Link: https://www.rt.com/news/586227-us-military-to-buy-japanese-seafood-amid-fukushima-fallout/

Washington has agreed to help offset a Chinese ban on imports following Tokyo’s release of nuclear wastewater into the ocean | Washington has agreed to help offset a Chinese ban on imports following Japan's release of nuclear wastewater into the ocean | 31 Oct 2023 | The U.S. government has agreed to buy Japanese seafood for its military to help mitigate the economic fallout from Japan's decision to release radioactive wastewater from its destroyed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. The American armed forces will sign a long-term contract with Japanese seafood suppliers to help counter China's ban on imports from Japan, U.S. ambassador to Tokyo [deep-state dirt-bag] Rahm Emmanuel told Reuters in an interview on Monday. Japanese fish, scallops and other products will be served on U.S. Navy ships and stocked in commissaries and mess halls at 17 American military bases in the region, he added.

Link: https://tass.com/world/1699373

According to the media, the aid, which has amassed to hundreds of tons, includes water, food and medical supplies | At least 39 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt on Monday, The Times of Israel newspaper reports. ● According to the paper, the total number of trucks with humanitarian aid that have crossed the Rafah border into Gaza in the past ten days reached 171. The aid, which has amassed to hundreds of tons, includes water, food and medical supplies. ● A spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said earlier that humanitarian aid coming to Gaza was meeting only three percent of the needs of the population, with water, food, medicines, ambulances and fuel being in severe shortage.

■ UK official fired after urging Gaza truce (RT.com)
■ LIVE UPDATES: Netanyahu Rejects UN’s Call for 'Immediate Ceasefire’ in Gaza (Sputnik News)

Link: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-gaza-concept-paper-mirrors-1948-palestinian-nakba-tr

The Palestinian President's spokesperson says the mass displacement of Gazans is tantamount to a declaration of war. | A recent report by AP shows that the Israeli Intelligence Ministry has drafted a plan detailing a wartime proposal for the forcible displacement of the 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip into the Sinai Peninsula. ● The Israeli occupation Prime Minister downplayed the proposal of the mass displacement as being simply a hypothetical "concept paper", however, its concluding remarks eerily mirrored the brutal events of the 1948 Nakba. ● This proposal of systematic dispossession and displacement has put additional strain on the occupation's relations with Ramallah and Cairo.

■ Biden Forced To Call Off His Plans For Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza (10/30/23)

Link: https://nationalfile.com/friends-actor-matthew-perry-sold-pro-jab-merchandise-before-he-died-suddenly/

Perry was apparently so enamored with the COVID jab, that he sold t-shirts bragging about taking as many shots as possible. | “Friends” actor Matthew Perry, who sold merchandise boasting about being as jabbed as possible, died suddenly on Saturday, October 28th, after reportedly suffering from cardiac arrest and drowning in his hot tub. He was 54 years old. ● According to a TMZ report that’s been cited by numerous media outlets, “Authorities responded to reports of a cardiac arrest at an L.A.-area home where [Matthew] Perry was located.” When they arrived on the scene, they found the “Friends” actor dead, having drowned in his hot tub. Though Perry had suffered from health issues, as well as addictions to drugs and alcohol throughout his life, no substances of concern were found at the scene, and now speculation is growing that the actor, who was very publicly in favor of the COVID-19 jab, died as a result of his many “vaccinations”.

Link: https://tass.com/world/1698503

Earlier, the UAE requested the meeting after the Israeli military announced it was expanding ground operations in the Gaza Strip | The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on Monday, October 30, the Permanent Mission of Brazil, which chairs the Security Council in October, announced on Saturday. [...] Earlier, the UAE requested the meeting after the Israeli military announced it was expanding ground operations in the Gaza Strip.

■ We won't accept ignoring genocide against Palestinians: Diaz-Canel (Al Mayadeen)

Link: https://tass.com/world/1698511

Since the beginning of the armed conflict between Israeli troops and Palestinian radical groups in Gaza on October 7, the number of wounded people has reached 19,000 | The death toll in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli shelling and bombing has exceeded 8,000, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported. "Over the past 24 hours, the number of victims has increased by more than 300," the ministry said in a statement quoted by Al Hadath TV channel. Previously, there were reports about 7,700 dead. Since the beginning of the armed conflict between Israeli troops and Palestinian radical groups in Gaza on October 7, the number of wounded people has reached 19,000.

■ Cowardly Israel too weak to win Gaza ground offensive: Top Hezbollah official (PressTV)
■ Deadly Israeli Raids Continue in Occupied West Bank (Tasnim News Agency)
■ Iran’s Raisi says Israel crossed ‘red lines’ (TASS)

Link: https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/10/27/israel-has-permanently-lost-the-argument/

Caitlin Johnstone | I’m sorry if this makes me an evil terrorist-loving baby-raping sieg-heiling Nazi, but in my humble opinion genocidal massacres are bad. | Israel and its allies get away with a lot by marketing this as a “war”. It’s not a war. Israel launches high-tech military explosives at civilian buildings in a huge concentration camp while Hamas fires back with glorified fireworks which do light property damage. That’s not a war, it’s a massacre.

Normal person: Israel is killing children by the thousands as we speak
Crazy person: WHY AREN’T YOU CONDEMNING HAMAS??

Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20231028/israel-geared-up-for-long-difficult-war--will-pay-a-price-to-achieve-strategic-goals-1114543469.html

RE:'Strategic Goals': This is what the Zionists have in mind, just look at this map. They intend to obliterate Palestine, expel those who survive, and grab huge swathes of Egypt and Saudi Arabia: "Eretz Israel from the Sea to the Jordan River for future generations, for the mass aliya immigration], and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country." (Israel's History in Quotes ) - editor2

Israel has been expanding its ground maneuvers in the Gaza Strip, an IDF representative acknowledged earlier, while continuing massive strikes on the Palestinian enclave and ratcheting up the civilian death toll. | Israel is prepared for a long fight to achieve its strategic goals, Prof. Col. (ret.) Gabi Siboni told Sputnik. 💬 “We are prepared and ready to go at any moment that our government will decide that we need to go for this phase,” emphasized Siboni, who serves as a senior consultant to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and other Israeli security organizations and the security industry. The pundit, who also headed the Military and Strategic Affairs Program and Cyber Security Program at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (INSS) in 2006-2020, was referring to the fact that Israel appears to be preparing for the next phase of its military operation, a ground campaign to “crush and destroy” Hamas, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu termed it. ● The military wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, said on Friday that its fighters are engaged in a clash with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) near Beit Hanoun in northeast Gaza Strip. 💬 “The Qassam Brigades are resisting the Israeli army's incursion into Beit Hanoun and east of Bureij, and there are violent clashes on the ground,” the military wing said in a statement. [...] as the civilian death toll grows, a humanitarian catastrophe has been unfolding in Gaza, with its population of 2.1 million people. Fuel, food, and medical supplies are fast running out, there is no electricity, and, most recently, internet and phone services went down. A resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was overwhelmingly passed by the United Nations General Assembly on October 27, calling for release of all civilians, the protection of civilians, and ensuring safe passage of humanitarian aid into the enclave. However, both Israel and the United States rejected calls for a ceasefire contained in the nonbinding initiative put forward by Jordan and a swathe of Arab countries. Across the globe, protesters have been voicing support for Palestinians in Gaza, while also warning of the risk of the Palestine-Israel conflagration mushrooming into a wider Middle East conflict.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/586049-us-israel-gaza-offensive/

The report by Tasnim News Agency comes as the Pentagon has moved additional military assets into the Middle East | Several thousand US troops have taken part in Israel’s ground operation in Gaza, the Iran-based Tasnim News Agency reported on Saturday. The Pentagon has recently announced plans to significantly reinforce its military presence in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas conflict and tensions with Iran. ● According to the agency’s security sources, Israel’s assault on Gaza involved three divisions and several brigades and was also underpinned by 5,000 US military personnel. The outlet, however, did not provide any details about which troops took part in the offensive or what functions they performed. ● Tasnim said that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attempted to enter the enclave from several areas in the north, west, and southwest “to split the Gaza Strip into two or three sections and cut off the connection among the Palestinian resistance forces before launching the next stage of the war.” The agency did not specify what results the Israeli military had achieved so far.

■ IDF General Reveals Hideous Truth: "We have lost the ability to field an effective army"
■ US ‘entering battle’ in Gaza – Hamas (RT.com)

Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/28/israel-hamas-war-live-israeli-bombings-intensify-as-gaza-goes-dark

Ground battles in Gaza as Israeli jets bomb tunnels | Israel says its ground troops are fighting inside Gaza as it subjects the besieged territory to the heaviest bombardment since the war began. Hamas says its fighters have confronted Israeli troops in various locations. International media and aid agencies say they lost contact with staff in Gaza amid a near-total communications blackout. Egypt calls on Israel to facilitate relief aid access to Gaza - In a new statement, the Egyptian foreign ministry has warned of the “humanitarian and security repercussions of the Israeli ground attack” on Gaza. “We hold the Israeli government responsible for violating the United Nations General Assembly resolution for an immediate ceasefire and implementing a humanitarian truce,” it said, referring to yesterday’s vote in New York. The ministry also repeated its call for Israel “to facilitate procedures for safe, complete and sustainable access” for aid to Gaza.

■ October 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles Israel’s military received orders to shell Israeli homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israeli citizens said to have been “burned alive” were actually killed by friendly fire? [...] These reports indicate that orders came down from the military’s high command to attack homes and and other areas inside Israel, even at the cost of many Israeli lives.

Link: https://www.anews.com.tr/middle-east/2023/10/28/israel-must-immediately-get-out-of-its-state-of-madness-and-stop-attacks-on-gaza-erdogan-says

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a statement on his social media account condemning the escalating Israeli bombardments in Gaza, which are disproportionately affecting women, children, and innocent civilians. He called for an immediate cessation of these attacks, highlighting the deepening humanitarian crisis. | President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in a statement on his social media account, stated that the increasing and intensifying Israeli bombardments targeting women, children, and innocent civilians in Gaza have deepened the humanitarian crisis. Erdoğan underlined that Israel must immediately end this madness and cease its attacks, stating, "I invite all my brothers and sisters to the Great Palestine Rally, where we will make our calls stronger and proclaim that we stand with the Palestinian people against Israeli oppression, at Istanbul Ataturk Airport."

■ 'Israel' destroys Gaza bakeries; UNRWA warns of catastrophic shortages (Al Mayadeen)
■ 10 trucks loaded with relief and medical supplies crossed into Gaza amid Israeli onslaught

Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/586011-ukraine-tsarev-assassination-attempt/

Kiev’s SBU has told multiple outlets that it had targeted Oleg Tsarev in Crimea | The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was behind the assassination attempt on Oleg Tsarev, the BBC and several Ukrainian outlets reported on Friday, citing a source from the agency. [...] Ukrainian outlets Babel, Ukrinform, and Ukrainska Pravda have also reported that the SBU was behind the attack on Tsarev, likewise quoting an anonymous agency official. Tsarev was attacked on Thursday night at the sanatorium he runs in Yalta, Crimea. He was reportedly shot two times and had lost a lot of blood before being taken to the hospital, where he remains in critical condition. The Russian authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the attack on Tsarev but have yet to attribute blame. ● The 53-year-old former Ukrainian lawmaker had retired from politics and settled in the Russian peninsula several years ago. He had served as a deputy from the now-banned Party of Regions in Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada from 2002 to 2014. Following the US-backed Maidan coup in Kiev, Tsarev endorsed the rebellion in Donetsk and Lugansk and eventually became the speaker of the parliament of ‘Novorossiya’ – as the two Donbass republics dubbed their union at the time. [...] Valentin Nalivaichenko, the former head of the SBU, admitted to the existence of a secret assassination unit last month in an interview with The Economist. The Washington Post published a lengthy feature last week about CIA support for the SBU, admitting that the US invested “tens of millions” of dollars in the Ukrainian intelligence agency and its military counterpart, the GUR, but insisted it had nothing to do with the “dozens of assassinations” that Kiev’s spies have undertaken.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/585984-idf-expands-gaza-operation/

A massive wave of airstrikes was carried out ahead of a ground incursion | Israeli ground forces will “expand” their activity in Gaza on Friday night, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari has told reporters. Warplanes are currently subjecting the enclave to some of the heaviest bombardment to date ahead of the ground operation. [...] Israeli soldiers have conducted several limited raids into the strip over the last two days but no major offensive has been announced. Hagari’s statement is the clearest sign since the beginning of the conflict on October 7 that an invasion – which the IDF has been preparing to launch for almost three weeks – is imminent. ● In a statement on Friday morning, the IDF said that its tanks and infantry had moved into central Gaza the previous day and destroyed “dozens of terrorist targets, including positions for launching anti-tank missiles and operational headquarters,” as well as Hamas fighters. Israeli forces withdrew after the raid with no casualties, the IDF added.

■ ISRAELI TANKS NOW STORMING INTO GAZA" (Hal Turner)
■ Gaza communications blackout as Israel intensifies attack (The Eletronic Intifada)
■ Gaza in complete blackout as IOF launch most brutal attack so far (Al Mayadeen)
■ Unprecedented Israeli strikes on Gaza amid internet blackout (Palestine Info)
■ Israel-Palestine live: Communications blackout as heaviest strikes hit Gaza (MEE)
■ “Please, if you can hear us, tell the world that we are isolated now in Gaza” (If Americans)
■ Israel’s Onslaught On Gaza Escalates, Dozens Of Civilians Killed (IMEMC News)
■ White House Says Israel Will Continue to Kill ‘Innocent Civilians’ in Gaza (October 25th, 2023)

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/585916-us-strikes-syria-pentagon/

"President Joe Biden" has ordered the US military to strike two facilities in eastern Syria | US forces have launched multiple airstrikes on unspecified military installations in Syria, the Pentagon said on Thursday, claiming the operation was a response to recent attacks against illegal American outposts by armed groups allegedly “affiliated” with Iran. [...] Up to 1,000 US troops are currently deployed in Syria, occupying key oil fields and Euphrates River crossings with the support of a Kurdish-led militia. The government in Damascus has repeatedly protested that their presence violates international law.

■ US Launches Strikes in Syria After Targeted Attacks Against American Troops (Sputnik News)

Link: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/ron-desantis-confirms-sending-weapons-to-israel

"Israel’s" consul general in Miami, Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, denies requesting DeSantis to send shipments of weapons and claims that shipments of medical supplies were only agreed upon. | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' office confirmed on Thursday that he has sent drones, body armor, and helmets to "Israel", adding that the transport was done through a private supplier. A spokesperson for the governor told US media outlets that the delivery was done following a request by "Israel’s" consul general in Miami, Maor Elbaz-Starinsky. [...] DeSantis’ spokesperson asserted to CNN that both parties did collaborate to "help get weapons and ammunition to Israel through private parties."

■ Palestinian Ministry of Health: “6,955 Martyrs and 19,000 Wounded in the Occupation’s Aggression Against Our People in Gaza and the West Bank” (IMEMC.org)
■ Palestinian ambassador to UN: 70% of 7,000 civilian deaths are women and children (PressTV)
■ Updated: Israeli Soldiers Abduct 87 Palestinians, Shoot One, West Bank (IMEMC News)
■ Highlights from the daily update issued by the Government Media Office (Alray Media)
■ Israeli airstrikes have damaged 29,000 buildings in Gaza Strip since Oct. 7: Gov’t (aNews)
■ Israel's History in Quotes (AWIP-10/10/10)

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/585819-maine-shooting-spree-details/

At least 22 people are reported dead, the US Army-trained suspect remains at large | Authorities have identified a “person of interest” in a mass casualty shooting that took place across several locations in Lewiston, Maine, as a military-trained firearms instructor with reported mental health troubles.

Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20231025/too-wrong-to-ignore-cia-outsourcing-assassinations-to-kiev-ruffled-us-journos-feathers-1114481636.html

The CIA uses other nations’ intelligence agencies to handle its dirty work, which is often useful in the short term, but just as often has significant blowback, experts told Sputnik. In Ukraine, it’s resulted in an agency that assassinates its own people and maintains a “kill list” targeting those who dare to criticize the regime in Kiev. | A recent report in The Washington Post revealed how Ukrainian intelligence officers were carrying out espionage activities, including targeted assassinations, inside Russia, with the training and support of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The article in particular noted how Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency was responsible for the assassination of Russian journalist Daria Dugina with a car bomb in Moscow on August 20, 2022.

Link: https://consentfactory.org/2023/10/22/the-war-on-horror-or-whatever/

CJ Hopkins | Welcome back to the War on Terror. I hope you had a nice 7-year break. | Yes, that’s right, once again, Democracy is under attack by the Axis of Pure Unadulterated Evil! It’s time to switch off your critical faculties, wrap yourself in the American flag, or the Israeli flag, or the Ukrainian flag, or, better yet, all three flags, and stand with the Forces of Freedom and Goodness as they exercise their God-given right to defend the world from the Children of Darkness, and the Putin-Nazis, and Hate, and Rape, and Baby Murderers, and Baby Rapers, and Baby-Raper sympathizers!

Link: https://www.anews.com.tr/middle-east/2023/10/23/israeli-tiktoker-mocks-gazan-mothers-who-have-lost-their-children

Following previous examples of mockery targeting besieged Palestinians for their lack of access to basic necessities like food, clean water, and electricity, there are now reports of some Israelis making derogatory comments about Palestinian mothers who have lost their children during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. | An Israeli SFX makeup artist, Eve Cohen, created a TikTok video that has gained significant attention on social media. In the video, she attempts to suggest that Palestinian mothers aren't genuinely losing their children due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. ● In this video, Cohen, dressed as a Palestinian mother, uses ketchup and baby powder for inexpensive SFX makeup to simulate fake blood and debris, which she applies to her face. In one scene, she feigns being a Palestinian martyr by smearing ketchup on her forehead. ● In another, she portrays an injured Palestinian mother holding a make-believe baby with a fruit for a head. Throughout the video, Cohen adds a director's command, shouting "Cut!" in the background, and the clip concludes with the sound of applause as she discards the fruit and smiles.

Link: https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/24/white-house-says-israel-will-continue-to-kill-innocent-civilians-in-gaza/

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says civilian casualties are inevitable | White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday that Israel will continue to hurt “innocent civilians” in its onslaught on Gaza.

“This is war. It is combat. It is bloody, ugly and it’s going to be messy and innocent civilians are going to be hurt going forward,” Kirby said when asked if the US thought Israel’s bombardment was a disproportionate response to the Hamas attack on southern Israel. “I wish I could tell you something different and wish that there wasn’t going to happen, but it is going to happen. And that doesn’t make it right, doesn’t make it dismissible,” Kirby added.

He also reiterated the US’s opposition to a ceasefire in Gaza, claiming it would only benefit Hamas. Both Kirby and Secretary of State Antony Blinken said they were open to the idea of a “humanitarian pause” to allow more aid to enter Gaza. ● He also reiterated the US’s opposition to a ceasefire in Gaza, claiming it would only benefit Hamas. Both Kirby and Secretary of State Antony Blinken said they were open to the idea of a “humanitarian pause” to allow more aid to enter Gaza.

■ The Mask Comes off: Israeli Officials Show True Nature of Conflict (Hal Turner)