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Best of the Web: Israel responsible for 'many' of its own Oct 7 casualties - Israel's N12 news channel reports

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FILE: Israeli Brigadier General Barak Hiram ordered an Israeli tank to fire on a house full of Israeli hostages taken captive by Hamas in Kibbutz Be'eri on Oct 7, 2023

Comment: Please note that with this being relatively breaking news, the following article is a Google translation of the original.


The IDF began to investigate the battles in the first days in the surrounding settlements, and the picture is becoming clearer: many casualties due to our forces firing on our forces and the decision that was made in real time - which turned out to be wrong.

The IDF's investigations into the events of October 7 have already begun, and little by little the picture is becoming clearer about what happened in the first two days of fighting in the Otaf settlements. Tonight (Wednesday) we published in the "Main Edition" new revelations from the investigation of the battles in the Gaza Otaf, on October 7-9:

Comment: Note that this report follows another recent admission from the IDF that they knew Hamas intended to attack and take hostages at least 2 weeks prior to Oct 7.

This comes amidst a variety of other established facts that have since debunked Israel's own propaganda of what happened on that day. And which included an IDF whistleblower who told of how he warned his bosses of a looming attack, and that also just prior to Oct 7 he was ordered to stand down.

Whilst the IDF being responsible for a significant number of Israeli casualties on Oct 7 has been reported by various analysts and investigative journalists, as well as the UN itself, this is the first time Israel has acknowledged that it is responsible for slaughtering so 'many'.

How many remains to be seen. But given that Israel's recent massacre/hostage rescue mission killed at least 3 of the Israeli hostages, it seems fairly clear that its Hannibal Directive is still in operation.

As with the recent leaked document scandal, linked below, one might ask why yet another explosive admission is occurring now:
The Washington Post has published 2 smear articles on The Grayzone for reporting on Israel's Oct 7 friendly fire attacks, accusing us of "misinformation," and Israel's Haaretz branded me a "master manipulator" for helping expose the scandal. Our crime was revealing the truth too early.



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Best of the Web: EU fines Hungary €200 million, plus €1 million per day, until it complies with opening its borders to mass migration

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© logicno.comHungarian PM Viktor Orban
European court also orders Budapest to pay €200m for 'unprecedented' breach of rules.

Hungary has been ordered to pay a €200m (£169m) fine for its refusal to uphold the rights of asylum seekers in what was described as an "unprecedented" breach of EU law by the bloc's highest court.

The European court of justice in Luxembourg also ordered Budapest to pay €1m a day until it complies with EU laws guaranteeing refugees the right to claim asylum inside Hungarian borders.

In a major judgment issued on Thursday, the court said Hungary had shown "deliberate evasion" in applying EU policy, which it described as "an unprecedented and exceptionally serious infringement of EU law" and "a significant threat to the unity of EU law and to the principle of equality of the member states".

The fine was higher than sought by the European Commission, the EU executive, which took Hungary to the Luxembourg court. Judges also identified "aggravating circumstances", including the repeat behaviour that contributed to the severity of the fine.

Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán responded to the judgement:
"The court's ruling is outrageous and unacceptable. It seems that illegal migrants are more important to the Brussels bureaucrats than their own European citizens."
The legal ruling comes less than three weeks before the Hungarian government takes charge of the rotating presidency of the EU council of ministers.

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Best of the Web: Leaked doc reveals Israeli military KNEW of Hamas plan to raid and take hostages 2 weeks before Oct 7, Israeli news reports

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FILE: Israeli Brigadier General Barak Hiram ordered an Israeli tank to fire on a house full of Israeli hostages taken captive by Hamas in Kibbutz Be'eri on Oct 7, 2023
The Israeli military knew about Hamas' plans to attack southern Israel weeks before October 7 — even how many hostages the militant group planned to capture, according to a report from Israeli public broadcaster Kan.

The Israel Defense Force's Gaza Division reportedly distributed an internal intelligence document on September 19, 2023, outlining the details of Hamas' planned raid, according to Kan.

The document, which Kan reportedly saw, states that the IDF had observed Hamas conducting a series of trainings where militant fighters practiced attacking both Israeli military stations and civilian kibbutzim communities.

The IDF also knew, according to the document viewed by Kan, that Hamas trained its units on how to capture hostages and how to guard them once they were taken back to the Gaza Strip.

Comment: The Jerusalem Post reports:
IDF knew of Hamas's plan to kidnap 250 before October 7 attack - report

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The document's revelations came in the wake of widespread criticism over the failure to anticipate and prevent the October 7 attack, which resulted in significant casualties and hostages.


Indeed. And so is this leak an attempt to excuse its ostensible failings as being simply a result of the overconfidence and negligence of the otherwise all knowing and capable IDF?

Notably this reasoning could also be used to claw back its mythical status, whilst also deflecting scrutiny over the other highly suspicious events of that day.

Regardless of the spin, we can take this as an admission that Israel knew of an impending attack and that it did nothing to stop it.


Warning signs were not acted upon

The IDF had precise information about Hamas's intentions, but due to prevailing conceptions within the security establishment and possible negligence by senior officials, the warning signs were not acted upon.

"Israeli intelligence officials who monitored the exercise detailed in the document the next steps after breaching into Israel and taking over the posts, determining that the instruction is to hand over the captured soldiers to the company commanders. The expected number of hostages, it states, is between 200 and 250 people," Kan News reported.

The general staff investigation team is expected to present initial findings from this failure to the Chief of Staff in the coming weeks, as the country seeks to understand how such a lapse in security could occur despite having detailed advance knowledge of the enemy's plans.

During the massacre, more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 in the Re'im music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across the Gaza border communities.
This follows a recent report by the UN that Israel killed its own civilians on Oct 7, likely under its Hannibal Directive, as well as previous revelations that it issued a stand down order on the day itself.

Altogether the available evidence supports the theory that not only was Israel hoping to provoke Hamas into an incident akin to Oct 7, but it also knew some of what Hamas intended to do, and that it was more than capable of stopping it from occurring.

The most reasonable explanation for why Oct 7 occurred seems to be that Israel chose to let it happen, and it actually sought to make the events of the day even worse; because it then had what it considered to be justification for its acceleration of its genocide of Palestinians, as well as, ultimately, an expansion of its terrorism in the Middle East, in order to further its Greater Israel project:


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Best of the Web: WHO's Pulling the Strings? Covid Injections and the Internet of Bio-Nano Things, Part 4: Testing New Human Nodes of Connectivity

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Abstract: Since human beings generally represent the most unpredictable element of any complex organisation, management techniques must be continually refined in the interest of maintaining the system. As we have discussed in Part 3, the major centres of power and influence in societies deploy every means available to involve as many citizens as possible in the global program of eventual submission to technocratic rule. Among them are secrecy and stealth achieved by rhetorical, technological and political sleights of hand, seemingly largely under the thinly but effectively veiled helmsmanship of the military-intelligence complex. Part 4, thus, introduces a critical discussion of the various post-WWII deceptions and official programs of clandestine experimentation that have commenced across time and across populations. In particular, we examine patterns of deception that illustrate the lengths to which governments continue to go, applying knowledge of lessons learned about medical and psychological testing on human subjects.

Within this context of historical breaches of law and international agreements prohibiting such experimentation, we frame our analysis of the intracorporeal networks and bio/nano nodes of communication that now appear to be in development, and possibly under construction in biological lifeforms. We provide evidence that these and other transhumanist plans of the military-intelligence complex are grounded in tangible R&D, which is part of a long-standing public-private, military-corporate arrangement. Under that arrangement, dual use medical and lifestyle electronics pave the way for military-grade technological invasions, under the rubric of convenience and health. We examine the Covid injections against that backdrop, through the prism of microscopists around the world, whose findings we place in the context of vast literatures involving transhumanist technologies. Finally, we close by returning to the WHO, whose Pandemic preparedness treaty and International Health Regulation amendments are pending in May 2024, offering a public-private "health" theatre, with potentially profound implications not only for global power dynamics, but for a Brave New era of bio-nano, state-mandated "medicine", as foreseen by the military-intelligence complex.


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Best of the Web: Serbian President Vucic warns of looming world war: 'No one can stop it'

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic gave a video interview to the the Swiss German-language publication Die Weltwoche, posted on June 8, in which he discussed in stark terms the danger of global conflict the world currently faces. "The train has left the station, and no one can stop it," he said, speaking in English. (Subtitling for this video was available in Serbian, German and English.) Some relevant excerpts of his remarks follow:

"I believe that we are getting close to the last days of possible rethinking and reconsidering in Ukraine. If those big powers don't do anything in a short period of time, yes, I'm pretty much certain that we'll face a real disaster."

In reference to the Western rhetoric claiming that Putin is bluffing: "If you bet on the fact that someone is bluffing, it means that you have no better cards. That you just believe that the other side has weaker cards. But you don't know and you didn't see his or their cards...."

Comment: Note that Slovakia's PM Fico who also spoke with such honesty, suffered from an assassination attempt; and Vucic himself was threatened just a few weeks ago:


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Best of the Web: Cognitive Warfare, Mental Manipulation and the Tyranny of Digital Transformation

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A centuries-old plan to control humanity on a micro-level is being enforced through the construction of a new bio-digital prison system. Relegated to mere conspiracy theory by legacy media and vehemently denied by accused conspirators, the plan continues unabated with only pockets of resistance — nowhere near enough to bring the house of cards down.

The plan has been identified by many throughout the decades. It is both simple and complex; subtle yet overt; ancient yet contemporary; and alluring yet appalling. Under the guise of safety, convenience, and inclusion, humanity is being primed to accept complete and total surveillance as a condition of simple existence in a "brave new world." That's the plan in a nutshell. What follows are the gory details.

The Era of Cognitive Warfare

To accelerate the paradigm shift toward total surveillance, cognitive warfare (CW) - a significant upgrade over mere psyops of the past - has been declared on the global population. The purpose of this war is to modify human thought, belief, behavior, and identity. According to a 2021 NATO report, cognitive warfare is defined as (emphasis added throughout):

Comment: And for a really deep dive into this overarching and malevolent agenda see:


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Best of the Web: UN: Israel killed own citizens on October 7 under 'Hannibal Directive'

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FILE: Israeli Brigadier General Barak Hiram ordered an Israeli tank to fire on a house full of Israeli hostages taken captive by Hamas in Kibbutz Be'eri on Oct 7, 2023
The Israeli military likely killed more than a dozen of its own citizens during the October 7 attacks, a United Nations investigation has alleged.


Comment: Bearing in mind the UN is extremely conservative (and even biased in favor of Israel-the West) in its verdicts, this is rather damning; and one would expect that further, even more incriminating, revelations of Israel's role in Oct 7, its incitement of the attack, and stand down order, are still to come.


The report by the UN commission investigating the attack on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza documented "strong indications" that the "Hannibal Directive" was used in several instances that day, "harming Israelis at the same time as striking Palestinian militants."

The directive - officially revoked in 2016 - was put in place to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces who may use them as bargaining chips, allowing troops to open fire even if it caused the death of a comrade.

Comment: This conclusion was being reported on from as early as 23rd October: Hannibal Directive: Israel's forces responsible for Israeli civilian & military deaths following October 7 attack, testimony reveals

See also: Israeli hostages describe Hamas' treatment: signs of 'Stockholm syndrome', given 'cynical' birthday cake, 'moved location often'

Meanwhile Israel and fellow cheerleaders of genocide put on a recent exhibition of Oct 7th, which is rather revealing, indeed:




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Best of the Web: Final warning? Putin's Ukraine settlement proposal: "Withdraw all troops from the 4 Russian-majority regions, and affirm neutral non-NATO status for the remainder of Ukraine"


Comment: This comes right as the Americans'/Globalists' 'Ukraine peace summit' gets underway, without Russia of course, in a sprawling luxury resort in Switzerland. They can chatter all they like, but the only one in a position to dictate terms for an actual settlement of the conflict is Vladimir Putin...


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© NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/GettyRussia's President Vladimir Putin meets with the Russian Foreign Ministry leadership in Moscow on June 14, 2024. Putin offered a ceasefire to Ukraine in exchange for several conditions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday promised a ceasefire in Ukraine, provided that several conditions are met by Kyiv.

During a wide-ranging speech to foreign ministry officials, Putin stated that Russia would be ready to enter talks as soon as "tomorrow" to negotiate an end to conflict in Ukraine, provided that Ukrainian troops are withdrawn from several key regions. He also demanded that Ukraine give up all plans to join NATO, saying that the "moral responsibility for the continuation of bloodshed" would be on the West if the proposal was rejected.

Putin said: "I want to emphasize, it must be from the entire territory of these regions within their administrative borders as they existed at the time of their incorporation into Ukraine.

"As soon as Kyiv says they're ready for such a decision and start the real withdrawal of forces from these regions and officially declare rejection of plans to join NATO, from our side, immediately, literally the same minute, will come an order to stop the fire and start negotiations.

Comment: Lavrov responds to Western reporters:


NATO's Stoltenberg is left stumped.


It appears that, yet again, Putin may have taken the West by surprise.

Notably this occurs just a day or so after NATO announced its 'readiness' of 300,000 troops to 'defend Europe from Russian invasion', as well as the opening of Zelensky's 'peace' summit (multi-billion-dollar shakedown, more like).

It also occurs amidst an unscheduled, 'secret' meeting of Prince William with MI6, the UK's intelligence service for foreign operations; allegedly the last time he met with them was just prior to Russia's SMO in Ukraine.

Putin is making one last-ditch attempt to propose a resolution with the agreement-incapable West, before it is forced to take extraordinary measures: Given that Putin's demands will likely be rejected by the Ukrainian regime's backers, then the alternative - "the continuation of bloodshed" - spoken by Putin suggests something more or other than the continuation of what we've seen to date: military battles, however ferocious and large-scale, confined to south-eastern Ukraine.

Serbian president Vucic is currently in Switzerland, perhaps to attend the Zelensky fan-club meeting, and told Swiss media in this interview (in English) that he fears direct war between Russia and NATO is coming in the next 3-4 months.


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Best of the Web: NATO says over 300,000 troops 'now on high readiness'

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NATO countries have "comfortably exceeded" a target of placing 300,000 troops on high-readiness as the alliance grapples with the threat from Russia, a senior alliance official said Thursday.

NATO leaders agreed in the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 to massively ramp up the number of forces that alliance commanders can deploy within 30 days.


Comment: Once NATO realised that the Kiev-junta attack dog had no chance of winning the proxy war.


"The offers on the table from allies comfortably exceed the 300,000 that we set," the official said on condition of anonymity.

"Those are forces which allies have said to us, 'They are available to you as of now at that level of readiness'."


Comment: In December 2023 announced its plans to increase its troop number up to 1.5 million.


Comment: What the alliance lacks in capability and weaponry they make up for in recklessness and wishful thinking.

Further, as the West's various proxy wars, such as Afghanistan, and Ukraine, demonstrate, 'comfortable readiness' is one thing, but actual combat capabilities is quite another.

That said, it seems that the establishment's global destabilisation agenda is serve multiple goals:


Better Earth

Best of the Web: Earth's inner core has slowed since 2010, new study confirms

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© University of Southern CaliforniaThe inner core began to decrease its speed around 2010, moving slower than the Earth’s surface.
University of Southern California scientists have proven that the Earth's inner core is backtracking — slowing down — in relation to the planet's surface, as shown in new research published in Nature.

Movement of the inner core has been debated by the scientific community for two decades, with some research indicating that the inner core rotates faster than the planet's surface. The new USC study provides unambiguous evidence that the inner core began to decrease its speed around 2010, moving slower than the Earth's surface.

"When I first saw the seismograms that hinted at this change, I was stumped," said John Vidale, Dean's Professor of Earth Sciences at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. "But when we found two dozen more observations signaling the same pattern, the result was inescapable. The inner core had slowed down for the first time in many decades. Other scientists have recently argued for similar and different models, but our latest study provides the most convincing resolution."

Comment: There is research showing a correlation between solar activity and a variety of activity, and phenomena, on Earth: And check out SOTT radio's: See also: Unexpected Global Warming Spike - Solar Storms Affect Earth's Rotation - Ancient Tools In Maryland