By Jeffrey Tucker Source: Brownstone Institute Jeremy Farrar’s book from August 2021 is relatively more candid than most accounts of the initial decision to lock down in the US and UK. “It’s hard to come off nocturnal calls about the possibility of a lab leak and go back to bed,” he wrote of the clandestine phone calls […]
I am going to try to explain to you how we reorganized the autonomy, that is, the new structure of the Zapatista autonomy. I will explain more to you later in more detail. Or maybe I won’t explain more, because practice is what matters. Of course you can also come to the anniversary and watch the plays, songs, poems and the art and culture of this new stage of our struggle. If not, Tercios Compas will send you photos and videos. At another time I will tell you what we saw good and bad in the critical evaluation of MAREZ and JBG. Now I’ll just tell you how it looks. Here it goes:
An Israeli defense official vowed that Gaza will be turned into a “city of tents” — in a punishing “ground maneuver”
Dichter’s comments are surprising not only because Israel has been publicly framing the mass displacement in Gaza as a measure taken solely to protect civilians, but also because the Israeli government has long officially denied that the Nakba ever happened, even passing laws forbidding its history to be taught in schools.
The #Nakba of 1948 is being repeated before our eyes – Ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, now documented in colour footage. “The failure to bring justice to the oppressed & end their suffering has brought us to this point” #March4Palestine🇵🇸💔🕊️pic.twitter.com/fQIhix19YR
— Aamer Anwar✊🏾🏳️🌈#BlackLivesMatter (@AamerAnwar) November 11, 2023
One problem Israel keeps running into is how the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians which keeps the apartheid state operational also causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking, which hurts Israel’s PR interests.
We saw this illustrated in a recent New Yorker interview with Daniella Weiss, a leader of the push to build illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. Weiss stated frankly and unapologetically that she supports apartheid, that she doesn’t believe Palestinians should have any sovereignty anywhere, that she doesn’t believe Palestinians should have voting rights, that she wants the population of Gaza to be replaced by Israeli settlements, and that she is untroubled by the killing of children in Gaza because she feels it’s being done in the interests of Israeli children.
Babies die despite appeals after incubators stop due to Israeli fuel boycott . Al Shifa hospital.
Asked where the Palestinians in Gaza should go, Weiss replied, “To Sinai, to Egypt, to Turkey.” When the interviewer said the Palestinians are not Egyptian or Turkish, she contended that “The Ukrainians are not French, but when the war started they went to many countries.”
To the question “When you see Palestinian children dying, what’s your emotional reaction as a human being?”, Weiss answered, “I go by a very basic human law of nature. My children are prior to the children of the enemy, period. They are first. My children are first.”
Asked if she believes human rights are not universal and should not apply equally to everyone, Weiss replied “That’s right.”
But perhaps the most revealing statement Weiss made was her entirely truthful explanation of what drives the Israeli push to colonize Palestinian land:
“In Israel, there’s a lot of support for settlements, and this is why there have been right-wing governments for so many years. The world, especially the United States, thinks there is an option for a Palestinian state, and, if we continue to build communities, then we block the option for a Palestinian state. We want to close the option for a Palestinian state, and the world wants to leave the option open. It’s a very simple thing to understand.”
That one paragraph right there will teach you more about the present-day realities of the Israel-Palestine conflict than an entire year of watching CNN. It’s horrid, and it’s jarring to hear it spoken out loud in a favorable way… but it’s true.
This sort of thing has been happening for years. Israelis have been marinating in a self-validating echo chamber of Zionist ideology which dehumanizes Palestinians and normalizes oppression and abuse.
So theydon’t think twice about saying things that make Israel look bad on the world stage, because to them it’s just the standard status quo way of looking at things.
The Moral Complexities Of Bombing A Concentration Camp Full Of Children
"Hamas are in the ambulances. Hamas are in the hospitals. Hamas are underneath the refugee camps. Hamas are behind the children. Maybe they’re just massacring civilians."https://t.co/O3ld2Ss24J
UK insists on gifting Radioactive Munitions to Ukraine
In May 2023, a powerful blast rocked the city of Khmelnitsky located in Ukraine about 200km away from the border with Poland when a Russian strike wiped out a Ukrainian ammunition depot where British-supplied depleted uranium was stored.
Dr. Christopher Busby, a physical chemist and scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, has stepped forward to address the naysayers who tried to discredit his warnings about the potentially dangerous consequences of the depleted uranium munitions depot explosion.
“On May 19th I wrote an article for Sputnik about the Khmelnitsky explosion. I had examined gamma radiation data from detectors to the North West of the attack site, which showed increases in radiation from points in Poland near the Ukraine border, and through Germany.
M242 guns mounted on US Bradley Fighting Vehicles now in Ukraine fire depleted uranium rounds.
And so it begins. We introduced these, and other countries followed our lead. We sent spent depleted Uranium reinforced projectiles to Ukraine to use against Russia in our FOURTH major violation of existing treaties. Now? Nuclear Radiation.
I concluded that the belief that a warehouse containing Uranium weapons supplied by the UK had been hit and that the Uranium had exploded in a huge fireball, and that the particles produced by the explosion had drifted with the wind at the time across Europe.
The article produced considerable argument on the internet, with a large number of self-described fact-checkers and “experts” weighing it to say that my conclusions were nonsense.
This is how the internet is controlled these days. It was written off as a “Russian Fake” (e.g. fakenews.pl)
The fact is, that although Uranium is a weak gamma emitter, through its daughter Thorium-234, there are other situations where the gamma signal will increase at detectors, principally the natural radioactive gas, radon, which can increase during rainfall and low pressure systems.
A Polish lab claimed that the increased signal was from Radon, reporting the presence of the Radon daughter Bismuth 214, as if to write off the claim of a Uranium cloud passing across Poland.
But, I pointed out that there were no low pressure systems at the time that would explain the sudden increase in gamma. This is where the matter was left.
Uranium in air is not measured in Europe as far as I know, and the only data that is obtainable is the Uranium in air data from the High Volume Air Samplers (HVAS) at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston in Berkshire.
These were set up in the early 1990s following a public enquiry into a child leukemia cluster near the site.
The law requires AWE to measure Uranium (and Plutonium and Tritium) at regular intervals at positions near the factory but also far from the weapons factory.
I have used these data before to identify Depleted Uranium from the Iraq wars that drifted to England.
So, to follow up the Khmelnitsky argument, I have just obtained Uranium data from the AWE using a Freedom of Information request.
They sent me the data in an Excel File, and I used the graphical function in Excel to plot the data they sent.
Fig 1 plots the filter levels for three of the offsite locations. The results show that I was right. In the May 15th -June 15th Offsite Filters operating at the time, there is a very clear signal for the month following the explosion.
I have also obtained data for the onsite locations, and these also all show the same footprint increase.
It may interest those who believe that the media is controlled, that the same thing happens with the scientific peer-review literature.
I sent my paper on the increases in Uranium in air from the Ukraine war to two journals which have published my papers before, papers about the effects of Uranium.
The first, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health totally refused to consider it. I then sent it to Conflict and Health, which sent it to a reviewer, but refused to publish it.
This is astonishing, given that I supplied the raw data to both journals. I put the paper up on a preprints site where it received attention.
The graph in Fig 1 shows that the Uranium in air in South East England went up by about 600ng/cubic meter from particles released by the Khmelnitsky explosion.
What does this mean? The mean size of a Uranium particle is below 1 micron. An individual inhales about 24 cubic meters a day. So, if the particles were there for a month, or 30 days we can average the lung intake as 0.432mg.
Doesn’t sound much, does it? But it converts into 200 million particles per person in the area, and of course in the track of the plume in the UK.
Not good, given the effects we found in Fallujah.
“The M919 depleted uranium round was used in combat during the 2003 invasion phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom causing a hidden but continuing health holocaust and radiation with a half life of a billion years.”It is a particular health risk around impact sites, where dust can get into people’s lungs and vital organs.
Russia denounced UK’s gift of Depleted Uranium as the use of ‘dirty nuclear bombs’ against Russia, with all the consequences that entails‘ and replied with a major escalation by placing Nuclear Weapons in Belarus.
During the Iraq invasion, the USG fired DU rounds into civilian neighborhoods. “Coordinates revealing where US jets and tanks fired nearly 10,000 DU rounds in Iraq during the war in 2003 have been obtained by the Dutch peace group Pax,” The Guardian reported in 2014.
It should be noted that an attempt to verify this information on the IKV Pax Christi website produces a page warning the site is dangerous and may have been hijacked. In other words, it was decided information about DU poisoning in Iraq and Afghanistan, includingserious birth defects, is not something distracted plebs should be allowed to read.
My study of Fallujah, published in 2010, showed that there was a huge increase in cancer and congenital malformation in babies, and general horrifying signal of genetic damage in the population after the use of Uranium weapons there in the second 2003 Iraq war.
We later identified excess Uranium in the mothers of the birth defect children using hair samples and mass spectrometry, tracking the increases back to the 2003 exposures by cutting the long hair samples into sections, a kind of historic ice core way of interrogating the past.
Clearly from our studies in Iraq, the genetic and cancer health effects of Uranium particles are significant.
Indeed, they are arguably the main cause of the cancer in the Hiroshima victims who were exposed to Uranium particles in the “black rain”.
In 2013, the World Health Organization attempted to downplay DU contamination in Iraq.
Remarkably, and at odds with ample evidence, the WHO reported findings on spontaneous abortion, stillbirths, and congenital birth defects in Iraq “are consistent with or even lower than international estimates. The study provides no clear evidence to suggest an unusually high rate of congenital birth defects in Iraq.”
(*Note/ we have also had some problems republishing the above information.. Too many coincidences of drafts disappearing, sudden shutdowns, etc.. thefreeonline)
Levels in Poland, Germany, and everywhere else on its journey to England, will have been much higher. But there are no measurements available.
Fig 1. 4-weekly air filter results for Uranium, offsite samplers at Aldermaston, Tadley, and Reading. Khmelnitsky Ukraine explosion was on 14thMay 2023 (1805-1506) s Normal background is 200.
implicatons of the use of depleted uranium in Iraq 1.65 MB ..IKV Pax Christi Publishes “In a State of Uncertainty: Impact and …A decade on and depleted uranium contamination stills blights Iraq
M242 gun mounted on Bradley Fighting Vehicles going to Ukraine fires depleted uranium rounds.
In May 2023, a powerful blast rocked the city of Khmelnitsky located in Ukraine about 200km away from the border with Poland when a Russian strike wiped out a Ukrainian ammunition depot where British-supplied depleted uranium was stored.
Dr. Christopher Busby, a physical chemist and scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, has stepped forward to address the naysayers who tried to discredit his warnings about the potentially dangerous consequences of the depleted uranium munitions depot explosion.
On May 19th I wrote an article for Sputnik about the Khmelnitsky explosion. I had examined gamma radiation data from detectors to the North West of the attack site, which showed increases in radiation from points in Poland near the Ukraine border, and through Germany.
And so it begins. We introduced these, and other countries followed our lead. We sent spent depleted Uranium reinforced projectiles to Ukraine to use against Russia in our FOURTH major violation of existing treaties. Now? Nuclear Radiation.
I concluded that the belief that a warehouse containing Uranium weapons supplied by the UK had been hit and that the Uranium had exploded in a huge fireball, and that the particles produced by the explosion had drifted with the wind at the time across Europe.
The article produced considerable argument on the internet, with a large number of self-described fact-checkers and “experts” weighing it to say that my conclusions were nonsense.
This is how the internet is controlled these days. It was written off as a “Russian Fake” (e.g. fakenews.pl)
The fact is, that although Uranium is a weak gamma emitter, through its daughter Thorium-234, there are other situations where the gamma signal will increase at detectors, principally the natural radioactive gas, radon, which can increase during rainfall and low pressure systems.
A Polish lab claimed that the increased signal was from Radon, reporting the presence of the Radon daughter Bismuth 214, as if to write off the claim of a Uranium cloud passing across Poland.
But, I pointed out that there were no low pressure systems at the time that would explain the sudden increase in gamma. This is where the matter was left.
Uranium in air is not measured in Europe as far as I know, and the only data that is obtainable is the Uranium in air data from the High Volume Air Samplers (HVAS) at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston in Berkshire.
These were set up in the early 1990s following a public enquiry into a child leukemia cluster near the site.
The law requires AWE to measure Uranium (and Plutonium and Tritium) at regular intervals at positions near the factory but also far from the weapons factory.
I have used these data before to identify Depleted Uranium from the Iraq wars that drifted to England.
So, to follow up the Khmelnitsky argument, I have just obtained Uranium data from the AWE using a Freedom of Information request.
They sent me the data in an Excel File, and I used the graphical function in Excel to plot the data they sent.
Fig 1 plots the filter levels for three of the offsite locations. The results show that I was right. In the May 15th -June 15th Offsite Filters operating at the time, there is a very clear signal for the month following the explosion.
I have also obtained data for the onsite locations, and these also all show the same footprint increase.
It may interest those who believe that the media is controlled, that the same thing happens with the scientific peer-review literature.
I sent my paper on the increases in Uranium in air from the Ukraine war to two journals which have published my papers before, papers about the effects of Uranium.
The first, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health totally refused to consider it. I then sent it to Conflict and Health, which sent it to a reviewer, but refused to publish it.
This is astonishing, given that I supplied the raw data to both journals. I put the paper up on a preprints site where it received attention.
The graph in Fig 1 shows that the Uranium in air in South East England went up by about 600ng/cubic meter from particles released by the Khmelnitsky explosion.
What does this mean? The mean size of a Uranium particle is below 1 micron. An individual inhales about 24 cubic metres a day. So, if the particles were there for a month, or 30 days we can average the lung intake as 0.432mg.
Doesn’t sound much, does it? But it converts into 200 million particles per person in the area, and of course in the track of the plume in the UK.
Not good, given the effects we found in Fallujah.
“The M919 depleted uranium round was used in combat during the 2003 invasion phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom causing a hidden but continuing health holocaust and radiation with a half life of a billion years.”It is a particular health risk around impact sites, where dust can get into people’s lungs and vital organs.
Russia denounced UK’s gift of Depleted Uranium as the use of ‘dirty nuclear bombs’ against Russia, with all the consequences that entails‘ and replied with a major escalation by placing Nuclear Weapons in Belarus.
During the Iraq invasion, the USG fired DU rounds into civilian neighborhoods. “Coordinates revealing where US jets and tanks fired nearly 10,000 DU rounds in Iraq during the war in 2003 have been obtained by the Dutch peace group Pax,” The Guardian reported in 2014.
It should be noted that an attempt to verify this information on the IKV Pax Christi website produces a page warning the site is dangerous and may have been hijacked. In other words, it was decided information about DU poisoning in Iraq and Afghanistan, including serious birth defects, is not something distracted plebs should be allowed to read.
My study of Fallujah, published in 2010, showed that there was a huge increase in cancer and congenital malformation in babies, and general horrifying signal of genetic damage in the population after the use of Uranium weapons there in the second 2003 Iraq war.
We later identified excess Uranium in the mothers of the birth defect children using hair samples and mass spectrometry, tracking the increases back to the 2003 exposures by cutting the long hair samples into sections, a kind of historic ice core way of interrogating the past.
Clearly from our studies in Iraq, the genetic and cancer health effects of Uranium particles are significant.
Indeed, they are arguably the main cause of the cancer in the Hiroshima victims who were exposed to Uranium particles in the “black rain”.
In 2013, the World Health Organization attempted to downplay DU contamination in Iraq. Remarkably, and at odds with ample evidence, the WHO reported findings on spontaneous abortion, stillbirths, and congenital birth defects in Iraq “are consistent with or even lower than international estimates. The study provides no clear evidence to suggest an unusually high rate of congenital birth defects in Iraq.”
It really is amazing webpages posting this information disappear. Instead, I will link to The Guardian’s post on the topic which is, obviously, too controversial for the average citizen of the West.
(*Note/ we have also had some problems republishing the above information.. Too many coincidences of drafts disappearing, sudden shutdowns, etc.. thefreeonline)
Levels in Poland, Germany, and everywhere else on its journey to England, will have been much higher. But there are no measurements available.
Fig 1. 4-weekly air filter results for Uranium, offsite samplers at Aldermaston, Tadley, and Reading. Khmelnitsky Ukraine explosion was on 14thMay 2023 (1805-1506) s Normal background is 200.
implicatons of the use of depleted uranium in Iraq 1.65 MB ..IKV Pax Christi Publishes “In a State of Uncertainty: Impact and …A decade on and depleted uranium contamination stills blights Iraq
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