What's Going Down
Digging Down,
Eleni in Athens has sent 2 in-depth articles explaining the actual machinations in the Mideast over the past 15 years, first background to early December, then current actions.
What is changing in the Middle East, by Thierry Meyssan
The first consequence of the Israeli massacres in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen is not what we expected. To this day, the criminals in power in Tel Aviv continue their conquest with the weapons they are given. The transformation was first in Israel itself and in the Jewish diaspora, forcing the IDF to accept an unwritten ceasefire in Lebanon, while benefiting from Washington’s help to move the fighting to Syria. The Ukrainian and Lebanese fronts merged and moved to Syria. https://www.voltairenet.org/article221566.html
How Washington and Ankara Changed the Regime in Damascus, by Thierry Meyssan
With surprising aplomb, the international press assures us that we are not witnessing a military change of regime in Syria, but a revolution overthrowing the Syrian Arab Republic. The presence of the Turkish army and US special forces is hidden from us. We are bombarded with propaganda that has been denied several times about the crimes attributed to “Bashar”. Cannibal throat-cutters are transformed into respectable revolutionaries. Once again, the international press is consciously lying to us. https://www.voltairenet.org/article221625.html
High-quality straight-faced lying: Turkish FM denies Trump claim of ‘unfriendly takeover’ by Turkiye in Syria Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan tells Al Jazeera the only ‘takeover’ in Syria was ‘the will of the Syrian people’. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/19/turkish-fm-denies-trump-claim-of-unfriendly-takeover-by-turkiye-in-syria
Western powers expand engagements with new leadership in Syria Several European countries followed the UK’s footsteps in dispatching delegations to Damascus on Tuesday to hold talks with representatives of the new governing authorities, which are led by the Sunni rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
The French flag was raised at its embassy for the first time in 12 years as diplomats met with a Syrian government official.
The EU announced that it would send its ambassador back to its delegation in Damascus. The German foreign ministry said it was exploring possibilities of reopening its Syrian embassy ahead of talks scheduled for later in the day. https://www.newarab.com/news/western-powers-expand-engagements-new-leadership-syria
Al-Qaeda Linked Julani Meets With British Diplomats, Discusses Removal From Terror List https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/al-qaeda-linked-julani-meets-british-diplomats-discusses-removal-terror-list
Reducing Turkish leverage...Russia Airlifting Air Defense Systems From Syria To Libya Moscow is putting pressure on Libyan warlord and rival to the Tripoli government, Khalifa Haftar, to secure a larger Russian military presence at a port in Benghazi. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-airlifting-air-defense-systems-syria-libya
Netanyahu: Israeli troops will occupy Syria buffer zone for ‘foreseeable future’ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2583432/middle-east
Israeli snipers fire at patients, staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital, director says https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/17/739264/Israeli-snipers-target-Northern-Gaza-hospital-ICU-
Decapitated and ‘shredded’ bodies: Survivors recount Israeli attacks on Gaza schools Israel bombed a number of schools and shelters for displaced Palestinians in Gaza over the weekend. Witnesses say that the Israeli attacks, which came without warning, caused the bodies of men, women and children to be burned and torn to shreds. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/decapitated-and-shredded-bodies-survivors-recount-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-schools/
Israel sets fire to intensive care unit at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza Israeli occupation forces have once again targeted north Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, striking its intensive care unit (ICU) and setting it ablaze. Hospital Director Hussam Abu Safiya said patients were evacuated just moments before the attack, and though the flames have been brought under control using blankets and the little drinking water left in the medical centre, they have not been extinguished entirely as the hospital lacks the facilities to deal with the fires. Israel has intensified its siege of northern Gaza for the past nearly 80 days, further reducing the entry of vital aid, including food, water, medicines and fuel. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241218-israel-sets-fire-to-intensive-care-unit-at-kamal-adwan-hospital-in-gaza/
Israeli Attacks Kill at Least 31 Palestinians Over 24 Hours, Dozens were killed by Israeli strikes on the besieged north https://news.antiwar.com/2024/12/17/israeli-attacks-kill-at-least-31-palestinians-over-24-hours/
Israeli Attacks in Gaza Kill 38 More Palestinians Over 24 Hours, Israeli forces continue to target the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia https://news.antiwar.com/2024/12/18/israeli-attacks-in-gaza-kill-38-more-palestinians-over-24-hours/
Destroying neighborhoods, cities, sewers, water and electricity... Israel expands urbicide as tool of genocide in Gaza: Euro-Med https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/17/739272/Israel-Gaza-Euro-Med
Israeli Defense Minister Says Israeli Military Will Occupy Gaza After War, The comments from Israel Katz come amid reports that say Israel and Hamas are close to a hostage deal that will involve a temporary ceasefire https://news.antiwar.com/2024/12/17/israeli-defense-minister-says-israeli-military-will-occupy-gaza-after-war/
Israel Continues to Flaunt Ceasefire, Military Demolishes Homes in Southern Lebanon, Israel also claims ‘violation’ of truce by Hezbollah, launches drone strike https://news.antiwar.com/2024/12/17/israel-continues-to-flaunt-ceasefire-military-demolishes-homes-in-southern-lebanon/
Israel violates ceasefire in Lebanon 12 times on Tuesday, bringing total violations to 248 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241218-israel-violates-ceasefire-in-lebanon-12-times-on-tuesday-bringing-total-violations-to-248/
UK denies 4-year-old Gaza child entry for medical care, faces backlash Countries like Italy and Norway have initiated medical evacuation programs for children affected by the ongoing war on Gaza while the UK denies them entry. The UK government has come under fire for refusing to admit a four-year-old boy from Gaza, Ahmed, who lost both his legs and most of his family in an Israeli airstrike, for medical treatment. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/uk-faces-backlash-for-denying-gaza-boy-entry-for-medical-tre
Irish support for Palestinians stands firm, despite Israeli anger https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/17/irish-support-for-palestinians-stands-firm-despite-israeli-anger#ixzz8urm9SEoP
While doing covert deals to divide-up Syria. Türkiye accuses Israel of weaponizing starvation, infectious diseases in Gaza https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/turkiye-accuses-israel-of-weaponizing-starvation-infectious-diseases-in-gaza-3695869
Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree claimed on X that Iran-backed Yemeni Armed Forces launched two hypersonic ballistic missiles targeting military sites in the Jaffa region near Tel Aviv. Israel reported intercepting the missile strike, which was followed hours later by Israeli fighter jets pounding key infrastructure in Yemen. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-claim-hypersonic-missile-strike-israel-prompting-idf-airstrikes-yemen
Israeli warplanes conduct deadly strikes on ‘civilian facilities’ across Yemen https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/19/739346/Yemen-casualties-Israeli-strikes-Sana%E2%80%99a%C2%A0Hudaydah
Gilbert Doctorow has details and implications: Russia detains suspected murderer of General Kirillov Reuters reported on the arrest by Russian investigative authorities of a 29-year-old Uzbek man suspected of having carried out the assassination yesterday of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the military’s nuclear, chemical and biological defense forces. We are told that the detainee has confessed to the crime and has said he was given this project by Ukrainian intelligence, who offered him a $100,000 reward for success and a comfortable life somewhere in Western Europe.
As we knew already hours after the crime yesterday, the Ukraine’s SBU security service claimed responsibility... ..In her Briefing to journalists earlier today, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova explained why General Kirillov would have been targeted by “the Anglo-Saxons” for his many years spent exposing their egregious violations of international law by (the U.S.) operating biological laboratories in Ukraine and elsewhere that targeted specific ethnic groups including Slavs, for his exposing the false flag operations of the white helmets and other British agents in Syria who staged phony chemical attacks to lay at the door of the Assad regime and its Russian backers, for his exposing the falsehoods of the alleged Russian use of Novichok against the Skripals in Salisbury, U.K., and for exposing the use of chemical agents by Ukrainians on the battlefield in the ongoing war with Russia. She identified the ‘Anglo-Saxons’ as the ‘main beneficiaries of the Kiev regime’s terrorist activities.’ More importantly, she called the ‘Anglo-Saxons’ ‘the ones who masterminded all their activities.’ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/12/18/russia-detains-suspected-murderer-of-general-kirillov/
Distance... Trump’s Ukraine envoy condemns murder of Russian general Kiev broke “the rules of warfare” by targeting a top military officer in Moscow, Keith Kellogg has said https://swentr.site/russia/609564-russian-general-trump-envoy/
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev calls a number of NATO officials and the Times executives a “legitimate target” for the Russian army https://eu.eot.su/2024/12/18/deputy-chairman-of-the-russian-security-council-dmitry-medvedev-calls-a-number-of-nato-officials-and-the-times-executives-a-legitimate-target-for-the-russian-army/
Mike Mihajlovic has detailed analysis of how this Soviet-era bunker was made and where it is: Oreshnik Against Zelensky's Bunker [i] Hypersonic missile against underground bunker
"First establish complete honesty and legitimacy..." US sets conditions for Ukrainian NATO membership Washington has long insisted that Kiev will join the bloc, but never clarified the exact timeline https://www.swentr.site/news/609582-us-conditions-ukraine-nato-membership/
Lifeblood: Slovak, Hungarian, Austrian and Italian groups sign declaration backing continued gas transit through Ukraine https://www.intellinews.com/slovak-hungarian-austrian-and-italian-groups-sign-declaration-backing-continued-gas-transit-through-ukraine-358839/?source=slovakia
Andrew Korybko presents India's non-aligned wheeling & dealing between power blocks as a model for small, easily crushed countries. I'm dubious. The Indian Model Of Financial Multipolarity Is The Most Relevant For The Global South
Trump Formally Wins Electoral College Vote President-elect Donald Trump has formally won the Electoral College, officially securing the presidency on Tuesday. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-formally-wins-electoral-college-vote
'CALL THEIR BLUFF': Trump And Vance Slam Pork-Filled Bill, Tell GOP To Stand Their Ground House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is reportedly discussing a 'plan B' to fund the government as a 'clean' Continuing Resolution (CR) without $100 billion disaster aid and the below shitshow of swampy handouts and government overreach. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pork-city-johnson-tries-ram-through-insane-funding-package
Pre-DOGETrump’s words of opposition stop a bipartisan budget deal in its tracks with Musk’s help https://apnews.com/article/congress-budget-trump-musk-johnson-5dc9fd8672f9807189032811d4ab0528
Elon Musk is ‘unofficial president’ of the US, Netanyahu says https://www.the-independent.com/tech/elon-musk-netanyahu-biden-b2414128.html
NASA Delays Return Of Stranded Astronauts Until March NASA said it needed more time to complete the processing of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which is scheduled to arrive at the space agency’s processing facility in Florida in early January. https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/nasa-delays-return-stranded-astronauts-until-march
'Nothing nefarious': Biden seeks to reassure US over drone mystery https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2q1e238lo
Hal Turner, CONFIRMED: NJ DRONES ARE ***NOT*** "FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OPERATION" https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/confirmed-nj-drones-are-federal-government-operation
Startling image of mystery drone over US air base in UK revealed as bombshell report claims FBI has known about swarms over military sites for a year https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14202269/drones-airbases-UK-bombshell-report.html
Nissan is not viable alone, not even for 2025. Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. have begun talks on a merger that would create the world's third-biggest automaker group by volume, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday, amid fierce global competition in electric vehicles dominated by overseas rivals.
Japan's second- and third-largest automakers are considering the possibility of establishing a holding company, the sources said, in an apparent bid to form an automobile alliance to challenge Tesla Inc. of the United States and Chinese EV makers such as BYD Co. https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/12/a03e03dbba61-update1-japan-automakers-honda-nissan-arranging-merger-talks-source.html
Compliance would bankrupt them: Hundreds of websites to shut down under UK’s ‘chilling’ internet laws https://www.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-websites-shut-down-under-133938055.html
NYT Panics Over Outrage at Insurance Companies The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, as well as Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post editorial board, not only decried the widespread support for Mangione but fought back against legitimate criticism of the health insurance industry.
Now the New York Times is in full-scale panic mode over the widespread boiling anger against the health insurance industry the killing has laid bare (CNN, 12/6/24; PBS, 12/7/24; Reuters, 12/9/24). Times columnist Bret Stephens (12/12/24) wrote that because Thompson came from small-town beginnings, whereas Mangione was from a privileged background, it was in fact the slain CEO who was the real “working-class hero.” This shows that Stephens doesn’t understand class as a relationship of power, where people like Thompson have economic power, regardless of their cultural background. https://fair.org/home/nyt-panics-over-outrage-at-insurance-companies/
UnitedHealth Gets Luigi Mangione T-Shirt Pulled With Copyright Complaint
"I've unfortunately had a lot of experience navigating the healthcare industry," the designer told Gizmodo. https://gizmodo.com/unitedhealth-gets-luigi-mangione-t-shirt-pulled-with-copyright-complaint-2000539574
Four Luigi Mangione Documentaries Are in the Works (So Far) https://www.vulture.com/article/luigi-mangione-documentary.html
Celia Farber: Tuning In To Dynamics Inside The Death Wave Against Homicidal US "Health Agencies" like FDA—Bernie Sanders Strikes From Inside The Progressive Left Tent, Now Baying For Excitotoxins and Fluoride (Literally) MAHA Is Infiltrated But It's Been Exposed And MAHA Is Gaining On Them Part 1. In A Series On The MAHA Wars
Steve Kirsch on Sudden-Onset Autism usually striking right after infant vaccination shots, My autism survey shows very clearly vaccines cause autism Nobody wants to even look at the relationship between date of vaccine shot and date of autism onset. It's just too painful to collect the data.
Apparent in UK data since July 2021, I'll point out.The Negative Efficacy of COVID-19 mRNA Injections Has Been Demonstrated
Four studies establish that 'vaccinated' individuals ultimately face a higher risk of infection compared to those who are not.
Jessica Rose Ph.D. The majority of VAERS reports from Australia are for infants, Something I found in researching my previous article
Australian drug regulator knows DNA fragments in mRNA vaccines can enter nucleus and integrate into genome, internal emails show
The Therapeutic Goods Administration withheld information on DNA contamination risks from the public, presenting a picture of certainty where there is none
An understatement: CDC Study Bombshell: Pfizer mRNA Vaccination Not Affording Protection for Children Aged 6 Months to 4 Years https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/cdc-study-bombshell-pfizer-mrna-vaccination-not-affording-protection-for-children-aged-6-months-to-4-years-0877a5e7
"Long-Vaxx" from spike protein and spike-protein-induced-antibodies: Post-Acute COVID Vaccination Syndrome (PACVS): Biomarkers Uncovered New study links PACVS to the vaccine-induced Spike protein, uncovering autoimmune dysregulation and chronic, persistent symptoms.
Don't bite this time. Take your vitamin-D. California Declares State of Emergency Over H5N1 Bird Flu Just as CDC Reports 'First Severe Case' in Louisiana
"All residents are to obey the direction of emergency officials with regard to this emergency in order to protect their safety."
Meryl Nass MD points out that humans catching diseases from wild birds is rare and just strikes individual hunters and such. Finally! A Louisianan is hospitalized with a diagnosis of H5N1 bird flu. And California declares a bird flu emergency because of -- Cows. Wait, what?
The first US case occurred in early 2022 with 4 days of fatigue. The first case diagnosed worldwide was in 1997. 27 years later, the US finally has a severe case, but it's due to wild birds
Hey Musk, Cut This! Congress to Fund New Biolab Construction, Deadly Pathogen Research, Coming Influenza Pandemic, Vaccines: Speaker Johnson’s New 1,500-Page Spending Bill, Follows government’s waiver of oversight for dangerous gain-of-function experiments.
The game plan running up to 2030. Eva Vlaardingerbroek: "The farmers need to give up their farms before 2030, specifically that year. Yeah, so that's not a coincidence. That year doesn't come out of nowhere. So that year is basically the deadline that our global elites have given our country and will probably give you to abide by these new regulations. And that agenda is called the 2030 agenda." "And now I have a slide. showing you what that entails. So the 2030 agenda is a United Nations agenda. So there we go, everybody is part of the United Nations, right, the entire world. And this agenda consists of 17, what they call sustainable development goals. And when you take a look at them right there, you're like, well, what's wrong with that?" "They all seem very noble, no poverty, no hunger. Who could be against that? However, if we take a closer look at how they actually want to accomplish all of this, anybody with two functioning brain cells realizes that this cannot happen unless there is an active and maybe even forceful redistribution of goods, foods, property, and our rights, which basically comes down to the obliteration of all of our basic liberties and our rights." https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1869034872318185888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1869034872318185888%7Ctwgr%5Eb56ce7090c2357bcaee5335a938de8c4f3e5f3d6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F12%2Fdebt-rattle-december-18-2024%2F
“Unprecedented” decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts, Kids who were in 8th grade at pandemic's start have ushered in an era of abstaining. https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/the-kids-are-maybe-alright-teen-drug-use-hits-new-lows-in-ongoing-decline/
High on "Unsustainable" Organic Vegetables
This morning I heard a thud against the window and saw a humming bird down on the ground. i gently picked it up and held it in the sunlight; and asked the Creator to help. I held the tiny bird for ten minutes with the sunlight on its body...and it opened its eyes...and in a few more minutes it flew away. We all need the Creator's help, so we don't stay down! in spirit or body!
They have wild turkeys around the laboratory, whom I ask for kisses to catch that bird fever. But they say I must wait till Saturday night and bring John Travolta or no bird flu for me.
Do turkeys really fly?
It really is our actual national bird, looks good but small brains don't say much for the world to hear....
Gavin Gruesome Newsom needs more scamdemic Harmacide to terrorize us into his goddammmwd care not cash sic jail where I landed after I ran for mayor against Gruesome. Thank you ScKamala for the solitary isolation plus loss of hard earned Grasshopper taxicab business forevermore. They wanted to kill me , and they have. But I still can't get that bird flew