| From: tntpal | 6/14/2024 10:17:47 AM | | | | | | Intensified Hezbollah fire continues: Dozens of rockets launched at northern Israel communities today, following earlier anti-tank missile attacks; several fires erupt in region...
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| From: Don Green | 6/14/2024 4:52:07 PM | | | | | | | Brace for extreme heat |
Model projections showing the near-record intensity of the heat dome affecting the Eastern U.S. midweek next week. Image: Weatherbell.com
A June heat wave for the record booksis set to send temperatures soaring from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic and Northeast beginning Sunday. It'll continue into the coming weeks, Axios' Andrew Freedman writes.
- Why it matters: This is the first heat wave of the summer for millions of Americans, and its extended duration heightens the public health threat.
?? Threat level: By next Friday, more than 260 million people in the U.S. are forecast to see air temperatures reach or exceed 90°F, with many experiencing heat indices at or above 100°F.
- Affected big cities include Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York City, and Boston.
- Even northern Maine is likely to see temperatures soar into the upper 90s.
NWS forecast high temperatures on June 19, showing highs in the 90s to low 100s°F across the Central U.S., Midwest, Ohio Valley, mid-Atlantic and New England. Image: NWS via Pivotal Weather
Keep reading.
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| From: Don Green | 6/15/2024 9:33:14 AM | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Dread election | 
Data: Pew Research Center. Table: Axios Visuals
A quarter of Americans hold unfavorable views of bothPresident Biden and former President Trump — the highest share of " double haters" at this stage in any of the last 10 elections, Axios' Zachary Basu writes from new Pew Research data.
- Why it matters: The closely watched bloc has nearly doubled in size since 2020, making this fall's Trump vs. Biden rematch the most dreaded election in modern political history.
The big picture: Top strategists say the race is likely to be decided by 6% of voters in six swing states. Many of them will hold their nose and pick a candidate they dislike in November.
- Whichever candidate can mobilize more "double haters" to back them in November could have a decisive advantage in the Electoral College, given the razor-thin margins.
?? Zoom in: Trump has made inroads with Republican critics in recent weeks, using a visit to Capitol Hill — and a handshake with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — to showcase the GOP's post-primary unity.
- Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, whose primary voters represent a huge cross-section of Trump-Biden skeptics, finally endorsed Trump last month.
- A steady drumbeat of wealthy GOP donors who condemned Trump after Jan. 6 are once again getting out their checkbooks, unable to stomach a second Biden term.
?? Between the lines: 67% of "double haters" believe Trump should end his campaign in the wake of his felony conviction, according to a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll.
- The Biden campaign sees that and other polling data as evidence that the president will win over this critical bloc of voters by the time Nov. 5 arrives.
- "They may dislike both candidates. But the intensity on Trump's negative is higher," Democratic pollster Jefrey Pollock told Axios. "A campaign that has the resources to persuade those individuals has some advantage."
The bottom line: Between 1988 and 2012, at least one of the major party nominees had a favorability rating over 50%. Both Trump and Biden will be lucky to draw much higher than 40% by the time they're nominated this summer.
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| To: tntpal who wrote (42513) | 6/15/2024 9:47:18 AM | | From: tntpal | | | | Jihad's goal is to obliterate the ideals of every culture in the world, replacing them with its own, including conquest, control, murder, rape, lying, anger, jealousy.
Islam says -"America is the Cancer! America, Secularism, Democracy, Capitalism are cancers" "Islam is the answer"
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Islam's Jihad in pictures...
Hamas Massacre: Documentation of Crimes Against Humanity
- Warning! The pictures are real - The pictures do not lie -
Many more worse atrocities documented in the link below.
The baby beheading, child raping, kidnapping and murdering religion of peace thanks you for all your efforts and attempts to counter Islamaphobia.
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| To: Les H who wrote (42518) | 6/15/2024 10:49:58 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Defense spending bill would defund Biden’s Gaza pier
By Bryant Harris
The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced its fiscal 2025 defense spending bill while adding a provision that would eliminate the military’s makeshift pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip, which has struggled to deliver an adequate level of humanitarian aid to Palestinians facing famine-like conditions.
The committee voted 34-25 along party lines to send the $833 billion bill to the House floor with Democrats objecting to the provision that would shut down the pier, which will cost anywhere between $230 and $320 million according to Pentagon estimates.
defensenews.com
The pier may only come back to stage another raid like the Nuseirat massacre.
"At the end of the attack, an Israeli helicopter used to escort the hostages out of Gaza was seen parked on the beach next to the pier, calling into question whether the pier was being used for military purposes."
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| To: Les H who wrote (42519) | 6/15/2024 11:13:09 AM | | From: Les H | | | | The international criminal court should investigate Israel’s hostage rescue raid
Kenneth Roth
The Gaza health ministry, whose numbers have generally proved reliable, says that at least 274 Palestinians were killed in the operation and more than 600 wounded. The ministry does not distinguish combatants from civilians, but it reports that the dead included 64 children and 57 women, or 44% of the total. Given that many of the men who were killed in the course of the operation were in a nearby market, we must assume that a good proportion of them were civilians as well. That is a horrible civilian toll.
International humanitarian law requires that a military refrain from launching an assault if the anticipated civilian toll “would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated”. It is reasonable to conclude that the Israeli operation fell short of this standard.
All the more so given questions about its necessity. With the rescue of these four hostages, Israeli military operations have freed a total of seven hostages alive. By contrast, more than 100 hostages were released as a result of Israel’s November 2023 ceasefire deal with Hamas. Few doubt that another deal will be necessary to bring most of the remaining hostages home alive. The negotiations have been painfully slow, in part because the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, seems to prioritize his elusive goal of destroying Hamas over the freeing of the hostages.
Israel notes that Hamas endangered civilians by holding the hostages in a densely populated neighborhood in Nuseirat in central Gaza. International humanitarian law requires militaries to take “all feasible precautions” to spare civilians, which Hamas violated by holding the hostages in two apartment buildings in Nuseirat, but that does not relieve Israel of the separate duty to avoid an attack that causes disproportionate harm to civilians. Palestinian civilians do not stop being civilians just because they are endangered by Hamas.
theguardian.com
The idea of gaining sympathy for civilians caught in the crossfire went out the window when Israel decided to fund Hamas to attack Israeli civilians and military alike in order to manufacture pretexts for larger IDF operations. The whole premise is for Israel to paint itself as a victim by helping the other side throw the "first" punch. |
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| From: tntpal | 6/15/2024 11:54:39 AM | | | | | | Palestinian Researchers Discover Startling Correlation Between Holding Hostages In Your Home And People Shooting You
GAZA — In what was viewed as a potential breakthrough in addressing tensions in the war-torn region, Palestinian researchers discovered a startling correlation between holding hostages in your home and people shooting you.
The new study's findings came on the heels of a rescue operation conducted by the Israeli military to free hostages being held in Palestinian territory, with results pointing to a clear link between agreeing to imprison hostages in your home and subsequently having soldiers firing live rounds on you in an attempt to free said hostages.
"There is a distinct connection here," said lead Palestinian hostage-holding researcher Amah Salibi. "All of the data we collected showed that keeping hostages in your home leads to an exponential increase in the risk of having people shooting at you at some point in the very near future. The evidence is staggering, really."
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| To: Les H who wrote (42511) | 6/15/2024 3:50:50 PM | | From: Les H | | | | A Pentagon-approved bot attack attempted to thwart global COVID-19 vaccinations, report finds
Social media bots sought to discredit China-made vaccines in the Philippines.
By Chase DiBenedetto on June 15, 2024
According to a new investigative report by Reuters, the Pentagon ran a year-long vaccine disinformation campaign using social media bots — all part of an anti-China political play built on problematic COVID-19 disinformation.
One part of a larger, locally-targeted anti-vax campaign around the world, the propaganda efforts sought to discredit the validity of China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine among internet users in the Philippines, where the vaccine had been deployed. Messaging included the phrase #Chinaangvirus, reportedly Tagalog slang for "China is the virus."
Reuters reports that the campaign was reportedly run to "undermine China’s growing influence in the Philippines," after the vaccines and other public health interventions were made readily available. The efforts "aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy" of such aid. The strategy was greenlit by a secret order signed by then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper — elevating China and Russia to the priority of "active combat" and allowing for non-State Department-sanctioned psyops.
At least 300 fake accounts impersonating Filipinos were active on X/ Twitter between spring 2020 and mid-2021, right before a period of record deaths in the country — the platform later removed all of the accounts after being asked about their existence by Reuters.
mashable.com
Not to mention that the US also ran a program to deny vaccines and medicines to countries faced with Covid-19 surge while at the same time falsely claiming the virus was "created" at the Wuhan laboratory as a bioweapon. |
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