Agreement-Capable,
‘Cautious optimism’: Gaza ceasefire talks expected to continue on Friday
Negotiations in Doha come amid fears of regional escalation as Palestinian death toll in Gaza surpasses 40,000.
Reporting from Doha, Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom said the extent of Hamas’s participation in the negotiations is unclear.
“There’s just very few concrete details emerging from the talks that are taking place behind closed doors here in Doha,” he said.
“But even though these are high-stakes talks at a time of low expectations, there seems to be more of a mood of cautious optimism at this hour. More and more people close to the talks [are] suggesting that these talks will last at least into a second day, possibly beyond that.”
The US, which has approved more than $14bn in military aid to Israel to help fund the war on Gaza, previously blamed Hamas solely for failure to reach a deal.
But recent media reports in Israel and the US have suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the one scuttling the talks by adding new demands. https://www.
Nothing new this morning: Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks: A timeline of obstruction https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/15/israel-hamas-ceasefire-talks-a-timeline-of-obstruction
Gilbert Doctorow, Kursk: Why did Russian military intelligence not see the coming Ukrainian incursion?I had seen mention of Dyumin’s getting this assignment in other media, but those reports only spoke of his being a Putin loyalist who for more than eight years headed the presidential security team...
..To return to the key information that came at the end of the WION report: they tell us that the Russian senior commander general Valery Gerasimov had in fact been informed by Russian military intelligence that Ukraine was preparing an assault on Kursk, but he dismissed it and took no action. It was for this very reason that he has been relieved of responsibility for the military operation in Kursk. And Dyumin is not only a very capable administrator who is close to the President and outside the military command hierarchy which is self-serving in Russia, as it is everywhere else, but he also happens to hail from…Kursk.
As I mention in this interview, I believe that Gerasimov will not hold his current post for long. Let us recall that in the spring of this year when Mr. Prigozhin was publicly feuding with the regular army bosses in Moscow he denounced both Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, saying both were incompetent and harming the proper execution of the Special Military Operation. Shoigu has since been kicked upstairs, so to speak, and has become Vladimir Putin’s roving ambassador, as we saw from his visit to Teheran a little more than a week ago. Gerasimov’s turn to be kicked upstairs or just kicked out is sure to come. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/
US Intelligence Now Says Pro-Ukraine, Possibly Government-Trained Mystery Forces Destroyed Nord Stream Pipelines
Now, four weeks after Hersh's bombshell report, anonymous US intelligence officials tell the NY Times that the saboteurs are likely 'pro-Ukraine, possibly government-trained Ukrainian or Russian nationals, or some combination of the two,' but that 'no American or British nationals were involved.'
https://www.zerohedge.com/
From September 28, 2023 Seymore Hersh, A Year of Lying About Nordstream [What we thought is confirmed in detail.]
By then the CIA group had long disbanded. By then, too, the official told me: “We realized that the destruction of the two Russian pipelines was not related to the Ukrainian war”—Putin was in the process of annexing the four Ukrainian oblasts he wanted—“but was part of a neocon political agenda to keep Scholz and Germany, with winter coming up and the pipelines shut down, from getting cold feet and opening up” the shuttered Nord Stream 2. “The White House fear was that Putin would get Germany under his thumb and then he was going to get Poland.”
The White House said nothing as the world wondered who committed the sabotage. “So the president struck a blow against the economy of Germany and Western Europe,” the official told me. “He could have done it in June and told Putin: We told you what we would do.” The White House’s silence and denials were, he said, “a betrayal of what we were doing. If you are going to do it, do it when it would have made a difference.”
The leadership of the CIA team viewed Biden’s misleading guidance for its order to destroy the pipelines, the official told me, “as taking a strategic step toward World War III. What if Russia had responded by saying: You blew up our pipelines and I’m going to blow up your pipelines and your communication cables. Nord Stream was not a strategic issue for Putin—it was an economic issue. He wanted to sell gas. He’d already lost his pipelines” when the Nord Stream I and 2 were shut down before the Ukraine war began.
Within days of the bombing, officials in Denmark and Sweden announced they would conduct an investigation. They reported two months later that there had indeed been an explosion and said there would be further inquiries. None has emerged. The German government conducted an inquiry but announced that major parts of its findings would be classified. Last winter German authorities allocated $286 billion in subsidies to major corporations and homeowners who faced higher energy bills to run their business and warm their homes. The impact is still being felt today, with a colder winter expected in Europe.
President Biden waited four days before calling the pipeline bombing “a deliberate act of sabotage.” He said: “now the Russians are pumping out disinformation about it.” Sullivan, who chaired the meetings that led to the proposal to covertly destroy the pipelines, was asked at a later press conference whether the Biden administration “now believes that Russia was likely responsible for the act of sabotage?”
Sullivan’s answer, undoubtedly practiced, was: “Well, first, Russia has done what it frequently does when it is responsible for something, which is make accusations that it was really someone else who did it. We’ve seen this repeatedly over time."
“But the president was also clear today that there is more work to do on the investigation before the United States government is prepared to make an attribution in this case.” He continued: “We will continue to work with our allies and partners to gather all of the facts, and then we will make a determination about where we go from there.”
I could find no instances when Sullivan was subsequently asked by someone in the American press about the results of his “determination.” Nor could I find any evidence that Sullivan, or the president, has been queried since then about the results of the “determination” about where to go.
There is also no evidence that President Biden has required the American intelligence community to conduct a major all-source inquiry into the pipeline bombing. Such requests are known as “Taskings” and are taken seriously inside the government.
All of this explains why a routine question I posed a month or so after the bombings to someone with many years in the American intelligence community led me to a truth that no one in America or Germany seems to want to pursue. My question was simple: “Who did it?”
The Biden administration blew up the pipelines but the action had little to do with winning or stopping the war in Ukraine. It resulted from fears in the White House that Germany would waver and turn on the flow of Russia gas—and that Germany and then NATO, for economic reasons, would fall under the sway of Russia and its extensive and inexpensive natural resources. And thus followed the ultimate fear: that America would lose its long-standing primacy in Western Europe. https://www.globalresearch.
It is astonishing that Christopher Miller of the Financial Times reports of it without further comment. https://www.moonofalabama.
“U.S. Secret Service did not retrieve the radios that had been set aside for them by Butler County tactical command. The radio comms were properly and perfectly arranged during the extensive pre-mission planning.”
“All 8 casings (from shots fired by Crooks) were recovered and are allegedly in proper possession of the FBI.”
“The 9th shot fired on J13 was from a Butler SWAT operator from the ground about 100 yards away from the AGR building. Shot 9 hit Crooks’ rifle stock and fragged his face/neck/right shoulder area from the stock breaking up.”
“The 10th (and, I believe, final) shot was fired from the southern counter-sniper team.”
“My effort to examine Crooks’ body on Monday, August 5, caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact… the FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after J13.”
“The water tower was cleared by drone J13 AM by the County tactical commander, ESU Commander Lenz himself.” https://clayhiggins.house.
In the summer of 2023, the French attempted to vaccinate meat ducks and it backfired with greater spread of the virus and a response from the US and Japan by banning French duck meat.
The current strain of H5N1 or highly pathogenic avian influenza circulating in the United States is most likely a result of serial passage or gain-of-function research conducted in the US Poultry Research Center in Athens, Georgia. The experiments were successful in expanding the host range into mallard ducks and migratory waterfowl allowing spread from farm to farm. However, this adaptation resulted in the virus no longer being characterized as “highly pathogenic” with no large numbers of lethal cases in birds and very mild and rare cases in farm workers. https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/bird-brained-public-health-management
The structure appears to predate Machu Picchu, the country’s best-known archaeological site, by 3,500 years https://www.smithsonianmag.
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