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Israel uses foreign mercenaries in Gaza

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© ispiionline.itIsrael • Kurdistan
The US is trying to make the Kurds partners with Israel. But, many Kurds take the side of the people of Gaza and the Palestinian resistance.

The international community is not only silent about Israel's genocide but also sends foreign mercenaries to fight alongside Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza.

The IDF summoned hundreds of reserve soldiers to reinforce its ranks in preparation for its ground attack on the Gaza Strip. To bolster their Israeli ranks the IDF promoted an influx of people holding Israeli passports and living in foreign countries.

However, the Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, reported that Tel Aviv contacted international security contractors to provide fighters to perform military tasks during its ongoing war in Gaza.

Pedro Diaz Flores Corrales, aged 27 years, is a former soldier in the Spanish army and had previously fought as a mercenary in both Ukraine and Iraq. In addition to this, he is known for belonging to a fascist political group, the so-called Neo-Nazi movement, according to the Middle East website 'Monitor'.

The group is involved in illicit arms trafficking, as well as mercenary exploitation.

Comment: The numbers and sources of paid mercenaries may be one of Israel's better-kept secrets.


Cardboard Box

Mounting evidence is pointing to a nightmare scenario for the US economy

Biden
© Kevin Lamarque/ReutersUS President Joe Biden
The U.S. economy is showing signs of stagflation as growth slumps down and prices continue to surge for average Americans, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

U.S. annual economic growth measured just 1.6% in the first quarter of 2024, following a report of persistently high inflation in March of 3.5% year-over-year. The combination of both low growth and high inflation, in conjunction with continuously high amounts of government spending and debt, has led to signs of stagflation in the U.S. economy, which wreaked havoc on U.S. consumers throughout the 1970's, according to experts who spoke to the DCNF.

E.J. Antoni, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, told the DCNF:
"It's not so much that we risk stagflation as we're already there. We have basically pulled forward trillions of dollars of economic growth by borrowing from the future, but that must be repaid at some point. And it is highly inefficient as well."

Comment: Cash-to-ash: Biden's financial smokescreen is going up in flames.


Stop

Netanyahu asked Biden to block International Criminal Court - Axios

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© Ronen Zvulun/ReutersIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked US President Joe Biden to stop the International Criminal Court (ICC) from pursuing him and several other top-ranking Israeli officials, news publisher Axios has claimed. Several media outlets reported last week that the court could charge the Israeli leadership with war crimes over the ongoing military campaign against Hamas in Gaza.

Israel launched its massive offensive following the deadly October 7 incursion by the radical group's militants, which claimed the lives of an estimated 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians.

In recent months, the severe response by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the densely populated Palestinian enclave have come under increasing scrutiny and have been broadly criticized - even by the country's US and European allies.

According to Gaza authorities, Israeli strikes have killed more than 34,000 people, mostly civilians. In January, the United Nation's International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a ruling, saying it was "plausible" that Israeli forces had committed acts of genocide in the enclave.

In its article on Monday, Axios, citing two anonymous Israeli officials, claimed that Netanyahu had phoned Biden on Sunday, asking him to wield Washington's clout and prevent the ICC from issuing arrest warrants.

Comment: Hustle and bluster aside, this court will continue to do nothing.


Sheriff

European diplomats chased out of Palestinian Museum in West Bank

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Screenshot: Germany remains one of strongest supporters of Israel's military offensive in Gaza
Palestinian students expelled a European diplomatic delegation from the Palestinian Museum in the West Bank on Tuesday amid growing anger over support for Israel's deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip.

Amro Kayed, a student at Birzeit University, said the European delegation included some German members.

"Germans are not welcome in the Palestinian territories," Kayed told Anadolu.


Comment: An understandable response considering that many in the Palestinian territories will have relatives who were slaughtered or who are dying a slow death in the Gazan concentration camp.


Video clips shared on social media platforms showed a group of students removing foreign diplomats from the museum.

"The German ambassador has been expelled," one student is heard saying in the video.

The visit to the museum was initiated by representatives of several European embassies, including France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and Germany.

Comment: It's notable that an outcry against Israel's genocide, and those that would facilitate it, is escalating not just in Palestine, but across much of the planet. Notably, the authorities in those countries facilitating the genocide are also cracking down the hardest on protesters; which, rather predictably, is only causing more to rally to their cause: US, Germany supplied 99% of Israel weapons in 2023, US accelerated deliveries despite Gaza genocide

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Dollars

Pfizergate: Ursula von der Leyen's shady Covid vaccine deals prove she can get away with anything

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
© FREDERICK FLORIN / AFPEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
Forget this whole "election" charade and just glue the crown onto her head, already.

Ursula von der Leyen, the unelected European Commission President, is up for job renewal in June. She'd have to be re-nominated by the majority of EU member state leaders and then re-confirmed by members of the newly-elected European Parliament. They'd have to be crazy to dethrone this ultimate incarnation of true EU values, like transparency and foresight (or rather, lack thereof).

Comment: From the same source:
1 Apr, 2024 16:23
EU prosecutors take up Von der Leyen corruption probe - Politico
Investigators are reportedly looking into private text messages between the European Commission president and the CEO of Pfizer

The EU's top prosecutors have taken over an ongoing corruption investigation into European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Politico reported on Monday citing an unnamed spokesperson for the Liege Prosecutor's Office in Belgium.

The probe relates to the purchase of nearly two billion Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses for the EU at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The prosecution claims the EC chief negotiated the multi-billion-euro deal with the pharmaceutical giant's CEO, Alber Bourla, in private via text messages before clinical trials for the vaccine were completed.

Von der Leyen has refused to disclose the content of those messages, claiming she cannot find them.

Investigators from the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), who have been working on the case for the past few months, reportedly believe that Von der Leyen may be guilty of "interference in public functions, destruction of SMS, corruption and conflict of interest," according to legal documents seen by Politico.

Despite the allegations and von der Leyen herself admitting that she privately communicated with Bourla for nearly a month before signing the nearly €20 billion ($21.5 billion) deal, no formal charges have yet been brought against the EC chief.

The case has been supported by the governments of Poland and Hungary, which have also filed official complaints about Von der Leyen's role in the vaccine negotiations, Politico's sources said. The outlet noted, however, that Warsaw moved to withdraw the complaint after Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-EU government came to power last year.

The New York Times, which first reported in 2021 that private conversations between Von der Leyen and Bourla had indeed taken place prior to the signing of the vaccine deal, has also filed a lawsuit against the EC for refusing to disclose the content of the text messages and turning down a request for access to documents.

The case against the EC chief has garnered "extremely high public interest," according to EU officials, amid concerns that the bloc purchased significantly more Covid shots than were necessary.

In December last year, Politico reported that EU states had dumped at least 215 million doses, which had cost taxpayers as much as €4 billion ($4.3 billion). Despite this, the vaccines will continue flowing to the EU under the contract with Pfizer, at least until 2027.
As if an example was called for in these times of fluidity, Ursula von der Leyen has shown that women can be as accomplished in the arts of corruption and warmongering as any man.
The US and the UK are pushing for total war on all fronts
Finally, EU President Ursula von der Leyen has suddenly dramatically increased economic warfare on China, pushing the European Commission to open probes on scores of Chinese exports. Where exactly did all this come from?

It's almost as if the US and its allies seized upon the tensions between Iran and Israel in order to "whitewash" their slate and double down on a series of objectives they are otherwise losing public support for, including the war in Ukraine, but also Israel's invasion of Gaza. One has to wonder if the Israeli attack on the Iranian compound in Damascus, which provoked Tehran's response, was deliberately staged, coordinated and planned for this purpose. It served the mutually convenient goal of letting both Prime Minister Netanyahu and Western governments off the hook for whatever opposition they had otherwise faced.
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Bullseye

Moscow: US politicians 'living in Wonderland'

Maria Zakharova
© Sputnik/Ramil SitdikovRussian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
Washington insists the Ukraine conflict must be settled based on the UN Charter, but backs Kiev's 'peace formula,' the Foreign Ministry says

US calls for Russia to hold talks on ending the Ukraine conflict seem detached from reality and ignore Moscow's previous attempts to reach a settlement, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted on Monday that Moscow's alleged plans "to erase Ukraine from the map... failed." He added that he hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken note of Western support for Ukraine, "gets the message, and demonstrates a willingness to genuinely negotiate consistent with the basic principles... of the international community and the UN Charter: sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence."

Responding to Blinken's remarks later that day, Zakharova said American politicians seem to live in a "wonderland."

Comment: Russia has finally lost patience with the West. And while it will always remain open to dialogue, it has no intentions of being played for a fool again. Moscow has learned the lessons of Minsk. The SMO will continue "until all objectives have been achieved."


Eye 1

Neil Oliver: '...a dark tide is rising...'

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Neil Oliver
'...appetites for destruction & the age-old attractions of despotism...'


Attention

The Russian Revolution

BRICS Plus
© The Postil Magazine
The experts repeatedly emphasize that Russia is isolated, which, if true, would not be the first time this has happened in its history. But, looking at reality closely, this Robinsonian Russian isolation is very peculiar because Russia's ostracism is alleviated by China and North Korea; Iran and Syria; India, South Africa and Brazil; Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali; Serbia and Belarus; Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua; Libya, Yemen and Algeria; not to mention its less committed partners, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, fickle Turkey, Indonesia or Kazakhstan. And I am sure I am leaving out many others. The clever policy of Biden and his European puppets has succeeded in forming a bloc between Moscow and Beijing that has served as a pole of attraction for all the nations that want to free themselves from the Anglo-Saxon noose. It seems incredible that the liberal hierarchs have forgotten Kissinger's intelligent policy of confronting the two decisive powers of the Eurasian Heartland, the abc of strategy and diplomacy. Does this not enter the manuals of gender, resistant, matriarchal and animalistic Geopolitics?

During my last stay in "isolated" Moscow, I had the good fortune to talk to people from all corners of the wide world, from Tanzania to El Salvador, passing through Indonesia. I was especially interested in the opinion of my African colleagues, protagonists of one of the most important geopolitical changes of the last decade: the disappearance of French influence in the Sahel, which occurred when Paris exhausted the patience of the military of those States, who realized that the Islamist threat from which Paris had come to protect them was financed by their alleged protector, who took advantage of the occasion to take the uranium of the area at a bargain price. The succession of African revolutions in recent years was not sought by the Kremlin; Russia came to the Sahel at the request of states that needed to protect themselves both from France and from the various Islamist organizations in cahoots with Paris and Qatar.

Attention

BRIC-o-rama: on the road in Brazil, with an eye on Russia-China

Brazil's Lula
© Strategic Culture Foundation
I have just been immersed in an extraordinary experience: a mini-tour of conferences in Brazil encompassing four key cities - Sao Paulo, Rio, Salvador, Belo Horizonte. Full houses, sharp questions, fabulously warm people, divine gastronomy - a deep dive into the 8th largest economy in the world and major BRICS+ node.

As much as I was trying to impress the finer points of the long and winding road to multipolarity and the multiple instances of frontal clash between NATOstan and the Global Majority, I was learning non-stop from an array of generous Brazilians about the current inner contradictions of a society of astonishing complexity.
Lagoon Somewhere
© Strategic Culture Foundation
It's as if I was immersed in a psychedelic journey conducted by Os Mutantes, the iconic trio of the late 1960s Tropicalia movement: from the business front in Sao Paulo - with its world-class restaurants and frantic deal-making - to the blinding beauty of Rio; from Salvador - the capital of Brazilian Africa - to Belo Horizonte, the capital of the third-wealthiest state in the Federation, Minas Gerais, a powerhouse of iron ore, uranium and niobium exports.

Георгиевская ленточка

European country tells people not to wear symbol of WWII victory over Nazis

Saint George Ribbon
© Sputnik / Vitaly Ankov
Moldova's police chief has branded the St. George's ribbon, a hallmark of Victory Day celebrations in Russia, a "symbol of aggression"

Moldovan authorities have explicitly warned citizens against wearing St. George's ribbon during the upcoming WWII Victory Day celebrations. The orange and black strip of material, a popular commemoration symbol in Russia and most other former Soviet republics, has been deemed a "symbol of aggression" by Moldova's police chief.

Referring to the St. George's ribbon, Viorel Cernauteanu, the head of the General Police Inspectorate, told a news briefing on Monday that "Selling, storing, producing and wearing a two-color ribbon, which is a symbol of aggression is currently banned," adding "We all must abide by the rules."

Comment:

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Moldova borders Romania and according to the Wiki a vote in parliament in 2023 changed the official language from Moldovan to Romanian.

Given the ambitions of the current government in Moldova to become a part of the EU, and the close proximity to Romania, the measure about prohibiting St George ribbons could be a step in the "European integration". Besides, if Moldova joins Romania it "would not look good" if some newly minted Romanians would have yearly yearning wearing Saint George ribbons, considering the history of Romania in World War II:
On 22 June 1941, German armies with a massive Romanian support attacked the Soviet Union. German and Romanian units conquered Bessarabia, Odessa, and Sevastopol, then marched eastward across the Russian steppes toward Stalingrad. Romania welcomed the war because it allowed them to retake lands annexed by the Soviet Union a year prior. Hitler rewarded Romania's loyalty by returning Bessarabia and northern Bukovina and by allowing Romania to administer Soviet lands immediately between the Dniester and the Bug, including Odessa and Nikolaev.[11] Romanian jingoes in Odessa even distributed a geography showing that the Dacians had inhabited most of southern Russia.[1][12] After recovering Bessarabia and Bukovina (Operation München), Romanian units fought side by side with the Germans onward to Odessa, Sevastopol, Stalingrad and the Caucasus. The total number of troops involved on the Eastern Front with the Romanian Third Army and the Romanian Fourth Army was second only to that of Nazi Germany itself. The Romanian Army had a total of 686,258 men under arms in the summer of 1941 and a total of 1,224,691 men in the summer of 1944.[13]The number of Romanian troops sent to fight in the Soviet Union exceeded that of all of Germany's other allies combined.
It is more than just history; traditions are upheld:
NATO begins building its largest European base, near Black Sea in Romania (18 March 2024)
Never mind:
Protests erupt in Romania's capital against NATO troops in the country, financing of Kiev or
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