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    Salvador Dalí Figure at a window 1925   • BRICS Member South Africa Takes Zionism To Court (Pepe Escobar) • The War Within Israel’s War Cabinet (
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle January 11 2024]

    #150133
    oxymoron
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    #150134
    Formerly T-Bear
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    Nyet&yahoo has surpasses himself in making Jeffrey Dahmer appear a fine upstanding humanist since Dahmer only slaughtered what he could ‘allegedly’ eat. Nyet&yahoo has let 70% of his slaughter, the best morsels go to waste by burial. Such is the intentional insanity of Zionism and their Israeli enablers. A pox on that house. Restore Palestine as it historically was to the Palestinian peoples.

    #150135
    oxymoron
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    That dog is performing psychological operation on that Cheetah

    #150136
    Celticbiker
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    The CEO’s of Phizer, Johnson +Johnson and Moderna are all jewish. Bigpharna=Isreal. Epstein=Isreal. Hightech{spying}=Isreal Tunnels under NY chabads where kids are raped.. Worlds largest skinbank. Ganster state, plain and simple. They have stolen all the money in the West. The Great Taking will scoop up what little is left. This is why they want you dead. Do you want your daughter raped by immigrants? Your son killed by fentanyl? The Palestinians are teaching us a harsh lesson.. You face the Demon, head on. Soulless, chipped meatbot being the alternate choice.

    #150137
    Dr. D
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    “SEC Approves Spot Bitcoin ETF (For Real This Time), Will Begin Trading Tomorrow
    …but the SEC screwed-up the release… again.

    Every time they screw up, insider trading happens. Funny world. So, I guess the SEC needs to investigate itself now! They’ll be right on that, like FTX, FBI, and Fani.

    “BREAKING: Judge Arthur Engoron bans Trump from speaking or giving closing remarks at his civil trial in NY”

    I’m sure not being able to speak or as Giuliani found, present any case at all is perfectly normal and will stand appeal. What am I saying??? The appeals judge will be just as bad!!

    “Reporter heard asking Hunter Biden: “Are you on crack today?”

    Alternate view: Hunter is raised in a crime family like Chelsea and Baby Bush was, with his father over there raping kids in the shower. (Eyewitness, written testimony). He’s then forced to be a drug, sex, and money mule for da Family. Da casa Nostra. So one day out in Thailand, life at a dead end, someone pops up an IM that says, “You want out? You want freedom before you die of crack? Freedom ain’t free, but I can point at the door. F—K your father, f—k him all to h—l and drop off your laptop at a certain shop we have arranged, and don’t get it back no matter how much he calls. It’s a plausible thing for a crackhead to do, right? We can’t let you off with nothing, but we CAN set you free. AND finally gt back at Joe and da Boyz after what they’ve done all these years. Let us know. — Morpheus”

    So…this nonsense of “laptops” then when the FBI loses it the 3rd time, the PC repair brings out the 3rd copy of the hard drive? That Hunter makes these shows, as directed, not showing up, THEN showing up for no reason and no gain…EXCEPT PUBLIC SPECTACLE.

    Sure, HE has to take the walk of humiliation, but he’s been humiliated by his father for 50 years. Who’s REALLY in control here, when he does this? Who is the joke on? Where is the power? It’s with HUNTER, screwing his father and all these f—ks, screwing them white and there’s nothing they can do about it. They – HAVE – to protect him. It – HAS – to be plausible deniability. Because what, he gets whack’d on national TV? How do you explain that? With this, he can whack them back.

    Go Hunter. …But he’ll still have to serve something, although I understand his terrible, deadly situation all these years.

    Bannon on Poland: No, they can’t be voted out because they’ll all be hung. It’s literally life and death for them and not for us. But so they’ll arrest anybody who disagrees with them, despite any law or courts. And who is arrested? The original anti-Nazi, anti-Communists. …Aaaaaand that means the guys who are the #Opposite of that are what? That’s right, the PRO-Nazis, the PRO-Socialists.

    So Europe (that is, the EU) is collapsing. They shoveled 100k Poles into Ukraine, but it wasn’t enough, and the EU is running out of money. So they need to fully devour and digest a nation the size of Poland, as an appetizer. Just to keep it off a few months. So they FORCE them to take the Euro, FORCE them to take the migrants, FORCE them to have no judiciary, and for some reason force anti-family, anti-tradition, anti-religion, anti-hetero stuff for some reason? Never understood that part. I guess it keeps them busy and crushes resistance.

    That is to say, Poland is a VASSAL state, now DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD. And what we TOLD you is that we’re going to kill, eat, and erase you as a People, Culture, and Nation. Now sit around and LET US.

    “tarnish Israel’s carefully constructed self-image.”

    He may mean “Image”, as in “Image to others” but crucially he’s also correct, it actually works by “SELF-Image”, that is, how Israelis and also worldwide Jews see themselves. I don’t think it can operate without this self-deception. I mean, look at Kunster for example. If Gaza has a case, then you have to go to court and air it all, right? You need to dismiss the very notion that they have a case so no one can look at the facts and evidence. You do that by being justified, being a victim, and claiming self-defense.

    If I harass my neighbors endlessly like a Redneck, then when he comes over to my porch for some new affront, letting the air out of his tires, and shoot him on my porch, what will the court say? …And in this case, I shot his children from my windows, in front of him. His negotiator came over just to release the other kids under 16 I was still holding, so I shot the negotiator too. …Aaaaaaand the court will say what?

    That’s not self-defense, sir. Even if he’s on your porch.

    “SELF-Image.” In other words, psychotic lies.

    “The War Within Israel’s War Cabinet (Cradle)

    I was more worrying about the war Israel surrendered and retreated. From Gaza City yesterday.

    “In other news, Sweden is telling its people to prepare for war with Russia.”

    I’m sure Sweden will win. Ukraine was 1/10th the size and they were supposed to wipe the floor with them, so why not? Why not 1/100th the size? I saw Luke Skywalker put one bullet into a planet and it blew up, so that’s my baseline for reality now.

    I’m more to the point, YOUR MONEY MEANS NOTHING TO ME. WHERE are these shells made? With what products? With gas-run factories from Russia? With Russian steel and phosphates? Russian titanium and Russian coal? Using oil transiting Hormuz and Saana? Tell me all about how you’re going to “Buy” these things.

    And you guys snipe at me that I think a magic free market will appear and Lo, fix all like God in a cloud. But it’s more like this: THEY believe Infinity exists. Like a Disney movie (Wish) infinity teddy bears and infinity Oompa Loompas already exist and are just not in your bedroom because of mean, bad Capitalists.

    In contrast, Capitalists PRODUCE. They say, “Um, none of that is ever going to exist UNLESS YOU MAKE IT.” That is, the #Opposite of “Wish” nothing exists without work. All the warehouses are empty, and if you want a sandwich, buddy, you better get off the couch and go make one. PRODUCTION PRECEDES EVERYTHING. You MAKE before you sell. You MAKE before you consume. You MAKE before there is money.

    So you see that Meta-Reality in the dialogue of “Leaders” here, but more specifically the journalists reporting on them: Not to a one of them does it ever occur to MAKE anything. Ever. WE, the Very Important People, shall never deign to MAKE things. That’s YOUR job. YOU figure out how to make “Shells” without “Metal” and “Explosives”; it’s what you goobers and morons do right? What do I pay you for? Now go figure it out, I’m busy moving spreadsheets.

    Aaaaaand. So much more offensively, this is Ayn Rand. My GOD why do you make Ayn Rand right? Then none of us are happy. What begins to close in on “Atlas Shrugged” about 3/4 way through is when the CEO tells his company to go make railroads without steel. Just figure it out! I’ve got banks to call and numbers to push here! Beginning of the end.

    And as we’ve discovered, Rand was the blueprint for the White Hat Plan, back from Greenspan, her major student. Nothing will ever break their psychosis except REALITY, because we already tried everything else. Russia is that reality. Our denial and psychosis may be the Immovable Object, but they are the Irresistible Force.

    So here we are with this Leader, this Nation, this Reporter, all the Very Smart and Important People, saying, “Oh alack, great sorrow! We shall have to print MONEY to solve this!” No. You will not. Like orca ramming boats, this is a problem money can’t solve. This does not compute because they’ve never made anything in their lives, and never done anything except print money and handing to golfing pals. That’s it. That’s their “Master Plan.”

    How have we not beaten these guys yet?

    “This is PR for the Zelensky regime. Speaking in terms used in political science, [the talks] were about maintaining a sense of constant activity in the information and political space, at the center of which is Zelensky,” Zakharova stressed. “This has nothing to do with resolving the Ukrainian crisis. These are two completely different topics.”

    They are winning the Narrative War, and losing the real war. But because they’re psychotic, this neither occurs nor matters to them. Okay then, make it easy.

    “The EU alone will be perhaps 50 billion euros lighter, and in Ukraine, cemeteries will be full with thousands more dead soldiers.”

    Europe wanted and got US to fight the war. $50 Billion? We paid $150B and they’re larger than we are. So like everywhere else, if they send 10 men and we send 1,000, they get the full participation trophy? Done. 100% of the oil at 1/100th of the cost. So what happens when we DON’T show up like usual? What does your money buy you now?

    Okay, backside: we SAID we “gave Ukraine” that “Money” but really we gave them…arms, for example. Since all the “Money” was recycled back to the DNC through FTX. We gave them all our Javelin anti-tanks. Sure. Then we rated them at $1.500/pc maybe when REALLY THEY WERE WORTHLESS. It would COST $2.500/pc to decommission them as they are explosive and dead. So we sent Ukraine $50B LIABILITY? You figure it out, it’s too complex. But “money” is like five things, not one. Only one of those things is a “Unit of Account” which is how we’re trying to use it here. But you got the number wrong by $1,500 – $2,500 or = $4,000 wrong on the ledger?

    Can’t figure out how we’re not winning when we shipped Ukraine a couple billion dollars of raw liabilities. All those 50 tanks disassembled in boxes tied up 100 tank repairmen when they could have been doing something useful. Then Germany has no parts because Germany is not a country. They swapped out this country with a skin suit and no one noticed.

    “US Government Debt Biggest Threat to Global Economy – Russian NGO (RT)

    Yes, following this, who’s in control? Powell? Is he raising rates for inflation? Really, why? Wouldn’t it be easier to just lie about inflation like usual? So we hear the bond auctions have no buyers. They are raising rates to sell bonds. And that would mean the Fed, Powell, and the U.S. are not in control. They have lost control, so to speak. The Market is in control.

    After 40 years we say “Powell can raise rates.” “Powell can lower rates.” Can he? Can he really? When if he lowers rates he’ll have unending bond auction failures and a rapid default? Of course they don’t want to TELL you that.

    Okay, great, that’s only the simplest version: IF “Powell” raises rates – or rather the rates are raised for him – then the national debt … ??? Yes, goes exponential immediately. We put up $36 Trillion at 1%, now we need to pay it at FIVE TIMES that. Or $180 TRILLION. Those aren’t the numbers but I’m trying to give a sense of what scale this is.

    “The US government cannot solve the problem by restarting the printing press this year because that would lead to higher inflation, the report added.”

    Be a problem money can’t solve? Be a problem PRINTING money can’t solve. Charles Hugh Smith said this: when you can print all your problems away, buy off anybody, kill anybody, what ends it? Well obviously, a problem you CAN’T print away. Usually that’s Inflation.

    Sure, let’s increase the tax bill on every American fivefold in the next 6 months, I’m sure that’ll work.

    Okay, well, when you have a giant steam engine run at 300% pressure, you can’t always tell exactly WHERE it will blow. But since the “Laws of Physics” “Exist”, you can be certain it will be somewhere.

    British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has claimed that China has become more “aggressive and assertive”

    Yeah, I see how China has 145 Military bases in 42 countries, and helped kill 6 Million people starting in Iraq. Oh wait, was that you? How embarrassing for you.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_military_bases_of_the_United_Kingdom

    Not letting China off, as they would LIKE to have 145 military bases and build another new one somewhere monthly, just saying, who’s been “Aggressive” lately, sir?

    “but krisenmodus (crisis mode) looks to have a chance to repeat in 2024.”

    The “PolyCrisis”. Three World Wars. We liquidate Disney, CNN, InBev to make the world a smoldering ruin, shut off the oil taps worldwide, then say it’s all an act of God! Really! We weren’t anywhere near it! “It” being: promoting wars, protecting corruption, shutting off food, destroying families…

    I’ve got a better idea: shut THEM off, cancel THEM, and everything goes back to “normal.” You’re doing this on purpose. I can see you. Like you’re trying to REGULATE AND OUTLAW COWS then claim there’s no food. Are you for real thought that would work somehow?

    “To get Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government to backtrack on its decision to eliminate tax breaks on the diesel fuel used for farming”

    This is PRECISELY the Yellow Vests. The gilets jaunes. Raise taxes on the rural poor because they are the only ones left who would resist you? I guess Europe is made of retards who are really slow learners? Scholz puts on his surprised face.

    “Trump Says Georgia Case ‘Totally Compromised’ (ET)

    Again, kind of blows my mind. So, $100,000 and sex with me? No? How about ANOTHER $100k and sex with me 10 more times? Okay, how about you take the $100k my office paid you, we go on a Caribbean 5-star resort and have sex all week with me? Then I can write a check for $400,000 MORE dollars – That is, more than an average American will see in a lifetime – and THEN will you join this petty crime? No? Well the money fire house hasn’t shut off yet, hang around long enough and I’m SURE we can get you to $1 Million dollars. …And me in the butt. Just a little visualization for the day. You’re Welcome.

    I guess all the Rabbits, Chickens, and Geese don’t have any appointments for the day.

    “Plastics water” It’s really the hormone and poisons that “Nobody knewd” while they were promoting them tirelessly over better, more enduring, more profitable alternatives. I know, right? What a coincidence! It just Haaaaaaaappened to cause infertility and low sperm count like all those eco white papers were promoting during the exact same period these were uneconomically and unecologically rolled out.

    Yup, funny old world. Who can understand it?

    #150138
    Dr. D
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    #150139
    WES
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    Dr. D:

    You missed “the mice in this place are even wearing coveralls”!

    #150140
    tboc
    Participant

    what is not discussed leads today’s discussion

    surely a rhetorical question – “How have we not beaten these guys yet?”
    a rhetorical answer: follow the money

    another couple of rhetorical questions: How did that dollar get into your pocket? From making physical objects by assembling raw materials?
    Shirley, you jest.

    #150141
    phoenixvoice
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    Micro plastics are unlikely to be harmful to consumers.
    Ah. Just like Covid vaccines were touted by government authorities to be “safe and effective.”

    I could always taste that there was something funky with water bottled in plastic. Couldn’t everyone else?

    #150142
    John Day
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    The House Judiciary Committee approved a resolution on Wednesday to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for ignoring a Congressional subpoena related to the impeachment inquiry of his father, President Biden.

    House Judiciary Holds Hunter Biden in Contempt of Congress.

    Jeffrey Epstein and his VIP associates had “prior knowledge” of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in the months before they happened, according to Prince Andrew’s ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey.
    Hervey took to social media to break her silence regarding what she knows about Andrew’s relationship with the notorious child sex offender, claiming that Epstein’s contacts knew details about 9/11 before they happened, including the flight numbers of the commercial airplanes to be used in the attacks.
    According to Hervey, Epstein and some of his close associates bought plane tickets “as souvenirs” of the horrifying and heartbreaking national tragedy.
    “Regarding 9/11 which I’ll touch more on tomorrow, I have a story that connects it to Epstein,” she wrote on Instagram. “As in he knew it was going to happen and so did his close circle. They even bought plane tickets as souvenirs and never got on the planes. This is a whole new level of Sick.”

    Prince Andrew’s Ex says Jeffrey Epstein had ‘Prior Knowledge’ of 9/11

    #150143
    zerosum
    Participant

    What caught my eye
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    Profits
    a significant rearmament campaign, inflated prices, increase of between five to ten times, for weapons procurement.

    Stockholm has provided Kiev with $2.2 billion in military assistance.
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    A “secret meeting” requires lying.
    “peace talks”, a ‘peace summit,’ where [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky’s ‘peace formula,’
    “This has nothing to do with resolving the Ukrainian crisis.”
    All this hype is created precisely to maintain the illusion.
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    Russia has become a major destination for Ukrainian nationals, with officials estimating that as many as five million fled eastwards after the hostilities erupted in 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he considers Russians and Ukrainians brotherly peoples.
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    Funding and arming Ukraine is a “futile waste of human resources and money” that will serve only to fill Ukrainian cemeteries with “thousands of dead soldiers,” – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico
    “I will no longer be subject to stupid liberal and progressive demagoguery,” Fico wrote in Slovakia’s Pravda newspaper. “It is literally shocking to see how the West has repeatedly made mistakes in assessing the situation in Russia.”
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    Inflation is an opportunity to increase of profit and increase of leveraging/borrowing to cover increase of costs.

    farmers were identified as viable cash cows.
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    In other words, there is to be no more accountability for Big Pharma’s mass murder than there is for Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians.
    When mass murderers cannot be held accountable, what is the prospect for humanity?
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    Slow death and slow change.
    Most of you is 10 years old or less, because your cells are always renewing.
    The epidermis recycles every 2-4 weeks, red blood cells every 4 months, and your skeleton every 10 years.
    (Change is perpetual. I’m not the same person that you married.)
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    #150144
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Nothing sums up the Duh’merican vibe like this offer and the utter contempt of the ruling class towards the Sheeple…..

    Sounds like the FED hustling interest rates

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    #150145
    Oroboros
    Participant

    1982 newspaper ad for Pakistani Airlines

    They can get you from Karachi to NYC in 16 hours and 30 minutes

    I guess that includes actually safely landing to.

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    #150146
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Just sayin…

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    #150147
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The FED in 1913 assured the fate of the Dollar

    You can wipe your ass with a dollar now.

    Progress is our most important product…

    #150148
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Scumbag academic retracts 4th paper in 4 months

    Former Stanford President Retracts “Ground-Breaking” Alzheimer’s Paper

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    Maybe he has Alzheimers

    Hahahahahahahahahahaa!

    Former Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned in July of last year after an investigation found flaws in his research, retracted a 2009 science paper formerly described as “groundbreaking.”

    In 2009, Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist, was an executive at the biotechnology company Genentech, according to The Daily.

    Two days after the paper’s publication, Genentech described it to its shareholders as “groundbreaking basic research about an entirely new way of looking at the cause of Alzheimer’s disease.”

    “Such incidents are rare, as just eight out of every 10,000 science papers are retracted, according to Retraction Watch.”

    The Harvard “Gay Syndrome” at work

    #150149
    John Day
    Participant

    First Day In Genocide Court https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/first-day-in-genocide-court

    ​ Gaza grandmother gunned down by Israeli sniper as child waved white flag
    Shocking video shows Hala Rashid Abd al-Ati being shot and killed while leaving Gaza City, as her grandson, who had his arms interlocked with her, was waving a white flag
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-israel-grandmother-killed-waving-white-flag

    grandma

    #150150
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ M. K. BHADRAKUMAR​ , Blinken’s window dressing tour of Arab capitals
    ​ What truly distinguishes the present crisis is that the Arab world is profoundly concerned and feels outraged by the barbaric Israeli behaviour toward hapless Palestinians — ‘animals,’ as Israeli politicians have described them. The Arab psyche is convinced that an enduring final settlement of the Palestine problem cannot be postponed indefinitely. Something has fundamentally changed even for Saudi Arabia which had clandestine dealings with Israel for decades and was inching toward establishing formal relations with it.

    Blinken’s window dressing tour of Arab capitals

    ​ South Africa’s statement begins at 15:50 on the time mark. South Africa on Thursday presented its case against Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and asked the World Court to order Israel to stop its military operation. Watch the replay. Israel responds on Friday.

    WATCH: Day 1 of SA v Israel on Genocide at World Court

    CRACK IN A 75-YEAR-OLD WALL OF IMPUNITY: SOUTH AFRICA CHALLENGES ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN COURT​
    1948 was a year of tragic irony.​ That year saw the adoption of both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, together promising a world in which human rights would be protected by the rule of law. That same year, South Africa adopted apartheid and Israeli forces carried out the Nakba, the violent mass dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Both systems relied on western colonial support.
    ​ In short, the modern international human rights movement was born into a world of racialized colonial contradictions. Seventy-five years later, the world is watching in horror as Israel has continued the Nakba through its months-long, systematic ethnic purge of Gaza — again with the complicity of powerful western governments led by the United States.
    ​ The horrors of the original Nakba were met with decades of absolute impunity for Israel, feeding further violence. But this time, three decades since the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa, the post-apartheid “Rainbow Nation” is taking the lead in challenging Israel’s genocidal assault.
    ​ On December 29, South Africa became the first country to file an application to the UN’s high judicial arm, the International Court of Justice, instituting genocide proceedings against Israel for “acts threatened, adopted, condoned, taken, and being taken by the Government and military of the State of Israel against the Palestinian people.”

    A Crack in a 75-year-old Wall of Impunity: South Africa Challenges Israeli Genocide in Court

    ​ The initial hearing is not going to determine definitively whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The issue before the court this week is whether there is sufficient evidence to move the case forward, whether South Africa has legitimate standing to bring the case, whether the case is based on plausible treaty rights and obligations, and most importantly, whether to grant the provisional measures South Africa is seeking.
    ​ It is very likely that the Court will find that the legal questions of standing and legitimacy merit moving the case forward. That is particularly so because the Court does not have to rule definitively on those questions in order to move the case forward. They can decide later that, for some reason, South Africa does not have standing or that the ICJ doesn’t have jurisdiction over this case. By the time the case is fully adjudicated—a process that is likely to take months or years—the court could decide that the case for genocide is not conclusive.

    South Africa’s ICJ case could be a game changer

    ​ Pepe Escobar , BRICS member South Africa takes Zionism to court
    ​ Whatever happens at The Hague could go way beyond a possible condemnation of Israeli for genocide. Both Pretoria and Tel Aviv are members of the ICJ – so the rulings are binding. The ICJ, in theory, carries more weight than the UN Security Council, where the US vetoes any hard facts that tarnish Israel’s carefully constructed self-image.
    ​ The only problem is that the ICJ does not have enforcement power.​..
    ..Reading the full South African application is a horrifying exercise. This is literally history in the making, right in front of us living in the young, tech-addicted, 21st century, and not a science fiction account of a genocide taking place in some distant universe…
    ​..Every grain of sand from the Negev to Arabia knows that the neocon psychos in charge of US foreign policy, including their pet, remote-controlled, senile occupant of the White House are not only complicit in the Israeli genocide but oppose any possibility of a ceasefire.
    ​ Incidentally, such complicity is also punishable by law, according to the Genocide Convention.
    ​ Hence, it is a given that Washington and Tel Aviv will go no-holds-barred to block a fair trial by the ICJ, using every means of pressure and threat available. That dovetails with the extremely limited power exercised by any international court to impose the rule of international law on the exceptionalist Washington–Tel Aviv combo…
    ..The Israeli Foreign Ministry has regimented its embassies to arm-twist host country diplomats and politicians to swiftly issue an “immediate and unequivocal statement along the following lines: To publicly and clearly state that your country rejects the outrageous, absurd, and baseless allegations made against Israel.”
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/brics-member-south-africa-takes-zionism-to-court

    #150151
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ An international law expert explains why South Africa’s case at the ICJ is so important​
    “This is important in the history of the Palestinian cause, since we haven’t had an opportunity to get a binding international decision on any of the important questions that we have been dealing with, including for example, the issue of the Palestinian refugees, the [Israeli] occupation, etc,” Dr. Nuseibah continued.
    ​ The last time the ICJ made a decision in relation to Palestine was a 2004 advisory opinion that found Israel’s separation wall, which at that stage was still early on in its construction, violated international law and should be torn down.
    ​ However, because that decision was a non-binding advisory opinion, Israel was not obligated to stop construction or take down the wall. Instead, Israel continued constructing the wall, which today spans across hundreds of kilometers, cutting off Palestinians from their land and swallowing up swaths of Palestinian territory.

    An international law expert explains why South Africa’s case at the ICJ is so important

    ​ Jonathan Cook , War on Gaza: The West will stand in the dock alongside Israel at the genocide court
    ​ According to a cable from the Israeli foreign ministry, leaked to the Axios website, Israel hopes that, given the difficulties of making a legal case in defence of its actions, diplomatic and political pressure on the court’s justices will win the day instead.
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-west-stand-dock-alongside-israel-genocide-court

    Israel Calls South Africa The “Legal Arm Of Hamas” After 1st Day Of Hague Genocide Case
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-calls-south-africa-legal-arm-hamas-after-1st-day-hague-genocide-case

    ​ The Russian representative to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, attacked Western members of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, accusing them of “wasting the council’s time in sessions far from what is happening in the Middle East, especially Gaza.”
    Nebenzia, speaking in an open debate, stated that “Israel” was seeking t​o “ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people in Gaza with American cover from top to bottom.”
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel–seeks-ethnic-cleansing-under-us-cover–russia-says

    ​ Balls of Steel: Today’s Most Despised Knesset Member.​ Mike Whitney
    He signed a petition in support of “the upcoming hearing at the International Court of Justice … accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.”There are 120 members in the ​ Israeli Knesset, but one man towers above them all. His name is Ofer Cassif, and he is, perhaps, the most despised man in Israel. His crime—if you can call it that—is that he put his moral convictions into practice by signing a petition in support of “the upcoming hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague”… “accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.” (Times of Israel) Here’s what he said:
    “My constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all its residents, not to a government whose members and its coalition are calling for ethnic cleansing and even actual genocide.”

    Balls of Steel: Today’s Most Despised Knesset Member.

    #150152
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ British doctors forced to stop working and flee what appears to be the only hospital in the central Gaza Strip that is still functioning expressed “deep concern” about their patients and the remaining staff there as Israel’s war on the territory enters its fourth month.
    https://www.arabnews.com/node/2439536/middle-east

    ​ ‘Unimaginable situation’ in Gaza as 600 patients and staff expelled from Al-Aqsa Hospital
    ​ Six hundred patients and medical staff have been forced to leave the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza’s Deir al-Balah, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN, following an Israeli evacuation order.
    ​ The orders, which were reported by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, came amid an influx of injured people arriving at the medical centre.
    Al-Aqsa Hospital is the last remaining hospital in operation in Central Gaza, with recent evacuation notices by Israeli forces seeing an exodus of medical staff from.
    ​ According to WHO official Sean Casey who had visited the hospital on Sunday, the hospital was operating with “30 percent of the staff that it had just a few days ago”.
    Casey added that the hospital was receiving “hundreds of casualties every day in a small emergency department”.
    https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-expels-600-patients-staff-gazas-last-hospital

    ​ Gaza’s child amputees face further risks without expert care
    ​ KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza, Jan 4 (Reuters) – Eleven-year-old Noor’s left leg was almost entirely torn off when her home in Jabalia, Gaza was hit by an explosion in October. Now her right leg, fitted with a heavy metal bar and four screws drilled into the bone, may have to be amputated.
    ​ “It hurts me a lot … I’m afraid that they’ll have to cut off my other leg,” she said from her hospital bed, staring at her clunky fixation device.
    “I used to run and play, I was so happy with my life, but now when I lost my leg, my life became ugly and I got sad. I hope I can get an artificial limb.”
    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gazas-child-amputees-face-further-risks-without-expert-care-2024-01-04/

    ​ Israel held Gaza civilians in “torture camp,” new evidence shows
    ​ Dozens of Palestinian men captured by Israel in Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attack were blindfolded, handcuffed, stripped to their underwear and humiliated in a “torture camp,” a new investigation from Tel Aviv-based +972 Magazine has found.
    https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-01-10-israel-held-gaza-civilians-torture-camp-evidence.html

    ​ War on Gaza: Israel cages Palestinian towns in West Bank with iron gates
    The movement of Palestinians is severely constricted as Israeli army erects gates and barriers at entrances of towns and villages
    ​ “The gate is closed.” This phrase is repeated several times a day among Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, describing their lives under the ongoing Israeli closure of their towns and villages.
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-israel-cages-palestinian-towns-west-bank-iron-gates

    #150153
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lengthy one-on-one meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was “tense”, Channel 12 reports.
    ​ Indicative of the bad climate is that Anthony Blinken gave a press conference alone, without Netanyahu present.
    At the same time, the Israeli prime minister’s office did not release the minutes, as it is wont to do, which may indicate the rift.
    ​ The gap between the US and Israel is widening and Washington is losing patience, the Channel 12 report emphasizes.
    Blinken met privately with Netanyahu at Tel Aviv’s Kirya military base and then with the war cabinet.
    ​ Israel is going full steam ahead at war with Hezbollah (military preparations have escalated in the last 48 hours) with relations with the US and UK at a tipping point for the first time in history.
    https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/istoriko-stratigiko-lathos-tou-israil-arpachtikan-agria-blinken-netaniachou-erchetai-polemos-idf-chezbolach-me-moudiasmenes-ipa-vretania/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

    Despite All Evidence, Blinken Calls Genocide Case Against Israel ‘Meritless’​
    The U.S. secretary of state dismissed South Africa’s case as he admitted 90% of Gaza residents are facing acute hunger.
    https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/10/despite-all-evidence-blinken-calls-genocide-case-against-israel-meritless/

    ​ The war within Israel’s war cabinet
    ​ The Israeli body politic is beset with political and security differences exacerbated by the deadly costs of their Gaza war. Now they’re fighting over whether to investigate their string of failures – before or after launching another war with Lebanon.
    ​ Undermining those efforts every step of the way is a growing Israeli chorus advocating for the reoccupation of southern Lebanon up to the Litani border as the only solution that would ensure the security of Israeli settlements. Recently, Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman proposed the occupation of southern Lebanon, placing the area between the Litani River and the border with occupied Palestine under Israeli control with UN supervision.
    ​ Recognizing the potential catastrophic consequences of a full-scale confrontation with Hezbollah which has formidable – and unknown – offensive, armament, and intelligence capabilities at its disposal, the Israeli military is keen on addressing the root causes of its recent failures before engaging in any further battles.
    ​ For its part, Hezbollah conditions any discussion about military actions with Israel on the cessation of the genocidal war on Gaza. The Lebanese resistance emphasizes that side actions intended to bait Hezbollah into war, such as targeting Hamas leaders in Lebanon, are not part of the debate.
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/the-war-within-israels-war-cabinet

    ​ Hezbollah’s use of anti-tank missiles unprecedented: Israeli media
    The Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that Hezbollah’s utilization of this precision weapon is unparalleled in “Israel” and possibly globally.
    ​ Israeli media reported on Wednesday that Hezbollah’s use of anti-tank missiles as a sniper weapon is “unprecedented.”​…
    ..Moreover, the newspaper revealed that the “range of the anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon at civilian targets in the al-Jalil now comes to “Moshav Beit Hillel”, located four kilometers (2.5 miles) from the border; and Kibbutz Kfar Szold in the Hula Valley, six kilometers from the border, whose residents have not been evacuated.”
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-s-use-of-anti-tank-missiles-unprecedented–israeli

    ​ Shahed-238 Drone Makes Ukraine Combat Debut: Iran’s Enhanced New ‘Kamikaze’ Jets Built to Combat Enemy Air Defences​ (Cheap tech plays leapfrog.)
    ​ Its unveiling came less than a month before the Iranian-aligned Hezbollah militia group launching limited strikes against Israeli Iron Dome air defence systems, highlighting the value such aircraft could have not only for its extra-regional clients such as Russia but also for its strategic partners within the Middle East.
    https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/shahed238-debut-suppress-defences

    #150154
    John Day
    Participant

    UNSC adopts resolution demanding halt to Yemeni operations in Red Sea
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/unsc-adopts-resolution-demanding-halt-to-yemeni-operations-i

    ​ Blinken Admits Iran Behind ‘Biggest Attack’ Targeting US Ships, But There’s No Plan
    ​ The Tuesday night attack saw up to 24 missiles and drones sent against international shipping lanes in the southern part of the Red Sea, and crucially directly against a US warship, as we detailed previously. The Pentagon said that three destroyers that are part of Operation Prosperity Guardian took part in shooting down the incoming barrage.
    ​ Secretary of State Antony Blinken has in fresh comments charged that ultimately Iran was behind this “biggest attack” by the Yemen-based Houthi rebels. He warned “there will be consequences” if the aggression continues. “We had the biggest attack just yesterday, aided and abetted by Iran​.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blinken-admits-iran-behind-biggest-attack-targeting-us-ships-theres-no-plan

    ​Tit-for-tat
    ​ Iranian naval forces, acting under a court order, seized Marshall Islands-flagged tanker “St Nikolas,” Bloomberg reports, citing Iran’s semi-official Tasnim agency reports. The report said St Nikolas is a “US oil tanker.”…
    ..Bloomberg confirmed that the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker “St Nikolas” is the vessel that was hijacked. A previous report says that St Nikolas was seized by the US last year, sailing under a different name, “Suez Rajan,” for transporting unauthorized Iranian cargo.
    ​ Empire Navigation, the vessel’s operator, said the tanker was loaded with 145,000 tons of crude from the Iraqi port of Basra and was en route to Aliaga in western Turkey through the Suez Canal. It noted all communication with the vessel had been lost​.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/oil-tanker-hijacked-gulf-oman

    US government debt biggest threat to global economy – Russian NGO
    The burden is unsustainable and could destabilize the financial system, Roscongress has warned
    https://swentr.site/business/590384-russia-us-debt-threat-global-economy/

    #150155
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Still no pictures or video of “Lloyd Austin” in 2024.
    Pentagon inspector general to investigate mishandling of Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization​ , Austin’s recent secretive hospitalization has been at the center of controversy.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/11/lloyd-austin-controversy-hill-dems-00134856

    ​ Jeffrey Epstein and his VIP associates had “prior knowledge” of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in the months before they happened, according to Prince Andrew’s ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey.
    ​ Hervey took to social media to break her silence regarding what she knows about Andrew’s relationship with the notorious child sex offender, claiming that Epstein’s contacts knew details about 9/11 before they happened, including the flight numbers of the commercial airplanes to be used in the attacks.
    ​ According to Hervey, Epstein and some of his close associates bought plane tickets “as souvenirs” of the horrifying and heartbreaking national tragedy.
    “Regarding 9/11 which I’ll touch more on tomorrow, I have a story that connects it to Epstein,” she wrote on Instagram. “As in he knew it was going to happen and so did his close circle. They even bought plane tickets as souvenirs and never got on the planes. This is a whole new level of Sick.”

    Prince Andrew’s Ex says Jeffrey Epstein had ‘Prior Knowledge’ of 9/11

    #150156
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/iraq-wants-orderly-withdrawal-of-destabilizing-us-troops-pm

    Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on 10 January that Baghdad wants “a quick and orderly” withdrawal of US combat forces from Iraq.

    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/washington-has-no-plans-to-withdraw-from-iraq

    Washington said that it does not intend to exit the country, and that it was unaware of any plans to do so.
    Pentagon press secretary General Patrick Ryder confirmed on 8 January that the US is not planning to withdraw any of its troops from Iraq, despite claims to the contrary made last week by the government in Baghdad.

    “We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build … We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it … We will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever.
    It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame,” said then-US president Donald Trump on the same day as the Iraqi parliamentary vote.

    #150157

    Break your promise; take some pokes;
    Act insane; don’t make amends;
    Steal some stuff and bomb some folks:
    This is why you don’t have friends.

    #150188

    If you think of the law topologically, then corporate law is a möbius strip.

    Sasha L’s latest on TX is depressingly good.

    #150189
    Oroboros
    Participant

    High End Brothel in Kharkov that mercenaries love in frequent popped by Russian missile.

    Russians have excellent sources on the ground in Ukronaziland

    #150190
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Nazilensky relentlessly bitch slapped and pistol whipped by Scott & Larry tag team

    #150191
    zerosum
    Participant

    More random posts on Yemen.

    #150192
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.aljazeera.com/
    US, UK launch strikes on Houthis in Yemen
    (When will the UK< US navy ship/fleet be sunk?)

    #150193
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Four Great Villains of the Medical Industrial Complex

    Tucker kicking the Medical Industrial Complex in the NADS with Alex Berenson

    #150194
    WES
    Participant

    The neocon’s proxy war in the Ukraine has certainly turned parts of Ukraine society upside down not to mention also depopulating the country by almost 50 percent. It shouldn’t be forgotten that this is a Civil War too.

    Also of some interest, is how the huge amounts of foriegn money the west has poured into Ukraine has grossly distorted and hollowed out and extremely skewed the Ukrainian economy. This huge flood of foriegn money has allowed the Ukraine government to devote far more of it’s country’s resources towards it’s war effort, and for much longer than most warring countries normally can.

    Clearly when the foriegn money flows stop, Ukraine’s economy will be in a tremendous world of hurt. Then when the war ends the hurt will become even more painful.

    Likely Ukraine’s economy will be exceedingly slow to recover because of the structural damage caused by both the war and the huge flow of foreiegn money. One has to wonder how many of the productive Ukrainians will be willing to return to rebuild their country?

    If corruption was bad before the war, it will be far far worst after the war ends. Crime gangs will spring up like poppies because so many Nazi men will know no other way of earning a living but that with a gun.

    I look at El Salvador as a potential model for what to expect too happen in the Ukraine, not under Drussia’s direct control..

    After El Salvador’s brutal Civil War ended, the defeated rebels formed huge numbers of armed criminal gangs to continue the only way of life they knew. Decades after the Civil War ended every store and gas station had fully armed guards stationed out front in order to stay in business. It is only now, many decades later, are the people finally trying to stop the rule of these gangs by throwing every gang member they can find into prison.

    Those productive people in El Salvador who left did not come back to rebuild their country because they would has been quickly killed for their money. No Ukrainian with any money currently outside of the Ukraine, will return for the very same reason.

    Ukraine’s future is crime and corruption.

    #150195
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #150196
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us-britain-carry-out-strikes-against-houthis-yemen-officials-2024-01-11/
    US, Britain carry out strikes against Houthis in Yemen, officials say
    By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Mohammed Ghobari
    January 11, 20246:28 PM PST

    A Houthi official confirmed “raids” in the capital Sanaa along with the cities of Saada and Dhamar as well as in Hodeidah governorate, calling them “American-Zionist-British aggression.”

    Witnesses told Reuters that the raids targeted a military base adjacent to Sanaa airport, a military site near Taiz airport, a Houthi naval base in Hodeidah and military sites in Hajjah governorate.
    ————–
    Does Canada have a procedure before declaring war on Yemen?
    Australia, Bahrain, Canada and Netherlands provide support.

    #150197
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-vow-expanded-attacks-us-navy-bigger-tuesdays-barrage
    Gaza War Expands As US, UK Warplanes Bomb Houthi Strongholds In Yemen

    BY TYLER DURDEN

    #150198
    zerosum
    Participant

    The USA wanted Iran involved.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/oil-tanker-hijacked-gulf-oman
    Iran Hijacks Oil Tanker In Gulf Of Oman

    BY TYLER DURDEN
    THURSDAY, JAN 11, 2024 – 02:11 PM
    Update:

    Iranian naval forces, acting under a court order, seized Marshall Islands-flagged tanker “St Nikolas,” Bloomberg reports, citing Iran’s semi-official Tasnim agency reports. The report said St Nikolas is a “US oil tanker.”

    And now the Pentagon’s Operation Prosperity Guardian mission to safeguard critical commercial shipping lanes has to worry about conflict spreading from the Red Sea to the Hormuz Strait.

    #150212
    aspnaz
    Participant

    https://www.rt.com/news/590476-uk-israel-boycott-legislation/

    I wonder what the Jews have on Gove. He has been the slimyest MP for a very long time; I would put money on him being part of the London pedo scene.

    #150213
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “..there is to be no more accountability for Big Pharma’s mass murder than there is for Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians..”

    The Jews are killing us and nobody is even willing to call them out on it; most of the TAE commentariat are still too afraid to state the obvious, that the Jews are destroying our world in order to enslave us with something much, much worse, but nobody will fight because they are afraid of the shame of being called anti-semitic. The cowardice.

    #150216
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Plastics water

    We spend all day criticising MSM like 9 news australia for lying, then TAE goes and quotes them; fascinating to discover whether people really disbelieve the MSM or actually believe them but just don’t like the message. I never read, listen or watch them, but that is based on what they were like 20 years ago; maybe they got better, but being a cynic I suspect they just got worse. As soon as I saw the 9 news australia logo, I closed it down as more than likely to be bullshit that was trying to pollute my brain.

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