Egypt Saw Gas Trade with Israel Soar in 2023

Egypt is experiencing an economic upswing after building an 'isolated security zone'

Israel’s NewMed Energy reported on 19 March that natural gas exports from the Leviathan field to Egypt increased by 28 percent in 2023.

The company reports that the exports jumped from 4.9 billion cubic meters (BCM) in 2022 to 6.3 BCM in 2023.

Israel Katz, former energy minister, approved the increase in exports to Egypt last year. For 2026, he projected an annual production increase of six BCM – about 60 percent over the current volume. “3.5 BCM of which will be directed in favor of Egypt,” the report read.

“The expansion of the total export quota to Egypt was increased by 38.7 BCM over 11 years,” the Israeli Ministry of Energy’s August announcement read. “The export permit was granted under the comprehensive framework approved by government decisions … and in consultation with the Director of the Natural Gas Authority. In addition, an additional increase of 0.5 BCM per year is being considered.”

The ministry noted that, in addition to enabling production expansion, the new exports are expected to derive billions of dollars in bonus revenues for Israel, increase energetic ties with Egypt and other regional players, and strengthen Israel’s geopolitical status....

Egypt–Israel tensions have been on the rise in recent months over Tel Aviv's plan to push Gazans into the Sinai Peninsula to continue with their plan of invading Rafah.

Cairo has called on Washington, which has previously condemned the plan, to send a clear message to its regional ally not to move forward with the Rafah invasion. It says that “it is not enough to state opposition; it is also important to indicate what if that position is circumvented, what if that position is not respected.”

However, following multiple investment deals into Egypt by other regional allies of Israel and a boost in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan to be granted to Egypt, the North African nation is constructing an “isolated security zone,” something which local rights groups are calling Cairo's preparation for an influx of Palestinian refugees.

🔗Source: The Cradle

Related: 2/18 — Egypt Building Walled Camp in Sinai Desert to Absorb Palestinian Refugees from Gaza

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10/29 — Leaked: Israeli Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza

The plan advocates the forced transfer of the population of the Gaza Strip to Sinai permanently, and calls for the international community to be leveraged to assist the move

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Pfizer Finally Releases Myocarditis Study for Children Who Received COVID-19 Vaccine

“Pfizer and its partner BioNTech have finally released the results of clinical trials exploring whether their COVID-19 vaccine causes subclinical heart inflammation. The companies found that multiple vaccine recipients suffered heart-related symptoms, but said none met the definition of myocarditis, or heart inflammation.

The study was published by the Infectious Diseases and Therapy journal.

The rate of COVID-19 was also higher among the newly vaccinated people in the older group, with eight cases compared to two in the control arm.

In the younger children, the elevated troponins were higher among the vaccinated after each dose. No elevated troponin cases were detected in the unvaccinated cohort.”

Source: Epoch Times, Chief Nerd

Win for Amos Miller, Amish Farmer, as Court Agrees to Modify Injuction So it Removes Ban on Sales to Customers Outside State of Penn.

Robert Barnes: Major win today for #AmosMiller the Amish farmer. Court agreed to modify injunction so that it only applies within the state of Pennsylvania removing the ban on sales to customers outside state.

Thanks to all who supported Amos & thanks to Rep, Thomas Massie Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Thomas Massie: Congrats! A small win, but a win nonetheless for #AmosMiller .

Why is the government is spending resources prosecuting an Amish farmer who sells to willing buyers when we have so many real problems at the moment?

We should empower small farmers instead of prosecuting them.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Thomas Massie

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California Lawmakers Push Online ID Verification Bill That Would Require Platforms To ID “Users With Large Audiences”

Also those posting spreading large amounts of "AI-generated content."

...never discount California Democrats, and now Alejandro (Alex) Padilla is attempting to charge ahead with “election misinformation” legislation.

Padilla is not just any California Democrat, either – he was the state secretary for six years until 2021, and a member of the State Senate for the LA City Council, before Governor Gavin Newsom shipped him off to the US Senate to replace Kamala Harris.

Despite what was implied (and by and large refuted) regarding Big Tech platforms’ role and influence in 2016, now the accent is on the suspected negative role of AI, presented as fact – and now Padilla and “partners” apparently want that to be written in law.

In particular, “users with large audiences or spreading large amounts of AI-generated content” would have to operate with user IDs, according to the line ID verification bill (SB 1228).

We obtained a copy of the bill for you here.

Padilla and his “legislative partners” from the California Initiative for Technology and Democracy (CITED) announced the bill as a way of “protecting” elections in the state – specifically from technology “misuse and misinformation.”

Although the legislative push is new, the rhetoric is at least eight years old now. Padilla spoke about foreigners hell-bent on using “new and powerful” tech to bring on misinformation – and that, rather than any internal political and ideological movements in the US, is why there are “divisions” in society (i.e. different viewpoints – also known as, democracy).

But to justify this same-old, in 2024, it’s all about them “deepfakes.”

“Bad actors and foreign bots now have the ability to create fake videos and images and spread lies to millions at the touch of a button,” Padilla shared with the press.

And now for what to do about it – according to Padilla: force large online platforms to require users to produce identity verification.

🔗Source: ReclaimTheNet

Related: 3/17 — World Bank and Verizon Chiefs Say Digital ID Part of “Social Contract” Between Government and Citizens

3/6 — Bill Gates Finds “Inspiration” in India’s Controversial Digital ID Program

3/2 — UK Collaborates With UN for Big Tech Inclusion in Project Linking Digital ID To Bank Accounts

11/29 — Trudeau Supports Partnership With EU For Digital ID Push, Suggests it Will Help Curb Online “Disinformation”

11/15 — California Targets AI and “Disinformation” in the Run-Up to the 2024 Election

11/11 — Microsoft and Meta Detail Plans To Combat “Election Disinformation” Which Includes Meme Stamp-Style Watermarks and Reliance on “Fact Checkers”

11/11 — UN Agency Unveils Action Plan To Regulate Speech on Social Media Platforms

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Massie Calls Out FBI Spending Increase in Omnibus Bill 'We Won't Have Time to Fully Read'

Thomas Massie: "FBI spending goes up significantly in the two-part omnibus that we won’t have time to fully read.

This demonstrates that a majority of Congress isn’t serious about holding the FBI accountable.

Including money for a new FBI building is a slap in the face to Americans."

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White House Sets 'Goal' to Derail Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline: Official

Pakistan reacted to the comments by a senior US official by stressing that the pipeline's construction is 'an independent and free decision'

A senior US government official revealed Washington has set a “goal” to prevent the construction of the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline, which has been delayed by almost a decade in large part due to US economic pressure.

“I fully support the efforts by the US government to prevent this pipeline from happening,” US Assistant Secretary Bureau Of South And Central Asian Affairs, Donald Lu, said during a congressional hearing on 19 March. “We are working toward that goal,” he stressed.

“We are tracking this planned pipeline between Iran and Pakistan … Honestly, I don’t know where the financing for such a project would come from. I don’t think that many international donors would be interested in funding such an endeavor,” the US official added, highlighting that the White House "will uphold both in letter and spirit all sanction laws related to Iran.”

Islamabad reacted to Lu's comments on Thursday, with foreign ministry spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch saying that the country remains committed to implementing the joint gas project in accordance with the spirit of the bilateral agreement with Tehran.

“Pakistan does not need to consult others or be exempted from sanctions but wants to go ahead with the project of transferring gas from the Islamic Republic of Iran,” she told reporters, adding that the decision of the Pakistani government to go ahead with the IP gas pipeline is “an independent and free decision, which will be implemented soon.”

Last month, Islamabad officially approved the start of construction work on its segment of the pipeline, which is estimated to cost $158 million. This is a last-ditch effort to ward off $18 billion in potential penalties from Tehran.

The 2,775km long IP project was launched in 2013. However, it missed several deadlines due to long-standing US sanctions against Tehran.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

Related: 7/26/23 —  The End of The PetroDollar, The Rise of BRICS is Here

The real question, is why should the sovereign country of Iraq — whose economic insecurity the US already bears large responsibility for, having destroyed the country 2 decades ago based off fabricated “intelligence” of WMDs[lies] — why should Iraq have to beg the US permission to conduct business with its neighbor that is in its own interest?

Somewhere in the answer to that question, is the prime reason for why BRICS is rising..

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Egypt's Atrophy Could Revive the Brotherhood

The unprecedented political, economic, and social crises in Egypt may trigger a resurgence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has historically filled gaps the state cannot meet.

On the morning of 4 March, the State Security Criminal Court in Egypt sentenced the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohammed Badie to death, along with seven of the outlawed group's leaders (Mahmoud Ezzat, Mohamed el-Beltagy, Amr Zaki, Osama Yassin, Safwa Hegazy, Assem Abdel Maged, and Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud) for organizing acts of violence eleven years ago in the so-called 'Platform Events' case.

The case traces back to 2013, days after the Egyptian military ousted the late Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated President Mohamed Mursi in a Saudi–UAE-backed coup.

Technically, this ruling marked 80-year-old Badie's third encounter with a death sentence following the infamous "Rabaa Operations Room" case in 2015.

Yet, beyond notions of 'justice,' a deeper narrative unfurls – one laden with political gravitas. The court's ruling wasn't solely about holding individuals accountable for past transgressions; it was a strategic move by the Egyptian state.

Ticking time bomb

The government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is fearful of the impending social upheaval anticipated as a result of the state's faltering economy, flawed fiscal policies, decline in Arab world clout, and Egypt's impotence in the face of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Gaza – all ingredients for a potential powder keg primed to detonate.

Commentators suggest the next explosion could be of an unprecedented scale, eclipsing the Bread Intifada of 1977 and the 25 January revolution of 2011.

He recalled the role of the Brotherhood in the 1948 War, and then the effects of the Nakba on Egypt and the policies of the state, aimed at eradicating the popular Islamic social and political movement since the fifties:

....If the government fails to tread carefully in domestic affairs – particularly with the backdrop of Israel's genocidal assault on Muslims right on Egypt's border – the Brotherhood could re-emerge from the shadows, colliding head-on with the state once again.

🔗Source: The Cradle

Related: 3/19 — Egypt Saw Gas Trade with Israel Soar in 2023

2/18 — Egypt Building Walled Camp in Sinai Desert to Absorb Palestinian Refugees from Gaza

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Scottish Police Training Targets Blogs, Podcasts, and Social Media Under Authoritarian New Censorship Law

The new law will be introduced on April 1st.

Police training in some countries these days goes well beyond what one would normally expect, to include targeting content – including artistic – deemed to be “threatening” or “abusive.”

It’s not about China – at least this time. It’s about Scotland. There, officers are learning how to put blogs, podcasts, social media posts, and even simply reposts into their proverbial crosshairs.

According to reports, actors and comedians are not exempt from this type of scrutiny if somebody feels offended, and reports them.

A story in the Scottish press, based on leaked material, details this practice, which is said to be happening thanks to the newly enacted “hate crime law” (Hate Crime and Public Order, Scotland) – even if, formally, such interpretations appear to run afoul of the actual legislation.

The implications of the law, however, are not flying under the radar, as local media says Conservatives in Scotland are questioning the lawfulness of assessing content created “through public performance of a play” for its potential as “threatening and abusive.”

And only about a year since he was appointed to oversee the law, Assistant Chief Constable David Duncan has now retired.

Police in Scotland previously said that every report identifying content as hateful toward “protected characteristics” (such as age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgenderism) will be investigated.

...the law in effect equates memes and just good old jokes with things like, for example, revenge porn. One of the provisions states that the subject of prosecution will be “displaying, publishing or distributing the material” in places like signs, sites, blogs, podcasts, social platforms.

And that applies to these actions done both directly, and indirectly, e.g., via a repost. This is referred to as “forwarding or repeating” content from a third party.

🔗Source: ReclaimTheNet|

Related: Related: 3/21 — California Lawmakers Push Online ID Verification Bill That Would Require Platforms To ID “Users With Large Audiences”

3/1 — UK Government Pressures Social Media Giants To Tackle “Misinformation” Ahead of Elections

12/1/23 — Irish Justice Minister To Police Sweeping Powers To Intercept Private Conversations on Social Media Sites Under New Legislation

11/27 — Ireland’s Green Party Sen. Pauline O'Reilly: “We are restricting freedom but we’re doing it for the common good…Yes you have rights, but they are restricted for the common good.”

11/26 — Elon Musk: Language being proposed as law in Ireland means this could literally happen to you for having a meme on your phone

11/26 — Ireland’s Leader Leo Varadkar Pushes for New “Hate Speech” Laws

10/22 — New York AG Letitia James Backtracks on Censorship Demands of Rumble

10/20 — New York Attorney General Letitia James Demands Censorship of Speech Regarding Israel-Hamas Conflict

4/13 — Minds.com Sues California Attorney General to Block Social Media Censorship Law

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EuromedHR — WATCH: Israeli Drone Pursued, Executed Four Civilian Youths Attempting to Visit Their Destroyed Homes

Edward Snowden remarked: "Everyone in the world needs to see this.

Note that this footage permits no room for "it was a mistake," showing repeated, specifically-targeted strikes on the unarmed and even wounded. The sort of behavior the ICJ explicitly forbid in the genocide ruling against Israel

You need to understand that the technical capability behind such killings is becoming increasingly easy to achieve—and increasingly automated. Soon enough, an official will drag their finger across a map, and anyone judged by a crude algorithm to have crossed that line will die.

Yes, this is an outrageous crime.,, glimpse of this world's future. Even if you care nothing for Israel-Palestine, take a moment to care for your own tomorrow.

This is not okay"

🔗Source: Ram Abdu of EuromedHR, Snowden

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Tel Aviv Expands Illegal Reign Over Palestinian Land

Israel’s current government has been working towards an unlawful annexation of the occupied West Bank and continues to expand illegal settlements

The Israeli government has designated nearly 2,000 acres of Palestinian land in the occupied Jordan Valley as state-owned property, aimed at further expansion of its illegal settlements.

Hebrew broadcaster Kan reported on 22 March that the move will allow for the construction of over 100 settlement housing units and the establishment of an area for industry and commerce.

The designation was overseen by Israel’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who has continuously sought to expand illegal settlement and advance a project for an Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank.

Declaring the Palestinian land as Israeli-owned is “an important and strategic issue,” Smotrich said.

“While there are those in Israel and the world who seek to undermine our right to Judea and Samaria and the country in general, we promote the settlement movement with hard work and in a strategic manner across the country,” the minister added.

Since the start of the war in Gaza, Israel has taken the opportunity to expand illegal settlements on Palestinian land.

Between October and January, Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have built at least 15 illegal outposts and 18 illegal roads, as well as hundreds of meters of fencing and multiple roadblocks, Al-Jazeera reported this week.

The findings are based on data gathered by activists and validated with satellite images by Al-Jazeera's verification unit, Sanad.

Smotrich has been at the head of efforts to expand illegal settlements with the goal of an eventual Israeli annexation of the West Bank. He has also called for an annexation of the Jordan Valley.

Israel illegally occupied the West Bank during the 1967 war. However, it was never formally annexed.

In June last year, an agreement between Smotrich, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant resulted in the transfer of a significant bulk of the occupied West Bank’s administration away from the army and into the finance minister’s hands.

The move gave Smotrich increased power over civilian issues in the West Bank, including authority over unlicensed settler outposts and settlement construction plans.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

Related: 3/19 — Israeli Banks Fund Illegal Settlement Home Construction: Report

The two ministers who obtained mortgages to build homes in this way illegally are Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Yehuda Eliyahu, Smotrich's right-hand man and head of the Defense Ministry's new Settlement Administration.

In 2017, Haaretz found that Smotrich's house in the settlement of Kedumim was built illegally under Israeli law.

While illegally building homes themselves, both Smotrich and Eliyahu founded an NGO decades ago called Regavim, which is committed to preventing Palestinian construction and demolishing Palestinian homes, schools, and other infrastructure in the West Bank....

2/24 — Top Israeli Officials Demand 'More Settlements, More Guns' As West Bank Violence Surges

11/15 — Israeli Knesset Members Say Western Countries Should Take in Gaza Refugees

The op-ed drew praise from Bezalel Smotrich, an extremist settler who leads the Religious Zionist party and is Israel’s finance minister

11/9 — Israeli Apache Helicopters Killed Own Soldiers, Civilians on 7 October: Report

....The Guardian reported that Israel’s influential finance minister and settler leader, Bezalel Smotrich, urged the Israeli army to “hit Hamas brutally and not take the matter of the captives into significant consideration” during a cabinet meeting late on 7 October as the Hamas attack was still underway.

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Telegram Secures $330 Million in Bond Sales

Popular messaging platform Telegram raised $330 million through bond sales last week, founder and CEO Pavel Durov said on Monday.

The offering was oversubscribed and terms of the bond were favorable for the company, Durov wrote on his own Telegram channel.

"The increased demand for our bonds shows that global financial institutions value Telegram's growth in audience and monetization," he wrote.

🔗Source: Reuters

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Alabama Governor Signs Bill Prohibiting DEI Programs At Schools, State Agencies

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a sweeping bill that prohibits the use of state funds for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and offices at state agencies, higher education institutions and other public entities.

"My administration has and will continue to value Alabama's rich diversity, however, I refuse to allow a few bad actors on college campuses – or wherever else for that matter – to go under the acronym of DEI, using taxpayer funds, to push their liberal political movement counter to what the majority of Alabamians believe," Ivey said in a March 20 statement to news outlets...

NPR Reported:

"If you look at the way this has actually been implemented across the country, DEI is better viewed as standing for discrimination, exclusion and indoctrination," DeSantis said during a news conference at New College of Florida in Sarasota. "And that has no place in our public institutions."

DeSantis said Monday that he's viewed DEI initiatives as a discriminatory practice. "This bill says the whole experiment with DEI is coming to an end in the state of Florida. We are eliminating the DEI programs."

🔗Source: ABC

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Daily Wire Parts Ways With Candace Owens after Public Falling Out with Founder over ‘Disgraceful’ Anti-Israel Views

Owens and The Daily Wire’s co-founder had been publicly beefing for months over the Israel-Hamas war, with Shapiro at one point daring her to quit.

The feud began last November when Owens tweeted that “no government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide.” ... Soon after, Shapiro publicly called Owens’ behavior “disgraceful” and chided her “faux-sophistication” on the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Days later, their feud became even more personal. Owens posted to X a series of Bible verses suggesting “you cannot serve both God and money.” That pointed remark was viewed by many as a not-so-subtle use of the ["]antisemitic["] “dual loyalty” trope against Shapiro, who responded: “Candace, if you feel that taking money from The Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means quit.”

🔗Source: The Daily Beast, National Review

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🚨 BREAKING: At Least 40 Dead In Ongoing ‘Terror Attack’ On Moscow Concert Venue & Mall

All hell is breaking loose in Russia.

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Director of Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport Director Killed In Shootout With Federal Agents Amid Weapons Sales Probe

Investigators alleged that Mr Malinowski had bought more than 150 guns from May 2021 to 27 February this year, including AR-style pistols, and shipped them to a business that is redacted in the affidavit where he picked them up.

The affidavit alleges that he filled out ATF Form 4773, which warns that a gun can’t be for someone else and that the “repetitive purchase of firearms” in order to sell them for a profit without a licence is illegal, before the weapons were handed over to him.

The document also accuses Mr Malinowski of selling guns, including at gun shows. At one show, he was allegedly seen selling firearms to a customer without asking for any ID or paperwork.

Investigators said he told an undercover agent that because they were private sales, no paperwork was needed.

According to the affidavit, filed by an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, six guns were later recovered in the commission of a crime, and undercover ATF agents bought three others at gun shows.

One of the guns cited in the affidavit was found on a 15-year-old Norteño gang member in California in 2022, the document added.

In a statement released on Thursday, Mr Malinowski’s family said that they have “endured an unspeakable tragedy and one that is almost impossible to understand.”

They also questioned why the ATF conducted what they characterized as a raid on a private home that led to the gunfire.

“Even if the allegations in the affidavit are true, they don’t begin to justify what happened,” the family said, adding: “At worst, Bryan Malinowski, a gun owner and gun enthusiast, stood accused of making private firearm sales to a person who may not have been legally entitled to purchase the guns.”

The family said they are now waiting for “all the facts to come out.”

🔗Source: Independent

Related: 3/20 — Executive Director of Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport Shot in Head by Federal Agents

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A British surgeon who treated the wounded in Gaza tells how Israeli occupation forces burn children alive all the way to the bone.