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Star of David

Netanyahu justifies strikes on nuclear facilities

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© Mario Tama/Getty Images/fileRemember this UN presentation?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that the option of attacking an Iranian nuclear facility in "self-defense" must be left on the table, arguing that the chief of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) made an "unworthy" statement when he declared that any such strikes are banned.

Netanyahu said on Sunday in a cabinet meeting:
"Are we forbidden to defend ourselves? Of course, we are allowed, and of course, we are doing this... Nothing will prevent us from protecting our country and preventing oppressors from destroying the Jewish state."
Netanyahu's remarks came a day after IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi was asked by a reporter about US and Israeli threats to attack Iran if it doesn't agree to curb its nuclear program.

"Any military attack on a nuclear facility is outlawed, is out of the normative structures that we all abide by," Grossi said at a press briefing in Tehran after meeting with Iranian leaders. That principle applies to all nuclear facilities, including Europe's biggest atomic facility in Zaporozhye.

Oil Well

Top US general reaffirms occupation of Syria during visit

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© Phil Stewart/Reuters.jpgArmy General Mark Milley
US planners continue to occupy northeastern Syria under the pretext of fighting ISIS...

Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited US forces occupying northeastern Syria on Saturday, 4 March, allegedly to assess efforts to prevent a resurgence of ISIS and to review safeguards for US forces against attacks, including from drones flown by Iran-backed militias, Reuters has reported.

Some 1,000 American troops continue to support allied Arab and Kurdish militias from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the region. Milley, whose term as chairman of the joint chiefs ends in September, met with the commander of the US-led coalition to defeat ISIS, Army Maj. Gen. Matthew McFarlane, and reviewed security measures from an undisclosed base in Syria's northeast.

According to Al-Monitor, Milley's visit to Syria signals the Biden administration's seriousness about keeping troops in the country in support of the SDF. Pentagon's top Middle East policy official, Dana Stroul, told reporters last week:
"We're committed to maintaining our force presence in support of the enduring defeat of ISIS. This is a mission that has the full support of the Secretary of Defense."
Syria analyst Jennifer Cafarella of the Institute for the Study of War noted the importance of continuing the US military occupation in northeastern Syria. She observed in 2017:
"Whether Washington chooses to admit it or not, the US now has direct influence over the vast majority of Syria's most productive oil fields, and that the territorial gains of the SDF are Syrian national treasures that when added up amount to brute geopolitical power for the US."

Putin

What did Putin mean by 'denazification' of Ukraine and why is it so important?

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The burning of the Trade Union House in Odessa during the Euromaiden coup in 2014
For years, Russia has been calling on Western nations to investigate cases of human rights abuse, illegal killings, and war crimes committed by the Ukrainian authorities that came to power after the 2014 coup. Moscow pointed out that many of them were committed by neo-Nazis against Russians or Russian-speaking people.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin was announcing the start of a special operation to protect the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) on 24 February, he described the goals as "demilitarising and denazifying" Ukraine. His spokesman later elaborated that "denazifying" means that Russia is planning to free Ukraine from neo-Nazis, their supporters, and their ideology.

Moscow has repeatedly warned foreign nations about neo-Nazis taking control of Ukraine following the West-backed coup in 2014. However, Western nations chose to ignore the human rights violations committed by the Kiev regime.

What were these crimes?

Che Guevara

Neo-Nazi brotherhood: How American friends of Ukrainian fascists plotted a terror attack in the US and the media ignored the story

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© Social MediaNeo-nazi Atomwaffen Division, also known as the National Socialist Resistance Front
In normal circumstances, the Atomwaffen's plot in Baltimore should have been headline news

American far-right radicals - linked to neo-Nazis from the Ukrainian Azov Battalion - have been charged with conspiring to stage a terrorist attack in Baltimore, Maryland. However, US media reporting on the story does not mention connections between the group and the militants.

Additionally, the attempted terrorist act may only be the first signs of the threat that Azov members, and their foreign friends, pose to Western countries.

Comment: They are not just covering for the Biden administration's criminal actions in fomenting a war, but for Creepy Joe's personal corruption in connection to Ukraine. Instigation a home-grown Operation Gladio may be just the ticket.

FBI allegedly funded white supremacist publisher: court documents


Eye 1

Best of the Web: Matt Hancock's plan to 'frighten the pants off everyone' about Covid

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Throughout the course of the pandemic, officials and ministers wrestled with how to ensure the public complied with ever-changing lockdown restrictions. One weapon in their arsenal was fear.

"We frighten the pants off everyone," Matt Hancock suggested during one WhatsApp message with his media adviser.

The then health secretary was not alone in his desire to scare the public into compliance. The WhatsApp messages seen by The Telegraph show how several members of Mr Hancock's team engaged in a kind of "Project Fear", in which they spoke of how to utilise "fear and guilt" to make people obey lockdown.

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Light Saber

'It's always worse than we thought': Jim Jordan finds a 'central theme' to his investigations

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© Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRep. Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, speaks to the press in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.
Jordan chairs the House Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan says his various investigations have proven the need for substantial congressional oversight of the federal government, and he told Fox News Digital he's hopeful House Democrats can find ways to work with the GOP majority.

"With all these things that we start to investigate, it seems to me that the central theme is — the only thing we get wrong is — it's always worse than we thought," Jordan said.

During an interview with Fox News Digital, Jordan, R-Ohio, laid out the investigations the House Judiciary Committee and his Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government are conducting in the 118th Congress.

Comment: All well and good (not to mention expensive), but unless the investigations end with charges and arrests, it's just another show. Jordan and his compatriots have to produce results.


Arrow Down

Ukrainian tank soldier tells AFP 'Bakhmut will fall'

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© European Press AgencyUkraine soldiers holed up in defensive trenches
Kiev's troops on the ground are reportedly concerned that the government is clinging to a key Donbass city

Despite the Ukrainian leadership's insistence that its armed forces will continue to defend the Donbass city of Artyomovsk, also known as Bakhmut, there are indications of a looming retreat, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

"Bakhmut will fall," a Ukrainian tank operator told AFP in the town of Chasov Yar, about 10 km (six miles) west of Artyomovsk. "We are almost encircled. The units are progressively retreating in small groups."

Camcorder

Trump reacts to new footage of Capitol riots

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© AFP / Alex WongFormer US President Donald Trump addresses the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
The former president congratulated Tucker Carlson for what he called one of the biggest journalistic "scoops" in US history.

Most of those who made their way into the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 are "totally innocent," former US President Donald Trump has insisted after Fox News host Tucker Carlson published new footage of the events.

Carlson had earlier been granted access by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to more than 40,000 hours of security video records from the Capitol on the day of the riots. On Monday, the Fox News host shared some of those clips on his program, showing Trump's supporters behaving peacefully inside the US Congress in Washington, DC.

Comment: It's rather rich that the left-wing media are accusing Tucker of cherry-picking clips to support his own biases when that's exactly what they've been doing for the last two years.

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Bad Guys

Netanyahu slams IAEA chief for saying attacks on nuclear facilities are 'outlawed'

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday slammed International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi for saying attacks on nuclear facilities are "outlawed."

Israel has a history of launching covert attacks against Iranian nuclear facilities, and Netanyahu has been threatening to take more overt action. US officials have also said President Biden will keep a military option on the table to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon even though the Pentagon and CIA recently acknowledged Tehran is not seeking a bomb.

Grossi just returned from a visit to Iran, where he secured a pledge for the IAEA to receive more access to Iranian nuclear facilities. When asked about the US and Israeli threats, Grossi said that "any military attack on a nuclear facility is outlawed, is out of the normative structures that we all abide by."

Cow Skull

Biden's "great economic recovery" narrative is built on deception

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This past month a poll held by ABC and the Washington Post with a 37 year history asked Americans if they were better or worse off in the two years since Biden entered the White House. If you were to ask Biden this question, you would be regaled with a flurry of great news about a fantastic economic recovery, epic jobs numbers, falling inflation and a dropping deficit. When you ask actual average citizens, you get a much different reply.

According to the ABC/Post poll, Americans say they are worse off than they have ever been, with the most negative data in the history of the survey. Over 40% of respondents indicated their financial situation was worse under Biden. Only 16% of people said they were better off. Not only that, but 60% of Democrats polled said they did NOT want Joe Biden as their candidate in 2024, and 62% of all people polled said they would be disappointed or even angry if Biden remained in the White House for a second term. This is astounding.

How does one reconcile this reality with the claims made by Joe Biden on the economy? If this is the "greatest economic recovery ever" then why are so many Americans in financial misery?