Russian senator detained in murder-for-hire plot

Dmitry Savelyev allegedly commissioned a hit on a former business partner

Russian Prosecutor-General Igor Krasnov appeared unannounced at the session of the Federation Council, just as it was recessing for the summer, and had Savelyev detained as he exited the chamber.

“The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against Senator Dmitry Vladimirovich Savelyev, on charges of preparation for murder,” Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement, describing the senator’s actions as “guided by personal hostility.”

According to Petrenko, in August 2023 Savelyev asked an associate to offer a monetary reward for the killing of “a businessman,” whom the media have identified as Sergey Ionov. The man was reportedly the senator’s former business partner, who had embezzled money from a company they managed together through an intermediary. Ionov was imprisoned for the offense and the company ended up in the hands of Savelyev’s sons, according to TASS.

https://www.rt.com/russia/602060-russian-senator-murder-charges/

It Turns Out Hillary Clinton Is The Biggest Donor To Extremist Climate Protesters In The UK

“The donations are the largest contribution by Mrs Clinton’s organisation to a non-profit in the last three years

You know those posh blue and pink haired children that have got nothing better to do but glue themselves to the road and throw soup at Van Gough paintings? Hillary Clinton is funding them.

That is according to the Telegraph, which reports that financial disclosures from Hillary’s ‘Onward Together’ leftist think tank show it donated over half a million dollars in the past three years to the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF), which is the largest backer of Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion.

https://modernity.news/2024/08/02/it-turns-out-hillary-clinton-is-the-biggest-donor-to-extremist-climate-protesters-in-the-uk/

Türkiye blocks Instagram

Officials have accused the platform of preventing users from posting condolences over the death of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh

Turkish authorities have blocked Instagram after officials in Ankara accused the platform of “censorship” over the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh.

According to Türkiye’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), access to the social media platform was blocked on Friday. No formal reason was given for the move, nor any indication of how long the ban would last.

Fahrettin Altun, the country’s communications chief, had slammed the Meta-owned network earlier this week for its response to the killing of Haniyeh. The Hamas political leader was killed in a bombing in Tehran on Wednesday, with the Palestinian militant group and Iran accusing Israel of orchestrating the attack. West Jerusalem has neither denied nor confirmed involvement, but has repeatedly vowed to destroy Islamist “terrorists” who threaten the Jewish state.

Altun “strongly condemned” Instagram, claiming it had “prevented people from posting condolences on Haniyeh’s martyrdom without giving any reason.”

“This is a very clear and obvious attempt at censorship,” he argued, vowing that Ankara “will continue to defend freedom of expression against these platforms, which have repeatedly shown that they serve the global system of exploitation and injustice.”

As of February 2024, the number of Instagram users in Türkiye – a country with a population of 83 million – totaled around 58 million, according to Statista. One person can create multiple accounts on the platform.

Türkiye has temporarily banned various social networks several times in the past. In 2014, the country’s authorities blocked Twitter and YouTube for two weeks and two months respectively, after leaked videos purporting to show corruption at the highest levels of government went viral.

Wikipedia was also blocked by Türkiye in 2017 and 2020, over an article that described the country as a state sponsor of several terrorist groups. In 2019, the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that the move violated human rights and ordered the ban to be lifted.

https://www.rt.com/news/602040-turkey-blocks-instagram-hamas/

“Phantom Voters” Registered In Key Swing States Could Cost Trump The 2024 Elections

The United States is experiencing an influx of illegal aliens that are being registered to vote, which could become a threat to 45th President Donald Trump’s campaign. One America’s Lindsey Adams interviews former California State Assemblyman Steve Baldwin about the voting corruption in key swing states.

https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/phantom-voters-registered-in-key-swing-states-could-cost-trump-the-2024-elections/

The Co-Opting Of Bitcoin: BTC Nashville, Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, And Rumble

As U.S. Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appealed to the Bitcoin community for votes, the right-leaning Big Tech bro’s sunk their claws further into the once potentially revolutionary project.

Former President Donald Trump and Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr courted voters at the BTC Nashville Conference this past weekend. Both men made promises to change the Biden administration’s policy of criminalizing elements of the cryptocurrency industry.

Kennedy said as president he would sign an executive order directing the Department of Justice and the U.S. Marshals to “transfer the approximately 200k Bitcoin held by the U.S. government to the U.S. Treasury where it shall be held as a strategic asset”. Kennedy said he would also direct the U.S. Treasury to purchase 550 Bitcoin daily in an effort to put the U.S. in a “position of dominance that no other country will be able to challenge.”

Trump received a roar of applause and cheers when he called for the firing of Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The former president proposed creating a national Bitcoin “stockpile” that he would “transform” into a “permanent national asset to benefit all Americans”.

The irony of both Trump and Kennedy’s proposals is that the U.S. government’s current Bitcoin reserves have come from arrests of individuals involved in the Bitcoin space. Trump acknowledged this fact, stating, “Most of the Bitcoin currently held by the United States government was obtained through law enforcement action.”

This includes Ross Ulbricht, a libertarian and hero to the Bitcoin community who has spent the last 13 years of his life behind bars after being sentenced for allegedly running the Silk Road dark web marketplace. Trump and RFK Jr. have promised to commute Ulbricht’s multiple life sentences.

While Trump pledged to ease law enforcement actions, commute Ulbricht, and fire Gensler, he also appeared ill informed of how Bitcoin and blockchain technology function. The one-time crypto skeptic seemed ignorant of the original intention of Bitcoin as “digital cash” that could help individuals avoid government and big banks.

“Those who say that Bitcoin is a threat to the dollar have the story exactly backwards,” Trump stated. “I believe it is exactly backwards. Bitcoin is not threatening the dollar. The behavior of the current US government is really threatening the dollar.”

Trump is correct that the U.S. government is a threat to the future of Bitcoin as a potentially revolutionary financial tool, but he is mistaken when he says Bitcoin is not a threat to the dollar.

For many of the “cypherpunks” who helped elevate Bitcoin in its early years, the growth of Bitcoin has carried the disappointment that the vast majority of new users do not seem to understand the radical libertarian vision of cryptocurrency as a tool for ending central banks, and liberating money from the hands of tyrannical governments.

This is what makes Trump’s statements and his recent wave of support from right-leaning Big Tech bro’s — who also are embracing Bitcoin — all the more worrisome.

Is Donald Trump’s support for Bitcoin due to him realizing the potential for the underlying technology? Is he simply an opportunist trying to cash in on the hype around Bitcoin? Has he had a change of heart and is now a burgeoning cypherpunk? Or, is there a financial and political incentive for Trump and the billionaires backing him to further entrench themselves into the Bitcoin ecosystem?

How Big Tech Bro’s Turned Trump into the “Crypto President”

As recently as June 2021, Donald Trump said that Bitcoin “seems like a scam” and “takes the edge off of the dollar and the importance of the dollar”. So how (and why) did Trump begin to promote the idea of Bitcoin being held by the U.S. treasury?

Trump’s transformation from a critic of cryptocurrency to a champion of the technology was not a natural progression from ignorance to informed of the ins and outs of the industry. Rather, Trump’s alleged change of heart is the result of an injection of millions of dollars into his campaign by billionaires who are tied to the crypto industry in one form or another. Of course, these billionaires are not promoting the cypherpunk vision of a currency freed of government surveillance, but instead are advocating for the idea that Bitcoin is “digital gold” to be held as a long-term investment.

In June, big tech venture capitalists David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya hosted a fundraiser for Trump at Sacks’ home in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. The meeting netted the Trump campaign $12 million after Trump reportedly said he would be “the crypto president”.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cryptocurrency/the-co-opting-of-bitcoin-btc-nashville-peter-thiel-donald-trump-and-rumble

Illegals Who Breached Secured Area of Marine Corps Base Quantico Freed on Bail.

The two illegal Jordanian immigrants who allegedly breached a secure area of Marine Corps Base Quantico are free after posting bail. Hasan Yousef Hamdan, 32, and Mohammad Khair Dabous, 28, were allowed to leave federal custody despite their status as illegal immigrants and both men being subject to removal proceedings.Bail for Hamdan was set at $15,000 and $10,000 for Dabous. On July 22, during a court appearance, a judge ordered both men released after they had met their bail requirements. Additionally, the judge ordered that they must show up for all future court proceedings and that they stay away from any U.S. military installations including Quantico. Court documents indicate federal prosecutors supported the conditions of release for the two Jordanian nationals.

On May 3, the Jordanian nationals were detained and arrested at Quantico. At one point, they told law enforcement they were Amazon delivery contractors. This, however, proved false. Following their arrest for trespassing, the two men were handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for proceedings due to their status as illegal immigrants.Questions regarding why Hamdan and Dabous attempted to gain access to secured areas at Quantico remain—at least publicly—unanswered. “Big-time intel failure, security failure,” a federal law enforcement official said in a recent interview.“If it wasn’t an act of terrorism, why aren’t the government officials releasing the details of this? What was the intent?”

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/08/02/illegal-immigrants-who-breached-secured-area-of-quantico-freed-on-bail/

Big Brother Watch: Civil Liberties Group Raises Alarm on Starmer Using Anti-Stabbing Riots Pretext to Roll Out Facial Recognition Cameras

Declaring “far-right hatred” the immediate challenge for the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced a rollout of facial recognition technology on Thursday night, sparking warnings by civil liberty advocates Big Brother Watch about the encroaching surveillance state.

The UK has seen a series of protests and riots in several towns across England this week, with authorities bracing for what they suspect could be more on Friday night. These indicents of violence follow the mass stabbing of children at a summer holiday activity club on Monday.

17-year-old Rwandan-heritage Alex Rudakubana was arrested and subsequently charged with murder and attempted murder, and having appeared before a judge on Thursday will now not be seen again until October with his next court date.

Speaking on Thursday night in a speech addressing the riots in the country — if not so much the deadly attack that sparked them — Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer listed his responses to the unrest, including a crackdown with a new cross-border police command. Of the tools to be rolled out to stifle dissent, Sir Keir named: “wider deployment of facial recognition technology, and preventative action: criminal behaviour orders to restrict their movement, before they can even board a train”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/08/02/big-brother-watch-civil-liberties-group-raises-alarm-on-starmer-using-anti-stabbing-riots-pretext-to-roll-out-facial-recognition-cameras/

Investigative Journalist: The ADL is an Israeli SPY Organization

https://youtu.be/cjAGwRvV1oQ

Washington misled Lebanon into thinking ‘Beirut is a red line’: Report

Senior White House official AmosHochsteintried to push Lebanese officials to sway Hezbollah against responding to an attack

Senior White House Adviser Amos Hochstein led a “diplomatic disinformation campaign” and deceived Lebanese officials into thinking Israel would not attack Lebanon’s capital or its southern suburbs, Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported on 1 August.

Hochstein “informed officials in Beirut that the Israeli strike would be outside Beirut and the suburbs. He insisted on leaking this information under what he referred to as ‘the success of American diplomacy,’” according to the newspaper, calling the US official’s talks with the Lebanese state a “deception operation.”

The report adds Hochstein was trying to obtain a guarantee from Lebanese officials that Hezbollah would not respond to any potential Israeli attack in response to the strike on Majdal Shams last weekend, which Tel Aviv pinned on Hezbollah as a pretext for escalation.

Hochstein was the first to lead Washington’s contact with Beirut following the killings in the occupied Golan Heights town on Saturday, on the premise that “Hezbollah’s responsibility for the incident is not open to debate,” the newspaper says. This comes despite the eyewitness reports that an Israeli Iron Dome interceptor caused the deaths and the inconsistencies in Tel Aviv’s narrative which continue to emerge.

“Hochstein communicated with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Mikati, practicing a policy of deception by indicating that his country was making a great effort to prevent escalation and convince Israel [not to attack Beirut and kill civilians],” which was exactly what ended up happening.

“Targeting the airport, the suburbs, or Beirut is a red line,” he reportedly said.

He urged the officials to pressure Hezbollah into “swallowing” any attack that Israel may launch and also renewed the US proposal to separate the Lebanon front from Gaza. The US envoy has, since the start of the war, attempted to secure the withdrawal of Hezbollah behind the Litani River so that settlers can return to Israel’s north.

Yet Hezbollah has vowed that it will not stop its operations until the Gaza war ends and that there would be no discussion on the border situation until this condition was fulfilled.

Financial Times (FT) reported on 31 July that the US is racing to prevent a regional war from breaking out after the Israeli strike on Beirut, which killed Hezbollah’s most important military leader, Fuad Shukr, and Tel Aviv’s assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

“The talks were focused on convincing Tehran to either not respond or to carry out symbolic action, after Israeli diplomats told western interlocutors that their military did not plan further operations,” it cited officials as saying. Iran has vowed a harsh response to the illegal assassination on its territory.

According to the New York Times, the retaliation has already been ordered.

Before the attack on Beirut, western media reported that Washington was urging Tel Aviv not to strike the capital.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah will make a speech on 1 August and announce the resistance group’s position on the “sinful attack” on Beirut, according to a Hezbollah statement on 31 July.

https://thecradle.co/articles/washington-misled-lebanon-into-thinking-beirut-is-a-red-line-report

IDF chief to troops in Gaza: Israel will ‘go far’ to strike anyone who attacks us

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-august-02-2024/

Global stock market meltdown as fears grow US economy will 'collapse'

Shares across the world tumbled Friday - as investors panicked over signs of weakness in the US economy.

The S&P 500 was sinking by 2.5 percent in midday trading, on pace for its worst day since 2022. The Dow Jones was down 954 points, or 2.4 percent.

At one point in the morning, the tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 3.2 percent, meaning it has lost more than 10 percent from a record high on July 11.

The tailspins were sparked by a dire jobs report on Friday morning. Unemployment in July rose to the highest level since October 2021 - suggesting the US economy is sputtering and raising fears of a recession.

Even before that report, stock markets in Europe, China and Japan in particular had plunged.

Economists say the worrying state of the economy now means the Federal Reserve must cut interest rates much more quickly than planned to avoid a huge recession.

All three benchmark US indices had also sunk the day before after a batch of weaker-than-expected reports on the economy on Thursday.

The sell-off is a blow to Americans retirement savings since 401(K)s are heavily invested in stocks.

But the gloomy news does mean that the Federal Reserve will have to cut interest rates in September by a bigger margin than planned, and maybe several times again before the end of the year.

JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs all revised their forecasts for cuts. Some now expect two half-point reductions in September and November and then a quarter-point cut in December.

Such a reduction of 1.25 percentage points is far bigger than previously expected.

A rate cut would make it easier for U.S. households and companies to borrow money and boost the economy, but it could take months to a year for the full effects to filter through.

Job growth in the US badly missed expectations in July and the unemployment rate jumped to the highest rate in almost three years.

Employers added 114,000 jobs last month, according to Labor Department data released Friday, far below the Dow Jones estimate of 185,000.

The Fed left benchmark borrowing costs unchanged yet again at a 23-year high at its latest meeting this week.

Many investors think the central bank should have made the move on Wednesday.

The market is now 'wondering if the Fed is too late in transitioning monetary policy,' Quincy Krosby, chief global strategist at LPL Financial told CNBC.

Bret Kenwell, US investment analyst at eToro, said this weak jobs report will mean the situation now shifts from 'if' the Fed will cut rates to 'by how much.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/401k/article-13702421/global-stocks-meltdown-jobs-unemployment.html

US about to impose sanctions on Georgia due to its refusal to engage in anti-Russian hostilities

Since the beginning of the special military operation, the US has been encouraging other countries to participate directly or indirectly in hostilities against the Russian Federation. Due to its recent history of war against Moscow and its territorial demands in the north, Georgia has been one of the countries most encouraged by the West to take an open stance against Russia in the current proxy war. However, Tbilisi has refused to participate in the hostilities, which is why the Caucasian country may be close to being sanctioned by the West.

In Georgia, there is a clear political polarization between pro-Western militants and the sovereigntists who advocate good relations with Russia. Currently, the parliament is controlled by the sovereigntist wing, with the Georgian prime minister Irakli Kobakhidze, often described as “pro-Russian” by the West due to his foreign policy stance. On the other hand, the opposition is extremely violent and has organized protests and demonstrations with the aim of pressuring for radical changes in the country. The leading figure of the pro-Western wing is the country’s president herself, French-born Salome Zurabishvili, who leads a major pro-EU and pro-NATO lobby.

Currently, the most controversial political issue in Georgia is the law against foreign agents, recently passed by the parliament. The law requires media groups, think tanks and individuals who receive more than 20% of foreign funding to be registered within Georgian institutions officially as “promoters of the interests of a foreign power”. Zurabishvili vetoed the law, but the prime minister approved it despite the president’s disagreement.

Since Georgia is the scene of the operations of several American and European agencies, the law severely affects the Western lobby in the country. Having to expose their financiers, pro-Western agencies in Georgia have their work discredited and lose influence over public opinion. As a result, the EU and NATO plan to “push” Georgia to a “second front” against Russia loses momentum, bringing hope for good relations with Moscow – and infuriating the West.

Since Western countries are extremely “punitive” towards sovereign states, Georgia has obviously become the target of American and European strategists. After several hostile statements, threats and even attempts at a color revolution, now the Under Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien officially announced to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Washington is planning to impose sanctions on Georgia.

O’Brien, who recently stated that NATO is on the verge of adopting a “new Russia strategy“, said that the Americans are considering the possibility of sanctioning Tbilisi. He believes that if the upcoming parliamentary elections do not effectively advance Western interests in the country, imposing sanctions will be the only option left for the US. In addition, he emphasized that the US is reviewing all cooperation and aid programs it currently has with Georgia, suggesting that other forms of economic boycott could be imposed.

https://alethonews.com/2024/08/02/us-about-to-impose-sanctions-on-georgia-due-to-its-refusal-to-engage-in-anti-russian-hostilities/

2028 L.A. Olympics Chair, A Democrat Megadonor Linked to Epstein, Accused Of Affairs With Staff While Married

A powerful media executive who is the chairman of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles has been accused of having multiple affairs with women who worked for him while he was married.

The Daily Mail reported that 50-year-oldCasey Wasserman, CEO of Wasserman, a leading sports and entertainment agency, allegedly had “a chronic condition of sleeping with people who work for him.”

Wasserman, who has given millions of dollars to the Democrat Party and had ties to notorious child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, allegedly “love bombed” the women whom he had romantic interest in, showering them with lavish gifts that included designer items and Range Rovers.

“When he dumped me I was in shock and disbelief that he could go from 100 to zero in just hours,” one alleged former mistress of his told the British tabloid. “I truly think he underestimates the pain and long-term damage he causes women like me who believed him.”

Guests who attended his birthday party earlier this summer included former president Bill Clinton, ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, and Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff.

His alleged affairs started approximately five years into his marriage with his wife Laura Ziffren, according to some of the nearly dozen sources who spoke to the publication. Ziffren filed for divorce in 2021.

The women with whom he is accused of having affairs include various assistants ranging from secretaries to his former private jet flight attendants.

The Daily Mail obtained an email that one of his mistresses allegedly sent to his wife, which was “widely shared” among his friends, that said: “Him and I have been together for 7 years which he’s lied to you about. He f***ed me in your bed at Redford. And also robin. And also Cancun in the house. You should know all he’s done to you. Multiple ti[m]es on the plane with you in the back.”

“He f***ed Christine multiple times. And have relationship w[i]th Patricia who still works for multiple times for years,” the email added.

One of the women who was accused of sleeping with him said that the allegation was false.

A friend of his told the publication that he was a “s*** husband,” but that he was a “completely devoted dad” who “loves his kids deeply and profoundly.”

Wasserman’s team did not provide comment for the story, the report said.

https://www.domigood.com/2024/08/2028-la-olympics-chair-democrat.html

The Russian State Censorship Agency has begun blocking YouTube in Russia.

VPNs have also been made illegal so this effectively cuts YouTube for Russians

Twitter ( X) was already blocked.

This is from Russian State TV’s Margarita Simonyan. She is the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT

https://citizenwatchreport.com/russian-state-censorship-agency-has-begun-blocking-youtube-in-russia/

It's all staged by Mossad, Sinwar and Netanyahu

https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/yahya-sinwar-the-butcher-of-khan-younis-is-israels-most-wanted-target-xdg8r8om

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-813066

British rabbi arrested in Ireland for performing illegal non-Jewish circumcision

Rabbi Jonathan Abraham performed circumcisions on people who were not members of the Irish Jewish community, according to Irish Chief Rabbi Yoni Wieder.

A British rabbi was arrested and charged for allegedly performing an illegal circumcision on non-Jewish children on Tuesday, according to the Irish Court Service, and Irish and British Jewish authorities.

The London-based Rabbi Jonathan Abraham had traveled to Ireland at the request of local families, according to the Initiation Society to which he was a member. Abraham performed circumcisions on people who were not members of the Irish Jewish community, according to Irish Chief Rabbi Yoni Wieder, and local Jewry was not directly involved with the case.

Abraham was charged with performing illegal circumcisions without a medical license, contrary to the 2007 Medical Practitioners Act, said the Irish courts. He appeared before the Dublin District Court on Thursday, and had been remanded to custody until another court appearance on August 6.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-813063

Trump Media announces rollout of streaming platform Truth+

"I look forward, in the near future, to launching many enhancements and adding great, new content to the platform," Nunes said.

The Trump Media & Technology Group on Friday announced the phased rollout of Truth+, it's new video streaming platform.

“First, we created Truth Social to provide a safe harbor for free speech on the Internet,” TMTG CEO Devin Nunes said in a press release. “Now, we’re establishing a reliable home for great TV content that is neglected by the big corporations or is at risk of cancellation—and we are securing our own tech stack and hardware infrastructure to make our new CDN uncancellable."

"I look forward, in the near future, to launching many enhancements and adding great, new content to the platform," he added.

The rollout will require iOS users to update the app, while Android and web users will not need to do so. The update will permit users to view streamed content in conventional channel platform or through a smaller window while users the app's other features.

The announcement thus far does not appear to have significantly impacted the company's stock price, however. DJT currently trades at just over $27.00 per share, roughly on par with Thursday's figures.

The NASDAQ, more broadly, witnessed a significant tumble on Friday morning.

https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/trump-media-announces-rollout-streaming-platform-truth

Israels Rule of Law

Does anyone in Israel in a position of power truly understand what the expressions “human rights” and “rule of law” really mean? Developments over the past ten months in Gaza would suggest “No,” that Israel’s government, its legal system, and its constitution exist solely to empower the state to do whatever it wishes, which in the current version includes the genocidal elimination of the Palestinian people and the theft of their land and property to be incorporated into a Greater Israel that plausibly will include the already annexed Syrian Golan Heights as well as all of historic Palestine running from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

But even given the fundamental dishonesty over the Jewish state and what it represents, there is something truly frightening about some recent developments which suggest that the long running United States government pander to Israel and its presumed interests have poisoned the chalice, making Americans absolutely complicit in the Israeli war crimes and other assorted crimes against humanity. And the level of control over Washington by Israel virtually guarantees that it will only get worse.

I am, of course, referring to the recent state visit of the world’s leading war criminal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, where he was worshipped by both Congress and the White House alike together with considerable fawning from the heavily Jewish-influenced media. Netanyahu, to put it succinctly, spoke for an hour in his address to the US Congress, emitting lie after lie. And the Congress critters responded with an outburst of love combined with total subservience, delivering 53 standing ovations, close to one per minute. The most exuberant ovation occurred when Netanyahu denounced the 50,000 or so demonstrators who surrounded the Capitol building to express their disgust at the Jewish mass murderer’s presence. Bibi called the protesters, some of whom were pepper-sprayed and arrested by a heavy police presence including 360 imported New York City Policemen fresh from their beatings of protesters at Columbia University, “useful idiots paid for by Iran.” That particular lie produced paroxysms of celebration among the leaping and waving Congressmen. Given that performance, does anyone need any confirmation that free speech seems to be off the agenda when it comes to Israel and the clowns who nominally represent the American people in Washington, who once upon time swore an oath to support the Constitution, but now consider speaking ill of the Jewish state to be a “hate crime.” Indeed, bills have been introduced in Congress to that effect.

It is interesting to go through his speech to determine what Netanyahu was trying to accomplish and what lies he thought he could get away with. Actually, he did nothing but lie while blaming most of his neighbors, particularly Iran, for the turmoil that Israel has caused in the Middle East for the past 75 years. And predictably, much of the coverage of the Netanyahu appearance in the mainstream media on the following day was toothless and even laudatory. It generally reflected what was hailed as Bibi’s “fiery speech” that “did not give an inch” which vowed to continue fighting until “total victory” is achieved. “It’s a clash between barbarism and civilization. It’s a clash between those who glorify death and those who sanctify life.” Ironically, Netanyahu was right about the clash of civilization though he was wrong about who represented which side: Israel backed completely by the US is pure evil. And the Netanyahu visit should be seen as a call to arms. The Jewish state is struggling economically and militarily in its war of extermination in Gaza and it knows it is not in any shape to take on Hezbollah and Iran, so it has decided to let the United States do the heavy lifting. Reading between the lines on what occurred in meetings with the two presidential aspirants as well as with a non-compos-mentis Joe Biden, it is clear that Netanyahu expects American boys and girls to do his fighting for him as well as covering the costs.

American complicity in the genocide in Gaza as well as in two possible wars in Lebanon and Iran due to the Israeli embrace is a tragedy for all parties involved, but the damage being done to future generations of American citizens cannot be remedied. Our country has done many bad things, but this whole hearted alliance with unmitigated evil is a betrayal of the birthright of every American.

https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israels-rule-of-law/

The Official Death Toll in Gaza Is a Lie. The Casualty Numbers Are Far, Far Higher

The figures have been stalled for months. The goal is to minimise Israel’s barbarism, while lulling western publics into a false sense of complacency

So, even by the simplest calculation, there is a large shortfall in deaths – a shortfall that needs explaining.

Such an explanation is easy to provide: Israel destroyed Gaza’s institutions and its medical infrastructure, including its hospitals, many months ago, making it impossible for officials there to keep track of how many Palestinians are being killed by Israel.

The death toll figures started to stall in the spring, around the time Israel completed its destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and kidnapped much of the enclave’s medical personnel.

More than a month ago, Save the Children pointed out that some 21,000 children in Gaza were missing, in addition to the 16,000 known to have been killed by Israel. Many are likely to have suffered lonely, terrifying deaths under rubble – gradually suffocated to death, or dying slowly from dehydration.

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/07/31/the-official-death-toll-in-gaza-is-a-lie-the-casualty-numbers-are-far-far-higher/

Promoting Peace and Stability in the Middle East by Unconditionally Backing Its Worst Aggressor

https://www.globalresearch.ca/promoting-peace-stability-middle-east-backing-worst-aggressor/5864329

Oxford Study Lays Bare the Terrible Decision to Vaccinate Children Against Covid

In a crowded field, can there have been a worse decision than that taken by the CMOs (Chief Medical Officers) in September 2021 to override the JCVI’s advice and authorise the vaccination of children?

The four CMOs involved were: for England Prof. Christopher Whitty; Northern Ireland, Sir Michael McBride; Scotland, Dr. Gregor Smith; and for Wales, Dr. Frank Atherton. I wonder if they still stand by their decision?

A new Oxford University paper, which with the approval of NHS England used the OpenSAFELY-TPP database to study the effect of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine on over one million children aged 5-15. The report allows us to evaluate this decision.

The propaganda at the time was to “trust the science” and by implication, “trust the scientists”. The truth was that, as with so much else during the pandemic, the science and the scientists shouldn’t have been trusted.

The Oxford report matched large groups of children in terms of location, ethnicity and socio-economic and health factors, and then looked at the various health outcomes.

The good news is that there were zero Covid deaths in any of the groups studied. No unvaccinated kids died of Covid nor did any vaccinated kids. So, whatever it was, vaccination wasn’t a life saver.

I would encourage readers to look at the paper. It’s fairly dense but does include a few digestible charts, I’ve reproduced three of them below. The top chart shows that after 20 weeks just as many vaccinated as unvaccinated adolescents had tested positive for Covid. Vaccination did nothing to prevent infection.

There may be confounding factors (such as background health conditions that the researchers haven’t accounted for) but it would seem that for every 20,000 adolescents vaccinated, one of them avoided a Covid related visit to A&E. Two vaccinated kids per 10,000 vaccinated paid a Covid related visit to A&E compared to 2.5 unvaccinated kids per 10,000.

While four unvaccinated kids in 10,000 had a Covid related stay in hospital, only three vaccinated kids per 10,000 were detained in hospital. In other words, one hospital stay per 10,000 vaccinated kids was avoided. It’s perhaps worth noting, though not covered in the report, that at various stages during the ‘pandemic’, the majority of Covid hospital admissions were of people who were already a patient at the hospital, they simply went from a non-Covid ward to a Covid ward.

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/02/oxford-study-lays-bare-the-terrible-decision-to-vaccinate-children-against-covid/

21 arrested in Spain for smuggling Algerian and Syrian migrants into the EU

The criminal network allegedly smuggled over 1 000 migrants with fast boats from Algeria to the Spanish coastline

https://youtu.be/C0Dkto7HWkw

https://youtu.be/4mEuE-XiHj4