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"Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference ... The Thought Police would get him just the same ... the arrests invariably happened at night ... In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word." — George Orwell, 1984The government long ago sold us out to the highest bidder.
[...]Iraq has been demanding the U.S. leave the country for over a decade. So much for respecting sovereignty:
A military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject, said: 'The explosion hit equipment, weapons and vehicles.
'The were explosions in the warehouses storing equipment.
'A fire is still raging and the search for the injured is continuing.'
There were conflicting reports as to who was responsible for the strike with some reports blaming Israel while others claimed it was a US attack.
The strike is believed to have been retaliation for a drone strike in Jordan in which three US service members were killed.
Hashed al-Shaabi, an alliance of mainly Shiite armed groups formed to fight the Islamic State group, is now a part of Iraq's security forces.
Factions within the group took part in months of rocket and drone attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq amid Israel's Gaza campaign but ceased to do so in February.
The attack on the pro-Iranian paramilitaries comes amid spiralling regional tensions over the war between Israel and Tehran-backed Palestinian militants Hamas.
On Friday, strikes blamed on Israel targeted a military base near Isfahan in Iran.
Comment: Considering Poland's recent globalist pivot, its barely concealed disdain for Russia, and the impressively deranged behaviour by some in its establishment, this is not really a surprise: