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The Gaza 'aid pier': a US geopolitical ploy?

Suat Delgen
The Cradle
Fri, 10 May 2024 17:27 UTC
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© The CradleWhile presented to the world as a humanitarian effort, the US-led 'Maritime Corridor' in Gaza is a strategic maneuver aimed at consolidating US and Israeli control over land and sea.
Israel's brutal military assault on Gaza, which has killed over 35,000 civilians, predominantly women and children, has been executed alongside the denial of humanitarian aid since the war's onset last October.

With cases of famine already in evidence, Tel Aviv's utter disregard of the recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling demanding immediate access to aid, and Washington's veto of UN Security Council resolutions advocating for a Gaza ceasefire, both Israel and the US have come under significant global fire.

This backlash is notably strong on the campuses of major US universities, a growing student movement that has arguably breathed new life into the Palestinian solidarity movement. Concerns about the Gaza genocide's potential damage to the global image of the US have belatedly reached the White House, with US President Joe Biden only now threatening - in advance of the November elections - to curtail the transfer of large offensive munitions to Israel.

Comment: Alleged footage of the pier construction:





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Propaganda

Korybko: Why Russia is making a fresh push into Ukraine's Kharkov region

Andrew Korybko
korybko.substack.com
Sat, 11 May 2024 13:14 UTC
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The five objectives that are enumerated in this piece encapsulate what Russia nowadays aims to achieve after over two years of intense proxy warfare with NATO.

Zelensky claimed on Friday that Russia's long-awaited offensive had finally begun following its fresh push into Kharkov Region from which it tactically pulled back in September 2022. This precedes him likely clinging to power on legally dubious pretexts once his term expires on 21 May and aligns with the Ukrainian Intelligence Committee's prediction of political-military troubles heading into his summer. Here are the five objectives that Russia arguably aims to achieve in view of the conflict's larger context:

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1. Create The Conditions For Russia To Control The Entirety Of Its New Regions

Comment: The following interview with Colonel Douglas Macgregor provides further insight into what's happening, and what may be up next:



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Arrow Down

Report finds popularity of US falling globally


RT
Fri, 10 May 2024 21:30 UTC
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© Jacek Boczarski / Anadolu via Getty Images
While both China and Russia have improved their standing in the world over the past year, the US has seen its approval rating deteriorate in the Middle East and even in Europe, according to respondents from 53 countries.

Dubbed the Democracy Perception Index 2024, the survey was compiled by the German company Latana, on behalf of Alliance of Democracies, an NGO headed by former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Russia and China are now viewed as positively as the US in most of the surveyed countries in Asia and the Middle East/North Africa (MENA), as Washington's approval has plummeted due to the conflict in Gaza. Among Europeans, support for the US has also seen a decline.

Comment: How much money was squandered on what could be found out from a brief scan of alt-news sites and social media feeds?

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Defense Minister Pistorius says Germany to hand majority of army command over to NATO


RT
Fri, 10 May 2024 21:13 UTC
Pistorius
© Tobias Schwarz/AFPGerman Defense Minister Boris Pistorius
The defense minister also announced that Berlin had purchased three HIMARS rocket launcher systems for Ukraine

The majority of the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) will be under NATO command by 2025, with around 35,000 soldiers placed on the "highest levels of readiness," Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced during a keynote speech at Washington's Johns Hopkins University on Thursday.

The announcement comes as Germany struggles to resolve major personnel and equipment shortages in its army, with many replacement items purchased for the Bundeswehr being sent to aid Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. A parliamentary report in March revealed that the army is also "aging and shrinking," with 20,000 unfilled positions and a "very high" dropout rate.

Comment:


Does the German ambassador to Russia need a dressing down along the lines of what the UK ambassador endured? Russia has made it clear that ANY Nato troops or unilaterally deployed foreign militaries in Ukraine, regardless of their country of origin (looking at you France) will be considered legitimate targets and will be destroyed. Clearly Europe learned nothing from history.

Kremlin: NATO has secret agenda for troops in Ukraine

This will not end well . . .

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Pirates

EU agrees to "tap" Russian assets to arm Ukraine


RT
Fri, 10 May 2024 19:11 UTC
ursula
EU president and thief Ursula von der Leyen
The bloc wants to seize the revenue generated from $200 billion of the frozen funds


Comment: Translation: "We're so broke from supporting Ukraine, we're reduced to stealing Russia's money."


The EU has agreed on the expropriation of revenue generated from frozen Russian assets to continue funding and arming Kiev, Brussels announced on Wednesday. The bloc's ambassadors agreed on the course of action "in principle," but the legal text still must be ratified by the EU Council.

The proposal targets the proceeds from €191 billion ($205 billion) in Russian funds currently held in Belgian clearinghouse Euroclear. In total, Western states froze an estimated $300 billion of Moscow's sovereign capital abroad after the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.

Comment: European banks, especially EuroClear, are freaking out about this hare-brained scheme. They know large-scale depositors from around the world, who viewed Europe as a stable, safe place to keep their funds, are going to take one look, say "If this could happen to RUSSIA, this could happen to me too", and pull their money. Bye, bye Western banks; bye, bye what's left of Western financial dominance.

From The Duran, March 2024: Legal experts green light Russian asset seizure.



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Yemen's Houthi rebels claim 2 attacks in Gulf of Aden as Iran official renews nuclear bomb threats

Jon Gambrell
Associated Press
Thu, 09 May 2024 18:38 UTC
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Yemen
Yemen's Houthi rebels on Thursday claimed responsibility for two missile attacks in the Gulf of Aden on two Panama-flagged container ships that caused no damage. Meanwhile, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader again threatened that Tehran could build a nuclear weapon if it chose to pursue atomic armaments.

The comments by Yemeni military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree and former Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi come as the allies of Hamas continue to pressure Israel over its continuing war on the militant group in the Gaza Strip.

The Houthis insist their assaults on shipping through the crucial waterway leading to the Suez Canal and onward to the Mediterranean Sea will continue as long as the war goes on. Meanwhile, Iran already has launched an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel amid the war, bringing a yearslong shadow conflict between the two nations out into the light.
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UK ambassador summoned to Kremlin: Moscow threatens to strike British military facilities following Cameron's Ukraine remark

Pierre Emmanuel Ngendakumana
Politico
Mon, 06 May 2024 18:09 UTC
Former British Prime Minister David Cameron
© Kacper Pempel / ReutersFormer British Prime Minister David Cameron
U.K. foreign secretary's words confirm London's growing involvement in military operations on the side of Kyiv, according to the Kremlin.

"The ambassador was called upon to reflect on the inevitable catastrophic consequences of such hostile steps by London and to immediately refute the belligerent provocative statements of the head of the Foreign Office in the most decisive and unequivocal way," the ministry said.

Cameron told Reuters last week that Ukraine has the "right" to use British-supplied weapons to strike Russia inside its own territory.

Comment: Sky News elaborates on Camaron's completely insane pronouncement:
Russia has warned that Ukrainian strikes on its territory with UK-supplied weapons could bring retaliatory attacks against British military facilities and equipment on Ukrainian soil or elsewhere.

During a trip to Kyiv last week, Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron said Ukraine "absolutely has the right" to strike back at targets inside Russia using British-supplied weapons.

Russia's foreign ministry said the UK's ambassador to Moscow had been "summoned" to make him "reflect on the inevitable catastrophic consequences of such hostile steps by London".

The UK's Foreign Office, however, contested the claim saying the ambassador had not been "summoned" but he had just taken part in a diplomatic meeting with ministry officials.

British ambassador Nigel Casey was called in for a formal protest, the Russian foreign ministry claimed, as it said Lord Cameron's remarks recognised that Britain - which has given Ukraine billions of pounds worth of weapons to defend itself in the war against Russia - was now de-facto a part of the conflict.

"Casey was warned that in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory with British weapons, any British military facilities and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and abroad could be targeted," the foreign ministry said.

"The ambassador was called upon to reflect on the inevitable catastrophic consequences of such hostile steps by London and immediately refute the belligerent provocative statements of the head of the Foreign Office in the most decisive and unambiguous way."


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UN General Assembly votes 143-9 in favor of Palestinian membership bid


Al Jazeera
Fri, 10 May 2024 18:13 UTC
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© Eduardo Munoz/ReutersPalestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour gestures to delegates. Resolution does not give Palestine full UN membership, but recognises them as qualified to join and extends rights.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has backed a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognising it as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council "reconsider the matter favourably".

The vote by the 193-member UNGA on Friday was a global survey of support for the Palestinian bid to become a full UN member - a move that would effectively recognise a Palestinian state - after the United States vetoed it in the UN Security Council last month.

The assembly adopted a resolution on Friday with 143 votes in favour and nine against - including the US and Israel - while 25 countries abstained. It does not give the Palestinians full UN membership, but simply recognises them as qualified to join.

Comment: And an update from Israel's pathocrats and stooges:





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Red Flag

The FBI and CIA are enemies of the American people

Ryan McMaken
Mises Institute
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
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© Unknown/KJNThe CIA/FBI Puppetmaster
Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson sat down for a three-hour-plus discussion on the Joe Rogan Show last week, covering everything from UFOs, to religion and artificial intelligence. But perhaps the most important topic they covered was the insidious and dangerous role played by the US regime's intelligence agencies in America.

Specifically, Carlson suggested the CIA continues to lobby for keeping the JFK files secret, possibly because the CIA had a role in the assassination. Tucker also brought up how the FBI's second-in-command was responsible for taking down Richard Nixon. Carlson described how intelligence agencies hold immense power within Congress because members of Congress — who are generally disreputable people with many secrets — are terrified of being blackmailed. After all, in a post-Patriot Act world of nearly unrestrained spying by the US regime, there is no privacy in America.

I'll let you, dear readers, listen to the full interview and make up your mind for yourselves as to the details of the discussion. What I want to highlight here, however, is how remarkable it is that two major media figures — Rogan and Carlson — are announcing to their millions of listeners and readers that organizations like the CIA and the FBI are despicable agencies committed to undermining the legal and constitutional institutions of the United States.

This is long overdue.

Comment: 'Nothing is as it seems' would be a good reminder.

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Biden vows to withhold weapons from Israel if Netanyahu goes forward with Rafah invasion

Joseph A. Wulfsohn
Fox News
Wed, 08 May 2024 06:40 UTC
BidNeti
© APUS President Joe Biden • Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
President Biden is vowing to withhold weapons from Israel if the Jewish State goes forward with its invasion of Rafah, Hamas' last stronghold in Gaza.

Biden told CNN's Erin Burnett in an interview released Wednesday:
"Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers. I made it clear that if they go into Rafah - they haven't gone in Rafah yet - if they go into Rafah, I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities - that deal with that problem."
Biden clarified that the U.S. will continue sending defensive weapons to Israel, like supplies for Israel's Iron Dome.
"We're going to continue to make sure Israel is secure in terms of Iron Dome and their ability to respond to attacks that came out of the Middle East recently. But it's, it's just wrong. We're not going to - we're not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells."
Israel has taken military action in Rafah but, according to Biden, they have yet to cross his red line in entering population centers.

Comment: Has anyone checked Joe's garage for the missing foreign aid package?

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