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All breaking loose in Israel as IDF obliterates apartment buildings in Gaza, Hamas fires 130 rockets on Tel Aviv, Jews and Arabs attack each other

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 11 May 2021 16:51 UTC
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© AFP 2021 / Anas Baba
Rockets are launched from Gaza city, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, in response to an Israeli air strike on a 12-storey building in the city, towards the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on May 11, 2021
Update(3:03pm): In the last hours there's been massive escalation as Hamas and Islamic Jihad has unleashed wave and wave of rockets on central Israel, and targeting Tel Aviv.

Hamas has announced that it launched 130 rockets on Tel Aviv and central Israel through its TV channels moments ago. While it's unclear if this is exaggerated, rockets appear to be landing across Israel, many slipping through the Iron Dome anti-air defenses.

Comment: Sputnik reports on the latest escalations:

Israel's 'Iron Dome' seems to be mostly, but not completely, effective:
Multiple videos shared on social media appear to depict the Israeli air defence system in action. The Iron Dome system can ostensibly be seen intercepting multiple rockets over the city, as air raid sirens sound off in the background.


So far, hundreds of explosions have been recorded across southern and central Israel, per media reports. Sirens could be heard in settlements near Gaza, Beersheba and Tel Aviv and its environs.


There have been Israeli casualties, though as usual, nowhere near the rate of Palestinians:
A woman has been killed in the city of Holon, south of Tel Aviv, as a volley of rockets was fired towards the city, the Israeli police said on Tuesday. A local ambulance service previously told Sputnik that three people, including a child, had been injured near Tel Aviv.

Meanwhile, Channel 20 reported that one person in Rishon LeZion died as a result of the rocket attacks.
Hamas declares a victory as it claims to have 'changed the balance of power' between Israel and Palestine:
hamas hit bus rockets Holon
© AFP 2021 / Ahmad Gharabli
Israeli firefighters check out a burnt bus in the Israeli town of Holon near Tel Aviv, on May 11, 2021, after rockets are launched towards Israel from the Gaza Strip controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement
Ismail Haniyeh, chief of the Islamiс group Hamas, has claimed the Palestinians have managed to accomplish a "new" balance of power in their fight against Israel after the militant group intensified its rocket attacks on central areas of the Jewish state on Tuesday evening.

"We have achieved victory in the battle for Jerusalem, the defence of Jerusalem", Haniyeh said, referring to the city as "the axis of conflict".

"What is taking place right now is an honour for our people, our nation. There is a new balance of power right now", the Hamas leader argued as he pledged that his group "would not abandon Jerusalem" and would not give up "resistance".
Palestinians across the Occupied Territories have taken to the streets, encouraged by Hamas' retaliatory strikes. Netanyahu is struggling to control the situation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared a state of emergency in Lod, a mixed Arab-Jewish city that has recently seen widespread and violent rioting.


The prime minister's office announced the decision after a special meeting of the nation's top security and legal officials. Amir Ohana, the police minister, has confirmed that he will use his authority to carry out the orders.

According to the statement, Netanyahu called on law enforcement officials to ensure the restoration of public order and strengthen ground forces as soon as possible.

Alongside Netanyahu at the meeting were Ohana, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit.

Earlier, Netanyahu and Gantz ordered Border Police battalions from the Judea and Samaria region to be "immediately" transferred to the area.


Local media and eyewitnesses reported that the country's police conducted an emergency evacuation of the city's Jewish residents amid violent unrest and clashes between Arabs and Israelis. According to videos shared on social media, shootings have since erupted in the city.



Hamas reports the death of one of its senior officers says The Times of Israel:
Hamas's armed wing confirmed the death of a senior commander and a number of fighters in an Israeli targeted strike.

"With pride, fortitude and defiance, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades take pride in... the martyrdom of the commander Bassem Issa," the armed Hamas branch says in a statement.

According to the terror group, Issa was Hamas's Gaza City commander in the al-Qassam Brigades.


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9/11, Covid And The Second Stage Terror Wars

Edward Curtain
Dissident Voice
Tue, 11 May 2021 22:16 UTC
Philip Zelikow
We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

- William Casey, CIA Director, February. 1981
It is well known that the endless U.S. war on terror was overtly launched following the mass murders of September 11, 2001 and the linked anthrax attacks. The invasion of Afghanistan and the Patriot Act were immediately justified by those insider murders, and subsequently the wars against Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. So too the terrorizing of the American people with constant fear-mongering about imminent Islamic terrorist attacks from abroad that never came.

It is less well known that the executive director of the U.S. cover story - the fictional 9/11 Commission Report - was Philip Zelikow, who controlled and shaped the report from start to finish.

It is even less well known that Zelikow, a professor at the University of Virginia, was closely associated with Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Dickey Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Brent Scowcroft, et al. and had served in various key intelligence positions in both the George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush administrations. In 2011 President Obama named him to his President's Intelligence Advisory Board as befits bi-partisan elite rule and coverup compensation across political parties.
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Stormtrooper

The American Cyber Stasi will suppress all digital dissent in Biden's dystopia

Andrew Korybko
One World Press
Wed, 12 May 2021 05:25 UTC
american stasi
The dystopian hellhole that I predicted would become a fait accompli following Biden's confirmation as President by the Electoral College is quickly becoming a reality after CNN's recent report that the US' security services are considering contracting the services of so-called "researchers" as a legal workaround for spying on average Americans. According to the outlet, these ostensibly independent contractors would be charged with infiltrating the social media circles of white supremacists and other supposedly terrorist-inclined domestic forces within the country. The report claims that the intent is to "help provide a broad picture of who was perpetuating the 'narratives' of concern", after which "the FBI could theoretically use that pool of information to focus on specific individuals if there is enough evidence of a potential crime to legally do so".

In other words, the US' security services essentially want to establish a "Cyber Stasi" of "fellow" citizens who spy on one another and produce purported "evidence" of "potential crimes" for "justifying" the FBI's "legal" investigations. CNN quoted an unnamed senior intelligence official who asked, "What do you do about ideology that's leading to violence? Do you have to wait until it leads to violence?", thereby hinting that this initiative might likely be exploited to stop so-called "pre-crime", or crimes before they occur. Put another way, even those average Americans who practice their constitutionally enshrined right to the freedom of speech to peacefully dissent against the Democrats' consolidation of their de facto one-party rule of the country might find themselves targeted by the security services depending on how the contracted "researchers" spin their words.

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Bug

An army of Big Biotech companies is using psych tactics to 'create vaccine demand'

Celeste McGovern
Lifesite News
Sat, 08 May 2021 02:00 UTC
Big pharma vaccines
A new 'Vaccination Demand Observatory' is using surveillance, bots, and 'behavior change' mass marketing schemes to press reluctant people into getting the shots

The U.S. is awash in a surplus of coronavirus vaccines as there has been a sudden in drop in demand for them; most Americans who want the shots have had them. Now an army of Big Biotech's agencies set up to address "vaccine hesitancy" are turning up their mass marketing to "create demand" using surveillance, rapid data analysis, media control, and host of behavior control strategies they've outlined in their playbooks.

Demand plummets

About 40% of the total adult population has been fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Uptake plummeted 25% after a peak in mid-April, and 56.4% of adults have had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

But five million people - about eight per cent of those who took a first dose of the shot - failed to show up for their second dose appointments, according to the CDC.

As a result, excess vaccine stock has been piling up across the country. Chairs sat empty at a Philadelphia mass vaccination site where 4,000 unused doses of vaccines were due to expire. A million doses, representing one out of every four sent to Louisiana by the federal government, were sitting on shelves. One Wyoming county asked the state to stop shipping vaccines because it had a surplus of 20,000 shots; North Carolina closed its vaccination clinics for lack of demand.

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Black Cat

How White Helmet's Mayday 'cashbox' profited from the Syrian regime change op and ripped off EU taxpayers

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Mon, 10 May 2021 20:19 UTC
white helmets
© AFP 2021 / Amer Almohibany
Members of the Syrian Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, take a selfie with their certificates after taking part in a training session in the rebel-held eastern Ghouta area, east of the capital Damascus, on November 22, 2016
Being aware of fraud allegations against the White Helmets' international cashbox, the Mayday Rescue Foundation, the Dutch government opted to keep it on the hush-hush, the newspaper de Volkskrant reported on 7 May. What's behind the supposed cover-up attempt and what else are European governments hiding?

The Mayday Rescue Foundation was registered in the Netherlands in 2014 as a not-for-profit entity by James Le Mesurier, a former British Army officer. Since its inception, Mayday has provided support to the Syria Civil Defence, commonly known as the White Helmets, a controversial group acting under the guise of a "humanitarian" organisation in the jihadist-held areas of Syria.

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Wolf

Fauci claims there's 'no doubt' US has 'UNDERCOUNTED' its Covid-19 deaths


RT
Sun, 09 May 2021 20:20 UTC
Fauci
© Reuters / Amr Alfiky
Dr. Anthony Fauci is shown testifying to Congress in April.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, health adviser turned celebrity by the Covid-19 pandemic, has suggested that the virus is even more deadly than reported, saying the US has "undercounted" its world-leading death toll.

"I think there's no doubt that we are and have been undercounting," Fauci said on Sunday during NBC's 'Meet the Press' program. Asked by host Chuck Todd about a University of Washington study which said there were more than 900,000 US Covid-19 deaths, exceeding the official count of 581,000, the doctor replied, "That's a bit more than I would have thought the undercounting was, but sometimes the models are right on line, sometimes they're a bit off."

Todd joined Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, in hyping the death toll. He said the Washington estimate was "almost double what we were able to track," although it was only about 55% higher than the reported total.

Comment: This is the same Fauci who baselessly claimed two masks were better than one. Were his newest claim true, there'd be numerous corollary data to back it up, such as through hospital admissions or total excess death numbers. However, as has become the norm during this manufactured crisis, the claims are, more often than not, unsupported by the facts: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #34: Covid By Numbers

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The demonization begins: In Canada, NDP leader accuses anti-maskers, lockdown protests of having links to far-right ideology

Stephanie Taylor
National Post
Mon, 10 May 2021 19:50 UTC
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© Matt Smith/Postmedia/File
People protest against mandatory mask laws in Saskatoon on March 20, 2021
Singh's comments came as rallies against COVID-19 health orders are being staged across the country while many provinces battle a deadly third wave

Online conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and protests against public health orders are helping to spread dangerous ideas laden with racism and bigotry, says a network monitoring hate groups in Canada.

The executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network said since last year people espousing hateful beliefs have linked themselves to conspiracy and anti-lockdown movements around the novel coronavirus.

"We have two pandemics: We have the actual pandemic and then we have this pandemic of hate," Evan Balgord said.

Comment: The tyrannical leftist loons should be watching their backs. It takes a long time to rile up the average Canadian, but look out when it finally happens.

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Kremlin: Russia had absolutely nothing to do with Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, despite Biden's claims to contrary

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 11 May 2021 14:08 UTC
Colonial Pipeline
© Reuters/Drone Base
Colonial Pipeline's Dorsey Junction Station in Woodbine, Maryland, U.S. May 10, 2021.
One day after US President Joe Biden said that Russia has "some responsibility" for the ransomware attack that crippled America's Colonial Pipeline, the Kremlin has firmly denied Moscow had anything to do with the incident.

On May 7, the IT systems of the pipeline's vital infrastructure, which transits fuel between the Gulf Coast and the New York Harbor area, were attacked with ransomware, causing Colonial to temporarily suspend all operations.

America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has blamed DarkSide, a cybercriminal group that has hacked numerous companies. Ransomware is a form of software that encrypts a victim's files, holding them hostage until a ransom is paid.

Comment: Is this a test run? Hopefully there will be more (and accurate) data forthcoming.

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Briefcase

Ukrainian opposition leader Medvedchuk to face prosecution for 'treason' as Kiev's security services begin manhunt


RT
Tue, 11 May 2021 15:58 UTC
Medvedchuk
© Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko
Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk
Security forces in Ukraine have begun searching for Viktor Medvedchuk, the leader of the country's largest opposition party, after state prosecutors announced their intention to bring charges against him for alleged high treason.

On Tuesday, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova wrote on Facebook that she had "signed charges against two People's Deputies of the Ukrainian Parliament." She claimed that the decision came after lengthy investigations, and sufficient evidence had been collected to charge Medvedchuk with both treason and attempted theft of "national resources in Ukrainian Crimea [sic]."

It is believed that the case relates in part to Medvedchuk's business interests in Russia, and Venediktova told her followers that they could conclude from the decision to prosecute that "you cannot consider Crimea to be part of another state." However, the official added, a search of Medvedchuk's house by the SBU, Ukraine's successor to the Soviet-era KGB security agency, failed to find the politician and his whereabouts are now unknown. Venediktova added that its officers are now taking "appropriate measures" to try to detain him.

In a response posted by the politician's press service later on Tuesday, his allies said that the decision to target him was unjust and insisted that a court should rule before action is taken.
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Arrow Up

Biden HHS reverses Trump-era policy limiting transgender health rights

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00 UTC
Rachel Levine
© AP/Joe Hermitt/The Patriot-News
Biden Administration Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine
The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday announced that it will protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in health care, reversing a Trump-era policy.

The HHS' Office for Civil Rights said it would interpret and enforce Section 1557 and Title IX's prohibitions on discrimination based on sex to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

Section 1557 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in covered health programs or activities.

The move affirms that federal laws forbidding sex discrimination in health care also protect gay and transgender people. The Trump administration had defined "sex" to mean gender assigned at birth, thereby excluding transgender people from the law's umbrella of protection.

Comment: See also:
Trump finalizes rule defining gender as a person's biological sex

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