Say Goodbye to Cloud Anonymity? New US Regulations Demand User Identification
The US Department of Commerce is seeking to end the right of users of cloud services to remain anonymous.
The proposal first emerged in January, documents show, detailing new rules (National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities) for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, which include Know Your Customer (KYC) regulation, which is normally used by banks and financial institutions.
But now, the US government is citing concerns over “malicious foreign actors” and their usage of these services as a reason to effectively end anonymity on the cloud, including when only signing up for a trial.
Another new proposal from the notice is to cut access to US cloud services to persons designated as “foreign adversaries.”
As is often the case, although the justification for such measures is a foreign threat, US citizens inevitably, given the nature of the infrastructure in question, get caught up as well. And, once again, to address a problem caused by a few users, everyone will be denied the right to anonymity.
That would these days be any government’s dream, it appears, while the industry itself, especially the biggest players like Amazon, can implement the identification feature with ease, at the same time gaining a valuable new source of personal data.
The only losers here appear to be users of IaaS platforms, who will have to allow tech giants yet another way of accessing their sensitive personal information and risk losing it through leaks.
Meanwhile, the actual malicious actors will hardly give up those services – leaked personal data that can be sold and bought illegally, including by those the proposal says it is targeting.
Until now, providers of cloud services felt no need to implement a KYC regime, instead allowing people to become users, or try their products, simply by providing an email, and a valid credit card in case they signed up for a plan....
🔗SOURCE ➡️ ReclaimTheNet
Related: Related: 5/20 — Belgium and Hungary Launch Controversial Digital IDs, Vaccine Passport, Ahead of EU Regulations
It's All a Trap (Prod. Pendo46) — Rap by The Mcgwire / PsyopDaily
Soon you'll need a digital id for everything and anything you order...
It's all a trap - biometric IDs, CBDCs, and agenda 2030, for the greater good bitch please...
5/11 — Whitney Webb: Can Trump Supporters Not see That They Are Being Manipulated Into Consenting to the Same Digital ID Biometric Hell That Was Trialed Out During COVID?
3/17 — World Bank and Verizon Chiefs Say Digital ID Part of “Social Contract” Between Government and Citizens
2/22 — Canada’s Conservatives Realize They Can’t Be Anti Digital ID and Pro Online Age Verification
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The US Department of Commerce is seeking to end the right of users of cloud services to remain anonymous.
The proposal first emerged in January, documents show, detailing new rules (National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities) for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, which include Know Your Customer (KYC) regulation, which is normally used by banks and financial institutions.
But now, the US government is citing concerns over “malicious foreign actors” and their usage of these services as a reason to effectively end anonymity on the cloud, including when only signing up for a trial.
Another new proposal from the notice is to cut access to US cloud services to persons designated as “foreign adversaries.”
As is often the case, although the justification for such measures is a foreign threat, US citizens inevitably, given the nature of the infrastructure in question, get caught up as well. And, once again, to address a problem caused by a few users, everyone will be denied the right to anonymity.
That would these days be any government’s dream, it appears, while the industry itself, especially the biggest players like Amazon, can implement the identification feature with ease, at the same time gaining a valuable new source of personal data.
The only losers here appear to be users of IaaS platforms, who will have to allow tech giants yet another way of accessing their sensitive personal information and risk losing it through leaks.
Meanwhile, the actual malicious actors will hardly give up those services – leaked personal data that can be sold and bought illegally, including by those the proposal says it is targeting.
Until now, providers of cloud services felt no need to implement a KYC regime, instead allowing people to become users, or try their products, simply by providing an email, and a valid credit card in case they signed up for a plan....
🔗SOURCE ➡️ ReclaimTheNet
Related: Related: 5/20 — Belgium and Hungary Launch Controversial Digital IDs, Vaccine Passport, Ahead of EU Regulations
It's All a Trap (Prod. Pendo46) — Rap by The Mcgwire / PsyopDaily
Soon you'll need a digital id for everything and anything you order...
It's all a trap - biometric IDs, CBDCs, and agenda 2030, for the greater good bitch please...
5/11 — Whitney Webb: Can Trump Supporters Not see That They Are Being Manipulated Into Consenting to the Same Digital ID Biometric Hell That Was Trialed Out During COVID?
3/17 — World Bank and Verizon Chiefs Say Digital ID Part of “Social Contract” Between Government and Citizens
2/22 — Canada’s Conservatives Realize They Can’t Be Anti Digital ID and Pro Online Age Verification
Follow us on Minds / X / Substack
Follow ➡️ @PsyopDaily
Reclaim The Net
Say Goodbye to Cloud Anonymity? New US Regulations Demand User Identification
New rules aim to combat malicious actors but risk compromising the privacy of everyday users.
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Fluoride in Pregnancy May Harm Child’s Brain Development: Study
A new study suggests a link between greater fluoride intake in pregnancy and toddlers with behavioral problems.
Children in the womb exposed to higher levels of fluoride — a mineral found naturally in water in varying amounts — later were more likely to experience temper tantrums, headaches, stomachaches, anxiety and symptoms linked to autism, according to research published Monday in JAMA Network Open.
“Exposure to fluoride during pregnancy does not mean that a child will experience greater neurobehavioral problems,” senior study author Tracy Bastain, an associate professor of clinical population and public health sciences at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, told The Post.
“We found an association between higher prenatal exposure and more neurobehavioral problems at age 3 but more studies are needed to establish a causal link,” she explained.
Data for the study came from USC’s MADRES Center for Environmental Health Disparities.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ New York Post
Related: 5/20 — A new study just dropped from Dr. Howard Hu and team regarding fluoride exposure during pregnancy. It's the latest data showing that fluoride is a neurotoxin.
4/6 — Whatcom County City Debates Removing Fluoride From Its Water
3/19/23 — The End of Water Fluoridation in the US? @DbrozeLiveFree X @WCH_org
2/29 — Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: Experts Say Fluoridated Water Not Safe to Drink
2/21 — Derrick Broze Explains the Historic Fluoride Lawsuit in 2 Minutes
2/7 — Union County, North Carolina Advances Fluoride Ban in Its Water
1/30 — Bloomberg Law: Fluoride Science on Trial in Case With Broader Chemical Impacts
10/25 — Dallas Reviews the Practice of Adding Fluoride to Its Drinking Water
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A new study suggests a link between greater fluoride intake in pregnancy and toddlers with behavioral problems.
Children in the womb exposed to higher levels of fluoride — a mineral found naturally in water in varying amounts — later were more likely to experience temper tantrums, headaches, stomachaches, anxiety and symptoms linked to autism, according to research published Monday in JAMA Network Open.
“Exposure to fluoride during pregnancy does not mean that a child will experience greater neurobehavioral problems,” senior study author Tracy Bastain, an associate professor of clinical population and public health sciences at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, told The Post.
“We found an association between higher prenatal exposure and more neurobehavioral problems at age 3 but more studies are needed to establish a causal link,” she explained.
Data for the study came from USC’s MADRES Center for Environmental Health Disparities.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ New York Post
Related: 5/20 — A new study just dropped from Dr. Howard Hu and team regarding fluoride exposure during pregnancy. It's the latest data showing that fluoride is a neurotoxin.
4/6 — Whatcom County City Debates Removing Fluoride From Its Water
3/19/23 — The End of Water Fluoridation in the US? @DbrozeLiveFree X @WCH_org
2/29 — Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: Experts Say Fluoridated Water Not Safe to Drink
2/21 — Derrick Broze Explains the Historic Fluoride Lawsuit in 2 Minutes
2/7 — Union County, North Carolina Advances Fluoride Ban in Its Water
1/30 — Bloomberg Law: Fluoride Science on Trial in Case With Broader Chemical Impacts
10/25 — Dallas Reviews the Practice of Adding Fluoride to Its Drinking Water
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New York Post
Fluoride in pregnancy may harm child’s brain development: study
The research team suggests pregnant women drink filtered tap water — "even some tabletop pitcher filters do a pretty good job of filtering fluoride."
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The American Empire Is Crumbling Under Its Debt
This is part 3 of Washington DC: The Unaffordable and Unnecessary War Capital of the World. Read part 1 and part 2.
Since WWII was arguably the nation’s last “good war”, an illuminating way to measure the folly that has unfolded during the seven decades since then is to unpack the cost of veterans disability compensation and medical care by cohort of war service. The following figures are extremely conservative and exclude survivors, dependents, pensioners, housing, education and other VA benefits. But they do encompass roughly $180 billion or 52% of the current $346 billion per year Veterans Administration (VA) budget.
The disability compensation cost for each cohort is detailed by the VA, while the cost of medical care is assumed to be equal to the current annual average of $8,200 for each of the 9.18 million enrollees. Self evidently, the $286 million cost for WWII beneficiaries is a rounding error.
Number of beneficiaries and current budget cost for Disability Compensation And Medical Care:
WWII: 11,488 vets and $286 million.
Korean War: 59,092 vets and $1.4 billion.
Vietnam Era: 1,385,131 vets and $44.3 billion.
Gulf War era: 3,374,670 vets and $112.1 billion.
Other Peacetime: 831,932 vets and $20.5 billion.
Total: 5,662,273 vets at an average of $31,705/beneficiary= $179.5 billion.
For want of doubt, it is now nearly universally agreed that the two Iraq wars were sheer folly in which upwards of $1.5 trillion was wasted, to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed or injured by these pointless invasions and occupations. Yet the compensation and medical care cost for the 3.375 million disability beneficiaries of this cohort currently totals $112 billion per annum.
While that figure seems exceedingly large by any standard, it is evidently driven by the huge number of beneficiaries, not the $33,480 cost for each. As it happens, fully 41% of the 8.193 million Gulf War Era veterans are on disability...
In any event, given an average life expectancy of 75 years the Gulf War Era vets alone will generate deferred costs in current dollars of purchasing power (FY 2024 $) equal to about $5.6 trillion (50 years at $112 billion per year).
That’s right. The deferred cost of just one set of pointless Forever Wars amounts to 155% of the entire regular military budget of Russia on an annual basis; and on a lifetime basis, it’s actually equal to 17% of the entirety of the nation’s current towering public debt of $34 trillion!..
...In a word, there is something really haywire here. Official Washington is so caught up in its role as War Capital of the World that it does not even notice that the deferred cost of now long-forgotten wars in Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf exceed the defense budgets of every friend or foe on the planet by a long-shot, and that only 0.1% of the current massive $346 billion VA budget is attributable to surviving veterans of the last war which arguably contributed to homeland security.
Needless to say, the issue goes far beyond the startling dollars and cents of the matter. What is actually at issue is the entire framework of post-WWII foreign policy that generated a permanent Warfare State and entailed the extension of a Washington-based empire across the length and breadth of the planet.
But that shift from a peaceful Republic thriving socially and economically behind the great ocean moats to an Empire straddling the globe was more than the fragile machinery of our Madisonian democracy could successfully handle. Elected officialdom was soon caught up in the excitement and intrigue of managing the Empire, trotting the globe and touring the allies, vassals and provinces as visiting plenipotentiaries of the Indispensable Nation.
So doing, they became shills for a global policeman narrative that served the interests of arms merchants and national security bureaucrats alike...
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Antiwar.com
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This is part 3 of Washington DC: The Unaffordable and Unnecessary War Capital of the World. Read part 1 and part 2.
Since WWII was arguably the nation’s last “good war”, an illuminating way to measure the folly that has unfolded during the seven decades since then is to unpack the cost of veterans disability compensation and medical care by cohort of war service. The following figures are extremely conservative and exclude survivors, dependents, pensioners, housing, education and other VA benefits. But they do encompass roughly $180 billion or 52% of the current $346 billion per year Veterans Administration (VA) budget.
The disability compensation cost for each cohort is detailed by the VA, while the cost of medical care is assumed to be equal to the current annual average of $8,200 for each of the 9.18 million enrollees. Self evidently, the $286 million cost for WWII beneficiaries is a rounding error.
Number of beneficiaries and current budget cost for Disability Compensation And Medical Care:
WWII: 11,488 vets and $286 million.
Korean War: 59,092 vets and $1.4 billion.
Vietnam Era: 1,385,131 vets and $44.3 billion.
Gulf War era: 3,374,670 vets and $112.1 billion.
Other Peacetime: 831,932 vets and $20.5 billion.
Total: 5,662,273 vets at an average of $31,705/beneficiary= $179.5 billion.
For want of doubt, it is now nearly universally agreed that the two Iraq wars were sheer folly in which upwards of $1.5 trillion was wasted, to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed or injured by these pointless invasions and occupations. Yet the compensation and medical care cost for the 3.375 million disability beneficiaries of this cohort currently totals $112 billion per annum.
While that figure seems exceedingly large by any standard, it is evidently driven by the huge number of beneficiaries, not the $33,480 cost for each. As it happens, fully 41% of the 8.193 million Gulf War Era veterans are on disability...
In any event, given an average life expectancy of 75 years the Gulf War Era vets alone will generate deferred costs in current dollars of purchasing power (FY 2024 $) equal to about $5.6 trillion (50 years at $112 billion per year).
That’s right. The deferred cost of just one set of pointless Forever Wars amounts to 155% of the entire regular military budget of Russia on an annual basis; and on a lifetime basis, it’s actually equal to 17% of the entirety of the nation’s current towering public debt of $34 trillion!..
...In a word, there is something really haywire here. Official Washington is so caught up in its role as War Capital of the World that it does not even notice that the deferred cost of now long-forgotten wars in Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf exceed the defense budgets of every friend or foe on the planet by a long-shot, and that only 0.1% of the current massive $346 billion VA budget is attributable to surviving veterans of the last war which arguably contributed to homeland security.
Needless to say, the issue goes far beyond the startling dollars and cents of the matter. What is actually at issue is the entire framework of post-WWII foreign policy that generated a permanent Warfare State and entailed the extension of a Washington-based empire across the length and breadth of the planet.
But that shift from a peaceful Republic thriving socially and economically behind the great ocean moats to an Empire straddling the globe was more than the fragile machinery of our Madisonian democracy could successfully handle. Elected officialdom was soon caught up in the excitement and intrigue of managing the Empire, trotting the globe and touring the allies, vassals and provinces as visiting plenipotentiaries of the Indispensable Nation.
So doing, they became shills for a global policeman narrative that served the interests of arms merchants and national security bureaucrats alike...
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Antiwar.com
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Satellite images reveal the massive destruction in eastern Rafah caused by the ongoing Israeli invasion.
Forwarded from Derrick Broze's Daily News
Friends,
Have you watched the latest episode of The Pyramid of Power?
I know I put out a good amount of content (and you have many more options to choose), but I want to highlight this latest episode of The PoP.
These episodes take dozens to 100's of hours to research, conduct interviews, write the script, and record and edit the narration. Not to mention the 6 weeks my editor put into the visuals and soundtrack.
I believe this project is the most important work I've done yet. Every episode aims to bring you the best solutions in 30 minutes or less. And, of course, it ends with suggested solutions.
So, if you haven't watched yet, please make some this week to watch and share!
The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Pyramid of Power - Episode 14: The False Flag Deception
In the 14th episode of this 17 part series, Derrick Broze focuses on the history of the use of false flag tactics. Derrick briefly looks at the 9/11 attacks, the 1995 OKC Bombing, and the 2018 Syria gas attacks.
WATCH: https://theconsciousresistance.com/the-pyramid-of-power-chapter-14/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@theconsciousresistance:7/the-pop-14:6
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEaWPXIyoz4
This episode was graciously sponsored by CULT DAO. Learn more at https://www.cultdao.io
Have you watched the latest episode of The Pyramid of Power?
I know I put out a good amount of content (and you have many more options to choose), but I want to highlight this latest episode of The PoP.
These episodes take dozens to 100's of hours to research, conduct interviews, write the script, and record and edit the narration. Not to mention the 6 weeks my editor put into the visuals and soundtrack.
I believe this project is the most important work I've done yet. Every episode aims to bring you the best solutions in 30 minutes or less. And, of course, it ends with suggested solutions.
So, if you haven't watched yet, please make some this week to watch and share!
The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Pyramid of Power - Episode 14: The False Flag Deception
In the 14th episode of this 17 part series, Derrick Broze focuses on the history of the use of false flag tactics. Derrick briefly looks at the 9/11 attacks, the 1995 OKC Bombing, and the 2018 Syria gas attacks.
WATCH: https://theconsciousresistance.com/the-pyramid-of-power-chapter-14/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@theconsciousresistance:7/the-pop-14:6
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEaWPXIyoz4
This episode was graciously sponsored by CULT DAO. Learn more at https://www.cultdao.io
The Conscious Resistance Network
The Pyramid of Power: Chapter 14 - The False Flag Deception - The Conscious Resistance Network
Text to Audio Player https://pinecast.com/listen/696c6d64-c195-4eeb-a84f-b52cdcb49bd5.mp3 The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Pyramid of Power – Episode 14: The False Flag Deception In the 14th episode of this 17 part series, Derrick Broze focuses…
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Top Israeli security official leads hundreds in raid of Al-Aqsa Mosque
The Israeli official said the violation of the Islamic holy site was in opposition to European nations recognizing a Palestinian state
The Israeli official said the violation of the Islamic holy site was in opposition to European nations recognizing a Palestinian state
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Israeli Defense Minister Gallant:
No one has the right to criticize Israel.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Globe Eye News
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No one has the right to criticize Israel.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Globe Eye News
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BLINKEN: OPPOSE PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD, OR STARVE.
"It's US policy to starve the world if Palestinians have a free state..."
Issuing a threat disguised as a reminder, Blinken is referring to US law:
Under legislation by the Congress since 1990, the United States must cut off funding to UN agencies that give full membership to a Palestinian state.
"Antony Blinken said we have to oppose Palestinian statehood or else the World Food Programme budget will be cut and people will starve around the world."
Section 414 of US Public Law 101-246, passed in 1990, states that "No funds authorized to be appropriated from this act or any other Act shall be available for the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states."
"It's US policy to starve the world if Palestinians have a free state..."
Issuing a threat disguised as a reminder, Blinken is referring to US law:
Under legislation by the Congress since 1990, the United States must cut off funding to UN agencies that give full membership to a Palestinian state.
"Antony Blinken said we have to oppose Palestinian statehood or else the World Food Programme budget will be cut and people will starve around the world."
Section 414 of US Public Law 101-246, passed in 1990, states that "No funds authorized to be appropriated from this act or any other Act shall be available for the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states."
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Follow the Money: How Israel-Linked Billionaires Silenced US Campus Protests
America’s universities are on fire. A protest movement against the violence in Gaza and U.S. colleges’ complicity in them has swept the nation, with encampments on college campuses in 45 of America’s 50 states. The crackdown has been swift; thousands of students have been arrested, charged, fined, lost their degrees, or even deported. Amid corporate media demanding a “Kent State 2.0”, riot police, armored vehicles and snipers have been deployed across the country...
Why have overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations against a foreign power’s actions been met with such a heavy-handed response? A MintPress News investigation finds that those same elite institutions have deep financial and ideological ties to the state of Israel, are funded by pro-Israel billionaires who have demanded they take action to crush the student movement, are partially funded by the Israeli government, and exist in a climate where Washington has made it clear that the protests should not be tolerated.
ISRAEL’S BILLIONAIRE BACKERS
[Columbia] university president Minouche Shafik immediately called in the NYPD – the first time the university had allowed police to suppress dissent on campus since the famous 1968 demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
Shafik’s decision was no doubt influenced by the enormous pressure put on her by the university’s top donors – many of whom have deep connections to the Israeli state and its military.
ROBERT KRAFT
Billionaire businessman and sports executive Robert Kraft, for example, publicly announced he was cutting the university off from his lavish funding over its failure to suppress the protests effectively enough...
Kraft is one of Columbia’s most important donors...
He also has deep connections to Israel, having visited the country over 100 times, including to have private lunch with his friend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said, “Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft.”
LEON COOPERMAN
Another billionaire benefactor... The hedge fund manager suspended his donations in October, citing student support for Palestine.
He is also a regular donor to the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces (FIDF)
LEN BLAVATNIK
A third billionaire backer... who demanded that the university protestors be “held to account.”..
IDAN OFER
...Ofer is a crucial player in Israeli intelligence... his family’s Zodiac Maritime cargo ships have regularly been used to secretly ferry Israeli commandos around the Middle East for assassination operations.
LESLIE WEXNER
Another billionaire apparently “stunned and sickened... is former Victoria’s Secret CEO Leslie Wexner. Apart from Wexner’s exceptionally close and well-publicized connections to child sex traffickers and Israeli intelligence asset Jeffrey Epstein, Wexner is a major donor to Israeli cause..
MARC ROWAN
... University of Pennsylvania... The billionaire investor demanded that his side must “exact a price” on students who express solidarity with Palestine...
ACADEMIC COLLABORATION
In addition to pressure from donors, elite U.S. universities have close academic and business ties to Israel. For example, Columbia announced last year that it would open a “global center” in Tel Aviv..
PAID FOR BY ISRAEL
However, more controversial than the academic collaboration is the Israeli government’s direct funding of American educational institutions. MIT, for example, is awash in Israeli cash...
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Mintpress News
Related: 10/3/23 — Zelensky Requests Marina Abramovic To be Ambassador for Rebuilding Ukraine's Schools - What Did He Mean By This
Speaking of MIT... a very interesting article I read by Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times Weekly. In 2012, he wrote “Was Aaron Swartz Killed By An MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring?”.
...By 2019, those allegations, make a little more sense. But they concerned not just Negroponte.
9/8/2019 — Top MIT Official Resigns in Wake of Explosive Report on Donations Facilitated by Jeffrey Epstein
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America’s universities are on fire. A protest movement against the violence in Gaza and U.S. colleges’ complicity in them has swept the nation, with encampments on college campuses in 45 of America’s 50 states. The crackdown has been swift; thousands of students have been arrested, charged, fined, lost their degrees, or even deported. Amid corporate media demanding a “Kent State 2.0”, riot police, armored vehicles and snipers have been deployed across the country...
Why have overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations against a foreign power’s actions been met with such a heavy-handed response? A MintPress News investigation finds that those same elite institutions have deep financial and ideological ties to the state of Israel, are funded by pro-Israel billionaires who have demanded they take action to crush the student movement, are partially funded by the Israeli government, and exist in a climate where Washington has made it clear that the protests should not be tolerated.
ISRAEL’S BILLIONAIRE BACKERS
[Columbia] university president Minouche Shafik immediately called in the NYPD – the first time the university had allowed police to suppress dissent on campus since the famous 1968 demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
Shafik’s decision was no doubt influenced by the enormous pressure put on her by the university’s top donors – many of whom have deep connections to the Israeli state and its military.
ROBERT KRAFT
Billionaire businessman and sports executive Robert Kraft, for example, publicly announced he was cutting the university off from his lavish funding over its failure to suppress the protests effectively enough...
Kraft is one of Columbia’s most important donors...
He also has deep connections to Israel, having visited the country over 100 times, including to have private lunch with his friend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said, “Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft.”
LEON COOPERMAN
Another billionaire benefactor... The hedge fund manager suspended his donations in October, citing student support for Palestine.
He is also a regular donor to the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces (FIDF)
LEN BLAVATNIK
A third billionaire backer... who demanded that the university protestors be “held to account.”..
IDAN OFER
...Ofer is a crucial player in Israeli intelligence... his family’s Zodiac Maritime cargo ships have regularly been used to secretly ferry Israeli commandos around the Middle East for assassination operations.
LESLIE WEXNER
Another billionaire apparently “stunned and sickened... is former Victoria’s Secret CEO Leslie Wexner. Apart from Wexner’s exceptionally close and well-publicized connections to child sex traffickers and Israeli intelligence asset Jeffrey Epstein, Wexner is a major donor to Israeli cause..
MARC ROWAN
... University of Pennsylvania... The billionaire investor demanded that his side must “exact a price” on students who express solidarity with Palestine...
ACADEMIC COLLABORATION
In addition to pressure from donors, elite U.S. universities have close academic and business ties to Israel. For example, Columbia announced last year that it would open a “global center” in Tel Aviv..
PAID FOR BY ISRAEL
However, more controversial than the academic collaboration is the Israeli government’s direct funding of American educational institutions. MIT, for example, is awash in Israeli cash...
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Mintpress News
Related: 10/3/23 — Zelensky Requests Marina Abramovic To be Ambassador for Rebuilding Ukraine's Schools - What Did He Mean By This
Speaking of MIT... a very interesting article I read by Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times Weekly. In 2012, he wrote “Was Aaron Swartz Killed By An MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring?”.
...By 2019, those allegations, make a little more sense. But they concerned not just Negroponte.
9/8/2019 — Top MIT Official Resigns in Wake of Explosive Report on Donations Facilitated by Jeffrey Epstein
Follow ➡️ @PsyopDaily
MintPress News
Follow the Money: How Israel-Linked Billionaires Silenced US Campus Protests
Thousands of students face severe consequences for protesting Gaza violence. Alan Macleod investigates the powerful financial and ideological ties to Israel driving the harsh responses from America’s top universities.
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How 2 Debunked Accounts of Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 Fueled a Global Dispute Over Israel-Hamas War
Chaim Otmazgin had tended to dozens of shot, burned or mutilated bodies before he reached the home that would put him at the center of a global clash.
Working in a kibbutz that was ravaged by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Otmazgin — a volunteer commander with ZAKA, an Israeli search and rescue organization — saw the body of a teenager, shot dead and separated from her family in a different room. Her pants had been pulled down below her waist. He thought that was evidence of sexual violence.
He alerted journalists to what he’d seen. He tearfully recounted the details in a nationally televised appearance in the Israeli Parliament. In the frantic hours, days and weeks that followed the Hamas attack, his testimony ricocheted across the world.
But it turns out that what Otmazgin thought had occurred in the home at the kibbutz hadn’t happened.
Beyond the numerous and well-documented atrocities committed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, some accounts from that day, like Otmazgin’s, proved untrue.
“It’s not that I invented a story,” Otmazgin told The Associated Press in an interview, detailing the origins of his initial explosive claim — one of two by ZAKA volunteers about sexual violence that turned out to be unfounded.
“I couldn’t think of any other option” other than the teen having been sexually assaulted, he said. “At the end, it turned out to be different, so I corrected myself.”
But it was too late.
The United Nations and other organizations have presented credible evidence that Hamas militants committed sexual assault during their rampage. The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, said Monday he had reason to believe that three key Hamas leaders bore responsibility for “rape and other acts of sexual violence as crimes against humanity.”
Though the number of assaults is unclear, photo and video from the attack’s aftermath have shown bodies with legs splayed, clothes torn and blood near their genitals.
However, debunked accounts like Otmazgin’s have encouraged skepticism and fueled a highly charged debate about the scope of what occurred on Oct. 7 — one that is still playing out on social media and in college campus protests.
Some allege the accounts of sexual assault were purposely concocted. ZAKA officials and others dispute that. Regardless, AP’s examination of ZAKA’s handling of the now debunked stories shows how information can be clouded and distorted in the chaos of the conflict.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ AP
Related: 4/24 — More Claims of 'Hamas Mass Rape' Proven False: Report
4/17 — Israel Hinders UN Query Into 7 Oct Events
3/27 — Lawyer Behind 'Hamas Rape' Claims Exposed as Fraud
3/14 — On Israel and Rape — The Cradle
3/7 — Western Media Promoted A UN Report As Proof Hamas Sexually Assaulted Israelis
2/23 — New Israeli Report Alleging "Systematic and Intentional Rape" by Hamas Relies on Debunked Western Media Reports
2/1 — Israeli Army, Police Repeat False Claims of Hamas Atrocities
However, Haaretz reported that the incidents described in the interview never took place.
Haaretz reported there is no survivor of Germany’s World War II concentration camps named Genia in Be'eri
1/4 — Washington Post Erases Israeli Minister’s Farfetched October 7 Rape Claim at His Request
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Chaim Otmazgin had tended to dozens of shot, burned or mutilated bodies before he reached the home that would put him at the center of a global clash.
Working in a kibbutz that was ravaged by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Otmazgin — a volunteer commander with ZAKA, an Israeli search and rescue organization — saw the body of a teenager, shot dead and separated from her family in a different room. Her pants had been pulled down below her waist. He thought that was evidence of sexual violence.
He alerted journalists to what he’d seen. He tearfully recounted the details in a nationally televised appearance in the Israeli Parliament. In the frantic hours, days and weeks that followed the Hamas attack, his testimony ricocheted across the world.
But it turns out that what Otmazgin thought had occurred in the home at the kibbutz hadn’t happened.
Beyond the numerous and well-documented atrocities committed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, some accounts from that day, like Otmazgin’s, proved untrue.
“It’s not that I invented a story,” Otmazgin told The Associated Press in an interview, detailing the origins of his initial explosive claim — one of two by ZAKA volunteers about sexual violence that turned out to be unfounded.
“I couldn’t think of any other option” other than the teen having been sexually assaulted, he said. “At the end, it turned out to be different, so I corrected myself.”
But it was too late.
The United Nations and other organizations have presented credible evidence that Hamas militants committed sexual assault during their rampage. The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, said Monday he had reason to believe that three key Hamas leaders bore responsibility for “rape and other acts of sexual violence as crimes against humanity.”
Though the number of assaults is unclear, photo and video from the attack’s aftermath have shown bodies with legs splayed, clothes torn and blood near their genitals.
However, debunked accounts like Otmazgin’s have encouraged skepticism and fueled a highly charged debate about the scope of what occurred on Oct. 7 — one that is still playing out on social media and in college campus protests.
Some allege the accounts of sexual assault were purposely concocted. ZAKA officials and others dispute that. Regardless, AP’s examination of ZAKA’s handling of the now debunked stories shows how information can be clouded and distorted in the chaos of the conflict.
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Related: 4/24 — More Claims of 'Hamas Mass Rape' Proven False: Report
4/17 — Israel Hinders UN Query Into 7 Oct Events
3/27 — Lawyer Behind 'Hamas Rape' Claims Exposed as Fraud
3/14 — On Israel and Rape — The Cradle
3/7 — Western Media Promoted A UN Report As Proof Hamas Sexually Assaulted Israelis
2/23 — New Israeli Report Alleging "Systematic and Intentional Rape" by Hamas Relies on Debunked Western Media Reports
2/1 — Israeli Army, Police Repeat False Claims of Hamas Atrocities
However, Haaretz reported that the incidents described in the interview never took place.
Haaretz reported there is no survivor of Germany’s World War II concentration camps named Genia in Be'eri
1/4 — Washington Post Erases Israeli Minister’s Farfetched October 7 Rape Claim at His Request
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How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war
The United Nations and other organizations have presented credible evidence that Hamas militants committed sexual assault during their Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel.
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Takeaways From AP Examination of How 2 Debunked Accounts of Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 Originated
The United Nations and other organizations have presented credible evidence that Hamas militants committed sexual assault during their Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel. Though the number of assaults is unclear, photo and video from the attack’s aftermath have shown bodies with legs splayed, clothes torn and blood near their genitals.
Other accounts from that day, however, proved to be untrue. They include two debunked testimonies from volunteers with the Israeli search and rescue organization ZAKA, whose stories helped fuel a global clash over whether sexual violence occurred during the attack and on what scale.
Some allege the accounts of sexual assault were purposely concocted. ZAKA officials and others dispute that. Regardless, AP’s examination of ZAKA’s handling of the now debunked stories shows how information can be clouded and distorted in the chaos of the conflict.
The accounts have encouraged skepticism and set off a highly charged debate about the scope of what occurred on Oct. 7, one still playing out on social media and in college campus protests.
Here are key takeaways from the AP’s look at how these stories originated:
VOLUNTEERS’ INTERPRETATIONS WERE FLAWED
One account that turned out to be unfounded came from Chaim Otmazgin, a ZAKA volunteer who collected bodies after the attack.
...EASY ACCESS TO THE VOLUNTEERS HELPED SPREAD THE STORIES
Almost immediately after Oct. 7, Israel began allowing groups of journalists to visit the ravaged kibbutzim. On the trips, journalists found ZAKA volunteers to be among the most accessible and willing to talk.
The group’s usual media protocols were bypassed, and volunteers who typically would be vetted by ZAKA’s spokesperson before being interviewed spoke to journalists directly, drawing conclusions about what they saw, even though the group acknowledges that its volunteers are not forensics workers.
...ACCOUNTS WERE FALSE BUT EVIDENCE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT MOUNTS
The loud debate belies a growing body of evidence supporting the claim that sexual assault took place that day, even as its scope remains difficult to ascertain.
A U.N. fact-finding team found “reasonable grounds” to believe that some of those who stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7 had committed sexual violence, including rape and gang rape. But the U.N. investigators also said that in the absence of forensic evidence and survivor testimony, it would be impossible to determine the scope of such violence. Hamas has denied its forces committed sexual violent.
The investigators described the accounts that originated with Otmazgin and Landau to be “unfounded.”
The U.N. report shines a light on the issues that have contributed to the skepticism over sexual violence. It said there was “limited crime scene processing” and some evidence of sexual assault may have been lost due to “the interventions of some inadequately trained volunteer first responders.” It also said global scrutiny of the accounts emerging from Oct. 7 may have deterred survivors from coming forward
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Related: 2/22 — How 2 Debunked Accounts of Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 Fueled a Global Dispute Over Israel-Hamas War
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The United Nations and other organizations have presented credible evidence that Hamas militants committed sexual assault during their Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel. Though the number of assaults is unclear, photo and video from the attack’s aftermath have shown bodies with legs splayed, clothes torn and blood near their genitals.
Other accounts from that day, however, proved to be untrue. They include two debunked testimonies from volunteers with the Israeli search and rescue organization ZAKA, whose stories helped fuel a global clash over whether sexual violence occurred during the attack and on what scale.
Some allege the accounts of sexual assault were purposely concocted. ZAKA officials and others dispute that. Regardless, AP’s examination of ZAKA’s handling of the now debunked stories shows how information can be clouded and distorted in the chaos of the conflict.
The accounts have encouraged skepticism and set off a highly charged debate about the scope of what occurred on Oct. 7, one still playing out on social media and in college campus protests.
Here are key takeaways from the AP’s look at how these stories originated:
VOLUNTEERS’ INTERPRETATIONS WERE FLAWED
One account that turned out to be unfounded came from Chaim Otmazgin, a ZAKA volunteer who collected bodies after the attack.
...EASY ACCESS TO THE VOLUNTEERS HELPED SPREAD THE STORIES
Almost immediately after Oct. 7, Israel began allowing groups of journalists to visit the ravaged kibbutzim. On the trips, journalists found ZAKA volunteers to be among the most accessible and willing to talk.
The group’s usual media protocols were bypassed, and volunteers who typically would be vetted by ZAKA’s spokesperson before being interviewed spoke to journalists directly, drawing conclusions about what they saw, even though the group acknowledges that its volunteers are not forensics workers.
...ACCOUNTS WERE FALSE BUT EVIDENCE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT MOUNTS
The loud debate belies a growing body of evidence supporting the claim that sexual assault took place that day, even as its scope remains difficult to ascertain.
A U.N. fact-finding team found “reasonable grounds” to believe that some of those who stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7 had committed sexual violence, including rape and gang rape. But the U.N. investigators also said that in the absence of forensic evidence and survivor testimony, it would be impossible to determine the scope of such violence. Hamas has denied its forces committed sexual violent.
The investigators described the accounts that originated with Otmazgin and Landau to be “unfounded.”
The U.N. report shines a light on the issues that have contributed to the skepticism over sexual violence. It said there was “limited crime scene processing” and some evidence of sexual assault may have been lost due to “the interventions of some inadequately trained volunteer first responders.” It also said global scrutiny of the accounts emerging from Oct. 7 may have deterred survivors from coming forward
🔗SOURCE ➡️ AP
Related: 2/22 — How 2 Debunked Accounts of Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 Fueled a Global Dispute Over Israel-Hamas War
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Takeaways from AP examination of how 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 originated
An AP examination of the handling of two debunked stories alleging that Hamas militants committed sexual assault during their Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel shows how information can be clouded and distorted in the chaos of the conflict.
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Speaker Johnson Thinks Ukraine Should Use US Weapons on Russian Territory
On Wednesday (May 22), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) expressed support for Ukraine using US-provided weapons on Russian territory, a step that would risk a major response from Russia.
Ukraine has been lobbying the US to allow the use of US-provided missile systems on Russian territory in the wake of Russia’s Kharkiv offensive, and the idea is gaining support in Congress.
A group of bipartisan members of the House sent a letter to President Biden on Monday urging him to lift any restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US weapons. “It is essential the Biden administration allows Ukraine’s military leaders to conduct a full spectrum of operations necessary to respond to Russia’s unprovoked attack on their sovereign land,” the lawmakers said.
Johnson was asked if he supported the idea of Ukraine hitting Russian territory with US weapons and replied that the US needs “to allow Ukraine to prosecute the war in the way they see fit.”
“They [Ukraine] need[s] to be able to fight back. And I think us trying to micromanage the effort there is not a good policy for us,” he told Voice of America.
Moscow recently warned the UK that if Ukraine used British weapons on Russian territory, Russian forces would target UK military sites in Ukraine “and beyond.”
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On Wednesday (May 22), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) expressed support for Ukraine using US-provided weapons on Russian territory, a step that would risk a major response from Russia.
Ukraine has been lobbying the US to allow the use of US-provided missile systems on Russian territory in the wake of Russia’s Kharkiv offensive, and the idea is gaining support in Congress.
A group of bipartisan members of the House sent a letter to President Biden on Monday urging him to lift any restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US weapons. “It is essential the Biden administration allows Ukraine’s military leaders to conduct a full spectrum of operations necessary to respond to Russia’s unprovoked attack on their sovereign land,” the lawmakers said.
Johnson was asked if he supported the idea of Ukraine hitting Russian territory with US weapons and replied that the US needs “to allow Ukraine to prosecute the war in the way they see fit.”
“They [Ukraine] need[s] to be able to fight back. And I think us trying to micromanage the effort there is not a good policy for us,” he told Voice of America.
Moscow recently warned the UK that if Ukraine used British weapons on Russian territory, Russian forces would target UK military sites in Ukraine “and beyond.”
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US Spies To Use Secretive AI Service From Microsoft
Microsoft's AI platform for US intelligence agencies has been deployed and is in a testing and accreditation stage
U.S. intelligence agencies will soon be using a secretive generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform from Microsoft that will let America's spies safely use AI models in the process of analyzing sensitive data.
Microsoft's generative AI model for intelligence agencies aims to get around security issues that stem from large language models' (LLMs) connection to the internet, which typically is used as a resource for training those models. Bloomberg reported that the AI tool is the first major LLM fully separated from the internet.
William Chappell, Microsoft's CTO for strategic missions and technology, told Bloomberg the AI tool was deployed to an "air-gapped" cloud environment isolated from the internet and features a model based on GPT-4 along with supporting tools. The company announced the new product at the AI Expo for National Competitiveness this week.
"This is the first time we've ever had an isolated version — when isolated means it's not connected to the internet — and it's on a special network that's only accessible by the U.S. government," Chappell told Bloomberg.
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5/21 - Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Recall AI Hardware Requirements
Microsoft announces "Recall" AI for Windows 11, a new feature that runs in the background and records everything you see and do on your PC:
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Microsoft's AI platform for US intelligence agencies has been deployed and is in a testing and accreditation stage
U.S. intelligence agencies will soon be using a secretive generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform from Microsoft that will let America's spies safely use AI models in the process of analyzing sensitive data.
Microsoft's generative AI model for intelligence agencies aims to get around security issues that stem from large language models' (LLMs) connection to the internet, which typically is used as a resource for training those models. Bloomberg reported that the AI tool is the first major LLM fully separated from the internet.
William Chappell, Microsoft's CTO for strategic missions and technology, told Bloomberg the AI tool was deployed to an "air-gapped" cloud environment isolated from the internet and features a model based on GPT-4 along with supporting tools. The company announced the new product at the AI Expo for National Competitiveness this week.
"This is the first time we've ever had an isolated version — when isolated means it's not connected to the internet — and it's on a special network that's only accessible by the U.S. government," Chappell told Bloomberg.
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5/21 - Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Recall AI Hardware Requirements
Microsoft announces "Recall" AI for Windows 11, a new feature that runs in the background and records everything you see and do on your PC:
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US spies to use secretive AI service from Microsoft
Microsoft announced a new AI platform that America's spies at intelligence agencies like the CIA can use to handle and analyze top-secret information while harnessing generative AI.
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Israeli troops push deeper into Rafah under cover of relentless bombing
The Qassam Brigades carried out several operations targeting Israeli forces in Rafah on Wednesday
The Qassam Brigades carried out several operations targeting Israeli forces in Rafah on Wednesday
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New X Policy Forces Earners to Verify Their Government ID with Israeli Verification Company
X, formerly Twitter, is now mandating the use of a government ID-based account verification system for users that earn revenue on the platform—either for advertising or for paid subscriptions.
To implement this system, X has partnered with Au10tix, an Israeli company known for its identity verification solutions. Users who opt to receive payouts on the platform will have to undergo a verification process with the company.
This initiative aims to curb impersonation, fraud, and improve user support, yet it also raises profound questions about privacy and free speech, as X markets itself as a free speech platform, and free speech and anonymity often go hand-in-hand. This is especially true in countries where their speech can get citizens jailed or worse.
“We’re making changes to our Creator Subscriptions and Ads Revenue Share programs to further promote authenticity and fight fraud on the platform. Starting today, all new creators must verify their ID to receive payouts. All existing creators must do so by July 1, 2024,” the update to X’s verification page now reads.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ ReclaimTheNet
Related: 2/25 — Censorship Continues on 'Free Speech Platform' X, Elon Musk Expanding Contracts With Intelligence Agencies After Saying 'I Have Actual Mossad Merch BTW. ... CIA Has Some Really Great Merch'
.”..., as I was writing this, the Wall Street Journal published an exclusive titled, “Musk’s SpaceX Forges Tighter Links With U.S. Spy and Military Agencies”
2/19 — X Launches Account Verification Based On Government ID, Partnered with Israeli Company Founded by Israeli Intelligence Agents - September Flashback
As many have pointed out, "Au10TIX was founded by former agents of Israel's Shin Bet general security service"
2/21 — Elon Musk’s ‘Everything App’ Plan For X, In His Own Words - October Flashback
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X, formerly Twitter, is now mandating the use of a government ID-based account verification system for users that earn revenue on the platform—either for advertising or for paid subscriptions.
To implement this system, X has partnered with Au10tix, an Israeli company known for its identity verification solutions. Users who opt to receive payouts on the platform will have to undergo a verification process with the company.
This initiative aims to curb impersonation, fraud, and improve user support, yet it also raises profound questions about privacy and free speech, as X markets itself as a free speech platform, and free speech and anonymity often go hand-in-hand. This is especially true in countries where their speech can get citizens jailed or worse.
“We’re making changes to our Creator Subscriptions and Ads Revenue Share programs to further promote authenticity and fight fraud on the platform. Starting today, all new creators must verify their ID to receive payouts. All existing creators must do so by July 1, 2024,” the update to X’s verification page now reads.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ ReclaimTheNet
Related: 2/25 — Censorship Continues on 'Free Speech Platform' X, Elon Musk Expanding Contracts With Intelligence Agencies After Saying 'I Have Actual Mossad Merch BTW. ... CIA Has Some Really Great Merch'
.”..., as I was writing this, the Wall Street Journal published an exclusive titled, “Musk’s SpaceX Forges Tighter Links With U.S. Spy and Military Agencies”
2/19 — X Launches Account Verification Based On Government ID, Partnered with Israeli Company Founded by Israeli Intelligence Agents - September Flashback
As many have pointed out, "Au10TIX was founded by former agents of Israel's Shin Bet general security service"
2/21 — Elon Musk’s ‘Everything App’ Plan For X, In His Own Words - October Flashback
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New X Policy Forces Earners To Verify Their Government ID With Israeli Verification Company
New policy raises privacy concerns amidst X's commitment to free speech.
Exclusive: Israeli soldiers set fire Aqsa University [@AqsaUniversity]’s library in Gaza City and took pictures of themselves in front of the flames.
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Israeli Forces Kill Dozens of Palestinians in Strikes Across Gaza
Israeli forces have killed at least 50 Palestinians in aerial and ground bombardments across the Gaza Strip and battled in close combat with Hamas-led fighters in the southern city of Rafah, health officials and the armed wing of Hamas say.
Israeli tanks advanced in Rafah’s southeast, edged towards the city’s western district of Yibna and continued to operate in three eastern suburbs, residents said on Thursday (May 23).
“The occupation [Israeli forces] is trying to move farther to the west. They are on the edge of Yibna, which is densely populated. They didn’t invade it yet,” one resident told the Reuters news agency, asking not to be named.
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Israeli forces have killed at least 50 Palestinians in aerial and ground bombardments across the Gaza Strip and battled in close combat with Hamas-led fighters in the southern city of Rafah, health officials and the armed wing of Hamas say.
Israeli tanks advanced in Rafah’s southeast, edged towards the city’s western district of Yibna and continued to operate in three eastern suburbs, residents said on Thursday (May 23).
“The occupation [Israeli forces] is trying to move farther to the west. They are on the edge of Yibna, which is densely populated. They didn’t invade it yet,” one resident told the Reuters news agency, asking not to be named.
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Israeli forces kill dozens of Palestinians in strikes across Gaza Strip
The attacks come as Israeli ground forces push farther into the overcrowded southern city of Rafah.
Hamas’ Military Ability Remains Largely ‘Intact’: US Intelligence
Only about a third of Hamas’ fighters have been killed, according to intelligence estimates, despite the nearly eight-month war on Gaza
US media reported on 21 May, citing intelligence estimates, that only about a third of the fighters from Hamas’ armed wing have been killed by Israel, while the majority of the group’s extensive tunnel network remains intact.
“Although Hamas’ communications and military abilities have been degraded, only 30 to 35 percent of its fighters — those who were a part of Hamas before the Oct. 7 attack — have been killed and about 65 percent of its tunnels are still intact,” Politico reported on Wednesday, citing US intelligence.
Washington has been “increasingly concerned that Hamas has been able to recruit during wartime — thousands over the last several months,” allowing it “to withstand months of Israeli offensives,” according to a person familiar with the intelligence.
[Related: 12/3 — Lindsey Graham Rejects Defense Secretary's Argument That More Civilian Casualties in Gaza Could Worsen Insurgency
11/11 — Top US General Warns Israel’s Killing of Civilians Will Create More Hamas Members
11/11 — Elon Musk: “If you kill somebody’s child in Gaza, you’ve made at least a few Hamas members.”]
Israel has previously claimed that around 12,000 Hamas fighters out of its supposed 30,000 have been killed, something the resistance group denies.
The Politico report comes just days after a Pentagon official, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown, criticized Israel for failing to prevent Hamas’ return to prominence in areas where the Israeli army had operated.
Last week, US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said that a “total victory” for Israel is not “likely or possible” in this war, adding that Tel Aviv is “struggling over what the theory of victory is” in Gaza.
Israel claimed in early January that all of Hamas’ battalions were dismantled in northern Gaza, including in the northern city of Jabalia, where Israeli forces are now operating once again and are taking heavy losses during battles with the Palestinian resistance, including Hamas’ Qassam Brigades and other groups.
The resistance remains entrenched in several other areas across Gaza, particularly in the southernmost city of Rafah – which Israel had labeled Hamas’ final stronghold...
Fighters continue to emerge from tunnels to ambush soldiers with RPGs and explosive devices and have recently stepped up the tactic of rigging buildings with bombs and detonating them with Israeli troops inside.
At the start of the war, Israel said its goal was to “eliminate” Hamas. Nearly eight months into the fighting, the group remains nowhere near elimination.
Experts, including Israeli and western analysts, have said that Israel has failed to achieve all its goals in the Gaza Strip, including wiping out the resistance and freeing prisoners held by Hamas.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle
Related: 5/3 — There’s "Widespread" Belief Among US Officials That Israel Can’t Beat Hamas
4/4 — US, Israel Divided Over ‘Unrealistic’ Rafah Plans
3/12 — US Intelligence ‘Threat Assessment’ Says Hamas Isn’t Going Away
An annual “threat assessment” compiled by US intelligence agencies was released on Monday and said that Israel will likely face resistance from Hamas for years to come, another sign that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stated goal of “eradicating” the Palestinian group isn’t realistic.
3/3 — 'No Military Solution' For Israel In Gaza Or Lebanon: Israeli Official
2/16 — Israeli Military Says Hamas Will Not Be Defeated in Gaza Offensive
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) officials have concluded that even if Israel can dismantle Hamas in Gaza, the group will continue to exist.
2/9 — US Intel Determines Israel 'Far From Defeating' Hamas
According to the report, US officials are also expressing doubt that destroying Hamas is a realistic option for Israel.
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Only about a third of Hamas’ fighters have been killed, according to intelligence estimates, despite the nearly eight-month war on Gaza
US media reported on 21 May, citing intelligence estimates, that only about a third of the fighters from Hamas’ armed wing have been killed by Israel, while the majority of the group’s extensive tunnel network remains intact.
“Although Hamas’ communications and military abilities have been degraded, only 30 to 35 percent of its fighters — those who were a part of Hamas before the Oct. 7 attack — have been killed and about 65 percent of its tunnels are still intact,” Politico reported on Wednesday, citing US intelligence.
Washington has been “increasingly concerned that Hamas has been able to recruit during wartime — thousands over the last several months,” allowing it “to withstand months of Israeli offensives,” according to a person familiar with the intelligence.
[Related: 12/3 — Lindsey Graham Rejects Defense Secretary's Argument That More Civilian Casualties in Gaza Could Worsen Insurgency
11/11 — Top US General Warns Israel’s Killing of Civilians Will Create More Hamas Members
11/11 — Elon Musk: “If you kill somebody’s child in Gaza, you’ve made at least a few Hamas members.”]
Israel has previously claimed that around 12,000 Hamas fighters out of its supposed 30,000 have been killed, something the resistance group denies.
The Politico report comes just days after a Pentagon official, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown, criticized Israel for failing to prevent Hamas’ return to prominence in areas where the Israeli army had operated.
Last week, US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said that a “total victory” for Israel is not “likely or possible” in this war, adding that Tel Aviv is “struggling over what the theory of victory is” in Gaza.
Israel claimed in early January that all of Hamas’ battalions were dismantled in northern Gaza, including in the northern city of Jabalia, where Israeli forces are now operating once again and are taking heavy losses during battles with the Palestinian resistance, including Hamas’ Qassam Brigades and other groups.
The resistance remains entrenched in several other areas across Gaza, particularly in the southernmost city of Rafah – which Israel had labeled Hamas’ final stronghold...
Fighters continue to emerge from tunnels to ambush soldiers with RPGs and explosive devices and have recently stepped up the tactic of rigging buildings with bombs and detonating them with Israeli troops inside.
At the start of the war, Israel said its goal was to “eliminate” Hamas. Nearly eight months into the fighting, the group remains nowhere near elimination.
Experts, including Israeli and western analysts, have said that Israel has failed to achieve all its goals in the Gaza Strip, including wiping out the resistance and freeing prisoners held by Hamas.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle
Related: 5/3 — There’s "Widespread" Belief Among US Officials That Israel Can’t Beat Hamas
4/4 — US, Israel Divided Over ‘Unrealistic’ Rafah Plans
3/12 — US Intelligence ‘Threat Assessment’ Says Hamas Isn’t Going Away
An annual “threat assessment” compiled by US intelligence agencies was released on Monday and said that Israel will likely face resistance from Hamas for years to come, another sign that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stated goal of “eradicating” the Palestinian group isn’t realistic.
3/3 — 'No Military Solution' For Israel In Gaza Or Lebanon: Israeli Official
2/16 — Israeli Military Says Hamas Will Not Be Defeated in Gaza Offensive
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) officials have concluded that even if Israel can dismantle Hamas in Gaza, the group will continue to exist.
2/9 — US Intel Determines Israel 'Far From Defeating' Hamas
According to the report, US officials are also expressing doubt that destroying Hamas is a realistic option for Israel.
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Hamas’ military ability remains largely ‘intact’: US intelligence
Only about a third of Hamas’ fighters have been killed, according to intelligence estimates, despite the nearly eight-month war on Gaza
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Trump-RFK Jr. Feud Comes to a Head at Libertarian Convention
Tensions between former President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are set to come to a head at the Libertarian Party convention this weekend in Washington as both presidential candidates court the party’s voters.
Both candidates will address the convention, and Kennedy has even challenged Trump to a debate at the gathering.
Trump’s surprising decision to appear at the event underscores the potential threat Kennedy could have as he seeks another term in the White House.
“What the Trump campaign wants to do is paint the picture that despite what you think about and hear about RFK Jr., and the words coming out of his mouth, he is nothing more than a far-left whacko,” said Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist.
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Tensions between former President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are set to come to a head at the Libertarian Party convention this weekend in Washington as both presidential candidates court the party’s voters.
Both candidates will address the convention, and Kennedy has even challenged Trump to a debate at the gathering.
Trump’s surprising decision to appear at the event underscores the potential threat Kennedy could have as he seeks another term in the White House.
“What the Trump campaign wants to do is paint the picture that despite what you think about and hear about RFK Jr., and the words coming out of his mouth, he is nothing more than a far-left whacko,” said Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist.
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Trump-RFK Jr. feud comes to a head at Libertarian convention
Tensions between former President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are set to come to a head at the Libertarian Party convention this weekend in Washington as both presidential candidates court the …
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Israeli Officials Sweat Looming ICJ Order To Stop Gaza Blitz: Report
Concerns are growing in Tel Aviv that an unfavorable ruling by the World Court will markedly increase international pressure against the genocidal war in Gaza
Authorities in Israel “anticipate” that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule on 24 May that the country needs to stop its genocidal war in Gaza and are scrambling to find the “next steps,” according to officials who spoke with Israel Hayom.
“Legal experts assessed there was a high probability the court would rule to issue injunctions following a petition filed by South Africa against Israel’s military actions,” a diplomatic source told the Israeli daily.
Tel Aviv is particularly concerned that the World Court will “order a cessation of Israeli operations in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, or further, that it could seek to halt the broader war in Gaza entirely through court injunctions.”
The main fear among authorities is that an unfavorable ruling from the ICJ would “precipitate a similar resolution by the UN Security Council,” where the US would once again have to issue a veto as part of its continued campaign of covering up Israeli war crimes.
The ICJ has announced it will deliver its order on the additional measures requested by South Africa against Israel on Friday afternoon. ..
The Rafah campaign is “the last step in the destruction of Gaza and its Palestinian people,” argued Vaughan Lowe, a lawyer representing Pretoria.
“It was Rafah that brought South Africa to the court. But it is all Palestinians as a national, ethnic, and racial group who need the protection from genocide that the court can order,” he added.
Around one million Palestinians have fled Rafah over recent weeks to escape the Israeli onslaught. Nevertheless, violent clashes are raging across the besieged enclave as the Palestinian resistance remains far from defeated.
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Concerns are growing in Tel Aviv that an unfavorable ruling by the World Court will markedly increase international pressure against the genocidal war in Gaza
Authorities in Israel “anticipate” that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule on 24 May that the country needs to stop its genocidal war in Gaza and are scrambling to find the “next steps,” according to officials who spoke with Israel Hayom.
“Legal experts assessed there was a high probability the court would rule to issue injunctions following a petition filed by South Africa against Israel’s military actions,” a diplomatic source told the Israeli daily.
Tel Aviv is particularly concerned that the World Court will “order a cessation of Israeli operations in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, or further, that it could seek to halt the broader war in Gaza entirely through court injunctions.”
The main fear among authorities is that an unfavorable ruling from the ICJ would “precipitate a similar resolution by the UN Security Council,” where the US would once again have to issue a veto as part of its continued campaign of covering up Israeli war crimes.
The ICJ has announced it will deliver its order on the additional measures requested by South Africa against Israel on Friday afternoon. ..
The Rafah campaign is “the last step in the destruction of Gaza and its Palestinian people,” argued Vaughan Lowe, a lawyer representing Pretoria.
“It was Rafah that brought South Africa to the court. But it is all Palestinians as a national, ethnic, and racial group who need the protection from genocide that the court can order,” he added.
Around one million Palestinians have fled Rafah over recent weeks to escape the Israeli onslaught. Nevertheless, violent clashes are raging across the besieged enclave as the Palestinian resistance remains far from defeated.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle
Related: 5/22 — Norway, Spain, Ireland to formally recognize Palestinian statehood
5/22 — Germany would arrest and extradite Netanyahu to the ICC!
5/21 — France Backs ICC After It Seeks Arrest Warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu, Hamas Leaders — [So Does Belgium] [and Ireland]
5/21 — Senator Tom Cotton issues a written threat against the family and friends of ICC judge Karim Khan, for seeking arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant.
5/21 — France Backs ICC After It Seeks Arrest Warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu, Hamas Leaders — [So Does Belgium]
5/21 — ICC Seeks Arrest Warrants for Israeli and Hamas Leaders
5/20 — Netanyahu is Comparing the Prosecutor at the ICC to Nazi Judges.
5/2 — Turkiye to Join Genocide Case Against Israel at ICJ: FM
5/2 — Netanyahu Says ICC Arrest Warrant Would Be an "Antisemitic Hate Crime"
4/8 — Nicaragua Takes Germany to ICJ for ‘Failing To Prevent Genocide
4/2/24 — Netanyahu: Whole World Is Ganging up on Us. It’s a Combination of Ignorance and Antisemitism
12/8 — Netanyahu: Investigating Israel's War Crimes is "Pure Anti-Semitism"
1/26 — UNRWA Sacks Staffers Who Allegedly Participated In Oct. 7 Attack; US Halts Funding [and Canada]
⬆️ Like Clockwork, Israel Drums Up UNRWA allegations After ICJ issue's verdict
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Israeli officials sweat looming ICJ order to stop Gaza blitz: Report
Concerns are growing in Tel Aviv that an unfavorable ruling by the World Court will markedly increase international pressure against the genocidal war in Gaza