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All red lines crossed: Is Israel ready for the wrath of the Islamic revolution?

Farhad Ibragimov
RT
Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:11 UTC
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© Fareed Khan/APShiite Muslims light candles during a protest against the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah • Karachi, Pakistan • Sept. 28, 2024
The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, has significantly heightened the risk of a large-scale military conflict in the Middle East - one that could be disastrous for the region and even for the world at large.

The tensions, which have already reached a critical level, may now erupt into a full-blown war which will affect not only Lebanon and Israel but possibly other regional powers like Iran and Turkey. With Hezbollah - Iran's primary military and political asset in the region - now practically decapitated, a pressing question arises: How will Tehran respond? Or will it respond at all?

Nasrallah's death could trigger a series of retaliatory strikes and large-scale military operations, which would further destabilize the situation in the region and pose a threat to global energy markets and international security. Considering the recent assassinations of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and one of Hezbollah's founders, Fuad Shukr, in Beirut, it's clear that Israel isn't about to stop.

However, it's important to note that the death of Hezbollah's leader was not really unexpected.
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America is falling apart: Our national priorities are in dire need of restructuring

John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00 UTC
StatofLib
© Veterans Today ArchivesAmerica Destroyed
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
— Bob Dylan

A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and boil water notices.

One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs repair, endangering hundreds of millions of commuters. More than 42,000 bridges across the country, carrying about 167 million vehicles each day, are in disrepair.

It is estimated that 300 million people could face power outages across the United States between 2024 and 2028, due in large part to widespread power grid failures.

No wonder U.S. infrastructure received a C- on the Infrastructure Report Card.

America is falling apart.
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Star of David

Israel declares UN chief 'persona non grata'


RT
Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:35 UTC
Guterres
© Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesUnited Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
Foreign Minister Israel Katz has banned Antonio Guterres from entering the country for his failure to condemn Iran.

Israel has declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata after he called for a ceasefire following Iran's attack on the Jewish state and condemned the widening of the conflict in the Middle East.

On Tuesday, Tehran launched several salvos of missiles in what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) called a response to the recent Israeli killings of the heads of Hamas and Hezbollah, and of an Iranian general who was in Lebanon.

In a statement on X on Wednesday, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced that Guterres is no longer allowed to enter the country, and accused the UN chief of failing to denounce Iran's "abhorrent attack."
"Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran's heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the world has done, does not deserve to step foot on Israeli soil. Guterres also has yet to denounce the massacre and sexual atrocities committed by Hamas murderers on October 7" and has not made any effort to declare the Palestinian militant group a terrorist organization.

"Guterres will be remembered as a stain on the history of the UN for giving backing to terrorists, rapists and murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and now Iran."
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Famine in Europe: The real goal of anti-Russian policies

Lucas Leiroz
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
EU flaggrain
© oireachtas.ie/thepovertylab.com/KJN
Irresponsible policies disguised as "support for Ukraine" could lead Europe to social collapse in the long term.

The controversy over Ukrainian agricultural products continues. Ukrainian food products have simply invaded the European market and are driving thousands of farmers out of business. Despite the protests and political pressure, no EU decision-maker seems interested in changing this tragic scenario. However, the crisis seems to have even deeper dimensions and could be a real time bomb for the entire European society.

The Bulgarian government recently asked the European Commission to pass a resolution banning the import of Ukrainian chicken eggs. According to the Bulgarian authorities, the large amount of cheap Ukrainian eggs on the European market is hurting Bulgarian producers, who rely on egg sales as a vital part of their business. Thousands of Bulgarian farmers are going bankrupt, and the crisis is only expected to get worse in the near future.

The problem is not limited to eggs or Bulgaria. Selling grain, meat, dairy products and everything that is produced in the countryside seems to be no longer an attractive business in Europe. Since 2022, protests for change have been taking place in all parts of the European continent. From Poland to France, no European farmer is happy to see his products being replaced on the market by massive quantities of cheap Ukrainian agricultural items.

Comment: Doesn't take a genius to uncover the culprits. True to predatory form, they specialize in the degradation of other countries.

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'A self-feeding circle': How a web of NGOs enabled by Biden-Harris is fueling the migrant crisis

Eireann Van Natta
Daily Caller
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:43 UTC
Carfence
© Adam Schulz/Wikimedia Commons Public Official White House photoPresident Biden's motorcade • U.S.-Mexico border • Brownsville Border Patrol Station • Brownsville, Texas • February 29, 2024
A web of NGOs is collaborating with government agencies to facilitate the resettlement of refugees - and Biden-Harris policies have only exacerbated the migrant crisis, sources told the Caller.

Immigration was thrust into the public spotlight as towns in America were overwhelmed with migrants, from Springfield, Ohio to Aurora, Colorado. Bureaucracies and non-profits often work in tandem to resettle refugees, and NGOs have only grown in influence under the Biden-Harris administration, experts said.

Capital Research Center's Parker Thayer told the Caller in a statement:
"It's undeniable that the Biden Administration's border policy has benefited the network of immigration NGOs that receive massive government contracts and grants to deal with the logistical and humanitarian problems that mass illegal immigration has caused."
While it's difficult to quantify precisely how much NGOs have benefited, Thayer pointed to a USA Spending database. It shows that since 2020, federal spending on loans, grants, and contracts with the keyword "immigrant" has skyrocketed by almost tenfold.

Comment: This structure is but another nail in America's coffin at the literal expense of its citizens. And, it likely won't stop there.

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October Surprise

James Howard Kunstler
jameshowardkunstler.substack.com
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:35 UTC
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"Normally, Western politics gives us actors who are trying to play the role of politicians. Walz is like an actor who is trying to play the role of an actor trying to play the role of a politician. Almost everything about him is just a few degrees off-centre. He's like what would happen if you endowed Chat GPT with a human body and sent it off to campaign for political office." — Eugyppius on Substack
Tuesday night's veep palaver could be the last time you see the frightened animal known as Tim Walz for the duration of the campaign. He's famous for his wild body language — jumping around on stage, flapping his arms — but this time the action was all concentrated in his face. You saw his eyes bug out, dart left and right, as if something fierce was coming at him (it was), and more than a few times, his head jerked around sideways so hard you wondered if it might do a whole three-sixty.

His mouth, a pain-inflected frown in repose, turned down so deeply it looked like he had sashweights hanging from the corners. Altogether, his face said more than the embarrassing mishmash of mangled English that came out of it. I expect to see a few Tim Walz masks on the little goblins begging for Kit-kat bars the night of October 31.
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They lie. They cheat. They steal. They bomb. And they spin

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:18 UTC
Missiles
© Public Domain
A case could be made that Iran's Ballistic Retaliation Night, a measured response to Israel's serial provocations, is less consequential when it comes to the efficacy of the Axis of Resistance than the decapitation of Hezbollah's leadership.

Still, the message was enough to send the Talmudic psychopathologicals into a frenzy; for all their hysterical denials and massive spin, Iron Toilet Paper and the Arrow system were de facto rendered useless.

The IRGC made it known that the volley of missiles was inaugurated by a single hypersonic Fatteh 2 which took out the Arrow 3 air defense system's radar - capable of intercepting missiles in the atmosphere.

And well-informed Iranian military sources stated that hackers went on heavy cyberattack mode to disrupt the Iron Dome system just before the start of the operation.

The IRGC finally confirmed that just about 90% of the intended targets were hit; the implication was that each target was supposed to be visited by several missiles, with some getting intercepted.

It's open to wide speculation how many F-35s and F-15s were ultimately destroyed or damaged on two air bases, one of which, Nevatim, in the Negev, becoming literally inoperable.

The Iran-Russia military entente - part of their soon to be signed comprehensive strategic partnership - was in effect. The IRGC used the recently supplied Russian electromagnetic jammer to blind Israel-NATO GPS systems - including those of U.S. aircrafts. That explains the Iron Dome far off hitting the empty night skies.
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Cruise Missle

Houthis send email alert to Red Sea ships: Prepare for attack, with best regards

Bill Kouras
Greek City Times
Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:08 UTC
houthis attack tanker
© EPAOctobr 1, 2024: The Houthi group shared the clip of a big explosion near the side of the Cordelia Moon, which damaged its port side tank and covered it in clouds of smoke.
In a concerning development, the Houthi rebels in Yemen have been sending a series of threatening emails to Greek shipping companies operating vessels in the Red Sea. The messages warn that ships traveling through the region face the risk of attack if they have any connections to Israel.

The email campaign began in May, with the first message arriving in the personal inbox of a senior executive at a Greek shipping firm. The email, written in English, was sent by the Yemen-based Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center (HOCC) - a body established in February to liaise between Houthi forces and commercial shipping.

The message warned that one of the company's vessels had violated a Houthi-imposed transit ban by docking at an Israeli port, and would be "directly targeted by the Yemeni Armed Forces in any area they deem appropriate." The email went on to say the company would face "sanctions" if the ship continued to enter ports affiliated with "the usurping Israeli entity."

Comment: The Houthis don't bluff. From MENAFN:
The Houthi group in Yemen said on Tuesday, October 2, 2024, that it had launched multiple attacks targeting two ships travelling in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the first operation targeted British oil ship Cordelia Moon in the Red Sea, using eight ballistic and winged missiles, a drone, and an unmanned boat. He added that the operation "severely damaged" the ship, according to Houthi-run al-Masirah TV, Xinhua news agency reported.

"The second operation targeted the ship Marathopolis in the Indian Ocean with a cruise missile, and the third operation targeted the same ship again in the Arabian Sea," he said.

"We will not stop launching attacks until the (Israeli) aggression on Gaza is stopped and the blockade is lifted, as well as the (Israeli) aggression on Lebanon is stopped," said Sarea.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), earlier in the day, reported multiple attacks on a ship 64 nautical miles northwest of Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah.

In a post on X, it reported four splashes near the ship, a "missile" attack, and an uncrewed surface vessel attack that punctured the number 6 port ballast tank, which is used for adjusting the buoyancy of the ship.

The UKMTO said all crew members were safe.

The Houthis on Tuesday also claimed responsibility for five drone attacks on what they called "military targets" in the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Eilat.

The Houthi group, which controls large swathes of northern Yemen, has been attacking "Israeli-linked" shipping near the country's coastline since November 2023 to show support for Palestinians in their conflict with Israelis.


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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: The reprehensible audacity Of FEMA being broke


Quoth the Raven's Fringe Finance
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:50 UTC
mayorkas Fema
© Associated PressMayorkas three months ago: “FEMA is tremendously prepared for hurricane season”
We don't even have the decency to fake as though we care about our own citizens anymore.

Part of what I love about having this blog is that it is cathartic for me when I want to be heard, understood, or otherwise just bitch and moan about things in the world of finance, the economy, and politics that I find askew.

From the jump, one of the things I have written about is how dead wrong both sides of the political aisle have our fiscal and monetary policy. With monetary policy, both parties have quietly fallen in line under the mutated breed of Keynesian economics our Federal Reserve implements, which rests on the sole idea of printing money and praying that either hyperinflation doesn't occur or the economy doesn't collapse.

Republicans occasionally criticize the Federal Reserve and pepper in objections here and there about our abuse of the dollar, but when all is said and done, they fall in line behind monetary policy as it stands today. Democrats have gone full non sequitur and, through the miracle of faux-intellectual academic bullshit squared, have somehow convinced themselves that none of the basic rules of economics — such as debits and credits and supply and demand — exist anymore.

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Austria - Another right-wing election winner is sidelined in the EU

Rachel Marsden
RT
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:44 UTC
Herbert Kickl
Lead candidate of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) Herbert Kickl celebrates with supporters at the FPOe election evening party following Austrian parliamentary elections on September 29, 2024 in Vienna, Austria.
'Populist' these days simply means listening to what the people want, yet the Austrian leaders and media are trying to make it look borderline Nazi.

Another right-wing anti-establishment party has just won the popular vote in yet another European nation, this time the Austrian parliamentary elections. But as long as the establishment elites can still figure out how to keep themselves in power by clinging to one another despite their nominal ideological differences, they really don't care. It sounds like a brilliant strategy. Let's see where it goes, shall we?

The elites in Austria, like elsewhere in Europe, see it as their duty to defend democracy by ensuring that the party that gets the most votes gets completely sidelined. Why? Because, Hitler. Duh.

According to the Associated Press, Austria's Freedom Party secured the "first far-right national election win since World War 2." And we all know which famous Austrian is synonymous with the Second World War. How subtle.

"EU rocked as far-Right party founded by Nazi WW2 veterans storms to victory," noted one British tabloid, the Express. "Herbert Kickl's Freedom Party is on for a huge victory in Austria according to early projections." Interesting how Nazi history is omitted entirely when Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov movement runs around with Nazi symbol flags and tattoos to kudos from the same establishment.

Comment: The so-called democracy which the EU blows much smoke about and claims to be defending, is under assault. Not from the voters or those parties which listen to their voters but rather from the more and more totalitarian globalist elite which in the EU and its member states is getting increasingly desperate in clinging to power.

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