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Israeli military kills 21 in Gaza school bombing - officials

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© Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu/Getty ImagesSearch and rescue efforts continue at Al-Falah School โ€ข Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, Gaza โ€ข September 21, 2024
Authorities in Gaza have accused the IDF of committing a "horrific massacre" at the al-Falah school.

At least 21 people, including 13 children, have been confirmed killed by an Israeli drone strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza, the enclave's government has said. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claims that Hamas was operating a command center in the building.

The strike took place at the al-Falah school in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on Saturday morning. Six women and a three-month-old baby were also among the victims, according to Gaza's Government Media Office. At least 30 people were reported wounded and two more are unaccounted for, in what the office called a "horrific massacre."

Attention

Cover-up" Ex-border patrol chief says he was instructed by Biden-Harris admin to hide terrorist encounters

Aaron Heitke
© UnknownSan Diego Border Patrol Chief Aaron Heitke
In a scathing revelation before Congress, former San Diego Sector Border Patrol Chief Aaron Heitke accused the Biden-Harris administration of covering up a sharp rise in encounters with suspected terrorists at the U.S.-Mexico border.

During a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing titled "A Country Without Borders: How Biden-Harris' Open-Borders Policies Have Undermined Our Safety and Security," Heitke said he was muzzled from releasing critical information on the number of Special Interest Aliens (SIAs) โ€” individuals with known or suspected ties to terrorism โ€” apprehended in California.

Heitke testified:
"I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests. The administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border."

Comment: "...before it's too late". It's too late. Years ago it was too late.


Gavel

Russia charges four soldiers with murder of American

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© fileRussell Bentley
Russell 'Texas' Bentley went missing in Donetsk in April.

Russian authorities have accused four members of the Donetsk People's Republic militia of kidnapping and killing an American, Russell 'Texas' Bentley, earlier this year.

Texas-born Bentley joined the militia in 2014, when Kiev-backed forces attempted to quell an uprising against the armed coup that had overthrown the government. He later became a Russian citizen and worked as a stringer for Sputnik news agency. He disappeared on April 8, during a Ukrainian artillery attack on Donetsk.

On Friday, the Russian Investigative Committee announced criminal charges against four soldiers, alleging that they tortured Bentley to death and then tried to cover up their crime by destroying his car and moving the body.

Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko named the four suspects as Vitaly Vasnyatsky, Vladislav Agaltsev, Vladimir Bazhin and Andrey Iordanov, all members of the 'Oplot' brigade of the Russian armed forces, formerly the DPR militia. They face multiple charges, including assault and torture causing death and covering up a serious crime.

According to the investigation, Vansyatsky, Agaltsev and Iordanov assaulted Bentley on April 8. The torture they subjected him to inadvertently killed him, whereupon Vansyatsky and Agaltsev used a block of TNT to blow up a VAZ 2115 car with Bentley's body inside. The following day, Vasnyatsky ordered Bazhin to cover up the crime by moving Bentley's remains elsewhere.

Attention

There Be Dragons

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© Off-Guardian
I've lived most of my long life asleep. I was 8 years old when JFK was assassinated. It wasn't until I was in my 30s that I even gave it a second thought (well, maybe a "first thought" a decade before any serious consideration). I was 9 days shy of 14 when man allegedly made a giant leap on the moon โ€” didn't give it a second thought โ€” it was real, of course.

I was nearly drafted to go fight the "just" war in Vietnam and lived through countless world events I was not even aware of.

Events that involved false flags, CIA manipulation, and God knows what else. I lived through all of this without giving any of it even an eye twitch โ€” it certainly was all that I had been told, nothing more. It was business as usual. Most, if not all, of it did not directly affect me or my ability to eat, work, play, and live my life in relative comfort.

I finally got the big kick in the butt when Covid came along, and as I slowly fully awakened, I realized that everything that passed me by in my life that I had shoe-horned into believing was normal was anything but normal. Now, don't get me wrong, I think I have always been a teeny-weeny bit awake. I scratched my head a lot and was always interested in the alternative view of things.

But these understandings were always peripheral to me.

The main thrust of life was generally good, people could be trusted, government may be whacky at times, but in general was benevolent, and trying very hard to be decent. The hideously ugly, weird, or deceitful stuff were the anomalies, not the norm.

I think 9-11 really started the bottom to drop out for me, but I still had not lost faith in the foundation of "rightness" in the world. But the whole thing fell apart once Covid started its rampage of false rhetoric and deceitful lies. Now I've made full circle where nothing at all is trusted, it is pretty much all bad, ugly, and evil. It is difficult to convince me there is even one decent person in power in the world.

Where does that leave me (us)? That is a difficult question to answer. I do know we have it pretty good in the opulent West โ€” the "free and brave" North America. We've had it that way for quite some time, and if you are not too discerning when you look, you can live a pretty carefree life even though the maggots are right below the surface gnawing away.

Footprints

Three new kinds of refugees in a world of migrants

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© Jaber Jarullah2World's largest refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
If the world's migrant population could be counted as a single country, it would be the fourth largest country.

One summer evening, the unrelenting sun over Niger refused to dip below the horizon. I sought out some shade with three anxious men in Touba au paradis, a small quiet restaurant in Agadez. These three Nigerians had tried to make the crossing at Assamaka, to our north, into Algeria, but found the border barred. They hoped their final destination would be Europe across the Mediterranean Sea, but first they had to make it into Algeria, and then across the remarkable Sahara Desert. By the time I met them, none of these crossings were possible.

Algeria had closed the border, and the town of Assamaka had become overrun by desperate people who did not want to retreat but could not go forward. These men told me that they fled from Nigeria not because of any physical threat, but simply because they could not make a living in their hometown. High inflation and unemployment made the situation in Nigeria impossible.

'How could we remain at home', they said, 'when we became a burden on our families even after we had finished school?'. Three educated Nigerian men, desperate to earn a living, unable to make one at home, decided against their own wishes to make a potentially fatal journey in search of a way to live with dignity.

Fish

US Navy launches first gender-neutral sub

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© Bill Addison/US Navy/dvidshubFast-attack submarine USS New Jersey at Naval Weapons Station Earle Pier โ€ข September 6, 2024
Nuclear-powered USS New Jersey was purpose-built to accommodate women.

USS New Jersey, a Virginia-class fast-attack submarine designed from the keel up to accommodate both male and female crew members has entered service with the US Navy.

The silent service has been men-only since its inception in the early 1900s, until the Pentagon began allowing women on board subs in 2010, prompting retrofits to address bathroom issues and lack of privacy.

Some 4,000 people attended the commissioning ceremony for SSN 796 at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Middletown, New Jersey on Saturday. Commander Steve Halle, the captain of the New Jersey, called it:
"A truly historic moment. Today, we commissioned our ship, and she is the fastest, most advanced, fully integrated fast-attack to date. Our superior professionalism is enhanced by our crew integration and our diversity."
According to Vice-Admiral Robert Gaucher, commander of Submarine Force Atlantic, the service is now "fully gender-integrated" and all future nuclear-powered submarines, including the new Columbia-class, will be designed with gender-neutral accommodations.

Briefcase

Google on trial (again): Internal documents show internet giant used exclusivity deals to maintain ad empire

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
© Justin Sullivan/GettyGoogle and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
Google's publisher ad tech was only as strong as the advertisers those publishers got access to โ€” but those publishers knew they couldn't get them anywhere else.

In internal Google documents released on Day 7 of the United States vs. Google trial Tuesday, company employees worried that if Google's ad exchange for publishers, AdX, lost exclusivity to Google's advertisers, "many publishers would terminate their AdX relationship in favor of their preferred vendors."

The memo, which weighed the benefits of opening up ad inventory to third parties, was released in a tranche of documents introduced Tuesday, and reinforced the DOJ's argument that Google unfairly tied its two ad-tech businesses together to maintain a monopoly on the industry.

Health

Best of the Web: We Must Never Forget 9-9-21

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© Brendan Smialowski/Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden is helped up after falling during the graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy in El Paso County, Colorado, on June 1, 2023.
This revised article is being sent out today since many of believe it is critical to bring public awareness to the three year anniversary of Biden's abhorrent vaccine mandates.

How Biden's Mandates Devastated America and His Presidency

Recently, a rather extraordinary turn of events happened. The sitting president was forced to drop out of his re-election campaign because his cognitive impairment was undeniably exposed to the country through a presidential debate and his party then turned against him. I and many others hold the opinion that over the last 3 years, Biden experienced cognitive and neurological decline, that this decline perfectly paralleled his zealous endorsement of the COVID vaccines, and that causality can be established since that same decline has been seen in many others following COVID vaccination (especially older adults with pre-existing cognitive impairment).

On 9/9/21, Biden gave one of the most divisive speeches in American history. There he announced his illegal workforce mandate (which was later struck down by the Supreme Court), repeated a series of known lies about the COVID vaccine and repeatedly attempted to incite hatred against the unvaccinated. Since the entire conference was 27 minutes long (which made it too long to watch), I spent a while trimming it down to the key points. The primary reason I made this article was to highlight this video, so please consider watching it (and take note of how much more lucid and coherent he was just three years ago).

Dollars

Ohio Governor DeWine's personal dealings in Haiti raises concerns about potential conflict of interest

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine haiti conflict of interest
© Wikimedia/Public/U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRockOhio Governor Mike DeWine
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has faced a series of conflicts of interests on key issues in his state, including with the ongoing Haitian migrant crisis affecting Springfield.

DeWine recently pledged support to Springfield to assist with the influx in Haitian migrants, according to Spectrum News. Over a period of years, DeWine and his wife have developed extensive ties to a charity in Haiti.

The charity was established in honor of Becky DeWine, their daughter who died in a car accident. The DeWine Family Foundation Inc. gave a $400,000 grant to the group "Hands Together" to fund a school in Haiti, according to the foundation's 990 form that was filed in 2023.

Comment: At nearly all Springfield City Council meetings, frustrated citizens have emphasized that THEY weren't consulted about moving the equivalent of a third of the city's population into their neighborhoods.




Apparently the council members aren't concerned:





Light switch

Kuwait to freeze bank accounts of residents who resist biometric fingerprinting

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Kuwait is mandating a biometric registration process for citizens and expatriates. Those who fail to register their fingerprints by the set deadlines will face consequences such as suspended government services and frozen bank accounts.

It is claimed that the reasons for enforcing the registration of digital biometrics are to enhance security and address dual nationality issues. However, this initiative aligns with global trends in biometrics and the sharing of our data with selected agencies.

It's no coincidence that at the same time, the United Nations is pushing for a Global Digital Compact to be adopted by 193 countries so it can play a significant role in the global governance of artificial intelligence, the Internet, digital public goods and digital infrastructure.

Kuwait is preparing to suspend government services for people who fail to register their fingerprints by the set deadlines, 30 September 2024, for Kuwaitis and 30 December 2024, for expatriates