🇺🇦🇷🇴 The Ukrainian naval drone that exploded today.
It purposely went well into the port waters before detonating. Before it did, some locals took videos of the drone.
Without this footage, Russia would have been accused of attacking Romania. The EU/NATO's plan got foiled.
Russian media has published audio from the developing emergency aboard the International Space Station.
NASA says astronauts were ordered to move into their spacecraft and prepare for possible evacuation after an air leak in the Russian segment worsened.
In the audio, ground control can be heard instructing the crew to execute emergency procedure “EMER 3.4 step 5” and begin deconfiguring, including opening hatches and reporting status after each one.
There are currently seven people aboard the ISS: three Russians, three Americans and one French astronaut.
Iranian missiles severely damaged the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid US Air Base in Qatar during the early days of the US–Iran war.
This hit is being reported for the first time. The damage to CAOC has been so extensive, the US is not sure if it’s worth rebuilding.
The CAOC was the main US air command center for Middle East operations for over 20 years.
Multiple Iranian missiles hit it and made it inoperable. The facility had already been evacuated, so there were no injuries there.
🚨BREAKING | Andy Burnham says that Israel's murderous assault on Gaza is NOT a genocide.
The aspiring PM added that he "can't judge" Israel for what they have done.
(Via @guardian)
Worldwide they are poisoning the food supply by mandating the use of Folic acid in flour.
A large portion of the population with the MTHFR gene mutation can’t metabolise folic acid and experience fatigue, anxiety and chronic inflammation.
Studies also link it to a 2.8 times increase risk of prostate cancer.
It blocks natural folate which as Dr Claire Craig says is integral to the functioning of the body. Switching genes on and off. Making DNA and RNA.
Hard not to see a nefarious intent at play.
JUST IN: 5 AZERBAIJANI SAILORS WERE KILLED AS UKRAINIAN DRONES STRUCK TWO GRAIN CARRIERS IN THE AZOV SEA OVERNIGHT
The Natra lost two crew members after taking four hits and the Zircon lost three, caught fire, and was abandoned with it still burning.
Seven-year-old Cassidy Baracka vomited for over eight hours after receiving her first Covid mRNA injection.
She was then given a second dose, which proved fatal.
Despite this, her death certificate says she died from Covid-19.
Reporter: Did you see that Sean Strickland got banned from the White House for talking about Israel?
Bryce Mitchell: I'm not surprised at all. In fact, that's the only nation you're not allowed to criticize. Something's going to change because evil empires don't last forever.
Oil spills have collapsed.
Since the 1970s, large and medium tanker spills are down more than 90%.
In the mid-1970s, over 100 major spills per year were recorded. Today, the number is single digits.
Double-hulled ships are a key reason for the improvement, as are stricter navigation rules.
Meanwhile, a fact rarely mentioned, oil seeps naturally into the oceans, at about 600,000 tons per year, according to National Academy's estimates. That geological leakage has been going for millions of years.
By comparison, tanker spills average roughly 100,000 tons per year, meaning nature releases six times more into the oceans than tankers do.
This does not make oil spills harmless, but it does expose a scale problem in the narrative. The dominant source of marine oil pollution is natural, not industrial, and the human contribution from tankers has been shrinking for decades, not growing.
Pro-Israel organisations now insist that not only must the perceptions, or feelings, of Jews about racism be accepted without question, and without the need for actual evidence, but that these same organisations must alone decide what constitutes racism towards the community.
The result is a massively expanded definition of antisemitism that, unsurprisingly, makes a priority of ring-fencing Israel from meaningful criticism.
This has been formally codified by a preposterously wordy definition from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance that reduces antisemitism to a “perception” that “may be expressed as hatred toward Jews” – but equally, it seems, may not. Jew hatred can also, according to the IHRA, be directed to “non-Jewish individuals”.
The reason for this unnecessary convolution is clarified by a set of 11 potential “examples” of antisemitism offered by the IHRA – the majority of which relate to Israel. Antisemitism, defined in this way, may as often as not be expressed, not as hatred towards Jews, but as opposition to the actions of Israel, such as its current genocidal rampages in Gaza and south Lebanon.
Because “non-Jewish individuals” support Israel and its Jewish supremacist ideology of Zionism, the IHRA makes sure to enfold these individuals prominently in its definition.
All UK police forces, like the main political parties, have adopted the IHRA definition. Which presumably explains why the Met are currently investigating as an antisemitic incident a man being rude to actress Helen Mirren, who is not Jewish, over her support for Israel.
What the Israel lobby has managed to do so triumphantly is, first, wrongly associate a political outlook with an ethnic community – the false, indeed antisemitic, assumption that all Jews identify with Israel and its crimes – and then classify any kind of meaningful criticism of Israel as an attack on the Jewish community. As racial hatred.
This is the Macpherson Principle on steroids. It treats perceived Jewish feelings – a perception entirely confected by the Israel lobby – as proof of a hate crime.
The campaign to corrupt the definition of “race hate”, and thereby criminalise certain kinds of political speech about Israel, was honed by the political and media class during Jeremy Corbyn’s years leading the Labour party. Corbyn and the majority of Labour members who supported him were quickly vilified as antisemitic over their critical stance towards Israel.
Any attempt to push back, rejecting the idea that criticising Israel equates with Jew hatred, was, of course, cited as proof of antisemitism.
The left’s long-standing criticisms of Israel, particularly over its apartheid nature and brutal colonisation of Palestinian lands, have sounded ever more credible in the wake of Israel’s sustained genocidal assault on Gaza since late 2023.
Israel has killed many tens of thousands – possibly hundreds of thousands – of Palestinian civilians there, destroyed almost the entirety of the enclave’s homes, schools and hospitals, and starved the population.
When hundreds of thousands of Britons began regularly turning out to march against British complicity in the genocide, and students organised encampments on university campuses across the country, the logic was already firmly in place to condemn these protests as “antisemitic”.
Soon even anti-genocide chants – calling for Israel’s apartheid rule to end and urging global support for Palestinians as they struggled to liberate themselves – were denounced as hate crimes.
The Met has been visibly taking a leading role, along with the Labour government and rightwing parties, in steadily criminalising expressions of solidarity with Palestinians as they are annihilated with western munitions, intelligence and diplomatic support.
The police force now arrests people over anti-genocide chants, and is using a heavier and heavier hand to disappear the protests, from limiting their regularity to strictly circumscribing permitted march routes.
The direction of travel can be seen in the government classifying as a terrorism offence any support for efforts to stop Israeli factories in the UK from arming Israel’s genocide. Thousands of Britons, many elderly, have been arrested by the Met and other forces simply for holding up a placard.
This is an extract from my latest article UK policing culture – from the Nowak murder to crushing protest – grows ever more rotten. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️
🚨 Handala announces it assassinated a senior Mossad agent with a car bomb:
"Urgent Announcement from Handala
We hereby inform the heroic people of the Resistance Front that, after months of surveillance, pursuit operations, and close monitoring, one of the senior managers of Mossad’s New Influence Unit (in Iran Desk )was Eliminated this morning on Highway 20 when a bomb planted in his personal vehicle exploded.
Will the security services of the Zionist regime dare to tell the truth, or will they continue to deny it?
This is the fate of criminals. Even the regime’s most security-protected individuals are not safe in their usurped homes."
“The war will last for a couple of decades. We need to learn to live with it.”
A powerful speech by the legendary intelligence officer and professional analyst Andrey Bezrukov at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. It resonates with what I usually say in response to the question: "When will all this end?" I reply: "Accept that war is our new normal."
Key theses - in quotes.
🔻 New type of war
"We are in a new war. Since it's pointless to seize territory anymore... this is a war of attrition and subversion." "Leaders, military, civilians, scientists" and "critical infrastructure on which the country depends" are being targeted. "This is the war we need to prepare for. It's happening, and it will continue."
🔻 West's strategy of 'boiling the frog'
"The West's strategy is very simple: to avoid a nuclear clash with us, from which they would emerge as losers. And so they need to 'boil the frog slowly' - gradually escalate tensions." "We're seeing this today. And they won't stop, because they have nowhere to retreat to. We're an existential threat to them."
🔻 First 'hill' of world war
"We're currently on the first hill of world war. There will be two hills, as in the First and Second World Wars... The rules of the game will be born after the next clash. It's likely to happen in Asia." What happened in Iran, he says, "proves that the hegemon is no longer the hegemon."
🔻 Strike on nuclear forces
The enemy's main task is to "avoid the nuclear threshold... and neutralize our nuclear forces": either by building a system in space to "prevent anything from taking off", or "like in Operation 'Spider Web', planting it here through their agents and striking our nuclear forces at a certain moment."
🔻 Destabilization and strike on infrastructure
"The plan is to overwhelm our decision-making system with complex attacks from all directions - ideological, physical, military." Already today, "a drone can fly into any region via Starlink and land in a precise location... Unfortunately, we weren't ready for it."
🔻 Threat of biowar
"All those labs around us... were making weapons of the future." Technology allows "an individual on individual equipment to create viruses that... could wipe us all out."
🔻 What to do
"We must admit that for the next... couple of decades we will be at war... We will have two generations that can practically be considered at war." The economy needs to be built in such a way that it "not only fulfills the task of development, but also the task of defense": deepen and protect critical infrastructure, create a "headquarters" for management, invest in protection against bioterrorism, and merge the army and society.
🔻 'Stop being good'
"We need to stop being good. We're too good for our enemies... They don't fear us because many red lines remain on paper." At the same time, Western Europe is dependent on imported gas, and "exploding a gas tanker is equivalent to a small nuclear explosion." The expert's conclusion: the country needs an "image of the future."
22 yrs ago today, after a long zoning dispute with local officials that ruined his business, welder Marvin Heemeyer had enough & created the Killdozer.
He destroyed the mayor’s house, the judge’s house, town hall, the police station, & the bank - while avoiding hurting civilians or their property.
Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate 🎊