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Israel ordered civilians to leave four towns in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, raising fears its war against Hamas could spread to areas it had told people were safe. | In the north of the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave, Israel said its forces were still present at Gaza's biggest hospital, Al Shifa, but gave no further details of their operations since the previous day when they entered the facility culminating a days-long siege.
■ Israel drops leaflets warning people to flee southern Gaza towns (The Guardian)
■ SERIOUS DEVELOPMENT: ISRAEL-GAZA (Hal Turner)(11/17/23)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visibly bothered by the president's diplomatic blunder | Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for talks in San Francisco. Beijing and Washington described the conversation between the leaders as “productive” and important. After the summit, Biden called his Chinese counterpart a “dictator.” ● During the summit between Biden and Xi, the leaders agreed to resume military-to-military communications once China appoints a new defense minister. The former Chinese defense minister had not spoken with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin because as he was under sanctions by Washington. The leaders also agreed to attempt to curb fentanyl trafficking.
■ And Then Biden Blew It ... Again (MoA)
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/587347-us-increase-supply-israel/
U.S. secretly boosting weapons supplies to Israel - report --Among the items being provided by Washington are missiles for Apache helicopters and 155mm artillery shells, Bloomberg claims | The US Department of Defense has allegedly ramped up weapons deliveries to Israel without making any public announcements of the move, Bloomberg has reported. The media outlet claimed that deliveries of artillery shells, which supposedly feature prominently on Israel's wish list, continue despite protests by dozens of relief organizations. The U.S. has for decades been Israel's closest ally and a major weapons supplier. Following Hamas's surprise attack on the country on October 7, Washington quickly came to Israel's rescue, providing it with Iron Dome air defense missiles and smart bombs.
■ Displacement and Killings Surge in West Bank, Amid Gaza War (antiwar.com)
A gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel in his New York civil fraud trial after he maligned a key staffer was paused Thursday by an appellate judge who raised concerns that it violated the former president’s free speech rights. | Judge David Friedman of the state’s intermediate appeals court issued what’s known a stay — suspending the gag order and allowing Trump to freely comment about court staff while a longer appeals process plays out. Fried-man’s ruling also applies to Trump’s lawyers and others involved in the case. The trial judge, Arthur Engoron, imposed the gag order on Trump after the former president made a disparaging social media post about Engoron’s court clerk on trial’s second day, Oct. 2.
■ In win for Trump, judge stays gag order in New York civil fraud case (JnN)
Link: https://slaynews.com/news/bidens-gaffe-suggests-democrats-plan-to-replace-him-with-gavin-newsom/
During a slurring address to world leaders, President Joe Biden’s latest gaffe may have revealed the Democrats’ plans for 2024 when he brought up California Governor Gavin Newsom. | Biden told a group of world leaders that Newsom “could have the job I’m looking for” if he wanted. While it could be passed off as a joke, the comment could be more of a Freudian slip. Rumors have been swirling for some time that the Democrats are planning to replace Biden with Newsom. Newsom himself has been accused of running a “shadow campaign” for 2024, even by members of his own party.
Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is facing fresh calls for his resignation after a damning ethics report on the congressman was released Thursday. | The House Ethics Committee published its report on Santos on Thursday. The report accuses Santos of having “used campaign funds for personal purposes” and “engaged in fraudulent conduct,” among other allegations. Santos released a lengthy statement defending himself amid the release. He is calling for a constitutional convention under Article V. However, the embattled Republican congressman is now facing calls to resign from both sides of the aisle.
Ukrainian government infighting has already escalated to assassinations of factional lieutenants. International affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda said CIA Director William Burns would either "tamp down" the civil war or tell President Zelensky to go quietly. | Washington's spymaster has flown to Ukraine in secret to stamp US authority on the power struggle within the Kiev regime, says a security expert. ● CIA Director William Burns reportedly flew to Kiev on Wednesday for "urgent and secret" meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Security analyst Mark Sleboda told Sputnik that Burns' visit "dovetails" with this week's visit to Washington by Andriy Yermak, "Zelensky's powerful, grey, cardinal, chief of staff" to meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken — who duly uttered pledges of continued military support for Kiev in the US proxy conflict with Russia.
A new preprint study up for peer review finds billions of residual DNA fragments in COVID-19 mRNA vaccine vials. | A new preprint study up for peer review finds billions of residual DNA fragments in COVID-19 mRNA vaccine vials. ● The lead author of the study, molecular virologist David Speicher, who has a doctorate in virology, told The Epoch Times that the study is "the largest study" on residual DNA in COVID-19 vaccines to date. 💬 "In our study, we measured DNA copies of spike, ori (origin of replication), and SV40 enhancer genes," he told The Epoch Times. "The loads of SV40 enhancer-promoter, ori, and virus spike in Pfizer are up to 186 billion copies per dose."
Link: https://newsaddicts.com/democrats-new-york-spy-state-launch-social-credit-war-trump-supporters/
Democrats openly weaponizing the government against political opposition as New York launches a new effort to stamp out supporters of President Donald Trump. | In response to escalating incidents of harassment, particularly against Jewish and Muslim communities, New York’s Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is intensifying the state’s counterterrorism measures and boosting the controversial practice of surveilling social media platforms, and therefore the speech of New Yorkers and other American citizens. Hochul has agreed to violate the U.S. Constitution and crack down on so-called “hate speech” that conflicts with the agenda of the globalist elite. According to Hochul, her administration has started running “surveillance efforts” to monitor the social media posts of New Yorkers to counter “hate speech.”
Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-11-14-canada-expands-assisted-suicide-killing-infants-profit.html
Canadian Dr. Louis Roy is leading the charge to allow toddlers and infants in Canada to be killed through euthanasia. | Boasting the world's laxest assisted suicide laws, Canada is now a safe haven for young children to be euthanized for profit under the expansive Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program. From now on, infants deemed too sickly to live can be signed up for assisted suicide in Canada, even though critics argue that a young child is not old enough to make this kind of decision without coaxing. Fulfilling what many worried would eventually become the case, MAiD appears to be a program for expanding infanticide rather than assisted suicide, also known as "death with dignity." By expanding the availability of euthanasia to babies, Canada is becoming a state-sanctioned baby-killing regime, all to exploit the valuable organs of healthy children for the organ harvesting trade.
■ Canada to Expand ‘Assisted Suicide’ Laws to Euthanize Infants for Profit (NewsAddicts)
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/587296-israel-gaza-hospital-raid/
US officials have backed the country’s allegations that militants are stationed within the complex | [...] On Tuesday, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said the Israeli Army considers Gaza hospitals to be legitimate military targets, and reiterated claims that Palestinian forces maintain a command center in underground tunnels below al-Shifa. ● Hamas later denounced the IDF raid, saying it would hold both Israel and the US “fully responsible for the repercussions of the occupation army’s storming of the Shifa Medical Complex.” The militants accused US officials of peddling a “false narrative” that would enable “more massacres against civilians,” after the White House backed Israeli claims that Hamas was using the hospital for military purposes.
[editor2: False narrative? Absolutely! The Zionists want to destroy the hospitals, thus slamming the door shut behind the Palestinians in Gaza. This presumably would make them migrate in the direction of Egypt. It will do no such thing. The death toll will move upwards. The genocide is already a fact; the only uncertainty being the final numbers.]
■ Siege and Power Outage in Gaza’s Hospitals Lead to Death of Children (Al Manar TV)
■ ‘Israel’ Raids Gaza’s Largest Hospital (Alahed News)
■ Israeli forces raid al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza (Al Mayadeen)
■ Palestinian Red Crescent evacuates patients, medical teams from Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza
■ At least 22 hospitals closed in Gaza Strip (TASS)
■ Day 37: Israeli Crimes against Gaza Hospitals Proceed as Resistance Stands Firm (VIDEOS)
■ 36 Days of Aggression: Hospitals Bombed and Displaced People Targeted in Gaza Genocide
■ Patients Losing Lives As ‘Israeli’ Forces Attack Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital (Alahed News)
■ Jordan airdrops humanitarian aid for Gaza field hospital (TASS)
■ UN says several Gaza hospitals ‘directly hit’ (Iran Front Page)
■ Hospitals in Gaza Become Targets, Lives Lost in Tragic Act of Aggression (Al Manar TV)
Link: https://wltreport.com/2023/11/14/perfectly-healthy-15-month-old-dies-two-days/
A 15-month-old girl from Greenwood Lake, New York, tragically passed away from cardiac arrest. Melody Rain Palombi-Malmgren passed away on Oct.19, only two days after receiving three vaccines. | The Children’s Health Defense shares more on the story: Melody Rain Palombi-Malmgren went into cardiac arrest and died on Oct. 19, after receiving three vaccines — for varicella, DTaP and Hib — at her 15-month wellness visit on Oct. 17 with the Herbert Kania Pediatric Group in Warwick, New York, according to News12 the Bronx. “She was a perfectly healthy child,” her mother, Katherine Palombi, told News12. “I’m in complete shock.”
Link: https://wltreport.com/2023/11/14/pentagon-ufo-chief-resigns-after-making-chilling-warning/
In a sudden announcement the Pentagon’s UFO chief has revealed he will step down next month after saying several sightings of unidentified flying objects are the work of foreign nations or aliens. | Before announcing his retirement Kirkpatrick stated there have been over 800 reports of UFO sightings in his brief time as the head of the AARO and warned “If we don’t prove it’s aliens, then what we’re finding is evidence of other people doing stuff in our backyard.” Kirkpatrick was one of the key figures who called for the Pentagon to release the UFO files to the public.
A Finnish court dismissed all charges against parliament member Päivi Räsänen after she was accused of hate speech for tweeting a Bible verse, according to a press release. | Räsänen was charged in 2021 with “agitation against a minority group,” which falls under the “war crimes and crimes against humanity” section in the Finnish criminal code. The Helsinki Court of Appeal found Räsänen not guilty Tuesday, affirming the ruling of a district court that acquitted her in March 2022, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). ● The charges against Räsänen stemmed from a 2019 tweet sharing a Bible verse and questioning her church’s sponsorship of a pride parade, along with statements sharing her beliefs on a 2019 radio show and a 2004 pamphlet she published, titled “Male & Female He Created Them.” The publisher of the pamphlet, Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola, was tried alongside Räsänen. “At the heart of the prosecutor’s examination of Räsänen was this: would she recant her beliefs?” Paul Coleman, Executive Director of ADF International and part of Räsänen’s legal team, said in a statement. “The answer was no – she would not deny the teachings of her faith. The cross-examination bore all the resemblance of a ‘heresy’ trial of the middle ages; it was implied that Räsänen had ‘blasphemed’ against the dominant orthodoxies of the day.”
Link: https://news.usni.org/2023/11/13/aircraft-carrier-uss-dwight-s-eisenhower-now-in-gulf-of-oman
Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) and its escorts are operating in the Gulf of Oman after leaving the Red Sea earlier this weekend, USNI News learned. | Ike and its escorts were operating off the coast of Oman as of Monday, according to the USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker, based on publicly available satellite imagery. The carrier passed through the Suez Canal on Nov. 4 and sailed through the Red Sea and past the Bab el Mandeb through the Gulf of Aden to its current location. The move is part of the overall U.S. naval buildup in Europe and the Middle East following the Hamas attacks outside of Gaza and the ongoing conflict in Southern Israel. While Ike is operating off the Arabian Peninsula, carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and its escorts remain on station in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea along with U.S. command ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20), the amphibious warship USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19), elements of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and French and U.K. warships.
The United States has stood firmly shoulder to shoulder with Israel since October 7, blocking efforts by Russia, Brazil, China, Iran, Turkiye, South Africa and other countries at the United Nations pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza, and insisting that Tel Aviv has the right to self-defense. | One hundred State Department and USAID employees have signed a memo accusing the Biden administration of “spreading misinformation” about the war in Gaza and charging Israel with carrying out “war crimes” by cutting off electricity to the enclave, limiting aid deliveries and mounting attacks which have displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians. ● The five-page memo, excerpts of which were obtained by US media, accuses the president of being “complicit in genocide,” attacks him for questioning the number of lives lost in Gaza amid Israel’s campaign, and demands that the US government “advocate for the release of hostages by both Hamas” and by Israel, including “thousands” of Palestinians it says are being held by the Israelis “without charge.”
[Illegal] US bases in Syria have repeatedly come under attack in recent weeks amid escalation in the Gaza Strip. | The base at the Koniko oil field in Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria has come under rocket fire, Al Mayadeen TV channel reported. Other media previously reported that Koniko site had been under attack before. According to the TV channel, 15 missiles were fired, causing heavy explosions at the US base. As the TV channel's sources note, the attack was a response to US strikes on two facilities in eastern Syria.
■ US strikes on pro-Iranian groups in eastern Syria result in deaths of 6 people
■ Bishop Strickland’s removal is ‘a blatant injustice’ says Bishop Schneider
■ Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio’s removal of Bishop Strickland is a cowardly form of authoritarianism (LifeSiteNews) | The removal of His Excellency Bishop Joseph Strickland, especially after the failure to ambush him with the Apostolic Visitation, appears as a cowardly form of authoritarianism, which in no way fits with Bergoglio’s rants about “welcoming” and “inclusiveness.”
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/587128-us-could-have-ruled-world/
Dmitry Trenin | For more than 30 years, Washington has failed to build a just order, which is why we are now experiencing unprecedented crises [...] Rather than reaching for a compromise settlement via the Minsk accords, the West and its Ukrainian protégés used diplomacy as a foil to win time to better arm and train Kiev’s army. Russia’s security demands were largely dismissed, and its humanitarian concerns were ridiculed. Moscow’s warning in the form of a display of military power along Ukraine’s border did not impress Washington either. Americans had probably calculated that by entering Ukraine in force Russia would walk into a trap, opening a chance for the coveted regime change in the Kremlin. [...] [I]nstead of bolstering the Palestinian Authority (PA) and helping it become a real government in the State of Palestine, the US, alongside with Israel, sought to benefit from a split among the Palestinians. To them, Hamas’ rule in Gaza in opposition to the PA in Ramallah, was a de facto guarantee that the two-state solution was dead. For some time, it looked as if this was working. Even in late September, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan pronounced the Middle East more quiet that it had been for two decades. Within about a week, however, Hamas delivered its mega-terrorist attack against Israel, prompting a massive and ruthless response. [...] Sadly, America’s political class chose instead to celebrate its victory in the Cold War, and then indulge itself in unipolarity, indispensability, and exclusivity. Our wars of today are the price people in various parts of the world have to pay for Washington’s dereliction of its duty as the architect of a world order. Never before in the history of the world has so much depended on a single power. But that power failed them all.
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, is taking an exceedingly cautious approach to launching formal impeachment proceedings against sitting President Joe Biden. | Johnson, who was formerly a member of the Judiciary Committee where a portion of the inquiry is being conducted, has taken a different stance than some Republicans who argue that Joe Biden should be impeached yesterday over a mountain of evidence showing that his family is guilty of influence-peddling in nations such as Ukraine and China. Vice President Biden not only certainly knew about such operations, but he actively aided and abetted them, according to numerous verifiable reports.