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Completely real and true… SARS2 was patented by Ralph Baric in 2018 , But the story is much bigger than a UNC patent, since it also included an NIH patent
https://jimhaslam.substack.com/p/sars2-was-patented-by-ralph-baricMeryl Nass MD , The globalists didn’t wait for the WHO members to approve their global biosecurity agenda next May, but have been putting it in place for several years at your expense. See what they are up to.
They even have a substack for sharing information. Why not seek to monetize biological warfare agents? It’s no more bizarre than monetizing carbon credits. Although it is more dangerous.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-globalists-didnt-wait-for-theMore from Dr. Nass, about a newly elected “populist firebrand”, Slovak Prime Minister wants to reveal the truth about Covid, vaccine damage and the Pfizer deal!
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/slovak-prime-minister-wants-to-reveal COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines: Lessons Learned from the Registrational Trials and Global Vaccination Campaign
M. Nathaniel Mead • Stephanie Seneff • Russ Wolfinger • Jessica Rose • Kris Denhaerynck • Steve Kirsch • Peter A. McCullough
..The risk-benefit imbalance substantiated by the evidence to date contraindicates further booster injections and suggests that, at a minimum, the mRNA injections should be removed from the childhood immunization program until proper safety and toxicological studies are conducted. Federal agency approval of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines on a blanket-coverage population-wide basis had no support from an honest assessment of all relevant registrational data and commensurate consideration of risks versus benefits. Given the extensive, well-documented SAEs and unacceptably high harm-to-reward ratio, we urge governments to endorse a global moratorium on the modified mRNA products until all relevant questions pertaining to causality, residual DNA, and aberrant protein production are answered.
https://www.cureus.com/articles/203052-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-lessons-learned-from-the-registrational-trials-and-global-vaccination-campaign#!/ Meryl Nass MD , Do they really want to make animals equal to people? Decoded, One Health wants to lower the status of humans. [I’ll be a feedlot pig!]
What did the Lancet say last January about One Health? That non-human animals are of equal concern as humans.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/do-they-really-want-to-make-animals Obviously losing and may not even know it. Biden Blackmail Intensifies: Won’t Shut Border Until Congress Coughs Up Ukraine, Israel Funds
As Republican governors circle the wagon around Texas, President Biden on Saturday doubled down on a reluctant agreement to secure the southern US border – but only if if Congress passes a bipartisan bill that would also allocate funds for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and would still allow as many as 150,000 illegal crossings per month.
“If that bill were the law today I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly and bring a bipartisan bill that would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here,” Biden said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-blackmail-intensifies-wont-shut-border-till-congress-coughs-ukraine-israel-funds Von der Leyen will have to make concessions to open negotiations.She is ruining farmers. EU commission chief hopes for ‘consensus’ with protesting farmers
The European Union must overcome the “polarization” stemming from agricultural disputes, Ursula von der Leyen has said
https://swentr.site/news/591354-ursula-farmers-protests-eu/ Charles Hugh Smith comes to a conclusion that can also be reached through many other logical approaches. Too much “rent” is being bled from the real-economy.
There is a generational war underway in the U.S., and to date the young generations have lost and the senior generations have won. In numerous posts over the past 15 years, I have endeavored to compare apples-to-apples to show that the generations that came of age in the 1960s through the 1990s could afford to own a house and raise a family with moderate incomes. This is no longer the case.
Apologists for the status quo disagree, of course, but they are unable to contest an accurate apples-to-apples comparison of the purchasing power of an hour of labor then and now…
..Fortunately, there’s an obvious answer staring us in the face: Tax the Casino, by which I mean institute a transaction tax on every transaction of buying, selling or transferring by any means any asset or financial instrument of any nature.
Okay, so the screaming and weeping and gnashing of teeth is even louder now, but after the rational mind once again becomes available for dialog, we can note that a 2% transaction fee on a $1,000 stock purchase is $20. Those who were trading stocks in the 1980s recall that buying $1,000 of stock in a brokerage account cost $54 or more in commission and fees. (People might actually take-physical-ownership of stock certificates again. Oops, No Rehypothecation! 🙂
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan24/social-security-families1-24.html CJ Hopkins , The Verdict
So, my show trial for thoughtcrimes in criminal court in New Normal Germany went pretty well. I was acquitted. Technically, it isn’t all over, because the prosecutor has a week to appeal the decision, but, given the circumstances, I doubt he will. He made a total fool of himself in front of a large audience yesterday. I can’t imagine that he will want to do that again.
I’ll write about my day in court in detail once I’ve slept for week. I’m exhausted. This Kafkaesque mockery of justice has been going for eight months now, and it has been rather stressful.
https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-verdict?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
The Silent Epidemic Eating Away Americans’ Minds
Billy would frequently lie and cheat when playing board games or participating in team activities and have full-blown meltdowns when he lost. His friends, who had been with him since kindergarten, began losing patience. His parents recognized that something had to be done.
So Billy’s parents brought him to Dr. Victoria Dunckley, a pediatric psychiatrist specializing in screen use.
After a four-week “screen fast” prescribed by Dr. Dunckley, which eliminated all TVs, phones, and video games, Billy’s problems miraculously cleared up. His parents were so pleased that they decided to maintain the fast.
Six months passed, and Billy’s friends were no longer avoiding him, and his sportsmanship had improved markedly. Billy decided to run for class president and delivered a speech, something that would have previously terrified him...
..The initial link between screen time and poor mental health was spotted through generational studies by Jean Twenge, who has a doctorate in psychology and is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University.
“I got used to changes that would grow slowly and steadily over time,“ but then after 2010, ”I started to see some changes that were much more sudden—I had really never seen anything like it,”. Between 2005 and 2012, the change in rates of depressive episodes in teens aged 12 to 17 barely exceeded 1 percent. However, between 2012 and 2017, there was an almost 4 percent increase...
..In 2008, psychotherapist Tom Kersting, who worked as a school counselor for 25 years, saw a rise in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses in children over age 8. ADHD tends to be detected in early childhood after a child starts school. However, he has witnessed increasingly delayed diagnoses in teenagers and adults…
..“It’s not just the amount of time spent in the cyber world,” Mr. Kersting told The Epoch Times, “but also what they missed out on: outside play and social learning.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/silent-epidemic-eating-away-americans-minds Not delivering oil to Israel, I presume. Saudi Tankers Given Passage Through Red Sea By Houthis, Alongside Russia & China
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/saudi-vessels-being-given-passage-though-red-sea-houthis-joining-russia-chinaThis has finally happened. Get the US troops out. Iran-Backed Groups Kill Three US Troops In Jordan
An overnight drone attack on a US military outpost in northeast Jordan has killed three American troops and left 25 more injured, according to breaking reports Sunday morning.
The outpost, called Tower 22, is located very close to the Syrian border, and the casualty rate is so high as soldiers were reportedly sleeping in tents when the drone struck. By all accounts thus far, the drone appears to have come from Syrian territory.
“President Joe Biden” issued a statement announced the attack on Americans, saying that “radical Iran-backed militant groups” in Syria and Iraq were behind it.
“While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq,” Biden said. “Have no doubt – we will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner our choosing.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/three-us-troops-killed-25-injured-after-drone-slams-base-jordan-syria-border Ya don’t Say? US Think Tanks: Cost of Biden’s Attacks on Houthis May Exceed That of Red Sea Trade Disruption
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240127/us-think-tanks-cost-of-bidens-attacks-on-houthis-may-exceed-that-of-red-sea-trade-disruption-1116435814.html Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday backed Texas in its ongoing battle with the federal government over border authority, criticizing the Biden administration for its handling of the U.S. southern border.
“Texas is right. Biden’s failure to secure the border leaves states no choice but to take matters into their own hands,” Kennedy wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “As President, I will end this humanitarian crisis once and for all. I will secure the border and destroy the business model of the drug cartels. A country without borders is not a country at all.” Must-ignore-illegal-orders… Border Patrol Says Agents Will Not Remove Texas Razor Wire Barriers
A high ranking CBP official told the network that their relationship with the Guard is “strong”.
“While this issue plays out in the courts, the relationship between Border Patrol, Texas DPS [Department of Public Safety], & TMD [Texas Military Dept.] remains strong,” the official said, adding “Our focus is and will always be the mission of protecting this country and its people.”
“On the ground, we continue to work alongside these valuable partners in that endeavor,” the official continued, adding “Bottom line: Border Patrol has no plans to remove infrastructure (c-wire) placed by Texas along the border.”
“Our posture remains the same. If we need to access an area for emergency response, we will do so. When that happens, we will coordinate with Texas DPS & TMD,” the official further declared.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/border-patrol-says-agents-will-not-remove-texas-razor-wire-barriersNot First In Line https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/not-first-in-line
I’m lifting this essay from my reply to a comment, because it seems timely:
Thanks for laying out this argument that some of the owners-of-the-human-herd might be intellectually advanced. I agree, and you don’t see it expounded much.
There are difficulties and paradoxes confronting elites as they try to manage the complexities of Industrial-Economy with Apex-Predation-Ecosystem-Management.
Social Darwinism seemed so obvious and logical 100 -150 years ago, but there were complications in practice, such as what “Long Term Reproductive Fitness” might ACTUALLY mean over 100 years of suddenly changing ecosystems. It means different things in growth than it does in contraction-shocks and austere periods.
Elites do want to take Kissinger’s counsel and “control the food to control the people”. There are layers of control and a few escape hatches for the foresightful. Globalist elites won’t control well-prepared Mormons nearly as soon as they will control people who only eat fast food, for instance.
Like you, I think the global elites are fairly-ok with that form of culling. People who are controlled on a short-provision-leash led by little screens will be rapidly culled, even unintentionally culled by foreseeable breakdowns in mass communications, as may arise from war and Carrington events. Some of this group will choose to be various kinds of soldiers or gang members, with high attrition rates.
Most people everywhere try to stay towards the middle of the herd and don’t think outside of that or prepare for periods without public utilities.
I am personally screwed without gas and water, though I can get by without electricity. I have the intention to repair a fiberglass water tank to collect roof runoff. There is not a reliable underground water source to tap around Yoakum. Cooking and heating fuel is so important, yet invisible due to its ubiquity. I have no wood stove and also no wood.
The original European settlers here all used cisterns, or lived near a river. The early settlers here got by on hunting wild game and growing potatoes for a decade or so, while getting farms established. They were already farmers, fleeing the mid 19th century wars in Germany and Bohemia (Czechia).
Growing up farming prepares one to be a farmer. You can’t, I’m told, become a farmer otherwise, because the work is too much, relentless, critically timed, fails sometimes, and barely supports survival. City and town people can’t even understand that, let alone pull it off for a year. I only have an intellectual comprehension, and insights from vegetable gardening. I did live on my grandfather’s cattle ranch from 13 to 15 years of age. I see the picture, but I am not a farmer or rancher.
Farmers and ranchers are controlled and bled by bankers, of course. However, bankers can’t make any fresh farmers or ranchers. How will elites get farmers and ranchers to have big families again? Can they in the west, or do they need to keep importing farmers and ranchers from the countries whose farms/ranches they are destroying with commercial agribusiness? There are only so many grown-up-farm-kids in the word to strip-mine.
Bill Gates wants robot-farming as far as the eye can see. Robots don’t have big families. It’s a dead end, but it suits his purposes…
“Bloodline families” and Chinese rulers take a longer view down the centuries. Chinese rulers have strip-mined their traditional farmers in our lifetimes, though not completely…
Trying to steer people into using less oil because of climate-change didn’t work out, but it did encourage certain research. I have to suspect the battery buildout is more to serve D.U.M.B.s, Making electric vehicles just got batteries up to that kind of production scale. There are a lot of things that seem like wasteful diversions of limited fuel resources, if one does not consider their potential secret applications.
Falling for the lie that it is to save-the-planet-through-consumerism may get you culled, even driving a Tesla.
The elites are setting up survival hoops for herd-members to jump through, which may favor competent independently-thinking and acting groups. (Hi again, Mormons!)
The elites have a big blind spot, thinking they are “fit”. The bloodlines and Chinese elites may have a better perspective than Mr. Gates does. They will eventually sacrifice him, or just wait for him to die, which will be soon enough. (Will Son-of-Soros carry down the lineage?)
I personally think that the earth may throw in magnetic-polar-shift-with-solar-micronova at some moment before 2050, though I’m far less certain about the 90 degree rotational axis shift, which may happen sometimes, but not every 12,000 year cycle. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHSoxioQtwZcVcFC85TxEEiirgfXwhfsw
Again, there are different factions amongst elites, with different “interests”, long term perspectives, and revenue streams. I presume that they will eventually start killing competing elite factions again, once the herds are shrinking. Chris Hedges: It May be Genocide, But it Won’t Be Stopped
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “the State of Israel shall immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.” But at the same time, it delivered a devastating blow to the foundational myth of Israel. Israel, which paints itself as eternally persecuted, has been credibly accused of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Palestinians are the victims, not the perpetrators, of the “crime of crimes.”
..The ICJ ordered Israel to take six provisional measures to prevent acts of genocide, measures that will be very difficult if not impossible to fulfill if Israel continues its saturation bombing of Gaza and wholesale targeting of vital infrastructure.
The court called on Israel “to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide.” It demanded Israel “take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance.” It ordered Israel to protect Palestinian civilians. It called on Israel to protect the some 50,000 women giving birth in Gaza. It ordered Israel to take “effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II and Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip.”
The court ordered Israel to “take all measures within its power” to prevent the crimes which amount to genocide such as “killing, causing serious bodily and mental harm, inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.”
Israel was ordered to report back in one month to explain what it had done to implement the provisional measures…
..It is clear from the ruling that the court is fully aware of the magnitude of Israel’s crimes. This makes the decision not to call for the immediate suspension of Israeli military activity in and against Gaza all the more distressing.
But the court did deliver a devastating blow to the mystique Israel has used since its founding to carry out its settler colonial project against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. It made the word genocide, when applied to Israel, credible.
https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/26/chris-hedges-it-may-be-genocide-but-it-wont-be-stopped/Gilbert Doctorow , Interview on Iran’s Press TV discussing the brouhaha over several UNRWA employees’ involvement in the Hamas attacks of 7 October
In a discussion of these developments with Iran’s Press TV earlier today, I was given the opportunity to identify the attention being given to this scandal as intentional distraction away from the real news of the day which continues to be the genocidal activities of Israel in Gaza, with another 165 civilians reportedly murdered yesterday.
https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/interview-on-irans-press-tv-discussing British Oil Tanker On Fire For Several Hours After Houthi Attack [The Yemenis appear to be using missiles without explosive warheads to target commercial vessels.]
The Indian Navy led by the INS Visakhapatnam was among the first rescue team to respond to the stricken Marlin Luanda after it was hit by a missile fired by the Houthis. It was reportedly on fire for a lengthy amount of time, by some accounts over six hours, before the blaze was extinguished by the Indian Navy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/british-oil-tanker-carrying-russian-naphta-fire-red-sea-after-houthi-missile-strikeIt’s ok, no sweat, it’s not her money…
Janet Yellen Bets $2 Trillion That Rates Will Not Be Higher-For-Longer
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/janet-yellen-bets-2-trillion-rates-will-not-be-higher-longer William Makis MD , mRNA Injury Stories – Children who lost both parents…
2 yo UK boy Bronson Battersby died curled up next to his dad who had a heart attack; 14 yo Canada boy lost both parents suddenly on Christmas 2023I watched this brief video about the innate and spontaneous nature of human cooperation. “When the Student is ready, the Teacher will Appear.” (Spot the “teacher”?)
Celia Farber , Over 66 Million People Have Watched This Video
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/over-66-million-people-have-watched “Israel’s use of Starvation as a Weapon of War”: Continues to Attack Starving Palestinians Awaiting Aid Trucks…
“My five children have been starving for more than a month, and we do not have any flour,” stated 46-year-old M.F., who requested anonymity due to safety concerns.
“We eat a small amount of rice each day, so when I learned that flour aid was available, I walked for 13 kilometres before the Israeli army opened their machine gunfire. We were hit by shells fired, resulting in several casualties. I managed to survive, without receiving any flour.” Netanyahu cannot survive 10 minutes without US support: Amir-Abdollahian
The Iranian foreign minister blamed the US and Israel for inflaming tensions across West Asia and stressed that the solution to the crisis ‘is never war’
“If the US today stops its backing — logistical and weapons, political and media support — of the genocidal war launched by Israel, then I can assure you that [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu will not survive for 10 minutes,” Iran’s top diplomat told ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz during.
“So the key to solving the problem is in Washington before it is in Tel Aviv,” he said from New York on the sidelines of the UN Security Council meeting on West Asia.
https://thecradle.co/articles/netanyahu-cannot-survive-10-minutes-without-us-support-amir-abdollahian ASTANA, January 25. /TASS/. Russia, Turkey and Iran consider Israeli attacks on Syria to be in violation of international law and the republic’s territorial integrity, reads a joint statement issued by the three countries following the 21st round of talks on Syria.
https://tass.com/politics/1737213 This is why Russian aircraft now patrol over the Golan Heights, Syrian territory, militarily occupied by Israel since 1967.
ASTANA, January 25. /TASS/. Israel has stopped compliance with a deal to notify Russia in advance whenever it wants to strike Syria, Russian presidential envoy for Syrian settlement Alexander Lavrentyev told TASS.
“It does notify, but after the strikes. I am saying this absolutely seriously because we previously had an agreement with them about sending a notice some time before the strike,” he said, when asked whether Israel notified Russia about the latest strikes on Syria.
https://tass.com/politics/1737387 Hamas Says ‘Faults Happened’ in 7 October Attacks in First Account Since Start of War on Gaza.
Regarding the events of 7 October, the report said that Hamas targeted Israeli military sites and sought to “arrest the enemy’s soldiers” in efforts to pressure Israeli authorities to release thousands of Palestinian prisoners.
“Avoiding harm to civilians, especially children, women and elderly people is a religious and moral commitment by all the Al-Qassam Brigades’ fighters,” it said, referring to the military wing of Hamas.
“We reiterate that the Palestinian resistance was fully disciplined and committed to the Islamic values during the operation and that the Palestinian fighters only targeted the occupation soldiers and those who carried weapons against our people.”
The report added that Hamas fighters were keen to avoid civilian harm “despite the fact the resistance does not possess precise weapons”.
Among those killed during the attacks were over 30 children and more than 100 elderly, according to official Israeli statistics, as well as 60 foreign workers.
“If there was any case of targeting civilians, it happened accidentally and in the course of the confrontation with the occupation forces.”
“Maybe some faults happened during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’s implementation due to the rapid collapse of the Israeli security and military system, and the chaos caused along the border areas with Gaza.”…
..Israeli civilians were killed by an Israeli military helicopter on 7 October, citing reports from Israeli media outlets Haaretz and Yedioth Ahronoth.
“The two reports said the Hamas fighters reached the area of the festival without any prior knowledge of the festival, where the Israeli helicopter opened fire on both the Hamas fighters and the participants in the festival,” it said.
It cited the “Hannibal Directive”, an Israeli rule of engagement that reportedly stipulates that Israelis being taken hostage should be avoided at any cost, even if it it results in the deaths of its own people…
..“Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine,” it said.
“Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.”
It added that Palestinians stood against injustice against civilians, including “what the Jews were exposed to by Nazi Germany”.
“Here, we remind that the Jewish problem in essence was a European problem, while the Arab and Islamic environment was – across history – a safe haven to the Jewish people and to other peoples of other beliefs and ethnicities,” it said.
“We reject the exploitation of the Jewish suffering in Europe to justify the oppression against our people in Palestine.” Gov. Abbott Tells Tucker He’s Not Backing Down, Expects Red States To Circle Wagons, & Trump Elected In November
Abbott told Carlson that he’s “prepared” in the event that Biden tries to take over the Texas National Guard.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/country-has-been-invaded-ex-fbi-brass-pen-sobering-letter-over-new-and-imminent-danger Would Texas join BRICS+? After how long? Texas has a gold depository. Soft Secession, Insurrection, or the Real Return of Federalism in Texas? Tom Luongo
Governor Greg Abbot’s letter to the Biden Administration declaring them in violation of the Constitution for stopping Texas from securing the border is a major escalation. The States have become ‘uncomfortable’ and are beginning to bare their canines...
..That’s where Greg Abbot found himself with the Biden Administration’s open border policy whose obvious purpose was to invite the world to tilt the 2024 election in the Democrats’ favor… and by Democrats’ I mean Davos, whose agenda Biden et.al. are clearly advancing...
..Abbot’s Attorney General Ken Paxton backed him up and, as of [yesterday], 25 other States have openly expressed support for Texas’ stand against the lawlessness of “Biden’s” executive order...
..“Biden” is giving Texas an ultimatum to comply. The Democrats are demanding Biden call up the Texas National Guard. The entire thing has a wholly manufactured feel to it, but it is also something that had to happen. The States had to stand up to this.
And as I’ve talked about at length, the goal here is splitting the US up because a divided US, falling apart politically at this point in history, is exactly what our enemies want. The eventual goal is undermining the validity of the US debt markets and Washington D.C.’s ability to pay its bills.
There is no Great Reset with a fully functional United States. This is why Abbot’s move is so very important...
..The question I have now is what’s the over/under on “Biden” declaring Texas in a state of insurrection against the Union in order to deny it, as a State, its vote this fall? If Texas refuses to ‘turn blue’ then the next move would be to maneuver its governor into full opposition to DC. The question I have here is who is in control of the escalation framework here? Texas or the FedGov?Soft Secession, Insurrection, or the Real Return of Federalism in Texas?
Cultural Replacement: Why The Immigration Crisis Is Being Deliberately Engineered
Elements of our own government are deliberately encouraging the acceleration of illegal immigration across the southern border and they are actively sabotaging any attempts to stop the madness. There are two questions we need to ask: Why are they doing this? And, what can be done to stop them?’…
..We’ve all heard of the Cloward-Piven Strategy by now, and it’s not all that difficult to understand – Create social destabilization by using migrants as a weapon. But there’s a lot more going on here than meets the eye. Cloward-Piven is almost too simplistic an explanation; it doesn’t really define the bigger picture. There are a few ways that this strategy could open the door to authoritarianism in the US. Let’s examine these scenarios to better comprehend why.
..In 1968 the US Department of Defense at the request of the government drafted a civil disturbance plan called ‘Operation Garden Plot’ which outlined what was essentially a martial law response to large scale social breakdown. One of the main factors listed in the plan as a trigger for martial law was the uncontrolled mass migration of minorities into the US, as well as riots by minorities in light of economic uncertainty.
Garden Plot has provisions designed to install a long lasting domestic military presence in the US if deemed necessary, and was even tied to programs like REX 84 which planned out the installation of “FEMA camps” or detention facilities meant to hold large numbers refugees during a mass migration crisis. These programs were accidentally exposed during the Iran/Contra hearings of 1987 and were kept secret from a majority of representatives in Congress.
In other words, political elites designed a set of operations to swiftly impose martial law if a migrant disaster occurred. But were these measures meant to solve the crisis? Or were they meant to use the crisis as an excuse to put boots on the ground in the US and permanently end whatever constitutional protections we have left? That is to say, it may very well be the plan of the establishment to keep the borders open until illegals overwhelm the system and the public is willing to accept martial law. [It is suggested by some that inducting migrants into the US military to act against American citizens would manage the “problem” that 70% of American soldiers would balk at this illegal action.]Cultural Replacement: Why The Immigration Crisis Is Being Deliberately Engineered
Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) was aware of the flight of the Ilyushin-76 transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war, but did not block the work of air defense on its route, the head of the (Russian) State Duma’s Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov told the media while commenting on the plane’s crash in the Belgorod Region.
“The Ukrainian side had been officially notified. Fifteen minutes before the plane entered the zone, they were given full information, which they received and confirmed its receipt by the Main Intelligence Directorate,” Kartapolov said. He stressed that after that “there should have followed the command ‘Air, stop’ for a certain sector. It was not issued. Instead, a command to open fire was given and the airplane with our crew and their soldiers was shot down,” Kartapolov added.
https://tass.com/politics/1737189 Gilbert Doctorow interview and transcript on Ukrainian shoot-down or Russian plane carrying Ukrainian POWs for prisoner-exchange.
I think this plane crash is extremely important because of what it says about the government in in Kiev, who is running it, and for what purpose. This devastating event has parallels with the MH-17. It has parallels with the bombing of a Russian detention center which kept Ukrainian prisoners of war and where again dozens if not a 100 or more of the prisoners of war were killed as a result of the Kiev government action…
..The original intent was to pursue what they have done otherwise on the field of battle. The Ukrainian forces have shot in the back their own soldiers, whom they thought might be going over to the enemy. What we have here… We forget that Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union for 70 years and the morals of Mr. Stalin were applied in Ukraine and seemed to have remained there despite the fall of the Soviet Union. By that I mean in World War II it was the practice of the Soviet Army to consider prisoners of war as deserters. They may have been injured, they may have been carried off the field to hospitals, but once they were interned in Germany or in Germany’s allies, they were considered as traitors. When they came home they faced severe conditions, if not execution. This is the very type of approach to human rights that Kiev is applying to its own citizens: A very Stalinist method and that is at sharp variance with the bunny rabbit quality of Kiev that Western news media have projected from the start of the conflict…
..The supposition is in any case that very powerful ground to air missiles were used and that such weapons are approved only of the highest levels of the Ukrainian military. Therefore it is improbable this was a communications accident…More from Indian broadcaster WION on the crash of the Russian jet carrying Ukrainian POWs
Pentagon Refused to Send A-10 Warthogs to Ukraine Amid Fears They’d ‘Fall to the Ground in Flames’
The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is an American close air support aircraft developed during the Cold War to target Soviet tank forces in a World War III scenario that never arrived. Instead, it became a key tool in the US arsenal over the past 25 years.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240125/pentagon-refused-to-send-a-10-warthogs-to-ukraine-amid-fears-theyd-fall-to-the-ground-in-flames-1116385834.htmlGovernments may change before 2025., No gas transit via Ukraine after 2024, PM says
The Ukrainian Prime Minister’s statement followed the video address of Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico after bilateral talks
https://tass.com/economy/1737343 This will energy-starve European allies after cutting them off from cheap, reliable Russian supplies, and will also be “bad-fer-bidness” in Texas. Whose interests are served?
Biden Set To Announce New LNG Export Ban After White House Met With Gen-Z Climate Warrior
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/biden-set-announce-lng-export-ban-appease-climate-warriors-ahead-electionPlease Pause Genocide https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/please-pause-genocide
It is difficult to encapsulate the news today, though the overview is that the human economic world is going through a reduction in availability of the resources upon which our life-support system depends (peak-oil, etc.). That reduction-in-availability is reflected as increased costs, shortages and economic dysfunction in this economy based upon perpetual growth. Massive-“borrowing” has “pulled future prosperity forward” to the present, at least on the books. Investments will quit-paying-out at some approaching point. Faith in the financial economy will soon disappear, as the world faces the fact that it is all current-trade-flows, without the reserves-of-wealth that we had imagined to “own”.
This is known in the halls of power. There is currently a power struggle over those flows of valuable resources and products, affecting pipelines, railroads, and shipping routes. The producing countries don’t want to pay so much rent to the centers of financial empire, and are growing bolder as the imperial armies prove ineffectual again and again.
Russia becomes the military-champion and China the economic-champion for the producing countries (BRICS+) who want to trade without a 50% skim by the western-financial-system. Current wars reflect that, and also reflect the reluctance to nuke things you need and will be unable to replace in the leaner-future.Israel’s Reputation Takes A Hit In World Court Genocide Case [The starvation of the Israeli economy will increase and political change will be inescapable.]
Israel has suffered its first major setback in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or also “World Court”) genocide case brought against it by South Africa, and thus has also suffered a possible hit to its reputation on the global stage.
The Hague-based court has ordered Israel to take all measures capable to prevent acts of Genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but it stopped short of ordering a ceasefire. The interim ruling will of course remain merely symbolic as the World Court has no power or mechanism whereby it can enforce the verdict. It asserts that South Africa’s case has legal merit and can proceed…
..Current president of the ICJ Judge Joan Donahue said however that the “catastrophic situation” in Gaza could get much worse by the time the final verdict in the case gets delivered while explaining why the provisional directive is necessary.
Thus this ruling points to the likelihood that things won’t go Israel’s way in the end…
..The Friday directive comes ahead what’s expected to be a future, final ruling – and it comes as international pressure grows on Israel to reach a ceasefire – which the Netanyahu government is reportedly seeking in offering its 2-month pause plan in hopes of gaining the release of all captives…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israels-reputation-takes-hit-world-court-genocide-casePepe Escobar, Forever Wars. And No Plan B [much edited]
..If we combine all these variants – stalemate; BRICS; the Lone Emperor; de-dollarization; garden and jungle – in search of the most probable scenario ahead, it’s easy to see that the only “way out” for a cornered Empire is, what else, the default modus operandi: Forever Wars.
And that brings us to the current American aircraft carrier in West Asia (aka “Israel”), totally out of control yet always supported by the Hegemon, aiming for a multi-front war against the whole Axis of Resistance: Palestine, Hezbollah, Syria, Iraqi militias, Ansarullah in Yemen, and Iran.
In a sense we’re back to the immediate post-9/11, when what the neocons really wanted was not Afghanistan, but the invasion of Iraq: not only to control the oil (which in the end they didn’t) but, in Michael Hudson’s analysis, “to essentially create America’s foreign legion in the form of ISIS and al-Qaeda in Iraq.” Now, “America has two armies that it’s using to fight in the Near East, the ISIS/al-Qaeda foreign legion (Arabic-speaking foreign legion) and the Israelis.”…
..What Putin, Xi and Raisi have been explaining to the Global South, explicitly or in quite subtle ways, is that we are right in the crux of a civilizational war.
Michael Hudson has done a lot to bring down such an epic struggle to practical terms. Are we heading towards what I described as techno-feudalism – which is the AI format of rent-seeking turbo-neoliberalism? Or are we heading to something similar to the origins of industrial capitalism?
Michael Hudson characterizes an auspicious horizon as “raising living standards instead of imposing IMF financial austerity on the dollar block”: devising a system that Big Finance, Big Bank, Big Pharma and what Ray McGovern memorably coined as the MICIMATT (military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academia-think tank complex) cannot control.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240125/pepe-escobar-five-variables-defining-our-future-1116381887.htmlHow Gaza is impacting the Great Power standoff
While China-led multipolarity has accelerated the decline of the American era, the war in Gaza may end it altogether.
What is unfolding today in West Asia — the Gaza war and its regional expansion — cannot be viewed separately from the international transformations that have grown in momentum over the past few years. Today, the transition to multipolarity is the underlying factor shaping the decisions and policies of most countries, particularly those of the great powers…
..Crucially, the Pentagon’s stated purpose of securing navigation in the Red Sea does not align with the actual threat presented, revealing ulterior motives behind US actions. The Yemenis have repeatedly confirmed that they only intend to inhibit the passage of Israeli-owned or destined vessels — and that all other ships are free to pass.
In short, the US/UK-led coalition is acting as a naval arm for Israeli military forces, seeking specifically to ensure unimpeded access for ships heading to Israeli ports via the Bab al-Mandab Strait. That’s not a position many other states will get behind if they want to maintain freedom of transport for their own shipping vessels.
Ultimately, the American show of force in these waterways seeks to consolidate US naval dominance, which war-torn Yemen, West Asia’s poorest country, has contested…
..The most staggering poll result of all,… has to be the one in December… in which 51 percent of young Americans believe a final solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is for Israel to end and be given to Hamas and the Palestinians.
..While Israel remains a direct US interest in West Asia, Washington’s commitment to Tel Aviv’s security has already become a growing burden and increasingly difficult to justify. As the region’s Axis of Resistance expands its battle with Israel on new, multiple frontlines, the US will need to reallocate ever-expanding resources and focus on matching its international rivals in further-flung geographies.
Ukraine was a test run compared to this Gaza war and the immense, direct toll it is taking on US alliances, domestic politics, and the American image globally.
https://thecradle.co/articles/how-gaza-is-impacting-the-great-power-standoffJohn Helmer , RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY TIES RED SEA BLOCKADE TO GAZA BLOCKADE, BACKS HOUTHIS IN MOSCOW MEETING
Bogdanov’s communiqué said “special attention was paid to the development of tragic events in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone, as well as the aggravation of the situation in the Red Sea in this regard. In this context, the missile and bomb attacks on Yemen undertaken by the United States and Great Britain, which are capable of destabilizing the situation on a regional scale, were strongly condemned.”
This is the plainest signal to date of Russian backing for the southern front of the Arab war against Israel, and the link which the Houthis have made between the Israeli blockade of Gaza, the genocide of the Palestinians, and the Red Sea blockade which the Houthis have imposed on vessels owned or directed by Israeli shipowners, US naval fleet, and American-flagged and other vessels carrying military and civil cargoes to Israel or reload ammunition for future attacks on Yemen.
At the same time across Moscow, unusually large delegations of officials of the Russian Security Council, led by Nikolai Patrushev, and Ali-Akbar Ahmadian, special presidential representative and Secretary of Iran’s National Security Council, have been meeting to discuss a detailed agenda which Patrushev’s communiqué calls a “wide range of Russian-Iranian security cooperation” and “the practical implementation of the agreements reached at the highest level.”
In an open statement for reporters, Ahmadian told Patrushev: “”America’s grandeur has shattered, and today, it cannot even rally its traditional allies. A country that considers itself a superpower is engaged in war against resistance groups and the people of the region.”
The display of Russian support for the Axis of Resistance against Israel and the US is unprecedented.RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY TIES RED SEA BLOCKADE TO GAZA BLOCKADE, BACKS HOUTHIS IN MOSCOW MEETING
That new invention is a lower-dose fluoroscope.
“The fluoroscope was invented in 1896 by Enrico Salvioni. The name was coined by Thomas Edison when he created a machine in same year. Edison used calcium tungstate as the fluorescing material. Unfortunately, he quickly discovered the health hazard related to the fluoroscope.”
https://web.phys.ksu.edu/mmmm/piko/fluor.htm#:~:text=The%20fluoroscope%20was%20invented%20in,hazard%20related%20to%20the%20fluoroscope. This seems like industrial sabotage of some kind. They use pre-set pneumatic torque-wrenches on these bolts.
US air carrier finds loose bolts on multiple Boeing jets Safety inspections of the 737 MAX 9 planes operated by Alaska Airlines have revealed more quality-control failures
https://swentr.site/news/591224-alaska-airlines-finds-loose-bolts-on-boeing-planes/It’s a Ponzi-scheme, isn’t it? Can it run until mid-November? Stocks’ Perpetual Motion Machine Can’t Run Forever
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stocks-perpetual-motion-machine-cant-run-foreverMeryl Nass MD , Let’s start looking at some contradictions in the latest draft of the Pandemic Treaty.
This draft was named “pandemic agreement” to keep us guessing whether it is really the same document or something else
This is the official version, the latest draft of the pandemic treaty dated October 30, 2023 that both the developing nations and Pharma did not like. But is there much for we the people to like?
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/lets-start-looking-at-some-contradictions The Ethical Skeptic points out excess deaths and disabilities among young people and under-54 age group, in specific categories like cancers, heart attacks, and strokes, all starting about week-14 of 2021 in the US. (These are statistically less likely than “monkeys might fly out of my butt”, except if caused by some widely dispersed toxic agent.)
The State of Things Pandemic – Week 2 2024
A summary regarding the various types of alarming excess mortality, for week 2 of 2024, our 202nd week of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in the United States.
This is the ‘Houston We Have a Problem (Part 3 of 3)’ article. Count yourself as fortunate in getting to this page, as it is actively censored by Apple, LinkedIn, YouTube, and FaceBook. Both I and my family have been threatened for my doing this work. It comes at a heavy cost. Please employ wisely.Steve Kirsch, 22% of households who took the shots have a COVID vaccine injury ,The CDC’s unstated goal is to get 100% of households having a COVID vaccine injury.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/22-of-households-who-took-the-shots#poll-139924 Gilbert Doctorow, ‘Sputnik Globe’ on the shoot-down of a Russian transport jet carrying Ukrainian POWs yesterday
The Ilyushin-76 was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs to what should have been their exchange for Russians held by the Ukrainian side when it was hit by several ground to air missiles launched by the Ukrainian armed forces. The flight details of this plane had been provided to Kiev by the Russians in advance and there can be little doubt that its destruction was premeditated and ordered at the highest levels of the Kiev regime.
https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/sputnik-globe-on-the-shoot-down-of That Sputnik article: Il-76 Provocation ‘Setting Zelensky Up for Fall at Time of US’s Choosing’
Russian emergency services personnel on the ground confirmed Thursday that they found what appeared to be fragments of an anti-aircraft guided missile at the crash site, along with wreckage punctured by hundreds of entrance holes from the missile’s striking elements…
..“The case in particular puts Zelensky in difficulty. This case could be an element that internal opponents could [use] against the current leadership,” Graziani suggested.
Russian military analyst Alexei Leonkov agreed, saying Ukraine’s ‘Western partners’ may have been involved in the attack in an attempt to break off one of the last communication links between Kiev and Moscow in the form of prisoner exchanges. “I believe this was an operation prepared ahead of time. Because the Ukrainian air defense system fired without turning on its radar, that is, fired using external target designation means. Such means are possessed by the Americans and the British, who are now factually managing the conflict in Ukraine,” Leonkov told Sputnik...
..“Zelensky will survive this, but it is setting him up for a fall at any time the USA chooses,” international relations and Russian affairs analyst Dr. Gilbert Doctorow said, agreeing that the shootdown undermines Zelensky’s position.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240125/il-76-provocation-setting-zelensky-up-for-fall-at-time-of-uss-choosing-1116387322.html Ukraine should be designated as a “terrorist state,” and the government in Kiev should be branded a “terrorist cell,” the head of the Russian State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov has insisted, following the attack on an IL-76 military aircraft in Russia’s Belgorod Region.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Russian military transport plane crashed near the village of Yablonovo, around 90km from the Ukrainian border. It was carrying 65 captured Ukrainian military personnel for a prisoner swap, as well as six crew members and three people accompanying the POWs. It is believed that there are no survivors.
According to Kartapolov, Kiev was well aware of who this plane was transporting and accused the Ukrainian forces of shooting down the aircraft using what he claimed were “three Patriot or Iris-T air defense missiles.”
https://swentr.site/russia/591199-ukraine-terrorist-state–russian-deputy/Dima at Military Summary Channel has details on the crumbling of Ukrainian defenses and surrender of Ukrainian soldiers in Adviivka after Russian soldiers cleared out 2 miles of sewer tunnel to move underground to well behind Ukrainian defensive lines. He has other updates, and looks at the Texas border-control dispute with the Biden administration.
The Russians Are About To Launch Assault | Political Crisis In The USA. Military Summary 2024.01.25
US Has Already Lost Race for Hypersonic, Directed Energy Weapons – Senator (Lahaina, Hawaii was undefended, so it doesn’t count as a war zone.)
“We are woefully behind on the issue of directed energy,” King said. “On hypersonics and directed energy, we have lost the race or we are badly losing the race. We have a lot of catching up to do. This should be a hair on fire catching up priority.”
In the Red Sea, the US Navy was currently forced to use multi-million dollar missiles to shoot down inexpensive drones fired by the Houthi rebels in Yemen that cost less than 1% of the price of the US systems, King said. “The missiles we are using are costing $2 million to $4 million each. That is like using a howitzer to shoot a duck,” King added.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240124/us-has-already-lost-race-for-hypersonic-directed-energy-weapons—senator-1116344107.html More Paul Craig Roberts , The United States Has No Borders
The 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court forbids Texas from protecting its borders, and thereby the borders of the United States, from being overrun by immigrant-invaders. We often hear that the Supreme Court is a Republican court, but in actual fact it is a Tower of Babel Court committed to the total destruction of the United States as a nation. What the Supreme Court, like the Biden Regime, the whore media, the anti-American Woke universities, The Rino Republicans, and the Democrat attorneys general and prosecutors are creating is a non-nation, a tower of babel that has no common interests, no common morals, no common religion, and no common agenda. This is the SATANIC CURSE of “diversity and multiculturalism.”
How did Americans fall for a program designed FOR THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION?! They fell for it because they are generous and weak-minded.
The Daily Caller reports: “federal Border Patrol agents began cutting wire fences that, among other uses, helped channel individuals— unlawful migrants and U.S. citizens alike—to a lawful border crossing at a port of entry,” Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson wrote. “Border Patrol began this practice of destroying Texas’s property, according to the district court’s findings, in order to ‘facilitate the surge of migrants into Eagle Pass,’ using boats to ‘literally usher’ people across illegally.”
In other words, the Biden Regime cut the fence in order to allow entry into the US that could not be monitored. The fence was in place to insure that immigrant-invaders had to pass through lawful border crossings, where their numbers are allegedly recorded. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has refused to back down in his border-security row with US President Joe Biden’s administration, arguing that regardless of this week’s Supreme Court ruling in Washington’s favor, his duty to protect his constituents “supersedes” any federal laws.
Abbott issued a statement two days after the Supreme Court ruled that federal Border Patrol agents must be allowed to remove the concertina wire that the state had installed to prevent illegal aliens from crossing its border. The dispute escalated earlier this month when the Texas National Guard seized control of a park at a key border-crossing point and blocked federal officers from accessing the site.
“The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the states,” Abbott said on Wednesday. “The executive branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting states, including immigration laws on the books right now. President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them.”
https://swentr.site/news/591235-texas-governor-defies-biden/ Why is the West’s mainstream media ignoring the farmers’ revolt?
The farmers’ protests are akin to the peasant wars that have deep roots in European history, writes economist László Bogár for the Magyar Hírlap daily (Hungarian)
“No fuel, no food, no future” — that is the slogan most often used by German farmers, obviously in English because it was the only way to get mass exposure of their current plight.
However, you’d be forgiven for missing the protests raging across Germany — and in many other countries this past week, including Romania and France — due to the mainstream media’s apparent disinterest in the farming revolution, with producers seemingly given particularly strict instructions on what to, and what not to report.
The existence of protests unfolding throughout Europe appeared to be under some form of media embargo. Perhaps it might be worth considering why.
It is true in general, but in post-WWII Europe in particular, which was in a rather dire situation, it has proven true many times over that food supply is perhaps an even more delicate and important strategic sector than heavy industry.Why is the West’s mainstream media ignoring the farmers’ revolt?
French Mercenaries Dying in Ukraine: The West Encourages the Enlistment of Militants to Fight on Kiev’s Side
Paris is believed to be secretly encouraging large numbers of mercenaries to join Kiev’s forces, especially after political events in the African Sahel
..Recently, Russian forces bombed military facilities in Kharkov, killing more than sixty foreign mercenaries, most of them French. The case gained great attention in the media for showing the high participation of foreign troops in hostilities against Russia, which makes it clear that NATO countries are participating in the conflict in an intense way, not only with the mere sending of money and weapons…
..These soldiers, especially those from NATO countries, help the Western bloc acquire real direct combat experience with Russian forces – preparing the alliance for a possible future scenario of total war.
Currently, the Atlantic military alliance cannot send official troops to Ukraine, as this would represent the start of a direct war with Moscow. The real meaning of the conflict in Ukraine is precisely the use of Kiev as a proxy to wage war against Russia, however this could change in the future. As Ukraine rapidly loses and anti-Russian paranoia in the West continues to grow, it is possible that the situation will become out of control at some point. In this sense, one way for Western countries to prepare is by sending unofficial troops to the Ukrainian battlefield, where frictions with the Russians are already occurring…
..With the recent wave of pro-Russian revolutions in African countries, the French sphere of influence on that continent has been severely diminished. Paris appears to be trying to “compensate” for its frustration in Africa with massive support for Kiev, sending large numbers of mercenaries to defend the regime. This is also the opinion of Stevan Gajic, an analyst at the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade, who recently said in an interview that Macron is “hysterical” about Russia. Looking thinner and tireder, Schrodinger’s… Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made his first public appearance virtually Tuesday after being released from the hospital following complications from prostate cancer treatment. Austin spoke in a Department of Defense livestream video before the Ukraine Defense Contact Group…
..He did not comment on his recent hospitalization, and instead focused on bridging a gap in funding for Ukraine. “So, I urge this group to dig deep to provide Ukraine with more lifesaving ground-based air defense systems and interceptors,” Austin said.
https://www.wfla.com/news/washington-dc/lloyd-austin-makes-first-appearance-since-being-released-from-hospital/ Guterres describes humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip as “horrifying”, calling for aid entry
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, “The clear and repeated rejection of the two-state solution at the highest levels of the Israeli government is unacceptable.”
He called for more aid to be allowed into the entire Gaza Strip.
Guterres added before the UN Security Council: “The entire population of Gaza is suffering from destruction on a scale and speed unprecedented in modern history… There is nothing that can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
https://en.ypagency.net/317010US condemns shelling of Gaza UN shelter, continues to support ‘Israel’ (Is this a ploy for AIPAC, while secretly withdrawing actual diplomatic “support”?)
The spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council says “Israel retains a responsibility to protect civilians, including, humanitarian personnel and sites.”
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-condemns-shelling-of-gaza-un-shelter–continues-to-suppor EU THREATENS ‘CONSEQUENCES’ FOR ISRAEL OPPOSING PALESTINIAN STATE, BUT STILL NETANYAHU DEMANDS “ABSOLUTE VICTORY” [Bibi-Bus-Under!]
EU diplomats said on Monday in Brussels that a two-state solution is the only credible path to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, after earlier threatening “consequences” if Israel continued to oppose the plan. ICJ says to rule on ‘Israel’ Gaza genocide case on Friday
The International Court of Justice in The Hague is set to announce its verdict on Friday in a pivotal case accusing the Israeli occupation of genocide in Gaza.
South Africa has brought “Israel” before the court, alleging violations of the UN’s Genocide Convention. The case revolves around the Israeli occupation’s military campaign in Gaza ongoing since October 7, which has thus far killed more than 25,000 people and wounded over 63,000 others.
The International Court of Justice has the authority to issue “provisional measures,” emergency orders aimed at safeguarding Palestinians in Gaza from potential breaches of the convention. These orders are legally binding and cannot be appealed, though enforcing them poses a challenge.
This is what the ICJ will be issuing a ruling on instead of the genocide allegations, which could take years to come to fruition.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/icj-says-to-rule-on–israel–gaza-genocide-case-on-friday On Thursday The Washington Post is reporting a hugely unexpected development related to the Israel-Hamas war, writing that President Biden will send CIA Director William J. Burns in the coming days to help negotiate a ceasefire.
Unnamed officials speaking to the publication described that “Burns is expected to travel to Europe for the talks and meet with the Israeli and Egyptian intelligence chiefs, David Barnea and Abbas Kamel, and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-dispatches-cia-director-negotiate-major-gaza-ceasefire-dealIsrael loses control of its borders , In past wars, Israel was able to establish buffer or security zones inside enemy territory. But Tel Aviv’s adversaries have flipped the map today, forcing the occupation state to evacuate its own borders — perhaps permanently.
Today, Israel is horrified to find itself retreating from direct confrontation lines with its arch-enemies in Gaza and Lebanon. The formidable capabilities of the resistance now include drones, rockets, targeted projectiles, tunnels, and spanking new shock tactics, casting doubt on the feasibility of Israeli settlers remaining safe in any of Israel’s border perimeters.
There is now one common refrain among settlers in the north and south of occupied Palestine: “We will not return unless security is restored on the border.”
But prospects for their return appear elusive at present. The Israeli Defense Ministry, which pledged a swift and decisive war to safeguard its settlers over 100 days ago, is now actively devising plans to shelter approximately 100,000 people along the northern border, deeper inside its territory. This measure could involve evacuating settlements that may come under fire during any future military escalation with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/israel-loses-control-of-its-borders Compensating? ‘Israel’ demolished 1,100 buildings to create ‘buffer zone’ in Gaza
Amos Yadlin, former head of Israeli military intelligence, said he expected “Israel” would enforce a “perimeter” of 500 metres to 1km inside Gaza.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel–demolished-1-100-buildings-to-create-buffer-zone-in ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 111: Hospitals under siege, UNRWA shelter bombed in southern Gaza
Israeli forces bomb Gaza’s perimeter to prepare for a “buffer zone” as medical staff in Nasser Hospital dig graves in anticipation of a large number of fatalities due to Israel’s ongoing siege on the hospital.‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 111: Hospitals under siege, UNRWA shelter bombed in southern Gaza
London Jewish youth club helps ‘teenagers in crisis’ join Israeli army [No Israeli parents will complain if these boys get killed or maimed.]
Boys Clubhouse, which last week hosted Levi Simon, a British man who fought in Gaza, runs project in Jerusalem which supports boys it helps to enlist for Israeli military
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/london-jewish-youth-centre-helps-teenagers-crisis-join-israeli-armyGenocide in the age of cellphone video. State Department Refuses to Condemn Israel Shooting Group of Palestinians Waving White Flag
The State Department on Wednesday refused to condemn the shooting of unarmed Palestinian men waving a white flag in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, a scene that was captured on video by the UK’s ITV News.State Department Refuses to Condemn Israel Shooting Group of Palestinians Waving White Flag
Last Minute Changes https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/last-minute-changes
Charles Hugh Smith , The Template of National/Imperial Decay and Collapse
The point is the good times of seemingly endless expansion are never permanent yet human regimes become accustomed to managing only expansion.
Climate change is cyclical in nature, and these cycles can be exacerbated by disturbances such as volcanic activity. As covered by several of the books listed below, it is not entirely chance that the tumultuous 1600s in Europe coincided with The Little Ice Age, which happened to occur during the Maunder Minimum, a solar cycle likely made worse by The 1600 AD Huaynaputina Eruption in Peru, one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the past 2,000 years.
The Taiping Rebellion in China (1850 to 1864) may overlap with the Gleissberg drought cycle and other solar cycles that are associated with drier, cooler weather.
The point is the good times of seemingly endless expansion are never permanent yet human regimes become accustomed to managing only expansion. Lacking the institutional structure and motivation to undertake risky, fundamental adaptations that require cooperation, shared sacrifices and the accelerated evolution of trial-and-error, the regimes decay and collapse, overwhelmed by their own sclerosis and hubris and the mutually-reinforcing storms of a polycrisis.
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-template-of-nationalimperial Paul Craig Roberts , Satan’s Agent: The World Economic Forum
The WEF is an anti-human cult devoted to the destruction of freedom and human life. In my opinion, it would be wondrous if the next time the collection of stupid and evil beings assemble, Russia, China, or Iran would launch a missile attack that completely destroys the WEF. They won’t because Russia, China, and Iran view the WEF as an ally in the destruction of the West. This is a mistake, because the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian populations are also fated to be culled. Judging by the effort of the World Health Organization, the WEF’s ally, to centralize in its hands the health protocols of the entire world and its forecast of a doomsday pandemic, the culling device will be a biowarfare pathogen released on the world.
No Western legislature is doing anything to shut down the illegal labs. As Russia knows where many of the illegal biowarfare laboratories are located, Russia should take them out with missile strikes. Evil has to be confronted and overcome or evil will prevail.
Evil has already recruited the corporate and political leadership of the Western world. How much more advantage shall we permit Evil before we are overcome? Simplicius, Iranian Axis Grinds Down US’ Will as Israel Suffers Stunning Setbacks [Can the US act rationally if controlled by AIPAC? Asking for a friend.]
There are some very strange happenings in the Middle East which underscore the historic shifts grumbling just beneath the surface, ready to break through.
Firstly, to set the stage we turn to Israel, which appears to be concealing an operation that has gone off the rails, and is not yielding any of the expected results—and in fact has done little more than turn the world against them, creating a shockwave of anti-Israeli fervor that will steer sentiment for generations.
As we now know, Israel has withdrawn many of its brigades from the north, citing ‘rest and rotation’ when in reality it appears to be ‘reconstitution’, as the brigades took major attritional losses. Now in the wake of that, the latest bombshell reports state that resistance fighters have re-infiltrated the entire north…
..During the entire time, there have been increasingly urgent secret talks between the US and Israel, with the Biden administration pleading with Netanyahu to curb his assaults…
..Israel has continued to press into Khan Younis in the south. But yesterday they suffered what was unanimously called the biggest ‘tragedy’ of the entire conflict thus far. During one of the IDF’s routine mining operations, consisting of rigging explosives on civilian buildings, resistance fighters were able to trigger a detonation with dozens of IDF still inside the building…
..Al Jazeera artificially reconstructs the epic Al-Qassam operation that led to the death of 24-28 IOF soldiers near Al-Maghazi, 2 days ago. Netanyahu calls it ‘the most difficult day’…
..Israel obviously can’t pull out now to save face, so it almost leaves one with the impression they’re floundering around, secretly panicking internally as to what to do because they’ve reached the conclusion that ‘Hamas’ is an intractable shadow they cannot brute-force their way through…
..The UN and the world increasingly call for a two state solution, but Netanyahu has vocally rejected this as impossible. In fact, his Likudniks continue to call for outrageous relocations and forced ethnic cleansing of Palestinians; for instance, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen proposed dumping all Palestinians onto an artificial island…
..Now, at the worst possible time, Iran has decided to turn the screws on Israel, creating extremely unfavorable conditions by locking down the maritime chokepoints, as well as putting unprecedented pressure on Israel’s top ally of the US, militarily, all across the region.
Even as of this writing, a new US-flagged ship, the Maersk Detroit, was said to be attacked by the Houthis in the Red Sea, though US CENTCOM claims the three missiles were all repulsed. The US Navy has been relegated to a glorified escort, but since the al-Mandab strait has effectively become a warzone, it has nonetheless crippled commerce…
..Two days ago came a rumor that the US was considering talking its Kurdish allies in Syria into ‘working with Assad forces’ to combat ISIS.’ This immediately set off speculation that the US was getting ready to abandon Syria once and for all, and was looking for a way to securely fill the vacuum. Naturally, many scoffed at this, and refused to believe US would possibly withdraw from the region. But then came today’s Charles Lister-penned bombshell for FP… The shockwaves the article sent are still doing their laps through the world. As usual, it cites unnamed sources in the DOD and White House:
While no definitive decision has been made to leave, four sources within the Defense and State departments said the White House is no longer invested in sustaining a mission that it perceives as unnecessary. Active internal discussions are now underway to determine how and when a withdrawal may take place...
..Most shocking of all are new reports that US is in discussions to end its occupation of Iraq entirely:
Reuters, citing sources: Initial talks between America and the government in Baghdad about ending the presence of coalition forces in Iraq against the backdrop of developments that took place as a result of the war in Gaza…
..The US ambassador to Iraq, Alina L. Romanowski is reported to have delivered a memo today to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry regarding ‘preliminary steps’ to begin the withdrawal of US and Coalition Forces from the country. This comes amid public calls by members of the Iraqi government for US forces to depart the country due to the war in Israel and continued attacks by Iranian-backed forces. The US claims these are long-planned talks and have nothing to do with the recent attacks, but that is clearly not the case… On January 10th, the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said they would soon begin the process “to end the presence of the international coalition forces in Iraq permanently.”
So just what in the world is going on, exactly? At this most critical of times, why is the US thinking of tucking tail and running from the region?
My take is this: in short, the US is being run out of town by Iran. Their bluff was called and US knows their puny strikes can do nothing to truly degrade Iran’s highly decentralized hybrid warfare systems and groups. Iran has risen to become a hegemon verging on a Great Power of the region. The US has a few obsolete fleets which cannot keep up blow for blow with Iran in exchanged rounds of ammo. Iran can saturate them forever with drones and cheap rockets which the US is spending millions per every fired shot to intercept. Furthermore, the US cannot produce its most important strike weapons in enough quantity to ever win a long endurance standoff..
.. The US is currently at a precipice where it can still somewhat save face by retreating early and pretending it never intended to commit in the first place. But if it goes on and overcommits, it stands to get militarily exposed. The world will see the US as utterly weak and beatable... I believe US is in precisely this position. It sees itself as nearing the “point of no return”…
..Each day that passes and each new strike on US bases in Iraq and Syria brings the US closer and closer toward the brink…
..Russia will begin aerial patrols of the Golan Heights corridor… This may be a tactic to block the US in with a one-two punch. Russian planes deter Israeli strikes, which helps Iran build strength and deliver arms to its militias in Syria; then those militias increase pressure by hammering US bases in the region. Seeing the writing on the wall, the US knows the situation is untenable and unsustainable...
..Of course there’s always the chance that US may end up totally doubling down, but at this point, its position has never been weaker. And the longer things go, the more economic damage is done to the West and its allies. Russia and China continue to have free passage through the straits, as well as cheap energy, while the West is taking all the hits…
..The longer it goes, the larger the political storms that will engulf Europe. The AfD in Germany, for instance, is already now calling for a DeXit or German exit to leave the EU…
..As a last note, circling back to Israel: if things are so dire, why is Israel still talking about potentially opening up a new front against Lebanon? One popular theory is that they want to use a new even larger war against Hezbollah to hide their failure in Gaza. How would that work if the war against Hezbollah could be an even bigger failure?
It’s hard to say for certain but one idea is simply that by doing so, they would hope to somehow draw in the US into a larger total war against Iran in order to ‘cut the head off the snake’, in their eyes…
..There’s a great new article written by Patrick Theros, ex-US ambassador to Qatar. He brings up some good points about how Biden appears to be caged in by the Israeli lobby, contrasting that with previous presidents who managed to show a little more dignity and gumption in standing up to Israel’s control over the US…
..He brings up the turning tide in the US, with the young population increasingly at odds with Israel; which includes a lot of young Jewish, liberal, and Democrat people…
..He ends on a similar conclusion to my own—that there is a small window remaining:
“Biden has a very short window within which he can cut off Netanyahu before he can carry out his apparent war aim to depopulate Gaza and carry the conflict to Lebanon and possibly beyond — a conflict, in other words that could very well drag American forces into another endless Middle Eastern war. A quick and decisive decision, combined with real diplomacy to exploit the crisis and craft a workable solution to 75 years of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, would recover America’s reputation.” … This brings up one last potential explanation for the new bombshell announcements that the US may leave Syria and Iraq: it could be a threat to Israel. Since Israel does not take any other type of plea into consideration, the only remaining avenue for the US may be to simply threaten to ditch the region, with the attendant loss of direct regional military support to Israel. In short: stop your escalations or we’ll leave you hanging to fend for yourself against this emergent Iran. And some within the state department and military may be outright pushing for the total withdrawal simply to keep the US from being embroiled in a larger war they know is unwinnable.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/iranian-axis-grinds-down-us-will Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson reveals that a two-hour battle ensued with a US battle ship.
Saree confirmed that the results of the confrontation included “directly hitting an American warship and forcing two American merchant ships to retreat and return.”
The Yemeni armed forces employed “a number of ballistic missiles” in the operation that lasted for more than two hours, Saree revealed
He added that during the confrontation “a number of our ballistic missiles reached their targets, despite the attempts of the warships to intercept them.”
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemeni-armed-forces-confront-us-warships-in-a-2-hour-battleAmerican Jews reportedly drop canned-food bombs on Gaza, killing hungry civilians who open them.
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@Phoenixvoice:
1) Right On!
2) Bad for bidness, you are…
3) Choose 2 smallish dumbbells that your mom can lift from floor to overhead 20X smoothly, maybe 5# to start. Perform 3X per week. Increase weights as tolerated. Take 5000 IU/d of vitamin D3.4) forgive the 13 y/o boy post above, please.
Sorry …
Former 13 year old boy.Reid Hoffman Pulls Out Of Nikki Haley After New Hampshire Pounding
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/reid-hoffman-pulls-out-nikki-haley-after-new-hampshire-poundingUK Piano Player Threatened By CCP Agents For Filming Their Faces In Public
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-piano-player-threatened-ccp-agents-filming-their-faces-publicYouTube piano player by the name of Brendan Kavanagh was filming a live stream at a public piano at London St Pancras station when Chinese citizens, some of them known to work for CCP groups in the UK, confronted him.
Kavanagh is renowned for his surprise musical performances at public pianos around the UK, where he entertains shoppers and travelers. In the UK, filming in public is legal and does not require permission, nor does it require release agreements from any of the people that might end up on camera
Brendan Kavanagh noted in a recent interview on the event that he has been contacted by a number of Chinese citizens who told him that this is the kind of incident that would lead to a person being “taken off to the camps” in China. Angering CCP officials is simply not tolerated.
Transhuman, transgender pedophile elites now on back foot against normies?
Ohio Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto of Bill Prohibiting Experimental Transgender Treatments for Minors https://lumennews14.substack.com/p/ohio-legislature-overrides-governors
@Oroboros: Epstein vs. Corpse nose is a mild difference.
Ear-pattern is a bigger difference.Autopsies confirm Covid-19 “Vaccines” cause Myocaditis and Death , New study from doctors: Peter McCullough, Roger Hodkinson, William Makis, and Nicolas Hulscher.
https://drtrozzi.substack.com/p/autopsies-confirm-covid-19-vaccines Steve Kirsch , The New Zealand data leaked by whistleblower Barry Young is unassailable proof the COVID vaccines increase your risk of death
Barry Young is a hero. Not only did he publicly expose the data that definitively shows the COVID vaccines are killing people, but he also gets to compel these epidemiologists to finally explain how I got it wrong…
..It’s a shame that Barry had to be arrested for us to get answers, but it’s clear that a court hearing is simply the only way to compel qualified scientists to answer questions nowadays.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-new-zealand-data-leaked-by-whistleblower From Jane Orient MD at AAPS: COVID-19: What Was the Effect on Disability?
As the graph shows, the proportion of Americans over age 16 with a disability has increased sharply since 2021: from about 115 in 100,000 (projected, shown by blue line) to nearly 125 in 100,000 (black line). During the height of COVID, the proportion was lower. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the rate is up 33% since the spring of 2021…
..The increase happens to coincide with COVID-19 vaccine rollouts, in conjunction with the similar magnitude of the rate of serious adverse events (SAEs) from the clinical trials. Sperm Is Replaced Completely By Spike Protein In “Vaccinated” (Probably not completely, not in all men, right? This likely just represents the worst-case.)
Dr. Arne Burkhardt shows a medical slideshow of two individuals that confirmed spike proteins replacing sperm entirely or almost entirely in the testes.
https://gab.com/DavidJensen/posts/111796424931426260 Money-laundering between politicians, global financial institutions (BlackRock) and the military industrial complex.
US sees Ukraine as a ‘business project’ – Lavrov
Recent statements from the US suggest it regards Ukraine as nothing but a “lucrative business project,” one that it is profiting from, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the UN Security Council on Monday.
The minister was referring to earlier statements made by US State Secretary Antony Blinken. Last month, the top US diplomat claimed that 90% of the money allocated for Ukrainian aid ends up getting funneled back to the US “to the benefit of American business, local communities, and strengthening the US defense industrial base.”
https://swentr.site/russia/591101-lavrov-un-speech/ AfD Leader Calls for German ‘Dexit’ Vote to Break From EU
Britain was “dead right” to leave the European Union and Germany should consider its own “Dexit,” the leader of the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) Alice Weidel said in an article published in US media on Monday.
“If reform isn’t possible, if we fail to rebuild sovereignty of the EU member states, we should let the people decide, just as Britain did,” she said, adding that “we could have a referendum on ‘Dexit’ – a German exit from the EU.”
A recent poll found that only 45% of AfD members would currently vote to leave the EU and only 10% of the general population said they would.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240122/afd-leader-calls-for-german-dexit-vote-to-break-from-eu-1116321159.htmlAttempts to prohibit the AfD, a growing thorn in the government’s side, are unlikely to work – and if they do, it’ll cause more harm than good
https://swentr.site/news/591146-attempts-prohibit-afd-germany/ Trudeau’s Orwellian Attack On Canadian Truckers Declared Unconstitutional
Canada’s Federal Court ruled on Tuesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act in 2022 to punish protesting truckers was both unreasonable and unconstitutional.
“I have concluded that the decision to issue the Proclamation does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness — justification, transparency and intelligibility — and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration,” wrote Justice Richard G. Mosley in his ruling…
According to Mosley, Trudeau’s regulations had violated Charter rights – particularly against freedom of thought, opinion and expression. The Emergencies Act order was also found to infringe on the right to security against unreasonable search and seizure.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trudeaus-orwellian-attack-truckers-declared-unconstitutional Queen Maxima of the Netherlands took to the Davos stage to declare that digital IDs are necessary for nearly every aspect of social engagement. The Dutch queen told the World Economic Forum (WEF) that they can no longer trust the people, and digital IDs will provide governments with a clear way to track our behavior.
Vaccine passports are necessary to tell “who actually got a vaccination or not,” highlighting how those at the top do not trust the public. They want complete unilateral control. In fact, she believes that children should not be allowed to enroll in school unless they have a digital ID that includes their vaccination passport. “It [digital ID] is also good for school enrollment; it is also good for health – who actually got a vaccination or not; it’s very good actually to get your subsidies from the government,” she said to a room of nodding heads.Israeli Military Now Says It’s “Impossible” To Destroy Vast Hamas Tunnel Network Extent now assessed to be close to 450 miles of tunnels…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-military-now-says-its-impossible-destroy-vast-hamas-tunnel-networkIsrael to fight until total victory, Netanyahu says after one-day IDF death toll hits 21
https://tass.com/world/1736047 About 570,000 people in the Gaza Strip face dire hunger, and the work of humanitarian organizations is difficult due to access and communication problems, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said on Tuesday.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240123/un-agency-for-palestine-refugees-says-570000-people-in-gaza-strip-face-dire-hunger-1116327573.htmlIraqi Militia Coalition Targets Israeli Port, US Troops at Syrian Gas Field
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240123/iraqi-militia-coalition-targets-israeli-port-us-troops-at-syrian-gas-field-1116329554.html”Israel” has been a colonial outpost of the western financial order put in place at the end of WW-2, keeping oil-producing countries in disarray, subject to price and production controls imposed by the US and allied interests. There is now a strong desire in the neo-colonialized world to break this point of leverage by ending the apartheid state arrangement of “Zionism”. This is complicated by the political and financial power, especially spy-power, wielded by Israel in the western system, and by Israel’s nuclear weapons policy, the Samson Option, to nuke all regional and global centers of power if their regime is about to be defeated.
Russia’s Push for Palestinian State Can Help Stop Endless ‘Loop’ of Regional Violence
A lasting resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli crisis is the keystone to regional stability, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
“The main focus of efforts should be the creation of a Palestinian state in full compliance with the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council. The state described in these decisions would be competent and would exist in security and good neighborliness side by side with Israel and other countries in the region… I hope that the Israeli leadership will eventually come to this conclusion…Without the establishment of a Palestinian state, there can be not reliable security for Israel.”…
..Washington’s intransigence and blind support for Tel Aviv is another problem, Al Ibrahim said, pointing out that unlike in the case of Iran-Saudi normalization, where China was able to swoop in last year and mediate a surprise normalization deal, in the case of Palestine-Israel normalization a third country coming in and finding a resolution seems impossible. This will be the case so long as the US decides that it “cannot let their favorite ally, Israel, go,” even if it means jeopardizing their position and moral standing vis-à-vis the rest of the world...
..“So if there is anybody that you can talk to on the street over here in Riyadh and you tell them, do you trust the United States’ diplomatic efforts in solving this issue, they would definitely say, ‘we don’t’. So it’s time for somebody to fill this vacuum, if the United States and Britain would let them in and solve this file. And it needs to start with the mindset of the Israelis,” Al Ibrahim summed up.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240118/russias-push-for-palestinian-state-can-help-stop-endless-loop-of-regional-violence-1116253156.html Lavrov calls for halt to Israeli violence in West Bank
It is necessary to halt Israel’s violence in the West Bank immediately, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at an open debate of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the Middle East.
“It is necessary to halt immediately the violence that is coming en masse, from the side of the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank,” he said.
Focusing on “such disgusting ideas as the forced displacement of all Palestinians from their permanent places of residence” is particularly worrisome, the minister said, adding that “such a scenario is unacceptable.”
https://tass.com/politics/1736371 Russian Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov, in an interview with CBS, said that the US must stop its hostilities and stop vetoing UN ceasefire resolutions in order resolve the crisis in the Middle East
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240123/russia-says-us-must-stop-hostilities-ceasefire-vetoes-in-order-to-stabilize-middle-east-1116338548.htmlLebanon wants Russia involved in forging Middle East peace
Beirut’s foreign minister has said he is confident Moscow will work towards easing tensions in the region
https://www.rt.com/news/591155-lebanon-lavrov-gaza-israel/Utility Bill Debt For Americans Hits Record As Heating Homes Now Seen As Luxury (It’s a really-good luxury. Might die without it.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/utility-bill-debt-americans-hits-record-heating-homes-now-seen-luxurySurplus Energy Economics looks at one aspect of the unfinished global financial crisis, which is the dependence upon $US for global trade and investment flows. The US extracts value from the rest of the world through this neocolonial financial system. This is being bypassed, and will be bypassed more and more as the rest of the world acts to reduce their own losses to the trade and investment system. A BRICS-Currency is not required. This already happened with Russian oil and gas. It is progressing.
How will “exorbitant privilege” end? THE WHY AND HOW OF DE-DOLLARIZATION
Geopolitics aside, the critical issue is the flip-side of “exorbitant privilege”. This is the cost imposed, through the market dollar under-valuation of their output, on other countries in general, and EM economies in particular.
As we shall see, it can be calculated that the rest of the world gets only $0.54 for each dollar-equivalent of economic value that their countries produce. Put the other way around, we can calculate that the market dollar is over-valued by about 85% in relation to underlying value in the world outside the United States.
What we should expect to see is a rolling shift towards bilateral and multilateral trade and investment in currencies other than the dollar. Beginning with oil, this can be expected to move on to natural gas, chemicals, minerals and agricultural commodities.Implications Of Energy Cannibalism https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/implications-of-energy-cannibalism
Periodically I revisit the 1972 “The Limits To Growth” systems-analysis work, not an economic analysis, but an analysis of the human global industrial economic system within the finite context of our planet. I learned about this almost exactly 50 years ago in 10th grade Sociology class. The Arab Oil Embargo to the US was underway from the 1973 Yom Kippur war, greatly affecting the US. I was in Japan, but everybody was fully aware that there was not enough oil, that it was finite, and that industrial economy depended upon it.
The Honest Sorcerer looks at a 2023 update of that analysis, through the World-3 model, and includes the familiar B.A.U. (business as usual) graph of global inputs to and outputs from human industrial economy.
I will point out that the global industrial output seems to have peaked in late 2018 or early 2019, both from the graph, and other analysis I have seen. This was likely a contributor to the September 2019 “Repo-Crisis”, and the “necessary” going-direct cash infusion to TBTF financial institutions like BlackRock (which managed it) during COVID lockdowns.
The power/financial elites need to maintain their own control of the system as a first priority. We need the system, declining in total energy inputs, to continue to feed us, provide heat, fresh water, cooking fuel electricity and complex communications systems to coordinate all of that. 2024 may bring the return of the GFC, which was never repaired in 2008. The elites “need” to cull a lot of the human population without incapacitating industrial economy. War breaks too much, which can’t be rebuilt this time, so wars should only be carried out on the territory of competitors. Disease and famine, as well as cutting off communications, electricity, water and fuel to one area at a time are all in use already. Financially, the comfortable 10% will take a massive hit with the resumption of the financial crisis. We have seen how nobody “owns” their stocks and bonds, and that it is a Ponzi scheme, with derivative-casino gamblers having super-seniority claims upon collateral-assets (“your” wealth). Get out of debt in order to “own” anything.
2025: A Civilizational Tipping Point
There is a growing body of evidence that the 2024–2030 period will present us with a critical juncture, upending a centuries long era of economic growth. No, it will have nothing to do with climate change or novel viruses: those two will come somewhat later. Missing entirely from mainstream discourse there is a greatly overlooked side of our predicament, which will set a nice little ‘game of musical chairs’ in motion most probably around 2025.
We live in a supermassive complex system, often referred to as modernity, industrial civilization, or the world economy. This enormous organism has a life of its own, with its own inputs (resources) and outputs (pollution), as well as its own lifecycle. It is something best understood through the lens of systems dynamics, a modelling method developed in the late 1960’s. The first results were published in 1972, in a study titled Limits to Growth…
..The latest iteration of these follow up studies was titled Recalibration23, published in November 2023.
..Just concentrate on the continuous lines: as resources (pink) go down and deplete, both industrial output (red) and food production (green) goes through a tipping point and starts to decline. As a result world population (orange) peaks and dwindles. Pollution (blue) will keep rising though as people go back to less clean technologies and burn just about everything they can put their hands on to stay warm in the winter…
,,The authors of the study conclude:
Like the [Business As Usual] scenario of the [Limits to Growth] publication, the new scenario Recalibration23 reflects the overshoot and collapse mode due to resource scarcity. […] Here, the model results clearly indicate the imminent end of the exponential growth curve. The excessive consumption of resources by industry and industrial agriculture to feed a growing world population is depleting reserves to the point where the system is no longer sustainable. Pollution lags behind industrial growth and does not peak until the end of the century. Peaks are followed by sharp declines in several characteristics. This interconnected collapse, or, as it has been called by Heinberg and Miller (2023), polycrisis, occurring between 2024 and 2030 is caused by resource depletion, not pollution. The increase in environmental pollution occurs later and with a lower peak...
..Oil is still the master resource, making all other energy and mineral resources available. Mining, agriculture, construction, long distance transport, plastics, all hopelessly depend on petroleum. Hydro, nuclear and “renewables” are also made possible by using diesel and gasoline burning vehicles to bring people, raw materials and equipment on site. Should the availability of oil decline, it would eventually bring all other resources and energy production down with it…
..The Journal of Petroleum Technology, the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ flagship magazine has published an article in 2023 saying just that:
“Energy necessary for the production of oil liquids is growing at an exponential rate, representing 15.5% of the energy production of oil liquids today and projected to reach a proportion equivalent to half of the gross energy output by 2050 (Delannoy et al. 2021).
When the energy required for the extraction and production of these liquids is taken into account, the net-energy peak is expected to occur in 2025 at a level of 400 PJ/d [1]. In the foreseeable future, the energy needed to produce oil liquids could approach unsustainable levels, a phenomenon called “energy cannibalism.”
The concept of energy cannibalism is becoming increasingly relevant, as mounting energy use in oil production means the very resources needed for the transition to renewable energy may be constrained, particularly when viewed from a net-energy perspective and in terms of economic growth.”…
..And it’s not only about net energy, but the overall availability of oil (3). For most of the second half of the 20th century, oil companies were finding more crude than global consumption, around five times the demand volumes. This ratio of discovered resources versus demand has dropped in recent decades, and is now at around 25%. (This means, that we burn four times as much oil every year than what we find.)…
..Knowing how petroleum output affects everything we do, the significance of passing this civilizational tipping point cannot be overemphasized. Again, this has very little to do with subsidies or finance: we are about to pass a point of diminishing returns from an energetic and geological perspective…
..We will be in completely uncharted territory. Once again to cite the authors of the Recalibrate23 study:
“However, it is important to note that the connections in the model and the recalibration are only valid for the rising edge, as many of the variables and equations represented in the model are not physical but socio-economic. It is to be expected that the complex socio-economic relationships will be rearranged and reconnected in the event of a collapse. World3 holds the relationships between variables constant. Therefore it is not useful to draw further conclusions from the trajectory after the tipping points. Rather, it is important to recognize that there are large uncertainties about the trajectory from then on.”
Talking about the “rearrangement of complex socio-economic relationships…” How about the end of the unipolar world, and the rise of new trading blocks (BRICS+)? Perhaps a global conflict over who gets to burn the last barrels of oil available for export? Or a major financial meltdown upending the current financial system? …
..After a few years perhaps a decade into this crisis-mode, it will no longer be possible to uphold current institutions and large political structures. The reasons, as always: the gap between interests too wide, the costs of maintaining central control too high…
..Every civilization — ours included — grew by living up its one time inheritance, be it fertile topsoil or petroleum, overshooting both the natural carrying capacity of its environment and the non-renewable resource base it relied on. Then, as resources got depleted below a critical level, they all went through their respective phases of collapse.
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/2025-a-civilizational-tipping-pointSperm are completely replaced by spike protein in a “vaccinated” specimen.
https://gab.com/DavidJensen/posts/111796424931426260Quoth Dr. D: 🙂
“80% of the fat is exhaled through the lungs as carbon dioxide”
That’s it, losing weight causes global warming. That’s Science.
Senate blocks measure proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders to FREEZE Israel aid and probe Gaza war crimes
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed a resolution to potentially freeze U.S. military aid to Israel and mandate the Biden administration to investigate war crimes in the Gaza Strip – a measure that was unfortunately set aside.
Under the resolution, all U.S. security aid would be frozen unless the U.S. Department of State produces a report examining whether Israel had committed human rights violations in its wartime conduct. The resolution gave the State Department 30 days to produce this report.
Earlier this month, Sanders – who is Jewish himself – decried the Gaza offensive as an “illegal and immoral war against the Palestinian people.” In turn, pro-Israel lobbyists campaigned aggressively against Sanders’ resolution, calling it poorly timed and unnecessary.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-01-19-senate-tables-bernie-resolution-freeze-israel-aid.htmlMexico and Chile call on International Criminal Court to investigate crimes in Gaza
Mexico and Chile have joined South Africa, Bolivia, Djibouti, Bangladesh, and the Comoros in calling on the ICC to investigate Israel for its crimes in Gaza, including war crimes and genocide.Mexico and Chile call on International Criminal Court to investigate crimes in Gaza
Journalist Who Attacked Top Tennis Player For Refusing COVID Vaccine Dies Suddenly
One of the lead instigators of this attempt at cancellation was Mike Dickson, a prominent British sports journalist working for the Daily Mail. Dickson is noted as being relentless in his criticism of Djokovic, calling the player “arrogant and deplorable” for refusing to submit.
This week, Mike Dickson is reported to have collapsed and “died suddenly” at the age of 59 while covering the Australian Open. The cause of death has been kept confidential.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/journalist-who-attacked-top-tennis-player-refusing-covid-vaccine-dies-suddenlyE-Bikes Caused Record Fires, Injuries, & Deaths Last Year In NYC None of my regular-bikes will ever cause this kind of problem.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/e-bikes-caused-record-fires-injuries-and-deaths-last-year-nycIsrael Offers Substantial 2-Month Gaza Ceasefire For Release Of All Hostages
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-offers-significant-2-month-gaza-ceasefire-release-all-hostages‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 108: Israel is systematically obliterating Gaza, section by section
As Israeli forces surround yet another hospital in Gaza, Hamas releases a letter clarifying its motives behind the October 7 attack, reiterating the Palestinian demand for the right to self-determination.‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 108: Israel is systematically obliterating Gaza, section by section
The world has reached a point of no return. The fraud of Western powers is spectacularly exposed and has become untenable.
Washington, London, and Brussels have pointedly refused to demand a ceasefire in Gaza under the guise of cynical excuses that recycle odious Israeli propaganda lies, such as the Palestinian militant group Hamas allegedly using human shields or hospitals as bases.
Yet these Western powers turn around and suddenly bomb Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab region because it has taken the principled action of blocking Red Sea shipping as a leverage point to force a ceasefire in Gaza. The Yemenis are invoking their right under the 1948 Genocide Convention to act in solidarity to prevent the genocide of Palestinian people.
Thus the Western powers are not only arming, enabling, and justifying the Israeli crimes in Gaza. When another party, Yemen, takes action to help the Palestinians, the Western powers double down on their criminality by assaulting Yemen.
The Red Sea shipping crisis could be easily averted by calling a ceasefire in Gaza, as the Yemenis are contending. So, why don’t the Western powers comply? The conclusion is that they are unwilling to stop the genocide in Gaza. The Israeli regime is a bastion of U.S. and Western imperialism in the geo-strategically important Middle East.Gaza, Yemen & Ukraine Sound Death Knell for U.S.-Led ‘Rules-Based Global Order’
Red Sea ships declare lack of ties to Israel online to avert Houthi attacks
Shipping operators are reportedly posting statements on marine monitoring websites declaring that they have no connection to Israel before entering the Red Sea to avoid their vessels being targeted by the Houthi militia in Yemen.
The Houthis have said that they will not target ships passing through the Red Sea, Ban Al-Bandab, or the Gulf of Aden so long as they provide early notice of their destinations or indicate on maritime traffic monitoring sites that they have no relation with Israel.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2445131/middle-eastLawmakers Push Funding To Replace The Ultra-Expensive Weapons Used In Yemen
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said fighting in Yemen means Congress needs to add further spending for munitions to a supplemental military funding package. “As I’ve warned for weeks, using million-dollar missiles to defend against thousand-dollar drones strains an already insufficient inventory of long-range capabilities,” he added. “The supplemental is our chance to expand our capacity to meet the national security challenges we face.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lawmakers-push-funding-replace-ultra-expensive-weapons-used-yemenNasrallah will not be provoked or intimidated. Israeli Strike Targets Hassan Nasrallah – Hezbollah Leader! Kills one of Personal Security Team
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/israeli-strike-targets-hassan-nasrallah-hezbollah-leader-kills-one-of-personal-security-teamIsraeli occupation government’s members reject establishment of Palestinian state
Ministers in the Israeli occupation government said on Saturday that they would not allow the establishment of the State of Palestine in accordance with American and international demands.
This comes hours after statements made by US President Joe Biden in which he claimed that Israeli entity’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed him that he did not mind implementing the two-state solution and establishing the State of Palestine.
The Minister of Finance of the occupying entity, Smotrich, said: “There is a broad consensus in Israel to reject the Palestinian state and the division of lands.” He added: “The White House must be freed from the illusions of the concepts that led to the disaster in Israel,” according to his claim.
Smotrich continued: “Friends of Israel must understand that pushing towards the establishment of a Palestinian state is pushing towards the next massacre and an existential threat to Israel.”
https://en.ypagency.net/316708Alastair Crooke (Thanks F.S.), Netanyahu’s Shape-shifting ‘Endgame’ – It Is No Ploy, but a Reversion to Earlier Zionist Strategy
..The late Ariel Sharon, a long-time Israeli military and political leader, once confided to his close friend Uri Dan that, “the Arabs had never genuinely accepted the presence of Israel … and so, a two-state solution was not possible – nor even desirable”.
In the minds of these two – as well as for most Israelis today – is the ‘Gordian Knot’ that sits at the heart of Zionism: How to maintain differential rights over a physical terrain that includes a large Palestinian population.
Israeli leaders believed that in Sharon’s unconventional approach of ‘spatial ambiguity’, Israel was close to evolving a solution to the conundrum of managing differential rights within a Zionist majority state, which includes substantial minorities…
..U.S. journalist Steve Inskeep’s recent piece – Israel’s Lack of Strategy is the Strategy – brings into focus the seeming paradox: That whilst Netanyahu is very clear about that which he does not want, he at the same time remains obstinately opaque about what he does want as a future for Palestinians living on a shared terrain…
..Sharon’s military experience from the 1973 War effectively has shaped the entire Palestinian paradigm… Sharon’s notion of Palestinian Permanent Ambiguity was – and has been – the Zionists’ principle answer to how to bypass the paradox inherent within Zionism… In 2008, Foreign Minister (and lawyer), Tzipi Livni, was spelling out why “Israel’s only answer (to the issue of how to maintain Zionism) was to keep the State’s borders undefined – whilst holding on to scarce water and land resources – leaving Palestinians in a state of permanent uncertainty, dependent on Israeli goodwill”…
.“Livni was saying that she wanted Israel to be a Zionist state – based on the Law of Return and open to any Jew. However, to secure such a state in a country with very limited territory – means that land and water must be kept under Jewish control, with differential rights for Jews and non-Jews – rights that affect everything, from housing and access to land, to jobs, subsidies, marriages and migration”.
A two-state solution inherently therefore, did not solve the problem of how to maintain Zionism; rather, it compounded it. The inevitable demand for full equal rights for Palestinians would bring the end of Jewish ‘special rights’, and of Zionism itself, Livni argued – a threat with which most Zionists concur…
..Sharon had an alternative plan for managing a large non-Jewish ‘out-group’, physically present within a Zionist State of differentiated rights. Sharon’s alternative amounted to frustrating a two-state solution within fixed borders…
..The roots to Sharon’s ‘alternative’ lay with his radically unorthodox military thinking on how to defend the then-occupied Sinai from the Egyptian Army during the war with Egypt in 1973.
The 1973 Israeli-Arab war outcome thoroughly vindicated Sharon’s doctrine of a network defence based on a matrix of elevated strong points spread throughout the depth of the Sinai – a framework that acted as an extended spatial ‘trap’ providing Israelis with a high level of mobility, whilst paralyzing the enemy caught within its matrix of interlocking strong points. (If the reader notices the similarity of approach to the Israeli strategic locii of settlement ‘strong points’ spread across the West Bank today, it is no coincidence!).
Sharon envisaged the depth of the West Bank in its entirety as one extensive, permeable and temporary ‘frontier’. This approach could thus disregard any thin-nibbed pencil line, drawn to denote some political border. This framework was intended to leave Palestinians in a state of permanent uncertainty, caught within a matrix of interlocking settlements, and subject to Israeli military intervention at Israel’s sole discretion.
In 1982, Sharon drew up his “H” plan matrix of strong-point settlements for the West Bank that would mirror the Sinai strategy. This defensive strategy, however, also had the effect of imbuing ‘settler Zionism’ with new purpose and legitimacy.
The success of this strategy thus saw it transposed from being an essentially military defensive structure (to paralyse the Palestinians within a matrix of IDF strongpoints) to become subsequently the basis for managing the Palestinians more broadly. It was, over the years, to become more repressive, more iniquitous and resented. And ultimately, it seeded the apartheid two-state solution…
..It has permitted the fashioning of a two-layered space, subjecting Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs each to different matrices of mobility and administrative treatment.
Differentiated legal and administrative space thus solidified the Zionist political principle of differential political rights too. This two-tier system provides for Palestinian political exclusion, but maintains Palestinian dependency and legal inclusion under the Israeli apparatus of control…
..Once you make explicit that the overriding objective is that of maintaining Zionism, everything that Netanyahu is doing then makes sense. The crux of the problem is unchanged: The inherent contradiction of an exceptionalist Zionist state incorporating a substantial non-Jewish out-group without rights – whether it be held in the fenced ghetto of Gaza, or in a West Bank ‘settler stronghold matrix’ – has become untenable…
..Put plainly, Zionism will need to be re-thought – or abandoned.
So too, the West’s policy responses will need re-visiting. Well-intentioned platitudes about a two-state ‘solution’ are years too late. Too much water has flowed under the bridge. Rather, the West might begin to consider the implications of defeat for those who have embraced a side to this conflict. It is more than just Israel in Gaza that is in the dock at the Hague, much else is too (from the perspective of the Global South)…
..“Israel is the state of the Jewish people”, Livni underlined in 2008 – stressing the Zionist ‘bottom line’ – “and I would like to emphasise the meaning of “its people” is the Jewish people, with Jerusalem the united and undivided capital of Israel and of the Jewish people for 3007 years”.Netanyahu’s Shape-shifting ‘Endgame’ – It Is No Ploy, but a Reversion to Earlier Zionist Strategy
The Israeli occupation is largely conflicted among itself amid reports of infighting and an overall sense of defeat among the soldiers.
In reality, ministers revealed there were discrepancies in what was being heard from the military apparatus and from what was going on the ground, the Israeli broadcaster said.
There was a notable lack of respect in this session, escalating to shouting between the Minister for Advancement of the Status of Women May Golan and Chikli.
A new indication of a major division in “Israel’s” war leadership has surfaced, following the former Israeli chief Gadi Eisenkot’s call for elections within months.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-soldiers-returning-from-gaza-feeling-defeated–reporIsraeli Commanders Believe Diplomacy Is the Only Way to Free Israeli Hostages
Four Israeli military leaders told NYT that the goal of decimating Hamas is incompatible with rescuing the hostagesIsraeli Commanders Believe Diplomacy Is the Only Way to Free Israeli Hostages
NATO is putting 90,000 troops near the Ukrainian border (with how many days of gas and ammo?) “just in case”.
Scale of Steadfast Defender Drills Marks Return of NATO to Cold War-Era Patterns – Moscow
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240121/scale-of-steadfast-defender-drills-marks-return-of-nato-to-cold-war-era-patterns—moscow-1116291509.htmlEleni sends this unique insight from M.K. Bhadrakumar. Decoding Iran’s missile, drone strikes
The stunning missile and drone strikes on three countries — Syria, Iraq and Pakistan — over a period of 24 hours and Tehran taking the extraordinary step of announcing its responsibility for the attacks conveyed a very big message to Washington that its stratagem to create a coalition of terror groups in the region surrounding Iran will be resolutely countered.
That the US strategy against Iran was taking new forms began emerging after the October 7 attack on Israel and the consequent erosion of its standing as the regional supremo…
..There were signs already by the latter half of 2023 that the US with Israeli axis was planning to use terrorism as the only viable means to weaken Iran and restore the regional balance back in favour of Tel Aviv…
..Future historians are sure to study, analyse and arrive at sober conclusions as regards the attacks on Israel by Palestinian resistance groups on October 7. In classic military doctrine, they were quintessentially a pre-emptive strike by resistance groups before the US-Israeli juggernaut of terrorist groups — such as ISIS and Mujahideen-e-Khalq — turned into a rival platform matching the Axis of Resistance…
..Tehran has been pressing Moscow to expedite a bilateral strategic pact but Russians, unsurprisingly, took time over it…
..On Monday, finally, the Russian Defence Ministry disclosed in a rare statement that Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu called his Iranian counterpart Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani to convey that Moscow has agreed to sign the pact…
..According to Iranian news agency IRNA, Shoigu conveyed that Russia’s commitment to Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity will be explicitly stated in the pact. The report added that “the two ministers also pointed out the importance of issues related to regional security and emphasised that Moscow and Tehran will continue their joint efforts in establishing a multipolar world order and negating the unilateralism of the United States.”…
..“This document is not just timely, but also overdue,” said Zakharova. “Since the signing of the current treaty, the international context has changed and relations between the two countries are experiencing an unprecedented upswing,” she took note…
..Suffice to say, Iran’s missile and drone strikes against terrorist targets on Wednesday are a vivid demonstration of its assertiveness to act in self-defence in the new regional and international milieu. Iran’s so-called “proxies” — be it Hezbollah or Houthis — have reached adulthood with a mind of their own, who would decide their own strategic positioning within the Axis of Resistance. They don’t require a life-support system from Tehran…
..With regard to the strike on Baluchistan, interestingly, it took place within a month of COAS Gen. Asim Munir’s weeklong trip to Washington in mid-December.
Munir met senior US officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, US Forces Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q Brown, and US Deputy National Security Adviser Jonathan Finer — and, of course, the redoubtable Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, the driving force behind the Biden administration’s neocon policies.
An official statement in Islamabad December 15 on Munir’s high-flying tour stated that Pakistan and the US “intend to increase interactions” for “mutually beneficial” engagements…
..Pakistan has an entire history of serving American interests in the region and the GHQ in Rawalpindi has been the charioteer of such collaboration. What is on evidence today is that the forthcoming elections in Pakistan did not discourage the Biden administration from rolling out the red carpet for Munir. But the good part is that both Iran and Pakistan are smart enough to know each other’s red lines.
The US intentions are clear: outflank Tehran in the west and east with failing states that are easy to manipulate…
..In a nutshell, [US National Security Advisor Jake] Sullivan has voiced the US’ intention to strengthen its presence in Iraq — and it has similar objectives to pursue in Pakistan too. Washington trusts Munir to ensure that Imran Khan languishes in jail no matter the outcome of the Pakistani elections.
This strategic realignment comes at a time when Afghanistan has conclusively slipped out of the Anglo-American orbit and Saudi Arabia shows no interest to be a cog in the American wheel or dabble with the forces of extremism and terrorism.US Navy Gives Major Update On Missing Seals After Searching 21,000 Square Miles Of Ocean
US Central Command (CENTCOM) has belatedly announced the death of the two Seals. “We regret to announce that after a 10-day exhaustive search, our two missing U.S. Navy SEALs have not been located and their status has been changed to deceased,” a statement issued Sunday indicated. “Out of respect for the families, no further information will be released at this time.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-navy-gives-major-update-missing-seals-after-searching-21000-square-miles-oceanYemen Hits ANOTHER U.S. Ship with Ballistic Missiles , Unconfirmed report that “military carrier” Ocean Jazz has been sunk. Pictures don’t match.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-yemen-hits-another-u-s-ship-with-ballistic-missiles-2European Union Agrees to Military Use against Yemen, 27 EU Member States agree on Military action in the Red Sea.
European Union states have reached an agreement in principle to launch a military operation to secure merchant shipping in the Red Sea – EU top diplomat
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/bulletin-european-union-agrees-to-military-use-against-yemen
