaginable.
“Oh, but we have to save the planet! Shouldn’t we be willing to make
sacrifices to do that? Shouldn’t we be willing, for the good of others, to cut
back on our consumption, restrict our freedoms, become slaves, er, servants to this system in order to make a better
world??”
No. We do not. But it sure seems that
way, doesn’t it?
Sure, part of the effectiveness in
their game of manipulation comes from the fact that some of the problems the
planet is facing regarding pollution, the wanton rape of its resources,
starving humans, bad water, and the insane level of consumerism we are
experiencing, has foundation in truth. Primarily because this
agenda has created that very world—a world that has been in the works, in a
conscious and intentional way, for quite some time.
But much of the horrific picture
being painted by the agenda is simply not true. And even if it all were true,
the way to go about remedying the situation is not how the globalists are
proceeding. Their agenda is evil, it is genocidal, not only to humans, but to
every living organism on earth, and it is entirely fabricated as a means to
obtain control and exploitation over the population of the earth—at least what
will be left of it once the first culling operation is completed.
Don’t buy the carrot for a second.
The stick is sure to follow. And that stick is a humdinger.
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“The Distortion of Science”
by Robert W Malone MD, MS
To support the globalist's Climate Change agenda.
Starting in
the mid-20th century, companies began distorting and manpulating
science to favor specific commercial interests.
Big tobacco
is both the developer and the poster child of this strategy. When strong
evidence that smoking caused lung cancer emerged in the 1950s, the
tobacco industry began a campaign to obscure this
fact.
The Unmaking of Science
The tobacco industry scientific disinformation campaign sought to disrupt
and delay further studies, as well as to cast scientific doubt on the link
between cigarette smoking and harms. This campaign lasted for almost 50 years,
and was extremely successful… until it wasn’t. This tobacco industry’s
strategic brilliance lay in the use of a marketing and advertising campaign
(otherwise known as propaganda) to create scientific uncertainty and sow doubts
in the minds of the general public. This, combined with legislative “lobbying”
and strategic campaign “donations” undermined public health efforts and
regulatory interventions to inform the public about the harms of smoking and
the regulation of tobacco products.
Disrupting normative science has become a de rigueur component of the pharmaceutical
industry business model. A new pharmaceutical product is not based on need, it is based on market size and profitability. When new
data threatens the market of a pharmaceutical product, then that pharma company will try to sprout the seeds of scientific
uncertainty and lack of proof. For instance, clinical trials can be easily coopted to meet specified end-points positive for the drug
products. Other ways to manipulate a clinical trial include manipulating the
dosing schedule and amounts. As these practices have been exposed, people no
longer trust the science. Fast forward to the present, and the entire industry
of evidence-based (and academic) medicine is now suspect due to the malfeasance
of certain pharma players. In the case of COVID-19, Pharma propaganda and cooptation practices have now
compromised the regulatory bodies controlling the pharma
product licensing and deeply damaged global public confidence in those
agencies.
We all know what climate change is. The truth is that the UN, most globalists
and a wide range of world leaders” blame human activities for climate change.
Whether or not climate change is real or that human activities are enhancing
climate change is not important to this discussion. That is a subject for
another day.
Most climate change scientists receive funding from the government. So
they must comply with the government edict and policy position that human
activity-caused climate change is an existential threat to both humankind and
global ecosystems. When these “scientists” publish studies supporting the
thesis that human activities cause climate change, they are more likely to
receive more grant monies and therefore more publications- and therefore to be
academically promoted (or at least to survive in the dog-eat-dog world of
modern academe). Those who produce a counter narrative from the government
approved one soon find themselves without funding, tenure, without jobs, unable
to publish and unable to procure additional grants and contracts. It is a
dead-end career wise. The system has been rigged.
And by the way, this is nothing new. Back in the day, during the “war on
drugs, if a researcher who had funding by the NIH’s NIDA (National Institute of
Drug Addiction) published an article or wrote an annual NIH grant report
showing benefits to using recreational drugs, that would be a career ending
move, as funding would not be renewed and new funding would never materialize.
Remember, the NIH peer review system only triages grants,
it does not actually chose who receives grant money. The administrative state
at NIH does that! And anything that went against the war on drugs was
considered a war on the government. Funding
denied. This little truthbomb was conveyed to
me - word of mouth- many years ago by a researcher and Professor who
specialized in drug addiction research. Nothing printed,
all heresy. Because that is how the system works. A whisper
campaign. A whiff of a message on the wind.
The ends justify the means. . . .
The new wrinkle in what has now happened with corrupted climate change
activism/propaganda/”science” is that the manipulation of research is crossing
disciplines. No longer satisfied with oppressing climate change scientists,
climate change narrative enforcers have moved into the nutritional sciences.
This trend of crossing disciplines portends death for the overall independence
of any scientific endeavors. A creeping corruption into
adjacent disciplines. Because climate change activists, world leaders,
research institutions, universities and governments are distorting another
branch of science outside of climate science. They are using the bio-sciences,
specifically nutrition science, to support the climate change agenda. It is
another whole-of-government response to the crisis, just like with COVID-19.
Just like with the tobacco industry’s scientific disinformation campaign,
they are distorting health research to make the case that eating meat is
dangerous to humans. Normal standards for publication have been set aside. The
propaganda is thick and easily spotted.
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“Climate Change: The Unsettled Science” – Part 2
A planet-earth ice cream
https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/28/climate-change-the-unsettled-science-part-2/
by Iain Davis
In Part 1 we questioned
the fundamental principles said to underpin “the Climate Science™.”
Specifically we considered the scientific validity of the claimed “consensus”
and explored some of the many scientific doubts expressed about Anthropogenic
Global Warming (AGW) theory and the so-called “greenhouse effect.”
We noted the contradictory layman’s explanation of AGW theory offered by
some climate scientists. This apparent lack of basic knowledge should not
simply be dismissed. “The” climate science is being exploited by a global
public-private partnership as claimed justification to
transform the world. The least we can expect is that the selected climate
scientists understand their own theory.
With the 2023 publication of a series of policy briefs called Our
Common Agenda, the United Nations (UN) announced
that questioning “the Climate Science™” is tantamount to hate speech. As we
discussed in Part
1, the legacy media has already adopted editorial
policies that rule out any possible questioning of the climate science orthodoxy.
Thus the internet is an important remaining public square where people can
still ask questions.
Therefore, the UN asserted, efforts must be made to censor any and all scepticism expressed online:
The impacts of online mis- and disinformation
and hate speech can be seen across the world, including in the areas of health
[and] climate action. [. . .] A small but vocal minority of climate science denialists continue to reject the consensus position. [. .
.] Strengthening information integrity on digital platforms is an urgent
priority for the international community. [. . .] [M]easures
that limit the impact of mis- and disinformation and
hate speech will boost efforts to achieve a sustainable future.
The UN made absolutely no mention of the fact that many of the people it
calls “climate science denialists” are scientists,
including climate scientists. By omission and by misrepresenting
anti-scientific statements about “consensus” as scientific arguments, the UN
spreads disinformation globally.
The purpose of these articles—Parts 1 to 3—is to stimulate open and
honest debate about climate change and climate science. They are not offered as
conclusive rebuttals of the prevailing climate science. Based upon the inspiring
Ph.D dissertation of Rob
Jeffrey, they merely provide a limited record of some of the reasons to
question the prevailing climate science and the climate change narratives we
are all asked to accept without question by the UN and others.
These articles form a series. Please read Part
1 first to fully grasp the arguments made here.
Questioning AGW Theory Experimental Proof . . . .
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“American Big Tech Has Enslaved US”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VatYrw0uqjU&si=IEX-1WAhnUJj6Kq-
with Yanis Varoufakis
and Aaron Bastani
(57:37)
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“5G Danger:
13 Reasons 5G Wireless Technology Will Be a Catastrophe for Humanity”
by Makia Freeman
The 5G danger
can’t be overstated.
5G (5th
Generation) is now being actively rolled out in many cities around the world.
Simultaneously, as awareness over its horrific health and privacy impacts is
rising, many places are issuing moratoriums on it or banning it, such as the
entire nation of Belgium, the city of Vaud (Switzerland) and San Francisco
(USA). Radiofrequency radiation (RF or RFR) and electromagnetic fields (EMF)
are being increasingly recognized as new types of pollution – environmental
pollution. Here are 13 reasons exposing the 5G danger, which could turn into an
unmitigated health and privacy catastrophe if enough people don’t rise up to
stop it.
1. 5G Danger:
Hijacking Your Sweat Duct Antennae
The 5G
network uses and broadcasts frequencies which affect our sweat ducts, which act
as antennae. In other words, our largest organ, the skin, can be influenced and
manipulated by 5G. As I reported in this the article 5G and IoT:
Total Technological Control Grid Being Rolled Out Fast, scientist
Dr. Ben-Ishai exposed the connection between 5G and
our body’s sweat ducts in this video:
“[The 5G
frequencies] will zap [us] with wavelengths that will interact with the
geometrical structure of our skin … We found that
sweat ducts work like helical antennas … the sweat duct was an integral part of
the mechanism for the absorption of energy, electromagnetic, between 75-100
GHz, and that if you changed the character of the sweat duct, i.e. made it
work, you could actually change that absorption at some point, and if you could
do that you could trace how a person is under stress.“
2. 5G Danger: 5G Amplifies EMF Damage via VGCCs
Wireless radiation and EMF scientist Dr. Martin Pall has done
groundbreaking research in explaining exactly how EMFs cause premature aging
and injury to the human body, including damage to fertility, brains, hearts and
even DNA! He pioneered research showing how EMFs activate the body’s VGCCs
(Voltage-gated calcium channels) which causes them to release excess calcium
ions into the cell. This then leads to nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide which
react nearly instantaneously to form peroxynitrite
and free radicals. Many studies like this show peroxynitrite damages DNA. Dr.
Pall has stated unequivocally that
the “5G rollout is absolutely
insane.”
3. 5G Danger:
Pulsed Wave Far More Damaging than Continuous Wave Radiation . . . .
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“Bill Gates Plans for New
Catastrophic Contagion”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/bill-gates-plans-new-catastrophic-contagion/5802719
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
Over time,
it’s become clear that the globalist cabal seeking to implement a one world
government repeatedly tell us what they’re about to do. Table top pandemic
simulations, for example, are a form of dress rehearsal.
In 2017,
Johns Hopkins Center of Health Security held a coronavirus
pandemic simulation called the SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028 scenario. In October
2019, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with Johns
Hopkins and the World Economic Forum hosted Event 201.
As in the
SPARS Pandemic scenario, Event 201 involved an outbreak of a highly infectious coronavirus, but the primary (if not sole) focus of the
exercise was how to control information and keep “misinformation” in check, not
how to effectively discover and share remedies.
October 23,
2022, Gates, Johns Hopkins and the World Health Organization cohosted “a global challenge exercise” dubbed “Catastrophic
Contagion,” involving a novel pathogen called “severe epidemic enterovirus respiratory syndrome 2025” (SEERS-25), which
primarily affects children and teens
Enterovirus D68 is typically associated with cold and flu-like
illness in infants, children and teens. In rare cases, it’s also been known to
cause viral meningitis and acute flaccid myelitis, a
neurological condition resulting in muscle weakness and loss of reflexes. The
virus they modeled in the Catastrophic Contagion simulation appears to be
something similar to enterovirus D68, but worse.
Over time,
it’s become clear that the globalist cabal seeking to implement a one world
government repeatedly tell us what they’re about to do. They hold dress
rehearsals in the form of tabletop exercises, and they’ve revealed their plans
in various reports and white papers through the years.
I have been
subscribed to the channel that posted the video above for some time now. She
only has 10K subscribers but really gets some amazing content. I have no idea
how she was able to secure this video as it is not widely circulated. Even more
surprising is that her channel is not being taken down.
COVID Dress
Rehearsals . . . .
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“Health Care
as Wealth Care in America”
by Bill Astore
============
e.
News from
Underground by Mark Crispin Miller
“Fall
‘vaccine’ uptake an ‘abysmal’ 7%; more US pols pledge
BANS on "vaccination"; TX AG Ken Paxton SUING Pfizer; 5G under fire
in NYC; Walmart, Costco, Wegmans
DROP self-checkout; & more”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Happy New
Year to the growing resistance right here in the USA. and
especially to those of us who'll work THIS year to make it SO big that it can't
fail, no matter what new horrors they throw at us
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“Italy bans
fake meat, as Rome probes former Health Minister, who hid ‘vax’
deaths, for MURDER; German breakaway ‘kingdom’ bans ‘vaccination’; Slovenia
reimbursing COVID fines; & more”
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/italy-bans-fake-meat-as-rome-probes?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=140254063&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email
by Mark Crispin Miller
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“In memory of
children who "died suddenly" in the United States in 2023: Children
under 2
From the
archive of this year's weekly posts, the names and, often, faces of the dead,
representing just a fraction of the total.”
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-children-who-died-suddenly-563?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=140209356&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email
by Mark Crispin Miller
This is the first of 4 such compilations of
child deaths this year.
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“In memory of
children who "died suddenly" in Canada in 2023: Children under 2”
by Mark Crispin Miller
This is the second of four posts on the
staggering number of child deaths in North America this year.
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“In memory of
the children who "died suddenly" in the USA and Canada in 2023:
Children 2-10”
by Mark Crispin Miller
This is the
third of four posts on the staggering number of child deaths in North America
this year.
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“In memory of
the children who "died suddenly" in the USA and Canada in 2023:
Children 11-20”
by Mark Crispin Miller
This is the
last of four posts on the staggering number of child deaths in North America
this year.
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“In memory of
those who ‘died suddenly’ in the United States and worldwide, December
19-December 25, 2023”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Athletes in
the US (3), Venezuela, Paraguay, UK (2), Ireland, Germany, Italy (4); actors in
the US, Canada, UK, Poland, Russia (2), Malaysia, NZ; teachers in the US,
Suriname, Belgium; & more
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“The
propaganda for vaccines, ‘vaccines’ and all Big Pharma's
other deadly wares would not work if we didn't idolize our doctors (and—through
them—Big Pharma)”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Jerry
Newfield on how doctors, having sold their souls, are very busy poisoning our
minds and bodies
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“Ovarian
Cancers in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccinated Women: Huge Tumors, Extremely Aggressive”
by Dr. William Makis
============
f.
“Israeli
Children Sing Of Annihilating Gaza And Seem To Have
Been Taught Arabs Were Behind The Holocaust”
by Celia Farber
(23:47)
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“The 100 year
war on Palestine”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ55JmOlSdg&si=8O8KDRKyEj1J5i9T
with Rashid Khalidi and Chris Hedges
(1:01:10)
All too
often, the question of Palestine is framed as an eternal conflict arising from
ancient ethnic or religious hatreds, with questions regarding the origins of
the state of Israel and the legitimacy of land claims reduced to matters of
scriptural interpretation. Such views entirely omit the actual history of
Palestine and the Zionist movement. The colonization of Palestine, a process
still playing out before our eyes to this day, has definite historical origins
at the turn of the 20th century, when Zionism was born and the encroachment of
Palestinian land began. Historian Rashid Khalidi,
author of The Hundreds' Year War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism
and Resistance, 1917- 2017, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a look into this
essential history, and how it can help us frame Israel's present war on Gaza.
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“Scenes of war shown in foreign media 'not
shown' in Israel | Israel-Hamas war”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_Knk7FWT8
by Sky News with Gideon Levy
(9:11)
Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy told Sky News that Israeli media
"systematically and voluntarily does not show" the scenes of the war
in Gaza that foreign media are showing. He says that due to the lack of
exposure in the country, it is "easier to support [the IDF] without any
moral doubts" and that the majority are still in favour
of continuing the war.
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“A Message to
Israeli, U.S. and NATO Soldiers and Pilots: ‘Disobey Unlawful Orders, Abandon
the Battlefield’”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/this-christmas-i-have-tears-in-my-eyes/5844151
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
It is not
through “negotiations” with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President
Biden, both of whom are responsible for “crimes punishable under
International Law” that we will be able to put
an end to the genocidal attack against the People of Palestine.
What is
required is a campaign which enables Israeli, U.S. and NATO combatants To
Disobey Unlawful Orders” and “Abandon the Battlefield”.
Principle
IV of the Nuremberg Charter defines the responsibility of combatants to refuse the
orders of Government or a superior … “provided a moral choice [is]
possible“.
What is
required is to initiate a campaign in Israel and Worldwide to make
that “moral choice” possible, to enable enlisted Israeli, American, and
NATO service men and women to “Abandon the Battlefield”.
See details
below, with reference to legal documents.
A.I.
translation into Arabic
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, December 27, 2023
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CovertAction Bulletin: “True Horror of the Israeli Assault”
by Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa
The U.S.
House of Representatives recently passed HR 888, reaffirming the State of
Israel’s right to exist by a vote of 412-1. And HR 894, which says the House
“clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is anti-semitism” has passed by a vote of 311-14 with 92
abstentions.
Imperialist
media continues to make unsubstantiated claims about what the Palestinian
resistance did or did not do on October 7th in a major new coordinated
propaganda push. And, protests in support of Palestine, calling for a ceasefire,
end of the siege of Gaza and an end to U.S. aid to Israel don’t seem to be
slowing down at all as we approach two months from Al Aqsa
Flood and get into the holiday season.
We’re joined
by two Palestinian organizers to talk about the impact of the war on
Palestinians in Palestine as well as in the U.S. Fatin
Jarara is a community organizer with Al Awda NY, and Rania
Mustafa is Executive Director of the Palestinian
American Community Center.
Listen to this episode and all CovertAction Bulletin episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music and other podcast platforms New episodes are distributed worldwide on all podcast
platforms on Wednesdays at 9am EST.
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“What the IDF Did on Christmas”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYlAYU4r66c
with Judge Andrew Napolitano and Max Blumenthal
(33:20)
Join
investigative journalist Max Blumenthal and me as we peel back the layers of
one of the most contentious issues in modern geopolitics: the Israeli Defense
Forces' alleged human rights violations against Palestinians. Max, with his
sharp analytical skills, unveils the chilling realities of Gaza, including
accounts of torture and claims of organ theft, that stir
a profound reaction internationally. Our candid conversation probes into the
heart of these accusations, the difficulties faced in reporting such incidents,
and the psychological impact they have on all involved—from the Palestinian
community to the Israeli soldiers caught in the cycle of violence. These
narratives weave a complex tapestry of suffering and societal perceptions that
are rarely brought to light.
The
discussion takes an even darker turn as we examine the targeting of journalists
in Gaza, an issue that has captured global headlines and elicited responses
from political figures such as U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken.
This episode does not shy away from hard truths, dissecting the intertwining of
U.S.-Israel relations and the military strategies that shape the conflict. From
scrutinizing the most recent military deals to interpreting Prime Minister
Netanyahu's strategic maneuvers, we lay bare the multifaceted nature of warfare
and diplomacy. Closing on a note of international jurisprudence, we explore
South Africa's unprecedented steps toward seeking justice at the International
Court of Justice, presenting a glimmer of hope for accountability amidst the
turmoil.
============
g.
“The State of
Israel is an Apartheid State and should not be allowed to exist”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Mjkm0OiBo&si=f5KTguzK5hWdnyp_
by John Mearsheimer
(27:38)
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“Netanyahu
Lets Slip Israel's Real Plan”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWlIojS38qA&si=m8mYhK-UpzPvbHnm
with Owen Jones
(14:05)
Benjamin
Netanyahu has made Israel’s true intentions gruesomely clear – and now there is
no excuse for pleading ignorance.
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“1,000
Children Have Undergone Amputations Without Anaesthesia in Gaza”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/1000-children-undergone-amputations-without-anaesthesia-gaza/5844534
Some 1,000 children have had limbs amputated without anaesthesia in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its brutal
bombing campaign on 7 October, the United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) has said.
Read more: UNRWA
Chief Says 70% of Gaza Victims Are Children, Women
It added that
allowing the continued shelling of Gaza means greenlighting
the killing of more children.
The Ministry
of Health in the Gaza Strip has previously stated that nearly 70 per cent
of the casualties of the aggression were children and women.
The
Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has
surged to 20,674, the Health Ministry in the territory said yesterday.
Ministry
spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra
also said that 54,536 people had been injured in the months-long offensive.
The Israeli
onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with half of the coastal territory’s housing
damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million people displaced within the densely
populated enclave amid acute shortages of food and clean water.
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“Israel’s
Crimes and Atrocities Committed in Gaza”
by Peter Koenig and Press TV
Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Gaza war has exacted a “very heavy price”
on the regime.
Netanyahu
said Israel has no choice but to keep fighting to achieve its goals, including
the elimination of Hamas and returning of its hostages. He made the comments
after the Israeli army confirmed that 14 troops were killed in Gaza since
Friday. It said 153 Israeli troops have been killed and nearly 500 others
wounded since the beginning of Israel’s ground invasion in Gaza. Hamas says the
number of Israeli army casualties is much higher.
*
PressTV: Israel has
committed enormous crimes against humanity, causing more than 21,000
Palestinian casualties, since Netanyahu ordered a ground invasion in Gaza.
Please give
us your views on these crimes and their consequences.
Peter Koenig
(PK): Where to begin is the question.
There is an abundance of crimes being committed as we speak
The Israel
Defense Forces (IDF) are wantonly targeting civilian populations.
Of the
estimated more than 21,000 killed since October 7, at least two-thirds are
women and children.
Coincidence? Of course not, there are no
coincidences. Children are the future generation of Palestine, and women are
the bearers of future generations. Eliminating them is an Israeli strategy.
More than 80%
of all housing is destroyed, not to speak of infrastructure.
Read more: Explosive:
Israel Bombing Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza, at Least 500
Dead, Hundreds Injured
Israel is
withholding emergency shipments of food and water – literally attempting to
starve Palestinians to death.
Israel is
selectively cutting off electricity and means of communication – internet,
telephone, television….
But these are
just “statistics”, right?
Nevertheless,
think about it, when you are celebrating New Year with friends and have good
times — you may, of course. It is your right.
But please,
DO NOT forget Gaza and Palestine.
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“To the slain
journalists in Gaza who kept their eyes open so the world could see Israel's
crimes”
https://therealnews.com/a-tribute-to-our-slain-journalist-colleagues-in-gaza
by Maximillian Alvarez
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“Empiricism
vs. Ideology”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/27/empiricism-vs-ideology/
by Consortium News
If you
examine evidence without pre-conceived notions your conclusions won’t fall
neatly into camps but will be all over the political map.
An adherent
of an ideology will approach an issue with a view to fitting the facts into a
pre-determined outcome that serves the adherent’s interests. If you have no
ideology but examine evidence with an open mind, the conclusions you reach
would likely be all over the political map, not fitting consistently into any
camp.
U.S.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Vice Adm. Brad Cooper arriving in Bahrain
for a virtual Red Sea security meeting with representatives of dozens of
countries and the E.U. and NATO on Dec 19. (DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley)
For instance,
in an article published on
Wednesday, CN columnist
Patrick Lawrence looks at the decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to bar
Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot because the court says the U.S.
Constitution does not allow an insurrectionist to run for public office.
If you are an
ideological Democrat, you will agree with the Colorado court because the
outcome serves your interests: destroying Trump. You’ll find a way to fit the
facts, no matter how much they might undermine the rule of law, into your
ideology. You hate Trump too much to be bothered with the legal niceities.
Lawrence
simply points out that Trump has not been convicted of taking part in an
insurrection and it is not up to an appeals court to act as if he had. He sees
this as a gross corruption of the judicial process.
Abroad and at
home, ideology ruled the U.S.
Because the
entire concept of empiricism has been marginalized in these hyper-partisan
times, both Republicans and Democrats would likely conclude from this that
Lawrence supports Trump, but what he really supports are the facts and the
law.
Consortium News‘ viewpoints flow from
study of the evidence, they do not precede it. On most issues, especially on
foreign policy, our reporting and analysis are critical of all the major
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or the other on a specific public matter.
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h.
“Gaza starves as death toll climbs past 20,000”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/gaza-starves-death-toll-climbs-past-20000
by Maureen Clare Murphy
+
“Gaza
Journalist Death Toll Reaches 105 as Israel Expands Assault”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/gaza-journalist-death-toll-reaches-105-israel-expands-assault/5844642
by The New Arab
The number of
journalists killed in Gaza by Israel
since the outbreak of war has reached 105, according to the government media
office in the strip.
Among them
are Mohammad Khair al-Din and Ahmed Khair al-Din who were killed by “Israeli treachery” in Gaza, the office
was cited as saying by Turkish news agency Anadolu.
It means more
than one journalist has been killed a day on average since the launch of Israel’s war on the
strip.
Israel’s
relentless military campaign has killed more than 21,300 people in Gaza, with
over 55,600 others injured.
Places of
worship, residential buildings, ambulances, and hospitals have come under
attack.
Israeli
forces also detained Diaa al-Kahlout,
the Gaza bureau chief for The New
Arab’s Arabic-language edition, earlier in December.
The senior al-Araby al-Jadeed journalist was rounded up alongside hundreds
of other Palestinian men, including his brothers and other relatives, in the
town of Beit Lahia in
northern Gaza.
The newspaper
called for his freedom in a statement posted to social media on Tuesday.
“We in the al-Araby al-Jadeed family demand the immediate release of our
colleague Diaa al-Kahlout,
correspondent and bureau chief for the al-Araby al-Jadeed website
and newspaper in Gaza, who has been detained by the [Israeli] occupation army
since 7 December 2023,” the pan-Arab daily said.
“We also
condemn and deplore the assassination, arrest, abuse, and torture journalists
are being subjected to as they carry out their duty to convey the truth about
the war crimes and genocide the occupation is committing in the Gaza Strip.”
On Sunday, The New Arab reported that a young
Palestinian recently released from Beersehba Prison
had said he saw al-Kahlout in the Israeli detention
facility.
+
“Neocon Debacle and Declining Empire”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhT7HOWRt50&si=dAucUdOavNb63ohQ
with Richard Wolff
(57:28)
============
i.
“Judge
APPROVES Lawsuit Against CIA & Pompeo Over Assange Surveillance!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRqWpkT6xbY
with Jimmy Dore
(32:26)
+
“Constitutional Violations: Julian Assange,
Privacy and the CIA”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/constitutional-violations-julian-assange-privacy-cia/5844499
by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
As a private
citizen, the options for suing an intelligence agency are few and far between.
The US Central Intelligence Agency, as with other members of the secret club, pour scorn on such efforts. To a degree, such a dismissive
sentiment is understandable: Why sue an agency for its bread-and-butter task,
which is surveillance?
This matter
has cropped up in the US courts in what has become an international affair,
namely, the case of WikiLeaks founder and publisher, Julian
Assange. While the US Department of Justice
battles to sink its fangs into the Australian national for absurd espionage
charges, various offshoots of his case have begun to grow. The issue of CIA
sponsored surveillance during his stint in the Ecuadorian embassy in London has
been of particular interest, since it violated both general principles of
privacy and more specific ones regarding attorney-client privilege. Of particular
interest to US Constitution watchers was whether such actions violated the
reasonable expectation of privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment.
Four US
citizens took issue with such surveillance, which was executed by the Spanish
security firm Undercover (UC) Global and its starry-eyed, impressionable
director David Morales under instruction from the CIA. Civil rights attorney
Margaret Ratner Kunstler and media lawyer Deborah Hrbek, and journalists John
Goetz and Charles Glass, took the matter to the US District Court of the
Southern District of New York in August last year. They had four targets of
litigation: the CIA itself, its former director, Michael R. Pompeo,
Morales and his company, UC Global SL.
All four
alleged that the US Government had conducted surveillance on them and copied
their information during visits to Assange in the
embassy, thereby violating the Fourth Amendment. In doing so, the plaintiffs
argued they were entitled to money damages and injunctive relief. The
government moved to dismiss the complaint as amended.
On December
19, District Judge John G. Koeltl delivered
a judgment of much interest, granting, in part,
the US government’s motion to dismiss but denying other parts of it. Before
turning to the relevant features of Koeltl’s reasons,
various observations made in the case bear repeating. The judge notes, for
instance, Pompeo’s April 2017 speech, in which he
“‘pledged that his office would embark upon a ‘long term’ campaign against WikiLeaks.’” He is cognisant of
the plaintiffs’ claims “Morales was recruited to conduct surveillance on Assange and his visitors on behalf of the CIA and that this
recruitment occurred at a January 2017 private security industry convention at
the Las Vegas Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.”
From that meeting, it is claimed that “Morales created an operations
unit, improved UC Global’s systems, and set up live
streaming from the United States so that surveillance could be accessed
instantly by the CIA.” The data gathered from UC Global “was either personally
delivered to Las Vegas; Washington, D.C.; and New York City by Morales (who
travelled to these locations more than sixty times in the three years following
the Las Vegas convention) or placed on a server that provided external access
to the CIA”.
Koeltl preferred to avoid deciding on the
claims that Morales and UC Global were, in fact, “acting as agents of Pompeo and the CIA”. Such matters were questions of fact
“that cannot be decided on a motion to dismiss.”
A vital issue in the case was whether the plaintiffs had standing to sue
the CIA in the first place. Citing the case of ACLU v Clapper, which involved a challenge to the National
Security Agency’s bulk telephone metadata collection program, Koeltl accepted that they did. In doing so, he rejected a
similar argument made by the government in Clapper – that the injuries alleged were simply “too speculative
and generalized” and that the information gathered via surveillance would
necessarily even be used against them. “In this case, the plaintiffs need not
allege, as the Government argues, that the Government will imminently use their
information collected at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.” If the search of
the conversations and electronic devices along with the seizure of the contents
of the electronic devices “were unlawful, the plaintiffs have suffered a
concrete and particularized injury fairly traceable to the challenged program
and redressable by favorable ruling.”
Less satisfactory for the plaintiffs was the finding they had no
reasonable expectation of privacy regarding their conversations with the
publisher given that “they knew Assange was surveilled even before the CIA’s alleged involvement.” The
judge thought it significant that they did “not allege that they would not have
met Assange had they known their conversations would
be surveilled.” Additionally, it “would not be
recognized as reasonable by society” to have expected conversations held with Assange at the embassy in London to be protected, given
such societal acceptance of, for instance video surveillance in government
buildings.
This reasoning is faulty, given that the visits by the four plaintiffs to
the embassy did not take place with their knowledge of the operation being
conducted by UC Global with CIA blessing. In a general sense, anyone visiting
the embassy could not help but suspect that Assange might be the object of surveillance,
but to suggest something akin to a waiver of privacy rights on the part of
attorneys and journalists aiding a persecuted publisher is an odd turn.
The US Government also succeeded on the point that the plaintiffs had no
reasonable expectation to privacy regarding their passports or their devices
they voluntarily left at the Embassy reception desk. In doing so, they “assumed
the risk that the information may be conveyed to the Government.” Those
visiting embassies must, it would seem, be perennially on guard.
That said, the plaintiffs convinced the judge
that they had “sufficient allegations that the CIA and Pompeo,
through Morales and UC Global, violated their reasonable expectation to privacy
in the contents of their electronic devices.” The government even went so far
as to concede that point.
Unfortunately for the plaintiffs, the biggest fish was let off the hook.
The plaintiffs had attempted to use the 1971 US Supreme Court case of Bivens to
argue that the former CIA director be held accountable and liable for violating
constitutional rights. Koeltl thought the
effort to extend the application of Bivens inappropriate in terms of the high standing nature
of the defendant and the context. “As a presidential appointee confirmed
by Congress […] Defendant Pompeo is in a different
category of defendant from a law enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of
Narcotics.” More’s the pity.
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WATCH: “New Year’s Eve Concert for Julian Assange”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/31/watch-new-years-eve-concert-for-julian-assange/
by Consortium News
British rock
group Alabama 3, famed for the Sopranos
theme, performs a concert dedicated to imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange at one minute to midnight GMT, 6:59 pm EST. Watch
it here (29:52).
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“With Hearing
Set, Time For Biden to Drop Assange Charges”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/19/with-hearing-set-time-for-biden-to-drop-assange-charges/
by Ann Wright
Ann Wright
says Attorney General Garland must either drop the Trump-era case against the WikiLeaks
publisher or move to indict The New
York Times publisher on same charges.
President Joe Biden, you defeated
Donald Trump, yet your administration has not rolled back all of the
evil caused by your predecessor.
Take the case
of journalist Julian Assange.
Under the
Obama administration in which you, Biden, were vice president for eight years, journalist and publisher Julian Assange was NOT prosecuted for publishing the Collateral
Murder video of the U.S. Army murder by hellfire missile of Reuters reporters
nor the classified Afghanistan and the Iraq War files.
However, you
and the Obama administration did prosecute and won conviction of U.S. Army PFC
Bradley Manning for disclosing those classified materials.
As you will
know as former head of the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, journalists and
publishers are protected by the First Amendment which allows them to publish
classified materials given to them by whistleblowers. But, that amendment
does not protect those such as Manning, whom you prosecuted, who
released classified information to a journalist.
Fifty years
ago, no U.S. publisher, including The New York Times, The Washington
Post, The Los Angeles Times or any other newspaper in the U.S. or
abroad was prosecuted for publishing the classified history of the U.S. war on
Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers [although Nixon tried].
Daniel
Ellsberg, who released the 4,000-page sordid, classified tale of U.S. military
involvement, fully expected to be prosecuted as he was the one who gave
classified information to the media.
The Nixon
administration’s theft of Ellsberg’s medical records torpedoed President
Richard Nixon’s attempt at prosecuting Ellsberg [and the Times].
Nixon continued to rail against Ellsberg as “the most dangerous man in America”
because he, Nixon, was unable to put Ellsberg in jail.
No publisher
in the history of the United States had been prosecuted until the Trump
administration came into power.
After WikiLeaks and other media published in 2017 “Vault
7,” a list and description of the mostly C.I.A. materials about C.I.A. hacking
capabilities to ever come into the public domain, Trump’s Attorney General Bill
Barr and C.I.A. Director Mike Pompeo decided to try a
new legal theory, one that had never been used in U.S. history.
Pompeo described WikiLeaks
as a “non-state hostile intelligence service” and the
Department of Justice charged non-U.S. citizen, Julian Assange,
with espionage against the U.S. and demanded his extradition from
England.
A conviction
of U.S. charges of espionage could result in Assange
being sentenced to 175 years in prison.
At the time
of the U.S. charges, Assange had requested asylum
from the Ecuadorian government and had been protected by living in the
Ecuadorian embassy in London for five years.
With a change
in Ecuadorian government and under intense pressure from the British and U.S.
governments, in April 2019, the new Ecuadorian administration allowed British
police to break the embassy’s sovereignty and enter it.
London police
carried Assange out of the embassy, put him into a
police van and immediately locked him up in the highest security prison in the
U.K., Belmarsh Prison.
Prior to the
police breaching the Ecuadorian embassy, Assange had
been denied his razor for weeks. His haggard appearance as he was carried
out of the embassy was part of an orchestrated negative publicity campaign
orchestrated by the British government and without a doubt, the U.S.
government.
Imprisoned
for Almost Five Years With No Conviction . . . .
============
j.
“Houthis blockade Red Sea block from US aid to Israel -
Hezbollah bigly b0mbs Israel”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZOl9AAvqg4
by AEK Media, with Scott Ritter
(51:00)
“If one has
to refer to any of the parties as a terrorist state, one might refer to the
Israeli government, because they are the people who are slaughtering
defenseless and innocent Arabs in the occupied [Palestinian] territories, and
we don’t regard that as acceptable...” - Nelson Mandela (1990)
+
“Panic in Israel! Four African Nations Block Israel's Access to Red
Sea; This is Huge!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npj-6Dv53iM
(10:01)
+
“Israel detains nurse after killing
his children”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-detains-nurse-after-killing-his-children/43206
by Khuloud Rabah
Sulaiman
+
“Sanctions On Israel Are The Only Hope”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuSPFuHSopo&si=2H4RugjDcyodBaHF
with Owen Jones and Gideon Levy
(41:08)
Gideon Levy
is a man of immense moral courage and leadership: the award-winning Ha'aretz columnist has spoken out against the atrocities
committed against the Palestinian people, and has become an increasingly lone
voice. Here he tells me how Israeli society has degenerated to a terrifying
degree, why he has so little hope, the forgotten horrors of the West Bank - and
why the only chance for a just peace will come from sanctions against Israel.
+
“Former
Israeli sniper says war on Gaza is strengthening Hamas”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywF7ZMpxOXU
by MSNBC
The recent
killing of three Israeli hostages by the Israeli military has sparked a wider
discussion on Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip, where over 20,400 Palestinians
have lost their lives. While we have heard from aid workers, civilians on both
sides, and politicians, the voices of those intimately familiar with combat in
the occupied territories have been largely absent. Breaking the Silence is an
Israeli whistleblower group that gathers testimonies from former soldiers,
shedding light on how the military occupation plays out on the ground.
"Indiscriminate bombing is not a way forward, definitely not a way to
shift public opinion within the Strip. But also not a way to move forward to a
day after, where we don’t conduct our relationship with Palestinians in the
West Bank or Gaza through the scope of our gun," says Avner
Gvaryahu, executive director of Breaking the Silence
and a former Israeli sniper.
+
CovertAction Bulletin: “Students Lead the Way for Palestine”
by Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa
(audio, 42:58)
On November
26, three young Palestinian men were shot in Burlington, Vermont. Hisham Awartani, a junior at
Brown University, released a statement that was read at a campus vigil saying,
“This hideous crime did not happen in a vacuum. As much as I appreciate the
love of every single one of you here today, I am but one casualty in a much
wider conflict.”
Awartani’s friends Kinnan Abdalhamaid, a student at Haverford College and Tahseen Ahmad, a student at Trinity College, also remain in the hospital as of this recording and a suspect
has been arrested and charged. Awartani went on to
write,
“Had I been
shot in the West Bank, where I grew up, the medical services which saved my
life here would have likely been withheld by the Israeli army. The soldier who
would have shot me would go home and never be convicted. I understand that the
pain is so much more real and immediate because many of you know me, but any
attack like this is horrific, be it here or in Palestine. This is why when you
say your wishes and light your candles today, your mind should not just be
focused on me as an individual, but as a proud member of a people being
oppressed.”
On this
episode, we’re focusing on students: (1) attacks on the young Palestinians in
Burlington, (2) threats and harassment campaigns against college organizers,
and (3) the role that students have played in ending apartheid and war, both
historically and today.
Joining us is
Roua Daas of Palestinian
Youth Movement. Learn more about the Shut It Down for
Palestine movement at ShutItDown4Palestine.org.
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“US Students
for Palestine Under Attack”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/21/us-students-for-palestine-under-attack/
by Natalia Marques
On Dec. 5,
the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania were grilled
in a congressional hearing relating to alleged instances of calls for the
genocide of Jewish people — instances which were, in reality, Palestine
solidarity protests led and organized by students.
The fallout
from this hearing, in which the presidents were repeatedly pressured by
right-wing Congress members to denounce pro-Palestine students, has led to the
resignation of one president and escalating calls by pro-Israel conservatives
for the resignation of the other two. The hearing also illustrated the
repeated attacks on the student movement for Palestine in the U.S.
A particular
focus of the pro-Zionist leaders of the hearing, such as Republican Elise Stefanik, was to push the university presidents to say that
their students, in chanting “from the river to the sea” and “long live the
intifada,” were calling for the genocide of Jewish people.
“Will
admissions offers be rescinded or any disciplinary action be taken against
students or applicants who say, ‘From the river to the sea,’ or ‘ intifada,’ advocating for the murder of Jews,” Stefanik asked Claudine Gay, Harvard’s president. Within Stefanik’s question was the implication that pro-Palestine
demonstrations at Harvard, led by students, were “advocating for the murder of
Jews.”
+
“How U.S.
Unions Are Grappling with Israel's War on Gaza”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaDx_6G4GvM&t=9s
with Jeff Schuhrke and Bill
Fletcher
(15:26)
Unions across
the United States have begun to shift from a long history of supporting Israel
to condemning the Israeli occupation of Palestine amid growing calls for a
ceasefire in Gaza, where Israel's 80-day assault has killed over 20,000 people.
As ceasefire demands from teachers to Starbucks workers are published across
the country and a major march led in part by union organizers in New York
called on members of Congress to stop taking campaign cash from pro-Israel
lobbyists, we speak with longtime trade unionist Bill Fletcher and labor
historian Jeff Schuhrke about the United States labor
movement's history with Israel and Palestine, Biden's Zionism clashing with his
union support, and the labor movement's "tailspin" about how to
respond to the war on Gaza.
============
k.
“Israel’s
Government Attacks Ordinary Jews as Well as Palestinians”
by John Spritzler
Netanyahu and some of his billionaire friends. [Source: timesofisrael.com]
The purpose
of this article is to create unity instead of the current animosity between the
good and decent people who identify as “pro-Israel” and the good and decent
people who identify as “pro-Palestine.”
How? By
demonstrating that the PURPOSE of
Israeli government violence against Palestinians—including one of its
openly declared purposes of
enlarging Israel geographically while
making the Palestinian
population in it be as small as
possible—is NOT, as Israeli leaders falsely claim, to make Jews safe but, on
the contrary, to enrichen Jewish billionaires and
facilitate their economic and political control of working class Israeli Jews.
+
“Israel admits to ‘immense” amount of
‘friendly fire’ on 7 October”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDk1TsQWmLo
by Electronic Intifada, with Asa Winstanley
(15:25)
See also:
“Breaking news and analysis on day 69 of Gaza's Al-Aqsa
Flood”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML_DqEhph0g&t=0s
(2:09:56)
+
Israeli
general killed Israelis on 7 October then lied about it
by Ali Abunimah and David Sheen
(4:59)
Video and
witness accounts recently published by Israeli media reveal new details about
how Israeli forces killed their own civilians in Kibbutz Be’eri
on 7 October.
Last week,
Israel’s Channel 12 released previously
unseen footage of an
Israeli tank firing at a civilian home in the settlement, just a few miles east
of Gaza.
The new
evidence shows that the Israeli commander on the scene, Brigadier General Barak
Hiram, lied to a top Israeli journalist about what happened in the kibbutz that
day, after Palestinian resistance fighters launched a large-scale assault on
Israeli military bases and settlements across the boundary from Gaza.
This amounts
to an attempted cover-up by a senior military officer, with media complicity.
But far from
being held in any way accountable, Hiram is soon set to take up his new role as
commander of the Gaza Division, the Israeli army brigade that was routed by
Palestinian forces on 7 October.
Hiram resides in the settlement of Tekoa, built
in violation of international law near the occupied West Bank city of
Bethlehem.
+
India's Snub To U.S.' Anti-Houthi Force? New
Delhi Says Not Part Of Any Red Sea Treaty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPMnvyzu7-M
(3:33)
+
India’s
Turnaround on Palestine Has More Than Meets the Eye
https://www.globalresearch.ca/india-turnaround-palestine-more-than-meets-eye/5844622
by M. K. Bhadrakumar
Indian
diplomacy is ending 2023 with a momentous turnaround. What began as a course
correction necessitated by the torrential flow of events in West Asia is
assuming strategic overtones.
Truly, the
aberration in India’s policies can be traced to the UPA rule (2004-2014) but it
is under the period since then 2014 that they accentuated phenomenally and
began creating contradictions undermining national interests. This aberration
also led to a serious erosion of India’s strategic autonomy in a transformative
international environment.
India’s
voting pattern in the United Nations with regard to the Israel-Palestine
conflict is lately marked by a calibrated distancing from Israel. Only a few
weeks ago, Israel’s ambassador in Delhi bullishly described the Indian stance
as one of “100% support” to his country. But that is no more the case
today.
Delhi has
rejected the repeated Israeli entreaties to declare Hamas as a terrorist organisation, marking its independent opinion regarding the
ecosystem of resistance movements. Indeed, this is a highly significant
distinction that Delhi is making vis-a-vis the Israeli and Western narrative about Hamas. Although
India has not hesitated to condemn the violence directed against Israel on
October 7, it refused to name Hamas.
Considering
that Hamas had a chequered past of receiving
patronage from Israel, Tel Aviv has no right to expect Delhi to dance to its
tunes. Equally, Hamas’ future is far from an open and shut case. The fact that
Sinn Fein and Irish opinion has shown empathy towards Hamas, or that South
Africa, which has itself been a victim of apartheid, has recalled
its ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel,
calling the horrific Gaza killings as “genocide,” go to show that the embers of
national liberation struggle are still burning.
Although
India expressed “solidarity” with the Israeli people over the brutal violence
on October 7, it cannot condone the vastly disproportionate Israeli retaliation
since then, blithely calling it a matter of Israel’s ‘right to self-defence’. On December 13, India voted in favour of a resolution in the UN General Assembly that demanded
an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the
Israel-Hamas conflict.
Read more: India
and Israel: The Arms Trade in Charts and Numbers
This was the
first time India supported such a resolution since the war broke out more than
two months ago. Such a stance puts India on the right side of history, as the
193-member UNGA overwhelmingly adopted the resolution at an emergency special
session, with 153 nations voting in its favour.
A third
aspect is that from a geopolitical perspective, Delhi has marked its distance
from the US-Israeli campaign branding Iran as the instigator of extremist
groups acting against Israel. Interestingly, on December 19, India was one of
only thirty states — along with Russia and China — who voted against a UN
resolution on “the human rights situation in Iran.”
The running
thread here is that India has reverted to its traditional stance on the
Palestine problem and jettisoned the tilt supportive of Israeli interests. The
unprecedented unity among the Arab countries, the close coordination between
Saudi Arabia and Iran, the huge groundswell of opinion in the Arab world
against Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian populations in Gaza and West
Bank — all this has created a new momentum in Middle East politics that has pitchforked the Palestine problem to the centre stage,
which is something India cannot afford to ignore.
============
l.
“Eighty Years
of Lies: President Franklin Roosevelt Told Public Pearl Harbor Was A Surprise Attack—However There Is Considerable Evidence
Demonstrating Government Foreknowledge”
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
“The war that
we have carefully for years
provoked
Catches us unprepared, amazed and indignant.
Our
warships are shot
Like
sitting ducks and our planes like nest-birds,
both
our coasts ridiculously panicked,
And
our leaders make orations. This is the
people
That hopes to impose on the whole
planetary
world
An
American peace.”
– Robinson Jeffers, “Pearl Harbor.”
“This Pearl
Harbor business has a terrible smell.
– Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander-in Chief of the U.S.
Pacific Fleet in World War II.
Eighty two
years ago today—on what President Franklin Roosevelt termed a “date which will
live in infamy”—Japanese forces attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor
off the coast of Hawaii, triggering U.S. intervention in World War II.
The Honolulu
Star-Bulletin announces the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
[Source: chiff.com]
Historian
Samuel Elliot Morrison wrote that one could “search military history in vain
for an operation more fatal to the aggressor.” 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,143 were
wounded. Eighteen ships were sunk or run aground, including five battleships.
Of the
American fatalities, nearly half were due to the explosion of the USS Arizona’s
forward magazine after it was hit by a modified 16-inch (410 mm) shell.
+
“The Long
History of Zionist Proposals to Ethnically Cleanse the Gaza Strip”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/long-history-zionist-proposals-ethnically-cleanse-gaza-strip/5844637
Senior Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu, are again publicly advocating the
ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. Their proposals are being presented as
voluntary emigration schemes, in which Israel is merely playing the role of
Good Samaritan, selflessly mediating with foreign governments to find new homes
for destitute and desperate Palestinians. But it is ethnic cleansing all the
same.
Alarm bells should have started ringing in early
November when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
and other Western politicians began insisting there could be “no forcible
displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.” Rather than rejecting any mass removal
of Palestinians, Blinken and colleagues objected only
to optically challenging expulsions at gunpoint. The option of “voluntary”
displacement by leaving residents of the Gaza Strip with no choice but
departure was pointedly left open.
Ethnic cleansing, or “transfer” as it is known in
Israeli parlance, has a long pedigree that goes back to the
late-nineteenth-century beginnings of the Zionist movement. While the early
Zionists adopted the slogan, “A Land Without a People
for a People Without a Land,” the evidence demonstrates that, from the very
outset, their leaders knew better. More to the point, they clearly understood
that the Palestinians formed the main obstacle to the establishment of a Jewish
state in Palestine. This is for the simple reason that, to them, a “Jewish
state” denotes one in which its Jewish population acquires and maintains
unchallenged demographic, territorial, and political supremacy.
Enter “transfer.” As early as 1895, Theodor Herzl,
the founder of the contemporary Zionist movement, identified the necessity of
removing the inhabitants of Palestine in the following terms: “We shall try to
spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for
it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country
… expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and
circumspectly.” David Ben-Gurion (née Grün),
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and
later Israel’s first prime minister, was more blunt. In a 1937 letter to his
son, he wrote: “We must expel the Arabs and take their place.”
Writing in his diary in 1940, Yosef
Weitz, a senior Jewish National Fund official who
chaired the influential Transfer Committee before and during the Nakba (“Catastrophe”), and became known as the Architect of
Transfer, put it thus: “The only solution is a Land of Israel devoid of Arabs.
There is no room here for compromise. They must all be moved. Not one village,
not one tribe, can remain. Only through this transfer of the Arabs living in the Land of Israel will redemption come.” His
diaries are littered with similar sentiments.
The point of the above is not to demonstrate that
individual Zionist leaders held such views, but that the senior leadership of
the Zionist movement consistently considered the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
an objective and priority. Initiatives such as the Transfer Committee, and Plan
Dalet, initially formulated in 1944 and described by
the pre-eminent Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi as the “Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine,”
additionally demonstrate that the Zionist movement actively planned for it. The
1948 Nakba, during which more than four-fifths of
Palestinians residing in territory that came under Israeli rule were ethnically
cleansed, should, therefore, be seen as the fulfillment of a longstanding
ambition and implementation of a key policy. A product of design, not of war
(historical Christmas footnote: the Palestinian town of Nazareth was spared a
similar fate only because the commander of Israeli forces that seized the city,
a Canadian Jew named Ben Dunkelman, disobeyed orders
to expel the population, and was relieved of his command the following day).
That the Nakba was a
product of design is further substantiated by the Transfer Committee’s terms of
reference. These comprised not only proposals for the expulsion of the
Palestinians but, just as importantly, active measures to prevent their return,
destroy their homes and villages, expropriate their property, and resettle
those territories with Jewish immigrants. Weitz,
together with fellow Committee members Eliahu Sassoon
and Ezra Danin, on June 5, 1948, presented a
three-page blueprint, entitled “Scheme for the Solution of the Arab Problem in
the State of Israel,” to Prime Minister Ben-Gurion to achieve these goals.
According to leading Israeli historian Benny Morris, “there is no doubt
Ben-Gurion agreed to Weitz’s scheme,” which included
“what amounted to an enormous project of destruction” that saw more than 450
Palestinian villages razed to the ground.
The understandable focus on the expulsions of 1948
often overlooks the fact that ethnic cleansing remains incomplete unless its
victims are barred from returning to their homes by a combination of armed
force and legislation, and thereafter replaced by others. It is Israel’s
determination to make Palestinian dispossession permanent that distinguishes
Palestinian refugees from many other war refugees.
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“USS Liberty 1967: Israel Murdered U.S. Sailors and
Tried to Sink Their Ship … A Failed False Flag Attack Against the U.S.”
An Attempt to Drag America Into
Israel’s War.
Fifty two years, on June 8, 1967, Israel attacked the
American naval vessel USS Liberty in international waters, and tried to sink
it.
After checking the Liberty out for 8
hours – and making 9 overflights with
Israeli jets, within 200 feet … close enough for the pilots and the sunbathing
Liberty sailors on deck to waive at each other.
Yet the Israelis attacked it with Mirage fighter
jets, torpedoes and napalm. The USS Liberty suffered 70% casualties, with
34 killed and 174 wounded.
The Israeli attack spanned two hours … as long as the
attack on Pearl Harbor. The air attack alone lasted approximately 25 minutes:
consisting of more than 30 sorties by approximately 12 separate planes using
napalm, cannon, and rockets which left 821 holes in the ship. The
Israelis fired 30mm cannons and rockets into the boat.
Following the attack by fighter jets, three Israeli
motor torpedo boats torpedoed the ship, causing a 40 x 40 foot wide hole in her
hull, and machine-gunning firefighters and stretcher-bearers attempting to save
their ship and crew. More than 3,000 machine-gun bullet holes were later
counted on the Liberty’s hull.
After the attack was thought to have ended, three
life rafts were lowered into the water to rescue the most seriously wounded.
The Israeli torpedo boats returned and machine-gunned these life rafts at close
range. This was followed by the approach of two large Israeli
Army assault helicopters filled with armed commandos carrying what appeared to
be explosive satchels (they departed after hovering over the ship for several
minutes, making no attempt to communicate).
The Israelis clearly knew it was an American ship,
tried to sink it, and tried to frame the Egyptians for the attack, as shown by
the following evidence:
(1) The Liberty was flying a huge, brand new American
flag. The flag was 5-by-8 feet. The weather conditions were ideal to
ensure the flag’s easy observance and identification, because it was clear and
sunny, with a wind-speed which make for a constant
ripple in the flag. After the flag was shot up by the jets, the Liberty’s
crew replaced it with a 7-by-13 foot American flag, which flew during the
entire duration of the attack.
(2) The Liberty had a unique profile and didn’t look
like any other boat, since it had more and bigger antennas – including large,
high-tech dishes and giant towers – than any other boat in the world (it was an
NSA spy ship).
(3) The Liberty was marked with uniquely American
numbering and colors in front.
(4) The Israeli pilots shot out the Liberty’s
communications equipment first, and specifically jammed
the ship’s emergency radio signal … unique to American naval vessels in the 6th
Fleet. The ships from other fleets and other nations used different
frequencies, which the Israelis did not jam.
(5) The Israelis used unmarked fighter jets and unmarked torpedo boats during the attack.
(6) Recently-declassified radio transcripts between
the Israeli attack forces and ground control show that – at least 3 times – an
Israeli fighter jet pilot identified the craft as American, and asked whether ground control was sure he should
attack. Ground control repeatedly said, yes, attack the vessel.
(7) The Israeli torpedo boats methodically destroyed
all of the Liberty’s liferafts one by one (which is a
war crime).
(8) The only reason the Israelis did not successfully
sink the Liberty and kill all of its crewmen was that one sailor duck-taped
together antennae – and took many bullet wounds in the process – which enabled
an emergency SOS to get out from the Liberty to American 6th Fleet.
Read more: New Evidence Proves Israel Attacked USS Liberty With
Orders to Kill 294 Americans
See also: USS Liberty Dead In The Water
BBC Documentary (1:07:14)
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“Fierce resistance
in areas Israel claims ‘absolute’ control”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWN-jxNrIco
by Electronic Intifada, with Jon Elmer
(39:04)
+
“Henry
Kissinger Facilitated Genocide and War Crimes”
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/27/henry-kissinger-facilitated-genocide-and-war-crimes/
by Richard S. Dunn
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m.
History: “The
Federal Reserve Cartel: Freemasons and The House of Rothschild” - Part II of a
five-part series
by Dean Henderson
In 1789 Alexander
Hamilton became the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.
Hamilton was one of many Founding Fathers who were Freemasons.
He had close
relations with the Rothschild family which owns the Bank of England and leads
the European Freemason movement.
George
Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Ethan Allen, Samuel Adams, Patrick
Henry, John Brown and Roger Sherman were all Masons.
Alexander
Hamilton
Roger
Livingston helped Sherman and Franklin
write the Declaration of Independence. He gave George Washington his
oaths of office while he was Grand Master of the New York Grand Lodge of
Freemasons. Washington himself was Grand Master of the Virginia
Lodge. Of the General Officers in the Revolutionary Army, thirty-three
were Masons. This was highly symbolic since 33rd Degree Masons become Illuminated.
[1]
Populist
founding fathers led by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and
Thomas Paine– none of whom were Masons- wanted to completely severe ties
with the British Crown, but were overruled by the Masonic faction led by
Washington, Hamilton and Grand Master of the St. Andrews Lodge in Boston General
Joseph Warren, who wanted to “defy Parliament but remain loyal to the
Crown”.
St. Andrews
Lodge was the hub of New World Masonry and began issuing Knights Templar
Degrees in 1769. [2]
General
Joseph Warren
All US
Masonic lodges are to this day warranted by the British Crown, whom they serve
as a global intelligence and counterrevolutionary subversion network.
(Their most
recent initiative [2011] is the Masonic Child Identification Program
(CHIP). According to
Wikipedia, the CHIP programs allow parents the opportunity to create a kit of identifying
materials for their child, free of charge. The kit contains a fingerprint card,
a physical description, a video, computer disk, or DVD of the child, a dental
imprint, and a DNA sample.)
The First
Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in 1774 under the Presidency of Peyton
Randolph, who succeeded Washington as Grand Master of the Virginia
Lodge. The Second Continental Congress convened in 1775 under the
Presidency of Freemason John Hancock.
Peyton’s brother William succeeded him as Virginia Lodge Grand Master
and became the leading proponent of centralization and federalism at the First
Constitutional Convention in 1787. The federalism at the heart of the US
Constitution is identical to the federalism laid out in the Freemason’s Anderson’s Constitutions of 1723.
William Randolph became the nation’s first Attorney General and Secretary of
State under George Washington. His family returned to England loyal to
the Crown. John Marshall, the nation’s first Supreme Court Justice, was
also a Mason. [3]
When Benjamin
Franklin journeyed to France to seek financial help for American
revolutionaries, his meetings took place at Rothschild banks. He brokered
arms sales via German Mason
Baron von Steuben. His Committees of Correspondence operated through
Freemason channels and paralleled a British spy network. In 1776 Franklin
became de facto Ambassador to
France.
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“U.S.
Intelligence: What Is America’s “Fourth Branch of Government” Up to?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-fourth-branch-government/5844396
by Germán Gorraiz
López
C. Wright
Mills, in his book “The Power Elite” (1956), indicates that the key to
understanding the American concern would be in the over-organization of his
society.
Thus, the
establishment would be “the elite group formed by the union of the political,
military, economic, university and mass media sub-elites of the United States”,
lobbies that would be interconnected by “a restless alliance based on their
community of interests and led by military metaphysics” a concept based on a
military definition of reality that would have transformed the economy into a
permanent economic war and whose paradigm would be the Rockefellers by participating
in financial lobbying, military and industry and one of whose members, David
would be the driver of “Trilateral Commission” (TC) or Trilateral (1973).
The Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created in 1947 by Harry S. Truman, replacing the
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to investigate administrative and fiscal
files without judicial authorization and with the initial philosophy of
providing the President with a second point of view drawn up by civilians
compared to that provided by the military of the National Security Agency
(NSA).
The
CIA and the FBI Exposed. Historical Analysis
Until
Eisenhower, the CIA was only the central intelligence organization for the
United States government and was behind multiple insurgent training tasks and
destabilizing governments contrary to Pentagon policies, but the military and
financial lobbies (both fagged by the Zionist lobby) could not resist the
temptation to create a de facto government that manipulated the intricacies of
power, leading to the emergence of a new entity: the military-industrial
complex, in Eisenhower’s words and the control of the United States Congress
and Senate.
Eisenhower
himself, a year before the end of his term, delivered a premonitory speech of
the subsequent mutation of the initial “Campus” until the shadow government
that guards American democracy today and from which
all democratically elected presidents are held hostage:
“In
government councils, we must be attentive to the acquisition of an illegitimate
influence, whether or not projected by the military-industrial complex. The
risk of the development of a usurped power exists and will persist. We will
never allow the weight of this conjunction to threaten our freedoms or
democratic processes”.
For his part,
Kennedy, in a speech at Columbia University on November 14, 1963, admits that
“there is strong pressure from US power groups to turn the
office of President into something merely figurative”
and so, on
November 21, 1963, he was forced to sign executive order 11490, “which allows
in an emergency to provide the government with exceptional measures, even for
any dictatorship” and shortly before leaving for Dallas commented to his
intimate advisors: “We have to face the CIA…” while secretly preparing a
meeting with Fidel Castro.
All this
implied a clear plea to the CIA, a true shadow power-bearer and deeply
entrenched in all the US power apparatus.
Thus, its
leaders proceeded to the gestation of an endogenous plot that dealt with the
Coup de Mano against the democratic legality of the
American political system and culminated in the Assassination of Kennedy
(Dallas, 1.963). Such a plot would be a work of labyrinthine engineering that
would have as brains the aforementioned unofficial CIA and as necessary
collaborators to the anti-Castro exile in Miami and its connections with the
Mafia and the FBI of Hoover, Lee Harvey Oswald as a scapegoat and distraction
exercise to deceive the hounds and as collateral damage the birth of a
political system protected by the Fourth Power, remaining since then as
hostages all successive US Presidents-elect.
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n.
“Robert
Maxwell Was Never His Name: Robert Maxwell's Roots Reveal His Role As Useful Science Propagandist Between USSR and The ‘West’”
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/robert-maxwell-was-first-a-soviet?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=257742&post_id=140341336&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email
by Celia Farber
To Understand
Ghislaine Maxwell, Look At Her Father, And Ask Who
Jeffrey Epstein Really Was.
KGB Chief:
Robert Maxwell Was “Kremlin’s Most Important Propagandist Of
The Soviet System Abroad”
My feeling
about Ghislaine Maxwell has always been that she has
no identity. She has no recognizable “humanity” because she was raised in
a wealthy family in which psychotic values were perpetrated.
The survivors
of the Epstein nightmare—Virginia Guiffre, Maria
Farmer and others—make clear that their worst wounds were inflicted by Ghislaine. That compared to her, Epstein was “nice.” That
she was the “mastermind,” of the trafficking operation, but also, singularly
sadistic.
That strange
stare of hers seems like somebody just being ushered away from the scene of a
car crash. Dis-associative. She only has two, possibly three facial
expressions. When, last night, I listened to her TED talk about her love of the
oceans, I realized she is programmed, and unable to think for herself. She
speaks of seeing a plastic hanger in the ocean, and being “devastated.” But it
all seems like emotions borrowed from somebody else. Somebody,
maybe, with a heart.
“She’s the
most narcissistic, evil, vain woman I’ve ever known,” Virginia Giuffre told 60 Minutes Australia. “And she’s finally been
knocked off her pedestal.”
+
“The Mafia,
CIA & Jeffrey Epstein Worked TOGETHER To Traffic Minors”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rhlXhvf-c&t=674s
with Jimmy Dore and Whitney Webb
(47:27)
There is much
more to the Jeffrey Epstein case than an island for sex trafficking, flight
logs and a suspicious “suicide.” As journalist Whitney Webb unravels in her
two-volume “One Nation Under Blackmail” series, ties between the CIA, organized
crime, international arms dealers and sex traffickers date back to before World
War II and the Epstein connection merely represents the latest chapter in an
unbelievably sordid, many-tentacled tale of money,
sex, violence, power and blackmail. Jimmy and Whitney discuss the historical
connection between the military, the CIA and organized crime as well as
Epstein’s ties to Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner, among many other miscreants and malefactors.
+
“Blackmail? Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates Alleged Emails REVEAL CREEPY Conversations”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2PvLf_KKf8
by The Hill
(10:31)
Jessica Burbank and Robby Soave react to a report that Jeffrey Epstein sent "rambling" emails suggesting projects with Bill Gates. Originally aired July 25, 2023; 
• ‘Rambling’ Emails Reveal CREEPY Corre... #epstein #billgates
See also: https://www.bitchute.com/video/nrnryLpxp1Wg/
+
“‘Black Book’ Coming; Judge Ordres Release of 100 + Epstein Associates’ Names”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh8fx3bYHnk
by The Hill
(8:50)
This segment
originally aired December 21, 2023. Briahna Joy Gray
and Robby Soave discuss a New York Judge's order to reveal a swath of court
documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
+
“Tucker Carlson:
“Liberals Will KILL TRUMP Before Letting Him Be POTUS
Again”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo7f8MJrlFE
by The Hill
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to Tucker Carlson's recent
comments on Donald Trump's future. Originally aired August
31, 2023.
============
o.
“The End of
the World as We Know It . . .”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYyTyXpdQRI
by What Bitcoin
Did, with Whitney Webb
(1:23:51)
+
“Leave the
World Behind and Build a New One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVUZZ5xSR5w
with Whitney Webb
(1:01:10)
+
“Stablecoins, CBDCs
& AI Surveillance”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOfcy5Y_PmA
with Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb
(2:39:34)
============
p.
“How America
Took Out the North Stream Pipe Line”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4BuMaGlKp0&t=348s
by Democracy Now!
(33:22)
UPDATE: We have blurred some imagery
about 30 seconds into the video in response to a content warning from YouTube
that severely limited the reach of this interview. What you see now is an
edited version. For the uncensored version of this interview that aired on our
show, visit democracynow.org.
When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying
natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials
were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a
new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage,
with help from Norway. Citing a source "with direct knowledge of the
operational planning," Hersh writes on his Substack blog that planning for the mission began in
December of 2021. The White House and the Norwegian government have since
denied the claims. Hersh joins us for an in-depth
interview to discuss his report and says the U.S. decision to bomb the
pipelines was meant to lock allies into support for Ukraine at a time when some
were wavering. "The fear was Europe would walk away from the war," he
says. Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his
reporting on the My Lai massacre. His reporting on CIA spying on antiwar
activists during the Vietnam War era helped lead to the formation of the Church
Committee, which led to major reforms of the intelligence community, and in
2004, he exposed the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse
scandal in Iraq.
+
“Russia
winter missile strike; Medvedev hints regime change; Tymoshenko
makes move”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzdALZ2-rHI
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander
Mercouris
(16:50)
+
“Zelensky’s White House Visit Comes Amidst Escalation of
Mafia Style Assassination Campaign Resulting in Murder of Ukrainian Socialist
Party Leader”
by Jérémy Kouzmarov
On December
12, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
was again given the red-carpet treatment of a rock star as he made one of his
regular visits to Washington, D.C. to plead for more U.S. military aid.
This time,
however, the act of the former comedian had begun to grow thin as President Joe
Biden was hamstrung by congressional Republicans intent on blocking further
military aid to Ukraine, at least temporarily.[1]
During a
press conference, President Biden implored Republicans to pass an aid bill to
Ukraine before they break for the Holidays, stating that, if
they did not do so, they would be giving Russian President Vladimir Putin “the
greatest Christmas gift they could possibly give him.”
Biden’s
comments reflected an attempt to guilt the Republicans by feeding off the
demonized image of Putin cultivated in the media over the last decade.
Biden
additionally warned that Putin was planning to bombard Ukraine’s electrical
grid this winter if the U.S. did not act and that, with the aid, Ukraine could
win.
The latter
claims were delusional as Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive was a disaster
ensuring that there is no hope that Ukraine will break through further Russian
lines.
The New York
Times reported on December 17 that with the “Ukrainian
military facing mounting deaths and a stalemate on the battlefield, army
recruiters were becoming increasingly aggressive in their efforts to replenish
the ranks, in some cases pulling men off the streets and whisking them to
recruiting centers using intimidation and even physical force.”[2]
============
q.
“The Spark That
Lit the Fire: The Untold Story of the October 7 Attacks”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/spark-lit-fire-untold-story-october-7-attacks/286528/
by Ramzy Baroud
The dramatic,
earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on October 7 have taken many
people by surprise. However, attentive observers were not among them.
Few expected
that Palestinian fighters would be parachuting into southern Israel on October
7; that instead of capturing a single Israeli soldier – as done in 2006 –
hundreds of Israelis, including many soldiers and civilians, would find
themselves captive in besieged Gaza.
The reason
behind the ‘surprise,’ however, is the same reason that Israel is still reeling
under collective shock, which is the tendency to pay close attention to
political discourses and intelligence analyses of Israel and its supporters –
while largely neglecting the Palestinian discourse.
For better
comprehension, let us go back to the start.
. . . .
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“‘If I must
die, let it be a tale’: a tribute to Refaat Alareer”
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/07/tribute-refaat-alareer-teacher-murdered-israel/
by Max Blumenthal
“I am going
to use that marker to throw it at the Israeli soldiers, even if that is the
last thing that I do,” Refaat Alareer
vowed in one of his final interviews.
My friend Refaat Alareer was murdered by
Israeli invaders in Shujaiya, east of Gaza City, on
December 6. He is now among the more than 16,000 civilians killed by Israel in
the besieged enclave since October 7.
Our
correspondence continued off-and-on for the past nine years. In our final
exchange, on November 27, as the bombing grew closer to his home, he told me,
“Everything is running out. Food. Water.
Cooking gas. Israel is bombing all sources of life. Solar panels, water tanks and pipes. Not one bakery is
functioning.”
Refaat was an author and educator who taught English literature
at Gaza’s Islamic University, which has been completely destroyed. “Israel
wants us to be closed, isolated—to push us to the extreme,” he explained to me.
“It doesn’t want us to be educated. It doesn’t want us to see ourselves as part
of a universal struggle against oppression. They don’t want us to be educated
or to be educators.”
In one of his
last public interviews, with
Electronic Intifada, Refaat vowed that, if necessary,
he would die by the same pen by which he lived: “I’m an academic. Probably the
toughest thing I have at home is an Expo marker. But if the Israelis invade, if
the paratroopers charge at us, going from door to door, to massacre us, I am
going to use that marker to throw it at the Israeli soldiers, even if that is
the last thing that I do.”
Refaat was a model of the resistance which Israel and its
patrons aim to destroy. I tell his story in the passages below, which are
excerpted from my 2015 book, The 51 Day War: Life and Loathing in
Greater Israel.
The Teacher .
. . .
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“South Africa
Accuses Israel of Genocide at World Court”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/30/south-africa-accuses-israel-of-genocide-at-world-court/
by Julia Conley
At the
International Court of Justice, the post-apartheid government called for an
expedited hearing on Israel’s actions and provisional measures to prevent
further harm to Palestinians.
No one knows apartheid like those who fought it before,” said one
Palestinian rights advocate on Friday in response to the news that South Africa
had taken a “historic” step to hold
Israel accountable for its relentless bombardment and violent years-long
occupation of Gaza — calling on the International Court of Justice to declare
that Israel has breached its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
[See: Craig Murray:
Murder]
The
Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) in South Africa said it is
“gravely concerned with the plight of civilians caught in the present Israeli attacks
on the Gaza Strip due to the indiscriminate use of force and forcible removal
of inhabitants” and called on the ICJ to take action to force Israel to
“immediately cease” its current attacks on Gaza’s 2.3 million residents.
+
“Russia
SHOCKING Message To Israel!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q1qA6ceQNI&si=Oszdfj7XhvLv-azJ
by Tech Machine
(8:52)
============
r.
“Mass graves,
grave questions: Britain’s secret Srebrenica role”
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/27/mass-graves-britains-srebrenica/
by Kit Klarenberg
Widely
ignored official reports and never-before-seen declassified files suggest
shadowy British special forces operatives played a crucial role in one of the
20th century’s most notorious and controversial massacres.
In July 2023,
few media observers took notice when influential British intelligence
operative-turned-lawmaker Alicia Kearns issued a public call for Western boots
on the ground in the former Yugoslavia.
Addressing a
packed session of the House of Commons, Foreign Affairs Committee chair Kearns
made the alarming
call: “I…urge the Government: let us rejoin EUFOR, let us
commit NATO peacekeepers to Brčko district, let
us transition to a NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
The
incendiary comments came during a parliamentary debate on Srebrenica Memorial
Week, which commemorates the massacre of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica by
the Army of Republika Srpska
(VRS), in July 1995.
Grave crimes
were subsequently committed there, many of which remain unpunished. Yet three
decades later, details of what happened that fateful month, including the total
number of people killed and the exact nature of their deaths, remain uncertain.
Whether the horror constituted genocide also remains a point
of contention among legal scholars.
Nonetheless,
Western leaders have frequently
invoked the event to justify illegal military interventions.
Bombing campaigns targeting troublesome countries across the Global South
are frequently framed as righteous actions, concerned with preventing
‘another Srebrenica.’ For notoriously hawkish USAID administrator Samantha
Power, this objective became the cornerstone of an insidious brand of liberal
interventionism which has come to be known as “Responsibility to
Protect.”
But the
exploitation of Srebrenica to justify further warfare is not limited to
Washington. British officials are particularly keen promoters of this argument,
with the hawkish intelligence operative turned parliamentarian Alicia Kearns
providing the latest
example. Today, Britain is the only
country other than Bosnia and Herzegovina to officially
commemorate the killings an act of genocide. Since the late 1990s, London has
also been home to many NGOs that have
promoted the claim that Srebrenica constituted an act of
genocide.
However, in
all the memorializing of the tragic events of July 1995 by British journalists,
pundits and politicians, the presence of the SAS in the area at the time has
stubbornly remained an open, unexplored secret.
Declassified
British Ministry of Defence files reviewed by
The Grayzone raise disturbing questions about
London’s clandestine role in Srebrenica, such as how and why the MI6 knew an
attack on the enclave was forthcoming before the VRS even planned it. Today,
British citizens and residents of Bosnia still demand answers.
+
“Break the
Cycle: In 2024, Say No to Government Cruelty, Brutality and Abuse”
by John & Nisha Whitehead
Folks, it’s
time to break the cycle of abuses—cruel, brutal, immoral, unconstitutional and
unacceptable—that have been heaped upon us by the government for way too long.
Here’s just a
small sampling of what we suffered through in 2023.
The
government failed to protect our lives, liberty and happiness. The predators of the police
state wreaked havoc on our freedoms, our communities, and our lives. The
government didn’t listen to the citizenry, refused to abide by the
Constitution, and treated the citizenry as a source of funding and little else.
Police officers shot unarmed citizens and their household pets. Government
agents—including local police—were armed to the teeth and encouraged to act
like soldiers on a battlefield. Bloated government agencies were allowed to
fleece taxpayers. Government technicians spied on our emails and phone calls.
And government contractors made a killing by waging endless wars abroad.
The president
became more imperial. Although
the Constitution invests the President with very specific, limited powers, in
recent years, American presidents have claimed the power to completely and
almost unilaterally alter the landscape of this country for good or for ill.
The powers amassed by each successive president through the negligence of
Congress and the courts—powers which add up to a toolbox of terror for an
imperial ruler—empower whoever occupies the Oval Office to act as a dictator,
above the law and beyond any real accountability. The presidency itself has become
an imperial one with permanent powers.
The cost of
endless wars drove the nation deeper into debt. Policing the globe and waging endless wars abroad hasn’t made
America—or the rest of the world—any safer, but it has made the military
industrial complex rich at taxpayer expense.
The courts
failed to uphold justice. Time
and time again, the Supreme Court failed to right the wrongs being meted out by
the American police state. A review of critical court rulings over the past
decade or so, including some ominous ones by the U.S. Supreme Court, reveals a
startling and steady trend towards pro-police state rulings by an institution
concerned more with establishing order and protecting the ruling class and
government agents than with upholding the rights enshrined in the Constitution.
The
Surveillance State rendered Americans vulnerable to threats from government
spies, police, hackers and power failures. Thanks to the government’s ongoing efforts to build massive
databases using emerging surveillance, DNA and biometrics technologies,
Americans became sitting ducks for hackers and government spies alike. Billions
of people have been affected by data breaches and cyberattacks.
On a daily basis, Americans were 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 navigate an increasingly
technologically-enabled world. The Department of Homeland Security, which has led
the charge to create a Surveillance State, has continued to deploy mandatory
facial recognition scans at airports and gather biometric data on American
travelers. Police were gifted with new surveillance gadgets. The Corporate
State tapped into our computer keyboards, cameras, cell phones and smart
devices in order to better target us for advertising. Social media giants such
as Facebook granted secret requests by the government
and its agents for access to users’ accounts. And our private data—methodically
collected and stored with or without our say-so—was repeatedly compromised and
breached.
Mass
shootings claimed more lives. Mass
shootings have taken place at churches, in nightclubs, on college campuses, on
military bases, in elementary schools, in government offices, and at concerts.
In almost every instance, you can connect the dots back to the
military-industrial complex, which continues to dominate, dictate and shape
almost every aspect of our lives.
The rich got
richer, and the poor went to jail. Not content to expand the police state’s power to search, strip,
seize, raid, steal from, arrest and jail Americans for any infraction, no
matter how insignificant, the courts continued their practice of jailing
individuals who are unable to pay the hefty fines imposed by the American
police state. These debtors’ prisons play right into the hands of those who
make a profit by jailing Americans. This is no longer a government “of
the people, by the people, for the people.” It is fast becoming a government “of
the rich, by the elite, for the corporations,” and its rise to power is
predicated on shackling the American taxpayer to a debtors’ prison guarded by a
phalanx of politicians, bureaucrats and militarized police with no hope of
parole and no chance for escape.
“Show your
papers” incidents skyrocketed. We are not supposed to be living in a “show
me your papers” society. Despite this, the U.S. government has introduced measures allowing
police and other law enforcement officials to stop individuals (citizens and
noncitizens alike), demand they identify themselves, and subject them to patdowns, warrantless searches, and interrogations.
Free speech
was dealt one knock-out punch after another. Protest laws, free speech zones, bubble zones, trespass zones,
anti-bullying legislation, zero tolerance policies, hate crime laws and a host
of other legalistic maladies dreamed up by politicians and prosecutors (and
championed by those who want to suppress speech with which they might disagree)
conspired to corrode our core freedoms, purportedly for our own good. On
paper—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—we are technically free to
speak. In reality, however, we were only as free to speak as
a government official—or corporate entities such as Facebook,
Google or YouTube—allowed. The reasons for such censorship varied widely
from political correctness, safety concerns and bullying to national security
and hate crimes but the end result remained the same: the complete eradication
of free speech.
Police became
even more militarized and weaponized. Despite concerns about the
government’s steady transformation of local police into a standing military
army, local police agencies continued to acquire weaponry, training and
equipment suited for the battlefield. There are now reportedly more
bureaucratic (non-military) government civilians armed with high-tech, deadly
weapons than U.S. Marines.
Schools
turned into prisons. So-called
school “safety” policies, which run the gamut from zero tolerance policies that punish all infractions harshly to surveillance cameras,
metal detectors, random searches, drug-sniffing dogs, school-wide lockdowns,
active-shooter drills and militarized police officers, turned schools into
prisons and young people into prisoners.
The
government waged a renewed war on private property. . . . .
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“US Congress:
‘We Stand With Genocide’”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/31/us-congress-we-stand-with-genocide/
by Corinna Barnard
U.S.
lawmakers, in the last quarter of 2023, approved a series of resolutions
smearing pro-Palestine activism as anti-Semitic and giving Israel PR cover for
its open-ended killing spree, writes Corinna Barnard.
The Biden
administration in the last three months of 2023 asked Congress to give Israel
an additional
$14 billion in military assistance on top of the
$3.8 billion the U.S. allots every year; vetoed
a ceasefire in Gaza at the U.N.; circumvented
Congress to sell
weapons to Israel and deployed
warships to the waters off Gaza to prevent anyone from
interfering with the Israeli regime’s campaign of atrocities there.
Congress did
not quite match the White House effort to comfort a genocidal Israel. The House
approved
a $14.3 billion package for the Netanyahu regime,
but hinged it on off-setting cuts to the Internal Revenue Service and the bill
was blocked
in the Senate.
But lawmakers
did give Israel heavy-duty backup by stonewalling calls for a ceasefire. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the sole
Palestinian-American in Congress, and a few other lawmakers — all people of
color— introduced a “Ceasefire
Now” resolution on Oct. 16 that is only slowly gaining
co-sponsors. A Data for Progress poll shows that while the majority of Americans
support a ceasefire, that position has only marginal
support in Congress.
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“Top Democrat-Linked PR Firm Tapped
by Pro-Israel Groups to Control Gaza War Narrative”
Image
by Kit Klarenberg
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“Israel’s
Genocide Betrays the Holocaust”
https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/31/israels-genocide-betrays-the-holocaust/
by Chris Hedges
Israel’s lebensraum master
plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear.
Destroy infrastrutrue, medical facilities and
sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel.
Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day.
Let starvation — the U.N. estimates that
more than half a million people are already starving — and epidemics of
infectious diseases, along with the daily massacres and the displacement of
Palestinians from their homes, turn Gaza into a mortuary. The
Palestinians are being forced to
choose between death from bombs, disease, exposure or starvation or being driven from their homeland.
There will
soon reach a point where death will be so ubiquitous that deportation – for
those who want to live – will be the only option.
Danny Danon, Israel’s former Ambassador to the U.N. and a close
ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Israel’s Kan Bet radio that he
has been contacted by “countries in Latin America and Africa that are willing
to absorb refugees from the Gaza Strip.” “We have to make it easier for Gazans to leave for other countries,” he said. “I’m talking
about voluntary migration by Palestinians who want to leave.”
The problem
for now “is countries that are willing to absorb them, and we’re working on
this,” Netanyahu told Likud
Knesset members.
In the Warsaw
Ghetto, the Germans handed out three kilograms of bread and one kilogram of
marmalade to anyone who “voluntarily” registered for deportation. “There were
times when hundreds of people had to wait in line for several hours to be
‘deported,’” Marek Edelman, one of the
commanders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, writes in “The
Ghetto Fights.” “The number of people anxious to
obtain three kilograms of bread was such that the transports, now leaving twice
daily with 12,000 people, could not accommodate them all.”
The Nazis
shipped their victims to death camps. The Israelis will ship their victims to
squalid refugee camps in countries outside of Israel. Israeli leaders are also
cynically advertising the
proposed ethnic
cleansing as voluntary and a humanitarian gesture to
solve the catastrophe they created.
This is the
plan. No one, especially the Biden administration, intends to stop it.
The most
disturbing lesson I learned while covering armed conflicts for two decades is
that we all have the capacity, with little prodding, to become willing
executioners. The line between the victim and the victimizer is razor thin. The
dark lusts of racial and ethnic supremacy, of vengeance and hate, of the
eradication of those we condemn as embodying evil, are poisons that are not
circumscribed by race, nationality, ethnicity or religion. We can all become
Nazis. It takes very little. And if we do not stand in eternal vigilance over
evil — our evil — we become, like those carrying out the mass killing in Gaza,
monsters.
The cries of
those expiring under the rubble in Gaza are the cries of the boys and men
executed by the Bosnian Serbs at Srebrenica, the over 1.5 million Cambodians
killed by the Khmer Rouge, the thousands of Tutsi families burned alive
in churches and the
tens of thousands of Jews executed by the Einsatzgruppen at Babi Yar in Ukraine. The Holocaust is not an historical relic. It lives, lurking in the
shadows, waiting to ignite its vicious contagion.
We were warned. Raul Hilberg. Primo Levi. Bruno Bettelheim. Hannah Arendt. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. They understood the dark recesses of the human spirit. But this truth is bitter and hard to confront. We prefer the myth. We prefer to see in our own kind, our own race, our own ethnicity, our own nation, our own religion, superior virtues. We prefer to sanctify our hatred. Some of those who bore witness to this awful truth, including Levi, Bettelheim, Jean Améry, the author of “At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities,” and Tadeusz Borowski, who wrote “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen,” committed suicide. The German playwright and revolutionary Ernst Toller, unable to rouse an indifferent world to assist victims and refugees from the Spanish Civil War, hanged himself in 1939 in a room at the Mayflower Hotel in New York City. On his hotel desk were photos of dead Spanish children.
“Most people have no imagination,”
Toller writes. “If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not
make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.”
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“War on Gaza, ‘Weaponizing
Anti-Semitism’: Invoking the Holocaust to Justify Israeli War Crimes Dishonours Its Victims”
by Marco Carnelos
“We write to express our dismay and
disappointment at political leaders and notable public figures invoking
Holocaust memory to explain the current crisis in Gaza and Israel.”
This is how an open letter recently published by a distinguished group of scholars of the Holocaust and antisemitism begins. Its main concern is that appealing to the memory of the Holocaust risks obscuring the understanding of antisemitism and dangerously misrepresents the causes of violence in Israel and Palestine.
The scholars
quote several problematic statements and acts by Israeli, European and American
officials in the context of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza following the
Hamas-led attack on 7 October.
The Israeli
ambassador to the UN donning a yellow star featuring the words “Never Again” while addressing the UN Security Council. Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “Hamas are the new Nazis” and framing
the war on Gaza as a battle for western civilisation
in the face of barbarism. And US President
Joe Biden remarked that Hamas had “engaged in barbarism that is as
consequential as the Holocaust”.
It is impressive how western leaders are following the same script, to
the point of uttering blatant absurdities, like
conflating Israel with Ukraine when it is
Palestine that has been occupied by Israel for more than half a century and
should be equated to Ukraine.
Israel is
invoking the Holocaust to justify what is nothing more than a collective
punishment of the people living in Gaza. Almost all of its political leadership
promoted an irrational and malign narrative beginning with Israeli President
Isaac Herzog, who said that “there are no innocent civilians in Gaza”. Not
a single word of condemnation for such
outrageous statements was uttered by those western leaders who proudly uphold
the so-called rules-based world order.
‘Poisoned’ Political Climate
Predictably, the open letter was contested by another
group of distinguished scholars of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, Israel, and antisemitism. It was a poorly argued response that did not
seem to grasp the concerns raised by the scholars and
was convincingly dismantled in a counter-reply.
Amid a rising death toll of mostly women and
children, the most the opposition letter could convey was a vague criticism of
Israel’s “poor decisions”. Not a single shred of empathy for the ongoing
humanitarian disaster was uttered.
Such insensitive positions have been echoed by unbelievable acts and behaviour by some European “democracies”. Peaceful public
protests in support of Palestinian rights and asking for a ceasefire have been
carefully watched and often hampered by authorities in the UK, France and, especially, in Germany. It is hard
to ascertain if such behaviour is due to ignorance, laziness,
fear or deliberate complicity with the Israeli government.
Read more: Israel
and Its Allies Are Repurposing the Goals and Lies of 1948 – In Gaza in 2023
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“Horrors in a
hospital”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/horrors-hospital/43356
by The Electronic Intifada
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“Gaza war
takes medical apartheid to new extreme”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-war-takes-medical-apartheid-new-extreme/43466
by Sewar Elejla
The Fourth
Geneva Convention obligates an occupying power to ensure that proper
medical supplies are provided and that hospitals and health services are maintained in the
territory under occupation.
Israel is
doing the exact opposite.
It is
subjecting healthcare to collective punishment so that Palestinians are
tortured, displaced and killed.
Israel has a
long history of systematically undermining the health rights of Palestinians
and utilizing destructive tactics to achieve its ends.
Israel
practices medical apartheid.
Though not
defined formally in international human rights law, the term “medical
apartheid” has been used to describe
similar situations of pervasive segregation and discrimination in healthcare,
based on race and characterized by stark inequalities in healthcare
accessibility, availability and quality.
Israel has
been hampering the development of, destroying and openly targeting the
Palestinian healthcare system. The system was built and supported mainly by
international donors.
Strategically,
Israel made Palestinian healthcare dependent on aid.
Over the
years, Israel has been attacking health facilities, medical workers and
ambulances in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Since 7
October, Israel has repeatedly attacked hospitals
and medical centers in order to push people out of Gaza. It has caused a
scarcity of medical supplies, fuel and necessities such as food and water for
the same purpose.
The estimated
800,000 people who remained in northern
Gaza after Israel’s evacuation orders have been left without any healthcare
apart from some field medical points that cannot provide anything beyond first
aid. Hospitals have been put out of service after Israel attacked them,
threatening the lives of patients, displaced people and healthcare personnel.
The same steps are being taken in
southern Gaza.
Israel is now carrying out ethnic
cleansing against Palestinians by wiping out the basics of life in the south.
That includes healthcare infrastructure. . . . .
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t.
“DEPOPULATION AGENDA (TLAV) ”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HLB4IBjiDxYM/
with Ryan Cristián
(16:18)
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by Jeremy Kuzmarov
Israel’s Expertise in Pacifying the Palestinians Is in High Demand by
Capitalist Elites As Populations Around the World Grow
Restive
As the world watches in horror Israel’s military assault on the people of
Gaza, people are left to wonder why world leaders are not doing more to censure
Israel and are allowing Israel to get away with mass killing.
Jeff Halper [Source: icahd.org]
Jeff Halper, an American-Israeli anthropologist who has written
numerous books on Israeli history, has a clear answer.
He says that
leaders of countries around the world are feeling more insecure as wealth is
increasingly concentrated in the hands of a tiny capitalist elite and popular
disaffection and the threat of rebellion grows.
Israel is
revered precisely for its mastery of population-control techniques against the
Palestinians, which many leaders want to emulate against dissident or minority
groups within their own borders.
Part of
Israel’s ace in the hole, according to Halper, is its
development of a formidable weapons industry that allows it to supply high-tech
weapons to countries around the world for the purpose of population control.
Israel is at
the cutting edge in the development of surveillance satellites, weaponized and surveillance drones, Artificial Intelligence
(AI) target identification systems, spyware gadgets and crowd control and cyberwarfare technologies, which it sells around the world.
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“There Are
Human Beings in Palestine. “Against Erasure” A Pictorial History of
Palestinians”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/there-human-beings-palestine/5844568
by Kim Petersen
Review of
Against Erasure
Against Erasure (Haymarket Books) is a book, edited by Teresa Aranguren
and Sandra Barrilaro, that presents a pictorial history of Palestinians. The
photos refute the often-heard canard that Palestine was a land without people.
More importantly, the historicity of the photos humanizes the Palestinians. It
seems ludicrous to anyone familiar with Palestinians that they would require
humanization.
Click the pages below to access the Book: Against Erasure
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“Devastating
Economic and Social Crisis: A Majority of Germans Want A
New Government and Early Elections”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/more-than-half-germans-want-new-government-early-elections/5843623
by Ahmed Adel
More than
half of German voters are so dissatisfied with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government that they want early
elections. The decline of Scholz’s coalition
government also comes as German Defence Minister
Boris Pistorius said that it would take Europe
between five and eight years to recover its defensive capacity after disarming
itself by sending weapons to Ukraine.
According to
a survey by the German newspaper Bild and published by
Bloomberg on December 16, 59% of Germans would prefer elections for a new
parliament in 2024, while 27% oppose such a measure. Regular elections are
scheduled for the fall of 2025.
The German government’s Advisory Council of Economists, known as the
Five Sages, said,
“Germany’s current economic development continues to be affected by the
energy crisis and the drop in real incomes.”
“That’s why our annual report this year is titled ‘Overcoming weak
growth, investing in the future’,” said Monika Schnitzer,
president of the Five Sages, when handing the document to German Chancellor
Olaf Scholz in November.
Berlin is currently the worst-performing large developed economy in the
world, and the IMF and the European Union predict the German
economy will contract this year. According to Euronews,
the recession arose from the loss of cheap Russian natural
gas because of the sanctions imposed by the European bloc. Due to this,
industries felt an unprecedented shock.
See also: Scholz Hardens His Position Against
Russia to Preserve His Political Power
It is
recalled that Christian Kullmann, CEO of major German
chemical company Evonik Industries AG, said in
October that Germany risks “de-industrialisation” as
high energy costs and government inaction on other chronic problems threaten to
send new factories and high-paying jobs abroad.
The loss of
cheap Russian natural gas needed to power factories “painfully damaged the
business model of the German economy,” Kullmann said.
Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat; the Minister of
Economy, Robert Habeck of the Greens; and the
head of finance, Christian Lindner, leader of the Free Democrats, have not had
an effective working relationship, raising questions about the
viability of the three-party alliance formed after the 2021 elections.
Scholz’s governing coalition recently suffered crushing
electoral defeats. In a context of growing voter frustration, the three
government parties lost support in Bavaria and Hesse,
where around a fifth of the German electorate resides.
At the same
time, a candidate from the Russia-friendly Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won a city mayoral election for the first
time on December 17. Tim Lochner won the second
round of voting in Pirna, a town in the eastern state
of Saxony, despite the state’s domestic intelligence agency
attempting to deter voters from AfD by deeming the
party to be right-wing extremists.
This again
highlights the growing backlash against the ruling coalition, which not only
significantly weakened Germany’s economy by imposing sanctions on Russia but
weakened the collective strength of Europe’s defensive capabilities by sending
weapons to Ukraine for a futile war effort.
According to
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius,
it will take Europe five to eight years to restore its defence
capabilities because it must compensate Ukraine for the aid it lacks from the
US.
“The defence industry will take time to get going. Right now, we
have between five and eight years left to catch up in the military, industrial
and social spheres,” Pistorius declared to the German
newspaper Welt on December 16.
Pistorius added that in the next ten years, the United States
will show more interest in the Pacific region than in Europe, so the
Europeans themselves must become more involved in guaranteeing security in the
region. To the question of whether Europe is preparing for the “worst case
scenario,” in which Europeans compensate Ukraine for the aid it stopped
receiving from the US, the minister said that the EU is discussing the issue.
The fact that the discussions are still ongoing despite Europe demilitarising and ruining its own economy for a failed war
effort against Russia shows that there are still large corners within the bloc
in denial about the current situation.
The EU has
been trying to reach a deal on €20 billion in military aid to Ukraine and aims
to include another €50 billion in the EU budget to provide
macro-financial assistance to Kiev over the next four years. However, the plans
have met opposition from some Member States, notably Hungary.
Germany,
under Scholz, has been a leading campaigner in Europe
to impose sanctions on Russia and facilitate weapon movements to Ukraine. His
predecessor, Angela Merkel, for 16 years helped Germany prosper through cordial
trade relations with Russia, but only two years of Scholz
has resulted in hostile ties with Moscow, an economy performing worse than
sanctioned Russia, and political instability.
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“Washington
Fails to Deter India-Russia Ties as Trade Explodes to $50 Billion”
by Ahmed Adel
Trade between
India and Russia exceeded $50 billion this year, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said,
setting a new record by an astronomical amount. It comes as the South Asian and
Eurasian Giants deepen their ties despite major attempts by Washington to
prevent this.
“There is an
X factor when it comes to the relationship between India and Russia, which has
remained good and has enhanced to a Special and Privileged Strategic
Partnership. I signed an agreement along with DPM Manturov
for future units of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power
Project in Tamil Nadu. The bilateral trade between India and Russia can
increase from the present $50 billion to $100 billion in the next few years,”
said Jaishankar, while interacting with the Indian diaspora in Moscow on December 26 as part of his five-day
visit and after explaining that trade exchange with Russia was previously
between $12 billion and $14 billion.
“Our
relationship with Russia has been stable over the past many decades as the
leadership has taken care to nurture it, and there are strong people-to-people
connections between our two nations. We support Russia for their BRICS
Presidency and will continue to be their partner,” India’s top diplomat added.
Read more: Pivotal
Moment in India-Russia Relations
He also indicated that India and the
Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) – made up of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus,
Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan – will begin negotiations on a free trade agreement at
the beginning of 2024. Both countries already prepared a draft trade agreement
in March 2020, but its consideration was postponed due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
The fact that Jaishankar
visited Moscow in the last week of the year to meet with his Russian
counterpart Sergey Lavrov and with the Russian
Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov
among others, demonstrates the importance that India places with its
relationship with Russia, something to the immense frustration of the US.
The Biden administration has told
foreign governments, including India, that now is not
the time for “business as usual” with Russia, as the US President makes no
secret of his efforts to try to isolate Moscow. Since the beginning of the
Ukraine conflict, the Biden administration has been trying to disrupt
Russia’s economy through sanctions and export control measures, which created
hurdles in India’s trade ties with the country. Both countries have
acknowledged that billions of dollars of payments are stuck in banks due to
difficulties in transferring payments created by the sanctions.
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u.
“Cease-Fire
Now! What I Said to the UN Security Council. Col. Ann Wright”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cease-fire-now-what-said-un-security-council/5844648
by Colonel Ann Wright
Not many
people have the opportunity to provide
an oral and written statement to the United
Nations Security Council. I had my chance on December 11, 2023, when I was
asked as a retired U.S. Army colonel and a former U.S. diplomat to speak on
weapons transfers in the Russia-Ukraine war.
I introduced myself as a U.S. taxpayer who was fed up with my tax money
being used by the powerful and wealthy U.S. arms industry authorized by the
U.S. government for sale to countries that are killing innocent civilians.
My statement to the Security Council was simple. Wars will never end as
long as weapons transfers into the conflict area continue. I noted, as the
Security Council well knows, that civilians will be the primary victims of the
transfer of weapons.
I cited the two wars to which the U.S. is providing weapons:
Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza.
I took the opportunity to look across the horseshoe U.N. Security Council
table and say to the Alternate Representative of the U.S. for Special Political
Affairs in the U.N. and Alternate Representative of the U.S. for Special
Political Affairs in the Sessions of the General Assembly of the U.N. Robert
Wood that I was horrified by “shameful” U.S. veto of the cease-fire
resolution for Gaza the previous Friday, December 8, 2023. At that point over
18,000 Palestinians had been killed by massive Israeli bombing using
U.S.-provided 2,000-pound bombs, U.S. hellfire missiles, and other
U.S.-provided weapons.
Two weeks later, on December 22, 2023, after five days of wrangling with
the U.S. on the wording of another resolution, the U.N. Security Council
adopted a
watered-down resolution that calls for immediately speeding
up aid deliveries to starving civilians in Gaza. The United States refused to
agree to a tougher demand for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between
Israel and Hamas. It abstained in the vote, as did Russia, which wanted the
stronger language. The resolution was the first on the war to make it through
the council after the U.S. vetoed two earlier ones calling for humanitarian
pauses and a full cease-fire.
See also: ‘Disastrous’:
US Vetoes Cease-Fire Resolution at UN Security Council
The U.S. has
provided Israel $317 billion in military aid, making it the largest recipient
of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. The U.S. gives Israel $3.3
billion annually. The Biden administration wants to send another $10 billion to
Israel.
As of late
October, two months ago, the
U.S. had delivered 36,000 rounds of 30-millimeter
cannon ammunition, 1,800 M141 bunker-buster munitions, at least 3,500
night-vision devices, ammunition for AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships including
about 2,000 Hellfire Laser Guided missiles, 57,000 155-millimeter High
Explosive artillery shells, 20,000 M4A1 rifles, 5,000 PVS-14 night vision
devices, 3,000 M141 hand-held bunker-buster munitions, 400 120- millimeter
mortars, 75 of the Army and Marine Corps’ new Joint Light Tactical Vehicles,
and 312 Tamir missile interceptors for the Iron Dome.
On the issue
of the profitability of weapons transfers particularly in the Ukraine-Russia
war, the topic I had been invited to speak on, I reminded the Security Council
that in a December 7, 2023, press conference with the new U.K. Foreign
Secretary David Cameron, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that over
the last two years, the United States has provided $70 billion to support
Ukraine and European allies have provided more than $110 billion.
Blinken also said,
“If you look at the investments that we’ve made in Ukraine’s defense to
deal with this aggression, 90% of the security assistance we’ve provided has
actually been spent here in the United States with our manufacturers, with our
production, and that’s produced more American jobs, more growth in our own
economy. So, this has also been a win-win that we need to continue.”
I reminded the Security Council that the win-win is not for civilians in
conflict areas. The win-win is for the military industrial complex and the
politicians and retired government officials who are offered senior positions
in companies immediately after their retirements!
And it’s certainly not a
win-win for the innocent civilians who are killed in these conflicts.
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“Biden’s America Surrenders to War Criminal Netanyahu”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/biden-america-surrenders-war-criminal-netanyahu/5844576
by Philip Giraldi
Vital US
interests are sacrificed to avoid offending Israel and its Lobby
I don’t have
anyone whom I would consider a friend who supports the genocide being carried
out by Israel in Gaza. But my occasional interaction with the psychopaths who
infest the US government and media and who are intimately connected by virtue
of their political instincts as well as their personal interests in campaign
donations and/or elevated salaries derived from Israel and its powerful lobby
have plenty of sound bites to throw out to demonstrate their love of the Jewish
state in all its manifestations.
They mouth
the Pelosi-Schumer-Biden assertion that “Israel has a right to defend itself”
and that Israel is “America’s closest ally” and “best friend,” all of which can
readily be exposed as a series of self-serving lies and deliberate
misinterpretations of international law. Beyond that, they inevitably cite
their view that critics of Israel are fully responsible for what they choose to
refer to as the ultimate evil of “surging anti-semitism.”
In so doing they conveniently ignore the obvious fact
that anger towards Jews collectively speaking is nearly always derived from the
crimes against humanity committed by the Zionist political entity that now
legally defines itself as Jewish.
I sometimes
ask the friends of Israel what interest the United States has that would
warrant our country becoming complicit in committing war crimes that,
collectively speaking, amount to precursors for the complete expulsion or
killing of millions of Palestinians from what remains of their homes. They try
to weasel word their way avoiding the implications of that question by
observing that the United States is not directly engaged in the conflict, an
evasion that I belittle by pointing out that Washington is providing funding,
arming and political cover for the more powerful and lethal party engaged in
the conflict while also blocking attempts to bring about a ceasefire to comply
with orders from that same party, which sure looks like direct involvement to
me. I also point out that Israel is working hard to get the US military engaged
against Hezbollah in Lebanon and also against Iran and is likely to be able to
maneuver the stoneheads in and around the White House
to do its bidding vis-à-vis both objectives.
So the big
question has to be “Why does the United States engage in a conflict that inter alia has utterly ruined our
country’s reputation worldwide and for which there is no real compelling
national interest?” The answer is, of course unpalatable to many, but has
to be that the US government is in many respects and vis-à-vis some of its
designated national policies completely under the control of Israel and its
powerful domestic as well as international lobby. This habitual bowing to force majeure has warped the thinking
of the ambitious scallywags who seem to be present wherever one turns in places
like Washington. How else does one explain the infamous and quite frankly
ridiculous comment delivered at the 2018 Israeli American Council meeting by leading
politician Nancy Pelosi, who said that
“I have said to people when they ask
me if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain is
our commitment to our aid…and I don’t even call it aid…our cooperation with
Israel. That’s fundamental to who we are.”
The delusional Pelosi, who appears to
have no “fundamental” attachment to the interests of the American people whom
she represents, is unfortunately not unique in the halls of Congress, even less
so in the Joe Biden White House, which might be regarded as the illustration of
what happens when you appoint Zionists to nearly all key positions running your
foreign, economic and national security policies. The degree of direct
Zionist/Israeli control over the hapless Biden can best be illustrated by
reviewing the course of the recent redrafting of a UN Security Council
resolution authored by the United Arab Emirates that sought to bring about a
suspension of the fighting and the urgent resumption of humanitarian supplies
for Gaza. The US forced the revisions after coordination with Israel to permit
the Israelis to continue to attack civilian targets and avoid entering into
anything like a ceasefire, changing the word “suspension” in the original draft
to the less demanding creation of “conditions for a sustainable cessation of
hostilities.” Language authorizing the lead UN role in monitoring and
delivering the assistance to the Gazans was also
expunged leaving to belligerent Israel the task of completely controlling the
distribution of any supplies allowed entry into the areas inside Gaza, which it
is also simultaneously continuing to bomb, thereby slowing the stream of
urgently needed supplies to a trickle while also killing hundreds more
civilians.
See also: Does
Israel Seek a “Final Solution for Palestinians?”
To be sure,
it was the United States blindly supporting Israel that rendered what was a
promising proposal to put an end to the multiplying civilian deaths toothless.
Israel demonstrated just how high it regarded Joe Biden when it contradicted
what the president said about the US being able to moderate some Israeli
offensive action in Gaza. Netanyahu denied that, saying
that he and his war cabinet were continuing to make all
relevant decisions based on Israel’s own interests. Israel Defense Force (IDF)
Chief of the General Staff General Herzi Halevi followed on with his
own assessment that finishing the job in Gaza, i.e.
totally destroying Hamas by whatever means it requires, will take “many more
months.” The Israeli military has indeed visibly increased its efforts by opening
up new “battle zones” inside Gaza, to include directly targeting the crowded
and starving refugee camps outside the cities. The civilians
are paying the price while a grinning Joe Biden is spending his New Year’s
holiday in the American Virgin Islands.
Allowing
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a known liar and habitual war
criminal to tell the US government what to do is about as low as it gets, Mr.
Biden! You should not only be ashamed, but more than that, humiliated,
compelled to do ghastly things in support of your own fear of possible
Jewish/Israeli reaction if you do not bow down before King Netanyahu. He and
the band of inhuman monsters he has assembled in his cabinet have made no
secret of their intention to remove the Palestinians from Palestine, either by
forced emigration or by killing them if necessary. On Christmas Day, Prime
Minister Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud bloc “that he was still working
on the ‘voluntary’ immigration of Gaza’s inhabitants to other countries.” His
associates Itamar Ben-Gvir
and Bezalel Smotrich have
made it clear that the ethnic cleansing process will proceed even if it is not
in any way voluntary. As Israel is the occupying power in the former Palestine,
what is taking place is, as defined by the Geneva Conventions, the Genocide
Convention and the UN Charter, a crime against humanity and the United States
is completely complicit in it not to mention actually enabling the slaughter
through its supplying of arms and money to the Israelis. It has recently been
reported in the Israeli media that the United States has delivered an
astonishing “10,000 tons of armaments and military equipment on 244 cargo
planes and 20 ships” to sustain the Israeli homicidal assault
against the people of Gaza. And to demonstrate its gratitude
for the flood of weapons, America’s “best friend” and “closest ally” Israel has
nevertheless complained “about a delay
in the delivery of munitions.”
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“Dark Times:
You Can’t Defeat the Gaza resistance”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VnvvoCWOUM
with George Galloway
(18:10)
Israel is trying to escalate the war,
to bring the US in, says Professor Mohammad Marandi.
But just as America supports the genocide regime, Iran supports the resistance.
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v.
“The anatomy
of Zionist genocide”
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/21/the-anatomy-of-zionist-genocide
by Yoav Litvin
What are the
motivations behind Israel’s genocidal acts in Gaza, and what is the way
forward?
On October 7,
Hamas fighters breached the Gaza
prison fence, launching
a coordinated attack on at least seven Israeli military
installations and more than 20 surrounding residential communities. Over 1000
Israeli citizens, both civilian and military, as well as dozens of foreign
nationals, were killed in the attack. Some 240 others were taken captive.
Caught off guard and in disarray, the Israeli military responded to the attack
in a frenzy, firing indiscriminately on breached
localities, slaying Israeli
captives alongside Hamas fighters in the process. It took the Israeli forces
nearly a day to recapture all lost territory and secure the Gaza perimeter.
Following
Hamas’s unprecedented incursion, Israel’s public relations apparatus launched a
misinformation campaign aimed at inciting fear and fury and began to spread
unverified atrocity propaganda. The campaign, involving tales of babies being
“beheaded en masse”, “burned” and “hung on a clothesline”, helped transform the
Israeli public’s shock into genocidal tribalism and diverted attention from
Israel’s political, intelligence and military blunders that paved the way for
the attack in the first place. The campaign also helped the government garner
crucial public support for mass mobilisation of
reserve units which made the consequent full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza
Strip possible.
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Gaza death
toll at 20,258 on 78th day of war
Tehran, IRNA
– The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has said that the total death toll
from Israel’s attacks on the besieged territory since October 7 has reached
20,258.
https://en.irna.ir/news/85331102/Gaza-death-toll-at-20-258-on-78th-day-of-war
by Islamic Republic News Agency
The ministry
issued its statement on Saturday night, saying that 53,688 people have also
been injured in Gaza since the Israeli regime unleashed its war 78 days ago.
Over the past
24 hours alone, 201 people lost their lives and 368 others were injured in
Israeli airstrikes, according to the ministry.
Earlier on
Saturday, the spokesman for the Gaza Health Ministry raised the alarm about an
unimaginable catastrophe in the strip if more aid is not allowed into the
territory.
“The
occupiers are still using medical aid as a weapon to take more lives in the
Gaza Strip. The enemy should be forced into allowing aid into Gaza before we
enter an unimaginable disaster,” Ashraf al-Qudra said.
He said that
1,000 aid trucks are required to enter Gaza daily in order for the people there
to meet their needs. That’s while, he added, 70 trucks a day are currently
bringing aid to the territory.
The spokesman
also said hospitals, including those in the southern city of Rafah, are struggling to treat the wounded due to severe
shortage of medical supplies.
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w.
“Archive Of MK Ultra Documents”
by Celia Farber
Archive is here. I’ve only
looked at a few, but let’s bookmark this for future access.
We’re going
to be looking at everything with new lenses in 2024, as we’ve discussed.
Read recently
declassified documents: https://archive.org/details/mkultrafiles?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22MKNAOMI%22
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From the
archive: “TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB”
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I am on
vacation this week but thought it would be useful to republish a painful story
I did two decades ago for the New Yorker about a
group of US army soldiers who went out of control amid a war in Iraq that, so
they were told, was being waged against the terrorism that struck America on
9/11. What the GIs did then are what any army does in war when hating and
fearing the enemy is encouraged and runs through the ranks, from the lowest
level grunts to the senior generals. It takes a special leader, as you will
read about below, who confounds his superiors by not covering up the crimes of
his soldiers and their most senior officers, and does so knowing that his
career is over. Would that there were such fearless leaders
in the Middle East today.
In the era of
Saddam Hussein, Abu Ghraib, twenty miles west of
Baghdad, was one of the world’s most notorious prisons, with torture, weekly
executions, and vile living conditions. As many as fifty thousand men and
women—no accurate count is possible—were jammed into Abu Ghraib
at one time, in twelve-by-twelve-foot cells that were little more than human
holding pits. . . . .
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“Mass Protests. Washington Is “Coordinating” the Actions of Both the
Serbian Government and the Serbian Opposition. Dragana
Trifkovic”
by Dragana Trifkovic
Mass protests
have begun in Belgrade. Opposition members and their supporters, who disagree
with the results of the recent parliamentary elections, have taken to the streets,
blocking roads and attacking government buildings. Law enforcement agencies are
responding by trying to contain the unrest. The situation is heating up.
According to
experts, an attempt is being made to stage a coup in Serbia on the model of
Ukraine’s Maidan in 2014. Most experts believe that
the actions of the Serbian opposition are coordinated by Brussels and
Washington.
Is a
political revolution possible in Serbia?
The director
of the Center for Geostrategic Research, Dragana Trifkovic, gave the Public News Service her own take on the
issue.
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On December
17 of this year, parliamentary and local elections were held in Serbia. In my
opinion, the purpose of organizing early elections was to legitimize the
policies of the ruling regime, especially in relation to Kosovo and Metohija.
Let me remind
you that the ruling regime signed the Brussels Agreement in 2013 and the
Washington Agreement in 2020, according to which Serbia practically renounces
its sovereignty and agrees with the decisions of the Albanian separatists
supported by Washington.
Read more: Don’t
Expect Kosovo to “Compromise” on Its “Independence” Anytime Soon
Also, in
February this year, the Franco-German plan to recognize the sovereignty,
territorial integrity and national symbols of an independent Kosovo was
verbally adopted in the city of Ohrid. The United
States believes that the verbal agreement of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is
sufficient to legitimize an independent Kosovo. At the same time, the Serbian
president repeats that he will never recognize Kosovo’s independence but does
not cancel already signed agreements and verbal consent.
It is
important for the United States to finalize the Kosovo independence project
after the elections, and to that end it is coordinating the actions of both the
government and the opposition.
This should be kept in mind when assessing the current situation in Serbia,
where the protests and political instability are only part of a larger plan.
There are
signs that Vucic has agreed to U.S. Ambassador to
Serbia Christopher Hill’s request to cede power in Belgrade to the
pro-Western opposition, but it is clear that he wants to keep power in
Belgrade. I in no way support the intervention of a foreign factor in Serbia or
violent protests. But the fact is that both the government and the opposition
have the same political program – Serbia’s uncontested integration into the EU.
The EU recently included Serbia’s commitment to recognize Kosovo’s independence
in the European integration process.
In
conclusion, we can see that the protests in Serbia are organized by the
opposition because of the electoral irregularities, but they do not pose a
threat to the regime unless they receive full support from the West, which they
do not have at the moment. Therefore, the pro-Western opposition is used by the
USA as a factor of control over the government, blackmailing the government to
fulfill all the contracts signed regarding Kosovo.
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“The Year of
the Mindfuck”
https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/22/the-year-of-the-mindfuck/
by C J Hopkins
Well, that’s
pretty much it for 2023 … which I’m officially dubbing The Year of The Mindfuck.
I am doing
that against the advice of my attorney, who is (a) trying to keep me out of
German prison for as long as possible, and (b) trying to stop me from
gratuitously alienating whatever remains of my former readership and going
totally broke.
I’m not
making that particularly easy for him.
The thing is, no one wants to hear that they have been mindfucked. People want to hear that other people have been
mindfucked. Which … they have.
Other people have been thoroughly mindfucked. But
that doesn’t mean that other people — i.e., the people who want to hear that
other people have been mindfucked, but not that they,
themselves, have been mindfucked — haven’t also been mindfucked, which is what I’ve been mostly writing about in
2023, which, as Matt Taibbi put it in a blurb for one
of my books, “probably this is not a profitable life choice.”
So it goes in
the political satire racket. Sometimes you are hailed as a “prophet,” other
times you’re scorned as a “dissension-sowing asshole,” censored into Internet
oblivion by beloved billionaire free-speech defenders, and prosecuted for
trumped-up “hate crimes.” It depends which way the wind is blowing.
It hasn’t
been blowing my way this year.
On top of which, I’ve been pissing into it, the wind, at more or less
every opportunity. I know it’s dumb, but I can’t seem to stop.
Something about watching people being mindfucked over
and over again “triggers” me, or punches my buttons, or something.
But enough
about me … let’s get to the mindfucking. Due to the voluminosity of it, I won’t be able to review it all in
detail but I’ll try to cover most of the mindfucking
highlights.
Ready? OK,
here we go.
The mindfucking started in January with the birth of the Musk
Cult and the whitewashing of Twitter, and the trickle of “revelations” about
“mistakes that were made” during the “Covid
pandemic.” The Powers That Be needed to memory-hole the story of what actually
happened (and didn’t actually happen) in 2020-2022 and enshrine the official Covid narrative in history. To achieve this they needed to mindfuck some people, not the Covidian
cultists who they had already mindfucked, the other
people, who they hadn’t been able to mindfuck. It was
obvious that we were about to be subjected to The Mother of All Limited Hangouts.
If your
memory of what actually happened (and didn’t actually happen) in 2020 is little
hazy, here’s an excerpt from that column, which I published in January.
“In March and
April of 2020, in the course of roughly five to six weeks, the majority of
societies throughout the world were transformed into pathologized-totalitarian
police states. A global ‘shock-and-awe’ campaign was conducted. Constitutional
rights were suspended. The masses were locked down inside their homes, where
they were subjected to the most massive official propaganda blitzkrieg in human
history. Goon squads roamed the streets of Europe, the USA, the UK, Canada,
Australia, Asia, the Americas, and elsewhere, beating and arresting people for
being outdoors without permission and not wearing medical-looking masks.
Corporate media around the world informed us that life as we knew it was over …
a ‘New Normal’ was coming, and we needed to get used to it. The entire official
pandemic narrative was rolled out during those first few weeks. Everything. Masks. Mandatory ‘vaccines.’ ‘Vaccination
passports.’ The segregation of ‘the Unvaccinated.’
The censorship and demonization of dissent. Everything. The whole ‘New Normal’
package. It was rolled out all at once, globally.”
Now, over
three years later, the facts are indisputably clear to everyone but the
hopelessly brainwashed. There was no global epidemiological emergency … no
legitimate justification whatsoever for that initial “shock-and-awe” campaign,
or the totalitarian “New Normal” it ushered into being.
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“American
Journalism Has Lost A Giant: Rest In Peace Kristina Borjesson, Who Broke The Truth About TWA 800, And Was
Exiled From CBS And The Profession Because Of it”
by Celia Farber
“As a
journalist you have to always remember that you are a public servant.
If you back
down, if you don’t try to find the truth, then you aren’t doing
your job. It’s a huge responsibility.”
—Kristina Borjesson
“On the
afternoon of July 17, 1996, broadcast journalist Kristina Borjesson
left work early after wrapping up a documentary on Fidel Castro for CBS. Her
husband was at JFK International Airport, putting their 11-year-old son on a
plane to visit relatives in France, and an exhausted Borjesson
climbed into bed for a nap.
“All of a
sudden the phone rang,” she says, “and I heard my neighbor’s voice say, ‘Was
that your son’s plane that just went down?’” A Paris-bound Boeing 747 had
exploded off the coast of Long Island, N.Y., just after 8:30 p.m., killing all
230 on board. “I can’t even describe to you that feeling,” says Borjesson (COM’80). “It was like hot oil was poured on my
brain. I started dry-heaving.”
But her son
was safe; his Air France flight was five minutes behind the doomed aircraft,
TWA Flight 800. “For that moment, I knew what the family members of those
victims were going through,” she says. “I lived it.”
The tragedy
would remain part of Borjesson’s life for the next 17
years, the subject of her own on-again, off-again investigation. Her
documentary, TWA Flight 800, which she
wrote, directed, and produced, premiered on the EPIX cable TV
channel last July. It is the first film, she says, to focus entirely on the
forensic evidence, and it disputes the conclusions of the National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which spent four
years investigating the accident.”
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“Nineteen
Years Ago, Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered After Exposing CIA Drug
Trafficking”
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
On December
10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near
Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door
that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.”
Webb’s death
was listed as a suicide, but Webb was found
with two bullet holes in the head, indicating
that he was executed.[1]
In the days
leading up to his death, Webb had told friends that he was receiving
death threats, being regularly followed by what
he thought were government agents, and that he
was concerned about strange individuals who were seen breaking
into and leaving his house.
In the late
1990s, Webb had written a series
of stories for the San José Mercury News, which provided the basis for his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the
Crack Cocaine Explosion
In it, Webb
detailed how the explosion of crack cocaine in South Central Los Angeles during
the 1980s was sparked by two Nicaraguan émigrés, Danilo
Blandón and Norwin Meneses, who sold huge amounts of cocaine to raise funds
for a CIA-backed rebel army—the Contras.
Webb was a
Pulitzer Prize winner whose “Dark Alliance” series went
viral in the early days of the internet. It caused a
firestorm that led to the resignation of CIA Director John Deutch
after he was grilled by angry Black activists at a meeting in L.A.[2]
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x.
“WATCH: 2023 Year in Review – #SolutionsWatch”
https://www.corbettreport.com/2023solutions/
with James
Corbett
(1:47:57)
It’s the end of another year, so you
know what that means: it’s time to go back through every single edition of #SolutionsWatch for the year 2023 and go through feedback,
updates and commentary on these ideas. What worked? What didn’t? What changed?
How have you applied these ideas in your life? Find out in this lengthy
year-end edition of everyone’s favourite solutions
podcast.
Sources, shownotes
and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous
episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here and here.
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“‘A GUID NEW
YEAR’ - MOATS with George Galloway”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuNMuavZ8X4
with George
Galloway
(2:15:55)
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“‘We Only Carry Seeds.’ A Christmas Tale of
Pure Consciousness”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-only-carry-seeds-christmas-tale-pure-consciousness/5844600
by Sigrid Hauser
Once upon a
time, a man entered a store.
Behind the counter stood an angel, whom he asked: “What do you have to
offer me?”
Read more: Conspirators
for the Constitution: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition
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“What We’ve Learned in 2023”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/26/craig-murray-what-weve-learned-in-2023/
by Craig Murray
The author
has no doubt we are in for a period of more propaganda, fake terrorist plots,
false flag actual terrorism and agent provocateur-led terrorism.
We have
learnt this year that there is no crime so startling, so obvious and so visible
to the whole world, that the United States and Israel are not willing to commit
brazenly and openly.
The massacre
of 20,000 people includes the killing of babies and infants, the deliberate
shooting of pregnant women and toddlers, the murder of
old ladies in church and the execution of prisoners stripped naked.
This is all
justified as “Israel’s right of self-defence”.
We have also
seen the increasing rise of fascism as western governments crack down on their
publics in order to curtail political resistance to the genocide. Activists
Tony Greenstein, Mick Napier and I have all been harassed under the Terrorism
Act.
I have left
the country because I fear I am officially “under investigation” under the
Terrorism Act and I fear I shall be arrested and placed in jail for two years
awaiting trial. Numerous people have been arrested for expressing their horror
at the massacre through placards, words or even songs that the police judge
“offensive”.
Police action
is often prompted by instruction from self-appointed Zionist vigilante organisations.
We are also
seeing, exactly as I predicted, a replay of the “War on Terror” state Islamophobic propaganda. Do you remember the famous “ricin plot” where the ricin found
was the trace
level to be found in every kitchen?
The British
government kept it Top Secret for two years that there was in fact no ricin. Or the non-existent Easter Bomb Plot where the
“ingredient of improvised explosives” found turned out to be a bag of sugar?
In Germany
they have a great deal of work to do to justify the world’s most extreme
anti-Palestinian governmental racism, so they have
invented a “Hamas terror plot” and arrested four young
Muslims. No evidence at all that been produced to justify this.
Hamas has never, ever conducted any violent
attack outside of Palestine and it has always been their policy not to do so –
and it still is. The notion is ludicrous that at this time Hamas have decided
to suddenly lose the propaganda war which they are winning worldwide, by
attacking Germany.
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“The Mess They Made of 2023”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/27/patrick-lawrence-the-mess-they-made-of-2023/
by Patrick Lawrence
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“The Best of
Moats 2023”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9na7UKqZVdA&si=bbvEHmr1HNzdtDYH
with George Galloway
(audio, 1:55:34)
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y.
Children’s
Health Defense – The Most Read Articles this year
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by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
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Last American
Vagabond
https://off-guardian.org/tag/last-american-vagabond/
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Global
Research - Selected Articles, December
29, 2023
“Canadian
Government Admits 48,780 Excess Deaths in 2022 (17% Increase in Mortality).
There Is No Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Saved a Single Life in Canada During 2021-2022”
by Dr. William Makis
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Global
Research - This Year's (2023) Most Popular Articles
“Pfizer’s ‘Secret’ Report on the COVID Vaccine. Beyond Manslaughter. The Evidence Is Overwhelming. The
Vaccine Should be Immediately Withdrawn Worldwide”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/this-years-2023-most-popular-articles/5844556
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky,
November 24 , 2023
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The Defender
- Children’s Health Defense – January 3, 2024
“Florida Surgeon General Calls for Halt on COVID Shots + Watch: Authors
of 'Canary In a Covid World' Speak Out + More”
http://support.childrenshealthdefense.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=14401&em_id=14021.0