Despite a ceasefire on paper, Israel continues to pound Palestine. On November 20 alone, Israeli strikes killed at least 32 people, including a baby girl in the town of Bani Suhalia. Gazan officials are warning that toxic materials from the continued Israeli bombardment may be seeping into the groundwater, further undermining one of the world’s most water-scarce areas. Israel has killed 280 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire was enacted.

“Israel is bombing Gaza left, right, and center,” Narwani said, concluding that, “What we have learned from all this is that a negotiated ceasefire with Israel is not worth the paper it is printed on.”

Nevertheless, Narwani predicted economic difficulties in Israel’s future, due to its greatly increased debts. Describing the country as possessing a “zombie economy,” she noted that it was issuing increased amounts of government bonds to pay the U.S. back for the weapons it was supplying. But there might come a time when it will not be able to pay back its debts, she warned.

Israel is also striking targets in Lebanon, and extracting a heavy civilian toll. On Monday, a strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon killed at least 13 people, according to a statement from the Lebanese Health Ministry. The IDF even used widely-banned cluster munitions in its attacks on Lebanon, a new study has revealed. This has met with minimal resistance from the region’s major powers, including Saudi Arabia, who, Narwani explained, “want the resistance in Lebanon to be disarmed, dismantled, dead.”

The primary source of serious resistance to Israeli aggression has come from a somewhat unlikely source: Yemen. The region’s poorest nation, and one that has been under attack for over a decade, the Ansar Allah-led movement has offered serious pushback to Israeli actions, with Yemen imposing a blockade of Israeli ships in the Red Sea, forcing the Israeli port of Eilat into bankruptcy.

“One of the reasons that the Yemeni resistance has been so successful is because, by and large, they don’t speak English, and they don’t read the Western press,” Narwani told Adley, explaining that:

They are untouched by the propaganda narrative that has made, in my view, many of the other members of the resistance axis too well-behaved, and too well-mannered… They don’t have colonized minds.”

Western and Israeli intelligence attempts to infiltrate the country have also proven to be less fruitful than hoped, and the great majority of Yemenis support the continuation of resistance to Israeli expansionism.

Don’t miss this episode, where we take a bird’s eye view of the political and economic situation across the subcontinent.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/saudi-arabia-rejects-us-israel-pressure-sharmine-narwani/290566/

Mystical Toponomy

When crimes are exposed but no one takes action against those responsible, it functions like a peculiar advertisement for the secret rulers (the “cryptocrats”). It portrays them as criminal masterminds who are so clever that they never face consequences.

This whole situation resembles a classic occult trick, where the real point — like the idea that exposing wrongdoing leads to justice — is mocked by turning it upside-down. The name “Truth or Consequences” was given to a city in New Mexico through a process involving Masonic rituals, word games (“onomatological” — the study of the origin and meaning of names), and “mystical toponomy” (the mystical or magical study of place-names and their deeper significance). This term, mystical toponomy, was first identified by researcher James Shelby Downard. The use of these special names and places acts as a kind of spiritual or karmic challenge, especially when the secret rulers are trying to reveal things they’ve kept hidden.

“Mystical toponomy” and “alchemical cant language” (secret coded speech used in occult traditions) are part of a system that connects historical events (“action in time”) with certain physical locations seen as “places of power.” The cryptocracy views the world as a giant chessboard, with significant locations serving as squares, mirroring the checkered (tessellated) floor found in Solomon’s Temple and Masonic lodges, as well as the chessboard landscape in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass.

https://thedukereport.substack.com/p/rituals-in-plain-sight

Jane Ward, author of Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men, says that the thinking surrounding these rituals is, “If you endure together this kind of mortifying, humiliating and embarrassing homosexual act, then that not only toughens up your body, but it will also build and strengthen that bond around you.”

https://hornet.com/stories/homoerotic-military-rituals/

Starting next month, US border authorities will be allowed to photograph travelers at airports and use facial recognition to compare their information with existing records.

The records can be held for up to 75 years.

They could also force noncitizens to provide other personal information, such as fingerprints or DNA, the document states.
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It comes after the CBP began imposing a $30 fee on anyone entering the US for more than 29 days.

https://www.the-sun.com/travel/15522117/

Exclusive: The Scandal of the British Army’s Child Soldiers

Almost a year ago, I turned my attention to the abuse of child recruits at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate. I teamed up with Children’s Rights International (CRIN) to pool resources and data. We were shocked by what we learnt.

My exclusive investigation reveals how 16-17.5-year-old children recruited into the British Army face disproportionate levels of bullying, physical and sexual violence, compared to their peers in mainstream education. Many of these children, as my story reveals, come from working-class backgrounds or have specific vulnerabilities, such as having spent time in care.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/newsletter-scandal-british-army-child-soldiers/