During a fiery hearing in US Congress, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was repeatedly pressed over how much it cost US taxpayers to strike an Iranian school in Minab which killed 120 children.
“Looks like he (Zelenskyy) had a couple cards to play, 'cause Ukraine is actually winning against Russia” - Rep Adam smith (D-WA-9) - @RepAdamSmith
“And I'll close just by saying one of the other ironies of this, of course, is we have a great example in the world right now of what our strategy should be and where our values should be, and that's Ukraine. And I'm really curious. You know, here we are, we roll out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin. We belittle and insult President Zelenskyy in the White House. He has no cards, right? Well, here we are a year after that. Looks like he had a couple cards to play, 'cause Ukraine is actually winning against Russia. Ukraine, a sovereign democracy standing up against a brutal, oppressive, coercive dictatorship, and we can't even bring ourselves on a consistent basis to say, "We are with Ukraine, and we are against what Putin is doing," and stand up and support them. So I wanna see that strategy to meet the complex threat environment that we have”
The House Armed Services Committee is receiving testimony from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine on the Department of Defense FY27 budget request.
@1MikeFairclough@littlepixie3 At last it slowly comes out in the mainstream. The positive aspect is that they will never get away with this levels coercion again. They shot their bolt, and big pharma has lost all credibility
In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive.
Just thought y’all should know.
In 1984, a woman in the UK was treated for auditory hallucinations (hearing voices). During this period, the voices told her she had a brain tumour and were medically specific and urged her to have a scan. Although she had no obvious neurological symptoms, her psychiatrist ordered a CT scan, mainly to reassure her. The scan unexpectedly revealed a meningioma (a type of brain tumour). The tumour was surgically removed, and the hallucinations reportedly stopped. The case was later described in the British Medical Journal.
“I received direct threats targeting me on my phone from the Mossad, from the Israelis, and they threatened to kill me.”
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil speaking before she was killed by Israel.
Dr. Paul Thomas has his medical license revoked following his publication of a study indicating that vaccinated children are five times more likely to suffer from allergies, autoimmune disorders, neurodevelopmental problems, and infections of all kinds than their unvaccinated peers.
According to oncologist Dr. Angus Dalgleish, the Pfizer mRNA injections "are all full of SV40".
"SV40 was what—in my day—we put into mice to make them grow tumours... and we're putting this into humans."
"These people behind Moderna and Pfizer are just pure, pure evil and they must be held to account."
@EYakoby@vivienmiss No they do not. You have completely misunderstood the attitude of most European countries I. This: they abhor the Iranian regime, but that abhorrance does not make this war legal or just
BREAKING:
‘Top doctor warns MPs of possible cancer link to Covid boosters’
In a stark warning to MPs, Prof Dalgleish said: “In my opinion, this is no longer a hypothesis. The data are in. The mechanisms are understood. The signal is screaming. It is time to act.”
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BREAKING: The United States just took over $126 million from Switzerland’s fighter jet account to cover missile shortfalls in the Iran war.
Switzerland did not approve this. Switzerland did not consent. Switzerland had already frozen its Patriot payments after learning deliveries would be delayed four to five years. The US circumvented the freeze.
SRF, Switzerland’s national broadcaster, reported on March 26 that Washington redirected Swiss funds originally allocated for 36 F-35 fighter jets to cover Patriot air defence shortfalls using the Foreign Military Sales pooled trust fund, a structure that allows the Pentagon to reallocate payments across a buyer’s contracts without that buyer’s permission. Swiss armaments chief Urs Loher confirmed the diverted amount is a “low three-digit million” Swiss francs and called the situation “very unsatisfactory.”
The money Switzerland paid for jets is now subsidising a war Switzerland refused to participate in. Bern halted new arms exports to the US on March 20 citing the Iran conflict. Switzerland rejected two US military flyover requests linked to Iran operations. Two hundred years of armed neutrality, and Washington reached into the account anyway.
Here is why.
The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors defending Gulf states in the first four days of Operation Epic Fury per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post last week. Lockheed Martin and Boeing produce 620 Patriot interceptors per year combined. In four days, America burned through eighteen months of global Patriot production. The war has consumed roughly one-third of the entire THAAD missile stockpile. Annual THAAD production does not exceed 100 units.
The cost asymmetry is what makes the depletion irreversible at current production rates. Each PAC-3 interceptor costs $3.9 million. Each Iranian Shahed drone costs between $20,000 and $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Iran manufactures an estimated 10,000 Shaheds per month per Reuters. America produces 620 interceptors per year. Iran builds more drones in a single week than the United States builds interceptors in an entire year.
Every interceptor fired in the Gulf is one that cannot be delivered to Switzerland, Ukraine, Taiwan, Japan, or Poland. The State Department warned allies on March 27 that Patriot deliveries to Ukraine would face disruptions as the Pentagon prioritises Iran per Quiver Quantitative. Senator Chris Murphy said on record: “We’ve been told again and again one reason we can’t provide interceptors for the Patriot system for Ukraine is that they’re in short supply.”
Lockheed signed a framework to quadruple production to 2,000 units per year. That capacity will not arrive for six to seven years. The Pentagon has asked Congress to shift $1.5 billion from other programmes to accelerate procurement per Bloomberg. None of this helps now. The interceptors are depleting now. The allied accounts are being raided now.
Switzerland is considering reducing its F-35 order from 36 to 30 jets and accelerating evaluation of European alternatives per Bluewin and Global Defense Corp. Swiss parliamentarians have called the redirection “an unacceptable violation of procurement sovereignty.” The Swiss parliament is preparing formal hearings.
Switzerland is the canary. A neutral country with two centuries of armed neutrality just had its fighter jet money taken without consent to feed a four-week-old war that burns 18 months of interceptor production every 96 hours.
Every US ally with a pending defence contract should be asking one question: whose account is next?
Full analysis: https://t.co/32ixeQpN7N
Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari:
Iran has been here for millennia. Nobody is going anywhere.
Total annihilation is not an option.
No people or country will disappear from existence by the wish or whim of any political actor.
We will live next to each other. We will be neighbors for the future of humankind, and we have to find ways of living next to each other.
We will have to find a way past this. This is a very difficult moment, but we will find our way out of it.