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Hezb’Allah, Lebanon, Iran, and Israel
Hassan Nasrallah, secretary-general of Hezb'Allah, visiting Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in TehranIDF Approves Plans for ‘Offensive in Lebanon’
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has officially approved plans for an “offensive in Lebanon” against Hezb’Allah, the Iran-backed terror group illegally occupying southern Lebanon that has been firing at northern Israel since October.
New AP report exposes Hamas’s bogus death counts in Gaza war
When Israel’s daring military operation successfully freed four kidnap victims from Gaza last week, the Washington Post ran the headline: “At least 274 Palestinians killed during Israeli raid to rescue 4 hostages.”
In other words, the Post’s message was: Israel killed hundreds of Palestinians in order to save just four kidnap victims—or, disproportionate force led to the deaths of many innocent civilians.
What the Post didn’t tell us was that the death count was not verified, since it came from Hamas’s Gaza Health Ministry, which consistently lies. They also didn’t tell us how many dozens of the dead were Hamas terrorists . . . or how many dozens more dead were “civilians” holding or guarding the hostages in their private apartments. Or how many dozens more were civilians killed by Palestinian fighters firing machine guns to stop Israeli soldiers from extracting the hostages from the densely populated neighborhood where they’d been held.
No specifics, just dead bodies—not verified by anyone.
Ironically, this media use of fake death counts came just days after the Associated Press (AP) revealed Hamas’s “daily death tolls . . . are provided without supporting data.” It means thousands of daily news stories in major media report a rising death count of Palestinians in Gaza—all unsubstantiated.
Media like CNN, NPR and the AP itself have uncritically regurgitated the claim that 72% of Gaza war dead were women and children. Yet now AP says, “the underlying data clearly showed the percentage [72%] was well below that.”
As we have been saying for months, any news reports that fail to enumerate the number of Hamas and other armed casualties is not making an effort to accurately report the situation but, rather, just operating as propagandists. It’s also worth noting, as we have, that this is a 1400-year-old war between Islam and anyone resisting the enforcement of their religious beliefs.
From the beginning, Mohammed had no issues with slaughtering Jews and others wholesale:
626 CE: The Jewish tribe of al-Nadir crushed and expelled
627 CE: The Jewish tribe of Quarayzah raided by Mohammed
628 CE: The Treaty of Hudaybiyya; truce with the Quraysh, who recognize Mohammed's right to proselytize without hindrance
629 CE: The Jews of Khaybar put to the sword. Mohammed send letters and messengers to the Kings of Persia, Yemen, and Ethiopia and the Emperor Heraclius, inviting them to accept Islam.” –The Koran, translated with notes by the Iraqi scholar, N.J. Dawood, Penguin Books, London, 1993, p. 7.
As Hezbollah terrorists seriously escalated projectile attacks on northern Israel over the last week, the Biden administration is urging the Jewish nation not to strike back so hard that it leads to all-out war. The admonition comes as Israel claims it has destroyed half of the Hamas fighting forces in Rafah.
Amos Hochstein, a senior advisor to President Joe Biden, met Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in an attempt to persuade Israel to trust diplomacy and not engage in a large scale war with Hezbollah. …"So how can diplomacy work when you are talking about a regime that is exporting (an) ideology that is calling for submission (to) their values – for their Islamic Sharia?" he asked. Khaloul added that Hezbollah knows Israel is a Jewish democratic state. "And representing the Western world values is not actually, for them, an entity that has a right to exist in this region because it's opposite to their values."
Hezbollah threatens Israel, Cyprus
Amid mounting tit-for-tat strikes with Israel, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech Wednesday in which he warned that “no place” in Israel would be spared in the event of a full-blown war. …
Cyprus, which is home to two British military bases and a hub for US special forces, denied any involvement in military operations, saying rather that it’s part “of the solution” — a reference to its role as an embarkation point for aid deliveries to the troubled US-built pier on the Gazan coast. …
Cyprus, which enjoys solid ties with both Israel and Lebanon, has sought to deepen relations with the United States in recent years and position itself as defender of NATO interests in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. In 2022, Washington lifted remaining arms embargoes on Nicosia with several conditions including denying Russian military vessels access to its port.
Tel Aviv to be wiped off map before first missile attack on Beirut- Analyst
(Abdul Bari Atwan, a Palestinian-born British journalist and the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm) … wrote in an article in the Rai al-Youm newspaper that the Zionist regime’s officials, such as war minister Yoav Gallant, have threatened Lebanon and its resistance fighters on numerous occasions, but if he has the ability to carry out these threats, he should either do so or remain silent, because we are confident that Tel Aviv will disappear from the map before the first missile is fired towards the suburbs of Beirut.
US struggles to halt spiraling Israel-Hezbollah conflict
Asher Kaufman, director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, said the U.S. and Israel are “in a bind” because Hezbollah’s mission since its founding in 1982 remains the same: to destroy the state of Israel.
Again, Israel is dealing with 1400 years worth of the megalomania of Islam.
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S-500 Deployed Earlier Than Expected; Posture Now Consistent with Nuclear First-Strike
Overnight, Russia deployed the second generation of its S-500 air defense systems . . . around Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Russia's strategic nuclear missile silos. …
There's no gentle way to say this, so I'm just going to say it: This posture is one that would be expected if Russia was planning a nuclear first-strike upon the West, and was readying to defend itself from the counter-strike.
This article is typical right-wing limited hangout. Russia’s stated strategy is to stay ahead of the west in the arms race, as a deterrent to the west’s threats of nuclear war. After various provocations—including NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles on Russia’s border and the 2014 US-backed coup d’état in Ukraine, which installed and armed neo-Nazis who killed 14,000 ethnic Russians in the next eight years—Russia has drawn a line in the sand.
Meanwhile, after the deaths of 500,000 Ukrainian soldiers, the US is preparing to send its own cannon fodder into the Russian meat grinder.
Although this provision is unlikely to pass, US males between 18 and 26 will be subject to a new draft. In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, such a prospect send hundreds of thousands of US protesters into the streets, which eventually ended the war in Vietnam.
Why New Stealthy Russian Nuclear Submarine Scares West So Much
… this submarine “could be undetectable by Western adversaries” and could pose a serious threat to “NATO military bases, naval convoys, and onshore critical infrastructure during a crisis,” …
The vessel’s armament includes 533mm torpedo tubes and vertical launch silos for Oniks anti-ship cruise missiles, Kalibr cruise missiles and Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles. Both Kalibr and Zircon missiles are nuclear-capable.
Russia strikes Western-supplied air weapons depots in Ukraine
The Russian military has conducted high-precision strikes on Ukrainian ammo warehouses, including those storing drones and airborne weapons supplied by the West, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said. …
The Defense Ministry stated that the latest attack came in response to “attempts by the Kiev regime to cause damage to Russian energy facilities.” Ukraine has for several months been launching drone raids on Russian oil processing facilities, including those located far from the border.
Ukraine ‘wants peace as soon as possible’ – Zelensky aide
… Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was ready to immediately start peace talks with Kiev if it withdraws from Russia’s Donbass and the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, with the ultimate deal including Ukraine’s neutrality and the lifting of Western sanctions. Both Kiev and the West have dismissed the offer.
While the unelected EU hierarchy is pushing France, Germany, Poland, and others to send troops to Ukraine, the populace is pushing back, leaving the Ukrainian mercenary army under-powered. Additionally, Russia is effectively disrupting arms supplies from the US, UK, and EU. As a result, Russia is making gains along the front.
Upstate NY midwife pleads guilty to giving COVID-19 vaccine cards to the unvaccinated
Breault and the clinic’s owner, Kelly McDermott, both certified nurse midwives, conspired to give out more than 2,600 vaccine cards to the unvaccinated, and destroyed vials of the vaccine as part of the scheme, the feds alleged in a 2023 indictment. McDermott’s case is still pending.
Basically, these women are being prosecuted just like those who hid Jews from the Nazis. As the evidence clearly indicates, the injections are often lethal. The feds should be arrested for crimes against humanity.
Why Are 5 STATES SUING PFIZER and NOT Moderna?
Pfizer researched, developed, (and manufactured) their COVID-19 mRNA injections independent of the Operation Warp Speed program, while demanding to maintain ownership and control of their clinical safety data, per their contract. This enabled Pfizer to suppress, manipulate, and misrepresent the actual harmful (and sometimes lethal) effects of their COVID-19 mRNA injections.
Welfare offices and other agencies in 49 US states are providing voter registration forms to migrants without requiring proof of citizenship, leading Republicans and conservatives to call for swift federal action to stop the handouts.
Forget the traditional labels of liberal and conservative for the blue and red political parties. They are both controlled by the same small group of financiers who have split progressive and regressive policies between the two. Until now, this tactic has been successful in keeping the blue and red ditto heads at each other’s throats, and ostracizing actual progressives who support some of the progressive policies from both camps. All this enables the weak-minded, lock-step blue and red pawns to reject progressives as being “on the other side.”
This is arguably the best example of the black & white logical fallacy on the planet—believing that there are only two sides to any argument (both of which turn out to be controlled by the fascists [corporate control over the state]).
US and the Right Seek to Steal CITGO From Venezuela- President Maduro
“Vice President Delcy Rodriguez issued a statement denouncing that a maneuver is underway to execute the theft of the CITGO company from Venezuela,” he said, specifying that behind this pillage are right-wing politicians such as Juan Guaido, Leopoldo Lopez, Maria Corina Machado, Julio Borges, and Henrique Capriles.
“The United States government, in complicity with this oligarchic mafia, intends to steal CITGO from Venezuela in the coming weeks,” Maduro warned.
Another example of the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel at war with all nations that control their own central bank and currency. The US is also stealing Russian assets in the west. All this has accelerated the global flight from Federal Reserve Notes. Despite this urgency, the BRICS coalition has a ways to go to replace FRNs as the dominant world reserve currency:
The U.S. military now has the right to use all 17 Swedish military bases
Sweden currently does not allow nuclear weapons to be deployed on Swedish soil in peacetime. But Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said recently that the issue of nuclear weapons in wartime may be reconsidered.
So much for the former neutrality of Scandinavia. It has been swallowed by NATO and the banking cartel.
The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI
… data centers are rapidly outgrowing the electric grid while keeping dirty sources of power, like coal plants, operating. Tech companies also have a long track record of arranging for special, discounted rates for their massive power consumption — which means in many cases, ratepayers like you are subsidizing data centers’ undisclosed energy use.
Data centers are rapidly outgrowing the electric grid while keeping dirty sources of power, like coal plants, operating.
In addition to power, these facilities suck up substantial amounts of water to cool their servers, and are often located in places where land is cheap — like deserts. Only a few operators report their water usage, even though a fifth of servers draw water “from moderately to highly stressed watersheds.” One paper estimates that globally, the demand for water for data centers could be half that of the United Kingdom within the next several years.
AI is exhausting the power grid
The artificial intelligence industry is driving a nationwide data center building boom. These sprawling warehouses of computing infrastructure are creating explosive demand for power, water and other resources.
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