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Ted Rall’s commentary includes “Democrats and Republicans are both happy to ignore the Palestinians killed by U.S.-supplied Israeli bombs.”Most people agree that the hit-to-kill phenomenon stems at least in part from perverse laws on victim compensation. In China the compensation for killing a victim in a traffic accident is relatively small—amounts typically range from $30,000 to $50,000—and once payment is made, the matter is over. By contrast, paying for lifetime care for a disabled survivor can run into the millions. The Chinese press recently described how one disabled man received about $400,000 for the first 23 years of his care. Drivers who decide to hit-and-kill do so because killing is far more economical. Indeed, Zhao Xiao Cheng—the man caught on a security camera video driving over a grandmother five times—ended up paying only about $70,000 in compensation.
Dr. D “You can’t get drunk, drive home, clip a pedestrian, and think “Well, I’ll just kill him so he doesn’t sue me now” OBVIOUSLY.”
Not so obvious a concept in China, reportedly.
“Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit.”It seems like a crazy urban legend: In China, drivers who have injured pedestrians will sometimes then try to kill them. And yet not only is it true, it’s fairly common; security cameras have regularly captured drivers driving back and forth on top of victims to make sure that they are dead. The Chinese language even has an adage for the phenomenon: “It is better to hit to kill than to hit and injure.”
This 2008 television report features security camera footage of a dusty white Passat reversing at high speed and smashing into a 64-year-old grandmother. The Passat’s back wheels bounce up over her head and body. The driver, Zhao Xiao Cheng, stops the car for a moment then hits the gas, causing his front wheels to roll over the woman. Then Zhao shifts into drive, wheels grinding the woman into the pavement. Zhao is not done. Twice more he shifts back and forth between drive and reverse, each time thudding over the grandmother’s body. He then speeds away from her corpse.
Incredibly, Zhao was found not guilty of intentional homicide. Accepting Zhao’s claim that he thought he was driving over a trash bag, the court of Taizhou in Zhejiang province sentenced him to just three years in prison for “negligence.” Zhao’s case was unusual only in that it was caught on video. As the television anchor noted, “You can see online an endless stream of stories talking about cases similar to this one.”
“Double-hit cases” have been around for decades.
Published today by the New York Post.
So now we know.
Imane Khelif, the controversial Algerian boxer who won gold at the Paris Olympics fighting against women, IS a biological man.
Some of us will be less surprised by this bombshell revelation, in a leaked medical report to French media, than others. …
A shocking medical report about Khelif, drafted in 2023 between hospitals in France and Algeria, was leaked to a French journalist and confirms the boxer has a disorder of sexual development, which means he has male chromosomes and some male sexual organs, including internal testicles and a “micropenis” — but no female uterus.
The report concluded that Khelif is impacted by something called 5-alpha reductase deficiency, a disorder only found in biological males.
This disorder becomes obvious at puberty, when the person experiences unusual male-like muscle and hair growth, and has no breast tissue development or menstruation.
To be fair to Khelif, many males born with 5-alpha may incorrectly believe they are female into adulthood unless they are properly tested. In other words, he may genuinely have thought he was a woman for much of his life.
The US is withdrawing its aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln from the Red Sea area, along with the 3 destroyers in its strike group, and sending them home, leaving no aircraft carrier in the Middle East.
AP News reported,
According to U.S. officials, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and the three Navy destroyers in its strike group are scheduled to leave the Middle East by mid-month and return to their home port in San Diego.When it departs, there will be no aircraft carrier in the Middle East for a period of time, officials said. U.S. They declined to say how long that gap would last.
The AP News article title Pentagon bolsters the US presence in the Middle East with bombers, fighter aircraft and warships puts some spin on the situation, but the article admits,
Ryder did not provide the specific number of aircraft and ships that will move into the region. The shifts are likely to result in an overall decrease in the total number of U.S. troops in the Middle East, largely because an aircraft carrier contains as many as 5,000 sailors.
The Yemeni side of the story has this speculation,
In a surprising move, the US has announced its decision to withdraw its second aircraft carrier that has been stationed in the Gulf for months … So, what was the reason for withdrawing the American battleship?
In terms of timing, it appears that the U.S. Department of Defense understood the latest message from the Al-Houthi, which was included in its weekly address on the developments in the region on Thursday evening, as an indication of targeting the aircraft carrier that is likely temporarily stationed near Socotra Island between the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. The Al-Houthi confirmed that the area remained the scene of Yemeni operations last week, in an apparent hint at targeting the American carrier.
News from a Yemen source, deep diving drone submarine/torpedos now being deployed by Yemen to counter American nuclear submarines in the Red Sea.
With the success of the Yemeni forces in asserting control over the shipping lane in the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea amid criticism of the absence of American forces, the latter dispatched nuclear submarines to the Red Sea and occasionally launch missiles towards several Yemeni cities before diving back underwater and then moving between the sea and the Gulf and reaching the ocean to avoid detection.
Today, after weeks of these submarines entering the operational theater, Yemen is deploying a weapon to resist them, which the Yemeni forces have named “Al-Qari’a,” which has deep diving capabilities and the ability to infiltrate among the latest radar systems, and most importantly, its destructive power, which may sink submarines regardless of their ability to withstand explosions.
Mention of the protracted battles of WWI reminded me of Joe Sacco’s book “The Great War” which is a folded up 24-foot long panorama drawing of “The First Day of the Battle of the Somme”, July 1, 1916.
The Battle of the Somme continued for 4 months, and per Wikipedia “More than three million men fought in the battle, of whom more than one million were either wounded or killed, making it one of the deadliest battles in all of human history.”
Sacco’s black-and-white depiction of one of the deadliest and most infamous battles of the First World War is overwhelming and wondrous, much vaster than you can take in at one glance. It moves from left to right, chronologically, but also travels from behind the lines to the front-line fighting, then back to the rear again. He focuses on thousands of British troops, beginning with a general strolling the grounds of a mansion. A convoy of horse-drawn supply wagons trots forward. Soldiers queue up for chow. Troops march to the front. Howitzers blast at the Germans. A maze of trenches overflows with infantry. …
“My first thought was, ‘I don’t want to draw another war scene.’” He adds, “I decided to depict the first day of the Battle of the Somme because that is the point where the common man could have no more illusions about the nature of modern warfare.”…
The Germans suffered some 8,000 casualties [that day] while, Historian Adam Hochschild writes in the pamphlet’s introduction, “some 21,000 British soldiers [were] killed or fatally wounded on the day of greatest bloodshed in the history of their country’s military, before or since.”
“What about the Ekathimerini Soup Kitchen being charged with 600,000 Euros “embezzlement” in 3 years?”
A one-month old article, translated online, says that much of the indictment has been dropped, including the charges of fraud.
My name has been “tainted” and I am ashamed not because I did something but for the people who do not know me.
I have letters of “apology” in my hands from the people who came out and accused me.
…Nikos Alexandris…reported all the latest in the legal part of Mr. Polychronopoulos’ case.
“We are awaiting the call from the competent investigator so that any charges can be filed,” said Mr. Alexandris, while as he stated, half of the indictment against his client has been dropped, including the charges of fraud. What the lawyer wanted to emphasize is: “What is being heard for the first time is that while at the beginning the investigation was for exorbitant amounts, now there is not even half left. Little by little it seems that this man was channeling the money that was flowing into the accounts to the purposes he said.”“I have in my hands letters of “apology” from the people who came forward and accused. They are even offering to come and testify that they were influenced by the climate of those days. “They certainly take back what they said,” revealed Mr. Alexandris…
Joe Sacco’s graphic commentary The War on Gaza can be viewed online:
https://www.tcj.com/topic/the-war-on-gaza/The installments are being published as a book with the title War on Gaza.
Joe Sacco is well known as an unflinching chronicler of the injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people (Palestine, 1993; Footnotes in Gaza, 2010). He continues this mission with War on Gaza, a series of graphic commentaries on Israel’s rampage that began more than a year ago and continues relentlessly today.
Published in installments on The Comics Journal’s website, War on Gaza is a series of comics and single-panel illustrations that lay bare the naked immorality of the “war” itself and its dire and tragic consequences. Employing his trademark combination of honesty, compassion, and dark humor, Sacco’s War on Gaza is an uncompromising critique of Israel’s genocide and the complicity of President Joe Biden and the United States.
Was wondering if something happened to Biden, Harris, and Mike Johnson, who would then become president? Wikipedia sez it would be Patty Murray.
Followed by Blinken, Yellen, Austin, and then Garland.
1. Kamala Harris
2. Mike Johnson
3 Patty Murray
4 Antony Blinken
5 Janet Yellen
6 Lloyd Austin
7 Merrick Garlandhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
“How the media mess with your heads to try and get you to sympathise with the Israeli monsters.”
An older article (2006) from the same author Jonathan Cook makes history’s rhymes sound repetitious:
“And what would they say if I claimed that this war is not really about Lebanon, or even Hizbullah, but part of a wider US and Israeli campaign to isolate and preemptively attack Iran?”How would Homeland Security judge me if I stepped off a plane in the US tomorrow and told officials not only that I am appalled by the humanitarian crises in Lebanon and Gaza but also that I do not believe the war on terror should be directed against either the Lebanese or the Palestinians? How would they respond if, further, I described as nonsense the idea that Hizbullah or the political leaders of Hamas are “terrorists”?
I have my reasons, good ones I think, but would anyone take them seriously? What would the officials make of my argument that, before Israel’s war on Lebanon, no one could point to a single terrorist incident Hizbullah had been responsible for in at least a decade? Would the authorities appreciate my comment that a terrorist organization that doesn’t do terrorism is a chimera, a figment of the President’s imagination?
Equally, what would they make of my belief that Hizbullah does not want to wipe Israel off the map? Would they find me convincing if I told them that Israel, not Hizbullah, is the aggressor in the conflict: that following Israel’s supposed withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000, Lebanon experienced barely a day of peace from the terrifying sonic booms of Israeli war planes violating the country’s airspace?
Would they understand as I explained that Hizbullah had acted with restraint for those six years, stockpiling its weapons for the day it knew was coming when Israel would no longer be satisfied with overflights and its appetite for conquest and subjugation would return? Would the officials doubt their own assumptions as I told them that during this war Hizbullah’s rockets have been a response to Israeli provocations, that they are fired in return for Israel’s devastating and indiscriminate bombardment of Lebanon?
And what would they say if I claimed that this war is not really about Lebanon, or even Hizbullah, but part of a wider US and Israeli campaign to isolate and preemptively attack Iran?
Craig Murray makes an “extremely important” point about the “methods of fascism” being used by the “panicked Zionist ‘elites’ who run western states [and] are lashing out in fear at their opponents.”
In 1985, the [UK’s] Terrorism Act 2000 was still 15 years away. There was no such thing as a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act. Under today’s legislation, every single one of those [thousands of] people writing in support of the African National Congress or out campaigning for the release of Nelson Mandela would have been liable for arrest under Section 12 1 (a) of the Terrorism Act.
That is the danger of allowing the state to dictate whom you must consider a terrorist and punishing those who disagree with the state.
In 1985 the official position of the British state was that the ANC were terrorists and apartheid South Africa were the good guys.
In 2024 the official position of the British state is that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorists and apartheid Israel are the good guys.
The state can be wrong.
… The difference forty years later is that the state is now persecuting British citizens and locking them up for daring to say that the state can be wrong. The ANC example explains why it is essential we do not give way to this pressure. …
The Terrorism Act, abused by the Israel lobby to make it illegal to support Israel’s opponents, is fundamentally bad legislation. It literally provides for up to 14 years in jail if you “express an opinion” in favour of a proscribed organisation.
40 years ago it would have been used against the large majority of the population who “expressed an opinion” in favour of the ANC, officially viewed as a terrorist organisation. …
Panicked Zionist “elites” who run western states are lashing out in fear at their opponents. As their popular support evaporates in the face of clear evidence of appalling Israeli atrocities, they are resorting to the methods of fascism.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/10/who-are-the-terrorists/
Since nobody mentioned these musings on time:
“Talking about the significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of the passage of time, so when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.”
“We have the ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been.”
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day.”
After being unused for any combat missions during the past 7+ years, B-2 stealth bombers were flown from the US to bomb the Houthis in Yemen, according to Bloomberg yesterday. Trying to impress Iran?
Despite numerous strikes on the Houthis, the allies have been unable to halt its attacks. In a June assessment, American intelligence officials said Houthi assaults on commercial vessels in the Red Sea led to a 90% decline in container shipping through the area between December and February. …
The B-2s flew to their targets from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. It marked the first time since January 2017 that the wing-shaped stealth bomber has flown a combat mission. Back then, two B-2s flew a 30-hour round-trip mission to bomb an Islamic State training camp in Libya.
Each B-2 is capable of carrying as much as 20 tons of bombs, including 80 500-pound GPS-guided munitions.
That article also said
The B-2 is the only US aircraft equipped to use the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a bomb that the airforce says is specifically designed to destroy “adversaries’ weapons of mass destruction located in well protected facilities.”
Wikipedia says the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) weighs 30,000 pounds, is GPS-guided (what about GPS jamming?), and “it lacks a void-sensing fuze and will therefore detonate only after it has come to a stop, even if it has passed the target area.”
Today’s art selection (Ivan Kramskoy Christ in the desert 1920) reminds me of this painting (Stańczyk, by Jan Matejko, 1862) which could represent Zelensky and his situation:
Re “Skipping COVID Booster Could Reduce Your IQ”: Vax Propaganda Thrives At LA Times”
From the article linked by John Day:
This is absolutely hilarious, the paper cited says the exact OPPOSITE of what the LA Times Op ed says, vaccination is instead associated with a DROP in IQ similar to what they say about having Covid.
That paper and statistics do say a drop in IQ is related to having covid and worse with duration (long covid), but the Op ed assumes being vaccinated lowers you chances of getting covid which it doesn’t, then jumps to the conclusion that getting boosted will prevent you from getting covid lowering IQ where the statistics on being vaccinated once or boosted versus not vaccinated in the paper say opposite, vaccination is associated with a drop in IQ similar to catching the virus. The Op ed authors must have been boosted.
Another study published this year looked at 558,017 individuals (age 65+) to see if the vaxxed were more prone to getting either Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) within 3 months post-vaxx.
The results showed that the mRNA vaxx group exhibited a significantly higher incidence of Alzheimer’s and Mild Cognitive impairment, compared to the unvaxxed group.
Results: Findings showed an increased incidence of MCI and AD in vaccinated individuals, particularly those receiving mRNA vaccines, within three months post-vaccination. The mRNA vaccine group exhibited a significantly higher incidence of AD (Odds Ratio [OR]: 1.225; 95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 1.025-1.464; p = 0.026) and MCI (OR: 2.377; CI: 1.845-3.064; p < 0.001) compared to the unvaccinated group.
A potential association between COVID-19 vaccination and development of alzheimer’s disease
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38806183/phoenixvoice — ” I think that now would be a good time for Jews who want no part in genocide or machinations to speak up”
In today’s news —
200+ Jewish-Led Protesters Arrested at NY Stock Exchange Say ‘Stop Arming Israel’
https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/15/200-jewish-led-protesters-arrested-at-ny-stock-exchange-say-stop-arming-israel/Earlier in 2024 —
Some earlier protests by Jewish Anti-Zionists —
Reported to be today’s statement from the political office of the Houthis
…the Iranian missile attacks forced millions of Zionists to flee to shelters, serving as a real deterrent to the entity… the military operation sent a clear and powerful message to the American enemy, the main partner in all the crimes and massacres committed by the Zionist enemy over the past year… Yemen will remain actively engaged in the support battle until the aggression against Palestine and Lebanon ceases… The statement also noted the political office’s blessing of the Palestinian suicide operation in occupied “Jaffa” this evening…
A video of the same race from a few years ago
https://youtu.be/3Q4qL5cTtakA potential way to get Flu Vaxx credentials without getting an injection? “Self-administer” the recently-approved nasal spray at home, after getting it shipped to a home address.
“In health breakthrough, FDA approves first nasal spray flu vaccine for at-home use”
The FDA approved FluMist for people ages 2 to 49, and recommends that those under age 18 get the product administered by a caregiver. Adults can self-administer the spray. Efficacy is comparable to that of conventional flu shots.
Prior to the newly approved at-home use, FluMist had been given in health care settings, mostly to children in pediatricians’ offices because many children have a fear of needles. Estimates show that as many as 2 in 3 children and 1 in 4 adults have a strong fear of needles, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
AstraZeneca said it will create a website where people seeking FluMist can fill out a questionnaire and have their information reviewed by a pharmacist prior to receiving a shipment at home. FluMist costs about $35 to $45 per dose, according to GoodRx, which compares drug prices at different pharmacies.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/flumist-flu-vaccine-fda-home-usage-19780502.php
re: Mandatory Flu Shots
Even during the covid vaxx craze, the EEOC (.gov) said employers should merely encourage flu shots instead of requiring flu shots, for non-healthcare jobs.
The HR department might be trying to get away with mandating shots to non-employees before official employment, a legal grey area?
HR gets in the way of managers trying to fill positions. If you want the job, I say screw HR, try to start working while putting off getting the shots, then fight it if necessary once you’re a valuable employee.
With all that said, mandatory vaccination policies are still largely controversial, particularly for employers not in the healthcare industry. Indeed, EEOC guidance recommends that, in general, “ADA-covered employers should consider simply encouraging employees to get the influenza vaccine rather than requiring them to take it.”
Similarly, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employee who objects to receiving a vaccine based on a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance also may be exempt from a mandatory vaccination requirement. It is important to note that courts have broadly interpreted “religion” in the context of required vaccination policies. For example, at least one federal court has concluded that veganism qualifies as a sincerely-held religious belief exempting a vegan employee from being required to receive a flu vaccine because receiving a vaccine, which was produced from chicken eggs, would be against the employee’s vegan beliefs.
Upon receiving a request to be relieved of a vaccination requirement as an accommodation, whether due to disability or religious-related reasons, an employer must engage in an interactive process with the objecting employee to determine if it can provide the employee with a reasonable accommodation that does not pose an undue hardship for the employer.
A Guide for Employers Considering A Mandatory Flu Vaccination Policy (US)
https://www.employmentlawworldview.com/a-guide-for-employers-considering-a-mandatory-flu-vaccination-policy-us/Burning tanker news, from a Yemeni source:
The “Sounion” ship was crossing the Red Sea when Yemeni naval boats attempted to intercept it routinely, but the ship resorted to a show of force instead of diplomacy. According to images released by the ship’s owning company and circulated by activists on Telegram, armed individuals aboard the ship began firing at Yemeni naval boats, a narrative confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg in reports last weekend.
It is not known whether there were victims in these confrontations, but it is certain that the ship’s crew believed that with the force accompanying them, they were able to secure the ship’s passage through the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait, a task that American and Western fleets have failed to achieve since last January.
The armed confrontations around the ship did not last long before a resounding response came in the form of missiles and drone boats that damaged the ship and forced it to deviate. However, media reports and navigational sources stated that the Yemeni forces did not stop there, but a team managed to board the ship after evacuating its crew and set it on fire, as shown in satellite images displaying three separate fires aboard the ship.
The burning of the ship may imply several possibilities, notably that Yemeni forces are attempting to dispose of the oil on board the ship by setting it on fire and preventing it from leaking into the sea. Another possibility is that the fire is a strong message to any company attempting to bypass Yemeni decisions by force, and more importantly, it is a message to the American forces that announced days ago the redeployment of a third fleet in the Red Sea under the leadership of the aircraft carrier “Abraham Lincoln.”
“The only way for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians to be halted is for the U.S. to end all weapons shipments to Israel. And the only way this will take place is if enough Americans make clear they have no intention of supporting any presidential ticket or any political party that fuels this genocide.”
https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/16/chris-hedges-thou-shalt-not-commit-genocide/
In contrast with all the military atrocities being committed against civilians today, soldiers used to be executed for the rape or unprovoked murder of civilians.
In France during World War I, from 1917 to 1918, the United States Army executed 35 of its own soldiers, but all were convicted of rape or unprovoked murder of civilians and not for military offenses. During World War II, in all theaters of the war, the United States military executed 102 of its own soldiers for rape or unprovoked murder of civilians, but only Slovik was executed for the military offense of desertion.
The writing is on the wall:
“The Aircraft Carrier Age Could End in Disaster for the U.S. Navy”Thus, Washington’s current war plans play right into China’s and Russia’s anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) strategies. If actual war erupts between the United States or any of its major rivals, these forces will do what they must to win the war—and that means going-for-broke and trying to sink US carriers before they can become a serious threat to their forces and interests.
One way or another, thanks to the advent of hypersonic weapons and anti-ship missiles, such as China’s DF-21 series, American aircraft carriers will not be as effective against targets defended by these A2/AD systems.
China, Russia, Iran, and probably North Korea all have developed such countermeasures to one degree or another. America is speeding toward a reckoning at sea the likes of which it hasn’t experienced since the Second World War.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/aircraft-carrier-age-could-end-disaster-us-navy-209915
“Khelif is scheduled to fight later today in the Welterweight semi-final, and Yu-ting will fight tomorrow in the Featherweight semi-final.”
Welterweight and Featherweight competitions? How dare they exclude some women because of their body size. Shame on the IOC.
• Scientific Consensus Needed in Sports Gender Debate – IOC
That’s a cop-out. Instead of having separate Olympic events for men and women, relying on the oh-so-unscientific checking of the athletes’ passports, how about separate XX and XY events, all of which can be open to athletes of any gender identification (as long as they meet the XX or XY requirements)?
“Musk, who owns social media platform X (formerly Twitter), took to it on Monday to accuse Maduro of “major election fraud.”
The “evidence” which Musk showed was a confusing local TV graphic that incorrectly repeated the combined 4.6% of the vote for the minor candidates, instead of listing the 4.6% only once:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1817932850664226872
according to AFP (Agence France-Presse) which did a “fact check”.
Misconstrued Venezuelan news broadcast fuels election misinformation
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.367637AThe Yemeni side of the story: “Eisenhower’s escape… Roosevelt’s disappearance”
The Yemeni battle with American naval vessels marked the end of the era of aircraft carriers and confirmed their vulnerability to targeting. Yemeni forces targeted the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier three times between May 31 and June 20. Although the US did not explicitly acknowledge this targeting due to its implications of the decline of American hegemony and what Yemen might represent as a model of its audacity in striking this diplomatic military vessel according to the American definition, Eisenhower group leaders admitted after the group’s return home, in statements to the U.S. Naval Institute, that it was “the first time an American aircraft carrier has faced a direct and sustained threat from an enemy since World War II.”
The Eisenhower aircraft carrier group withdrew after a complete failure, as confirmed by U.S. Central Command leader Eric Korilla in a message to the Defense Secretary, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. However, it wasn’t just a failure; it was targeted for the first time and hit, as confirmed by the Yemeni armed forces on May 31. It was forced to escape in a humiliating and degrading manner to the north of the Red Sea. Before fully withdrawing after twenty days from the first targeting, American warships turned from guarding Israeli navigation to guarding the Eisenhower.
The US states that Eisenhower’s withdrawal wasn’t due to being targeted but because its deployment was extended for an additional period, and it will be replaced by the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier, according to the U.S. Central Command statement on June 22.
Despite the U.S. Central Command’s announcement that Roosevelt had already reached the operational area to protect navigation on July 12, it didn’t enter the Red Sea and remained hidden for days in the far east of the Arabian Sea before heading to position itself in the Gulf region off the coast of Bahrain, as shown by the latest satellite images. Unusually for American coverage of aircraft carrier movements, Roosevelt shut down its tracking devices and had its supply aircraft halt tracking signals midway.
Roosevelt’s direction towards the Gulf contradicted what was announced by the US, as the Gulf is not an area for Yemeni operations but a forced route, showing fear of the carrier being attacked by Yemen, an attack threatened by the leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Abdulmalik Al-Houthi, days after Washington announced its intention to move Roosevelt to the Red Sea.
The National Interest newspaper says that the Houthis panicked when Roosevelt moved from the Pacific Ocean to the Red Sea, but it is clear that Roosevelt is the one in panic, fearing real targeting if it crosses the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait. It fears a scandal if it enters the Red Sea via Good Hope, the Strait of Gibraltar, and Suez, so there is no harm in showing off in the media that she is there even if she appears as what the Chinese now describe as a paper tiger…
Update about the Ohio train derailment fire aftermath.
After last year’s derailment fiasco in East Palestine, Ohio, “the EPA has told residents to garden and eat home produce as usual.” But “alarming levels of dioxin” have been found “in 100% of the sampled garden vegetables grown in East Palestine”.
“Independent tests on garden crops, soil, and surface waters in East Palestine show elevated dioxins, Semi Volatile Organic Compounds (SVOCs), and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)”… “Recently, tests conducted by [GAP] whistleblower Scott Smith, which were analyzed and confirmed by independent scientists, also revealed alarming levels of dioxin congeners and [PAH] compounds in 100% of the sampled garden vegetables grown in East Palestine.”
More from Joe Sacco.
Gaza was where the West went to die. The only truth still held to be self-evident was that the Rules-Based Order weighed 2,000 pounds and could flatten an entire neighborhood.
Continued at
https://www.tcj.com/the-war-on-gaza-6-25-24/FWIW, this Yemeni news site reports that the Eisenhower was targeted two more times this week, coinciding with the decision to withdraw it before the end of its one-month extension in the Red Sea.
Ryder did not specify the reasons for the “Eisenhower” staying in Germany, but media reports suggest that it requires urgent maintenance before returning to America… The decision also coincides with the escalation of Yemeni operations against it, as Yemen announced targeting the “Eisenhower” twice this week, bringing the total number of targeting operations to five since the beginning of the current month.
Transfer of “Eisenhower” to Germany
https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2024/06/25/265649/French First Lady Transgender Libel Case Goes To Trial
This makes it seem like transgender people are so despised in France that calling somebody trans is a terrible insult. Perhaps the First Lady is being hypocritical?
“require the registration of women”
On June 13, 2024, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 22-3 to advance the NDAA for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 to the Senate floor… Major Highlights… Amends the Military Selective Service Act to require the registration of women for Selective Service.
https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy25_ndaa_executive_summary.pdf
