Q: How Do You Get Relief?
A: TrueFreedom.
For now, I want to complete/clear the game of death.
The mood for game,
But, This is not a game.
Tyb.
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Blue State Blues: Palestinians Make a Case for Their Own Removal from Gaza
The grotesque ceremony Thursday in which Hamas terrorists paraded the coffins of four dead Israeli civilian hostages — one of which had the wrong corpse — before a jeering crowd was the best argument for President Donald Trump’s plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza.
There is already legal precedent for doing so. Millions of ethnic Germans were expelled from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other countries that the Nazis had invaded during the Second World War, to prevent a subsequent provocation.
Trump made his suggestion last month — before proposing the idea that the U.S. should take possession of Gaza — based on the fact that Palestinians, led by Hamas terrorists, have launched so many wars from Gaza, for so long.
But aside from the wars, there is the sheer inhumanity of the Palestinians’ behavior in Gaza toward Israelis and Jews — no, not every single Gazan, but enough of the population to prompt alarm about a culture of hatred and death.
Recall that Palestinian civilians — not just terrorists — participated in the murder, rape, and looting on October 7, 2023 once Hamas and Islamic Jihad had launched their original attack. Civilians also took and held Israeli hostages.
One former hostage said after her release in the November 2023 truce that she had been abducted by civilians and then sold, like a slave, to Hamas. Others told similar stories about being sold, and forced to work for civilians in Gaza.
A few occasionally experienced acts of kindness, usually from Palestinian women. One recently freed hostage, who was held by an Islamic Jihad commander with several wives, said that one wife took pity on her and did her chores.
Mia Schem, one of the first hostages to be released in November 2023, spoke about how she endured an operation without anesthetic and lived in constant fear of being raped by the abusive father of the civilian family that held her.
“There are no innocent citizens there. They’re families controlled by Hamas,” she told the Israeli media. “They’re children who from the moment they are born, they teach them that Israel is Palestine and just to hate Jews.”
There are, of course civilians in Gaza, and people who are non-combatants. They are protected under international law — not from all the risks of war, but from being intentionally targeted (i.e. the way Hamas targets Israeli civilians).
There are also people who — quietly, and not so quietly — oppose Hamas rule. But few of them dare to speak out — not when Hamas has the guns, and regularly beats, tortures, and executes anyone who opposes their total domination.
On Thursday, Hamas brought a crowd of Palestinian civilians — including children — to witness the handover of the coffins to the Red Cross, which has shamefully allowed itself to be used, repeatedly, in macabre propaganda displays.
The two adult coffins onstage, in front of a depiction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire with blood pouring down his chin, listed the date of “arrest” as October 7. (In a nod to whatever shreds of decency remain in Gaza, the two child coffins were spared that desecration.) The crowd sang and celebrated, enjoying the grand party.
Israelis looked on in horror. One dead hostage had been an 84-year-old man, Oded Lifshitz; the others were a mother, Shiri Bibas, 33, and her two small children, Ariel, 5, and Kfir, 2. Kfir was 9 months old when he was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz. (Shiri Bibas, it transpired, was not even in the coffin; her fate, or the location of her remains, is still unknown.)
What kind of people laud the death of mothers, children, and the elderly? What kind of Nazis?
No civilization can live next to people who behave that way. That is why Trump’s Gaza proposal, which would once have been taboo, is suddenly making sense to many people.
It is no “genocide” to move such a society far, far away from its intended victims.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/02/21/blue-state-blues-palestinians-make-a-case-for-their-own-removal-from-gaza/
Jihadists Behead 70 Christians in DR Congo Church
Open Doors UK, a human rights group focused on persecution against Christians, reported on Tuesday that a militant group affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) took 70 Christian villages hostage, marched them into their church, and then murdered them by cutting their heads off.
Open Doors quoted sources in the field who said the massacre took place on February 13, when a group of terrorists allegedly from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) surrounded the village of Maybe and forced residents from their homes.
The ADF allegedly rounded up a total of 70 Christian villages and forced them into a Protestant church in the nearby town of Kasanga. This church, like many in the area, had been abandoned by its congregants because the security situation was so dire.
“We don’t know what to do or how to pray. We’ve had enough of massacres. May God’s will alone be done,” said a church elder from CECA-20, the Evangelical Community in Central Africa.
The ADF is one of roughly a hundred armed militant groups vying for control of the mineral-rich eastern Congo. The ADF is linked to ISIS, and nominally dedicated to overthrowing the governments of the DRC and Uganda to create a “caliphate” like the one ISIS created in Syria and Iraq.
The Ugandan government has sent troops over the border into the DRC to fight the ADF, but those forces have proven distinctly unhelpful at controlling the much more powerful and aggressive M23 rebel group, which recently captured two major Congolese cities.
The militants proceeded to murder all 70 of their hostages inside the church, with beheading reportedly their preferred method of execution. According to Open Doors’ sources, families of the deceased were too frightened to bury the dead until a week later and many of the surviving Christians have fled the area.
“We don’t know what to do or how to pray. We’ve had enough of massacres. May God’s will alone be done,” said a church elder from CECA-20, the Evangelical Community in Central Africa.
The ADF is one of roughly a hundred armed militant groups vying for control of the mineral-rich eastern Congo. The ADF is linked to ISIS, and nominally dedicated to overthrowing the governments of the DRC and Uganda to create a “caliphate” like the one ISIS created in Syria and Iraq.
The Ugandan government has sent troops over the border into the DRC to fight the ADF, but those forces have proven distinctly unhelpful at controlling the much more powerful and aggressive M23 rebel group, which recently captured two major Congolese cities.
The ADF has been stepping up its activities in the northeastern DRC, killing at least 200 people in the past month alone, according to local media reports. Congolese officials said ADF killed 21 people in three different villages during Christmas week of 2024.
Regional security analysts said the ADF was pushed back into remote areas of the Congo’s North Kivu province by Ugandan troops, and the militants broke into smaller bands as they withdrew – but these gangs are eager to prove they remain a threat, and they like to demonstrate their lethality by attacking isolated villages and perpetrating mass slaughter.
“Open Doors strongly condemns this heinous act of violence against civilians and calls upon civil societies, governments and international organizations to prioritize civilian protection in eastern DRC where armed groups, such as the ADF, are operating,” Open Doors legal expert John Samuel said on Tuesday.
Social media users following the story complained that the February 13 church massacre has received almost no coverage from international media. One of the few public officials outside the DRC to comment on the story so far was Tristan Azbej, Hungary’s State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians.
Azbej said on Wednesday he was “horrified to learn about the 70 Christian martyrs beheaded by terrorists in a church in Kasanga, DRC.”
“Hungary stands in solidarity with the persecuted Christians, BUT we need more,” Azbej said. “The world needs to recognize and act against Christian persecution.”
https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2025/02/20/jihadists-behead-70-christians-in-dr-congo-church/
Terrorist Supporters Use Leftist Echo Chamber Reddit to Spread Propaganda Throughout Internet
A sprawling online network with ties to U.S.-designated terrorist organizations is systematically spreading propaganda and manipulating public perception across major social media, information, and AI platforms, a Pirate Wires investigation has found. Leftist echo chamber Reddit is the key to the group’s manipulation strategy.
In a major exposé, Pirate Wires has uncovered an extensive pro-Palestinian network that uses Reddit to spread propaganda to Discord, X, TikTok, Instagram, Quora, and Wikipedia. This network, which has ties to US-designated terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, is engaged in a coordinated effort to manipulate public opinion and censor ideological opponents while evading platform moderation and legal consequences.
At the heart of this network is a 270,000-member subreddit called r/Palestine, which functions as the central hub for the group’s activities. The network consists of over 110 subreddits controlled by around 30 core moderators who leverage their positions to shape narratives, suppress content, and funnel users to increasingly extreme subreddits. Notably, the network has infiltrated and taken control of several popular non-political subreddits with millions of members, such as r/Documentaries (20 million members), r/therewasanattempt (7.2 million), and r/PublicFreakout (4.7 million), allowing them to reach a vast unsuspecting audience.
The network’s influence extends beyond Reddit, as platforms like Google Search and ChatGPT consider Reddit as a preferred source of information and links. In other cases, key members of the group serve as connectors to activities on X, Discord, and Quora. Through practices like vote brigading, content manipulation, and astroturfing, the network creates an illusion of widespread support for its radical ideologies while sourcing content from propaganda aggregators linked to terrorist organizations.
One such aggregator is Resistance News Network (RNN), which translates and distributes content from Telegram channels run by U.S.-designated foreign terror organizations. This allows the network to bypass restrictions on terror-related content and funnel propaganda from these groups onto mainstream platforms, potentially violating U.S. material support laws.
Some aspects of the terror supporters’ actions are similar to the wide scale manipulation of reddit by the Kamala Harris campaign, which was caught red-handed as it manipulated the platform:
The Harris-Walz campaign reportedly keeps a spreadsheet to track of its astroturfing efforts, which involves staffers spamming the “Politics” subreddit (reddit forums on a particular topic) — and other subreddits — with pro-Harris propaganda, and then having volunteers who pretend to be random users who just so happened to stumble upon the content post favorable comments.
The Federalist accessed the campaign’s Discord server and found that every weekday morning paid Democrat staffer Gabrielle Lynn communicates a “Daily Messaging Guidance” for Reddit, which usually consists of articles and data that the Harris-Walz campaign wants to boost, and “key messaging” that campaign volunteers need to stick to.
This information is assembled by official Harris-Walz staffers and is added to a Google Spreadsheet titled “Reddit Organizing.” From there, volunteers called “Lead Posters” — who are Reddit savvy — choose what they think will best resonate with users on the platform.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/02/20/terrorist-supporters-use-leftist-echo-chamber-reddit-to-spread-propaganda-throughout-internet/
Pope Francis could resign – ex-Vatican official
21 Feb, 2025 13:46
The pontiff was hospitalized with pneumonia last week
Pope Francis could resign as the head of the Roman Catholic Church if his health deteriorates further, the former head of the Vatican’s department of cultural affairs warned on Thursday. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi said the pontiff would not want to remain in his post if health issues prevented him from having “direct contact” with people.
Pope Francis was hospitalized last Friday with severe breathing difficulties after a lengthy bout of bronchitis. According to Vatican officials, the 88-year-old has developed pneumonia in both lungs. He is also being treated for a respiratory tract infection.
“I think he could [resign] because he is a person who, from this point of view, is quite decisive in his choices,” Ravasi stated in an interview with Italian radio network RTL. He noted that while the pontiff is known for his tendency to “fight,” and has handled many “demanding” trips despite having to use a wheelchair, he may choose to step down if his ability to communicate with his congregation was compromised.
“There is no question that if he found himself in a situation where he was compromised in his ability to have direct contact – as he loves to do – to be able to communicate in an immediate, direct, incisive, and decisive way, then certainly he might consider [resigning],” he added.
Ravasi also recalled the pontiff’s 2023 interview marking ten years since he became Pope, in which he said he would step down if he became unable to fulfill his duties due to health problems or an accident. The pontiff noted at the time he had already submitted his pre-signed resignation to Cardinal Bertone, the former Vatican secretary of state. In the interview, Francis said he felt “old” and physically humiliated after being confined to a wheelchair as a result of a knee injury.
Sources close to Pope Francis claim he has been gradually recovering. Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, a personal friend of the pontiff, told Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera on Wednesday that “the situation is delicate,” but there was “no cause for alarm.” AP reported on Wednesday that Pope Francis has been able to get out of bed and that his heart function was good, citing a Vatican official.
Lab tests taken on Wednesday also showed a slight improvement in the Pope’s condition, Italian media reported, citing a statement from the Vatican. The pontiff has reportedly continued working from his hospital room, and had a short meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
The pontiff’s predecessor, Benedict XVI, became the first Pope to resign in 600 years when he stepped down in 2013 due to health issues. Pope Francis previously praised Benedict for his resignation, saying he set a “great example” by telling pontiffs “to stop in time.”
https://www.rt.com/news/613104-pope-francis-could-resign/
Law Enforcement Cooperation Between United States and Mexico Results in Mexican Takedown of Cartel-Linked Alien Smugglers
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Last night, extensive bilateral cooperation between the United States and Mexico resulted in the Mexico Attorney General’s Office “Fiscalía General de la República” (FGR) conducting a significant enforcement operation to dismantle a prolific transnational alien smuggling organization operating in Juarez, Chihuahua, along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The targeted alien smuggling organization, a group based in Juarez, Mexico, utilizes smuggling corridors centered in the Anapra, Chihuahua / Santa Teresa, New Mexico area, employs Mexican nationals, many of whom are current and former members of various Mexico-based cartels, and is alleged to be responsible for illegally smuggling large numbers of individuals, including children, from Central America into El Paso, Texas. The criminal organization is also alleged to have kidnapped aliens seeking to enter the United States illegally and extorted their families for money before completing their smuggling journey. The enforcement operation included the execution of two arrest warrants in Mexico for alleged alien smugglers Brian Alan Torres Gonzalez and Soledad Morales Nava. Torres and Morales are Mexican citizens and will be prosecuted in Mexico in part with evidence provided by the United States.
“On her first day in office, the Attorney General directed the Department of Justice to prioritize efforts to achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations, and empowered Joint Task Force Alpha (JTFA) to increase their contributions to this fight,” said Supervisory Official Antoinette T. Bacon of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Today’s action by Mexican authorities is the latest example of how JTFA provides critical contributions to marshal the investigative and prosecutorial resources of the Department, and its law enforcement partners, to target human smugglers and enhance coordination in transnational law enforcement efforts to better combat these criminal organizations.”
U.S. authorities provided assistance to the Mexico Attorney General’s Office through coordination under JTFA, which, since its creation in 2021, has marshalled the investigative and prosecutorial resources of the Department of Justice, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to enhance U.S. enforcement efforts against the most prolific and dangerous human smuggling and trafficking groups operating in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, and Panama. Attorney General Pamela Bondi has elevated JTFA to the Office of the Attorney General, to be jointly supervised by the Office of the Deputy Attorney General. The task force focuses on disrupting and dismantling smuggling and trafficking networks that abuse, exploit, and endanger migrants, pose national security threats, or are involved in organized crime. JTFA comprises detailees from U.S. Attorneys’ Offices along the border, along with dedicated prosecutor support by numerous components of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, led by the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP) and supported by the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section; the Office of Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training; the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section; the Office of Enforcement Operations; the Office of International Affairs; and the Violent Crime and Racketeering Section. JTFA also relies on substantial law enforcement investment from DHS, FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and other partners. To date, JTFA’s work has resulted in more than 350 domestic and international arrests of leaders, organizers, and significant facilitators of human smuggling; more than 300 U.S. convictions; more than 245 defendants sentenced, including significant jail sentences imposed; and substantial seizures and forfeitures of assets and contraband including millions of dollars in cash, real property, vehicles, firearms and ammunition, and drugs.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (ICE HSI) El Paso assisted foreign investigative efforts in the United States, working in concert with the U.S. Border Patrol. Support from ICE HSI-Mexico City was critical in providing coordination between American and Mexican law enforcement agencies. The Justice Department — including the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas in El Paso, HRSP, and the Office of the Judicial Attache in Mexico City — provided significant assistance in this matter.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/law-enforcement-cooperation-between-united-states-and-mexico-results-mexican-takedown-cartel