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Report says Israel planned atomic detonation in Sinai Desert if Six Day War went wrong


Times of Israel
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:40 UTC
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An Egyptian transport burning after a direct hit from an Israeli tank during the Six Day War, June 5, 1967.
New York Times, quoting newly released interview, says the display of nuclear strength was a 'doomsday' scenario not needed after IDF victory

One the eve of the Six Day War, with the country surrounded by enemies and unsure of its future, Israel developed a "doomsday" plan to detonate an atomic bomb in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as a warning to the Arabs, The New York Times reported Saturday.

The report was based on an interview conducted by leading Israeli nuclear scholar Avner Cohen with retired IDF brigadier general Itzhak Yaakov, who reportedly oversaw the plan.

"It's the last secret of the 1967 war," Cohen told the paper.

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German Left Party's Sahra Wagenknecht slams 'self-righteous, intolerant left,' warns against 'extreme division' like in US


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:29 UTC
Wagenknecht
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Sahra Wagenknecht speaks during a news conference in Berlin.
Germany could end up divided like the US if the country's left won't stop with moralizing and attempts to suppress any opposing opinions, Sahra Wagenknecht, former Left Party leader, said in a harsh attack on her own allies.

The "increasing intolerance" of the German liberals may have catastrophic consequences for the country, Wagenknecht warned in an interview with Die Welt. Branding anybody with a different stance, "a Nazi who should be 'canceled'" was no way to go, she added.

"This is a typical approach of the left-liberal milieu: anyone, who is in favor of restricting immigration, is a racist; anyone, who criticizes CO2 taxes, is a climate change denier; and anyone, who doesn't think that schools, restaurants and gyms should be closed, is a 'Covidiot,'" she said.

Comment: Indeed, the left are increasingly the pawns and pushers of the encroaching pseudo-reality: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Ukraine's President Zelenskiy bans three more opposition TV stations considering them to be 'pro-Russian'


Deutsche Welle
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:59 UTC
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TV channels 112 Ukraine, NewsOne und ZIK went off air on Tuesday night
Ukraine's pro-Western president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has signed decrees banning pro-Russian media outlets. The broadcasters had their licences revoked and are set to stay off the air for the next five years.

Three pro-Russian TV channels have gone off the air in Kyiv after pro-Western President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a Ukrainian security council decree imposing sanctions for five years on eight media and TV companies.

The Kyiv stations affected were ZIK, NewsOne, and 112 Ukraine.

Their broadcasts were only available Tuesday night via the video hosting platform YouTube, reported the Russian news agency TASS.

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Yellen calls meeting with Fed, SEC to decree GameStop investors' fate

Jordan Davidson
The Federalist
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:56 UTC
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Janet Yellen is shown speaking to reporters on December 1 in Delaware, after being chosen by President-elect Joe Biden as Treasury secretary nominee.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen plans to meet with top federal financial agencies to discuss and evaluate the Democratic administration's response to Redditors' ongoing hedge fund shorting game using GameStop and other infamously unpopular stock.

In the meeting scheduled for as early as Thursday, the former chair of the Federal Reserve hopes to collaborate with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve, the New York Federal Reserve, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to assess potential actions to combat the stock frenzy that occurred over the last week as well as potential surges in precious metal prices.

"Secretary Yellen believes the integrity of markets is important and has asked for a discussion of recent volatility in financial markets and whether recent activities are consistent with investor protection and fair and efficient markets," the department said in a statement.

Comment: It's not likely to end well for the Reddit Rebellion. Janet Yellen has been one of Big Money's staunchest supporters for decades.

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Florida gov. DeSantis is fed up with big tech — now he's unveiled a way to fight back

Kyle Becker
Becker News
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 08:38 UTC
DeSantis
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis threw down against Big Tech interference in U.S. elections in an animated speech at the Florida State Capitol on Tuesday.
"It's high time that we step up to the plate to ensure the protection of the people and their rights," the governor said.
"The governor announced a new legislative effort to crack down on Big Tech, intending to limit social media companies' ability to sell user information to advertisers for a profit and taking action to protect social media users amid accusations that Facebook and Twitter engage in censorship of certain viewpoints or information," the Blaze reported.

Comment: In the last decade, social media and Big tech companies have become a very powerful tool in the hands of the psychopathic elites. They use them to collect personal information, track people's movement and activity, promote lies upon people so they can accept them as a new and "progressive" normal, censorship and propaganda.

They became so powerful that they openly censored and blocked former US President Donald Trump on Social media, and they remained untouchable for justice.

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Regime intends to keep thousands of soldiers in Washington DC for months to come - Perhaps even permanently

Karen Graham
Digital Journal
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 12:56 UTC
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DC Green Zone
As the National Guard's deployment to the Capitol enters its second month with no solid end yet in sight, GOP lawmakers are questioning whether thousands are uniformed troops are still needed to protect the Capitol.

On Wednesday, Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton penned an op-ed for Fox News stating that the National Guard troops still in Washington should leave the Capitol grounds as soon as possible, despite Defense Department and local law enforcement plans.

"I'm aware of no specific, credible threat reporting... that justifies this continued troop presence," wrote Cotton, a former soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Thus, I believe the rest of these soldiers should also go home to their families and civilian jobs."

Cotton went on to say, "The lesson of the Capitol riot is not that we should quarter a standing army at the Capitol just in case, but rather that our security measures should be calibrated to the actual threats."

Cotton's op/ed came on the same day that 11 GOP House members requested a briefing from acting Army Secretary John Whitley on any ongoing threats to the Capitol as well as an explanation for why the National Guard troops were still in Washington, according to Defense News.

Comment: Ms. Pittman - brand new on the job after DC bosses fired the previous guy for the January 6th riot - wouldn't have suggested a permanent military presence in the American capital without supportive signals from on high...

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'Bravery' or 'manipulative'? AOC comes out as survivor of sexual assault while describing 'trauma' of Capitol riot


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 07:42 UTC
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US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) revealed she is a survivor of sexual assault while recounting last month's Capitol riot. Many hailed her for the deeply personal story, while others questioned her motives.

During a livestream on Instagram on Monday night, the progressive lawmaker pushed back against Republican colleagues and critics who have demanded an apology after she accused Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) of putting her life in danger by allegedly helping to incite the unrest in the capital on January 6.

Comment: Fair play to Michael Tracey, one of the last actual journalists in the US, for calling out AOC:


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13 GOP House members demand AOC apologize to Ted Cruz for accusing him of 'attempted murder'
1 Feb, 2021 22:57

Republican members of Congress have sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), demanding Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) apologize to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for claiming he tried to have her killed.

"It has come to our attention that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sent out a tweet in which she accused Senator Cruz, in essence, of attempted murder," the letter, which was obtained and revealed by Washington Examiner on Monday, reads.

The lawmakers are referring to a recent tweet from Ocasio-Cortez in which she said Cruz was among the Republicans who "almost had me murdered," referencing the US Capitol riot on January 6, which she has said she holds Republicans who had pushed voter fraud conspiracy theories partially responsible for.

Ironically, the tweet was in response to Cruz saying he agreed with Ocasio-Cortez about her support of the individual buyers motivated by the r/WallStreetBets subreddit to buy into flailing companies like GameStop, which heavily influenced the market and hurt hedge funds betting against the company.


The 13 Republicans who signed the letter called Ocasio-Cortez's tweet "completely unacceptable behavior from a member of Congress" and they call on Pelosi to demand the young Democrat apologize for and retract her statement.

"It is our sincere hope that we all stop this heightened rhetoric and move forward to actually do the work the American people sent us here to do," they added.

The letter follows a separate one sent to Pelosi from Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) who also demanded an apology from the New York congresswoman or else he would take "alternate means" to condemn her words.

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House Dems seek to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of committee assignments

Theodore Bunker
NewsMax
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:51 UTC
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
© Troy Stolt/AP
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
House Democrats have introduced a resolution to force Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., off the two committees she serves on, a strike against her comments about school shootings and the 2018 California wildfires.

Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., Ted Deutch, D-Fla., and Jahana Hayes, D-Conn., filed the resolution, which would remove Greene from the House Budget Committee and the House Education & Labor Committee, according to NBC News.

Greene recently came under fire over social media remarks she made in the past few years, including claims the mass shootings at schools in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida, were "false flag" operations, and the 2018 California wildfires were caused by "Jewish space lasers."

Comment: Biden should make Taylor Greene the new Reality Czar.

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Marjorie Greene Taylor hits back after Mitch McConnell dubs her 'GOP cancer,' says 'weak Republicans' will doom party & country
2 Feb, 2021 04:47

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has responded to a scathing attack by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell - who dubbed her a "cancer" for the GOP - insisting that "weak" Republicans would be the country's downfall.

"The real cancer for the Republican Party is weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully," the freshman GOP congresswoman wrote in a tweet on Monday night.


The rebuttal came after McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, took aim at Taylor Greene in a blistering statement earlier on Monday, accusing her of embracing "loony lies and conspiracy theories" while calling her a "cancer for the Republican Party."

McConnel's own statement was issued as House Democrats attempt to drive Taylor Greene from any position of influence in Congress, and even from the GOP itself. Three lawmakers have already submitted a resolution to have her booted from the congressional Education and Labor Committee, arguing that her presence there would cause "future harm," while others have reportedly pressured Republican leaders to censure Taylor Greene or expel her from the party.

The Georgia rep also responded to the Democratic effort, saying she's only viewed as the "greatest threat" to her critics across the aisle because "I represent your America First views."

"They think Trump is gone, so they attack you and me. He's not gone. And we won't back down and we will never give up! We REFUSE to be canceled!" she wrote.


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NYT calls on the Biden Administration to appoint a 'Reality Czar' to help solve our 'Reality Crisis'

Kevin Roose
The New York Times
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:01 UTC
truth
© Derek Brahney
Last month, millions of Americans watched as President Biden took the oath of office and, in a high-minded Inaugural Address, called for a new era of American unity.

But plenty of other Americans weren't paying attention to Mr. Biden's speech. They were too busy watching YouTube videos alleging that the inauguration was a prerecorded hoax that had been filmed on a Hollywood soundstage.

Or they were melting down in QAnon group chats, trying to figure out why former President Donald J. Trump wasn't interrupting Mr. Biden's speech to declare martial law and announce the mass arrest of satanic pedophiles.

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Blue Pill

On the cusp of the "Blue Terror"

Alan Sabrosky
The Unz Review
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
martial law
One of the great paradoxes of American democracy is that much of what makes it worth having also renders it vulnerable to mortal threats. This is particularly true when the threats are internal, and the domestic enemies adept at using their constitutionally guaranteed rights and privileges to gnaw away at the society that nurtured and protected them with the aim of bringing it down in ruins.

Future historians, doubtless writing in Chinese, will marvel at how the radical Left in the U.S. essentially weaponized the Bill of Rights, claiming its protection as they worked to undermine the entire system. They will doubtless express astonishment and satisfaction at the speed and ease with which they came to dominate first academe, then the media, and finally one of the two major political parties in the U.S. - the Democrats.

There will likely even be wry grins of amusement at the assignment of colors by the networks to the two parties around 2000. Here the Democrats, increasingly red politically with little or no center, came to be called "blue" while the Republicans, mostly "true blue Americans" as the term was once used, by default became "red" with its undercurrent of the enemy. Just a bit of gallows humor at a wake.
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