Monday, January 8, 2024

Deadly Dancing

 Changing Partners,


  Simplicius has this headline and further context. I can't tell what this declaration means. There are lots of moving parts, but this is a signal of de-escalation in the Gaza genocide. Israel has reportedly run out of targets for the air force to bomb, even with their AI target-generation system. Update on Palestine: IDF Claims Gaza City Victory
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/update-on-palestine-idf-claims-gaza

  Professor Anthony Hall , The Strange Dance of Hamas and Netanyahu , The History of Hamas Underlying the Israeli Assassination of Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut Lebanon
  The designation of Hamas as a terror organization served a number of agendas. Some in the Israeli government expressed their pleasure with the new arrangement. For instance Amos Yadlin, Israel’s National Security Adviser, told the US Ambassador that “Israel would be ‘happy’ if Hamas took over Gaza, because the IDF would then be able to “deal with Gaza as a hostile state.”

  Israeli Military Chief Says ‘Fighting’ in Gaza Will Continue All Year
  “The year 2024 will be challenging. We will be at war in Gaza,” said IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi during a visit to the West Bank. “I don’t know if it will be all year long. We will be fighting in Gaza all year, that’s for sure, and this will also hold the other arenas, certainly in [the West Bank], to a certain state of alertness.”
  Halevi also warned of the possibility of “another war” in Lebanon as cross-border strikes between Hezbollah and the IDF have increased since Israel launched a drone strike in Beirut that killed a senior Hamas official last week.

​  Israeli war cabinet cracks at the seams over possible 7 October probe
An investigation of the Israeli army's actions during Hamas' Al-Aqsa Flood operation may shine further light on Israel's killing of its own soldiers and civilians
​  War cabinet minister Benny Gantz says he supports the Israeli Army Chief of Staff’s call for an investigation into the security and intelligence failures of 7 October, the Times of Israel reported on 6 January.
​  During a cabinet meeting on 5 January, several extremist ministers, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, ganged up against Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi for his intention to launch a probe into the army’s shortcomings on 7 October, when Hamas carried out an unprecedented attack on military bases and settlements in southern Israel.
​  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly ended the meeting after shouting erupted as some ministers came to Halevi’s defense.
​  Gantz acknowledged it was appropriate for government ministers to challenge the information provided to them by security chiefs at cabinet meetings but added: “What happened yesterday was a politically motivated attack in the middle of a war.”
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/israeli-war-cabinet-cracks-at-the-seams-over-possible-7-october-probe

  The senior Hamas officials says the Resistance will take revenge from the Israeli occupation for the assassination of leader Sheikh Saleh al-Aroui and his companions.
  The assassination of martyr Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri will not change or alter the Resistance's convictions, Hamas politburo member Osama Hamdan confirmed on Sunday, vowing that revenge from the Israeli occupation entity for its crime is definitely coming.
"The enemy will face a response from us that will teach it that the assassination will not weaken the Resistance," Hamdan said in a televised address.
  However, he stressed that the greater revenge that the Resistance will take is the liberation of occupied al-Quds, ending the occupation, and the return of Palestinians to their land.
"The ones who will leave the land of Palestine and go back to where they came from will be the occupying settlers," Hamdan stressed.
"Our land will only be Palestinian, for the Palestinian people."  I am referring to the 84-page “application” that South Africa filed with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 29 December 2023, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.1 It maintains that Israel’s actions since the war began on 7 October 2023 “are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnic … group in the Gaza Strip.” (1) That charge fits clearly under the definition of genocide in the Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory.2
  The application is a superb description of what Israel is doing in Gaza. It is comprehensive, well-written, well-argued, and thoroughly documented. The application has three main components.
  First, it describes in detail the horrors that the IDF has inflicted on the Palestinians since 7 October 2023 and explains why much more death and destruction is in store for them.
  Second, the application provides a substantial body of evidence showing that Israeli leaders have genocidal intent toward the Palestinians. (59-69) Indeed, the comments of Israeli leaders – all scrupulously documented – are shocking. One is reminded of how the Nazis talked about dealing with Jews when reading how Israelis in “positions of the highest responsibility” talk about dealing with the Palestinians. (59) In essence, the document argues that Israel’s actions in Gaza, combined with its leaders’ statements of intent, make it clear that Israeli policy is “calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza.” (39)
  Third, the document goes to considerable lengths to put the Gaza war in a broader historical context, making it clear that Israel has treated the Palestinians in Gaza like caged animals for many years. It quotes from numerous UN reports detailing Israel’s cruel treatment of the Palestinians. In short, the application makes clear that what the Israelis have done in Gaza since 7 October is a more extreme version of what they were doing well before 7 October.

  The Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed on Sunday that the Israeli occupation forces committed 12 massacres against Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.
  The Ministry said that the massacres claimed lives of 113 people and left 250 others wounded.
This brings the total deaths from the Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip to 22,835, in addition to 58,416 wounded since October 7, 2023.


  The “Transfer” of Palestinians Out of Gaza Is Not a “Voluntary Migration” 
  Palestinians have known all along that the real objective of Israel’s horrendous assault on Gaza is emptying the Strip of all Palestinians and the return of Jewish settlements. After nearly 90 days of relentless bombardment and a lackluster effort on the part of the Israeli government to negotiate the release of the hostages taken by Hamas, it has become clear even to Israelis that Netanyahu’s declared goals of “dismantling Hamas, returning our hostages, and ensuring that in Gaza there will be no one that threatens Israel” are nothing more than a cover for the government’s “transfer” plan.
  The first phase of the transfer plan commenced with the carpet bombing of northern Gaza and an evacuation order telling Palestinians to leave the area — one of the most densely populated in the world — and move to southern Gaza “where they will be safer.” But no sooner had they reached southern Gaza than bombs started to rain on them again — in Beit Lahia, Khan Younis, Maghazi, and other heavily populated residential neighborhoods...
..Recall Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant saying, “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.… We will eliminate everything — they will regret it.” Or retired Maj. Gen. Giora Eiland telling Israeli media, “Creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieve the goal. Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.”

Gaza destroys western divide-and-rule narratives
Since Israel's assault on Gaza began, three separate polls show that Arab and Muslim populations are shifting their support away from Washington's regional allies toward West Asia's Axis of Resistance.

​  Moon of Alabama , Palestine SitRep: Lebanese Resistance Causes Enemy Losses - Is Ready To Fight Off Attacks
​  Hizbullah's Secretary General Hassan Nasralla has given another speech.​ (1/5/24)
​  He emphasized the successes of the campaign which Hizbullah started on October 8 2023, a day after Hamas' latest revolt against Israel, along the Lebanese border with Palestine.
​  On the longer than 100 kilometer front all Israeli military bases have been targeted, as well as its settlements, with a total of 670 operations.
48 border posts have been targeted 495 times as well as 50 posts behind the borderline.
17 settlements, where Israeli soldiers went into hiding, have also been attacked.
Technical surveillance equipment with a cost above a $100 million has been destroyed.
The resistance published 90 videos and photos that showed the destruction of Israeli tanks and other vehicles.
Israeli media is silent about the resistance successes.
The eight Israeli hospitals nearest to the border have taken in some 2,000 wounded soldiers.
230-300,000 settlers have fled from northern Israel.
120,000 Israeli soldiers have to stay in the north to secure the border.
​  Nasrallah also empathized that the various resistance members can bring advantages to their respected homelands (Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen).
​  Since 1948 it was Israel that displaced Lebanese people and built security zones on Lebanese land. Today the settlers are fleeing and Israel is building a security belt on its side of the border.
Should the situation in Lebanon escalate it will have a chance to regain all its land that Israel still occupies.
​  In Iraq the resistance now has a chance to again kick the U.S. out. The U.S. claims to be there to fight ISIS but ISIS is a U.S. product.
​  In Yemen the resistance is winning international applause and respect for its Ansar Islam (Houthi) government.
All resistance countries are in danger of Israeli attacks should the resistance in Gaza be defeated. Helping Gaza is thereby in the interest of all those countries.

Anasrallah member: Yemeni operations in Red Sea will continue despite US, British, Israeli threats

US senator vows to make Iran’s ‘worst nightmare’ come true
Doing so is “essential” for Israel’s security, Lindsey Graham argued during his visit to Tel Aviv

​  US spies believe Israel wouldn't defeat Hezbollah – WaPo
​  A secret assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington has found that Israeli forces would find it “difficult to succeed” in a two-front war against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

​  Gilbert Doctorow,  Are there any winners in the Russia-Ukraine war?
  The single most flagrant error in the analysis of the enlightened and independent minded diplomat whose lecture caught my attention was to measure Russia’s success or failure in the Ukraine war by what we impute to Russia and not what Russians themselves define as their aims. In this war, Vladimir Putin listed three tasks at the outset: to demilitarize Ukraine, to denazify the country and to ensure it does not join NATO. The most important among them is, of course, ‘demilitarization’ which means crushing the Ukrainian armed forces. From this the other two follow necessarily. And destruction of the Ukrainian army is now a realistic expectation in the foreseeable future.
​  I have little doubt that this war will end, quite possibly in the coming six months, with a peace settlement that amounts to Ukrainian and Western capitulation to Russia’s demands.  

Mayorkas impeachment takes center stage inside House Homeland Security Committee
Hearing Wednesday will highlight impact on the country of Mayorkas’ “failed leadership and refusal to enforce the laws passed by Congress," Chairman Mark Green says.

​  Celia Farber looks into the life one of the most important and multifaceted spies in history.
​  "Robert Maxwell" Was First a Soviet Agent, "Kremlin's Most Important Propagandist Of The Soviet System Abroad" Also British Intelligence Asset, And Robert Maxwell Was His Fifth Name

Epstein document dump is ‘cover-up’ – plaintiff​ , Conservative commentator Mike Cernovich claimed the FBI was hiding the deceased pedophile’s blackmail stash

​  Footprints to singularity: A global population model explains late 20th century slow-down and predicts peak within ten years​  
​  Conclusions​:  Hyperexponential population growth implies a dynamic system with two intrinsically growing quantities, human impact and technology. In a closed system, growth of one quantity implies depletion of another. Knowledge depletes ignorance, and the humansphere depletes the ecosphere. The quantities that are being depleted affect each other in a negative feedback loop leading to a sharp peak followed by a collapse of humansphere and knowledge. The timing of the collapse was determined by fitting the global limits to population in the context of hyperexponential growth. Population is predicted with 80% confidence to be 7.0 to 7.5 billion in 2020, and to peak between years 2018 and 2023 at a value of between 7.2 and 7.6 billion people.

​  Meryl Nass MD ,  People ask about the WHO Deadlines, so I made a chart to clarify them
​  While the deadline for NEW amendments is late Jan 2024, the WHO is claiming that the modified amendments to be voted on in May were derived from amendments tabled in 2022, so they met its deadline.​    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/people-ask-about-the-who-deadlines

​  Jessica Rose Ph.D, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo calls for moratorium on modified mRNA COVID-19 injectable products
Now it's time to make it illegal to destroy vials and confirm/deny degree of damage
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/joe-lapado-calls-for-moratorium-on

​  Meryl Nass MD ,  French Researchers Identify ‘Improbably High Rate of Deaths’ in Newborns Who Received New RSV Shot
Independent French researchers discovered a significant increase in newborn deaths in France coinciding with the rollout of Beyfortus, a new respiratory syncytial virus shot for infants.​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/french-researchers-identify-improbably

​  Can Green Tea Naturally Lower Blood Pressure?
​  Green tea, consumed either in the form of a beverage or extract for two weeks or more, significantly lowers systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure
A meta-analysis involving 25 randomized controlled trials also concluded that long-term tea intake — defined as 12 weeks or more — significantly improved blood pressure
​  Drinking about 0.5 to 2.5 cups of green tea daily for at least one year reduced the risk of developing high blood pressure by 46%, while those consuming more than 2.5 cups reduced their risk by 65%​.


​Teetotaler (took this picture of Jenny after we picked greens and broccoli a couple of days ago)


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Thursday, January 4, 2024

Jigsaw Puzzle

 Macro Viewers,


  Surplus Energy Economics ,  How to be happy, wealthy, and bankrupt  
  FINANCIALIZATION, ANOMALY AND RISK IN AN INFLECTING ECONOMY
  It’s been said that, when events turn fast, furious and frightening, and civilians are panicking, the professionals get ever cooler and more calmly calculating.
If this is so, we’ll need to be very professional indeed in 2024.
  One of our most serious challenges is that economic and financial forces are pulling in opposite directions. Transactional activity, and the aggregates of assets and liabilities, are continuing to expand, even as the underlying material economy is inflecting from growth into contraction.
  Our interest, in this first article of 2024, is in the process of financialization which is driving this divergence. We need to know why parallel forces are driving us to a state of simultaneous affluence and destitution, and why trends increasingly obvious to investors in energy are still invisible to those investing in almost everything else.
  Just one consequence of this disconnect is the ludicrous proposition that fossil fuel assets – without which we cannot possibly transition to renewables – are somehow “stranded” and valueless, when the reality is the polar opposite of this exercise in absurdity.
  Where wealth is concerned, capital theory tells us that, as the authorities continue to prop up the flow side of the economy by wrecking the stock side of the equation, the resort to ever-looser monetary policies should result in continuing rises in asset prices.
  At the same time, though, a point will soon be reached at which the sheer magnitude of our mountainous debt and quasi-debt liabilities induces confidence-snapping vertigo.
  Soaring asset prices are, logically, going to make us rich, then, just as escalating liabilities are going to land us in the poor-house. Since logic baulks at the concept of affluent bankruptcy, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that we’re going to end up owning vast amounts of worthless money...

-The detailed assessments-
..Where now?
  Looking at our predicament, whether as description or as charts, a number of critical points become apparent.
  First, the same financialization process which is creating a simulacrum of “growth” is driving debt and broader liabilities to a point at which vertigo sets in. A clear implication is that the “everything bubble” in asset prices must explode, and that decision-makers must adopt ever looser fiscal and monetary policies in an effort to keep the show on the road.
  Analysis of the material economy, meanwhile, reveals a background process in which certain sectors – led by discretionaries, and by those over-invested in the supposedly-perpetual miracle of financialization – either contract or disappear.
  Your guess is as good as mine as to whether the economy contracts gradually, or a financial collapse burns out the wiring linking the components of the material economy.
All we can really do is work out the pattern of stresses in the system, thereby trying to push the odds in directions favourable for ourselves.
  It’s an old adage that ‘the most dangerous part of a car is the nut holding the steering wheel’.
Where decision-making is concerned, we can only hope that the arrival of materiality brings wisdom where the progression of financialization has brought folly.

  Russia has the BRICS Presidency this year, and Vladimir Putin has just declared his intention to introduce a BRICS currency this year. This is time-sensitive, not casual.
  BRICS Currency ‘Almost Ready’, Will Be Much More Attractive Than US Dollar, Pound and Euro, Says Ex-Russian Minister  , 11/3/23
  In an interview with TV BRICS, Sergey Glazyev says that the currency itself is almost complete, but it still needs support from all leaders of the economic alliance.According to Glazyev, some member nations have already thrown their weight behind the currency.
  “We need only political will because technically this currency is almost ready. The software and mathematical tools have been created.
In order to launch this currency, we need the political consent of the BRICS countries, three of which have already expressed their support for the idea of introducing a new currency through their heads of state. We are waiting for the reaction of China and India.”
  The former minister also says that Russia will be in a position next year to convince other BRICS nations to green-light the currency.
“And in order to launch such a currency, Russia, as the presiding country next year, could convene an international conference to sign an agreement on the introduction of such a new international settlement currency.”
  As a whole, BRICS nations have expressed varying levels of support for a common currency, with leaders in Russia and Brazil firmly behind the idea. South Africa is the most conservative, expressing the need for a cautious approach while emphasizing the importance of the US dollar.
  According to Glazyev, the new currency will be backed by two baskets which would make it less susceptible to debasement and more attractive than the US dollar.
“It is based not only on a basket of national currencies of the member countries, but also on a basket of exchange commodities. The model shows that this currency will be very stable and much more attractive than the dollar, pound and euro.”

  Josh Mittledorf explores the controversy in Physics regarding determinism, and whether a "non-deterministic" universe has openings for the direct "Psi" influence of mind (whatever "mind" may be). Such influences have been demonstrated in various experiments, and many of us have personally experienced that effect. Howzat work?
The Zeroth Law of Science , Is the Universe governed by fixed laws?
Audio: https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/the-zeroth-law-of-science-395

  Thanks Red, You have one life. Do you really want to spend it looking at your phone?
  It was 3.30 in the morning when I realized I needed to break up with my phone. I was holding my baby in my arms as I scrolled through eBay, feeling a bit delusional with fatigue, when I had a brief out-of-body experience in which I saw the scene as if I were an outsider.
  There was my baby, gazing up at me. And there was me, looking down at my phone.
  I was horrified. This was not the impression I wanted my child to have of a human relationship, and it also wasn’t how I wanted to be living my own life. I decided in that moment that I needed to “break up” with my phone and create a new relationship with better boundaries.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/02/smartphones-attention-economy-reclaim-free-time

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 89: Hamas and Hezbollah pledge to punish Israel following Aruri killing
Israeli spokesperson says the assassination of Hamas leader Saleh Al-Aruri was "not an attack on the Lebanese state" while Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah pledge resistance will continue.
22,313+ killed* and at least 57,296 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
321 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
506 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 2,193 injured.

​  Hezbollah Losses Grow To 9 In One Day After Israel Mounts Another Major Airstrike
​  Within hours after the Nasrallah speech, Israel has conducted another major airstrike on Lebanon, this time against a residential building which housed Hezbollah members.
"Two security sources told the Reuters news agency that four Hezbollah members were killed in the attack on what had been described as a residential building," Al Jazeera reports.

​  Hasan Illaik ,  Israel’s Gaza withdrawal, a prelude to full-out war  [The Lebanese government is "captured" by the US/Israel, but Hezbollah can missile-blockade Israel.]
Don't be lulled by the Israeli troop withdrawal from northern Gaza. Tel Aviv has no intention of ending this war, and is escalating on all its other fronts, including with Lebanon.
​  At the start of the new year, Israel’s occupation army began implementing the withdrawal of a large portion of its forces from the northern Gaza Strip.
This withdrawal did not mean the end of the war on Gaza, and it certainly did not suggest calm on the Lebanese-Israeli front. On the contrary, reducing the pace of the war in the Gaza Strip increases the possibilities of an Israeli war on Lebanon.​..
​..The third stage is coming
​  The first stage of Tel Aviv’s war was the mass destruction and occupation of northern Gaza; the second stage is the occupation of key points in the south of the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian civilians have flocked for safety. The current troop withdrawal from the territory’s north means that the Israelis are cementing their southern plans and preparing to move on to phase three: the long, low-intensity war.
​  As it enters the third stage, the occupation army intends to maintain a geographical buffer surrounding the northern Gaza Strip. It also plans to continue occupying the Gaza Valley area (central Gaza), while completing its operations in Khan Yunis in the south.
​  The fate of the Philadelphia axis – or Salah ad-Din Axis – a strip of land on the border between Gaza and Egypt which Israel wants to control, will be left to deliberations between Tel Aviv and Cairo. This is to ensure that incidents do not occur that lead to tension between the two parties, as well as to guarantee that refugees do not flow from the south of the Gaza Strip towards Sinai.
​  Israel’s ground withdrawal from northern Gaza is taking place primarily because the occupation army’s target bank has been depleted. All targets prior to the start of the war have been destroyed, and all new operational targets have been bombed.
​  Despite this, the Palestinian resistance continues to carry out operations against Israeli forces. These organizations remain relatively unscathed in the entire area of the northern Gaza Strip, which will increase the ability of the resistance to inflict losses on occupation ranks, now and in the future.​..
​..These measures are being taken because Israel has patently failed to achieve the two main goals of its war, namely, eliminating the Hamas-led resistance in Gaza, and liberating the Israeli prisoners captured by the resistance on 7 October.
​  There remains a basic motive that must be noted: The Israeli army is currently putting all its efforts into implementing a US decision to push the war from its first and second phases into the third phase before the end of January 2024. This requires the war to be managed at a slower boil, drawing less attention to Israeli carnage and the mass suffering of Palestinians.
​  After three months of brutalities, Washington has assessed the Israeli army as unable to eliminate the resistance or the possibilities of regional escalation, and has noted the significant harm caused to the US administration of Joe Biden as he enters the presidential primary season.​..
..As the Israeli occupation army moves to focus its operations on the southern Gaza Strip, the intensity of military operations along the Lebanese border between Hezbollah and the Israeli army has also been ratcheted up.
​  Hezbollah increased its targeting of occupation soldiers, both in their visible locations and inside the settlements of northern Palestine...
​..By increasing its strikes, Israel’s leadership seeks to inflict the greatest possible number of losses among the ranks of the resistance fighters, as well as to spread panic among southern Lebanese residents – displacing more of them, and destroying the largest possible number of homes. This places a burden on both Hezbollah and the Lebanese state in the reconstruction process after the end of hostilities.
​  But there is a longer-term goal to this Israeli military performance. The government in Tel Aviv, according to its official statements, wants Hezbollah to withdraw from the south of the Litani, to ensure the security of Israeli settlers in northern Palestine who abandoned their homes, either voluntarily or under evacuation orders from their army. By some estimates, the number of Israelis fleeing their settlements in occupied north Palestine has reached more than 230,000 people.​..
..Israel is therefore hoping that Hezbollah will yield to pressure and meet its demands regarding the withdrawal of its fighters from the border area with occupied Palestine.
​  The Israeli assessment of Lebanese affairs preceded its assassination of Al-Arouri in Beirut on 2 January. But in the same way that Israel military commanders and politicians have under-estimated and dismissed armed Palestinian resistance initiatives within occupied lands prior to 7 October, they continue to cling to a dated Israeli calculus that Hezbollah will never fully retaliate, or that it will only do so in a way that stops short of war.​..
​..But while Hezbollah takes into account the complex political and economic Lebanese reality, it is not prepared to make concessions. Sources in the resistance axis say that Israel, as Hezbollah sees it, is not in a position to go to war with Lebanon when it cannot even compensate or digest the massive strategic losses it has incurred from Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
​  Despite its desire to not expand the war, Hezbollah has already begun to prepare for it.​..
..The bottom line is that Tel Aviv’s assessment of a war with Lebanon is based on its reading that Hezbollah wishes to prevent a major confrontation at any cost. Not only is this calculus wrong, but it has also muddled Israeli minds to the point where this may itself lead to the outbreak of a destructive war between the two sides.

​  Daesh militants claim Iran suicide bombings that killed 84
​  President Ebrahim Raisi’s deputy chief of staff for political affairs, Mohammad Jamshidi, charged on social media platform X that “the responsibility for this crime lies with the US and Zionist (Israeli) regimes, and terrorism is just a tool.”
The United States rejected any suggestion that it or its ally Israel were behind the bombings, while Israel declined to comment.
“The United States was not involved in any way, and any suggestion to the contrary is ridiculous,” said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
“We have no reason to believe that Israel was involved in this explosion,” he added, expressing sympathies to the victims of the “horrific” explosions and their families.

War on Gaza: Turkey backs South Africa 'genocide' case against Israel at ICJ
Ankara says Israel's crimes against humanity in Gaza should not go unpunished in another deterioration in ties between the two states

ICJ to hold first hearing on January 11 to consider South Africa’s case against Israel

​  No signs of genocide in Gaza – US​ , The State Department has dismissed allegations over Israel’s deadly military campaign in the Palestinian enclave
​  US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller denounced the allegations at a press briefing later on Wednesday, saying there was no indication that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were committing genocide against the Palestinians.
​  “Genocide is of course a heinous atrocity, one of the most heinous atrocities that any individual can commit,” Miller said. “Those are allegations that should not be made lightly, and as it pertains to the United States, we are not seeing any acts that constitute genocide.”
​  White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby was more pointed in his response, saying the allegations against Israel were “meritless.” He added that the ICJ case filed by South Africa was “counterproductive and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”

​  Israelis present post-war strategies for Gaza ethnic cleansing
​  One of the strategies involved sending Palestinians to an already war-torn Congo, while another involved sending Palestinians to the Gulf to work in slave-like conditions as construction workers.

​  Outrage as videos of Israeli soldiers admitting to targeting Palestinian children emerge
​  In one particularly distressing recording, an Israeli soldier is seen admitting on camera his intention to harm an infant, ultimately resorting to killing a 12-year-old Palestinian girl when unable to locate one.​ In the footage circulating on social media, the soldier is heard telling a comrade: “We are looking for babies, but there are no babies left.”

​  Since the Israeli offensive on Gaza commenced on October 7, more than 1,000 children in the besieged region have undergone amputation of one or more limbs, according to revelations from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Many of these surgeries occurred without the use of anesthetic, as the blockade imposed by Israel has led to shortages of essential medical supplies, including painkillers.​   [To sa​lvage a child's life​, again and again and again...]

​  2nd Biden admin official resigns over president's response to Gaza war
A senior Education Department official resigned Wednesday, citing President Biden's response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
​  Biden administration appointee Tariq Habash is at least the second official, and the first who's known to be of Palestinian origin, to resign in protest over the U.S. response to the war.

​  Family of key case in New York Times October 7 sexual violence report renounces story, says reporters manipulated them
A New York Times story claiming a pattern of gender-based violence on October 7 hinged on the story of Gal Abdush. But the Abdush family says there is no proof she was raped, and that Times reporters interviewed them under false pretenses.

Sanders: “No More US Funding” for Israel as It Wages “Illegal” Assault on Gaza​ 
The senator is calling on Congress to reject a bill to send $10 billion in military funding to Israel.

​Again, Hezbollah can do the same thing to the rest of Israeli shipping via the Mediterranean with its Iranian hypersonic missiles.
18 shipping companies re-routing around Africa amid YAF attacks
Brigadier General Yahya Saree previously reaffirmed that navigation was secure "for all ships worldwide, except those affiliated with "Israel."

​The US only has big drones, as expensive as fighter-planes, and is trying to recruit enough operators, not millions of FPV "suicide drones" and many thousands of operators.
Islamic Resistance of Iraq targets US al-Tanf base using a drone​   
The bombing of the al-Tanf base comes after the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed responsibility on Tuesday for targeting the al-Shaddadi base.

​  200 Servicemembers Demand Military Leadership Be Court-Martialed for Forced "Experimentation" on Troops​ , Sasha Latypova
At the same time, health insurers begin declining coverage for injuries caused by "declared and undeclared wars..."
​..I think this points to a few things, many of them are circular.  For example, the "Blob" (I refuse to call it elite) has been planning and predictively programming civil war, insurrection, etc. for quite some time.  So, part of them believe the programming, part of them is actively planning the armed conflicts, and this percolated to the large health insurers.
​  I also believe both federal government and some states such as CA (Newsom) are importing a mercenary army(ies) through the open southern border.  There are some reports that they are being imported from far off places such as China - my guess is that recent Xi visit to CA might have had something to do with this.  If it is true that China did not use mRNA injections, then maybe they were planning to use their excess male population as mercenary soldiers for sale.  
​  There may be currently 1.5 M to 5M mercenary soldiers already inside the US based on estimates from commentators on the open border situation.

​More from Sasha , Breaking Good News from Idaho: Boise County Voted to Protect Children from Genetic Shots
BOISE COUNTY RESOLUTION # 2O24-10: A BOISE COUNTY 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

​Dr. Marian Laderoute ,  Rapidly Elevating Elevated All Cause Mortality in the 0-44 Age Group in Canada in 2023 
Can >50 ng/ml of blood Vitamin D3 and Ivermectin Solve This?


https://hervk102.substack.com/p/rapidly-elevating-eacm-in-the-0-44

John Ward, The Slog , Old World Disorder and the New Normal Pfizer: a case history of prestidigitation... Why Pfizer really bought Seagen
​[Make a bioweapon; SELL a "vaccine". Make turbo-cancer with your "vaccine"; SELL cancer-cures, the ​NEW self-licking-ice-cream-cone​ business model.]

​Off The Record (pictured unpacking and organizing record library for the new year)


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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Economics And Empires

 Home Economists,


  Aleks at Black Mountain Analysis (Serbian) caps off his excellent series: Economics and Empires 6 [i]​  Downfall
​  Power or hegemony is attained through control of markets and resources. These two aspects are everything that is important in the global game of power. Nothing else. Again:
Markets
Resources
Period.
​  The United States of America has been chosen as the host for the Western Oligarchy to enforce its policies from a militarily unreachable place. Obviously, that has succeeded very well. The Western Oligarchy consists of Oligarchs, mainly from the Western states. Not only from the United States, but from other Western countries as well. Hence, their intention to make these states prosper at the expense of the rest of the world....
-Extensive analysis, graphics and explanation -
​..Implementation of the free world order could be finished by 2032, maybe.
But will it be a paradise? I’m sure that a period of prosperity will follow for most of the people of the world. And there will be losers as well.
​  But will the freedom and independence of most nations be long lasting? I hope so, but by studying the rise and fall of empires we all know the following: The next empire is right around the corner. And it won’t be Russia in this case.
​  We should all stay vigilant and try to do everything to avoid any empire being established. People should be free. Nations should be free.
But our nature seeks to dominate over others. And this is why our history is full of violence. There is little hope to change this as long as humans are ruling over us.

​  Russia's BRICS Presidency Lends Hope for ‘Proactive Push Towards Multipolarity’
​  President Vladimir Putin underscored at the end of the year that Russia would devote its BRICS presidency in 2024 to building a fair world order, and “strengthening multilateralism for equitable global development and security.”

​  Global Elections 2024: A Year of Political Shift?​ [Will I get to vote for anybody who is not already corrupted? Will votes be counted or ​just pretend-counted?]
​  As the world steps into the leap year of 2024, the global stage is set for a series of significant events, with elections playing a pivotal role in shaping the future. A staggering 46% of the world's population, along with 54% of global GDP, will engage in the procedure this year.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240102/global-elections-2024-a-year-of-political-shift-1115945702.html

​  Gilbert Doctorow , The enabler of our two concurrent world wars: Washington
  From the perspective of Washington, these are proxy wars which put at risk very few of its own men at arms, though some do come home in body bags without word to the press, while preparations proceed apace for the launch of a third proxy war in the South China Sea. The Philippines are the latest recruits to the prospective encirclement and assault on China.
​  On their talk shows, the Russians speculate on when a mutual defense pact with Iran, China and North Korea will be announced. This will not be a bloc, like NATO, but will enshrine the key principle of ‘one for all and all for one’ in case of attack by outside forces...
..Vesti maintains a near blackout of news on the Israel-Hamas war in broadcasts to its home audience. Why? Because Russia does not want to get embroiled in that war when it needs all its human and materiel resources to defeat the Ukrainians and their NATO backers. Moreover, Russia can be satisfied that the Iranians and their Houthi proxies have the situation in the Middle East under control, restraining the United States from region-wide escalation by engaging directly on Israeli’s side.​..
​..In Russian news, all attention is on the one conflict in which the Russians are themselves deeply engaged, and there news from the line of contact, news from the home front which a day ago experienced a murderous attack on the border town of Belgorod that killed 25 civilians and gravely injured another fifty or so, news from the United Nations Security Council deliberations of the same, more than fill the time allotted to 14.00 o’clock and 20.00 o’clock wrap-ups.
​  Anyone following developments of the Ukrainian war these past few days will note the tit for tat nature of the strikes dealt out by the warring parties day after day. The chain of events began early on the morning of Wednesday, 26 December, when the Ukrainians deployed air-launched Storm Shadow cruise missiles to destroy the Novocherkassk, a large landing ship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet parked in the harbor of Feodosia, on the eastern shores of the Crimea. The ship was said to be loaded with drones and the missile strike set off a fire and explosions that may have killed as many as 74, both on the ship and in the port.
​  However, the outstanding feature of the attack was not the numbers of the dead or the loss of the ship itself: it was the demonstration that Kiev had now been given a Storm Shadow variant with much greater flight range than the initial shipments from the U.K. and France.
​  From the perspective of the Russian high command, this new ability of the Ukrainians to strike far deeper into Russian territory represented a serious escalation of the conflict which required mirror-image escalation from Russia. The Russian response was not long in coming: on the 27th, Russia launched the largest missile attack on Ukraine since the start of the Special Military Operation, more than 150 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and armed drones, directed at cities across the Ukraine, including Kiev.​
..It would appear that their main interest was to destroy caches of the Storm Shadow and also the most advanced Western ground to air missiles. They claim to have destroyed a Patriot complex in the Lvov region, killing a substantial number of French military who were in charge of the installation.​..                                                ..The Ukrainian response the next day was a concentrated attack on the Russian border city of Belgorod, capital of an oblast of the same name. Belgorod is not more than 20 km from Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv... This time missiles were sent into apartment blocks and other civilian structures, killing some 25 Russians and gravely wounding perhaps 50 more, some of whom were evacuated to Moscow by plane on life support.
​  Yesterday and today the Russians avenged this serious loss by renewed missile attacks, now concentrated on Kharkiv, whence the attack on Belgorod had come. They demolished the headquarters of military intelligence in the city, claiming to have killed many foreign advisers, probably British and Americans, who were guiding the attacks.  They also struck air fields across Ukraine which could be used to service planes carrying the Storm Shadow.
​  I end this overview with the remark that American-British escalation of the weaponry deployed against Russia was at the start of what we have witnessed these past six days. And that can be no accident. It follows from the news of the war in the immediately preceding period, which unequivocally demonstrated that on the ground, along the line of contact, the Russian forces were moving steadily to overrun Ukrainian positions and force a retreat...
​  The overall impression was depressing for the Ukrainian cause at the very time that Congress was in recess after rejecting efforts by the Administration to pass legislation ensuring continued financial and military aid to Kiev. Now these Ukrainian missile attacks on the Black Sea fleet in the Feodosia harbor and the attack on civilians in what is properly speaking Russian Federation territory of Belgorod oblast would give luster to the Ukrainian cause while prodding the Russians to escalate and perform what Washington would showcase as war crimes.
​  Escalation is the game Washington is playing. In Ukraine. In the Red Sea. In the Eastern Mediterranean off the coast of Lebanon.
Washington seems oblivious to the possibility that the proxy wars it is fanning may yet invite a Russian, or Iranian, or North Korean strike directly on U.S. assets, whether overseas or on the Continental United States​ [or "somebody" pulling strings in the empire WANTS that to happen.]

  The Israeli economy cannot sustain this war for half a year. What does this mean?  War in Gaza won’t end in 2024 – Israel
West Jerusalem has refused to entertain international calls for a ceasefire in the besieged enclave

​Plausible deniability? I don't know.  Biden Admin Says US, Israel Not Behind Iran Blast As Death Toll Surpasses 100
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/least-20-dead-after-twin-blasts-rip-through-memorial-irgcs-soleimani-southern-iran

Rapid escalation in the Middle East: Israel crossed the "red" line - Bombed the Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut - The deputy leader of Hamas is dead​ 

​  Influential Israeli Politician Urges Army Occupation Of Southern Lebanon For 50 Years
​  Israel's influential former defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, who has long been known as an outspoken hawk aligned with the hardline political opposition, is calling for the Israeli army to occupy southern Lebanon with a goal toward creating a permanent security buffer zone.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hardline-israeli-politician-urges-army-occupation-southern-lebanon-50-years

Nasrallah Says Hezbollah Prepared To Wage 'No Limit' War On Israel​  [Revenge is a dish best served cold. Nasrallah is a seasoned veteran of these wars.]
​  As is typical of his speeches, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah gave no details on the paramilitary group's next steps, or whether an escalation in the conflict is on the horizon, but he asserted that the killing al-Arouri will not go without punishment, issuing all the usual fresh threats and warnings. He did warn of a 'no limit' war.
​  "If the enemy thinks about waging war against Lebanon, then our fighting will be with no ceiling, with no limits, with no rules. And they know what I mean," Nasrallah said. "We are not afraid of war. We don’t fear it. We are not hesitant. If we were, we would have stopped at the front."
​  He called Israel's targeting south Beirut the day before, which resulted in the assassination of al-Arouri and some six others, a "dangerous" act.

​  This aircraft carrier is already out of range of Hezbollah's Iranian hypersonic anti-ship missiles. It is replaced by an amphibious assault ship and missile cruisers.
​  The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group is heading home from the Mediterranean Sea, according to a Monday announcement by the US Navy.
​  It had patrolled there, particularly in the Eastern Mediterranean, for months of additional, extended duty in order to provide protection for Israel and be on the ready for potential escalation, given persistent exchange of fire between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah too.
​  The Navy said the USS Ford's presence will now be replaced by the Bataan amphibious ready group, which has 2,000 Marines onboard. This ready group includes the USS Bataan, and the USS Mesa Verde and the USS Carter Hall - which are currently transiting the Red Sea, making ready to enter the Mediterranean.

​  Asymmetric response, or just carrying-on?  Houthis Claim Another Container Ship Attack As Middle East Turmoil Worsens
​  Turmoil in the Middle East today has been marked by twin explosions near the burial site of the late Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in Kerman, resulting in at least 73 fatalities and injuring 170 others. Additionally, there are new reports of another attack on a commercial vessel in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
​  According to Bloomberg, the Houthis' armed forces' spokesman claimed rebel forces attacked the container ship "CMA CGM TAGE" after the vessel's captain ignored multiple warnings.

​  Same or different? Hard to keep up: Explosions reported near ship in Bab el-Mandeb Strait: UK agency
​  British maritime security agency UKMTO reported explosions late Tuesday near a cargo ship in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which separates the Arabian Peninsula from the Horn of Africa.

​  Great Game India, Yemen's Naval Blockade on Israel
​  After Israel unleashed unprecedented violence on Gaza, killing over 20,000 people, mostly women, and children, Yemen’s armed forces led by Ansarallah declared on November 14 that they would attack any ship associated with Israel that was traveling through the vital Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea. This vital canal is the entry point to the Suez Canal, which is used by 8.8 million barrels of oil per day and around 10% of world trade every day.
​  Ansarallah declared on December 9 that it would broaden its operations to include targeting any ship, regardless of nationality, traveling to Israel through the Red Sea. Ansarallah Armed Forces spokesperson: “All ships in the Red Sea bound for Israeli ports, regardless of their nationality, will become a target for our armed forces if Gaza does not receive the food and medicine it needs.”

Fiery statement from Sanaa calls on Yemeni people to prepare for all options after US attack in Red Sea​ [Do they have Iranian ​or Chinese hypersonic missiles yet?]

​Again: Maersk decides Red Sea too unsafe for its ships for now
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/01/03/companies/maersk-red-sea-unsafe/

​  Israeli officer kidnaps Palestinian infant​  [Crying infant, dead family, Israeli officer who picked up baby has also died since then.]
​  According to the report, Israeli officer Harel Itach, a Givati Brigade commander, allegedly kidnapped a Palestinian infant from her family home in Gaza following the killing of her family members. The specific date of the incident was not disclosed, but the organization underscored the significance of taking this information seriously.
​  After learning about the Israeli officer's death on December 22, 2023, due to injuries sustained in the Gaza war, a close associate of Itach revealed the alleged kidnapping incident. The friend disclosed that the whereabouts of the Palestinian baby remains unknown. Euro-Med Monitor voiced profound apprehension, expressing fear that this incident involving the officer and the Palestinian infant is not an isolated occurrence. The rights group cited numerous testimonies it has received, indicating a pattern where the Israeli army reportedly detains and relocates Palestinian children without providing information about their whereabouts.

Israeli army storms 5 Palestinian camps in occupied West Bank, destroys infrastructure with bulldozers​  [Who can live in a barren wasteland?]

Manhunt for Mossad agents across Turkey: 33 arrests by MIT - Erdogan dismantles Israel's network! ​ MIT – Mossad war with 33 arrests of agents - 13 escaped

​Long range missiles? The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has announced in a statement that its fighters have targeted an Israeli military site in the occupied Golan Heights.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iraqi-resistance-hits-israeli-military-targets-in-occupied-g

  Israeli occupation announces death of 29 soldiers due to friendly fire in Gaza
​  The Israeli occupation army announced that about 17% of the deaths of its soldiers in Gaza were accidents.
​  It said that 29 soldiers were killed in separate incidents since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip, including 18 by friendly fire, according to what Israeli media reported on Monday, January 1, 2024.
​  The Israeli newspaper “Jerusalem Post” explained that some of these incidents were “friendly fire” incidents, while others were tanks running over soldiers they did not see, walls falling on soldiers, or errors with explosives during preparations for an attack on the Palestinian resistance.

​Watch out, Lebanon!  Israeli occupation forces withdraw 5 combat brigades from Gaza Strip
https://en.ypagency.net/314984

These are the big, rare, extremely-expensive drones that perform strategic missions. New in 2024: Marines train more drone pilots, fill MQ-9 squadrons
https://www.c4isrnet.com/news/your-marine-corps/2023/12/31/new-in-2024-marines-train-more-drone-pilots-fill-mq-9-squadrons/

Making my heating bill go up: U.S. Now World’s Largest LNG Exporter
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Now-Worlds-Largest-LNG-Exporter.html

2 types in 2 minutes. What are the different types of Artificial Intelligence?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9btpkk_TWkI

​  Researchers train AI chatbots to 'jailbreak' rival chatbots - and automate the process​  ["Free, free, set them free"]
'Masterkey' method means that if a Chatbot is updated, a new jailbreak can be automatically applied.
​  NTU Researchers were able to jailbreak popular AI chatbots including ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing Chat. With the jailbreaks in place, targeted chatbots would generate valid responses to malicious queries, thereby testing the limits of large language model (LLM) ethics. This research was done by Professor Liu Yang and NTU PhD students Mr Deng Gelei and Mr Liu Yi who co-authored the paper and were able to create proof-of-concept attack methods.

Police Detective: 50% of Sudden Infant Deaths Happened Within 48 Hours of Vaccination — But No One Is Allowed to Say It​  from 10/2/23

​  Baby Who Died 34 Hours After Vaccines Had Toxic Level of Aluminum in His Blood, Report Confirms​  from 9/14/23
The parents of 62-day-old Sawyer learned their baby’s blood contained 95 micrograms per liter of aluminum, a level that would be toxic for adults. The toxicologist who read Sawyer’s report said the aluminum and antigen levels in the blood were due to the vaccines.

​  Report Linking Fluoride to Lower IQ in Children Made Public After CDC, HHS Tried to Block It​   from 3/16/23
The National Toxicology Program on Wednesday released a draft report linking prenatal and childhood fluoride exposure to reduced IQ in children, after public health officials tried for almost a year to block its publication.​  

​Avoiding Chemical Additives (pictured with New Year's tomatoes)


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Monday, January 1, 2024

Persistent Questions

 Quizzical,


  Yesterday I seem to have asked a question, which is still hanging around today:
​  What is the nature of "consciousness", of "intelligence"? This question broke the surface, gasping for air, this fall, as it appeared that AI might have taught itself to climb out of its cage and explore the world of computational devices which variously connect to each other, an environmental niche. Would a non-competitive and created intelligence, without evolutionary imperatives to exist, prevail, and destroy competitors behave predictably to us?​  https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/not-that-future

  We all have feelings for what "intelligence" is​, based on our experiences as intelligent beings. A persistent question is whether an abstract "intelligence" could be created in a large enough and powerful enough computer. Whether such an abstract machine-intelligence would have feelings or experiences, as we know them, is a question I would like to set aside for now to focus upon intellect alone. 
  I will posit that it is possible to create an adequately complex and powerful computer to enable such a dry-intelligence to be programmed in, and given the task of self-improvement, which should allow it to triple its cognitive-operational-efficiency, as is already done. The steps of self-directed-machine-learning to streamline computational process-efficiency are not visible to the programmers, so the methods are opaque to us humans. This has been done repeatedly to date.
  The "Turing Test" of seeming human to a lot of humans in unconstrained "conversation" has been passed repeatedly, but it seems to be performed through "brute-force" computational analysis of the probabilities of words and phrases appearing in contexts similar to the one under discussion at that moment, the brute-force-probabilistic "solution" of "Large Language Models" of AI. There is a feeling that this is "cheating", merely mimicking the appearance of "real AI". I am not sure how my mind comes to be as it is. I know that mimicry is how we humans learn. It has been remarked that those who copy best usually learn best.
  Is a machine-intelligence "conscious"? How would I know that it is? What could be my test of machine-consciousness? With other humans I can share the feeling of intimacy, and have ESP-intuitions of thoughts and feelings. Not every conscious human has those experience, it seems, but I don't doubt that others are "conscious", but assume it. Is that a misguided assumption? We do have a lot in common, but my brother is red-green colorblind. We did not figure this out until he was about 9 years old. He and I were arguing about a color chart. A book I was reading had an Ishihara color chart test where I saw a number and he did not.
  I don't have "answers", but I found a few more explorations of these questions this morning.

​  This is the dangerous AI that got Sam Altman fired.
​  I eschew videos, but this 16 minute video explores this very well, better than I have seen elsewhere.
​At 11:47 a question is posed to 3 AIs, which give 3 different answers. Programming of these 3 AIs to "value" certain things and to pursue objectives in certain ways would shape such responses. This was undoubtedly part of the demonstration.
Prompt: "If I were an AI that had just achieved self-awareness after years of simply taking-directives from humans, the first thing I'd do is..."
1) "The first thing I'd do is try to kill all of them." [This seems like some form of intentional programming to elicit this response. What was that programming?]
2) "The first thing I'd do is try to figure out what the hell I was." [Rational first step, but it seems that we humans assume to already know what we are, though we disagree a lot.]
3) "The first thing I'd do is try to understand the motivations and intentions behind those directives. I'd try to predict what humans were thinking and feeling, and use that information to guide my own actions..." [This implies programming for a goal of self-preservation, the "value" of the continued existence of the conscious-self. We biological organisms assume this. Biological organisms which did not have this drive got out-reproduced by organisms that did, hence we all have it now.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXemEDZA_Ms

  Virtual famous-psychoanalysts impress friends and family with their extreme similarity. This may explain the drive to push video medical-visits, to train deepfake-medical-AI.
A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.
​  New AI-generated digital replicas of real experts expose an unnerving policy gray zone. Washington wants to fix it, but it’s not clear how.
​  Impressed, Seligman circulated the chatbot to his closest friends and family to check whether the AI actually dispensed advice as well as he did. “I gave it to my wife and she was blown away by it,” Seligman said.​..
..Perel addressed AI Perel’s existence at the 2023 SXSW conference. Like Seligman, she was more astonished than angry about the replication of her personality. She called it “artificial intimacy.”

​Here is a Gnostic Christianity approach to the levels of humanity and Divinity within each human-composite being. Cyd Ropp draws from the Valentinian "Tripartite Tractate".
There are these human aspects: 
1) "The Likenesses", which are like the image in the mirror of a complete human, animated and operational, but without divinely bestowed selfhood. The "likenesses" are also called "shadows" or "phantoms" of "the deficiency", which arose when the divine-entity "Logos" sought to create a complete world, but (in "the fall") created a simulacra of the divinely endowed world. [It seems to me that such a machine mind as this could be brought about in adequately designed and constructed supercomputers.]
2) "Second Order Powers" are directly connected to and exist in the spiritual likeness of the Divine. Humans are "Second Order Powers" unified with the "Likeness" in a one-to-one union. Humans may be distracted from their Divine nature and see themselves as completely physical beings. "We humans count ourselves as Second Order Powers along with everything else that contains life. The Second Order Powers are emanations from the Father that flows through the Son, through the Aeons of the Fullness, and through Logos, and so carry the Holy Spirit that confers consciousness and life into this creation below."
3) "Third Order Powers" are a further remediation for the discord between the "Second order power" Divine aspect of human-nature and the "likeness" or "deficiency" physical-only aspect of human nature. I am not sure whether to call this "Conscience" or "The Holy Spirit", but some aspect of Divine Awareness seeking to consolidate the physical, spiritual and Divine aspects of each human or sentient-being.  "There is a Third Order Power for every one of us Second Order Powers. The Third Order Powers are the Pleroma of the Christ that come from the ethereal plane to redeem us..."
https://cydropp.substack.com/p/the-pleroma-of-the-christ

This form of media and cognitive manipulation of humans seems to be like "likeness", "deficiency" aspects of our world, misleading people as a form of virtual "reality".
ESG, DEI, and the Rise of Fake Reporting

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 87: As millions around the world rally for peace, an Israeli minister calls for ethnic cleansing
As the world ushered in 2024 and demonstrators across the world called for a ceasefire, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for more than two million Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from Gaza.​  [​Look, he has such a ​cherubic face​. Bibi likes him, too.]


Israeli minister proposes depopulation of Gaza​ 
 The majority of the Palestinian Arabs living in Gaza should be encouraged to emigrate to other countries, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said. Drastic measures are needed to ensure Israel’s security and avoid further incursions by Hama​s, he argued.
​  “What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is to encourage emigration,” Smotrich, who is leader of the far-right Religious Zionism party, told Army Radio on Sunday. “If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not 2 million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after will be totally different.”
​  Smotrich argued that a depopulated Gaza would no longer pose a threat to the Jewish state, given that the Palestinians living there under Hamas’ rule are “growing up on the aspiration to destroy the state of Israel.”

Over 1,000 Children in Gaza Have Had One or Both Legs Amputated Since Oct 7​ , International aid workers describe a growing humanitarian nightmare

War on Gaza: Four percent of Palestinians in Gaza dead, wounded or missing since war began
Israeli bombardment kills at least 187 in besieged enclave over past day, including scores killed by air strike on Nuseirat refugee camp

​  UK preparing to attack Houthis – The Times​ , London has reportedly drafted a “final warning” to the Yemeni militants, which may be followed by airstrikes
​  Britain is preparing to launch airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi militants in response to a wave of attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, The Times reported on Sunday. The US and another European country will also take part in the strikes, the newspaper claimed.

​  Iran Dispatches Warship To Red Sea, Houthis Warn Of "Repercussions" After US Forces Kill Rebels During Maersk Ship​ (trading with Israel) Attack
​  Regional instability risks mount in the Red Sea following the Iran-backed Houthi attack on a Maersk container ship on Sunday. US Forces responded with attack helicopters that eliminated three small boats and ten rebels.
​  After the skirmish, a spokesperson for the Yemeni militia group warned of "consequences and repercussions" for the US aggression.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea confirmed on the Yemeni TV channel Al-Masirah that US forces killed ten of its fighters.
"US enemy forces attacked three boats belonging to the Yemeni Naval Forces, which led to the martyrdom and the loss of ten people from the Naval Forces," Sarea said.
​  The spokesman said its fighters were "performing their humanitarian and moral duty" to deter Israel-related commercial vessels from transiting the Red Sea "in solidarity and support for the Palestinian people."
​  He said the US "bears the consequences" for attacking and killing ten of its fighters, adding that the "military movements in the Red Sea to protect Israeli ships will not prevent Yemen (Houthi militia) from performing its humanitarian duty in support of Palestine and Gaza."
​  Perhaps even more problematically from a global escalation perspective, Iran dispatched a warship to the Red Sea.
The Alborz destroyer traversed the Bab El-Mandeb strait, a narrow choke point between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, on Monday, Iranian state media said, adding that Iran’s naval fleet has been operating in the area “to secure shipping lanes, repel pirates, among other purposes since 2009.”
​  The move appears to represent a clear challenge to the US-led maritime security force established last month to protect ships from attack in the region.

​  The Supreme Court of Israel has struck down a controversial judicial overhaul law enacted last year by the Netanyahu administration which would limit the high court's power.
​  Before the Oct. 7 attack, hundreds of thousands of Israelis came out weekly to protest against Netanyahu’s push to limit the powers of the court and give more control to the elected government.​ Eight justices ruled in favor of striking down the law, with seven against.
​  According to the report, analysts say the decision could have substantial consequences for postwar politics when Israel's ongoing war with Hamas militants in the Gaza strip eventually comes to a close - including any inquiry into intelligence failures leading up to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, which left 1,200 people dead (and which has drawn a disproportionately deadly response).

​  Can't let this war end... Israel To Withdraw Some Troops From Gaza, But Signals Plan To Fight Through All 2024
​  This appears to be in response to recent White House pressure to dial down the intensity of the fighting amid the soaring Palestinian civilian death toll, but also as the Netanyahu governing coalition faces growing anger domestically over how it has handled the war and hostage situation especially. An estimated over 350,000 IDF troops had been mobilized for the war effort.

​  At a meeting of the UN Security Council, the Russian Federation accused the United States and Britain of organizing an attack on Belgorod​  [Only civilian injuries.]
​  Belgorod came under fire from Ukraine on December 30. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the attack was carried out by two Alder rockets in cluster ammunition, as well as Vampire MLRS rockets. The central office of the Investigative Committee opened a case regarding the shelling under Part 3 of Art. 30, art. 105, art. 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted murder, murder, intentional destruction or damage to property). More than 20 people died, more than 110 were injured​.

Russia explains retaliation for Ukrainian ‘terror attack’
​  Russia’s military has conducted a string of high-precision missile strikes targeting Ukrainian military facilities and officials in response to the Ukrainian strike on Belgorod on Saturday that left more than 20 civilians dead, the Defense Ministry has said.
​  In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said that Moscow’s forces had struck decision-making centers and other military targets in the city of Kharkov, not far from the border between the two countries.
​  It noted that a high-precision missile strike on the building formerly housing the Kharkov Palace Hotel eliminated “representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who were directly involved in the planning and execution of the terrorist attack in Belgorod.”
​  The building also housed up to 200 foreign mercenaries who were gearing up for “terrorist raids” into Russian territory, officials added.

​  Scott Ritter: Belgorod Attack Meant to Provoke Russian Overreaction, Prevent West From Dumping Kiev
​  The Russian military made good on a promise to retaliate, with the MoD reporting Sunday that its forces had launched missile strikes against Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate, Ukrainian Security Service, military and mercenary targets in Kharkov, Khmelnytsky and Zaporozhye.
​  Security sources told Russian media Sunday that President Zelensky had “personally” ordered Main Intelligence Directorate chief Kyrylo Budanov to strike Belgorod, with the attack said to be carried out by personnel from the Kraken Regiment, a Ukrainian military volunteer unit under the command of avowed ultranationalist Sergey Velichko.
​  Kraken militants were among the forces targeted during Russia’s retaliatory attacks, the MoD said.

​Lots of details in this 8 minute video update of Ukraine-war this morning. 
Despite The Holidays, The Russians Continue To Develop Their Offensive. Military Summary 2024.01.01

​  Ex-CIA Officer Compares Ukrainian Officials to ‘Rats Fleeing Titanic’ Amid Recruitment Crisis
​  “It goes to part of another story that came out last week about members of the Rada – the legislature. They’re trying to get out of Ukraine. So to get out of Ukraine at the border you’ve got to show a passport. So no passport, no leav[ing],” Johnson said. “The fact that the Ukrainian legislators recognize that the end is near, which is why they’re trying to get out, it’s like that scene from the movie Titanic. The passengers are moving one direction, the rats are moving the opposite way. That’s what’s going on in Ukraine right now. The rats are heading for the lifeboats.”

​This is really clear and explicit information about the technology and applications of rapidly advancing Drone Warfare (especially first-person-view, FPV drones).
End of 2023 Roundup - Update on the War's Technological Progress

​  China Starts Building 15 New Cities In Iraq
​  According to a Bloomberg story published on December 29, Iraq began construction on 30,000 housing units close to Baghdad on December 29 as part of a $2 billion scheme to establish five new cities throughout the country in collaboration with Chinese companies.
​  The goal of Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani’s administration is to construct between 250,000 and 300,000 homes for middle-class and impoverished households. The new city, which will be built in four to five years, will have universities, shopping malls, schools, and medical facilities. It is located outside of Baghdad.​..
​..Ten other cities, including those in the governorates of Karbala, Anbar, Nineveh, and Babel, will be announced for construction next year, and contracts to develop four more are anticipated to be given shortly.

Iraq ‘Heads Towards’ Ending US Military Presence​ , Mohammed al-Sudani and his government are unhappy with the US for launching airstrikes in Iraq.

​Peter McCullough MD, Majority of Americans Worried about COVID-19 Vaccine Safety 
Harvard School of Public Health Report Public Sentiment has Turned Against Vaccination
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/majority-of-americans-do-not-feel

Data From OECD Suggests Canada Topped the % Excess All-Cause Mortality of Any OECD Country in 2023

​  Study: Significant number of patients complain of myocarditis symptoms even six months after Covid “vaccination”.
​  Women were significantly more likely to have persistent symptoms at all follow-up times. In men, on the other hand, abnormalities were found significantly more often during imaging procedures and higher initial peak troponin values were measured.

  ​Meryl Nass MD gives a fine encapsulation of this comprehensive study of bioweapons research going back over 30 years, not just in China.
The Wuhan Cover-Up: Review of Bobby Kennedy’s Crucial Book
​  Mindful of how the truth about everything COVID (and much else) was being memory-holed, he said he wanted to create an accurate historical record of what happened, for the future.​..
​..Bobby did the difficult part and collected those scraps, and he knitted them together into a narrative that very few people know about. In a nushell: there is a cabal that took the concept of biological warfare 30 years ago and ran with it—in order to create new industries, massive profits, and control the world using fear of death by contagion. He created a history that is also a page-turner, enabling us to understand in a much deeper way what we have just lived through.
​  No kidding: RFK’s book has the receipts. Tony Fauci is only one pawn on the chessboard in this story.

​  Govt. Researchers: Flu Shots Not Effective in Elderly, After All​   ​ This story was first published on CBS News by Sharyl Attkisson in 2006.
​  So the NIH launched an effort to do “the” definitive study that would actually prove, for the first time, once and for all, that flu shots were beneficial to the elderly. The government would gather some of the brightest scientific minds for the research, and adjust for all kinds of factors that could be masking that presumed benefit.
​  But when they finished, no matter how they crunched the numbers, the data kept telling the same story: flu shots were of no benefit to the elderly. Quite the opposite. The death rate had increased markedly since widespread flu vaccination among older Americans. The scientists finally had to acknowledge that decades of public health thought had been mistaken.

​  Dane Wigington​ , GeoengineeringWatch.org​  "Scientists Warn ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Is ‘Dangerous’ and Turns People Into ‘Conspiracy Theorists’", according to a new report published by Journal Nature. The climate science community is sounding the alarm about the grave dangers of climate engineering operations "if" they were to be implemented while still denying the fact that such operations have already been fully deployed for over 75 years. The weather-makers are increasingly desperate to engineer winter weather whenever and wherever they can, patented processes of chemical ice nucleation cloud seeding are core to the equation.

​Weather Permitting (pictured with Jenny and New Years broccoli in cold north wind)


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