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Biden Policies Delivered $50-$60 Billion To Iran
By Adam Andrzejewski of Open the Books Substack
By making concessions to the Mullahs who operate the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, the Biden Administration has directly or indirectly pumped more than $50 billion into their coffers enabling untold violence and international destabilization, threatening our our allies and implicating our energy supply chain – just as the Administration also instituted unprecedented handcuffs on U.S. energy independence.
It allowed the sale of Iranian oil worth approximately $40 billion.
It allowed the sale of electricity to Iraq, bringing in an estimated $10 billion to the regime.
Most recently, it released another $6 billion to Iran in Iranian cash. Fortunately for all, the current custodian of that cash, Qatar, has agreed to hold onto those payouts for now.
Despite universal opprobrium and hard sanctions on Iran, Yale University and The Johns Hopkins University have partnered with Iranian entities for research in country since 2013 on the U.S. taxpayer’s dime. Both universities hold massive endowments and don’t need the taxpayer’s help. Furthermore, both were recently criticized for not rebuking the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.
KEY BACKGROUND
Iranian Oil: The Mullahs increased oil exports by about 1.5 million barrels a day during Biden’s presidency according to The Committee to Unleash Prosperity founded by the economists Stephen Moore, Lawrence Kudlow, Arthur Laffer, and Steve Forbes:
“This has put roughly $40 billion more into the coffers of the Iranian government,” according to the committee’s investigation.
Loosening Iranian oil sanctions accompanied decline in domestic U.S. oil production by some 700 million barrels a year, thanks to the administrations resolute anti-fossil fuel polices.
The Wall Street Journal wrote, “there’s no question the U.S. decision to ease enforcement of oil sanctions against Iran has aided Israel’s enemies.”
By not enforcing oil sanctions, cash flowed to Tehran, which then had billions more to fund Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, reports Iran’s oil production jumped more than ten-percent from 2.6 million barrels a day in April, to 3 million in August.
Richard Goldberg of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies points out that not enforcing Iranian oil sanctions also helps China: Iran’s oil increased production can’t be accomplished by sanction evasion alone.
“That number likely reflects a policy of non-enforcement of sanctions,” Goldberg said. “With the administration pursuing so-called ‘de-escalation’ policies with both Iran and China simultaneously, tacitly approving increased Iranian oil exports to China is one way the White House can offer concessions to both regimes.”
Reuters reported on the increased OPEC output: “Iran, which has been boosting supply despite U.S. sanctions, also pumped more, with output hitting the highest level since 2018.” That’s the year Washington re-imposed sanctions.
Iranian electricity: Earlier this year, Iraq made another $10 billion in frozen assets available to pay for natural gas that Iraq buys from Iran.
U.S. sanctions prevent Iraq from paying Iran directly for the gas, and Tehran had cut supplies, plunging already electricity-starved Iraq into blackouts. That lead to an Iraqi plan to barter with Iran, sending its oil as payment for Tehran’s natural gas.
$6 billion in unfrozen Iranian assets: The Wall Street Journal news side published an exclusive on October 8th, that since August, Iran helped plot the Hamas attack on Israel.
It’s impossible to miss that this took places as the Biden Administration unfroze $6 billion in disputed Iranian funds.
In the communique announcing the accord, the U.S. agreed to release five Iranians held in the U.S. and the $6 billion, in exchange for freeing five U.S. citizens illegally held in Tehran. For the Mullahcracy, crime pays — they got their guys and the money.
The funds at issue had been in South Korea. The money was transferred to Doha, Qatar, along with a fig leaf suggesting they will be expended only for “humanitarian” spending, such as food and medicine. Obviously, $6 billion for food and medicine frees up another $6 billion for terror and violence.
As The Hill said, “Iran has access to $6 billion that it did not have access to three months ago.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken insists the money wasn’t used to attack Israel.
“Not a single dollar from that account has actually been spent to date,” Blinken said. “It’s very carefully and closely regulated by the Treasury Department to make sure that it’s only used for food, for medicine, for medical equipment.”
Somehow, the Biden Administration, which is expert in spending other people’s money, simply cannot understand the $6 billion boost it gave to terrorists.
-Tyler Durden, Zerohedge
FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Today, President Biden is issuing a landmark Executive Order to ensure that America leads the way in seizing the promise and managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI). The Executive Order establishes new standards for AI safety and security, protects Americans’ privacy, advances equity and civil rights, stands up for consumers and workers, promotes innovation and competition, advances American leadership around the world, and more.
As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s comprehensive strategy for responsible innovation, the Executive Order builds on previous actions the President has taken, including work that led to voluntary commitments from 15 leading companies to drive safe, secure, and trustworthy development of AI.
The Executive Order directs the following actions:
New Standards for AI Safety and SecurityAs AI’s capabilities grow, so do its implications for Americans’ safety and security. With this Executive Order, the President directs the most sweeping actions ever taken to protect Americans from the potential risks of AI systems:
Require that developers of the most powerful AI systems share their safety test results and other critical information with the U.S. government. In accordance with the Defense Production Act, the Order will require that companies developing any foundation model that poses a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety must notify the federal government when training the model, and must share the results of all red-team safety tests. These measures will ensure AI systems are safe, secure, and trustworthy before companies make them public.
Develop standards, tools, and tests to help ensure that AI systems are safe, secure, and trustworthy. The National Institute of Standards and Technology will set the rigorous standards for extensive red-team testing to ensure safety before public release. The Department of Homeland Security will apply those standards to critical infrastructure sectors and establish the AI Safety and Security Board. The Departments of Energy and Homeland Security will also address AI systems’ threats to critical infrastructure, as well as chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks. Together, these are the most significant actions ever taken by any government to advance the field of AI safety.
Protect against the risks of using AI to engineer dangerous biological materials by developing strong new standards for biological synthesis screening. Agencies that fund life-science projects will establish these standards as a condition of federal funding, creating powerful incentives to ensure appropriate screening and manage risks potentially made worse by AI.
Protect Americans from AI-enabled fraud and deception by establishing standards and best practices for detecting AI-generated content and authenticating official content. The Department of Commerce will develop guidance for content authentication and watermarking to clearly label AI-generated content. Federal agencies will use these tools to make it easy for Americans to know that the communications they receive from their government are authentic—and set an example for the private sector and governments around the world.
Establish an advanced cybersecurity program to develop AI tools to find and fix vulnerabilities in critical software, building on the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing AI Cyber Challenge. Together, these efforts will harness AI’s potentially game-changing cyber capabilities to make software and networks more secure.
Order the development of a National Security Memorandum that directs further actions on AI and security, to be developed by the National Security Council and White House Chief of Staff. This document will ensure that the United States military and intelligence community use AI safely, ethically, and effectively in their missions, and will direct actions to counter adversaries’ military use of AI.
-The White House
Archives locates 82,000 pages of Joe Biden pseudonym emails, possibly dwarfing Clinton scandal
Under legal pressure, the National Archives has located 82,000 pages of emails that President Joe Biden sent or received during his vice presidential tenure on three private pseudonym accounts, a total that potentially dwarfs the amount that landed Hillary Clinton in hot water a decade ago, according to a federal court filing released Monday.
The total of Biden private email exchanges was disclosed Monday in a little-noticed status report filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought against the National Archives and Records Administration by the nonprofit public interest law firm the Southeastern Legal Foundation.
The foundation brought the lawsuit seeking access to the emails after Just the News revealed a year ago that Joe Biden had used three pseudonym email accounts -- robinware456@gmail.com, JRBWare@gmail.com, and Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov – during the time he served as President Barack Obama’s vice president.
The status report filed Monday in a federal court in Atlanta was the first to provide an estimate of the size and scope of possible government business conducted through Joe Biden’s private email accounts.
“NARA has completed a search for potentially responsive documents and is currently processing those documents for the purpose of producing non-exempt portions of any responsive records on a monthly rolling basis,” the status report stated. “Given the scope of Plaintiff’s FOIA request, which seeks copies of all emails in three separate accounts over an eight-year period, the volume of potentially responsive records is necessarily large.
“NARA has identified approximately 82,000 pages of potentially responsive documents, and it is currently processing those documents and preparing any non-exempt responsive documents for production on a rolling basis,” the filing added.
You can read the full court filing here.
The court filing added that the foundation and NARA are discussing ways to narrow the request for records to get copies of the emails out in a more expeditious manner.
-John Solomon, Just the News
BREAKING: New Documents Confirm DOJ Officials Spied on GOP Congressional Lawyers Who Were Overseeing Crossfire Hurricane Investigation Into Trump-Russia Collusion
The US Department of Justice unlawfully monitored Kash Patel and Jason Foster while the top Republican congressional attorneys probed ‘Crossfire Hurricane,’ which was the department’s classified name for the investigation into Russian collusion.
Freshly released documents confirm that the DoJ spied on Foster and Patel’s phone conversations and emails in 2017 during an alleged illegal ‘fishing expedition.’
Tejpal Chawla, a federal prosecutor and donor to Democratic campaigns, played a significant role in the surveillance of the Republican attorneys.
In 2017, staff members from Congress initiated an investigation into the US Attorney’s office regarding the ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ probe, which claimed that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election.
Chawla, an Assistant US Attorney at the Washington DC US Attorney’s office, then issued subpoenas for the phone records of the lawyers employed by the Senate and House.
The court seal hiding the seven-year-old subpoenas of the congressional lawyers recently expired, and the individuals targeted in the Justice Department’s illegal surveillance scandal were informed by big tech companies that they had been under surveillance.
Recently, Foster, the former chief investigative counsel for then-Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Grassley, got an email from Google disclosing that his phone calls had been monitored while he was working as a congressional watchdog.
The DOJ acquired records for his Google Voice phone number from December 1, 2016, to May 1, 2017, as indicated in the subpoena Foster received from Google in 2017.
The department also monitored the phone records of Foster’s wife and possibly conducted surveillance on the phone he utilized for Senate-related matters.
Foster, who currently heads the whistleblower organization Empower Oversight, submitted a Freedom of Information request asking the US Attorney’s Office to provide records related to its monitoring of congressional staff.
“This was just a fishing expedition to gather intel on their overseers in Congress,” Foster said. “We were their primary oversight committee And we were asking the very pointed and difficult questions that they didn’t want to answer.”
According to Foster, the DoJ surveilled several other congressional staffers and attorneys during their investigation of the Crossfire Hurricane.
“You have to ask, how far does this go?” he continued. “We’re only just finding out about the Senate. We knew earlier about House Intel. Who else have they been monitoring? And for how long?”
A copy of the surveillance subpoena was obtained, revealing Chawla’s signature on the largely redacted document.
-Conservative Roof
JUST IN: Illinois Supreme Court Upholds State’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban
On Friday, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines.
Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) signed the ban into law on January 10th, and lawsuits were promptly initiated against it.
U.S. District Stephen P. McGlynn issued a preliminary injunction against the ban on April 28, noting in his opinion that there are already plenty of gun laws on the books and those laws need to be enforced.
On May 4th, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit halted McGlynn’s preliminary injunction and is currently reviewing the case that was presented before the lower court.
However, Illinois state Rep. Dan Caulkins (R) brought his own case — Caulkins v. Pritzker — arguing that the “assault weapons” ban was unconstitutional, and it was in his case that the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in favor of the ban.
Caulkins’ case made it to the Illinois Supreme Court after a court in Macon County heard it and decided against the “assault weapons” ban.
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed the Macon County decision.
Judge Elizabeth Rochford wrote the majority opinion for the Illinois Supreme Court, and the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Rochford was one of two candidates Pritzker supported for court in order to “preserve a 5-2 Democrat majority.”
In the majority opinion, Rochford focused on trained professionals and opined that average Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card holders are not trained professionals, and therefore not prepared to use guns categorized as “assault weapons.”
When plaintiffs described themselves as both FOID card holders and “law-abiding gun owners,” Rochford responded:
“A FOID card holder does not have a duty to maintain public order; to make arrests for offenses; or to prevent, detect, investigate, prosecute, or incarcerate a person for a violation of law. By contrast, each of the seven categories of trained professionals must undergo specialized firearms training pertaining to their employment to maintain their exempt status under the Act.”
-Conservative Roof
Netanyahu rules out Gaza ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu categorically rejected the idea of a ceasefire in Gaza, equating any pause in hostilities to a victory by Hamas during a press conference on Monday.
“Calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism,” Netanyahu told reporters, vowing, “That will not happen.”
“Just as the United States would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of Pearl Harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11, Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas after the horrific attacks of October 7,” he continued.
“Today, we draw a line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism,” Netanyahu declared, arguing that countries that failed to align themselves with Israel in “a war for our common future” were placing themselves in harm’s way.
“If Hamas and Iran’s axis of evil wins, you will be their next target,” he warned, vowing to fight until the Palestinian militant group was wiped out.
Unlike Hamas, which he claimed was deliberately targeting civilians with beheadings, rapes, and other atrocities, the PM insisted the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were going out of their way to avoid killing Palestinian civilians. “Even the most just wars have unintended civilian casualties,” he said.
International human rights observers have repeatedly condemned Israel for its collective punishment of Gaza’s civilian population, citing the deliberate targeting of hospitals, schools, and other civilian infrastructure and the withholding of food, water, medicine, and electricity as violations of international humanitarian law. Israel has argued Hamas uses civilian facilities as human shields and commandeers humanitarian aid deliveries.
On Saturday, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Just 14 member states – including Israel and the US – opposed the measure, while 45 abstained. Israel has since deployed tanks to Gaza as part of a planned ground invasion.
Since declaring war on Hamas following the militant group’s surprise attack on October 7, Israel has reportedly killed over 8,300 Palestinians. The UN’s human rights body has accused West Jerusalem of war crimes, including genocide, describing an evacuation order issued to over 1 million inhabitants of northern Gaza as a thinly-veiled attempt at ethnic cleansing under the fog of war.
Last week, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres observed in a speech to the Security Council that Hamas’ attack had not occurred “in a vacuum” and condemned Israel for the “56 years of suffocating occupation” it had inflicted on the Palestinian people. Israel subsequently vowed to reject visa applications by UN officials, accusing Guterres of attempting to justify Hamas’ attack.
-RT News
Biden Sends War Powers Notification to Congress - Are We Headed Into Something Big?
Sometimes reality bites so hard that not even Democrats can ignore it.
President Joe Biden — a man who’s prostituted his presidency to revive a disastrous nuclear deal with the Islamic Republican of Iran — has formally notified Congress that he has committed American military force against terror groups funded and trained by that same republic.
And now Americans are expected to trust that he knows what he’s doing?
On Friday, as The Washington Times reported, Biden wrote to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray to fulfill the requirements of the War Powers Act that mandates presidents consult congressional leaders on military action.
In the letter, Biden explicitly named Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as being the mastermind behind attacks against U.S. military forces in Iraq and Syria.
He then cited strikes the U.S. conducted against facilities used by the IRGC and IRGC-affiliated groups for command and control, munitions storage and other purposes. The strikes were intended to establish deterrence and were conducted in a manner to limit the risk of escalation and avoid civilian casualties.
“I directed the strikes in order to protect and defend our personnel, to degrade and disrupt the ongoing series of attacks against the United States and our partners, and to deter Iran and Iran-backed militia groups from conducting or supporting further attacks on United States personnel and facilities,” the president wrote.
It’s a good chance the mullahs in Tehran weren’t terribly impressed.
-Joe Saunders, The Western Journal
Spanish Official Warns That The EU May Become Complicit In GENOCIDE
Spanish Social Rights Minister Ione Belarra has suggested that the European Union could very well become complicit in genocide. Belarra has also urged European leaders to take immediate action against Israel, including severing diplomatic ties and imposing economic sanctions.
The Israeli Defense Forces escalated air and ground attacks on Gaza on Friday, causing a near-total communication blackout. Connectivity was partially restored over the weekend, but the Israeli blockade of Gaza continues; Netanyahu announced the “second stage” of the war against Hamas on Saturday.
Israel is “Expanding” Its Ground Invasion of Gaza
Belarra suggested cutting Israel off amid the intensified bombing and expanded ground operations against Hamas militants in the besieged Palestinian enclave. She has also called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be prosecuted for the alleged war crimes committed against civilians in Gaza, according to a report by RT.
“After this hellish night in Gaza, I have a very simple but very important message for European leaders. Do not make us complicit in genocide. Act. Not in our name,” Belarra said in a passionate video message on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday.
Balera claims that Israel has been conducting a disproportionate retaliation to the terrorist attack on October 7th. The minister highlighted the termination of internet and telephone services in the strip, claiming that the move “has a very clear objective” of guaranteeing that “Israel commits crimes against humanity without consequences.”
“Our inaction is turning us into accomplices,” the minister stressed, arguing that “Israel believes that its international alliances guarantee its impunity.”
“We have to act now, tomorrow will be too late,” she continued, voicing her message to the EU leaders: “Cut diplomatic relations with the State of Israel. Carry out exemplary economic sanctions against those responsible for this genocide. And without a doubt, let’s take Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court so that he can be tried for what he is, a war criminal.”
The death toll because of this war is beginning to be noteworthy. More than 8,000 Palestinians, including 3,342 children, have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s air campaign began, according to the latest figures from the Gaza Health Ministry. The unprecedented Hamas raid into Israel, as well as hundreds of rocket strikes on Israeli territory earlier this month, left around 1,400 people dead, while 230 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
-Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan
Israel Expands Ground Assault into Gaza as Fears Rise over Airstrikes near Crowded Hospitals
Image Credit: Palestinians sit on the rubble of a house after it was struck by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israeli troops and armor pushed deeper into northern and central Gaza on Monday, as the U.N. and medical staff warned that airstrikes are hitting closer to hospitals where tens of thousands of Palestinians have sought shelter alongside thousands of wounded.
Video obtained by the Associated Press showed an Israeli tank and bulldozer in central Gaza blocking the territory's main north-south highway, which the Israeli military earlier told Palestinians to use to escape the expanding ground offensive.
When asked whether forces had positioned on the road, Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said “we expanded our operations" but would not comment on specific deployments.
The video shows a car approaching an earth barrier across the road. The car stops and turns around. As it heads away, the tank appears to open fire, and an explosion engulfs the car. The Gaza Health Ministry later said three people were killed.
The Israeli advances put their forces on both sides of Gaza City and the surrounding areas of northern Gaza, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “second stage” in the war ignited by Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 incursion. Casualties on both sides are expected to rise sharply as Israeli forces and Palestinian militants battle in dense residential areas.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain in the north and would no longer be able to escape if the north-south highway is blocked. Around 117,000 displaced people are staying in hospitals in northern Gaza, alongside thousands of patients and staff, hoping they will be safe from strikes, according to U.N. figures.
Most residents heeded Israel's orders to flee to the southern part of the besieged territory, but many stayed in part because Israel has also bombarded targets in so-called safe zones.
The death toll among Palestinians passed 8,000, mostly women and minors, the Gaza Health Ministry said. The toll is without precedent in decades of Israeli-Palestinian violence. More than 1.4 million people in Gaza have fled their homes.
Over 1,400 people have died on the Israeli side, mainly civilians killed during Hamas' initial attack, also an unprecedented figure.
Israeli forces appeared to be driving deeper into Gaza from the north. Video released Monday by the military showed armored vehicles moving among buildings and soldiers taking positions inside a house.
The military said Monday that overnight its troops had killed dozens of militants who attacked from inside buildings and tunnels, and that strikes had destroyed a building Hamas was using as a staging post. It said that in the last few days, it had struck more than 600 militant targets, including weapons depots and anti-tank missile launching positions. The reports of targeting could not be independently confirmed.
Hamas’ military wing said its militants clashed with Israeli troops who entered the northwest Gaza Strip with small arms and anti-tank missiles. Palestinian militants have continued firing rockets into Israel, including toward its commercial hub, Tel Aviv.
-By Najib Jobain , Samy Magdy and Lee Keath, The Associated Press
US Fighter Jets Strike Iran-Linked Sites in Syria in Retaliation for Attacks on US Troops
Image Credit: The al-Tanf military outpost in southern Syria is seen on Oct. 22, 2018. The Pentagon says the U.S. military launched airstrikes early Oct. 27, 2023, on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor, File)
WASHINGTON — U.S. fighter jets launched airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Pentagon said, in retaliation for a slew of drone and missile attacks against U.S. bases and personnel in the region that began early last week.
The U.S. strikes reflect the Biden administration's determination to maintain a delicate balance. The U.S. wants to hit Iranian-backed groups suspected of targeting the U.S. as strongly as possible to deter future aggression, possibly fueled by Israel's war against Hamas, while also working to avoid inflaming the region and provoking a wider conflict.
According to a senior U.S. military official, the precision strikes were carried out near Boukamal by two F-16 fighter jets, and they struck weapons and ammunition storage areas that were connected to the IRGC. The official said there had been Iranian-aligned militia and IRGC personnel on the base and no civilians, but the U.S. does not have any information yet on casualties or an assessment of damage. The official would not say how many munitions were launched by the F-16s.
A senior defense official said the sites were chosen because the IRGC stores the types of munitions there that were used in the strikes against U.S. bases and troops. The two officials briefed reporters after the strikes on condition of anonymity to provide details on the mission that had not yet been made public.
According to the Pentagon, there have now been at least 19 attacks on U.S. bases and personnel in Iraq and Syria since Oct. 17, including three new ones Thursday. Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said 21 U.S. personnel were injured in two of those assaults that used drones to target al-Asad Airbase in Iraq and al-Tanf Garrison in Syria.
In a statement, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the “precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on October 17.”
He said President Joe Biden directed the narrowly tailored strikes “to make clear that the United States will not tolerate such attacks and will defend itself, its personnel, and its interests.” And he added that the operation was separate and distinct from Israel's war against Hamas.
The senior defense official told reporters that the F-16 airstrikes will have a significant impact on the ability of Iranian proxy groups to continue to attack U.S. forces. Asked what groups were targeted, the official said there are several that can have different names, but the U.S. holds Tehran responsible for funding, arming, equipping and directing the proxies. The official said the airstrikes were not designed to expand the conflict in the region, but to compel Iran to direct the militia groups to cease the attacks on American bases and personnel.
The Biden administration has not accused Iran of having a direct role in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and has said it appears so far that Tehran was not aware of it beforehand. But the U.S. has noted that Iran has long supported Hamas and has raised concerns that Iran and its proxies could turn the conflict into a wider war.
Austin said the U.S. does not seek a broader conflict, but if Iranian proxy groups continue, the U.S. won’t hesitate to take additional action to protect its forces.
-Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Now That Israel Has Entered Gaza, All Eyes Are On Hezbollah, Iran And Turkey
This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.
Now we are going to find out who was bluffing and who was not bluffing. Israeli troops have gone into Gaza, and we are being told that this is a war that could last for months. Of course, it could easily last a lot longer than that. If the stated goal is to eliminate Hamas, that certainly won’t be easy. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling this a second war of independence, and he just told the world that “Never Again is now”…
Netanyahu said troops that he has met in the field are determined to make Hamas pay for its actions on October 7.
“They are determined to eradicate this evil from the world, for our existence and, I add — for all of humanity.”
Netanyahu continued: “We always said, ‘Never Again’. Never Again’ is now.”
So Israel was clearly not bluffing.
Now we shall see what Hezbollah does.
Hezbollah officials have warned multiple times that they will enter the war if Israel goes into Gaza.
Was Hezbollah just bluffing?
So far, a limited number of rockets have been fired back and forth along Israel’s northern border since Netanyahu made his speech…
Several rocket volleys were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel on Sunday, and the Israel Defense Forces said it hit terror cells and sites belonging to the Hezbollah terror group, as skirmishes continued on the northern frontier and the army continues its war with Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip in the south.
According to the IDF, rockets were launched from Lebanon at the upper and western Galilee several times throughout the day, setting off sirens in towns including Kiryat Shmona, Nahariya, Shlomi, Tuba-Zangariyye, Rosh Pina, Ayelet Hashahar, and Hatzor Haglilit.
If this is all that Hezbollah does, the Israelis will greatly celebrate.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe that Hezbollah was just bluffing, and I think soon we will see some major moves from them.
I also don’t think that Iran was bluffing.
On Sunday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi publicly stated that the Israelis have “crossed the red lines” that Iran had established…
Israel has “crossed the red lines” in Gaza, which “may force everyone to take action,” Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said Sunday, while US national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned of an “elevated risk” of a spillover conflict in the Middle East.
Okay, so your “red lines” have been crossed.
What are you going to do about it?
So far, the answer is not much.
But the Iranians are conducting “massive war games” right now…
IRAN has staged massive war games with 200 helicopters and missile launchers as tensions rage over Israel.
Tanks, aircraft and troops were deployed by the Islamic Republic for the exercise dubbed “Authority 1402”.
During these war games, the Iranians have been firing new versions of their domestically-made missiles…
Tehran’s military launched the drills – including using upgraded versions of their domestically-made missiles, Dawn and Diamond.
They also tested new bombs as well as attack helicopters.
The choppers launched missiles in the dark and destroyed the pretend enemy using night vision systems.
Of course, these war games are not going to intimidate anyone.
If the Iranians intend to stop what is going on, they are going to have to take action.
For now, the Iranians are limiting themselves to conducting strikes on U.S. bases in the region through their proxies…
-Michael Snyder, SHTF Plan
TURKEY THREATENS TO DECLARE WAR ON ISRAEL
SOURCE: GREAT GAME INDIA
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that attacks on Gaza amounted to a “massacre” and threatened to declare war on Israel.
In an ardent address at a pro-Palestine protest this evening, the president of Turkey seems to have threatened to intervene in Gaza.
During his speech at a rally this afternoon, Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of war crimes and presented Hamas as “freedom fighters”.
President Erdogan stated that attacks on Gaza amounted to a “massacre,” which infuriated Israel and caused it to rescind its diplomatic mission.
He is claimed to have told the hundreds of thousands of participants that Turkey can “come at any night unexpectedly” during the same speech.
The video, which went viral on the defunct Twitter platform X, allegedly showed the pro-Palestine demonstrators yelling, “Turkish military to Gaza.”
Image Credit: Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have threatened to establish a Turkish presence in Gaza (Image: GETTY)
Video footage of Mr. Erdogan speaking at the occasion was posted online by news aggregator Visegrád 24 and was in Turkish.
As he was speaking to attendees of the Great Palestine meeting in Istanbul, thousands of people could be seen waving a mix of Palestinian and Turkish flags.
The video has been re-uploaded online numerous times after the account provided the translation earlier this evening.
His remarks were translated by Politics Today, a news website, which stated that they were a part of a “motto”.
Image Credit: Mr Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of people today (Image: GETTY)
He stated, “From now on, we will continue on our path with the motto that we may suddenly knock on your door one night,” according to the website.
During the same speech, Mr. Erdogan charged that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza and likened its conduct to the Holocaust committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people.
With the newly formed ‘axis of evil’ consisting of Russia, China, and Iran, the Israel-Palestine War might be a graveyard for the American Empire.
He asserted that Israel “has been openly committing war crimes for 22 days” and stated that the country was acting with a “similar mentality” to the Axis powers in World War Two.
He continued: “In the past they were massacring the Jewish people in the gas chambers and they were indeed wiping out whole regions with bombs.” The Turkish premier then added: “A similar mentality is being shown in Gaza today.”
Mr. Erdogan declared that his government was getting ready to “tell the whole world that Israel is a war criminal” in retaliation for Israel’s conduct.
Israeli officials took a dim view of the address and promptly withdrew diplomatic staff members from Turkey.
The remarks made by Turkey, according to Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, “led him to conduct a re-evaluation of the relations between Israel and Turkey.”
He said in a statement: “Given the grave statements coming from Turkey, I have ordered the return of diplomatic representatives there in order to conduct a re-evaluation of the relations between Israel and Turkey.”
-Blacklisted News
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U.S. Forces in Middle East Attacked for the 24th Time Since October 17
U.S. forces stationed in the Middle East experienced an attack for the 24th time since October 17, during the ongoing conflict between the Israeli military and Hamas.
The assault, disclosed on Monday, occurred near the Asad Air Base in Iraq. According to U.S. defense officials, five rockets landed approximately a mile from the facility.
There were no reported casualties among American troops or any damage to the base. Additionally, coalition forces remained unharmed.
An American official noted that the rockets did not pose significant threats to U.S. troops.
Groups supported by Iran have been attributing these recent offensives against U.S. forces. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq acknowledged orchestrating an assault on the al-Tanf garrison in Syria the previous week.
In response, the U.S. military executed airstrikes targeting facilities associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other militant entities in Syria on Thursday.
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Iran State Media Says U.S. Troops Are Involved In The Gaza Offensive
by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:
According to a report by Iranian state-run media outlet Tasnim News Agency, several thousand United States troops have taken part in the invasion of the Gaza Strip. The Pentagon has admitted to moving additional military assets into the Middle East to help Israel fight the war.
According to the news 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.
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, reported RT.
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. –RT
Last week, The Pentagon also said it had ordered more than 2,000 additional troops to prepare to deploy in support of Israel in its conflict with Hamas. On Thursday, it added that it would deploy 900 soldiers to the Middle East. U.S. officials, however, insisted, that none of the troops would go to Israel, and are rather “intended to support regional deterrence efforts and further bolster US force protection capabilities.”
But we all know that the ruling classes lie and the U.S. is no exception. War will expand, especially because Iran knows the U.S. is heavily involved.
This war is only three weeks old, and already the rhetoric is ramping up far faster than that of the Ukraine/Russia conflict. Part of the is the U.S.’s obvious and direct involvement in this one, as opposed to just sending “military aid” to Ukraine.
The decision to send troops as reinforcements also came as the U.S. conducted airstrikes on two facilities in eastern Syria allegedly used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups.
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Soft-On-Crime, Soros-Backed DA Robbed in Car Raid.
Pamela Price, the George Soros-backed Alameda County District Attorney (DA), had her laptop stolen during a car burglary outside an Oakland family justice center on Friday. The Oakland Police Department (OPD) confirmed that “multiple individuals” broke into Price’s $90,000 SUV by smashing a window shortly after her bodyguard parked the vehicle outside the justice center. Several items were stolen in the raid. Price was then forced to wait roughly an hour for police to arrive before giving up and registering the incident online, reports suggest.
Price, who accepted a $130,000 donation from Soros in her failed attempt to become DA in 2018, promised to offer so-called “justice transformation” to her county’s residents before being elected DA in 2022.
She has since faced relentless criticism for her soft-on-crime policies, which have caused crime in her jurisdiction to skyrocket over recent months. In 2023, all violent crime has increased by 21 percent in Alameda County compared to last year, with motor vehicle theft increasing by 51 percent, burglary by 39 percent, armed robbery by 38 percent, and shootings by six percent.
Tensions between residents and Price reached breaking point during a community meeting earlier this year in which she was condemned for her “failed leadership” as well as “unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life threatening serious crimes.”
Price is the second Soros-backed DA to experience the effects of their own soft-on-crime policies after Louisiana District DA Jason Williams was carjacked earlier this month.
-Jake Welch, The National Pulse
Man dragged out by police after confronting Hillary Clinton about Epstein Island
A man who heckled Hillary Clinton last Friday was dragged out of an event in Texas after he demanded she answer for her husband’s connections to deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
The man, who the New York Post identified as 23-year-old Alex Rosen, was at an event in Houston for Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas.
Lee is running for mayor in the city, and Clinton was onstage to campaign for her when Rosen began to shout.
“Hey, Hillary. Why did your husband visit Epstein Island 26 times?” Rosen shouted as the event’s attendees began to boo him and yell.
Rosen continued screaming the question, but police swarmed him and dragged him out.
Rosen posted on his X (formerly Twitter) account that it was indeed him who shouted the question.
He shared a video he took at the event, which was cut with footage from someone standing near him.
Rosen’s video had racked up 4.6 million views on X as of Monday morning.
According to the Post, Rosen is affiliated with a Texas-based group called Predator Poacher that aims to protect children.
A representative for Bill Clinton previously confirmed the former president had traveled with Epstein and that the two knew one another, CNN reported.
But the person claimed Clinton was not aware of Epstein’s crimes.
Jonathan Jones, The Western Journal, WND
BREAKING: Biden temporarily stopped from removing Texas' border barriers
A federal judge has halted the Biden administration's move to prevent Texas from securing its southern border. Texas, which has installed razor wire and other barriers to prevent illegal immigrants from flooding into the country, has raised the ire of the Biden administration for having the gall to keep America safe from mass migration.
Texas installed wire and buoy barriers only for Biden's Border Patrol to remove or cut those barriers. Now, a federal judge has said that, at least temporarily, Biden can't get in Texas' way.The State of Texas has taken up suit against the US Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol, and the officials that head those agencies, demanding a restraining order to prevent them from meddling in the state's border protection efforts.
The motion for a temporary restraining order was granted until such time as "the parties have an opportunity to present evidence at a preliminary injunction hearing before the court."Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared his intention to build a border wall, while the Biden administration has let in nearly 7 million illegal immigrants since taking office in January 2021. By contrast, during Trump's last year in office, less than 500,000 illegal immigrants made it through the border.
Biden has not heeded calls from border states or from the major metropolitan cities such as New York, where immigrants flood to the tune of some 10,000 per month, to get the border situation under control. Instead, his administration flies people in from all over the place, drops them off with free cell phones and court dates years into the future, and then will give them work permits 180 days after their application for asylum. This despite the fact that DHS has said that most people will be found ineligible for asylum. They are admitted anyway.
In July, the Biden administration demanded that Texas remove barriers in the Rio Grande River that separates Mexico from the US. The White House called the barriers a "political stunt."-Libby Emmons, The Post Millennial
Elon Musk Announces that Starlink Will Provide Connectivity in Gaza for Aid Organizations
On October 28, 2023, Elon Musk announced that SpaceX’s Starlink will provide communication links in Gaza with “internationally recognized aid organizations.” Such a move provoked a fierce response from Israel’s communication minister Shlomo Karhi, who vowed to oppose this move.
In a post on X. Musk said that it was unclear who has the power for establishing ground links in Gaza, but did indicate that the company knows that “no terminal has requested a connection in that area.”
On October 28, the Gaza Strip suffered an Internet and telephone blackout that effectively disconnected it from the rest of the world.
Technically, the blackout started on May 27, which threw a wrench in life-saving operations conducted by international humanitarian organizations and impeded contact with staff in Gaza
SpaceX did not reply to Reuters’ request for comment on how it would guantee any Starlink connection was used by humanitarian organizations and not by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip.
In response to Musk’s post on X, Israel’s communication minister Shlomo Karhi declared Israel “will use all means at its disposal to fight this.”
“HAMAS will use it for terrorist activities,” Karhi stated. “Perhaps Musk would be willing to condition it with the release of our abducted babies, sons, daughters, elderly people. All of them! By then, my office will cut any ties with starlink.”
Musk’s Starlink gained notoriety after Russia’s February 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine, when its satellites were reported to have played a critical role in maintaining internet connectivity in several areas despite Russian efforts to jam the connections.
Since then, Musk has announced his refusal to extend coverage over Crimea, which is controlled by Russia at the moment.
By refusing to extend coverage, Musk has not allowed Ukrainian forces to use his satellites to launch attacks against Russian forces in Crimea.
Say what you want about Musk, but he’s no war-loving businessman. He genuinely wants to continue doing business with countries and not foment geopolitical instability abroad.
We need more businessmen with this kind of mindset if we want peace and prosperity to become the global standard.
-Jose Nino, Big League Politics
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