Hamas Threatens 'Regional, Religious' War If Al-Aqsa Is 'Violated' Again

Hamas’s Sinwar threatens a ‘regional, religious war’ if Al-Aqsa is again ‘violated’

AARON BOXERMAN

In a speech Saturday night filled with murderous threats and denunciations of Israel, Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar said the terror group “will not hesitate to take any steps” if Israel “violates” the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

“Our people must prepare for a great battle if the occupation does not cease its aggression against the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Sinwar said.

“Violating Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem means a regional, religious war,” he said.Gesturing at a photo behind him of Israeli police inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sinwar threatened violence against synagogues around the world if the action were repeated.

“Whoever makes the decision to allow this photo to be repeated, the violation of Al-Aqsa — he has decided to allow the violation of thousands of synagogues all across the world,” Sinwar said.

In the over hour-long address, Sinwar praised the recent terror wave against Israelis that has left 15 dead; encouraged Palestinians in the West Bank and Arab Israelis to commit more attacks; hailed a “global shift” in favor of the Palestinian cause; and urged the Islamist Ra’am party to withdraw from Israel’s governing coalition.

But Sinwar, who directs Hamas’ Gaza bureau and serves as the enclave’s de facto governor, devoted most of his speech to threatening Israel over any actions at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount holy site, which houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Ever since the May war, which Hamas dubbed “The Sword of Jerusalem,” the Gaza-based terror group has threatened to fire rockets at Israel if it violated the organization’s “red lines” in Jerusalem.

“We drew and raised that sword so that the enemy would know that Al-Aqsa did not stand alone, and that our nation would stand if Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem were violated,” said Sinwar.

Palestinians clashed repeatedly with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa Mosque over the past month, leading to fears that the violence could again spark a broader escalation. Palestinian rioters hurled stones at police, who responded with rubber bullets, sound grenades, and tear gas, injuring hundreds.

Sinwar further accused Israel of seeking to partition the Temple Mount as a “first step” to “destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build a temple” in its place. He cited as proof the uptick in Jewish visitors to the holy site over the past few years

“Al-Aqsa is indeed in danger,” Sinwar said.

Sinwar hailed what he deemed the changing winds of global opinion against the Jewish state. He praised Palestinians in the diaspora, who he said had brought about the shift in public opinion.

“If the conflict breaks out again — the shape of the Middle East will change. We have proven that there are those who defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Sinwar boasted at the time.

Amir Tsarfati: Mideast Review:

MIDEAST REVIEW w/ Amir Tsarfati: At The Top Of The World’s Agenda

Amir Tsarfati

The Palestinians have escalated their violence on the Temple Mount, and the Israeli “government of change” continues their capitulation.

As of Saturday, Passover was over. From now on through the end of Ramadan, Jews will be forbidden to participate in their previously allowed visits onto the holy site. So, rather than shutting down the perpetrators, the government is punishing the victims. Brilliant!

This is all part of a well-coordinated plan. The Palestinian issue has dropped off the world’s radar, particularly with the onset of the Abraham Accords. The misplaced sympathy that used to rest with them is now gone. So, they are seeking to put themselves back at the top of the world’s agenda. One way they are doing it is by trying to turn their grievances from a political issue to a religious one. For more about this situation and other stories, check out my special Breaking News from Monday.

Someone else who is seeking to use the Temple Mount conflict to his advantage is Jordan’s King Abdullah II. He is demanding that the Muslim waqf guard be increased upon the mount, and his country, along with some other Arab allies, is insisting that the Temple Mount become a place where only Muslim worship is allowed. By making this demand, he is currying favor with the Palestinians who make up 70% of his population and seeking to demonstrate his strong commitment to Islam. 

Jordan, which has oversight of the Temple Mount, will soon meet with Israel to discuss how they can keep tensions from flaring up even more. Interestingly, Jordan is finding opposition from a most unusual source. Sheikh Muhammad bin Zayed, crown prince of Abu Dhabi and de facto leader of the UAE, demands that the Temple Mount remain open to worship by all religions as stipulated in the normalization agreement between the UAE and Israel. The Abraham Accords have certainly complicated the Middle East in a very intriguing way.

Early yesterday morning, Israel launched surface-to-surface missiles from the north of the country into Syria. The attack was aimed at a shipment of weapons that was going to Hezbollah. The missiles destroyed two warehouses near the airport in Damascus and another facility that was used by Iranian forces. Four Syrian soldiers were killed in the strike, and three others were wounded.

On Sunday night, two Russian-made BM-21 “Grad” rockets were fired by Palestinian operatives into Israel from southern Lebanon near Tyre. The Russian name “Grad” means “hail”, and these rockets are designed pour down on an area like a fiery, explosive hailstorm. Sadly for the Palestinians, it was more of a light shower as the rockets fell into an open field and caused no damage. One concerning element to this story is that there was no alert of their approach. Israel is trying to determine why these rockets were able to get through with no detection or countermeasures. The IDF retaliated by firing artillery shells into southern Lebanon, destroying an unspecified infrastructure target.

According to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Iran is only weeks away from a nuclear weapon. Unsurprisingly, she blamed the previous administration’s pullout from the Iran nuclear deal for the acceleration. However, that is like saying that we would be in a better position if only we had believed Iran’s lies instead of not believing them.

U.S. military helicopters stopped a convoy of cars in northern Iraq’s Diyala province on Tuesday. Lo and behold, amongst the passengers they found two Iranian military advisers and a high-ranking commander of the terrorist militia Kata’ib Hezbollah. After some Iraqi pressure, the Iranians were released. However, the militia commander, Yassir Muhsin, remains detained.

Russia continues its quest for its three primary goals: 1) Secure Crimea for themselves once and for all, 2) Keep Ukraine from becoming part of NATO, and 3) Establish an independent Donbas which will serve as a buffer between the Kremlin and the West. The first two goals appear to be well in hand. They are now focused on the third. 

Moldova is quickly trying to tighten its connection to the EU as Russia eyes the breakaway state of Transnistria. Many in this mostly unrecognized state are of Russian heritage, which gives the Kremlin an excuse to come in and fight for their “independence”. The bigger picture is that to get to Transnistria, Russia must pass through Odessa, a major Ukrainian port city. Not only would the capture of Odessa aid Russia, which is woefully lacking in warm water seaports. But it brings Putin that much closer to cutting off Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea, essentially making the country landlocked.

Russia has suspended its gas flow into Poland and Bulgaria after the countries refused a demand to be paid in rubles. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen condemned the action as “yet another attempt by Russia to use gas as an instrument of blackmail.”

The geopolitical temperature continues to be unseasonably warm in the Straits of Taiwan. Tuesday saw the USS Sampson, a guided-missile-destroyer, pass through the waterway between China and Taiwan. The Chinese government quickly condemned the move as provocative

Governments Worldwide Work To Bring About Digital I.D. And Social Credit System

Governments worldwide are working in Lockstep to bring in Digital I.D. & Social Credit System as EU agrees to expand online censorship with ‘Digital Services Act’

THE EXPOSÉ 

....the European Union is working to expand online censorship to an extreme Orwellian level, as well as strictly regulate speech during what authorities deem to be times of crisis (we always seem to be in the middle of a “crisis”), and remove online anonymity by forcing the public to have a digital identity. 

But these plans aren’t unique to the EU. They are also currently being rolled out in the UK and Africa, proving Governments worldwide are working in lockstep to bring in a digital identity and social credit system right under your nose.

From France 24, “EU agrees on new legislation to tame internet ‘Wild West’ “:

The Digital Services Act (DSA) — the second part of a massive project to regulate tech companies — aims to ensure tougher consequences for platforms and websites that host a long list of banned content ranging from hate speech to disinformation and child sexual abuse images.

[…] Tech giants have been repeatedly called out for failing to police their platforms — a New Zealand terrorist attack that was live-streamed on Facebook in 2019 caused global outrage, and the chaotic insurrection in the US last year was promoted online.

The dark side of the internet also includes e-commerce platforms filled with counterfeit or defective products.

[…] The regulation will require platforms to swiftly remove illegal content as soon as they are aware of its existence. Social networks would have to suspend users who frequently breach the law.

The DSA will force e-commerce sites to verify the identity of suppliers before proposing their products.

[…] The European Commission will oversee yearly audits [of Big Tech firms] and be able to impose fines of up to six percent of their annual sales for repeated infringements.

The UK government is also pushing ahead with its nationwide digital ID plans, despite half of the responses to its public consultation on digital identity opposing the idea.

On April 6, 2022, new digital identity document verification technology (IDVT) that enables data sharing between public bodies and businesses for the purpose of identity verification was introduced. It has been made available to UK employers, landlords, and letting agents who can use it to digitally carry out pre-employment criminal record checks, right to work checks, and right to rent checks.

The introduction of this digital IDVT is part of the government’s far-reaching digital ID plans which were announced in March. The government has framed these digital ID plans as a way for UK citizens to “easily and quickly prove their identity using digital methods instead of having to rely on traditional physical documents.”

Before announcing these digital ID plans, the government sought views and feedback on its proposed approach to digital identity via a public consultation.

50% of the responses to this consultation were “against digital identity in principle” but the government didn’t include these responses in its statistical analysis of responses to the consultation because they “did not engage with the questions.” However, the government insisted that “outside the context of producing the statistical analysis, we have taken these responses into account as part of this consultation exercise.”

The government’s digital ID plans were announced in the same month that the UK government’s Online Safety Bill began its legislative journey. This bill mandates the implementation of identity and age verification technology on many large online platforms.

The UK Government and Bank of England have also been working on a new digital currency in the background to replace cash.

Under the plan pushed by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak, cash in people’s pockets would be superseded by a new ‘Britcoin’ digital currency. It is being framed as “giving the economy a boost in times of financial crisis”. We hope you’re not that naïve.

But the Bank of England and the Government are also questioning how to impose limits on spending digital currency. This could include “restrictions on types of users able to transact in new forms of digital money”.

The UK Government has been working in tandem with other world leaders and the EU to introduce a social credit system and digital identity right under your nose.

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Vienna Becoming A Testing Ground For Chinese-Style Social Credit System

Vienna Is Also Becoming a Testing Ground for A Chinese-Style Social Credit System

RHODA WILSON 

The Chinafication of Europe is spreading like a virus as European cities, one after the other, seem to be pushing the Chinese social credit system idea forward.  It’s not only in Bologna, Italy, that a digitally monitored social credit system is in the pipeline.  Similar projects are planned in Bavaria, Germany, and Belgium but they have not progressed as far as in Bologna. And now, the so-called “Vienna Token” will be tested in Austria’s federal capital, Vienna, in the autumn.

Every citizen of Vienna will be offered an app that will reward their behaviour with “Vienna Tokens”. Those who save CO2, get points. The pilot project should have started in 2020, but will now start in autumn 2022.

It’s not the first, but it’s certainly the biggest intervention to date by the globalists in citizens’ way of life, Wochenblick wrote, “good behaviour” will be rewarded but how long will it be before “dissenters” are punished?

As in Bavaria, the environmental footprint will be the cover for the environmentally conscious capitalists. TKP blog reported that the City of Vienna is planning a “digital bonus system which rewards environmentally conscious behaviour with free access to cultural events using an app.”

The app recognises when you travel on foot, by bike or by public transport. The CO2 savings compared to the car journey are then converted into tokens, which can be exchanged for a QR code that grants cheap admission to public events.

During the pilot phase, the tokens will be called “Culture Tokens.”   After the app has been tested and is made “available online” to the entire Viennese population it will be known as “Vienna Tokens.”

According to TKP, the University of Vienna is conducting research on the social credit system in China.  The project, ominously titled ‘Engineering a trustworthy society’, is being funded by the European Research Council (“ERC”), over 5 years, with more than 1.8 million euros.

The head of the research project Heinz Christoph Steinhardt said that of course, it is a reward system, but “here you choose whether to participate, in China you cannot decide whether to participate.” That it is on a voluntary basis is a crucial difference between China and European initiatives.

The ERC is well embedded in the globalist agenda. ERC was a guest at the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) 2019 summit. And George Soros’ Central European University(“CEU”), which relocated to Vienna in 2018, boasts of its close cooperation with ERC.

Viennese officials want to benefit from the fact that the federal capital is one of the four UN headquarters. This makes it all the more committed to implementing the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”) of Agenda 2030.

Michael Ludwig, Mayor and Governor of Vienna, fully supports transforming Vienna into a completely networked “smart city.”  With this smart city model, radical activists hope consumer behaviour analyses can even replace democratic elections.

Roope Mokka, a Finnish futurist and urbanist with a focus on social transformations, gave a lecture which found its way into the 2017 Smart City Charter of the German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety.  The 2017 Smart City Charter is in German however, Wochenblink noted in a 2021 article that as per page 43 of the Charter:

According to Mokka, it is not only conceivable that decisions will be made by artificial intelligence in the future. He also believes that “private property could indeed be a luxury.” Data could “complement or replace money as currency.”

And he also believes in a “post-voting society”. His assessment: “Since we know exactly what people want to do, there is less need for elections, majority voting or voting. Behavioural data can replace democracy as the social feedback system.”

Transhumanism: The Force Behind The 'New World Order'

TRANSHUMANISM: THE EVIL FORCE BEHIND THE NEW WORLD ORDER

Jonathan Brentner

It really shouldn’t have surprised me, but I must confess that it did.

Wikipedia’s description of the New World Order (NWO), quoted below, amazed me when I read it the first time:

The New World Order (NWO) is a conspiracy theory which hypothesizes a secretly emerging totalitarian world government.

How stupid do they think we are!? The days are long past when the Luciferian globalists of our day remain silent about their plans to bring about this evil agenda. The world government proposed by the UN’s Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum (WEF) are open, public declarations of their united effort to usher in a NWO that is “totalitarian” and Marxist. In March of this year, President Biden talked about the need to commit America to the NWO. It’s not secret nor is it a “conspiracy theory!”

They are also no longer quiet about their transhumanism goals, which lie at the heart of their plans to bring in the NWO.

One might ask, “What does transhumanism have to do with their plans for a Communistic world government?” Everything, they cannot force allegiance to the Great Reset without it. The two go hand-in-hand.

KLAUS SCHWAB: THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE GREAT RESET

Transhumanism, along with the push for world governance, finds its most fervent support with Klaus Schwab, the founder and head of the WEF. His position of influence over the governments of the world is immense. Since 1992, he has run a school to indoctrinate future global leaders and the majority of all the presidents and leaders of nations today have gone through his training.

Here is quote from a blog post written by Leo Hohmann, investigative reporter and blogger, regarding this elite training given to up-and-coming leaders of the world:

“In 1992, Klaus Schwab and World Economic Forum launched a program initially called Global Leaders of Tomorrow. In 2004, this program was turned into the Forum for Young Global Leaders . . . –  a 5-year program of indoctrination into WEFs principles and goals. The aim was – and is – to find suitable future leaders for the emerging global society. The program has since its inception has included politicians, business leaders, royalty, journalists, performers and other cultural influencers who have excelled in their fields but have not yet turned 40 years of age (originally 43 in order to include Angela Merkel). It has since grown into an extensive global network of dedicated leaders with enormous resources and influence, all working to implement the technocratic plans of the World Economic Forum in their respective nations and fields.

“The network creates a force for worldwide influence through the combination of the individual skills and resources of its members.”[i]

The school enables Schwab to thoroughly instill in these leaders his vision for a one-world government, the Great Reset. Once thoroughly brainwashed in the agenda of the WEF and devoted to its ideals, they go out into the world as leaders of both governments and commerce.

Klaus Schwab is also a key motivating force behind the push for transhumanism, which he calls the “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” his term for transhumanism. Schwab talks often about the merging “the physical, digital and biological worlds,” the combining of people with machines.

This is not surprising as the most influential and cherished advisor to Klaus Schwab and is also the leading proponent of transhumanism in the world, Yuval Noah Harari.

YUVAL NOAH HARARI: THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Harari is an Israeli public intellectual, historian, best-selling author, and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main claim to fame is that he’s the key advisor to Klaus Schwab of the WEF. As his righthand man, Harari’s input to the ideals held by government and business leaders around the world is profound.

When one goes to Harari’s official website (https://www.ynharari.com), one immediately sees this quote on the home page, “History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods.”

Leo Hohmann also wrote the following quote concerning Harari from his interview with Patrick Wood, editor in chief at Technocracy News and Trends. Not only is Harari the key advisor to the head of the WEF, “he has millions of devoted followers.”

“He is your model transhumanist who thinks he can become god,” Wood told me. “He is the chief philosophical adviser to the World Economic Forum and one of the premiere authorities in WEF circles. They just hang on his every word.” (quote from Patrick Wood)

The level of evil we are dealing with here is so intense that most Christians and conservatives have no idea how deep it goes and will frankly have trouble believing it. No politician is going to be able to save us from this evil, only Jesus Christ.

Another thing worth noting is that Harari is not only tied in with Schwab. He has a large following among Western elites. One of Harari’s admirers is Barack Obama, the man who has the ear of Joe Biden. In fact, Obama has called Harari his favorite author.[ii]

Yuval Noah Harari is the man behind the curtain. He’s the driving force behind transhumanism, a key component of Schwab’s Great Reset.

TRANSHUMANISM RESTS ON ATHEISTIC EVOLUTION

The elite regard transhumanism as the next step in the human evolutionary process. While all the other development advancements happened to us, they say, now we get to have a say in the future enhancements of our race. The combining of humans with machines is but another step in the continuing evolutionary progression of mankind.

Transhumanists are avid atheists who see themselves as aiding the evolution of humanity.

Do not let the proponents of the NWO or the Great Reset deceive you; they all accept transhumanism is an essential step to convince people of the need for world governance. Some of these globalists may profess a belief in God or allegiance to a church, but they are lying. They are all staunch atheists who reject all that Scripture says about creation, especially Genesis 1:27, “God created man in his own image.”

TRANSHUMANISM DEVALUES HUMAN LIVE

If there is one verse to keep in mind when thinking about the transhumanists, it’s John 8:44. In this verse, Jesus is confronting the Jews who opposed Him:

“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

The proponents of the NWO are all Luciferian transhumanists that lack all respect for human life. They have already deceived a great many people with their lies.

Here are some quotes from Yuval Noah Harari that I took from interview clips Jan Markell’s bi-monthly Understanding the Times conference in Minneapolis on April 21, 2022. This event also featured Pastor Brandon Holthaus and Pastor Mark Henry. In these videos we watched Harari say the following:

Humans are now hackable animals that will be re-engineered.

Previously, government surveillance was above the skin, now it’s going under the skin.”

The free will to choose who we vote for or what we buy in the supermarket, human free will, That’s over! (my emphasis) 

Can you see the devaluation of human life bubbling to the top in these quotes? Previously, I have written at length about how we see this in abortion, infanticide, and the war in Ukraine. Now with Harari, we see the same murderous agenda and deception that Jesus talked about in John 8:44.

The transhumanists see us as “hackable animals” that they hope to enslave and totally control.

Harari also said this, which at first seems contradictory to his other declarations:Humans are acquiring divine powers . . . and the power to re-engineer life.

So yes, he says that “humans are acquiring divine powers,” but perhaps it’s only for those in power rather than those that the elite hope to control. Transhumanism is about the masses worshipping them as gods. Is this not preparing the world for the coming “man of lawlessness” that Paul wrote about in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4?

The spirit of the antichrist is alive and well in Harari. In one of the interviews that I referenced earlier, Harari referred to Jesus’ resurrection from the dead and His claim to be the Son of God as “fake news.”

Leo Hohmann is correct, we are dealing with a force that’s far more evil, and I might add deadlier, than anything we can imagine. Jesus is our only hope for the time in which we live.

The Luciferian globalists are far along in their plans to bring about the NWO. It does not matter what the majority of people want, they have the power necessary to assert their control over our will. This happened with 2020 Presidential Election in America. It happened in 2021 with vaccine mandates that resulted in the deaths of a great many people. The riots that took place all through Paris on April 24, 2022, were in response to the reelection of Emanuel Macron, who many Parisians did not believe really won the election.

Once the elite put digital currencies in place across the world, it will be game over. They will have the control they need to begin tightening their stranglehold on humanity, which will lead to the beast government of the Tribulation period. As Harari stated as the goal of transhumanism, the will of the people no longer matters, “that’s over!” 

Now for the good news, the future tense of the Gospel: Scripture assures us that Jesus is coming to take us home to heaven before God’s wrath falls on this evil Christ-rejecting world (2 Thessalonians 5:1-11). We will be out of here long before the antichrist exerts his control over the coming NWO.

In contrast to what the world tells us is “fake news,” we indeed serve a risen Savior whose words are true and certain. He is the true Son of God and He’s coming very soon to take us to the place He’s preparing for us (John 14:2-3). We can be absolutely certain of this.

The New 'Ministry Of Truth' Coming

New DHS “Disinformation” unit is designed to spread the government’s disinformation while criminalizing TRUTH

Lance D Johnson

Just weeks after the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” was unveiled to Congress and the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the formation of a “disinformation” unit inside the federal government. This “disinformation” unit will be used to create a “Ministry of Truth” on all things COVID-19, and anything related to Russia and Ukraine. This Ministry of Truth will also be used to cover up for the Biden family’s corruption in Ukraine and China – hiding a trail of evidence that goes back to a time when Joe Biden was vice president. With this move of censorship and thought control, the DHS will be turned into the Biden family’s personal mafia.

DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas has developed a “disinformation governance board” which will target and eliminate any incriminating information that the federal government doesn’t want the public to hear. This “disinformation board” will demand public obedience to oppressive Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) protocols and shut down any evidence of election fraud. The agency will take on “misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia.”

This “disinformation” unit is designed to cover up government crimes while targeting the truth-tellers who expose those crimes. The executive director of this new Orwellian venture is Nina Jankowicz. She is a former advisor to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and a former disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center. She oversaw issues related to the National Democratic Institute lobby group. Jankowicz is the perfect candidate to cover up the Biden regime’s war crimes in Ukraine. Jankowicz will be in charge of fine-tuning the administration’s official narratives and targeting any opposition to those narratives.

She previously labeled the Hunter Biden laptop story “disinformation” – even though the criminal evidence from the laptop is now public record. This is the same woman who “shudders” at the idea of free speech. She tried to cover for the Biden family by labeling the Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian influence op.” She also said the issue was a “Trump campaign product” that would lead Trump voters to show up at polls armed and ready to intimidate voters.

Nina Jankowicz is very concerned that the current regime and its network of propaganda pushers will lose much of their influence over social media platforms, namely Twitter. Elon Musk is in the process of acquiring Twitter and promised to restore lawful free speech across the platform. Jankowicz has previously labeled Musk an “online abuser” while calling for more censorship over people like him.

“I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities, which are already shouldering disproportionate amounts of this abuse,” said Jankowicz.

Engineered Collapse?

ENGINEERED COLLAPSE: U.S. Egg Factory Kills Over 5 Million Chickens And Fires Nearly Everyone

Proudamerican.site

I may be wrong, but there is just no way this is all a coincidence…

There is an engineered collapse of America, and it is manifesting in every single crisis we are seeing unfold in the country. Soaring inflation, international tensions, and the push for a 3rd world war are just some of the features of the collapse.

And now we have incoming food shortages. We have been bringing you reports of over 20 food distribution centers or processing plants which have been destroyed or seen significant damage in a very short amount of time.

The latest food plant experiencing these issues is Rembrandt Enterprises, owned by the tech billionaire Glen Taylor, the plant recently killed over 5 million chickens and fired most of the staff in response to an alleged avian flu outbreak.

Taylor also owns the Minnesota Timberwolves, and animal rights protestors recently staged acts of protest against him at a Timberwolves game several days ago.

The Guardian had more on the story:

Overnight, the factory had begun slaughtering more than 5 million chickens using a gruesome killing method after detecting a single case of avian influenza.

Even supervisors were assigned to the arduous task of dragging dead hens out of packed cages as Rembrandt Enterprises raced to contain the spread of the virus amid the largest bird flu outbreak in the US in seven years.

The culling has been repeated at chicken and turkey farms across Iowa and 28 other states from Maine to Utah.

More than 22 million birds have been killed in an attempt to contain the outbreak – the majority in Iowa, the US’s biggest producer of eggs. The slaughter of 5.3 million hens at Rembrandt is the largest culling at any factory farm in the country.

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Newspeak And The WEF:

How the World Economic Forum Uses Newspeak to Wage War

Tessa Lena

Story at-a-glance

• The use of “newspeak” is a military grade methodology of “hacking” our instincts and tricking us into acting against our best interests
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• In the natural world, the method of “disguising as a friend” exists strictly as a hunting technique — but today, it is applied by the power holders to the entire population
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• For centuries, invaders and reformers have been using upside-down language to confuse the enemy and recruit loyal supporters
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• Since 2020, we have seen many definitions changed, from medical terms to things like “compassion” and “freedom”
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• World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community is a recruitment effort designed to eventually misplace those who want to live in the “old normal”

This story is about a particular genre of lying, namely the genre of covertly changing definitions in order to convince us to accept horrible things and be “happy” about it. The creation of upside-down language, in military terms, is “hacking” of our instincts designed to trick us into acting against our best interests.

Straightforward lying: pointing at a brick and saying, “It’s a bird.” Or pointing at a defective brick and saying that it’s an excellent, high quality brick that surely works great in construction! (See traditional advertising.)

Upside-down language: secretly changing the definition of “bird” to include bricks, then announcing that there is a new revolutionary technology of building homes from birds — and when somebody says, “But those are clearly bricks,” raising one’s voice and saying, “No, those are BIRDS. Look it up.” The king is not naked, and newspeak is the oldspeak. Don’t you know?!

And something still doesn’t feel quite right — but you no longer remember what it is and why you feel this way! You forgot the original meaning because remembering it makes you feel like a loser. (For some reason, our evolving relationship with a certain medical product comes to mind).

This certainly is an outrageous and funny example but this is exactly how abusive relationships work. The victim’s mind has to constantly accept “updated” definitions of love, care, and truth in order to save one’s face. And this is how abusers can get away with a lot — up until the point in in time when the pain of the victim becomes so unbearable that forces change.

A few years ago, I wrote a story called “Nature, Flags, and Birch Trees: Political Power of Emotions,” in which I went into the subject of “newspeak flavors” in detail.

Sadly, history is full of newspeak! Upside-down language has been an important weaponry item for “disrupters” and robbers for thousands of years! But it feels to me as a Soviet expat that today’s version of upside-down language is really close to the one from my old homeland, and I don’t like it. It didn’t lead to anything good in my old homeland, and it is likely to be a disaster again if repeated.

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Empire Of Lies Continues To Push For War With Russia

Empire of Lies Eager to Receive Mr. Sarmat’s Business Card

Pepe Escobar

Especially since the onset of GWOT (Global War on Terror) at the start of the millennium, no one ever lost money betting against the toxic combo of hubris, arrogance and ignorance serially deployed by the Empire of Chaos and Lies.

So this is it: the Empire wants to annihilate Russia. Cue to War Inc.’s frenzy of limitless weapon cargos descending on Ukraine, the overwhelming majority on the road to be duly eviscerated by Russian precision strikes. The Americans are sharing intel 24/7 with Kiev not only on Donbass and Crimea but also Russian territory. Totalen Krieg proceeds in parallel to the engineered controlled demolition of the EU’s economy, with the European Commission merrily acting as a sort of P.R. arm of NATO.

Amidst the propaganda dementia cum acute cognitive dissonance overdrive across the whole NATOstan sphere, the only antidote is served by sparse voices of reason, which happen to be Russian, thus silenced and/or dismissed. The West ignores them at their own collective peril.

Putin demonstrated how a hardly new “geopolitical weapon” relying on “Russophobia and neo-Nazis”, coupled with efforts of “economic strangulation”, not only failed to smother Russia, but impregnated in the collective unconscious the feeling this an existential conflict: a “Second Great Patriotic War”

With off the charts hysteria across the spectrum, a message for an Empire that still refuses to listen, and doesn’t even understand the meaning of “indivisibility of security”, had to be inevitable:

“I would like to emphasize once again that if someone intends to interfere in the events taking place from the outside and creates threats of a strategic nature unacceptable to Russia, they should know that our retaliatory strikes will be lightning fast. We have all the tools for this. Such as no one can boast of now. And we won’t brag. We will use them if necessary. And I want everyone to know about it – we have made all the decisions on this matter.”

Translation: non-stop provocations may lead Mr. Kinzhal, Mr. Zircon and Mr. Sarmat to be forced to present their business cards in select Western latitudes, even without an official invitation.

The formula is crystal clear: “Russia cannot allow the creation of anti-Russian territories around the country.”

The pain dial is set to go substantially up – and with the total liberation of Mariupol and the resolution one way or another of the Donbass cauldron there is nothing the hysteria/propaganda/weaponizing combo deployed by the collective West can do to alter facts on the ground.

SVR found out that the Empire of Lies/War Inc. axis is pushing not only for a de facto Polish invasion to annex Western Ukraine, under the banner of “historical reunification”, but also for a joint Romanian/Ukrainian invasion of Moldova/Transnistria, with Romanian “peacekeepers” already piling up near the Moldova border.

Washington, as the SVR maintains, has been plotting the Polish gambit for over a month now. It would “lead from behind” (remember Libya?), “encouraging” a “group of countries” to occupy Western Ukraine. So partition is already on the cards. Were that ever to materialize, it will be fascinating to bet on which locations Mr. Sarmat would be inclined to distribute his business card.

Israel Put On Notice That Iran May 'Attack Directly'

Israel put on notice Iran may ‘attack directly’

RT

If Israel continues attacking the Iranian presence in Syria, Tehran may retaliate directly, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday. He also warned Tel Aviv that the Shia militia will be on high alert for the upcoming Israeli military exercises near Lebanon.

“In the event of the continuation of the Israeli aggression against the Iranian presence in the region,” Iran may “attack Israel directly,” Nasrallah said during a video address at an event in Beirut. This was a reference to the frequent Israeli missile strikes on what the government in Tel Aviv says are Iranian targets inside Syria – most recently on Wednesday.

By way of example, Nasrallah brought up the March missile strike against a facility in Erbil, a city in northern Iraq, which Tehran said was used by Israel to plan and execute attacks on Iran.

The cleric also warned Israel that “any mistake, stupidity or aggressive act”during the upcoming maneuvers on the border of Lebanon would receive a “quick and direct” response.

“When the Israeli maneuvers begin, whether before the elections in Lebanon or afterward, we will be at the highest levels of alertness and readiness," said Nasrallah. Parliamentary elections in Lebanon are scheduled for May 15. “Your major maneuvers do not frighten us and do not prevent us from establishing the deterrence equations that exist in Lebanon,” he added. 

Hezbollah has been quietly rehearsing for a number of scenarios over the past several weeks, as is prepared for any action by the “Israeli enemy,” according to Nasrallah.

As evidence that Israel is “fragile and weak,” Nasrallah brought up the series of recent attacks on civilians in Beersheba, Bnei Brak, Hadera and Tel Aviv, calling them “very specific and important” and "among the most dangerous things the enemy is facing.”

These operations show Israel’s inability to discover “lone wolf” Muslim attackers and “strongly shook the confidence of the Zionists in their safety and their security services," said Nasrallah.

The Shia movement’s leader spoke on the occasion of Quds Day, the Shia tradition initiated by Iran in 1979 to express opposition to Israel’s control of Jerusalem since 1968. It takes place on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.