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WARNING! NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!
The US has lost the narrative. It cannot justify itself to the world anymore. The hypocrisy is unbelievable. Sickening.
The ruling class wants to slaughter the Palestinians.
They also want to kill the Iranians, the Chinese, the Russians, the Haitians, and bomb Syria and Somalia some more.
They want to starve the Cubans, Venezuelans, and North Koreans to death The United States sanctions 1/4th of the worldās population but the ruling class is pushing for more.
There is not enough conversation about how we are governed by bloodthirsty international criminals.
54 tragic deaths; New October 2023 studies tell us women more likely to suffer severe vaccine injuries & deaths
Global Research, November 07, 2023
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Sep. 30, 2023 ā Scotland ā 26-year-old Youtuber Nicole McGuire died suddenly and unexpectedly on Sep. 30, 2023. No cause of death reported.
Sep. 29, 2023 ā Bolivian model, 28-year-old Mayra Copas, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in October 2022. She died 11 months later on Sep. 29, 2023.
Sep. 28, 2023 ā Cookeville, TN ā 24-year-old Autumn Rhea Brown had difficulty breathing and died unexpectedly from a blood clot in her lung (pulmonary embolism) on Sep. 28, 2023.
Sep. 25, 2023 ā Cagliari, Italy ā 24-year-old Medical Student Dr.Nicoletta Maria Manconi had stomach pain, was sent home, the next morning called an ambulance & went into cardiac arrest on the way to hospital & died Sep. 25, 2023.
Sep. 23, 2023 ā Germany ā 21-year-old Lea-JosephineĀ Schilling had a cardiac arrest on August 15, 2023, and died in the hospital on September 23, 2023.
Sep. 22, 2023 ā Union, OH ā 27-year-old Lacey Hite (Medical Lab Technician) mandated to take COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines by her employer, collapsed hours before her wedding and died suddenly on Sep. 22, 2023.
Sep. 20, 2023 ā UK ā 27-year-old Maddy Cusack, English professional soccer player, died suddenly on Sep. 20, 2023. The cause of death has not been released at this time.
Sep. 18, 2023 ā Australia ā 29-year-old Taylor Johnston delivered a girl on May 19 and midwives discovered a polyp on her cervix which was confirmed to be a cervical cancer, that spread to bone marrow, didnāt respond to treatment and she died 4 months later on Sep. 18, 2023.
Sep. 17, 2023 ā Philippines ā 20-year-old missionary Taylor Erin Maw of Snoqualmie, Washington died suddenly on Sep. 17, 2023, due to an āundetermined illnessā.
Sep. 15, 2023 ā Cala Rossa, Italy ā 28-year-old kindergarten teacher Ambra Deledda died in her sleep on Sep. 15, 2023. She was found dead in her home by her partner.
Sep. 10, 2023 ā Longford, Ireland ā 20-year old CiaraMcKenna died suddenly on Sep.10, 2023. āLocal community were still at a loss as to the sudden passing of a young womanā.
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Dr. William Makis is a Canadian physician with expertise in Radiology, Oncology and Immunology. Governor Generalās Medal, University of Toronto Scholar. Author of 100+ peer-reviewed medical publications.
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“The thing was thrown all out of proportion by Israelis making up stories about beheading babies,” he said.
https://www.sott.net/article/485818-Roger-Waters-says-Israelis-making-up-stories-about-October-7
Philip Podolsky
i24 News
Tue, 07 Nov 2023
The singer and BDS activist says ‘the thing was blown out of proportion by Israeli lies’
English singer-songwriter Roger Waters, notorious for his anti-Israel vitriol, said that Israel’s account of the October 7 massacre was “fishy” and that Israel “made up stories” about atrocities visited on young children.
Speaking on the “System Update” podcast, the Pink Floyd founder told host Glenn Greenwald that his first reaction to the early news of the massacre was “let’s wait and see what happens,” followed by “how the hell did the Israelis not know it was going to happen, and I’m still a little bit down that rabbit hole.”
Asking about how the Israeli security apparatus could have suffered such a dramatic intelligence failure, Waters asked: “didn’t the Israeli army in those 10 or 11 camps hear the bang when [Hamas] blew up whatever they had to blow up to get across the border? There is something very fishy about that,” he said, apparently referring to the sparsely staffed IDF bases located close to the border fence; most of the predominantly female observation soldiers on these bases were murdered shortly after the incursion.
Asked if Hamas’s actions could be justified, Waters began his response with the words “A) we don’t know what they did do,” before proceeding to say that “resistance to occupation” is not merely justified but the Palestinians are “absolutely legally and morally bound to resist the occupation.”
The Gaza Strip is not occupied by Israel after the disengagement in 2005, which saw Israel raze all Jewish settlements in the enclave and withdraw its military. It has maintained strict control of Gazan airspace and border customs, in an attempt to curtail the transfer of weapons and other materials to Hamas terrorists, the territory’s rulers.
“If war crimes were committed, I condemn them,” Waters told Greenwald, before casting further doubt on whether those took place. “There may have been individual things,” he said, referring to a report in Grayzone, which denied much of the evidence Israel has produced from the scenes of the massacre. Grayzone is a widely discredited site known for airing propaganda for the Russian and Syrian regimes, including the denial of Damascus’s chemical weapons attacks on civilian population.
“The thing was thrown all out of proportion by Israelis making up stories about beheading babies,” he said.
The Israeli military and rescue services have confirmed that beheading was one of the numerous grisly ways in which Hamas terrorists murdered young Israeli children.
A figurehead of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Waters stands out among the far-left activists associated with the movement for the ferocity of his rhetoric, which routinely crosses into demonizing the Jewish state, projecting on it age-old antisemitic stereotypes.
Earlier this year a British-produced documentary featured interviews with his former collaborators, who recounted numerous instances of antisemitic abuse by the songwriter.
Comment:Ā It is not vitriolic in the least to see Israel’s genocidal behavior now and in the past, nor to question the narrative used to push acceptance of atrocities against humanity.
“I think the purposeful lack of transparency over what weapons the U.S. is supplying to Israel ‘on a daily basis’ is tied to the larger administration policy of downplaying the extent to which Israel will use those weapons to commit war crimes and kill civilians in Gaza.” William Hartung
Ken Klippenstein
The Intercept
Tue, 07 Nov 2023
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U.S. Air Force personnel unload a KC-135 Stratotanker at an undisclosed location, designated by the military as within the U.S. Central Command āarea of responsibility,ā on Oct. 23, 2023.
The Biden administration put out a three-page list of arms for Ukraine, but information on weapons sent to Israel could fit in one sentence.
One month since Hamas’s surprise attack, little is known about the weapons the U.S. has provided to Israel. Whereas the Biden administration released a three-page itemized list of weapons provided to Ukraine, down to the exact number of rounds, the information released about weapons sent to Israel could fit in a single sentence.
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby acknowledged the secrecy in an October 23 press briefing, saying that while U.S. security assistance “on a near-daily basis,” he continued, “We’re being careful not to quantify or get into too much detail about what they’re getting ā for their own operational security purposes, of course.”
The argument that transparency would imperil Israel’s operational security ā somehow not a concern with Ukraine ā is misleading, experts told The Intercept.
“The notion that it would in any way harm the Israeli military’s operational security to provide more information is a cover story for efforts to reduce information on the types of weapons being supplied to Israel and how they are being used,” William Hartung, a fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and expert on weapons sales, told The Intercept. “I think the purposeful lack of transparency over what weapons the U.S. is supplying to Israel ‘on a daily basis’ is tied to the larger administration policy of downplaying the extent to which Israel will use those weapons to commit war crimes and kill civilians in Gaza.”
A retired Marine general who worked in the region, who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized by his former employer to speak publicly, attributed the secrecy to the political sensitivity of the conflict. In particular, the retired officer said, weapons used in door-to-door urban warfare, which are likely to result in civilian casualties, are not going to be something the administration wants to publicize. (The National Security Council did not respond to a request for comment.)
In recent years, flare-ups of violence between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip have often entailed Israeli air wars with limited numbers of Israeli troops entering the besieged coastal enclave. The last time there was a large-scale ground incursion by the Israel Defense Forces into Gaza was during the Israelis’ 2014 Operation Protective Edge.
While the 2014 invasion saw Israeli troops in Gaza for less than a month, Israel’s defense minister recently told reporters the war would take at least several months. The goal of removing Hamas completely from power is widely expected to take a significant commitment to a long-term ground presence and heavy urban fighting. According to the New Yorker, Israeli officials told their American counterparts that the war could last 10 years. The Biden administration is reportedly worried that Israel’s military objectives are not achievable.
Comment:Ā Wow. Backing two unwinnable wars. Biden sure knows how to pick ’em.
On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ABC News, “Israel will, for an indefinite period, will have the overall security responsibility because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it.”
Comment:Ā Translation: “We’re moving in and we’re not leaving. Screw your two-state solution. Gaza was always ours anyway. Yahweh said so.”
“Delicate Matter Politically”
Hamas’s attack on Israel, which took place on October 7, resulted in a cascade of arms assistance from the U.S. Though the Biden administration at firstĀ declinedĀ to identify any specific weapons systems, as details trickled out in the press, it has gradually acknowledged some. These include “precision-guided munitions, small diameter bombs, artillery, ammunition, Iron Dome interceptors and other critical equipment,” as Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat RyderĀ has said.
What “other critical equipment” entails remains a mystery, as do specifics about the quantity of arms being supplied, which the administration has refused to disclose. When a reporter asked for a “ballpark” figure for the security assistance during a background press briefing on October 12, the Pentagon demurred. “I’m not going to do that today and would defer you to the government of Israel,” a senior defense official told the reporter.
“To date, U.S. government reporting on arms transfers to Israel has been sporadic and without any meaningful detail,” Stimson Center research analyst Elias Yousif recently concluded. “Updates should be compiled on a single factsheet page, as is the case for Ukraine, and include details on the authorities invoked for the provision of assistance as well as the type and quantity of arms provided with enough specificity to enable public research and assessments.”
Hartung, the Quincy fellow, noted the contrast with the administration’s openness on military aid to Ukraine.
“Transparency on arms transfers to Ukraine came in large part due to the administration’s feeling that they were engaged in a noble venture,” Hartung said. “Although Israel certainly has the right to defend itself against the kind of horrific attack carried out by Hamas, its response ā bombing and blockading a whole territory of 2 million people, killing thousands of innocent people in the process ā has been described by independent experts as committing war crimes.”
“So even as the Biden administration backs Israel with weapons and rhetoric,” Hartung said, “it is a delicate matter politically to give all the details on U.S. weapons supplied to the Israeli military, some of which will certainly be used in illegal attacks on civilians if the war continues to grind on.”
Beyond just the quantities, there are specific weapons the Pentagon is providing Israel which have not been publicly disclosed, the Marine general told The Intercept.
As the arms continue to flow, dozens of C-17 military transport planes likely carrying munitions have criss-crossed the Atlantic traveling between the United States and Israel, open-source flight tracking data show, with most landing at Nevatim Air Base, an IDF base in Israel’s southern Negev desert. President Joe Biden has requested $14.3 billion in aid for Israel in addition to the over $3 billion in military assistance it already provides. Most recently, the Biden administration is planning to send $320 million in precision Spice bombs to Israel, as multiple outlets informed by Congress reported on Monday.
Ken Klippenstein is a D.C.-based investigative reporter who focuses on national security. He is also an avid Freedom of Information Act requester. Prior to joining The Intercept, he was The Nation‘s D.C. correspondent.
At this point, we are dealing with imaginary numbers.
The countryās $31.4 trillion debt ceiling was exceeded in January and later scrapped altogether until 2025
https://www.rt.com/business/586838-us-debt-surge-trillions/
Nov 9, 2023
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The US national debt could surge by $20 trillion over the next decade, the Bank of America (BoA) said in a note on Tuesday, citing data from the Congressional Budget Office.
According to the forecast, the current outstanding public debt amounts to roughly $33.6 trillion, but at the pace it is growing and due to āfiscal excess in the 2020s,ā it is likely to grow by $5.2 billion daily for the next 10 years, which would put it at around $54 trillion by 2033.
According to BoA, one of the factors leading to a further surge in debt is the sharp increase in the federal deficit, which jumped by $320 billion to $1.7 trillion this year, forcing the Treasury Department to sell trillions of dollars worth of fresh bonds. The rise in annual interest payments caused by soaring bond yields is also weighing on the federal budget and widening deficits, the bank noted.
āUS public debt is… more than the combined GDPs of China, Japan, Germany, and India,ā Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett noted in the forecast. He warned, however, that Washington was unlikely to stop taking loans even if the federal deficit is contained because borrowing is seen as a means to fuel economic growth and help drive the circulation of money.
āLikely central banks may simply bail out governments in coming years via quantitative easing and the introduction of yield curve control,ā Hartnett added.
READ MORE: Experts worried about US, UK and Italian economies ā Reuters
The US exceeded its debt ceiling, which was legally set at $31.4 trillion, in January 2023. After months of warnings of an imminent and economically disastrous default from the US Treasury, President Joe Biden in June signed a bipartisan debt bill that allowed the limit to be lifted until January 2025. This effectively allowed the government to keep borrowing without limits through next year. Debt spiked to $32 trillion less than two weeks after the bill was approved and has been piling up ever since.
An economic downturn in the region will take hold by year-end, Mario Draghi has warned
https://www.rt.com/business/586907-eu-recession-ecb-draghi/
Nov 9, 2023
Mario Draghi as President of the European Central Bank, pictured in September 2019. Ā© Sean Gallup/Getty Images
The European Union will likely plunge into recession by the end of the year, former Italian prime minister and European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi has told the Financial Times.
The Eurozone economy shrank by 0.1% in July-September compared to the previous quarter, according to a preliminary estimate by the statistics agency Eurostat.
āIt is almost sure we are going to have a recession by the year-end,ā the newspaper quoted Draghi as saying on Wednesday. āIt is quite clear the first two quarters of next year will show that.ā
The wider EU economy reportedly grew by 0.1% in the third quarter of the year, and the International Monetary Fund said earlier this week it expected broader European growth to rebound from 1.3% this year to 1.5% in 2024.
However, Draghiās outlook on EU economic growth is ādownbeatā, the FT wrote.
READ MORE: Eurozone risks recession ā S&P Global data
Mario Draghi chaired the ECB in 2011-2019. He singled out the regionās low productivity, high energy costs and lack of skilled labor as weaknesses contributing to the economic slowdown. He also said that Europe has lost competitiveness to the US, China, South Korea and Japan over the past 20 years.
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/how-washington-hawks-helped-create-the-new-axis-of-evil
byĀ Connor O’Keeffe
Nov 8, 2023Ā
This article was originally published by Connor OāKeeffe at The Mises Institute.
In 2002, President George W. Bush cited the now famous āaxis of evilāāIraq, Iran, and North Koreaāas he tried to get the American people to look beyond those responsible for the 9/11 attacks and greenlight a global military campaign to ārid the world of the evil-doers.ā
The result was the $8 trillion global war on terror that continues to this day.
Now, in the wake of the Hamas attacks in southern Israel one month ago, the same language is being employed to justify another massive increase in military spending. In a series of statements and interviews, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell defined a new axis of evilāRussia, China, and Iranāand argued the United States must simultaneously confront the threats posed by all of these regimes.
In his interview with Fox News, McConnell described the situation as he sees it:
If you go back to the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was widely said that we went into a holiday with history. We had a couple of conflicts related to terrorism in Afghanistan and in Iraq, but no big power competition. Fast forward to today, we still have the terrorist challenge, which the Israelis are trying to deal with. And we have big power competition, with China, Russia. So, in many ways the world is more in danger today than it has been in my lifetime.
On its face, this may seem like a good reason for taxpayers to tighten their belts and prepare for Washington to confiscate even more of their paychecks. But in reality, McConnell is telling us to āfast forwardā right over the important question of where these tensions came from.
A quick look at the history McConnell wants us to skip over reveals that he is presenting the situation exactly backward. The geopolitical tensions with Russia, China, and Iran are the direct consequence of military spending gone awry.
At the beginning of McConnellās āholiday with history,ā the Communist regime in Moscow fell, and the Russian Federation took its place. The occasion marked not only the start of Washingtonās unipolar moment but also the first opportunity for friendship between the governments of Russia and the United States in half a century.
Unfortunately, the decision was made early on not only to continue funding the anti-Soviet military alliance and its infrastructure in Western Europe but also to expand it toward Moscow. In hisĀ bookĀ Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall explains why Russian leaders are especially troubled by a potentially hostile foreign powerās presence in Eastern Europe.
Between Poland and Russia lies one big, flat plain. No mountains or oceans stand in the way to prevent an army from marching straight into Moscow. And so, since the days of Ivan III, Russia has used distance for defense. That defense has worked to repel several invasions in the last five hundred years, most famously those of Napoleon in 1812 and Hitler in 1941.
Even in the age of nuclear weapons, when long infantry supply chains are less relevant, the greater the distance a ballistic missile needs to travel to reach Russian cities, the more time the Russian regime has to detect, assess, and respond. Distance is still a factor in their defense strategy.
None of this is to say that the Russian government has a justified claim on the land of Eastern Europe, only that spending American tax dollars to move Western military infrastructure closer to Moscow was a surefire way to transform the Russians back into Washingtonās enemyāsomething even the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) now acknowledges.
The current tensions with China can similarly be understood using geography. Since the death of Mao Zedong, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been able to hold on to power thanks mainly to its partial rollback of communism, which resulted in the nationās miraculous climb out of poverty.
According to Tim Marshall, the explosion of wealth has helped fund Beijingās effort to quash resistance in the remote provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang, and it has pacified the 1.4 billion people living under the regimeās authoritarianism. But China is almost entirely reliant on its coast to keep its economy growing.
The same mountains and deserts that keep armies from marching into the Chinese heartland also make overland trade especially difficult. That hasnāt stopped the CCP from trying (the Belt and Road Initiative is all about building alternative trade routes to Chinaās west), but for now, the Chinese economy is still dependent on maritime trade.
On top of that, Chinaās waters are surrounded by several island nations. And so, accessing the worldās oceans is not as simple as pushing off from shore. Chinese vessels need to navigate through and around waters claimed by other governments.
And so, the territorial disputes off Chinaās coastāespecially in the South China Sea, which connects China to most of the worldāare a source of tremendous anxiety for the Chinese regime. Any capable naval presence off Chinaās coast is a credible threat to the CCPās source of power.
So, predictably, when Washington decided to maintain a heavy naval presence in the waters around China, in addition to the hundreds of heavily armed US bases in the region and the numerous weapons deals and defense agreements with nearby island nations, tensions between Washington and Beijing increased. As long as control of the South China Sea remains an American priority, we should expect the Chinese government to see the United States as an enemy.
Lastly, there is Iran. The roots of the current US-Iran tensions go back to 1953 when Washington secretly overthrew Iranās democratically elected government to help protect British access to oil. The dictatorship that the US set up in its place lasted only twenty-six years before it fell in the 1979 revolution that brought the current authoritarian theocracy to power.
Then, in 2003, George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein, the Iranian regimeās chief rival. Realizing the US had mistakenly handed Iran way more power, the Bush and Obama administrations turned around and started attacking factions and regimes allied with Tehranāsome of whom had been American allies in the fight with the Hussein regime. The result has, again unsurprisingly, been tensions between the US and a now more powerful Iran.
Just like the George W. Bush administration twenty years ago, Senator McConnell and his allies want us to see the governments of Russia, China, and Iran as a combined force of darkness that leaves Washington no choice but to spend untold sums of our cash to eradicate. But a look at history quickly illustrates how earlier military spending made todayās tensions inevitable. Politicians refuse to face their role in creating our dangerous international situation. Giving them even more money will only make things worse.