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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle November 6 2023 #146068
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    ​ Unrelenting genocide until …?
    Israel promises no ceasefire or pauses in Gaza fighting — Hersh
    According to the journalist, the ceasefire and the humanitarian pause are perceived by the Israeli leadership in the same way, namely as a break in the bombing
    https://tass.com/world/1702111

    Simplicius has a well detailed and balanced Ukraine war update: The Ukrainian military is short on offensive weapons, but much shorter on soldiers for the meat-grinder, with the “total mobilization” efforts only managing to capture about 30,000 Ukrainian new-recruits, after losing 90,000 this summer. Offensive weapons from the west are in short supply, but defensive weapons, like mines and anti-tank missiles are not, so a defensive holding action can be supplied for a year and a half. US politics can’t wait until 2025, but need to be done with Ukraine before next summer, due to US elections. Ukraine looks likely to have a presidential election March 31, 2024. Zelensky has completely ruled out negotiating with Russia, so he will be replaced if this is to happen. Ukrainian military commanders would be able to negotiate, and are in communication with NATO, so they are the “threat” to him. Zelinsky is directly threatened by Ukrainian fascists, so he cannot back down. Negotiations would need to “give” Russia everything it has taken and security assurances of a neutral Ukraine. Alternatively, Russia can take the whole coastline and anything else it sees fit. The current Russian offensive remains a slow grind, with very low casualty rates.
    Ukrainian grift has become almost complete, “like there is no tomorrow”. This is just “how things are done” in Ukraine. It looks like Ukrainian officials see the end coming soon.
    Russia has new AI-targeted Lancet drones which recognize targets they are programmed to find and hit, like Leopard tanks (shown).Russia has been shooting down essentially all long range Ukrainian missiles, any airplanes that take off, and just hit an awards ceremony for artillery commanders, taking out a huge number of Ukraine’s best artillery officers.
    Western Officials Increasingly Pushing “Peace Talks” + War Updates
    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/western-officials-increasingly-pushing

    ​John Helmer: In the coming winter phase of the Russian offensive in the Ukraine, the electric war will be run quite differently from the way the first electric war was directed last winter.
    The impact on the Ukrainian grid and on the country’s and military’s capacities to cope will be more destructive than a year ago. The reason for this, Ukrainian sources have been saying publicly and Russian military assessments now confirm, is that most of the money which the US, the European Union, and the World Bank have provided Kiev officials over the past nine months to repair, reconstruct, and prepare the country’s power generating and distribution system for the coming winter has been stolen.
    The US and NATO command and control centres inside the country for running the war will be operating in the dark, not only because of the precision of the Russian missiles and drone operations, but because of the corruption of the Ukrainians. They understand that defeat and capitulation are coming; they are running away with the loot before it’s too dark, too late…
    ..“A rapidly growing shortage of transformers…is threatening the nation’s ability to remain a leader in innovation and is undermining long-term economic security…Despite a heavy reliance on HV [high voltage] transformers, the U.S. has very slim manufacturing capabilities. To meet demand, roughly 85 percent11 of these HV transformers are imported from South Korea and Germany—however, China is seizing market share and forcing out competition…
    ​..“My suppliers are telling me that things are levelling out”, the US maintenance administrator reports. “Transformers, depending on the size — the larger, the longer the wait — are still 12 to 35 weeks out. Large power transformers, such as those used by utilities, can still be more than a year out. All gear is still expensive and certain equipment, such as protection relays, have long lead times. It’s easy to see that the US power grid is a handful of transformer failures away from collapse.”

    THE NEW ELECTRIC WAR CAMPAIGN – HOW THE RUSSIAN ARMY WILL SELECT THE UKRAINIAN TARGETS

    ​ The US rolled out its 50th weapons package for Ukraine. The arms shipment will include air defenses, artillery rounds, and anti-armor weapons. The Pentagon will purchase $300 million in arms on behalf of Kiev, depleting all the funds in the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI).
    ​ On Friday, The Department of Defense announced a new $425 million in military aid package for Ukraine. $125 million in weapons will be sent directly from American stockpiles through the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA). The funds used to transfer the arms came from a Pentagon accounting error that gave the White House access to an additional $6 billion in PDA funds.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-rolls-out-50th-weapons-package-ukraine

    ​ Does Any Member of the US Government Represent Americans?​ Paul Craig Roberts
    ​ And especially, the US Congress represents the artificial state of Israel and all of Israel’s agendas.
    ​ Indeed, Matt Gaetz himself cannot escape having to support an occupier of Palestinians’ land, claiming that it is Israel’s. The fact that even a brave man like Matt Gaetz has to support an aggressor against a people abandoned by the “moral” West shows how captured the US government is at all levels by vested monied interests.
    ​ Gaetz along with the entirely of the US Congress and the President are purchased by the billions of dollars that American taxpayers are forced to hand over to Israel each year. American taxpayers are forced to give Israel annually billions of dollars that are used to purchase our government. Israel, considered a rich country, does not need foreign aid, but any member of Congress who does not vote for Israel’s billions finds in his next election a challenger financed by Israel’s billions and himself a victim of Israel’s slander machine. The same thing happens if you vote against an excessive military/security budget or against the agendas of powerful organized interests. A government whose election is financed by interest groups has to represent those interest groups.

    Does Any Member of the US Government Represent Americans?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 6 2023 #146067
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    ​ US Official Says Israel Has Not Come Close to Destroying Hamas Leadership
    The US is refusing to leverage military aid to Israel despite the massive number of civilian casualties

    US Official Says Israel Has Not Come Close to Destroying Hamas Leadership

    ​ Going hungry in Gaza
    ​ People spend hours in line for some bread, braving the hellfire of Israel’s warplanes. Flour has run out in the south. Everything has changed, and life has reverted to a state of bare existence.​.. People wake up in their homes, or in schools or hospitals where they have sought shelter, in a struggle for survival. The first thing they check is the water tap. Everyone waits for a drop of water, whether it’s for drinking or washing. The lucky ones have enough water to last them throughout the day.

    Going hungry in Gaza

    ​ The Israeli Occupation Forces targeted a civilian car on Lebanese territories using precision munition claiming the lives of three children and putting their grandmother in the hospital with serious injuries.
    The munition was launched from a drone directly targeting the car, in Ainata, Southern Lebanon, according to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent.
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-deliberate-attack-on-civilian-car-in-lebanon-kills-3

    Iron dome misfires, missile falls on Israeli hospital
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iron-dome-misfires–destroys-israeli-hospital

    ​ White phosphorous causes a horrific, agonizing, death by burning of all the moist tissues in a person’s body.
    Israel widely using prohibited white phosphorus to shell Gaza Strip – TV
    https://tass.com/world/1702055

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 6 2023 #146066
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    Don’t Consent https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/dont-consent

    ​ ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 30: Nearly 10,000 people killed in Gaza as U.S. rejects ceasefire calls, Israel continues ground invasion
    Hundreds of thousands protested in the Washington D.C. and around the world, calling for a ceasefire. Israel continues to target civilian infrastructure, using the “equivalent of two nuclear bombs,” says rights group.

    ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 30: Nearly 10,000 people killed in Gaza as U.S. rejects ceasefire calls, Israel continues ground invasion

    ​ Israel’s Gaza operations not ‘self-defense’ – Moscow
    The Jewish state is an “occupying power,” Russia’s UN representative Vassily Nebenzia has claimed
    https://www.rt.com/news/586427-israel-no-right-self-defense/

    ​I watched Nasrallah’s 90 minute speech live on Friday. He was very reserved, saying that Hezbollah has been doing what it can to help Gaza since October 8, that the rest of the resistance needs to embargo oil and gas to Israel, and that Hezbollah has all options open to counter-strike the US Navy if attacked.
    Hezbollah Chief: US “Directly Responsible” For Gaza Atrocities, Will Soon Pay “Heavy Price”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-live-hezbollah-leader-gives-first-speech-israel-high-state-alert

    ​ This is completely true. The big bomb craters make bad impression on the world. Smaller craters are better PR.
    Blinken Tells Abbas He Asked Israel To Use ‘Smaller Bombs’ On Gaza
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blinken-tells-abbas-he-asked-israel-use-smaller-bombs-gaza

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 3 2023 #145872
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    Nasrallah has come out for “steadfastness” in the long struggle of resistance and for a trade embargo of Arab and Muslim countries against Israel, particularly oil and gas, which will fall heavily upon Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia,. He briefly calls for an oil embargo on the US, and says that they have weapons against the US fleet, but will “keep all options open”.
    Nasrallah notably fails to mention Jordan; maybe I missed a brief mention.
    He calls for a long and “steadfast” stance by all the countries of the resistance, outlasting the Israeli economy, which seems appropriate.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 3 2023 #145865
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    Watch Live: Hezbollah Leader Gives First Speech As Israel On High State Of Alert
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-live-hezbollah-leader-gives-first-speech-israel-high-state-alert

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 3 2023 #145863
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    Hezbollah Escalates Rocket Attacks Amid Reports Russia Could Supply Anti-Air System
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hezbollah-escalates-rocket-attacks-amid-reports-russia-could-supply-anti-air-system

    Waiting for Nasrallah’s speech…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 2 2023 #145847
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    Thanks for the travel-tale of Joseph of Arimathea, Dr D.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 2 2023 #145840
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    We Are In Trouble | Auroral Record Shatters as Magnetic Poles Shift​ (4 minute​ video ​reviews records back to 1859 Carrington Event)

    ​ Earth’s Hidden Guests: Strange Blobs in Deep Mantle Are the Remains of an Ancient Planet
    ​ A Caltech-led study suggests that two massive, iron-rich structures deep within Earth’s mantle are the remains of Theia, an ancient planet that collided with Earth, also creating the Moon. This discovery answers long-standing questions about the Moon’s origin and Theia’s fate.
    ​ In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one beneath the Pacific Ocean. Each blob is twice the size of the Moon and likely composed of different proportions of elements than the mantle surrounding it.

    Earth’s Hidden Guests: Strange Blobs in Deep Mantle Are the Remains of an Ancient Planet

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 2 2023 #145839
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    Jewish Alternatives to Zionism​ , The large demonstrations against the war in Gaza saw a participation of progressive young Jews. DAVID ROSENBERG welcomes the renewed interest in the traditions of Jewish socialist internationalism

    Jewish Alternatives to Zionism

    ​Retracted for political reasons: The origin of Palestinians and their genetic relatedness with other Mediterranean populations
    ​Abstract: The genetic profile of Palestinians has, for the first time, been studied by using human leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene variability and haplotypes. The comparison with other Mediterranean populations by using neighbor-joining dendrograms and correspondence analyses reveal that Palestinians are genetically very close to Jews and other Middle East populations, including Turks (Anatolians), Lebanese, Egyptians, Armenians, and Iranians. Archaeologic and genetic data support that both Jews and Palestinians came from the ancient Canaanites, who extensively mixed with Egyptians, Mesopotamian, and Anatolian peoples in ancient times. Thus, Palestinian-Jewish rivalry is based in cultural and religious, but not in genetic, differences. The relatively close relatedness of both Jews and Palestinians to western Mediterranean populations reflects the continuous circum-Mediterranean cultural and gene flow that have occurred in prehistoric and historic times. This flow overtly contradicts the demic diffusion model of western Mediterranean populations substitution by agriculturalists coming from the Middle East in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition.
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11543891/

    ​ Steve Kirsch , Rasmussen poll: A stunning 42% of Americans would likely join a class action lawsuit against COVID vax makers if it was permitted by law
    ​ 42% of Americans were vaccine injured! The poll also implies that 500,000 Americans were killed by the jab. How many more Americans must be killed before this deadly vaccine is stopped?
    https://kirschsubstack.com/p/rasmussen-poll-a-stunning-42-of-americans

    ​Meryl Nass MD , Good news: 10 groups including DoortoFreedom, CHD, Sovereignty Coalition are taking our show to Washington
    ​ We will be holding a breakfast for Senators, Members and staffs to learn about the WHO power grab on November 8. It will be in the Senate Visitors Center (SVC210) from 8:30 am-10 am for the formal presentation, while experts will be there to answer questions or repeat presentations till noon.
    Speakers will include:​ Senator Ron Johnson​ , Attorney Reggie Littlejohn​ , Dr. David Bell​ , Catherine Austin Fitts​ , Attorney Valerie Borek​ , Kris Ullman​ , Meryl Nass​ MD.
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/good-news-10-groups-including-doortofreedom

    ​ Spartacus had another long conversation with Chat-GPT, now that Chat GPT can upload and read PDF publications. The topic was the developments by DARPA and others of microbio-transceiver technologies, 6G wireless communication technologies in development and official governmental position papers from US, UK and Germany about how this is to be approached without public debate. I picked this out of the summary, but the conversation with the robot is very instructive.
    ​ The technocrats, like the head honchos at the WEF, are strict materialists and don’t believe humans have souls. To them, we’re basically absurd collections of molecules with deterministic behavior, which could be represented as data. That’s what biodigital convergence fundamentally means; life as data and data as life. Encoding the configuration of molecules that makes a “human” into data, and then decoding it back into an organism.
    https://iceni.substack.com/p/a-fourth-talk-with-chatgpt

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 2 2023 #145838
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    Lindsey Graham insists no amount of Palestinian deaths should make the US put the brakes on Israel
    The US should stand by Israel in its campaign against Hamas no matter how heavy a toll it takes on the civilian population in Gaza, Senator Lindsey Graham has argued. He likened Israel’s military operation against the militants to the allies’ struggle against Nazi Germany and Japan during World War II.
    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/civilian-casualties-in-gaza-don-t-matter-top-us-senator/

    ​ Another lawmaker, Ofer Cassif, told the Strategic Culture Foundation that the Netanyahu government is ramping up repressive powers against any form of opposition to its military and security policies.
    ​ Cassif says public meetings throughout Israel are being banned for any groups who are calling for an end to the violence and for negotiations to prevail. He says the persecution is particularly sharp against Palestinians living in Israeli territory. Still, all citizens including Jews who are speaking out against war are liable to be charged as “terrorists”.

    Israelis May Ask Who the Real Hostage-Takers Are: Hamas or Netanyahu Regime?

    ​”Gaza Cut In Two” as Israeli Armored Divisions move in from three directions.
    https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/ektakto-i-gaza-kovetai-sta-dyo-kleinei-i-tanalia-tou-idf-sygklinoun-apo-treis-axones-dyo-tethorakismenes-merarchies-entos-tis-loridas-simantikes-apoleies-tou-israil/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp#google_vignette

    Israeli Army Has Gaza City Surrounded, But Hamas Tunnels Remain Serious Problem​ (lots of updates)
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/idf-battalion-commander-killed-hamas-steps-ambush-actions-gaza

    Biden Reportedly Doubts Netanyahu Will Last Long as Israeli Prime Minister Amid Conflict​ (Joe joins most Israelis)
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231101/biden-reportedly-doubts-netanyahu-will-last-long-as-israeli-prime-minister-amid-conflict-1114652982.html

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 2 2023 #145837
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    ​ The spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), Elizabeth Trussell, said that the commission documented crimes against humanity committed by “Israel” in Gaza.
    ​ This comes after a series of massacres committed by the Zionist occupation, the most recent of which was in Jabalia Camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
    Trussell added in media statements that “the UNHCHR has submitted reports in this regard and will continue to document Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip.”
    https://en.ypagency.net/309005

    ​It appears that the US, Israel, NATO, 5-eyes, etc. will continue the grinding aerial and infantry grinding out of all life in Gaza until stopped, or until 2.3 million native Palestinians are killed and removed from their ancestral land.
    ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 27: Biden calls for ‘pause’ for first time since fighting began
    Palestinians are desperate for international intervention to end Israel’s ongoing onslaught and siege. President Biden calls for a pause over concern for Israeli captives, as Gaza death toll surpasses 9,000.

    ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 27: Biden calls for ‘pause’ for first time since fighting began

    Look, I’m supposed to stop worrying because they might stop bombing children on their own soon.
    Seymour Hersh: Israel Won’t Stop Bombing Gaza Until It Destroys 65% of Hamas Tunnels
    ​ Moreover, “The slow approach takes time. How much time does Israel have to pursue this war?” the source said, referencing growing worldwide protests against the IDF operation in Gaza.
    ​ Hersh, for his part, pointed out that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) is doing its best to obliterate “the extensive Hamas tunnel system that includes exits and entrances underneath the thousands of residential and office buildings in Gaza City.”
    ​ In this vein, the source told the journalist that almost 50 percent of the targeted buildings inside Gaza City have already been destroyed, and that “the bombing is scheduled to continue until the IAF reaches its goal of wiping out 65 percent of the possible citywide escape routes for the Hamas leadership and its fighters.”
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231101/seymour-hersh-israel-wont-stop-bombing-gaza-until-it-destroys-65-of-hamas-tunnels-1114640859.html

    ​ Hamas’ military wing, the Qassam Brigades, said on Wednesday that seven hostages, including three foreigners, were killed as a result of Israel’s strike on the Jabalia refugee camp on October 31.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231101/7-hostages-killed-in-bombing-of-jabalia-refugee-camp-on-tuesday–hamas-1114636769.html

    ​ The Israeli Air Force on Tuesday bombed the Jabaliyaa refugee camp in Gaza, killing or wounding at least 400 persons and destroying the Block Six residential complex, felling 20 buildings. More victims are believed to be under the rubble.An Israeli military spokesman said that the strike was directed at Hamas leader Ibrahim Biari, a mastermind of the October 7 attack on Israel. Although Israeli authorities proclaimed that they had succeeded in killing Biari, Hamas announced that he was still very much alive.
    ​ It should be noted that the Palestinians, now dead or wounded, living in Jabaliyaa are refugees because Zionist forces ethnically cleansed them from what is now southern Israel in 1948 and expelled them as refugees to Gaza. Some 70% of the families in Gaza are such refugees. Israeli state concerns for the security of towns in southern Israel is concern to protect squatter-settlements where these Palestinians used to live.
    ​ Killing and wounding 400 noncombatants and destroying 20 residential buildings to get at one target, even if the target is a wanted terrorist, is strictly forbidden under the post-World War II laws of war and International Humanitarian law.
    https://www.juancole.com/2023/11/hiroshima-buildings-civilians.html

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 2 2023 #145836
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    Seeking Context https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/seeking-context

    There is so much raw information today, not just abstracted information, but the rawness of human anguish, rage, hate and avarice, as well. This integrates more broadly than individual feelings, or even group-rage, I think. Human societies behave as “superorganisms”, and we can see that, but what if there is a form of consciousness to such superorganisms, and we are only studying individual humans and small group interactions and miss it? We have probably all looked back at the German “holocaust” years and witch-burnings, and wondered how people could do that. It seems to be apparent now that when people feel hungry and threatened for a long time, even if it is not in absolute terms, but they live in precarity, then a sudden crisis can galvanize society into naming scapegoats to dehumanize and kill.
    The comfort-level of living in the US declined after 9/11/01, and declined further in steps after that, being brought to crisis during COVID and lockdowns.It became clear to me and to a lot of people, that government misdirection about COVID treatment was more sinister than stupid by the summer of 2020, but we still failed to grasp where it would be a year later, with the dehumanization of “the unvaccinated”. Many Americans supported putting “the unvaccinated” into concentration camps, and certainly firing from their jobs.
    Jenny and I had taught our teenagers about WW-2 and “The Killing Fields” in Cambodia, during our travels to the Anne Frank House, Dachau concentration camp, and Tuol Sleng museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This was a thing that ordinary people did to other ordinary people in these kinds of severe times. How could we know when it was starting, in order to get out? How many times have I considered that since childhood? Star Trek did an alternate-universe episode like that once.
    When I saw the sudden blacklisting of everybody who refused experimental-vaccination against COVID, and I already knew how well antiviral treatments worked, I saw that it was that time in America. Surprisingly, I saw that I needed to immediately, openly and outspokenly stand with the “untermenschen”. Others saw this too. The Houston Methodist-Hospital Nurses had already accepted firing when I took my stand. How could I do less? The critical moment of fear passed with about 25% of American adults (perhaps more) having refused the experimental gene-therapy “vaccines”, and none of us seems to have deep regrets today. That tide was turned by the resolute morality of some vilified healthcare workers at all levels of training and expertise, who accepted punishment and shunning, rather than participate in the wave of punishment and shunning of others.

    What is a “world war”? My study of history tells me that a world war resets the international paradigm of trade and financial transactions. WW-1 and WW-2 did this. That may seem like a trivialization, but who makes such decisions, and what do they look at and consider in the process? Power and wealth are represented through finance, so finance is a simplified model to use when considering the dynamics of wealth and power.
    The post-WW-2 financial system is burdened by unserviceable debt at this point, paying the interest by borrowing more, a Ponzi scheme. The 2008 crisis was “managed” by going-bigger, not addressing the inconsistencies in the system. In the next and final crash those inconsistencies will have to be remedied. Perhaps payoff on debts-owed could be 20% if the economy kept working, but it won’t be working. It will fall into something like command-economies, wartime-economies, with restraints on all kinds of international trade, notably energy and food, but everything else, too.
    It is not difficult to see the current international struggles as being pre-positioning for the breakout of WW-3. I see that as the right way to look at them. It seems to me that the collapse of the compound-interest-debt-based-money system will be replaced with a system of representative value, based on commodities like gold, oil and grain, and already in existence, as is being proposed for BRICS+, though it may take a long time for a new “currency” to be agreed upon. “Investments” as we now know them will mostly disappear, including retirement plans. “Ownership” of productinve land, properties, mines, wells, factories, utilities and pipelines will be hotly contested. Current “owners”, typified by WEF types, should not remain in primacy, though that is their well-funded project. This stands to be more sever than WW-1 or WW-2, and different in form.

    Yet there may be another level of “superorganism” to consider, our planet-mother, Gaia. I have recently seen a metaphysical model that predicts Gaia will undergo a planetary-consciousness phase-transition to a more spiritually harmonious planetary-mind in about a week. I’m working to help that, whether it becomes observable or not. As it is presented, some people will be able to engage it, but others will stay stuck in a competitive-world model. That’s how things are now, so I’ll just keep on praying for peace in human souls and paying attention.

    John Helmer has the view from inside Russia, an important vantage:
    IF THE ARMY SAYS FIGHT THE WAR, RUSSIANS AGREE – IF THE KREMLIN SAYS STOP, RUSSIANS AGREE ON CONDITIONS THE ARMY DECIDES
    Russians have never had a higher level of confidence in the Army since the end of World War II, according to a national poll just published by the independent Levada Centre of Moscow.
    This also means a record level of confidence in the General Staff to outwit the principal enemy of the country, the United States, and defeat it and its allies on the Ukrainian battlefield. Most Russians now believe this war will take the Russian Army at least another six months, and more likely a year to finish.
    This new poll signals that most Russians believe it prudent not to fight the US with the same intensity in two long wars at the same time – in the Ukraine and in the Middle East — because the Army has decided so. This is despite the overwhelming Russian support for the Palestinians in their fight for survival against Israel. No poll is allowed to measure and publish this support, and the emotional reaction the majority of Russians feels towards the operations of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the US military to destroy the population of Gaza.
    “We should not, we have no right and we cannot allow ourselves to be carried away by emotions,” President Vladimir Putin announced on October 30.
    “We must clearly understand who in reality is behind the tragedy of peoples in the Middle East and in other regions around the world, who has been organising this lethal chaos and who benefits from it. In my opinion, it has already become clear to everyone, as the masterminds brazenly act in the open. These are the current ruling elites in the United States and its satellites who are the main beneficiaries of the global instability that they use to extract their bloody rent. Their strategy is also clear. The United States as a global superpower is becoming weaker and is losing its position, and everyone sees and understands this.”
    This is the president running for re-election in five months’ time, speaking directly to Russian voters, reflecting what the polls on his desk tell him they already believe…
    ..Levada also reveals an unusual analysis it has carried out to gauge the nature of Russian sentiment for waging war against the country’s enemies. The result is the first clear signal that most Russians trust the Army to defeat the enemy on the battlefield more than they trust Putin to negotiate an agreement on paper with US and NATO officials…
    ​..In the special session Putin called on Monday of the major ministries and security chiefs, he began by saying that “the Defense Minister [Sergei Shoigu] is back from his official trip abroad, and he will brief us on its outcomes and report on the progress of the special military operation.” Shoigu had just returned from China. What he said there in public was that Russia was fighting a world war on three fronts. The US-led allies were “covering up the buildup of military force in the Asia-Pacific region with an ostentatious desire for dialogue, imposing alliances and lines of operational interaction on partners…Having provoked an acute crisis in Europe, the West is seeking to spread conflict potential to the Asia-Pacific region, and in several directions.”
    ​ The war in Gaza is one of these “directions”, one of the war fronts, Shoigu said in Beijing; and Putin repeated the next day.​..
    ..(Putin)​ “I would like to say once again that we must realise where the root of evil lies. We must know where the spider that is trying to entangle the entire planet and the whole world in its cobweb is. It wants to ensure our strategic defeat on the battlefield, and it is using people on the territory of contemporary Ukraine who have been brainwashed by it for decades. I would like to stress once again that, while fighting this enemy in the course of the special military operation, we are boosting the positions of all those who are struggling for their independence and sovereignty.” …
    ​..This is the first time in public Putin has linked the war goal of denazification of the Ukraine with the “future of the Palestinian people”. Putin is implying what the unpublished Russian polls show the majority of the country thinks – between the fascist regime in Kiev and the Israeli government in Tel Aviv, there is no difference.
    ​ This is as explicitly as Putin has gone since October 7 to rebuff the line in several of the state propaganda organs of Moscow that the Arab war is not Russia’s fight, and that Russia should stay out of it.
    ​ “There’s something much bigger left unsaid,” a well-informed Moscow source adds, “which puts the people behind the war effort in the last week, and that is what Israel is doing to Gaza. That is what Brits and Americans did to Dresden and Hiroshima. That is what Germans did to Leningrad and Stalingrad. Russians, accused of anti-semitism and sympathy for Hamas by the usual media mouthpieces put two and two together and understand what awaited Russians of Donbass. They see Gaza and understand the race hatred and cruelty of the western axis. The bombing of Gaza reminds Russians what was done to their grandparents and what would be done to them if they do not win this war.” …
    ​..“The moral high ground is already held by Russia as Putin has just said,” a Moscow source comments, “while the state propaganda line portrays Russia as against ‘terrorism’, ‘genocide’, and ‘fascism’.” On the battlefield, he says, the situation is “far more grim. The satellite pictures show they [IDF] now have about 400 vehicles in total. They will overrun all of North Gaza while flooding or gassing the tunnels.”
    ​ For how long can Hamas defend against this without the opening of the other fronts to force the diversion of the IDF, stretch the US rearm and resupply capacities even further, and lengthen the war? There are pro-Russian military veteran sources who believe not long enough. “The Iranians are showing themselves to be blowhards. Hezbollah is afraid of the US response. Both know they risk losing power and position if the war escalates. Israel has called their bluff. Islamic ‘unity’ is proving to be hollow — a dead end.”
    ​ The Moscow source concurs. “When this is over, it will take away any chance of change to status quo for at least a decade. The only defeat it appears will still come in Ukraine​, but not in Palestine.

    IF THE ARMY SAYS FIGHT THE WAR, RUSSIANS AGREE – IF THE KREMLIN SAYS STOP, RUSSIANS AGREE ON CONDITIONS THE ARMY DECIDES

    ​Russia grinds away methodically over most of the line-of-contest with Ukraine.
    We Have Never Seen Such Fierce And Bloody Battles. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.11.02

    ​Patrick Lawrence, Deeper Into Depravity
    ​ By common agreement among many lawyers, scholars of international law, special rapporteurs, and the like—including Israelis in these fields—what we witness daily now is by all acceptable definitions a genocide. Whether or not Israel is committing war crimes by the hour is not even worth debating. But I am taken up now by the spectacle of human beings who have allowed themselves to be destroyed in the name of an ideology that proves every bit as racist as it was when, in 1975, the U.N. General Assembly declared Zionism to be so. Resolution 3379 was revoked in 1991; it should not have been.
    ​ I am reminded of what I learned years ago when studying the Japanese Imperial Army’s conduct in China and Korea before and during World War II and the long record of the Kempeitai, commonly known as Imperial Japan’s Thought Police. Victimizers, I came to conclude with conviction, are victims, too. This holds for the people in the videos I have recently viewed and for every Israeli wearing an IDF uniform. They have been stripped of all ordinary decency by the radical ideologues of “the Jewish state.” They can laugh or sneer or pull all the triggers they like: Their lives, too, have been destroyed.​..
    ​..I saw an interview Sunday with a Defense Department contractor who has visited Israel dozens of times over many years on DoD work. He recounted the steady decline in any belief in a peaceful settlement of the Israel–Palestine crisis that he has detected since 2007. For most Israelis, he observed, it is down to violence now. A headline in Monday’s editions of The Times, recording these changing desires and expectations: “I Don’t Have That Empathy. It’s Not Me Anymore.” This is the voice of a nation that has demolished itself in its attempts to destroy others.
    ​ A couple of weeks ago in this space I published a commentary asserting that the two-state solution to the Israel–Palestine question is dead, and a single, secular state is the only way forward. I had some mail afterward to the effect that a one-state solution is too far from reality to think about. I will reply here that these readers have it upside-down. A one-state solution is now the only realistic idea worth considering. Until Israelis accept that they must live in a single nation wherein Palestinians dwell as equal citizens, there is no more future for them than there is for Palestinians. They, Israelis, will be condemned to live in a walled-off garrison state that will come to look ever more like a commodious version of the “open-air prison” we speak of when we speak of Gaza.

    Patrick Lawrence: Deeper Into Depravity

    ​ The Cycle Of Evil , Egon von Gryerz
    ​ We are on the inevitable road to perdition for the world economy & financial system, ending in a potential global conflict of uncontrollable proportions.
    Evil begets evil as The Cycle of Evil hits countries at the end of an uncontrollable debt expansion.
    ​ The pattern throughout history has always been the same – countries and empires, without fail, become victims of their own success -failure, whether it was the Mongols, Ottomans or the British.
    ​ As real growth ceases, a country starts to finance expansion with debt until it cannot even afford the interest on the debt, never mind the capital which it has no intention to repay.
    ​ At some point, the people, fearing a war or terrorist attack will approve of the leader’s fear mongering by supporting unlimited debt issuance. This is now happening in the US with regard to Ukraine and Israel.
    ​ Neither the US nor Europe is taking a single step to remedy the situation.

    THE CYCLE OF EVIL 

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    Unclear what the reason for this was:
    U.S. Deploys MASSIVE Number of Military Planes 4:30AM This Morning over CONUS (the “mainland”)
    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/u-s-deploys-massive-number-of-military-planes-4-30am-this-morning-over-conus-middle-east-getting-much-worse

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    @Oroboros: I really like my titanium fixed-gear commuter bike, and don’t want a flying car any more.

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    @jb-hb: Good on ya’, finding that retracted article:
    The origin of Palestinians and their genetic relatedness with other Mediterranean populations
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11543891/

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    @DBS: This comment went poof. My younger son and I helped out at a bike frame shop that built custom titanium “29ers” one summer long ago. TIG welding is cool, but has a very expensive learning curve on titanium tubing.
    I got my titanium time trial bike frame about 8 years ago for $425 or so because it was made with vertical dropouts and no rear derailleur, a gross flaw for a single-speed bike, as chain slack could not be taken-up. I designed and bought parts for expensive wheels, employing a cammed rear hub that allows a little chain slack to be taken out. “Airborne Spectre” ca.2002.
    Spectre

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    @DBS: i am most relieved that you wear a good respirator!

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    @RIM: Another fine compilation, Amigo.

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    I am pretty sure I have some thoriated tungsten filament vacuum tubes in the garage.
    Some little VR (voltage regulation) tubes had a little slug of thorium in them, too.

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    Senator Frank Church “died suddenly” of cancer in 1984.

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    The ADL Is Defaming Palestinian Students as Terrorist Supporters
    The group is urging hundreds of colleges to investigate Students for Justice in Palestine for material support for terrorism. September 11 politics are back in force.
    https://www.thenation.com/article/society/adl-palestine-terrorism-letter/

    ​Steve Kirsch , We have been vindicated. The COVID vaccine killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and now we can prove it to anyone who will listen
    graph
    Figure 1. This is the number of deaths per 28 day period for Doses 2 and above. The bars should be equal height for the first 6 months. They aren’t. That’s a serious problem for the narrative. This implies an annual all-cause mortality increase of over 15%. That is a trainwreck.
    https://kirschsubstack.com/p/we-have-won-the-covid-vaccine-killed

    ​Steve Kirsch , “Died Suddenly” is being caused by the COVID vaccines
    I have the data. OR=2.22 p=.005. In other words, the debate is over. The “safe and effective” COVID vaccines are responsible for the increase in “died suddenly” events.
    https://kirschsubstack.com/p/breaking-died-suddenly-is-being-caused

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    May I again propose that Global War is the means through which global financial and economic conundrums are “resolved”, whatever form the war may take.

    ​ Surplus Energy Economics, Dr. Tim Morgan , The Souffle’ Economy
    ​ The assertion that we can transition from climate-harming oil, natural gas and coal to “green” wind and solar energy without the economy shrinking is based on the assumption that these renewables are, or can be made, as dense as fossil fuels. The only flies in this ointment are the lesser density of renewables, and the inability of technology to over-rule the laws of physics.
    ​ The bad news, then, is that financial soufflé is nearing collapse. The good news, if we choose to see it as such, is that the “financial economy” has reached this point because of comparatively gradual, but relentless, contraction in the underlying “real economy” of energy.
    ​ This could be “good news” because it might impose upon us environmentally-responsible behavioural changes which we might never get round to making on a voluntary basis.

    #264: The soufflé economy

    Peter Schiff: A Crisis Is Already Playing Out Under the Radar​ , A world full of “rubes” gets increasingly wary of the American debt Ponzi-scheme as an investment
    https://schiffgold.com/peters-podcast/peter-schiff-a-crisis-is-already-playing-out-under-the-radar/

    ​ Censorship Clampdowns Redux + EU DSA Rollout​ (Even though censorship and narrative-control are pervasive, the blood of ​innocents cries out​.)
    ​ As things heat up all over the globe, and society careens into the pivotal election year, the pitched battle for the narrative takes shape.
    The Israeli conflict has opened our eyes not only to the fragility of the establishment narrative, but to that of our freedom to speak on the most sensitive of issues. And it turns out, for the establishment, nothing is more sensitive than the topic surrounding Israel.
    https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/censorship-clampdowns-redux-eu-dsa

    ​ Elon Musk: “Twitter Was Completely Controlled By The Far Left”​
    ​ “The degree to which Twitter was simply an arm of the government was not well understood by the public,” Musk said, adding “And it was whatever, everything was like Pravda basically, a state publication, is the way to think of old Twitter. A state publication.”
    ​ “There was basically oppression of any views that, even I would say, be considered middle-of-the-road,” Musk continued, adding “certainly, anything on the right, and I’m not talking about far-right, I’m just talking mildly right.”​ “Republicans were suppressed at 10 times the rate of Democrats.

    Elon Musk: “Twitter Was Completely Controlled By The Far Left”

    UK official fired after urging Gaza truce
    The prime minister’s office said the staffer violated the cabinet’s rule of “collective responsibility”​ (to ​agree with whatever the Prime Minister says)
    ​ In his two-page letter to the prime minister, Bristow argued that a “permanent ceasefire” would “save lives and allow for a continued column of humanitarian aid [to] reach the people who need it the most.” Sunak, however, has vocally defended Israel’s military action against Hamas following the group’s deadly October 7 terrorist attack, and urged against a full-on truce, instead calling for brief humanitarian “pauses” that are “distinct from a ceasefire.”
    ​ Following his firing, Bristow went on to tell Sky News that he “completely understand[s] the PM’s decision,” but that he can “now talk openly about an issue so many of my constituents care deeply about.”
    https://www.rt.com/news/586231-uk-official-fired-gaza/

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    Turkey Is Preparing An Israeli War Crimes Case For The Hague’s ICC
    Erdogan had told a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Istanbul on Saturday, “Israel, we will also declare you as a war criminal to the world, we are preparing for it, and we will introduce Israel to the world as a war criminal,” according to a state broadcaster. “Israel is committing war crimes” as an “occupier.” He added: the “West owes you, but Türkiye does not owe you.”
    But the only problem with Turkey bringing a war crimes case is that the country is not a party to the Rome Statute, which is the international treaty that established the ICC.
    Turkey’s Daily Sabah explains:
    Thus, it cannot directly apply to the court. However, it can notify the Prosecutor’s office at the ICC through government agencies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) about crimes against humanity. Under the Rome Statute’s Article 15, the Prosecutor may initiate investigations proprio motu (on one’s own initiative) based on information on crimes within the jurisdiction of the ICC. Therefore, Türkiye can issue notices about crimes committed by the Israeli government.
    The publication also cited the following example, along with various statements of UN officials decrying Israel’s seeming indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza:
    ICC’s chief Prosecutor Karim Khan was at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza over the weekend and issued a stark warning to Israel, suggesting that obstructing the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza could potentially be considered a criminal act. “Impeding relief supplies as provided by the Geneva Conventions may constitute a crime within the court’s jurisdiction,” Khan stated.
    Khan has also said, “Israel has clear obligations about its war with Hamas, not just moral obligations but legal obligations.”
    In response to Erdogan’s blistering denunciations, Israel has withdrawn all of its diplomats from Turkey.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-preparing-israeli-war-crimes-case-hagues-icc

    ​ Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calls on Muslim world to ‘stop oil exports’ to Israel
    ​ “What Muslim states must insist on is the immediate cessation of [Israeli] crimes in Gaza. They must promptly stop the bombardment of Gaza and stop the export of oil and other commodities to the Zionist regime,” Khamenei stressed.
    ​ “Muslim states must not cooperate economically with the Zionist regime but denounce these catastrophes and crimes vociferously and without hesitation in all international forums,” he added.
    ​ Khamenei also highlighted that the ongoing war is “between truth and falsehood, between the power of faith and the power of arrogance.”
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/khamenei-calls-on-muslim-world-to-stop-oil-exports-to-israel

    ​ Israel-Palestine war: Amid bombs, Gaza’s residents face ‘daunting’ task of finding water​ (another way to kill through dehydration and cholera)
    Israel has cut off water supplies to the besieged region, and also damaged desalination plants and pumps during its bombardment
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-gaza-face-task-finding-water

    ‘Israel’ again cuts off telecommunications, internet from Gaza
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel–again-cuts-off-telecommunications–internet-from-ga

    ​ World War III has already started – Fyodor Lukyanov
    The new global war comes as a series of intertwined conflicts rather than a single, major one, the Russian foreign policy expert believes
    ​ “We instinctively expect that the war will begin just like the Great War or the [Second World War]. But such wars probably won’t happen anymore – after all, there are nuclear weapons, which are still holding back many,” the expert said.
    ​ The escalation in the Middle East is not the last conflict to come, with more hostilities expected to break out worldwide soon – and no one seems to be capable now of stopping them, he also warned.
    ​ “The international order is breaking down. It was an unpleasant one, based on the fear of mutual destruction, but manageable. Wars in the Middle East have erupted before, but the USSR and the USA intervened and extinguished them until the next conflict. And now I don’t see even a temporary settlement mechanism,” Lukyanov said.
    https://www.rt.com/russia/586270-world-war-already-ongoing/

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    ​ John Helmer , JEWISH ANTI-SEMITISM TOWARDS ARABS WAS HAMAS’S STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY ON OCTOBER 7 — STILL IS*
    ​ The Semites, the Semitic peoples, and speakers of the Semitic languages started as a figment of the German imagination in the late 18th century and early 19th century.
    ​It quickly became a German racial epithet, used in contrast to Aryan. By the time Adolf Hitler came along, this was the pseudo-scientific doctrine in which the Germans lumped both the Jews and the Arabs into a single category – the inferiors of the Aryans.​..
    ​..Israeli murderers of Arabs now — have succeeded in establishing their doctrine of exceptionalism and racial superiority in state policy as the successor to the doctrines of Aryanism and Nazism which were interrupted by Hitler’s suicide in 1945, then the Nuremberg trials concluding in 1946. The crime of racial and cultural genocide became international law in 1948. It was then modified by the new Israeli state doctrine of anti-Semitism: this decriminalised the genocide of the Palestinian people; and outlawed instead media criticism, political opposition, even science for threatening the legitimacy of Israel’s Basic Law of Arab exclusion, and Israeli military operations to enforce it.
    ​ In the present war between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas on the Gaza battlefield – “the American project”, as the Russian Foreign Ministry called it in a statement on October 29 *** – the doctrine of anti-Semitism as a race hatred crime is being applied to protect the race hatred crime being perpetrated against the other Semites, the Palestinians.

    JEWISH ANTI-SEMITISM TOWARDS ARABS WAS HAMAS’S STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY ON OCTOBER 7 — STILL IS*

    ​ Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians​ Thanks Jb-​Hb.
    A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has been pulled from a leading journal.
    Academics who have already received copies of Human Immunology have been urged to rip out the offending pages and throw them away…
    ‘..I have authored several hundred scientific papers, some for Nature and Science, and this has never happened to me before,’ said the article’s lead author, Spanish geneticist Professor Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, of Complutense University in Madrid. ‘I am stunned.’…
    ..The paper, ‘The Origin of Palestinians and their Genetic Relatedness with other Mediterranean Populations’, involved studying genetic variations in immune system genes among people in the Middle East. In common with earlier studies, the team found no data to support the idea that Jewish people were genetically distinct from other people in the region.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/25/medicalscience.genetics

    Netanyahu rules out Gaza ceasefire , The Israeli prime minister likened the international community’s plea for peace to a demand that his country surrender to Hamas
    “If Hamas and Iran’s axis of evil wins, you will be their next target,” he warned​ (Americans), vowing to fight until the Palestinian militant group was wiped out.
    Unlike Hamas, which he claimed was deliberately targeting civilians with beheadings, rapes, and other atrocities, the prime minister insisted the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were going out of their way to avoid killing Palestinian civilians. “Even the most just wars have unintended civilian casualties,” he said.
    https://www.rt.com/news/586224-netanyahu-rejects-gaza-ceasefire-hamas/

    ​Moon of Alabama: Biden Forced To Call Off His Plans For Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza
    ​ The U.S. government under Joe Biden had developed plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza by moving all of its 2.3 million people into Egypt…
    ​..Backed by Russia the Egyptian resistance against the plan continued. A phone call held yesterday finally buried it:
    Sisi, Biden probe developments of Gaza escalation, reject displacement of Palestinians – Ahram Online – Oct 29, 2023…
    ​..Biden was forced to publicly declare that his plans for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza were called off:
    President Biden @POTUS – 21:23 UTC · Oct 29, 2023
    ​”I also spoke with President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to share my appreciation for Egypt facilitating the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Gaza.
    We reaffirmed our commitment to work together and discussed the importance of protecting civilian lives, respect for international humanitarian law, and ensuring that Palestinians in Gaza are not displaced to Egypt or any other nation.​”
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/biden-forced-to-call-off-his-plans-for-ethenic-cleansing-of-gaza.html#more

    ​Extensive list of yesterday’s war crimes, and more pictures of dead Palestinians being carried in body bags.
    ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 25: Israel bombs refugee camp; videos show Israeli soldiers torturing Palestinian detainees in the West Bank
    Palestinians describe scenes of a massacre after Israel bombs a refugee camp in north Gaza. Videos surface of Israeli soldiers torturing and abusing naked, bound Palestinian detainees in the West Bank​.

    ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 25: Israel bombs refugee camp; videos show Israeli soldiers torturing Palestinian detainees in the West Bank

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    crater

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    bomb crater

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    All Saints Day https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/all-saints-day

    ​ “Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of children,” UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters on Tuesday in Geneva, “It’s a living hell for everyone else.” He noted that more than 3,450 children in the Palestinian enclave have already been killed, and the death toll rises significantly every day.
    ​ Elder made his comments as Israel escalated its ground offensive in Gaza in response to the Hamas terrorist attacks that killed an estimated 1,400 people on October 7. Gaza’s water system also has been crippled by the conflict, contributing to an overall death toll of more than 8,000 in the territory.
    ​ “The threats to children go beyond bombs and mortars,” Elder said. He added that Gaza’s water production capacity has been cut to 5% of its normal level, putting more than 1 million children at risk of dying from dehydration. Many children have been sickened by drinking salty water out of desperation.
    ​ Elder noted that even before the latest war between Israel and Hamas, more than three-fourths of Gaza’s children were identified as needing mental health support because of the trauma they had faced. “When the fighting stops, the cost to children and their communities will be borne out for generations to come,” he said.
    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/gaza-now-a-graveyard-for-children-un-agency/

    ​ The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) airstrike on the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Tuesday killed at least 50 people and injured 150 others, according to the Palestinian territory’s health ministry.
    ​ The administration of a nearby hospital, however, argued that there are about 400 casualties, including 120 deaths. A Qatar-based news network reported that over 100 people were killed and around 300 wounded in the airstrike…
    ..UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has since tweeted that he is “deeply alarmed by the intensification of the conflict between Israel and Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Gaza.”
    ​ Meanwhile, Craig Mokhiber, the director of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, resigned on Tuesday, referring to the killing of Palestinians as “a text-book case of genocide”.
    ​ The strike has been strongly condemned by Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan, and Egypt. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry accused Israel of violating international law by targeting a residential area, labeling it as an “inhumane” act. “Egypt considered this as a new flagrant violation by the Israeli forces against the provisions of international law and international humanitarian law,” the ministry pointed out.
    ​ This was echoed by Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, who called the strike “a stark reminder of the ongoing Israeli brutalities and war crimes in Gaza.
    He said that “such reprehensible acts can never be condoned or forgotten” and that “the world must act now to end this carnage​”.

    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231101/israeli-strike-on-jabaliya-refugee-camp-whats-known-so-far-1114637947.html

    ​Celia Farber , Israel’s Bombardment Of Jabalia Refugee Camp Stuns World, UN High Commissioner Resigns, Calls For Ceasefire Spread Across Political Camps, Wolf Blitzer Appears Shocked In Interview With IDF Col , Jabalia Reporter: “I’m In A Crater Of Corpses” Gabor Mate, Holocaust Survivor: “Words fail me.”
    https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/israels-bombardment-of-jabalia-refugee

    ​ US army commanders are in an underground base in Tel Aviv to coordinate Israel’s operations in the Gaza Strip, an Iranian general said.
    ​ According to the Tasnim news agency, Commander of Khatam al-Anbia Headquarters, a major Iranian army command center, Major General Gholam Ali Rashid the cited Iranian intelligence data indicating that “the commanders of the CENTCOM (the United States Central Command) as well as the US Army and Navy commanders are in an underground base in Tel Aviv in the company of Israeli commanders to supervise and direct” Israel’s operations in the Gaza Strip.
    https://tass.com/world/1699549

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    @D Benton Smith, in honor of your honest service to our country (for which you were promptly discharged).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGuy0jievs

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    Thanks for the genetics jb-hb.

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    Reports Say China Scrubbed Israel From Online Maps (Laughing @ Netanyahu?)
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-scrubs-israel-online-maps

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    Earth Pole Shift | The Key Studies Confirm the Acceleration Curve

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    The Veil of Silence over Excess Deaths
    ​ On October 20th, a 30-minute adjourned debate (20 rejections later) on excess deaths in the UK House of Commons was finally secured by Andrew Bridgen, MP for North West Leicestershire and member of the Reclaim Party.
    ​ Bridgen began his speech to the sound of erupting cheers from the full, upper public gallery, in stark contrast to the almost empty chamber below.
    ​ Where were the hundreds of MPs who would normally sit shoulder to shoulder in the chamber? It appears, an increase in deaths of their constituents was not a pressing issue for them on that Friday afternoon.

    The Veil of Silence over Excess Deaths

    ​Peter McCullough MD , NEURO-COVAX: Italian Network Finds Neurological Side Effects Very Common after COVID-19 Vaccination
    31.2% Experienced Tremors, Insomnia, Muscle Spasms, Headaches, Paresthesias, Vertigo, and Diplopia
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/neuro-covax-italian-network-finds

    Peter McCullough MD , Concerns over Cumulative Cardiotoxicity with mRNA Injection
    We do not know the overlap, but it is conceivable that as many as 14.81% cumulatively sustained damage from shots 3 and 4.
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/concerns-over-cumulative-cardiotoxicity

    Eight Reasons to Love Nattokinase​ , Dr. Michael Turner reviews the fermented soybean product “natto” and how it improves cardiovascular health
    https://flccc.substack.com/p/eight-reasons-to-love-nattokinase

    Bill Gates Pushes Digital ID for Newborns in Kenya as Critics Warn of Surveillance Risk
    According to the Kenyan Daily Post, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s role in assisting the Kenyan government in its development and rollout of a government-backed digital ID program was announced after a recent series of “closed-door meetings” with Kenyan President William Ruto.

    Bill Gates Pushes Digital ID for Newborns in Kenya as Critics Warn of Surveillance Risk

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    NOT IN OUR NAME Declare Jewish Peace Organizations

    NOT  IN  OUR  NAME  Declare Jewish Peace Organizations

    ​ Many Jewish people now turning AGAINST the Israeli government, which they accuse of committing war crimes and genocide
    ​ Believe it or not, many Jewish people are taking a stand for Gaza rather than their own Israeli government in the ongoing Israeli war on Palestine.
    ​ One of them is Benjy Sherer, a Jewish young man who helps people deal with and overcome trauma and pain, and who also says he does not stand with Israel on this matter because his heart is with the people of Gaza who now face genocide at the hands of Israel and the West.
    ​ “I do not stand with Israel at all on what’s going on,” Sherer stated in a recent video he shared to TikTok that is also available for viewing on X – watch below. “And I’m finally starting to realize, for lack of a better term, how brainwashed I’ve been.”
    ​ As a Jewish man, Sherer was raised and taught to “love Israel.” He attended both Jewish elementary and Jewish high school, and was raised with a mindset that Israel, whoever and whatever that actually means in the modern context, is the rightful owner of all that land.
    https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-10-30-jewish-people-resisting-israeli-government-genocide-brutality.html

    ​ Tom Luongo focuses on the International banking “war” between Federal Reserve “interests” and ECB “interests again.
    ​ I think Powell is in the driver’s seat here. It’s why Mike Johnson being Speaker could be a very good thing. At the very least if he ends Project Ukraine it slows the descent into fiscal madness. If Johnson is serious about single issue spending bills and Congress going back to doing some real horse-trading, we could see a much different 2024 and beyond in the US than just about anyone, including me, could have dreamed of.
    ​ On the other hand, with this being another front in the war between central banks there are real dangers that leave me very worried about where we’ll be by year end. Hence the real threat any further escalation by Israel in Gaza represents. The US is trying to blame shift like they did after 9/11 to gin up the war they always wanted, this time with Iran playing the part of Iraq.
    ​ The EC is trying to supplant individual sovereign bonds with their own bonds. They have to get the next round of fiscal integration going this winter or lose the race for global capital to the US and/or China. If they pull it off — which I suspect they have no choice but to — it’s a signal the are trying to outlast Powell in the hope that they can present a unified front to European investors long enough for the US economy to implode while also hoping the Israeli Firsters in Congress ensure that the US goes to open war with someone… anyone … somewhere! Dammit!

    Powell Exposes Europe’s Hidden War in the Bond Markets

    ​ Jeff Rainforth , Syrians And Africans Overwhelmed Border Patrol Here Last Night​ , It was the most I’ve seen cross in one day (lots of photographs)
    ​ Mexican cartel members cut the border wall in several places here in Lukeville, Arizona, last night. They’ve been cutting the wall almost daily to get people through illegally.
    Around midnight on Saturday, the final waves for the day came through (I counted 9 as I tried to sleep)…
    ..The Border Patrol tent structure where illegal aliens are semi-processed after being placed in custody quickly began filling up on Sunday, and agents told me hundreds were coming down the border road and that it was going to be busy.
    ​ I’m exhausted from filming all day yesterday and doing an almost 7-hour livestream, but I wanted to get out some photos before the videos, which I’ll be putting together into montages…
    ​..Border agents had to move massive numbers of illegal aliens, many from Syria and Africa, but from India and other countries as well. It was surreal. Like out of an apocalyptic movie.
    https://jeffrainforth.substack.com/p/syrians-and-africans-overwhelmed

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    Andrew Korybko: Deciphering What Really Happened In Dagestan
    Considering the wide range of objectives that the latest SBU-CIA latest meddling in Russia sought to achieve, it can be concluded that Dagestan is of disproportionate geostrategic importance, and events there can more easily have far-reaching consequences than if they happened elsewhere. The worst-case scenarios were averted by the security forces’ swift intervention, however, which suggests that they’ll also succeed in averting most (if not all) forthcoming ones and thus crush their foes’ Hybrid War plans.
    https://korybko.substack.com/p/deciphering-what-really-happened

    Telegram blocks Ukraine-linked channel inciting violence in Russia​ , ‘Dagestan Morning’ has been blamed for the anti-Jewish riot at Makhachkala airport
    ​ The screenshots identified the offender as ‘Dagestan Morning’, which has been exposed as a Ukrainian intelligence service project set up to stir ethnic and religious unrest in Russia.
    ​ A post in the screenshot proclaimed “We hate Jews” and “we will not let them live in Dagestan or the Caucasus,” claiming that “Jewish refugees” bound for the Russian republic were on board the regularly scheduled flight from Tel Aviv to Makhachkala.
    ​ On Sunday afternoon, over 150 rioters broke onto the runway of the airport in the Dagestani capital and tried to storm the plane. Police were able to restore order after heavy clashes that left more than 20 people – including nine officers – injured. Sixty rioters were arrested.
    https://www.rt.com/russia/586210-telegram-ban-dagestan-riot/

    ​ Putin on Situation in Dagestan: US ‘Geopolitical Puppeteers’ Trying to Divide Russia From Within
    ​ President Vladimir Putin has given his assessment on Sunday’s unrest in Dagestan, saying that it was sparked by social media channels linked to Ukraine and Western intelligence services seeking to take advantage of the crisis in the Middle East.
    ​ “The events in Makhachkala last night were orchestrated, including through social media, not least from the territory of Ukraine. By the hands of Western intelligence agencies,” the president said, speaking at a meeting with the heads of Russian law enforcement on Monday.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231030/putin-on-situation-in-dagestan-us-geopolitical-puppeteers-trying-to-divide-russia-from-within-1114607548.html

    ​ (usually soft-spoken) Gilbert Doctorow: ‘Financial Times’: the stench of propaganda in today’s coverage of the Makhachkala riots is overwhelming
    ​ Vladimir Putin has made every effort to ensure that tolerance reigns among the hundreds of ethnic groups and dozens of religious faiths that constitute the Russian Federation. To say otherwise, as Seddon and Ivanova do, is to engage in vile propaganda.
    ​ Since religious fundamentalism seems to be the order of the day, I will take the plunge and set down my own special prayers: that these journalists get the company of John Kirby and other U.S. miscreants in the special zone in hell reserved for dishonest fomenters of war. Oh yes, there surely will be a nearby padded cell for the criminally insane, with reserved places for Bibi Netanyahu and Isaac Herzog. For those who have not been following closely, Herzog also has gone on air denouncing Russia for the Dagestan “pogrom.”
    https://gilbertdoctorow.com/

    ​ Nothing can justify bombardments of civilians in the Gaza Strip, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
    ​ “The horrific developments that are unfolding in the Gaza Strip now, when hundreds of thousands of innocent people, who have nowhere to escape, nowhere to hide from bombardments, are being killed, cannot be justified by anything. When you look at bleeding children, dead children, at how women, elder people are suffering, how medics are dying, one cannot help clenching his fists and van hardly hold back tears,” he said.
    https://tass.com/politics/1699303

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 31 2023 #145691
    John Day
    Participant

    Ex-Director of the DIA Gen. Mike Flynn Alleges Some U.S. Legislators Compromised by Globalists Due to their Trips Overseas Where They “Sleep with Children”

    EXPLOSIVE CLAIMS: Ex-Director of the DIA Gen. Mike Flynn Alleges Some U.S. Legislators Compromised by Globalists Due to their Trips Overseas Where They “Sleep with Children” (VIDEO)

    ​ Doctors in Gaza Forced to Perform Surgery Without Anesthesia As Conflict Rages
    ​ “We have performed Cesarean sections on pregnant women injured during air strikes without anesthesia, and we’ve also had to deal with severe burn cases without it,” the director of Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip was quoted as saying.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231030/doctors-in-gaza-forced-to-perform-surgery-without-anesthesia-as-conflict-rages-say-reports-1114596558.html

    ​ Turkish President Erdogan sits at the crossroads of shipping and pipelines at the center of the ancient world. He is dealing with a weak currency, a diverse but poor economy, and a slew of neighbors with different interests, while trying to represent all of Islam and all Turkic peoples in the world. He is very short on resources, yet has many options open to him, but he has to choose ONE, and it has to be a winner. He can grandstand for nothing. He has blamed Israel and made-Israel-move-against-Turkey in response.
    This is well-played, building tension; letting opponents move, conserving resources and waiting for an obviously advantaged move to present itself.
    ​ Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that attacks on Gaza amounted to a “massacre” and threatened to declare war on Israel…
    ​ During his speech at a rally this afternoon, Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of war crimes and presented Hamas as “freedom fighters”.
    President Erdogan stated that attacks on Gaza amounted to a “massacre,” which infuriated Israel and caused it to rescind its diplomatic mission.
    He is claimed to have told the hundreds of thousands of participants that Turkey can “come at any night unexpectedly” during the same speech.​..
    ​..He asserted that Israel “has been openly committing war crimes for 22 days” and stated that the country was acting with a “similar mentality” to the Axis powers in World War Two.
    ​ He continued: “In the past they were massacring the Jewish people in the gas chambers and they were indeed wiping out whole regions with bombs.” The Turkish premier then added: “A similar mentality is being shown in Gaza today.”

    Turkey Threatens To Declare War On Israel

    ​ The Turkish hospital in Gaza was subjected on Monday to a direct bombing by the Zionist occupation fighter jets, in a new heinous crime added to the record of the Zionist entity.
    ​ The Palestinian health authorities in Gaza announced that the Israeli warplanes targeted the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital for treating cancer patients for the second time.
    https://en.ypagency.net/308775

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 31 2023 #145690
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ ‘We Need to Stop This Whiny Behavior. We Need to Win The War’: Netanyahu ‘Used Plant to Influence Families of Kidnapped Israelis’
    ​ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused of planting unverified, fake relatives in a meeting with the families of hostages taken by Hamas to tell them “we need to stop this whiny behavior” because “we need to win this war.”
    https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64090

    White House seeks funding for Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza
    The 20 October supplemental funding request includes funds to support Israel’s plan to forcibly expel Gaza’s 2.3 million residents to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/white-house-seeks-funding-for-israeli-plan-to-ethnically-cleanse-gaza#google_vignette

    ​ Vice President Harris assured on Sunday that the US is only providing equipment, advice and diplomatic assistance to Tel Aviv, and that US troops will not be deployed in Israel or Gaza. Her comments clash with a slew of media reports suggesting otherwise.
    US troops are directly involved in fighting in Gaza, says Salman al-Harfi, Palestine’s former ambassador to France.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231030/us-boots-on-the-ground-in-gaza-palestinian-diplomat-says-1114603328.html

    ​ The Pentagon awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to construct U.S. army facilities for a covert base it maintains deep within Israel’s Negev desert, only 20 miles from Gaza, two months prior to Hamas’ onslaught on Israel. The venerable American installation, known by its code name “Site 512,” is a radar station that keeps an eye out for any missile assaults on Israel.
    ​ Since Site 512 is aimed toward Iran, which is located more than 700 miles distant, it was unable to observe anything on October 7, despite thousands of Hamas rockets being launched.[Yeah, billions of dollars and the radar can’t see anything 20 miles “to the rear”, right.]​
    At Site 512, a classified base atop Mt. Har Qeren in the Negev, the U.S. Army is discreetly advancing construction to incorporate what official documents refer to as a “life support facility,” which is military jargon for buildings that resemble quarters for people.​ [B​arracks?​ Mess-hall? Convenience store?]

    US Quietly Expands Secret Military Base In Israel

    ​ Israel-Hamas war a conflict between ‘civilization and savagery’ – Trump​ (No ​POTUS-candidate for peace or cease-fire, as far as the eye can see.​)
    ​ Former US President Donald Trump has condemned Hamas as “monsters,” framing the Palestinian militant group’s war with Israel as a conflict between “good and evil” and vowing to rid America of immigrants and foreign students who sympathize with jihadists.
    ​ Speaking on Saturday at the Republican Jewish Coalition summit in Las Vegas, Trump vowed to stop the “mass importation of anti-Semitism” into the US if he’s re-elected as president in 2024. He blamed Hamas for all of the deaths that have occurred on both sides – numbering over 1,400 in Israel and 8,000 in Gaza – since the group’s October 7 attacks on Israeli villages triggered the region’s latest war.
    ​ “Every single life that is lost in this conflict is on the shoulders of Hamas, Hamas alone, and I think you have to really add in the word Iran…,” Trump said. “There can be no sympathy, no excuses, and no escape for these monsters. We will do what has to be done.”
    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/israel-hamas-war-a-conflict-between-civilization-and-savagery-trump/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 31 2023 #145689
    John Day
    Participant

    God Of Love Or Genocide https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/god-of-love-or-genocide

    Simplicius , World Plummets into Eschatological Frenzy: Unraveling the Implications
    Netanyahu keeps referring to biblical prophecies on his press conferences:
    ​ ” You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible, and we do remember and we are fighting. Our heroes who fight in Gaza continue a dynasty of heroes that goes back 3000 years in history – from Joshua to the heroes of 1948, from the Six Day War to the Yom Kippur War and all other wars.”
    ​ The words about Amalek are taken from the 1st Book of Samuel: “Thus says the Lord of hosts: I have remembered what Amalek did to Israel, how he opposed him on the way when he came out of Egypt” (15:2). The Lord ordered King Saul to destroy the enemy and all his people: “Now go and defeat Amalek and destroy all that he has; and give him no mercy; but put to death both husband and wife; from youth to infant; from ox to sheep; from camel to donkey” (15:3).
    ​ Netanyahu feels himself a new Messiah with the divine right of exterminating all enemies of the chosen people.​..
    ​..Sensing the West’s hesitancy and weakness, Israel may attempt to desperately spark a wider conflagration by increasing the amplitude of their falseflags—perhaps another USS Liberty-like incident or unilateral strikes on Iran meant to goad them into a response that would necessarily trigger a U.S. intervention. It’s my belief that this will be the chief danger to watch as, gripped by the terminal phase of its eschatological madness, Israel will be at its most unpredictable and dangerous to humanity at large.
    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/world-plummets-into-eschatological

    Targeting Palestinian Civilians​:
    As of Saturday morning October 28, Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza have killed more than 7,300 Palestinians including about 3,000 children according to Al Jazeera.
    Another 1,650 Palestinians are trapped under the demolished remains of their homes and buildings destroyed by Israeli bombing, with half of them being children.
    This is an Israeli war which specifically targets Palestinian civilians especially children as the IDF has bombed:
    schools,
    hospitals,
    mosques and churches,
    homes, residential areas, apartment buildings,
    bakeries,

    Israel’s Gaza War: “Situation is Now Catastrophic”. “Nakba is Ongoing”

    More Children Killed in Gaza in Three Weeks Than in Wars Worldwide Since 2019
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231030/more-children-killed-in-gaza-in-three-weeks-than-in-wars-worldwide-since-2019-charity-1114598164.html

    ​”Genocide” is the legal term:
    A leaked document from the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence to an Israeli news site on Monday lays out a plan to transfer more than 2 million Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai desert, reports Joe Lauria.
    ​ The document from the Ministry of Intelligence is being downplayed by Israeli officials, who are saying it is not being actively considered while the ground operation is underway. The document was first published in Hebrew by the news website Sicha Mekomit. The article’s blurb says:
    ​ “A document on behalf of the Ministry of Intelligence, the full content of which is published here for the first time, recommends the forced transfer of the population of the Gaza Strip to Sinai permanently, and calls for the international community to be harnessed for the move. The document also suggests promoting a ‘dedicated campaign’ for the residents of Gaza that will ‘motivate them to agree to the plan.’”

    New Document Leak on Plan to Expel Gaza Population

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 31 2023 #145659
    John Day
    Participant

    ‘We Need to Stop This Whiny Behavior. We Need to Win The War’: Netanyahu ‘Used Plant to Influence Families of Kidnapped Israelis’
    https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64090

    Sort of a “Judas goat”.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 30 2023 #145623
    John Day
    Participant

    @zerosum: Thanks for noticing 🙂


    @Aspnaz
    : That’s not the part of the Trump quote I meant to focus upon. This is the point I intended to make:

    “Your terms are acceptable”

    Trump tells Republican Jewish Coalition donors …. Says if he’s not elected in 2024 Israel will be eliminated

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 30 2023 #145607
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Tyler sent this extensive technical explanation, which contains some assertions and assumptions that I don’t think are adequately founded, but it is a worthy work-effort.
    Fifth Generation (5G) Directed Energy Radiation Emissions In the Context of Contaminated Nanometal Covid-19 Vaccines with Graphite Ferrous Oxide Antennas

    Fifth Generation (5G) Directed Energy Radiation Emissions In the Context of Contaminated Nanometal Covid-19 Vaccines with Graphite Ferrous Oxide Antennas

    ​ I particularly detest the cynical wording-exchange of “fundamental human rights” for “principles of equity, inclusivity and coherence”, which I take to mean we will be alike, all lumped-together, and will equally own-nothing.
    ​ Describing the WHO’s proposed pandemic treaty and International Health Regulations amendments, and identifying specific problems in the amendments
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/describing-the-whos-proposed-pandemic

    ​Sasha Latypova , Washington County, Idaho, Resolution to Advise AGAINST Use of Genetic Biologic “Vaccine” Platform Technology On the Child Vaccine Schedule
    Until Forensics Investigation, Idaho Health Audit, and Transparent and Accurate Informed Consent
    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/washington-county-idaho-resolution

    ​News of the Weird: Rats are stricken with Alzheimers by transplant of human poop from Alzheimer’s patients. (“I don’t think it means what you think it means.”)
    Breakthrough Study ‘Infects’ Animals With Human Alzheimer’s Through Microbiome
    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/breakthrough-study-infects-animals-human-alzheimers-through-microbiome

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