Russia backs up Iranian show of power, Israeli Regime ‘backs down’ on revenge. Do war clouds scatter?

Kremlin makes it clear to Washington and Tel Aviv that Moscow is irrevocably aligned with Tehran and will help the latter no matter what it takes.

via AlethoNews By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR at Indian Punchline | Oct 9,’24 thefreeonline- (edited post)- https://wp.me/pIJl9-EmV (t.me/thefreeonline)

Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells Its Destruction Of Gaza

Israel has apparently shelved its planned attack on Iran. A combination of circumstances can be attributed to this retreat, which rubbishes Israel’s own high-pitched rhetoric that it was raring to go.

Russia aligns with Iran, War Clouds Scatter

Despite Israel’s brilliant media management ( read -Lie Machine-), reports have surfaced that the Iranian missile attack on October 1 was a spectacular success.

One single person was admitted killed, yet it was a display of Iran’s deterrence capability to crush Israel, if need arises. The failure of the US to intercept Iranian hypersonic missiles carried its own message.

Damage by Iranian missile

Iran claims that 90 percent of its missiles penetrated Israel’s air defence system, exclusively aimed at military bases, yet also creating general terror as sirens screamed and the population took cover.

Will Schryver, a technical engineer and security commentator, wrote on X: “I don’t understand how anyone who has seen the many video clips of the Iranian missile strikes on Israel cannot recognise and acknowledge that it was a stunning demonstration of Iranian capabilities.

(Iran then threatened that if Israel responds it will destroy its few Electricity Generating Stations, ports and main industries.)

Iran’s ballistic missiles smashed through US/Israeli air defences and delivered several large-warhead strikes to Israeli military targets.”

Evidently, in the ensuing panic situation in Israel, as the US president Joe Biden put it, as of October 4, there had been no decision yet on what type of response Israel should mount against Iran.

“If I were in their [Israeli] shoes, I’d be thinking about other alternatives than striking oil fields,” Biden said, fearing his party would lose the elections if oil prices exploded, in a rare appearance in the White House briefing room a day after Israeli officials were still saying that a “significant retaliation” was imminent.

Biden added that Israelis “have not concluded how they’re — what they’re going to do” in retaliation. Biden also told reporters that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should remember US support for Israel when deciding on next steps.

In this pantomime, it is safer to believe Biden, as the honest truth is that without US inputs and practical help, and money — and direct intervention — Israel simply lacks the stamina to take on Iran.

But here too, it is debatable how self-sufficient Israel is vis-a-vis Iran. Reports have appeared that it was the US’ new technological intel that pinpointed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Nasrallah and other leaders whereabouts, which was passed on to Israel, leading to their assassination.

Israel’s regional dominance narrows down to executing assassination plots, massacring unarmed civilians.

At least 28 murdered by Israel yesterday in yet another school attack on refugees in Jabalia, Gaza.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/10/at-least-28-killed-in-israeli-attack-on-school-sheltering-displaced-in-gaza

(Indeed the very creation of Israel was hastened by a series of terriorist bombings against the British administration of Palestine after World War 2. Ever since the Zionist fanatics behind the Israeli Regime have relied on an ‘Anything Goes’ policy to achieve its colonial goals.

All with sugar coated false morality and victimhood. )

(Anything goes for Zionism, including Ethnic Cleansing, Mossad Assassinations, Apartheid, Torture, Invasions, blackmail: it seems it has recordings of the antics of the Western Elite on Epstein’s Island Brothel), political bribery, lobbying and now outright Genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.)

https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1844679619825283406 ( WordPress Censored

At least 22 killed, dozens wounded in Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s Beirut as massive carpet bombing spreads in capital https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/10/at-least-22-killed-dozens-wounded-in-israeli-strikes-on-lebanons-beirut

Dispatch from Mutual Aid Campaign from Firestorm in Asheville as Helene Death Toll nears 250

‘Let’s talk about how we can take care of each other + community’.. – Nearly four hundred attended the 2nd meeting!

from Firestorm Oct 8 24 via It’sGoingDown by rocinante at anarchist news thefreeonline/ https://wp.me/pIJl9-Emh – T’gram: https://t.me/thefreeonline

Oct 5th- The utopia we dream of becomes

most visible in the dark.

Firestorm in Asheville, NC |

Firestorm is a radical anarchist community center and cooperative bookstore in Asheville, NC, which in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, has become a growing hub of mutual aid and autonomous disaster relief efforts in the area. Dispatches have been posted to social media,

For more reports on autonomous organizing in the wake of Helene, check out dispatches from Triangle Mutual Aid, who was also interviewed on the recent episode of This Is America, and this recent article from Margaret Killjoy.

The morning Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, members of our collective sat in the dark, listening to the howling wind and the crack of huge trees falling all around.

When we emerged Friday evening to take stock, a cardboard sign on our co-op’s door read “Community meeting here, Saturday at 2pm. Let’s talk about how we can take care of each other + community.”

That first autonomous act by an anonymous neighbor set the stage for the week, with Firestorm becoming a container for other people’s brilliant, beautiful, and generous self-organizing.

FEMA abandons residents of devastated NC town because it “can’t drive around ‘Road Closed’ sign” – Left to fend for themselves, Bat Cave residents banded together — opening the roads and starting the arduous work of cleanup and recovery. Residents told The Post that they don’t need FEMA now — and at this point, they don’t even want the disaster relief agency to come. –

About forty people attended the first meeting.

Nearly four hundred attended the next one.

The gatherings, now a daily anchor, have generated a multitude of connections and volunteer powered projects. Before city officials had finished assessing the damage, community members were sharing supplies, doing wellness checks, and serving hot meals.

Over the next few days, things became more organized. Anarchist arborists collected chainsaws and dispatched crews to clear roads for trapped residents; activists mobilized to build long term water distribution systems capable of delivering 6k gallons/day; bike punks offered free repair clinics; a farmer began driving regular water supply loops to Firestorm from a nearby spring; and an enthusiastic DIY-er set up a tent to distribute dry toilets made from affordable materials.

Shaming Blaming and Sabotaging the world’s worst ‘Filthy Rich’ ‘Climate Criminals’ to help save the planet

–“The rich and powerful have thrown their lot in with those who have a vested interest in continued fossil fuel use, and this cabal is the main thing standing in the way of a fossil fuel-free future ..”

by John Thomason on Oct 07, 2024 at Grist home. (via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-Els on Telegram – t.me/thefreeonline )

For 40 years the US Regime, fired by world military domination, ‘exceptionalism’ and the ability to ‘just print money, denied climate change and systematically sabotaged all our efforts to confront it.

At last the USA, with the highest Carbon Footprint and insanely wasteful over consumption, is forced, at least for now, to recognize the shocking facts, only to be infested with a host of reactionary colonist deniers, urged on and often funded by the billionaire military/corporate deep state.

The Deniers are happy to flaunt their ‘rights’ to proclaim that black is white. Saving the Planet is held hostage to the rights of a tiny US minority, backed by a ruling class, to maintain their absurd mega privileges. This article, for us, is not nearly angry enough and suffers from the usual blindness of assuming the USA is the world.

Climate Defiance activists direct our fury at the rich and powerful.

Greenberg, right, and other Climate Defiance activists protest the Willow project

An unfailingly friendly 30-year-old with tousled black hair and a slight, willowy frame, Michael Greenberg almost never loses his beatific smile — not even when a black SUV is plowing straight toward him.

This apparent serenity makes it nearly impossible to imagine Greenberg uttering the following words, which he posted to X in May: “We are bold and brash. We get in your face and get in your space. We do not grovel. We do not make requests like Oliver Twist asking for gruel. We make life miserable for people in power. And we do not apologize. Respect us or expect us.”… /continues below

Climate Criminals Time to NAME names!

All eyes on the Climate criminals. running out the clock. It’s time to name names. the individuals delaying climate action and financing the climate crisis Must be held accountable. meet the 2024 climate criminals Contact us at info@climatecriminals.org. ABOUT US — Climate CriminalsThe 2024 Climate Criminals Top 24 list was selected from a vigorous nomination and research process. Our team of researchers, academics, and climate justice experts reviewed over 300 individuals engaged in deflection, denial, and delay.

… As the founder of the activist group Climate Defiance, Greenberg has proven that he means what he tweets. Since the group’s founding last year, Climate Defiance activists have stormed dozens of formal events with the goal of, in their words, “ending the careers and decimating the reputations of those who disagree with us.”

Exxon Climate Criminals may already have knowingly caused runaway Climate Change, which could lead to the extinction pf millions of species, including YOU and ME.

They’ve called Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, a “murderer” to her face, told Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia that he’s a “sick f***,” and demanded that Exxon Mobil’s CEO, Darren Woods, “eat shit.”

In the last month alone, they’ve berated Occidental Petroleum’s CEO, Vicki Hollub, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and — for the sixth and almost certainly not final time — retiring Senator Manchin. On the strength of this chaos, the group raised well over $100,000 in just one week in September.

The group’s public shaming efforts have also sometimes targeted policymakers who have committed their entire political careers to fighting climate change. In the span of a few days in New York City last year, the group heckled President Joe Biden’s climate adviser, Ali Zaidi, four different times.

Mass Protests Worldwide as Israeli Genocide spreads in Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank, Yemen…

Tens of thousands of people hit the streets across the world as Israel’s devastating war in Gaza approaches the one-year mark.

by News |Palestine conflict Al Jazeera. Agencies on 6th October 2024 from thefreeonline-https://wp.me/pIJl9-El2 on T’gram t.me/thefreeonline

People take part in a rally ogarnised by the association France Palestine Solidarite (AFPS) in support of the Palestinian people, in Paris, on October 5, 2024. — People take part in a pro-Palestinian rally in Paris on October 5, 2024 [Stephane De Sakutin/AFP]

In a powerful display of solidarity, tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Washington D.C., US and Toronto, Canada to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Lebanon, two days before the one-year mark of “Israel’s” genocidal war on Gaza.

Chanting phrases like “End the occupation now…We want justice, you say how,” one protester expressed her grief “over the loss of over 100,000 martyrs.” Demonstrators also demanded that an arms embargo be placed on “Israel” for its genocide in Gaza.

Protesters also condemned the intensifying Israeli aggression on Lebanon, which has displaced tens of thousands of Lebanese from South Lebanon as Israeli occupation forces attempt to execute a ground invasion of southern Lebanon; all of which have been foiled by the Lebanese Resistance.

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preview–legitimate targets

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Pro-Palestine rallies held globally to mark a year of Israel’s war on Gaza

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in major cities around the world to condemn the Israeli military operations in Gaza as the war in the Palestinian territory nears the one-year mark.

Pro-Palestinian protesters defied a ban on their demonstration and clashed (in Italian style) with riot police today in Rome's Piazzale Ostiens. Local media is reporting that up to 30 cops were injured. pic.twitter.com/WPxlJpqDWz
— 3jane.tv (@3janetv) October 5, 2024

In the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, more than 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the embassy of the United States, demanding that Washington, Israel’s top military supplier and ally, stop sending weapons to Israel.

Protesters worldwide demand end to Israel’s year of war on Gaza

This is not a scene from a thriller movie. This is Beirut last night.

Western media coverage is entirely focused on the war with Iran, diverting attention from the brutal slaughter of Lebanese civilians.

Death toll has reached 1974

127 children killed

9,384 injured

1.2… pic.twitter.com/teF7vhQ8xi
— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) October 6, 2024

“We are appealing to the hearts of all the leaders of the world to rise up and move and liberate them [Palestinians] from the oppression carried out by Israel,” a demonstrator told Al Jazeera.

“This is no longer a religious issue but truly a humanitarian issue – not just for Muslims but all who claim to be Muslim,” said another protester, holding his child on his shoulders and carrying a Palestinian flag.

A woman looks on while people raise Palestinian flags during a protest against Israel and in support of Palestinians outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 6, 2024. — A woman looks on while people raise Palestinian flags during a protest against Israel and in support of Palestinians outside the US embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia [Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Reuters]

In the Philippines, dozens of left-wing activists protested near the US embassy in Manila, where police prevented them from getting closer to the seaside compound.

🟡 BREAKING: Berlin police are attacking the ongoing pro-Palestine protest as thousands took to the streets one year deep into Israel‘s extermination war. Police fired pepper spray into the crowd and violently arrested protesters. pic.twitter.com/URm5xlF2rO
— red. (@redstreamnet) October 6, 2024

In Cape Town in South Africa, hundreds walked to parliament, chanting: “Israel is a racist state!” and “We are all Palestinian!” Pro-Gaza marches were also planned Saturday in Johannesburg and Durban.

In Caracas, hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested outside the United Nations’s headquarters for Venezuela, carrying a giant Palestinian flag. They delivered a petition to the UN calling for an end to the “genocide” of the Palestinians.

Coral Reef Destruction’s threat to Human Rights adds pressure to control Acidification & Overfishing

A rights-based approach can enhance coral reef protection and promote climate justice for communities.

from the Scientific Inquirer via thefreeonline – https://wp.me/pIJl9-EhQ t’gram t.me/thefreeonline

Coral reef destruction a threat to human rights

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Open in Report

Human rights-based framework for coral reef conservation. The five key principles are legality, accountability, non-discrimination and equality, empowerment, and participation. A summary of each principle within the framing of reef conservation is provided.

Linking the protection of coral reef ecosystems to human rights highlights how crucial healthy ecosystems are for human well-being and underscores the inherent connection between human and nonhuman life.

Great Barrier Reef before and after: Shocking pictures

A human rights-based approach to coral reef protection could ensure governments are held to account for safeguarding marine ecosystems and empower local and Indigenous communities to demand sustainable solutions and climate justice, a new study suggests.