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Israel frees ONE hostage in Gaza, battles Hamas, as displaced families seek safety in ever-shrinking area

Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Ramadan Abed and James Mackenzie
Reuters
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:06 UTC
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© REUTERS/Mohammed SalemPalestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike that destroyed several houses, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip August 27, 2024.
Palestinians displaced by fighting in the Gaza Strip crowded onto the seashore as Israeli forces continued to battle Hamas fighters in central and southern areas, freeing one hostage in an operation in the south of the enclave on Tuesday.

Gaza's health officials reported that at least 22 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli military strikes across the territory.
As ceasefire talks were continuing in Cairo with little sign of a concrete breakthrough over key issues separating the sides, Israel said it had rescued Qaid Farhan Alkadi, taken hostage on Oct. 7, after a "complex operation" in southern Gaza. It said his medical condition was normal.

Comment: Israel also said any "ceasefire" must include the provision that they may continue the genocide. Clown world.



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Yoda

RFK Jr blames 'censorship' for failed campaign, shares details of talks with Trump

Anders Hagstrom
Fox News
Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:41 UTC
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the race and endorsed Donald Trump on Sunday, August 25, 2024.
RFK Jr. withdrew from the race and endorsed Trump on Friday

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered new details about his conversations with former President Trump in his first interview since dropping out of the race and endorsing him on Sunday.

Kennedy made the statement during an exclusive interview on "Fox News Sunday" with host Shannon Bream. He argued that his campaign had failed to gain ground due to "censorship" by the media.

"It became clear to me that I did not have a path to victory," Kennedy said. "Sixteen months of censorship, of not being able to get on any network really except for Fox."

"When Ross Perot ran, in the 10 months that he ran, he had 34 appearances on the networks. I had two appearances in 16 months, so I was blocked out of the networks, and I was blocked out of the debate. I had no path to victory."
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Bad Guys

RINOS react! Over 200 Bush, McCain, Romney Aides Endorse Harris

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:02 UTC
For your daily reminder that the establishment is one big club (and you ain't in it!)...
Carlin
...more than 200 former aides to George W. Bush, Sen. John McCain, and Mitt Romney have offered their full-throated support for Vice President Kamala Harris. According to The Hill, most of the group also endorsed President Biden in 2020.

In a Monday letter first reported by USA Today, the group reiterated their opposition to Trump and support of Harris.

""Of course, we have plenty of honest, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz. That's to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable," reads the letter.

Comment: It is not surprising that these people support Kamala Harris as they also are servant to the Deep State, eternal wars and the imperial mindset. They never came out to bat for Trump and his MAGA agenda in the last 8 years as they simply didn't care for the problems of ordinary American people.

It appears as if the wheat and the chaff are starting to separate from each other all by itself.

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'RFK, Jr. murders whale with chainsaw!'

James Howard Kunstler
jameshowardkunstler.substack.com
Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
DTRFK
© dailydot.com/whalesonline.co./KJNFormer US President Donald Trump โ€ข Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
"Our society is now a strange hybrid of the Middle Ages, the Third Reich, and Brave New World. We have two classes โ€” lords and peasants; we are in the midst of a very profitable genocide; and it's all infused with surveillance technology, mind-altering drugs, and wall-to-wall propaganda."
โ€” Dr. Toby Rogers
The alliance between Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Donald Trump is many things. But first it's an all-clear signal to a large class of less-than-fully brain-damaged Americans that it's okay to quit being insane. As you know, this election is no longer a battle between the political Left and Right. It's an epic struggle-session between the sane and the insane.

You just witnessed the Democratic Convention nominating an empty pantsuit whose only record as a high government official is failure to protect and defend the nation and to support its constitution. All arranged without any real votes cast. Pretty neat trick, pulled off under the banner of Saving Our Democracy. Please understand that it was the result of hypnotizing so many vulnerable personalities into a mass formation psychosis. They were vulnerable because they are scared stiff by propaganda specifically targeting their deepest archetypal fears โ€” in this case, fear of Daddy, meaning fear of behavioral boundaries, in short, of being civilized.
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Arrow Down

EU to Telegram - We're coming to get you

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik International
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:13 UTC
Telegram App
© Sputnik / Natalia Seliverstova
The Pavel Durov saga is a gift that will keep on giving for a long time to come. This is what hot information war is all about. So let's attempt to connect several loose ends.

A high-level Russian analyst makes the case that Durov's arrest is connected with "anti-French protests in its former colonies, withdrawal from its traditional 'sphere of influence' where Telegram infrastructure was used to push anti-colonial and anti-Macronist narratives".

Add to it an "attempt to influence narratives on Ukraine both in Russian and the international media field, which is highly dependent on Telegram infrastructure."

Paris is indeed desperate to make itself relevant when it comes to psy ops and influencing/special warfare in Ukraine.

However, as the analyst notes, the French don't have the tech means to accomplish it. So this may have led to Macron deciding to "exercise a personal pressure campaign against Durov himself. French authorities must be rather desperate in trying to keep their heads in the game of global politics. And Telegram today is (his italics) global politics."

Paris was just waiting for a big break. When the pilot of Durov's Embraer private jet submitted his flight plan, there was no warrant for his arrest in France. Only when the jet was on its way to Le Bourget, Paris filed the warrant in haste. Durov was clueless all along.

In a nutshell: Paris got a fateful heads up he was flying into France - could have been via Durov's Dubai-based, post-obsessive, social climbing girlfriend - and laid out the trap in a flash.

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US nuclear project 'years' behind schedule


RT
Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:46 UTC
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© US Air ForceAir Force airmen working on a ballistic missile near Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.
Rebuilding silos for Sentinel missiles is creating headaches for the Pentagon.

Refurbishing the decades-old missile silos will cost billions of dollars more than originally thought and may not start for five years, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing Pentagon officials.

The US Department of Defense decided last month to press on with the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, even though its estimated cost has almost doubled from the original $78 billion. Replacing the aging Minuteman III missiles has no alternative, the Pentagon said.

It could be "five years or more before work starts" on modernizing some 450 existing silos for the new missiles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing a recent town meeting in Kimball, Nebraska. The community of less than 3,000 residents is surrounded by "one of the biggest missile fields" in the world.

"There are a lot of unknowns here, and I understand the frustration," Brigadier-General Colin Connor told residents earlier this month.

Comment: Nothing says 'global friendship and cooperation' like a battery of inoperable intercontinental ballistic missiles and the inability to resurrect them.

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Lightning

The quiet before the storms in Ukraine, Gaza and Taiwan?

Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
piers
© UnknownCalm before the storm
Amid doubts about Biden's ability to effectively lead the U.S. in his remaining months as president, our enemies abroad might see an opportunity to alter the global balance of power.

There are three current hot or cold wars: on the Ukrainian border, in the regions surrounding Israel, and in the strategic space between Taiwan and mainland China. All three conflicts could not only expand within their respective theaters but also escalate to draw in the United States.

And all three involve nuclear powers.

Various Russian megaphones routinely threaten to use tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Some boast about sending strategic nuclear bombs or missiles against its Western suppliers, especially as the costs of Russian aggression mount and the humiliation of Putin escalates.

Nuclear Israel and near-nuclear Iran have both exchanged attacks on their respective homelands โ€” and promise to do so again.

China likewise on occasion existentially threatens Taiwan. Its freelancing generals and spokesmen periodically warn Japan and the U.S. of dire nuclear consequences should they intervene on Taiwan's behalf.

In all these theaters, there superficially appears to be stasis and deadlock: Israel is said to be bogged down in Gaza as it seeks to neutralize 400 miles of subterranean command-and-control installations and munitions, find and rescue surviving Israeli hostages, and take out the Hamas leaders. And no one believes that the degradation of Hamas will mark the end of the war, given the agendas of Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran, to attack periodically and chronically the Jewish state.


Comment: Assessments are backwards and upside down. US has its hand in all three scenarios. And Putin? An outright lie.


Comment: Mainstream media's distortions and outright lies aim to manage public perceptions and fix opinions, laying blame 'according to order' absent of facts.

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Zelensky signs law to ban Ukraine's largest church


RT
Sat, 24 Aug 2024 10:38 UTC
Church
© Getty Images/STR/NurPhotoUkrainian churchgoers celebrate Orthodox Easter
Vladimir Zelensky has signed a law that calls for the banning of any religious group suspected of having ties to Russia. It threatens to effectively shut down the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) - the largest faith-based organization in the country.

The Ukrainian parliament introduced the legislation earlier this week; it is expected to take effect in 30 days. After that, all the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and all affiliated religious organizations will be outlawed.

The UOC will have nine months to sever all ties with the ROC, despite the Ukrainian church having already declared full autonomy from the Moscow Patriarchate in 2022, following the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict.

After signing the legislation on Saturday, the country's Independence Day, Zelensky released a video address stating that "Ukrainian Orthodoxy is today taking a step towards liberation from Moscow's devils."

Comment: See also:

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Bullseye

Durov's arrest represents a new level of desperation from western elites

Martin Jay
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:55 UTC
Pavel Durov, Emmanuel Macron,
© SCF
The arrest of Pavel Durov marks a new low point on the scumline of the side of the bath - the tub being western democracies and the line being their desperation to stay in power at the costs of controlling social media. Durov, who owns Telegram and lives in Dubai, could be in jail for months and possibly years on the trumped-up charges which the French state has conjured up simply because he refuses to allow any government to have a back door into Telegram. He has fought this tooth and nail for years with the west, in particular the U.S., playing every dirty trick in the book to get access to the platform for its own nefarious purposes - to destroy opposition figures, their strategies etc. - rather than what it is dressed up to be, identifying terrorists and international criminals.

As the UK ponders how its own state has sunk to a new totalitarian level in recent days with the arrest of its citizens who merely like a posting on a social media platform, the West has arrested this French Russian dual national genius who is charged with the crimes of those criminals active on Telegram. And so charges of terrorism and trafficking in minors, drugs and whatever else they can find on the platform will be made against him as someone abetting in the crimes. Of course, the same rules will not be leveled against Elon Musk who surely has criminals on his platform or for that matter any of the other social media platforms.

Comment: Youseff took down his own account and the Tate brothers are slimy grifters who gloat about being manipulative exploiters. Those two points aside, the rest of the analysis holds up just fine.

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Best of the Web: In stunning letter to Congress, Zuckerberg admits Biden-Harris pressured Facebook to censor content

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:09 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg


Two years ago Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to Joe Rogan that the FBI pressured Facebook into censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Now he's participating in a Congressional investigation.

In a stunning Monday evening letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg admitted that senior Biden administration officials "repeatedly pressured" Facebook teams to suppress information related to COVID-19 that the platform would not have otherwise censored - and the administration 'expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.'

Zuck now says that Facebook should not have compromised its standards "due to pressure from any Administration in either direction."

"I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it," reads the letter. "I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today."

He's also committed and "ready to push back if something like this happens again."

Comment:


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