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Another report that Egypt now rejects any military or naval presence in the Red Sea by non-bordering countries.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty stated on Saturday that the security of the Red Sea “depends solely on the will of its littoral states,” rejecting any military or naval presence by non-littoral states, Anadolu Agency reports… “We discussed Red Sea security, which is solely tied to the will of its littoral states. It is completely unacceptable to allow any military or naval presence by non-littoral states,” Abdelatty added.
US-UK influence is reportedly slipping further in the Red Sea area.
Yemen news says that on the one-year anniversary of the “failed American-British aggression against Yemen”, foreign ministers of three countries bordering the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (Egypt, Eritrea, and Somalia) met in Egypt and affirmed their rejection of military or naval activities of non-coastal countries in the Red Sea.
This is the first time that these countries have raised their voices against the British-American oppressive power, as those countries have been maneuvering with neutrality for fear of the repercussions of such positions.
Craig Murray retweeted this:
Former Labour MP caught by paedophile hunters, on his way to meet a minor.
He is the chairman of the Jewish Labour Movement, a hardcore Zionist political group which has strong support for Israel.
Colour me shocked…https://xcancel.com/MannieMighty1/status/1878161073599078755#m
Ukraine captured two injured North Korean soldiers, Zelenskyy says
The North Korean soldiers in Russia are not mercenaries, according to the United Nations definition, if they are in Russia on official duty as members of the North Korean armed forces.
International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries
Article 1
For the purposes of the present Convention,
A mercenary is any person who:a. Is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict;
b. Is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar rank and functions in the armed forces of that party;
c. Is neither a national of a party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a party to the conflict;
d. Is not a member of the armed forces of a party to the conflict; and
e. Has not been sent by a State which is not a party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces.
“arguing a concept cannot be both true and false while employing the argument another concept is both true and false”
Paradox?
Schrodinger’s cat?
“We were ordered not to leave any mercenaries alive.” – Russian soldier who killed NATO mercenary”
The legal situation doesn’t look good for mercenaries.
International Humanitarian Law Databases – ICRC —
Customary IHL – Practice relating to rule 108 Mercenaries
The First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions (1977) denies mercenaries both the status of Combatants and of Prisoners of war.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v2/rule108United Nations, International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries —
Any person who recruits, uses, finances or trains mercenaries, as defined in article 1 of the present Convention, commits an offence for the purposes of the Convention… A mercenary, as defined in article 1 of the present Convention, who participates directly in hostilities or in a concerted act of violence, as the case may be, commits an offence for the purposes of the Convention.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-convention-against-recruitment-use-financing-andYemen keeps getting bombed, but “the Israeli military does not have a clue where the Yemen military installations are”, reports AlJazeera, and Yemen keeps firing back.
The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV broadcaster reported on Friday that air strikes hit the western ports of Ras Isa and Hodeidah, the Hezyaz Central Power Station near Sanaa, and the Harf Sufyan district of Amran province.
Yemeni political commentator Hussain al-Bukhaiti told Al Jazeera that it was “clear” the Israeli military “does not have a clue where the Yemen military installations are”. He said the Houthis would continue their attacks against Israel, referring to rumours that they might use “new types of hypersonic ballistic missiles” to hit “legitimate targets” like “their power station and airport”.
In recent days, the Houthis fired three drones at Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv and more drones and missiles at the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman in the Red Sea, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/10/yemens-houthis-report-coordinated-israeli-us-and-uk-attacks
Iran’s newest “suicide drone” has a reported range of 4,000 km.
Wikipedia says the range of a Tomahawk cruise missile is up to 2,500 km, and the range of a Reaper drone is less than 2,000 km.
“Iran’s newest suicide drone nightmare for Zionists”The flight power of this drone, which reaches four thousand kilometers, is amazing. This military power can open new horizons in future wars.
Referring to the flight power of this UAV, a Hebrew-language site admitted that the Shahied 136 B can go from Tehran to Paris, the report added.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/226649/Iran-s-newest-suicide-drone-nightmare-for-Zionists
Indonesia joins Brics as newest full member, Brazil foreign ministry says
from Bricks (BRICS) to Bickers (BICIRS)
more from mpsk
March 20, 2023 at 2:00 pm in reply to:
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ParticipantThanks, Dr. D- an optimistic post again
Relatively little coverage of this in mainstream media.
Orthodox Jews Join Protest Against Gaza War in Times Square on New Year’s DayProtest signs included these messages –
Authentic Rabbis always opposed Zionism and the State of Israel
Judaism condemns the State of “Israel” and its atrocities
Judaism demands freedom for Gaza and all Palestine & forbids any Jewish State
Orthodox Jews Join Protest Against Gaza War in Times Square on New Year’s Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UIVdDAiSJEYemen news source surmises that US aircraft carrier Truman in the Red Sea is currently out of service, following an earlier attack on it when an F-18 was shot down (said to be friendly fire). Since then, the Truman has allegedly stopped sending aircraft to attack Yemen, and Tomahawk missiles ($2.1 million each) are instead being launched by destroyers in the Red Sea.
The US Central Command released a video of the attack carried out at the end of last month. The clip shows the moment of launching “Tomahawk” missiles on the Yemeni capital Sana’a and Hudaydah governorate.
The missiles were launched from destroyers belonging to the US aircraft carrier “USS Harry S. Truman,” stationed in the Red Sea.
The clip confirms the inability of the US forces in the “Truman” fleet to carry out airstrikes on Yemen as usual due to difficulties on board the American battleship.
“He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological…”
“I think the point is to make us despair.”
— The Exorcist, 1973
“I’ll turn you into me.”
Liar, 1994
New Jersey mystery drones from foreign country?
0% chanceAre the New Jersey mystery drones aliens?
0% chanceMystery drones searching for nuclear weapons?
0% chanceU.S. government admits they are operating mystery drones?
0% chanceThus spoke Polymarket
https://polymarket.com/event/us-government-admits-they-are-operating-the-mystery-dronesIsraeli bombardment of Yemen airport today almost kills WHO head Tedros.
Meanwhile, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he and his United Nations colleagues were preparing to board a plane at Sanaa airport when it came under Israeli bombardment.
“One of our plane’s crew members was injured. At least two people were reported killed at the airport. The air traffic control tower, the departure lounge – just a few meters from where we were – and the runway were damaged,” he said in a post on X, adding that they were all safe.
Tedros said the UN and WHO teams were in the country “to negotiate the release of UN staff detainees and to assess the health and humanitarian situation in Yemen”.
The Israeli strikes came a day after Yemen’s Houthis, who control northwestern Yemen, including Sanaa and its Red Sea coast, fired a ballistic missile and two drones towards Israel.
More hypersonic ballistic missiles from Yemen.
.Defiant Yemen strikes Israelis againThe Sanaa government in Yemen has announced that its forces successfully struck the Israeli regime with a hypersonic ballistic missile.
According to a statement issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces, the operation targeted a military site in the occupied area of “Yaffa” with a missile named Palestine 2.
The Yemeni Armed Forces warned of continued operations against Israel unless the genocidal war on Gaza ends and the deadly siege is lifted.
“These operations will not stop unless the aggression on Gaza is stopped and the siege is lifted,” the statement read.
This marks the second consecutive day in which a ballistic missile has been launched at central Israel, in what the Times of Israel described as “a near-daily event.”
The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth’s journalist, Ron Ben-Yishai, said, “The direct hits by ballistic missiles launched from Yemen, which the air defense system failed to intercept, have caused significant frustration among political and security officials in Israel and Washington.”
In response to Yemen’s missile launch, Israeli media reported that Yemen is “forcing millions of Israelis to jump out of their beds and head to shelters every night, while Netanyahu has no response.”
The Jerusalem Post also reported that this was the fifth missile launched by Yemen toward Israel in the past seven days.
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/507930/Defiant-Yemen-strikes-Israelis-again
Joe Sacco’s new book “War on Gaza” is getting almost no press coverage, apart from an article in the Tehran Times.
“War on Gaza”: Joe Sacco’s graphic journey through genocide
Imagine the sharp scratch of pen on paper, sketching scenes of war, displacement, and resilience. The panels come alive, telling stories too raw for photographs and too complex for a headline. This is the world of Joe Sacco, a pioneer who turned the ink-stained pages of comics into a medium for journalism as vivid as it is visceral: Comics Journalism.
For decades, Sacco has redefined what journalism can be, using the medium of comics to plunge readers into the lived realities of those caught in warzones. From the Israeli crimes in “Palestine” (1996) and “Footnotes in Gaza” (2009) to the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia in “Safe Area Goražde” (2000) and “The Fixer” (2003), Sacco’s work has consistently paired meticulous research with gut-wrenching art. His unique style not only documents events but humanizes them, placing individual voices at the forefront of historical and political turmoil.
Sacco’s illustrations, which place the audience directly and objectively within the depicted conditions, challenge the world’s perception of events in Palestine and the crimes of Israel. As the audience turns each page of Sacco’s comics, they accompany him on a journey in search of the truth, uncovering the dystopia of the occupied territories that biased media often avoid revealing.
After years, Sacco takes up his pen again, this time to address Israel’s bloody genocide in Gaza. Titled “The War on Gaza…
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/507880/War-on-Gaza-Joe-Sacco-s-graphic-journey-through-genocide
The latest from Craig Murray in Lebanon
The Bank Israel Bombed
[all 38 branches]Israel has relentlessly bombed all 38 branches of the Al-Qard Al-Hasan Association in Lebanon. Why is it so important to the Zionist cause to specifically obliterate a savings and loan institution? I investigate in our fourth mini-documentary from Lebanon.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/12/the-bank-israel-bombed/
Natural Compounds that Target and Disrupt Bird Flu
Getting ahead of unsafe and ineffective government countermeasures.The authors suggest, “compounds such as aloe emodin, quercetin, curcumin, and epicatechin gallate all possess potential to be drug development targets due to their high binding affinity and binding region specificity.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/natural-compounds-that-target-and
News from Yemen today says the “Truman” will be the fourth aircraft carrier withdrawn from the Gulf due to the repeated Yemeni attacks on them.
Satellite images showed the “USS Harry S. Truman” carrier moving about 800 nautical miles away from Yemen’s territorial waters and currently positioned off the Saudi port of Jeddah.
The “Truman” had earlier penetrated about 300 kilometers into the Red Sea after entering through the Suez Canal a few days ago.
These developments come after Yemen announced targeting the carrier. The official spokesman for the Yemeni forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, confirmed that the carrier was targeted with a number of winged missiles and drones.
The transfer of the “Truman” to the port of Jeddah brought to mind the “Eisenhower,” which was also moved to the same port before its withdrawal was announced.
The “Truman” will be the fourth aircraft carrier withdrawn from the Gulf due to the repeated Yemeni attacks on them.
The US Department of Defense had previously announced the withdrawn of the “Eisenhower,” which was deployed in the Red Sea at the start of the American aggression, in an attempt to contain the Yemeni operations in November of last year, followed by the withdrawn of the “Roosevelt,” whose fate has not been known since its replacement with the “Lincoln,” which was also withdrawn after a Yemeni attack on its location in the Arabian Sea.
“Two US Navy pilots were shot down Sunday over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, the US military said.“
“The guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired on and hit the F/A-18,” Central Command said in a statement, AP reported.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the Gettysburg could mistake an F/A-18 for an enemy aircraft or missile, particularly as ships in a battle group remain linked by both radar and radio communication.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/225812/US-F-18-Super-Hornet-jet-crashes-over-Yemen-waters
“Yemen says it downed American F-18 fighter jet”
The Yemeni Armed Forces announced in a statement that, “We have thwarted the joint US-British attack and targeted the aircraft carrier “USS Harry S. Truman” and a number of its accompanying destroyers.
In the statement, the Yemeni Armed Forces said that the operation was carried out using 8 cruise missiles and 17 drones.
The Yemeni Armed Forces also announced that during this operation, an American “F-18” aircraft was shot down by Yemeni forces when the destroyers were trying to confront the Yemeni drones and missiles.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/225855/Yemen-says-it-attacked-US-ship-with-8-missiles-and-17-drones
Debilitating Syria’s defenses, but leaving the tanks unharmed for Ukraine?
The Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) has further widened its aggression against the Arab country, attacking approximately 61 targets in the past 24 hours.
The regime’s military stated on Sunday that its attacks over the past few days have “inflicted significant damage on Syria’s air defense systems,” as “more than 90% of the strategic surface-to-air missiles were destroyed.”
It also pointed out that “hundreds of aircraft carried out powerful strikes targeting the most strategic weapons in Syria over the past few days.”
According to the IOF, the targets included “fighter jets, combat helicopters, Scud missiles, drones, cruise missiles, coastal defense missiles, surface-to-air missiles, surface-to-surface missiles, as well as radars, rocket launchers, and other weaponry.”
https://tehrantimes.com/news/507525/Israelis-destroy-90-of-Syrian-missiles
What It’s Like to Captain a Tanker on Fire After a Houthi Attack
820-foot freighter had just been struck off the coast of Yemen in waters where Houthi attacks were — and remain — commonplace. There was now a hole of about 5 square meters in the tanker’s deck and a fire was roaring.
https://gcaptain.com/what-its-like-to-captain-a-tanker-on-fire-after-a-houthi-attack/
How Often People Go To The Doctor, By Country
What the Phuck is wrong with South Koreans???16 annual visits for South Korea.
Why is the UK not listed? Another source says the number for the UK was 25 ( in 2018-2019)All types of consultations with all staff in a practice more than doubled, rising from an annual average of 11 per person in 2000–01 to 25 in 2018–19
The UK number seems to be an apples-to-apples comparison with South Korea and the other countries on the OECD chart, since that data included “the number of contacts with physicians, both generalists and specialists”, according to the OECD source.
This indicator presents data on the number of consultations patients have with doctors in a given year. Consultations with doctors can take place in doctors’ offices or clinics, in hospital outpatient departments or, in some cases, in patients’ own homes. Consultations with doctors refer to the number of contacts with physicians, both generalists and specialists.
https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/doctors-consultations.html
• EU Reports Dramatic Fall In Birth Rate (RT)
Iran has a different approach, a “youth population law” to boost the country’s birth rate. The country’s total fertility rate is expected to reach 2.5 in the next 5 years.
TEHRAN – Enacting the youth population law has stabilized the total fertility rate, slightly increasing the general fertility index over the past two years.
After experiencing seven years of decline by about 20 percent, the fertility rate is now stabilized at around 1.6, IRNA reported.
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Despite offering incentives to encourage childbearing in line with youth population law, the desired growth in the youth population has not been accomplished yet.
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“Since the implementation of the law, the number of births among mothers aged 20 to 24 has notably increased,” the official added.
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In November 2023, an official with the Ministry of Health said that the total fertility rate should reach 2.5 from 1.6 before the closure of the demographic window in the next five years.“The country is on the threshold of aging; to tackle this crisis, we must promote childbearing and youth population,” IRNA quoted Saber Jabbari as saying.
https://tehrantimes.com/news/507022/Youth-population-law-stabilizes-total-fertility-rate
President of South Korea declares martial law, because the opposition party has control of the legislature and plans to impeach some government officials, according to Reuters.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law in an unannounced late night address broadcast live on YTN television. Yoon said he had no choice but to resort to such a measure in order to safeguard free and constitutional order, saying opposition parties have taken hostage of the parliamentary process to throw the country into a crisis.
Yoon cited a motion by the country’s opposition Democratic Party, which has a majority in parliament, this week to impeach some of the country’s top prosecutors and its rejection of a government budget proposal.News from Yemen today.
Yemeni forces declared on Sunday evening the execution of a “qualitative and joint” military operation targeting an American destroyer and three US army supply ships in support of Gaza and “in response to the American British aggression on our country.”
Brigadier General Yahya Saree clarified in a statement that “the targeted US army supply ships are the Stena Impeccable, Maersk Saratoga, and Liberty Grace.”
He stated that the operation was carried out “with 16 ballistic and winged missiles and a drone in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden,” confirming that the hits were “accurate and direct.”
https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2024/12/01/282821/
I looked up the Stena Impeccable and a press release says it was one of the Stena tanker ships “reflagged as U.S. registered vessels with U.S. crews”, “to meet national defense and other security requirements”, “in support of the nation’s defense forces.”
https://www.crowley.com/news-and-media/press-releases/three-crowley-managed-tankers-awarded-roles-in-defense-fleet-with-stena-bulk/An online search for the Maersk Saratoga revealed that it’s a container ship, and
Maersk Saratoga is part of Maersk Line, Limited (MLL), the Danish company’s US subsidiary, which carries significant amounts of cargo for the Department of Defense…The latest from Craig Murray who is in Lebanon.
Israel bombed in Lebanon yesterday and today, they opened fire on farmers, on a funeral, snipers shot at journalists. They are advancing into towns they were repelled from in the fighting. They are tearing up olive trees. Not a single person has fired back. The moment somebody does, the USA and its allies will call “ceasefire violation”. I feel heartsick
https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1862586112486907938#m
Microwave directed-energy weapons?
Gaza Ministry of Health: Israeli weapons “evaporate bodies” in the northern Gaza StripThe director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir al-Barsh, said on Friday that the Israeli occupation army is using weapons “whose nature is unknown” in the northern Gaza Strip that lead to the evaporation of bodies.</blockquote
https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2024/11/29/282602/Craig Murray’s latest from Lebanon.
Sometimes evil is the only word to describe Israel’s actions here in Lebanon
Israel killed 15 first responders who had set up their emergency centre in this ancient church – which the Israelis then bombed.
https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1862241849043251460#m
“According to Biden, the truce is intended to be permanent.”
According to Craig Murray, who is currently in Lebanon, the truce is “a smoke and mirrors trick by the USA and Israel”, similar to the Minsk Agreements.
Please listen to this carefully. The Lebanese ceasefire agreement is a smoke and mirrors trick by the USA and Israel. They have no intention of keeping it; comparable to the Minsk Agreements.
There is still an Israeli drone over my head in central Beirut, which is a good indication of how Israel view their rights under this lopsided “ceasefire agreement”.
https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1861494794234613760/pu/vid/avc1/1280×720/0cdmJxRvWjxIyD_s.mp4?tag=12Craig Murray posted this from Lebanon today.
I was awoken by the most incredible explosion, I think around 4am. Our entire apartment shook. Nobody yet knows how many are killed, first estimate I am hearing is about 90 dead and hundreds injured. Desperate rescue attempts ongoing.
No warning. An entirely civilian block.Lebanon has zero air defences. There is no operational need for Israel to bomb at 4am.
The only reason they bomb in the middle of the night is to maximise civilian casualties and especially to kill as many children as possible, who would mostly be outside in waking hours.Craig Murray reports from Lebanon.
Over 3,500 Lebanese have been killed, the majority of them women and children. The bombs that killed them were not only made in the USA, they were supplied by the USA for the purpose. As were the aircraft that dropped them.
The Americans are arrogant enough to send Amos Hochstein, born in the terrorist state to Israeli parents and himself a former member of the IDF, as their “peace envoy”.
And it says everything about America’s real interest in the region that Hochstein’s official position in the Biden Administration is actually Energy Security Adviser.
As I explained in my last article, Israel’s intensified bombing campaign is designed to terrify Lebanon into signing a peace deal that is actually a surrender. It guarantees Israeli armed forces access at will into Southern Lebanon, and military overflight of the entire country.
The access to Southern Lebanon in the latest draft has been supposedly toned down and phrased as “in pursuit of Israel’s right of self-defence”.
As the entire world has seen this last year and more that “Israel’s right to self-defence” is interpreted by both Israel and the United States as the right to commit genocide, Lebanon would be utterly mad to sign this document.
Similarly Lebanon is supposed to be reassured by insertion of the USA as the “guarantor” of the agreement.
You read that right; the county which is currently funding and supplying the genocidal bombing of Lebanon is going to be the guarantor of its safety.
If you have not by now seen through the Biden administration’s pretence of “trying to restrain” Israel, whilst providing ever greater funding and weapons for the genocide, then you are such a fool that I cannot help you.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/11/the-effects-of-israeli-barbarity/
Chinese news source reports “To avoid the Houthis missiles, the American destroyers resorted to hiding within the Chinese escort fleet, with satellite images showing that the American ships were sailing closely behind the Chinese fleet.”
Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree revealed on the evening of the 12th that they used ballistic missiles and drones to carry out an eight-hour attack on the American aircraft carrier ‘Lincoln’ and two of its destroyers, rendering the American ships unable to find refuge. …
The American aircraft carrier “Lincoln” and its accompanying ships entered the Gulf of Aden on November 11 and were immediately targeted by ballistic missiles launched from Ansar Allah base 650 kilometers away. To avoid the Houthis missiles, the American destroyers resorted to hiding within the Chinese escort fleet, with satellite images showing that the American ships were sailing closely behind the Chinese fleet.” …
According to reports, on November 12, the Houthi group stated that it used long-range cruise missiles, drones, anti-ship missiles, and anti-ship ballistic missiles in their precise attack on the aircraft carrier group “Lincoln,” which includes the aircraft carrier “Lincoln” and the destroyers “USS Tokdale” and “Spruance.”
US civilian satellite images on November 12 showed that the two American destroyers “USS Tokdale” and “Spruance” resorted to hiding within the escort group of the Chinese navy to avoid Houthi attacks, as the American aircraft carrier fleet closely followed the Chinese navy fleet. …
This time, the armed Houthi forces’ attack on the aircraft carrier “Lincoln” in the Arabian Sea and two American destroyers in the Red Sea continued for a full 8 hours, and it is still unknown whether they hit the aircraft carrier, as the United States typically tends not to disclose damages.
https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2024/11/16/281002/
The US claims that the two destroyers were not damaged, and the Pentagon’s press secretary “was not aware of any attacks against the aircraft carrier.”
The Houthis launched at least eight one-way uncrewed aerial systems, five anti-ship ballistic missiles and three anti-ship cruise missiles at USS Spruance (DDG-111) and USS Stockdale (DDG-106), which engaged all the projectiles, Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters on Tuesday. U.S. Central Command has not yet issued a statement.
There were no injuries or damage to the two destroyers. … Ryder said was not aware of any attacks against the aircraft carrier.
USNI News’ Fleet Tracker, published Tuesday, has Abe in the Gulf of Aden.
Spruance and Stockdale had previously operated as independent destroyers in the Red Sea as part of Operation Prosperity Guardian. As of Monday, the pair were attached to the Lincoln strike group.
https://news.usni.org/2024/11/12/houthis-attack-two-u-s-destroyers-leaving-the-red-sea-pentagon-says
Craig Murray went to Lebanon to do “real reporting” for a couple months, and he doesn’t mince words about Israel.
Killing 40 or even 70 entirely innocent people is of no concern to Israel in eliminating a target. Nor do they care in the least how many of them are children. Non-Jewish life simply has zero intrinsic value in their eyes.
To come into a city which is under active bombardment, where dozens of people are killed every single day, is not entirely a comfortable feeling. Particularly when journalists are deliberately and systematically assassinated by Israel and, not to put too fine a point on it, the Israelis are not particularly keen on me.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/11/two-weeks-in-beirut/
In an earlier article with the title The Israeli Terrorist State, Craig Murray wrote
For me it is now axiomatic that there is no two state solution and that apartheid Israel must be completely dismantled as an entity. I believe that more and more people around the entire globe believe that now. And if we have to dismantle our own political and media classes to get there, so be it.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/07/the-israeli-terrorist-state/
Thanks, Mister Roboto and Rototillerman.
Mainstream media is now reporting that Trump’s 2024 votes are higher than his 2020 votes, which seems plausible with all the fired-up support Donald seemed to be getting as Kamala’s opponent.
President-elect Trump’s 2024 vote totals have officially surpassed his total vote count from 2020, according to numbers from The Associated Press.
Trump’s popular vote total, 74,372,005 votes and counting, surpasses his 2020 total of 74,223,975 despite certain states like California and Arizona still tabulating votes.
According to the AP, Maryland, Oregon, Arizona, Utah, Alaska and California have still not finished counting votes. California specifically had only counted 63% of its votes as of 5 p.m. ET, according to The Associated Press.
It is unclear when these states will finish their counts. Approximately 5 million votes or so remain to be counted.
I’m wondering why Trump had less votes counted in 2024, compared to 2020?
Less supporters for Trump in 2024?
Trumps popularity went down, or what?
Germany’s navy doesn’t want its warships to be in a situation where they might be fired upon.
“The decision by German warships to avoid the Red Sea so they don’t come in range of Houthi rebels is a sign of the alarming decline of Western sea power.“
the German navy followed it up by announcing that both ships would divert around the Cape of Good Hope on their way home, to avoid the threat of Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.
https://cepa.org/article/is-western-sea-power-adrift/
Meanwhile, the Houthi rebels are accused of running a protection racket and extorting money from shipping lines.
Houthi rebels are extorting as much as $2 billion a year from shipping lines in exchange for not attacking their vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, according to a new study.
The unreleased study based on research by a panel of Yemen experts for the United Nations Security Council found that the Houthis were pulling in $180 million per month in the “tolling” protection racket, one published report said, though the panel could not independently verify that number.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/reports-claim-houthis-make-red-sea-vessel-attacks-a-2b-business
I wonder if there’s now a push to further villainize the Houthis as a way to justify escalating the conflict.
Will Yemen become the site of the next proxy war, to avoid waging war directly with Iran?
