Debt Rattle December 15 2023

 

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  • #148528
    zerosum
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    @TAE Summary
    HEHEHEH
    Way too much cow patties

    #148529
    jb-hb
    Participant

    TAE Summary – if the TAE and its Commentwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: This was TAE Summary’s finest hour.

    #148530
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ex-FBI Intel Chief Who ‘Investigated’ Trump-Russia Collusion Gets 4 Years In Prison For Colluding With Russia.

    Yay Baby!

    Only in Duh’merica

    This is the face of the FBI

    Low rent thugs, thieves and buttboy pimps

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    #148531
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://nitter.net/RaniaKhalek/status/1735546541329334574#m
    The resistance axis is doing great damage to Israel’s economy, with Yemen being the big game changer. According to Israeli paper Haaretz:

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    THE GAZA FRONT (HAMAS) “has forced Israel to call up some 360,000 reservists and evacuate tens of thousands of people from their homes in the south while much economic activity there has ground to a halt.”

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    THE LEBANON FRONT (HEZBOLLAH) “is doing much the same economic damage in the north.

    The cost to the economy from these two fronts has been enormous. The treasury expects the Israeli economy to shrink by a 15 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter. Including workers being put on unpaid leave, unemployment soared to 9.6 percent in October – from 3.6 percent the previous month. Retail sales remain depressed, while incoming tourism has sunk to pandemic levels.”

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    THE YEMEN FRONT “presents an entirely new threat to the economy because it is targeting Israel’s international trade.

    The Houthi attacks are already pinching Israel’s maritime trade. Cargo traffic at Eilat port is down by 80 percent and the cost of marine insurance for Israeli-owned (and now presumably Israel-bound) vessels is soaring. Companies like Israel’s Zim are rerouting their ships away from the Red Sea, having them go around Africa instead – a change that adds two weeks to the voyage. All of this will add to the costs of imports, which will be passed on to the Israeli consumer.”

    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-13/ty-article-magazine/.premium/houthis-open-new-and-dangerous-front-in-israels-economic-war/0000018c-63a6-dbd5-a39c-fff75c430000
    Houthis Open New and Dangerous Front in Israel’s Economic War

    #148532
    jb-hb
    Participant

    https://www.barnhardt.biz/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_1486-1.jpg

    #148533
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    Intel Releases Core Ultra H and U-Series Processors: Meteor Lake Brings AI and Arc to Ultra Thin Notebooks

    This is an interesting one. Goes hand-in-glove with Micro$ponge’s recent big rush with the ‘AI’ stuff. There’s a creepy technical detail that certainly has fabulous advantages in efficiency, and a gaping security/privacy crater. This is my digestion of what the chips are, and then a bit of supposition.

    The big mfg’rs are going to ‘chiplet’ away from ‘monolithic’ (the linked article has many good pics of this). This separates into four major components for this particular chip architecture:

    1) CPU – the compute, the classic main brain of the machine
    2) I/O – connects to peripherals (network, non-volatile storage, USB)
    3) GPU – graphics offload, currently the in-demand for AI stuff also
    4) SoC – power management, sensors, microcontrollers for handling buttons, device swaps, etc

    The #4 is a bit broad in scope, and can be thought of as the underground of the city: plumbing, traffic signals, emergency services – it’s a stretched analogy, sorry.

    Intel has decided to put a ‘low-power’ compute functionality directly into the SoC part, and allow it to run at the lowest ‘standby’ state (S5), which is basically complete shutdown with optional power to some USB/net devices waiting for a wake signal.

    These cores in the SoC are a small CPU of their own, that is now free to run even when the machine is shut down. Since these chips are designed primarily for mobile (laptop) use, the battery would have to be removed to completely stop all activity. The requirement to allow other devices to be ‘warm’ in S5 allows for I/O devices to be powered up and accessible, while in S5, from this new ‘SoCPU.’ So that is the I/O controller also being awake 24/7 waiting for use. Are there safeguards against it’s use of the network device? How about non-volatile storage (your personal files!!!)? Doubtless it is tempting for Windows engineers to see this as ‘down-time maintenance’…win-win, eh?

    And, again (for the 10^8th time), even if Micro$ponge and Intel have the best intentions, and follow through with that, have they adequately protected the users from malicious use of this?

    Also, the damn thing has a built-in AI accelerator in addition to having a beefy GPU. How much thrashing of my non-volatile storage will happen to support AI features I didn’t ask for and don’t want?

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    for zerosum, if you get this far:

    Look into using a Live Boot disk/stick. Many of the easiest, and most secure, Linux distros have these. Basically, the whole OS will run without having to be installed locally, and every time you boot it’s a fresh, unaltered (hopefully) copy. It doesn’t touch your installed OS. There are still the worries of backdoors in anything used, but this would allow you to post without worrying about anything your own personal computer may have ‘acquired’ over the years. Bonus is you can pick a handful of them and use different ones randomly, if you’re paranoid. 🙂

    #148534
    zerosum
    Participant

    Israel admits to only 3 friendly fire.
    No mention of all the civilians

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-troops-mistakenly-opened-fire-and-killed-three-hostages-during-gaza-battles-spokesman-says/
    IDF troops mistakenly killed three hostages during Gaza battles this morning.
    Hagari names the hostages as Yotam Haim, who was abducted by Hamas from Kfar Aza, and Samar Talalka, who was abducted from Nir Am. The third hostage was not named following requests by their family.

    #148535
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    Also, I learned something wen I was young, since ‘fell on the grenade’ and voluntarily studied latin…in 1985.

    pecunia -> pecus (pecos?) -> pesos

    I’m still of the opinion badgers are the safer investment vehicle.

    #148536
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The requirement to allow other devices to be ‘warm’ in S5 allows for I/O devices to be powered up and accessible, while in S5, from this new ‘SoCPU.’ So that is the I/O controller also being awake 24/7 waiting for use.

    Also, the damn thing has a built-in AI accelerator in addition to having a beefy GPU. How much thrashing of my non-volatile storage will happen to support AI features I didn’t ask for and don’t want?

    Time to build a sensory deprivation tank for your computer.

    This would be similar to the type of box studios use for guitar amps. A tunnel leads into and back out of the place where the guitar amp sits. Each tunnel is lined with soundproofing material and takes many hairpin turns on the way to and from the place where the amp sits. Fans pull/blow air into and out of the box through these baffled tunnels.

    Wrap it in grounded metal screening and wrap that in mylar. USB cables could go out of the box with the holes sealed with foam. You plug your main SSD drive into USBC or USB3 and unplug when not in use. Hard external switch to shut off power to the computer. If you are using an air purifier as the fan, I guess you can at least eliminate all dust from getting to your computer inside the box.

    Obviously after ripping out all apparent built-in I/O

    PS. It was many years ago I was told while working for a wireless service provider they are working on phone screens and monitor and tv screens that can pick up sound. We had a smartphone model that worked kinda like that about oh at least 8 years ago

    #148537
    John Day
    Participant

    @Kultsommer: Got it.
    Countries do reform under revised paradigms, after “paradigm shifts”. Don’t die yet.

    #148538
    John Day
    Participant

    @Oroboros: I counted 4 explosions. That guy pulled out a bunch of grenades, pulled the pins and tossed them around the room until the first one blew.

    #148539
    zerosum
    Participant

    for zerosum, if you get this far:
    Look into using a Live Boot disk/stick.

    Thanks.
    Your suggestion should help younger people.
    My skillset are antics.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
    Computer programming in the punched card era

    #148540
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/china-saudi-arabia-iran-call-for-immediate-cease-fire-in-gaza/3083847
    China, Saudi Arabia, Iran call for immediate cease-fire in Gaza
    Ibrahim al-Khazen |15.12.2023 – Update : 15.12.2023

    Euro med monitor statement today said death toll is now at least 25,000 with over 51,000 injured.

    #148541
    Formerly T-Bear
    Participant

    @ zerosum #148539

    Computer programming in the punched card era

    I have a memory of memory of doing that

    #148542
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    @jb-hb re: big-screen microphone, hmmm, seems reasonable. They were selling flat-diaphragm loudspeakers when I was a kid. The other stuff, should I add the flashing red light that you are required to carry, even when accompanied by a fully cleared escort? How about the copper-clad door frames? (I s#!+ you not, my boss told me about the ‘beacon’, think it was a Northrup facility. Same boss also wised me up to not coiling my 50A power cables when they’re plugged in.)


    @zerosum
    : My mom showed me a stack, when she took programming at CSUN mid-’70s. Not long after, we went to an airshow at Van Nuys, and the military folks were there producing line-printed banners with Snoopy and stuff. The program to produce the print was encoded on punch tape…a long reel of paper stock, IIRC about 2cm wide with 6 ‘bits’ across. Just like a Player Piano. Get one of them young’uns to fix you up! And while he/she/it works, do an info dump. HEHE!

    #148543
    John Day
    Participant

    @TAE Summary: “Two cows too many to bench press”, but not too many to squat.
    Doc-Optimist.
    🙂

    #148544
    John Day
    Participant

    @Thomasjkenney: That’s diabolical, like your smartphone spying on your conversations, location and heartbeat when you think it is turned off. It is hard to remove laptop batteries. I can remove my flip-phone battery in 6 seconds.


    @jb-hb
    : Your computer will watch Hillary-Clinton-AI-porn when you turn it off, and you’ll never know.

    #148545
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Just loving it when Woketards turn on each other….Cannibals

    Illinois NAACP President Apologizes, Then Blames AI Deepfake, After Referring To Immigrants As “Savages”

    Sanctuary City Hypocrisy (SCH)

    Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk children…

    So the NAACP President Haley is tracked down on vacation in DUBAI of all places by Chicago ABC station WLS-TV, and she suggested that the offending ZOOM call was an AI Deepfake, saying “With AI, anything is possible.”

    Yur the love of Bejesus, going to the “AI ate my homework card” is a pathological liars move.

    “Ever since the Biden administration began bussing thousands of migrants to Chicago, the city’s black community has been less-than enthusiastic about their new neighbors….

    “All of a sudden we have deep pockets for people who don’t pay taxes,” said one resident during a May town hall. “I understand helping people, but you start with your own home.”

    In today’s episode of the left eating its own – meet Chicago NAACP President Teresa Haley, who took things one step further in a leaked Zoom call from October, in which she likened immigrants to “savages, rapists and burglars.”

    Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

    Stop yer killin’ me!

    “But these immigrants come over here, they’ve been rapin’ people. They’ve been breaking into homes. They’re like savages as well. They don’t speak the language, and they look at us like we’re crazy because we were the only people in America who were brought over here against our will, and were slaves.

    “I’m tryin’ not to be a ni**a but you know I’m pro-black, so, it’s all about us, people. NAACP – what do those letters mean to you?”

    Chicago residents are told that 250 illegals are coming to their neighborhood

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    Sweet Mother Mary and Joseph that’s some major butthurt

    #148546
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Its not like the Big Shitty of Chicago doesn’t already have it’s very own set of “savages, rapists and burglars.”

    #148547
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “But these immigrants come over here, they’ve been rapin’ people. They’ve been breaking into homes. They’re like savages as well. They don’t speak the language, and they look at us like we’re crazy”

    #148548
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #148549
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    “If the Trump wins……..”

    Squirrel!!

    At this point I fully comprehend why the UniParty GlobalCap Empire is scared-to-death of even a faint possibility that We The People might regain control of .GOV/.MIL in The West, and at this point I don’t blame them!

    The Internet black-hole of fauxtrage, moonbat political posturing, vainglorious know-it-all pundits barking from their soap boxes blogs, nonstop propagandizing which revision of Lunocracy is bestest!, it’s pretty clear that only a “benign dictatorship” could “reign” in such an “unruly” abyss…

    With no self-restraint, unable to evolve beyond the collective status of “barbarians”, dumping trillions upon trillions of oxy~moronic words online (defining humanities’ Collective EG0ic Madness Benightedness once & for all), We The People’s insatiable appetites created within their narcissistic attention whore child-brains, The Solution to the existential threats to Modernity become a no choice scenario for The Elites, that is if you’re an Imperial sociopath.

    Yeah, I’ve spent WAY too much time conversing with The People, but I’ve also spent considerable time working for, breaking bread with & vacationing in the Hampton’s among “The Elite”, who contrary to popular belief aren’t baby eating pedo monsters (well not at greater frequency then gen pop), whom just want to be left alone & not infected by “Mass Formation Psychosis”…

    Once upon a time The Sons Of Liberty performed a miracle, throwing off the shackles of feudal “Rule” under The Divine Right Of Kings, establishing a Democratic Republic under The Rule Of Natural Law, but like all Faerie Tales, in time some *evil* mob shows up, burns down every Right, Just & Good because it offends their “Values” 😐

    At this point I’m not rooting for the UniParty GlobalCap Empire, nor am I in support of the hordes of alien villagers with their pitchforks & torches alight with “multicultural” Values, but I see The Conflict clearly, the outcome of which remains to be seen, but clearly Something Wicked This Way Comes 😐

    Locke 0

    Hobbes Game-Set-Match!

    Have Fun!

    P.S. TAE Summary, thank you from leaving me out of the TAE circle jerk 😉

    #148550
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Smooth Move

    Israeli Troops Mistakenly Kill 3 Hostages Who Were Trying To Escape

    In an incredibly rare and surprise admission, the Israeli army has owned up to killing its own citizens who had been held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

    The incident happened Friday in the densely populated northern Gaza town of Shejaiye, and resulted in three Israeli hostages being mistakenly killed – all of them young men who had been kidnapped on Oct.7. The men were trying to escape when they were killed by fire from Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

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    #148551
    zerosum
    Participant

    How bad is it in Gaza?
    It’s so bad that the men are surrendering “en mass” as Hamas prisoner so that they can get food, water, medicine, and a place to sleep.

    #148552
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Oh No! Satanic Goat Skull Display In Iowa’s State Capitol Destroyed

    Most Excellent!

    “The Pentagram adorned Baphomet Satanic Christmas display that had been installed in Iowa’s State Capitol building has been destroyed by a Christian military veteran.

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    The Republican Sentinel reports that the veteran, named Michael Cassidy, ‘beheaded’ the caped goat thing and threw the skull in a bin

    Cassidy was quoted as stating that he took the action to “awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.”

    “The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment,” he added.

    The Satanic Temple of Iowa issued a statement acknowledging that the display was “destroyed beyond repair,” but adding “We are proud to continue our holiday display for the next few days that we have been allotted. We ask that for safety, visitors travel together and use the 7 Tenets as a reminder for empathy, in the knowledge that justice is being pursued the correct way, through legal means.”

    They signed off the statement with “Hail Satan!”

    Hahahahahahaahahahahahaha!

    “Hail Satan!”

    And a very Merry Christmas Ho Ho Ho!

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/oh-no-satanic-goat-skull-display-iowas-state-capitol-destroyed

    #148553
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Humans, ya gotta lov’em

    Earth Love it or Leave It!

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    #148554
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Well said, and true TAE. Rules only apply to people of modest or no means. The closer you are to the money, the gooder and more untouchable you are. Babylonian Money Magic is about stealing everything and ruling the world. It’s happening all around you, but can you see it? I admire Putin for his calmness and erudition, but he’s a freemason just like the jerkoff idiots we’re stuck with. It’s a rigged show with winners and losers…now the West is gonna understand what losing is like. Read the Protocols, the talmud, its a map to a destination.

    #148555
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Amazingly funny human stuff on the Inter-Tubes today

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    #148556
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Atheists need to hook up with the Satanists this Holiday for some kinda bake-sale.

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    #148557
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Real Reality in 2023 Post-America:

    Military veteran, named Michael Cassidy, commits *Hate* Crime against Satanists, a .GOV recognized *Minority* Group…

    Q.E.D.

    #148558
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Richard C. Cook on The Hrvoje Morić Show – 14 December 2023

    https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/richard-c-cook-on-the-hrvoje-moric-show-14-december-2023/

    #148559
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    For Your Consideration in 2023:

    Based upon “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”:

    The book describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system – a society-wide system of social stratification characterized by notions such as hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion, and purity.

    Wilkerson does so by comparing aspects of the experience of American people of color to the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany, and she explores the impact of caste on societies shaped by them, and their people.

    And just like that, we’re all Nazis now ~ EOT.

    #148560
    John Day
    Participant

    Christmas Present https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/christmas-present

    Sullivan Tells Netanyahu To Wrap Up ‘High Intensity’ Gaza Fighting Within Weeks [This is a public position. God knows what the real deal is. Bibi might even need out.]
    For the first time this week, the White House has begun putting rare pressure on the Netanyahu government – after Biden earlier offered the criticism that “indiscriminate” bombing in Gaza could turn the world against Israel. National security advisor Jake Sullivan is currently in Tel Aviv meeting with Israel’s war cabinet, and it appears he too is delivering a message of pushback (or at least the appearance).
    Sullivan reportedly conveyed that Israel’s military needs to wrap of the current “high intensity” phase of its offensive “within weeks”. This according to Israeli officials who spoke to the Times of Israel.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sullivan-tells-netanyahu-wrap-high-intensity-gaza-fighting-within-weeks

    The case that enriched uranium residues from Gaza must have come from micro-nuclear devices, which I have posted for the last 2 days, is here again.

    NEW EVIDENCE THAT ISRAEL IS USING A NEW URANIUM WEAPON – MAKE THAT THE NEUTRON BOMB

    A warning that some of the pictures in his report are quite distressing.
    Al Jazeera has obtained footage of bodies piled up in a school in northern Gaza, witnesses tell us they were executed by the Israeli military. The dead include women and children. The Shadia Abu Ghazala School is a UN-run facility that has become a shelter during the war, but may now be the scene of a war crime.

    Displaced people ‘killed point-blank’ in Gaza school

    These 3 IDF “hostages”, POWs, manage to escape their Hamas captors unharmed, then … “So glad to see you guys, we escaped, We’re Free!”
    IDF troops mistakenly killed three hostages during Gaza battles this morning, spokesman says
    IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says during battles in northern Gaza’s Shejaiya this morning, Israeli troops mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages as a threat and opened fire at them, killing them.
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-troops-mistakenly-opened-fire-and-killed-three-hostages-during-gaza-battles-spokesman-says/

    #148561
    John Day
    Participant

    ‘Operation Al Aqsa Flood’ Day 70: A deteriorating public health crisis in Gaza, raids across the occupied West Bank
    A lack of sanitation in Gaza’s overcrowded shelters is contributing to the rapid spread of infectious diseases, with the situation only expected to worsen. A three-day Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Jenin kills 12 Palestinians, 500 detained.
    18,787 Palestinians killed* and 50,897 wounded in the Gaza Strip
    279 Palestinians killed and 3,365 wounded in the Occupied West Bank
    * Due to breakdowns in communication networks within the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Health in Gaza has not been able to regularly and accurately update its tolls since mid-November. Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 20,000.

    ‘Operation Al Aqsa Flood’ Day 70: A deteriorating public health crisis in Gaza, raids across the occupied West Bank

    CNN journalist defies Israeli entry ban to report on ‘absolute horror’ in Gaza
    CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward has become the first Western journalist to enter the Gaza Strip without supervision from the Israel Defense Forces, providing a firsthand account of what she described as “absolute horror.”
    She crossed the border on Wednesday with UAE medical volunteers to visit a field hospital, in defiance of an Israeli ban on foreign journalists independently entering the besieged enclave. Israel has allowed some journalists to enter under IDF supervision.
    During a TV appearance on CNN, Ward shared insights into the brief but impactful hours spent on the ground.
    “Even in that brief window, you really got a sense of the absolute horrors that have been taking place in Gaza,” she said.
    https://www.arabnews.com/node/2425946/media

    At least 300 medical workers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to a report posted on the enclave’s Health Ministry’s Telegram channel.
    According to the ministry, 138 medical facilities in the Strip came under the fire of the Israel Defense Forces during this period of time, 102 ambulances were destroyed.
    https://tass.com/world/1721283

    Israel’s military has begun pumping seawater into tunnels used by Hamas in Gaza, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
    Israeli officials are reportedly contemplating a plan to flood the tunnels over several weeks, in an attempt to dismantle the network and weaken Palestinian armed groups.
    Researchers specialising in water, diplomacy and conflict have told Middle East Eye that the flooding would have damaging ecological effects, including the pollution of Gaza’s already devastated water supply and damage to its crops.
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-what-impact-flooding-gaza-tunnel-seawater

    #148562
    John Day
    Participant

    Sanaa clarifies its conditions for returning calm to Red Sea
    Member of the Sanaa negotiating delegation, Abdumalik Al-Ajri, confirmed on Thursday that the return of calm in the Red Sea is linked to the return of calm in the Gaza Strip.
    Al-Ajri said in his account on the “X” platform, “If the world fleets gather to the Red Sea, they will not bring safety to Israel, nor to Israeli ships or those heading to Israel, nor will they dissuade the Yemeni army from supporting Gaza.”
    He stressed that there is no way to prevent the expansion of escalation, especially in the Red Sea, except by pushing for a permanent ceasefire and lifting the siege on Gaza.
    https://en.ypagency.net/313406

    Two More Ships Struck By Houthi Missiles As Maersk Diverts All Tankers From Red Sea
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/two-more-vessels-struck-houthi-missiles-maersk-diverts-all-tankers-red-sea

    International insurance companies have stopped insuring ships transporting cargo across the Red Sea to and from Israel because Yemen military action against such shipping makes the risk to Insurance companies too great.
    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-insurance-companies-pull-coverage-for-ships-in-red-sea

    The daughter of the king is a military pilot. I like her style.
    Jordanian King’s daughter takes part in airdrop over Gaza
    Princess Salma, who holds rank of 1st lieutenant in Jordanian Air Force, participates in airdrop of medical supplies to Jordanian field hospital
    https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/jordanian-kings-daughter-takes-part-in-airdrop-over-gaza/3083137

    #148563
    John Day
    Participant

    Fly girl

    #148564
    John Day
    Participant

    Well, not really so much… PUTIN REVEALS SECRET TALK ON GAZA WAR
    President Vladimir Putin has revealed secret details of the Russian initiative on the Gaza war.
    According to the President, Russia has a three-point proposal. “First, it is necessary to keep people in Gaza. Second, it is necessary to bring humanitarian aid on a massive scale to these people.to keep people in Gaza.”
    Putin’s third proposal is establish a Russian field hospital to treat wounded Palestinians at the Rafah stadium, rebuilt in 2019 after Israel destroyed the original one in 2009. “But for this to happen, we need to have consent from both Egypt and Israel. I talked to the President of Egypt, and he is in favour of this idea. I also talked to Prime Minister Netanyahu, and they consulted various armed agencies. The Israeli side believes that opening a Russian hospital in Gaza is not safe.”
    Putin made his disclosures in response to a Turkish reporter’s question about the Gaza war during the Direct Line broadcast on Thursday.
    Putin did not mention a ceasefire; he did not criticize Israeli military operations in Gaza except to refer to the deaths of children. “The Secretary-General of the United Nations called today’s Gaza the biggest children’s cemetery in the world. This opinion speaks volumes. It is an objective opinion, what else can I say?”
    Putin praised the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for “playing a significant leading role in improving the situation in Gaza…He is very active in this matter. And God bless him.”
    Putin omitted to mention Iran, ignoring his talks in Moscow a week ago with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Following their five-hour negotiations, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian announced that “Russia is thinking about an initiative on Gaza.”
    A Moscow political analyst commented after viewing Putin’s latest remarks: “Netanyahu refused a Russian field hospital but allows a UAE one? That is telling. This shows that Putin defers to the Israelis on anything related to Gaza. Nothing has changed in his position.”

    PUTIN REVEALS SECRET TALK ON GAZA WAR

    Simplicius , Putin’s Q&A and Some Revealing Article Roundups on AFU’s Deterioration
    Putin held his annual Q&A (yesterday), where he made some interesting new statements which I’ll first go over.
    ​ One of the most notable, to me, was the reiteration of the stated objectives of the SMO. For a long time now Ukrainian sources claimed that Russia was slowly walking back or down-scaling the SMO’s goals as a face-saving measure in light of their putative ‘inability to advance.’
    ​ Putin refuted this narrative once and for all, by adamantly restating the goals: [Denazification of Ukraine, No NATO membership, Neutral status for Ukraine. Human rights.]
    Not only that, but he again strongly implied that Russia will retake Odessa, calling it a purely Russian city which was founded by Catherine the Great…
    ..In fact, on an interesting note, German BILD published this projection today, outlining what they believe is Russia’s military plans up through 2026:

    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/putins-q-and-a-and-some-revealing

    Gilbert Doctorow makes some points about Putin’s “Direct Line” press conference.
    The show went on for four hours and four minutes. Putin responded to 67 questions with his only “technical aid” being a pencil and note pad on which he took down key words of multiple questions from a single person or jotted down their name and patronymic so as to respond with traditional Russian formality. There were no souffleurs to whisper answers into his ear or screens on the table for him to consult. And yet his answers to questions in every imaginable domain were detailed and knowledgeable. This was a performance that few if any global leaders could rival, and the audience was appreciative.
    Did he say anything new or particularly noteworthy? My answer is a qualified ‘no.’ …
    .. As regards what Russia is doing to address what he called the tragedy in Gaza, Putin called attention to his recent visits to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to coordinate positions, as well as outreach to Egypt and to Turkey to formulate steps to an overall solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in terms of two sovereign states.
    What was more interesting, though, was his remark that he had been in discussion with Benjamin Netanyahu to see if Russia would be permitted to open a field hospital in Gaza near the Rafah crossing in a stadium as the UAE had been allowed to do. Netanyahu rejected the idea because security could not be assured, meaning that Israel is continuing its savage attacks in every part of the Gaza Strip. Nonetheless, it appears they reached agreement on Russia’s sending in to Gaza large deliveries of medical supplies. This little story effectively explains what the two leaders had to discuss in their 50 minute phone conversation in the past week. And I had naively assumed that Putin was trying to apply maximum pressure on Netanyahu to wind down the attacks.

    Vladimir Putin’s “Direct Line” Q&A session today

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    Biden orders Ukrainian F-16 to take off from airfields in Europe
    The Russia-NATO conflict will escalate sharply when Ukraine’s F-16 aircraft armed with long-range missiles start taking off from European airfields.
    US President Joseph Biden, speaking before the vote in Congress on assistance to Ukraine, assured that Moscow would attack a NATO country in Europe after winning the special military operation. As a result, US troops will have to fight against the Russian troops according to the NATO Charter.
    “We can’t let [Russian President Vladimir] Putin win. It’s in our overwhelming national interest, in the international interest of all our friends,” Biden said.
    Contrary to Biden’s rhetoric, it will be the Europeans, not the Americans that will do the fighting and dying. Therefore, Biden’s statement contained a clear ultimatum to the EU — either help Ukraine or die…
    ..”This is our strict warning: Moscow will see the use of [F-16] fighters from the territory of these NATO member countries [Poland, Romania and Slovakia] as their participation in the conflict in Ukraine, and Russia will have to take retaliatory measures,” Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of the Russian delegation at negotiations on military security and arms control in Vienna said…
    ..Slovakia has already replied.: “Ukrainian F-16 fighters taking off from air bases of NATO countries will become a red line,” Deputy Speaker of the Slovak Parliament Lubos Blaha said. In his opinion, this is fraught with an open confrontation with Russia and a third world war.
    https://english.pravda.ru/world/158441-biden_f_16_ukraine_nato/

    US, its satellites seek to ‘unfreeze’ Transnistria conflict — foreign intelligence chief
    “Seeking to unsettle the post-Soviet space, the United States and its satellites are trying to lead the way in unfreezing the Transnistria conflict, opening a second front in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, inciting instability in the South Caucasus and exploiting the Afghan factor as an instrument to exert influence on Central Asia,” Sergey Naryshkin said.
    https://tass.com/politics/1721317

    Poland is not going to give up plans for control of western Ukraine — Russian intelligence
    “In the geopolitical arrangements of the entire Western bloc Poland is assigned the role of a sanitary barrier, and by no means the status of a full-fledged participant in the process of reshaping the European architecture,” Sergey Naryshkin said.
    https://tass.com/politics/1721353

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    Italian ex-minister faces vax murder probe: New Zealand inquiry should reveal more truth
    NEW Zealand’s politicians have all been sent an email informing them that the former Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza is under investigation for homicide after emails revealed he knew mRNA shots were killing people, just as leaked NZ health department data has shown.
    The emails were sent by US vaccine safety campaigner and tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, who organised statisticians and other experts to analyse NZ Ministry of Health data leaked by whistleblower Barry Young.
    The NZ health bureaucrats, supported by media, are using legal threats to censor and suppress access to the “pay-per-dose” data, which reveals of thousands of deaths in close proximity to mRNA vaccinations.
    But New Zealand’s new government has agreed to carry out as a matter of urgency a “full scale, wide-ranging, independent inquiry” into how the Covid-19 pandemic was handled, regardless of the whitewashing “Royal Commission of Inquiry” set up by the Ardern Labor government…
    ..In Italy, Speranza is accused of giving orders to local health authorities to conceal deaths and serious side effects in order to reassure Italian citizens of the vaccines’ “safety” and to not jeopardize the vaccination campaign. NZ and Australian health officials acted similarly.
    The main charges Speranza faces include ideological falsehood, multiple manslaughter, marketing of an imperfect, dangerous drug. Speranza is currently a deputy of the Democratic Party, and like Australian and New Zealand health ministers, was co-opted by the WHO and the global pharma cartel to push the mRNA shots.

    Italian ex-minister faces vax murder probe: New Zealand inquiry should reveal more truth

    Canada Reports 300% Increase in ‘Unspecified Causes’ of Death, Sparking Calls for Investigation
    A new Canadian government report reveals a 300% rise in “unspecified causes” of death from 2019-2022 as unknown causes climbed to the fifth leading cause of death in Canada. Some health experts said the stark increase should trigger an investigation into whether the deaths are linked to COVID-19 vaccines.
    McCullough, a highly published cardiologist who developed a widely used early treatment protocol for COVID-19, said the dramatic rise in deaths from “unspecified causes” in Canada represents a seismic and disturbing shift in Western medicine.
    “Prior to the pandemic, death in Western countries was well understood,” McCullough said, with 40% due to known cardiovascular, 40% due to terminal neoplastic disease (cancer) and 20% due to other known causes such as homicide, suicide, drug overdoses and accidents.”
    He added:
    “Since the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccines, we have witnessed unprecedented deaths without antecedent disease. A large autopsy series published by Hulscher et al, found that 73.9% of the deaths after COVID-19 vaccination were due to problems caused by the shots.”

    Canada Reports 300% Increase in ‘Unspecified Causes’ of Death, Sparking Calls for Investigation

    Woman with long Covid, 55, applies to be EUTHANIZED in Canada as condition leaves her bed-ridden and bankrupt: ‘My life with this illness is nonexistent’
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12851137/woman-long-covid-euthanasia-canada-nonexistent-quality-life-symptoms.html

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