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from thefreeonline 8th Dec 2023 by Free Derry at Derry Anarchist Black Cross
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from thefreeonline on 17 Dec 2023 by Al Jazeera journalists
The first responders and locals are searching for the wounded as more bodies are believed to be under the rubble.
At least 90 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in the latest Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
The enclave’s Health Ministry said Sunday’s strikes hit a residential block belonging to the al-Barsh and Alwan families in the town of Jabalia, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Women and children were among the dead, with dozens still missing, Wafa said in its report.
The first responders and locals were searching for the wounded and more bodies were believed to be under the rubble.
Many of those injured, including children, were taken to nearby medical centres, which are already overwhelmed with patients.
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The son of Dawoud Shehab, the spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, was among the dead, an official from the group told the Reuters news agency.
“We believe the number of dead people under the rubble is huge but there is no way to remove the rubble and recover them because of the intensity of Israeli fire,” he said by phone.
Israeli forces kill two Christian women in ‘cold blood’ inside Gaza church
Medics in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah said at least 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded, while in Rafah in the south, an Israeli air attack on a house left at least four people dead.
About 19,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7. Israel says 1,147 people were killed on its territory that day.
Meanwhile, Israel has also ramped up its artillery shelling in southern Gaza, hitting the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, where the majority of displaced Palestinians are sheltering.
Starving Palestinians loot aid trucks as desperation mounts in Gaza’s Rafah
The stepping up of bombardments in the south has worsened the humanitarian situation, with starving people scrambling for food and water, grabbing them from aid trucks in desperation.
Israel on Sunday said it will reopen the Karem Abu Salem Crossing in the east but it is unclear whether supplies have crossed through there yet.
The United Nations estimates that 1.9 million people – about 80 percent of Gaza’s population – have been displaced by the war.
“I would not be surprised if people start dying of hunger, or a combination of hunger, disease, weak immunity,” said Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
from thefreeonline by Mike Capuzzo at Childrens Health Defense via Tales from the Conspiratum
A new Canadian government report reveals a 300% rise in “unspecified causes” of death from 2019-2022 as unknown causes climbed to the fifth leading cause of death in Canada. Some health experts said the stark increase should trigger an investigation into whether the deaths are linked to COVID-19 vaccines.
As life expectancy plummets in Canada, a new government report claims “unspecified causes” have become the fifth leading cause of death in the country after cancer, heart disease, COVID-19 and accidents.
According to the Statistics Canada report, “unspecified causes” in 2022 passed strokes, aneurysms, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, Alzheimer’s and suicide as causes of death.
Statistics Canada, also known as StatCan, released the report on Nov. 27 in The Daily, the agency’s online news bulletin.
The report generated a slew of nearly identical headlines — provided by Canada’s national news service — in Canada’s leading newspapers along the lines of this one in the Toronto Sun: “Life expectancy for Canadians fell for third straight year in 2022, StatCan says,” followed by the subhead: “More people died of COVID-19 in 2022 than in any other year since the pandemic began, report says.”
Andre Picard, health columnist at The Globe and Mail in Toronto, Canada’s newspaper of record, called the life expectancy drop — to 81.3 years in 2022 from 82.3 years in 2019 — “a big deal.”
“It’s only the second time this sharp a drop has happened in Canada in the past century,” Picard said. “In fact, life expectancy has been climbing steadily for decades: 71 in 1960, 75 in 1980, 79 in 2000 and 82.3 in 2019.”
COVID-19 deaths in Canada decreased to 14,466 in 2021 from 16,313 in 2020, the report shows. Canada is on track for about 7,000 COVID-19 deaths in 2023, Picard said.
COVID-19 deaths can’t account for Canada’s 7.3 % increase in total deaths in 2022 compared with 2021 — or for the country’s 17% increase in total deaths over the historic norm of 2019, or the historic drop in life expectancy in Canada and worldwide, Picard said.
Like many mainstream journalists and public health officials in the U.S. examining the U.S. drop in life expectancy, Picard blamed chronic diseases, drug overdoses, opioid deaths, smoking, unhealthy diets and “indifference” for the decline in Canada. “There are virtually no mitigation measures like masking any more, and vaccination rates have fallen sharply,” he wrote.
Pierre Kory’s Medical Musings | Pierre Kory, MD, MPA | Substack
But Drs. Pierre Kory and Peter McCullough told The Defender they believe the most important and startling fact contained in the report is the 300% increase from 2019 to 2022 in “unspecified causes” of death in Canada.
McCullough, a highly published cardiologist who developed a widely used early treatment protocol for COVID-19, said the dramatic rise in deaths from “unspecified causes” in Canada represents a seismic and disturbing shift in Western medicine.
“Prior to the pandemic, death in Western countries was well understood,” McCullough said, with 40% due to known cardiovascular, 40% due to terminal neoplastic disease (cancer) and 20% due to other known causes such as homicide, suicide, drug overdoses and accidents.”
Continue reading “Canada Reports 300% Increase in ‘Unspecified Causes’ of Death, Sparking Calls for Investigation”
From CrimethInc. A Film Festival at the Gathering of Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarian Practices against Borders On January 26 and 27, during the first International Gathering of Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarian Practices against Borders in Tijuana, Mexico, the CrimethInc. Ex-Worker Podcast will present a curated series of anarchist films from around the world. In addition to showing…
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from thefreeonline 17 Diciembre 2023 Por Redacción Kaosenlared…
“Los niños o niñas que no mueran solo en los bombardeos, morirán de hambre, sed o enfermedades, declararon, ya no hay lugar seguro, no hay lugar habitable en este territorio del horror”.
Actualizado el 17 de diciembre de 2023 /
“Los niños o niñas que no mueran en los bombardeos, morirán de hambre, sed o enfermedades, declararon, ya no hay lugar seguro, no hay lugar habitable en este territorio del horror”.
En las últimas semanas se ha agudizado el hambre y cada vez hay más personas que no han comido durante uno, dos o tres días. Ya casi nadie come, ni siquiera aquellas personas que tienen dinero para comprar comida. No hay comida en Gaza.
A más de dos meses de los ataques de Israel contra la Franja de Gaza y Cisjordania, las autoridades palestinas han registrado más de 18.600 personas asesinadas
El hospital de Kamal Adwan en Gaza tendrá que ser evacuado al no poder atender a heridos y enfermos tras ser tomado por las fuerzas israelíes, advirtió el Ministerio de Sanidad de la Franja palestina.
Los testigos dijeron a Al Jazeera que los civiles fueron atacados deliberadamente.
“La gente fue enterrada viva con excavadoras. ¿Quién podría hacer eso? Todos los que cometieron este crimen deben ser llevados ante la justicia y llevados ante la corte penal internacional”, afirmó un testigo.
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Varios vídeos compartidos en las redes sociales también parecen mostrar a personas aplastadas bajo los escombros frente al hospital Kamal Adwan.
“Aplastó a la gente y sus tiendas”
“La topadora ha destruido gran parte de las instalaciones del hospital”, dijo el domingo por la mañana Hani Mahmoud, de Al Jazeera, informando desde Rafah, en el sur de Gaza. “Aplastó a la gente y sus tiendas de campaña en el patio y unas 20 personas quedaron aplastadas y enterradas bajo los escombros”, dijo.
En un comunicado de prensa, según la agencia de noticias palestina Wafa, el ministro de Salud, al-Kaila, instó a la comunidad internacional a investigar lo sucedido en el hospital y no ignorar los “crímenes de guerra” que tienen lugar en Gaza.
También destacó que el ejército israelí destruyó la parte sur del hospital y dijo que 12 bebés permanecen dentro de las incubadoras del hospital sin agua ni comida.
Si bien las fuerzas israelíes se han retirado del hospital, el ejército dijo que detuvo a 90 personas como rehénes y ‘encontró armas y municiones’ dentro del hospital después de esta redada.
Las fuerzas israelíes atacaron el hospital el martes después de sitiarlo y bombardearlo durante varios días.
Continue reading “Israel enterra viva Refugiados en un Hospital. Miembros de la UNRWA llevan a los niños con ellos para garantizar que están todos seguros juntos o que mueren todos juntos”Israel should be turned over to Hamas and the Palestinian people, a new poll has found.
..from thefreeonline on December 17, 2023 by World News
The Harvard-Harris poll, conducted this week and released on Friday, showed that 51% of young Americans believe the Israeli state should be “ended,” compared with 32% who favor a two-state solution. Just 17% said Arab countries should absorb the Palestinians to resolve the conflict.
Among all age groups, six in ten Americans call for a two-state deal, while only 19% want Israel to be given to the Palestinians.
The survey marked the latest poll showing a dramatic divide between Americans young and old on issues relating to Israel and the Jewish people amid the ongoing war between West Jerusalem and Hamas.
An Economist/YouGov poll released last week found that nearly half of US adults under age 30 either believe the Jewish Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany is a myth or are not sure that it happened.
EU court takes Hamas off terrorist organisations list –
Two-thirds of 18- to 24-year-olds in the Harvard-Harris poll said they agree that “Jews as a class … should be treated as oppressors.”
By contrast, 73% of Americans in all age groups – and 91% of respondents ages 65 and older – disagreed with the anti-Jewish statement. Similarly, half of the youngest respondents said they support Hamas in the war, while 81% of overall participants favor Israel.
Continue reading “Most Youngsters in US want Israel to be given to Hamas – poll”The first warplane has been cleared, with the F-35 aircraft likely to be next in a move that will give NATO warmongers a joyful Christmas.
./from thefreeonline on 16th Dec 2023 by Ameya Paleja at Interesting Engineering and thefreeonline
Remembering the loss of 140,000 people killed in the initial Hiroshima blast, as well the countless numbers who died later from of radiation poisoning .. Daily Mail
Operation Upshot-Knothole, a part of which comprised a 15-kiloton test fired on May 25, 1953 at the Nevada Proving Grounds. Hundreds of high ranking Armed Forces officers and members of Congress were present to witness the atomic cannon test.
The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber aircraft has become the first U.S. warplane to be cleared to carry the B61-12, the newest nuclear bomb on the block. The clearance featured in the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (SSMP) for Fiscal year 2024 was unclassified by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) last week.
December 13, 2023 First Picture Of B61-12 Nuclear Bomb Trainer On An F-16 In Europe Surfaces Joseph Trevithick. A picture has emerged offering a rare glimpse of ongoing work to field new B61-12 nuclear bombs in Europe. A picture has emerged showing an F-16 Viper fighter that appears to be …
The B61 series is one of the longest-serving weapons in the US stockpile, the first iteration having debuted in the 1960s. The B61-3, -4, and -7 continue to be part of the nuclear lineup available with the U.S., even as plans are afoot to phase them out. Details of the phase-out plan remain unknown for now……………………………………………………
F-15E Strike Eagle First Jet Cleared To Employ Air Force’s New B61-12 …
U.S. accelerates the deployment of B61-12 nuclear bombs in Europe ..
Carnage: The collection of photographs were discovered 10 years ago, but their display at Scotland’s Secret Bunker museum is believed to be the first time they have been shown together .. Daily Mail
The U.S. B61-12 nuclear bomb may be mass-produced,…
At the moment, The United States has joint deterrence agreements with four European countries These are Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, it has between 100 and 150 bombs of the old B61 variant. The so-called doctrine of “nuclear deterrence” allows members of the Atlantic Alliance without atomic weapons to participate in NATO’s nuclear deployment.
The 825-pound (lb), or ~374 kilograms (kg) bomb project is being undertaken at a cost of nearly $8.3 billion, with experts suggesting that costs could rise to $10 billion, Popular Mechanics reported. Around 480 of these bombs are expected to be made using the B61-4 bombs. The effective cost of making these bombs exceeded the cost of their weight in gold…………………………………..
Horrifically injured locals are pictured dying on flattened streets strewn with corpses in the western Japanese city only hours after the nuclear bomb, nicknamed ‘Little Boy’, was dropped.... Daily Mail
January 9, 2023 The C-17A has been cleared to transport B61-12 nuclear bomb to EuropeJan 30, 2023The B61-12 is intended as an upgrade and eventual replacement for all current nuclear gravity bombs, including the B61-3, -4, -7, and probably eventually also the B61-11 and B83-1. To that end, it combines and improves upon various aspects of existing bombs:
commemorating the loss of 140,000 people killed in the initial Hiroshima blast, as well the countless numbers who died later of radiation poisoning.. Daily Mail
US B61-12 nuclear bomb test may be drilling use in Europe – Moscow
Earlier this month, the Royal Netherlands Air Force confirmed that its F-35As had received an initial certification for the weapon with the German and Italian Tornado fighter bombers also in the queue to use the B61-12…………………………..
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/b2-spirit-b61-12-nuclear-bombs
What are B61-12 gravity bombs—Russia says U.S. ‘lowering nuclear threshold
Nov 18, 2023.. Netherlands is preparing to equip its F-35 stealth aircraft with the capacity to carry the B61-12 nuclear bomb. Johan van Deventer, head of the Dutch air combat command, said on Twitter this week that the Dutch F-35A have received certification to carry out nuclear strike and deterrence
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