Vatican confirms Pope Francis and two aides test positive for Coronavirus

The Vatican has confirmed in a statement that Pope Francis and two of his aides have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus.

The three new cases add up to the over 400 cases confirmed in Italy under a week.

Pope Francis missed a planned Mass with clergy in Rome yesterday after showing Coronavirus-like symptoms.

The Vatican had earlier said the pontiff, 83, had a slight indisposition and could proceed with the rest of his planned work today.

The pope and his aides have been quarantined and receiving medical attention near Santa Marta, the Vatican hotel where he lives.

The pope was seen coughing and blowing his nose during the Asha Wednesday Mass.

https://recombinomics.co/topic/5030-pope-francis-and-two-aides-covid-confirmed-story-is-highly-suspect/?tab=comments#comment-16877

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Iran's ex-ambassador to Vatican dies of coronavirus

Iran’s former ambassador to the Vatican and prominent cleric Hadi Khosrowshahi died of coronavirus, local media reported on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports.

According to the semiofficial Tasnim News Agency, the 81-year-old cleric died at a hospital in Iran.

Earlier in the day, Iran put the death toll in the country from the coronavirus to 26, with 245 confirmed cases.

The global death toll is nearly 2,800, and China, where the outbreak originated, is the worst hit, with more than 78,000 cases and over 2,700 fatalities.

https://recombinomics.co/topic/5031-covid-kills-irans-former-ambassador-to-vatican/?tab=comments#comment-16880

Smoke and fire fill streets of Santiago in anti-govt protest

https://governmentslaves.news/2020/03/01/smoke-and-fire-fill-streets-of-santiago-in-anti-govt-protest/

Coke and Pepsi Are Getting Sued for Lying About Recycling: “At this rate, plastic is set to outweigh fish in the ocean by 2050,” the complaint reads.

Coke, Pepsi and several other big plastic polluters are getting sued for lying about their products’ recyclability and clogging up the oceans with millions of tons of waste.

A California-based environmental group, the Earth Island Institute, filed the lawsuit in San Mateo County on Thursday against the companies, arguing that they’ve knowingly polluted the oceans while misleading the public. The lawsuit notes that 8 million to 20 million tons of plastic end up in the world’s oceans every year — and that much of it can be traced back to these few companies.

“At this rate, plastic is set to outweigh fish in the ocean by 2050,” the complaint reads.

The lawsuit calls on these companies to pay to clean up the mess they’ve allegedly made — and to stop labeling their plastic bottles as recyclable. Convincing the public that the solution to plastics pollution is recycling is fundamentally misleading, the complaint argues, because so little plastic actually gets recycled.

Recent studies suggest of the plastic produced since the 1950s, 91% of it hasn’t been recycled. Instead, the scrap winds up in landfills, burned in incinerators, or in the oceans.

http://www.cuzzblue.com/2020/03/coke-and-pepsi-are-getting-sued-for.html

Muddy Waters’ Short-Target NMC Health, a FTSE 100 Company, Admits Doctoring Accounts on Massive Scale. Shares Suspended

The shares of NMC Health, a component of the London Stock Exchange’s FTSE-100 Index, were suspended on Thursday after an internal review revealed a morass of fraudulent accounting and fiduciary shenanigans. The CEO of NMC Health — which has health-care operations in 19 countries and is based in the UAE — was fired and its CFO placed on extended sick leave. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is investigating.

At the heart of the scandal is an arrangement that apparently enabled other companies controlled by NMC’s founder, the Indian-born billionaire Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty, and two Emirati shareholders, Khaleefa Al Muhairi and Saeed al-Qebaisi, to raise £260 million in secret off-balance sheet financing, without the knowledge of the company’s board. There are also indications that the company’s shareholder register was falsified, and that some 20 million of the shares supposedly held by Shetty, worth around £185 million, are actually beneficially owned by his two Emirati partners.

“These arrangements were not disclosed to, or approved by, the board and were not disclosed to as related-party transactions in accordance with the listing rules,” the company said in a statement, adding: “The arrangements were not reflected on the company’s balance sheet.”

The “temporary” suspension of NMC’s shares ahead of the publication of the internal review prevented the annihilation of NMC’s shares, which have already collapsed by 76% since August 2018.

On December 17, 2019, short-seller Muddy Waters had targeted the company: “We have serious doubts about the company’s financial statements, including its asset values, cash balance, reported profits, and reported debt levels,” it started out. NMC was engaging in a raft of accounting irregularities, including overpaying investments, materially overstating cash balances, and reporting profit margins that “seem too good to be true.” And it concluded, “We are unsure how deep the rot at NMC goes, but we do not believe that its insiders or financials can be trusted.”

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/muddy-waters-short-target-nmc-health-a-ftse-100-company-admits-doctoring-accounts-on-massive-scale-shares-suspended/

Coronavirus End Game: The Economic Crisis & Roll Out of the New Digital Financial System

In this report, Spiro Skouras recaps the events leading up to the current global coronavirus outbreak, while looking ahead at the looming financial crisis and how the virus will likely be blamed, providing cover for the crimes committed by the central bankers.

Spiro also analyzes the potential outcomes of the current situation, which includes a major step towards a cashless society and global governance, as the current crisis seems to be playing right into the hands of the central bankers and the United Nations.

Links

The Banking Digital Arms Race

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/12/the-banking-digital-arms-race.html

The U.N. & Central Banks: A Rockefeller & Rothschild Coup

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/01/the-u-n-central-banks-a-rockefeller-rothschild-coup.html

Did Bill Gates & World Economic Forum Predict Coronavirus Outbreak? An Inside Look May Shock You!

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/01/did-bill-gates-world-economic-forum-predict-coronavirus-outbreak-an-inside-look-may-shock-you.html

US Biowarfare Act Author: Studies Confirm Coronavirus Weaponized

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/02/us-biowarfare-act-author-studies-confirm-coronavirus-weaponized.html

UN Troops Featured in Military World Games in Wuhan China Weeks Before Coronavirus Outbreak

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/02/un-troops-featured-in-world-military-games-in-wuhan-china-weeks-before-coronavirus-outbreak.html

Nearly 10K Military Personnel From 110 Nations In Wuhan China Weeks Before Coronavirus Outbreak!

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/02/nearly-10k-military-personnel-from-110-nations-in-wuhan-china-weeks-before-coronavirus-outbreak.html

Can cryptocurrency become the UN money of the future?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cryptocurrency-become-un-money-future-120035529.html

UNICEF launches Cryptocurrency Fund

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unicef-launches-cryptocurrency-fund

NYSE Announces Disaster-Recovery Test Due To Virus Fears

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nyse-announces-disaster-recovery-test-due-virus-fears

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/03/coronavirus-end-game-the-economic-crisis-roll-out-of-the-new-digital-financial-system.html

Gantz tells AIPAC he won’t let Israel ‘become a partisan issue’ in US

Drawing a contrast to Netanyahu on the eve of the election, Blue and White leader promises stronger relations with Diaspora

WASHINGTON — On the eve of Israel’s third election in a year, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz told thousands of American Jews that he would not allow Israel to become a partisan issue in the United States if he is elected prime minister.

In an attempt to draw a contrast to his rival, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the former IDF chief of staff seized on the ostensible antipathy that leading Democratic candidates have expressed for the Israeli premier and his right-wing brand of politics.

“Under my leadership, Israel will never become a partisan issue,” he told 18,000 gathered for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference in Washington, DC, on Sunday morning. “I will effectively work with both sides of the aisle.”

Last week, Democratic frontrunner Bernie Sanders announced that he would skip the AIPAC confab — saying it gave a platform to “express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights.” He also called Netanyahu a “racist.”

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is also skipping the conference, while former vice president Joe Biden, former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar will speak via video address.

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is the only 2020 hopeful to address the conference’s attendees in person.

Netanyahu has been accused of alienating Democrats over the course of his tenure, first by strongly opposing former president Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran — including by delivering an address to Congress lambasting the accord — and by striking a strong alliance with US President Donald Trump.

Gantz sought to appeal to American Jews in other ways, too. He vowed to honor an agreement to expand a pluralistic prayer section at the Western Wall — an arrangement that Netanyahu froze indefinitely under pressure from the ultra-Orthodox parties in his coalition. The move infuriated liberal Jewry.

“When I am prime minister, every Jew will have a place in the Western Wall,” Gantz told AIPAC. “Every Jew should feel at home in Israel. Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people. All the Jewish people.”

While Gantz lavished praise on Trump’s peace plan unveiled in late January — which he called a “promising” and “strategic” solution — he vowed to work to separate Israel from the Palestinians in a way that would ensure its future as a Jewish democracy.

Gantz also promoted his security bona fides, saying he wouldn’t allow Iran to acquire a nuclear arsenal.

“I will prevent a nuclear Iran,” Gantz. “I am ready to do whatever it takes with this issue.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-tells-aipac-he-wont-let-israel-become-a-partisan-issue-in-us/

Drag Queen Giving Lap Dance to Little Girl Goes Viral

Anyone telling you that drag culture is okay for children is downright insane. The American Library Association has forced drag queens into public libraries under the guise of "inclusivity" and it has now devolved into whatever the hell this is (spoiler alert: it's a crime called "corruption of a minor").

Matt Walsh is taking some heat for linking libertarian conservatism to the decline of Western culture, but is he wrong? The libertarians I know have zero concern for the morality of our nation. Some that I know don't believe in any age of consent, nor do they believe pornography is harmful. If libertarian conservatives are against this they should loudly proclaim it and help us stop it immediately. Social conservatives have been sounding the warning bell for years that ignoring cultural decay will bring us into a hell we never imagined. I think we are here.

This little girl is being traumatized by adults who should know better. The "dancing" this drag queen is doing with his bottom hanging out of his shorts is undeniably sexual. The child is sitting in the center of the room as the focus of this display just like any bachelor would sit for a lap dance from a stripper. Her face is a mix of confusion and discomfort while a woman, who I assume is the creature who birthed her, is standing next to her wiggling and giggling while she allows her child to be enticed by a scantily clad man.

I would also like to say that the men sitting there laughing and clapping or watching this disaster without lifting a soy-weakened finger to help that child are not men. They are mere shadows of men with the anatomy and the appearance of males, but lacking the hearts of men whose purpose for being is to protect those weaker than them. They are an embarrassment to their sex, their community, and their Creator.

There aren't enough words to rebuke a culture that would allow this blatant assault on childhood innocence.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/end-times-drag-queen-giving-lap-dance-to-little-girl-goes-viral/

Syria, Libya’s Eastern Government Agree to Open Diplomatic Missions, Restore Ties

yrian-Libyan ties were frozen in late 2011, soon after the victory of anti-Gaddafi forces in Libya which recognized a loose coalition of armed anti-Assad militants as the Syria’s “sole legitimate government.”

Tobruk-based government Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdul-Hadi Al-Hawaij and Deputy Prime Minister Abdul-Rahman al-Ahiresh arrived in Damascus on Sunday for talks with their Syrian counterparts, signing a host of joint cooperation agreements and approving the restoration of diplomatic relations.

According to Syrian media, the agreements included a memorandum of understanding (MoU) committing Damascus and Tobruk to “reactivating” ties, reopening diplomatic missions and “coordinating the two countries’ stances at international and regional forums, particularly in standing in the face of Turkish interference and aggression…in addition to enhancing cooperation in all spheres.”

The eastern Libyan delegation was said to include Libyan National Army officials and the head of the Tobruk-based intelligence service, with talks said to have included the need for increased cooperation in addressing the common challenges of terrorism and foreign-backed mercenaries.

Libyan officials were greeted by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, who also serves as Syria’s deputy prime minister, and other Syrian officials.

Muallem was said to have emphasized the “special status” of ties between Syria and its Libyan “brothers,” with the two countries said to be facing many of the same problems in the security sphere.

Damascus confirmed diplomatic relations would be resumed at embassies in Damascus and Benghazi, with Syria also planning to reopen its embassy in Tripoli at some point in the future.

‘Common Turkish Threat’

Both Syria and Libya’s Tobruk-based government, the latter supported by Field Marshal Khalifa Khaftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), have faced off against Turkish and Turkish-backed forces in recent weeks.

Last week, the LNA accused Ankara of transferring weapons and military equipment to “terrorist organizations and armed groups in the western region” through the Government of National Accord (GNA) controlled port of Misrata. Haftar has also accused Turkey of smuggling battle-hardened Syrian militants to Libya through Tunisia in late 2019, claiming that the mercenaries included Daesh (ISIS) and Nusra Front fighters.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202003011078445252-syria-libyas-eastern-government-agree-to-open-diplomatic-missions-restore-ties/

Dems' investigations flatline, despite vows to pursue Trump after Senate impeachment trial

Despite their dire warnings earlier this year that President Trump's foreign policy endangered the United States and assured that the 2020 elections would be riddled with foreign election interference, House Democrats have now essentially dropped their investigative efforts into the Trump administration's Ukraine dealings.

The drawdown, which has seen Democrats decline to make new witness requests or file relevant subpoenas since the conclusion of the Senate impeachment trial, could be a tacit acknowledgement that the probes wouldn't be politically helpful as the 2020 presidential field narrows. Amid impeachment proceedings, a Gallup poll found that support for both President Trump and the Republican Party had risen to historic highs.

However, Democrats have insisted that their previous statements still hold true, and that they are merely acceding to legal and political realities.

"There is nothing that Donald Trump can do that would cause [Senate Republicans] to convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors," Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told Politico. "So that has caused everybody in the House to take a deep breath and figure out what our next steps are."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-investigations-flatline-despite-vows-to-pursue-trump-after-senate-impeachment-trial

Sydney School Ditches “Distracting” iPads Reverts Back To Paper Textbooks

Sydney’s Reddam House Private school has done away with iPads and brought in old school textbooks, in order to go back to the golden days when books and copies were the norm. It’s a step away from their previous policy wherein they asked students to get their own devices on which they were comfortable. In fact, iPads were their go-to textbooks for the last few years. Until now.

The school administration has decided to do away with iPads and other such devices because they believe that the main purpose isn’t being served. The technological advancement and development which they thought children would acquire through iPads never saw the light of day. But there have been some concerns raised by parents who believe that e-books are the future, and children would do better with iPads at their behest.

Ironically, the entire decision was taken up by students themselves, who felt that their needs were better served using pages, rather than a digital interface. But this change is in stark contrast to the ongoing technological change that is taking place in most schools around the globe where students and staff are doing away with books to get their hands on iPads.

What does science have to say about this entire situation?

Well, there have been multiple studies that show the pros and cons of digital education – one of them posited in Canada. According to this study, around 6000 students use iPads to study daily. And these devices have both pros and cons – pros being the efficiency with which they can gather knowledge and information, and cons being the inability to type for long stretches of time.

There have been quite diversified studies regarding this trope, wherein a study showed that while the use of iPads helped students with special needs by granting them some form of independence, the cons involved not really helping them with mathematical problems.

While there have been several studies afloat, most of them remain inconclusive about where iPads stand when education is the main point of contention. Some experts are of the notion that the full spectrum of iPads hasn’t been utilized for the benefit of the students, and the teachers themselves. They believe that there is a lot more to be explored with the technology that they have in hand.

One reason why some are rallying for plain books is that modern technology requires a lot of upgrades. Upgrades that might already affect the flagging budget in many education systems. Also, with devices like iPads comes the notion of surveillance. Administrators have to be very careful about what they are allowing and what they aren’t. Access to the internet, too, has to be regulated.

When it comes to a student’s ability to comprehend texts, there are a few studies which talk about how reading books rather than PDFs help students more. But there are also studies which show that not enough research has been done in this field to reach a conclusion.

There are major cons to using iPads. One of them involves the blue light generated by the device. It can cause retina problems. Also, the presence of an iPad can seriously hamper the time a child would be involved in the playground. This can further lead to issues like obesity, and chronic depression, along with insomnia.

So, while iPads have their own way of making things easy for everyone, their recent introduction in the technological field may mean that a bit more research is required before one can outright say that iPads would make for good educational devices.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/03/sydney-school-ditches-distracting-ipads-reverts-back-to-paper-textbooks.html

Bizarre Pink-Colored Smoke Over Canadian Town Worries Residents

Residents of one town in Canada were confused Friday morning when they saw pinkish-purple smoke filling the skies.

Images of the unusual color smoke over Edmonton started appearing on social media as residents began calling local police in an attempt to figure out what was going on.

According to city officials, the smoke was the result of a power failure at Enerkem Alberta Biofuels, an ethanol plant. The plant turns trash into ethanol that is used to power cars and trucks.

“There was a release of a substance which resulted in a large purple cloud,” a statement from Enerkem read.

City of Edmonton Emergency Response Teams intervened quickly and deemed the area safe after conducting a prompt investigation.

Edmonton Fire Rescue Services spokeswoman Suzzette Mellado said that a single crew responded to the incident 17 minutes after the smoke first appeared. The crew found smoke but no fire.

Officials have reported that the unusual smoke posed no risk to the public or to the environment, despite its bright color.

City of Edmonton spokeswoman Nicole Paradis reported that officials would “continue looking into the situation.” Paradis also said, “The quantity of substance that was evacuated in the air is below occupational exposure limits and there are no safety or health concerns.”

The Enerkem plant apologized for “any inconvenience or alarm” caused by the incident.

According to Fox43, a plant in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania emitted colored smoke in 2019 thanks to a load of garbage that contained iodine.

The Enerkem facility has resumed regular operations.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/03/bizarre-pink-colored-smoke-over-canadian-town-worries-residents.html

Did Turkey Just Sacrifice Their Own Troops to Protect Al-Qaeda?

After 33 Turkish troops were killed in a Syrian army offensive on February 27 amidst the current Russia-backed campaign to liberate Idlib, Erdogan responded by laying the blame entirely on Russia and Syria – successfully avoiding all mention of the uncomfortable fact that Turkey has been protecting radical terror networks not only in Idlib but across Syria as a whole for years.

During this time, Islamist forces within Turkey favorable to Assad’s overthrow have been attempting to play a complex game of geopolitics for which they are totally unqualified.

Turkey in over its head

One of the most wild-card members of NATO, Turkey had originally been preparing itself to gain entry into the European Union with the promise of being granted local control across the Middle East as a loyal member of the New World Order. This ambition for a revived Ottoman Empire made Erdogan an enthusiastic proponent of regime change in the Middle East, and as journalist Eva Bartlett has documented for years, resulted in Turkey’s role as supplier of logistics, military hardware, training and monetary support to the various terrorist groups masquerading as anti-Assad regime freedom fighters.

When this policy nearly resulted in Turkey being wiped off the map after shooting down a Russian jet in Syrian airspace on November 24, 2015 (the claims that it had flown into Turkish airspace have long been debunked), Erdogan began to change his tune first sending a letter of apology to Putin on June 27, 2016, whereby it began to change its behaviour dramatically. For this shift in policy, Turkey was thanked by Washington with a nation-wide coup d’etat effort launched by followers of the strange CIA-asset Fethullah Gülen on July 15, 2016.

This hefty serving of humble pie brought a dose of sanity to Turkey which toned down its pro-regime change rhetoric, opened up diplomatic channels with Syria and Russia, cut down many of its ISIS supporting operations (especially its role as primary purchaser of oil stolen by ISIS from Syrian oilfields), and settled with a more benign role in the region… but not entirely.

Part of the 2017 Astana negotiations (and later Russia-Syria-Turkey-Iran negotiations in Sochi) involved Turkey’s establishment of 12 military observation posts in Idlib province which increased Turkey’s already significant Idlib military installations to 29.

What they were doing there was never addressed in the western press but in 2017 Brett McGurk, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition Against ISIL stated at a Middle East Policy forum that “Idlib province is the largest al-Qaeda safe haven since 9/11.” In a rare moment of cogency in 2014 even rambling Joe Biden admitted that Turkey was a major sponsor of ISIS (for which he was duly slapped and then apologized). All signs of that sort of honesty have long disappeared from Biden’s mind, leaving Tulsi Gabbard as the only presidential figure today who has raised this uncomfortable fact.

In opposition to Ankara’s demands that the current anti-terrorist Idlib operation be halted going so far as to threaten war with Russia, Syrian-Russian forces have continued full speed with great success knowing that if this last zone of insurgents is cleansed then all remaining terrorist threats to the region can be properly addressed and reconstruction can begin. It isn’t a secret that this reconstruction would be guided in large measure by a new partnership with Russia and China in the region which have offered billions of dollars, and engineering assistance for years guided by the Belt and Road Initiative. The BRI’s designs run directly through Iran, Iraq and Syria- all of whom would be transformed by this multi-trillion dollar initiative.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/03/01/did-turkey-just-sacrifice-their-own-troops-to-protect-al-qaeda/

Syrian Forces Counter-Attack Near Saraqib As Air War Heats Up Over Idlib

On March 1, the Syrian Army and Hezbollah launched a counter-attack on Turkish-led forces in the area of Saraqib retaking the villages of Jawbas, San, Dadikh and Kafr Battikh, and forcing Turkish-backed militants to retreat from the eastern part of Saraqib itself.

According to pro-government sources, Syrian artillery and air forces were carrying out an active bombing campaign in support of this attack. Russian warplanes were also involved.

These developments took place amid the heating up air war over Greater Idlib. Turkish state media reported that Turkish artillery and drones had targeted Al-Nayrab military airport operated by the Syrian military near Aleppo city.

“The Turkish Armed Forces targeted the Syrian regime’s military airport in Aleppo, according to local sources on Sunday.

Al-Nayrab military airport, on the outskirts of Aleppo city center, was known as one of the bases that the Assad regime frequently used in the attacks against the Turkish Armed Forces and civilians in Idlib, northwestern Syria.

The Turkish Armed Forces used armed drones and fire support vehicles to target the airport, making it out of service, the sources said.

The regime army transported aircraft and equipment to Al-Nayrab from the Kuweires military airport in eastern Aleppo, which was targeted by Turkish forces the previous day, it added.

Local sources said the regime’s range of action has been further restricted as the Al-Nayrab military airport has been made unusable,” Anadolu Agency reported.

Nonetheless, it should be noted that Al-Nayrab military airport is mostly used as a logistical hub for ground forces, rather than the military airbase.

At the same time, Syrian air defense repelled a drone attack on Hama Airbase and intensified its operations against Turkish combat drones operating in the area. According to Russian media, Syrian forces shot down 6 Turkish UAVs. Syrian media claims that 3 Turkish UAVs were downed. However, the visual evidence allows to confirm one Turkish combat UAV (Anka) downed in eastern Idlib.

https://southfront.org/syrian-forces-counter-attack-near-saraqib-as-air-war-heats-up-over-idlib/

US Air Force Revamps Service Song With Gender-Neutral Lyrics

Gendered references have been removed from the US Air Force’s service song in an effort to be inclusive to all troops rather than just men.

“Our song must reflect our history, the inspiring service and accomplishments of all who’ve served, and the rich diversity that makes today’s Air Force indisputably the strongest and most capable in the world,” US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein said in a February 27 news release to the service.

The changes will only apply to the third verse of the US Air Force Song, which previously said “a toast to the host of the men we boast.”

The revamped verse will now be sung with the lyrics:

“Here’s a toast to the host

Of those who love the vastness of the sky,

To a friend we send a message of the brave who serve on high.

We drink to those who gave their all of old,

Then down we roar to score the rainbow’s pot of gold.

A toast to the host of those we boast, the US Air Force!”

Goldfein said that moving forward, the service will continue to look into possible additional changes to the song. The chief also noted that he is aware that the announcement of gender-neutral lyrics “will draw notice and spark debate,” as the song has been performed at a number of service funerals and ceremonies.

“In making this decision, I respect the views of others who will not agree. But I also know with absolute certainty and clarity that these changes are about adding to, not subtracting from, who we are,” Goldfein asserted. “Changing the lyrics in no way diminishes the history and accomplishments of men or dilutes our eternal gratitude for their sacrifice and bravery.”

Military.com reported that in the 2019 graduating class of the Air Force Academy, 26.5% (or 329) of the service members were women. At the same time, the academy had its highest ever proportion of female applicants for the class of 2023 at 31.2%.

This number of female applicants has been on a constant rise in the Air Force, with women making up 28.6%, 29.3% and 30.5% of the 2020, 2021 and 2022 applicant classes, respectively.

Goldfein argued that if the service is going to ask women to “go into combat and fight just as women have done for a generation,” then they should not be left out of the US Air Force Song.

https://governmentslaves.news/2020/03/01/us-air-force-revamps-service-song-with-gender-neutral-lyrics/

Sex-pest rabbi indicted for defrauding terminally ill followers

The 16-article indictment says Eliezer Berland along with his aides promised his desperate worshippers he will cure them of diseases such as cancer and bring their relatives back from a coma in exchange for thousands of shekels

A rabbi who conned more hundreds of people, some terminally ill, with promises of a miracle cure, was charged on Sunday with aggravated fraud and extortion.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rJ30PQKVU

Netanyahu caught in lie about taping Gantz adviser

“You are a man with no limits or red lines who uses Mafia tactics,” Blue and White said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was caught lying on Sunday about his involvement in a controversial tape leaked of Blue and White leader Benny Gantz’s strategist criticizing his boss.

Strategist Israel Bachar was taped by Rabbi Guy Habura, who heads an organization that helps children suffering from cancer and was helping Bachar with a personal matter. The rabbi taped Bachar saying that Gantz was “dangerous for Israel.”

The rabbi was seen together with Netanyahu on Wednesday at a Tel Aviv yeshiva, but the Likud said there were many people and he did not speak to Habura.

When Netanyahu himself was asked by Channel 12 on Saturday night whether he spoke to Habura about the tape, he said “No, he spoke to [Bachar], not to me.”

But Channel 12’s Ilana Dayan revealed on Sunday a tape of a conversation that took place at the rabbi’s office on Wednesday night at 10pm. In the tape, Netanyahu is heard verifying that Bachar’s voice could be heard clearly in the tape of the strategist.

Blue and White responded that Netanyahu lied to all of the people of Israel when he said on live TV that he was not involved in the rabbi’s tape.

“You are a man with no limits or red lines who uses Mafia tactics,” Blue and White said.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Netanyahu-caught-in-lie-about-taping-Gantz-adviser-619429

Rabbi Berland indicted for promising followers healing miracles for money

The indictment said that Berland is the head of a cult with thousands of followers who treat his orders as practically divine commands.

The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment on Sunday with the Jerusalem District Court against Rabbi Eliezer Berland for an alleged multi-million shekel scheme to trick followers into giving him massive amounts of money in exchange for promises to heal them miraculously.

According to the indictment, Berland not only promised followers he could heal them, but in some instances offered to resurrect dead people for money.

Another aspect of the indictment dealt with Berland’s command to his followers to attack and break the bones of some of their family members.

The indictment said that Berland is the head of a cult with thousands of followers who treat his orders as practically divine commands. Berland’s method of operation was to collect some thousands of shekels from each follower-victim and then to launder the funds in a variety of his allies’ private accounts or in private real estate.

While the indictment contains charges for a multi-million shekel fraud, there are reports that Berland could be worth up to NIS 1 billion, but that the police hit limits in how much they could uncover since many members of his cult remain loyal to him to this day.

Next, the indictment said that the fraud perpetrated by Berland and sometimes by aides of his, went on from 2014-2020, including during a time period when he was in jail on a previous conviction.

In 2016, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court approved a plea bargain for Berland in which he pled guilty to two counts of indecent assault.

Berland was sentenced to 18 months in prison incarceration for his sexual attacks on two women, as well as his instructions to assault the husband of one of the women, but was released early due to poor health.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rabbi-Berland-indicted-for-selling-followers-miraculous-healing-619418

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