The largest #NATO base in #Europe is being built in #Romania.
The $2.5 billion facility is located in the middle of a mountain plateau and will become the center for the command and control of NATO forces in southeastern Europe . It is all about #BlackSea
https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1769606510089281591
Al Jazeera journalist beaten, arrested by Israeli forces from Gaza hospital
Media watchdogs decry Ismail al-Ghoul’s arrest and demand his immediate release after he is taken from al-Shifa Hospital.
Israeli forces have arrested and severely beaten Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul in Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.
Al-Ghoul was there early on Monday with his crew and other reporters to cover the Israeli army’s fourth raid into the hospital, where thousands of civilians are trapped, including medical staff, patients and displaced families.
Witnesses said the Al Jazeera reporter was dragged away by Israeli forces, who also destroyed the broadcasting vehicles of news crews at the medical facility. The hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, has served as a base for journalists to report on Israel’s more than five-month war on the Palestinian enclave.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah, said al-Ghoul has been “tortured, beaten and detained by the Israeli military along with his crew member on the ground”.
Mahmoud, quoting witnesses, said many Palestinians were beaten and verbally abused, some blindfolded and their hands tied behind their backs. They were then put inside an Israeli military truck and taken to an unknown location, he said.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health said Israeli forces launched missiles and opened fire on one of the hospital’s buildings, killing and injuring Palestinians, and a section of the hospital’s courtyard was bulldozed.
According to Mahmoud, Israeli forces also arrested more than 80 other Palestinians, including “women medical staff and [other] journalists”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/18/al-jazeera-journalist-beaten-arrested-by-israeli-forces-from-gaza-hospital
US Considering Giving Israel More Military Aid as Leverage
An Israeli official complained that US weapons shipments have been slow
Recent media reports have said there are discussions within the Biden administration to condition military aid to Israel if it invades Rafah as a way to reduce civilian casualties. The assumption was that the US could threaten to cut off or reduce its weapons supply to Israel, but according to a report from ABC News, the US might do the opposite.
The report cited US officials who said the US hasn’t made a decision on leveraging military aid and that “it’s possible additional aid — not less — would be offered as an incentive” to reduce civilian casualties.
The US officials made the comments in response to a senior Israeli official complaining that US weapons shipments weren’t coming fast enough. The official said that in the wake of October 7, US arms “were coming very fast,” but “we are now finding that it’s very slow.”
US officials denied there was any intentional slowdown in weapons shipments to Israel. When asked about the Israeli claim, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the US was continuing to supply Israel with arms.
“I’m not gonna get into the timeline for every individual system that’s being provided,” Kirby said. “We continue to support Israel with their self-defense needs. That’s not going to change, and we have been very, very direct about that.”
The US provides Israel with $3.8 billion in annual military aid, and the Biden administration has approved over 100 arms deals since October 7 to support the mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. The US is looking to give Israel another $14 billion as part of a $95 billion foreign military aid bill that’s passed through the Senate but has yet to be voted on in the House.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Sunday that the death toll in Gaza since Israel unleashed its onslaught stands at 31,645 Palestinians. About 70% of the casualties are women and children. The Health Ministry’s numbers are considered a low estimate since they don’t account for the thousands who are missing and presumed to be dead under the rubble.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/17/us-considering-giving-israel-more-military-aid-as-leverage/
Senate Finance Committee chair faces call to resign over wife's major stock holdings
"Conflicts of interest like this would pose ethical problems for any policymaker. But yours is especially problematic," the Republicans told Wyden.
Republicans are demanding Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden step down from his position as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee over his wife's major stock holdings.
"We are alarmed by reports of your wife's exceptionally large stock holdings, totaling $3 million, in four of the Big Five technology companies that you are tasked with overseeing – Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google," a group of national Republicans, led by New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax, wrote to Wyden in a letter obtained by Just the News on Thursday.
Wyden's latest financial disclosure covers 2022, and it shows that his wife, Nancy Wyden, owns at least $1.5 million in the four major companies, but may have as much as $3 million in investments. She also made between $15,001 and $50,000 in dividends from Apple that year.
Notably, Nancy Wyden may still have some involvement in all members of the Big Five. The financial disclosure shows she sold Meta holdings worth between $50,001 and $100,000, and it currently lists her holdings in the company as "None (or less than $1,001)."
The Senate Finance Committee has wide-ranging jurisdiction over numerous federal matters ranging from trade to taxation, and the Republicans pointed out how his wife's investments may pose a conflict of interest.
"As Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, you help determine whether these companies can continue their dangerous and socially destructive behavior, or whether they will be reined in. And Mrs. Wyden's investments – and therefore your own financial ties to these companies via your wife – bring your commitment to the task into question," they wrote.
"Conflicts of interest like this would pose ethical problems for any policymaker. But yours is especially problematic, given that you personally wield enormous power over the economic fate of the very same companies these investments support."
Nancy Wyden also has investments in tech companies outside of the Big Five. For example, she owns between $500,001 and $1 million in stock in NVIDIA, a global tech company.
In addition to Wax, the letter's signatories also include College Republicans of America President William Donahue, Republicans for National Renewal Executive Director Mark Ivanyo, National Constitutional Law Union Chairman John Pierce, Students for Trump Chairman Ryan Fournier and Italian American Civil Rights League President Paul Ingrassia.
Wyden's office did not immediately respond to Just the News' request for comment, but a spokesman previously told The New York Times: "Mr. Wyden and his wife keep separate finances." The filing deadline for Wyden's 2023 financial report is May 15.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-finance-committee-chair-faces-call-resign-over-wifes-major-stock
Pelosi Defends Schumer Meddling In Israeli Elections: Netanyahu ‘Tried To Interfere In American Elections’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) defended Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) over the weekend for meddling in Israeli elections last week, claiming without evidence that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to interfere in U.S. elections.
Pelosi made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” while discussing Netanyahu’s response to Schumer’s attempt to alter the outcome of elections in Israel.
“It’s curious to me to see Netanyahu talk the way he does, when he tried to interfere in American elections,” Pelosi claimed. “But that’s another subject, when he came to the Congress, criticized the president of the United States, barged into our country, into our elections.}
“But, again, let’s put that aside and let’s just say, as we go forward, what is wrong with advocating for elections in a democracy? And you know. You mentioned the polls. You see the thousands and thousands of people are in the streets, even last night, in Israel,” she continued. “But, again, it’s a democracy, and people have different views, and they express them, and that’s a beautiful thing. But for him to say — what does that say if he won’t even say that, as the war winds down, the people of Israel should speak? That’s all Chuck was saying.”
https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2024/03/pelosi-defends-schumer-meddling-in.html
Mossad agent on c-span admitting how Israel controls USA politicians & journalists. Call them antisemites if they say anything that makes Israel look bad
https://youtu.be/qgEtXE4RYVk
US Deportation Port in Gaza
The US “port” in Gaza is not for getting things IN to Gaza.
It’s about getting Palestinians OUT.
It’s a scheme planned carefully by US-Israel, taking into consideration the needs also of Egypt’s élite etc. Israeli hyper-Zionists have said they would “drive the Palestinians into the Mediterranean” – and that is exactly the point.
So how get to that point ? From around and behind with fake arguments, of course – as usually.
First – starting with the US airdrop to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Get the world to believe the US government as a “helper” with bleeding hearts and pure humanitarian intentions wanting to alleviate pain for the Palestinians. The world got used to the US airdrops with aid, and criticized it as being inefficient, too little, too slow, too costly. And the US says, “oh, you’re right, instead of air-delivery, let’s do the same more effectively and cheaply, by sea”. So, now the Gaza “port” is being built by the US – and the whole world is duped into believing that the US Gaza port is to help Palestinians stay and survive in Gaza. It is anything but.
Extremely well timed together with Israel, Israel now steps attacks on Gaza and Rafah up again, incidentally at exactly the same time as the US has completed the “port” to Gaza.
Hunger, death, starvation, and endless pain will not descend upon the Gazans – made by Israel, designed with the USA – and no matter what Gazans said about not leaving Gaza, they will soon – very soon – be BEGGING to be let into the US Gaza port and sailed to ANYWHERE in the world where they will not be killed and starved. And with a US controlled Gaza “port”, Egypt will be seen as part of the plot by US-Israel, because Palestinians in this upcoming Nakba will not exodus Gaza through Egypt, but through the sea.
It is undeniable that US-Israel have already planned what countries will take the 2.2 million Palestinians to leave Gaza now. The 2+ million Palestinians soon to be forced out of Gaza will not go to Egypt, not to Jordan or to Saudi Arabia – but to anywhere else on the planet. The EU will take perhaps a million – Germany alone took 1 million Syrian refugees, so the EU as a whole can easily take 1 million Palestinians from Gaza just to please the Americans an keep relations and favors with Israel. Another million Palestinians from Gaza can go to Lebanon, Morocco, to Africa south of Sahara, to South Asia, to East Asia, and so on. Lots of countries will get billions from the US, if they will take one hundred thousand Palestinians. Times 10 countries taking one hundred thousand Palestinian refugees, and it sums up to them taking a million Palestinians.
Thus, 2 million Palestinians go via US “Gaza port” to the whole world.
And Gaza goes to Israel.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-deportation-port-gaza/5852344
Vanguard CEO Makes Surprising Exit, Signaling The US Economy Is In Trouble
In a move that has sent shockwaves through the financial world, Tim Buckley, the CEO of investment giant Vanguard, has suddenly quit his job. This bombshell announcement has raised a lot of eyebrows and has people speculating about the real reasons behind Buckley’s abrupt exit. Many experts are warning that this could be a sign of troubled times ahead for the US economy. Vanguard, known for its low-cost index funds, is a huge player in the investment industry. The sudden departure of its top leader, a veteran with over 30 years of experience, has rocked the financial markets and left investors wondering about the health of the US economy and what potential challenges are coming.
https://youtu.be/X-AfvWPtd0E
https://citizenwatchreport.com/vanguard-ceo-makes-surprising-exit-signaling-the-us-economy-is-in-trouble/#google_vignette
US Senator Slams Israeli Claims About UNRWA as ‘Flat-Out Lies’
A Democratic Senator blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders in Tel Aviv for making false accusations about aid agencies operating in Gaza. Tel Aviv has charged the UN aid agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) with acting as a proxy of Hamas.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen said, on “Face the Nation,” that Netnayhu’s accusations against UNRWA were an attempt to eliminate the aid agency. “There’s no doubt that the claim that Prime Minister Netanyahu and others are making, that somehow UNRWA is a proxy for Hamas, are just flat-out lies,” he explained. “That’s a flat-out lie. If you look at the person who’s in charge of operations on the ground in Gaza for UNRWA, it’s about a 20-year US Army veteran. You can be sure he is not in cahoots with Hamas. Netanyahu has wanted to get rid of UNRWA since at least 2017.”
In January, Tel Aviv claimed it had compiled an intelligence dossier that showed extensive ties between Hamas and the aid agency, including that 12 UNRWA employees participated in the October 7 attack. However, over the past two months, Israel has failed to produce evidence to back the allegations. Additionally, an UNRWA investigation has uncovered evidence that the Israelis used torture to generate false confessions from Palestinians.
After Israel made the charges against UNRWA, the US, and 15 other countries, cut funding for the aid agency. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the accusations were “highly, highly credible.”
As the Israeli case against UNRWA has started to crumble, three countries – Australia, Sweden, and Canada – have restored their funding for the agency.
UNRWA is crucial for providing life-saving aid to Palestinians in Gaza. Still, its workers and buildings have come under frequent attack during Israel’s five-month onslaught. At least 165 UNRWA workers have been killed. Last week, Israel targeted a food distribution center in Rafah, killing five people.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/us-senator-says-israeli-claims-about-unrwa-ties-to-hamas-flat-out-lies/
The China Defense Ministry says China is ready to intervene militarily anywhere if the United States or NATO decides to attack Russia
Not sure if people realise how massive this is.
China would not release this statement unless we are at the brink of WW3 and they believe wholeheartedly NATO is about to attack Russia.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/the-china-defense-ministry-says-china-is-ready-to-intervene-militarily-anywhere-if-the-united-states-or-nato-decides-to-attack-russia/
Billionaire Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Straw Donor Campaign Contribution Scheme and Other Frauds
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/billionaire-chinese-national-pleads-guilty-straw-donor-campaign-contribution-scheme
Joe Biden Is Shipping Weapons to Israel Every 36 Hours
The Biden administration has been able to maintain a low profile by spreading arms provision to Israel across more than 100 smaller munitions sales — allowing the president to posture as a peacekeeper while US weapons wipe Gaza off the map.
In the one hundred fifty days after October 7, Israel killed thirty-one thousand Palestinians, injured seventy-two thousand, displaced 1.7 million, and razed or damaged more than half of Gaza’s buildings. Joe Biden sent over one hundred weapons shipments to Israel during the same stretch. In a recent classified briefing, US officials told members of Congress that the Biden administration approved and delivered more than one hundred separate weapons sales to Israel in the one hundred fifty days after October 7, “amounting to thousands of precision-guided munitions, small diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms and other lethal aid,” the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. That works out to one new arms deal every thirty-six hours, on average.
These transfers are classified as sales, but very few of them meet that definition in the conventional sense. The vast majority are funded through State Department grants. Biden made just two of these publicly funded sales to Israel public, and the only reason he did is because he had to. Section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) requires the president to notify Congress when a proposed arms sale exceeds a certain value. The notification threshold depends on the type of matériel (for “significant military equipment” it’s $14 million; for other military articles and services, $50 million; for military construction services, $200 million), but also the recipient. For NATO countries and South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Israel, the notification thresholds for these three categories are considerably higher ($25 million, $100 million, and $300 million, respectively).
While Biden is loud and proud about arming Ukraine, he prefers to arm Israel in secret. The quantity of sales since October 7 is case in point. By spreading his military support for Israel across more than one hundred sales, Biden kept pretty much all of them “under threshold” per the AECA, thereby avoiding congressional and public scrutiny. Biden might have picked up this trick from his predecessor. Donald Trump exploited the same loophole to dodge oversight on arms deals with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, whose intense and indiscriminate bombing of Yemen at the time had created a dire humanitarian crisis.
Keeping these transfers out of public view makes it easier for Biden to cast himself as Humanitarian of the Year in Gaza while going great lengths to help Israel destroy it. Biden’s series of food airdrops suggests he’s bravely trying to fix a catastrophe beyond his control. Administration officials perpetuate this narrative by insisting the president has no leverage over Israel. “There is a mistaken belief that the United States is able to dictate to other countries’ sovereign decisions,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller recently said.
This is wrong. The catastrophe in Gaza is the result of a deliberate policy choice Biden made. Israel’s military offensive would not be possible without him fast-tracking such vast quantities of weapons to its arsenal over the last several months. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that Israel’s assault on Gaza relies on a steady stream (a torrent, in fact) of US weapons, once telling a group of local government officials, “We need three things from the US: munitions, munitions, and munitions.” From October 7 to mid-February, Biden had delivered twenty-one thousand bombs to Israel, and Israel had already dropped half of them.
Netanyahu structured an urgent plea to US lawmakers in November in a similar way: “I need ammo, ammo, and ammo — yesterday,” he said and specifically requested 155 mm artillery shells. More than thirty aid and advocacy groups had urged the Biden administration not to supply this ammunition because the shells are unguided, highly explosive (with a casualty radius of 100 to 300 meters) and have been used by Israel in the past to hit hospitals, schools, shelters, and safe zones. Biden transferred 57,021 of them to Israel a few weeks later. The Israeli army announced in early December that it had fired more than one hundred thousand shells since its ground invasion of Gaza began on October 27, adding that artillery plays a “central role” by providing “intense fire cover” for its troops.
Israel lacks the production capacity to prosecute one of the deadliest, most intense bombing campaigns in history relying only on its own munitions. Israel’s assault on Gaza continues because Biden thinks it should continue. If he thought otherwise, he would shut down the weapons pipeline he constructed to enable it.
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/biden-weapons-israel-gaza-palestine
Archbishop Viganò: 'The globalist cabal want to establish the kingdom of the Antichrist on earth'
'These murderers will soon find themselves answering for their crimes, if not before the tribunal of the world, then certainly before God,' Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò wrote.
"What appears today in all its evidence is the subversive plan of a global coup d'état, aimed at the decimation of the world population and the enslavement of the survivors. The pressure for the approval of the WHO Pandemic Treaty and for the health passport - accompanied by the activation of the digital wallet - demonstrate that the authors of this coup have no intention of giving up their criminal intentions, and will not do so unless they are faced with firm and determined opposition from the population and those few of its representatives who are not sold out to the World Economic Forum, by those who courageously do not fail in their duties."
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/archbishop-vigano-the-globalist-cabal-want-to-establish-the-kingdom-of-the-antichrist-on-earth/
How Pro Israel Influencer Gets Paid
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/160/177/570/playable/c35db240b1b6cac6.mp4