[John Day]

​ EPA’s Final Witnesses Concede Fluoride’s Harm, Admit to Flaws in Key Study as Trial Closes
​ A risk assessor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency admitted fluoride is neurotoxic at relatively low levels and the agency’s key expert on fluoride’s neurotoxicity conceded flaws in his own study as the landmark fluoride trial drew to a close.

EPA’s Final Witnesses Concede Fluoride’s Harm, Admit to Flaws in Key Study as Trial Closes

​ NIH in Early 2022 Abruptly Stopped Responding to People Injured by COVID Shots
Documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal officials at the National Institutes of Health corresponded with people injured by the COVID-19 vaccines throughout 2021, even launching a study only to pull the plug on it before finishing and reporting on it.

NIH in Early 2022 Abruptly Stopped Responding to People Injured by COVID Shots

​ WHO Exhibiting Signs of ‘Desperation’ as New Zealand, Iran Reject Amendments to International Health Regulations
New Zealand and up to three other countries have rejected controversial amendments, proposed in 2022 by the Biden administration to the World Health Organization’s 2005 International Health Regulations.
​ “In May 2022, the WHA voted to adopt the amendment to Article 59 of the IHR (and consequently other articles), which reduces the timeframe for future amendments to come into force from 24 to 12 months. Consequently, the period to reject or reserve future amendments was reduced from 18 months to 10 months,” Murfitt said.
For states that did not reject the amendments by Dec. 1, 2023, “the amendment comes into force in May 2024 by way of ‘tacit acceptance,’” Murfitt added.
​ Recent statements by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also suggest a growing unease with the progress of negotiations and the likelihood of reaching an agreement on the proposed 2023 IHR amendments and “pandemic agreement” by this year’s WHA, scheduled for May 27-June 1.
​ Others, including Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), warned during a Feb. 5 press conference that the proposed instruments pose a fundamental threat to national sovereignty, including that of the U.S.

WHO Exhibiting Signs of ‘Desperation’ as New Zealand, Iran Reject Amendments to International Health Regulations

​ Meryl Nass MD, her medical license suspended for treating COVID patients with antivirals like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, has been taking her message about the WHO becoming a super-sovereign entity if the IHR (international health regulation) amendments are passed, which mandate massive yearly funding, and national compliance if a pandemic or other health emergency is declared by WHO Director Tedros or some appointed successor. The Pandemic Treaty amendments might simply be signed by “Joe Biden” without senatorial debate, since a “Pandemic Treaty” already exists, but this would give the WHO supranational powers without legal recourse.
​ Lawfare goes wild. I have not had a medical license in Massachusetts for 25 years. But now Massachusetts wants to initiate disciplinary action against me, because… Quoting from their letter:​ “This Board has the authority to discipline a physician who has been disciplined in another jurisdiction”
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/lawfare-goes-wild-i-have-not-had

[John Day]

​ Biden must be removed – US state’s attorney general
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has called on US Vice President Kamala Harris to declare Joe Biden physically unable to perform his duties as president. The demand was issued in a letter sent to Harris on Tuesday.
https://www.rt.com/news/592438-harris-remove-joe-biden/

​ Most Americans believe Biden and Trump too old to be president
​ According to the poll, which was conducted last week and involved a representative sample of 528 US voters, 86% of respondents said Biden should not run for a second term because of his age. Of that number, 27% believed only Biden – who is already the oldest US president in history – is too elderly, while 59% insisted that both he and former President Trump are too old. The Republican frontrunner was considered to be too old to run by 62% of respondents.
https://www.rt.com/news/592311-biden-trump-too-old/

​ Inside the chaos of Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s campaign: How 14 members of staff have quit his longshot bid for president and more are ‘fleeing’ over ‘lavish’ spending and ‘amateurish’ leadership
​ Campaign complaints center on campaign manager Amaryllis Fox Kennedy and communication director Del Bigtree
The campaign is struggling to get RFK Jr.’s name on the 2024 ballot in every state
One resignation letter complains of a ‘cavalier, and out of touch’ operation
​ Sources close to the campaign blame campaign manager Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, the candidate’s daughter-in-law, and the campaign’s communication director Del Bigtree for mismanaging the campaign, according to a report from Mediaite.​ “There is no one with any political experience and it shows,’ one source close to the campaign told the outlet.​..
..Fox Kennedy (still CIA?) replaced former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (non-Zionist peacenik) as the campaign manager in October​ (after Bobby tacitly supported genocide), shortly after RFK Jr. decided to end his challenge to President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination and run for president as an Independent.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13083157/robert-f-kennedy-jr-campaign-chaos-staffers-quit.html

​ Exactly a week after a failed attempt, the House has impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, under whose tenure more than 10 million illegal immigrants have entered the US – doubling the existing population of migrants.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-impeaches-mayorkas-historic-vote

[John Day]

Free Part 2: https://public.substack.com/p/us-government-is-hiding-documents

​ Former US President Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric regarding NATO is a continuation of his policy as the head of state, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton said, adding that Trump had come close to withdrawing the United States from the alliance back in 2018.
​ On Saturday, Trump said that during his presidency, the leader of an unspecified NATO nation had asked him whether Washington would protect that or other countries in the event of a possible attack by Russia, if they do not meet their defense spending obligations. Trump responded he would not and would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want,” stressing that NATO members “got to pay.”
​ “At the NATO summit in 2018, he came very close to withdrawing from NATO right there at the summit. So each of these comments, as he makes them now over six years, to me simply reinforces that the notion of withdrawing from NATO is very serious with him,” Bolton told Politico on Tuesday.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240214/trump-almost-withdrew-us-from-nato-in-2018—former-national-security-adviser-1116773227.html

​ House Speaker Says Requested Meeting With Biden About US Border Security, White House Rejected​
“I’ve been requesting a meeting with the president for weeks now, a month. I’ve been asking to sit down with the president to talk about the border and talk about national security, and that meeting has not been granted,” Johnson said during a press conference.​ Johnson said he will continue to insist on a meeting, adding that it is a “problem” if the Speaker of the House cannot sit down with the president.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240214/house-speaker-says-requested-meeting-with-biden-about-us-border-security-white-house-rejected-1116782752.html

​ Ex-Biden Business Associate Throws the President under the Bus: ‘The Family Business Was Joe Biden, Period’
​ Tony Bobulinski, who worked with Hunter Biden and brother James, testified that Joe Biden was “the Brand” which enabled the door to be opened for massive salaries, bonuses, and board positions in China and Ukraine.
​ “I want to be crystal clear,” he said.​ “From my direct personal experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was ‘the Brand’ being sold by the Biden family.”

Ex-Biden Business Associate Throws the President under the Bus: ‘The Family Business Was Joe Biden, Period’

​ “It’s hard to fathom who the big guy could be but Joe Biden. So we’ve known about this,” independent journalist Dr. Jim Kavanaugh told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour on Wednesday. “[Bobulinski] confirms that the big guy is Biden, which means […] [Joe] Biden was getting paid from his son’s activities with [these Chinese businesses].” This, combined with the President’s cognitive problems that have become “impossible to deny” will cause him to step aside before this November’s Presidential elections.
“He’s not going to be the Democratic nominee,” Kavanaugh asserted, adding that the only question left is “How much longer is he going to last as president?”
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240215/bidens-dual-big-guy-memory-scandals-will-end-his-presidency-1116789506.html

[John Day]

​ Russia bolsters Northern defense with 1,000 Yurka drone detectors
​ A spokesperson for the design bureau detailed the benefits of this game-changing product, revealing that it efficiently thwarts covert approaches made by various civilian helicopters toward Russian fighters. “This unique characteristic considerably reduces the threat of unexpected assaults. The detector has shown effectiveness against drones produced by manufacturers such as Mavic, Autel, and DJI, as well as FPV drones operating on the monitored frequencies. Despite Yurka’s current restrictions to detect all brands of drones, we are resolutely working towards mitigating this problem in our forthcoming product update.”

Russia bolsters Northern defense with 1,000 Yurka drone detectors

​ Pepe Escobar: Life During Wartime – On the Road in Donbass
​ The first thing that hits you when you arrive in Donetsk nearly 10 years after Maidan in Kiev is the incessant loud booms. Incoming and mostly outgoing. After such a long, dreary time, interminable shelling of civilians (which are invisible to the collective West), and nearly 2 years after the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO), this is still a city at war; still vulnerable along the three lines of defense behind the front.
​ The “Road of Life” has got to be one of the epic war misnomers in Donetsk. “Road” is a euphemism for a dark, muddy bog plied back and forth virtually non-stop by military vehicles. “Life” applies because the Donbass military actually donate food and humanitarian aid to the locals at the Gornyak neighborhood every single week…
​..In one of the back rooms, Svetlana carefully arranges mini-packages of food essentials to be distributed every Sunday after liturgy. I meet Mother Pelageya, 86 years old, who comes to the temple every Sunday, and would not even dream of ever leaving her neighborhood.
​ Gornyak is in the third line of defense. The loud booms – as in everywhere in Donetsk – are nearly non-stop, incoming and outgoing. If we follow the road for another 500 meters or so and turn right, we are only 5 km away from Avdeyevka – which may be about to fall in days, or weeks at most…
..So yes: deep down in the Donbass countryside, in communion with those living life during wartime, we feel the enormity of something inexplicable and vast, full of endless wonder, as if touching the Tao by silencing the recurrent loud booms. In Russian there is, of course, a word for it: “загадка”, roughly translated as “enigma” or “mystery”.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240213/pepe-escobar-life-during-wartime–on-the-road-in-donbass-1116752456.html

​ US spies behind ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy – report​ , The CIA asked its ‘Five Eyes’ allies to monitor Trump campaign aides, according to a new investigation
​ Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag – of ‘Twitter Files’ fame – published the first part of an investigation on Tuesday, in which they claim the so-called ‘Five Eyes’ were operationalized against Trump staffers, citing anonymous sources close to the House Intelligence Committee.
​ According to their report, President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had sent America’s partners – the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – a list of 26 Trump associates to target with data collection, misinformation and manipulation.
https://swentr.site/news/592439-cia-russiagate-illegal-trump/

​Free Part 1: https://public.substack.com/p/cia-had-foreign-allies-spy-on-trump

​ US Govt Is Hiding Documents That Incriminate Intel Community For Illegal Spying & Election Interference, Say Sources
Part 2: U.S. Government Is Hiding Documents That Incriminate Intelligence Community For Illegal Spying And Election Interference, Say Sources
Former CIA Director Gina Haspel blocked the release of “binder” with evidence that may identify her role in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-govt-hiding-documents-incriminate-intel-community-illegal-spying-election-interference

[John Day]

Yemen’s Houthis Claim to Have Stopped Ship Traffic to Israeli Ports​ (Only from the Red Sea, not the Mediterranean)
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240214/yemens-houthis-claim-to-have-stopped-ship-traffic-to-israeli-ports-1116769527.html

​Simplicius points out that Zelensky’s plan to reinforce Adveevka comes too late, and up to 1500 (Azov?) reinforcements were killed at a remote staging area by Russian missiles.
SITREP 2/13/24: Avdeevka Turns Critical as Iskander Strike Devastates AFU Staging Area
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-21324-avdeevka-turns-critical

Iskanders with cluster warheads hit a large concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel
https://en.topcor.ru/44341-iskandery-s-kassetnymi-bch-udarili-po-krupnomu-skopleniju-lichnogo-sostava-vsu.html

​They did, and apparently coordinated by a US surveillance drone overhead. (Caesar Kunikov died fighting a noble holding action on February 14,1943 in Novorossiysk)
Ukraine military says it used sea drones to sink Russian landing ship​ , Caesar Kunikov
https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2024/02/14/ukraine-military-says-it-used-sea-drones-to-sink-russian-landing-ship/

​ Drones replacing Army helicopter program
​ “We absolutely are paying attention to (world events) and adjusting because we could go to war tonight, this weekend,” head of Army Futures Command Gen. James Rainey said.​ Rainey’s statement was seconded by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George in a press release, where he stated, “We are learning from the battlefield, especially Ukraine, that aerial reconnaissance has fundamentally changed. Sensors and weapons mounted on a variety of unmanned systems and in space are more ubiquitous, further reaching, and more inexpensive than ever before.”

Drones replacing Army helicopter program

[John Day]

​ An independent Geneva-based human rights organization says Israeli forces allow settlers to watch the torture and humiliation of Palestinians who have been abducted from the Gaza Strip during the regime’s ongoing genocidal war.​..
..According to Euro-Med, the development took place at the Zikim military base used as a public forum to the north of Gaza’s border with the occupied territories and the Negev prison to the south of the besieged Palestinian territory.
Released Palestinian abductees told Euro-Med that groups of settlers were brought into those detention centers on many occasions. They were allowed to watch and even film and take pictures of the prisoners who were being subjected to various types of inhumane and degrading treatment.
Instances of ill-treatment of Gazan abductees ranged from being forced to appear naked before the settlers to being beaten with metal batons and electric sticks and showered with hot water.
​ ‘I was subjected to torture and abuse at all stages. The arrest lasted for about 52 days,’ 43-year-old Gazan Omar Abu Mudallala told Euro-Med, pointing out that Israeli troops brought settlers to watch ‘our nude torture.’
​ Upon bringing in the settlers, the Israeli forces would claim the prisoners were the same Palestinian fighters, who staged Operation al-Aqsa Storm against the occupied territories on October 7, 2023, following which the Israeli regime launched its genocidal war on Gaza, the rights body said.

Israel’s Coliseum where Prisoners are tortured for the amusement of Israelis

​ South Africa submits urgent request to ICJ regarding attack on Rafah
​ The Zionist attack on Rafah threatens with genocide in the presence of more than 1.5 million displaced people in the city.​ The International Court of Justice confirmed on January 26 that the Zionist entity must take all the measures stipulated to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip, stressing that it must do so immediately.
https://en.ypagency.net/318790

​ Russia does not see any prospects for a quick stabilization of the situation around the Gaza Strip, especially against the backdrop of Israeli plans to expand the military operation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.
​ “Taking into account the uncompromising attitude of the Israeli leadership to continue the military operation in Gaza, now extending it to Rafah, we do not see prospects for the rapid stabilization of the situation in this sector,” Lavrov noted.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240213/us-pushing-israel-and-palestine-towards-catastrophe—russian-fm-lavrov-1116754118.html

​ Russia and Hamas: a strategic alliance of convenience​ , Hamas has asked Moscow to act as guarantor to a Gaza ceasefire.
Growing Russian ties with West Asia’s resistance actors should be no surprise; within the context of the global power standoff, they share common enemies.
​ Despite the long-term collaborative nature of Russo-Israeli relations, the Ukraine war has rejigged Moscow’s geopolitical calculations significantly. Today, Russia views the Gaza war and its regional implications from the perspective of its competition with the US and, therefore, considers Israel a critical tool of American influence in West Asia. The Russian leadership considers the current conflict to be as much Washington’s battle as Tel Aviv’s – a weakened Israel would mean the further disintegration of US power projection from the Levant to the Persian Gulf, a strategic Russian objective.
​ Although Tel Aviv and Moscow still retain common interests of value to both, it is the US–Russian strategic competition that currently holds the most sway over the Kremlin’s decision-making.
https://thecradle.co/articles/russia-and-hamas-a-strategic-alliance-of-convenience

​ Israel Kills Elite Hezbollah Commander, But Unleashes Single Deadliest Day For Lebanese Civilians
​ Israel on Thursday announced that it killed a senior commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, identified as Ali al-Debs, along with at least two other fighters in his group…​..Al Jazeera reports that at least ten civilians and fighters were killed, and that five among the civilians were children. “Seven of the civilians were killed in Nabatieh late on Wednesday when a rare Israeli attack on the city hit a multistorey building, sources in Lebanon said.”
​ “The dead were from the same extended family, and included three children,” the report continues. “A boy initially reported missing was found alive under the rubble.”
​ Hezbollah on Thursday warned that Israel will soon “pay the price” for the deadly day of air raids as the situation continues to rapidly escalate, after months of daily tit-for-tat drone, rocket, and mortar fire.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-kills-elite-hezbollah-commander-unleashes-single-deadliest-day-lebanese

[John Day]

Barghouti: Biden gave Netanyahu the green light to invade Rafah
​ Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative and former presidential candidate, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, stated that US President Joe Biden has given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the green light to begin an invasion of Rafah.
https://en.ypagency.net/318918

​ ‘Zionist’ Biden Calls Netanyahu an ‘Asshole’ in Private, But Continues Full Support of Israel’s Genocide
The White House needs to try to present the president of being opposed to the Gaza massacre, even though there has been no policy change in Washington
https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/zionist-biden-calls-netanyahu-an

​ US Opens Probe Into US-Supplied Weapons & Possible Israeli War Crimes
​ The U.S. is investigating several Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that killed dozens of civilians and the possible use by Israel of white phosphorus in Lebanon, as part of a probe by the State Department to determine whether America’s closest ally has misused its bombs and missiles to kill civilians, U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-opens-probe-us-supplied-weapons-possible-israeli-war-crimes

Israel Massacres Civilians in Gaza ‘Safe Zone’ While Advertising Their Own Victimhood During Super Bowl
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64292

Netanyahu Unilaterally Vetoes Further Hostage Deal Talks
A group representing hostage families said the move was a ‘death sentence’ for the Israelis remaining captive in Gaza

Netanyahu Unilaterally Vetoes Further Hostage Deal Talks

[John Day]

Thinking About Tyranny https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/thinking-about-tyranny

Jim Kunstler says “Think About it”. Massive hierarchical structures of governance and wealth extraction cannot be sustained, due to the decline of energy and increasing energy-cost other resources. They desperately need to enlarge and take over the entire global economy, but to do so they need total control of all people and resources.
The WEF-Globalist cabal is losing the battle to control and dominate the rest of us. They are trying to power straight into the opposing currents of reality. Above all, they seek to centralize power and decision-making. But the world is moving in the opposite direction. All of the WEF’s aims founder on the macro trends unspooling in history.
The rising rule for human affairs now is that anything organized at the giant scale is going to wobble and fail. There will not be any world government run by the creatures of Davos or Brussels, or Washington DC, or any other place that the grandiose imagine would be their seat of global power. It’s not going to happen so you can stop worrying about it. But you’d better prepare for what is happening: everything in our world wants to get smaller, slower, finer, and more local. Anything that opposes these trends is pissing into the wind…
..American oil production may be at an all-time peak now at about 13-million barrels-a-day, but most of that — about 8-million — is shale oil, which is a manifestation of our tremendous debt roll-up since 2009. Now that we’re at the absolute limits of debt, we’re also at the limits of shale oil. The production of shale oil paralleled the accumulation of all that debt both in size and rate of increase, and as the debt goes bad — meaning, unpayable — the organized capital sector will blow and shale oil production will fall as sharply as it rose. It is also a fact that shale oil is subject to natural limits — we’re out of “sweet spots” to drill.
That’s America. Europe is way worse because aside from whatever oil is left in the North Sea (not much), Europe has no oil. Europe’s largest gas field — Groningen in the Netherlands — is scheduled to cease operations in October of this year. You all know what happened to the Nord Stream pipelines. And then Germany, in some psychotic fugue state, shut down its entire nuclear power industry, while France is just not replacing its nuke plants as they age-out. Europe is completely screwed. They won’t have anything we might call modern industry…
..Our federal government is not really getting more powerful, it’s cracking up, starting from the very top, with a mentally incompetent president — the secret that everybody knows. Agencies like the DOJ and Homeland Security may seem more tyrannical for the moment, but they are actually breaking as institutions because in their lawlessness they’ve lost the trust of the people — and nothing is more fundamental to a civilized society than trust in the law. That’s what consent of the governed means.
So, the period of disorderly transition we’re in is not moving toward greater dominance by giants, but to the survival of the small and nimble. We will not see capital formation like the orgy of recent times; rather the vanishing of things falsely presumed to be capital, contraction not expansion. You’ll be struggling to identify and preserve real wealth, which you’ll find in unexpected places, like the friends you can count on, your reputation for honesty, your dependability, acquired skills, and your health, physical and psychological.
The WEF won’t be able to impose its Globalist nightmare of elite transhumanism and surveilled bug-eating serfs, and they know it now. They’re running scared.
​https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/think-about-it/

​ Farmer Uprising Threatens the Globalist West with Nasty Surprise in Election
​ The history of farmer outrage is long and deep, but this year the protests of agricultural workers play a special role:​ Their distinctive feature is their scale and influence on numerous elections around the world. And while those in power are unsuccessfully trying to pacify the farmers, their opponents, from Donald Trump to nationalist parties in Europe – are enlisting their support to win elections.
​ The Farmers’ Revolt has become a central issue in a broader culture war centered on economic and social transformation. Protests affected countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Romania and many others.

Farmer Uprising Threatens the Globalist West with Nasty Surprise in Elections

[John Day]

@Red: Thanks for this. It seems to be what I posted from Dima @ Military Summary, about a false flag plan to kill Macron on a Kiev visit and blame Russia.

Kiev Regime Sharply Divided: Just Killed French Mercenaries. False Flag Operation Intent on Framing Russia? President Macron Cancels His Trip to Ukraine

[John Day]

@tboc: I assume that you are aware of the credible story that Jimi Hendrix was heavily drugged, then forcefully drowned with wine by his manager, who had taken out a huge insurance policy on him, and that he was still hard to kill.
Help me to understand what you mean by the “infamous narrative” meeting a similar end, please.
🙂

[John Day]

Quoth D Benton Smith:
“I would say that a very big fight is brewing, so I’m putting my money on the House.”

The “house” may be divided “against itself”.
What will be the “winning” faction?
When power struggles are this severe, the pawns are recruited by “both sides”.
There is no “safe” position to take, right?
It’s always “a good day to die”, right?
Do what’cha feel you won’t regret as you die, I figure.

[John Day]

@Ilargi: Most days I appreciate your work and presence, but don’t remark upon it.

Thank You, Amigo.
Yeoman-Service!
🙂

[John Day]

@Oxymoron in Oz: Fie on Thee!
I read this whole evil thing, worthy of Dick Cheney or Karl Rove, but with homosexual-Obama-transgender-Michelle artsy overtones.
https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/the-saga-of-surkov-and-the-generation

YUCK!
Again, Fie on Thee!
;-(

[John Day]

Exactly a week after a failed attempt, the House has impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, under whose tenure more than 10 million illegal immigrants have entered the US – doubling the existing population of migrants.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-impeaches-mayorkas-historic-vote

[John Day]

Dima at Military Summary channel reports that Macron cancelled his visit to Ukraine to sign a defense agreement for “security reasons”, which are rumored to be that Ukraine planned to assassinate him and blame it on Russia. I wonder who warned him?
Avdeevka may get an ultimatum to surrender tonight, as Russians have it cut in two now, and have tactically encircled the southern half https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHEdCkRgWQ

[John Day]

Even “Khazerian Mafia” and “Revisionist Zionists” are not identical.
The word is not the thing.
We should all keep on the scent of the trail of sociopathic criminal “elites”.
They share behaviors and proclivities, love secrecy and obscuration, and they know each other, and they know us…

[John Day]

Quoth Aspnaz:
“Yet another bad Jew making American enemies of the rest of the world. I am still waiting to see just one good Jewish actor, just one, some good Jewish politician or government employee calling for peace in Gaza.”

Bernie Sanders, Senate Speech yesterday:

Mr. President, I’d like to take a few minutes to discuss a matter of enormous consequence that is not being adequately covered in the mainstream media nor here in the Senate.

And that is that right now, today, in Gaza, we are witnessing one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history. It is unfolding before our very eyes and we must not run away from that reality.

And I am very sorry to say but we in the United States are deeply complicit in what is happening in Gaza. What we do in Congress right now could well determine whether tens of thousands of people live or die.

Let us very briefly review what has happened in the last four months.

On October 7th, Hamas launched a horrific terrorist attack that killed 1,200 innocent Israelis and took more than 230 hostages and more than 100 of those hostages still remain in captivity today.

That is what started this war. And as I have said many times, Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas terrorism. But it does not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people. And that, tragically, is what we are seeing.

As of today, Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 27,000 Palestinains and injured some 68,000; two-thirds of whom are women and children.

Unbelievably, 1.7 million people have been driven from their homes; nearly 80% of the population. That is more than twice the population of my own state of Vermont.

These people displaced have no understanding as to where they will go tomorrow or whether in fact they will ever return to their communities. That is where they are now. Pushed out of their homes, hungry, desperate, no understanding of where they will be in the future.

The devastation caused by Israeli bombardments is unprecedented in modern history. Some 70 percent of the housing units have been damaged or destroyed.

The Israeli bombing attacks have destroyed most of the infrastructure in Gaza. There is no electricity there and very little clean water.

There are virtually no places where people can buy bread or other basic necessities as most of the bakers have been destroyed or shut down.

Raw sewage is now running into the streets and communication is very difficult because there is little or no cell phone service.

Despite the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have been injured, there are no fully functional hospitals in Gaza and just one in three is operational at all.

Amid repeated attacks on health care facilities, doctors and nurses – with extraordinary courage – are bravely working to save lives, even with inadequate and sporadic electricity or basic medical supplies.

Israel bombing and the onerous restrictions placed on aid entering Gza means that only a tiny fraction of the food, water, medicine, and fuel that is needed can get into Gaza. And even when supplies get across the border, very little of that aid can reach beyond the immediate area around the Rafah crossing from Egypt.

Mr. President, let us take a deep breath and understand what all of this means for the men, women, and children who are in Gaza today, right now.

Not only have they been driven from their homes, not only have those homes been damaged or destroyed, not only are they unable to access the medical care or the clean water they need, but – unbelievably, horrifyingly, hundreds of thousands of children today in Gaza face starvation.

Let me repeat: hundreds of thousands of children face starvation.

The United Nations says that 1 in 10 children under the age of 5 in Gaza is already malnourished, and the entire population is at imminent risk of famine.

What every physician knows is that malnutrition in small children causes permanent physical and cognitive damage. It stays with them for their entire lives.

In other words, even if the world ended today, large numbers of children in Gaza will have suffered physically from what has happened for the rest of their lives.

And that’s not to mention the extraordinary psychological damage that these kids have gone through.

Can you imagine what it means to be 5 years old, seeing buildings collapsing, people dying, suffering from hunger and thirst?

That’s what these kids are going through today.

Mr. President, if nothing changes, we will soon have hundreds of thousands of children literally starving to death before our very eyes.

And, believe it or not, the situation could become even worse.

Right now, 1.4 million people – more than half of the population of Gaza – are squeezed into the area around Rafah right up against the Egyptian border.

Rafah was a town of just 250,000 people before the war.

Now, there are 1.4 million people there – more than five times the original population. These people are packed into crowded UN shelters or sleeping out in tents. It is a daily struggle for them to find food or water.

And in the midst of all of this horror and suffering, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the leader of Israel’s extreme right-wing government, has announced that Israel will soon launch a major ground offensive against Rafah – where 1.4 million people are located.

What that means is that Netanyahu will soon be forcing these people – already living in extreme desperation – to evacuate once again.

And nobody has any idea as to where they will go.

These families – already exhausted, traumatized, and hungry – will once again be displaced, with no plan as to how they will survive.

Mr. President, I struggle to find words for this cruelty.

And let me state once again that what is happening in Gaza now is funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars.

These are our bombs and our military equipment that is being used. We are complicit. This is not just an Israeli war. It is an American war.

Mr. President, Prime Minister Netanyahu says all of this is necessary.

He says that Israel will only accept “total victory” in this campaign.

Yet asked recently what “total victory” would look like, he said – chillingly – that it is like smashing a glass “into small pieces, and then you continue to smash it into even smaller pieces, and you continue hitting them.”

The question that we must ask ourselves is: how many more children and innocent people will be smashed by Netanyahu in the process? And why is the United States helping to fund this humanitarian disaster?

It is quite clear that, beyond total destruction of Gaza, Netanyahu has no plan.

This week, President Biden acknowledged the severity of this crisis. He said that Israel’s response in Gaza “has been over the top,” and added that “there are a lot of innocent people who are starving. There are a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying. And it’s got to stop.”

The President is absolutely right. It does have to stop. But if that is the case, then why in God’s name are we now contemplating legislation that provides $10 billion to the Israeli war machine to continue Netanyahu’s war?

President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have been trying to negotiate an agreement where Israel pauses its military operation, Hamas releases the remaining hostages, and massive humanitarian aid comes in to help desperate people.

We all hope this deal comes together.

But Netanyahu is resisting this proposal. In my view, he is trying to prolong the war to cling to power. Most Israelis rightly blame him for creating this crisis and want him out.

But if Netanyahu prolongs the war, he can avoid accountability for his disastrous leadership.

And that is why Netanyahu is ignoring almost everything that President Biden and Secretary Blinken are saying.

He, this week, dismissed the hostage deal as “delusional” and brushed aside U.S. concerns about expanding the ground offensive to southern Gaza.

There is a simple question that must be asked: how does it happen that, despite waging an horrific war which has caused massive suffering; despite ignoring the wishes of the President of the United States and, in fact, virtually the entire world community; how does it happen that the U.S. Congress is about to send another $10 billion of unrestricted military aid to Israel – no strings attached?

It is beyond comprehension to me that Congress would reward Netanyahu, even while he ignores everything the President of the United States says.

Netanyahu is the leader of the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, a man who has dedicated his political career to killing the prospects of a two-state solution.

And yet, this bill will give him a blank check, paid for by the American taxpayer.

It’s hard to believe, but that is exactly what this bill will do.

And what’s even harder to understand is that, in the midst of this almost unprecedented humanitarian crisis, this legislation before us actually contains a prohibition on funding for UNRWA, the largest UN agency operating in Gaza and the backbone of the humanitarian aid operation. UNWRA is the organization that actually gets food across Gaza.

Israel’s allegations against the agency are serious, and they are being investigated seriously.

But you don’t starve two million people because of the alleged actions of twelve UNRWA employees.

Mr. President, the whole world is watching. Netanyahu is starving hundreds of thousands of children. We in America cannot be complicit in this atrocity.

As long as this bill contains money to fund Netanyahu’s cruel war, it must be defeated.

Thank you, Mr. President, I yield the floor.

[John Day]

In his speech at a rally in South Carolina, Donald Trump appeared to double down on his previous insistence that all NATO members should follow the bloc’s guidelines and spend at least two percent of their respective gross domestic products on defense.
“One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, ‘Well, sir, if we don’t pay, and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?’ I said, ‘You didn’t pay, you’re delinquent?'” Trump said as he recalled an exchange that allegedly took place at some NATO meeting. “No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.”
Trump’s statement, however, does not mean that the United States would not honor its obligations under NATO’s charter, argued Earl Rasmussen, retired lieutenant colonel of the US Army and an international consultant.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240212/european-nato-members-know-russia-threat-rhetoric-is-a-lie—expert-1116744370.html

Gilbert Doctorow, Will NATO be dismantled? Interview on India’s WION television channel
I tried to make plain in the interview that Trump is intent on the break-up of NATO for reasons that make sense to those of us who had the good fortune to listen a couple of years ago to the late Russian politician, founder and long-time chairman of the center-right LDPR party. Vladimir Zhirinovsky explained at the time why and how Russia, with a defense budget ten times smaller than the US, could pull ahead of the US in developing and deploying state of the art strategic nuclear weapons systems…
..Zhirinovsky told us the reason. With its vast network of overseas military bases built to ensure U.S. global hegemony, the U.S. military budget of 800 billion to 1 trillion dollars, as he said with a bit of humor, ‘goes to buy toilet paper’ for those bases and to fight hot wars in places that have no strategic value to the States instead of developing and fielding weapons systems to match its peers Russia and China.
One might look still further and remark on the corruption in the U.S. military procurement system from interaction with private for-profit manufacturers who lobby Congress on their own behalf using retired generals and Pentagon officials. But that source of reduced efficiency in spending is a topic for another day…
..In this interview I argue that the greatest contribution to Russian-American relations is being made by Trump precisely now when he is acting as a private person to influence Congress to stop funding the war. Once in office, he will be subject to constraints imposed by those elites whom Putin mentioned in his recent interview with Tucker Carlson.
https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/will-nato-be-dismantled-interview

Elections in Pakistan. Victory of Imran Khan’s PTI Party , Junaid S. Ahmad Thanks Eleni.
The elections in Pakistan today were much freer and fairer than I had expected. Hence, the preliminary results simply reflected the obvious for most of us: former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party, PTI (the movement for justice) – facing ruthless repression over the past year – have swept the elections in every single province of the country.
Khan, surviving two assasination attempts and languishing in a supermax dungeon since last August, is more popular than ever. Among the youth, Gallup Pakistan surveys have consistently reported around 80-90 percent support for Khan and his party.
The tyranny of the generals in the military high command along with the kleptocratic and dynastic political parties entailed even the suppression of PTI’s symbol (a cricket bat) and virtually a ban, with horrific consequences if violated, on candidates running on a PTI ticket. Thus, all of these candidates ran as independents…
..There is one sign of both hope and danger. For the first time in Pakistan’s history, the normally unified and disciplined armed forces are now experiencing deep divisions. The majority of military officers and and 95 percent of soldiers are repulsed by the behavior of Wasington’s minions in the top brass. To the surprise of many of us, these divisions also exist within the intelligence agencies. We are witnessing in an unprecedented way a refusenik impulse within the military. Not to sound like the bogus alarmism we’re used to from Washington think tanks, it’s still worth remembering that Pakistan is a country of 240 million, nuclear-armed.

Elections in Pakistan. Victory of Imran Khan’s PTI Party

[John Day]

Last week, special counsel Robert Hur released a bombshell report, declining to press charges against US President Joe Biden partially because his report said, the president would appear to the jury as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and therefore would have trouble convincing the jury of his intent.
The report also noted that he forgot when his term as Vice President ended and started, and couldn’t remember what year his son died.
Biden attempted to quell concerns about his age by calling a press conference addressing the report but proceeded to confuse Mexico and Egypt while speaking to reporters…
..On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris told a US media outlet she is “ready to serve” while slamming the report as “wrong” and “politically motivated.”…
..Lazare argued that is impossible for the Biden campaign. “Biden cannot go on that kind of tour,” he said. “He can’t sit down with Hannity or go on Fox News or do anything like that because he’ll only make things worse.[…] It’ll become completely clear that he doesn’t know what’s going on around him.”
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240213/ground-is-shifting-under-bidens-feet-after-hur-report-1116748950.html

​ The Nuts And Bolts Of Replacing Candidate Biden, Before Or After The Convention
​ While a Biden pre-convention withdrawal would make for quite a spectacle, things would really get wild if Biden were to be nominated at the convention only to subsequently die, resign or be disabled. In that scenario, party rules direct the party chair to “confer with the Democratic leadership of the … Congress and the Democratic Governors Association” and then report to the approximately 450-member Democratic National Committee, which would then choose a new nominee.
​ The chaos wouldn’t be confined to the Democratic Party: States would be forced to scramble to produce new ballots. Ballots for overseas military service members are shipped just a couple weeks after the late-August Democratic convention, and in-person voting kicks off on Sept. 20 in Minnesota and South Dakota.
​ None of this is to say that Biden won’t keep mumbling, shuffling, blank-staring and gaffing his way all the way to the Nov 5 general election finish line. However, after last week, fewer people are willing to wager that Biden will be the Democratic nominee​.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nuts-and-bolts-replacing-candidate-biden-or-after-convention

Russian President Vladimir Putin, like Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, is “anathema to Davos globalists”, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, stressing that the timing of Putin-Carlson interview was perfect…
…”I also think the contrast between Putin’s measured and thoughtful perspectives, having been a world leader for a quarter century with the lack of gravitas — to put it politely of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and many others in both parties who are surface-level, donor-captured, soundbite specialists was stunning. This contrast was remarkable considering Biden’s post-interview meltdown before what remains of the ‘press’,” Ortel continued.
The Wall Street analyst noted that judging from viewership statistics, the corporate — and political donor-controlled — media is destroying itself.
He stressed that “no political interview has garnered nearly as much coverage as Putin’s recent sit down with Tucker,” adding that he expects “it will, in the end, change the thinking of most open minds.”
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240211/carlsons-interview-putin-and-trump-seen-as-threat-by-davos-globalists–wall-street-analyst-1116731246.html

Moon of Alabama, Ukraine SitRep: A Collapse Is Coming – And Then?
In the last Ukraine situation report I discussed the choice of General Oleksandr Syrski as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He is likely to support the more aggressive choices the Ukrainian president Zelenski will make.
For mostly public relation reasons Zelenski demands constant attacks on Russian forces and no retreat of Ukrainian forces until absolutely necessary. Syrski is willing to deliver on that even as history says that he is unlikely to be successful…
..The new Ukrainian mobilization law, which is supposed to refill the army with fresh bodies, is still creeping through the Ukrainian parliament. It will likely come into force only by April. The first new troops conscripted under it will take until July to be combat capable.
But even if the existing Ukrainian forces can hold out that long they still will lack the ammunition to hit back at Russian efforts. Even if the U.S. agrees soon to spend more money on Ukraine, which seems unlikely, it would take many months to refill the Ukrainian arsenals.
For all these reasons I expect that the Ukrainian frontline will break rather sooner – within weeks – than later – i.e. within months.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/ukraine-sitrep-a-collapse-is-coming-and-then.html#more

[John Day]

Mike Whitney, Bibi’s Endgame: A Ghastly Humanitarian Crisis Followed by Forced Expulsion
On Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to prepare a plan for the forced expulsion of Palestinians located in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza where over 1.3 million displaced civilians have taken refuge in tent cities. The announcement was met with howls of protest from political leaders and human rights groups around the world who understand that Israel is now implementing the final phase of its ethnic cleansing operation which began on October 7. Despite the public outcry and mounting opposition, Netanyahu is moving ahead with his plan to drive the non-Jewish population from their historic homeland in order to establish a permanent Jewish majority on Palestinian territory…
..The reason Israel continues to kill non-combatants who are in-no-way connected to Hamas, is because it convinces everyone else that the bombing is “indiscriminate” which, in turn, suggests that the perpetrator is a deranged madman driven by irrational hatred.
This is how one terrorizes the public into doing whatever is demanded of them. We expect that much of Israel’s current pysops in Gaza was meticulously worked out with a battery of behavioral psychologists long before the first bomb was dropped, perhaps, years before the Hamas attack on October 7.
It’s also worth noting, that Israel’s unexpected blitz on Rafah comes on the heels of explicit promises from senior-level Israeli officials that Palestinians who willingly left their homes in the North would find safety in the South.
Now these same people are being pelted with bombs and pushed into the desert where their prospects for survival are dismal at best.

Bibi’s Endgame: A Ghastly Humanitarian Crisis Followed by Forced Expulsion

Patrick Lawrence: The Crisis at The New York Times
It has been evident to many of us since the genocide in Gaza began Oct. 7 that Israel risked asking too much of those inclined to take its side. The Zionist state would ask what many people cannot give: It would ask them to surrender their consciences, their idea of moral order, altogether their native decency as it murders, starves and disperses a population of 2.3 million while making their land uninhabitable.
The Israelis took this risk and they have lost. We are now able to watch videos of Israeli soldiers celebrating as they murder Palestinian mothers and children, as they dance and sing while detonating entire neighborhoods, as they mock Palestinians in a carnival of racist depravity one would have thought beyond what is worst in humanity—and certainly beyond what any Jew would do to another human being…
..Since late last year The Grayzone has exhaustively investigated The Times’s “investigations” of Hamas’s supposed savagery and Israel’s supposed innocence…
..What we find as we read The Times’s daily report from Israel, and from Gaza when its correspondents unwisely accept invitations to embed with the IDF, is a newspaper unwilling to question either its longstanding fidelity to Israel or its service to American power…
..There is also the question of humanization and dehumanization. We have read very numerous and intimately detailed Times stories of Israelis attacked last Oct. 7—individuation being essential to shaping this kind of coverage—while Palestinians are an indistinct blur so far as Times correspondents report on them. The Times has fully indulged the pretense that history began on Oct. 7, erasing the previous 76 years or the previous century, depending on how one counts—the history, this is to say, wherein the Palestinian story is told. There is no Palestinian story in pages of The New York Times…
..There is one feature of The Times’s coverage that must be singled out, as it is very key to the whole of it. This concerns the question of evidence. Almost all of the reportage coming out of Israel, and on rare occasions Gaza, relies on evidence Times correspondents have obtained from the Israeli military, Israeli government officials, the Israeli police, or those representing some other part of the Israeli power structure…
..“According to Israeli officials,” “Israeli military sources said,” etc. is all readers get. On goes the report from there, in which evidence or “evidence” the Israelis have supplied is presented at face value…
..Jeffrey Gettleman seems to have been other than careful in his reporting after he transited from Ukraine to Israel immediately after the events of Oct. 7… The Israelis began alleging that Hamas militias were guilty of rape and sexual violence during their Oct. 7 incursion into southern Israel more or less immediately after the events of that day. They claimed to be developing “considerable evidence”—Gettleman’s phrase in his initial report, on Dec. 4—from witnesses, photographs, and emergency medical teams. In the same piece, Gettleman quoted a police official saying that women and men numbering in the dozens had been raped on Oct. 7…
..“Extensive witness testimony and documentary evidence of killings, including videos posted by Hamas fighters themselves,” Gettleman wrote, “support the allegations.” …
.. How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct.7.” It took as its central figure “the woman in the black dress.” This refers to a corpse found and videoed on the side of a road on Oct. 8. “In a grainy video,” Gettleman writes, “you can see her, lying on her back, dress torn, legs spread, vagina exposed. Her face is burned beyond recognition and her right hand covers her eyes.”
Gettleman reports this woman’s identity as Gal Abdush, a 34–year-old mother of two who was partying with her husband along the Gaza border in the early hours of Oct. 7 and was later murdered, as was her husband…
..Based largely on the video evidence—which was verified by The New York Times—Israeli police officials said they believed that Ms. Abdush was raped, and she has become a symbol of the horrors visited upon Israeli women and girls during the Oct. 7 attacks…
..The Times “verified” the video, did it? In what way this? What did it verify, exactly? That the video existed? Is Gettleman suggesting that The Times verified from the video that Abdush was raped? No video of a dead body could verify this…
..This video has a strange story, to stay with it briefly. Gettleman wrote that it “went viral,” but it is nowhere to be found on the internet, and nobody recalls referring to Abdush as “the woman in the black dress.” There is also a chronology question attaching to this video, as a Jan. 3 report in Mondoweiss analyzes. Gettleman recounts the last text message, with time-stamp, Gal Abdush sent to her family. During this time Abdush’s husband, Nagy, was with her and sent his own texts to the family, also time-stamped. Four minutes elapsed between Gal Abdush’s last message and the time Nagy Abdush messaged the family to report his wife’s death—a message Gttleman did not mention. Nagy Abdush made no reference to rape. He sent his own final message 44 minutes later – a message Gettleman’s report does mention.
Did one or more Hamas militiaman rape a woman in the presence of her husband, then, in one or another sequence, murder her and burn her, then murder the husband—all not in 44 minutes, as the Gettleman piece implies, but in four? Since Gettleman published, Abdush’s family, evidently irate, has accused him of distorting the evidence and manipulating them in the course of his reporting. “She was not raped,” Mira Alter, Gal Abdush’s sister, wrote on social media a few days after Gettleman published. “There was no proof that there was rape. It was only a video.”…
..There is a witness who told Gettleman he saw two teenage girls lying naked and alone on the floor of a house, one of them with semen all over her back, while it was later proven they were burned so badly they were hard to identify and they were found not alone but in the embrace of their also-burned mother…
..I rarely urge readers of this column to read The New York Times—some, indeed, write to thank me for reading it so they don’t have to do so. On this occasion I think reading the Gettleman pieces is a good idea—but only back-to-back with The Grayzone’s work.
https://scheerpost.com/2024/02/12/patrick-lawrence-the-crisis-at-the-new-york-times/

[John Day]

[John Day]

Meryl Nass MD, Maybe 5% of the WHO Pandemic Treaty and IHR amendment negotiations are about a trade agreement.
The other 95% are about global control of information, pandemics and medicine through the WHO
Don’t let yourself be confused. I wish I didn’t need to make this clarification, but many have asked me to do so.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/maybe-5-of-the-who-pandemic-treaty

The World’s Gyre, Alastair Crooke , Thanks Eleni
The U.S. is edging closer to war with Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, a state security agency composed of armed groups, some of which are close to Iran, but which for the main are Iraqi nationalists. The U.S. carried out a drone strike in Baghdad, Wednesday that killed three members of the Kataeb Hizbullah forces, including a senior commander. One of the assassinated, al-Saadi, is the most senior figure to have been assassinated in Iraq since the 2020 drone strike that killed senior Iraqi Commander al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani.
The target is puzzling as Kataeb more than a week ago suspended its military operations against the U.S. (at the request of the Iraqi government). The stand down was widely published. So why was this senior figure assassinated?
Tectonic twitches often are sparked by a single egregious action: the one final grain of sand which – on top of the others – triggers the slide, capsizing the sandpile. Iraqis are angry. They feel that the U.S. wantonly violates their sovereignty – showing contempt and disdain for Iraq, a once great civilisation, now brought low in the wake of U.S. wars. Swift and collective retaliation has been promised.
One act, and a gyre can begin. The Iraqi government may not be able to hold the line…
..The Houthis and AnsarAllah have become heroes across the Islamic World. Look at social media. The Houthis are now the ‘stuff of myth’: Standing up for Palestinians whilst others don’t. A following is taking hold. AnsarAllah’s ‘heroic’ stance may lead to the ousting of western proxies, and so to dominate that ‘rest of Yemen’ they presently do not control. It seizes too, the Islamic world imagination (to the concern of the Arab Establishment)…
..Nothing changed by way of U.S. policies. It was the same old western bromides from decades ago: financial threats, bombing and violence. And the insistence on one mandatory ‘stand with Israel’ narrative (with no discussion).
The rest of the world has grown tired of it; even defiant towards it.
So to put it bluntly: Israel has now come face-to-face with the (self-destructive) inconsistency within Zionism: How to maintain special rights for Jews on territory in which there is an approximately equal number of non-Jews? The old answer has been discredited.
The Israeli Right argues that Israel then must go for broke: All or nothing. Take the risk of wider war (in which Israel, may or may not, be ‘victorious’); tell Arabs to move elsewhere; or abandon Zionism and themselves move on.
The Biden Administration, rather than help Israel look truth in the eye, has discarded the task of obliging Israel to face up to the contradictions in Zionism, in favour of restoring the broken status quo ante…
..The trifecta of U.S. failed responses paradoxically has nonetheless facilitated Israel’s slide to the Right (as evidenced by all recent polling). And has – absent a hostage deal; absent a Saudi credible ‘dangle’; or any credible path to a Palestinian State – precisely opened the path for the Netanyahu government to pursue his maximalist exit from collapsed deterrence through securing a ‘grand victory’ over the Palestinian resistance, Hizbullah, and even – he hopes – Iran.
None of these objectives can be achieved without U.S. help. Yet, where is Biden’s limit?

The World’s Gyre

The Holocaust, at the Heart of the Gaza Genocide , Thanks Eleni.
Since the establishment of a Zionist home in Palestine in the early 20th century, Jewish settlers have massacred tens of thousands of Palestinians – mainly women, children and the elderly – whose lands and homes they have plundered and robbed with impunity.[1][2][3]
Never in the history of mankind has a race of people gone so quickly from being exceptional victims to exceptional murderers determined to exterminate the Palestinians under the pretext of recreating their homeland, the biblical Israel.
But Palestine was never the homeland of the Jews. Biblical accounts are not supported by historical or archaeological discoveries.[4] “It’s a romantic fantasy,”[5] admits Jewish historian Norman F. Cantor in his book on Jewish history, The Sacred Chain. “The whole notion of Israel and its history is a literary fiction,” says Professor Thomas Thompson in his book The Mythic Past: Biblical Archeology and the Myth of Israel.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-holocaust-at-the-heart-of-the-gaza-genocide/

Paul Craig Roberts, Israel’s Ever-widening War
Rafah is the town that borders Egypt and the Sinai desert, where one million Palestinian refugees have fled to escape the merciless Israeli attacks against them. More than 100,000 Palestinian civilians, including 70,000 Palestinian women and children, have already been killed and wounded. Most of these poor refugees are literally starving to death because of the 3-month long Israeli blockade of water, food, electricity, and medicine to Gaza.
If Israel launches this attack on Rafah, with the aim of driving one million Palestinians into the desert — and killing all those who refuse to leave Gaza– Egypt warns that a regional war will likely result, one which could conceivably become a World War.
Biden could prevent this with a single phone call. If the US cut off all military and financial aid to Israel, the Israelis could not continue to prosecute its genocidal ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from Gaza. However, just the opposite seems to be happening, with the full support and complicity of the United States…
..The Israeli offensive has left 85% of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
And the Great Moral Western Democracies continue to support the Israeli Genocide of the Palestinians even as Egypt warns of a widening war.

Israel’s Ever-widening War

[John Day]

Infamy or Honor https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/infamy-or-honor

Dr. Jane Orient: “Rooting Out the Censorship-Industrial Complex is Essential for Our Survival as a Free Sovereign Nation”
As the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) files an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a major case focused on government collusion with Big Tech to censor Americans’ free speech, the group’s executive director tells Lumen-News the case’s outcome is monumental “for our survival as a free sovereign nation.”
On Wednesday, AAPS filed its brief against the Biden administration’s argument in the case of Murthy v. Missouri, in which the state attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, and other private parties, argued the administration violated the First Amendment’s right to free speech.
The parties asserted the Biden administration colluded with social media platform giants to censor posts and video that contained opinion opposed to that of the government regarding COVID-19 public health policy and the related vaccines.
AAPS Executive Director Jane Orient, M.D. said that while many Americans perceive the COVID pandemic to be “over,” the devastating consequences of how the pandemic was handled remains a serious concern for the future. “Covid may be a generally mild endemic disease, but it is not over,” Orient told Lumen-News. “Frequent ‘booster’ shots are still recommended annually, like flu shots, and there is already talk of Disease X.”
During a session in January at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, when discussing “Disease X”, “You may even call COVID as the first ‘Disease X,’ and it may happen again.”…
..“The Surgeon General of Florida, our third largest state, cannot obtain answers from the Biden Administration about safety concerns with Covid vaccines,” Andrew Schlafly, general counsel of AAPS, said in the AAPS press release. “Instead of censoring issues raised about the Covid vaccines on social media, the Biden Administration officials should be providing answers to the questions raised.” “When the federal government tells social media platforms to take action against postings, then our basic free speech rights are gravely endangered,” he added.
https://lumennews14.substack.com/p/dr-jane-orient-rooting-out-the-censorship

Meryl Nass MD, GOP lawmakers argue pandemic treaty threatens US sovereignty (They may be barking up the wrong tree, but at least they are barking now.)
The World Health Organization is rushing to finalize a treaty to prevent and combat future pandemics, but some House Republicans say the U.S. should not be a part of the global accord, arguing that the health group is infringing on the rights of American taxpayers.
They’re concerned that the treaty will result in U.S. taxpayer dollars going toward abortion. They’re also concerned about threats to U.S. intellectual property rights…
..Proponents of the treaty say banding together to prepare for the next pandemic is essential, but a group of conservative lawmakers and advocates that gathered Monday on Capitol Hill said the accord is a “global power grab” that uses public health as a method of spreading progressive values…
..The World Health Organization has spent months working to create the world’s first pandemic treaty, an international accord meant to help countries better prepare and respond to future disease outbreaks. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has described it as “a legally binding pact between countries working together.” Countries hope to finalize the agreement ahead of the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva at the end of May.
The treaty aims to help countries around the world prepare for “Disease X,” the next global disease outbreak…
..“This is about a common enemy, and without a shared response, starting with preparedness, we will face the same problem as COVID,” Ghebreyesus said while speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.
But a growing coalition of Republicans on Capitol Hill, as well as supporters of former President Donald Trump, have been rallying against the treaty. During a news conference Monday on Capitol Hill, Reps. Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J., and Wenstrup argued the treaty is too political and relies too heavily on financial support from U.S. taxpayers. Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, called the draft “a global power grab” that forces progressive social policies on countries. The agreement calls for the continuation of essential health services, which include abortion.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/gop-lawmakers-argue-pandemic-treaty

A Midwestern Doctor , How We Can Stop The WHO’s Horrific Pandemic Treaty
Reviewing exactly what is inside the worst treaty of our lifetime and the heroic efforts that are stopping it.
Story at a Glance:
• “Preventing” pandemics is one of the most lucrative areas in medicine. Unfortunately, despite all the money this industry has received, it has only made the problem worse. This is because most pandemics are the result of lab leaks from “preventative” research, and because whenever an effective solution is discovered for a pandemic, it gets suppressed by the industry since so many business interests depend upon profiting off of an “unsolvable emergency.”
• The way COVID-19 was handled was so egregious that it woke much of the public up to this grift. Because of that, the pandemic-industrial complex is now facing an existential risk to its business model (since much of the general population no longer is willing to go along with it).
• To solve this problem, a covert WHO treaty has been put together behind the scenes which gives these international health agencies absolute control over anything related to an alleged “health emergency,” and in turn enshrines each awful policy which was conducted throughout COVID-19 (e.g., mass censorship or the promotion of dangerous and experimental vaccines).
• A grass roots activist movement has accomplished something remarkable—despite the fact every single large organization has pushed the pandemic treaty through, in only a few short months, those activists have begun to derail it. I believe stopping this power grab is one of the most important issues of our time…
..This medical monopoly is being established by giving the WHO (rather than your doctor) the authority to choose what responses are adopted to manage a pandemic—which will inevitably lead to the (lucrative) experimental pharmaceuticals being mandated while the competing ones (e.g., repurposed pharmaceutical drugs) are prohibited…
..Since there are so many abhorrent agendas being pushed forward within the pandemic treaty, the treaty could never be approved without “undemocratic” tactics being employed to push it through…
..Tactics being used to conceal what is in the treaty include:
• Having the treaty documents contradict each other (e.g., in one place it says the WHO can’t do something, while in another place which supersedes the previous one it says it can). This allows the treaty advocates to point to the first instance but not the second and hence falsely suggest the treaty does not also contain its reprehensible provisions.
• Having the WHO’s plan be extremely difficult to understand, as it involves two separate legal documents (a treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations) that need to be pieced together. Much of the language within each is complex and contradictory so most people (myself included) will struggle to make sense of what they actually mean and which statement takes priority under which situation.
• Continually change the name of the treaty with each draft so it’s difficult for independent researchers to even find the right document (most recently, the treaty was referred to as the “pandemic agreement”).
• Not allowing the public to see what is within the current version of the amendments until shortly before it will be voted on in May…
..One of major debates in international law is the question of exactly when an international treaty supersedes national (or state) law. Since the underlying purpose of the WHO’s pandemic treaty is to provide a mechanism to bypass populist resistance against the WHO’s edicts, the treaty is attempting to supersede local law, and as the previous section shows, do so in secret so local legislators don’t realize what has been agreed to until the treaty’s “emergency” pandemic provisions kick in…
..A rational examination of the texts in question shows that:
1. The documents propose a transfer of decision-making power to the WHO regarding basic aspects of societal function, which countries undertake to enact.
2. The WHO Director General will have sole authority to decide when and where they are applied [remember that they apply to both “pandemics” and “other health hazards”].
3. The proposals are intended to be binding under international law.
Note: these powers include controlling where people can travel, forcing them to quarantine, implementing contact tracing, and mandating treatment or vaccination. Furthermore, many of the treaty’s provisions also violate existing laws (e.g., mass surveillance which violates basic medical privacy protections, taking away intellectual property rights from members of signatory nations, and as mentioned before, encouraging GoF research which violates the 1972 Biological Weapons Treaty)…
..The WHO has failed to reveal anything about the proposed amendments to its international health regulations since November 2022, even though they have been continuously negotiated since then. Likewise this means the WHO is not followed its existing rules which had require public drafts of the new amendments to be viewable four months prior to being voted on…
..I sincerely believe very few people would support the pandemic treaty if they actually understood what was in it, and it was for that reason that I spent almost a month reading through over a thousand pages of Meryl’s work to put this series together.
Note: Meryl also wrote a 1000 word (easily shareable) summary of the treaty here: https://merylnass.substack.com/p/dont-read-this-if-you-already-read …
..The pandemic treaty will be voted on at the World Health Assembly in May 2024. Because of this, we have about two months left to hit the critical mass to stop this (and have that vote fail)…
..There are two entirely different things the WHO is trying to push through. One is the treaty itself, while the other is a new set of International Health Regulations. It is very possible the WHO will have to let go of the treaty (due to the pushback it has received) but use that confusion to covertly pass those disastrous regulations…
..Technically, for a treaty to be enacted in the United States, it needs to be debated in the Senate. Since that exposure would quickly turn the public against the treaty (as it is so indefensible it can only be passed in secret), the current presidential administration has been trying to bypass that step (as the State department has some latitude to decide if it wants to skip the Senate’s advise and consent process). Because of this, one of the most viable ways to stop it is by forcing a debate in the Senate (which senators like Rand Paul are already trying to do). However, a bill Senator Ron Johnson introduced that would have required the treaty to be reviewed by the Senate barely failed early last year on a strict party line vote…
..The same people who clearly did the worse possible job of handling the pandemic (demonstrated by the fact we fared far worse than Africa which did almost nothing to mitigate COVID-19) are demanding that “failure” justifies giving them the complete authority to do whatever they want during the next pandemic.
I interpret this to mean that they are actually paper tigers and are in an extremely precarious situation which is requiring them to take extremely audacious steps to protect their racket and not be held accountable for their crimes against humanity…
..In turn, I would argue we are at a moment in history where we could easily go down two different paths with profound implications for generations to come—our society may end up becoming becoming enslaved to the pandemic-industrial complex but we also have a once in a lifetime opportunity it to break up a predatory industry which has victimized generations of human beings around the world in its relentless pursuit of power and profit.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-we-can-stop-the-whos-horrific

[John Day]

Thanks for that historical insight, Bam_Man.

[John Day]

Why firebomb Dresden?
They had bought all these firebombs already, more than enough for Tokyo, and all the bombers were getting through without attrition of munitions.

Why does a dog lick his balls?
;-(

Good analysis of the urge to power, and where it leads, DBS.

[John Day]

So how soon can we have the GFC part-II? Can we have it before the conventions/nominations this June?
Will the Dems field (cacking) Kamala, “Joe Biden”, (linebacker) Michelle Obama, (ghoul) Hillary Clinton, or (vampire) Gavin Newsome?
How many ballots will Bobby Jr. be on, and will he ever commit to a moral stance on Zionist genocide?
Will somebody kill Trump, or put him in jail, or lawfare him somehow, or will he run again? The nationalist oligarchs seem to be pitching that he’s in-like-Flynn, or something to that effect, and that the stock market will reach new highs, because he’s so much like Reagan…

And, the question is being pressed whether another Kennedy will be assassinated, though it wouldn’t be by the Zionists this time, as far as I can tell. I’m not sure Zionists actually protect anybody very well, though. The MIC won’t want Bobby to win, or have a chance at it.

[John Day]

@DBS, regarding Harvard requiring students to be COVID-vaccinated:
What jumped into my head, and why I wrote about it being an easy way to self-cull, was
“You, Out of the Gene Pool!”.
😮

[John Day]

​ Harvard Renews COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate, Joining 69 Other Schools​ [An easy way to cull yourself?]
​ Students at Harvard University will continue to be required to take the COVID-19 vaccine in order to register for the upcoming semester, the school has recently announced, joining 69 other schools around the country that still require the shot.​ “Harvard requires all students who will be on campus to have some protection from COVID-19 through vaccination.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/harvard-renews-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-joining-69-other-schools

​ Peter McCullough MD, Indoctrination of Vaccine Ideology was Successful on College Campuses
Isolation, Propaganda, Shaming, Coercion, all Drove Moralistic Fallacy
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/indoctrination-of-vaccine-ideology

[John Day]

Did Putin Really Compare Himself To Hitler & Justify The Nazis’ Invasion Of Poland?
​ Hitler could have backed down, but he wasn’t one to take no for an answer, plus he was obsessed with reincorporating Imperial Germany’s lost regions prior to expanding into the Slavic East for “Lebensraum”. That’s why he decided to push his plans forward instead of risking the scenario of them becoming unattainable if the incipient (but at that time illusory) anti-Nazi alliance strengthened. This is a valid point that doesn’t equate to President Putin comparing himself to Hitler or justifying the latter’s invasion.
​ Only ill-intentioned propagandists would draw a parallel between the events leading up to the Nazis’ invasion of Poland in 1939 and those that preceded Russia’s special operation in 2022. These are two completely different conflicts that can’t be compared by any honest observers. President Putin brought up the first-mentioned simply to correct the historical record after Poland led the EU in laying equal blame on the Soviets for World War II in 2019 and to add further context to the ‘Ukrainian Question’.
​ As a history buff who rarely gives interviews to Western journalists, the Russian leader probably didn’t realize at the time how his impromptu summary of events leading up to that conflict would be spun, but he obviously didn’t intend to compare himself to Hitler to justify the Nazis’ invasion of Poland.
https://korybko.substack.com/p/did-putin-really-compare-himself

​ Kyle Young has another update of the view from his farm on the Arizona-Mexico border. More instructive video from a hidden camera is explained.
​Biden’s socialist border bait is destroying the ​U.​S.​ Pima ​County takes the bait, hook, line and sinker​.
​ Here’s how it works. Biden invites the world to cross illegally into the US from Mexico. That puts a crushing weight on border counties to provide services. Biden then invites those counties to go on the Federal dole to pay for services. Some do. Those that do get highly processed USDA food and money for minimal, crowded, shelter. This causes a rise in disease. Hospitals then get overrun with migrants unable to pay. Some hospitals are pushed to the brink of collapse.​ Everyone suffers.
https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/bidens-socialist-border-bait-is-destroying

​ Def. Sec. Austin Turns His Duties Over to His Deputy
​ Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was taken to the hospital Sunday afternoon for a bladder issue, the Defense Department said in a statement.
He transferred his duties to Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks at about 4:55 p.m. Sunday, and all notifications were made.

Def. Sec. Austin Turns His Duties Over to His Deputy

​ Meet Dr. Kathleen Hicks – SecDef Austin’s Presumptive Replacement Woke Deep-Stater
​ Hicks established the Deputy’s Management Action Group (DMAG) to be the Defense Department’s principal governance body to address topics from diversity to extremism. You would be correct if you consider Hicks’ role similar to the Soviet Union’s political commissar.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/meet-dr-kathleen-hicks-secdef-austins-presumptive-replacement-woke-deep-stater

[John Day]

Tucker Carlson is a ‘traitor’ – Boris Johnson​ , Boris Johnson has invoked Hitler in denouncing the journalist’s sit-down with the Russian leader as an “unholy charade”
https://swentr.site/news/592240-boris-johnson-tucker-putin-traitor/

​ Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a mini-meltdown after being exposed during the Tucker Carlson-Vladimir Putin interview for sabotaging the Ukrainian peace deal.​ During the interview, Putin confirmed reporting that first emerged last year about Johnson’s role in prolonging the war.
​ David Arahamiya, the leader of Ukraine’s ruling party, revealed that Johnson had scuppered a peace deal that would have put an end to hostilities just a few months after the Russian invasion.​ Putin reiterated in his interview with Tucker Carlson that Russia supports a negotiated settlement with Ukraine, and plans were very much underway to making that happen before Boris Johnson stopped it.

Boris Johnson Has Meltdown After Being Exposed For Sabotaging Ukraine Peace Deal

Russian political philosopher​ Alexander Dugin , whose daughter was killed by Ukrainian assassins, presents a stripped-down analysis: Tucker, Putin, and the Apocalypse
​ It is not about the content of the interview with Putin. It is the fact that a person like Tucker Carlson is visiting a country like Russia to meet a political figure like Putin at such a critical time. Tucker Carlson’s trip to Moscow might be the last chance to stop the disappearance of humanity. The gigantic billion-strong attention to this pivotal interview from humanity itself, as well as the frenzied, inhuman rage of Biden, the globalists, and the world’s citizens intoxicated with decay, testify to humanity’s awareness of the seriousness of the situation.
​ The world can only be saved by stopping now. For that, America must choose Trump. And Tucker Carlson. And Elon Musk. And Abbott. Then we get a chance to pause on the brink of the abyss. Compared to this, everything else is secondary. Liberalism and its agenda have led humanity to a dead end. Now the choice is this: either liberals or humanity. Tucker Carlson chooses humanity, which is why he came to Moscow to meet Putin. The whole world understood why he came and how important it is.
https://www.sott.net/article/488755-Tucker-Putin-and-the-Apocalypse

​ Eleni sent the Russian analysis of American politics above, which is oversimplified in her view, and these 3 essays from Russia-specialist, Andrew Korybko, which are not.
Putin Subverted The Mainstream & Alternative Media’s Expectations In His Interview With Tucker
​ The first takeaway for average viewers/readers is that American foreign policy is actually controlled by elite members of its permanent bureaucracy (‘deep state’) such as those in the CIA, not the President, since Clinton and Bush’s initial interests in cooperating with Russia were scuttled by that agency. The second point is that foreign meddling in Ukraine turned the question of its people’s identity into a geopolitical weapon for weakening Russia, which wants to live in peace and prosperity with that country.
​ Third, President Putin only commenced his country’s special operation after feeling that the failure to do so would lead to irreversible security challenges that risked culminating with time in Russia’s Balkanization, which he explicitly claimed that the West is pursuing as a means of containing China. The fourth point is that it’s this obsession with dominance among its policymaking elite (i.e. CIA) that’s responsible for destabilizing the world, with the final point being that he wants peace via diplomacy.
​ As was pointed out earlier, he isn’t the monster or madman that the MSM portrays him as, though he also isn’t the anti-Western revolutionary mastermind that the AMC claims either. President Putin is simply an apolitical pragmatist that solely wants to preserve his country’s conservative-nationalist society, robustly develop its economy, and ensure its objective national security interests, all while cooperating with others in pursuit of mutual benefit. He’s neither a villain nor a hero, but just himself.
https://korybko.substack.com/p/putin-subverted-the-mainstream-and

​ Why’d Putin Spend So Much Time Talking About Poland In His Interview With Tucker?
​ Warsaw’s nostalgia for its interwar control over what’s nowadays’ Western Ukraine as well as its earlier control over a swath of that modern country during the Commonwealth era is why it plays a leading role in this conflict.
​ Prior to the special operation, the Polish intelligentsia were the first external actors to plant the seeds of Ukrainian identity into its people’s minds, which they did as a means of legitimizing their control over the former lands of Kievan Rus whose people’s ethno-religious identity was different than their own. As President Putin explained, Warsaw’s meddling played a major part in the events that later gave rise to some of its own people’s self-proclaimed separate identity that others then exploited for their own ends.
​ It’s therefore impossible for anyone to have a solid understanding of current events and the historical processes that gave rise to them without learning about Poland’s inextricable role in both. The past laid the basis upon which present developments are unfolding since modern-day Ukrainian identity wouldn’t have taken shape nor would the ongoing proxy war have unfolded without Poland’s participation. These facts suggest that peace isn’t possible without Poland playing some sort of role in this process as well.
https://korybko.substack.com/p/whyd-putin-spend-so-much-time-talking

[John Day]

Jordan’s King Abdullah participates in Gaza aid airdrop
​ Jordan’s King Abdullah participated in an air drop of humanitarian aid to Gaza, Jordanian broadcaster Al-Mamlaka said on Sunday.​ A video showed the monarch in military gear on board a plane in the latest mission by the Jordanian air force to drop urgent medical supplies to field hospitals it runs in the war-torn enclave. According to official media, the latest airdrop was on Feb. 6.
​ The kingdom, which has been among Arab neighbors pushing Israel to allow more aid into Gaza, is the only country that airdrops aid to the enclave, channelling it through these two medical facilities.​..
​..The king, who has been vocal in calling for an end to Israel’s campaign, left on Thursday on a tour of major Western capitals and is due to meet US President Joe Biden in Washington on Feb 12. to lobby for an immediate ceasefire.
​ Jordan succeeded in getting Israel to allow the World Food Programme (WFP) to send deliveries to Gaza through another land route that begins from Jordan, helping ease pressure on the main Rafah border crossing which is limited in capacity.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2458146/middle-east

​ Pentagon’s Tower 22 ‘logistics support base’ is a secret drone base
What was described by the Pentagon as a “logistics support base” turns out to be a secret drone base for long-range surveillance of fighters in neighboring Syria and Iraq and for conducting airstrikes.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/pentagon-s-tower-22–logistics-support-base–is-secretly-dro

​ Karaganov presents a serious case for building up industry in central Asia, and rail routes to the rest of the world to service it. Pushing rail service costs down to approach ocean transport costs, and getting rail lines to markets like India and other Asian destinations, already underway, will enable this.
​ Sergey Karaganov: Here’s why Russia must permanently abandon Europe and turn fully to Asia
Europe is finished, and Russia’s geographical and cultural advantages means it doesn’t have to go down with the sinking ship
https://swentr.site/russia/592244-karaganov-russia-abandon-europe/

​The chain of command is breaking down in Ukraine. Nuland told Zelensky not to fire top general – The Times
The notorious neocon reportedly tried to save Valery Zaluzhny’s job
https://swentr.site/russia/592203-nuland-zaluzhny-kiev-zelensky/

​ EU leaders threatened to ‘politically rape’ us – Hungary
​ Several EU heads of state directly told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that they would crash the Hungarian economy if he blocked a €50 billion ($54 billion) economic aid package for Ukraine, his adviser, Balazs Orban, has revealed.
​ EU leaders signed off on the mammoth four-year aid package earlier this month, after the Hungarian leader lifted his veto in exchange for some minor concessions from the bloc’s 26 other member states.
https://swentr.site/news/592247-eu-leaders-threatened-hungary/

[John Day]

War on Gaza: Families of Israeli captives are beginning to turn on Netanyahu
Anger is getting louder over government’s approach to bringing back captives after the prime minister called Hamas’s proposal to end the war ‘delusional’
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-families-israeli-captives-are-beginning-turn-netanyahu

​ Thousands demonstrate in Tel Aviv, Haifa against Netanyahu’s government
​ Thousands of Zionist settlers demonstrated on Saturday in Tel Aviv and Haifa in occupied Palestine for the eighth week in a row.​ The demonstrators demanded the dismissal of the current Zionist enemy government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, holding early elections, and reaching an exchange deal to return prisoners from the Gaza Strip.
https://en.ypagency.net/318510

​ Israel frees two hostages, Gaza officials say airstrikes kill 67
​ An Israeli rescue operation freed two Israeli-Argentine hostages held by Hamas militants in Rafah on Monday, but supporting airstrikes killed nearly 70 Palestinians in the southern Gaza city where about one million displaced civilians have sought refuge from months of bombardments.
The mission by the Israeli military, the Shin Bet security service and a special police unit freed Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Hare, 70, the military said.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2458356/middle-east

​Israel Steals over $54 million from the Bank of Palestine in Gaza
The robbery was launched after a sniper had targeted Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the bank. Following the incident, the occupation forces raided the bank and ransacked the money.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israelis-steals-over–54-million-from-the-bank-of-palestine

​ Houthis Say “American Ship” Hit By Missiles In Red Sea
​ On Monday morning, Houthi militants claim to have hit an “American ship” (Star Iris) with missiles in the critical waterway.​ According to Bloomberg, the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel owned by US-listed Star Bulk Carriers Corp. was hit by two missiles that caused “minor damage.” The ship was transiting the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the time of the attack.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-say-american-ship-hit-missiles-red-sea

[John Day]

Bobby Kennedy Jr. Points out that BlackRock owns the American military contractors that get a captive customer base from every new NATO member, and are getting the great majority of the money allocated for the war in Ukraine. That’s why “we” have to have wars and NATO has to keep expanding.

Here’s the truth about the war in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/pBf4XkTO21

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) February 11, 2024

Ceasefire or truce? Any Gaza deal could break Netanyahu’s coalition​ , The fate of Israel’s coalition government now hangs on a Gaza agreement.
A short truce will continue the war and Tel Aviv’s global censure. A full ceasefire will deliver a Hamas victory.
https://thecradle.co/articles/ceasefire-or-truce-any-gaza-deal-could-break-netanyahus-coalition

​ Netanyahu Doubles Down on Plans to Attack Rafah Despite Growing Criticism
It’s estimated 1.5 million Palestinians are packed into Rafah, which had a pre-war population of 275,000

Netanyahu Doubles Down on Plans to Attack Rafah Despite Growing Criticism

​ Israeli army approves plan for ground offensive in Rafah
​ “The plan will be presented when the army is requested to do so,” Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said during a Cabinet session as cited by the Israeli public broadcaster KAN.
The Israeli army plans to launch a ground offensive in Rafah, home to more than 1 million residents seeking refuge from war, to defeat what Tel Aviv calls the remaining “Hamas battalions.”
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-army-approves-plan-for-ground-offensive-in-rafah/3134415

​ Egypt Threatens to Suspend Key Peace Treaty if Israel Pushes Into Gaza Border Town, Officials Say
​ Egypt is threatening to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if Israeli troops are sent into the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah, and says fighting there could force the closure of the territory’s main aid supply route, two Egyptian officials and a Western diplomat said Sunday.
​ The threat to suspend the Camp David Accords, a cornerstone of regional stability for nearly a half-century, came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said sending troops into Rafah was necessary to win the four-month-old war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/02/11/egypt-threatens-suspend-key-peace-treaty-if-israel-pushes-gaza-border-town-officials-say.html

[John Day]

Short Term Trust https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/short-term-trust

This article below is like many you have seen, and it is clearly the case, as far as it goes, but what cannot be repaid, or even serviced for interest, will be defaulted upon by some mechanism when others refuse to continue to lend more money to service debt payments. We can see that spending has been “pulled forward from the future” by means of buying-on-credit. We can likely see that the loans can’t be “repaid” for many reasons, and we can see that many nations are servicing their debts by borrowing money to pay the interest.
Lending requires faith that the contract between lender and borrower will be honored. There are many reasons not to have such faith, but one might still want to stay in the game if it would not crash this year, or in the next 6 months, or before one would get a clear enough sign to exit immediately. Many investors have exited, already.
What form(s) will debt default take this time around? It is likely that the complexity of derivatives contracts and asset-“ownership” structures will leave most “holders” of stocks and bonds without a claim which they can actually exercise on a pool of real-wealth which is some small fraction of the claims held upon it.
How will this be managed politically? Will all retirement plans lose everything? The structure would hold them to be mostly unsecured-creditors after the holders of derivatives contracts, and the holder-of-record of the securities they “own”, which means “have an unsecured claim upon financial-returns from”.
When Roosevelt collected all of the gold in America and then devalued the dollar against gold, that was a default on debts. When Nixon took America off the gold standard, that was a repudiation of debt-payable-in-gold, another default. This upcoming debt-default will necessarily be larger, since the economy of the future will be contracting, not expanding, and borrowing has been on a vast scale, never seen before..
In whose hands will the power lie to decide how the real wealth remaining will actually be divided among the many weak and powerful holders of excess-claims upon that wealth.
Soaring debt pushing wealthy nations to ‘fiscal death’ – economist​ , Global borrowing topped a record $300 trillion last year
​ “I would expect that some of the bigger countries that don’t address their debt issues will die a slow fiscal death,” Laffer said, adding that some emerging economies “could quite conceivably go bankrupt.” While low-income countries are at high risk of debt distress, repaying debt would be particularly problematic for high-income countries due to an aging population and a lack of workforce.
https://swentr.site/business/592093-global-debt-fiscal-debt/

​ Farmers bring Poland to standstill​ [Farmers have already been maximally bled. Figure out some other strategy to service debt and pay for wars.]
​ The trade union called out the Polish government for readily accepting the EU’s guidelines on the “import of agricultural produce and food products from Ukraine.” The protesters also called the position adopted by Brussels at the latest EU summit “unacceptable.”
​ Similar rallies were held across Poland in January. A separate protest by another group of farmers and truckers blocking a key border crossing with Ukraine saw Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government capitulate to the protesters’ demands, which included reinstating a permit system for Ukrainian truckers, adopting government subsidies for Polish corn, and a moratorium on tax hikes.
https://swentr.site/news/592279-poland-farmers-protest-ukraine-eu/

​Paul Craig Roberts presents the case that sociopaths only respond to force which resists and thwarts the exercise of their will. [Non-violent farmers are getting results.]
Peaceful Protests Are a Waste of Time and Energy
​ It appears that one-tenth of a million Gazans have already been killed or maimed by the American-financed and militarily-supplied Israeli intended genocide of the remnants of the Palestinian population, a people who have been evicted from their lands and villages bit by bit since 1947.
​ This time the violence is massive, and only the Houthis, a poor population in Yemen that survived years of Washington-inspired attacks from Saudi Arabia, has lifted a hand to help the Palestinians.
​ The “civilized West” responded to the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians by cancelling their contributions to the UN agency that provides Palestinians with humanitarian aid. Consequently, now 1,000,000 Palestinians are facing starvation as Israel has blocked food deliveries and medicines, knocked out the water supply, hospitals, sanitation, and intends to drive any surviving Palestinians into Egypt.

Peaceful Protests Are a Waste of Time and Energy

​ A bold assertion here, but “Biden” already can’t “be president”. Deep-state-club-member Obama needs a new puppet.
Texas Lieutenant Governor Says ‘Deep State Run by Barack Obama’ Has Pulled the Rug Out from Under Biden
​ Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas said a Department of Justice report that described President Joe Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory” is proof enough for him Democrats are going with a different candidate in November.
​ The memo, along with Biden’s late Thursday news conference, means that those who are pulling the strings in the Democratic Party are forcing Biden out, Patrick claimed. He specifically blamed former President Barack Obama and the deep state.
​ Patrick made the comments on social media Friday morning, where he also predicted Americans could see former first lady Michelle Obama on their ballots this fall.

Texas Lieutenant Governor Says ‘Deep State Run by Barack Obama’ Has Pulled the Rug Out from Under Biden

[John Day]

Meet Dr. Kathleen Hicks – SecDef Austin’s Presumptive Replacement Woke Deep-Stater
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/meet-dr-kathleen-hicks-secdef-austins-presumptive-replacement-woke-deep-stater

[John Day]

Lloyd Austin hospitalized again:

Def. Sec. Austin Turns His Duties Over to His Deputy

[John Day]

DBS ha a lot to say about psychopathic rules of engagement last evening, and Michael Reid said to “act accordingly”. Basically, psychopaths do what they want, take what they want, rape and kill who they want unless stopped.
I disagree that they intend to “go down in a blaze of glory”. They are threatening to take everybody else down that way, but they have D.U.M.B.s, and private bunkers.
They would be unhappy in those settings, but they would be temporarily safe.
Again, I’ll point out that this also protects them from something like a recurring solar micronova and earth’s pole shifting (before 2050).

[John Day]

Annalena Baerbock can’t understand things that her job depends on her not understanding. I read Mein Kampf when I was 12. I was surprised how reasonable Hitler seemed in that book…
Life has some nuance and subtlety. Things look different as you wade into them than they do generations later in retrospect.
I’m no particular threat to anybody, and don’t plan to be, either.
I know one original Nazi, who spent most of the war as a POW in America, and likes Americans.
He still says most of the stuff about Nazis was lies.
He was always kind and helpful to me, gave me a job and let me stay with him in Germany in 1981, when I went for the summer with my bike and $200 to convince his daughter to marry me.
I had taken college German for a year, since meeting her the summer before in Austin.
She didn’t marry me.
Life is like that.

[John Day]

​ Moon of Alabama: Ukraine SitRep: A Hated New Commander – Critical Lack Of Infantry
The Ukrainian President Zelenski has fired the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces General Zaluzny.
​ Zaluzny was replaced by General Syrski, a somewhat unexpected choice as Syrski is hated by the troops for pushing them into meat grinders without a perspective of winning. Syrski, who was born as a Russian, had lost the cauldron battles of Debaltsevo (2015), Soledar (2023) and Bakhmut (2023). Currently Avdeevka is in a cauldron and likely to fall.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/ukraine-sitrep-an-unliked-new-commander-a-critical-lack-of-infantry.html#more

​ Trump will keep Ukraine promise – Polish president
​ Former US President Donald Trump will likely keep his promise to end the conflict in Ukraine within 24 hours if he wins this year’s election, Polish President Andrzej Duda has said…​. “I can say from my personal experience as the president of the Polish Republic… what [Trump] promised to me was fulfilled,” Duda told reporters in Rwanda on Wednesday, according to Newsweek.
https://www.rt.com/news/592076-trump-ukraine-peace-duda/

“My Memory Is Fine” Biden Fumes, Before Confusing Egypt’s Sisi With The President Of Mexico
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/my-memory-fine-biden-fumes-confusing-egypts-sisi-president-mexico

[John Day]

Iraq Closer To Expelling US Troops After Drone Strike In Busy Neighborhood
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iraq-closer-expelling-us-troops-after-drone-strike-busy-neighborhood

​ US Warns Against Impending Israeli Assault On Refugee-Packed Rafah
​ US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he has voiced “concerns” to Prime Minister Netanyahu regarding the Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) impending ground operation against the far southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
​ Hundreds of thousands of civilian refugees have until this point sought out the greater ‘safety’ of Rafah. But Al Jazeera observes that “Panic is growing in Rafah over an imminent ground invasion after Israel’s prime minister ordered his military to prepare to enter the city in the southern Gaza Strip that is sheltering 1.2 million people with nowhere else to go as he rejected Hamas’s truce plan and rebuffed US efforts to reach a deal.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-warns-against-impending-israeli-assault-refugee-packed-rafah

Israel killing too many civilians – US​ , Innocent people in Gaza should not be punished for the actions of Hamas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said
https://www.rt.com/news/592099-blinken-israel-killing-civilians/

​ Israel Backing Off Hostage Talks, Draws Up Civilian Evacuation Plans For Rafah Assault
A new Times of Israel report says that Israeli negotiators are not seeking to come up with new terms for a deal, but are instead trying to pressure Hamas to withdraw the “delusional” terms.​ ​[It seems that Israeli officials and Hamas ​leadership hold different baseline assumptions.]
​ “The main target now is to create pressure from the Americans and other countries on Qatar, and from there on Hamas, in addition to the military pressure, to bring them down from their delusional demands,” said an official cited in the report.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/israel-backing-hostage-talks-draws-civilian-evacuation-options-rafah-assault

​ The European Commission has bent the knee to protesting farmers – and is dropping key passages in a proposal for a new 2040 goal aimed at cutting greenhouse gas pollution. According to the EU exe​cutive’s plan, “all sectors” need to now contribute to the effort – but the previously mandated 30% cut to agricultural production between by 2040 is gone. The revised draft has also excluded a mandate for citizens to make lifestyle changes – such as eating less meat, and a push to end fossil fuel subsidies.​ [The moment of truth?]
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eu-bends-knee-farmers-drops-key-provisions-2040-climate-proposal

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