“Life in man is the glory of God; the life of man is the vision of God.” —St Irenaeus; recovering political consultant, wannabe hermit #psalmlectio & catharsis
An Israeli Air Force reservist officer told Haaretz:
“I asked an intelligence officer to enter targets into the computer. He told me: ‘You have 2 million targets in Gaza’” — meaning virtually anyone in Gaza could be treated as a target.
“I personally took part in killing 54 people before October 7.”
“I saw soldiers shoot at clearly identifiable rescue workers in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah.”
“I realized that any soldier could kill whoever they wanted in Gaza, as many as they wanted, without accountability.”
Benjamin Netanyahu sent a warning letter ahead of a libel suit against Haaretz and journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval over a report he received a warning from UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed about a major Hamas operation before the October 7 attack.
Haaretz stands by its reporting.
Read the full exposé: https://t.co/ptN5tisEMe
In light of the revelations about the multiple advance notices Netanyahu received about Hamas planning a major attack on Israel shortly before Oct. 7, it's worth re-visiting the question Charlie Kirk asked, one to which no answer has ever been provided:
As Israel’s offensive reduced whole neighbourhoods to rubble, the records that anchor Palestinians’ claims to homes and land have often vanished with them. Deeds, contracts, bills and permits are lost in the expanse of Gaza’s ruins https://t.co/pv54263qHW
CA GAS APPLIANCE BAN ADVANCES - CA Democrats just passed AB 2313, which raises YOUR utility rates to advance their insane and costly ban on ALL natural gas appliances in homes! Watch my floor speech in opposition:
Netanyahu claims he was asleep and was not woken up on the night of Oct. 6-7. If only he was woken up on time “things would look totally different” - whatever that means.
We all woke up at 6am from the (loud) sirens and missiles, so there was plenty of time for him to act from 6am, when his citizens were sending SOS messages from their shelters, then being butchered or left hanging for hours, while stand-down orders were given.
In this video from last week, he says his conclusion was: decision making (on security issues) should be in the hands of the political echelon, not security echelon, implying the political echelon was not involved/made aware during Oct. 7 events.
He claims he wasn’t aware or was pacified by wrong perception that Hamas is deterred.
Now, check out a new piece of evidence below from Ha'aretz, claiming he received another warning from UAE President days before Oct. 7th.
So was he aware, asleep, pacified, or he's simply lying?
Plenty of evidence came to light since Oct. 7th, but no serious responsibility was taken, and no admissions by those in command in any of the "echelons". Lots of hiding, pointing fingers at each other, divide & conquer, deception, death and destruction.
When I dared asking questions from the moment it all started, I was heavily attacked. The questions I dared voice (including on @BretWeinstein's show), turned out to be the right ones, as more info comes to light.
BREAKING: Twelve countries issued a joint statement announcing national bans on trade in goods from illegal Israeli settlements:
🇫🇷 France
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇨🇦 Canada
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇪🇸 Spain
🇫🇮 Finland
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇱 Poland
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇸🇪 Sweden
Macron, UK PM Burnham, and Canadian PM Carney agreed the situation is deteriorating with "unprecedented" settler violence and settlement expansion, specifically calling the E1 project "inadmissible."
They salute measures already taken by Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, and Belgium.
The statement demands Israel immediately stop settlement expansion, hold violent settlers accountable, and investigate allegations against Israeli forces.
They "firmly oppose any action resulting in the annexation of Palestinian lands or forced displacement."
Here's the Governor of Arkansas with nothing better to do than threaten companies in order to defend Israel, which isn't part of her state or even her country.
US politicians serve Israel like this all day, but if you notice, YOU are accused of being "obseessed with Israel."
I just received my eagerly anticipated copy of Noelle Mering’s new book, No Contact. As I’m devouring it, I can already tell two things about it:
1) It’s a page-turner, filled with cogent, incisive analysis of the profoundly damaging “no contact” movement and . . .
2) It addresses a huge audience under stress right now, especially moms and dads whose grown children have bought into the destructive, cult-like ideology that teaches people to weaponize their real or perceived “victimhood” and see every difficult or unpleasant relationship, no matter how sacred or important, as expendable.
Those who go around labeling people they disagree with as “narcissists” and “toxic” will hate this book.
Everyone else, especially normal people who love their families, should read it and benefit from its insights.
@noellem
Because US military bases in the Middle East are located in dictatorships -- meaning the US's closest allies -- reporting on the massive damage Iran has inflicted on US bases has been suppressed.
But enough has emerged to get a sense of how widespread and severe the damage is:
It’s really unfair that the hordes of people who responded “Release the hostages!” to every clip of a hospital being bombed or a child being blown to pieces will never be forced to reckon with the plain fact that Netanyahu could’ve brought them home the evening of October 7, 2023
A week and a half before October 7, 2023 UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes.
In that conversation, bin Zayed warned that Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against Israel.
Bin Zayed urged Netanyahu to take the situation seriously. To his surprise, however, the prime minister reacted with relative calm. Netanyahu said that, in his assessment, Hamas intended to operate in the West Bank area, and he reassured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared for any scenario.
🔗https://t.co/ptN5tisEMe
WOW!
Haaretz investigation is a MUST-READ!
The Netanyahu gov received numerous warnings - incl from the UAE's ruler 10 days before Oct 7 - that Hamas was planning an attack.
The ultimate source of the warning was Hamas' own Sinwar.
Netanyahu ignored all the warnings and took no precautions. He didn't even convey it to the Israeli intelligence apparatus.
But there's more. Immediately after Oct 7, Hamas offered to release all the civilian hostages - without asking for anything in return. The Biden admin was aware of this as well. But Israel wasn't interested, leaving both Hamas and the Qatari mediators baffled.
So much bloodshed could have been avoided. So many innocent lives could have been spared. But Netanyahu appeared to have been uninterested - and Biden, of course, never put any real pressure on Israel - effectively allowing Netanyahu to determine US policy.
https://t.co/EJUwMiwEzq
Solving the J5/J6 pipe bomb coverup would unravel everything. Pray for @SteveBakerUSA. I personally interviewed (and was lied to by) the FBI ADIC for Washington DC and one of the plain-clothes cops who found the second bomb. It’s enough for me to tell you this is a govt coverup.
Some thought on the similarities between AI companies and Theranos.
The goal of Theranos was to revolutionise the blood-testing industry with a new micro-sized product. They achieved a valuation of $9 Billion. They failed because the final product was technically impossible and they covered this up.
The goal of AI companies is to reach Human Level Intelligence (AGI) by the pathway of Large Language Models, which is technically impossible.
They emerged from the same Silicon Valley venture capital startup ecosystem, which incentivises the 'move fast & break things ethos' - promising to be able to achieve thing that might be impossible to achieve - though generating vast investments on speculative markets. The belief is "Fake it till you make it".
The blind spot is the belief that just because you have convinced people to invest vast amounts in your startup, then the final product you promised MUST be possible to achieve. It's a kind of feedback loop delusion which leads to lying and cover-ups when it becomes clear that you can't actually create the product that you promised.
We have just been told "AGI is close" for the third time in 3 years.