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Israelis torture Palestinian prisoners using refrigerator trucks
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Gaza reported on Thursday, citing accounts of released Palestinian detainees, that the Israeli regime “exposed prisoners to low temperatures as a means of coercing them to make false confessions” by placing them in iron caravans with refrigerators set at – 20 degrees.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israelis-torture-palestinian-prisoners-using-refrigerator-tr Mohammed al-Kilani was among a family of 55 sheltering in Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City. Then Israeli forces stormed their apartment, executing his father, wife and 12-year-old son
“The walls started collapsing on us,” Kilani, 45, told Middle East Eye. “We did not know what to do. We all hid in one room.”…
..The destruction was quickly followed by Israeli soldiers storming into the apartment.
Kilani’s father, Hussein, went out to meet them, raising his hands in submission and asking them what was happening. “They shot him in the heart. He was killed immediately,” Kilani said.
One of his sons, aged 12, was just behind his grandfather.
“They threw a bomb on his abdomen. His intestines spilt out before my eyes. He was killed.”
When the family expressed shock at what had happened, an Israeli soldier fired another bullet into the boy’s dead body.
“The soldiers then ordered us to take off all our clothes, including our underwear,” Kilani said.
“They kept the men on one side and the women on the other. My wife was holding the Quran as they led us out of the room. A soldier told her to throw it away. She refused. He shot her in the back and the bullet came through her abdomen.”…
..“They ordered us to get out, along with the women, without any food, clothes or money, then they burned the apartment. We went down to the basement, completely naked, before they took us to the mosque near the house.”…
..Kilani said that for around 24 hours, Israeli soldiers “took turns” torturing and humiliating him and his son, while preventing the elderly family members from using the toilet or drinking water.
“They tortured us by putting glass and nails in our feet, and by leaving us naked on the seashore from about seven or eight in the morning until after 2am. We were left without food or water or anything that could keep us protected from the cold weather,” Kilani said.
The 45-year-old said that if he or his son moved, the soldiers would hit them on the back with their weapons.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-gaza-war-execution-torture Large Rocket Barrage Slams Into US Base In Iraq, Injuring Americans
The Al-Asad base is the same that suffered retaliatory strikes in January of 2020 after then-President Trump killed Iranian military officer Qasem Soleimani.
US defense officials at the time said just 10 missiles managed to make contact with the base. It appears fewer than 20 missiles were fired in Saturday’s attack — with an unknown number intercepted by missile defense systems — though the story continues to develop.
Al-Asad was the second largest base constructed during George Bush’s “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” — wherein ‘freedom’ in Neocon-speak of course refers to 300,000 dead Iraqi civilians — an operation which ostensibly ended in December of 2011...
..The Iran Observer said to “expect US retaliatory strikes against Iraqi resistance forces.”
This follows an Iranian strike on what they deemed foreign “espionage centers” and “anti-Iranian terrorist gatherings in parts of the region” with ballistic missiles, killing four though no Americans. [The Iranians are not attacking Americans.]
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/large-rocket-barrage-slams-us-base-iraq-injuring-americans Houthis have declared safe passage for Russia and China.
A senior Houthi official, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, mentioned these US rivals by name in an interview with the Russian outlet Izvestia on Friday. “As for all other countries, including Russia and China, their shipping in the region is not threatened,” he said, stipulating this will remain as long as they are not linked to Israel or its supporters.
“Moreover, we are ready to ensure the safe passage of their ships in the Red Sea, because free navigation plays a significant role for our country,” he added, but then underscored that attacks on ships will continue if they are “in any way connected with Israel.”
The spokesman went on to blame the Red Sea crisis on Israel’s (and its backers) refusal to reverse course in Gaza, given its aerial and ground campaign as continued. “Ansar Allah [the group’s formal name] does not pursue the goal of capturing or sinking this or that sea vessel,” he claimed. “Our goal is to raise the economic costs for [Israel] in order to stop the carnage in Gaza.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-declare-safe-passage-russian-chinese-ships-red-seaNetanyahu: ‘In the Future, the State of Israel Has to Control the Entire Area from the River to the Sea’
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64246Sanders calls on Biden to end ‘unconditional support to Israel’ after Netanyahu rejects two-state future
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sanders-calls-biden-end-unconditional-support-israel-after-netanyahu‘We are attacking Iran’ – Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister accuses Tehran of supporting militant groups ‘from the Houthis to Hezbollah to Hamas’
https://swentr.site/news/590924-netanyahu-says-israel-attacks-iran/ Israel Bombs Damascus Residential Building, Kills Four Iranian Guard Members , Syrian state media reports warplanes fired on building from occupied Golan
The slain reportedly included a Quds force general, and the Revolutionary Guard identified the slain, but did not include their ranks or duties within Syria. Notably, the Guard’s names did not include the Quds force general, though it also did not deny he was killed…
..Iran followed up the incident with a statement condemning Israel for “organized terrorism,” and threatened retaliation at a time and place of their choosing.Israel Bombs Damascus Residential Building, Kills Four Iranian Guard Members
Israeli Military Chief Says Lebanon War Likely in Coming Months , Says Israel will apply lessons learned in Gaza offensive (Lesson: Make the Americans fight.)
Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, discussed the potential of war in Lebanon, saying the likelihood of a conflict in the coming months is “much higher” than it has been.
Lt. Gen Halevi said he believes Israel will be starting the war with more advantages than in the past, and that lessons learned in Gaza will be applied to the situation in Lebanon. Tens of thousands of troops are reportedly being readied for the new offensive.Israeli Military Chief Says Lebanon War Likely in Coming Months
BlackRock Empire https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/blackrock-empire
Though I won’t vote for Bobby Kennedy Jr. unless he stands up for Palestine, I still get his campaign emails. This one is unusually clear and to the point. The western empire serves BlackRock, which is a cover for global financial interests, hiding the faces of the owners, while doing their will. BlackRock is no longer apparently-separated from the Fed and Treasury of the US since the “going-direct” carried out under cover of COVID. “The Blob”, needs to keep feeding on fresh assets. it needs to consume Ukraine. The defense against The Blob is to deny Ukraine to The Blob. Starve The Blob. Western troops and mercenaries will be hired with conjured money and sent to die as long as the money is accepted as “good”.
Team Kennedy: The Ukraine war should have never happened, and it’s time we understand the complex web surrounding it.
The Backstory:
Russia tried multiple times to settle this conflict, wanting one key thing — to keep NATO out of Ukraine. However, the big military contractors had other plans. Adding new countries to NATO meant a captive market for specific companies like Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, and Lockheed.
The Financial Toll:
In March 2022, we committed a staggering $113 billion to the war in Ukraine. To put it in perspective, this could have provided homes for almost every homeless person in our country. But it doesn’t end there. An additional $24 billion was committed two months ago, and now President Biden is seeking another $60 billion.
The Money Trail:
Senator Mitch McConnell recently revealed a startling truth — it’s a money laundering scheme. The funds aren’t really going to Ukraine; they’re going to American defense manufacturers, and who owns these companies? BlackRock.
The Loan Illusion:
Senator Tim Scott tried to ease concerns by calling the billions we’re giving away a loan. But it’s not a generous offer; it’s a tactic. By labeling it a loan, extreme austerity measures can be imposed on Ukraine. This includes putting government-owned assets up for sale to multinational corporations, including its prized agricultural land.
The Land Grab:
Ukraine’s farmland, the breadbasket of Europe, is a major target. 30% of it has already been sold to Dupont, Cargill, and Monsanto — all entities owned by BlackRock.
The Rebuilding Contract:
In December, President Biden awarded the contract to rebuild Ukraine, and yes, you guessed it — BlackRock secured the deal.
The Strategy:
Their strategy is ancient but effective — keep us at war with each other. By fostering division, they maintain control.Pepe Escobar outlines La Défaite de L’Occident (“The Defeat of the West”) by Emmanuel Todd
Todd, in what he has defined as his last book (“I closed the circle”) allows himself to go for broke and meticulously depict the defeat not only of the US but of the West as a whole – with his research focusing in and around the war in Ukraine...
..(Todd) focuses on the key reasons that have led to the West’s downfall. Among them: the end of the nation-state; de-industrialization (which explains NATO’s deficit in producing weapons for Ukraine); the “degree zero” of the West’s religious matrix, Protestantism; the sharp increase of mortality rates in the US (much higher than in Russia), along with suicides and homicides; and the supremacy of an imperial nihilism expressed by the obsession with Forever Wars...
..I n February 2022, the combined GDP of Russia and Belarus was only 3.3% of the combined West (in this case the NATO sphere plus Japan and South Korea). Todd is amazed how these 3.3% capable of producing more weapons than the whole Western colossus not only are winning the war but reducing dominant notions of the “neoliberal political economy” (GDP rates) to shambles...
..The Russian notion of a nation-state, focused on “sovereignty”: the capacity of a state to independently define its internal and external policies, with no foreign interference whatsoever...
..The implosion … of WASP culture, which led, “since the 1960s”, to “an empire deprived of a center and a project, an essentially military organism managed by a group without culture (in the anthropological sense)”. This is Todd defining the US neocons...
..The US as a “post-imperial” entity: just a shell of military machinery deprived of an intelligence-driven culture, leading to “accentuated military expansion in a phase of massive contraction of its industrial base”… “Modern war without industry is an oxymoron”...
..The crux of Todd’s argument: his post-Max Weber reinterpretation of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, published a little over a century ago, in 1904/1905: “If Protestantism was the matrix for the ascension of the West, its death, today, is the cause of the disintegration and defeat.”…
..In a nutshell, Todd shows how Protestantism imposed universal literacy on the populations it controlled, “because all faithful must directly access the Holy Scriptures. A literate population is capable of economic and technological development. The Protestant religion modeled, by accident, a superior, efficient workforce.” And it is in this sense that Germany was “at the heart of Western development”, even if the Industrial Revolution took place in England.
Todd’s key formulation is undisputable: “The crucial factor of the ascension of the West was Protestantism’s attachment to alphabetization.”
..Moreover Protestantism, Todd stresses, is twice at the heart of the history of the West: via the educational and economic drive – with fear of damnation and the need to feel chosen by God engendering a work ethic and a strong, collective morality... The collapse of Protestantism could not but destroy the work ethic to the benefit of mass greed: that is, neoliberalism...
..He refers to “one of the great illusions of the 1960s – between Anglo-American sexual revolution and May 68 in France”; “to believe that the individual would be greater if freed from the collective”. That led to an inevitable debacle: “Now that we are free, en masse, from metaphysical beliefs, foundational and derived, communist, socialist or nationalist, we live the experience of the void.” And that’s how we became “a multitude of mimetic midgets who do not dare to think by themselves – but reveal themselves as capable of intolerance as the believers of ancient times.”…
..Todd’s brief analysis of the deeper meaning of transgenderism completely shatters the Church of Woke – from New York to the EU sphere, and will provoke serial fits of rage. He shows how transgenderism is “one of the flags of this nihilism that now defines the West, this drive to destroy, not just things and humans but reality.”…
..Todd correctly defines NATO by plunging into “their unconscious”: “We note that that its military, ideological and psychological mechanism does not exist to protect Western Europe, but to control it.”
In tandem with several analysts in Russia, China, Iran and among independents in Europe, Todd is sure that the US obsession – since the 1990s – to cut off Germany from Russia will lead to failure: “Sooner or later, they will collaborate, as “their economic specializations define them as complementary”. The defeat in Ukraine will open the path, as a “gravitational force” reciprocally seduces Germany and Russia.
Before that, and unlike virtually any Western “analyst” across the mainstream NATOstan sphere, Todd understands that Moscow is set to win against the whole of NATO, not merely Ukraine…
..Whatever the deadline, inbuilt in all this is a total Russia victory – with the winner dictating all terms. No negotiations, no ceasefire, no frozen conflict – as the Hegemon is now desperately spinning.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240118/how-the-west-was-defeated-1116245840.htmlPeople who obey orders are prioritized over competent people. Anthony Blinken Stranded In Davos After His Boeing 737 Breaks Down
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/anthony-blinken-stranded-davos-after-his-boeing-737-breaks-down Journalist Uncovers “Shadowy Network” Of NGOs Facilitating US Border Invasion
Journalist James O’Keefe uncovered a “shadowy network of secretive nonprofits” (some of which are funded by taxpayers) that are facilitating the invasion of illegals on the southern border.
O’Keefe said “Alita’s Angels” is a “brand-new nonprofit with no tax records on file” that operates inside an old Bank Building in the Arizona border town of Nogales.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/journalist-uncovers-shadowy-network-ngos-facilitating-us-border-invasion Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Donald Trump (after Trump called him a scam artist 48 hours earlier – so, obviously water under the bridge), Ramaswamy kept his promise to campaign for the former president after dropping out of the race.
“We are in the middle of a war in this country,” said Ramaswamy (via modernity.news), adding “That’s what this is. It’s not a war between black and white. It’s not between Democrat and Republican, even in a deeper sense, it’s between the permanent state and the everyday citizen, between those of us who love the United States of America and a fringe minority who hates this country and what we stand for.”
“You gotta know you’re in a war to win one,” the 38-year-old biotech executive continued. “There is not a better choice left in this race than this man right here. And that is why I am asking you to do the right thing as New Hampshire and to vote for Donald J. Trump as your next president.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/were-middle-war-vivek-shoulder-shoulder-trump-battle-deep-state Russia accuses Pfizer of “selling drugs dangerous to human health.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense has again published a statement on the US biological weapons programs. In it, Russia accuses Pfizer and others of being “involved in the spread of the pandemic” and of “making super profits from the sale of drugs that are dangerous to human health.”
https://www-anti–spiegel-ru.translate.goog/2024/russland-wirft-pfizer-den-verkauf-von-fuer-die-menschliche-gesundheit-gefaehrlichen-medikamenten-vor/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp The Return of Old Growth Forests looks at New England forests which are no longer farms, and are almost “old” growth now. Anastassia Makarievava starts talking about “Biotic Pump” forest respiration and condensation cycle, which draws moist ocean air across continents to bring rain to forests starting at 37:50.
War on Gaza: The reality of giving birth in a war zone
Heavily pregnant, Fedaa Issa had to flee Israeli violence multiple times before she could find a hospital to give birth to her daughter in December
Mothers are suffering acute mental distress, trying to keep a baby alive during a war that has killed tens of thousands of people, including more than 10,000 children.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-perils-giving-birth-gaza-amid-constant-israeli-attacks Reviving ISIS: A US weapon against the Resistance Axis
Is it a coincidence that the world’s foremost terror organization is being revived just as the US struggles under a multi-front assault on its hegemony in West Asia? More curiously, both ISIS and Washington’s targets are exactly the same...
..On 4 January, ISIS officially claimed responsibility for two bombings in the Iranian city of Kerman that targeted memorial processions on the anniversary of the assassination of Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani by US forces. The dual explosions killed around 90 people and injured dozens, in an unprecedented attack targeting the biggest US-Israeli adversary in West Asia – just one day after Tel Aviv killed top Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut. Before that, on 5 October 2023, ISIS drone-attacked an officers graduation ceremony at the Military College in the Syrian city of Homs, killing about 100 people.
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/reviving-isis-a-us-weapon-against-the-resistance-axis World wants more US intervention – Washington [delusional?]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has claimed that other nations desire America’s “engagement” more than ever
https://swentr.site/news/590829-blinken-says-world-wants-more-us-intervention/ WEF Chief Vows to Usher In Global ‘New Order’
The president of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has promised power elites that his unelected globalist organization will soon usher in a global “new order.”
Speaking during the group’s annual summit in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, WEF President Børge Brende sat down with top Biden administration officials and informed them how Klaus Swhwab’s vision for their “sovereign” nation will unfold...
..The post-World War II international order “seems to be not that order anymore,” Brende told Sullivan. Thought-criminal CJ Hopkins made fun of German authorities by showing a surgical/COVID mask with a swastika faintly apparent behind it.
My trial for thoughtcrimes in New Normal Germany takes place next Tuesday, January 23rd. It will likely be a one-day affair. It’s open to the public, so, if you’re in Berlin, you can come and watch at the Berlin District Court, Turmstraße 91, Room 371. The proceedings are scheduled to begin at 12:00 noon...
..The German authorities are actually putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes. I stand accused of criminal tweeting because I mocked the New Normal German authorities and pointed out one of their many lies. ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 103: Israeli army attacks vicinity of southern Gaza hospital, kills 7 in West Bank drone strikes
As Israel attacked the vicinity of the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, causing panic among sheltering civilians, Israeli drone strikes killed 7 in the West Bank. Qatar brokers deal to allow medical aid to reach Israeli captives and Gaza hospital‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 104: Israel’s unrelenting assault continues – ‘If we’re not killed by bombs, we die from the cold, starvation, or disease’
Patients in Gaza hospitals beg for food and water as they lie ‘waiting to die,’ WHO official says
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2443641/middle-east Technicality Could Sink Genocide Case v Israel , Joe Lauria
In order for a claim to reach the International Court of Justice, there must be an established dispute between two states. Israel’s argument is that such a dispute was never established and thus the ICJ lacks jurisdiction to hear South Africa’s claim...
..(Former UK Ambassador) Craig Murray added: “I am sure the judges want to get out of this and they may go for the procedural points. But there is a real problem with Israel’s ‘no dispute’ argument. If accepted, it would mean that a country committing genocide can simply not reply to a challenge, and then legal action will not be possible because no reply means ‘no dispute’. I hope that absurdity is obvious to the judges. But they may of course wish not to notice it…” Israel targets places of worship in Lebanon
For the past 100 days, the Israel Defense Forces has hit forests, residential homes and roads in the border area, but on Wednesday an Israeli drone raided the National Evangelical Church in the center of the town of Alma Al-Shaab, causing major damage to the home of the church’s cleric, Pastor Rabie Talib.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2443471/middle-east Any attack on Yemen is an attack on us: Iraqi Hezbollah to Ansar Allah
The chief of the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah sends a letter of solidarity to the Ansar Allah leader following the US decision to re-enlist the Yemeni movement as a “terrorist group”.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/any-attack-on-yemen-is-an-attack-on-us–iraqi-hezbollah-to-a Hezbollah’s Burkan ravages Israeli site in the Lebanese Shebaa Farms
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon has announced several operations, on Wednesday, while Hamas’ military wing has also attacked Israeli sites from South Lebanon.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-s-burkan-ravages-israeli-site-in-the-lebanese-sheb The Yemeni Armed Forces announced on Wednesday evening the implementation of a targeting operation against the American ship “Ginko Picardie” in the Gulf of Aden with a number of naval missiles.
The Armed Forces explained in a statement that the Naval Forces carried out the targeting operation against the American ship in the Gulf of Aden, and the hit was accurate and direct.
https://en.ypagency.net/316469 Pentagon acknowledges attempts to ‘deter’ Sanaa unsuccessful [Remember that Benjamin Netanyahu is commanding this American operation.]
Pentagon press secretary Maj Gen Pat Ryder says the US would not be surprised if it saw retaliatory strikes from the Yemeni Armed Forces over the aggression on Yemen.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/pentagon-acknowledges-attempts-to–deter–sanaa-unsuccessful Joint US-UK aggression on Yemen, fourth in less than a week (The navy needs to use up land-attack missiles, because it is running low on air-defense missiles.)
CBS cited a US official as saying that the United States has launched another round of strikes on targets in Yemen, which marks the fourth aggression launched by the United States against Yemen in less than a week.
CENTCOM confirms that its forces carried out strikes on 14 missiles that were loaded to be fired by the Yemeni forces.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/joint-us-uk-aggression-on-yemen–fourth-in-less-than-a-weekNo New Global Sheriff https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/no-new-global-sheriff
Douglas MacGregor: Iran launches MASSIVE military move to protect Houthis, regional war breaks out
[First 3:30 opens with MacGregor, who has some more to say for another 4 minutes shortly after that. Iran attacked only Israeli assets, no Americans. Netanyahu runs the show.]
Russian combat aircraft appeared on the Syrian-Israeli border
Combat aircraft of the Russian Armed Forces began patrolling the Syrian-Israeli border. In particular, Ka-52 Alligator reconnaissance and attack helicopters are already on combat duty in the Golan Heights region.
Observation posts of the Russian army are being created in the Quneitra province in southern Syria. As noted by local media, there are already five such points. It is possible that more will appear.
The purpose of such observation posts is to prevent tension in the region. As a rule, military personnel who have the necessary training and experience in performing various tasks in Syria are sent there.
https://en.topcor.ru/43372-rossijskaja-boevaja-aviacija-pojavilas-na-sirijsko-izrailskoj-granice.html Informed sources revealed to Al Mayadeen today that the Iranian Islamic Revolution’s Guard Corp was behind the targeting of the two Israeli ships in the Indian Ocean earlier this month on January 4th.
The sources emphasized that “the IRGC attack against two Israeli ships came as a retaliation to the assassination of the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri [in Beirut], and the Iranian commander in Syria, Brigadier General Razi Mousavi.”
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/exclusive–irgc-behind-attack-on-israeli-ships-in-indian-oceYemen is declared “not a country” by the US: US Re-Designates Houthis as ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorists’
The designation will hamper aid deliveries and could complicate a peace deal between the Saudis and HouthisUS Re-Designates Houthis as ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorists’
@Dr D Rich: We’re in this special class and all seem to be paying attention, so it’s a unique case, isn’t it? A “speakeasy”.
🙂Are We Being Conditioned for Another Lab Leak?
“Preparing for Disease X” resembles 2019 planning for coronavirus outbreak.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/are-we-being-conditioned-for-anotherAppeals Court Rules the Homeless Have a Right to Camp on Sidewalks
The 9th circuit court of appeals affirmed the constitutional right of vagrants to sleep on sidewalks, in parks, and even on the steps of court houses.Appeals Court Rules the Homeless Have a Right to Camp on Sidewalks
Still no photographs of Austin in 2024, but more story-telling. ‘We’re trying to remain a little subtle’: Hear the audio of 911 call for Sec. Lloyd Austin
https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/were-trying-remain-little-subtle-hear-audio-911-call-sec-lloyd-austin/7HSFDE3Y4REOXDNWRMHAKJAUWU/ This detective asked all the mothers of dead babies if they had recently been vaccinated. Yes, yes, yes, yes… She blew the whistle to the press about the data she compiled.
Witness intimidation accusation mires misconduct hearing for Ottawa cop who probed child deaths
Grus stands accused of discreditable conduct, which hinges on alleged Ottawa Police Service policy violations she committed in her probe of a possible link between COVID shots and sudden infant deaths in the region.
Related activities have been described by prosecutors as an “unsanctioned…quality control project,” including allegations that she interfered in ongoing investigations by seeking the COVID vaccination status of the related mothers.
Throughout 14 hearing days to date, Renwick has ruled more often in favour of Stewart and the Ottawa police, in so doing suppressing seemingly key pieces of evidence like related autopsy reports and a notebook containing Grus’ last entry before she was suspended in February 2022 – items her lawyers argue could prove exculpatory.
This pattern of denying evidentiary disclosure reached new levels this week as Stewart insisted that Grus cannot use generic Ottawa police policy documents and job descriptions for her defence without express permission...
..‘I’ve seen the statistical anomaly.’ I think she said it was double the amount of SIDS (year-over-year 2020-21),” recalled Danyluk of their conversation.Witness intimidation accusation mires misconduct hearing for Ottawa cop who probed child deaths
EU President Demands Globalist Control Over All Information
President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen addressed elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos Tuesday, calling for overarching globalist control over the flow of all information in the digital age.
“The top concern for the next two years is not conflict, or climate, it is disinformation and misinformation,” von der Leyen proclaimed, adding “The boundary between online and offline is getting thinner and thinner, and this is even more important in the era of generative AI.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-eu-president-demands-globalist-control-over-all-information It’s not just Ursula at Davos. Meryl Nass MD has the broader censorship-attack story. WHO, UN, WEF and EU collaborate to impose censorship on the world.
To protect us, of course. It’s for our own good. To protect our human rights and freedoms. Because without censorship and its twin propaganda, how could they peacefully take over the world?
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/who-un-wef-and-eu-collaborate-toAZ- Maricopa County GOP Passed ‘Ban the Jab’ resolution , Declares C19 injections Biological and Technological Weapons
https://josephsansone.substack.com/p/breaking-az-maricopa-county-gop-passed Steve Kirsch , Excess deaths in the UK are being caused by circulatory issues
A study cited in the UK press found that the excess deaths are primarily due to circulatory issues, not COVID. Thanks to the work of John Beaudoin, we know the COVID vaccine caused circulatory deaths.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/excess-deaths-in-the-uk-are-being Aleks at Black Mountain Analysis , Ukraine and the Middle East – Part 1[i] Fast forward to the abyss
Defeat will occur within the next year. Why? The latest news from NATO is that it is prepared to send hundreds of thousands of soldiers to the Ukrainian border in anticipation of a total collapse and the appearance of Russians on NATO borders...
..To summarize: Ukraine will most likely be defeated this year. And the question is not how Russia will reach X, Y, or Z within this time. It simply won’t. It will not reach Odessa or Lvov or whatever. Russia will only make sure that Ukraine collapses; the Ukrainian state and its army. The Americans have more than enough other problems in the upcoming Wars of Liberation. The Europeans will be unable to increase Ukraine’s funding to substitute for the Americans. They will try to reallocate their budgets, and the European citizens will not be very happy about that.
https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-the-middle-east-iGilbert Doctorow , How the Ukraine war may end as forecast by leading Western and Russian analysts: a REN TV (Moscow) feature program
I am pleased to say that I was in good company, among them Larry Johnson and Alexander Rahr. The Russian commentators were also well credentialed.
What emerges from this program is the following:
The Russians are inflicting destruction and death on the Ukrainian armed forces, all of which is shown graphically throughout the film
The failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive opened the way to a political struggle at the top in Kiev, between Zelensky and his military commander general Zaluzhny, with other ambitious contenders like Tymoshenko adding to the cacophony.
There is a real possibility of a coup d’etat against the Zelensky government led by the military
Meanwhile, Western backers of Kiev have lost their enthusiasm and the flow of military and financial aid is drying up
Continuation of the war will likely lead to further territorial losses for Kiev, with the Russians taking the Black Sea littoral while Hungary, Romania and Poland all seize their historic territories where their own ethnic groups are strongly present today.
The utter collapse of the Ukrainian military is now a real possibility and would result in capitulation and surrender on Russian terms, meaning neutrality, removal of the neo-Nazi elements from the ruling elites and a reorganization of the military into a small army relying on domestically produced supplies
Zelensky may be murdered by any one of several foreign intelligence agencies, and his best future will be to leave Ukraine for some foreign residence while the going is good Both of Vladimir Putin’s parents almost died during the siege of Leningrad. His older brother died at 14 months, of starvation and disease. Vladimir was born into this heritage.
M.K. Bhdrakumar , An anniversary West would rather forget
An epochal anniversary from the annals of modern history is coming up in another ten days that remains a living memory for the Russian people. The Siege of Leningrad, arguably the most gruesome episode of the Second World War, which lasted for 900 days, was finally broken by the Soviet Red Army on 27th January 1944, eighty years ago to be exact.
The siege endured by more than three million people, of whom nearly one half died, most of them in the first six months when the temperature fell to 30° below zero...
..Hitler himself declared in September 1941, “We have no interest in maintaining even a part of the metropolitan population in this existential war.” Any talk of the city surrendering had to be “rejected, as the problem of keeping and feeding the population cannot be solved by us.” ‘Extremists stoking rage’: The German government seeks to downplay protesting workers’ plight
Farmers, truckers, train drivers – numerous workers are making it known that they are fed up, as the chancellor’s approval drops to 20%
It was a missed opportunity to benefit from a much-needed mugging by reality.
Instead, the Interior Ministry contented itself by preemptively framing the protesters as susceptible to far-right infiltration. Scholz said that “rage is being stoked deliberately” by “extremists”. When asked about this concept, the unanimous response among the farmers was laughter, eye rolling, or one-line jokes...
..Scholz said last fall that Germany had to “be able to help Ukraine on the basis of solidarity. We support Ukraine in its defense struggle, with financial resources and weapons.”
https://swentr.site/news/590733-germany-protest-farmers-truckers-drivers/ US diplomats are scrambling to hold on to their influence in Switzerland, as their Chinese counterparts attempt to woo the country’s top officials during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Politico reported on Monday, citing sources.
The outlet said American officials were so alarmed by the size of the Chinese delegation at the event that they rushed to arrange a meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Swiss President Viola Amherd to ensure Washington does not lose influence in the Alpine country.
https://swentr.site/news/590726-us-china-charm-offensive-davos/ US Conducts New ‘Preemptive Strikes’ On Houthi Launch Sites [Yemenis have the legal right to restrict wartime ship traffic to Israel while Israel blockades Palestine.]On Tuesday US forces carried out another round of strikes on Houthi sites in Yemen, but this time the operation is being dubbed a “pre-emptive” attack that came in response to militants preparing missile launches on the ground in real time.
“US forces struck and destroyed four Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles,” a Central Command (CENTCOM) statement saud. “These missiles were prepared to launch from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and presented an imminent threat to both merchant and US Navy ships in the region.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-conducts-new-preemptive-strikes-houthi-launch-sites Ron Paul, Congress Asleep as Biden Makes War on Yemen
Late last week President Biden started a new US war on the tiny country of Yemen. US warships and fighter jets launched more than a hundred missiles at the country in a massive escalation that the Administration bizarrely claimed would “de-escalate” tensions in the Red Sea.
Taking the US to war without a Congressional declaration of war is a grave crime against the Constitution. Not only did Biden show no interest in coming to Congress for a war declaration, he didn’t even ask for authorization. Together with Washington’s reliable junior partner in war, the UK, Biden attacked Yemen. It seems the US Administration consulted more with the UK government than with the US Congress on the attacks.
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/congress-asleep-as-biden-makes-war-on-yemen/ South Africa to Sue US and UK as Complicit in Gaza Genocide
The U.S. should at least receive sanctions as happened with Germany, a country that is still paying compensation for the Holocaust.
On Monday, South African lawyers handling the Genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that they are preparing a separate lawsuit against the United States and the United Kingdom for complicity in Zionist war crimes.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/South-Africa-to-Sue-US-and-UK-as-Complicit-in-Gaza-Genocide-20240115-0009.html Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to eliminate all Palestinians and move them to Sinai, former Nigerian foreign minister Bolaji Akinyemi told RT in an exclusive interview as Pretoria’s genocide case against Israel continues before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Akinyemi, who served as external affairs minister from 1985 to 1987, said South Africa was carrying “a heavy load” because Pretoria “will not expect material reward” in taking Israel to the ICJ, accusing it of genocide against Palestinians.
“South Africa’s role in the world is a ‘mandalisation,’” he added. The term ‘mandalisation’ is associated with Nelson Mandela, who repeatedly refused deals for his release from prison until the world saw the country’s problems. “[Nelson Mandela] was stubborn,” Akinyemi added.
The former minister believes that “Netanyahu wants to wipe out all the Palestinians, not just Hamas, [and what] he really wants to do is to drive them into Sinai.”
https://swentr.site/africa/590728-netanyahu-israel-gaza-south-africa/New Jersey National Guard Prepares to Deploy to Iraq and Syria Amid Attacks
It’s unclear if the deployment of 1,500 troops is part of a regular troop rotation or a reinforcementNew Jersey National Guard Prepares to Deploy to Iraq and Syria Amid Attacks
Quagmired https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/publish/post/140788717
John Helmer looks at the US/UK/Israel axis being enmeshed in a situation where they can’t leave, and will continually be bled of soldiers, munitions and economic health.
THE US, ISRAEL HAVE LOST BATTLEFIELD CONTROL – HOUTHIS HAVE ATTACKED US DESTROYER, HIT GREEK-US OWNED BULKER; IRAN HAS HIT US BASE IN KURDISH CAPITAL, ERBIL
When your enemy dupes you into compounding your mistakes, without achieving your military objectives, he is leading you into an escalation of force which will defeat you, sooner or later. Later is more costly, defeat more ruinous, so the Arab-Iranian alliance against Israel and the US is waging the long war they were never before believed capable to fight…
..Anglo-American air attacks against Yemeni targets on Friday and Saturday have “dislocated” none of the capabilities of the Ansarallah government in Sanaa and the Houthi military units.
For exploitation after the air strikes, the initiative has remained instead with the Houthis: they are continuing their attacks on the US Navy fleet in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, keeping them on guard, but demonstrating they are ineffectual to protect US and Israel-connected shipping now diverting from the area...
..Minutes after midnight on Tuesday, Moscow time, Russian military bloggers began relaying the news from Iran and Yemen of new missile attacks against a Greek-American owned bulker in the Gulf of Aden during the afternoon, and hours later at night, a US mercenary forces unit, a US consulate building, an Israeli base, and the home of a leading oil trader in the Kurdish city of Erbil in northern Iraq…
..US media reporting after several hours of delay claimed there had been explosions near the US consulate in Erbil but “ ‘no US facilities were impacted. We’re not tracking damage to infrastructure or injuries at this time,’ a U.S. official told ABC News.” On the contrary, Rozhin reported, “according to one of my friends who lives in the centre of Erbil, the blow fell not on the current consulate, but on the new one, which is just being built. There was everything in scaffolding and construction cranes. Eyewitnesses say that they were building something grandiose.”…
..CENTCOM is saying nothing at all about the fate of the two US Navy F-18 pilots, shot down by Houthi air defence during the first raid on Friday morning and missing at sea since then. Pentagon concealment of the shoot-down — the first air battle success of its kind– has been camouflaged by a half-dozen press releases about the hospitalization and health of the Defense Secretary, General Lloyd Austin. “I continue to recuperate and perform my duties from home,” Austin has claimed.
According to US Army Lieutenant General Douglas Sims … who heads the staff advising the Joint Chiefs of Staff on operations: “The hope would be that any real thought of [Houthi] retaliation is based on a clear understanding that, you know, we simply are not going to be messed with here”…
..January 15, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke by telephone with Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and announced “coordination at all levels, emphasizing the unwavering mutual commitment to the fundamental principles of Russian-Iranian relations, including unconditional respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and other principles of the UN Charter, which will be confirmed in the upcoming ‘big’ interstate agreement between the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
“All levels” includes military coordination. It also means coordination with the Ansarallah representatives in Teheran…
…The official Yemen declaration of Monday, following the attack against the USS Laboon, has now expanded the targeting to include the US and UK fleets…
..“The Yemeni Armed Forces confirm the continuation of commercial traffic in the Arab and Red Seas to all destinations, with the exception of the ports of occupied Palestine, and that they continue to take all defensive and offensive measures within the framework of the right to defend and resist American-British aggression.” Missing Seals Were On Secret Mission That Intercepted Iranian Missile Components Bound For Houthis
The Pentagon on Tuesday revealed more information about the two missing US Navy Seals, who disappeared off the cost of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday after they “fell into the water during a nighttime boarding mission” according to US military officials.
A search and rescue operation has continued, and the US Department of Defense has yet to formally declare them dead. The US has revealed additional information about their secretive mission, saying their team intercepted a shipment of Iranian missile components bound for Houthis in Yemen.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/missing-seals-were-secret-mission-intercepted-iranian-missile-components-bound-houthis Moon of Alabama , War On Gaza – Iran Demonstrates Its Means Of Self-defense
…Israel killed Hamas officials who openly lived in Beirut. It also killed an IRGC official in Syria and a Hizbullah official in Lebanon. The U.S. bombed the Houthi as well as resistance groups in Iraq and Syria. An ISIS attack, likely instigated by the U.S., killed some 100 people in Kerman, Iran.
After the U.S. attacked Iraqi resistance groups in Syria and Iraq these intensified their attacks on U.S. bases. Hizbullah slowly increased the reach of its responses to Israeli attacks on Lebanon. After the U.S. bombing in Yemen the Houthi responded by adding U.S. and UK related ships to their target list. Yesterday a U.S. owned ship was hit by a Houthi missile.
The resistance axis is a collection of groups loosely connected to Iran. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp has trained these groups. But it did much more than the usual U.S. military training would do. The IRGC encouraged the groups to contact each other and to exchange knowledge. They now cooperate on all levels. Iran brought in new technologies and weapons and taught each group on how to make their own copies. Today Hizbullah intelligence people teach Houthi how to systematically interpret U.S. actions. Houthi and Iraqis exchange missile and drone building plans.
The axis of resistance has become an assembly of quite autonomous entities who no longer depend on deliveries or orders from Iran. But they all follow the same anti-colonial ideology.
The U.S. tried to interrupt the resistance development by, in 2020, killing Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the IRGC and founder of the resistance axis. It was in vain. The resistance was already too developed. It continued to grew on its own despite U.S. attempts of interference...
..Iran itself finally joined in. It fired ballistic missiles from Iran on two far away targets. The headquarter of the ISIS related Turkestan Islamic Party in Idleb, Syria, was destroyed. A headquarter of al-Qaeda aligned Hayad Tahrir al-Sham was also hit.
Another barrage of missiles came down (vid) in the city of Erbil in the Kurdish north of Iraq. The house of Peshraw Dizayee, a rich Kurdish businessman, was hit and destroyed. Dizayee did a lot of business with the U.S. and was involved in selling oil from the Kurdish region of Iraq through Turkey to Israel. Iran claims that his house was used as a base for the Israeli Mossad. That is at least plausible.
The shortest trajectory from Iran to Idleb in Syria is at least 1,200 kilometers. Iran thus demonstrated that it can reliably hit targets at that distance. The missiles used, named Khaybar Shekan, have a top reach of 1,450 kilometers.
These attacks are a warning to Israel and the U.S.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/01/war-on-gaza-iran-demonstrates-its-means-of-self-defense.html#moreDima at Military Summary Channel covered the Iranian counterattack well last night at the beginning of the video.
Iran’s Ruthless Attack | The Russians Went On The Offensive. Military Summary For 2024.01.16
Appeals Court Rules the Homeless Have a Right to Camp on Sidewalk
Appeals Court Rules the Homeless Have a Right to Camp on Sidewalks
Hi Markster. It got through. I hear nice things about John Day, Oregon.
Thanks DBS. I do have a good sense about young Mr. Atlas. 🙂
Thanks MPSK: I get to be BOTH of my grandfathers.
Thanks for the electrical-generation-reality-check, Red.
Watch: ‘Mothers Have to Resist’: Scientist Warns Against RSV Shots for Newborns
French scientist and author Hélène Banoun, Ph.D., joined “The Defender In-Depth” this week to discuss what the data show about the safety signals associated with monoclonal antibodies administered to newborns for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.Watch: ‘Mothers Have to Resist’: Scientist Warns Against RSV Shots for Newborns
Maddow Melts Down Over “Rise Of Fascism”; Joy Reid Says Trump Iowa Caucus Landslide Proves White Christians Are Racists
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-maddow-melts-down-over-rise-fascism-joy-reid-says-trump-iowa-caucus-landslideMLK Honored By Murderers, My blog post from 1/18/21
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/01/mlk-honored-by-murderers.htmlBoeing Slides After Wells Fargo Believes FAA 737 Max Audit “Won’t Be Clean”
Considering it’s an aircraft that was “designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/boeing-slides-after-wells-fargo-believes-faa-737-max-audit-wont-be-cleanJosh Mittledorf starts with a book review, then fills in what the book left out, clearly and succinctly. Good comments do more filling out.
The Wuhan Cover-up Cover-up , review of RFK Jr’s new book
https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/the-wuhan-cover-up-cover-upSteve Kirsch , New Medicare data makes it clear that the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-medicare-data-makes-it-clearUS Seeks Funds for New Bioweapons Projects From Clinton, Soros, Rockefeller Foundations
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240115/us-seeks-funds-for-new-bioweapons-projects-from-clinton-soros-rockefeller-foundations-russian-mod-1116177245.htmlA study published Wednesday in Environmental Health Perspectives identified 921 chemicals that increase the risk of breast cancer and found that 90% are ubiquitous in consumer products, food and drinks, pesticides, medications and workplaces.
More than 900 chemicals commonly found in consumer products and the environment have been linked to breast cancer risk in a new study.
The study, published Wednesday in Environmental Health Perspectives, identified 921 chemicals that increase the risk of breast cancer and found that 90% are ubiquitous in consumer products, food and drinks, pesticides, medications and workplaces.
The list includes chemicals like parabens and phthalates, which are commonly found in makeup, skin and hair care products; and numerous pesticide ingredients, including malathion, atrazine and triclopyr, which are used on food and in household pest control products in the U.S.
Breast cancer among young women has increased in recent years.Shell Becomes Latest To Suspend Red Sea Shipments After Two Fresh Houthi Attacks On Tankers
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/two-fresh-houthi-attacks-tankers-red-sea-one-suffers-direct-missile-strikeHow Israeli forces trapped and killed ravers at the Nova Festival
New evidence points to Israeli security forces, not Hamas, for causing the most fatalities at the music festival – civilian deaths that were then utilized to justify Tel Aviv’s Gaza genocide.
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/how-israeli-forces-trapped-and-killed-ravers-at-the-nova-festivalProfessor Anthony Hall , The Canadian Government Joins the Génocidaires Standing Against the Justice-Minded South Africans
Trudeau’s Lies and Crimes and Failures Run Far Deeper Than Racism.
https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/the-canadian-government-joins-theThe “collapse” of our inflexible economic format, which Paul Craig Roberts mentions, can be understood as a process of decay which has long been underway.
I have read this description of the engineering cutbacks at Boeing 21 years ago leading the company down the road to perdition. Boeing used to be an engineer-managed company, which fully comprehended the complexities of aircraft design and production. A lot of engineering has been outsourced since then, and corners cut.
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=213075Monopoly status is good for profits and bad for products. Thanks Dan. It’s Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing , Matt Stoller
If America wants to make civilian airplanes here, the government must step in, take over Boeing, and then design a competitive industry.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-time-to-nationalize-and-thenAfter 100 days, Netanyahu vows to continue Gaza killing
In a speech on 13 January, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin said not even the International Court of Justice in The Hague would stop Israel from continuing its war on Gaza, which has killed some 23,900 Palestinians, including 10,000 children, so far.
“No one will stop us — not The Hague, not the Axis of Evil, and no one else. It is possible and necessary to continue until victory, and we will do it.”
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/after-100-days-netanyahu-vows-to-continue-gaza-killingPolitical Survival Now Netanyahu’s ‘Real Objective’ as Gaza War Enters Day 101
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240114/political-survival-now-netanyahus-real-objective-as-gaza-war-enters-day-101-1116165064.html Alastair Crooke , Thanks F.S. Gut Feelings Make for Strategic Errors – U.S. Lured Into Battlescape in Gaza, Yemen and Now Iraq
China and Russia have been remarkably quiet, watching carefully the global tectonic plates shifting around in response to the ‘two wars’ (Ukraine and Israel’s ‘multiwar’). Really it is not surprising; both states can sit back to simply watch Biden and his team persist with their strategic mistakes in Ukraine and in Israel’s multiple wars…
..In 2010, when Netanyahu infuriated Obama with a major settlement expansion while Biden was in Israel; Peter Beinart reported that whilst Biden and team wanted to handle the dispute privately, the Obama camp took an entirely different route: Secretary Clinton gave Netanyahu 24 hours to respond, warning: “If you do not comply – it might have unprecedented consequences on the bilateral relations – of the kind never seen before.”
“Biden was soon in touch with a stunned Netanayhu … Biden completely undercut the Secretary of State [Clinton] and gave [Netanyahu] a strong indication that whatever was being planned in Washington was hotheadedness – and [that] he could defuse it when he got back”.
When Clinton saw the transcript, she “realized she’d been thrown under the bus” by Biden, one official said. Beinart concluded: “that during a critical period early in the Obama administration, when the White House contemplated exerting real pressure on Netanyahu to keep the possibility of a Palestinian state alive, Biden did more than any other cabinet-level official to shield Netanyahu from that pressure”.
Clearly such accounts put Biden to being viscerally to the Right of some in Netanyahu’s War Cabinet – “We’re not going to do a damn thing other than protect Israel,” Biden said at a fundraiser this December; “Not a single thing”.…
..What of the Washington Post report on Sunday that Biden has tasked his staff with preventing all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah?
That report – clearly purposefully leaked – was likely intended rather, to inoculate the U.S. from blame for complicity, should war in the North break out...
..The key to understanding the complexity for launching military action in Lebanon lies with the need to view it from a wider perspective: From the perspective of the neo-cons, confronting Hizbullah invokes the pros and cons of a broader U.S. ‘war’ with Iran. Such a conflict would involve different and more explosive geopolitical and strategic aspects since both China and Russia are in strategic partnership with Iran…
..Perhaps the most daunting and ominous thing about an Israeli-Hezbollah military confrontation is its apparent inevitability, Pinkas concludes: “The sense that it is a foregone conclusion. In the absence of a mutually agreed upon and durable political agreement, and given Hezbollah’s raison d’être and Iran’s regional motivations, such a war may be just a matter of time”.Gut Feelings Make for Strategic Errors – U.S. Lured Into Battlescape in Gaza, Yemen and Now Iraq
Israel and the U.S. Are Already Feeling the Weight of Houthi Justice
For better or worse, the Houthis are the only political and military force doing anything practical to demand that Israel pay for its acts. And despite the attack on their territory, we can already say with certainty, that the Ansar Allah movement and the pro-Palestinian resistance, in general, will be strengthened by this event. Were it not for a rebel movement, made up of poor people living in great hardship, no other country in the region would do anything to bring some moral justice, however little, to this whole process. As they say, whoever has a lot, has the most to lose. Only the poor give what they need and this is a good example of that...
..Since the goods that Israel receives by sea and from Asia can come from the Red Sea without having to go through the Suez Canal, the port of Eilat is absolutely strategic for the country’s economic stability. And without economic stability, wars can’t be won...
..With effort, the U.S. managed to get its team together. We couldn’t have expected anything other than what happened on January 12th, namely the attack on Yemen and in particular on the Houthi forces…
..But the truth is that the Houthi had already won. We all remember the messages from Blinken or Biden during their frequent visits to the Zionist state: we can’t let the conflict spread to the Middle East, they said. Well, although this attack avoids the worst, which is to ensure that Israel doesn’t get involved on several fronts, so that it can carry out its plan for Gaza with impunity and calmly, the fact is that, at the moment, a new front of conflict has just been opened, which adds to the other fires that the U.S. already has in hand, and it is not yet clear how it will end...
..For the time being, the Houthi have already given us something, demanding a higher price from Israel for their actions, unmasking the nature of American support for Zionism and showing the world, once again, that Western nations arrogate to themselves the right to attack wherever and whenever they want, without any backing in international law, without the mantle of the UN, without even having been provoked. Since it was Israel that was provoked.Israel and the U.S. Are Already Feeling the Weight of Houthi Justice
It looks like “The Resistance” are settling for bleeding the US Navy of expensive missiles against cheap drones for the moment. Attrition.
Shell Becomes Latest To Suspend Red Sea Shipments After Two Fresh Houthi Attacks On Tankers
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/two-fresh-houthi-attacks-tankers-red-sea-one-suffers-direct-missile-strikeHope After All https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/hope-after-all
Paul Craig Roberts has today’s words of cheer:. There is Hope After All
As long as the media and official narratives keep people in The Matrix, nothing can be done. Movies such as V for Vendetta and The Matrix have made this clear.
But today I bring you good news. After a conversation with a friend today, I can tell you that it is in the collapse of the system where hope resides. As every aspect of the system is corrupt, collapse is the corrective. The ruling elites have miscalculated. By bringing about the collapse, the elites are collapsing their own power. Collapse brings reset, not the World Economic Forum’s, but the peoples’ reset.Charles Hugh Smith has timeless wisdom for human preppers: Self-Reliance, Taoism and the Warring States
Because the best protection isn’t a 30-room bunker; it’s having 30 people who care about you.
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/self-reliance-taoism-and-the-warringLloyd Austin has reportedly been released from the hospital. I don’t find anything which could be a recent photograph, though, still old stock images.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/15/news/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-released-from-hospital-amid-secrecy-scandal/Thanks Kelly. “Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see.” How to Escape the Matrix
Tips for recognizing false or probably false representations of what is going on.
Congress NEVER subpoenas Professor Ralph Baric at UNC Chapel Hill. To understand the truth of the matter, one need only read the 2015 paper titled A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence by Veneet Menachery, Zhengli-Li Shi, Ralph Baric, et al. This study plainly states that the authors conducted Gain-of-Function research on bat coronaviruses in order to make them infectious to primary human airway epithelial cells and succeeded in their endeavor.
Likewise, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, and the World Economic Forum often tell the world about their schemes. For almost fifteen years, Bill Gates repeatedly stated his ambition to vaccinate all of humanity as frequently as possible. In 2010 he declared, “We must make this the decade of vaccines.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/how-to-escape-the-matrix
Atlas Day Eller came a month early to share Martin’s birthday.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/01/mlk-honored-by-murderers.html@Aspnaz: She drinks free green tea, not soda. Notice her surroundings.
@tboc: I thought Ray Stevens was dead, but I was wrong. I have his greatest hits album in the vinyl stack.
I sure sang along with “The Streak” a lot of times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM100 days of war in Gaza: Biden fails to achieve basic policy goals
US efforts to cobble together a plan for post-war Gaza lay bare the contradictory goals the administration has failed to resolve
The US’s top diplomat came to Israel this week carrying a message from Washington’s regional allies: Israel’s neighbours are prepared to invest in Gaza’s security and reconstruction.
“But it is essential to them that there also be a clear pathway to the realisation of a Palestinian political state,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
By holding out to Israel the carrot of regional buy-in for the post-war fate of Gaza, Blinken seemingly tried to leverage the US’s Arab partners and Turkey to sway Israel in a way that the Biden administration has been unable, or unwilling, to do alone…
..”Since 7 October, the US has prioritised above all else Israel’s right to defend itself,” said Brian Katulis, senior fellow and vice president of policy at the Washington-based Middle East Institute. “But most of its other goals are incomplete. “The administration’s weakest link remains reaching some sort of consensus on a Gaza endgame.” …
..Biden’s pledge to give Israel the military tools it needs to “finish the job” against Hamas is now followed by a campaign promise that he is “doing all that he can” so Israel can “significantly get out of Gaza”…
..US officials defended Biden’s embrace of Israel as a practical way to give the US more leverage to shape Israel’s military campaign and respond to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but little progress has been made on that front…
..”Secretary Blinken and President Biden had been right to insist on two things: a reduction in the unacceptable levels of civilian casualties, and much more cooperation when it comes to providing humanitarian assistance,” Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen said after a visit to Egypt’s Rafah crossing into Gaza. “We’ve not seen that,” he said…
..US efforts to produce a workable plan for post-war Gaza lay bare the competing and contradictory goals the administration has been unable to resolve at the 100-day mark of the war…
..”There is a fundamental difference with Israel over the role of the PA in Gaza. After 100 days, the US still hasn’t been able to square that difference,” David Schenker, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a previous assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs.
Further muddying the waters, the PA’s ageing political leaders say they are open to a national unity government that includes some Hamas factions in Gaza…
..”There is a tremendous disconnect between the administration and what’s happening globally,” Freeman said. “I think the war has destroyed US credibility abroad. That has real-world consequences when you consider the war in Ukraine and competition with China. Other countries are going to sit these things out.”…
..A million Palestinians are crammed into the town of Rafah, on the border with Egypt, where water-borne diseases are spreading and people have been forced to sleep, and defecate, on the street…
..Israel was blamed for the recent killing of the deputy political leader of Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri, in a Beirut suburb that is a Hezbollah stronghold. A few days later, Israel assassinated Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force.
“The US is stuck in an escalation trap,” Freeman said. “Israel is openly courting an expansion of the war with these assassinations.”…
..”The administration is in a better place than they think they are,” James Jeffrey, a former senior US official now at the Washington-based Wilson Center, told MEE.
Jeffrey said those who believe the US could dictate terms to Israel to end the fighting overestimate the US’s leverage with an ally that has fought three wars with its Arab neighbours and decades of lower-level conflicts with Palestinian fighters since its founding. “If we pull our support from Israel, let me tell you, they will keep fighting. And that’s not because of some plot by Bibi [Netanyahu] to stay in office, that’s because the Israeli public realises that 7 October presented the spectre of an existential crisis to Israel’s future,” he told MEE. [US withdrawal of “support” would be a dream scenario, but the Israeli lobby won’t allow it.]
He says the US has achieved its goal of giving Israel the space to push its offensive against Hamas while staving off a widening war.
“Biden is holding his nose against protests about civilian Palestinian casualties because he wants Hamas degraded,” Jeffrey said. “As do our Arab allies, although they can’t say it in public.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-100-days-gaza-war-biden-fails-achieve-basic-policy-goalsThey might need to “officially” get rid of him if he cannot be made “presentable”. Stories are dropping off; still no picture of the man in 2024.
Lloyd Austin Remains Hospitalized – And Should Absolutely Be Fired For Hiding Condition
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lloyd-austin-remains-hospitalized-and-should-absolutely-be-fired-hiding-condition Pepe Escobar , Year of the Dragon: Silk Roads, BRICS Roads, Sino-Roads
Taiwan will remain the prime not-yet-engaged battlefield. Roughly, it’s fair to argue that the majority of the population of Taiwan does not want unification; at the same time, they don’t want an American-engineered war.
They want, essentially, the current status quo. China is not in a hurry: Deng’s master plan pointed to reunification sometime before 2049.
The Hegemon, on the other hand, is in a tremendous hurry: it’s all about Divide and Rule, all over again, promoting chaos and destabilizing China’s inexorable rise. Meryl Nass MD, the “Soft Coup to Hard Tyranny” slide series from her lectures around the world.
You asked for higher quality versions of my slides and I have complied. Here is my talk today and a few of my remarks. *You need to go to the substack website to see almost all of it*
I focused on new screenshots from the IHRs to make it easy for everyone to see exactly what is in them, and avoid being fooled by lies from WHO and government officials
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/you-asked-for-higher-quality-versionsDr. Nass notes more WHO advice for suckers who will “never get an even break”. WHO advice: Keep boosting every 6-12 months
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/who-advice-keep-boosting-every-6War on Gaza: Israel blames Hamas for 23,000 Palestinian deaths at ICJ
Israel’s legal representatives argue that there is ‘no genocide’ taking place in Gaza and deny Israel bombed hospitals
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-israel-second-day-south-africa-genocide-case-icj-hearingGenocide Experts Discount Israeli Legal Arguments
Faced with a detailed documentation of statements made by top-level Israeli officials about their intent to “destroy” Gaza residents and “flatten” the enclave, legal experts observed that attorneys representing Israel on Friday at the International Court of Justice appeared to simply ignore the mounting evidence that the government is committing a genocide.
Thomas MacManus, a state crime lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, said the ICJ, which has held two hearings this week regarding South Africa’s complaint accusing Israel of genocidal violence and intent in Gaza since it began its bombardment in October, likely noticed a “massive disconnect” between Israel’s claim that it is trying to protect civilian lives with the reality on the ground.South Africa: Israel failed to respond to our genocide evidence
South Africa’s Justice Minister Ronald Lamola, who is leading the South African delegation to The Hague, said that Israel has failed to respond to the evidence presented against it for committing genocide in Gaza.
Ronald Lamola emphasized his country’s commitment to legal facts and the evidence presented.
He added that Tel Aviv seems unable to condemn the actions of its soldiers, stressing that the statements of its officials cannot be ignored.
https://en.ypagency.net/316057Directly complicit in specific acts of genocidal targeting of Palestinian civilians?
BIDEN ADMIN DEPLOYED AIR FORCE TEAM TO ISRAEL TO ASSIST WITH TARGETS, DOCUMENT SUGGESTS
Guidance for officers deployed to Israel appears to show the U.S. military providing intelligence for airstrikes in Gaza.
“I’ve directed my team to share intelligence and deploy additional experts from across the United States government to consult with and advise the Israeli counterparts on hostage recovery efforts,” said President Joe Biden three days after the Hamas attack.
But several weeks later, on November 21, the U.S. Air Force issued deployment guidelinesOpens in a new tab for officers, including intelligence engagement officers, headed to Israel. Experts say that a team of targeting officers like this would be used to provide satellite intelligence to the Israelis for the purpose of offensive targeting…
..Past presidents have issued several executive orders banning the U.S. government from carrying out or sponsoring assassinations abroad. This ban has been interpreted to include wartime targeting of civilians, according to a recent Foreign Affairs article by Brian Finucane, a former legal adviser for the State Department who now works for Crisis Group.
And the so-called Leahy law, a set of budget amendments named for Sen. Patrick Leahy, requires the U.S. government to vet foreign military units for “gross violations of human rights” when providing training or aid to those units. Several progressive members of Congress have raised concerns that U.S. aid to Israel — both before and during the present war — violates that requirement.
“For air advisory missions, which I imagine involve intelligence sharing and training, specific domestic legal restrictions such as the Leahy law and the assassination ban would likely come into play,” McBrien said. But the Leahy vetting process is “reversed” for Israel; rather than vetting Israeli military units beforehand, the U.S. State Department sends aid and then waits for reports of violations…Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist With Targets, Document Suggests
Israeli army ordered mass Hannibal Directive on 7 Oct: Media
An investigation from Israel’s leading newspaper indicates Israel deliberately killed many of its own civilians and soldiers during Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to prevent them being taken captive back to Gaza
The Hebrew edition of the paper (Yedioth Ahronoth) wrote on 11 January that “one of the revelations revealed in the investigation is that at noon on October 7, the IDF [Israeli army] ordered all of its combat units in practice to use the ‘Hannibal Procedure’ although without clearly mentioning this explicitly by name.”
The order was to stop “at all costs any attempt by Hamas terrorists to return to Gaza, that is, despite the fear that some of them have abductees,” the paper wrote.
The Times of Israel described how the Hannibal procedure, or directive, “allows soldiers to use potentially massive amounts of force to prevent a soldier from falling into the hands of the enemy. This includes the possibility of endangering the life of the soldier in question in order to prevent his capture.”…
..Hamas used the Toyota pick-up trucks and motorcycles with which they entered Israel, as well as cars stolen from the settlements, to take Israeli captives back to Gaza. Some were also taken to Gaza on foot and even in carts pulled by tractors by other Palestinians who crossed into Israel after the Hamas fighters breached the border fence.
According to Yediot Ahronoth, about a thousand “terrorists and infiltrators” were killed in the area between the settlements and the Gaza Strip.
But the paper added it is not clear at this time how many of the Israeli abductees were killed due to the activation of the Hannibal directive:
“In the week after the attack, soldiers of elite units checked about 70 vehicles that were left in the area between the settlements and the Gaza Strip. These are vehicles that did not reach Gaza, because on the way they were shot by a combat helicopter, an anti-tank missile or a tank, and at least in some cases everyone in the vehicle was killed.”
As journalist Dan Cohen reported, the Israeli military killed Efrat Katz, age 68, as she was being taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz to Gaza on a cart pulled by a tractor on 7 October. Her daughter, Doron Katz-Asher, and two granddaughters, Raz, age 2, and Aviv, age 4, were also in the cart. Doron Katz-Asher later told Israel’s Channel 12 that the Israeli army opened fire on the tractor, injuring her two daughters and killing her mother, Efrat…
..80-year-old Carmela Dan and her 12-year-old autistic granddaughter Noya both vanished on the morning of 7 October. The family assumed both were taken captive by Hamas. But two weeks later, Israeli authorities announced their bodies “were found near the border fence,” Foreign Policy reported.
On 19 October, Carmela’s niece told NBC News, “There was an operation by the Israeli army some days ago at this point to retrieve bodies, and we believe that it took them time to run what we know to be three DNA tests and to identify that it was both of them.”
In another widely reported case, an Israeli brigadier general, Barak Hiram, acknowledged to the New York Times that he gave an order on 7 October for a tank commander to open fire on a home in Kibbutz Be’eri to kill Hamas fighters, even though 14 Israeli captives were barricaded inside the home as well.
https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/18512Millions of Yemenis take part in mass rallies to condemn US-UK aggression
https://en.ypagency.net/316030Kremlin: US and British strikes on Yemen are illegitimate
The Kremlin on Friday condemned the United States and the United Kingdom for military strikes against Yemen.
“From the point of view of international law, they are illegitimate,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about the strikes on Friday.
“We condemn them,” he told reporters, when asked to comment on the strikes. “They are illegitimate under international law. This is our position,” Peskov added.
He pointed out that the UN Security Council had earlier passed a US-drafted resolution condemning attacks in the Red Sea by the Yemeni Armed forces and demanding an immediate end to them. Eleven UN Security Council members voted for the document, while four countries, including Russia, abstained.
“We abstained. The countries that carried out the attack sought to justify their actions as lawful. However, they failed because the resolution adopted does not grant anyone the right to carry out strikes,” the Kremlin spokesman stressed.
https://en.ypagency.net/316046Erdogan slams US, British strikes on Yemen [Notably bland protest, though.]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday slammed the US and British strikes on Yemen.
The US and UK have used disproportionate force in Yemen, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
Speaking to reporters after performing Friday prayers in Istanbul, Erdogan criticized the attacks on Yemen by the US and UK.
“All of these actions involve the use of disproportionate force. Israel is also using disproportionate force in Palestine,” he said.
“We receive information from various sources that the Houthis have made a very successful defense, provided a successful response, against both the US and the UK,” he said.
https://en.ypagency.net/316043All UK, US interests in region are legitimate targets: Yemeni Council
UK and US presence in the Red Sea violates International Law, and the Republic of Yemen is responsible for dealing with it appropriately.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/all-uk–us-interests-in-region-are-legitimate-targets–yemenSimplicius, US Launches Strikes on Yemen, and Other Updates
Well, the big news is now that Biden has for the first time publicly signaled his support for finally using those mythical seized Russian funds:
These are the $300B foreign exchange reserves that Russia had sitting in European banks. But experts have warned such an illegal seizure would open up the pandora’s box that would be the final undoing of the dollar. These are sovereign wealth funds. That means they are the money of the Russian central bank. And as we all know, no matter what happens between the ‘mice and men’ of governments and their peons, central banks exist on a higher plane of order. They are a class unto themselves, to an extent. And when ‘the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry’, the schemes of central bankers can never deviate. For a central bank to seize the sovereign wealth fund of another major central bank is akin to two of the largest crime families in a major Godfather film declaring war on each other…
..Will they actually do it? I still contend not. I believe it is the same desperate blather and they will remain too fearful to pull the trigger, using it merely as another measure to pump wind in Ukraine’s sails and offer hollow and ephemeral ‘hope’. But this is one of the last resorts currently being discussed.
Ultimately remember that Russia has the same amount of assets it can seize from the West, so the ‘exchange’, were it to happen, would be nothing more than the West illegally robbing its own people of $300B which they could not legally convince their populace to give them for Ukraine…
..In the last report we learned about Russia adapting RBK-500 cluster munitions, now we have full confirmation they are also using 1500kg Fabs as well as even ODAB-1500 thermobarics. Today Shoigu visited the UMPK assembly line, giving us a rare firsthand look at some of the innovations being done in real time: [embedded video] …
..Unfortunately, despite these advances, Russian troops are not in too much better a position. Ukraine’s own drone mastery is soaring to new heights and Russian vehicles are being overwhelmed by them on almost every front when going on assault…
..US apparently took losses and is now trying to cover them up after Ansar Allah forces claimed to have downed a US plane as well as hit a ship [2 US sailors are missing.] The “plane” was at least in part corroborated, though it appeared to be a heavy-class drone…
..Both Tesla and Volvo announced a total cessation of production due to supply disruption problems..
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/us-launches-strikes-on-yemen-andComplex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis
The core issue is that changing political mores have established the systematic promotion of the unqualified and sidelining of the competent.
Elon Musk recently shared this Palladium Magazine article on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. This article by Harold Robertson was originally published at Palladium Magazine on June 1, 2023.
..Whereas publicly-traded corporations nearly uniformly push diversity, privately-held businesses vary tremendously based on the views of their owners. Partnerships such as the Big Four accounting firms and top-tier management consultancies are high-status. High-status firms must regularly proclaim extensive support for diversity. While the firms tend to be highly selective, partnerships whose leadership is overwhelmingly white and male have generally capitulated to the zeitgeist and are cutting standards to hit targets. Firms often manage around this by hiring for diversity and then putting diversity hires into roles where they are the least likely to damage the firm or the brand. Somewhat counterintuitively, firms with diverse founders are often highly meritocratic, as the structure harnesses the founder’s desire to make money and shields them from criticism on diversity issues.
The most notable example of a diverse meritocracy is Vista Equity Partners, the large private equity firm founded by Robert F. Smith, America’s wealthiest black man. Robert F. Smith is one of the most vocal advocates for and philanthropists to historically black U.S. colleges and universities. It would be reasonable to expect Vista to prioritize diversity over competency in its portfolio companies. However, Vista has instead been profiled for giving all portfolio company management teams the Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test and ruthlessly culling low-performers. Given the amount of value to be created by promoting the best people into leadership roles of their portfolio companies, one might imagine this to be low-hanging fruit for the rest of private equity, yet Vista is an outlier. Why Vista can apply the CCAT without a public outcry is obvious.
https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/complex-systems-wont-survive-theWorld Economic Forum declares “Disinformation” to be World’s Greatest Threat.
“1,490 experts across academia, business, government, the international community and civil society” looked at all of the world’s military, economic, and environmental threats and concluded that the greatest threat to humanity is too much free speech.World Economic Forum Declares “Disinformation” to be the World’s Greatest Threat
Timofey Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Club , Here’s why the signs of a new world order are becoming increasingly obvious
The majority of the world is no longer willing to accept Western diktat. That heralds a revolution.
Never before has the injustice shown to the interests of the majority of the world’s countries been so effectively offset by the benefits that have accrued to virtually everyone from globalization. One might even say that the state of affairs known to us as the liberal world order was, in its nature and content, a transitional phase between the absolute tyranny of the European empires of the 19th century and the new international order that is only now emerging. And it is coming to pass precisely as a response to the inevitable process of the emergence of a multitude of sovereign states...
..BRICS was undoubtedly the main phenomenon in international politics in 2023. The decision to expand in August 2023 makes it a community of large and medium-sized states in 2024. What is important is how BRICS, with its new membership and evolving partnerships with other powers, will move towards its main objective in the global economy – to provide a safety net to keep globalization afloat at a time when its former leaders in the West can no longer fully perform these functions. Creating alternative financial mechanisms and limiting the monopoly position of the US dollar are no longer seen as ways to destroy the old world order, but as necessary tools to prevent the global economy from falling into chaos.
https://swentr.site/news/590471-signs-of-new-world-order/Killing Gonzalo Lira’s Voice https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/killing-gonzalo-liras-voice
For the past few years Gonzalo Lira was podcasting from Ukraine about COVID bioweapons, US government policy under Trump, and Biden, Victoria Nuland, build up to the Ukraine war, then life in Kharkiv (Kharkov), Ukraine. He was jailed and released, then jailed much longer, beaten, tortured, and released for a month before trial. He was tracked and watched, as the Ukrainian SBU wanted to see who their “Russian spy” contacted, then he was picked up trying to cross into Hungary last summer, imprisoned, and finally died of longstanding, untreated pneumonia in prison a few days ago. The US government was “aware”, and never took any action to benefit Lira, presumably because he was like Julian Assange to them, but snarkier. We start with an overview of his journalism, offensive to the Ukraine and US governments.
RIP Gonzalo Lira
They Kill Journalists, Don’t They? Ukraine does not only kill the Russians as the “best investment” for the Cabal; it also removes unpleasant witnesses for us.
https://trygvewighdal.substack.com/p/rip-gonzalo-liraGonzalo did podcasts sometimes with Dima at Military Summary Channel, and contacted Dima last July,]seeking a way out of Ukraine. Dima spends the first 12 minutes telling the story. New Details About The Death Of Gonzalo | Missile Strike. Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.1.13
Aleks at Black Mountain Analysis lays out the context:
The bottom line here is, and this has to be clear to all of us: If a nation is in an existential war, there will certainly be no hostile-minded journalism, blogging, etc., within this nation. I mean in no nation of the world. Not in the USA, not in Europe, not in Asia, nowhere. Don’t get me wrong; this is not my opinion or what I wish. Certainly not, as I blog as well! This is how processes are designed to not let any factor undermine the military efforts.
If you go back to WW2 and research how Western countries dealt with enemy citizens and journalists during the war, this is exactly how it would be nowadays as well. If you ask today’s authorities whether it would be this way, they would immediately deny it.
https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/gonzalo-lira@Oxymoron: Not afraid to activate “Comments” are you?
The Rapper 🙂
Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis
The core issue is that changing political mores have established the systematic promotion of the unqualified and sidelining of the competent.
https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/complex-systems-wont-survive-theUS authorities confirm death of reporter Gonzalo Lira in custody in Ukraine
https://tass.com/world/1731827?utm_source=google.com&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google.com&utm_referrer=google.com Meryl Nass MD welcomes another “sinner” into the fold: Ryan Cole, MD: Board Restricts Doctor’s License Over COVID Misinfo
Mayo Clinic trained, brilliant doc gets slapped for misinformation. The brazenness is increasing–they are willing to overtly challenge Freedom of Speech now. Look what is coming down the pike, folks.
Cole has held a medical license in Washington state since 2007, with no prior disciplinary action against it. His medical license in Idaho, where he is based, remains active with no action against it.
Back in 2021, the Idaho Medical Association called on its state medical board to investigate Coleover his prescribing of ivermectin to COVID-19 patients. That same year, Cole and his laboratory, Cole Diagnostics, parted ways with St. Luke’s Health Partners, an integrated health network in Idaho.
Cole had also appeared in a viral documentaryreleased in 2022 called “Died Suddenly,” which claimed COVID shots were connected to unusual blood clots and the sudden onset of cancer.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/ryan-cole-md-board-restricts-doctorsPeter McCullough MD, Mutational Resistance Expected with Mass Indiscriminate Nirsevimab Injection of Infants
Analysis Demonstrates RSV Will Easily Mutate to Escape Monoclonal Antibodies
As a clinician, it makes more sense to me to reserve monoclonal antibodies for acute treatment in high-risk cases where mechanical ventilation and death are potential consequences such as children with severe lung disease at baseline. With widespread use of monoclonal antibodies on the first day of life, it is very likely RSV resistance will emerge and babies will have been unnecessarily injected with a novel product having no assurances on long-term safety. All the more reason to curtail this new, mass indiscriminate program for newborns before the entire population is put at risk.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/mutational-resistance-expected-with Sasha Latypova (Russian), We have a pandemic of marburg and ebola lasting to at least December 31, 2028.
There is a potential for a trillion new viruses to emerge, and mutate! Ask you friendly CDC rep for directions to the nearest quarantine camp, ahem … wellness facility.
If you didn’t know this, the link below is to the most recent PREP Act declaration extending the marburg pandemic to 2028! Marburg is allegedly the deadliest “virus” out there.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/do-you-know-that-we-have-a-pandemic The WHO Pandemic Treaty would enforce the sharing of THIS virus with every participating country.
Chinese Scientists Reveal Experiments With Virus 100% Fatal To Mice
Scientists in China, experimenting with a coronavirus closely related to the virus that causes COVID-19, found that it had a 100 percent kill rate in a small mouse study, according to the researchers’ announcement on Jan. 4.
The scientists, including a doctor trained by the Chinese military, cloned a pangolin coronavirus and infected modified mice to “assess its pathogenicity,” they said in a preprint paper published on bioRxiv.
Of the four mice infected with the virus, all began to lose weight five days post-infection. Shortly thereafter, they exhibited symptoms including sluggishness and white eyes.
The four mice died within eight days of inoculation. Researchers described the results as “surprising.”
Researchers then infected eight additional mice, euthanized them, and selected organs from four to analyze. High levels of viral RNA were found in various organs, including the brain, lungs, and eyes. While the viral load in the lungs decreased by the sixth day, it increased in the brain.
“This finding suggested that severe brain infection during the later stages of infection may be the key cause of death in these mice,” the scientists said.
The experiments were on a mutant strain of the pangolin virus, known as GX_P2V(short_3UTR). The results suggest a risk for the virus to “spill over into humans.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/chinese-scientists-reveal-experiments-virus-100-percent-fatal-miceTessa Lena Interviews James Roguski: A Deadline Coming Up on Jan 27: A Conversation with James Roguski on the WHO Power Grab
In this particular interview, we focus on a deadline that is coming up on January 27. James explains what it’s all about, and what you can do…
..And here are some suggestions from Dr. Meryl Nass’ Door to Freedom https://doortofreedom.org/what-you-can-do/ , also dedicated to countering the WHO power grab.
I hope you find this interview and the background information helpful! There is also a philosophical point. The philosophical point is not in the interview but both James and I believe that the WHO already has the power to bribe and coerce “world leaders” into doing what their donors what them to do—which they demonstrated very convincingly in 2020. What they are trying to accomplish now is add another symbol of power to their crown. (Jump to the chase at 20:20 if desired and you know the background.)
https://tessa.substack.com/p/james-roguski-who-power-grab Greg Hunter interviews Meryl Nass MD , Disaster If WHO Gets Total Medical Control – Dr. Meryl Nass
Dr. Meryl Nass is an expert on vaccines. She has testified to Congress many times. Dr. Nass warned about the dangers of the CV19 vax. Massive amounts of deaths and disabilities have been documented around the world caused by what many doctors say are simply bioweapon injections. Early on, Dr. Nass was a proponent of treating Covid with Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine with outstanding results for her patients. For this, her medical license was suspended in the State of Maine two years ago. This did not stop Dr. Nass from fighting to get the word out about the evil being caused by the CV19 shots. Just when you think it’s over, and we can all get back to normal, Dr. Nass warns of a more evil global plan to take control of your healthcare (and life) in the next pandemic. The UN and the WHO are wanting to do this by May 2024. Dr. Nass explains, “The WHO is an agency under the UN. One document, that has never existed before, is called a ‘Pandemic Treaty,’ and they are drafting it now. The other is an ordinary document called ‘International Health Regulations.’. . . . What has happened is they want to use this document and amend it massively. They want to completely change what the document is about and have it become orders that all the nations of the world will have to obey. The person giving the orders is the Director General of the WHO. This director can declare a pandemic under any circumstances he likes. . . . It gives the Director General of the WHO enormous power to dictate healthcare to anyone around the world. . . . (Dude ALWAYS passes his piss-tests.) NASA Defends Elon Musk After WSJ ‘Drug’-Smear Campaign
Nearly a week after WSJ journos wrote a hit piece accusing Elon Musk of illegal drug use to the extent that has worried Tesla and SpaceX executives and board members, and of course, citing anonymous sources, NASA comes out swinging, saying the billionaire and SpaceX are not in violation of workplace rules on alcohol and drugs that could threaten rocket launches, according to Bloomberg.
“The agency does not have evidence of non-compliance from SpaceX on how the company addresses the drug- and alcohol-free workforce regulations,” NASA wrote in a statement on Thursday…
..The world’s wealthiest person has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties around the world, where attendees sign nondisclosure agreements or give up their phones to enter, according to people who have witnessed his drug use and others with knowledge of it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nasa-defends-elon-musk-after-wsj-smear-campaignSurplus Energy Economics , At the end of the last delusion , Dr. Tim Morgan
One discovery really can change everything. What we are now discovering is that the economy – the system which supplies material products and services to society – has stopped growing, and has started to contract.
What this discovery means is that everything affected by economic conditions – including finance, politics, and the balance of forces within society – is going to change in ways that are only now starting to become apparent.
This is isn’t a difficult discovery or, even remotely, a new one. It has been known since at least as far back as 1972, when the authors of The Limits to Growth gave us a remarkably prescient picture of how events would pan out.
Far from being a hard concept to grasp, the reality is the simple impossibility of infinite economic expansion on a finite planet. That energy is at the core of everything material – which of necessity includes the economy – is day-one knowledge for every student of biology, chemistry or physics.
What falsified the gloomy predictions of Thomas Malthus was the omission of energy from his calculus. He didn’t, and arguably couldn’t, have foreseen how the harnessing of energy from coal, oil and natural gas was going to transform everything, including the production of food.
We cannot conclude, as an absolute certainty, that the fading out of the fossil fuel impetus is going to compress society back to a pre-industrial scale and simplicity.
But we are entitled to conclude that the economy will contract unless and until a successor form of energy is discovered. That successor energy must match or exceed the energy density of fossil fuels. Neither renewables nor – in our current state of knowledge – nuclear power can deliver on that requirement…..The facts of the economy are that we use energy to extract raw materials and convert them into products and services. This, like so much else, is a duality. Just as energy is used to convert materials into products, so energy itself is converted from a dense to a diffuse form…
..Time is being called on the dissipative-landfill model, and this call is coming from two directions. It is surely clear beyond dispute that we are testing, and probably over-taxing, the absorption tolerances of the natural environment. Meanwhile, our past exploitation of the easiest, lowest-cost sources of fossil fuel energy has put us onto a decline path, where each new source of oil, gas or coal has a lesser ex-cost value than the one that it replaces…
..SEEDS – the Surplus Energy Economics Data System – interprets and projects the economy on the basis of this duality. It reveals that numerous economic problems are traceable to imbalances in the relationship between the “two economies” of the material and the monetary.
The linkage between the two is hierarchical. At least in theory, the “real” economy could exist without its financial counterpart. It is at least possible for us to operate the material economy on the basis of sharing, barter or centralised allocation.
But the “financial” economy cannot exist without its material corollary. Having no intrinsic worth, money commands value only as an exercisable “claim” on the material products and services for which it can be exchanged…
..The financial economy, in its stock function of assets and liabilities, is based on a set of assumptions which are – in most cases inadvertently – false. The idea that the economy is an infinitely-expanding system powered by money is a fallacy. The economy is, in reality, an energy system, limited by the finality of resource value and the finality of environmental tolerance.
This, ultimately, is why we’ve been using fakery – perhaps innocent, perhaps intentional – to keep the financial system from toppling over. We tried to counter the deceleration (“secular stagnation”) of the 1990s by ramping up the supply of credit to the system. When this led, not to the nirvana of accelerating material growth, but to the crisis of 2008-09, we opted to turbocharge the credit flow with monetary gimmickry.
The result has been the simultaneous creation of an “everything bubble” in asset prices (which is destined to burst) and a liabilities mountain (which must collapse because it cannot possibly be honoured). Charles Hugh Smith , The Chinese Connection: Here’s Why Inflation Won’t Fall to 2% and Stay There Indefinitely
Where is the global deflator expansive enough to replace China’s one-off deflation of global inflationary forces? There isn’t one.
In broad brush, central banks got away with the illusion of permanently low inflation even as they pumped trillions in new currency into the global economy for one reason: China. It is useful to think of China in the early-to-mid 1990s as a system of vast, interconnected, untapped pools of:
1. Cheap labor just awaiting exploitation by global corporations, local entrepreneurs and state entities
2. Ambition, drive and long-frustrated desires for improved opportunities for individual/family betterment
3. Need for capital/credit to build a modern economy and infrastructure
4. Potential for national issuance of currency and credit on an unimaginably large scale
All four pools were tapped at ever larger scales over the past 30 years, enabling China to deflate the cost of goods globally as “the workshop of the world.”
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-chinese-connection-heres-why
John Ward, The Slog, presents the view from 2026 (or so) , Analogies and Outcomes: At the End of the Neoliberal Road
Gambia is further down the road to impoverished perdition…and this why I contend that Brits in particular and the EU in general would do well to use my adopted country as a yardstick for what the coming Apocalypse might entail.
Ultimately, neoliberal capitalism is a cul de sac economic system doomed to eat itself. It gives more and more ridiculous wealth to the tiny percentage of winners, but has no solution to the bust that inevitably follows the mortal combat [between rising interest rates and the level of lax household borrowing to maintain the feverish repeat consumption level] required to keep the ideology solvent. Jacques Baud , The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat
The problem with the vast majority of our so-called military experts is their inability to understand the Russian approach to war. It is the result of an approach we have already seen in waves of terrorist attacks—the adversary is so stupidly demonized that we refrain from understanding his way of thinking. As a result, we are unable to develop strategies, articulate our forces, or even equip them for the realities of war…
..The way Russians understand conflict is holistic. In other words, they see the processes that develop and lead to the situation at any given moment. This explains why Vladimir Putin’s speeches invariably include a return to history. In the West, we tend to focus on X moment and try to see how it might evolve. We want an immediate response to the situation we see today. The idea that “from the understanding of how the crisis arose comes the way to resolve it” is totally foreign to the West…
..The reason the Russians are better than the West in Ukraine is that they see the conflict as a process; whereas we see it as a series of separate actions. The Russians see events as a film. We see them as photographs. They see the forest, while we focus on the trees. That is why we place the start of the conflict on February 24, 2022, or the start of the Palestinian conflict on October 7, 2023. We ignore the contexts that bother us and wage conflicts we do not understand. That is why we lose our wars…
https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/10/the-russian-art-of-war-how-the-west-led-ukraine-to-defeat/From 9/7/23, Lahaina Tree Burns Inside Out
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/lahaina-tree-burns-inside-outFrom 9/10/23, Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS)
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/air-force-maui-optical-and-supercomputingBut what is the “signal”? Still no 2024 images of “Lloyd Austin”. Lowry: AWOL Defense Secretary sends signal
In an age when it’s nearly impossible to go off the grid, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin managed it. He failed to notify the White House and other key players that he was hospitalized in the intensive care unit. This, needless to say, is not an incidental detail about his life — like, say, that he routinely does his grocery shopping on Saturday afternoons, or is taking the Kansas City Chiefs and giving the points this weekend.
If the principal deputy assistant secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity went missing, presumably only her personal assistant would notice, and the country would be better for it.
The secretary of defense, in contrast, is a rather consequential position in the U.S. government. In its latest assertion of sovereignty and responsibility for securing its border with Mexico, the once and future Republic of Texas has seized control of a 47-acre park in the city of Eagle Pass, which has been a major avenue of illegal immigration. What’s more, the Texans are barring US Border Patrol agents and watercraft from the property, which they’ve used as a staging area for processing migrants.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-seizes-control-border-city-park-escalating-war-against-illegal-immigrationFanigate Goes Full Jerry Springer: DA’s Alleged Lover Left Wife ‘In Dire Need’ After Failing To Disclose $700K According To Divorce Docs
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fanigate-goes-full-jerry-springer-das-alleged-lover-left-wife-dire-need-after-failing ‘Terrifying’ number of injuries since start of Gaza war: Israeli media (Only Jewish injuries and deaths count. This might be 5% of IDF injuries and murders of Palestinians.)
According to the Israeli defense ministry, over 6,000 members of the security forces have been wounded over the past three months
Over 6,000 members of the Israeli security establishment – including the army and the police – have been injured since the start of the war between Israel and the resistance in Gaza and Lebanon, the Jerusalem Post reported on 11 January, citing defense ministry figures.
“The numbers coming out are terrifying,” the Israeli outlet wrote. Out of the 6,000 who have been wounded, more than 2,000 are permanently disabled [none of them small children], the report highlights.
“Nothing prepared the medical establishment for the onslaught of injuries resulting from the war over the last three months.”
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/terrifying-number-of-injuries-since-start-of-gaza-war-israeli-mediaDima at Military Summary gives a succinct (16 min), broad and detailed overview of military and geopolitical moves in global war today.
US Coalition Strikes Yemeni Military Facilities | Zelensky Is In Panic | Military Summary 2024.01.12
Houthis Undeterred After US Coalition Pummels Over 60 Targets With Tomahawk Missiles, Airstrikes
Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree released a videotaped address saying “The American and British enemy bears full responsibility for its criminal aggression against our Yemeni people, and it will not go unanswered and unpunished.” Houthi sources have tallied over 70 strikes across five regions of Yemen, indicating that at least five people died in the attacks. The Pentagon indicated over 100 missiles of a variety of types were used.
The US Air Force’s Mideast command said in a statement that a combination of jets, destroyers, and a submarine were used, hitting Houthi “command-and-control nodes, munitions depots, launching systems, production facilities and air defense radar systems” in the operation which followed repeat Houthi attacks on Red Sea vessels. “I will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary,” President Biden had said in a written statement.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-remain-undeterred-after-us-coalition-pummels-over-60-targets-tomahawk-missiles“What Really Happened in Maui?” , John Leake appears in documentary about Lahaina disaster (Please look at the comments by TriTorch for more links.)
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/what-really-happened-in-mauiThe 26 minute video looks more at what people went through, government corruption & criminal profiteering, but just mentions beam weapons briefly.
What Really Happened in Maui? | Blaze Originals
I am sorry to hear that Gonzalo Lira was tortured to death in Ukrainian prison.
Genocide in Whose Name https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/genocide-in-whose-name
Jewish Voice For Peace, Why Israel’s War on Gaza is Textbook Genocide
From the very beginning, Israeli officials have made their genocidal intentions in Gaza clear. And in the three months since October 7, they’ve followed through on their promises, inflicting incomprehensible suffering on the over two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza…
..Both South Africa and the Center for Constitutional Rights are basing their cases on the Genocide Convention — the treaty that defines the crime of genocide under international law.
This definition has two requirements for determining that a state is committing a genocide:
The state must demonstrate the intent to destroy a group of people.
There must be physical acts committed which put this intent into action.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/01/11/israels-war-textbook-genocide/Four minutes of testimony to Israeli Genocide in Gaza:
A must share video! Perhaps the most important part of the South Africa case against Israel at the ICJ today presented. pic.twitter.com/8X5IJPMkpl
— Furkan Gözükara (@GozukaraFurkan) January 11, 2024
Israel defends itself to UN against allegations of genocide against Palestinians
Israel insisted at the United Nations’ highest court Friday that its war in Gaza was a legitimate defense of its people and said that it was Hamas militants who were guilty of genocide.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israel-defend-uns-top-court-allegations-genocide-palestinians-106316029 Chris Hedges, Israel Cannot Be a Colonial Power and a Democracy
The scholar, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, who Isaiah Berlin called the conscience of Israel, warned that, “If Israel did not separate church and state, it would give rise to a corrupt rabbinate that would warp Judaism into a fascistic cult. Religious nationalism is to religion what National Socialism was to socialism,” warned Leibowitz, who died in 1994. He understood that the blind veneration of the military, especially after the 1967 war that captured the West Bank in East Jerusalem was dangerous and would lead to the ultimate destruction of democracy. “Our situation will deteriorate to that of a second Vietnam, to a war and constant escalation without prospect of ultimate resolution,” he wrote.
He foresaw that, “The Arabs would be the working people and the Jews, the administrators, inspectors, officials and police, mainly secret police. A state ruling a hostile population of 1.5 million to 2 million foreigners would necessarily become a secret police state. With all that implies for education, free speech and democratic institutions. The corruption characteristic of every colonial regime would also prevail in the state of Israel. The administration would have to suppress Arab insurgency on the one hand and acquire Arab Quislings on the other. There is also good reason to fear that the Israeli Defense Force, which has been until now, a people’s army would, as a result of being transformed into an army of occupation to generate and its commanders who will have become military governors, will resemble their colleagues in other nations.”
https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/10/israel-cannot-be-a-colonial-power-and-a-democracy/“Quislings”, I believe…
“The administration would have to suppress Arab insurgency on the one hand and acquire Arab quiz links on the other.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuislingStill no pictures or video of “Lloyd Austin” in 2024.
Pentagon inspector general to investigate mishandling of Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization , Austin’s recent secretive hospitalization has been at the center of controversy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/11/lloyd-austin-controversy-hill-dems-00134856 Jeffrey Epstein and his VIP associates had “prior knowledge” of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in the months before they happened, according to Prince Andrew’s ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey.
Hervey took to social media to break her silence regarding what she knows about Andrew’s relationship with the notorious child sex offender, claiming that Epstein’s contacts knew details about 9/11 before they happened, including the flight numbers of the commercial airplanes to be used in the attacks.
According to Hervey, Epstein and some of his close associates bought plane tickets “as souvenirs” of the horrifying and heartbreaking national tragedy.
“Regarding 9/11 which I’ll touch more on tomorrow, I have a story that connects it to Epstein,” she wrote on Instagram. “As in he knew it was going to happen and so did his close circle. They even bought plane tickets as souvenirs and never got on the planes. This is a whole new level of Sick.”Prince Andrew’s Ex says Jeffrey Epstein had ‘Prior Knowledge’ of 9/11
