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Dollars

The Benjamins may be losing their ability to get US politicians to toe the Israeli line

Netanyahu
© Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty ImagesIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu • 5th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism
Jerusalem • 2015
As a working journalist who reports frequently on the machinations of the pro-Israel lobby, one of the most common claims I come across is that it doesn't actually exist. Almost uniquely among Middle Eastern regimes allied to Britain and the US, we are told, Israel has no lobby which advocates for Western policies to support it.

Such denial is to be expected, though. Lobbies that work mostly behind closed doors and within the corridors of power do not like their shady activities to be exposed to public scrutiny.

The pro-Israel lobby has a unique strategy, in that it accuses its enemies of anti-Semitism. Israel's critics, we are told, are not motivated by concern over the country's blatant human rights violations and war crimes; they only oppose Israel's Jewishness. Human rights concerns, we are told, are just a cover.

Comment: Traps and control: Money may make the world go 'round, but unrelenting, overpowering influence gives it the shove.


Camcorder

Capitol security review ordered by Pelosi suggests long-term or permanent D.C. surveillance

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© Sarah Silbiger/Getty ImagesNational Guard and fencing at US Capitol as security measures
New recommendations from a retired general and a team of veteran military and national security officials following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot include Congress expanding intelligence analysts within the Capitol Police, installing a retractable fence around the Capitol Hill perimeter and increase background checks.

After security review, Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore - assigned to the job by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - and his team have determined that there are several gaps in the Capitol's security which are attributed to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. The investigative team released a final report Monday in which they proposed strategies to combat threats in the nation's capital.

Fox News last week obtained a draft report of the recommendations. Honore and his team wrote:
"Any security measure that reduces physical access to the Capitol Complex makes it less accessible to the public it serves. As representatives of the people, Members understandably seek to be available to their constituents and transparent about their travel and activities, yet such openness can create physical security vulnerabilities."
The report suggests that background checks of all members, staff and Capitol employees should be improved to prevent any "insider threat" as well as the establishment of a "threat-based" system and a "Member Travel Operations Center" to review security while Congress members are traveling to and from their districts.

The recommendations also promote the expansion of the police canine explosive-detection program and the improvement of emergency evacuation plans and routes.

The most significant suggestion explains that a "dedicated quick reaction force" should be established, possibly permanently. This means some kind of long-term military or law enforcement group that would be ready to quickly respond to developing emergencies by ramping up capacity.

Comment: Optics to reinforce fear and dependency? The public is now the enemy, though some might speculate the enemy is within.


Footprints

Whether or not the US leaves Afghanistan, the Taliban will stand triumphant and the violence won't stop

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© Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesUS Marine in Main Poshteh, Afghanistan
A leaked letter from Secretary of State Antony Blinken shows that America is seeking a new resolution to the Afghan conflict. But there are essentially two outcomes for the US: defeat with dignity or defeat with embarrassment.

Last year, the United States initiated a historic deal with Afghanistan's militant Islamist group, the Taliban. The agreement seemed quite straightforward:
if the Taliban refrained from attacking NATO coalition soldiers and brokered peace with the Afghan government (which was not party to the talks), then America would fulfill a promise to withdraw its troops from the country by May 1.
It all seemed a bit idealistic, yet it was the outcome of what is a near two-decade-long slog through an unwinnable quagmire - the epitome, you might say, of the US' perpetual-war machine.

Of course, the curious nature of the deal has meant Washington isn't just packing up and exiting without any questions, and leaving the Afghan government to the mercy of the Taliban.

Comment: Plain and simple: Forever wars like Afghanistan are a product of MIC control. Never cut the source of power. Never cut the source of financial gain. America must confront this hegemon. That is its real fight.


Star of David

EU backs ICC after Netanyahu's 'anti-Semitism' smear

Neti and Gantz
© Menahem Kahana/ReutersIsraeli PM Netanyahu and DM Gantz are likely targets of the ICC war crimes investigation.
The European Union appears to be rejecting Benjamin Netanyahu's smears against the International Criminal Court after Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda confirmed on Wednesday that she would be launching a formal investigation into war crimes in Palestine.

The Israeli prime minister blasted the investigation as "the essence of anti-Semitism," and other Israeli leaders lashed out in similar terms.

Asked by The Electronic Intifada for the EU's reaction to Netanyahu's comments, the bloc's spokesperson Peter Stano did not respond directly regarding the Israeli leader. However, Stano affirmed that the "ICC is an independent and impartial judicial institution with no political objectives to pursue."

He also reiterated that the EU "respects the court's independence and impartiality" - an implicit rebuke of Israel's outlandish charges of anti-Jewish bias.

Stano noted that the ICC is
"a court of last resort, a fundamental safety net to help victims achieve justice where this is not possible at the national level, thus where the state concerned is genuinely unwilling or unable to carry out the investigation or the prosecution."

Comment: There is no profit in supporting the rectification of Palestinian persecution - therefore a judicial mute point. So say the MIC. Palestine is not a customer. Israel is not just a customer, it drums up business.


USA

Best of the Web: Ebony, Ivory, Postmodernism, and the New American Communo-Fascists

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'Ebony' and 'Ivory' are living in a near perfect disharmony in America these days. And Americans have good reason to be angry and distraught over the explosion of our once comitous, constitutional culture as a result of the rise of liberal fascism in our institutions and groups such as Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and even in the Democratic Party (DP). But decades ago, postmodernism in the universities, education system, media and general culture planted poisonous seeds of a 'liberal' mix of communism and fascism or communo-fascism. These were contained somewhat cryptically in postmodernism's two essential elements of multiculturalism and deconstruction and their offspring — critical race theory and Black liberation theology. Rooted in the cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt school of culturologists, sexologists, and sociologists founded in 1923, multiculturalism holds in its overt form that all cultures were equal, self-sufficient, autonomous, and to some extent biological. But covertly, under multiculturalism some identities were designated 'more equal' than others. Non-European culture supersedes European culture, which is plagued by an aspiration to domination and violence expressed in imperialism. Black culture supersedes white culture, which - ditto. Female culture, even biology is superior to male culture, which - ditto. These relations form the social structure of 'oppression' by inferior but more 'aggressive white male' culture, economy, and social structure, according to this ideology of racial Marxism. This culture, economy, and society must be destroyed, in the view of the new racial communism.

The biological element of this 'system' of covert multiculturalism and its successor racial theories in particular always held within it the grave danger of racial Marxism or simply communo-fascism: the primordial view of nationality that tends to pervade ultra-nationalist and fascist movements. Focused on 'blood', this view of national identity downplays the cultural and even linguistic elements of national identities and the extent nationalities can be formed or 'constructed' - witness America, for example.

Red Flag

Hong Kong patriotism includes party loyalty, Chinese official says

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Loyalty to China's Communist Party will be key to deciding if a Hong Konger is a "patriot", a senior Chinese official said Tuesday, as Beijing draws up new laws to vet the finance hub's politicians.

China has acted to quash dissent in semi-autonomous Hong Kong after huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy demonstrations swept the city for months in 2019.

Its latest plan is to impose sweeping changes to Hong Kong's already limited election system, barring anyone not deemed loyal enough and reducing the influence of the small number of directly elected positions.

Dubbed "patriots governing Hong Kong", Beijing says the changes are needed to restore stability and to plug loopholes that accommodate "anti-China" forces.

Critics see it as another nail in the coffin for Hong Kong's democracy movement as Beijing presses ahead with a widespread campaign against dissent.

Quenelle

Trump: 'No more money for RINOs,' asks supporters to donate to His PAC and website

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© REUTERS/Joe SkipperFormer President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 28, 2021.
President Donald Trump issued a fiery statement on Monday night calling on his supporters to no longer give money to Republicans who oppose his Make America Great Again agenda and directed donations to his campaign website and the Save America political action committee, instead of the Republican National Committee (RNC).

"No more money for RINOS," Trump said in a statement, using an acronym for Republicans in Name Only. "They do nothing but hurt the Republican Party and our great voting base — they will never lead us to Greatness. Send your donation to Save America PAC at DonaldJTrump.com. We will bring it all back stronger than ever before!"

Trump's missive appeared to be a response to the RNC, which, according to The Hill and Politico, brushed off his cease-and-desist letter demanding that the committee stop using his name and likeness to raise funds. The president sent similar letters to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, according to a Trump advisor.

Comment: Trump called out the RINOs by name, signalling primary targets for 2022:




Syringe

French gov warns it could make covid jabs compulsory for health workers amid 'unacceptable' uptake

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© Bertrand Guay/Pool via REUTERSA healthcare worker prepares a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in the HIA Begin military hospital, in Saint-Mande, southeast of Paris, France.
The French government has said that the level of Covid-19 vaccine uptake among those working in healthcare settings "is not acceptable" and said it could make the jab compulsory if vaccination rates don't improve.
"For the last year our health workers have been heroic, but the vaccination rate among them today is not acceptable," Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, told Le Parisien newspaper on Sunday.
Echoing the words of the Health Minister Olivier Veran last week, Attal said getting the jab was the responsible thing for healthcare workers to do.
"It would be irresponsible to refuse to be vaccinated when one is a health worker... Everyone is rolling up their sleeves to get us out of this epidemic. Now they have to roll them up to the shoulder to get vaccinated," Attal said.

Comment: Even after a year of relentless propaganda, fear panic, and hysteria by the PTB, the majority of people, including medical staff, are still refusing the Covid vaccines because they are aware of their inefficiency and scared of the dangerous side-effects possible - including death.

So the next "logical" step is to make vaccines mandatory so that the whole population is under increasingly greater control. Totalitarian rule is attempting to strengthen itself more and more - every single day - under the guise keeping us "safe" and "healthy".

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Colosseum

Supreme Court tosses Trump's last election appeals on technical grounds, not evidence

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© AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteKathy Kratt of Orlando, Fla., displays her Trump flags as she and other protesters demonstrate their support for President Donald Trump at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020
The US Supreme Court on Monday tossed the last of three cases brought by former President Donald Trump challenging his 2020 election loss, ending his quest for vindication through the courts - hardly any of which actually considered the evidence presented, and instead dismissed the cases on technical grounds.

Without comment, the highest court in the land rejected Trump's appeal challenging thousands of Wisconsin absentee ballots, where he lost to Joe Biden by over 20,000 votes, according to Reuters.

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Star of David

Israel lays hundreds of landmines on Palestinian lands in the Jordan Valley

Jordan Valley West Bank Israel
Occupied Jordan Valley
The Israeli occupation forces converted more than 400,000 dunams of land in the Jordan Valley into closed military zones and established 97 military sites there. It also planted hundreds of agricultural dunums in the Jordan Valley with landmines.

The Israeli occupation forces stormed yesterday evening, Sunday, Khirbet Homsa in the northern Jordan Valley, and launched a campaign of confiscations of citizens' properties.

Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces confiscated the vehicle of the representative of the assembly, the citizen Harb Abu Al-Kabbash, after confiscating his family's personal identities card and mobile phones.