Friday, January 12, 2024

Genocide In Whose Name

 Sincere Humans,


  Jewish Voice For Peace, Why Israel's War on Gaza is Textbook Genocide
​  From the very beginning, Israeli officials have made their genocidal intentions in Gaza clear. And in the three months since October 7, they’ve followed through on their promises, inflicting incomprehensible suffering on the over two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza...
..Both South Africa and the Center for Constitutional Rights are basing their cases on the Genocide Convention — the treaty that defines the crime of genocide under international law.
This definition has two requirements for determining that a state is committing a genocide:
The state must demonstrate the intent to destroy a group of people.
There must be physical acts committed which put this intent into action.

​Four minutes of testimony to Israeli Genocide in Gaza:

​  Israel defends itself to UN against allegations of genocide against Palestinians
​  Israel insisted at the United Nations’ highest court Friday that its war in Gaza was a legitimate defense of its people and said that it was Hamas militants who were guilty of genocide.

​  Chris Hedges, Israel Cannot Be a Colonial Power and a Democracy
​  The scholar, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, who Isaiah Berlin called the conscience of Israel, warned that, “If Israel did not separate church and state, it would give rise to a corrupt rabbinate that would warp Judaism into a fascistic cult. Religious nationalism is to religion what National Socialism was to socialism,” warned Leibowitz, who died in 1994. He understood that the blind veneration of the military, especially after the 1967 war that captured the West Bank in East Jerusalem was dangerous and would lead to the ultimate destruction of democracy. “Our situation will deteriorate to that of a second Vietnam, to a war and constant escalation without prospect of ultimate resolution,” he wrote.
​  He foresaw that, “The Arabs would be the working people and the Jews, the administrators, inspectors, officials and police, mainly secret police. A state ruling a hostile population of 1.5 million to 2 million foreigners would necessarily become a secret police state. With all that implies for education, free speech and democratic institutions. The corruption characteristic of every colonial regime would also prevail in the state of Israel. The administration would have to suppress Arab insurgency on the one hand and acquire Arab ​Quislings on the other. There is also good reason to fear that the Israeli Defense Force, which has been until now, a people’s army would, as a result of being transformed into an army of occupation to generate and its commanders who will have become military governors, will resemble their colleagues in other nations.”

​  ‘Terrifying’ number of injuries since start of Gaza war: Israeli media​  (Only Jewish injuries and deaths count.​ This might be 5% of IDF injuries and murders of Palestinians.)
According to the Israeli defense ministry, over 6,000 members of the security forces have been wounded over the past three months
​  Over 6,000 members of the Israeli security establishment – including the army and the police – have been injured since the start of the war between Israel and the resistance in Gaza and Lebanon, the Jerusalem Post reported on 11 January, citing defense ministry figures.
“The numbers coming out are terrifying,” the Israeli outlet wrote.  Out of the 6,000 who have been wounded, more than 2,000 are permanently disabled​ 
[none of them small children], the report highlights.
“Nothing prepared the medical establishment for the onslaught of injuries resulting from the war over the last three months.”

​Dima at Military Summary gives a succinct (16 min), broad and detailed overview of military and geopolitical moves in global war today.
US Coalition Strikes Yemeni Military Facilities | Zelensky Is In Panic | Military Summary 2024.01.12

​  Houthis Undeterred After US Coalition Pummels Over 60 Targets With Tomahawk Missiles, Airstrikes
​  Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree released a videotaped address saying "The American and British enemy bears full responsibility for its criminal aggression against our Yemeni people, and it will not go unanswered and unpunished." Houthi sources have tallied over 70 strikes across five regions of Yemen, indicating that at least five people died in the attacks. The Pentagon indicated over 100 missiles of a variety of types were used.
​  The US Air Force's Mideast command said in a statement that a combination of jets, destroyers, and a submarine were used, hitting Houthi "command-and-control nodes, munitions depots, launching systems, production facilities and air defense radar systems" in the operation which followed repeat Houthi attacks on Red Sea vessels. "I will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary," President Biden had said in a written statement.

"What Really Happened in Maui?"​ , John Leake appears in documentary about Lahaina disaster​  (Please look at the comme​nts by TriTorch for more links.)

​The 26 minute video looks more at what people went through, government corruption & criminal profiteering, but just mentions beam weapons briefly.
What Really Happened in Maui? | Blaze Originals

From 9/7/23, Lahaina Tree Burns Inside Out

From 9/10/23, Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS)

  But what is the "signal"? Still no 2024 images of "Lloyd Austin".  Lowry: AWOL Defense Secretary sends signal
In an age when it’s nearly impossible to go off the grid, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin managed it. He failed to notify the White House and other key players that he was hospitalized in the intensive care unit. This, needless to say, is not an incidental detail about his life — like, say, that he routinely does his grocery shopping on Saturday afternoons, or is taking the Kansas City Chiefs and giving the points this weekend.
If the principal deputy assistant secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity went missing, presumably only her personal assistant would notice, and the country would be better for it.
​  The secretary of defense, in contrast, is a rather consequential position in the U.S. government.

​  In its latest assertion of sovereignty and responsibility for securing its border with Mexico, the once and future Republic of Texas has seized control of a 47-acre park in the city of Eagle Pass, which has been a major avenue of illegal immigration. What's more, the Texans are barring US Border Patrol agents and watercraft from the property, which they've used as a staging area for processing migrants.

Fanigate Goes Full Jerry Springer: DA's Alleged Lover Left Wife 'In Dire Need' After Failing To Disclose $700K According To Divorce Docs

​  (Dude ALWAYS passes his piss-tests.) NASA Defends Elon Musk After WSJ 'Drug'-Smear Campaign
​  Nearly a week after WSJ journos wrote a hit piece accusing Elon Musk of illegal drug use to the extent that has worried Tesla and SpaceX executives and board members, and of course, citing anonymous sources, NASA comes out swinging, saying the billionaire and SpaceX are not in violation of workplace rules on alcohol and drugs that could threaten rocket launches, according to Bloomberg.
​  "The agency does not have evidence of non-compliance from SpaceX on how the company addresses the drug- and alcohol-free workforce regulations," NASA wrote in a statement on Thursday...
​..The world's wealthiest person has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties around the world, where attendees sign nondisclosure agreements or give up their phones to enter, according to people who have witnessed his drug use and others with knowledge of it.

​Surplus Energy Economics ,  At the end of the last delusion , Dr. Tim Morgan
​  One discovery really can change everything. What we are now discovering is that the economy – the system which supplies material products and services to society – has stopped growing, and has started to contract.
​  What this discovery means is that everything affected by economic conditions – including finance, politics, and the balance of forces within society – is going to change in ways that are only now starting to become apparent.
​  This is isn’t a difficult discovery or, even remotely, a new one. It has been known since at least as far back as 1972, when the authors of The Limits to Growth gave us a remarkably prescient picture of how events would pan out.
​  Far from being a hard concept to grasp, the reality is the simple impossibility of infinite economic expansion on a finite planet. That energy is at the core of everything material – which of necessity includes the economy – is day-one knowledge for every student of biology, chemistry or physics.
​  What falsified the gloomy predictions of Thomas Malthus was the omission of energy from his calculus. He didn’t, and arguably couldn’t, have foreseen how the harnessing of energy from coal, oil and natural gas was going to transform everything, including the production of food.
​  We cannot conclude, as an absolute certainty, that the fading out of the fossil fuel impetus is going to compress society back to a pre-industrial scale and simplicity.
​  But we are entitled to conclude that the economy will contract unless and until a successor form of energy is discovered. That successor energy must match or exceed the energy density of fossil fuels. Neither renewables nor – in our current state of knowledge – nuclear power can deliver on that requirement...​..The facts of the economy are that we use energy to extract raw materials and convert them into products and services. This, like so much else, is a duality. Just as energy is used to convert materials into products, so energy itself is converted from a dense to a diffuse form...
​..Time is being called on the dissipative-landfill model, and this call is coming from two directions.​ It is surely clear beyond dispute that we are testing, and probably over-taxing, the absorption tolerances of the natural environment.​ Meanwhile, our past exploitation of the easiest, lowest-cost sources of fossil fuel energy has put us onto a decline path, where each new source of oil, gas or coal has a lesser ex-cost value than the one that it replaces...
​..SEEDS – the Surplus Energy Economics Data System – interprets and projects the economy on the basis of this duality. It reveals that numerous economic problems are traceable to imbalances in the relationship between the “two economies” of the material and the monetary.
​  The linkage between the two is hierarchical. At least in theory, the “real” economy could exist without its financial counterpart. It is at least possible for us to operate the material economy on the basis of sharing, barter or centralised allocation.
​  But the “financial” economy cannot exist without its material corollary. Having no intrinsic worth, money commands value only as an exercisable “claim” on the material products and services for which it can be exchanged...
​..The financial economy, in its stock function of assets and liabilities, is based on a set of assumptions which are – in most cases inadvertently – false. The idea that the economy is an infinitely-expanding system powered by money is a fallacy. The economy is, in reality, an energy system, limited by the finality of resource value and the finality of environmental tolerance.
​  This, ultimately, is why we’ve been using fakery – perhaps innocent, perhaps intentional – to keep the financial system from toppling over. We tried to counter the deceleration (“secular stagnation”) of the 1990s by ramping up the supply of credit to the system. When this led, not to the nirvana of accelerating material growth, but to the crisis of 2008-09, we opted to turbocharge the credit flow with monetary gimmickry.
​  The result has been the simultaneous creation of an “everything bubble” in asset prices (which is destined to burst) and a liabilities mountain (which must collapse because it cannot possibly be honoured).

​  Charles Hugh Smith ,  The Chinese Connection: Here's Why Inflation Won't Fall to 2% and Stay There Indefinitely
Where is the global deflator expansive enough to replace China's one-off deflation of global inflationary forces? There isn't one.
​  In broad brush, central banks got away with the illusion of permanently low inflation even as they pumped trillions in new currency into the global economy for one reason: China. It is useful to think of China in the early-to-mid 1990s as a system of vast, interconnected, untapped pools of:
1. Cheap labor just awaiting exploitation by global corporations, local entrepreneurs and state entities
2. Ambition, drive and long-frustrated desires for improved opportunities for individual/family betterment
3. Need for capital/credit to build a modern economy and infrastructure
4. Potential for national issuance of currency and credit on an unimaginably large scale
​  All four pools were tapped at ever larger scales over the past 30 years, enabling China to deflate the cost of goods globally as "the workshop of the world."
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-chinese-connection-heres-why

​​  ​John Ward, The Slog, presents the view from 2026 (or so) , Analogies and Outcomes: At the End of the Neoliberal Road

​  Gambia is further down the road to impoverished perdition…and this why I contend that Brits in particular and the EU in general would do well to use my adopted country as a yardstick for what the coming Apocalypse might entail.
​  Ultimately, neoliberal capitalism is a cul de sac economic system doomed to eat itself. It gives more and more ridiculous wealth to the tiny percentage of winners, but has no solution to the bust that inevitably follows the mortal combat [between rising interest rates and the level of lax household borrowing to maintain the feverish repeat consumption level] required to keep the ideology solvent.

​  Jacques Baud ,  The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat
​  The problem with the vast majority of our so-called military experts is their inability to understand the Russian approach to war. It is the result of an approach we have already seen in waves of terrorist attacks—the adversary is so stupidly demonized that we refrain from understanding his way of thinking. As a result, we are unable to develop strategies, articulate our forces, or even equip them for the realities of war...
..The way Russians understand conflict is holistic. In other words, they see the processes that develop and lead to the situation at any given moment. This explains why Vladimir Putin’s speeches invariably include a return to history. In the West, we tend to focus on X moment and try to see how it might evolve. We want an immediate response to the situation we see today. The idea that “from the understanding of how the crisis arose comes the way to resolve it” is totally foreign to the West...
..The reason the Russians are better than the West in Ukraine is that they see the conflict as a process; whereas we see it as a series of separate actions. The Russians see events as a film. We see them as photographs. They see the forest, while we focus on the trees. That is why we place the start of the conflict on February 24, 2022, or the start of the Palestinian conflict on October 7, 2023. We ignore the contexts that bother us and wage conflicts we do not understand. That is why we lose our wars…

​  Sasha Latypova (Russian),  We have a pandemic of marburg and ebola lasting to at least December 31, 2028.
There is a potential for a trillion new viruses to emerge, and mutate! Ask you friendly CDC rep for directions to the nearest quarantine camp, ahem ... wellness facility.
​  If you didn’t know this, the link below is to the most recent PREP Act declaration extending the marburg pandemic to 2028! Marburg is allegedly the deadliest “virus” out there.
​  The WHO Pandemic Treaty would enforce the sharing of THIS virus with every participating country. 
Chinese Scientists Reveal Experiments With Virus 100% Fatal To Mice
​  Scientists in China, experimenting with a coronavirus closely related to the virus that causes COVID-19, found that it had a 100 percent kill rate in a small mouse study, according to the researchers’ announcement on Jan. 4.
​  The scientists, including a doctor trained by the Chinese military, cloned a pangolin coronavirus and infected modified mice to “assess its pathogenicity,” they said in a preprint paper published on bioRxiv.
​  Of the four mice infected with the virus, all began to lose weight five days post-infection. Shortly thereafter, they exhibited symptoms including sluggishness and white eyes.
The four mice died within eight days of inoculation. Researchers described the results as “surprising.”
​  Researchers then infected eight additional mice, euthanized them, and selected organs from four to analyze. High levels of viral RNA were found in various organs, including the brain, lungs, and eyes. While the viral load in the lungs decreased by the sixth day, it increased in the brain.
​  “This finding suggested that severe brain infection during the later stages of infection may be the key cause of death in these mice,” the scientists said.
​The experiments were on a mutant strain of the pangolin virus, known as GX_P2V(short_3UTR).​ The results suggest a risk for the virus to “spill over into humans.”

  ​Tessa Lena Interviews James Roguski: A Deadline Coming Up on Jan 27: A Conversation with James Roguski on the WHO Power Grab
​  In this particular interview, we focus on a deadline that is coming up on January 27. James explains what it’s all about, and what you can do...
​..And here are some suggestions from Dr. Meryl Nass’​  Door to Freedom​ https://doortofreedom.org/what-you-can-do/​ , also dedicated to countering the WHO power grab.
​  I hope you find this interview and the background information helpful! There is also a philosophical point. The philosophical point is not in the interview but both James and I believe that the WHO already has the power to bribe and coerce “world leaders” into doing what their donors what them to do—which they demonstrated very convincingly in 2020. What they are trying to accomplish now is add another symbol of power to their crown.​ (Jump to the chase at 20:20 if desired​ and you know the background.)

​  Greg Hunter interviews Meryl Nass MD , Disaster If WHO Gets Total Medical Control – Dr. Meryl Nass
​  Dr. Meryl Nass is an expert on vaccines.  She has testified to Congress many times.  Dr. Nass warned about the dangers of the CV19 vax.  Massive amounts of deaths and disabilities have been documented around the world caused by what many doctors say are simply bioweapon injections.  Early on, Dr. Nass was a proponent of treating Covid with Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine with outstanding results for her patients.  For this, her medical license was suspended in the State of Maine two years ago.  This did not stop Dr. Nass from fighting to get the word out about the evil being caused by the CV19 shots.  Just when you think it’s over, and we can all get back to normal, Dr. Nass warns of a more evil global plan to take control of your healthcare (and life) in the next pandemic.  The UN and the WHO are wanting to do this by May 2024.  Dr. Nass explains, “The WHO is an agency under the UN.  One document, that has never existed before, is called a ‘Pandemic Treaty,’ and they are drafting it now.  The other is an ordinary document called ‘International Health Regulations.’. . . . What has happened is they want to use this document and amend it massively.  They want to completely change what the document is about and have it become orders that all the nations of the world will have to obey.  The person giving the orders is the Director General of the WHO.  This director can declare a pandemic under any circumstances he likes. . . . It gives the Director General of the WHO enormous power to dictate healthcare to anyone around the world. . . .
https://usawatchdog.com/disaster-if-who-gets-total-medical-control-dr-meryl-nass/

​  Meryl Nass MD welcomes another "sinner" into the fold: Ryan Cole, MD: Board Restricts Doctor's License Over COVID Misinfo
Mayo Clinic trained, brilliant doc gets slapped for misinformation. The brazenness is increasing--they are willing to overtly challenge Freedom of Speech now. Look what is coming down the pike, folks.
​  Cole has held a medical license in Washington state since 2007, with no prior disciplinary action against it. His medical license in Idaho, where he is based, remains active with no action against it.
​  Back in 2021, the Idaho Medical Association called on its state medical board to investigate Coleover his prescribing of ivermectin to COVID-19 patients. That same year, Cole and his laboratory, Cole Diagnostics, parted ways with St. Luke's Health Partners, an integrated health network in Idaho.
​  Cole had also appeared in a viral documentaryreleased in 2022 called "Died Suddenly," which claimed COVID shots were connected to unusual blood clots and the sudden onset of cancer.

  Peter McCullough MD, Mutational Resistance Expected with Mass Indiscriminate Nirsevimab Injection of Infants  
Analysis Demonstrates RSV Will Easily Mutate to Escape Monoclonal Antibodies
​  As a clinician, it makes more sense to me to reserve monoclonal antibodies for acute treatment in high-risk cases where mechanical ventilation and death are potential consequences such as children with severe lung disease at baseline. With widespread use of monoclonal antibodies on the first day of life, it is very likely RSV resistance will emerge and babies will have been unnecessarily injected with a novel product having no assurances on long-term safety. All the more reason to curtail this new, mass indiscriminate program for newborns before the entire population is put at risk.

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

First Day In Genocide Court

 Peers,

​  Gaza grandmother gunned down by Israeli sniper as child waved white flag
Shocking video shows Hala Rashid Abd al-Ati being shot and killed while leaving Gaza City, as her grandson, who had his arms interlocked with her, was waving a white flag


 ​  M. K. BHADRAKUMAR​ , Blinken’s window dressing tour of Arab capitals
​  What truly distinguishes the present crisis is that the Arab world is profoundly concerned and feels outraged by the barbaric Israeli behaviour toward hapless Palestinians — ‘animals,’ as Israeli politicians have described them. The Arab psyche is convinced that an enduring final settlement of the Palestine problem cannot be postponed indefinitely. Something has fundamentally changed even for Saudi Arabia which had clandestine dealings with Israel for decades and was inching toward establishing formal relations with it.

​  South Africa's statement begins at 15:50 on the time mark. South Africa on Thursday presented its case against Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and asked the World Court to order Israel to stop its military operation.  Watch the replay. Israel responds on Friday.

 CRACK IN A 75-YEAR-OLD WALL OF IMPUNITY: SOUTH AFRICA CHALLENGES ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN COURT​ 
 1948 was a year of tragic irony.​ That year saw the adoption of both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, together promising a world in which human rights would be protected by the rule of law. That same year, South Africa adopted apartheid and Israeli forces carried out the Nakba, the violent mass dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Both systems relied on western colonial support.
​  In short, the modern international human rights movement was born into a world of racialized colonial contradictions. Seventy-five years later, the world is watching in horror as Israel has continued the Nakba through its months-long, systematic ethnic purge of Gaza — again with the complicity of powerful western governments led by the United States.
​  The horrors of the original Nakba were met with decades of absolute impunity for Israel, feeding further violence. But this time, three decades since the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa, the post-apartheid “Rainbow Nation” is taking the lead in challenging Israel’s genocidal assault.
​  On December 29, South Africa became the first country to file an application to the UN’s high judicial arm, the International Court of Justice, instituting genocide proceedings against Israel for “acts threatened, adopted, condoned, taken, and being taken by the Government and military of the State of Israel against the Palestinian people.”

​  The initial hearing is not going to determine definitively whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The issue before the court this week is whether there is sufficient evidence to move the case forward, whether South Africa has legitimate standing to bring the case, whether the case is based on plausible treaty rights and obligations, and most importantly, whether to grant the provisional measures South Africa is seeking.
​  It is very likely that the Court will find that the legal questions of standing and legitimacy merit moving the case forward. That is particularly so because the Court does not have to rule definitively on those questions in order to move the case forward. They can decide later that, for some reason, South Africa does not have standing or that the ICJ doesn’t have jurisdiction over this case. By the time the case is fully adjudicated—a process that is likely to take months or years—the court could decide that the case for genocide is not conclusive.

​  Pepe Escobar ,  BRICS member South Africa takes Zionism to court
​  Whatever happens at The Hague could go way beyond a possible condemnation of Israeli for genocide. Both Pretoria and Tel Aviv are members of the ICJ – so the rulings are binding. The ICJ, in theory, carries more weight than the UN Security Council, where the US vetoes any hard facts that tarnish Israel’s carefully constructed self-image.
​  The only problem is that the ICJ does not have enforcement power.​..
..Reading the full South African application is a horrifying exercise. This is literally history in the making, right in front of us living in the young, tech-addicted, 21st century, and not a science fiction account of a genocide taking place in some distant universe...  
​..Every grain of sand from the Negev to Arabia knows that the neocon psychos in charge of US foreign policy, including their pet, remote-controlled, senile occupant of the White House are not only complicit in the Israeli genocide but oppose any possibility of a ceasefire.
​  Incidentally, such complicity is also punishable by law, according to the Genocide Convention.  
​  Hence, it is a given that Washington and Tel Aviv will go no-holds-barred to block a fair trial by the ICJ, using every means of pressure and threat available. That dovetails with the extremely limited power exercised by any international court to impose the rule of international law on the exceptionalist Washington–Tel Aviv combo...
..The Israeli Foreign Ministry has regimented its embassies to arm-twist host country diplomats and politicians to swiftly issue an "immediate and unequivocal statement along the following lines: To publicly and clearly state that your country rejects the outrageous, absurd, and baseless allegations made against Israel."

​  An international law expert explains why South Africa’s case at the ICJ is so important​ 
 “This is important in the history of the Palestinian cause, since we haven’t had an opportunity to get a binding international decision on any of the important questions that we have been dealing with, including for example, the issue of the Palestinian refugees, the [Israeli] occupation, etc,” Dr. Nuseibah continued.
​  The last time the ICJ made a decision in relation to Palestine was a 2004 advisory opinion that found Israel’s separation wall, which at that stage was still early on in its construction, violated international law and should be torn down.
​  However, because that decision was a non-binding advisory opinion, Israel was not obligated to stop construction or take down the wall. Instead, Israel continued constructing the wall, which today spans across hundreds of kilometers, cutting off Palestinians from their land and swallowing up swaths of Palestinian territory.

​  Jonathan Cook ,  War on Gaza: The West will stand in the dock alongside Israel at the genocide court
​  According to a cable from the Israeli foreign ministry, leaked to the Axios website, Israel hopes that, given the difficulties of making a legal case in defence of its actions, diplomatic and political pressure on the court’s justices will win the day instead.

Israel Calls South Africa The "Legal Arm Of Hamas" After 1st Day Of Hague Genocide Case
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-calls-south-africa-legal-arm-hamas-after-1st-day-hague-genocide-case

​  The Russian representative to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, attacked Western members of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, accusing them of "wasting the council's time in sessions far from what is happening in the Middle East, especially Gaza."
Nebenzia, speaking in an open debate, stated that "Israel" was seeking t​o "ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people in Gaza with American cover from top to bottom."

​  Balls of Steel: Today’s Most Despised Knesset Member.​   Mike Whitney
He signed a petition in support of “the upcoming hearing at the International Court of Justice … accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.”There are 120 members in the ​  Israeli Knesset, but one man towers above them all. His name is Ofer Cassif, and he is, perhaps, the most despised man in Israel. His crime—if you can call it that—is that he put his moral convictions into practice by signing a petition in support of “the upcoming hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague”… “accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.” (Times of Israel) Here’s what he said:
“My constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all its residents, not to a government whose members and its coalition are calling for ethnic cleansing and even actual genocide.”

​  British doctors forced to stop working and flee what appears to be the only hospital in the central Gaza Strip that is still functioning expressed “deep concern” about their patients and the remaining staff there as Israel’s war on the territory enters its fourth month.

​  'Unimaginable situation' in Gaza as 600 patients and staff expelled from Al-Aqsa Hospital
​  Six hundred patients and medical staff have been forced to leave the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza's Deir al-Balah, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN, following an Israeli evacuation order.
​  The orders, which were reported by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, came amid an influx of injured people arriving at the medical centre.
Al-Aqsa Hospital is the last remaining hospital in operation in Central Gaza, with recent evacuation notices by Israeli forces seeing an exodus of medical staff from.
​  According to WHO official Sean Casey who had visited the hospital on Sunday, the hospital was operating with "30 percent of the staff that it had just a few days ago".
Casey added that the hospital was receiving "hundreds of casualties every day in a small emergency department".

​  Gaza's child amputees face further risks without expert care
​  KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Eleven-year-old Noor's left leg was almost entirely torn off when her home in Jabalia, Gaza was hit by an explosion in October. Now her right leg, fitted with a heavy metal bar and four screws drilled into the bone, may have to be amputated.
​  "It hurts me a lot ... I'm afraid that they'll have to cut off my other leg," she said from her hospital bed, staring at her clunky fixation device.
"I used to run and play, I was so happy with my life, but now when I lost my leg, my life became ugly and I got sad. I hope I can get an artificial limb."

​  Israel held Gaza civilians in “torture camp,” new evidence shows
​  Dozens of Palestinian men captured by Israel in Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attack were blindfolded, handcuffed, stripped to their underwear and humiliated in a "torture camp," a new investigation from Tel Aviv-based +972 Magazine has found.

​  War on Gaza: Israel cages Palestinian towns in West Bank with iron gates
The movement of Palestinians is severely constricted as Israeli army erects gates and barriers at entrances of towns and villages
​  "The gate is closed." This phrase is repeated several times a day among Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, describing their lives under the ongoing Israeli closure of their towns and villages.

​  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lengthy one-on-one meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was "tense", Channel 12 reports.
​  Indicative of the bad climate is that Anthony Blinken gave a press conference alone, without Netanyahu present.
At the same time, the Israeli prime minister's office did not release the minutes, as it is wont to do, which may indicate the rift.
​  The gap between the US and Israel is widening and Washington is losing patience, the Channel 12 report emphasizes.
Blinken met privately with Netanyahu at Tel Aviv's Kirya military base and then with the war cabinet.
​  Israel is going full steam ahead at war with Hezbollah (military preparations have escalated in the last 48 hours) with relations with the US and UK at a tipping point for the first time in history.

Despite All Evidence, Blinken Calls Genocide Case Against Israel ‘Meritless’​ 
The U.S. secretary of state dismissed South Africa's case as he admitted 90% of Gaza residents are facing acute hunger.

​  The war within Israel's war cabinet
​  The Israeli body politic is beset with political and security differences exacerbated by the deadly costs of their Gaza war. Now they're fighting over whether to investigate their string of failures - before or after launching another war with Lebanon.
​  Undermining those efforts every step of the way is a growing Israeli chorus advocating for the reoccupation of southern Lebanon up to the Litani border as the only solution that would ensure the security of Israeli settlements. Recently, Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman proposed the occupation of southern Lebanon, placing the area between the Litani River and the border with occupied Palestine under Israeli control with UN supervision.
​  Recognizing the potential catastrophic consequences of a full-scale confrontation with Hezbollah which has formidable - and unknown - offensive, armament, and intelligence capabilities at its disposal, the Israeli military is keen on addressing the root causes of its recent failures before engaging in any further battles.
​  For its part, Hezbollah conditions any discussion about military actions with Israel on the cessation of the genocidal war on Gaza. The Lebanese resistance emphasizes that side actions intended to bait Hezbollah into war, such as targeting Hamas leaders in Lebanon, are not part of the debate.

​  Hezbollah's use of anti-tank missiles unprecedented: Israeli media
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that Hezbollah's utilization of this precision weapon is unparalleled in "Israel" and possibly globally.
​  Israeli media reported on Wednesday that Hezbollah's use of anti-tank missiles as a sniper weapon is "unprecedented."​...
..Moreover, the newspaper revealed that the "range of the anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon at civilian targets in the al-Jalil now comes to "Moshav Beit Hillel", located four kilometers (2.5 miles) from the border; and Kibbutz Kfar Szold in the Hula Valley, six kilometers from the border, whose residents have not been evacuated."

​  Shahed-238 Drone Makes Ukraine Combat Debut: Iran’s Enhanced New ‘Kamikaze’ Jets Built to Combat Enemy Air Defences​  (Cheap tech plays leapfrog.)
​  Its unveiling came less than a month before the Iranian-aligned Hezbollah militia group launching limited strikes against Israeli Iron Dome air defence systems, highlighting the value such aircraft could have not only for its extra-regional clients such as Russia but also for its strategic partners within the Middle East.

UNSC adopts resolution demanding halt to Yemeni operations in Red Sea

​  Blinken Admits Iran Behind 'Biggest Attack' Targeting US Ships, But There's No Plan
​  The Tuesday night attack saw up to 24 missiles and drones sent against international shipping lanes in the southern part of the Red Sea, and crucially directly against a US warship, as we detailed previously. The Pentagon said that three destroyers that are part of Operation Prosperity Guardian took part in shooting down the incoming barrage.
​  Secretary of State Antony Blinken has in fresh comments charged that ultimately Iran was behind this "biggest attack" by the Yemen-based Houthi rebels. He warned "there will be consequences" if the aggression continues. "We had the biggest attack just yesterday, aided and abetted by Iran​."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blinken-admits-iran-behind-biggest-attack-targeting-us-ships-theres-no-plan

​Tit-for-tat
​  Iranian naval forces, acting under a court order, seized Marshall Islands-flagged tanker "St Nikolas," Bloomberg reports, citing Iran's semi-official Tasnim agency reports. The report said St Nikolas is a "US oil tanker."...
..Bloomberg confirmed that the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker "St Nikolas" is the vessel that was hijacked. A previous report says that St Nikolas was seized by the US last year, sailing under a different name, "Suez Rajan," for transporting unauthorized Iranian cargo.
​  Empire Navigation, the vessel's operator, said the tanker was loaded with 145,000 tons of crude from the Iraqi port of Basra and was en route to Aliaga in western Turkey through the Suez Canal. It noted all communication with the vessel had been lost​.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/oil-tanker-hijacked-gulf-oman

 US government debt biggest threat to global economy – Russian NGO
The burden is unsustainable and could destabilize the financial system, Roscongress has warned

​Still no pictures or video of "Lloyd Austin" in 2024.
Pentagon inspector general to investigate mishandling of Lloyd Austin's hospitalization​ , Austin’s recent secretive hospitalization has been at the center of controversy.

​  Jeffrey Epstein and his VIP associates had “prior knowledge” of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in the months before they happened, according to Prince Andrew’s ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey.
​  Hervey took to social media to break her silence regarding what she knows about Andrew’s relationship with the notorious child sex offender, claiming that Epstein’s contacts knew details about 9/11 before they happened, including the flight numbers of the commercial airplanes to be used in the attacks.
​  According to Hervey, Epstein and some of his close associates bought plane tickets “as souvenirs” of the horrifying and heartbreaking national tragedy.
“Regarding 9/11 which I’ll touch more on tomorrow, I have a story that connects it to Epstein,” she wrote on Instagram. “As in he knew it was going to happen and so did his close circle. They even bought plane tickets as souvenirs and never got on the planes. This is a whole new level of Sick.”

​ Court Reporter  (pictured in the other end of the listening area as it takes shape)


Wednesday, January 10, 2024

The Real Reason

 Reasonable People,


  Following up on yesterday's post about "Schrodinger's Generals" is the video from late yesterday from Dima at Military Summary, who spends the first 5 minutes explaining the military necessity of creating fictions when officers are killed or wounded in a conflict zone where they officially ought not be. He says he has no authoritative/official source, but that it appears Austin was wounded in Ukraine. He wishes him well in any case, whether war wounds or prostate cancer, but presumes that Austin will not be seen much, at least for a while. He discusses General Zaluzhny's injuries related to Russian bombardment last May, and subsequent doctored videos of Zaluzhny.
Austin Was Wounded In Kyiv. Mobilization Also Reached Poland. Military Summary 2024.01.9

​There are no 2024 images of Lloyd Austin to be found online, just old stock photos.  Pentagon's Austin in good condition in hospital, release date uncertain

  General Zaluzhny is apparently alive and upset, perhaps by injuries to other senior level military command personnel and/or a recent personal experience...
  British military analyst Alexander Merkouris commented on the reaction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command to the latest missile and drone strikes of the Russian Armed Forces on Ukrainian military infrastructure. He noted that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny, reacted violently to these events, especially to the possible death of officers from his entourage.
  According to Mercouris, at a speech in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Zaluzhny looked irritated and was in a state of complete hysteria, which, according to the expert, may indicate a nervous breakdown of the general.
  "He was hysterical. He looked like a general and commander-in-chief who was about to have a nervous breakdown. And that perhaps tells us a lot about the situation at the front.", - said Mercouris.

  At the 6:45 mark in this evening's Military Summary, a picture of Zaluzhny meeting with other military commanders in Kharkov is presented. Russia seems to be starting an offensive in the Kharkov region, to reduce Ukrainian strikes on Belgorod.  Russia Opens The Kharkov Front. Desperate Times In Ukraine. Military Summary 2024.01.10

  Simplicius has a Ukraine war update focusing on the rapid development of military technology, particularly cheap, effective, small attack drones, which are already being fielded in semi-autonomous targeting mode, to resist blocking interference between the drone and a distant controller. The west just does not have swarms of small FPV attack drones, nor thousands of operators. Larger drones are useful for distant surveillance and targeting, but are expensive to lose when used for close attacks.
SITREP 1/9/24: Latest Leading-edge Tech-war Updates

  Today ​I was introduced to the work of Kyle Young, which is very constructive, broadly human, and based on his life experiences and explorations. Kyle has gotten around.
44 years of deep earth homesteading​ , searching for divinity in love and the soil

44 years of deep earth homesteading - part 2​ , Hawaii, bamboo, toxic housing

​  Les, who visits this blog, and introduced Kyle's work in yesterday's comments. He presents a timely, pertinent, in depth and broad analysis of colonialism here.
Genocide & Economics.​ , Ideology Gives Justification To Purpose & Outcome.
​  This essay examines the Scientific Racism of the cultivated, cultured British, Western European and American Elites of whom few found any difficulties via their highly influential Geographical - Anthropological Societies in furthering the invention of myriad, creative narratives to justify the actions of the servants of their noble selves killing off largely defenseless or largely outgunned native communities in far off lands, for the purpose of possession and profit.

​  War on Gaza: A mother's traumatic journey through childbirth under Israeli bombing
Heba Labbad, a 27-year-old mother of three, describes to Middle East Eye's correspondent Aseel Mousa the terrorising experience of being a pregnant woman having to quit her home, of giving birth amid the paralysing sounds of Israeli bombing and being separated from her husband after he was detained by the Israeli military.

Israel To Blinken: Gazans Can't Return To North Until Hostages Released

16 killed as Is­rael ​Es­ca­lates ​As­sault on ​South­ern Gaza
Israel has increased airstrikes and ground actions in central and southern Gaza, causing many casualties, including 15 from a single family in Rafah City, despite it being labeled a 'safe zone' by Israel.

Video appears to show the Israeli army shot 3 Palestinians, killing 1, without provocation
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2439046/middle-east

American rabbis disrupt UN meeting, demand Biden stops blocking peace in Gaza

​  The Israeli aggression against the West Bank persists, as occupation forces conduct a series of incursions and raids targeting several cities and camps. A large-scale incursion into Jenin and its camp is ongoing.
​  Local Palestinian media confirmed the deployment of occupation army snipers on the rooftops of houses in the city of Jenin, coinciding with the deployment of military vehicles and bulldozers into the city, as Israeli military bulldozers reached the main Jenin roundabout, and bulldozed shops in the city, destroying vendors’ stalls and private property. In response, resistance fighters targeted the occupation forces with explosive devices near the cinema roundabout.

​   Professor Anthony Hall , On the Need to Include the Study of Jewish Power as Integral to the Globalist Push for Centralized Control of Everything​ 
Much Has Changed Now That Israel is Being Charged by the International Court of Justice for Violating the UN's Genocide Convention
https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/on-the-need-to-include-the-study

​  ‘I Don’t Recall’: Fauci Unable to Answer Key Questions in Pandemic Probe
​  Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed more than 100 times that he did not remember details about the pandemic response and origins during a House interview Monday regarding COVID-19 policies and funding decisions.

​  Meryl Nass MD , Since Fauci just testified (in closed session) before Congress, I provide the evidence of some well-documented crimes he committed
The risk of GOF was our risk, not his--no doubt he received the best countermeasures, while suppressing them for the public. Since he had already tested them.

  ​Peter McCullough MD , US Congressional Hearing on COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries II
Friday January 12, 2024, NOON ET: Testimony from Drs. McCullough, Cole, Milhoan

​  Peter McCullough MD , Low RSV Vaccine Acceptance Among Pregnant Women
Wary of Fever and Pregnancy Loss, Discerning Mothers Declining the Novel Shot

​Figuring it Out (pictured last weekend after unboxing my homebrew tube amps, preamp and phono stage and rearranging the room)


Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Schrodinger's Generals

 Outside The Box,


  Red found this:  Russian Claim: Austin Dead In Ukraine
​  Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was allegedly killed in Kyiv on January 3 when Russian cruise missiles peltered a command bunker where Austin and Lieutenant General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander in chief of the Ukrainian Army, met secretly to discuss mounting an asymmetrical offensive to “bring Vladimir Putin to his knees,” claims a Russian FSB source known for providing invaluable intelligence and the truth behind Putin’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
​  FSB agent Andrei Zakharov’s tale, however, directly contradicts an administration narrative about Austin clandestinely hospitalizing himself for an unknown ailment at Walter Reed Hospital.​..
​..Austin had spent so much time in Kyiv he ought to have applied for Ukrainian citizenship, Zakharov joked, adding that the secretive and self-admittedly reclusive Austin had traveled to Ukraine from Poland eight times in 2023...
​  Vladimir Putin, Zakharov said, had bestowed upon Austin the title of “war criminal.”​ Putin, he added, delighted in Austin’s demise.
​  “We knew Austin was in Ukraine, and we discovered their rendezvous point. We also know the pig Zaluzhnyi, and he is killer of the women and the children, was to meet his lieutenants to learn them about new drone warfare. They were our intended targets. Austin was a bonus.”
​  T​wenty cruise missiles, he said, destroyed surface buildings and collapsed a labyrinth of interconnecting chambers underground. A battle damage assessment revealed the strike had razed the structures and cratered what lay beneath. Only rubble remained.
​  “Nothing on this earth could survive what we sent. Yes, he is dead. He must be dead,” Zakharov said.
​  Real Raw News’ American sources in the White Hat community, while stopping short of dismissing Zakharov’s story as wishful thinking, said they want to see irrefutable proof of Austin’s death before scratching his name off their own “most wanted” list. However, they’ve called the official narrative a blatant lie, for if Austin had gone to Walter Reed, their sources would have taken notice and informed General Smith’s office.
​  “We don’t know if that Russian story is baloney or not. Our sources at Reed are unimpeachable and they say he was never there. And as far as your other question, Mike, we don’t have him. If I learn more and can share, I’ll let you know,” a source in the general’s office said.

TIMELINE: When key figures found out about Lloyd Austin's hospitalization , The Pentagon says Austin was transported to the hospital on New Year's Day.

​No pictures of Austin or Zaluzhny in 2024...
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny congratulated the military personnel on the past 2023 and noted that the coming 2024 will not be easy.

​  Celia Farber ,  Explaining What Monarch Means In The Context of All We Are Enduring
  A few have asked, here: What is Monarch programming? What do I mean exactly when I invoke it?​ 
​  This is a vast field of study and analysis. I’ve quoted Serge Lang before, one of the patron saints of clarity (as ethics), who posed this question:
“How do you address a morass without becoming part of it?”​ (AIDS=Morass, Covid-19=Morass)
​  If I had to put it very simply I would say that “Monarch Programming” is an engineering program of human minds, designed to undetectably detonate meaning, structure, truth, clarity, consequence, resolution—basically what we once thought of as “Western Civilization.”
​  That feeling, so common of late, that the mind is being assaulted, and the “normal”responses are fleeing into the sub-conscious/repressed, where shame grows.
What is worse, or more degrading, than being told (repeatedly) that what is clearly happening is clearly not happening?


  ​Caitlin Johnstone ,  Westerners Have An Absolutely Psychotic View Of Airstrikes
​  In response to multiple complaints from a retired Humber College professor about the wildly biased language that Canada’s state broadcaster has been using to describe Israel’s war on Gaza, Waugh acknowledged that the CBC routinely uses words like “murderous,” “vicious,” “brutal,” “massacre,” and “slaughter” to refer to the October 7 Hamas attack while using far less emotionally charged words like “intensive,” “unrelenting,” and “punishing” to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza over the last three months.
​  Waugh defended this extreme discrepancy by saying that Israel’s attacks in Gaza differ from the Hamas attack on Israelis in that Israel’s killings are done “remotely”.
​  “Different words are used because although both result in death and injury, the events they describe are very different,” Waugh wrote. “The raid saw Hamas gunmen stream through the border fence and attack Israelis directly with firearms, knives and explosives. Gunmen chased down festival goers, assaulted kibbutzniks then shot them, fought hand to hand, and threw grenades. The attack was brutal, often vicious, and certainly murderous.”​   
[or Israeli choppers, tanks and troops did...]
​  “Bombs dropped from thousands of feet and artillery shells lofted into Gaza from kilometers away result in death and destruction on a massive scale, but it is carried out remotely,” Waugh continued. “The deadly results are unseen by those who caused them and the source unseen by those [who] suffer and die.”​  ...
​..Military explosives rip human bodies apart. They burn people alive. They trap them under rubble where they die excruciatingly slowly in one of the most horrifying ways imaginable. They leave people without limbs. They dismember and disfigure children for life.​..
​..A UNICEF report released last month said that more than a thousand children had had one or both legs amputated since October 7 as a result of damage received by US-sponsored Israeli airstrikes, a number which would be significantly higher by now. We know that many such amputations have occurred without anaesthesia, because Israeli siege warfare has cut off Gaza’s healthcare system from the necessary supplies.

​  ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 94: Israeli forces kill four-year-old girl in occupied West Bank; Gaza’s children face brunt of the genocide
Ten children in Gaza are losing a limb every day in Gaza to Israeli airstrikes, as Israeli politicians say the Gaza onslaught will last at least another nine months.
​  Israeli soldiers shoot dead 4-year-old girl at military checkpoint in occupied West Bank
Israeli military says the war on Gaza could last more than nine months.
​  Save the Children: Over ten children lose limbs a day in Gaza.
The Israeli army forces Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital to evacuate and abandon sick patients.
​  Doctors Without Borders: Israel appears to have directly targeted deceased Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Dahdouh after “a single rocket” hit his car.  
Palestinian Ministry of Health: 249 Palestinians killed and 510 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza over 24 hours.
​  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor: “Systematic torture and inhumane treatment” of Palestinians detained in Israeli army camps.
US Senator blames Israel’s ‘political decisions’ for the inadequate amount of aid reaching Gaza.

NARRATIVE COLLAPSE: Washington Post retracts Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s Oct. 7 Hamas rape claims

US Officials Think Netanyahu Might See War in Lebanon as Key to Political Survival
A DIA intelligence assessment found Israel would probably not be able to beat Hezbollah if there's a significant escalation in Lebanon

​  Israeli MK Comes Out in Support of South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel​ , Other Knesset members are calling for Ofer Cassif to be removed
​  MK Ofer Cassif, a member of the left-wing Jewish and Arab Hadash-Ta’al party, and around 200 other Israelis have signed a petition supporting South Africa’s 84-page filing that will be submitted to the ICJ later this week.
​  “The information that emerges from the lawsuit is both horrific and credible. Israel is indeed taking systematic and thorough steps to wipe out the population of Gaza; to starve, abuse, and displace it. It has implemented a policy of erasing options for livelihood, which is leading to genocide,” the petition reads, according to Haaretz.
​  Explaining his reasoning for signing the petition, Cassif wrote on X: “My constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all of its residents, not to a government and its coalition members who call for ethnic cleansing and even actual genocide. They are the ones that harm the country and its people; they are the ones who led South Africa to approach The Hague, not me and my cabinet members.”

  Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Monday that Israel had created a whole generation of orphans with its “brutal” war in Gaza, where he said over 30,000 people, mostly women and children, had been killed or were missing as a result of the conflict, Reuters reports...
..“More children have died in Gaza than in all other conflicts around the world this past year. Of those who have survived, many have lost one or both parents, an entire generation of orphans,” he said. “How can indiscriminate aggression and shelling bring peace? How can they guarantee security, when they are built on hatred?” Abdullah said of Israel’s war against the Hamas group.

​  Moroccan group: Israel kills journalists to cover up its crimes in Gaza
​  Morocco’s Al-Adl Wal-Ihsane (Justice and Kindness) group said Israel’s goal in killing journalists is to “discourage the media from reporting the truth, and to cover up its crimes against civilians, children and women, and the failure of its war in the Gaza Strip.”
​  In a statement after Israel killed journalist Hamza Al-Dahdouh, the eldest son of Al Jazeera’s Wael Al-Dahdouh, and his colleague Mustafa Thuraya yesterday, the organisation said this is “a deliberate war crime through which Israel seeks to discourage journalists from reporting the truth.”
​  Hamza and Mustafa were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a car they were travelling in as they covered events unfolding in the besieged Gaza city of Khan Yunis. Some 109 journalists have now been killed in Gaza since the start of the genocide.​ In killing journalists, Al-Adl Wal-Ihsane said, Israel “aims to cover up [its] crimes against civilians, children and women, and its failure [in its war] in the Gaza Strip.”

Israeli bombing of Al-Aqsa Hospital backyard prompts MSF evacuation
The head of the Doctors Without Borders mission in occupied Palestine's al-Quds, Stefan Goriely, speaks to Al Mayadeen about the situation at Al-Aqsa Hospital.

​  UNRWA: 146 of our employees killed in Gaza
​  The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced the martyrdom of 146 employees working for it since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
​  Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, up to 1.9 million people or more than 85 percent of the population have been displaced across the Gaza Strip, UNRWA said in a report issued on Monday.
​  There are approximately 1.4 million displaced people taking refuge in 155 UNRWA facilities in all five governorates of the Gaza Strip, with another half a million people accessing UNRWA services.

​  Demands for Israeli Ambassador to UK’s Expulsion After ‘Clear Call for Genocide’
"The Israeli ambassador has gone on national British radio and incited genocide," said one columnist. "This is an illegal act under the 1948 Genocide Convention."
​  A member of British Parliament demanded the foreign secretary “take the strongest possible action against” Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the U.K., after she appeared on a radio broadcast of LBC and told host Iain Dale in no uncertain terms that Israel’s military must target civilian infrastructure in Gaza—a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
​  Hotovely told Dale that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have found that “every school, every mosque, every second house, has an access to tunnel,” referring to the tunnels used by Hamas—which were first built when Gaza was under Israeli control in 1980.
​  “That’s an argument for destroying the whole of Gaza, every single building,” Dale said, prompting Hotovely to ask, “Do you have another solution, how to destroy the underground tunnel city?”

​  NATO Weakness Exposed as US-Led Red Sea Coalition Flops - Italian Admiral
​  The West’s failure to put together a coalition to secure the Red Sea is a worrying sign for NATO and EU unity, Luigi Binelli-Mantelli, a retired Italian admiral and former chief of staff of the Italian Navy and Italy’s Defense Staff, has said.
​  “France and Italy won’t join the US-led coalition in the Red Sea. This will have no impact from an operational point of view, since navies are well trained to coordinate their actions even outside a definite chain of command, but politically it’s proof of our weak cohesion as NATO as well as EU partners,” the senior former naval officer said.
​  “We must cope with [the Red Sea crisis] because this is not simply aimed against Israel, it’s a direct challenge to all Western countries, testing our determination and cohesion to protect our economy and our common values and way of life,” Binelli-Mantelli suggested.
​  [Has this train already departed?]​  The admiral encouraged the Western bloc to “revise and widen its role in the world’s stability and security,” and called on Brussels to “wake up from its ecumenic dream and think twice about its own solidity,” presumably referring to European nations’ efforts to create joint military forces based in EU structures instead of relying solely on NATO and the US.

​  Opinion: Russia Must Be Asia's Peace Maker , Declan Hays
​  The two main lessons East Asia can glean from the Suez/Red Sea stand off is that Israel, which has recently bombed civilians in Beirut, Damascus and Tehran in addition to its countless other war crimes, has torn up the rules of war by making everyone and everything legitimate targets. When we further factor the asymmetries Houthi missiles and Iranian war ships cause in the Red Sea, there are very major implications both for NATO’s plans to contain China and for China’s plans to propel its own neomercantilist agenda forward.
​  As the navies of China and NATO both see it, there are a series a pivot points, layered strings of pearls, as the Yanks call them, stretching from Vladivostok in the north, down through Japan’s home islands, past South Korea, onwards to Okinawa, Yonaguni and Taiwan, Itbayat, Basco, Batanes, Luzon and the Philippines, westwards through Palawan, the Spratly and Paracel Islands, Vietnam, Singapore and the Strait of Malacca, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, Myanmar’s Coco Islands and Kyaukphyu port, Pakistan’s deep water Gwadar port and back to the Gulfs of Aden, Persia and Oman. One big tinderbox, from Siberia to Syria, being welded in by China’s Belt and Road Initiative to other tinder boxes, a pyromaniac’s paradise.
​  The importance of all those choke points and potential flashpoints is that both NATO and China are militarising them to degrees the world has never previously witnessed. NATO’s plan, much like Harry Truman’s earlier NCS 68 plan to contain the Soviet Union, is to corral China’s lines of advance into a relatively narrow waterway across the Taiwan Strait to Taiwan’s west and to then bombard China’s sea and land positions from forward bases on the front islets of Japan and the Philippines to Taiwan’s east.
​  China, meanwhile is colonising the South China Sea by turning Fiery Cross Reef, Gaven Reefs, Mischief Reef, Subi Reef and other once insignificant pinpricks like them into fully fledged military bases, complete with runways, fighter planes and missile batteries. When China’s DF-21D carrier killer missiles are added into the mix, China presents a real and present danger countries like India must factor into their own calculations, all the more so as China attempts to build land and sea bridges through Pakistan to Gwador thereby further threatening India to its north, and giving NATO and its fleet of Australian nuclear subs opportunities aplenty to stir the Asian pot further.
​  Although NATO’s Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPS) are designed to keep all these sea lines of communication (SLOCS) not only open but outside the grasp of China’s strategic strong points, there are plenty of chances for miscalculations, particularly in the South China Sea where China has been particularly aggressive, as evidenced by its repeated attacks on the Filipino marines on BRP Sierra Madre, which sits atop the 2nd Thomas Shoal.
​  Although China and its adversaries have a number of symmetric and asymmetric options available to them that range from Nordstream style no claim no blame attacks on hostile shipping to blowing up, in pre-emptive strikes, the Three Gorges Dam and thereby drowning the 1 billion or so Chinese unfortunates who live in the Lower Yanzgtse Valley, outside the lunatic asylums of Washington, most of those are not realistic choices.
​  That said, China’s reaction to the results of Taiwan’s pending 13 January elections might bring unwanted fireworks to bear on what already is a tense tinderbox. Should William Lai Ching-te, the incumbent vice president and the candidate of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), prevail over Hou Yu-ih from the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Party, China will most likely spit the dummy again and launch massive military drills around the island or even grab Penghu Island as a sign it is serious about subjugating Taiwan.
​  Though China certainly carries a big stick, it doesn’t yet seem to grasp the notion that one should speak softly and only wave or use the stick as a last recourse. That is where the diplomats of Russia, which currently chairs the loose and untested BRIICS alliance, comes in.
​  As a long standing ally of Vietnam, China and India, and as one which understands the nuanced goals of all three of those countries, Russia can bring a lot to the table. Not only did Russia help broker peace in the 1965 2nd Kashmir war between Pakistan and India but Russia fully understands that India and Vietnam both want strategic autonomy, and that neither will ever submit to being a vassal of a revanchist China.
​  Taiwan currently leads the world in the crucial field of semiconductors and that is unlikely to change any time soon. And nor is Taiwan’s status as, for Taiwan to revert to the 1683-1895 era when it paid tribute to the Qing Dynasty, would mean empowering China to annex the entire region as Imperial Japan did in late 1941 from its Taiwanese/Formosan base. Because Japan, India, Vietnam and even the Philippines cannot accept that, China is thereby opening up the door for NATO’s carrier groups and sundry other legacy defence systems and that is far from being an optimal state of affairs if peace and trade, rather than war and all it entails are the goals.
​  There are two or even three ways out of this morass, only one of which is really acceptable. The first of these is to duke it out across the Taiwan Strait and every other strait or reef that is deemed important along the String of Pearls from Siberia to Somalia. The second way is for China to goose step ahead with its neomercantalism until the global economy revolves around it and it alone. The third and best way is for the BRIICS and allied countries to take the opportunity Russia’s chairmanship of that group offers and chart some way through all the straits and reefs they might sink or run aground on.


​  Charles Hugh Smith explains "crapification",  What's the Source of the Astounding 50% Boost in Corporate Profits?
No wonder Corporate America added $1.2 trillion in profits to be distributed to the elites of America: everything is diminished, stripped of quality and rendered miserable.

​  Dr. Marian Laderoute , Guessing at the Number of COVID-19 Shot Associated Deaths In CANADA
Governments do NOT want you to know that there were more deaths associated with the vaccines than COVID-19 and An Estimated only 1424 C19 Deaths were averted in 2021 due to the First Shot

  Steve Kirsch , 32 entries ,  A summary of the evidence against the COVID vaccines
Here's a quick summary of the key pieces of evidence that taken together show that the COVID vaccines are unsafe and that the medical community should not be trusted.

​  Sasha Latypova explains why the Federal Court venue is exactly what Pfizer needs, due to contract with the Pentagon for Emergency Use Authorization "countermeasures", never any "pharmaceutical product", as legally defined.
​  Pfizer moves in TX v Pfizer​ , Files Notice of Removal to Federal Court
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/tx-v-pfizer

​  [Nazis first, then pedophiles, right?] ​ And So It Begins …
Substack’s been accused of being a haven for Nazis. Is this the beginning of a coordinated effort to staunch the influence of Substack?

​  [No name-jokes, please. This is serious]  Georgia DA Fani Willis had affair with prosecutor on Trump case: lawsuit
​  Roman contends that Nathan Wade, a private attorney with the Atlanta-based Wade & Campbell Firm, used some of the nearly $654,000 in legal fees that he’s been paid by the Fulton County DA’s Office for his work on the Trump case to take Willis on lavish vacations to “Napa Valley, California, Florida and the Caribbean.”

​  Ray Epps Dodges Prison Sentence - Gets Probation, Community Service For Telling J6ers To Go "Into The Capitol"
​  Ray Epps, the man caught multiple times telling January 6th protesters to escalate their demonstration and go "into the Capitol" on January 6th, 2021, will spend no time in prison for his role that day.​ Instead, Epps has been given 12 months probation, $500 in restitution, and 100 hours of community service.​  [Service for the FBI, maybe?]

Here We Go: Michelle Obama Says She’s “Terrified” Of Trump Winning​ , What is she going to do about it?

Investigating Further (pictured pulling weeds and thinking about cutting the grass again)