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‘We gave birth with phone lights’: Doctor documents experience at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza Fadia Malhis detailed to Anadolu the difficulties she faced while working at the Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, which was targeted by sieges, raids and attacks by the Israeli army.
Malhis, who returned home after studying in Turkiye, worked as an obstetrician-gynaecologist at the Al-Shifa Hospital for nearly 25 years, but had to go to make a desperate escape to Egypt when the hospital was rendered unusable. From Egypt, she went to Turkiye, Anadolu Agency reports.
She said she came back from the brink of death many times and that she could not hold back tears when she left Gaza.
She moved from the West Bank, where she is from, to work at the hospital in the coastal enclave since 2001 because her husband is from Gaza.
‘When the attacks started, we realised that this was not like the others’. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240910-we-gave-birth-with-phone-lights-doctor-documents-experience-at-al-shifa-hospital-in-gaza/
Israel Claims Its Forces ‘Unintentionally’ Shot American Activist in the Head
The family of Aysenur Eyzi Eygi said it was 'deeply offended by the suggestion that her killing by a trained sniper was in any way unintentional' https://news.antiwar.com/2024/09/10/israel-claims-its-forces-unintentionally-shot-american-activist-in-the-head/
UN 'deeply concerned' by reports of sexual violence in Israeli prisons The UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict points to disturbing reports of sexual violence and other inhumane and degrading treatment of Palestinian men and women. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/un--deeply-concerned--by-reports-of-sexual-violence-in-israe
Sanders says he’ll introduce resolution to block $20 billion arms sale to Israel as support for arms embargo grows
Support for an arms embargo on Israel among Democratic Party voters has grown enormously due to the Gaza genocide. But will this shift in popular opinion translate into policy change in Washington? https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/sanders-says-hell-introduce-resolution-to-block-20-billion-arms-sale-to-israel-as-support-for-arms-embargo-grows/
Despite ‘safe zone’ designation, 5 Israel massacres have killed 217 Palestinians in Al-Mawasi since May The Israeli military had designated the area a “safe humanitarian zone”. However, these attacks, which have claimed the lives of at least 217 Palestinians and injured 635 others, have been condemned by international and UN bodies, as well as numerous countries.
This sandy region, devoid of basic living necessities, has become home to about 1.7 million displaced Palestinians seeking shelter from months of Israeli attacks.
Forced to relocate under heavy fire, the majority arrived in Al-Mawasi following the Israeli military’s ground operation in Rafah, starting on 6 May. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240910-despite-safe-zone-designation-5-israel-massacres-have-killed-217-palestinians-in-al-mawasi-since-may/
Experts say 'Israel' likely used 2,000-pound US bombs in Mawasi strike According to an arms expert, the crater and weapon fragments are compatible with the deployment of numerous MK 84 2,000-pound bombs. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/experts-say--israel--likely-used-2-000-pound-us-bombs-in-maw
Saudi Arabia says Israel humanitarian aid blockade in Gaza amounts to ‘war crime’ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240910-saudi-arabia-says-israel-humanitarian-aid-blockade-in-gaza-amounts-to-war-crime/
Andrew Korybko, Erdogan’s Proposed Islamic Alliance Against Israel Is Pure Demagoguery His strong rhetoric leads to extreme dopamine bursts from those who think that he’s being sincere, but the rush will inevitably wear off once they realize that he’s not, and some might in turn think less of him afterwards.
Turkish President Erdogan has attempted over the years to present himself as the voice of the international Muslim community, or Ummah, most recently by calling for an Islamic alliance against Israel.
His strong rhetoric about the latest Israeli-Hamas war has earned him the praise of many and also resulted in sharp responses from Israelis, which in turn feed into the perception that he’s seeking to form. All his tough talk is just pure demagoguery, however, since he isn’t willing to go to war with Israel. https://www.globalresearch.ca/erdogan-islamic-alliance-against-israel/5867676
Pro-Palestine Students, Faculty Sue UC Santa Cruz Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Ban Students and staff at the University of California, Santa Cruz launched a lawsuit against the school on Monday for barring them from campus without due process after they were arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest in the spring.
The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Northern California, the Center for Protest Law & Litigation, and civil rights attorney Thomas Seabaugh, is demanding that the University “cease summarily banishing” people who exerciser their First Amendment rights. https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/10/pro-palestine-students-faculty-sue-uc-santa-cruz-over-unconstitutional-ban/
If (When) Russia Takes Pokrovsk The Rest Of Eastern Ukraine Will Fall For the majority of the war Pokrovsk has acted as the logistical hub and rear operations base for Ukraine's eastern defensive lines. It sits astride both a key railroad juncture and the highway to Ukraine’s fourth-largest metro, Dnipro. The city's defensive positions are a final obstacle to Russia's access to most of the region. If Pokrovsk falls Russian forces will be able to easily flank entrenched troops in the north and south of the country. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/if-russia-takes-pokrovsk-rest-eastern-ukraine-will-fall
Forbes magazine published a map of the value of natural resources in Ukraine and part of Russia It is worth noting that a few days ago, the Russophobic American Senator Lindsey Graham*, against whom a criminal case has been opened in the Russian Federation, made a frank statement on this matter. He stated that Ukraine is located on lands rich in natural resources and that is why the United States provides it with military and financial assistance. After all, if the Russian Federation wins, the Americans are unlikely to get anything there.
One would have to be very naive to think that the current leadership of the Kyiv regime does not understand the true reasons for the US "alliance". But, apparently, in order to live well, Zelensky and his team are ready to trade everything that nature itself has given to Ukraine. https://en.topcor.ru/51393-zhurnal-forbes-opublikoval-kartu-stoimosti-prirodnyh-bogatstv-ukrainy-i-chasti-rossii.html
Germany Suspends Schengen, Immigration Repercussion Across the Entire EU For the first time in EU history, Germany is at the forefront of immigration suspension. Other EU countries will follow. https://mishtalk.com/economics/germany-suspends-schengen-immigration-repercussion-across-the-entire-eu/
Alex Krainer, Our values: killing pensioners to save money Britain's PM found a black hole in the country's public finances. It looks like the pensioners will have to help pay up at the cost of their lives!
Gold Hits New Record High As ING Says Rally Is "Just Getting Started" [Fears of WW-3 debt-defaults, I hear.] https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/ing-bank-gold-rally-just-getting-started
ECB Cuts Rates By 25bps (As Expected); Projects Worsening Stagflation https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ecb-cuts-rates-25bps-expected-projects-worsening-stagflation
A Papal Revolt Created Europe’s First Bureaucracy, Jonathan Culbreath
Despite the resistance, the reforms of Gregory VII would go on to revolutionarily transform medieval society, signaling the end of feudalism and the transition to absolutism. Gregory’s second successor, Urban II, went on to found the early version of the Roman Curia, a collection of centralized administrative institutions that have since enabled popes to oversee the vast network that makes up the Catholic Church. As a large advisory body to the pope, the Curia essentially functioned as a regal court. Urban also followed in Gregory’s footsteps by making extensive use of military power to advance the Church’s empire, and it was he who called the first crusade against the Muslims in the year 1095. The extent of European mobilization that he catalyzed signaled the power of his influence. Similar measures were further extended by Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) at the Fourth Lateran Council with the creation of what was effectively a papal surveillance state: a network of intelligence officers appointed by the Pope in response to the Albigensian heresy, who scrutinized regional dioceses for their orthodoxy. On account of all these changes, Berman makes the surprising claim that the Papal Revolution was in many ways the origin of the modern institution we now know as “the state”.
After Gregory VII, however, the church took on most of the distinctive characteristics of the modern state. It claimed to be an independent, hierarchical, public authority. Its head, the pope, had the right to legislate, and in fact Pope Gregory’s successors issued a steady stream of new laws, sometimes by their own authority, sometimes with the aid of church councils summoned by them. The church also executed its laws through an administrative hierarchy, through which the pope ruled as a modern sovereign rules through his or her representatives. Further, the church interpreted its laws, and applied them, through a judicial hierarchy culminating in the papal curia in Rome. Thus the church exercised the legislative, administrative, and judicial powers of a modern state. By importing the Cluniac “corporate” model to the entire clergy, centralized under the headship of the pope, the clerical class became truly conscious for the first time. The development of this new clerical class consciousness was concomitant with the development of something very like a new state consciousness within the institutional structure of the Church itself. In Berman’s words, “The clergy became the first translocal, transtribal, transfeudal, transnational class in Europe to achieve political and legal unity.”
Berman is adamant that the “Papal Revolution” inaugurated by Pope Gregory VII was indeed a “revolution” in the strict sense, even according to Marxist terminology—thereby vindicating Georges Sorel’s comparison of the proletariat to the monastic clergy. It was the rebellion of one class against another, the clerical class against the feudal nobility, and the eventual wresting of political power from the latter by the former.
Is The Migrant Invasion Part Of The Cloward-Piven Strategy To Collapse The Nation? Sometimes Occam's razor points to the obvious - in this case, the ole' 'Cloward-Piven Strategy' - a multi-year plan by dark forces to destroy capitalism by overloading the current system with intentions of destroying it (and of course, rebuilding it in their image - may the odds be ever in your favor). From the unfettered illegal alien invasion to soaring national debt to endless wars to installing the woke mind virus in universities and corporate America, all have led to mass dysfunction across the Homeland. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chaos-unfolding-across-america-could-be-cloward-piven-strategy-collapse-nation
Some 8,000 Haitians signed up for Medicaid in Springfield, Ohio in just the past three years, according to data obtained by Reuters.
The transfer of "as many as 15,000" immigrants from Haiti "over roughly the last three years" has "reshaped" the city of 58,000, Reuters noted.
"Enrollment in Medicaid and federal food assistance and welfare programs surged. So did rents and vehicle accidents, including a collision last year when a Haitian without a U.S. driver's license drove into a school bus, killing 11-year-old Aiden Clark and injuring 26 other children," Reuters reported.
"The number of affordable housing vouchers fell as landlords moved to market-based rents that were rising in the face of higher demand, a blow to existing residents relying on them." https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64639
Gilbert Doctorow, Judging Freedom, edition of 12 September We both commented on the sang froid of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in his discourse before the assembled Russian ambassadors this morning even as he set out the Kremlin’s take on the crossing of those red lines. All of which induced me to mention on air my latest exchange of views on this same issue with Ray McGovern and his insistence that Putin’s full response to any attack on his country using Western supplied missiles will come only after the American elections on 5 November, not in the days just before us, as I had been saying as recently as yesterday. On reconsideration, I join Ray on this point and advise subscribers not to cancel luncheon dates in October now in their agendas, nor to practice ducking under their work desks when sirens go off just yet. Putin and his advisers see the trap being set for them by Washington as well as we do, namely that responding in a violent way to such an attack would give the Americans a pretext for opening a full-blown war for the sake of assuring Kamala Harris’s electoral victory through the rally round the flag phenomenon in wartime. Such a ‘trap’ might seem to be insane, but unfortunately it reflects the mindset of those in the Biden administration who are setting policy. Shall we say, planning is all very short term. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/09/12/judging-freedom-edition-of-12-september/
Blinken Promises Ukraine Will Join NATO https://www.independentsentinel.com/blinken-promises-ukraine-will-join-nato/
Blinken Signals US Will Allow Long-Range Strikes in Russia With NATO Missiles
British sources indicated to The Guardian that the US and the UK have already decided to lift restrictions but won't announce it yet. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken strongly hinted that the US was preparing to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US and NATO missiles to support long-range strikes inside Russian territory, which would mark a significant escalation of the proxy war.
Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv alongside UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, Blinken said he discussed the issue of “long-range fires” with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky and said he would bring the discussion back to Washington. He said President Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will discuss the issue when they meet this Friday. https://news.antiwar.com/2024/09/11/blinken-signals-us-will-allow-long-range-strikes-in-russia-with-nato-missiles/
Ukraine launches S-200 missile to strike gas pipeline in Central Russia, Ukrainian S-200 missile intercepted over gas pipeline in Central Russia
https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/160623-s-200-central-russia/
Netherlands Approves Ukraine To Use Their Weapons to Attack Moscow https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/netherlands-approves-ukraine-to-use-their-weapons-to-attack-moscow/
Russia Says It Could ‘Combine’ With China If Both Face Threat From the US
The comment comes as Russia is conducting major naval exercises with Chinese participation “I would like to remind you that Moscow and Beijing will respond to ‘double containment’ by the United States with ‘double counteraction,'” Zakharova said. https://news.antiwar.com/2024/09/11/russia-says-it-could-combine-with-china-if-both-face-threat-from-the-us/
Meryl Nass MD with 3 minute video: Trump knows he was snookered the first time, and he wants to do things differently next time--RFK, Jr.
Kamaflage: The Harris Policy Dump
The Harris-Walz campaign has been vibe-a-licious and content-free; its positions on domestic and foreign policy have (with apologies to Hollywood) essentially consisted of open defiance of any presidential campaign norms: “Policy? We ain’t got no policy. We don’t need no policy. We don’t have to show you any stinkin’ policy.”
But the campaign’s policy on policy changed, sort of, the day before the debate, when it went ahead and posted some stinkin’ policy anyway.
In a word, Harris’ policy dump should be seen for what it is: Kamaflage. She uses words that score well with Republicans and moderates, but inverts the meaning of those words, creating an unintelligible stinkin’ mess. https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/09/10/kamaflage_harris_policy_dump_151594.html
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Kamala Wore Novo Audio Earrings in Debate https://www.winterwatch.net/2024/09/kamela-wore-novo-audio-earrings-in-debate/
Moderna Shares Tumble As R&D Cuts Follow COVID Business Slump https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/moderna-shares-tumble-rd-cuts-follow-covid-business-slump
Meryl Nass MD, US House Passes Bill to Require Senate Approval of any international agreement on pandemic preparedness to be subject to Senate ratification This is huge. Miracles can happen. 2 years ago these bills were nonstarters.
A Midwestern Doctor, The Great Ozempic Scam. Big Pharma and the Causes of Obesity. The Importance of Natural Foods. Promoting Healthy Eating https://www.globalresearch.ca/great-ozempic-scam/5867678
Shady Character (pictured under pecan tree)
Thanks so much, Dr. John, for your gardening share on Meryl Nass' The Attack on Our Food and Farmers. Your gardening skills are amazing!
But you know I must remind your readers that the destruction of our democracy and of human civilization across the globe has an 'Off Planet Origin' that has been operating for over 8 decades. And IT is NOT for the Benefit of Humanity.
I am in Shock & Awe at the technological and psychological skill that our Enemy has brought to bear on humanity. And yet, it should be expected. We are the Native Peoples of Earth, unaware that eight decades ago we became the subject of intense scrutiny by a small alien collective determined to undermine our strength and utilize our weakness in a plan to gain control of our race and our world.
More than 40 years ago , we were warned of the presence and intent of this alien Intervention, but it was too far beyond our experience and ability to comprehend at that time. And so, their small army settled in to study and perform experiments to determine the best approaches to undermine us and convince us that we should be “very afraid” and threatened by our own species and the we should give ourselves and our world over to “their benevolent rule.”
This last part has yet to be divulged but they have accomplished the first part with great, practiced skill—mainly through the psychological application of Group Mind. They are so adept at manipulating us in the mental environment (M.E.) that their plan is to take us over with out a shot.
Oh YES, they do encourage war and divisiveness of every kind between ourselves, but they value our world and resources far too much to waste them. And we are an important part of those resources.
And there is also the matter of a Prime Directive in our area of the Greater Community (GC) of which we are a part which says that more advanced races cannot take over another immature, not-ready-for-prime-time race by war or without the permission of the leadership of that other world. Well, we have no such unified world leadership and so our Visitors are flying under the radar of this directive to be present here and taking advantage of our immature and naive race who has no idea of the danger we are in.
It is a good plan and one that these collectives have used successfully many times in many worlds—for they are very patient and very skilled at what they do. BUT, they do not know the power that resides at the core of humanity—the deeper Intelligence endowed in us by our Creator and kept alive over the history of our race. BUT, we must NOT be too arrogant concerning this inner-knowing that we have valued and their races have not. For they are also the children of the ONE God, but have chosen to go down the path of “Technology as God.” This a path humanity is considering as well and our Visitors are encouraging it.
And so, here we sit, convinced that a small group of evil globalists is plotting the demise of the lower class, with only a handful of people aware that there is a larger more intricate and well studied and AI-engineered plan in progress that goes “off planet.”
So how to sound the alarm? We are far too busy fighting “brush fires” at home to contemplate the next step in our GC evolution. And yet, we must contemplate this step—for we are the Natives who have been discovered in the jungle by the advanced races who have always surrounded us. And there is NO GOING BACK! And we must fight both battles at once; The one on our home planet which we cannot afford to lose and which requires that we KNOW THE ENEMY we are facing; And the one where we prepare for humanity’s next evolutionary step of emerging into the GC of intelligent life. We cannot afford to lose this one either.
Our freedom and sovereignty on our home world depends on our deeper connection with Knowledge—this deep inner-knowing and Greater Intelligence which is essential to maintaining our freedman the vastly larger and more competitive arena we are entering. And like the Native tribes who’ve been discovered in the jungle, we will want to go back to the “good ole days of isolation.” But we can never go back. It is time for humanity to grow up and take responsibility for the next stage of our development. AlliesofHumanity.org Free to read online.
Israel's continued slaughter of their Arab neighbors reveals the worthlessness (and insincerity) of so-called Western values that might be perceived as prohibiting genocide. The UN will not act, the ICC will not act, the USA will not act, the UK will not act - we are all complicit in our inhumanity.