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The final word in Palestine for those who endure the most

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00 UTC

The extraordinary confrontations between the Palestinians and Israel are evidence of paradoxes that will not be resolved anytime soon. The Israeli approach to what is going on seems formal and misleading. Israeli Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi said:

"Hamas has not properly assessed the severity of our response, as the Gaza Strip is facing an enormous intensity of attack that has not been witnessed to this day."

Tel Aviv revealed that it had bombed over 1,500 targets and destroyed dozens of buildings in the besieged Gaza City. However, Israel never realized that the Palestinian resistance groups had introduced new long-range missiles and significantly increased firepower with a rhythm of more than 150 rockets fired daily and simultaneously. The Palestinians registered more than 100 buildings hit in Israel, and Gaza introduced a new equation by bombing from the first day Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. This is a fundamental change in the rules of engagement, of bombing gradual stages and avoid bombing Tel Aviv, to which the "Axis of the Resistance" is accustomed. For the first time, new missiles were launched, under the name "Al-Qasim" (named after the Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani responsible for supplying the Palestinians with weapons) which has a warhead of 400 kg and "Ayyash" (named after "Yahya Ayyash") with a range of 250 kilometres.

Mask psychosis: NYT confirms 'The Liberal Mask Cult' is here to stay

Revolver
Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00 UTC

All at once, the powers that be want Covid-19 to be finished. Mere weeks ago, the CDC wanted Americans to wear face masks almost everywhere they went. Now, masks are out. The CDC says people with vaccines no longer need to wear them. They've become optional in Virginia and in Andrew Cuomo's authoritarian bailiwick of New York. It's amazing what one month of really bad jobs numbers can do to the science.

Whatever its political shortcomings, the Biden administration wants the country reopened and things (mostly) back to normal so they can reap the political dividends of undoing the calamitous lockdowns that liberal ideology created in the first place.

There's just one problem: The regime's propaganda was too effective. Millions of loyal cattle are too traumatized to go back to their old way of life. In a recent poll conducted by The Hill, forty-two percent of registered voters and a majority of Democrats said that, regardless of advice from the CDC or other health officials, everybody should still wear masks outdoors no matter what:

For a great many on the left, if not an outright majority, mask mania has become a deeply personal commitment. Despite all the babbling for a year about "trusting the science," when the official science says to stop wearing masks, millions of the Globalist American Empire's cattle are proving more loyal to masks than to science. In fact, as a recent MIT investigation discovered, vaccine and mask skeptics are more likely to have seriously weighed the science in question.

Comment: It is not only the average American that is under this mass mask delusion:

See also: Pelosi: Lawmakers who don't wear masks or get vaccinated could be banned from house floor

US Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk

Thomas Franck
CNBC
Thu, 20 May 2021 12:13 UTC

The Treasury Department on Thursday announced that it is taking steps to crack down on cryptocurrency markets and transactions, and said it will require any transfer worth $10,000 or more to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service.

"Cryptocurrency already poses a significant detection problem by facilitating illegal activity broadly including tax evasion," the Treasury Department said in a release.

"This is why the President's proposal includes additional resources for the IRS to address the growth of cryptoassets," the department added.

"Within the context of the new financial account reporting regime, cryptocurrencies and cryptoasset exchange accounts and payment service accounts that accept cryptocurrencies would be covered. Further, as with cash transactions, businesses that receive cryptoassets with a fair market value of more than $10,000 would also be reported on."

Bitcoin reversed course shortly after the Treasury's announcement and was last seen trading up 1.6%, according to Coin Metrics. Previously in the session, it was up more than 9%.

Biden corruption piles higher: Hunter emails reveal ex-FBI chief gave $100K to Biden grandkid trust as he sought 'future work'

Emma-Jo Morris and Bruce Golding
New York Post
Fri, 21 May 2021 18:44 UTC

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh gave $100,000 to a trust for two of President Biden's grandchildren as he sought to pursue "some very good and profitable matters" with him, newly surfaced emails revealed Thursday.

Freeh apparently made the gift in April 2016 — when Biden was the outgoing vice president — and shortly before he told Biden's son Hunter, "I would be delighted to do future work with you," according to the emails.

An email from Louis Freeh to Hunter Biden reveals Freeh would be delighted "to do future work with you."

Israeli PM Netanyahu's office announces upcoming ceasefire between Tel Aviv and Hamas

Daria Bedenko
Sputnik
Fri, 21 May 2021 02:09 UTC

Earlier in the week, contradicting reports emerged in regard to a possible ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after tensions erupted in May. On Wednesday, a senior Hamas official, Mousa Abu Marzook, said he expected a ceasefire to happen "within a day or two".

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday confirmed that the Security Cabinet had voted unanimously to approve a ceasefire between Tel Aviv and Hamas. The statement said:

"The Security Cabinet unanimously accepted the recommendation of all heads of security services, the chief of general staff, the head of the Shabak, the head of the Mossad and the head of the National Security Council to accept the Egyptian initiative on a bilateral ceasefire, which will come into force later."

The Israeli Foreign Ministry released the statement in its Twitter account, highlighting that the agreement was reached without preconditions, also noting Israel's "significant achievements in the operation, some of which are unprecedented."

A Hamas spokesperson said that Egypt had informed the movement that an agreement was reached on a ceasefire beginning at 2 a.m. on Friday, 21 May [23:00 GMT Thursday]. According to AFP, the Islamic Jihad has also confirmed the ceasefire.

Comment: The tide has turned, at least for now.

It is not the 'reality on the ground' that will determine the ceasefire...it is the results in the minds of the aggressors. As Israel's Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said: "The country will halt its offensive only when we decide we have attained our goals."

See also:

US pullout from Afghanistan at least 13% complete says Pentagon

Yahoo News
Tue, 18 May 2021 10:04 UTC

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan is between 13 percent and 20 percent complete, the Pentagon's Central Command said Tuesday, as it pushes to beat a September deadline for the pullout.

CentCom said that since President Joe Biden ordered the exit in April, it had removed the equivalent of 115 fully loaded C-17 cargo aircraft worth of material from the country, while consigning more than 5,000 pieces of equipment to a Pentagon agency for destruction.

CentCom has also turned over five facilities to the Afghan Defense Ministry, including Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan, once the second largest military base in the country for US forces.

The US military is declining to be precise about the speed of the withdrawal and likely final date in order to "preserve operational security."

The US Defense Department has to remove its last 2,500 service members and another 16,000 civilian contractors from the war zone by September 11, which will be the 20th anniversary of the Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States that sparked the US-led invasion of the country.

'I could hear their screams': Inside Gaza's Al-Wehda Street massacre

Robert Inlakesh
RT
Fri, 21 May 2021 17:36 UTC

"My building was bombed and my neighbours have been killed! And I can hear screams from under the rubble!" These were the first words I heard from a friend as she hid in her basement from Israeli airstrikes this weekend.

At roughly 1:30am on May 16, Israeli forces bombarded one of the best-kept neighbourhoods in Gaza without warning, killing at least 30 people and forever shattering the lives of its residents. The primary street hit that night, Al-Wehda Street, lies at the heart of the Al-Rimal area in Gaza City and was once one of the few thriving thoroughfares in the besieged coastal enclave. However, all that changed in the blink of an eye.

Ruba Shabit, a fellow journalist working for Press TV, lives there and only by chance survived this Sunday's massacre. For hours, I hovered over the phone, praying that no more bombs would land on her building, after receiving a brief phone call from her telling me about the carnage she had witnessed. At the other end of the phone, I had no idea what she must have been feeling, so interviewed her soon after the massacre to try to comprehend what she had just lived through.

Comment: Israel loves to boast about it's precision munitions. The al-Wehda district is one of several middle- to upper-class area in Gaza. Would be unreasonable to conclude that Gaza's medical, business and educational professionals were deliberately targeted?

Gold, crypto, unemployment and the 'Great Reset'

Tom Luongo
Gold, Goats 'N Guns
Fri, 07 May 2021 00:00 UTC

Comment: The following is by no means financial advice.

For the past few weeks I've incurred the wrath of what I'm now calling "Gold-Only" bugs for constantly haranguing them about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. These are the folks which state only gold can beat the central banks.

I've made my position very clear, in a world of digital money and accelerating technology there is room for both assets as stores-of-value for different types of investors and taking a ideological position for either is stupid as well as arrogant.

Like all things, there are reasons why putting all of your eggs in one basket in markets as cocked-up and purposefully manipulated as these is simply bad asset management. Risk is, ultimately, not someone else's problem no matter how much Wall St. tries to convince of this otherwise.

Risk is your problem.

The gold and crypto communities have been at each other's throats for months now, as bitcoin continued rallying off the Coronapocalypse low from last March while gold peaked in August and has ground out a truly demoralizing eight-month bear market.

The envy coming from Gold-Only bugs has them missing one of the great opportunities for wealth creation in anyone's lifetime. You don't have to love bitcoin to make money from it. Just like you can hate Facebook but own its stock and cash it in when it's too expensive versus another asset, say... I don't know? Gold?

But that inverse relationship is finally changing. Bitcoin and gold are getting back into phase. And it's right on schedule.

Governments around the world offer extravagant bribes in desperate effort to increase COVID vaccine uptake

Derrick Broze
The Last American Vagabond
Sat, 15 May 2021 00:00 UTC

While indigenous communities in Mexico are rejecting the COVID-19 shot, the international effort to convince the public to take the jab is in full effect.

In early March, CNN reported that "Whole towns are refusing Covid-19 vaccines in Mexico", profiling two of more than a dozen municipalities which have rejected COVID-19 shots for one reason or another. CNN reported on statements made by residents of Aldama and San Juan Cancuc, small indigenous towns located in the central highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas.

"Why would I get vaccinated? I'm not sick. It wouldn't be good if they tried to force us to get vaccinated. I don't know," María Magdalena López Santís, an Aldama resident, told CNN.

The indigenous communities of Mexico (and many Mexicans in general) have a history of mistrusting the federal government. After generations of being ignored or colonized, the communities are largely autonomous and operate under their own rule of law. It is this history which has caused several communities in Chiapas and other parts of Mexico to reject the COVID-19 shots altogether.

Of course, CNN reports that "a lack of information and conspiracy theories that have spread in the region like wildfire are to blame for vaccine hesitancy." Aldama's town secretary Tomás López Pérez told CNN that because his people "don't really know what vaccines are made of, we believe that they contain the [Covid-19] virus and that's the main reason why people don't want to get vaccinated."

Pelosi: Lawmakers who don't wear masks or get vaccinated could be banned from house floor

Steve Watson
Summit News
Fri, 21 May 2021 10:27 UTC

"If you don't want to wear a mask...if you're not vaccinated, don't even come to the floor"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Thursday that any lawmakers who refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated could be prevented from having access to the House floor.

Pelosi has decided, despite CDC guidelines to the contrary, that masks still need to be worn by everyone, yet some GOP lawmakers are refusing to go along with her decree.

"We could come to a place where we say if you don't want to wear a mask...if you're not vaccinated, don't even come to the floor. We have facilities up above in the gallery where people can come to vote," Pelosi declared during a briefing:

Comment: See also: Pelosi says masks still required in House chamber despite CDC guidance

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Puppet Masters

The final word in Palestine for those who endure the most

Mask psychosis: NYT confirms 'The Liberal Mask Cult' is here to stay

US Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk

Biden corruption piles higher: Hunter emails reveal ex-FBI chief gave $100K to Biden grandkid trust as he sought 'future work'

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