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Best of the Web: Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse... These Are Israel's Crimes

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Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel's current, horrifying atrocities?

Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised.

No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October - quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel's obstruction of aid.

Last week, an investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz disclosed that some 27 Palestinians seized off Gaza's streets over the past five months are known to have died during interrogations inside Israel.

Some were denied medical treatment. But most are likely to have been tortured to death.

Three months ago, a Haaretz editorial warned that Israeli jails "must not become execution facilities for Palestinians".

Israeli TV channels have been excitedly taking viewers on tours of detention centres, showing the appalling conditions Palestinians are kept in, as well as the psychological and physical abuse they are subjected to.

An Israeli judge recently called the makeshift cages in which Palestinians are held "unsuitable for humans".

Comment: The ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians might well result in the end of Israel.

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Attention

How NATO powers are using the U.K.'s World War I model to lure Russia into the next big global war

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Using duplicity, deception and secret alliances, the U.K.'s inner circle of top elites led by Nathaniel Rothschild, King Edward VII, and Lord Alfred Milner backed the German Kaiser into a corner and intentionally set the Germans up to blame them for starting the First World War, when in fact it was the British who provoked the Germans to the point where war was the only option.

German generals were caught strategizing several weeks ago on how to bomb Russia's main bridge to Crimea. This would be an act of aggression that Russian President Vladimir Putin described as guaranteed to draw a harsh military response from Russia, possibly even including a nuclear strike against Berlin.

And that has led to an admission by German officials that their military is woefully unprepared to take on Russia. If German generals and politicians truly want to provoke a war with Russia, they had better slow down and wait for their military to catch up to the political rhetoric coming out of Berlin.

A March 14 article by John Cody at Remix News shows that the German Army lacks the personnel, equipment and infrastructure to wage a major war of any kind, let alone with a nuclear-armed military superpower like Russia.

"Germany's own military and government are painting such a dire picture of the armed forces that there are now calls from some of the most powerful politicians in the country to reinstate mandatory military service," Cody writes.

Yes, a military draft.

A video produced by Remix News details testimony provided by Eva Högl, German Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces, who provided catastrophic details about the state of the German military. It is shocking in terms of its candor regarding the current state of the German armed forces.


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Visa & Mastercard: The real threat of the Digital ID control system

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The question isn't whether Visa and Mastercard are at the forefront of the Digital ID control system, the question is whether Visa, Mastercard and central banks will be able to pull it off without the implementation of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). A "Digital ID" may sound convenient and harmless, but the intention behind it is far reaching - compiling and connecting data and biometrics while removing every form of privacy in order to control how one spends their money, achieves access to services, and ultimately takes control over all assets.

This will have an impact on all areas of life, including education, healthcare, food, agriculture, transportation, real estate, and technology, which of course will all be controlled through the Digital ID connected to banks, and a person's social credit score. This isn't an imaginary scheme. These intentions are well documented by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), central banks, the World Bank, financial institutions, credit card companies, and government.

In simple terms, the Bank For International Settlements' (BIS) blueprint proposes that all private property in the real world, such as money, houses, cars, etc., would be "tokenized" into digital assets within an "everything in one place" global unified ledger. Of course, smart contracts on a "programmable" platform with rules on how each asset can and cannot be used are the key ingredient.

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SOTT Focus: 'People Are The Power in Russia' Says Putin as he Wins Fifth Term With Record 87% of Votes

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© Sergey Guneev/SputnikThe Russian presidential candidate and incumbent President, Vladimir Putin, speaks to the media at the campaign headquarters, in Moscow, Russia, March 18, 2024.
The incumbent head of state is projected to win re-election by a historic landslide

Vladimir Putin has delivered a victory speech at his campaign headquarters in Moscow, after preliminary results of the country's presidential vote from Russia's Central Election Commission showed him securing a fifth term in office with over 87% of the vote.

Speaking in front of his supporters on Sunday night, Putin stressed that the "only source of power in the country is the Russian people," adding that the vote of every citizen counts when its comes to charting the nation's course.

The Russian leader noted that while the country is about to face numerous challenges, its people will be up to the task if they remain united.

Comment: Turnout is now being reported as hitting 77%.



Hand-counting ballots, as they should be in a proper election:


Overseas turnout also hit a new record. Western media reported that Russians living abroad were queuing up to 'vote out Putin', LOL!

All week long the CIA and friends organized raids into Russia with a paramilitary group made up of hundreds of Ukrainians and Russian traitors, apparently in some stupid, violent attempt to 'sour the election'. Epic fail!


Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Western troops in Ukraine: How a big lie could lead to the biggest war

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© Sarah Meyssonnier / POOL / AFPGermany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, and France’s President Emmanuel Macron
Macron's latest sallies and the spat they've caused show that Western Europe must finally be honest about the causes of the Ukraine conflict

The current situation in the conflict between Ukraine - serving (while being demolished) as a proxy for the West - and Russia, can be sketched in three broad strokes.

First, Russia now clearly has the upper hand on the battlefield and could potentially accelerate its recent advances to achieve an overall military victory soon. The West is being compelled to recognize this fact: as Foreign Affairs put it, in an article titled "Time is Running Out in Ukraine," Kiev and its Western supporters "are at a critical decision point and face a fundamental question: How can further Russian advances... be stopped, and then reversed?" Just disregard the bit of wishful thinking thrown in at the end to sweeten the bitter pill of reality. The key point is the acknowledgment that it is crunch time for the West and Ukraine - in a bad way.

Second, notwithstanding the above, Ukraine is not yet ready to ask for negotiations to end the war on terms acceptable to Russia, which would be less than easy for Kiev. (Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, reiterated in an important recent interview that Moscow remains principally open to talks, not on the basis of "wishful thinking" but, instead, proceeding from the realities "on the ground.")

Pirates

Highway robbery: EU to use frozen Russian assets to buy arms for Ukraine

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© Odd Anderson / AFP(L-R) French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin on March 15, 2024.
The German chancellor has clarified that profits obtained from Moscow's funds held in the EU will be used to arm Kiev

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that interest accrued from Russian assets frozen in the EU will be used to purchase weapons for Ukraine.

Soon after Russia launched its military operation against Ukraine in February 2022, Western countries froze approximately $300 billion of funds belonging to the Russian Central Bank. Of that sum, the Brussels-based clearinghouse Euroclear holds around €191 billion ($205 billion), which has accrued nearly €4.4 billion in interest over the past year.

Speaking at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Berlin on Friday, Chancellor Scholz said: "We will use windfall profits from Russian assets frozen in Europe to financially support the purchase of weapons for Ukraine."

Comment: Even the EU's own financial institutions are screaming that this move will destroy the EU's monetary credibility.
The West has frozen roughly $300 billion in holdings belonging to the Russian central bank since the start of the Ukraine conflict two years ago. Brussels-based Euroclear holds around €191 billion ($205 billion) of the assets, and the EU is reportedly fast-tracking the decision to send Kiev the first tranche of up to €3 billion from profits generated by frozen Russian assets as early as July.

Should the West proceed with expropriating the funds, the Russian central bank is likely to seize around €33 billion of Euroclear money held in the national securities depository in Moscow, the official said. Russia may also sue to seize Euroclear cash from depositories in Hong Kong and Dubai.

Brussels will have to "ensure that there is no breach of financial stability," an unnamed EU official told Reuters on Tuesday. "The moment the war ends and all settlements can be made, all the money that was provisionally retained will also be transferred to Ukraine. But we need a significant amount in Euroclear... because Euroclear will face a lot of claims."

Moscow has repeatedly warned that it will respond in kind if the West goes through with threats to confiscate Russian assets. The Finance Ministry said last month that Western states and companies themselves still have holdings in Russia that could be jeopardized if the frozen funds are tapped.

If Western banks begin suing Euroclear for the loss of their money invested in Russia, "that's the mechanism how Euroclear could be totally emptied," the EU official warned.

Euroclear Bank boasts of over €37 trillion in assets in custody globally, but if it runs out of liquidity amid a litany of lawsuits - the Belgian central bank may be forced to withdraw its license, causing a global financial crisis, the official warned.

A number of Western countries remain divided over expropriating Russia's frozen assets to aid Ukraine. While the US and UK support the direct seizure of the assets, some EU member states, including France and Germany, have recently warned that the move could negatively affect financial stability and erode trust in the euro's status as a reserve currency.



Big Bomb

Ukrainian shelling kills 2 in Belgorod while Russia repels incursion of border city Kozinka

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© Vyacheslav Gladkov/TelegramRussian regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov says two people have been killed in Ukrainian shelling of the city of Belgorod, close to the border with Ukraine. Three others were wounded.
Ukrainian shelling of the Russian city of Belgorod killed two people, officials said Saturday, while Russia claimed to have thwarted a new attempt by saboteurs to cross the border.

Saturday's attacks occurred as Russians entered the second day of voting in a presidential election that is all but certain to extend Vladimir Putin's rule by another six years after he crushed dissent.

A man and a woman died in the attack and three other people were wounded, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said on the Telegram messaging app. It was the latest in exchanges of long-range missile and rocket fire in Russia's war on Ukraine.

Five people were also wounded when a Ukrainian drone hit a car in the village of Glotovo, some 2 kilometers (1.25 miles) from the Ukrainian border, Gladkov said.

Comment: A pathetic, not to mention lethal, PR stunt by Ukraine who hoped to disrupt the Russian presidential election. Russian forces saw them off with extreme prejudice.






USA

New evidence the German Taurus attack plan was leaked by the US Air Force

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© UnknownDouble Trouble? General Ingo Gerhartz (L) USAF General Kenneth Wilsbach(R)
A little bird has materialized to sing that the record of the German generals discussing their plan to attack Russian targets with the Taurus missile was intercepted and leaked to the Russians by the Americans.

A big bird, actually. The telephone conference of German Luftwaffe chief General Ingo Gerhartz (lead image, left), one of his staff generals, and two Luftwaffe lieutenant-colonels on February 19 was listened to by US signals intelligence after the first meeting the Germans had with a new regional US Air Force (USAF) commander, General Kevin Schneider; Schneider took command of the USAF Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) on February 9 after two and a half years in a senior staff post at the Pentagon under General Charles Brown Jr. Brown was promoted from USAF chief to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on October 1, 2023. When Schneider left Brown's staff, he took a promotion from lieutenant general to four-star general.

Schneider has never flown or staffed USAF operations against Russia. He was in Singapore for the bi-annual Singapore Air Show to demonstrate what the USAF press office called "the opportunity to sharpen ties with Singapore, demonstrate flexible aircraft capability, enable engagement with foreign partners, and expand power projection." His agenda of meetings with other country airforce officers is classified.

Comment: Nice bit of detective work!


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Trudeau's 'Orwellian online harms bill': Canada PM backs imprisoning people for LIFE over speech crimes in social media 'safety' crackdown

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© AFP/Getty ImagesProposed law is backed by Canadian PM Justin Trudeau
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new internet law would allow judges to give life sentences to those who commit the worst speech crimes on social media. The Online Harms Act, designed to make social media platforms safer, is being slammed as 'Orwellian' and an 'overreach' by voters.

The Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood said the bill was 'Lettres de Cachet all over again,' referring to royal diktat for imprisoning citizens made by former Kings of France.

'The possibilities for revenge false accusations + thoughtcrime stuff are sooo inviting!' Atwood warned on X, formerly Twitter. 'Trudeau's Orwellian online harms bill.'

The proposed law, introduced last month by the Liberal government, gives judges the power to imprison adults for life if they advocate for genocide online, up from the previous maximum penalty of five years in prison.

The bill also increases the maximum term in prison from two years to five years for the willful promotion of hatred online. It also allows a provincial judge to impose house arrest and a fine if there were reasonable grounds to believe a defendant 'will commit' an offense.

Conservative writer Stephen Moore called the law the most shocking of all the totalitarian, illiberal and anti-Enlightenment pieces of legislation that have been introduced in the Western world in decades.'

Comment: First they lock our minds. Then they throw away the key. Really, nothing to it.


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SpaceX is reportedly building hundreds of spy satellites for the US government

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© Joel Kowsky / NASA / APAccording to Reuters, SpaceX is developing a 'Starshield' swarm for the DoD's National Reconnaissance Office.
SpaceX has been contracted by the Department of Defense's National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to build a network of hundreds of low-orbiting spy satellites capable of operating as a swarm and tracking targets on the ground, according to Reuters. The Reuters report, which cites five sources with knowledge of the program, builds on earlier reporting by The Wall Street Journal that revealed SpaceX had signed a $1.8 billion contract in 2021 with an unnamed agency.

This network, called Starshield, would reportedly be able to gather continuous imagery all over Earth for US intelligence, using a mix of large imaging satellites to collect data and relay satellites to transmit information. According to one source who spoke to Reuters, it has the potential to make it so "no one can hide."


Comment: Whilst it certainly isn't great news (if true), the US has demonstrated time and again that it is no longer capable of following through on such projects. Furthermore, it's likely that, at least abroad, it will be neutralised in one way or another: 'Secret Russian electronic warfare weapon disrupting GPS of ships & jets' claims Estonia's military chief, amid NATO wargames


Neither SpaceX nor the NRO directly confirmed the company's involvement in the project, but an NRO spokesperson told Reuters, "The National Reconnaissance Office is developing the most capable, diverse, and resilient space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance system the world has ever seen."

Comment: It seems a little odd that Musk, who can be highly critical of the US and the trajectory it's currently on, would enter into such an agreement.