6 Feb, 2023 12:45

1,000+ killed, infrastructure and historic sites damaged: What is known about horrific quakes in Türkiye and Syria

Powerful tremors continue to hit both countries, compounding the death and devastation

On Monday morning, a powerful earthquake struck in southern Türkiye, causing significant destruction across the country and in neighboring Syria. Over a thousand people were reported killed, as buildings collapsed and infrastructure was damaged on both sides of the border.

Here is what is known about the disaster so far.

Worst in decades

The quake was detected at 4:17am (0117 GMT), according to the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). It was centered in the Pazarcik district in the southern province of Kahramanmaras at a depth of 7 kilometers.

The agency initially measured the quake at 7.4 magnitude, but later revised it to 7.7. Dozens of aftershocks were detected later in the day in southern Türkiye, the Gulf of Alexandria and Syria, according to quake monitors, with the strongest spike reported at 7.5 magnitude.

The earthquake was felt across the region, with tremors noted by people as far as Baghdad, Iraq, and Beirut, Lebanon, hundreds of kilometers away.

Hundreds killed, thousands injured

Türkiye is located in a seismically active part of the world, but Monday’s quake was one of the strongest in its history, with more than 1,000 people killed, according to Turkish authorities.

President Recept Tayyip Erdogan said the disaster left over 5,000 injured and destroyed some 2,800 buildings. He called it the worst earthquake in the country since 1939.

The wave of destruction swept through 10 Turkish provinces, including Kahramanmaras, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Hatay, and Kilis.

In Syria, the health ministry said it recorded over 300 deaths and over 1,000 injured people, with damage reported in Northern Aleppo, Hama, Latakia, and Tartus.

Crucial infrastructure damaged

In both Türkiye and Syria, the quake caused damage to key infrastructure. In the Turkish Kilis Province, natural gas pipelines ruptured, with the fuel bursting into large plumes of flame, according to footage circulating online. Operator BOTAS said it cut the flow, but pressurized gas in the pipeline continued to feed the fires.

In Syria, a refinery in the city of Baniyas, one of the largest in the country, had to be shut down for at least 48 hours due to cracks in the chimney of its power unit, the Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources reported.

The Syrian government also ordered all trains to be stopped as a precaution following the earthquake.

Turkish authorities closed the Hatay Airport due to the damage it sustained and suspended all civilian flights via the Gaziantep International Airport amid the emergency. The ports of Ceyhan and Iskenderun were reportedly closed too.

National heritage at risk

The Gaziantep Castle, a hilltop fort located in the center of the city of Gaziantep was heavily damaged by the quake, according to Turkish media. The structure dates to the second and third centuries, though it was repeatedly renovated over the course of history, and is considered the symbol of the city.

In Syria, the quake reportedly caused a crack to appear in the Citadel of Aleppo, a UNESCO heritage site located in Aleppo’s old city. Houmam Saad, who heads the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums in the Culture Ministry, told media that a team had been dispatched to assess the scale of the damage.

International assistance

Many nations, including Azerbaijan, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Russia, Serbia, Spain, the UK and the US, have offered their assistance in responding to the disaster.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent messages of condolence to Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar Assad and said his government was ready to help.

Russian Emergencies Ministry said it put two transport planes and some 100 highly-skilled rescue workers on alert for possible deployment to the disaster area.

https://www.rt.com/news/571034-t%C3%BCrkiye-syria-powerful-quake/

6 Feb, 2023 13:20

Türkiye hit by second major quake

An official said a 7.5-magnitude event in the Kahramanmaras province was “not an aftershock” but a separate earthquake

Türkiye was hit by another powerful earthquake on Monday afternoon. This comes on the heels of a devastating quake in the early hours of the morning that claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, according to local authorities.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported two more jolts with an interval of about ten minutes that sent shockwaves through the central part of the country at around 1:30pm local time. The first registered a magnitude of 7.5 and had an epicenter about 65km to northeast of the city of Kahramanmaras. This is the same region that was hard hit by the initial earthquake early this morning.

The second, with a magnitude of 5.8, had an epicenter 55km northwest of the city of Adiyaman in southeastern Türkiye.

An official from Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority clarified that the 7.5 earthquake was “not an aftershock” but a separate quake.

The nation is already reeling from the first morning quake, which claimed the lives of over 1,100 people while injuring more than 7,000.

Footage posted on social media shows the devastation wrought by the disaster. In one clip, a building in the Sanliurfa province is seen collapsing hours after the first earthquake. It was unclear whether anyone was inside the building at the time.

Neighboring Syria, which was also struck, has also been seeing aftershocks. Speaking to the SANA news agency, Raed Ahmad, the director of the National Earthquake Center, said that jolts have occurred and more will occur, but subsequent ones will be much weaker than the initial earthquake that killed over 400 people in the country.

https://www.rt.com/news/571038-turkiye-second-major-earthquake/

Sunday Talks, Cohn and Brennan Talk Gleefully About the Return of the Service Driven Economy Under Biden, Happy with No Wage Growth

February 5, 2023 | Sundance |

This is one of those interviews whereyou don’t have to take my word for what is being said, Gary Cohn and Margaret Brennan are gleeful about the January jobs reportand the overall return of the U.S. economy to a service driven system with low wages.

Seriously, this is them celebrating out loud.

In order to calm the Wall Street apoplexy about his election victory, President Trump selected Gary Cohn to be an economic advisor early in the administration. However, it was also no surprise that President Trump did not follow Cohn’s advice, and quickly dispatched him after Cohn protested. In this interview the worldview of Cohn is typically globalist, multinational and Wall St centric.

Talking about the January jobs report, Cohn literally gets everything wrong from the position of Main Street USA. Cohn also celebrates what he calls the “renormalization of the new economy.” Continuing with his thought process Cohn states, “A lot of the jobs that we saw were jobs in the service industry, the service, the industries coming back very strong because we’re starting to see the economy go back to what we historically think of the economy,” he said. This is exactly how Wall Street, and the multinationals look at the U.S. economy.

The next part that both Cohn and Margaret Brennan celebrate is even more sunlight. “The interesting thing about last month’s unemployment numbers is we brought people back to work, but we did not have to entice them with pay,” Cohn stated. “So, the monthly, the month over month number in wage gains was 30 basis points. The prior month was 40 basis points. So, we’re seeing we’re getting people back into the labor force for a lower wage than we were prior to this,” he said. With higher prices (inflation) crushing the middle-class and service workers, the multinationals Cohn represents are celebrating that they don’t have to pay workers higher wages WATCH:

https://youtu.be/08n5JxZAD1w

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/02/05/sunday-talks-cohn-and-brennan-talk-gleefully-about-the-return-of-the-service-driven-economy-under-biden-happy-with-no-wage-growth/

DNC Approves Obama, Clyburn Plan for South Carolina to Lead 2024 Democrat Presidential Primary, Media Call It “The Biden Plan” 1 of 3

February 5, 2023 | Sundance

In the last several weeks I have been saying to watch the state of South Carolina for how both Republican and Democrats wings of the UniParty, RNC and DNC respectively,plan to use South Carolina as the mechanism for the 2024 illusion of choice. What I call the RNC and DNC

Essentially the RNC/DNC constructs are the roadmaps, from the club system – two private corporations, to control the 2024 primary election outcomes.

This is all about controlling the mechanisms of elections and creating the illusion of choice while the invisible hands of the big donors and club officers control the operations.

You might remember how South Carolina was the inflection point for Biden in the 2020 primary. It was the SC primary when former President Obama (Black Lives Matter) and Congressman James Clyburn (AME Church network), aligned to select Joe Biden as the control mechanism to ensure Bernie Sanders was defeated.

Team Obama was operating with a sense of urgency because momentum was with Sanders and all other candidates including Biden were fractured.

Obama and Clyburn selected Biden due to his ability to be controlled. Most of the Obama administration now operates inside the Biden administration controlling the outcomes. Part of the ‘what’s in it for me’ aspect from Clyburn was the promise of increased influence and affluence. Including the pre-approval, first right of refusal, for the Biden VP pick (ultimately Kamala Harris).

For 2024 the movement of South Carolina is being pushed to the base voters of the DNC through the social justice narrative about needing a more diverse state for the first DNC primary contest. No good Democrat political activists can counter that culturally approved party position. Predominately white states are bad, more diverse states are good. Thus, under this “diversity” premise, there can be no opposition or dissent from the party base. The justification is a political minefield.

However, that said, that justification is a ruse, a pretense intended to cloud and protect the Club roadmap. In reality, team Obama are fulfilling the prior pledge to James Clyburn.

Obama got to choose the 2020 candidate based on his needs to protect himself from scrutiny of prior White House operations. Now, with statutes of limitations tolling, Clyburn gets the 2024 power position to select the next nominee.

That’s the non-pretending reality thateveryone will say is ‘conspiracy theory’, it isn’t.

(Sundance is very accurate)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/02/05/dnc-approves-obama-clyburn-plan-for-south-carolina-to-lead-2024-democrat-presidential-primary-media-call-it-the-biden-plan/

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2 of 3

The RNC club roadmap for Ron DeSantis is also looking to South Carolina, New Hampshire and Georgia as control mechanisms to stop President Trump from winning the nomination. This has been part of a plan in the works for a long time (mid 2021). The Nikki Haley and Tim Scott operations in South Carolina are part of the strategy; along with Chris Sununu in New Hampshire (despite backpedaling caused by CTH sunlight). Brian Kemp is being leveraged in Georgia, and within the big picture push overall, the ‘Ready for Ron’ establishment is leveraging the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) as an institution to have a much bigger role in 2024. Just keep watching.

PHILADELPHIA — Democrats on Saturday voted overwhelmingly to remake the party’s presidential nominating calendar, embracing President Biden’s push for South Carolina to be the first state to hold its contest in 2024 and replacing Iowa amid calls for greater racial, geographic and economic diversity in the process.

The move by members of the Democratic National Committee was long expected, but it does not guarantee the calendar will ultimately be enacted as designed. In December, Biden asked DNC leaders to move up South Carolina, which sealed his comeback victory in the 2020 Democratic primary, to the first slot. Under the new plan, New Hampshire and Nevada would hold their primaries a week later, followed by primaries in Georgia and Michigan.

The vote here Saturday morning came at the DNC winter meeting, where Biden and Vice President Harris spoke Friday to some of the party’s most active members from across the country. Biden, who has yet to officially announce his reelection plans but has said he intends to run for a second term, was greeted by cheers of “four more years” as he took the stage.

[…] Iowa, a state that has an overwhelmingly White population, drew criticism during the 2020 Democratic primary for its lack of diversity and the inaccessibility of its caucuses, which are held on a winter weekday night and pose participation barriers for those who may have work, are disabled or have other obligations. In 2020, the Iowa Democratic Party also struggled to tabulate the results, leading to more criticism of their caucus system.

With South Carolina, the state that resuscitated Biden’s presidential bid in 2020, Democrats are elevating the role Black voters, a crucial voting bloc for the party across the country, will play in selecting the party’s nominee. “This calendar does what is long overdue,” DNC Chair Jaime Harrison said before the vote. “It expands the number of voices in the early window, and it elevates diverse communities that are at the core of the Democratic Party. (read more)

If the private corporation known as the DNC can overcome the New Hampshire legislative challenges, that puts California Governor Gavin Newsom at a disadvantage because the DNC Club is deferring to James Clyburn.

Congressman Clyburn will select a racially qualified non-white candidate, likely female, to win the first set of state contests.I would not be surprised to see Susan Rice reenter the picture. The corporate apparatus will circle the wagons in favor of that candidate (it will not be Biden)….

>>18294588

3 of 3

If the DNC club cannot overcome the legal and legislative challenges (New Hampshire example), then Gavin Newsom is more likely to gain DNC boardroom support. It depends on how well the corporation can Lawfare their interests into position.

On the private corporation side of the RNC, the billionaire class, multinationals, Wall Street and corporate establishment control officers have already pre-selected Ron DeSantis to play the role of Jeb! in 2024.

The RNC wants the money, and the billionaires, multinationals and Wall Street will be perfectly okay with the DNC selection because the RNC is not ideological.

From the perspective inside theRNC club, it doesn’t matter who wins; just as they were similarly positioned, unaffected and ambivalent in supporting Hillary ’16.

For the financial stakeholders who control the RNC and DNC,this is about the illusion of choice(for voters) and ultimately a controlled outcome (for DC). Once people make this reality part of their analysis, things start to get clear. There are trillions at stake.

If you doubt this is the reality of the 2024 situation, collect the data, apply the scientific method and prove this is not a controlled outcome. You won’t be able to do it, because there are already too many aligned receipts visible from the DeSantis management operation. It is from those receipts that predictions, essentially tripwires, are able to be constructed. The formality of the plan is how and why the South Carolina tripwire was predicted months ago.

Theexact same conservative mediafrom the ’16 Ted Cruz assembly will be supporting the DeSantis operation in 2024; most already are. Additionally, with the help of the professional management and branding group, an effective psychological operation on behalf of RdS began over a year ago.

This is a UniParty script already written, with only one big disruption in the way….

That disruption has two elements. The first is Donald J Trump; the second is YOU.

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notable

>>18294570

God bless Dr. McCullough, he was the second highly credentialed medical doctor that came out denouncing doctors not treating their patients, but just letting them die at home, without any medical advice. And he exposed the vaccine early for having bad side effects.

I hope all doctors that broke their oath to do no harm,are punished by the law or their conscience for the rest of their lives!

The agencies and superiors that made the doctors do this, need to have Nuremberg trials and public executions!

>>18294627

I knew this, but did they have the ability to divert hurricanes back then? If so why aren’t they using it on every hurricane?

>>18294615

Link to the list of FTx

https://unusualwhales.com/politics/article/senate_ftx

PN>>18294615 FTX Wants Politicians to Return Sam Bankman-Fried Donations. It’s a Long List./anyone got the list???

Link to list

https://unusualwhales.com/politics/article/senate_ftx

>>18294495

Kekkity, you got a great memory. Wasn't that the pot smoking libertarian in 2020

6 Feb, 2023 14:33

Ukraine accused of chemical warfare

Toxic compounds have reportedly been used against Russian troops in Donbass

Russian military commanders are reporting that Ukrainian troops have been deploying some kind of chemical weapon against their units in Donbass, according to a local official.

Speaking to Russian television on Monday, Denis Pushilin, the acting governor of the Donetsk People’s Republic, said his office has been receiving reports aboutpossible chemical warfare “for at least two weeks.”Ukrainian troops have reportedly been deploying “chemical compounds that make our military service members ill,” he said.

Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for the Kremlin, declined to discuss the allegation with journalists, saying that his office didn’t have accurate information about the issue.

He said the Russian military would pass such incidents up the chain of command and suggested contacting the Defense Ministry with further inquiries. The Defense Ministry did not immediately comment on the claim.

Speculation that some Ukrainian units may useair-dropped munitions with a chemical agenthas been swirling on social media since mid-January. The rumors were apparently triggered by a video that surfaced showing people in Ukrainian military uniforms assembling small quad drones carrying small containers, with the payload apparently taken from a refrigerator. Some military experts suggested that whatever was used must have beenvolatile if it had to be stored at a low temperature.

Chemical warfare is forbidden under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty that took effect in 1997 and to which both Ukraine and Russia are signatories. The military prohibition applies even to riot control agents, colloquially known as tear gas, though unlike other chemical weapons, the CWC allows such substances to be manufactured and used in law enforcement.

https://www.rt.com/russia/571039-ukraine-donbass-chemical-warfare/

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21 Dec, 2022 11:45

Radioactive threat from Kiev persists – Moscow

Ukraine has the capacity to build a “dirty bomb,” a senior Russian diplomat has said, repeating warnings by Moscow’s military

The risk of Kiev attempting to build a so-called ‘dirty bomb’ remains, a senior Russian diplomat has said. The Russian military has claimed previously that Ukraine was making an explosive device meant to spread radioactive contamination.

“Ukraine has the potential necessary to make a ‘dirty bomb,’ it doesn’t take much effort. Especially since Ukraine has been a nation advanced in nuclear technology since the Soviet times, [and] has many technologies and expertise,” Mikhail Ulyanov told journalists on Wednesday, as quoted by RIA Novosti.

The diplomat heads the Russian mission to UN agencies based in Vienna, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog. He was giving a year-end press conference via video link.

General Igor Kirillov, the commander of the Russian military branch responsible for protecting troops from weapons of mass destruction, claimed in October that Kiev was “at the final stage” of producing a dirty bomb. Ukraine and its Western backers dismissed the allegation, with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba calling it part of a Russian propaganda campaign.

The IAEA sent inspectors to a handful of sites in Ukraine at the invitation of its government. They found no undeclared activity there, the agency reported in November. Kiev has stated that the UN agency exonerated it from the Russian accusations.

Ulyanov maintained that the danger persists. “Somebody at the IAEA told us thatUkraine actually has as many as 5,000 sites, where they could potentially build the bomb,” he explained, without identifying the source of the information.

A ‘dirty bomb’ is a conventional explosive device covered by radioactive material. When detonated, it spreads contamination in the area, posing a significant health hazard. The potential that such a weapon could be used in terrorism is one of the reasons why radioactive isotopes are tightly controlled by the IAEA and national governments.

(Since Ukraine Nazis thinks nothing of killing innocent men, women and children, nothing EVIL is off the table with them)

https://www.rt.com/russia/568659-ukraine-dirty-bomb-ulyanov/

6 Feb, 2023 14:36

Kremlin reacts to ‘Zelensky elimination’ comment

Moscow has neither confirmed nor denied a claim by Israel's former PM that Putin promised not to kill the Ukrainian leader

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has refused to confirm or deny an alleged promise by President Vladimir Putin not to assassinate his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky. Peskov said Moscow did not wish to reveal details concerning sensitive talks with foreign leaders.

On Saturday, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett stated in an interview that during his meeting with Putin last March, the Russian leader repeatedly reassured him and gave his word that Zelensky would not be “killed” or “eliminated.”

Asked to respond to this claim on Monday, Peskov confirmed that the two leaders held “a very intensive dialogue” and “frequently communicated” during Bennett’s tenure as PM. However, the spokesman refused to share confidential information.

“Indeed, on the agenda, in addition to bilateral relations, was the topic of Ukraine,” Peskov told journalists. “But you know that we are not in favor of disclosing the details of the talks between heads of state. We do not want to do this now. Therefore, I will neither refute nor confirm what Mr. Bennett said.”

The then PM traveled to meet with Putin in the early phases of Moscow’s military operation against Kiev, which was launched in late February. Bennett had hoped to broker an early ceasefire between the two sides as Russian forces were encroaching on the Ukrainian capital. At that point, Zelensky was reportedly in an undisclosed location and had allegedly asked Bennett to secure assurance from Putin that he would not be targeted for assassination.

Bennett said he called Zelensky immediately after leaving the talks with Putin, telling him he would not be killed. Two hours later, the Ukrainian leader posted a video from his office in Kiev, explaining that he was “not hiding,”and “not afraid of anyone.”

(Kek, all deals off now since Zelensky is such a coward!)

https://www.rt.com/russia/571044-kremlin-putin-zelensky-promise/

6 Feb, 2023 12:31

Syria stops rail service

A powerful quake killed at least 371 in the Arab country and at least 1,014 in neighboring Türkiye

Rail traffic has been suspended across Syria after the country was hit by a deadly earthquake, the Transport Ministry said on Monday. In a statement on its website, the ministry said technical teams were inspecting roads, tracks, bridges, and ferries for damage.

A powerful earthquake struck southern Türkiye and northwestern Syria on Monday morning, causing destruction in both countries. According to the Syrian Health Ministry, over 400 people were killed and over 1,300 injured.

The Syrian Oil and Mineral Resources Ministry said that the Banias refinery on the Mediterranean coast, the country’s largest, was shut down aftertremors caused a leak of petroleum products.

According to the ministry, the repairs are expected to take 48 hours. It said that gas facilities in Aleppo were also damaged.

Officials said several historical sites and artifacts were damaged, including Aleppo’s medieval citadel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cracks appeared on the facade of the ancient city’s main museum, according to the authorities.

The army has been deployed to the areas affected to help rescuers clear the rubble and look for survivors.

In neighboring Türkiye, over 1,100 people were killed and over 7,000 injured, the authorities said. According to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the disaster was the strongest earthquake the country has seen since 1939

https://www.rt.com/news/571037-syria-rail-service-earthquake/

6 Feb, 2023 14:45

Syria responds to Russian aid offer

President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with Bashar Assad to discuss the aftermath of Monday’s catastrophic quakes

Syrian President Bashar Assad has accepted Russia’s offer of assistance following a series of deadly earthquakes that rocked the region on Monday, the Kremlin has said. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to Assad by phone to convey his condolences and offer help.

The earthquakes rocked the northern part of Syria and central and southeastern Türkiye, resulting in a combined death toll of over 1,400 so far.

Putin offered to provide Syria with all the necessary assistance to help deal with the consequences of the disaster, the Kremlin press service said.

The Kremlin said Assad “gratefully accepted this offer” and thatrescuers from Russia’s Emergency Ministry will fly to Syria “in the next few hours” to assist with relief efforts.

Moscow also sent a cable to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in which Putin offered Russia’s deepest condolences on the numerous casualties and massive destruction caused by the earthquakes. He asked Erdogan to relay “words of earnest sympathy”to the families of those killed and wished for the swift rescue of all survivors.

Russia has also offered Türkiye its assistance in dealing with the aftermath of the disaster and said rescue workers were ready to depart immediately to help out.

Erdogan and Putin are expected to discuss the issue by phone later on Monday, according to the Kremlin.

https://www.rt.com/news/571048-syria-earthquake-russia-aid/

Bannon is on a real rant on what did they know and when did they know it? Wondering if the admin even told the Pentagon? A bunch if traitors in there, we got him now,they were willing to impeach Trump on a phone call? The house and senators have evidence that Biden and his admin are traitors!

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McCain, Kinzinger, & others wanted to start a proxy war with Russia in Syria in 2017. I went on CNN to be a voice of reason because virtually no one else would. I ended up debating the CNN anchor for 7 minutes. Years later, it turns out I was right.

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So obvious her whole focus is why are you blaming Obama! Obama blamed Bush for 8 years!

Massie should have said it was Obama's fault