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Israeli soldiers killed, US base in Syria under fire as region heats (Bases on Syria’s oil wells to steal oil)
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has been conducting operations against US occupation bases in Iraq and Syria for 9 consecutive days.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-soldiers-killed-us-base-in-syria-under-fire-as-regio Andrew Korybko explains: Here’s Why Russia Didn’t Deter Or Respond To The US’ Latest Bombing Of Syria
Russia prefers that America and Israel don’t bomb Syria, but it also understands that they’re threatened by Iran’s military presence there, which arms proxy groups to fight against their occupations. Russia agrees with Iran that the US is occupying Syria and Israel is occupying Palestine, but it disagrees with the unconventional methods employed to oust them.
https://korybko.substack.com/p/heres-why-russia-didnt-deter-or-respondIran kicks off major war games amid Israel tensions (We also know that war-games can go-live quite rapidly, a running-start to conflict)
The exercises seek to “improve deterrence power in the face of new threats,” the country’s military has said
https://www.rt.com/news/585962-iran-military-exercises-tensions/I am certainly listening…
“I say frankly to the American statesmen, who are now managing the genocide in Palestine that we do not welcome [an] expansion of the war in the region,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in New York during an emergency United Nations General Assembly session. America “will not be spared from this fire” if the crisis endures, Amir-Abdollahian emphasized. “It is our home, and West Asia is our region. We do not compromise with any party and any side, and we have no reservation when it comes to our home’s security.”
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231027/biden-inches-towards-military-disaster-in-middle-east-1114528464.html(Is this dude tryin’ to bring on the “rapture”? He’s supposed to be smart.)
New House Speaker: Russia, China, and Iran Are New Axis of Evil
In an interview with Sean Hannity, Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson said Putin cannot win in UkraineNew House Speaker: Russia, China, and Iran Are New Axis of Evil
Musk to provide Starlink access to Gaza (Explicitly no military applications… nobody can direct ambulances or rescue teams now)
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said that he will ”provide satellite internet access to “internationally recognized aid organizations” in Gaza via his Starlink network. Phone and internet lines went down in the enclave after a heavy Israeli bombardment on Friday.
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/musk-to-provide-starlink-access-to-gaza/ Israel threatens to destroy Musk’s Starlink
Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Kahri has vowed that “Israel will use all means at its disposal to fight” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s planned provision of Starlink internet access to Gaza.
“Hamas will use it for terrorist activities,” Kahri claimed in a post on X (formerly Twitter), adding that “there is no doubt about it, we know it, and Musk knows it.”
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/israel-threatens-to-destroy-musk-s-starlink/Israel is now a full-scale dictatorship
In the weeks since October 7, there has been no room for dissent in Israeli society. Detention centers are filling up fast with people who show even the slightest opposition. Here are some scenes from the Israeli Dictatorship. Public support for ground offensive shrinks in Israel over past week, poll shows
Support for a potential ground offensive in the Gaza Strip among Israelis has more than halved from 65% to 29% over the past week, a recent public opinion poll published by the Israeli daily showed.
This week, only 29% of respondents said that Israel should launch a large-scale ground operation in Gaza, while their share was 65% a week ago. In addition, 49% of Israelis support postponing the move against the Palestinian enclave. The change was likely prompted by the emergence of the issue of people abducted by Hamas in public discussions, the newspaper said.
As many as 522 adults aged over 18 years were polled on October 25-26, with a margin error of 4.3%.
https://tass.com/world/1697869Israeli residents criticize government’s handling of Hamas attack’s aftermath
According to the report, the criticism is primarily aimed at the failure of the authorities to provide support to people who fled the war zone
https://tass.com/world/1698085Wiped off the map: Before-and-after satellite images show how Israeli airstrikes have laid waste to entire Gaza neighbourhoods after two weeks of bombardments
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12674523/satellite-images-Israeli-airstrikes-laid-waste-Gaza-bombardments.html Israel bombing ‘everything but Hamas in Gaza’ – Jackson Hinkle
Israel’s claims that it is only bombing Gaza to eliminate Hamas are “insane,” political analyst Jackson Hinkle said in an interview with RT on Thursday. He argued that Israeli forces appear to be focusing on targeting the civilian population of Gaza in their ongoing campaign.
“They’ve bombed everything but Hamas inside of Gaza,” the host of ‘The Dive with Jackson Hinkle’ said, accusing Israel of targeting various civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, schools, UN and Red Crescent facilities, mosques, churches, homes, and even evacuee convoys.
The analyst suggested that this is because Israel does not want a Palestinian state, and that the true purpose of its operation in Gaza is not to defeat Hamas, but rather to force Palestinians out and take over the enclave “once and for all.”
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/israel-bombing-everything-but-hamas-in-gaza-jackson-hinkle/ Israel-Palestine: Names released of 7,028 Palestinians killed after Biden questions death toll [New meme: “Biden is America’s Yeltsin”]
Health ministry says US administration ‘devoid of human standards, morals’ for ‘shamelessly’ questioning validity of figures
Between 7 October and 3pm local time on 26 October, 7,028 Palestinians were killed, including 2,913 children, the report stated.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-death-toll-names-killed-released-biden-questions The Israeli military intensified airstrikes in Gaza including near its largest hospital while thousands of people desperate for food and basic items broke into aid warehouses in the besieged enclave.
Internet and phone connectivity were restored for many people on Sunday after Israeli strikes had knocked out most communications in the territory late Friday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called the 3-week-old Israel-Hamas war a fight for Israel’s existence and said “‘Never again’ is now.” …
..The Palestinian death toll passed 8,000, most of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, more than 110 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-10-29-2023-0898aba5101bffdce24f21801b440a51UNRWA death toll in Gaza rises to 57
At least 57 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) have been killed since the latest escalation in the Middle East, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said in an interview with Qatar’s Al Jazeera television.
“Some 57 of our staff have been killed in the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip. Since it is impossible to separate Palestinians form Hamas, all civilians and hospital buildings should be protected,” Lazzarini emphasized. On Thursday, 38 UNRWA employees were reported killed.
https://tass.com/world/1697779Is this what Colonel Macgregor referred to recently, or something else? He said the “US and Israelis basically got their asses handed to them and took heavy losses”.
Hamas repels Israeli attack in eastern Gaza – agency 10/27/23
Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters have repelled Israel’s attempted attack from the are near the Bureij camp in the east of the Gaza Strip, the SANA news agency reported on Friday, citing Palestinian sources.
According to the news agency, Israeli forces were driven out of Gaza after bring ambushed by Palestinian resistance fighters who hit several Israeli armored vehicles with anti-tank missiles.
It also said that Israeli helicopters are evacuating those killed and wounded east of the Bureij camp.
Medical sources told the agency that ambulance cars of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society cannot reach bombed areas due to problems with the access to the internet. “Israel’s massive airstrikes continue and have caused dozens of deaths among civilians; hundreds are wounded,” the sources said.
https://tass.com/world/1698233 Gilbert Doctorow updates geopolitics of Armageddon:
Israel pounds Gaza with U.S. “heavy” bunker-busting bombs. Erdogan speaks of a Cross vs Crescent war.
Let us remember the well known rules of drama established by Anton Chekhov: if a rifle is mentioned in Act One, it will go off with deadly effect in Act Three. It seems that Netanyahu and his war cabinet have forgotten, or more likely never read Chekhov.
A number of the issues set out in the above constituted the material of a five-minute interview that I gave to WION. Note the very balanced presentation by WION in the introductory section to this interview. [Text at link summarizes interview content]Hamas has offered to free hostages – Iranian FM
Civilian captives could be transferred to Iran with Turkish and Qatari help, according to media reports
https://www.rt.com/news/585895-hamas-hostages-iran-release/ Hamas Vows To Release 8 Russian-Israeli Hostages After Talks In Moscow
Concerning Russia’s request to see its nationals go free, Hamas said, “From the Russian side, via the Foreign Ministry, we received a list of citizens that have dual citizenship,” according to senior Hamas representative Moussa Abu Marzook.
“We are looking for those people… It is hard but we are looking. And when we find them, we will let them go,” he vowed. “We are very attentive to this list and will process it carefully because we consider Russia to be a closest friend.”
“About the peaceful citizens that were taken and that are now in Gaza, we treat them as guests,” Abu Marzook claimed further. He said of the Russian-Israelis, “We will free them as soon as there will be the conditions.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hamas-vows-release-8-russian-israeli-hostages-after-talks-moscow“Justified Vengeance” and The History of Israeli “False Flags”(2001-2023): Palestine Portrayed as “The Aggressor”
The Invasion of Gaza: Part of a Broader Israeli Military-Intelligence AgendaPraying For Diplomats https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/praying-for-diplomats
One Mistake Before Armageddon , Paul Craig Roberts
What this means is that the slightest mistake, the slightest false warning can now ignite nuclear Armageddon.
Meanwhile the media focuses on political gossip, Americans scroll their cell phones and complain about inflation, and the threat to the existence of life on earth goes unremarked. 5,000 US Troops Involved in Israeli Land War on Gaza: Exclusive
Security sources told Tasnim that the Zionist regime’s ground onslaught against the Gaza Strip on Friday night involved three divisions and several brigades.
The sources have also pointed to the participation of some 5,000 US military forces in the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Tasnim had reported earlier that the American military commanders have practically taken charge of the situation in the Israeli army as the Zionist forces suffered a crushing defeat in the Al-Aqsa Storm operation and the Israeli leaders have lost trust in the management abilities and loyalty of a number of army personnel.
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2023/10/28/2979369/5-000-us-troops-involved-in-israeli-land-war-on-gaza-exclusiveRT echoes that report: 5,000 US troops involved in Gaza offensive – Iranian media
https://www.rt.com/news/586049-us-israel-gaza-offensive/Pentagon Rejects Iranian Report Claiming That U.S. Troops Were Fighting in Gaza
https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/pentagon-rejects-iranian-report-claiming@R.I.M. Exceptionsl Work, Sir, day after day after day.
SALUTE!
Aww, the Hee Haw “SALUTE” image didn’t take.
@Phoenixvoice: You are welcome, Sister.
If we don’t have elections next year the point is moot. Trump planning to withdraw US from NATO – media
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/trump-planning-to-withdraw-us-from-nato-media/Prosecutor Livid After FBI Refused To Pursue ‘Credible’ Biden-Ukraine Corruption Allegations, Grassley Reveals 40 Informants
In a Tuesday letter, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that the FBI had more than 40 informants on the Biden family over an extended period of time, but that most avenues of investigation were thwarted.
“This letter is based on years of investigation, including the provision of information, records, and allegations from multiple Justice Department whistleblowers that indicate there is – and has been – an effort among certain Justice Department and FBI officials to improperly delay and stop full and complete investigative activity into the Biden family, including but not limited to FD-1023s referencing the Biden family,” wrote Grassley.
“This alleged political infection breaks faith with the American people, and it will ruin our governmental institutions should it continue. As just one initial example,” he continued, “I’ve been made aware that at one point in time the FBI maintained over 40 Confidential Human Sources that provided criminal information relating to Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden.”
Grassley says Americans need to know: “Did the FBI investigate the information or shut it down?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/prosecutor-livid-after-fbi-refused-pursue-credible-biden-ukraine-corruption-allegations How Pfizer Hid Nearly 80% of COVID Vaccine Trial Deaths From Regulators
According to an analysis, published this month in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research, of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial data, the vaccine makers hid fatality data from regulators in order to qualify for Emergency Use Authorization.How Pfizer Hid Nearly 80% of COVID Vaccine Trial Deaths From Regulators
Dr. John Campbell provides another good reason to supplement your vitamin-D level to the upper normal range and keep it there. Vit D and prostate cancer
Barry McGuire , Eve Of Destruction 1965
Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin is giving interview after interview on Israeli television demanding the IDF carry out the complete and total “annihilation” of Gaza with endless airstrikes to cause “destruction like Dresden and Hiroshima.”
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64085Qatar sentenced eight former Indian naval officers to death after finding them guilty of spying on the Gulf state’s submarine programme for Israel, according to a report by the Financial Times.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/qatar-india-death-sentence-men-israel-spyGilbert Doctorow reads the political tea-leaves in elite press releases and sees the US mostly-defunding the Ukraine war and bailing out, … “because Israel”.
Slovakia’s New Populist PM Follows Through On Blocking Arms To Ukraine
Slovakia’s new leader, Robert Fico, has called for the European Union to take on a peacekeeper role in the Ukraine war, and Bratislava will not support further sanctions on Moscow.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/slovakias-new-populist-pm-follows-through-blocking-arms-ukraineRussia has a new Aerospace force Chief, and the capability to completely black-out Ukrainian electricity grid for 2 weeks, when the time comes to mount a massive offensive.
The Fall | Infrastructure Collapse. Blackout Is Coming. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.10.27
US Launches Strikes in Syria After Targeted Attacks Against American Troops [If only there were some peaceful solution… but none presents itself, huh?]
The US Department of Defense revealed late Thursday that forces had fired strikes against two[completely illegal] facilities in Syria following earlier attacks against American and allied troops in Iraq and Syria…
..The release underscored that the US strikes were not related to the Palestine-Israel conflict. The statement added that the US does not seek an escalation of the conflict in Palestine.
“These narrowly-tailored strikes in self-defense [of illegal, oil-stealing American military bases in countries that are no threat to the USA] were intended solely to protect and defend US personnel in Iraq and Syria. They are separate and distinct from the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, and do not constitute a shift in our approach to the Israel-Hamas conflict,” the release said…
In addition to the 900 recently-deployed troops, there are roughly 35,000 US troops deployed in the Middle East, according to Responsible Statecraft. Most of those forces are in Gulf bases, far from any fighting; however, roughly 3,400 remain stationed in Syria and Iraq.
Last year, the Ministry of Oil in Syria accused the US and its “mercenaries” of stealing Syrian oil. The Syrian government has repeatedly called out the illegal American presence in the country as a violation to its sovereignty.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231027/us-launches-strikes-in-syria-after-targeted-attacks-against-american-troops-1114515416.htmlHamas Delegation Arrives In Moscow As Russia Blames US For Escalation 10/26/23
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hamas-delegation-arrives-moscow-after-russia-blamed-us-escalationJohn Helmer , THE GODS ARE GOING AGAINST THE CHOSEN PEOPLE — MAMMON AGAINST ISRAEL, MARS AGAINST THE PENTAGON
..(Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria) Zakharova confirmed the start of the talks with Hamas on Thursday. She said: “I can also say and confirm that representatives of the relevant Palestinian movement are in Moscow. As for contacts, we will inform you additionally.” She has also disclosed that since the war began, nine thousand Russian passport holders have returned to Russia from Israel; and that at least fifteen Russian passport holders among the Hamas hostages have been killed in the IDF airstrikes.
At the same time as Marzouq’s meetings, Husam Badran issued a statement to the Russian state news medium, Sputnik. “Russia,” Badran said, “is able to play an important role in ending the war between Israel and the Gaza Strip, and delivering aid to the Palestinian exclave. Hamas values Russia’s role on the international stage, especially use of veto in the UN Security Council against the United States. But Russia can play a greater role in ending the aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip and applying international pressure to deliver urgent aid to our people in the Gaza Strip.”
What Hamas means by “greater role” for Russia has not been disclosed publicly yet. It is known that Hamas is willing to negotiate the release of “non-military” hostages, including Israelis holding Russian passports, through Iran. This is conditional on the IDF lifting its siege on Gaza and allowing sufficient supplies into all parts of the territory.
The “military hostages” are being held in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. There are more than 6,000 of the latter; there may be fewer than 200 hostages in Gaza, as up to 50 have been killed by Israeli bombing…
..The Palestinian strategy against Israel is aimed at destroying Israel’s capacity to survive in its present state in a long war.
This means attacking the invincibility of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and their so-called Iron Dome defence; this began with the cross-border offensive on October 7, and continues with daily drone and artillery attacks on targets inside Israel, as well as resistance to IDF incursions in Gaza.
The plan also means exposing the weakness of the state’s infrastructure and economy; extending the battlefield across all of Israel’s territory – the ports, power plants and electricity grid, communications, and financial markets — making the cost of occupation of the Arab territories unendurable. In a long war, two of Israel’s leading exports earning more than 40% of the state’s trade — diamonds and tourism — face ruin.* …
..The Israelis and the Jewish diaspora comprehend this reluctantly. For them, the short war must be correspondingly shorter. This means the genocide of at least a million Palestinians in lives and displacement.
The war to do that has now become an international war – and this is a war the US cannot sustain. As a Pentagon insider said publicly this week, “because there are so many draws on the logistics and support infrastructure of the Pentagon, we’re not prepared to go in in a concerted way. What we are seeing right now is death by a thousand cuts. Our adversaries know we are stretched so they are going to make us stretch even more, so we can respond even less.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Maria Zakharova, acknowledged the point in Moscow on Thursday: US naval, air force, and marine reinforcements deployed around Israel and Gaza are “American tactics to strengthen their own security (this is how it should be interpreted) at someone else’s expense.” They are backfiring on Washington’s capacity to defend US forces in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and in land bases in Syria, Iraq and Jordan. “On the contrary,” Zakharova added, the US military deployment “will further rock the situation in the Middle East, create additional tension that can spill out beyond the region.”
Zakharova’s warning came in the Moscow afternoon. By then Russian Foreign Ministry officials had held meetings with a Hamas delegation, and officials from Iran, Egypt, and Kuwait. Across the city at the same time, President Vladimir Putin held telephone talks with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Kremlin communiqué reported: “Russia and Turkiye have practically overlapping positions.”THE GODS ARE GOING AGAINST THE CHOSEN PEOPLE — MAMMON AGAINST ISRAEL, MARS AGAINST THE PENTAGON
Putin Warns Gaza War Could Spread Beyond Middle East
On the same day that a Hamas delegation made a rare visit to Moscow to discuss the crisis in Gaza, President Vladimir Putin warned in a speech that the conflict has the potential to spread well beyond the Middle East.
In a Wednesday meeting at the Kremlin, he decried Israel’s indiscriminate airstrikes on the Gaza Strip which have left over 7,000 people, mostly civilians and at least half of them women and children, dead. “Our task today, our main task, is to stop the bloodshed and violence,” said Putin, as cited from an official transcript.
“Otherwise, further escalation of the crisis is fraught with grave and extremely dangerous and destructive consequences.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-warns-gaza-war-could-spread-beyond-middle-east Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has warned Israel and its allies against waging a war on Iran as it could potentially trigger a third world war.
“A third world war is not excluded. It may start from there [the Middle East]. How? If they [Israel and the United States] stage a war on Iran. It is not about Iran irritating them, but about them irritating Iran.”
https://tass.com/world/1698045White House Says Israel Will Continue to Kill ‘Innocent Civilians’ in Gaza
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says [ordinary brown] civilian casualties are inevitable
“This is war. It is combat. It is bloody, ugly and it’s going to be messy and innocent civilians are going to be hurt going forward,” Kirby said when asked if the US thought Israel’s bombardment was a disproportionate response to the Hamas attack on southern Israel.White House Says Israel Will Continue to Kill ‘Innocent Civilians’ in Gaza
Rights groups affirm Gaza death toll amid Biden’s ‘dehumanising’ scepticism
Human Rights Watch has strongly rejected claims that the death toll released by the Gaza Health Ministry cannot be trusted, following comments by Israel and the US President.
“I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war,” Biden said yesterday. “But I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.”
Biden made his comments after Gaza’s Health Ministry said the Israeli bombing of Gaza had killed 7,028 Palestinians, including 2,913 children, because of Israeli bombings. Scholars of genocide have called the campaign in the besieged enclave “a textbook case of genocide”.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231027-rights-groups-affirm-gaza-death-toll-amid-bidens-dehumanising-scepticism/House Approves Resolution Backing Israel in New Speaker’s First Move
After being elected as speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) said his first priority was passing a bill for IsraelHouse Approves Resolution Backing Israel in New Speaker’s First Move
Is this “the God of Israel”, the one that commanded the complete slaughter of the Caananites, “man woman and child”? Asking for a friend…
“I want to tell all my colleagues here what I told the Republicans in that room last night: I don’t believe there are any coincidences in a matter like this. I believe that scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority. He raised up each of you. All of us. And I believe that God has allowed and ordained each and every one of us to be here at this specific moment,” the Louisiana Republican said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/how-mike-johnson-became-speaker-through-prayer-not-politicsUS will ‘not be spared’ if Israel-Hamas war escalates – Iran
The US will “not be spared from this fire” if Israel’s “genocide” against the Palestinian people continues, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday.
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/us-will-not-be-spared-if-israel-hamas-war-escalates-iran/October 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles , Max Blumenthal
Israel’s military received orders to shell Israeli homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israeli citizens said to have been “burned alive” were actually killed by friendly fire? …
..These reports indicate that orders came down from the military’s high command to attack homes and and other areas inside Israel, even at the cost of many Israeli lives.October 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles
Israel to pass law allowing state to kill its own citizens – media
Police officers will only require permission from their commander to shoot at protesters, the broadcaster Kan has reported…
..Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has already agreed to fast-track the legislation, which might be introduced as soon as Sunday, it added.
The easing of live-fire rules was proposed by right-wing National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir even before the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, in which 1,400 people were killed by Palestinian militants.
https://www.rt.com/news/585947-israel-police-live-fire/Alastair Crooke, The reality of the necessity of war is permeating widely the consciousness of the Arabic and Islamic world.
“Unfortunately, the senior U.S. official told [Friedman], Israeli military leaders are actually more hawkish than the prime minister now. They are red with rage and determined to deliver a blow to Hamas that the whole neighbourhood will never forget”…
..One Israeli Cabinet member put it to the veteran Israeli defence correspondent Ben Caspit that Israel just cannot permit its long-term deterrence being undermined:
“This is the most important point — ‘our deterrence’”, the senior war Cabinet source said. “The region must quickly understand that whoever harms Israel the way Hamas did, pays a disproportionate price. There is no other way to survive in our neighbourhood than to exact this price now, because many eyes are fixed on us and most of them do not have our best interests at heart”…
..This is not a formula by which to reach any sustainable, peaceful accord by which the 1947 UNGA Resolution 181 (the division of Mandate-era Palestine) into two states can be reached. Rather, Israel under the Netanyahu government has been moving closer and closer to an eschatological founding of Israel on the (Biblical) ‘Land of Israel’ – a move that expunges Palestine totally…
..The White House is rattled. The Axios CEO VandeHei and Mark Allen have taken to print to warn:
“Never have we talked to so many top government officials who, in private, are so worried … [that] a confluence of crises poses epic concern and historic danger. We don’t like to sound dire. But to sound a siren of clinical, clear-eyed realism: U.S. officials tell us that, inside the White House, this was the heaviest, most chilling week since Joe Biden took office just over 1,000 days ago … Former Defence Secretary Bob Gates tells us America is facing the most crises since World War II ended 78 years ago…
“Not one of the crises can be solved and checked off: All five could spiral into something much bigger … What scares officials is how all five threats could fuse into one”. (Spreading war as Israel enters into Gaza; the Putin-Xi “anti-American alliance”; a “malicious” Iran; “unhinged” Kim Jon Un and fake videos and news)…
..Should Israel enter Gaza (and Israel may decide it has no choice but to launch a ground operation, given the domestic political dynamics and public sentiment), it is likely that Hizbullah will incrementally be drawn further in, leaving the U.S. with the binary option of seeing Israel defeated, or launching a major war in which all the hotspots become fused ‘as one’.
In a sense, the Israeli-Islamic conflict now may only be resolved in this kinetic way. All efforts since 1947 have seen the divide only deepen. The reality of the necessity of war is permeating widely the consciousness of the Arabic and Islamic world.Escalations Cannot Be Stopped – The White House Is Rattled; Escalations Might All Fuse Into ‘One’
Watch: IDF Tanks, Troops Push 1km Deep Into Gaza To “Prepare The Battlefield”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have published footage of an overnight limited raid in Gaza which relied on military bulldozers and tanks.
Infantry forces were transported by a column of tanks to up to kilometer into the northern part of the Strip, according to a Thursday morning IDF statement. The IDF said it suffered no casualties during the raid, which lasted a few hours, and appeared fundamentally to be a clearing operation.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/watch-idf-tanks-troops-push-1km-deep-gaza-prepare-battlefieldIsraeli Tanks Exchange Fire With Hamas Inside Gaza, Small Arms Clashes Heard, As Offensive Expands
Update(1605ET): It has become clear that the IDF has entered its next phase of battle operations, meaning a full ground assault, as heavy aerial bombardment continues. But Israeli officials in the last hours have dubbed this another “expanded” raid. The Biden White House is now making a show of wanting a more ‘humanitarian’ approach and has asked Israel to ensure only “surgical” strikes, and to allow the Strip access to aid.
There’s emerging evidence of tank fire and small arms fire at the border, after the IDF confirmed that ground forces are entering the next phase of their operations.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/oil-gold-dip-after-gaza-ceasefire-headlinesMoral High Ground https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/moral-high-ground
Douglas Macgregor: We Are On the Brink of Total War: The Time To Act Is Now (11 minutes of clarity, approaching actual Armageddon. Thanks Oroboros. Prayer.)
Netanyahu Dragging US Into War With Iran to Save His Political Career – Security Expert
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is facing calls to resign over the apparent failure of his government and security services to predict and head off the guerrilla incursion and rocket barrage by Hamas and other Palestinian groups from the besieged Gaza Strip into southern Israel.
US President Joe Biden flew to Israel to back Netanyahu following his vow to invade Gaza and “destroy” Hamas, and has sent two US Navy aircraft carrier strike groups and a US Marine amphibious assault group to the region to “deter” other nations from intervening on the Palestinian side.
[COMPLETELY ILLEGAL] US bases in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 14 times since Israel began its latest bombing campaign against Gaza in preparation for an eventual ground assault.
The Biden administration has accused Iran of being behind those attacks by Iraqi militias — originally armed by the US and trained by Iran to fight Daesh* — and has threatened Tehran with dire consequences if they continue.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231026/netanyahu-dragging-us-into-war-with-iran-to-save-his-political-career-security-expert-1114493596.htmlMonumental Oversight: Unveiling a Colossal Miscalculation | Scott Ritter
[Ritter seems like he might be making his last statement before we are all killed senselessly. Watch at least 11:57 minutes to get full clarity. Thanks DBS.]
MADNESS | Bloody Massacre In Ukraine And Gaza. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.10.28 (Israel/Gaza slaughter after 9:30. Massive overnight bombing)
@Phoenixvoice: They nicked a uterine artery when they cut into the uterus.
That is why I always used to make a little nick in the lower uterine segment, after retracting the bladder away, and bluntly tear that to both sides with my fingers when doing c-sections.
I never nicked the uterine arteries that way.
I am proud to have never lost a mother in all those years, though one lady and I spent a week with her almost dying of pre-ecclampsia afte she delivered. She was seeing the spirits in her room… Never was another patient so close as that. It was interminable. I was in constant prayer, and also being a good doctor.@Phoenixvoice: Nattokinase 2000 FU/day is a low dose. The cardiac dose is almost 6 times that. Bromelain and curcumen are not liable to act as blood-thinners the way nattokinase might. Nattokinase is a very mild clot disolver found in fermented soy product “natto”. People with coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques, tolerated 11,000 FU/day along with a baby aspirin quite well, and many of them had improvement of plaques in their coronary arteries in a year. The people I know who are taking it like this, with vitamins D3 and K2, have no problems and feel good.
Dr. McCullough is highly visible and exposed and has to be very careful in his general advice, to avoid liability for “medical advice”, which might go wrong, or might be interpreted as having gone wrong.
Peter McCullough must speak with a great deal of caution to avoid liability. He is a target. He knows it.
Nattokinase in Natto has been a food in Japan forever. Bromelain and curcumen are also food-products, and these are modest amounts.It is not certain that there is any spike protein in the blood your sister received.
We may assume that with something like 1.5% of Americans taking the COVID “vaccines” these days, and the lipid nanoparticle “micelles” going into cells fairly quickly after injection, even those that get bloodborn, that she did not get injected with the mRNA products, so she will not be making spike protein in her body.
Vitamin-D and vitamin K2 have protective effects on the arterial wall lining. She can certainly take something like 10,000 IU vitamin-D per day for a month and a good K2 supplement, like this one that I take https://www.iherb.com/pr/life-extension-super-k-90-softgels/90368?gclid=CjwKCAjwv-2pBhB-EiwAtsQZFNvgA9stNmUYopqx9pBNBQJceqgzlqKBn_JVUQihGL-elntnO4hI9RoCAYcQAvD_BwE
K2 dosing is a little complicated because there are multiple forms of K2, composed of different numbers of the monomer that makes it. The ones with more monomers in a chain last longer. One or two of those pills per day, or once or twice per day, should be fine. I have taken up to 4 per day to see if I get better hill-climbing performance in the heat, but was not sure.
Basically 100-200 micrograms per day of K2 is a fair dose.This might be nothing, but even if she has a little bit of spike, it will not persist. She is not manufacturing it.
I wish her well, and I wish you, your daughter and your sons well.
@D.Benton Smith: First 12 minutes of Scott Ritter, brother, not just 10.
@Celticbiker: Listen/watch until just before 12:00.2 Billion Will Die in New War Cycle – Charles Nenner
House Approves Resolution Backing Israel in New Speaker’s First Move
After being elected as speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) said his first priority was passing a bill for IsraelHouse Approves Resolution Backing Israel in New Speaker’s First Move
Hamas Delegation Arrives In Moscow As Russia Blames US For Escalation
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hamas-delegation-arrives-moscow-after-russia-blamed-us-escalationSteve Kirsch, reader survey results (I took part) “Vaccine” killed 3.5X more Americans than COVID virus
The data is clear and consistent. I challenge any qualified scientist to challenge this data in an open public debate.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/vaccine-killed-35x-more-americansWakaminenga Maori Government Is Magic Number One – First Prosecutions Of Four New Zealand Officials For COVID19 Crimes Against Humanity And Genocide
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/wakaminenga-maori-government-is-magicSun’s Magnetic Reversal is Underway (under 2 min.)
(Well under 3 min.) Coronal Hole Facing Earth, The Sun and Super Typhoons | S0 News Oct.26.2023
There are never, ever this many witnesses standing in line waiting for 5 years for nothing to happen.
FBI had more than 40 sources informing on possible criminal activity involving Bidens, Grassley says
Grassley makes bombshell revelation in new letter, alleging avenues of inquiry were shut down.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbi-had-40-sources-providing-intel-about-possible-criminal-activity Scott Ritter on RFK Jr. who he has wholeheartedly supported until the current stance on Israel/Palestine, which led Dennis Kucinich to leave as his campaign manager.
Bobby’s commitment to peace and diplomacy is what made him viable as a presidential candidate where his two likely opponents were on record supporting Israel without question.
Bobby could have followed in his uncle’s path, advocating that all Americans walk in the shoes of the Palestinian people to better understand their grievances and, in doing so, be better positioned to come up with a fair and equitable peace based on diplomacy, not war.
Bobby did not and has not. His appointment of Amaryllis Fox Kennedy bodes poorly for the future. I will continue to applaud Bobby for his stance on Russia and disarmament. But until he fundamentally changes course on Israel, I can’t in good faith claim to support his candidacy. If his name gets on the ballot, I may end up voting for him as the lesser evil, but that is not high praise.
America deserves better.
The world deserves better.
The people of Palestine deserve better.
https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/bobby-kennedy-israel-and-the-hypocrisyUK Parliamentarian, Andrew Brigden, their only stalwart voice of truth regarding COVID vaccination injuries, meets with Pascal Najadi, who has terminal cancer and autoimmune disease from COVID vaccination, and is continuing to fight against this democide until he dies. His lawsuit in Switzerland led to the resignation of the President of the Swiss Federal Council, for illegal actions pertaining to COVID-pandemic treatment arrangements which caused great harm and death. (under 2 min. Thanks Noirette.)
Almost 5 minutes, and looks like the trailer to a movie.
PASCAL NAJADI CALLS ON SWISS AUTHORITIES TO ARREST PEOPLE BEHIND THE RELEASE OF “BIOWEAPON”
Peter McCullough MD: ‘Spikeopathy’: COVID-19 Spike Protein Is Pathogenic, from Both Virus and Vaccine mRNA
Seven Australian Authors Publish Comprehensive Peer-Reviewed Paper Concluding Genetic Vaccines Must be Pulled
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/spikeopathy-covid-19-spike-proteinAleks at Black Mountain Analysis does another dep-dive: Economics and Empires 5 , Who’s in charge of the West?
https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/economics-and-empires-5John Leake , On Credit Expansion & Constant War – The two organizing principles of our system.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/on-credit-expansion-and-constantGilbert Doctorow , Breaking News: Russia tests its nuclear triad for massive response capability (Yes, everything works fine. Why do you ask?)
https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/breaking-news-russia-tests-its-nuclearGet into the meat grinder before it gets surrounded. The Ukrainians Urgently Increase The Number Of Troops Near Avdiivka. Military Summary For 2023.10.26
Newsguard Case Highlights the Pentagon’s Censorship End-Around , Matt Taibbi
The Consortium News lawsuit against a private news rating system lays out how the government can suppress speech by proxy
https://www.racket.news/p/newsguard-case-highlights-the-pentagonsUNRWA Situation Report #13 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (all information valid as of 23 October 2023 at 6 p.m)
The Gaza Strip:
Nearly 600,000 internally displaced people are sheltering in 150 UNRWA facilities.…
Only in the Middle areas, Khan Younis and Rafah, nearly 430,000 IDPs are in 93 UNRWA shelters. This is an increase of 10,000 people only in the past 24 hours.
According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, 5,087 people have been killed since 7 October, including 2,055 children, 1,119 women, and 217 elderly. Another 15,273 have been injured. An additional 1,500 persons are reported missing, including 830 children.
Overall, nearly 1,400 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed in Israel, according to the Israeli authorities, the vast majority on 7 October (OCHA).
Shelters are operating beyond their capacities and many new IDPs are sleeping in the streets as current facilities are overwhelmed. The number of IDPs in UNRWA shelters is four times more than what UNRWA had originally planned for.
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/unrwa-situation-report-13-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-jerusalem-all-information-valid-23-october-2023-6-pm-enarFrom yesterday: More than 700 killed in overnight Israeli attacks, Gaza officials say
Health ministry says it was the highest number of deaths in Gaza in a 24-hour period since Israeli assault began.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/24/more-than-700-killed-in-overnight-israeli-attacks-gaza-officials-sayRussian, Chinese veto shoots down US resolution on war on Gaza
Russia labeled the US draft resolution as a “license” for “Israel” to proceed with a ground invasion in Gaza.
Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun said that the US draft resolution on the war on Gaza does not reflect the world’s strongest calls for a ceasefire and would not help resolve the conflict.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/russian-chinese-veto-shoots-down-us-resolution-on-war-on-gaz The U.S. Has Betrayed Egypt Again
The Egyptian parliament met on October 19 and gave President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi the power to declare war against Israel, if necessary. Egypt and Israel have a peace treaty dating from 1979, which has been a success, proving that a neighboring Arab and Muslim country can share long-lasting peaceful relations with the Jewish State of Israel.
Egyptians have watched in horror at the scenes of death and destruction in Gaza as the Israeli government exacts its revenge on Hamas after the October 7 attack on Israel. With the promised Israeli ground invasion of Gaza beginning at any moment, it is expected to be a bloodbath among unarmed civilians. Already the death toll is at least 5,087, including 2,055 children.
The Cairo Peace Summit, co-chaired by the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine, met on October 21.
Sisi said that the solution to the Palestinian issue is not the displacement of an entire people to other areas, but justice and obtaining their legitimate rights and the right to self-determination.
The U.S. sent a low-level representative to the Cairo Peace Summit, and this was a message from U.S. President Joe Biden, that the U.S. is working against Egypt, and not with them.Simplicius , SITREP 10/24/23: Avdeevka Victories Confirmed as Mid-East Continues Slide Toward War (I’ll mention a few of his points in this excellent compilation.)
Russia has taken the commanding high-ground of the slag-heap hill near the coking plant in Adveevka, and also the railroad tracks. The Russians did most of the taking of the dug-in slag heap positions by FPV suicide-drones, not infantry.
There are close to 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers in the fortified city, like Bakhmut, and something like 30,000 more will be rapidly fed into the “meat grinder”, mostly conscripted Russian-speaking Ukrainian conscripts.
The “Russian” forces carrying out the assault are on their home ground, Donetsk People’s Republic forces, now part of the Russian army. They put their flag and the Russian flag on the slag heap, and a Ukrainian drone sent to blow it up was only half successful, removing the 114th Guards unit flag only. Both flags were replaced by morning, in opposite order, to make the point.
The Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigade, that got the Bradley fighting vehicles, Leopard tanks, and NATO training, and has been taking heavy casualties all summer in “Bradley Square” (Rabotino) battle area, refused to fight, was withdrawn to the rear, was sent to Adveevka, and is taking even heavier losses, as reported by a tearful female medic, who has been with them all summer, but is now broken by their current losses. The orders from Zelensky down are to “stand and hold at any cost”, just like Bakhmut.
Near Kherson, along the southern Dnieper River, Ukrainian forces keep crossing in small squads, in boats, to occupy vacant buildings, until they are killed by artillery and bombs.
Along the northern battlefront, there are 90,000 Russian soldiers not staged for attack, but awaiting orders a little behind the front. They could be put into major action near Kharkov, but that is not certain.
Israel keeps saying they are ready to invade Gaza, but they may not actually be, and the US is advising restraint on the ground, but not in the devastating bombing-genocide.
Sergey Lavrov just visited Tehran. The Iraqi Ambassador met with the Russian Deputy Defense Minister in Moscow. Lots of smaller resistance groups in various countries have been attacking US troops in solidarity with Gazan Palestinians. The US is rushing anti-aircraft and missile defenses to the area, though recent American missile defenses have performed very poorly against even low quality rocket attacks, as from Yemen, and tens of thousands of sophisticated Iranian missiles are the presumed threat.
This is game-changing:”Russia is now granting Iran direct access to land in Russia’s Khmeimim Syria base, after Israel recently bombed and disabled runways in both Damascus and Aleppo international airports.”
Game changing: “Russia just recently again conducted some final tests on the Burevestnik missile, which no country on the world has an analog of. It’s a missile that has unlimited range due to using nuclear powered propulsion.” This can loiter in earth orbit indefinitely and strike from any direction, not just over the north pole. The US has one factory for a lot of items, like Abrams tanks, and 155 mm artillery shells. Each of those factories becomes a target for disabling “conventional” warhead attack.
Every day, in myriad ways, Ukrainians at all levels of military and civilian life are seeing hopelessness of the war against Russia.
Russian Orlan observation drones, which can loiter for hours, spotting targets, get all-time Drone-MVP award. One man can carry one of these (pictured).
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-102423-avdeevka-victoriesDivergent World War Plans https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/divergent-world-war-plans
September 11 in the Middle East! , by Manlio Dinucci Thanks Eleni.
The official version of the Hamas attack on Israel is preposterous. According to CNN, Hamas was able to train for a year and a half in six military camps inside the Gaza Strip. Rumors about this preparation had been circulating in Lebanon since May. It gave rise to a deadly battle between Palestinian factions in September in Saida. On 30 September, Egyptian Intelligence Minister Kamel Abbas personally called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn him. An Israeli private security company took over the Shabak in the ensuing days.
The Mossad was also tipped off by the CIA on 5 October. It is therefore impossible for Israel to have been surprised. In addition, as Manlio Dinucci points out, routine security procedures were suspended. And it took the army 5 hours to intervene.
So the question is, why did Benjamin Netanyahu allow 1,300 of his fellow citizens to die?…
..How is it possible that Mossad, considered one of the most efficient Secret Services in the world, did not realize that Hamas was preparing its attack?
The essential answers come from an article, published on October 8 by the Israeli newspaper The Times of Israel:
“For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu have adopted a policy that has divided the Gaza Strip and the West Bank between two different powers, bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees and favouring Hamas.
Hamas was treated as a partner to the detriment of the Palestinian Authority to prevent Abbas from moving towards creating a Palestinian State. Hamas was promoted from a terrorist group to an organization with which Israel conducted negotiations through Egypt, and which was allowed to receive suitcases containing millions of dollars from Qatar through the Gaza crossings.”
https://www.voltairenet.org/article219838.htmlWhat really happened on 7th October?
Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’ stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/what-really-happened-on-7th-october#google_vignette Scott Ritter: Israel Failing in Global PR Campaign to Demonize Hamas
“The last thing he needs or wants or desires is [for] people to honestly reflect on it. Because something horrible happened on October 7, I think we are all in agreement about that. Whether you believe that Hamas had a right to rise up and attack Israeli military targets, that’s a separate debate. I happen to believe they should be able to do that. But there’s no carte blanche ever for anybody to kill innocent civilians, and a lot of innocent Israeli civilians were killed. And I think it’s imperative that Israel, like the United States after 9/11, instead of saying ‘we must exact our revenge’, to sit there and say, ‘how did this happen? Why did this happen and how can we prevent it from happening again?’ But in order to answer that question, you have to define the problem. Israel doesn’t want to have that discussion, Netanyahu doesn’t want to have that discussion, because the answer is: he is the problem. The right-wing policies of Israel is the problem. Zionism might be the problem.”
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231024/scott-ritter-israel-failing-in-global-pr-campaign-to-demonize-hamas-1114455922.htmlPalestinian rights groups push UN Security Council for ceasefire
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinian-rights-groups-push-un-security-council-ceasefireI also have to side with Pierre Kory MD, a pulmonary critical-care specialist, who was an expert witness for the prosecution, and explains the physiology well in his write-up. It is like an anaconda tightening to have 3 men on your chest, when you are face down on the sidewalk. Yes he had fentalyl, speed and COVID on-board, but there was a bystander shouting what was happening to the cops the whole time. They stayed on him when he was limp and not breathing.
Fentalyl OD can make somebody stop breathing, after they go to sleep, but not during a struggle.
Overdose is mostly relative to tolerance level. George Floyd had a high opioid tolerance.@citizenX: “Why post tabloid gossip?”
Sometimes that’s the only source available.
In SIGINT (signals intelligence), you look at everything, weigh it, see if it is rational/plausible or not, and consider the source and what the motives of the source are likely to be.
I took a year of “Intelligence and National Security” in college in 1981-1982.
Interesting stuff, taught by a guy who had “worked at the American embassy in Moscow”, but wouldn’t say who for. NewsGuard, a company which claims to rate media outlets’ level of ‘trustworthiness’ and therefore has a meaningful influence over ad revenue, has been sued along with the Biden administration by Consortium News, which also named the Pentagon’s Cyber Command for “contracting with NewsGuard to identify, report and abridge the speech of American media organizations that dissent from U.S. official positions on foreign policy.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/newsguard-us-govt-sued-consortium-news-musk-slams-scamThis is a clear and concise explanation of the punji-pits in the proposed WHO treaty revision.
Analysis of the October 2023 Negotiating Text of the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty/Agreement , Meryl Nass MD
This version of the Treaty is very similar to the June 2 version, but I felt an updated analysis was needed before the hearing on the WHO tomorrow
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/analysis-of-the-october-2023-negotiating We have been eating small amounts of quinoa instead of rice recently. It is higher in protein, has complete protein, lower in carbohydrate, higher in healthful oils, including some omega-3 fatty acids. Quinoa is not a grass seed like rice, corn and wheat, but related to spinach. I’m going to try growing some next year.
Quinoa vs. rice nutrition
https://greatist.com/eat/quinoa-vs-rice#quinoa-vs-rice-nutritionHealth Benefits of Quinoa + Nutrition Profile
Red Head Quinoa
110 days. Large, showy red/pink seed heads that stood out in our 2017 quinoa trial. Sturdy, high yielding strain with edible white seeds. Normally thriving in arid climates, Frank Morton has selected his strain for its ability to tolerate humidity without seed sprouting in the head, a critical trait for growing here in the Midwest.
Red Head QuinoaUkraine War grinds away: The Russians Have Broken Through The Front In Several Directions. Military Summary For 2023.10.24
German MP announces formation of new anti-war party
Prominent Left Party politician Sahra Wagenknecht claims the current German government is the worst on record
A fresh poll commissioned by Bild am Sonntag indicated that some 27% of Germans would not rule out voting for Wagenknecht’s new political force.
Until the party’s official formation at the start of 2024, Wagenknecht and nine other Bundestag colleagues who resigned from the Left Party said they wished to keep their current seats. Party leadership has, however, already indicated that the defectors could lose their mandates much earlier.
https://www.rt.com/news/585606-geramany-wagenknecht-new-party-anti-nato/Pro-neutrality party wins Swiss election
The Swiss People’s Party, which is also known for its anti-immigration stance, won 28.6% of the vote in Sunday’s general election
https://www.rt.com/news/585565-pro-neutrality-party-switzerland-election-gains/Pakistan’s Imran Khan could face the death sentence in trial over revealing state secrets (But they say he lied about what was in the paper he waved and nobody saw.) The case is related to Khan’s speech and waving of a confidential diplomatic letter at a rally after his ouster in a no-confidence vote in parliament in 2022. The document — dubbed Cipher — has not been made public by either the government or Khan’s lawyers but was apparently diplomatic correspondence between the Pakistani ambassador to Washington and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad.
At the time, Khan held up the alleged letter, claiming it was proof that he was being threatened and that his ouster was a U.S. conspiracy, allegedly executed by the military and the government in Pakistan. Washington and Pakistani officials have denied the claim...
..The hearings will take place before a special court behind closed doors at the Adiyala Prison, where Khan is being held. Khan’s lawyers have objected to the closed-door trial.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-imran-khan-indictment-official-secrets-a3f267ef56991ec99f1f3e07264f4d2cMacron Wants Anti-ISIS Coalition To Fight Hamas, But Presses Bibi For “Clarity About Endgame”
French President Emmanuel Macron has traveled to Israel Tuesday, the latest Western leader to do so, where he’s meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials in what’s scheduled as a two-day trip. He’s met with families of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack as well.
He arrived in Tel Aviv just after Gaza’s health ministry announced that deaths from Israeli airstrikes have soared past 5,000 killed. Just in the last 24 hours, officials said that 704 Palestinians have been killed. Additionally the ministry has warned that hospitals and medical centers are shutting down at rapid pace, with lack of resources including fuel and electricity.
Macron, while meeting Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday, conveyed that the release of the over 220 hostages held in Gaza should be the “first objective” of Israel and its allies. Macron appears to be backing Biden’s appeal for Israel to stall the ground invasion in order to provide more time for negotiations. So far, four women have been released from Hamas captivity, including two Americans from Chicago.
But Macron has also made headlines in proposing that France help provide a military solution. He has offered that France’s counter-ISIS forces be utilized for anti-Hamas action. He said his country stands ready “to beef up what we are doing in the coalition against ISIS. We are available to include Hamas in the coalition against ISIS depending on what Israel will ask us to deliver.”
Macron said at a press conference alongside Netanyahu that terrorism is “our common enemy”. Referencing the Islamic State, he explained, “France is ready for the international coalition against Daesh in which we are taking part for operations in Iraq and Syria to also fight against Hamas.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macron-wants-anti-isis-coalition-fight-hamas-presses-bibi-clarity-about-endgame Israel-Palestine war: Israeli officials ‘unhappy’ with released woman’s description of captivity (They keep having this problem with former hostages.)
Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, who was released by Hamas fighters, said she was beaten when abducted but later treated ‘gently’
Israeli officials are reportedly unhappy with an interview given by an elderly former captive of Hamas in Gaza because she had not been well prepared for the statement.
In a press meeting on Tuesday, 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz, an Israeli captive released from Gaza on Monday evening, said she was beaten on 7 October, the day Palestinian fighters stormed southern Israel, but later treated “gently”.
Sources told Israel’s state-owned Kan News that the interview was a “mistake”, adding that a “preliminary meeting” may not have been held with Lifshitz prior to her press statement and that if one had been held, not “all questions” to do with the preparation were asked.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-captive-description-officials-unhappyYochaved Lifshitz : “Each of the five hostages in her group received their own doctor and there was a paramedic present who supervised medication, she said.
“They were very generous to us, very kind. They kept us clean,” Lifshitz said. “They took care of every detail. There are a lot of women and they know about feminine hygiene and they took care of everything there.”
Lifshitz also accused the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet intelligence service of not taking threats from Hamas “seriously” and said the costly Gaza border fence erected by Israel had done nothing to protect her community from Hamas’ attack.
“The lack of awareness by Shin Bet and the IDF hurt us a lot,” she stressed. “They warned us three weeks beforehand, they burned fields, they sent fire balloons and the IDF did not treat it seriously,” she continued.
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/how-do-we-make-sense-of-this-photoRussia condemns Hamas attack but says Israel provoked it
Peace requires honesty, Moscow’s deputy envoy to the UN has said
https://www.rt.com/news/585628-russia-israel-hamas-attack/ Reports are flooding-in this morning claiming HAMAS shot-down an Israeli military helicopter over the Gaza Strip, killing fifty (50) soldiers on board.
Imagery (above) showing a downed Israeli army’s CH-53 Stallion (Yasur) Helicopter, which was reportedly destroyed by Hamas with a guided rocket, on fire in a field, seems to corroborate these claims.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/reports-hamas-shoots-down-israeli-helicopter-50-deadTHE EXISTENTIAL TRAP – THE PENTAGON HAS JUST FALLEN INTO IT, AS BIDEN TRIES TO AVOID CARTER’S HOSTAGE RESCUE DISASTER
The sudden change of US warfighting plans in defence of Israel, disclosed on Saturday by General Lloyd Austin, the US Defense Secretary, reveals the trap which Russia, China, and Iran have opened, and the desperate measures the US has taken as it falls in.
Austin announced that he has “redirected the movement of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group to the Central Command area of responsibility. This carrier strike group is in addition to the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, which is currently operating in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. It will further increase our force posture and strengthen our capabilities and ability to respond to a range of contingencies.”
“I have also activated the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery as well as additional Patriot battalions to locations throughout the region to increase force protection for U.S. forces.”…
..Sailing in the eastern Mediterranean would have put the strike group to the west of Israel. But that plan changed after a week in which U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq came under fire from Iran-backed militias, and a U.S. Navy ship in the Red Sea downed missiles launched from Yemen…
..On Saturday, Austin said in a statement the strike group will now go to the ‘Central Command area of responsibility.’ Central Command covers a vast amount of Middle East territory, including the Persian Gulf and Red Sea.”
The purpose of “these steps,” Austin said, is to “bolster regional deterrence efforts, increase force protection for U.S. forces in the region, and assist in the defense of Israel.”… ..But Austin’s rush to change the sailing orders for the Eisenhower and fly THAADs and Patriots to US bases in the Arab territories reveals he’s short of time too. This is because the entire portfolio of US air defence systems is being defeated. The Russian Kinzhal has defeated the US Patriot batteries around Kiev; the Hamas swarms of drones and rockets defeated Israel’s Iron Dome on October 7. THAAD has been tested in combat once, against a Houthi missile, rocket and drone attack against Abu Dhabi targets in January 2022. “Several were intercepted, a few of them [weren’t].”
The USS Carney’s firing against Houthi missiles and drones in the Red Sea has exposed how vulnerable that southern line of attack against Israel would be if the Houthis try swarming instead of testing their ordnance, as they did against the Carney...
..Tongue-biting and stammering are clinical symptoms of the mind which knows what to say but has difficulty getting it out; this usually causes loss of self-esteem. When General Austin is speaking like this, it signals the mind doesn’t know what to say, and is desperate for self-esteem.
Austin also signalled that the Pentagon is preparing rapid deployment forces for evacuation of air and ground base soldiers and airmen in Jordan, Syria and Iraq if they are swarmed by protesters. “I have placed,” Austin said, “an additional number of forces on prepare-to-deploy orders as part of prudent contingency planning”…
..According to this source, the anti-air and land target capabilities of the DC-10 missile arming the Chinese Navy’s Type-052D destroyer now in the Persian Gulf “poses a number of security challenges for the United States. The DH-10 has a low flight altitude that increases its stealth capabilities against the air defense radars. The DH-10 can also be updated during its flight with new targeting data, allowing it to change targets. The stealth capabilities employed by the DH-10 allow it to confuse or outmaneuver the radars and defenses around ships in the region.” …
..“Hanging out with or near Israel just became very dangerous,” according to a US military source familiar with the situation. “I think the Houthi firing, trap or not, scared the shit out of them [Pentagon]. The number of drones and missiles the Carney ‘shot down’ keeps going up. It’s not just the missiles they are worried about. Iranian drone technology, and their capacity to get them into the hands of their allies, must be causing alarm. What scares them about the Chinese task force is the range of its cruise missiles as well as its capacity to link up with Iranian and (I assume) Russian air defence radar and targeting networks. They’ve all been practicing together.”
“Every American and allied base in the region is now under a joint, mutually supportive, Russian, Iranian and Chinese umbrella. In short, a trap.” (bluffing) Blinken Warns UN Of “Decisive” Action If Iran Proxies Attack Americans; Carrier Strike Groups On Alert (Houthis already fired missiles, so what?)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday delivered a stern warning to Iran before a UN Security council meeting, saying the US is prepared to respond “decisively” if Tehran or its proxies launch attacks on Americans in the Middle East.
Not only does the Pentagon still have thousands of troops and assets in Iraq, long under the domination of Shia paramilitary influence, but it has up to a thousand or so troops occupying broad oil and gas regions of eastern Syria. Missile and drone attacks on Pentagon outposts in Syria and Iraq have been rising in the last days. But the real concern is on Israel’s northern border, where Hezbollah has launched multiple guided missile and anti-tank attacks on Israel border posts, including on Tuesday.
“The United States does not seek conflict with Iran,” Blinken told the UNSC “We do not want this war to widen. But if Iran or its proxies attack US personnel anywhere, make no mistake: We will defend our people, we will defend our security, swiftly and decisively.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macron-wants-anti-isis-coalition-fight-hamas-presses-bibi-clarity-about-endgameHear it yet? The Penny Drops – The World Is Multi-Polar , Moon of Alabama
In 2007, during his famous speech in Munich, the Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed to the inevitable rise of a multipolar world…
..That question, to me, seems to miss what multilateralism really means. It does not mean unilateralism with a different country in the lead. It means a somewhat democratic UN system, with an expanded Security Council that includes the large population countries of each continent.
It means to follow international law.
Will the U.S. come back into that system? Or does it need a global war to decide the outcome?
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/the-penny-drops-the-world-is-multi-polar.html#more Special Ops Marine 3-Star General Is Advising Israeli Army On Gaza Offensive
(Israel is already using white phosphorus bombs in residential areas, and carpet-bombing them, just like the US did in Fallujah. There must be finer points, too, I suppose.)
Given that among the over 200 hostages held by Hamas, there are American captives, the stakes are high for Washington. The prisoners are said to be scattered around Gaza, and possibly underground in tunnels, making any kind of commando rescue attempt scenario basically impossible.
On Sunday, an Israeli ground unit with bulldozers and a tank briefly went into Gaza, but it resulted in reportedly the tank destroyed and an IDF troop death, with others injured.
Given this level of operational/mission complexity and sensitivity, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. James Glynn was sent to assist the Israeli military, Axios specified. Previously he had headed all Marine special operations, and ran counter-ISIS missions in the Middle East
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/special-ops-marine-3-star-general-advising-israeli-army-gaza-offensiveBlaming Dead Civilians https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/publish/post/138260691
“Help-terrorists” by staying at home and doing nothing!
Israel to Consider Civilians ‘Terrorist Accomplices’ If They Stay in North Gaza
Israel has ordered the evacuation of Al-Quds hospital, which is housing more than 400 patients and 12,000 displaced civiliansIsrael to Consider Civilians ‘Terrorist Accomplices’ If They Stay in North Gaza
Israeli think tank lays out a blueprint for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza
An Israeli think tank with ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a report on October 17 promoting the “unique and rare opportunity” for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.”Israeli think tank lays out a blueprint for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza
Washington wants Israel to delay its ground offensive into the Gaza Strip in order to buy time for talks on hostages and to allow more humanitarian aid into the territory, unnamed US sources were quoted as saying by an American newspaper.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231023/us-urges-israel-to-defer-gaza-ground-offensive—report-1114417909.htmlIn the rubble of Gaza City, with underground tunnels, the defenders would have some advantage, and might take half as many casualties as attackers, except the attackers have tanks, armored bulldozers and helicopter-gunships. What if those become targets? The main factor in this battle would become the will of the fighters, “fire in the belly”.
Hamas has released a video confirming the information that has been circulating for some time and they said that large stocks of American and generally NATO weapons that had been delivered to Ukraine are in… Gaza!
In the video, Hamas shows that it has a large quantity of AT4 and NLAW anti-tank missiles and rockets for use against the Israeli Army’s Merkava III/IV/IVM main battle tanks in Gaza...
..They talked about, M4, various types of anti-tanks such as Javelin up to MANPADS Stinger and others.
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/vinteo-sok-gia-israil-h-chamas-exoplistike-me-at4-javelin-nlaw-meso-oukranias-washington-post-thanatifora-ekplixi-perimenei-ton-idf/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wappRumor that Putin had “cardiac arrest with arching and convulsions” Sunday night in his bedroom. Security heard him fall and came right in. Convulsions and arching are symptoms of a grand-mal seizure, not a cardiac-arrest.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1826909/Vladimir-Putin-heart-attack-Kremlin-RussiaOK, Oxymoron, I watched “Reading Landscapes” with David Holmgren.
It’s an invitation, not so much of a tutorial.
Pleasant, of course. I read his Permaculture book about a decade ago and made some swales.
He got a place with a lot of transition zones, that was short-term trashed and undervalued.
Destiny, it seems.Thanks for the snake-information and rec. for the Holmgren video, Oxymoron. It is in my inbox, but that’s a long time to watch something. I have studied the analysis of water flows and accumulation inder the ground.
“Holmgren’s alright with me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEjkbTD9j5E@citizenx: Good Kinks song and video.
New Zealand is a Crime Scene: In one clinic, in one day 30 people were covid injected and all 30 have died
Before the recently held elections, Gunn was contacted by a whistle-blower and given documentation showing that tens of thousands of New Zealanders’ deaths are linked to the injections. “This is just one of the sites recording this type of information in New Zealand,” she said. “We don’t know how many further databases like this are in the country,” she added. Texas high school student collapses and dies after winning a cross-country race, the latest in a string of young athletes dying during competition
The reporter enumerates the “string of young athletes dying during competition,” but seems mystified as to what could be causing the increased incidence of sudden and unexpected deaths among young athletes—a conspicuous trend that began around mid 2021.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/another-young-athlete-collapses-and Mortality Rates per 100k shockingly reveal Four-Dose COVID-19 Vaccinated Teens & Young Adults are up to 318% more likely to Die than the Unvaccinated according to quietly published Government Report
In a recent dataset released by the UK Government’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), a surprising pattern has emerged regarding mortality rates per 100,000 in teenagers and young adults, sparking a wave of questions and calls for further investigation from public health experts.Steve Kirsch on the known carcinogenic DNA sequence in the Pfizer-shots:
Video interview with 3 experts reveals evidence that the drug companies knew about the SV40 promoter, yet decided to conceal it from the regulators
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/exclusive-video-interview-with-34 dead, 2 critically injured in New York City fire caused by lithium-ion batteries, e-bikes (Get a regular bike suited and fitted to your body, and ride it daily.)
The store was located on the first floor of the building, while residential apartments were on the floors above.
https://justthenews.com/government/local/4-dead-2-critically-injured-new-york-city-fire-caused-lithium-ion-batteries-eUS forced Ukraine to reject peace with Russia – ex-German chancellor (further confirmation)
Gerhard Schroeder has claimed that Washington blocked Kiev from a March 2022 settlement that could have ended the bloodshed
https://www.rt.com/news/585491-german-ex-chancellor-says-us-blocked-ukraine-peace/US conducts nuclear test in Nevada hours after Russian move to revoke global test ban
The test came hours after Russian lawmakers said they plan to revoke the ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-conducts-nuclear-test-nevada-hours-russian-move-revoke-global-nuclear-test-banSimplicius , Modern warfare is different. Battle for Avdeevka – Close Study
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/battle-for-avdeevka-close-study(“Married” to Bibi) Western leaders lining up with the Israeli regime in its genocidal barbarity are fully complicit in that genocide.
U.S. President Joe Biden, as well as Britain’s Rishi Sunak, Germany’s Olaf Scholz and the European Union chief Ursula Von Der Leyen, are among the Western leaders who have blood dripping from their hands.
They talk about Israel’s “right to self-defense” while the Israeli military pulverizes Gaza with indiscriminate air strikes and shoots Palestinians dead in the ghettoes of the West Bank. The Palestinian people in both enclaves are being targeted with genocidal ferocity as Israeli leaders denigrate them as “human animals”.
In Gaza for the past two weeks, a population of 2.3 million has been held under total siege without water, food or electricity. Nowhere is safe in the coastal area as U.S. and UK-supplied Israeli bombs rain down on homes, refugee centers, hospitals, schools, churches and mosques.Psychos on Parade… Western Leaders Complicit in Israeli War Crimes and Genocide
EU staff members express fury over von der Leyen stance on Israel-Hamas conflict
Letter with 842 signatures accuses European Commission of giving ‘a free hand to the acceleration and the legitimacy of a war crime’ in Gaza
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2023/10/20/eu-staff-members-express-fury-over-von-der-leyen-stance-on-israel-hamas-conflict/ Gilbert Doctorow observes more complete censorship of alternative viewpoints in the EU than in the US, and thanks Donald Trump for that.
It is not in the least surprising that BLM have come out in support of the Gaza Palestinians, for reasons that go back to the Black Panthers. What they are calling for is an immediate cease-fire, urgent delivery of medical supplies, water, fuel, food into Gaza ramped up to at least the pre-October 7th rate of 200 trucks per day. American authorities are forced to accept the demonstrations of BLM in favor of the Palestinians lest all hell break loose in cities across the country.
I think of yesterday’s comments to the The Financial Times by the leading candidate to replace Mark Rutte as prime minister of The Netherlands, the current justice minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, on the dangers that the Hamas-Israel war poses for Europe, namely that cleavages in our society will open up. Regrettably, that is the mindset of an authoritarian if not purely fascist politician. When everyone is perfectly aligned and there are no nay-sayers tolerated, then freedom is dead.Black Lives Matter and freedom of speech in the USA on the Palestinian question
The IDF is testing Hamas’ defenses. Israeli soldier killed during ground raid in Gaza, Israel’s army says
Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, claims to have pushed Israeli forces back into Israel during the raid.
The Israeli military has said one of its soldiers was killed by an anti-tank missile reportedly shot by the Palestinian armed group Hamas during a raid into the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Army.
Three other soldiers were injured in the raid on Sunday, said the statement that came as the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced on its Telegram account that it had pushed Israeli forces back into Israel.
One Israeli soldier was killed, while “one was moderately injured, and two were lightly injured as a result of an anti-tank missile”, the Israeli military said.
The military said the purpose of the raid was to locate Hamas captives in Gaza’s Khan Younis area and to “thwart terrorist infrastructure”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/22/israeli-soldier-killed-during-ground-raid-in-gaza-israels-army-saysThis is completely undefined, yet nobody likes the idea at all. What comes to my mind is a regional agreement where a Palestinian state with firm national borders is assured, so that Israel and Palestine are both safe states, with equal rights for all minorities within each state. No Jewish-only state, and no Islam-only state.
US and Israel mulling interim government in Gaza
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/us-and-israel-mulling-interim-government-in-gaza-bloomberg/
