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Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them

Arafat Barbakh and Mohammed Salem
MSN.com
Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:10 UTC
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Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 4, 2023.
Israel ordered Palestinians to leave parts of the main southern city in the Gaza Strip on Monday even as its bombs rained down on areas where it had told them to go.

Israeli troops and tanks also pressed the ground campaign against Hamas militants in the south of the enclave after having largely gained control of the now-devastated north.

Israel's military posted a map on social media platform X on Monday morning with around a quarter of the city of Khan Younis marked off in yellow as territory that must be evacuated at once.

Three arrows pointed south and west, telling people to head towards the Mediterranean coast and towards Rafah, near the Egyptian border.
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Michigan Gov Whitmer has ordered state government fleet to be 100% electric

Thomas Catenacci
Fox News
Wed, 06 Dec 2023 18:51 UTC
Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer electric car mandate
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Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at a press conference where a new electric-vehicle battery plant in Marshall, Michigan, was announced on Feb. 13, 2023.
Michigan's state mandate 'will help drive demand of Michigan-made electric vehicles,' Whitmer says

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive Tuesday forcing the state government's entire fleet of vehicles, both light-duty and heavy-duty, to transition to zero-emission.

Under Whitmer's actions, Michigan's state agencies must convert all state-owned light-duty vehicles to zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) by 2033 and all medium and heavy-duty vehicles by 2040. The governor said the move — which earned endorsements from clean energy groups, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and Detroit Regional Chamber — would reduce pollution and lead to lower costs in the state.

Comment: Has Whitmer forgotten where she lives?

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Investors may have had prior knowledge of Hamas attack on Israel - research


RT
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:11 UTC
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A new study detected a sharp uptick in trading activity on Tel Aviv and US stock exchanges before October 7

Some traders may have been informed about the Hamas plan to attack Israel on October 7 and used that knowledge to make millions of dollars by short-selling Israeli securities, a study by US researchers published on Monday suggests.

Law professors Robert Jackson Jr. from New York University and Joshua Mitts of Columbia University examined trading in exchange-traded funds that invest in Israeli companies, as well as short-selling activity on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and options activity around Israeli firms traded on US exchanges.

Comment: See also this article 9/11 redux: Shady stock trades on Israeli companies recorded just before Oct 7 attack which has additional links and a few other details about the event.

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All four "pillars of civilization" are under attack by an "anti-human death-cult"; Shellenberger, Carlson unload on global elites


Zerohedge
Mon, 04 Dec 2023 22:00 UTC
Shellenberger, Carlson
As world leaders gathered over the weekend for the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, they faced an uncomfortable reality check from the conference president Sultan Al Jaber, who stated, "there is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what's going to achieve 1.5C," warning that their fossil-fuel policies would "take the world back into caves."

Nevertheless, no lesser mind than Vice President Kamala Harris pledged another $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund at the summit, seeking to help developing countries adapt to the "climate crisis" as well as decreasing fossil fuel production, according to CNN.

The cult-like worship of (and escalation of) these policies is what led to tonight's discussion between Tucker Carlson and Michael Shellenberger, author of the must-read "Apocalypse Never", highlighting the increasingly obvious disconnect between global elites and the general public - most specifically in the context of environmental policies.
"We know that the pillars of civilization are cheap energy, meritocracy, Law and Order, and free speech and all four of those pillars are currently under attack," warns Shellenberger in his typically erudite and fact-based manner.
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Kevin McKernan loses entire database of research after NZ health service obtains an injunction to prevent sharing of leaked Covid vax health data

Rebekah Barnett
Dystopian Down Under
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 07:22 UTC
Kevin McKernan
U.S.-based genomics scientist Kevin McKernan says he has lost an estimated $200,000 worth of research data after his account on file hosting service MEGA was deleted overnight.

It appears that McKernan's account was deleted by MEGA in response to an urgent injunction granted to New Zealand's (NZ) Ministry of Health (MOH) to prevent the sharing of anonymised data leaked by whistleblower Barry Young.

Young, a 56-year-old database administrator and former employee of the MOH, leaked data from a 'pay per dose' Covid vaccine database to NZ journalist Liz Gunn and U.S. tech millionaire and Substacker Steve Kirsch.

Both Gunn and Kirsch claimed that the data showed conclusive proof that the Covid vaccines are killing people at high rates. Kirsch publicly uploaded the data on Friday December 1st, the same day the injunction was granted to the MOH.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Migrant gang violence spreads to Sweden's middle class suburbs, 140 bomb explosions recorded


BBC
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 23:07 UTC
Police Sweden
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Police patrol at the scene after a shooting in Jordbro, Sweden, 28 September 2023
Gangland shootings and bombings that have plagued Sweden's biggest cities have spread to quieter suburbs and towns, shattering its reputation as a safe and peaceful nation.

Half an hour north of central Stockholm, Upplands-Bro features lakeside boat clubs, copper-red wooden villas and apartments flanked by pine and spruce trees.

But a 14-year-old boy was found dead in a forest here in August, and since January there have been several shootings and bombings targeting houses and apartments.

Comment: This escalation comes at a time when weaponised mass migration and the known problems that it brings is making headlines throughout Europe; and it seems that some in the establishment are intentionally trying to fan the flames of discontent: 1 tourist dead after Paris knife attack, assailant was known by authorities for terrorist plans & radical Islam views

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For years, Western media denied the existence of gang violence, shootings & even bombings in Sweden.

One reason: violence was confined to poor neighborhoods with immigrants. So, middle class in suburbs could afford virtue signaling.

To talk about violence was deemed "racist."

But now that it's spreading to "good" areas, it's a problem to discuss.


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Israeli grid maps make life in Gaza 'macabre game of Battleships', say aid workers

Emma Graham-Harrison, Jason Burke
The Guardian
Sat, 02 Dec 2023 12:23 UTC
Map detail
© Avichay Adraee/X
Map evacuation detail from grid evacuation warnings posted by Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, IDF
Online system designed to order precise evacuations inaccessible to those without power or network access...

Israel's new grid system for targeted evacuation warnings in southern Gaza risks turning life in the territory into a "macabre game of Battleships", aid workers have warned.

When Israel resumed its offensive in Gaza after a week-long ceasefire deal collapsed, it immediately signalled plans to intensify attacks on the south of the territory, in areas where Palestinian civilians had previously been urged to take shelter.

Bombing began within seconds of the truce ending early on Friday morning, and at least 200 people had been killed by Saturday, Gaza's health authorities said.

Residents who have been squeezed into a shrinking corner of Gaza, most of them already internal refugees displaced and struggling to find enough to eat, described desperation and despair as they weighed up what to do as the fighting drew closer. They are hemmed in by the sea on one side, the closely guarded Israeli border on the other, and at their backs is the border with Egypt.
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Paris assailant has links to perpetrators of three recent French terror attacks

Robert Kogon
The Daily Sceptic
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 09:00 UTC
Armand
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Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, the Franco-Iranian terrorist who stabbed a tourist to death and injured two other people with a hammer on Saturday, not far from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, had contact with the perpetrators of no less than three recent French terror attacks.

One of these contacts was the assassin of Samuel Paty, the history teacher who was stabbed to death and whose body was then decapitated in 2020 after he showed his students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a civics class on freedom of expression.

In 2018, Rajabpour-Miyandoab was already convicted of forming part of a plot to attack the Parisian business district of La Défense. In addition, citing police and judicial sources, both the French daily Le Parisen and the news channel BFM report that Rajabpour-Miyandoab had contact with the following three perpetrators of notorious French terror attacks:
  • Larossi Aballa, who in June 2016 killed the police officer Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his wife Jennifer Schneider, also a police employee, at their home in Magnanville near Paris. After taking her hostage, Aballa would slit Schneider's throat in front of the couple's three-year-old son who survived the attack.
  • Adel Kermiche, who, just one month later, along with an accomplice, killed Father Jacques Hamel, stabbing him and slitting his throat following a mass at the Saint-Étienne church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, also not far from Paris.
  • Abdoullakh Anzorov, the killer of Samuel Paty. Paty was killed outside his school in the Parisian suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
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Bullseye

UMass Boston drops 'litmus test' demand for new professors to back DEI

Rikki Schlott
New York Post
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:39 UTC
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The University of Massachusetts at Boston
Want a job at the University of Massachusetts Boston? Well, until recently, you'd have to pledge your commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion first.

The worrying requirement came to light in a job ad, requiring would-be assistant professors in computer science to write a "diversity statement that reflects [their] commitment to diversity equity and inclusion" as part of their job application.

And applicants for a lecturer position in the department of health science were required to demonstrate a commitment "to support[ing] our goal of ensuring an inclusive, equitable, and diverse workplace and educational environment."

That's a political litmus test if I've ever seen one.
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Info

Conor McGregor hints at Irish presidency bid


RT
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:51 UTC
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Conor McGregor poses for a photo from ringside prior to during the Heavyweight fight between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou at Boulevard Hall on October 28, 2023 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The MMA star has said he would consider privately funding a run to replace Michael D. Higgins in 2025.

Controversial Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor has fueled speculation that he may announce his candidacy for his country's presidency ahead of elections in 2025, as he took aim at his potential political opponents on social media weeks after anti-immigration protests hit Dublin.

The 35-year-old former two-weight UFC world champion, who has been vocal about Irish immigration issues in recent weeks, is reportedly being investigated by Irish police for a series of social media posts he made before and during the riots in the capital.

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