Saturday, February 3, 2024

Countering Dysinformation Empire

Better Informed,

​  Aleks , Black Mountain Analysis(Serbia) ,​  Chickens in the Middle East [i]​  How dare you? 

​  Let’s focus on the recent attack on the American base in Syria. Syria? The US Government is insisting that these three Americans were killed in a base in Jordan close to the Syrian border. In a camp called Tower 22… Bullshit. These troops were killed and injured in Syria in the illegal occupation base in Al-Tanf. ​ Here, “resistance fighters” (this is what Al-Qaida is called nowadays) are being trained to fight “against Assad.” Meaning: Conducting Terror attacks against Syrians and Iranian IRGC officers within Syria.
​  Now, why does Washington insist that the attack (Drone? Missile? We will never know!) by the resistance axis has been conducted on the base in Jordan and not in Al-Tanf in Syria? That is very simple.
The Americans have no business in Syria. From an international law perspective, they are sitting ducks there, free to shoot—legally. They are occupying another country to “protect” (steal) its oil and to “free” (kill) Syrians. Whatever happens to them is legal from the perspective of international law...

..There are reports from Iran that the Americans tried hard through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran to convince the Iranians to let them hit some empty building in Iran and not to retaliate. To save face...
Moreover, the
Americans are trying to convince regional actors to stop the attacks against them, and MAYBE, as a reward, the Americans will eventually withdraw from the region... No regional player will buy into that any longer...
​..
On October 7th, a war was started by the Axis of Resistance. It was started against both Israel and the Western occupation of the Middle East. As stated above, it will not end before all occupation forces are out of the Middle East, the Two State Solution has been implemented in Israel, or all people in the Middle East are dead...

..Israel’s prime minister condemned his country to strategic defeat. I acknowledge that Iran, with Chinese help and Russia’s approval, showed a red cloth to the Israeli raging Bull (Netanyahu). And this bull made a fatal but entirely predictable error and charged right into this red cloth—right into Gaza. This was a fatal mistake! And it can’t be reversed...

​..Israel’s next goal would be to conquer southern Gaza. From a military perspective, the logical move would be to cut it off from the Egyptian border. And yes, Hamas withdrew to southern Gaza and would commit to a last stand there. But then… Israel began to withdraw from several places in Gaza. It withdrew significant brigades to reposition them to the Lebanon borders. Why?...

..I assume that Netanyahu received credible intelligence, perhaps from the Americans or others, that Hezbollah is ready to enter Israel from the north as soon as the Israelis are fully committed to the battle for Southern Gaza. Which essentially would deal a death blow to Israel.
​  Now, we must understand that
Israel does not have the forces left to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon. It has already lost significant armored resources; it has no experience in peer-to-peer combat. And it is far too small. Hezbollah is battle-hardened, as it learned through its ground operations in assaulting occupied Syrian cities. They are well-equipped, organized, and trained. Moreover, they have the modern missiles needed to decapitate Israel’s infrastructure and airfields within days.
​  Frankly, I think this is a very tense situation.
I don’t know whether Israel will invade Lebanon. Israel is physically not able to do that but still, Netanyahu could decide to do it out of desperation.   

https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/chickens-in-the-middle-east-i

 

​  Gilbert Doctorow ,  U.S. Military Strikes in Iraq and Syria:  A discussion on Iran’s Press TV

​  U.S. support for Netanyahu and the Israeli genocide in Gaza will end not because humane considerations have taken the upper hand but because domestic U.S. politics so dictates if Biden is to have any chance of being re-elected.  As always, domestic U.S. politics account for 90% of the direction of foreign policy, with the remaining 10% driven by the actual state of affairs in the world outside U.S. borders. In present conditions, underweighting the risks of provoking full-on war with Iran may have devastating consequences for U.S. power in the region and beyond.   https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/03/u-s-military-strikes-in-iraq-and-syria-a-discussion-on-irans-press-tv/

​  US Strikes Killed At Least 39, Including "Many Civilians," As Iraq Warns Stability Is On "Brink Of The Abyss"

Widespread reports say at least 39 were killed in the Friday US airstrikes on Iran-linked targets across Western Iraq and Eastern Syria, which used over 125 bombs and precision munitions, according to a Pentagon statement.  https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-strikes-killed-least-39-including-many-civilians-iraq-warns-stability-brink-abyss

​  The Iraqi Armed Forces stress that these "strikes" flagrantly violate Iraqi sovereignty, undermine the efforts of the Iraqi government, and pose a significant threat that could drag Iraq and the region into highly undesirable consequences.   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/most-targeted-sites-completely-evacuated-before-aggression

​  Iraqi parliament calling to ditch US dollar for oil trade​ , Washington has exercised strict control over Iraqi oil revenues for the past two decades

​  The Finance Committee in the Iraqi parliament made a statement on 31 January calling for the sale of oil in currencies other than the US dollar, aiming to counter US sanctions on the Iraqi banking system.
​  
“The US Treasury still uses the pretext of money laundering to impose sanctions on Iraqi banks. This requires a national stance to put an end to these arbitrary decisions,” the statement said.
​  
“Imposing sanctions on Iraqi banks undermines and obstructs Central Bank efforts to stabilize the dollar exchange rate and reduce the selling gap between official and parallel rates,” it added.
​  The Finance Committee affirmed its “rejection of these practices, due to their repercussions on the livelihoods of citizens,
" and reiterated its "call on the government and the Central Bank of Iraq to take quick measures against the dominance of the dollar, by diversifying cash reserves from foreign currencies.”
​  
Washington imposed sanctions on Iraqi Al-Huda Bank this week, under claims of laundering money for Iran.   https://thecradle.co/articles/iraqi-parliament-calling-to-ditch-us-dollar-for-oil-trade

​  The Three Strands to the ‘Swarming of Biden’

The U.S. seemingly aims to find a way to hurt Iranian and Resistance forces just enough to show that Biden is ‘very angry’, Alastair Crooke writes.

​  “The Iranians have a strategy, and we don’t”, a former senior U.S. Defence Department official told Al-Monitor: “We’re getting bogged down in tactical weeds – of whom to target and how – and nobody’s thinking strategically”.​..

​..The strategy to ‘swarm’ the U.S. on multiple fronts was plainly stated at the recent ‘Astana Format’ meeting between Russia, Iran, and Turkey on 24-25 January. The latter triumvirate are busy preparing the endgame in Syria (and ultimately, in the Region as a whole).
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/02/the-three-strands-to-the-swarming-of-biden/

Israel Bombs Belgian Agency in Gaza After Belgium Refuses to Cut Funding to UNRWA
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64275


​  Israeli Defense Minister: Two-Thirds Of Hamas Have Been Taken Out​  
(Straight face​, firm voice, and steady eye contact are essential to effective lying.)
​  He said in the remarks that the military has effectively neutralized 20,000 of the estimated pre-conflict total of around 30,000 fighters. He essentially declared the defeat of Hamas in their southern stronghold of Khan Younis, saying that in addition to the 10,000 killed there's been another some 10,000 wounded. Currently, there is no way of verifying this and Hamas does not publish on its own casualty rates...
..
"Hamas' Khan Younis Brigade boasted that it would stand against the IDF," Gallant said, but then declared instead the group has been "dismantled."​  "I am telling you here, we are completing the mission in Khan Younis and we will also reach Rafah and eliminate everyone there who is a terrorist who is trying to harm us," Gallant told a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Gaza.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-defense-minister-declares-two-thirds-hamas-have-been-taken-out

​  The paramedics sent to rescue a five-year-old Palestinian girl, who was trapped with her dead family in a vehicle surrounded by Israeli forces, have not been heard from for five days, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported on Friday.
​  Hind's mother, Wissam Rajab, told Middle East Eye that
the family decided to flee when tanks approached the area they were staying in.
Due to poor weather, she had put her daughter in the vehicle along with her uncle, his wife, and their children, while the rest of the family, including Hind's grandmother, fled on foot.​..
​..Rajab thought they were all dead until
she got a call from Layan Hamadeh, her 15-year-old cousin, saying; "Hind and I are wounded, and all my family is dead, I don't want to die. Please call an ambulance to save us. I'm scared, the tanks are 500 metres away from me."
​  The line went dead, Rajab thought they had both been killed. But when she called again, Hind answered and said:
"I'm alive, but Layan was martyred. Mum, I'm afraid, they are all dead. Come and get me."​..
..She recalled that Hind said she was in pain, and that her arm, leg, and back were wounded...
​.."I'm scared of the dark, come get me," she said.​.. "Don't leave me, I'm cold, hungry, and afraid."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-fate-ambulance-team-sent-rescue-five-year-old-unknown

​  Mike Whitney,  
Israel’s Starvation Strategy
​  “It’s not a coincidence that the attacks on UNRWA took place after the ICJ ruling. Israel is trying to discredit the International Court of Justice, and one way of doing that is by rubbishing UNRWA. But UNRWA has fulfilled the heroic role of providing health, education and all other services to the Palestinian refugees since 1948.
​  And
it’s really heartbreaking that Israeli propaganda is now demonizing UNRWA and leading some countries to cut off aid. So, my sympathy and support is entirely on the side of UNRWA, and I hope it can long continue to play the vital role it has always played in supporting the Palestinian victims of Israeli aggression.” —Avi Shlaim, Israeli historian​...
..Israel is boldly laying down its cards so the entire world can see the strategy it plans to employ to eradicate the native population and fulfill the Zionist dream of a Jewish state from the river to the sea.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israels-starvation-strategy/5848377

​  Israel Announces It Will Attack Gaza Border City of Rafah
​  Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was winning in Khan Younis, and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) would move on to Rafah. “We are achieving our missions in Khan Younis, and we will also reach Rafah and eliminate terror elements that threaten us,” he proclaimed.
​  When Israel began its military campaign in Gaza, it ordered all Palestinians to leave the northern half of the Gaza Strip.
Most of the internally displaced Gazans fled to Khan Younis, the largest city in the southern half of the Strip. Now, following the IDF bombardment of the city, most residents and refugees have fled, many to Rafah.
​  
The last remaining city and refugee camp in Gaza is Rafah, a city along the enclave’s border with Egypt. Before the war, Rafah was home to 250,000 people. Currently 1.7 million Palestinians are packed into the city. Jens Laerke, a UN spokesperson for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, explained, “Rafah is now a pressure cooker of despair, and we fear for what happens next.”​...
​..Gallant has claimed that Israel needs to attack Rafah to rescue hostages held by Hamas...
​..The IDF has yet to rescue a signal hostage through its military operations
in Gaza. The IDF has killed several hostages, including three who escaped and were waving white flags. Hamas has offered to release the hostages if Israel ends the war and allows aid into Gaza.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/02/israel-announces-it-will-attack-gaza-border-city-of-rafah/

​  Moon of Alabama (Germany) , Boycott, Divestment And Sanctions
​  Despite its utter cruelty and destructiveness Israel is far from achieving its goal of ethnic cleansing Gaza. It also has not even dared yet to attack Hizbullah in south Lebanon. This while Zionists settlers had to move out of the areas surrounding Gaza and from the ground near to the Lebanese border.
​  Netanyahoo is in a trap. He has to 'do something' to allow for the return of the internal refugees to their homes. But any action towards that will cause more death of his troops and may well hurt Israel's strategic viability.
​  
It seems that the Zionist idea of a settler colony exclusively for Jews is coming, slowly but surely, to its inevitable end.
There have long been signs of this. The boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israel has been continuously growing.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions.html

​  
The Ethical Skeptic,​ What is Dysinformation?
​  Dysinformation (alternately, ‘dystinfo’ or ‘dystinformation’) encapsulates a specific and nuanced concept within the realm of information distortion. It’s a form of disinformation that is particularly insidious because it uses facts or mostly-truths in a way that is misleading or deceptive. This approach is distinct from outright falsehoods or fabrications, as it relies on the selective presentation of truth to shape perceptions or narratives – particularly when applied to future events or a progression of adverse conditions.
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Dysinformation proliferates under a circumstance wherein a single Party has gained excessive amounts of power (cultural, political, social, scientific, and/or industrial) and is aligned with a servile and corrupt media, under a legal condition defined as State (Joint) Action.
​    Example:
WHO Warns Cancer Cases Will Jump 77% by 2050 – Here’s Why
“Tobacco, alcohol and obesity are key factors behind the increasing incidence of cancer, with air pollution still a key driver of environmental risk factors.”​   
~ Agence France-Presse: Science Alert, 2 Feb 2024​ ...
​..In the context of “Dystopian Disinformation,” this term suggests
a deliberate strategy to manipulate collective awareness or create a mass formation paradigm. The aim here is to condition the public’s understanding or expectations in a way that aligns with certain agendas or prepares the populace for future adverse events or developments. By doing so, the orchestrators of dysinformation seek to control the narrative in advance, influence public opinion towards acceptance of a simple and easy-to-understand explanation for the state of things, and potentially mitigate backlash or resistance when these events unfold.
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/02/02/what-is-dysinformation/

 (Butt) Cracks Begin to Show at Davos​ , Trepidation flows like honeyed vinegar at the elite's annual humanity-hating bash.​   (Dark) Simplicius
Officially, climate and mis-/disinformation dominated their program’s agenda, which was sponsored under the byline: “Rebuilding ​(Enforcing) Trust.”
….So if you're a Davos class type — in finance, private equity, multinational business, certain think tank/academic/nonprofit types who depend on political connections — your gut instinct is to SURVIVE at all costs. If that means a deal with the populist, well then...
​..WHO director general Tedros Ghebreyesus got accosted on his way to Schwab’s soiree by an intrepid reporter: “When will you release Disease X?”​...
​..
An environmental lobbyist told viewers of British News channel GB News Tuesday that having children presents a “moral issue” because of the amount of carbon they will produce over the course of their lifetime.
​  Donnachadh McCarthy argued that people should have fewer children, and that having only one child is “great”.
In the meantime, European capitals have been blazing—supermarkets in dystopian Paris empty owing to the widespread farmer strikes​...
​..Rubber bullets and water cannons were deployed against hundreds of
European farmers protesting outside the EU Parliament building in Brussels on Thursday.​..
.. The White House, for one, is setting an example by replacing John Kerry with a new more ‘wholesome’ Climate Czar​, John Podesta...
​..But the final most immediately troubling focus from the globalists was on ‘disinformation’.  

https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/cracks-begin-to-show-at-davos


 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Organ was warned that he would be stripped of the right to vote within the European Union should he refuse to support financial assistance to Ukraine
https://tass.com/world/1741193

​  Von der Leyen celebrates ‘a great day for Europe’ as farmers trash Brussels
The unelected European Commission head made her priorities crystal clear by praising another cash dump on Ukraine
https://www.rt.com/news/591720-leyen-brussels-ukraine-farmers-protest/

​  Orban linked to farmers’ protests ​-- The Hungarian leader personally met with demonstrators in Brussels ahead of an EU summit on aid for Ukraine
Close associates of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban are reportedly responsible for organizing the farmers’ protests in Brussels over the past week, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
https://swentr.site/news/591710-orban-eu-farmers-protests/

​  The German parliament, Bundestag, said on Friday it had passed in the final vote the 2024 budget which envisages cutbacks in subsidies for farmers.
​  In December 2023, the German government announced plans to scrap diesel subsidies for farmers amid the budget crisis, which would bring 440 million euros ($476 million) to the federal budget. The government also planned to end tax breaks on vehicles for forestry and agriculture, gaining an additional 480 million euros.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240202/bundestag-says-passed-2024-budget-with-cutbacks-in-subsidies-for-farmers-1116564633.html

​  Around 90,000 public transport workers at over 130 companies in Germany staged walkouts on Friday to demand reduced working hours and extra days off.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240202/german-public-transport-workers-strike-over-working-conditions---reports-1116564462.html

​  The leaders of several EU countries spoke against the import of Ukrainian agricultural products at the summit in Brussels, while Belgian farmers asked Ukraine's neighbors to block such supplies at the EU borders, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said​.
https://tass.com/world/1740923

Polish farmers announce Ukrainian border blockade​ , Brussels’ position on cheap imports is unacceptable, the Solidarity trade union declared​
https://www.rt.com/news/591727-polish-farmers-border-blockade-ukraine/

​  Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was recently grilled by Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo about where this is headed on the show Sunday Morning Futures.
She asked:
“What is this going to turn into a civil war? I mean, you've got the Texas rights versus federal rights, both sides with guns?”
​  Patrick explained that the state intends to assert its authority in defending Texans, noting:
'We have a right to defend our citizens. We have a right to defend this country. And we're just doing the job.”
​  He added that he considers the influx at the border to be a full-fledged invasion:
“It's a cartel army. You know, the founders never dreamed we'd have a president like this one who would just open the door to everyone.​"​  "And they said, well, ​'invasion if an army came​'. Well, we're facing an army. We're facing an army, but they're well-armed. They're well coordinated. Don't mess with Texas. We're serious about securing our border.” (Dan ma​kes patriotic sounds.)
​  He added that they do not want to get drawn into a confrontation with the Biden administration and simply want the federal government to let Texas authorities do their job of protecting citizens.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-02-02-texas-possibility-of-civil-war-migration-crisis.html

​  "This Is Not Friendly" - Bret Weinstein Shows Tucker Carlson How China & The UN Are Driving The Invasion Of America
​  The Darien Gap is a crucial yet perilous passage for migrants traveling from South America to North America that acts as a natural barrier (where, for 60 miles, the Pan-American highway ends and deadly jungle begins) that saw over half a million migrants traverse its challenging terrain last year alone.​..
​..The United States government is facilitating this economic migration. And it's unmistakable, as is an organization called the IOM, which is the International Organization for Migration. It's a branch of the UN.
​  And if you read their charter, you will discover that this organization believes that migration is an inherently good thing, that it's always good. And so they see it as their job to bring it about to facilitate it.
​  And in this case,
that's particularly tragic because their desire to induce people to migrate is causing people who are woefully unprepared for the Darien Gap to try to make that journey. And, the the humanitarian tragedy is, is immense."
​ 
Weinstein then pivoted to contrast that experience with a second one, highlighting for Carlson how it had been "built as a transit camp" for "almost" all Chinese migrants.
​  
"The SENAFRONT, the Panamanian border control, actually forbid us to go into the camp. So we had to stay on the outside of it. We were also forbidden to photograph it. So what photographs we have were taken covertly," Weinstein explained.
​  
"These, Chinese folks who are overwhelmingly male, military age... It is not a friendly migration... This felt like people who did not want to share information, because it would be a mistake to do so."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/not-friendly-bret-weinstein-shows-tucker-carlson-how-china-un-are-driving-invesion

​  Putin: it hurts to say what happened in the Kharkov region after the withdrawal of the Russian Armed Forces
In Russia they know what the Ukrainian military “did” in the Kharkov region after the withdrawal of Russian troops from there, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.​   
https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/6492204?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

​  The attack on the Russian IL-76 shot down near Belgorod by a Patriot surface-to-air missile system (SAM) was planned and prepared by Ukraine’s armed units, TASS wrote on February 2, citing information from military agencies.
​  “There is a concept of ambush in air defense. The SAM was moved to the positional area in advance. The SAM was standing with the radar system switched off,” the source told reporters.
​  According to the representative of the military agencies, the Patriot complex did not turn on the radar station so as not to give itself away. It did not need to monitor the sky because Ukraine had data on the plane, as Moscow had given them to Kiev while agreeing on the exchange of Ukrainian prisoners on board.
​  The source told the publication that the Patriot system needed little time for deployment. Having received the command, the Ukrainian militants shot down the Il-76.
https://eu.eot.su/2024/02/02/it-becomes-known-that-ukrainian-attack-on-il-76-was-planned/

​  On Thursday, Russia’s Investigative Committee released a report claiming that the plane was brought down using two MIM-104A surface-to-air missiles launched from a Patriot missile system deployed at a staging area in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine near the village of Liptsy, around 10km from the Russian border.
​  Following the Investigative Committee’s report, a source within Russia’s security services told TASS that
it is very likely that as usual the crew operating the Patriot system represented a mix of Ukrainian and American specialists.
​  The agency’s source explained that
Ukrainian officers are likely placed in lower positions while Western specialists, including Americans, sit at the control and missile guidance stations.
​  They added that
as standard procedure Ukrainian servicemen are often only allowed to be involved with these systems as drivers or operators of transport-loading vehicles.
https://europerenaissance.com/2024/02/02/u-s-servicemen-crewed-the-patriot-that-mass-murdered-65-ukrainian-pows/

​  US P-8 implicated in latest strike against Russian missile boat
​  The recent attack launched by a cluster of Ukrainian kamikaze drones led to the sinking of a Russian missile warship named Ivanovets from the Black Sea Fleet.    Tragically, all 44 crew members on board went down with the ship. Some speculate that US P-8A Poseidon technology may have aided the Ukrainian side in this operation.​ The Ivanovets has been responsible for a series of missile attacks on Ukraine. Therefore, its loss provides temporary relief for the residents of southern Ukraine...
(Previously, the Russian Black Sea Flagship)  The Russian cruiser Moskva was hit and capsized on April 13, 2022, according to confirmed reports, after being struck by Ukrainian Neptune missiles.
​  The Daily Mail reported on
April 20, 2022, that a P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft from the US Navy was dispatched to support the Ukrainian strikes. As stated by The Times, the Moskva was being tracked by the P-8 before the attack, and then the aircraft relayed its position to the Ukrainian Military.
​  
In a combat zone, clear situational awareness is key, and the P-8 assumed this role for the Ukrainian forces. Despite being stationed well beyond the reach of Ukrainian radars, the Moskva was identified and tracked by the maritime patrol aircraft, which then relayed its position.
​ 
 The P-8A reportedly took off from Italy for this operation, turning off its trackers en route to avoid being monitored online as it approached the Black Sea coast. For three hours, it remained off the radar before reappearing on Flight Radar 24.​  After reappearing, it stationed itself along the Romanian coast of the Black Sea.
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/02/02/us-p-8-implicated-in-latest-strike-against-russian-missile-boat/

 ​  The
production of tanks in Russia has grown fivefold since the beginning of the special military operation, and automobile production has increased sevenfold, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with the participants of a forum devoted to the special military operation.
​  "Since the beginning of the special operation, the
supply of various types of drones and artillery ammunition to the troops has increased significantly, as for personal armor protection <...> the increase was tenfold, for automotive equipment <...> - sevenfold, but for tanks - fivefold. {An increase of] five times for tanks is a decent figure," the head of state said.​  He also noted that the production of in infantry fighting vehicles increased more than 3.5 times.​       https://tass.com/politics/1741159

​  This is battlefield warfare two iterations beyond what NATO is capable of.  
Assault detachments of the Russian Armed Forces will be covered from drone attacks by separate air defense units
https://en.topcor.ru/43989-shturmovye-otrjady-vs-rf-budut-prikryty-ot-atak-dronov-otdelnymi-podrazdelenijami-pvo.html

​  COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines: Lessons Learned from the Registrational Trials and Global Vaccination Campaign
.. In retrospect, the most concerning revelation from the registrational trials that led to the EUA was not the apparent overstatement of 95% efficacy, but rather the indication within those trials that the vaccines carried a significant risk of SAEs and premature death, even among a relatively healthy group of participants. Based on the extended Pfizer trial findings, our person-years estimate yielded a 31% increase in overall mortality among vaccine recipients, a clear trend in the wrong direction. Moreover, the Fraiman et al. analysis showed a significant 36% higher risk of SAEs (including deaths and many life-threatening conditions) in the vaccine group for the Pfizer trial [50]. The Michels et al. analysis found a nearly four-fold increase in cardiovascular SAEs among subjects in the Pfizer trial who received the BNT162b2 injection compared to placebo, a fact never reported to the public at the time of the rollouts in December 2020 [54]. Notwithstanding these grave concerns, the Moderna product has shown even more frequent AEs when compared to its Pfizer counterpart [116-120,135]. Both mRNA products were linked with increased risks of ischemic stroke, brain hemorrhage, acute coronary syndrome, and other conditions known to reduce life expectancy...
.. Indeed,
one might have expected the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to have been withdrawn from the market following the Fraiman study’s revelation of one SAE in 800. The 1976 swine flu vaccine was pulled after being associated with Guillain-BarrĂ© Syndrome at a rate of approximately one in 100,000 [250]. The rotavirus vaccine Rotashield was withdrawn following reports of intussusception in one or two in 10,000 vaccinees [251]. In the case of the mRNA vaccines, Fraiman’s team reported their preliminary findings to both the FDA and EMA.​..
..According to a 393-page confidential document requested by the EMA and released in August 2022 [114], Pfizer had by that time documented approximately 1.6 million AEs covering nearly every organ system [114, 252,253]. One-third of the AEs were classified as serious. Among the many findings were 3,711 tumors, 264 categories of vascular disorders (73,542 cases total), over 100,000 blood and lymphatic disorders, 127,000 cardiac disorders (including 270 categories of heart damage in addition to myocarditis and pericarditis), 77,000 psychiatric disorders (including psychoses, depression, suicide and suicidal behaviors), and hundreds of categories of neurological disorders (696,508 cases total), many of which are considered very rare, a clear indication of grave hazards.​..
..The adverse impacts on younger segments of the population were also reflected by the extraordinary reports from US life insurance companies for the latter half of 2021. According to the Group Life survey data, during Q3 and Q4 of 2021, the general US population experienced a 32% increase in mortality compared to 40% in the Group Life count (8% difference) [264]. Group Life Policyholders are well-employed, young, and generally healthy adults, previously dying at about one-third the rate of the US population...
..On a precautionary basis, we agree with
recommendations for the immediate removal of the COVID-19 vaccines from the childhood immunization schedule along with the suspension of boosters and a full investigation of the vaccine industry’s and regulatory agencies’ misconduct regarding safety assessments and data from the founding trials. It is unethical and unconscionable to administer an experimental vaccine to a child who has a near-zero risk of dying from COVID-19 (IFR, 0.0003%) but a well-established 2.2% risk of permanent heart damage based on the best prospective​ data  available.​   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10810638/

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Friday, February 2, 2024

New Westphalian World Order

 Neither Here Nor There,


  Michael Hudson ,  Perfecting Imperialism
​  Look at the background of the people who’ve led the World Bank. From the very beginning, John McCloy was in the army. The most notorious World Bank leader and most corrupt was Robert McNamara, of course. And then you have the last few World Bank presidents who come directly from the US national security state. So, if you look at their background, you may ask, why is it that they come from the military or the national security state?
​  Well, the reason is that they look at the World Bank as a key to the US strategic control of other countries’ economies. And there are two basic spheres economically that the United States uses as the buttress of its balance of payments and its ability to impose sanctions on other countries. The first is oil, which explains why the United States has blown up the Nord Stream pipelines and why it’s isolated Venezuela. It used oil to be able to control the energy of foreign countries. And the second point is agriculture. And that is probably the most serious and most negative, destructive element of all of the World Bank’s policies. And I have a chapter on that in my Super Imperialism.
​  The function of the World Bank is to prevent other countries from growing their own food, to make sure that the World Bank does not give economic support to domestic agriculture. One of the most fateful requirements of the World Bank is that it only makes foreign exchange loans. Now, foreign exchange loans mean they’re going to develop the export sectorthey’re going to develop roads and transportation for export commodities. The government will bear the cost of developing mining, of developing oil and minerals, of deforestation, but it won’t develop domestic industry. And if you look at agricultural development in the United States, most of this agricultural development spending is domestic...  Not a single 
(World Bank)​ loan has been made for that unless it’s for plantation agriculture and export crops. So, the idea is that other countries, Latin America, Africa, South Asia, should depend on American farmers for grain and food exports and they should export plantation products that do not compete with American agriculture...
..The World Bank has opposed land reform. It’s opposed any of the domestic rules that any country such as the United States, or the European Common Agricultural Policy, have used to support domestic food production. So, what the World Bank has done is subsidize import dependency on American grain. And the export competition with other World Bank customers to compete among themselves at products that do not compete with American or Western Europe production. So, the World Bank is basically an arm of economic warfare by the United States and NATO against the global majority...
..The important thing to know is that there was an alternative to the World Bank. It was called the World Bank for Economic Acceleration, and it was promoted by the American senator from Florida, Senator Smathers, and was called the Forgash Plan after Morris Forgash, who was the head of the containerized shipping. The World Bank for Economic Acceleration was to finance land reform, it was to finance domestic subsidy for agriculture and domestic import displacement, and of course that was opposed by the United States.
​  I found out that it was opposed because a copy of the plan was sent to my former boss at Chase Manhattan Bank, John Deaver. Deaver said, advised David Rockefeller, that every country that is engaged in land reform has ended up a political enemy of the United States. Well, that’s because the United States subsidizes assassination squads to kill any advocacy of land reform, so that the United States can control the land of the country’s most​-notorious United Fruit Company...
​..The idea of the World Bank is to turn Latin American, African, and other economies into extensions of the US economy, not serving their own domestic economy...
..You need an alternative set of international institutions whose goal will be to promote domestic development and domestic independence in food, basic consumer goods independence, energy independence, instead of dependency on the United States...
​..De-dollarization doesn’t mean having an alternative currency like the euro or the dollar or the yen. It doesn’t mean a domestic currency at all. De-dollarization means how do you avoid having to keep your reserves in dollars where the United States can simply confiscate them...
..You’ll have, of course, some holdings of other countries’ currencies, just as every country holds other countries’ currencies to stabilize the foreign exchange market.
  But the big problem is what do you do to keep your international reserves, the savings of the country, in a kind of global money? In other words, what do you do to replace the role that gold had prior to 1971? The problem is that the growth in international reserves itself is a function of American military spending. Almost all these dollars that have been ended up in the bank accounts of foreign governments have been injected into the world economy, not by foreign trade, not even by foreign investment, but by foreign military spending. Again, I showed the statistics in Super Imperialism...
..Well, the United States will not let these countries do what the United States does to them... It will only let these dollars be invested in US Treasury securities, or maybe in the stock market, or maybe you can buy scattered real estate... The problem is the fact that these reserves are unnecessary in the first place. The reserves measure imbalance in international trade, investment, and payments. And if the world worked the way it’s supposed to in the economic textbooks, countries would be in balance...
​..If you didn’t have American military spending, if you didn’t have the American looting of global south countries, you wouldn’t have this growth in reserves. And the fact is you wouldn’t need them. You would need basically some international credit..​.
..The fact is that access to international credit, to international reserves, is used as a kind of political leverage to force them to follow laws that will not tax American and European firms, that will let them use accounting stratagems to pretend not to earn any profits at all at home, but to take them in offshore tax havens and offshore banking centers..
..The whole international financial system is a massive pretense to avoid paying taxes to the countries that are the host countries for investment and to avoid making companies responsible for the economic damages that they cause to the environment and to the rest of the economy...
..Why did the United States go off gold in 1971? It’s because General de Gaulle in France and Germany were doing the same thing, were cashing in all of the dollars that were thrown off by American military spending, mainly in Southeast Asia but around the world in the 800 military bases. If you had the gold reserve or a reserve controlled by the global majority, then the United States could not simply finance its military spending by printing dollars...
..So basically, neoliberalism is financialization, privatization, untaxation, and a lot of political assassination, a lot of killing of people who oppose this...​ As the head of the CIA said, "we’re murder inc." and who do they murder? They murder people who are trying to explain and expose this whole imperialistic process​...
..In fact, all of this increase in wealth by the financial class, by the real estate class, by the insurance class and what I call the FIRE sector- finance, insurance and real estate- has been created in the form of economic rentNot wages, not profits, but land rent, monopoly rent and financial returns...​ 
​..Well, how can the rental yield go up if you’re deindustrializing the economy?​ ...  The banks will say, let’s give this mortgage to the Federal Reserve as a deposit and the Federal Reserve will give us real money for it. Let the Federal Reserve and the government take the big loss. That’s the only hope of getting out of this because 80% of bank loans are mortgage loans.​..

​  Pepe Escobar,  Will the Hegemon Ever Accept a New Westphalian World Order?
​  A new book by scholar Glenn Diesen, The Ukraine War & The Eurasian World Order, out in mid-February, asks the make-or-break question of the young 21st century: will the Hegemon accept a new geopolitical reality, or will it go Captain Ahab on Moby Dick? ...
..Diesen offers a concise, easily accessible mini-history of how we got here.
​  He starts to make the case harking back to the Silk Roads: “The Silk Road was an early model of globalization, although it did not result in a common world order as the civilizations of the world were primarily connected to nomadic intermediaries.”
​  The demise of the Heartland-based Silk Road, actually roads, was caused by the rise of the thalassocratic European powers reconnecting the world in a different way. Yet the hegemony of the collective West could only be fully achieved by applying Divide and Rule across Eurasia.
​  We did not in fact had “five centuries of western dominance”, according to Diesen: it was more like three, or even two...
​..What is indeed The Big Picture now is that “the unique world order” produced by controlling “the vast Eurasian continent from the maritime periphery is coming to an end”
Mackinder is hit by a train
  Diesen hits the nail on the head when it comes to the Russia-China strategic partnership – on which the overwhelmingly majority of European intellectuals is clueless​...
..Diesen shows how “Russia can be considered the successor of the Mongolian nomads as the last custodian of the Eurasian land corridor”, while China revives the Ancient Silk Roads “with economic connectivity”. In consequence, “a powerful Eurasian gravitational pull is thus reorganizing the supercontinent and the wider world.”...
..Witte “wanted to end Russia’s role as an exporter of natural resources to Europe as it resembled ‘the relations of colonial countries with their metropolises’”.
​  And that implies going back to Dostoyevsky, who argued that “Russians are as much Asiatics as European. The mistake of our policy for the past two centuries has been to make the people of Europe believe that we are true Europeans (…) It will be better for us to seek alliances with the Asiatics.” Dostoyevsky meets Putin-Xi.
​  Diesen also needs to go through the obligatory references to Mackinder’s “heartland” obsession – which is the basis of all Anglo-American geopolitics for the past hundred and twenty years.
​  Mackinder was spooked by railway development – especially the Trans-Siberian by the Russians – as it enabled Moscow to “emulate the nomadic skills of the Scythians, Huns and Mongols” that were essential to control most of Eurasia.
​  Mackinder was particularly focused on railways acting “chiefly as feeders to ocean-going commerce”. Ergo, being a thalassocratic power was not enough: “The heartland is the region to which under modern conditions, sea power can be refused access.”
​  And that’s what leads to the Rosetta Stone of Anglo-American geopolitics: to “prevent the emergence of a hegemon or a group of states capable of dominating Europe and Eurasia that could threaten the dominant maritime power.”
​  That explains everything from WWI and WWII to the permanent NATO obsession in preventing a solid rapprochement between Germany and Russia, by any means necessary.
​  Diesen offers a succinct perspective of Russian Eurasianists of the 1920s such as Trubetskoi and Savitsky, who were promoting an alternative path to the USSR.
​  They conceptualized that with Anglo-American thalassocracy applying Divide and Rule in Russia, what was needed was a Eurasian political economy based on mutual cooperation: a stark prefiguration of the Russia-China drive to multipolarity.
​  Savitsky in fact could have been writing today: “Eurasia has previously played a unifying role in the Old World. Contemporary Russia, absorbing this tradition”, must abandon war as a method of unification.
​  Cue to post-Maidan in 2014. Moscow finally got the message that trying to build a Greater Europe “from Lisbon to Vladivostok” was a non-starter. Thus the new concept of Greater Eurasian Partnership was born. Sergey Karaganov, with whom Diesen worked at the Higher School of Economics, was the father of the concept.
​  Greater Eurasia Partnership repositions Russia “from the periphery of Europe and Asia to the center of a large super-region.” In short, a pivot to the East – and the consolidation of the Russia-China partnership.
​  Diesen dug up an extraordinary passage in the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, proving how the Little Helmsman in 1990 was a visionary prefiguring multipolar China:​  
​  “In the future when the world becomes three-polar, four-polar or five-polar, the Soviet Union, no matter how weakened it may be and even if some of its republics withdraw from it, will still be one pole. In the so-called multipolar world, China too will be a pole (…) Our foreign policies remain the same: first, opposing hegemonism and power politics and safeguarding world peace; and second, working to establish a new international political order and a new international economic order.”
​  Diesen breaks it down, noting how China has to a certain extent “replicated the three-pillared American System of the early 19th century, in which the U.S. developed a manufacturing base, physical transportation infrastructure, and a national bank to counter British economic hegemony.”
​  Enter China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI); the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO); the AIIB; the de-dollarization drive; the China International Payment System (CIPS); increased use of yuan in international trade; the use of national currencies; Made in China 2025; The Digital Silk Road; and last but not least, BRICS 10 and the NDB, the BRICS development bank.
​  Russia matched some of it – as in the Eurasia Development Bank (EDB) of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) and in advancing the harmonization of financial arrangements of BRI and EAEU projects via the SCO.
​  Diesen is one of the very few Western analysts who actually understands the drive to multipolarity: “BRICS+ is anti-hegemony and not anti-Western, as the objective is to create a multipolar system and not assert collective dominance over the West.”
​  Diesen also contends that the emerging Eurasian World Order is “seemingly based on conservative principles.” That’s correct, as the Chinese system is drenched in Confucianism (social integration, stability, harmonious relationships, respect for tradition and hierarchy)...
​  Diesen’s detailed analysis of the Ukraine proxy war, “a predictable consequence of an unsustainable world order”, is extrapolated to the battleground where the future, new world order is being decided; it is “either global hegemony or Westphalian multipolarity.”
​  Everyone with a brain by now knows how Russia absorbed and re-transformed everything thrown by the collective West after the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO). The problem is the rarified plutocracy that really runs the show will always refuse to acknowledge reality, as Diesen frames it: “Irrespective of the outcome of the war, the war has already become the graveyard of liberal hegemony.”
​  The overwhelming majority of the Global South clearly sees that even as what Ray McGovern indelibly defined as MICIMATT (military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academia-think tank complex) cast the Russia-China partnership as the main “threats” – in reality those that created the “gravitational pull to reorganize the world order towards multipolarity” – they can’t bring Russia-China down geoeconomically.
​  So there’s no question “the conflicts of the future world order will continue to be militarized.” That’s where we are at the crossroads. There will be no peaceful road towards to Westphalian world order. 

​  US Created Ukraine Conflict to Keep Europe ‘Under Its Thumb’
​  On Thursday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban relented to pressure from the EU and finally allowed €50 billion in military and financial aid to be transferred to Ukraine after blocking the funding for more than a month. The funds are ostensibly planned to fund Ukraine until 2027 and came as US aid remains stalled in Congress.
​  Before the latest aid package was approved by the EU, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg remarked at a Monday news conference in Washington, DC, that “weapons are – in fact – the way to peace [in Ukraine],” but that's not quite the case, an analyst told Sputnik.
​  Dr. David Oualaalou told Sputnik’s Critical Hour on Wednesday that Stoltenberg’s assertion “defies logic” and asserted that Ukraine is already “gone.”
Oualaalou argued that Europe was pushed into supporting Ukraine by the US, which is not “paying the price” of that support in the same way Europe is. He added that the economic situation in Europe, largely brought on by the consequences of their support of Ukraine and sanctions on Russia, makes the continent reliant on the US.
​  He added that his family members in Europe acknowledge that European countries are “going down faster than we can even imagine,” and pointed to the farmer and worker protests breaking out across the continent.
​  Complicating matters further, Oualaalou argued, is that even with monetary aid being sent to Ukraine, Europe is too short on ammunition to give Ukraine much that will help them on the battlefield.

​  ‘We Shot Ourselves in the Head’: Mass European Farmer Protests Blowback for Ukraine Support
Elijah Magnier told Sputnik’s Fault Lines on Wednesday that the root causes of the protests stem from Europe’s decision “to follow the United States policy and join the war against Russia.” “We shot ourselves in the foot, basically that’s very soft – we shot ourselves in the head and now we are paying the price,” Magnier said.
​  He noted how everything from energy to consumer food prices has skyrocketed in Europe, but that has not caused European leaders to change course“Now, they are attacking the heart of Europe that are the farmers … they can no longer stand on their feet with the difference of prices, with the increase of price [for consumers and] the lower price that the markets are buying off of them.”
​  Co-host Jamarl Thomas asked Magnier what demands the farmers have. Magnier replied that they want protection from cheap products coming out of Ukrainesubsidies on diesel fuel to be reinstated, the rollback of European Green New Deal regulations that limit when and what crops are allowed to be planted and a fair price from the supermarket that matches the cost of living increases in Europe.
​  Part of the issue, says Magnier is that the EU hamstrings what the individual countries’ leaders can do to respond to their population.
In particular, Magnier explained, farmers are angry that they have to follow the new regulations but Ukraine is allowed to skirt them under the guise that they are at war.
“The farmers today are waking up [to] the consequences of the Ukrainian conflict and they are saying 'we have to be completely detached from what is happening in Ukraine because this is not our war​.'

​  Zelensky Wants Zaluzhny Out Over Alleged Effort to Pursue Ceasefire With Russia - Hersh
​  On Monday, Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenko said, citing sources, that Zaluzhny was allegedly ordered to resign. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry and Zelensky's spokesman denied the claims.
"Zelensky’s desire to fire his commanding general is the result, some Americans believe, of his knowledge that Zaluzhny had continued to participate - whether directly or through aides is not known - in secret talks since last fall with American and other Western officials on how best to achieve a ceasefire and negotiate an end to the war with Russia," Hersh said on Thursday.​..
According to reports, Zelensky was forced to reverse his decision as international partners, including the United States and the United Kingdom, expressed concern about Zelensky's actions.
Zelensky reportedly met with Zaluzhny to inform the general of the decision to fire him. Instead, Zelensky offered Zaluzhny the post of secretary of the country’s security council, but Zaluzhny turned it down.
The head of Ukraine's military intelligence service, Kyrylo Budanov, and the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, Oleksandr Syrsky, were named candidates for the post of commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, the report added.

​  Ukraine's ground forces commander Oleksandr Syrskyi was offered the job of replacing his boss Valeriy Zaluzhnyi as commander of the armed forces, but declined, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

​  Nuland arrives in Kiev to look into Zelensky-Zaluzhny conflict — Russian diplomat​ 
Konstantin Gavrilov also believes that Nuland does not have the task of reconciling Zelensky and Zaluzhny

​  ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 119: Israel vows to push forward into Rafah, leaving Palestinians with nowhere left to flee
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declares the Israeli ground invasion will continue into Rafah, where 1.9 million civilians are currently sheltering. One Palestinian tells Reuters, “If the tanks storm in, it will be a massacre like never before.”

​  Israel and Hamas appear to be inching closer towards a deal for a ceasefire and a release of some of the hostages still being held by the militant group in Gaza, while the UN children’s agency has warned that 17,000 children have been left without families or been separated from them by the conflict.​..
​..However, while an aide to Hamas’s political leader said the group had received details of the proposed deal, it had yet to deliver a reply.​  Qatari official later clarified to Reuters that there was “no deal yet” and that although “Hamas has received the proposal positively”, Qatar was “waiting for their response”.

​  South Africa calls on world to take urgent action following Israel’s disregard for ICJ’s decisions
Newzroom Afrika website quoted South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor in a press conference in the administrative capital, Pretoria, as saying: “Countries must act immediately to prevent the Zionist enemy from committing genocide, and ensure that those countries do not violate the Convention against Genocide by financing and assistance.”
https://en.ypagency.net/317634

  Meryl Nass MD ,  The WHO Constitution is at Odds with the WHO's Attempted Power Grab
​..Article 23 states that the WHA can make recommendations to members about any issue in which it has competence, but it fails to say that it can issue regulations over as broad a range of issues.
​  I conclude that the extent of the powers that will accrue to the WHO as proposed in the amendments to the IHR exceed the scope for which the WHO is permitted to issue regulations.  Therefore, if the WHO wishes to ask the WHA to approve the amended IHR, it must do so as a treaty, agreement or convention, and not as amendments to the IHR.  This would require a 2/3 vote of the WHA.​..
..Articles 59 and 60 specify how votes will occur.  Within the WHO Constitution there is no delegation of authority to committees or to consensus processes in lieu of voting by the WHA.  Yet decisions on past IHR amendments appear to have been delegated to committees that used a so-called 'consensus procedure' without a vote.

​  He was always right, of course...   TORONTO: The Democracy Fund (TDF) announces that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) today formally withdrew charges against Dr. Jean Marc Benoit, which alleged that his posts on X (formerly Twitter) during the COVID-19 pandemic were “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.”  
  Dr. Benoit is a family and emergency physician who works in various clinical and hospital settings. During his career, he has assumed leadership roles, including appointments as Acting Chief of Staff and President of the Medical Staff Association at the Brantford General Hospital. Dr. Benoit also has academic and research interests and has been published in peer-reviewed medical literature.
  During the early days of the declared pandemic, Dr. Benoit followed the latest data and stayed on top of COVID-19 developments. He was proactive in engaging with officials, from the hospital level through to government, asking them to employ best practices in pandemic management.


​  Study: COVID-19 vaccination is 'strongly associated with a serious adverse safety signal of myocarditis' 
​  Pharmacotherapy journal Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety has thrown some more cold water on that persistent narrative, indicating that "COVID-19 vaccination is strongly associated with a serious adverse safety signal of myocarditis, particularly in children and young adults resulting in hospitalization and death."
​  "COVID-19 vaccines induce an uncontrolled expression of potentially lethal SARS-CoV-2 spike protein within human cells, have a close temporal relationship of events, and are internally and externally consistent with emerging sources of clinical and peer-reviewed data supporting the conclusion that COVID-19 vaccines are deterministic for myocarditis, including fatal cases," the study claims.
​  The study is the result of an effort on the part of Texas cardiologist Peter McCullough, biologist Jessica Rose, and researcher Nicolas Hulscher to further explore links between COVID-19 vaccination and heart inflammation using the vaccine adverse events report system.

​Advocating Common Decency (pictured before dawn in Austin garden at winter-minimum, with greens, garlics and onions)  

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Lies Are Best

 Misconstrued,


​  Israeli tanks opened fire at Gazans waiting for much-needed aid, killing at least 20 and injuring 150.
According to the Cradle, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tanks fired in the direction of Gazans lined up to receive humanitarian aid. The incident happened at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City on Jan. 25. Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra confirmed the incident, describing it as a "massacre."
​  Al-Qudra continued that the number of casualties might increase due to the severity of injuries, overwhelming the limited medical capabilities of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, which has been subjected to bombardment and raids by Israeli troops since the start of the conflict.

​  New Israeli war crime uncovered: 30 decomposed bodies in Gaza school
The bodies of 30 Palestinians executed by Israeli occupation forces were found on Wednesday inside a school that had been besieged by the occupation's tanks.
​  The school located in the northernmost town of Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip was being restored to house forcibly displaced Palestinians on Wednesday, when bodies of 30 martyrs were mistakenly found in the facility, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS).
​  PPS said the dead bodies had their hands cuffed and their eyes blindfolded, with some being stripped of their clothes before being executed by Israeli occupation forces.

​  By Hurting UN Agency, the West Sides With Genocide
Israel has long plotted the downfall of UNRWA, aware that it is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the Palestinians as a people, writes Jonathan Cook. 
​  The funding cut — which has been also adopted by Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Netherlands, Italy, Australia and Finland — was imposed even though the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Friday that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza.
​  The World Court judges quoted at length U.N. officials who warned that Israel’s actions had left almost all of the enclave’s 2.3 million inhabitants on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, including famine.
​  The West’s flimsy pretext for what amounts to a war on UNRWA is that Israel claims 12 local U.N. staff — out of 13,000 — are implicated in Hamas’ break-out from the open-air prison of Gaza on Oct. 7. The sole evidence appears to be coerced confessions, likely extracted through torture, from Palestinian fighters captured by Israel that day.

War on Gaza: Netanyahu says U​NRWA mission 'must be terminated'
Prime minister's comments follow Israel's claim that 12 of U​NRW’s 30,000 staff members were involved in Hamas-led 7 October attack

​  War on Gaza: Israel 'most likely' dropped 1,000-pound bomb on UK doctors in Gaza
UN investigation reveals new details of air strike as US and UK medical organisations ask why Israel targeted protected site housing staff
​  In results released on Tuesday, UN investigators said the early morning strike on 18 January probably involved an MK83 bomb guided by a GBU32, a type of kit that turns “free fall” bombs into precision-guided missiles.

​The USN says they did not hit the Gravely. Gravely-injured, or not? YAF Navy directly hit US destroyer, cargo ship in Red Sea: YAF spox
The spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces says the YAF Navy hit the American destroyer USS Gravely directly and accurately.

Report: US Plans Weeks-Long Bombing Campaign Against Iranian Targets​     What could go wrong?
The White House says the US response to the Jordan drone attack won't be a 'one-off'

NULAND: U.S. Not Leaving Illegal American Base in Syria Despite Attacks
“First let me set the record straight: The United States is not withdrawing from Syria,” Nuland told CNN Turk, according to a translation by Medya News. “As yesterday’s tragic events at a church in Istanbul demonstrated, ISIS is still active in too many places.”

Putin: Il-76 with Ukrainian POWs shot down by US Patriot
Putin said at a meeting with his confidants that it had already been established for sure that the plane with Ukrainian prisoners of war was shot down by the US Patriot air defense system and called for an international investigation into the downing of the Il-76 military transport plane near Belgorod.

UN court dismisses most of Ukraine's lawsuits against Russia
Kiev has sued Moscow at the UN International Court of Justice. The court dismissed almost all of the lawsuits.

Israeli Diplomat's Son Claims Diplomatic Immunity After 'Intentionally Running Over Cop' in Florida

Farmers Bring Their Fight (and Tractors) to Brussels as EU Leaders Jet In for Crunch Talks

​  Rubber bullets and water cannons were deployed against hundreds of European farmers protesting outside the EU Parliament building in Brussels on Thursday. The farmers threw eggs, set off fireworks, and started fires near the building while demanding that European leaders stop punishing them with more taxes and rising costs imposed to finance a so-called 'green agenda.'
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chaos-erupts-brussels-rubber-bullets-fired-farmers-protesting-outside-eu-parliament

Mexican army reinforcements arrive at the Texas border​  (I would not personally assume that they are the​re in the interests of the Biden administration)
According to American media, Mexico has sent military reinforcements to the border with Texas. Mexican army units arrive at places where border security has been taken over by the national guard of the rebellious state.

​  (Gaybait​ing) James O'Keefe Releases New Footage Exposing How White House Staffers View Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
​  Top White House Cyber Official tells O’Keefe in Disguise “they can't say it publicly” the White House wants to replace Kamala Harris and Confirms President @JoeBiden mental decline: “Biden is definitely slowing down.”​  “I'm just telling you what I've heard… they’re really concerned about it”
“I think they need to get rid of him or her.”​  “But no one in modern history has ever said, like, ‘We're not going to renominate the president for a second term.’”
​  Charlie Kraiger @CharlieKraiger, a Cybersecurity policy analyst and Foreign affairs Desk Officer in the Executive Office at the White House, tells O’Keefe “I had a meeting with Michelle Obama @michelleobama….​  Someone asked her, ‘Will you ever run for office?’ And she said, ‘No’ Empathically.” She was like, ‘I've seen all this shit my husband has had to go through and that does not interest me.’
​  “@VP @KamalaHarris hemorrhages black staff. She can't keep black staff. They quit on her en masse”
“She will be the vice president nominee. There was a debate about removing her from the ticket, but sadly they didn’t, she's not popular, but you can’t remove the first black lady to be vice president from the Goddamn presidential ticket. Like what kind of message are you going to send to like African-American voters…People would be like, "What the f**k?” Like she's a woman and she's multiracial.”

A Canadian father sings Happy Birthday to his son, in heaven​ , "He Just Wanted To Play Hockey"
Sean Hartman died at 17, 33 days after injection, which he had to take to be allowed to play hockey, which was central to his life. His mother found him dead in his room.

CDC knowingly labeled accurate news stories about the dangers of COVID-19 vaccines “misinformation,” internal messages show
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-01-30-cdc-labeled-accurate-dangers-vaccines-misinformation.html

Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico Orders Investigation into COVID-19 Pandemic Management and Vaccines After 21,000 Excess Deaths Announced in Slovakia Since 2020​ , Speech to the Parliament on January 23, 2024

Reckless vaccine culture runs rampant with the RSV jab​ , DANIEL HOROWITZ
More than 150 women and babies have received the wrong shot — and those are just the ones we know about.

​Thanks Mel.  Ivermectin Squares Off in a New War on Cancer
Medical pioneers are putting their Covid treatment expertise to new uses. For two cancer patients, that meant 'complete clinical response.'

​  EPA monitoring a new class of toxic PFAS in municipal water supplies – GenX chemicals
​  PFAS include chemicals that are used to make firefighting foams, coatings for clothes and furniture, and food contact substances, to name just a few sources. If a product advertises non-stick, waterproof, or stain-resistant, it likely contains some form of PFAS. As the toxicity of PFAS become well known, industries have switched to alternative chemicals in their manufacturing processes, namely GenX chemicals...​  
​..These shorter chain GenX chemicals do not persist as long in the environment, but they are more mobile than the longer chain PFAS and can travel further from contaminated sites and deeper into ground water sources. GenX chemicals are replacing PFAS in manufacturing settings, but their toxicity to humans is just now being documented. According to a new EPA assessment, their toxicity profile doesn’t look much better than traditional PFAS. There is concern over liver damage and liver lesion formation.

​  Pharmaceutical front group American Academy of Pediatrics condemns natural breastfeeding, calling it “ethically problematic”
​  The AAP insists that promoting breastfeeding is "stigmatizing," its members claiming that they are "concerned about breastfeeding promotion that praises breastfeeding as the 'natural' way to feed infants."...
​.."Promoting breastfeeding as 'natural' may be ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief that 'natural' approaches are presumptively healthier. This may ultimately challenge public health's aims in other contexts, particularly childhood vaccination."

​  Autistic Spectrum Disorder Claims Are Up 284%
​  The autism epidemic is directly correlated to the childhood vaccine schedule. The more vaccines foisted on innocent children and their badly misinformed parents, the greater the societal damage, not limited to autism, SIDS, type 1 diabetes, digestive disorders, etc. & etc.
​  The incidence of autism prior to 1980 was around one in ten thousand children. In 2002 it was one in two hundred and fifty. In 2013 it was one in fifty. And right up until the COVID DEATHVAX™ rollout, it was estimated to be one in twenty-five.
​  This perfectly tracks with the quadrupling of vaccines added to the childhood schedule, yet the CDC, WHO, Mockingbird mainstream media, et al. are actively covering up this longstanding bioterror crime against humanity.

​  Naw, we got rid of informed consent in "low risk" research yesterday...   Lawyer in Landmark Fluoride Trial: ‘Fluoridation Violates Informed Consent’
​  The U.S. government must warn pregnant mothers about the serious health risks of drinking fluoridated water, attorney Michael Connett told journalist Kim Iversen. Connett is representing organizations and individuals suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to end the ability of states and municipalities to add fluoride to their water systems.
​  “We now have data — high-quality data funded by the NIH [National Institutes of Health] — linking maternal exposure to fluoride with deficits in IQ … that’s really the focus of our lawsuit.

​Former Breastfed Baby (again without fresh photos today, but will do some gardening)